US 12,063,966 B2
Aerosol-generating device with shape memory heater
Pieter Van Lancker, Kortrijk (BE); Louis-Philippe Vancraeynest, Kortrijk (BE); and Simon Desnerck, Kortrijk (BE)
Assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Appl. No. 17/251,376
Filed by Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/065474
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 11, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/238814, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18177749 (EP), filed on Jun. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0244100 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/46 (2020.01) [A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol-generating device for generating an inhalable aerosol, the aerosol-generating device comprising:
a heating chamber configured to receive an aerosol-generating article containing an aerosol-generating substrate; and
a heating element disposed in the heating chamber,
wherein material of the heating element is configured to penetrate into the aerosol-generating article, and
wherein the material of the heating element comprises one or more of a shape memory alloy, a shape memory polymer, and a shape memory ceramic.