Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes: a plug connector having a cage, and a PCB received in the cage, the PCB including a mating end for being mated with a mating connector and an opposite connecting end, the connecting end comprising a first row of pads and a second row of pads disposed at one side of the PCB; at least one cable electrically connected to the connecting end, the at least one cable comprising a number of core wires, the core wires comprising a first group of core wires and a second group of core wires extending beyond the first group of core wires, the first group of core wires soldered to the first row of pads, the second group of core wires soldered to the second row of pads; and an insulative member isolating a soldering area of the first and second group of core wires.

Abstract: An apparatus may include an actuator, a heat-rejecting medium, and a receptacle for receiving a pluggable module. The pluggable module may be operable to be inserted into the receptacle in a first direction. The actuator may be operable to be translated in the first direction by the insertion of the pluggable module into the receptacle. The heat-rejecting medium may be operable to be translated in a second, different direction by the actuator when the actuator is translated in the first direction. The translation of the heat-rejecting medium in the second direction may be operable to cause the heat-rejecting medium to become thermally coupled to the pluggable module when the pluggable module is inserted into the receptacle.

Abstract: A cable mounting structure includes: a clustered cable including at least two cables covered with an integration coat; a spacer configured to divide the at least two cables that are exposed by removing the integration coat at one end of the clustered cable into two groups and array the two groups of the cables along a upper surface and a lower surface of the spacer; a mounting board including a upper-side cable joint electrode to which a cable arrayed on the upper surface of the spacer is joined and a lower-side cable joint electrode to which a cable arrayed on the lower surface of the spacer is joined; and a resin seal in which a joint between the mounting board and the at least two cables and a mounting board side of the spacer is covered and sealed with a sealing resin.

Abstract: Vaporizer devices and methods for detecting inhalation through a vaporizer using a heating element are provided. A resistive heater of a vaporizer may function as both a heater and as an anemometer to detect inhalation. Alternatively or additionally, a separate resistive heater may be included in an air path through the vaporizer to detect a user inhaling through the vaporizer. A heating control mechanism utilizes the already existing heating element in an anemometric correlation to when the vaporizer is idle and when it is being used (where being used implies the user is taking a puff/inhalation on the vaporizer). Using this information, a controller of the vaporizer accordingly controls heating to the vaporizer as required.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; and a row of contacts secured to the insulative housing, the row of contacts including one or more power contacts and one or more signal and/or ground contacts, wherein the one or more power contacts are plated with a first material and the one or more signal and/or ground contacts are plated with a second material different from the first material. A related method of manufacturing such connector includes separate plating of the row of power contacts from the row of signal and ground contacts with a different material.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette and an atomizer are disclosed, the atomizer includes a reservoir, the reservoir being configured for storing tobacco liquid; an atomizing assembly, the atomizing assembly being disposed inside the reservoir, at a lower end of the reservoir, and configured to absorb tobacco liquid for atomization; and a blocking component, the blocking component being disposed in the reservoir, and configured for blocking tobacco liquid in the reservoir when tobacco liquid flows from the lower end of the reservoir toward an upper end thereof, such that tobacco liquid is kept around the atomizing assembly, and hence avoiding few tobacco liquid existing in the atomizing assembly because of rapid flowing of the tobacco liquid such that the electronic cigarette may generate burnt flavor when smoked.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including a terminal module, a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, an insulative cover enclosing the shielding shell, and a sealing member disposed at a front portion of the insulative cover; and an outer housing accommodating the electrical connector, wherein the insulative cover has a plurality of humps engaging an inner surface of the outer housing, and the sealing member is compressed between the front portion of the insulative cover and the inner surface of the outer housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including a first unit, a second unit, and a shielding plate between the first and second units, each of the first unit and the second unit having an insulative body and a row of contacts, the insulative body including a rear base and a front tongue; and a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, wherein the first unit and the second unit have same structure.

Abstract: A connector is configured to secure a configured to secure a conductor to an electrical box. The connector includes a body having an outer wall with a terminal edge, and a passageway extending along a longitudinal axis. A plurality of fingers is coupled to the body and extends toward the longitudinal axis. The plurality of fingers is cantilevered with the body. Each finger of the plurality of fingers includes a slot that provides communication into the passageway. The slot extends from the terminal edge of the body substantially along the length of each finger.

Abstract: A handheld vaporizing device with rotating liquid housing chamber provides a multi-functional, handheld vaporizer/e-cigarette used to extract the active ingredients of a liquid substance for inhalation. The device provides a mouthpiece and a colinear rotatable multi-chamber housing. The housing has three enclosed chambers that receive individual liquid capsules filled with a liquid substance for smoking. Each enclosed chamber has one of a plurality of heating element assemblies, and a corresponding liquid capsule. Rotation of the housing to a locked position aligns a liquid capsule with a heating element assembly to achieve the vaporization of the contained liquid substance. An illumination subassembly lights up to indicate operation of heating element assemblies, charging capacity and status, and for providing an ornamental effect.

