Atomizer for an aerosol delivery device formed from a continuously extending wire and related input, cartridge, and method

US9277770B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY · US

Inventors

• John DePiano · Burlington, US
• David Smith · Needham, US
• Patsy Coppola · Bedford, US
• Charles Jacob Novak, III · Winston-Salem, US
• Steven Lee Alderman · Lewisville, US
• James William McClellan · Hollis, US
• John William Wolber · Nashua, US
• Frank S. Silveira · Wilmington, US
• Michael Laine · Newburyport, US
• Paul Andrew Brinkley · Winston-Salem, US
• Grady Lance Dooly · Winston-Salem, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2013
• Grant date: Mar 8, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49083
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to atomizers for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The atomizer may include a liquid transport element and a wire continuously extending along a longitudinal length thereof. The wire may define end portions, contact portions, and a heating portion. The wire may be continuously wound about the liquid transport element such that each of the portions of the wire defines coils. A related input, cartridge, and method of forming atomizers also provided.