Electronic vaporiser system
First Claim
1. An electronic cigarette vaporiser system that includes an electronic vaporiser, a heating element in the electronic vaporiser for heating an e-liquid, and a microcontroller;
- in which the microcontroller determines the type and/or characteristics of the e-liquid being used and uses that as a control input;
in which the electronic vaporiser system includes (i) a user-replaceable, e-liquid cartridge, which is not user-refillable and includes no heating element and (ii) an e-liquid reservoir that is separate from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge; and
(iii) an electric or electronic pump that is configured to withdraw e-liquid from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge and pump pressurised e-liquid to the e-liquid reservoir; and
(iv) the heating element that is not in the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge but is instead in, or in e-liquid communication with, the e-liquid reservoir.
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Abstract
An electronic cigarette vaporizer includes a heating element for heating an e-liquid and a microcontroller; the microcontroller determines the type and/or characteristics of the e-liquid being used and uses that as an input to automatically control the power delivered to the heating element to heat the e-liquid in a manner suitable for that specific type of e-liquid, or e-liquid with those characteristics. The e-liquid can be supplied from a cartridge and that cartridge then includes a record of the type of e-liquid stored in the cartridge and/or its characteristics and the microcontroller reads that record or is provided data from that record. A variable for the type of e-liquid and/or its characteristics is the water content of the e-liquid.
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23 Claims
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1. An electronic cigarette vaporiser system that includes an electronic vaporiser, a heating element in the electronic vaporiser for heating an e-liquid, and a microcontroller;
- in which the microcontroller determines the type and/or characteristics of the e-liquid being used and uses that as a control input;
in which the electronic vaporiser system includes (i) a user-replaceable, e-liquid cartridge, which is not user-refillable and includes no heating element and (ii) an e-liquid reservoir that is separate from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge; and
(iii) an electric or electronic pump that is configured to withdraw e-liquid from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge and pump pressurised e-liquid to the e-liquid reservoir; and
(iv) the heating element that is not in the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge but is instead in, or in e-liquid communication with, the e-liquid reservoir. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
- in which the microcontroller determines the type and/or characteristics of the e-liquid being used and uses that as a control input;
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