An Aerosol Generating System and a Liquid Substance Storing Container for Such an Aerosol Generating System

Abstract

An aerosol generating system includes a liquid substance storing container and an aerosol generating device. The liquid substance storing container has a porous body for storing a liquid substance and the aerosol generating device includes a heater having at least two heating sections configured to heat the porous body, The aerosol generating device comprises has a heating cavity for housing the porous body and the at least two heating sections of the heater are located on the bottom of the heating cavity. The aerosol generating device may be used as a e-cigarette.

1 . An aerosol generating system comprising a liquid substance storing container and an aerosol generating device, said liquid substance storing container comprising a porous body for storing a liquid substance and said aerosol generating device comprising a heater comprising at least two heating sections configured to heat the porous body, wherein said aerosol generating device comprises a heating cavity for housing the porous body, said at least two heating sections of said heater being located on the bottom of the heating cavity, and
 wherein said porous body is disposed on the bottom of the heating cavity, in contact with the at least two heating sections of the heater.   
     
     
         2 . The aerosol generating system, according to  claim 1 , wherein said at least two heating sections of the heater are arranged in a same plane of said bottom of the heating cavity. 
     
     
         3 . The aerosol generating system, according to  claim 1 , wherein said porous body comprises at least two different portions and said at least two heating sections of the heater are in contact respectively with external surfaces of said at least two different portions of the porous body. 
     
     
         4 . The aerosol generating system according to  claim 3 , wherein each external surface of said at least two different portions of the porous body has a shape configured to match one of said at least two heating sections of the heater. 
     
     
         5 . The aerosol generating system according to  claim 1 , wherein said at least two heating sections of the heater have a shape chosen from among at least two slice sections, dots or linear tracks, concentric rings. 
     
     
         6 . The aerosol generating system according to  claim 1 , wherein said aerosol generating device further comprises control means in order to activate separately said at least two heating sections of the heater. 
     
     
         7 . A liquid substance storing container for an aerosol generating system according to  claim 1 , comprising a porous body for storing a liquid substance, wherein the porous body comprises at least two different portions configured to be heated separately by the at least two heating sections of said heater. 
     
     
         8 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 7 , wherein said at least two different portions of the porous body are substantially thermally insulated from each other. 
     
     
         9 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 7 , wherein the porous body comprises at least one slit extending between said at least two different portions of the porous body. 
     
     
         10 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 9 , wherein said porous body comprises at least one external flat surface, said at least one slit opening onto said at least one external flat surface of the porous body. 
     
     
         11 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 9 , wherein said porous body has a cylindrical or prismatic shape, said at least one slit extending along a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical or prismatic shape. 
     
     
         12 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 11 , wherein said at least one slit opens onto two opposite external flat surfaces of said cylindrical or prismatic shape of the porous body. 
     
     
         13 . The liquid substance storing container according to  claim 7 , wherein said porous body has a cross-section chosen from among circular, triangular or rectangular.