Smoking Device Simulator Patents (Class 128/202.21)
  • Patent number: 10258083
    Abstract: A smoking article is provided, including a combustible carbonaceous heat source having opposed front and rear end faces; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear end face of the combustible carbonaceous heat source; an ignitable composition provided on at least a portion of the front end face of the combustible carbonaceous heat source; and one or more airflow pathways along configured to allow air to be drawn through the smoking article for inhalation, the ignitable composition being configured to be ignited by striking the front end face on a frictional surface, and being isolated from the one or more airflow pathways such that air drawn along the one or more airflow pathways does not directly contact the ignitable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Rui Nuno Batista
  • Patent number: 10258089
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article comprises a wicking element useful for improving delivery of aerosol precursor to a heating element. In particular, the wick can take on a brush-like configuration. The present disclosure further relates to methods of forming an aerosol in a smoking article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Benson Sears, Grady Lance Dooly, David William Griffith, Jr., Andries Don Sebastian, Yi-Ping Chang
  • Patent number: 10238764
    Abstract: A novel herbal vaporization device (HVD) and method is disclosed. The HVD includes a recharging unit for storing therein of a vaporization unit having a heating chamber disposed at a first end thereof for receiving of loose leaf herbal material and for providing of heat thereto, the vaporization unit comprising a second end disposed opposite the first end with a fluid pathway between the two ends. In a first mode of operation the vaporization unit is for being recharged from the recharging unit and in a second mode of operation the vaporization unit is for use in vaporizing of loose leaf herbal material inserted into the heating chamber for having at least partially vaporized loose leaf herbal material and ambient air to flow through the fluid pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Vapium Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Trzecieski
  • Patent number: 10238143
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic cigarette and methods for controlling the power to the electronic cigarette which provides various modes of operation, including both regulated and no-regulated mode. The method is implemented m the form of an electronic power control program that controls the constituent parts of the electronic cigarette, including the battery, atomizer, heating element, smoke liquid or juice, and related circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Nu Mark Innovations Ltd.
    Inventor: Sammy Capuano
  • Patent number: 10238144
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a shell and a mouthpiece. The external wall of the shell has an air inlet. An atomizer and a liquid-supply are in contact with each other. The air inlet, atomizer, an aerosol passage, and a mouthpiece are sequentially interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: FONTEM HOLDINGS 1 B.V.
    Inventor: Lik Hon
  • Patent number: 10226076
    Abstract: A novel disposable cartridge for use in an electronic nicotine delivery system having an electric heater includes a reservoir containing a nicotine-containing liquid, a port in liquid communication with the reservoir, a liquid barrier disposed proximate the port to prevent undesired leakage of the nicotine-containing liquid from the reservoir, and a durable, elongate wick arranged and configured to be slideable in the port and to contact the nicotine-containing liquid in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: McNeil AB
    Inventors: Christopher Althorpe, Ian James Binder, David Andrew McLeod, Lee Kelepouris, Salih Muhsin Muhammed, Johan Nordström, Alexandru Paunescu
  • Patent number: 10219543
    Abstract: A capsule (26) for an electronic vapor inhaler comprises a shell (28) containing a flavor-release medium (40) and one or more induction heatable elements (42) disposed inside the shell (28) and arranged to heat the flavor-release medium (40) to produce a vapor for inhalation by a user. At least part of the shell (28) is formed of an air permeable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Mark Gill, Daniel Vanko, Lubos Brvenik
  • Patent number: 10219538
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette vaporizer system including a cartridge designed to provide a liquid or other substance for the electronic vaporizer system, the cartridge including a chip that stores data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge, and the cartridge being adapted to be inserted into or form an integral part of the electronic vaporizer system. The electronic vaporizer system reads the data from the chip and compares that data with stored data and, depending on the result of that comparison, either prevents or permits use of that substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BEYOND TWENTY LTD.
