E-cigarette personal vaporizer

• US 10,631,577 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2019
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• 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:
  US16/575,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20200008492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 222 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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

Abstract

A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.

Claims

1. A portable, personal, battery powered, nicotine delivery system comprising:

(a) a pocket charger including a main battery and a hinged door, the hinged door including a first section, a second section and a front face;

(b) a personal vaporizing device including (i) a secondary battery that is re-charged from the main battery and (ii) a heating element powered by that secondary battery to heat a nicotine containing substance and to create heated, inhalable nicotine vapour;

the personal vaporizing device being stored in and removable from the pocket charger;

and in which the pocket charger stores the personal vaporizing device in the hinged door and electrically charges that device when it is stored in the hinged door;

and the first section of the hinged door has side walls with edges that are substantially parallel to the front face of the hinged door;

and the second section of the hinged door has side walls that extend at substantially 45 degrees to the front face of the hinged door.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the hinged door is configured to hinge outwards from the pocket charger.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the pocket charger includes a spring that positively biases the hinged door to a closed position.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the hinged door is configured to guide electrical charging contacts in the personal vaporizing device into accurate alignment with electrical charging contacts in the pocket charger.

5. The system of claim 1 in which the system automatically detects that the personal vaporizing device has been removed from the hinged door when electrical contact between the device and charging contacts in the pocket charger is broken.

6. The system of claim 1 in which the personal vaporizing device has a circular cross-section and is configured to be received within a circular aperture in the hinged door.

7. The system of claim 1 in which the personal vaporizing device is shaped as a generally cylindrical tube.

8. The system of claim 1 in which the top surface of the pocket charger is rounded.

9. The system of claim 1 in which the bottom surface of the pocket charger is rounded.

10. The system of claim 1 in which the top surface of the pocket charger includes an indicator light controlled to indicate an amount or extent of nicotine vapour that has been inhaled.

11. The system of claim 1 which includes a Bluetooth connection circuit to connect the system to a smartphone app that enables a user to monitor and/or alter the performance of the system.

12. The system of claim 1 and that further includes a user-replaceable, consumable item that includes nicotine.

13. The system of claim 12 in which the user-replaceable, consumable item is attached to or is inserted into the system by a user.

14. The system of claim 12 in which the user-replaceable, consumable item includes contents that are heatable by the heating element in the personal vaporizing device to create the heated, inhalable nicotine vapour.

15. The system of claim 12 in which the user-replaceable, consumable item that includes nicotine is configured to be pressed on to the end of the personal vaporizing device and to securely engage with the personal vaporizing device.

16. The system of claim 15 in which the user-replaceable, consumable item that includes nicotine includes an amount of substance equivalent to a single cigarette.

17. The system of claim 12 in which the personal vaporizing device is configured to receive the user-replaceable, consumable item that includes nicotine, when it is not stored in a closed pocket charger.