# US 2025/0143374 A1 · Apparatus for heating smokable material

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- Number: US 2025/0143374 A1
- Document ID: US20250143374A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/020,686
- Filed: 2025-01-14
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Earliest claimed: 2013-10-29
- Assignees: Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Applicants: Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Inventors: Benjamin John PAPROCKI; Andrew Paul WILKE; Raymond John ROBEY; Jesse Eugene ROBINSON; Feng TIAN
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250143374A1

## CPC

- A24F 40/46: Shape or structure of electric heating means
- A24F 40/485: Valves; Apertures
- H05B 1/0291: {Tubular elements}
- A24F 40/10: Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
- A24F 40/20: Devices using solid inhalable precursors
- A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06)
- H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL

## Abstract

An apparatus is arranged to heat smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus has a housing and a plurality of heater segments longitudinally arranged within the housing for heating smokable material contained within the apparatus. At least one heater segment is arranged so as to heat smokable material contained within the at least one heater segment more quickly than at least one other heater segment heats smokable material contained within the at least one other heater segment.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An apparatus arranged to heat smokable material to volatilize at least one component of said smokable material, the apparatus comprising:
an outer housing, the outer housing having at least one air inlet;
at least one heater segment contained within the outer housing for heating smokable material contained within the apparatus, the heater segment having at least one air inlet; and
an air inlet pipe providing fluid communication from the outer housing air inlet to the heater segment air inlet;
an arrangement being such that air being Drawn in through the outer housing air inlet, through the air inlet pipe, through the heater segment air inlet and over smokable material contained within the apparatus.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, constructed and arranged such that the air inlet or air inlets of the outer housing are the only entry point(s) for air to be drawn into the apparatus in use.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a control circuitry contained within the outer housing for controlling the supply of electrical power to the at least one heater segment, the arrangement being such that air drawn in through the outer housing air inlet does not pass over the control circuitry.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the outer housing has first and second air inlets on opposed sides of the outer housing, the air inlet pipe having a cross-section providing first and second arms which connect to the first and second outer housing air inlets respectively and a stem which is in fluid communication with the heater segment air inlet.