Disposable tank electronic cigarette, method of manufacture and method of use

• US 10,278,428 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2017
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cue Vapor Limited
• Original Assignee: Digirettes, Inc.
• Inventors: Perez, Ruben Hector, Basile, Alexander, Crawford, Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): Yaary, Eric
• Application Number:
  US15/829,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20180084836A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/10 Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/40 Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/42 Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/70 Manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/04 Partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/54 for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0244 Heating of fluids H05B1/0247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/021 Heaters specially adapted for heating liquids

Abstract

An electronic cigarette device having a disposable tank are described. The disposable tank may have a sealed liquid chamber, an atomizer element and a tank well.

Claims

1. A method for generating a vapor, comprising:

removing a disposable tank from a package, the disposable tank having a mouth piece, a heater element and a cavity filled with a liquid;

placing the disposable tank in a tank receptacle of a housing by hooking a bottom side corner of the disposable tank on a shoulder region on the tank receptacle positioned on first side of the housing, the housing having a top side, a bottom side and the first side extending from the top side to the bottom side of the housing, the tank receptacle being formed within a top corner of the housing with an open top side formed on the top side of housing and an open first side that is formed on the first side of the housing;

snapping the disposable tank into place within the tank receptacle;

releasing a liquid from the disposable tank;

energizing a heater element housed in the disposable tank to vaporize the liquid;

and releasing the vapor through a mouthpiece of the housing.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising attaching the disposable tank to the housing.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising removing the disposable tank from the housing and inserting a new disposable tank into the housing.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein removing the disposable tank further comprises automatically sealing the disposable tank to prevent leakage of any liquid remaining in the disposable tank.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein attaching the disposable tank further comprising retaining, by an attachment mechanism, the disposable tank in the housing and providing power from the housing to the disposable tank.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein retaining the disposable tank further comprises mating an attachment mechanism in the disposable tank with the attachment mechanism in the housing to retain the disposable tank in the housing.

7. A device comprising:

a housing having a power source and a tank receptacle, the housing having a top side, a bottom side and a first side extending from the top side to the bottom side of the housing, the tank receptacle being formed within a top corner of the housing with an open top side formed on the top side of housing and an open first side that is formed on the first side of the housing;

a disposable tank that is configured to hold a nicotine containing liquid to be vaporized by a vaping device and configured to be at least partially received in the tank receptacle of the housing, the disposable tank having;

a first side extending from a top side to a bottom side;

a second side opposite the first side, the second side extending from the top side to the bottom side;

a mouthpiece that forms an air outlet, the mouthpiece placed at the top side of the disposable tank adjacent the first side;

a cavity capable of holding the nicotine containing liquid and being at least partially received in the tank receptacle; and

a heater element; and

a snap fitting connection between the disposable tank and the housing that is engaged when the disposable tank is at least partially received in the tank receptacle.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the disposable tank is a closed tank.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the disposable tank has an attachment mechanism that mates with an attachment mechanism of the tank receptacle.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the attachment mechanism is one or more shoulders wherein the one or more shoulders internet with the vaping device to retain the disposable tank in the vaping device.

11. The device of claim 7 further comprising an atomizer portion located at a bottom portion of the disposable tank, the atomizer portion having a tank well, the heater element and a wick element wherein the heater element rests atop the wick element within the tank well.

12. The device of claim 7, wherein the heater element is a coil.

13. The device of claim 12, further comprising an atomizer portion located at a bottom portion of the disposable tank, the atomizer portion having a tank well, the heater element and a wick element, wherein the wick element passes through a center of the coil.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein the heater element further comprises a first and second electrode at each side of the coil wherein the first and second electrodes electrically connect the coil to the power source when the disposable tank is attached to the housing.

15. The device of claim 7, wherein the heater element is positioned at an end of the disposable tank.

16. The device of claim 7, wherein the snap fitting connection between the disposable tank and the housing is configured to be disengaged by application of force on the disposable tank in lateral direction.