Patents Examined by Phuong K Dinh
  • Patent number: 11602165
    Abstract: A nicotine delivery device (200) for generating a mist containing nicotine for inhalation by a user. The device comprises a mist generator device (201) and a driver device (202). The driver device (202) is configured to drive the mist generator device (201) at an optimum frequency to maximise the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator device (201).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Shaheen Innovations Holding Limited
    Inventors: Imad Lahoud, Mohammed Alshaiba Saleh Ghannam Almazrouei, Sajid Bhatti, Jeff Machovec, Clement Lamoureux
  • Patent number: 11596131
    Abstract: An oxalic acid vaporizer has a modular configuration, having a dispensing module and a manually detachable heating module. This modular configuration allows the first heating module to be easily separated from the dispensing module and a substitute heating module attached to the dispensing module, thereby allowing for a very fast replacement of the heating module in the event there is a failure or overheating in the first heating module. The substitute heating module may be a duplicate of the first heating module or the substitute heating module may have a more powerful fan, be capable of greater heat, or it may be of the type having a proportional-integral-derivative controller for controlling temperature. The modular configuration provides for a continuous oxalic acid gas treatment of bee hives by allowing an operator to change out heating modules in a matter of seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: UHB, LLC
    Inventor: Craig Johnson
  • Patent number: 11589615
    Abstract: Provided according to an exemplary embodiment is a heater for an aerosol generation device, the heater comprising a plurality of segments combined together to form an insertion portion into which an object-to-be-heated is inserted; one or more electrically conductive tracks printed on one surface of each of the plurality of segments and disposed toward the object-to-be-heated; and an elastic member configured to surround at least a part of the plurality of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hwi Kyeong An
  • Patent number: 11589622
    Abstract: A method of controlling electric power supplied to a heater includes controlling the electric power supplied to the heater by a first method until a temperature of the heater reaches an upper limit of a pre-heating temperature section; and controlling the electric power supplied to the heater by a second method to a target temperature that is higher than the upper limit, when the temperature of the heater reaches the upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jae Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11589612
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device distributing and transmitting power from a battery to two heaters, wherein the aerosol generating device includes the battery, a first heater heating a first aerosol generating substrate, a second heater heating a second aerosol generating substrate, and a controller controlling power supplied from the battery to the first heater and the second heater, wherein the controller controls power to be supplied from the battery to the first heater and the second heater at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyung Jin Jung, Tae Hun Kim, Hun Il Lim, Jae Sung Choi, Jung Ho Han
  • Patent number: 11589613
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a power supply assembly for an electronic cigarette and an electronic cigarette. The power supply assembly includes a main body and a trigger switch. The main body may be provided with an accommodation space for accommodating circuit components. The trigger switch may be mounted inside the accommodation space by a seal. A first channel and an air flow sensing duct may be connected to the trigger switch. The first channel may include a first end and a second end that are arranged oppositely. The first end may communicate with the air suction pathway of an atomizer of the electronic cigarette, and the air flow sensing duct may communicate with a lateral wall of the first channel close to the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONG KONG IVPS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Junwei Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11582838
    Abstract: An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device comprises includes an induction coil and a heating compartment arranged to receive an induction heatable cartridge. A first electromagnetic shield layer is arranged outward of the induction coil and a second electromagnetic shield layer is arranged outward of the first electromagnetic shield layer. The first and second electromagnetic shield layers differ in one or both of their electrical conductivity and their magnetic permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Daniel Vanko
  • Patent number: 11582839
    Abstract: An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device includes an induction coil, radially inward of which a heating compartment is defined for receiving, in use, a body including a vaporisable substance and an induction heatable susceptor; and a temperature sensor located against a side of the heating compartment on the central longitudinal axis of the induction coil at an end of the heating compartment, wherein the induction coil is arranged to heat, in use, the susceptor, and the temperature sensor is arrange to monitor, in use, a temperature related to heat generated from the susceptor. There is also provided an induction heatable cartridge for use with the induction heating assembly. The cartridge includes a solid vaporisable substance; and an induction heatable susceptor held by the vaporisable substance, the susceptor being planar and having an outwardly facing edge and an inwardly facing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Gill
  • Patent number: 11581671
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) socket comprising a housing with a land side, an opposing die side, and sidewalls around a perimeter of the housing. The housing comprises a first dielectric. A plurality of socket pins extends from the land side of the housing through socket pin holes in the housing over the die side of the housing. A second dielectric is within the interstitial regions between the socket pins and sidewalls of the socket pin holes. A frame structure extends around at least a portion of the perimeter of the housing, and a mesh structure is embedded within the first dielectric. The mesh structure has plurality of mesh filaments extending between the plurality of socket pin holes and coupled to the frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zhimin Wan, Steven A. Klein, Chia-Pin Chiu, Shankar Devasenathipathy
  • Patent number: 11576234
    Abstract: An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device includes an induction coil and a memory storage device. The induction coil is arranged to heat, in use, a susceptor and the induction coil is also arranged to transmit and receive, in use, an electromagnetic field to transfer data to and from an external information device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Gill
  • Patent number: 11571023
