E-CIGARETTE PERSONAL VAPORIZER

• US 20150245668A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AYR Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beyond Twenty Ltd.
• Inventors: MEMARI, Kaveh, BENNETT, Adrian, MURISON, Ian, MARSH, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 9,848,648 B2
• 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 movable holder or chassis into which the PV can be inserted to bring electrical charging contacts on the PV into direct or indirect engagement with electrical charging contacts in the case that are connected to a power source 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 movable holder or chassis into which the PV can be inserted to bring electrical charging contacts on the PV into direct or indirect engagement with electrical charging contacts in the case that are connected to a power source in the case.

2. The case of claim 1 in which the holder also has mounted on it an e-fluid reservoir, a battery, a printed circuit board and a fluid transfer mechanism

3. The case of claim 1 in which the holder pivots about a screw or other form of axis in the case

4. The case of claim 3 in which the holder is formed as a trigger, so that a user closing his grip on one part of the holder causes the hinged folder to open from the case, enabling a PV stored in the case to be withdrawn from the case.

5. The case of claim 1 in which the holder includes a channel into which the PV can slide, the channel guiding the PV into the position needed for accurate re-filling with e-liquid

6. The case of claim 5 in which the channel enables the PV to be moved up and down relative to a pump, acting as the stroke which causes the pump to transfer e-liquid from a reservoir in the case to a chamber in the PV.

7. The case of claim 1 in which the holder is a hinged compartment that the PV is slotted into, mouthpiece end downwards, and which guides an aperture of the PV into contact with a pump nozzle that fills a chamber in the PV with e-liquid until the pressure in the chamber equals the pressure in an e-liquid cartridge in the case.

8. The case of claim 1 in which the PV includes an e-liquid filling aperture or nozzle positioned centrally along the main axis of the PV to minimise any off-centre forces that could otherwise compromise e-liquid sealing and the holder guides that e-filling aperture or nozzle into accurate alignment with a fluid transfer mechanism.

9. The case of claim 1 in which the holder is a hinged compartment that the PV is slotted into, mouthpiece end downwards, and which, whenever the hinged compartment is closed, cams the PV downwards to prime or activate a pump nozzle that will deliver e-liquid from a cartridge into a chamber in the PV until the pressure in the chamber equals the pressure in an e-liquid cartridge in the case.

10. The case of claim 1 in which the holder has to be fully closed to bring the electrical charging contacts on the PV into direct or indirect engagement with electrical charging contacts in the case.

11. The case of claim 1 in which the movable holder has to be partly closed to bring the electrical charging contacts on the PV into direct or indirect engagement with electrical charging contacts in the case.

12. The case of claim 1 which is operable to re-fill the PV using a fluid transfer system pump activated by moving relative to the pump the entire, complete PV, whilst the PV is held in the holder.

13. The case of claim 1 in which the holder is a side-loading holder.

14. The case of claim 1 in which the holder is manually moved.

15. The case of claim 1 in which the holder is moved using one or more motors.

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.