    Inventors: Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh, Dmitry Gorilovsky
  • Patent number: 10188148
    Abstract: A system to generate a vapor from a liquid includes an electric heater and an elongate wick. The electric heater defines an interior void having an inner surface and a plurality of apertures, and it is formed of an electrically resistive material contained within a heat diffusing material. The elongate wick is formed of a durable elongate structure having a plurality of liquid-conducting features on the outer surface. At least a portion of the liquid-conducting features of the elongate wick proximate the first end engage at least a portion of the one inner surface of the electric heater and are capable of conducting a the liquid from a source proximate the second end of the wick along the outer surface of the elongate wick to the electric heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: McNeil AB
    Inventors: Christopher Althorpe, Ian James Binder, David Andrew McLeod, Lee Kelepouris, Salih Muhsin Muhammed, Johan Nordström, Alexandru Paunescu
  • Patent number: 10172393
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating device for heating tobacco liquid. The heating device includes a heating element, and a liquid conducting body configured for guiding the tobacco liquid to the heating element. The liquid conducting body includes a main body and at least one liquid conducting arm extending from the main body. The heating element is inserted in the main body, and is integrally formed with the main body. The at least one liquid conducting arm and the main body are made of micro-porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Shuyun Hu
  • Patent number: 10159278
    Abstract: A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit that may simulate a cigarette has a cavity that receives a cartridge in the distal end of the inhaler unit. The cartridge brings a substance to be vaporized in contact with a wick. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the substance to be vaporized is drawn out of the cartridge, through the wick, and is atomized by the wick into a cavity containing a heating element. The heating element vaporizes the atomized substance. The vapors then continue to be pulled by the user through a mouthpiece and mouthpiece cover where they may be inhaled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Noah Mark Minskoff, Nathan Andrew Terry
  • Patent number: 10159273
    Abstract: The invention provides a tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition that comprises an extract derived from a component of a plant of the Nicotiana species. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the extracts described herein, and methods for preparing extracts derived from a component of a plant of the Nicotiana species for addition to a tobacco composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Michael Francis Dube, William Monroe Coleman, III
  • Patent number: 10143231
    Abstract: A smoking article is provided, including a blind combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces and having a transverse cross sectional area of at least about 60 percent of a transverse cross-sectional area of the smoking article; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face, wherein the rear face and the aerosol-forming substrate are exposed to one another; a mouthpiece downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; and one or more air inlets located downstream of the rear face and upstream of the mouthpiece. The one or more air inlets are located between the rear face and a downstream end of the aerosol-forming substrate and include one or more first air inlets around a periphery of the aerosol-forming substrate. Air drawn through the aerosol-forming substrate enters the smoking article through the one or more air inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Laurent Edouard Poget, Oleg Mironov, Stephane Roudier
  • Patent number: 10130780
    Abstract: There is provided an aerosol generating device, including a heater element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate; a power source connected to the heater element; and a controller connected to the heater element and to the power source, wherein the controller is configured to control the power supplied to the heater element from the power source to maintain the temperature of the heater element at a target temperature, and is configured to compare a measure of power supplied to the heater element or energy supplied to the heater element from the power source to a threshold measure of power or energy to detect the presence of an aerosol-forming substrate close to the heater element or a material property of an aerosol-forming substrate close to the heater element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Pascal Talon
  • Patent number: 10130119
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette vaporizer system operable in a ‘power’ mode to increase the amount of vapor produced by a vaporizer that forms part of the system, compared to normal, whilst monitoring the temperature of a heating element in the vaporizer to ensure that excessively high temperatures, associated with undesirable compounds in the vapor produced by the heating element, are not reached. The system includes a button or sensor that alters the operation of the heating element in such a way as to increase the vapor produced, compared to normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: BEYOND TWENTY LTD.
