E-cigarette personal vaporizer

• US 10,285,442 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AYR Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AYR Ltd.
• Inventors: Memari, Kaveh, Bennett, Adrian, Murison, Ian, Marsh, Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): Yaary, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/633,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20150245664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,537 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 15/015 with means for refilling of liquid inhalable precursors
• 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 40/48 Fluid transfer means, e.g. pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/485 Valves; Apertures
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/50 Control or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/60 Devices with integrated user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/90 Arrangements or methods specially adapted for charging batteries thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/95 structurally associated with cases
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/045 for filling, e.g. for filling reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/04 Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 37/06 by pistons or pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/005 Side walls formed with an aperture or a movable portion arranged to allow removal or insertion of contents B65D5/16, B65D7/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 23/00 Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2023/0025 on containers
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0063 with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 : with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/00 : dummy group
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/99 : dummy group

Abstract

A re-fillable and re-chargeable e-cigarette PV in which the PV indicates consumption of e-liquid using a visual indicator that extends or moves along the body.

Claims

1. A re-fillable and re-chargeable vaping system in which the system includes:

(a) an electrical power source for re-charging a rechargeable battery in the system;

(b) a refilling-device including a user-replaceable reservoir for holding a vapable liquid;

(c) an electrical or electronic pump adapted to transfer the vapable liquid from the reservoir to an atomising chamber, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of the vapable liquid from the reservoir;

the system including a vaping device with a body or casing, the body or casing including a visual indicator that extends or moves along the body or the casing and that indicates consumption of the vapable liquid equivalent to or corresponding to a pre-defined session.

2. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator moves or extends down the body of the vaping device away from a mouthpiece.

3. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator moves or extends fully to indicate that a single dose of vapable liquid has been consumed.

4. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator is a row of LEDs or other indicators and each indicator changes appearance when a single inhalation occurs.

5. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator is a row of LEDs or other indicators and the indicator changes appearance when inhalations corresponding to smoking a single cigarette occurs.

6. The vaping system of claim 1 in which a heating coil is arranged longitudinally along the long axis of the vaping device.

7. The vaping system of claim 1 in which a user can control the airflow through the vaping device by manually altering the size of air inlet vents in the vaping device.

8. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the vapable liquid includes nicotine and the vaping device is not a medicinal device but instead a device that in normal use replaces cigarettes, with the vapable liquid being vapourised in the vaping device and the vapour inhaled to replicate or replace the experience of smoking a cigarette.

9. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the refilling device includes a portable case which includes the reservoir for the e-vapable liquid from which the vaping device can be refilled, and in which the vaping device can only, in normal use, be refilled when slotted into or otherwise engaged with the portable case and wherein the portable case is operable to re-fill the vaping device with a single dose of vapable liquid, equivalent to smoking a single cigarette.

10. The vaping system of claim 9 in which the reservoir is in the portable case.

11. The vaping system of claim 9 in which the portable case securely stores the vaping device inside it.

12. The vaping system of claim 9 in which the portable case securely stores the vaping device inside it in a hinged compartment.

13. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the vaping device has the size and shape of a conventional cigarette.

14. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the size and shape of the vaping device is larger than a conventional cigarette.

15. The vaping system of claim 9 in which the portable case is a portable, personal storage and carrying case.

16. The vaping system of claim 9 in which the portable case is a portable, personal storage and carrying case that has the size of a pack of 20 cigarettes.

17. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator changes brightness as vapable liquid is consumed.

18. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the visual indicator changes colour as vapable liquid is consumed.

19. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the refilling device is a portable refilling case.

20. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the refilling device is a desktop station.

21. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the session is substantially equivalent to smoking a single cigarette.

22. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the vapable liquid includes nicotine.

23. The vaping system of claim 1 in which the vapable liquid does not include nicotine.