Tobacco Users' Appliance Patents (Class 131/329)
  • Patent number: 11039504
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for a power supply control circuit. In various embodiments, the apparatus is adapted to control the power supplied by a battery to a heating element. The apparatus may comprise a memory for storing known data and circuitry configured to control the delivery of power from the battery to the heating element according to measured parameters, calculated parameters, and the known data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Hideo Kondo
  • Patent number: 11026450
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling dosing of an electronic smoking device. An electronic smoking device comprises a body through which a flow path at least partially extends, an air inlet in the body that is fluidly connected to the flow path, a liquid compartment for storing a liquid within the body, a vaporizer positioned in the body and configured to receive liquid from the liquid compartment and air from the flow path to generate vaporized liquid, an outlet in the body configured to receive vaporized liquid from the vaporizer, and circuitry connected to the vaporizer and configured to control dosage of vaporized liquid. A method for controlling dosage in an electronic smoking device comprises sensing an airflow, releasing a liquid into the airflow, activating a vaporizer to generate vaporized liquid, and controlling flow of airflow, liquid or vaporized liquid to control dosage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Fontem Holdings 4 B.V.
    Inventors: Ramon Alarcon, Jason Healy
  • Patent number: 11020550
    Abstract: There is disclosed a device for nicotine delivery, comprising: a vapour outlet conduit for coupling to, and for fluid communication with, a vapour creation system, said vapour outlet conduit defining a fluid passage therethrough for delivery of vapour from a vapour creation system to a user; wherein said vapour outlet conduit comprises a nicotine carrier unit region configured to accept a nicotine carrier unit and retain said nicotine carrier unit in said fluid passage. Also disclosed is a system for nicotine delivery and kits-of-parts for assembling the device and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NERUDIA LIMITED
    Inventors: Chris Lord, David Jones, Kenneth Scott, Stephen McDonald, Thomas Sudlow
  • Patent number: 11013263
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette and a power supply device, having a power supply body provided with a receiving portion thereon; the receiving portion has a receiving chamber for accommodating an atomization device and an extending opening for a holder of the atomization device to extend outwards. The receiving chamber is internally provided with a connection assembly comprising a mounting seat for a connection joint to be detachably connected on the atomization device; the mounting seat is rotatably disposed with the atomization device, and the receiving chamber is internally provided with a position-limit mechanism defining a rotation range of the mounting seat. The atomization device and the mounting seat can be rotated to adjust a direction of rotation of the flat cigarette holder on the atomization device after the atomization device is connected to the mounting seat so as to meet different smoking needs of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenyu Wu, Guoliang Ou
  • Patent number: 11013256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device and method for forming a cigar shaped object. A mold is provided having at least one cigar shaped pocket, a rod aligned within the pocket and a separate tamping device. The tamping device has a stem and handle with a bore in the stem larger than the diameter of the rod. Tobacco or other smoking material is placed in the pocket and the tamping device is used to compress the material which forms a cigar-shaped tube by placing the tamping device onto the rod and repeatedly moving it up and down to tamp or compress the material. The rod, when removed, creates a bore through the smoking material to improve and control air draw. After removal from the mold, the packed smoking material may be wrapped in any appropriate wrapper material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CANNAGAR SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Kelly Anderson
  • Patent number: 11019688
    Abstract: A device with atomization function with leakage prevention from air inlet holes includes a storage tank assembly, a base assembly and an atomization core assembly. The base assembly includes a base body defining an inner hole and a base bracket defining a first vents and a first central hole which are both connected with the inlet holes. The atomization core assembly includes an atomizing portion and a separable portion. The separating portion is mounted on the atomizing portion and defines a second vent and a second central hole which are both connected with the inner hole. Wherein, the first central hole and the second central hole form a first air passage, and the first vent and the second vent form a second air passage. Therefore, the liquid at the bottom of the accommodating room can be atomized to keep the bottom of the accommodating room dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UWELL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yucheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11018500