    Inventor: Ian Murison
  • Patent number: 10117463
    Abstract: A vapor delivery device for the delivery of a dose of vaporizable material includes a detachable dose cartridge having an oven. The oven is configured to contain a vaporizable material and at least oven vent configured to allow the flow of the vapor to a delivery port. The oven may be detachably attached to the dose cartridge. A detachable dose cartridge or oven may be sealed and have a dose of vaporizable material that is inaccessible inside. The vapor delivery device may accommodate organic, resin, prepackaged or liquid vaporizable materials. The oven vent or vents are configured to be either blocked or covered to substantially eliminate vapor escaping from the oven chamber. An oven chamber or oven closure, may be configured to rotate to trap vapor within the oven. In another embodiment, an oven is configured with a plunger that traps vapor within the oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Robert P Thomas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10092036
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include a control body and a cartridge including an atomizer and a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition. The control body may include a housing defining an electrical power source cavity that extends along a first longitudinal axis and is configured to receive an electrical power source. The control body may additionally include a coupler configured to engage a cartridge including an aerosol precursor composition such that the cartridge extends along a second longitudinal axis. The first longitudinal axis and the second longitudinal axis may be non-coaxial and oriented substantially parallel to one another. A related assembly method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Percy D. Phillips, Michael F. Davis, Nicholas H. Watson, Noah M. Minskoff
  • Patent number: 10092713
    Abstract: A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit that may simulate a cigarette has a cavity that receives a cartridge in the distal end of the inhaler unit. The cartridge brings a substance to be vaporized in contact with a wick. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the substance to be vaporized is drawn out of the cartridge, through the wick, and is atomized by the wick into a cavity containing a heating element. The heating element vaporizes the atomized substance. The vapors then continue to be pulled by the user through a mouthpiece and mouthpiece cover where they may be inhaled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Terry, Noah Mark Minskoff
  • Patent number: 10085483
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic cigarette with multiple output modes includes following steps. Whether button signals are input for a first preset number of times is determined when a system is powered on. The system is controlled to enter a locked state if the button signals are input for the first preset number of times. Whether a switch signal for switching between the output modes is input via a button under the locked state is determined, the output modes comprising a voltage output mode and a power output mode. A current output mode is switched to a new output mode and the new output mode is stored in the memory if the switch signal is input, and outputs are controlled according to the stored output mode after a user unlocks the system and the first controller receives a smoking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Joyetech (Changzhou) Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei-Hua Qiu
  • Patent number: 10085489
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a shell and a mouthpiece. The external wall of the shell has an air inlet. An atomizer and a liquid-supply are in contact with each other. The air inlet, atomizer, and an aerosol passage are interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Fontem Holdings 1 B.V.
    Inventor: Lik Hon
  • Patent number: 10064434
    Abstract: An electronic smoking device comprises a housing accommodating a battery (10) as an electric power source powering an electrically heatable atomizer comprising an electric heater (22) and adapted to atomize a liquid supplied from a reservoir to provide an aerosol exiting from the atomizer. The heater (22) of the atomizer is controlled by means of control electronics (14). A puff detector (18) indicates an aerosol inhaling puff to the control electronics (14). The control electronics (14) operates, for a puff, the heater (22) of the atomizer with a pre-determined level of electric power. Preferably, the electronic smoking device comprises a voltage sensor (34) measuring the battery voltage, wherein the control electronics (14) distributes the pre-determined level of electric power, for a puff, by pulse width modulation, based on the battery voltage measured by the voltage sensor (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: FONTEM HOLDINGS I B.V.
    Inventors: Roland Zitzke, Vaclav Borkovec
  • Patent number: 10058126
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a cartridge (12) and an atomizing assembly (13); the atomizing assembly (13) is fixed in the cartridge (12); the atomizing assembly (13) comprises a reservoir (105), a liquid guiding medium (106) and a heating element (107); the reservoir (105) has a liquid storage cavity (108) storing tobacco liquid and a liquid outlet (109); the liquid outlet (109) communicates with the liquid storage cavity (108); the liquid guide medium (106) is porous liquid guiding material, and is connected to the liquid outlet (109); the heating element (107) is fixed in the cartridge (12), and a gap exists between the heating element (107) and the liquid guide medium (106); the liquid guide medium (106) guides the tobacco liquid out of the reservoir (105) via the liquid outlet (109) and stores the tobacco liquid; the gap exists between the heating element (107) and the liquid guide medium (106) so that the heating element (107) heats the liquid guide medium (106) without directly contacting the liquid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen
  • Patent number: 10051891
