SYSTEM COMPRISING A SIMULATED CIGARETTE DEVICE AND A REFILL UNIT

• US 20100242975A1
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kind Consumer Limited
• Original Assignee: Kind Consumer Limited
• Inventors: Hearn, Alex
• Granted Patent: US 9,022,039 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/273
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 15/015 with means for refilling of liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 42/20 Devices without heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 42/60 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0073 on a ring
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0091 mechanically breath-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0093 without arming or cocking, e.g. acting directly on the delivery valve
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/107 in the inspiratory path
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/20 Valves specially adapted to medical respiratory devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/208 Non-controlled one-way valves, e.g. exhalation, check, pop-off non-rebreathing valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8225 using incorporated gas cartridges for the driving gas
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/045 for filling, e.g. for filling reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2201/056 Small (<1 m3)
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2221/011 Oxygen
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2221/03 Mixtures
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 2270/02 for medical applications
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 5/06 for filling with compressed gases

Abstract

A simulated smoking device (1) comprising a simulated cigarette having a substantially cylindrical cigarette-like shape and a refill device (2, 50) having a substantially cuboid housing with a cigarette pack-like shape containing refill gas (32, 59) for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette. The simulated cigarette may be retained wholly within the housing. It may be retained at a location different from the refill location. A dose counter may be provided to give a visual indication of the doses in the refill device.

Claims

1. A simulated smoking device comprising a simulated cigarette having a substantially cylindrical cigarette-like shape and a refill device having a substantially cuboid housing with a cigarette pack-like shape containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the simulated cigarette comprises an elongate housing having an inhaling outlet at one end and a refill inlet, a reservoir extending along a substantial portion of the housing and having a refill valve adjacent to the refill inlet and an outlet valve adjacent to the inhaling outlet, which is operable to allow gas from the refill device to pass from the refill device and out of the inhaling outlet.

3. A device according to claim 2, where the refill device comprises a gas reservoir having an outlet and an associated reservoir outlet valve, wherein the refill valve of the simulated cigarette is arranged to co-operate with the reservoir outlet valve to open a flow path from the reservoir of the refill to the reservoir of the simulated cigarette.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein the refill device is provided with a dose counter to register the number of times that the simulated cigarette is refilled and display this to a user.

5. A device according to claim 1, wherein the means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette is arranged to retain the simulated cigarette in a position which is different from the position in which the simulated cigarette is refilled.

6. A device according to claim 1, wherein the means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette is arranged to accommodate the simulated cigarette entirely within the housing.

7. A refill device for a simulated smoking device according to claim 1, the refill device having a substantially cuboid housing having a cigarette pack-like shape containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette.

8. A simulated smoking device comprising a simulated cigarette and a refill device containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette, the refill device further comprising a dose counter to register the number of times that the simulated cigarette is refilled and display this to a user.

9. A refill device for a simulated smoking device according to claim 8, the refill device containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette, having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette and having a dose counter to register the number of times that the simulated cigarette is refilled and display this to a user.

10. A simulated smoking device comprising a simulated cigarette and a refill device containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette in a position which is different from the position in which the simulated cigarette is refilled.

11. A refill device for a simulated smoking device according to claim 10, the refill device containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette device and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette in a position which is different from the position in which the simulated cigarette is refilled.

12. A simulated smoking device comprising a simulated cigarette and a refill device having a housing containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette entirely within the housing.

13. A refill device for a simulated smoking device according to claim 12, the refill device having a housing containing refill gas for the simulated cigarette and having means for selectively retaining the simulated cigarette entirely within the housing.