US 12,329,200 B2
Vapour generating device
Claude Zominy, Copponex (FR); Pingkun Liu, Guangdong (CN); Yongbao Yuan, Guangdong (CN); and Juan José Moreno Rodríguez, Geneva (CH)
Assigned to JT International S.A., (CH)
Appl. No. 17/282,238
Filed by JT International S.A., Geneva (CH)
PCT Filed Oct. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/076843
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/070259, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18198485 (EP), filed on Oct. 3, 2018; application No. 18211725 (EP), filed on Dec. 11, 2018; and application No. 1909203 (GB), filed on Jun. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0345672 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/48 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/60 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/46 (2020.01) [A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/48 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/60 (2020.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heating assembly for a vapour generating device, the heating assembly comprising:
a heating chamber arranged to hold an aerosol generating medium;
a heater arranged, in use, to provide heating to the heating chamber;
an ejector arranged to controllably eject, in use, the aerosol generating medium from the heating chamber; and
a detector arranged, in use, to detect actuation of the ejector,
wherein the ejector comprises one or more electrical contacts and the detector is arranged, in use, to detect actuation of the ejector based on the position of the one or more electrical contacts.