US 12,004,555 B2
Method for manufacturing inductively heatable tobacco rods
Ivan Prestia, Longara di Calderara di Reno (IT); Daniele Sanna, Marin-Epagnier (CH); Christian Agostini, Bologna (IT); and Alessandro Balboni, Comacchio (IT)
Assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed by PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/540,449.
Application 16/793,438 is a division of application No. 15/569,227, granted, now 10,588,337, issued on Mar. 17, 2020, previously published as PCT/EP2016/061169, filed on May 19, 2016.
Application 17/540,449 is a continuation of application No. 16/793,438, filed on Feb. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,202,466.
Claims priority of application No. 15168554 (EP), filed on May 21, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0087304 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A24B 3/14 (2006.01); A24C 5/01 (2020.01); A24D 1/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/465 (2020.01)
CPC A24C 5/01 (2020.01) [A24B 3/14 (2013.01); A24D 1/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/465 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Inductively heatable smoking article comprising an inductively heatable tobacco segment of an inductively heatable tobacco rod, wherein the inductively heatable tobacco segment comprises an aerosol-forming tobacco substrate and a susceptor element in the form of a band, wherein the inductively heatable tobacco segment is provided with a longitudinally running folding structure, wherein the susceptor element in the form of a band is arranged parallel to and in between folds of the longitudinally running folding structure of the inductively heatable tobacco segment; and wherein a length of the susceptor element in the tobacco segment is equal to the length of the tobacco segment.