US 12,274,311 B2
Heated aroma-producing body, aroma cartridge, and manufacturing method and manufacturing device for heated aroma-producing body
Ryuji Watanabe, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Future Technology Co., Ltd., Izumi (JP)
Filed by Future Technology Co., Ltd., Kagoshima (JP)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/531,201.
Application 17/531,201 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/020644, filed on May 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-095531 (JP), filed on May 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071305 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A24F 40/70 (2020.01); A24B 15/14 (2006.01); A24B 15/167 (2020.01); A24C 5/01 (2020.01); A24C 5/39 (2006.01); A24D 3/17 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/485 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/70 (2020.01) [A24B 15/14 (2013.01); A24B 15/167 (2016.11); A24C 5/01 (2020.01); A24C 5/399 (2013.01); A24D 3/17 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/485 (2020.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aroma-producing body to be heated loaded into an aroma cartridge, the aroma-producing body comprising:
an aroma-producing substrate to be heated, the aroma-producing substrate producing smoke and aromas when heated in contact with a heating element; and
a packaging material surrounding the aroma-producing substrate, wherein
the aroma-producing substrate contains at least an aerosol former, non-tobacco plants and/or tobacco plants, and a binding agent,
the aroma-producing substrate includes noodle-shaped bodies,
the noodle-shaped bodies include aggregates in which part of the noodle-shaped bodies are aggregated and single pieces that are not aggregated,
the aroma-producing body has a deformed gas flow path penetrating the aroma-producing body in a longitudinal direction of the aroma-producing body,
the deformed gas flow path includes
a first gas flow path between the aggregates, and
a second gas flow path between the single pieces or the aggregates and the packaging material,
the noodle-shaped bodies have anisotropy in a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the cross-sectional shape having a long axis direction and a short axis direction, and
in a cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a ratio of the noodle-shaped bodies having the long axis direction along a periphery of the aroma-producing substrate to all of the noodle-shaped bodies is greater than a ratio of the noodle-shaped bodies having the long axis direction along a normal direction of the periphery of the aroma-producing substrate to all of the noodle-shaped bodies.