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a current-limiting circuit, a current-limiting device and a display device. A current detection circuit outputs a first voltage signal according to a first current signal output from a power management IC, and a current-limiting setting circuit outputs a second current signal for current-limiting control of a current output signal of a boost chip according to the first voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11006673
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette, including an atomizing assembly and a battery assembly. The atomizing assembly is disposed on the battery assembly. The atomizing assembly includes a mouthpiece cover, a mouthpiece, a first sealer adapted to seal the mouthpiece, an atomizing core, a connector, a first fixed seat adapted to fix the atomizing core, a seal ring adapted to seal the first fixed seat, a screwed ring, a regulating ring, a second sealer adapted to seal the regulating ring, a joint, an insulation ring, a second fixed seat adapted to fix the regulating ring, an e-liquid feeder including an e-liquid inlet, a funnel, a third sealer adapted to seal the funnel, a first spring, a fourth sealer adapted to seal the e-liquid inlet of the e-liquid feeder, and a sealing seat. The battery assembly includes screws, elastic sheets, an electrode holder, a button, output electrodes, a fifth sealer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Tuanfang Liu
  • Patent number: 11006671
    Abstract: An atomizing device, an electronic cigarette and a control method for the atomizing device are disclosed. The atomizing device includes a liquid storage assembly configured for storing a tobacco liquid, a liquid guiding assembly connected to the liquid storage assembly and configured for guiding the tobacco liquid, and a heating assembly electrically connected to the battery assembly and configured for atomizing the tobacco liquid; and includes a signal transmitter configured for transmitting a detection signal having a first intensity and a signal receiver configured for receiving a detection signal having a second intensity. The electronic cigarette determines the amount of tobacco liquid on a transmission path of the detection signal according to a difference between the first intensity and the second intensity, and controls on/off of the electrical connection between the heating assembly and the battery assembly according to the determined amount of tobacco liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Huiyong Yan, Yuqin Li
  • Patent number: 11006672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an atomization device and an electronic cigarette with the same. The atomization device includes a sleeving tube, a liquid storage cavity, and a liquid injection structure. A liquid injection opening is defined in one end of the sleeving tube, and both of the liquid injection opening and the air discharging opening communicate with the liquid storage cavity. The liquid injection structure includes a liquid injection tube, a first sealing member, and a second sealing member. The liquid injection tube runs through the sleeving tube, and a liquid inlet is formed in a side wall of the liquid injection tube. The first sealing member is arranged on one end of the liquid injection tube corresponding to the liquid storage cavity; and the second sealing member is arranged on an outer side of the liquid injection tube and seals the air discharging opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yisong Wei, Xing Shi
  • Patent number: 11006676
    Abstract: An assembly for an aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a liquid storage portion configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; a mouthpiece having an outlet opening at a proximal end; and a heater assembly including an electrical heating element configured to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, and a porous capillary material disposed in contact with the heating element and including a ceramic or a ceramic-based material, the heating element being disposed along a surface of the capillary material, the liquid storage portion being disposed at a first side of the heater assembly and a first airflow channel is disposed at a second side of the heater assembly, the first airflow channel defining an airflow path that extends in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the capillary material and is directed at a center of the heating element. An aerosol-generating system and a heater assemble are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Force, Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Keethan Dasnavis Fernando
  • Patent number: 10993474
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an atomizing unit comprises: a step A of measuring a resistance value of a resistive heating element which atomizes an aerosol source by resistance heat; and a step B of recording the resistance value measured in the step A, an adjusted power supply output determined in accordance with the resistance value as a power supply output to the resistive heating element or identification information associated with the resistance value or the adjusted power supply output in an information source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Matsumoto, Akihiko Suzuki, Takuma Nakano, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 10993476
