Patents Examined by Tho D. Ta
  • Patent number: 11969025
    Abstract: A charging device for an electronic cigarette system is provided. The electronic cigarette system includes a smoking device. The smoking device includes a heating member. The charging device includes a housing and a cleaning device located in the housing. The housing is provided with a hollow chamber configured for receiving the smoking device and an accommodation cavity configured for installing the cleaning device. The accommodation cavity is in communication with the hollow chamber. When the smoking device is placed into the hollow chamber, the cleaning device in the accommodation cavity is configured to contact with the heating member of the smoking device and clean the heating member. The charging device is convenient for the user to carry the cleaning device and clean the heating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU PATENT ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Weihua Qiu, Xiaoqi Xu
  • Patent number: 11963552
    Abstract: A heater assembly for a cigarette-type electronic smoking device is provided. A heater assembly for a cigarette-type electronic smoking device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a smoking-vapor generation portion including a first heater configured to heat a circumference of a cigarette to generate a smoking vapor from the cigarette; a smoking-satisfaction vapor generation portion including a second heater configured to heat a liquid material so as to allow a smoking-satisfaction vapor generated from the liquid material to also be inhaled during smoking the cigarette; and a connection member configured to connect the smoking-vapor generation portion and the smoking-satisfaction vapor generation portion to each other. Accordingly, the user may inhale the smoking-satisfaction vapor together with the smoking vapor during smoking the cigarette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amosense Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Dong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11967793
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device and a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery device comprises a control device that includes an outer housing defining a cartridge receiving chamber, and further includes a power source and a control component, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece, a tank, a heating assembly, and a bottom cap. The mouthpiece defines an exit portal in an end thereof, and the tank is configured to contain a liquid composition therein. The cartridge is configured to be removably coupled with the receiving chamber of the control device, and the heating assembly defines a vaporization chamber and is configured to heat the liquid composition to generate an aerosol. The heating assembly comprises a substantially planar heating member and a liquid transport element, wherein the heating member is installed in a bowed orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Jacob Novak, III, Sean A. Daugherty, Jared Aller, Michael Ryan Galloway, Justin Holt, Matthew Joel Nettenstrom, Steven Michael Schennum
  • Patent number: 11957167
    Abstract: Provided is a cartridge assembly for containment of a vaporizable substance to be used in an electronic vaporizer device. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge and a susceptor element. The cartridge includes a base section and a side section coupled to the base section at a first end of the side section. An aperture is defined at a second end of the side section and the side section includes at least two apertures located in the side section, where the at least two apertures are configured to allow air to flow into an interior chamber of the cartridge when air flows out of the aperture defined at the second end. The susceptor element is located within the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products, S.A.
    Inventors: Jon Bogran, Matthew Greenfield, Peter Nysen, Neeraj S. Bhardwaj, Andrew L. Bleloch
  • Patent number: 11957182
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a main body and a cartridge detachably coupled to the main body. The main body includes a controller, a battery, and a first wireless communication unit. The cartridge includes a second wireless communication unit. The controller controls output power of the battery to apply a power pattern to the cartridge, and the first wireless communication unit establishes a wireless connection with the second wireless communication unit when power supplied from the battery to the cartridge matches a preset power pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung Sung Cho, Won Kyeong Lee, Jong Sub Lee, Dae Nam Han
  • Patent number: 11950638
    Abstract: There is provided an electronically controlled, breath actuated vaporization device for generating vaporized material for inhalation by a user. The vaporization device includes a vaporization chamber for accommodating material to be vaporized and a mesh heater or other heater supported upstream of the vaporization chamber which is operable to heat air that passes through the mesh heater or other heater during an inhalation event. A closed loop control scheme may be employed to control heat generated by the heater to maintain a temperature of the air delivered to the vaporization chamber at or within a predetermined tolerance of a desired vaporization temperature for at least a majority of a duration of the inhalation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zenigata LLC
    Inventors: Christopher B. Harrison, Steven A. Rodriguez, Gregory A. Kirkos, Alga Lloyd Nothern, III, Dainia Edwards, Joseph N. Kennelly Ullman, Eric W. Healy
  • Patent number: 11950629
    Abstract: A vapour generating device is provided with a vapour generating place and a cover defining a closable opening to the vapour generating place. The cover is biased toward a closed position, so that dust and particulate matter may not readily enter the vapour generating place, and openable to an open position when receiving a vapour generating rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Doci, Layth Bouchuiguir
  • Patent number: 11953189
    Abstract: An adapter is introduced into a rail during formation of the lighting arrangement, to receive electrical energy from a conductor device provided in a region of the rail when the lighting arrangement is in an operating state, and to supply an assembly, which can be electrically coupled to the adapter during formation of the lighting arrangement, with electrical energy for the operation of light-generating devices in the operating state. The adapter comprises a rotational connector and can be electrically coupled by means of a rotational movement of the rotational connector to a plurality of electrical phases provided by the conductor device. The adapter comprises a device for phase selection, by means of which the assembly electrically coupled to the adapter can be electrically coupled to a selectable one of the phases provided by the conductor device and electrically coupled to the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: H4X e.U.
