Electronic smoking system

Details Electronic smoking system Electronic smoking system

1997-10-20

1999-08-10

Silverman, Stanley S.

Tobacco

Making or using tobacco users' appliance

131194, 131329, 12820221, A24F 4700

Patent

active

059342897

ABSTRACT:
A novel photonic-electronic smoking system comprising a cigarette and a photonic operated electronic lighter, together with methodologies of smoking a cigarette, the lighter comprising a receptacle for removably receiving a cigarette; a photonic source; an optical train establishing a plurality of optical pathways from said photonic source to a plurality of locations at the received cigarette; a source of electrical power; a puff sensor responsive to a drawing action upon a cigarette received by said receptacle; and a controller responsive to said puff sensor for controllably communicating said source of electrical power with said photonic source so that upon drawing action upon the received cigarette, the photonic source discharges along said optical pathway to heat a region of said cigarette adjacent at least one of said locations.

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