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electronic smoking device, comprising a power supply, a controller and a heater, wherein the heater is a cylindrical shape having in the middle a heating chamber into which a cigarette is inserted, and the heater comprises at least one heating unit comprising an electronic switch and an annular electric heating element; and the electric heating element is connected to the power supply by the electronic switch, and a control terminal of the electronic switch is connected to a control signal output terminal of the controller. In the present invention, tobacco in a cigarette is heated by an electric heater so that a smoker can just smoke nicotine produced by heating the tobacco. The electric heater will not produce naked flame and therefore the heated tobacco will not produce tar and carbon monoxide, so that the harm of the tobacco to the smoker can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YUKAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hongli Guo
  • Patent number: 10993477
    Abstract: A flavor inhaler cartridge includes a housing, a movable lid member, an aerosol flow passage, a turning member, and a motion conversion mechanism. The housing includes a reservoir space to house a liquid and an atomizing space to atomize the liquid. With the movable lid member, the reservoir space and the atomizing space are openably/closably partitioned. The aerosol flow passage supplies an aerosol generated by the atomization of the liquid from the atomizing space to outside of the housing. The motion conversion mechanism converts the circumferential turning motion of the turning member into an axial linear motion of the lid member. The lid member is fixed to the motion conversion mechanism. The motion conversion mechanism is configured such that circumferentially turning the turning member moves the lid member in a direction of approaching the turning member and communicates between the reservoir space and the atomizing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Takuma Nakano, Kei Oishi
  • Patent number: 10993475
    Abstract: An atomizer includes a main body defining an airflow channel and a liquid storage cavity isolated from each other and an atomizing element. The atomizing element includes a porous body and a porous heating film. The porous body includes an atomizing surface and a liquid absorption surface. The atomizing surface is a plane and is substantially parallel to a direction of an air flow in the airflow channel, and the porous heating film is formed on the atomizing surface. The liquid absorption surface can absorb a liquid in the liquid storage cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen
  • Patent number: 10994086
    Abstract: A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a reservoir configured to store a pre-vapor formulation and a heating element configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation. The heating element includes a metal tube having a first end and a second end. The metal tube defines an opening therethrough. The metal tube includes a sidewall defining at least one spiral channel extending substantially continuously along a portion of the metal tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Travis Martin Garthaffner, Charles L. Dendy
  • Patent number: 10986872
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems to vaporize extract, plant material containing organic material and the like, including utilizing a cartridge with a heaty transfer body which may be disposable. The cartridge may be heated in zones or portions. The cartridge may form the inhalation pathway thereby reducing the accumulation of dirt and odor in the heating device. One disclosed vaporizer system has a base with a cartridge interface, a heater element, an on/off switch, a battery, a temperature sensor in proximity to the heater element; a controller in signal communication with the heater element, battery, temperature sensor and the on/off switch; that mates with a disposable cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Krietzman
  • Patent number: 10986868
    Abstract: An electronic atomizing device, comprising a body and an atomizing element; the body is provided with an e-liquid storage cavity and an air suction channel; the atomizing element comprises a porous body and a heating structure; the porous body comprises an e-liquid suction surface, an atomizing surface and a side surface; the e-liquid suction surface is used for drawing e-liquid from the liquid storage cavity, and the heating structure is located on the atomizing face; at least one section of the airflow channel extends to the interior of the porous body from the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen
  • Patent number: 10986873
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a first surface, a second surface, a third surface, a fourth surface, a fifth surface, and a sixth surface. The first and the second surfaces are parallel to each other, the third and the fourth surfaces are parallel to each other, the fifth and the sixth surfaces are parallel to each other. The two opposite sides of the third surface are respectively connected to the first surface and the sixth surface. The side of the sixth surface away from the third surface is connected to the second surface. The two opposite sides of the fifth surface are respectively connected to the first surface and the fourth surface. The side of the fourth surface away from the fifth surface is connected to the second surface. The angle between the first surface and the third surface and the angle between the first surface and the fifth surface are both obtuse angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Changzhou Patent Electronic Technology Co., LTD