    Inventor: Andreas Hierzer
  • Patent number: 11949186
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a metal shell and a cover. The metal shell includes first, second, third, and fourth side walls that define a first opening, an accommodating space, and a second opening. The cover includes a flat plate portion covering the first opening, and two fixing portions extending from the flat plate portion to the accommodating space. At the first opening, a length of the plate portion is greater than a distance from an outer surface of the second side wall to an outer surface of the fourth side wall, or a width of the flat plate portion is greater than a distance from an outer surface of the first side wall to an outer surface of the third side wall. The fixing portions respectively contact the second side wall and the fourth side wall, or each fixing portion contacts the first side wall and the third side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ENERGY FULL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsu-Shen Chin
  • Patent number: 11945094
    Abstract: An interface for a battery pack and an electrical combination. The interface may include a battery-receiving portion configured to receive a battery pack and including a cavity. The cavity is defined by a pair of sidewalls with rails defining a groove between the rails and a lower surface of the cavity. The rails are stepped or angled along a battery insertion axis and are configured to guide the sliding engagement of a battery pack within the battery-receiving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle J. Radovich, Cameron R. Schulz, Mitchell Carlson, John G. Marx, Paul Rossetto, David M. Schwalbach
  • Patent number: 11949183
    Abstract: A powered wall plate may include a face plate comprising an opening extending through the face plate from the first surface to the rear surface. A first keyed interface may be formed at the rear surface of the face plate. An electrical receptacle may comprise a second keyed interface configured to be coupled with the first keyed interface, the electrical receptacle further comprising terminals disposed on sides of the electrical receptacle. Spring-biased terminals may be coupled to the face plate and coupled with the terminals. A powered feature may be coupled to the face plate and configured to be electrically coupled to the electrical receptacle through the spring-biased terminals when the first keyed interface and the second keyed interface are mateably coupled. Power may not be supplied from the electrical receptacle to the powered feature when the first keyed interface is not mateably coupled with the second keyed interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Titan3 Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, John E. Klein
  • Patent number: 11942719
    Abstract: An ROV, diver, or stab, wet mateable connector plug front end housing includes a housing front section; a locator mount section; and a seal section axially in series with one another. The housing front section includes a plug coarse alignment feature on an outer surface of the housing front section, adjacent to a front surface of the housing front section and radially outward of a central axis of the housing. There is a circumferential groove on the outer surface of the housing front section, axially displaced from and rearward of the coarse alignment feature, the groove being adapted to receive a latch of a wet-mateable connector receptacle front end housing. The plug coarse alignment feature includes a bullnose feature. A plug fine alignment feature is formed in the outer surface of the housing front section, aligned with and located radially outward of the central axis of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Kelly Turner, Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 11937637
    Abstract: An aerosol source for a vapor provision system includes a vapor-generating element; a reservoir for holding source liquid, the reservoir being bounded by a wall having an opening therein; and a liquid transport element including a first portion arranged to receive liquid from the reservoir via the opening, a second portion peripheral to the first portion, and a third portion arranged to deliver liquid from the first portion to the vapor-generating element; wherein at least part of the second portion is compressed against a section of the wall around the opening, in use, to provide a sealing effect around at least part of the first portion to promote movement of liquid towards the vapor-generating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Potter, Wade Tipton, William Harris, Christopher Rowe, James Davies, James Boonzaier, Conor Devine
  • Patent number: 11942720
    Abstract: A dry mate cable connection includes a data cable. The data cable includes a plurality of electrical conductors and at least one electrically insulating outer layer surrounding each data conductor, whereby the data conductors are electrically insulated from one another. The cable includes a termination end. The outer layer of each conductor is physically in contact with an outer layer of an adjacent conductor, except at the termination end. The plurality of electrical conductors at the termination end are physically separated from one another by a single electrically insulating overmoulded cable termination housing. The housing is in contact with at least part of the electrically insulating layers of each of the electrical conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jordan Buchanan, Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 11937645