Abstract: A smoking article includes a housing having a mouthpiece and configured to receive a nicotine-containing aerosol generating substance. The smoking article also includes control electronics configured to control delivery of an amount of nicotine-containing aerosol from the nicotine-containing aerosol generating substrate through the mouthpiece. The smoking article further includes a nicotine metabolite sensor positioned at the mouth piece and operably coupled to the control electronics. The sensor is positioned such that when a smoker places their lips in contact with the mouthpiece the sensor can detect an amount or concentration of a nicotine metabolite in the smoker's saliva. The smoking article can store or report data regarding the amount of nicotine metabolite detected by the sensor to, for example, the smoker. In addition or alternatively, the control electronics can receive data from the sensor to control whether the amount of the nicotine-containing aerosol is delivered.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides, in one embodiment, an electronic smoking device comprising a mouthpiece; a vaporizer portion in communication with the mouthpiece; a filter cartridge assembly in communication with the mouthpiece; an inlet check valve; and an outlet check valve. The vaporizer portion comprises a heating element for heating a smoking material housed within the vaporizer portion. The inlet check valve permits air to be inhaled from the vaporizer portion into the mouthpiece, but substantially prohibits air from being exhaled through the mouthpiece into the vaporizer portion. The outlet check valve permits air to be exhaled through the mouthpiece into the filter cartridge assembly, but substantially prohibits air from being inhaled from the filter cartridge assembly into the mouthpiece.

Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a battery module and an atomizing module. The battery module is provided with a battery joint surface. The atomizing module is provided with an atomizing joint surface. The atomizing joint surface is provided with a guide rib, and the battery joint surface is provided with a guide groove, or the atomizing joint surface is provided with a guide groove, and the battery joint surface is provided with a guide rib. The guide rib is fitted in the guide groove so that the battery module and the atomizing module are assembled together.

Abstract: A card edge connector assembly includes a card edge connector having a housing defining a card slot and holding contacts to electrically connect to a pluggable module and a host circuit board. The card edge connector assembly includes a guide cover having a main body including a first side wall between first and second end walls. The main body defines a center cavity receiving the housing and the pluggable module. The guide cover has a first alignment channel between the center cavity and the first end wall and a second alignment channel between the center cavity and the second end wall. The alignment channels are configured to receive alignment posts of the pluggable module prior to the card slot receiving the pluggable module.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing retaining a plurality of contacts therein. The contact includes a mating part with a first body and a spring arm extending therefrom for mating a conductive pad of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and a soldering part with a second body and a solder tail extending therefrom for mounting a solder ball thereon. The spring arm is downwardly pressed by the CPU to contact the soldering part when the CPU is mounted upon the electrical connector The mating part and the soldering part are spaced from each other either without any connection, or alternately linked with each other via a bridge transversely connected therebetween wherein the latter may optionally omit the barbed structure from one of the mating part and the soldering part.

Abstract: A capsule 26 for an electronic vapour inhaler comprises a shell 28 containing a flavour-release medium 40 and one or more induction heatable elements 42 disposed inside the shell 28 and arranged to heat the flavour-release medium 40 to produce a vapour for inhalation by a user. At least part of the shell 28 is formed of an air permeable material.

Abstract: An outlet faceplate extension device includes female receiving components at a first side, male electronic components at a second side, and a rim that is connectable to furniture.

Abstract: The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.

Abstract: A method of generating an aerosol in an aerosol-generating system includes storing liquid aerosol-forming substrate in a liquid storage portion and delivering via a pump a liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the liquid storage portion to an atomizer. The method also includes sensing a puff via a a puff sensor in an airflow path of the aerosol-generating system and determining a puff intensity during the puff via a controller. The delivery flow rate of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the atomizer is adjusted in response to the determined puff intensity.

Abstract: Smoking articles are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a smoking article includes a heat source configured to generate heat upon ignition thereof, a first substrate material having an aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and a first end being fixedly engaged with the heat source, and an aerosol delivery component having opposed first and second ends, the first end of the aerosol delivery component being engaged with the second end of the first substrate material. In some aspects, the aerosol delivery component includes a second substrate material having the aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and being disposed about the first end of the aerosol delivery component and a tobacco material disposed between the second substrate material and the mouthpiece, the aerosol precursor composition associated with the first and second substrate materials being configured to produce an aerosol in response to the heat generated by the ignited heat source.