Patents Examined by Michael Patrick Mullen
  • Patent number: 12616247
    Abstract: An atomizer includes an atomizing housing and an atomizing base. The lower end of the atomizing housing is connected to the upper end of the atomizing base. A communicating hole is provided at the bottom of the atomizing housing to allow an atomizing chamber in the atomizing housing to communicate with the inner cavity of the atomizing base. A partition plate is provided within the inner cavity of the atomizing base and divides the inner cavity of the atomizing base into a liquid storage cavity and a ventilation cavity. An opening is provided at the upper end of the partition plate. The opening is used for communicating the liquid storage cavity with the ventilation cavity. The liquid storage cavity is located directly below the communicating hole. The ventilation cavity is located away from the underside of the communicating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU PATENT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weihua Qiu
  • Patent number: 12610984
    Abstract: An e-cigarette, an e-cigarette vaporizer, and a vaporization assembly are provided. The e-cigarette vaporizer includes: a liquid storage cavity, configured to store a liquid substrate; a porous body, in fluid communication with the liquid storage cavity to absorb the liquid substrate; and a heating element, including a first electrode connection portion, a second electrode connection portion, and a resistance heating trajectory extending between the first electrode connection portion and the second electrode connection portion. A curvature of any position on a part of the resistance heating trajectory close and connected to the first electrode connection portion and/or the second electrode connection portion is not zero. The heating element of the e-cigarette vaporizer adopts the resistance heating trajectory to perform heating, and causes a part of the resistance heating trajectory that is close and connected to an electrode connection portion to be in a bending shape whose curvature is not zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Shi, Xiaofei Zhang, Jun Yuan, Jiamao Luo, Baoling Lei, Zhongli Xu, Yonghai Li
  • Patent number: 12543792
    Abstract: A liquid-conveying susceptor assembly is provided for conveying and inductively heating an aerosol-forming liquid under an influence of an alternating magnetic field, the susceptor assembly including a filament bundle, the filament bundle including at least a plurality of first filaments including a first susceptor material, in which along at least a parallel-bundle portion of the filament bundle the plurality of first filaments are arranged parallel to each other. An inductive heating assembly for conveying and inductively heating an aerosol-forming liquid is also provided. An aerosol-generating article for an inductively heatable aerosol-generating device is also provided. And, an aerosol-generating system including an inductively heatable aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article for the aerosol-generating device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Jerome Christian Courbat, Oleg Mironov, Özgür Özsun
  • Patent number: 12514296
    Abstract: An atomizing device and an aerosol generating device. The atomizing device comprises an oil storage bin, an atomizing mounting assembly, a heating atomizing assembly and a liquid intake adjusting member. The oil storage bin is internally provided with an air guide channel and an oil storage cavity used for storing an atomizable liquid. The heating atomizing assembly is mounted in the atomizing mounting assembly and is accommodated in the oil storage bin. A liquid guide channel is arranged between the heating atomizing assembly and the oil storage cavity. The liquid intake adjusting member is provided at a position in the liquid guide channel that is close to the heating atomizing assembly, is a thermosensitive metal sheet, and deforms upon sensing a change in the temperature of the heating atomizing assembly, so as to automatically adjust the magnitude of a liquid intake amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Shenzhen Huachengda Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping Chen
  • Patent number: 12501950
    Abstract: A fire retardant bib assembly for being wearable around a neck of a person who is smoking includes a bib being wearable around a neck of a person who is smoking and being elongated to cover a torso of the person to inhibit ash created by an article being smoked from falling onto clothing of the person. The bib comprises a flexible fabric composed of a fire resistant material. The bib has a pair of weighted members, a pair of tethers, and a pocket. The pocket is coupled to the bib and includes an open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Inventor: Glean Conerly, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12484639
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heater module for an aerosol-generating device includes: preparing a heat transfer pipe having a hollow shape and including a thermal conductive material; forming an assembly of the heat transfer pipe and a cover by insert molding in which heat transfer pipe is placed in a mold and resin is injected into the mold, such that one end of the cover is integrally coupled to an end of the heat transfer pipe while a side wall of the cover is spaced apart from the heat transfer pipe and surrounds the heat transfer pipe; arranging a heater on an outer surface of the heat transfer pipe; and sealing, with a sealing stopper, a space between the heat transfer pipe and the cover such that internal pressure of the space is lower than atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Sung Kim, Won Kyeong Lee, Heon Jun Jeong, Jae Sung Choi
  • Patent number: 12329197
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic smoking device accommodating a generic cigarette for generating less harmful aerosol and improving smoking flavor and quality. The electronic device comprises a cylindrical cigarette receiver, an extractor for retrieving smoking substances from cigarettes, a heating unit for baking the smoking substances instead of burning the substance, an air tight aerosol accumulation cavity to collect the vapor for a user to smoke, an electronic control circuit board and a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kai Yan, Binlun Yan, Yanyilun Zhi