US 12,357,120 B2
Flavor dispenser apparatus
Akito Kiriseko, Tokyo (JP); Yui Nakayama, Tokyo (JP); Minoru Sakurai, Tokyo (JP); Sho Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Tatsuya Narita, Tokyo (JP); Ryousuke Suda, Kadoma (JP); Shinichi Fukushima, Kadoma (JP); Seiji Yoshimura, Kadoma (JP); Hidenori Fukuoka, Kadoma (JP); and Kazuo Mori, Kadoma (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN TOBACCO INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JAPAN TOBACCO INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/578,009.
Application 17/578,009 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/023567, filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-134055 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132933 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 9/03 (2006.01); A23B 4/052 (2006.01); A47J 31/44 (2006.01); B05B 7/16 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/44 (2013.01) [A23B 4/052 (2013.01); A61L 9/035 (2013.01); B05B 7/1686 (2013.01); B05B 7/1693 (2013.01); A61L 9/03 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flavor dispenser apparatus comprising:
a storage part storing an aerosol-generating liquid;
a heating unit having a heater that heats the aerosol-generating liquid and generating an aerosol by atomizing the aerosol-generating liquid;
a liquid delivery unit delivering the aerosol-generating liquid stored in the storage part to the heating unit;
an aerosol passage for the aerosol generated in the heating unit to flow therethrough, the aerosol passage having an aerosol outlet port at a distal end thereof for discharging the aerosol to outside;
a flavor source holding part provided at an intermediate point in the aerosol passage and holding a flavor source so as to allow passage of the aerosol flowing through the aerosol passage; and
an aerosol-pumping unit transporting the aerosol generated in the heating unit through the aerosol passage toward the flavor source holding part and causing the aerosol to pass through a flavor source in the flavor source holding part as well as causing the aerosol flavored by the flavor source to be discharged from the aerosol outlet port.