Aerosol-generating system with adjustable pump flow rate
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsMichel Bessant, Ben Mazur, Eva Saade Latorre, Alain Tabasso
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Abstract
A method of generating an aerosol in an aerosol-generating system includes storing liquid aerosol-forming substrate in a liquid storage portion and delivering via a pump a liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the liquid storage portion to an atomizer. The method also includes sensing a puff via a a puff sensor in an airflow path of the aerosol-generating system and determining a puff intensity during the puff via a controller. The delivery flow rate of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the atomizer is adjusted in response to the determined puff intensity.
Claims10
An aerosol-generating system, the system comprising:
- a pump configured to deliver an aerosol-forming substrate;
- a puff sensor in an airflow path, the puff sensor configured to sense a puff;
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- a controller configured to determine a puff intensity based on an output from the puff sensor and adjust a delivery flow rate of the pump in response to the determined puff intensity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.