Patents by Inventor Rory FRASER
Rory FRASER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240131282Abstract: A component of an electronic vapor provision device with a reservoir for storing source liquid, an atomizer for vaporizing source liquid from the reservoir and delivering vapor into an air flow path through the device, and an electrical power supply for providing electrical power to the atomizer comprises an absorbent element to collect source liquid escaped from the reservoir and located so as to be upstream of the atomizer with respect to an air flow direction along the air flow path when the component is assembled into the electronic vapor provision device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Rory FRASER, Howard ROTHWELL, Marina TRANI, Carolyn GARNETT
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Publication number: 20240108062Abstract: An electronic vapor provision system includes a control unit and a cartridge configured to engage with and disengage from one another substantially along a longitudinal axis. The cartridge includes a reservoir of liquid to be vaporized, and the control unit includes a battery and a tube portion disposed along said longitudinal axis. The system further includes an induction heating assembly comprising a drive coil and a heater element. The heater element is located in the cartridge for vaporizing the liquid. The cartridge is configured to feed liquid from the reservoir onto the heater element for vaporization. The drive coil is located in the tube portion of the control unit and disposed about the longitudinal axis. The cartridge is located at least partly within the tube portion when engaged with the control unit, such that the heater element is within the drive coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Rory FRASER, Colin DICKENS, Siddhartha JAIN
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Patent number: 11944122Abstract: An assembly for a vapor provision device includes a reservoir for storing source liquid; a liquid conduit for delivering the source liquid from the reservoir to a vapor generator for vaporizing the source liquid; and a liquid capture element in liquid transfer contact with at least a portion of the liquid conduit between the vapor generator and a part of the liquid conduit that receives liquid from the reservoir, and including an absorbent structure providing a higher capillary force than a capillary force of the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Howard Rothwell, Jeremy Wright
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Patent number: 11896055Abstract: An aerosol provision system for generating an aerosol from a source liquid, the aerosol provision system including: a reservoir of source liquid; a planar vaporizer comprising a planar heating element, wherein the vaporizer is configured to draw source liquid from the reservoir to the vicinity of a vaporizing surface of the vaporizer through capillary action; and an induction heater coil operable to induce current flow in the heating element to inductively heat the heating element and so vaporize a portion of the source liquid in the vicinity of the vaporizing surface of the vaporizer. In some example the vaporizer further comprises a porous wadding/wicking material, e.g. an electrically non-conducting fibrous material at least partially surrounding the planar heating element (susceptor) and in contact with source liquid from the reservoir to provide, or at least contribute to, the function of drawing source liquid from the reservoir to the vicinity of the vaporizing surface of the vaporizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Colin Dickens, Siddhartha Jain
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Patent number: 11883586Abstract: A component of an electronic vapor provision device with a reservoir for storing source liquid, an atomizer for vaporizing source liquid from the reservoir and delivering vapor into an air flow path through the device, and an electrical power supply for providing electrical power to the atomizer comprises an absorbent element to collect source liquid escaped from the reservoir and located so as to be upstream of the atomizer with respect to an air flow direction along the air flow path when the component is assembled into the electronic vapor provision device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Howard Rothwell, Marina Trani, Carolyn Garnett
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Patent number: 11882877Abstract: An electronic vapor provision system includes a control unit and a cartridge configured to engage with and disengage from one another substantially along a longitudinal axis. The cartridge includes a reservoir of liquid to be vaporized, and the control unit includes a battery and a tube portion disposed along said longitudinal axis. The system further includes an induction heating assembly comprising a drive coil and a heater element. The heater element is located in the cartridge for vaporizing the liquid. The cartridge is configured to feed liquid from the reservoir onto the heater element for vaporization. The drive coil is located in the tube portion of the control unit and disposed about the longitudinal axis. The cartridge is located at least partly within the tube portion when engaged with the control unit, such that the heater element is within the drive coil.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Colin Dickens, Siddhartha Jain
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Patent number: 11883585Abstract: A component of an electronic vapor provision device with a reservoir for storing source liquid, an atomizer for vaporizing source liquid from the reservoir and delivering vapor into an air flow path through the device, and an electrical power supply for providing electrical power to the atomizer comprises an absorbent element to collect source liquid escaped from the reservoir and located so as to be upstream of the atomizer with respect to an air flow direction along the air flow path when the component is assembled into the electronic vapor provision device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Howard Rothwell, Marina Trani, Carolyn Garnett
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Publication number: 20240016223Abstract: A cap for use with a delivery system, the cap including an outer wall defining an internal cavity with an entrance opening at a first end of the cap, the internal cavity configured to receive a mouthpiece of the delivery system, wherein the cap outer wall includes at least one aperture disposed at a second end of the cap which is opposite to the first end and arranged to allow airflow through the internal cavity, around the mouthpiece and out of the cap via the at least one aperture when the cap is fitted to a delivery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Steven HUGHES, Rory FRASER
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Patent number: 11857721Abstract: A component of an electronic vapor provision device with a reservoir for storing source liquid, an atomizer for vaporizing source liquid from the reservoir and delivering vapor into an air flow path through the device, and an electrical power supply for providing electrical power to the atomizer comprises an absorbent element to collect source liquid escaped from the reservoir and located so as to be upstream of the atomizer with respect to an air flow direction along the air flow path when the component is assembled into the electronic vapor provision device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory Fraser, Howard Rothwell, Marina Trani, Carolyn Garnett
