 Managed relationships with startup companies and responsible for completion of deal selection, vetting, cross-functional due diligence, negotiation and investment recommendations to the Executive Team of Altria Group, Inc.

 Received a Continuing Educational Fellowship of Philip Morris, Inc.: To carry out R&D on the processing of intermetallics at the Metals and Ceramics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of California Institute of

 Program Organizer and Chair, International Symposium on “Iron Aluminides: Alloy Design, Processing, Properties and Applications" held February 15-19, 1998 at the 1998 TMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Associates: Fang Tian, Carmen G. Oca, Budda Reddy; Shalva Gedevanishvili; Weijun Zhang; Sohini PalDey; Weizhong Zhu; Piers Newbery; Rangaraj S. Sundar; Siddarth Ladha; Yupeng Lai

Sort, J., Concustell, A., Menandez, E., Suriach, S., Rao, K. V., Deevi, S. C., Baro, M. D., and Nogues, J., "Periodic arrays of micrometer and sub-micrometer magnetic structures prepared by nanoindentation of a nonmagnetic intermetallic compound."

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U.S. Pat. No. 2,445,476 to Folkman discloses a device having a tubu- 50 lar body of flexible material containing an air pervious filler saturated with a volatile oil, with plugs positioned at each end of the tube.

In view of the deficiencies of the prior art, it would be highly desirable to provide a flavor delivery article essentially exhibiting the appearance of a conventional cigarette capable of delivering an aerosol without the application of heat.

For any particular liquid, the cross sectional area of the opening is determinative of the type of aerosol obtained for the airflow rates and pressure drop experienced by the flavor delivery article during use.

The size of the vent can vary; and is generally small enough to prevent a liquid having a particular surface tension and being within the inner container from dripping, leaking, spill­ ing, etc., from the flavor delivery article during storage and/or use thereof.

The draft characteristics and aesthetics of the em­ bodiments shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 can be further enhanced if desired, by positioning plug 93 of cellulose acetate, or other such material within the outer con­ tainer near the air input end 24 of the flavor delivery article.

thread, string or stand of some suitable wick 10 material doubled intermediate its ends so as to 1 Figure 1 of the drawing is a side elevational view of a therapeutic apparatus equipped with form a substantially inverted V-shaped device a vaporizing unit constructed in accordance with whose side portions are encased in.

rounded by coiled or looped portions of the fila­ 15 Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view ment 3, the lower ends or free ends of the side 15 of said unit; and pieces of the wick projecting downwardly into Figure 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional the medicament and terminating at or in close view, illustrating another form of my invention.

A vaporizing unit of the kind described in ductor 2 is soldered to the inner surface of the claim 1, in which said vessel is carried by a ter­ center conducting button 8 of the plug.

As a new article of manufacture, a vaporiz­ the interior of the vessel adapted to receive the ing unit for therapeutic use, comprising a plug medicament so that a portion of the wick will terminal adapted to be plugged into a conven­ be submerged in the medicament and other por­ tional terminal socket of an electrical circuit, a tions will extend above the level thereof, the con­ vessel for a medicament mounted upon said plug struction being such that when an electric cir­ and having an outlet for vapors at its upper por­ cuit is completed through the conductors to heat tion and an air inlet at a point lower down, elec­ the same and the medicament entrapped within trical heating wires extending from the plug the wick, a stream of vapor will be formed and through the bottom of the vessel into the space projected upwardly within the vessel.

A therapeutic vaporizer of the class de­ to be heated thereby, and a manually operable scribed, comprising a vessel having an outlet at switch carried by the casing and adapted to make its upper end open to the atmosphere and a closed and break the circuit at will leading from the bottom adapted to receive a medicament, a ter­ battery through the plug terminal and the said figment, minal plug permanently attached to the bottom CUNTON L. WHITTEMORE, Jr. of said vessel and having conductors extending

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None of the wires in Hon are connected to the cartridge in any way.

A primary object of the present invention is to provide a combination spray and cold plate thermal managementsys- tem that will overcome the shortcomings of the prior art devices.

same becomes better understood when considered in con- junction with the accompanying drawings, in whichlike ref- erence characters designate the sameor similar parts through- out the several views, and wherein: FIG. 1 is a side illustration of the present invention.

The porous media 32 is preferably constructed so that the working fluid is passively pumped, or wicked, into contact with the heat producing device 12 using surface ten- sion forces.

Those skilled in the art will recognize that many variations are possible within the spirit and scope of the invention, which is intended to be defined by the following claims(and their equivalents) in which all terms are meant in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated.

The thermal management system of claim 1, wherein said porous media passively wicks said coolant into contact with said heat producing device using surface tension forces.

[75] Inventors: Charles T. Higgins, Richmond; Wynn R. Raymond, Chesterfield; Francis M. Sprinkel, Glen Allen, all of Va. [73] Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated, New York, N.Y. [21] Appl.

In such smoking articles the plurality of heating elements can be either disposable (see, e.g, commonly-assigned U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,060,671 and 5,095,921, which are hereby incorpo­ rated by reference in their entirety) or permanent (see, e.g, copending, commonly-assigned United States patent appli­ cation Ser.

Preferably, the present invention also includes control circuitry for deEvering a predetermined amount of electrical energy to the heater upon actuation, independent of the power supply loaded voltage.

This particular microvalve has a nozzle opening diameter of about 0.7 mm and has a solenoid that can be driven with a voltage waveform of less than 20 volts peak, for periods of up to about 20 miUiseconds, to provide adequate Equid flow rates for use in the electrical smoking article of the present invention.

For example, with a water-filled 1 mm glass tube having a capillary tip diameter of 200 microns, the flow rate of relatively large, discrete water droplets was approximately 10 microtiters per second with a 3,000 volt DC electrostatic 45 potential apptied across a distance of 10 mm.