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US 8,402,976 B2Granted
Electrically heated smoking system
AssigneePhilip Morris USA Inc.
InventorsFelix Fernando, Fredrik Stahle, Jean-Pierre Cordey, Laurent Manca
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Abstract
An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate. includes at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form an aerosol, a power supply for supplying power to the heating element, electrical hardware connected to the power supply and the heating element, and an interface for establishing a communications link with a host. The communications link may be a USB link and the host may be a personal computer.
Claims16
An electrically heated smoking system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate, the system comprising:
- a substrate;
- at least one heating element for heating the substrate to form an aerosol;
- a power supply connected to the at least one heating element and operable to supply power thereto;
- programmable electrical hardware connected to the power supply and the at least one heating element;
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- an interface connected with the electrical hardware and operable to establish a communications link with a remote host, as well as to download software from the host or download information from the host to the system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.