A SHAPED HEATER FOR AN AEROSOL GENERATING SYSTEM WITH ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN AN ELONGATE ARRAY

摘要

600869 Disclosed is a heater (101) formed within a cigarette for heating an aerosol-forming substrate. The heater comprises a plurality of elongate heating elements (107) electrically or mechanically connected together and arranged in an elongate or tubular array. The elongate array has a support end with a first dimension, a heating end with a second dimension and a middle portion with a third dimension where one of the dimensions matches the tube diameter. The array is arranged to heat the substrate to form an aerosol. The third dimension is greater than the first dimension and greater than the second dimension. the dimension of the middle portion of the array is larger than an inside dimension of a cavity of the aerosol-forming substrate, such that, when the plurality of heating elements are inserted into the cavity of the aerosol-forming substrate, the heating elements are pressed towards each other so as to exert a force on the substrate.