    Inventor: Weihua Qiu
  • Patent number: 10980275
    Abstract: There is provided a kit including a module and an electrically operated aerosol-generating system. The electrically operated aerosol-generating system includes an electric heater configured to heat an aerosol-generating substrate, a supply of electrical energy, a data coupling, and a system attachment connector. The module includes a data connector configured to connect to the data coupling of the electrically operated aerosol-generating system, and a module attachment connector configured to cooperate with the system attachment connector on the electrically operated aerosol-generating system to attach the module to the electrically operated aerosol-generating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista, Stephane Antony Hedarchet
  • Patent number: 10980279
    Abstract: The invention discloses a heating device for an electronic cigarette and an electronic cigarette. The heating device comprises a substrate and a control board and a heat generating unit mounted on the substrate, wherein the control board is provided with an avoidance hole and two inserting holes, the heat generating unit is provided with two conductive pins, one end of the heat generating unit is inserted into the avoidance hole, so that the heat generating unit is pre-mounted on the control board; and the two conductive pins are inserted into the two inserting holes, respectively, so that the control board and the heat generating unit establish an electrical connection. The technical solution of the invention is effective for facilitating the user to assemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN IVPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junwei Ouyang
  • Patent number: 10973262
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic cigarette atomizer, including an atomization assembly and a liquid reservoir engaging with the atomization assembly; the liquid reservoir includes a liquid storage cavity; wherein the atomization assembly includes a lower holder, an upper holder installed on the lower holder, and a heating assembly clamped between the lower and the upper holders; the heating assembly includes a porous body and at least one heater engaging with the porous body, and the porous body has an atomized side and a liquid absorption side; and the liquid absorption side communicates with the liquid storage cavity, and an atomization cavity is formed between the atomized side and the lower holder. In the present disclosure, the heating assembly is a porous body and is clamped by the upper holder and the lower holder, thus, the structure is stable and the assembly of the heating assembly is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaoping Li, Changyong Yi, Zhenlong Jiang
  • Patent number: 10973261
    Abstract: It is the object of the present invention to eliminate the disadvantages of the traditional dabbing method by providing a device and associated method that will reliably allow users to divide and collect a desired small quantity of Extract from a larger or bulk quantity of Extract and to conduct the small quantity of extract toward a Vaporizer heating element with minimal loss or wastage of Extract during the process, while significantly reducing required precision and effort associated Extract handling. The present invention of device and associated method result in a simpler, cleaner, and more efficient dabbing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Vuber Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Crowe
  • Patent number: 10966460
    Abstract: A control body is coupleable with a cartridge to form an aerosol delivery device, with the cartridge being equipped with a heating element. The control body includes first and second positive conductors connectable with respectively a power supply and the heating element. The control body includes a series pull-up resistor and switch connected to and between the first and second positive conductors. A microprocessor is configured to operate the switch in a closed state in a standby mode in which the pull-up resistor causes a logical high level of voltage at the second positive conductor when the control body and cartridge are uncoupled, and in which the heating element is unpowered causes a logical low level of the voltage when the control body and cartridge are coupled. The microprocessor is configured to measure the voltage and control operation of functional element(s) of the aerosol delivery device based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Frisbee, Paul Stapleton, Milton G. Carawan, Frederic Philippe Ampolini
  • Patent number: 10959460
    Abstract: A cigarette cartridge, used in electronic cigarette, includes a cigarette cartridge, an atomizing seat, and a liquid guiding member. The cigarette cartridge housing defines a liquid storage chamber therein, the liquid storage chamber forms a liquid intake hole for flowing the tobacco liquid. The atomizing seat includes an inserting portion, the liquid guiding member is positioned on the inserting portion, the inserting portion is movably received in the cigarette cartridge housing, when under an external force, the inserting portion moves relative to the liquid intake hole and reaches a first position, the inserting portion seals the liquid intake hole, the liquid guiding member is staggered from the liquid intake hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU JWEI INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weihua Qiu