    Abstract: A control body is coupled or coupleable with a cartridge that is equipped with a heating element and contains an aerosol precursor composition, the control body and cartridge forming an aerosol delivery device. The control body includes a control component to control the heating element to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition. An input device including a capacitive sensor is configured to detect a user input. And the input device or control component controls operation of at least one functional element of the control body, cartridge or aerosol delivery device in response to the user input so detected. In another aspect, a cartridge may include a input device including a capacitive sensor to detect a user input, and operation of functional element(s) may be controlled in response to thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Rajesh Sur
  • Patent number: 10045563
    Abstract: An exemplary electronic cigarette includes an atomizer and a power supply. The atomizer includes one of a first connector and a second connector, and the power supply includes the other of a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a cylindrical plug. The plug has a recessed portion in a side surface thereof. The second connector includes a holder, a movable component, and a force exerting component. The holder is configured for receiving the plug. The movable component is movable arranged on a sidewall of the holder. The force exerting component is configured for exerting an elastic force on the movable component. The movable component is configured for ejecting from the sidewall to engage in the recessed portion when the movable component ejecting from the sidewall, and for retracting relative to the sidewall when the plug is inserted into the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Xianming Wang
  • Patent number: 10045562
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an inhaler component for the formation of a vapor-air mixture and/or a condensation aerosol by evaporation of a liquid material and optionally the condensation of the formed vapor. In one example, the inhaler component includes an electrical heater to evaporate liquid, a capillary wick that together with the electrical heater defines a compound structure that supplies liquid to the electrical heater, and a carrier supporting the compound structure. The carrier makes electrical contact with the electrical heater, and at least partially defines a portion of a capillary gap. The capillary gap is in fluid communication with the wick and automatically supplies liquid to the compound structure. Internal and external sides or faces of the carrier (relative to the compound structure) can define portions of the capillary gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BATMARK LIMITED
    Inventor: Helmut Buchberger
  • Patent number: 10034990
    Abstract: A drug delivery system can include a cylindrical structure extending in a longitudinal direction and formed from a substrate of an electrically conductive material. The cylindrical structure can include multiple electrodes extending laterally on the substrate at respective longitudinal locations. The electrodes each have an electrical resistance small enough to conduct current laterally along the substrate without heating the cylindrical structure. The cylindrical structure can include at least one substrate portion extending longitudinally between a respective pair of electrodes. Each substrate portion can have an electrical resistance high enough to conduct current longitudinally between the electrodes and resistively heat the respective substrate portion in response to the current conducted therethrough. A dose of a drug can be disposed on each substrate portion and configured to volatilize into a gas in response to the resistive heating of the respective substrate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Vapor Cartridge Technology LLC
    Inventor: Timothy McCullough
  • Patent number: 10028531
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device in cooperation with an aerosol-generating article. The article includes a first sealed compartment having a tubular porous element and a delivery enhancing compound sorbed thereon; and a second compartment having a volatile liquid. The device includes an outer housing adapted to receive the article; an elongate piercing member for piercing the first and second compartments. The elongate piercing member includes a piercing portion adjacent a distal end of the elongate piercing member; a shaft portion; and an obstructing portion adjacent a proximal end of the elongate piercing member. The piercing portion has a maximum diameter greater than the diameter of the shaft portion, and the obstructing portion has an outer diameter such that it fits within the tubular porous element of the article when the article is received in the device. A corresponding aerosol-generating device and aerosol-generating article are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Jeremy Peter Clements, Patrick-Charles Silvestrini, Alexandre Malgat
  • Patent number: 10028533
    Abstract: An inductive heating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate a susceptor includes a device housing, a DC power source for providing a DC supply voltage and a DC current, a power supply electronics, and a cavity in the device housing for accommodating a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate to inductively couple the inductor to the susceptor. The power supply electronics include a microcontroller programmed to determine an apparent ohmic resistance, and from the apparent ohmic resistance the temperature of the susceptor. It is further programmed to monitor changes in the apparent ohmic resistance and to detect a puff when a decrease of the apparent ohmic resistance is determined which is indicative of a temperature decrease of the susceptor during a user inhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Oleg Fursa, Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik
  • Patent number: 10021912