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a fluid guide to allow movement of fluid, the guide having proximal and distal ends and inner and outer longitudinal regions separated by a barrier, the inner longitudinal region including an inner longitudinal passageway between the distal and proximal ends, and the outer longitudinal region including an outer longitudinal passageway that communicates external fluid through an aperture to the distal end so external fluid can travel along the outer passageway to the distal end of the fluid guide; a tubular element including a gel including an active agent, the tubular element having proximal and distal ends and being disposed at the distal end of the fluid guide; and a cavity between the distal end of the fluid guide and the proximal end of the tubular element. An aerosol-generating device, and a method of manufacturing an aerosol-generating article, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Gennaro Campitelli, Gianpaolo D'Ambra, Onur Dayioglu
  • Patent number: 11930840
    Abstract: An aerosol generating article includes an aerosol generator including a first aerosol generating material which does not include nicotine; a tobacco filler arranged adjacent to an end of the aerosol generator and including a second aerosol generating material including nicotine; a cooler arranged adjacent to an end of the tobacco filler and configured to cool aerosol; and a mouth piece arranged adjacent to an end of the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Won Lee, Sung Wook Yoon, Dae Nam Han, Yong Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11936150
    Abstract: An electrical connector for an electrical cable having a contact element for connection to an electrical conductor of the electrical cable. The electrical connector has an integrated cleaning tool for the electrical conductor. The cleaning tool is arranged along a feed direction for the electrical cable on the cable side upstream of the contact element. It is provided that the cleaning tool is designed to remove or at least retain particles, residues of a sheathing and/or contaminants adhering to the electrical conductor before the electrical conductor contacts the contact element of the electrical connector arranged downstream in the feed direction within the scope of a connector assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Wimmer
  • Patent number: 11918046
    Abstract: A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Shmuel Gavrielov, Yuval Malka, Rangaraj S. Sundar, Isaac Weigensberg, David Rubli, Moshe Eliyahu, Arye Weigensberg, Scott A. Fath, Christopher S. Tucker, William J. Bogdziewicz
  • Patent number: 11918048
    Abstract: An electronic atomization device and a control circuit therefor are provided. The control circuit includes an airflow sensor, a power supply capacitor and a control chip including a logic controller, a unidirectional conduction tube and a switch tube, a power supply pin, an atomization pin and a ground pin; the logic controller is connected to a first end of the airflow sensor and a first end of the switch tube; and through the power supply pin, is connected to a first end of the power supply capacitor and a second end of the switch tube; and through the ground pin, is connected to a positive electrode of the unidirectional conduction tube, a second end of the airflow sensor and a second end of the power supply capacitor; a negative electrode of the unidirectional conduction tube, through the atomization pin, is connected to a third end of the switch tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU SUNGOD SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Meifang Ma
  • Patent number: 11920750
    Abstract: A tangle-resistant decorative lighting assembly, comprising: a main portion including a plurality of wires and connectors, including first and second connectors and first and second lighted-extension portions extending transversely from the main portion. The first lighted extension portion including: a first connector configured to detachably connect to the first connector of the main portion, a first plurality of wires connected to the first connector, and a first plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the first plurality of wires. The second lighted-extension portion including: a second connector configured to detachably connect to the second connector of the main portion, a second plurality of wires connected to the second connector, and a second plurality of lamp assemblies connected to the second plurality of wires. The first connector of the main portion comprises a lock portion configured to engage with a lock portion of the first connector of the first lighted-extension portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Zydex Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Johnny Chen