  • Patent number: 10952466
    Abstract: A battery assembly and an electronic cigarette are provided. The battery assembly includes a housing, a battery cell located in the housing, a upper mounting seat slidably disposed on the housing, an elastic member and an electrode contact are located within the housing, and the housing is provided with an atomizer interface, the electrode contact is disposed on the upper mounting seat, the electrode contact and the upper mounting seat are disposed between the atomizer interface and the battery cell, and the elastic member elastically resists the upper portion a mounting seat, the electrode contact is separated from the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the battery cell by an elastic force of the elastic member, and the electrode contact contacts with the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the battery cell by overcome the elastic force of the elastic member under an external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Changzhou Patent Electronic Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Weihua Qiu, Dingding Zou
  • Patent number: 10939707
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery device comprises a control body having an outer housing, an electrical energy source located within the housing, a control component operatively connected to the electrical energy source, a heating assembly operatively connected to the control component, and an aerosol source member that includes an aerosol generating component configured to be positioned proximate the heating assembly. The heating assembly comprises a series of heating members, and each heating member is independent and distinct and configured to heat a segment of the aerosol source member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Hejazi, Rajesh Sur
  • Patent number: 10932498
    Abstract: An atomizing head and a ventilation assembly are included in an atomizer for an electronic cigarette. The atomizing head includes an atomizing core and an atomizing tube. The circumference of the atomizing core defines airflow channels, so that air can flow into the atomizing core. This avoids the leakage caused by negative pressure when a user is inhaling smoke. The atomizer causes outside air to be more fully mixed with the smoke generated from liquid tobacco, and the user's experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: JOYETECH EUROPE HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Wei-Hua Qiu
  • Patent number: 10932491
    Abstract: A vaporization device includes a housing, a heating component disposed in the housing, and a first sleeving. The heating component includes an absorbent core element and a heating coil at least partially wound around the core element. The first sleeving includes an outer wall defining a notch leading to a through hole configured to receive and fixedly secure the core element. Another vaporization device includes a bottom cap including an airflow sensor, a light source, and a light guide element. The light guide element is configured to operatively secure the bottom cap to a housing and to permit illuminated light from the light source to pass therethrough. In another example, a vaporization device includes a nozzle cap defining an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel and including a baffle and an oil-absorbing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Bidi Vapor, LLC
    Inventors: Zou Wanxiang, Qiu Ningbo, Zhao XingFu
  • Patent number: 10932488
    Abstract: A cover assembly for an electronic cigarette includes a base, a cover, and a locking assembly. The base defines a filling hole. The cover is mounted to the base and covered on the base to seal the filling hole. The cover is moved with respected to the base to uncover the base when a force is exerted to the cover. The locking assembly locks the cover in the base, and the locking assembly is operated to unlock the cover and allow the cover to move when the force is exerted to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN IVPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 10939273
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to notification systems and methods for providing a notification of detected vaping, smoking, or potential bullying to a user device that is estimated to be nearest to a particular location. In aspects of the present disclosure, a notification system includes at least one sensor configured to sense measurements indicative of at least one of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking, a wireless device passive monitor, a processor, and a memory having stored thereon instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the notification system to detect an occurrence of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking based on the sensed measurements, estimate which user device from a predetermined list of user devices is a nearest user device to the wireless device passive monitor, and provide a notification to the estimated nearest user device regarding the detected occurrence of vaping, potential bullying, or smoking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOTER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Peterson, Mohammed Elbadry