    Abstract: A non-burning type flavor inhaler includes a control unit that controls power supplied from a power source to an atomizer. The control unit controls, in one puff action in a standard mode, controls the power source to supply standard power amount to the atomizer in a duration before a first duration elapses. The control unit, in one puff action in the reduced mode, controls the power source to supply first power amount greater than the standard power amount to the atomizer in a duration before a second duration elapses, and controls the power source to supply second power amount smaller than the first power amount to the atomizer in a duration after the second duration elapses and before a third duration elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Manabu Takeuchi, Masafumi Tarora
  • Patent number: 10004264
    Abstract: A vaporizer is configured to receive electric energy from an external power source, and apply that energy to atomize a vaporizing medium disposed within the vaporizer. The vaporizer may be sized and configured to fit within the downstem of a water pipe. A power source receiver is formed on a side of the vaporizer. The power source receiver comprises a first node, a second node electrically insulated relative to the first node, and a magnet. The external power source has an electrical connector that also has electric nodes and a magnet. When the power source connector is arranged adjacent the power source receiver, the opposing magnets attract one another, pulling the power source and vaporizer into properly-aligned contact so that the nodes are engaged. As such, the external power source can provide power to operate the vaporizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Inventor: J. Christian Rado
  • Patent number: 10004260
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes: an atomizing assembly adapted to atomize liquid, a battery rod assembly adapted to supply power to the atomizing assembly, and a liquid storage device adapted to store the liquid; a first screw section and a second screw section are respectively provided at two ends of the atomizing assembly, and a turning direction of the first screw section is opposite to a turning direction of the second screw section. The turning direction of the first screw section is opposite to that of the second screw section. Thus, when the electronic cigarette is under an external screwing force in a certain direction, either the battery rod assembly or the liquid storage device may be unscrewed and taken out, which effectively avoid a mis-operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 10004262
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette and a method for supplying a constant power therein, the electronic cigarette comprises an atomizer with a heating wire. The electronic cigarette also comprises a power supply module for supplying power to the heating wire to heat the heating wire, and further comprises a microprocessor, a detecting module connected to the microprocessor, and a voltage adjusting module. A preset constant power can supply to the heating wire of the atomizer in the electronic cigarette, so that a consistent heating power can be applied to each of the electronic cigarettes produced in batch production, and smoke amount and flavor of each of the electronic cigarettes are more consistent, thereby better meeting demands of consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Zhiyong Xiang
  • Patent number: 10004272
    Abstract: An exemplary atomizer includes a housing, an atomizing core arranged in the housing, a mouthpiece at an end of the housing. The housing defines a liquid chamber configured for storing tobacco liquid. The atomizing core is configured for atomizing tobacco liquid to form aerosol. The atomizer further includes an air pipe arranged between the atomizing core and the mouthpiece. The air pipe is configured for guiding the aerosol to pass through. The atomizer further includes a porous body arranged in the air pipe adjacent to the mouthpiece, and the porous body is configured for absorbing a liquid drop, into which the aerosol condenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Yindeng Deng, Yunping Zhong
  • Patent number: 9999248
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette and a method for assembling the electronic cigarette are provided. The electronic cigarette includes an atomizer device mounting base, at least one conductive pipe, an atomizer device, and a battery device. The conductive pipe includes a first open end, a second open end, and a partition wall disposed within the middle of the conductive pipe to separate the first open end from the second open end. The atomizer device includes a first pluggable member being inserted into and electrically connected to the first open end. The battery device includes a second pluggable conductive member being inserted into and electrically connected to the second open end. When assembled, the atomizer device, the atomizer device mounting base, and the battery device can be connected together by employing an insertion method directly, thus the assembly process can be simplified, and the leakage of the liquid solution can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Pingkun Liu
  • Patent number: 9999252
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an atomization assembly and an electronic cigarette. An atomization assembly comprises a transparent atomization sleeve. One end of the atomization sleeve is connected to a connection column, and the other end of the atomization sleeve is detachably connected to an atomization core configured to atomize smoke tar. A vent-pipe with two ends being inserted into the connection column and the atomization core respectively is sheathed in the atomization sleeve, and a first oil storage container for storing the smoke tar is formed between the atomization sleeve and the vent-pipe. The following advantageous effects can be achieved: the user can disassemble the suction nozzle cover at regular time to clean the liquid smoke stored in the oil storage container; besides, it is convenient to change the atomization core, to view the residual smoke tar and to add the smoke tar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9986764
