ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE

• US 20150272217A1
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
• Original Assignee: Zhiping Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Zhiping
• Granted Patent: US 9,770,054 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 40/42 Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/485 Valves; Apertures
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/042 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0021 Mouthpieces therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2016/0018 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3653 by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 battery-operated

Abstract

An electronic cigarette includes: a housing; a mouthpiece located at one end of the housing, the mouthpiece defining an air outlet; a liquid reservoir received in the housing, the liquid reservoir defining a chamber for storing liquid and a channel communicated with the air outlet; a stopper located at an end of the liquid reservoir adjacent to the mouthpiece sealing the chamber; an atomizing assembly received in the housing and connected to the liquid reservoir, the atomizing assembly including a heating element configured to absorb the liquid and atomize the liquid into atomized gas; and a power source connected to the atomizing assembly, the power source being configured to provide power for the heating element. When refueling the liquid, a syringe needle can penetrate the stopper and inject the liquid into the cavity. Such injection procedure can be more conveniently performed without dissembling the liquid reservoir.

Claims

1. An electronic cigarette, comprising:

a housing;

a mouthpiece located at one end of the housing, the mouthpiece defining an air outlet thereof;

a liquid reservoir received in the housing, the liquid reservoir defining a chamber for storing liquid and a channel communicated with the air outlet;

a stopper located at an end of the liquid reservoir adjacent to the mouthpiece sealing the chamber;

an atomizing assembly received in the housing and connected to the liquid reservoir, the atomizing assembly comprising a heating element configured to absorb the liquid and atomize the liquid into atomized gas; and

a power source received in the housing and connected to the atomizing assembly, the power source being configured to provide power for the heating element.

2. The electronic cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the liquid reservoir comprises a first tube and a second tube connected to the first tube, the chamber comprises a first cavity located in the first tube and a second cavity located in the second tube, an outer surface of the first tube and an inner surface of the housing form an air passage therebetween, the first tube is provided with a first plate at a bottom thereof, the first plate and an inner surface of the first tube form a first liquid passage therebetween, the second tube is provided with a second plate on a top thereof, the second tube is further provided with an air pipe connected to the second plate, the first plate and the second plate are spaced apart and arranged opposite to each other, the second plate and an inner surface of the second tube forms a second liquid passage therebetween, the liquid enters the second tube from the first tube via the first liquid passage and the second liquid passage, the channel comprises a first exhaust channel located in the air pipe and a second exhaust channel located between the first plate and the second plate, the first exhaust channel and the second exhaust channel are communicated with the air passage.

3. The electronic cigarette according to claim 2, wherein the housing has a cylindrical shape, the second tube has a cylindrical shape matching the housing, the first tube has a cross-section shaped as a slotted hole, the number of the air passage is two, and two air passages are located at both sides of the first tube.

4. The electronic cigarette according to claim 3, wherein the first plate has a rectangular shape, the number of the first liquid passage is two, and two first liquid passages are located at both sides of the first plate.

5. The electronic cigarette according to claim 4, wherein the second plate is shaped as a slotted hole, the number of the second liquid passage is two, and two second liquid passages are located at both sides of the second plate.

6. The electronic cigarette according to claim 5, wherein two straight sides of the second plate are respectively connected to two long sides of the first plate by two third plates;

the second exhaust channel is formed by surrounding the first plate, the second plate, and the two third plates cooperatively.

7. The electronic cigarette according to claim 2, wherein the atomizing assembly comprises:

a fixing holder defining a through hole in a middle portion thereof, the fixing holder further defining two grooves on a side thereof, the two grooves being located at both sides of the through hole and communicated with the through hole;

the heating element comprising a liquid absorption element and a heating wire wound on the liquid absorption element, both ends of the liquid absorption element being received in the corresponding two grooves, and the heating wire being located in the through hole; and

a guiding element received in the second tube, the guiding element comprising a main body and a guiding tube located at one side of the main body connected to the air pipe, wherein the guiding element defines a smoke guiding hole through the guiding tube and the main body, the main body resists the fixing holder, such that the heating element is positioned between the fixing holder and the guiding element, the heating element is aligned with the smoke guiding hole, the main body defines a notch, the liquid flows into the liquid absorption element from the second cavity via the notch.

8. The electronic cigarette according to claim 7, wherein the guiding tube is made of elastic materials, a diameter of the guiding tube gradually decreases in a direction away from the main body, the guiding tube is inserted into the air pipe and is in close contact with an inner surface of the air pipe.

9. The electronic cigarette according to claim 7, wherein the fixing holder comprises a base and a boss located at one side of the base, the two grooves are defined on the boss, the boss is threadedly fixed to the second tube, the base is threadedly fixed to the housing.

10. The electronic cigarette according to claim 7, wherein the power source comprises a battery and a sensor located at an end of the battery, positive and negative electrodes of the battery are connected to both ends of the heating wire, the sensor is configured to turn the battery on or off.