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a heater configured to generate aerosol by heating a cigarette, the heater including a first electrically conductive heating element formed along a first path on an electrically insulating substrate, a second electrically conductive heating element formed along a second path on the electrically insulating substrate, and a temperature sensor track formed along a third path in a region between the first path and the second path; a battery configured to supply power to the heater; and a controller configured to control the power supplied from the battery to the heater and monitor a temperature sensed using the temperature sensor track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hun Il Lim, Tae Hun Kim, Jung Ho Han, Sang Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 11571022
    Abstract: A nicotine delivery device (200) for generating a mist containing nicotine for inhalation by a user. The device comprises a mist generator device (201) and a driver device (202). The driver device (202) is configured to drive the mist generator device (201) at an optimum frequency to maximise the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator device (201).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Shaheen Innovations Holding Limited
    Inventors: Imad Lahoud, Mohammed Alshaiba Saleh Ghannam Almazrouei, Sajid Bhatti, Jeff Machovec, Clement Lamoureux
  • Patent number: 11559084
    Abstract: A battery unit includes a power source; a detection part for detecting an output voltage of the power source; a connection part to which a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source and a charger for charging the power source are connectable; and a control part being able to execute a power supplying mode that allows supply of electric power from the power source to the load and a charging mode that allows charging of the power source by the charger, wherein if a decreased quantity of the output voltage per predetermined period in the charging mode is equal to or less than a threshold value that has been set based on a decreased quantity of the output voltage per the predetermined period in the power supplying mode, the control part determines that there is abnormality in the charging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Takeuchi, Takaya Takahashi, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 11552489
    Abstract: An electrically operable aerosol-generating system is provided, including a charging device including a primary power source; and an elongated aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having a proximal end, a distal end, and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the charging device having a docking arrangement configured to engage with the elongated aerosol-generating device and to charge the secondary power source by the primary power source, in which a first coupling member disposed on the body of the elongated aerosol-generating device is configured to engage with a second coupling member disposed on a wall of the charging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Raphael Holzherr, Hankak Lee
  • Patent number: 11547144
    Abstract: Provided according to an exemplary embodiment is a heater for an aerosol generation device, the heater comprising a plurality of segments combined together to form an insertion portion into which an object-to-be-heated is inserted; one or more electrically conductive tracks printed on one surface of each of the plurality of segments and disposed toward the object-to-be-heated; and an elastic member configured to surround at least a part of the plurality of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hwi Kyeong An
  • Patent number: 11546975
    Abstract: An induction heatable cartridge for use with an induction heating assembly includes a solid vaporisable substance and at least one ring-shaped induction heatable susceptor held within and surrounded by the vaporisable substance. The susceptors are held in position such that, when the cartridge is positioned in an induction circuit in use, different regions of the outer edge of the one or more susceptors are at different distances from the induction circuit to provide different heating characteristics in the different regions. The centres of each of the at least one susceptors are aligned along a common axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Robert John Rogan, Mark Gill
  • Patent number: 11533950
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for an atomizer assembly comprising a mouthpiece portion, a longitudinal vapor channel, an internal fluid reservoir, and an atomizer. An outer surface of the mouthpiece portion includes a vapor outlet, coupled to a first distal end of the longitudinal vapor channel. The internal fluid reservoir is integrally formed with the mouthpiece portion as a single-piece construction, wherein the internal fluid reservoir comprises an empty volume disposed between an outer surface of the longitudinal vapor channel and an inner surface of the mouthpiece portion. The atomizer is configured to receive a fluid stored in the internal fluid reservoir of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the atomizer includes at least one heating element for vaporizing the fluid received from the internal fluid reservoir of the mouthpiece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Clear IP Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff Wu
  • Patent number: 11517052
    Abstract: An intelligent induction atomizer comprises a main shell and a bottom shell detachably mounted at the lower end of the main shell. A bottle container, a middle baffle and a control mainboard are arranged in the main shell. The atomizer can be used for sterilization by means of infrared inductive atomization, and adopts the battery to supply power, thereby being convenient and safe to use; and multiple purposes can be fulfilled by adding or changing liquid in the bottle container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Biao Long
  • Patent number: 11517047
    Abstract: Provided according to an exemplary embodiment is a heater for an aerosol generation device, the heater comprising a plurality of segments combined together to form an insertion portion into which an object-to-be-heated is inserted; one or more electrically conductive tracks printed on one surface of each of the plurality of segments and disposed toward the object-to-be-heated; and an elastic member configured to surround at least a part of the plurality of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hwi Kyeong An
  • Patent number: 11517049
    Abstract: A circumferentially heating type curing needle is adapted for an E-cigarette and comprises a curing needle head that is built-in with a heating element. The curing needle head is externally plated with a non-stick coating which is a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coating or a PTFE non-stick nano coating. The curing needle head is further provided with a fixed support and a ceramic base, the ceramic base is secured into the fixed support, and the curing needle head is fixedly inserted into the ceramic base. The E-cigarette is provided with the aforesaid circumferentially heating type curing needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN BUDDY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Hui Li