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Patent number: 11833294Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprises a heating element for generating an aerosol from a source liquid and control circuitry for controlling a supply of electrical power from a power supply to the heating element. The control circuitry is configured to measure an indication of a derivative of an electrical characteristic of the heating element with respect to time. Based on the measured time derivative, the control circuitry is configured to determine whether or not a fault condition has arisen for the electronic aerosol provision system. The overall change in the electrical characteristic for the heating element caused by the localized heating may be small and so difficult to reliably identify, but the rate at which the change occurs can be expected to be relatively high, such that the time derivative of the local characteristic is a more reliable indicator of occurrence of the fault condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Helmut Buchberger, Colin Dickens, Rory Fraser
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Patent number: 11779718Abstract: An aerosol forming component for volatilizing a liquid in an aerosol delivery device is disclosed. The aerosol forming component includes a first aerosol-forming member configured to be heated up to a first operating temperature and thereafter to a second higher operating temperature, and a second aerosol-forming member configured to be heated up to at least the first operating temperature as the first aerosol-forming member reaches the second higher operating temperature so that liquid volatilized from the two aerosol-forming members mix with one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Helmut Buchberger, Colin John Dickens, Rory Fraser
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Patent number: 11752284Abstract: An aerosol delivery device including: control circuitry for controlling an operating mode of the device; a motion sensor arranged to detect motion of the device and to output corresponding motion detection signals to the control circuitry; and an airflow sensor arranged to detect a flow of air in the device and to output corresponding airflow detection signals to the control circuitry; wherein the control circuitry is configured to determine from the motion detection signals when there is a tapping event corresponding to the device being tapped by a user and to determine from the airflow detection signals when there is an airflow event, and wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the device to switch from a first operating mode to a second operating mode in response to the detection of a predefined sequence of events comprising at least one tapping event and at least one airflow event.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Colin Dickens, Rory Fraser
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Patent number: 11744964Abstract: A sub-assembly for an electronic vapor provision system includes a source of liquid for vaporization; and a vaporizer for vaporizing a portion of the liquid for inhalation by a user, the vaporizer including a wick component; and an electrical heating element embedded in the wick component. The wick component includes a sheet of a porous electrically-insulating material and is arranged to wick liquid from the source of liquid to a surface of the wick component adjacent to the embedded electrical heating element for vaporization.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventor: Rory Fraser
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Publication number: 20230172269Abstract: An assembly for a vapor provision device includes a reservoir for storing source liquid; a liquid conduit for delivering the source liquid from the reservoir to a vapor generator for vaporizing the source liquid; and a liquid capture element in liquid transfer contact with at least a portion of the liquid conduit between the vapor generator and a part of the liquid conduit that receives liquid from the reservoir, and including an absorbent structure providing a higher capillary force than a capillary force of the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Rory FRASER, Howard ROTHWELL, Jeremy WRIGHT
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Publication number: 20230117320Abstract: An article for use with an electrically operated non-combustible aerosol delivery system, the article including a generally planar aerosol generating component suspended within an aerosol generating chamber, wherein the periphery of aerosol generating component is coupled to one or more feed apertures such that liquid aerosolizable material is fed directly to the majority of the periphery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventor: Rory Fraser
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Patent number: 11583004Abstract: An assembly for a vapor provision device includes a vapor generator for vaporizing source liquid, a liquid conduit for delivering source liquid from a reservoir to the vapor generator, and a liquid capture element in liquid transfer contact with at least a portion of the liquid conduit between the vapor generator and a part of the liquid conduit that receives liquid from the reservoir, and including an absorbent structure providing a lower capillary force than a capillary force of the liquid conduit.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Rory Fraser, Howard Rothwell, Jeremy Wright
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Publication number: 20220355049Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprises a heating element for generating an aerosol from a source liquid and control circuitry for controlling a supply of electrical power from a power supply to the heating element. The control circuitry is configured to measure an indication of a derivative of an electrical characteristic of the heating element with respect to time. Based on the measured time derivative, the control circuitry is configured to determine whether or not a fault condition has arisen for the electronic aerosol provision system. The overall change in the electrical characteristic for the heating element caused by the localized heating may be small and so difficult to reliably identify, but the rate at which the change occurs can be expected to be relatively high, such that the time derivative of the local characteristic is a more reliable indicator of occurrence of the fault condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Helmut BUCHBERGER, Colin DICKENS, Rory FRASER
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Patent number: D989623Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Ayah Abdullah, Bonifacio Spinola, Steven Hughes, Rory Fraser
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Patent number: D992418Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Ayah Abdullah, Bonifacio Spinola, Steven Hughes, Rory Fraser
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Patent number: D993022Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Ayah Abdullah, Bonifacio Spinola, Steven Hughes, Rory Fraser