According to Smoore, it has spent 10 years on R&D and patent application of heat not burn before launch of Glo Hilo in 2024. For Glo Hilo alone, the product took 5 years to develop. 2024 - 5 = 2019
I am not 100% sure whether the exact patent is in use, as neither company has confirmed this. I guess one simple way to verify its heating mechanism is to cut the stick open, take out the tobacco sheet and use a magnet to test it. If the tobacco sheet contains no visible metal but is still attracted to the magnet, then it may be mixed with magnetic particles as claimed in the patent. I don't recall any other mainstream heated tobacco sticks that contain tobacco leafs mixed with magnetic particles.
IQOS got it right. A central blade or rod will radiate heat outwards where a fresh supply of tobacco mixture is readily available to aerosolise. Its competitors got it wrong by placing a heating collar around the heatstick rod - where the heat has an ever-diminishing source of material as it moves in towards the centre. BTW, the temperature of an IQOS device steadily rises through a six minute session - this ensures the heat slowly radiates out to provide a consistent experience. It also explains why the material right next to the blade is charred afterwards. I'm not sure how metal filings will improve upon this unless the Glo Hilo also has an incremental temperature increase... it wouldn't work without it.
That's a good point. While the patent mentions the shortened pre-heating time, it doesn't say how to maintain consistent taste and nicotine delivery from the first to the last puff. The Glo Hilo device session in standard mode has been increased to 5 minutes and 10 seconds (+40 seconds compared to Hyper Pro). If they couldn't deliver a consistent taste throughout the session, it would be a problem. We can only find out based on user feedback. So far, I haven't found a complaint about diminishing taste based on Reddit user feedback (if this is honest feedback), though there are other weaknesses identified.
Date of publication of the patent is 02.11.2022. Are you sure this patent is in use in the latest versions of Glo Hilo and Glo Hilo Plus?
According to Smoore, it has spent 10 years on R&D and patent application of heat not burn before launch of Glo Hilo in 2024. For Glo Hilo alone, the product took 5 years to develop. 2024 - 5 = 2019
I am not 100% sure whether the exact patent is in use, as neither company has confirmed this. I guess one simple way to verify its heating mechanism is to cut the stick open, take out the tobacco sheet and use a magnet to test it. If the tobacco sheet contains no visible metal but is still attracted to the magnet, then it may be mixed with magnetic particles as claimed in the patent. I don't recall any other mainstream heated tobacco sticks that contain tobacco leafs mixed with magnetic particles.
IQOS got it right. A central blade or rod will radiate heat outwards where a fresh supply of tobacco mixture is readily available to aerosolise. Its competitors got it wrong by placing a heating collar around the heatstick rod - where the heat has an ever-diminishing source of material as it moves in towards the centre. BTW, the temperature of an IQOS device steadily rises through a six minute session - this ensures the heat slowly radiates out to provide a consistent experience. It also explains why the material right next to the blade is charred afterwards. I'm not sure how metal filings will improve upon this unless the Glo Hilo also has an incremental temperature increase... it wouldn't work without it.
That's a good point. While the patent mentions the shortened pre-heating time, it doesn't say how to maintain consistent taste and nicotine delivery from the first to the last puff. The Glo Hilo device session in standard mode has been increased to 5 minutes and 10 seconds (+40 seconds compared to Hyper Pro). If they couldn't deliver a consistent taste throughout the session, it would be a problem. We can only find out based on user feedback. So far, I haven't found a complaint about diminishing taste based on Reddit user feedback (if this is honest feedback), though there are other weaknesses identified.
https://www.reddit.com/r/glo/comments/1h6proo/glo_hilo_and_hilo_plus/
Glo Hilo is scheduled to launch in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on June 9th. For more information, see my latest article (https://recital.substack.com/p/glo-hilo-pilot-launch-in-miyagi-prefecture). We will see how Japanese users react to it.