US 12,262,743 B2
Aerosol generating device with modular components
Pieter Van Lancker, Gijzenzele (BE); Valerio Oliana, Pully (CH); and Virginie Garcia, Lausanne (CH)
Assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchâtel (CH)
Appl. No. 17/769,470
Filed by PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A., Neuchâtel (CH)
PCT Filed Oct. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059656
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/074820, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19203687 (EP), filed on Oct. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0413900 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); A24F 40/95 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/40 (2020.01) [A24F 40/65 (2020.01); A24F 40/95 (2020.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol generating system comprising:
an aerosol generating device comprising a housing;
a first module;
a second module;
a third module,
wherein the first module is operably couplable to the aerosol generating device, to the second module, and to the third module, and
wherein the second module is operably couplable to the first module, to the third module, and to the aerosol generating device,
wherein the third module is operably couplable to the aerosol generating device, to the first module, and to the second module, and
wherein each of the first module, the second module, and the third module are operably couplable to the aerosol generating device indirectly through another of the first module, second module, or third module when the other of the first module, the second module, or the third module is directly coupled to aerosol generating device through the housing.