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vaporizer with a heating element located on a side opposite the mouthpiece. The heating element can heat an herbal product that is located away from the vaporizer and not within a canister that may require multiple heatings of the same product, producing a burnt flavor. The heating element can be in the shape of a coiled straw-like structure or otherwise incorporate a tubular passageway to provide better air flow during inhalation. The air flow tip and the tube can also be a single piece to allow for easier cleaning and replacement, or removal of the air flow tip if the tip includes resin of a controlled substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Zipline Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: James Matthew Watson
  • Patent number: 9980515
    Abstract: The present invention provides an atomization assembly for an electronic smoking device. The atomization assembly has a mouthpiece assembly and an atomizer assembly. The atomizer assembly has a heating wire extending axially within a lumen of the atomizer and is connected to a set of threads for connecting to a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: VAPOR 4 LIFE, LLC
    Inventor: Steve R. Milin
  • Patent number: 9980523
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a smokable material heater, configured to heat a first region of smokable material to a volatizing temperature sufficient to volatize a component of smokable material and to concurrently heat a second region of smokable material to a temperature lower than said volatizing temperature but which is sufficient to prevent condensation of volatized components of the smokable material. A method of heating smokable material is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Oleg J. Abramov, Petr Alexandrovich Egoyants, Dmitry Mikhailovich Volobuev, Pavel Nikolaevich Fimin
  • Patent number: 9968136
    Abstract: A heater element for a vaporizing device, a vaporizing device containing the heater element, and a method for vaporizing fluid ejected by an ejection head. The heater element includes a conductive material having a concave area. The concave area of the heater element captures and vaporizes fluid ejected from an ejection head in the vaporization device. The concave area of the heating element has a cavity volume that is at least sufficient to retain an entire volume of liquid to be vaporized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byron V. Bell
  • Patent number: 9968135
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette comprises an electronic cigarette body; the electronic cigarette body is provided with a smoking end (1), an oil storage assembly (4) for containing cigarette oil, an atomization assembly (3) for atomizing the cigarette oil and a battery component (2) for powering the atomization assembly (3); the oil storage assembly (4) is arranged on one end of the electronic cigarette body which is in an opposite side of the smoking end (1), since a smoke passage does not pass through the oil storage assembly (4), a user can be effectively prevented from sucking a non-atomized cigarette oil; and meanwhile, through an arrangement of a protective sleeve (5) for containing the oil storage assembly (4) on the electronic cigarette, a vibration-resistance of the oil storage assembly (4) can be enhanced, so that a risk that the oil storage bottle is easily broken is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9956357
    Abstract: An atomizer for an inhaler includes a housing, a gasket, a liquid absorbing sheet, a wick, and an atomizing element. The housing includes a first housing and a second housing, the first housing and the second housing form a liquid reservoir therebetween for storing liquid. The gasket is sleeved on the first housing, the gasket defines a liquid conducting hole in communication with the liquid reservoir. The liquid absorbing sheet is sleeved on the first housing in contact with the gasket, the liquid absorbing sheet is configured to absorb the liquid in the liquid reservoir via the liquid conducting hole. The wick is in contact with the liquid absorbing sheet and configured to draw the liquid from the liquid absorbing sheet. The atomizing element is fixed to the wick and configured to atomize the liquid in the wick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen
  • Patent number: 9949510
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes an electronic cigarette body. The electronic cigarette body is provided with an atomizer assembly for atomizing a cigarette liquid; a battery assembly for supplying power to the atomizer assembly; an airflow sensing assembly for sensing a smoking action; and a control module for controlling the battery assembly to supply power to the atomizer assembly. An accommodating space is formed between the atomizer assembly and the battery assembly, and a lamp assembly electrically connected to the battery assembly is accommodated in the accommodating space. A light-transmittable portion for transmitting light emitted from the lamp assembly to the outside of the electronic cigarette body is provided on the sidewall of the electronic cigarette body at a position corresponding to the accommodating space, and a fluorescent layer is provided on the outer surface of the electronic cigarette body at an area corresponding to the light-transmittable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9930915
    Abstract: The present invention describes articles, such as smoking articles, that can provide an inhalable substance in a form suitable for inhalation by a consumer. The article comprises a cartridge with an inhalable substance medium therein, control housing that includes an electrical energy source and an electrical power source, and a heating member that may be located in either the cartridge or the control housing. The control housing further may include puff-actuated current actuation components and current regulation components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven L. Worm, David Glen Christopherson, Stephen Benson Sears, Dennis Lee Potter, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Balager Ademe
  • Patent number: 9924743
