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US 2020/0138101 A1Published application
Flexible aerosol-generating devices
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsRui Nuno BATISTA, Stephane Antony HEDARCHET
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Abstract
An aerosol-generating device may include a housing having flexible portion along its length. The flexible portion is configured to transition between a relaxed or unloaded configuration and a flexed or deflected configuration. A flexible heating element and mouthpiece may also be disposed in the housing. When the housing is in a relaxed or unloaded configuration, the flexible heating element and the mouthpiece are at least partially longitudinally aligned with the flexible portion of the housing.
Claims11
An aerosol-generating device comprising:
- a housing including a rigid portion and a flexible portion, the rigid portion including a rigid core and a flexible exterior, the flexible portion configured to elastically transition between an unloaded configuration and a loaded configuration based on a presence of an external force, the housing defining a longitudinal axis when the flexible portion is in the unloaded configuration;
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- a device component in the housing, the device component including modules in the rigid portion and the flexible portion of the housing, the modules connected in series by flexible connectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.