  • Patent number: 10932494
    Abstract: An upper-assembly electronic cigarette atomizer is provided. The atomizer may include a liquid storage cup having an upper opening, and a head cover component connected with the upper opening in a threaded manner. The liquid storage cup and the head cover component may form a closed space for containing an e-liquid. The head cover component may be configured to be detached from the liquid storage cup as an integral unit. An electronic cigarette containing an upper-assembly electronic cigarette atomizer and a method of assembly are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INNOKIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jian Wei Li
  • Patent number: 10925320
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electronic cigarette, comprising an atomizer and a battery assembly which is provided with a main control board, wherein the atomizer comprises a top cover, a base, a light-transmitting sleeve and anatomizing assembly received in the light-transmitting sleeve, wherein the light-transmitting sleeve is connected with the top cover and the base and forms an oil storing chamber with the atomizing assembly, and the atomizing assembly is provided with an atomizing chamber, and is provided with at least one oil guiding port communicated with the oil storing chamber; the top cover comprises a cover body, a mouthpiece and a aerosol outlet pipe, wherein the cover body is provided with an oil injecting hole and an air inlet chamber, the aerosol outlet pipe is at least partially received in the air inlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN IVPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 10925317
    Abstract: An electronic smoking device (210, 310, 410) has two portions (12, 13) wherein one of the portions (12, 13) comprises a cavity (240, 340, 440) for a liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434). The portions (12, 13) can be moved with respect to each other, by a movement and a respective counter movement, at least between an insertion configuration and a closed cavity configuration. In the insertion configuration a liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434) can be inserted into the cavity (340, 440). In a closed cavity configuration, the cavity (240, 340, 440) is closed by the other portion and a liquid reservoir opening element (70) of said one or the other portion opens the housed liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Fontem Holdings 1 B.V.
    Inventors: Simon James Smith, David William Drury Harrison, Alexander Edward Muir, Hitesh Bagai
  • Patent number: 10925319
    Abstract: A vaporization device is provided having a plurality of pens each having a battery, a mouthpiece, and a ventilated end. A vaporization device is also provided which is disposable having a plurality of pens, each having a vaporization chamber containing a coil, a battery, a PCB, a sensor, and a tank containing e-liquid for vaporization in the pen vaporization chamber through the coil of the pen to create a vaporization product which is mixed in a vapor port of the device through which a plurality of vaporization products are delivered to a user through the mouthpiece of the device in a single vaporization event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: DB INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Fornarelli
  • Patent number: 10918130
    Abstract: A hand-held water filter for filtering smoke or vapor to be inhaled by the user. The water filter includes a tapered receptacle that is integrally formed with the vessel body of the water filter and configured to receive a smoking or vaporizing article. The water filter includes an integrated downtube configured to deliver smoke from the smoking or vaporizing article into a water reservoir prior to inhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MJ'S ARSENAL LLC
    Inventor: Josh Camitta
  • Patent number: 10912333
    Abstract: Vaporization devices and methods of operating them. In particular, described herein are methods for controlling the power applied to a resistive heater of a vaporization device by measuring the resistance of the resistive heater at discrete intervals. Changes in the resistance during heating may be used to control the power applied to heat the resistive heater during operation. Also described herein are vaporization devices that are configured to measure the resistance of the resistive heater during heating and to control the application of power to the resistive heater based on the resistance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: JUUL Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Atkins, Steven Christensen, Nicholas J. Hatton
  • Patent number: 10905157
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an atomizing device, including a liquid reserving assembly and a cigarette holder assembly rotatably mounted at one end of the liquid reserving assembly. A liquid storage cavity is formed inside the liquid reserving assembly, and a liquid inlet is arranged at one end of the liquid reserving assembly corresponding to the cigarette holder assembly. The cigarette holder assembly includes an axially-penetrating smoke outlet, the liquid reserving assembly includes a smoke passage correspondingly communicating with the smoke outlet, and the cigarette holder assembly blocks the liquid inlet. The cigarette holder assembly includes a positioning member axially movable between a first position and a second position; when being in the first position, the positioning member is engaged with the liquid reserving assembly, and the cigarette holder assembly blocks the liquid inlet; and when being in the second position, the positioning member is separated from the liquid reserving assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Baosheng Lai
