Electronic smoking article
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsSrinivasan Janardhan, Georgios D. Karles, Yezdi B. Pithawalla, Gerd Kobal, San Li
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Abstract
An electronic smoking article includes a reservoir including a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol and a spiral path insert including a channel having a spiral configuration along an outer periphery of the spiral path insert. A coating can be applied to the outer periphery of the spiral path insert.
Claims21
An electronic smoking article operable to produce an aerosol comprising:
- a reservoir including a liquid aerosol formulation;
- a heater operable to at least partially volatilize the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol;
- and
- a spiral path insert (SPI) located downstream of the heater and including a channel in an outer periphery of a body of the SPI, the channel having a spiral configuration, an inlet at an upstream end of the channel and an outlet at a downstream end of the channel through which aerosol produced by the heater travels before exiting the electronic smoking article.
A method of reducing temperature of an aerosol being drawn from an electronic smoking article comprising:
- generating an aerosol with a heater of an electronic smoking article;
- and
- drawing said generated aerosol through a spiral path insert (SPI).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.