E-CIGARETTE PERSONAL VAPORIZER

• US 20150245654A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AYR Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beyond Twenty Ltd.
• Inventors: MEMARI, Kaveh, BENNETT, Adrian, MURISON, Ian, MARSH, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US14/633,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20150245654A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 portable, personal storage and carrying case for an e-liquid e-cigarette PV in which the case includes (a) user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge; and (b) a fluid transfer system adapted to transfer e-liquid from the cartridge to a chamber in the PV; in which the case includes a data processor that controls sending a signal requesting a replacement for a user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge in the case.

Claims

1. A portable, personal storage and carrying case for an e-liquid e-cigarette PV in which the case includes (a) user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge;

and (b) a fluid transfer system adapted to transfer e-liquid from the cartridge to a chamber in the PV;

in which the case includes a data processor that controls sending a signal requesting a replacement for a user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge in the case.

2. The case of claim 1 in which the case or cartridge detects the level of or quantity of e-liquid in the user-replaceable cartridge.

3. The case of claim 1 in which the signal is sent to a connected smartphone which in turn connects to an e-fulfillment platform.

4. The case of claim 1 in which the data processor sends a signal to a connected smartphone indicating that a battery used to re-charge the PV in the case needs re-charging.

5. The case of claim 1 which measures how much e-liquid is left in the user-replaceable cartridge or whether a replacement is needed by using an ultrasonic ranger.

6. The case of claim 1 which measures how much e-liquid is left in the user-replaceable cartridge or whether a replacement is needed by using a tilt sensor to detect the angle of the cartridge and whether the e-liquid closes an electrical circuit between different electrical contacts at different levels within the cartridge.

7. The case of claim 1 which measures how much e-liquid is left in the user-replaceable cartridge or whether a replacement is needed by measuring the weight of the cartridge.

8. The case of claim 1 which measures how much e-liquid is left in the user-replaceable cartridge or whether a replacement is needed by using a capacitive sensor.

9. The case of claim 1 which measures how much e-liquid is left in the user-replaceable cartridge or whether a replacement is needed by using an air pressure sensor at the top of a flexible tube whose bottom is held just above the bottom of the cartridge.

10. The case of claim 1 which predicts future levels of e-liquid in the cartridge taking into account the rate of consumption by the user and how much e-liquid is left in the PV itself.

11. The case of claim 1 which predicts future levels of e-liquid in the cartridge taking into account how much e-liquid is left in the PV itself.

12. The case of claim 1 which includes a cartridge with several compartments and can fill the PV by combining e-liquid from several compartments and the data processor controls sending a signal requesting a replacement for one or more compartments in the cartridge.

13. The case of claim 1 which includes several user-removable e-liquid cartridges and can fill the PV by combining e-liquid from several cartridges and the data processor controls sending a signal requesting a replacement for one or more of the cartridges.

14. The case of claim 1 which gives a visual indication when at least one cartridge level is low or needs replacement.

15. The case of claim 1 which sends a signal to a connected smartphone indicating that a battery used to re-charge the PV in the case needs re-charging.

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

17. Method used in portable, personal storage and carrying case adapted specifically for a refillable e-cigarette PV and that re-fills and re-charges the PV, the method including the steps of the case (a) transferring e-liquid from a user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge to the PV and (b) automatically sending a signal requesting a replacement for the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge to an e-fulfillment platform, either directly or via a connected smartphone.

18. The method of claim 17 including the steps of the case (a) detecting the level of or quantity of e-liquid in a user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge in the case and (b) automatically sending a signal requesting a replacement for the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge to an e-fulfillment platform, either directly or via a connected smartphone.

19. The method of claim 17 in which the signal is sent to a connected smartphone which in turn connects to an e-fulfillment platform.

20. The method of claim 17 including the step of a machine learning algorithm or system learning the user'"'"'s e-liquid consumption patterns and using that to determine when to send the signal requesting the replacement e-liquid cartridge.

21. The method of claim 17 in which the e-liquid includes nicotine and the PV is not a medicinal device but instead a device that in normal use replaces cigarettes, with the e-liquid being vapourised in the PV and the vapour inhaled to replicate or replace the experience of smoking a cigarette.