  • Patent number: 10897930
    Abstract: A topography apparatus may be coupled to an e-vaping device, within an interior defined by a housing of the e-vaping device, such that the topography apparatus may be coupled to an e-vaping device that may generate vapor independently of the topography apparatus. The topography apparatus may generate and communicate vapor topography data associated with vapor generation by the e-vaping device without altering an external appearance or vapor-generation performance of the e-vaping device. The topography apparatus may be detachably coupled to the interior of the e-vaping device. The topography apparatus includes an interface assembly configured to couple with a power supply, control circuitry, and/or sensor of the e-vaping device. Such coupling may include coupling with internal power or communication conduits of the e-vaping device, such that the topography apparatus taps into power and/or communication lines of the e-vaping device without requiring modification of the circuitry of the e-vaping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Isaac Weigensberg, Yuval Malka, Boris Bessarabov, David Rubli, Moshe Eliyahu, Phillip Diana, Alex Malamud
  • Patent number: 10888125
    Abstract: A vaporizer device includes various modular components. The vaporizer device includes a first subassembly. The first subassembly includes a cartridge connector that secures a vaporizer cartridge to the vaporizer device and includes at least two receptacle contacts that electrically communicate with the vaporizer cartridge. The vaporizer device includes a second subassembly. The second subassembly includes a skeleton defining a rigid tray that retains at least a power source. The vaporizer device also includes a third subassembly. The third subassembly includes a plurality of charging contacts that supply power to the power source, and an end cap that encloses an end of the vaporizer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Juul Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel C. Anderson, Wei-Ling Chang, Brandon Cheung, Steven Christensen, Joseph Chun, Joseph R. Fisher, Jr., Nicholas J. Hatton, Kevin Lomeli, James Monsees, Andrew L. Murphy, Claire O'Malley, John R. Pelochino, Hugh Pham, Vipul V. Rahane, Matthew J. Taschner, Val Valentine, Kenneth Wong
  • Patent number: 10888116
    Abstract: An exemplary smoking topography circuit of an electronic aerosol smoking article, includes at least one sensor configured to measure user interaction with the smoking article, a processor, and memory. The processor is configured to detect a smoking event based an output of the at least one sensor, collect data associated with the smoking event, and arrange the data in a pattern that associates the smoking event to shifts in battery voltage. The memory is configured to store the data pattern in a structured multi-byte format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Barry S. Smith, Douglas A. Burton
  • Patent number: 10888123
    Abstract: There is provided a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge including: a first compartment having a first air inlet and a first air outlet, the first compartment containing a nicotine source; and a second compartment having a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second compartment containing a lactic acid source, a ratio of flow area of the first air inlet to a flow area of the second air inlet being between about 3:4 and about 1:2. There is also provided an aerosol-generating system including the and an aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge, and a heater configured to heat the first compartment and the second compartment of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Charles Silvestrini, Judith Waller
  • Patent number: 10881148
    Abstract: This flavor inhaler is provided with: a plurality of generation units for generating a component to be inhaled from a source of the component to be inhaled using power supplied from a battery; and a control unit for controlling the amount of power supplied to the plurality of generation units. The plurality of generation units are disposed on an air path that connects an inlet to an outlet. The control unit calculates D1 on the basis of VA and VC and controls the amount of power on the basis of D1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Nakano, Manabu Takeuchi, Akihiko Suzuki, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 10881142
    Abstract: The invention relates to electronic smoking devices (10) and to additive reservoirs (56) for electronic smoking devices (10). In order to be able to provide an additive that does not pass an atomizer (26) of the electronic smoking device (10), the invention provides that the electronic smoking devices (10) comprise an additive supply assembly (40) with at least one additive inlet opening (44) arranged at a distance to the atomizer (26), and that the additive reservoirs (56) comprises at least one additive outlet opening (66) in its inner lateral surface (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Fontem Holdings 1 B.V.