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette, including: a cigarette holder converter assembly, an atomization core assembly, a base assembly, and an e-liquid storage assembly. The cigarette holder converter assembly includes: a cigarette holder part and a converter part. The cigarette holder part includes: an inner casing, a cigarette holder, and a first sealing ring for sealing the cigarette holder. The converter part includes: a cigarette holder converter, an upper sealing ring, an inner sealing ring, and an outer sealing ring. The e-liquid storage assembly includes a first regulating ring including a neck. The cigarette holder part and the converter part are connected through interference fit. The cigarette holder converter assembly and the e-liquid storage assembly are connected through interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Tuanfang Liu
  • Patent number: 9913492
    Abstract: A self contained, hermetically sealed, cigarette shaped nicotine inhaler tube includes a cylindrical wall and formed closed ends. The two or more elements making up the tube are formed and sealed together after forming at a location between the closed ends, capturing a filler within. The filler is in the tube to carry nicotine. The closed ends are recessed from the end of the cylindrical tube and may be truncated conically shaped. The closed ends may be drawn further into the tube using heat and the pressure of a probe. A tool for piercing the ends of the tube includes a supportive cylindrical cavity slightly larger than the tube with a centric spike and a terminal surface in the cavity. The cylindrical wall of the tube is supported by the cavity and the truncated conical shape of the end wall to receive the spike for penetrating the end wall at each end. The terminal surface prevents excessive penetration of the spike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: Richard C. Horian
  • Patent number: 9901117
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may be wirelessly charged through an inductive charging system. A receiving coil in or on the e-Cig may be in proximity to a wireless charger that transmits electrical power to the battery of the e-Cig. Alignment of the receiving coil in the e-Cig with a charging base can wirelessly charge the battery of the e-Cig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SIS RESOURCES, LTD.
    Inventors: Robert Levitz, Dorron Levy, Nehemia Amir, Bernard C. Juster, Eyal Peleg
  • Patent number: 9901120
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic cigarette with a battery rod disposed inside. The electronic cigarette comprises an inhalation rod and a battery rod which are mutually connected to form an integral. A connecting end of the inhalation rod disposes a first connector. A connecting end of the battery rod disposes a second connector. The battery rod stretches into the inhalation rod from the connecting end of the inhalation rod, and is accommodated and fixed in the inhalation rod. The connecting end of the inhalation rod and the connecting end of the battery rod are threadedly connected by using the first connector and the second connector to be screwing connected. The electronic cigarette has a shorter length, the structure is more compact, and the assembly is convenient, and the electronic cigarette has a greater amount of aerosol, facilitating to observe the balance of the e-liquid and being able to reduce or avoid users to inhale in e-liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9901119
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic cigarette, including an atomization device disposed with an e-liquid cup, and a mouthpiece disposed at one end of the e-liquid cup. The e-liquid cup has an e-liquid storage space. One end of the e-liquid storage space is sealed and the other end of the e-liquid storage space is open. The mouthpiece is detachably connected with an open end of the e-liquid cup. The mouthpiece of the electronic cigarette of the present invention is detachably connected with the open end of the e-liquid cup, the electronic cigarette has few components, and simple structure, and is convenient to add e-liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9901121
    Abstract: A battery rod having falling protection design and an electronic cigarette are provided. The battery rod having falling protection design includes a battery cartridge, a connection unit and a charging assembly. The charging assembly includes an inner electrode, an insulation ring and an outer electrode; the outer electrode is inserted inside the battery cartridge, the insulation ring is inserted inside the outer electrode, the inner electrode is provided on the insulation ring, and the inner electrode and the outer electrode are located at internal and external portions of the insulation ring respectively. The outer electrode includes one end provided with a retaining section which may be retained on an end face of the battery cartridge and another end provided with an obstruction section which may obstruct the insulation ring from moving inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Huizhou Kimree Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen Branch
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9888719
    Abstract: A liquid reservoir component of an electronic vaping device includes an outer casing extending in a longitudinal direction, an air inlet, and a vapor outlet. An inner tube is within the outer casing defining a central air passage communicates with the inlet and the outlet. A liquid reservoir is in an annular space between the outer casing and the inner tube. A susceptor is adjacent the central air passage, and a wick is in communication with the liquid reservoir and in thermal communication with the susceptor such that the susceptor is operable to heat the liquid material to a temperature to vaporize the liquid material and form a vapor in the central air passage. The liquid reservoir component is configured to connect with a power supply component such that an induction source is operable to generate an inductive field to heat the susceptor when powered by the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Edmond J. Cadieux, Douglas A. Burton, Barry S. Smith, Peter Lipowicz, Patrick J. Cobler