    Inventor: Liliana Chaves
  • Patent number: 10881146
    Abstract: An elastic locking mechanism, an atomizer for an electronic cigarette, and an electronic cigarette are disclosed. The elastic locking mechanism includes an upper cover removably arranged on an opening end of a liquid storage assembly, a screw cap sleeved outside the upper cover, an upper engagement component arranged on the screw cap, a lower engagement component arranged on the upper cover, and an elastic element mounted between the screw cap and the upper cover to prevent the upper engagement component and the lower engagement component from engaging each other. When the screw cap is pressed down or pulled up, the elastic element is compressed or stretched so that the upper engagement component engages the lower engagement component, and the upper cover is driven to rotate together with the screw cap by rotating the screw cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: JOYETECH EUROPE HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Weihua Qiu
  • Patent number: 10881136
    Abstract: An atomizing device supporting multiple inhalation modes includes the following components: the main body housing, the main support, the upper end cover, the atomizer placed on the atomizer base, and the lower end cover. A method of using the atomizing device is further provided. The atomizing device of the present invention supports three inhalation modes, and the inhalation mode and the airflow channel can be switched synchronously; the temperature control for aroma generation during low-temperature baking is accurate, the utilization of cigarettes is sufficient and the inhalation comfort is satisfying. Likewise in the “cigarette tar atomizing+cigarette baking” mode, smoke from the atomized cigarette tar and the smoke from the cigarette baking are fully mixed to yield a rich aroma that is comfortable to inhale, and provides a satisfactory smoking experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tinghua Li, Donglai Zhu, Yi Han, Shoubo Li, Yongkuan Chen, Wei Zhao, Xia Zhang, Xiaowei Gong
  • Patent number: 10874142
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating system including a liquid storage portion is provided, the portion including a rigid housing holding a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an opening and a fluid permeable heater assembly including a plurality of electrically conductive filaments, wherein the fluid permeable heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the opening of the housing. The provided heater assembly that extends across an opening of a liquid storage portion allows for a robust construction that is relatively simple to manufacture and allows for a large contact area between the heater assembly and liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The heater assembly may be substantially flat, allowing for simple manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Oleg Mironov, Rui Nuno Batista
  • Patent number: 10874144
    Abstract: An electronic vapour generating device and cartridge for use therein is disclosed. The device comprises a housing defining a chamber for receiving a cartridge for holding a liquid for atomisation, and a power source for providing electrical power to an atomiser for atomising the liquid. The device further comprises an actuator which is reconfigurable between a first state in which the actuator electrically isolates the atomiser from the power source and a second state for enabling the generation of the vapour. The device further comprises a mouthpiece which is arranged to fluidly couple with the atomiser for communicating the vapour out from the device for inhalation by a user and which is slidably coupled to the housing. The mouthpiece is reconfigurable between a stowed configuration and an operative configuration and reconfiguration of the mouthpiece between the stowed and operative configuration is arranged to reconfigure the actuator between the first and second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: XOLO LIMITED
    Inventor: Taman Powell
  • Patent number: 10869507
    Abstract: An atomizer in an electronic cigarette is disclosed including an aerosol outlet tube; an air inlet tube; a heating element; an atomizing shell and a heating base; the air inlet tube is sleeved on the aerosol outlet tube and a first air inlet passage is formed between the air inlet tube and the aerosol outlet tube; a first aerosol outlet passage is formed inside the aerosol outlet tube; the heating element is disposed in the heating base; the atomizing shell is sleeved on the heating base; a second air inlet passage and a second aerosol outlet passage are spaced and arranged between the atomizing shell and the heating base, along a circumferential direction of the heating base; the first air inlet passage and the second air inlet passage are communicated to allow exterior air to pass through then to flow into the heating base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Zheng, Zhongli Xu, Yonghai Li
  • Patent number: 10870129
    Abstract: A method and device are provided that forms a vapor, aerosol, or suspension of a substance or component thereof, the substance or component thereof being a herbal material; passes the vapor, aerosol, or suspension through an edible sorbent; and collects the substance or component thereof on the edible sorbent to provide a food product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Alexander Dragan