ELECTRONIC-CIGARETTE FILTER

• US 20150366265A1
• Filed: 06/19/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Healthier Choices Management Corp.
• Original Assignee: Healthier Choices Management Corp.
• Inventors: Lansing, Samuel
• Application Number:
  US14/308,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20150366265A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A24D 3/17 Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices
• 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

Abstract

An electronic-cigarette filter including a tube housing a vaporizing device, wherein walls of the tube are substantially fluid impermeable. The electronic-cigarette filter includes a fluid permeable matrix disposed adjacent to an exterior of the tube and is in fluid communication with the vaporizing device. The electronic-cigarette filter includes a vaporizing liquid disposed throughout the matrix. The electronic-cigarette filter includes a substantially flexible outer housing enveloping the matrix and the tube. The electronic-cigarette filter includes a sealing member consisting essentially of a substantially fluid impermeable material that is shaped and sized to prevent direct fluid communication between the matrix and the hole of the mouthpiece.

Claims

1. An electronic-cigarette filter, comprising:

a) a tube housing a vaporizing device, wherein walls of the tube are substantially fluid impermeable, and wherein the tube includes a first open end and a second open end each distal from the other;

b) a fluid permeable matrix disposed adjacent to an exterior of the tube and in fluid communication with the vaporizing device through a region of the tube spaced from the second open end of the tube;

c) a vaporizing liquid disposed throughout the matrix;

d) a substantially flexible outer housing enveloping the matrix and the tube, the outer housing having a first end including a coupling structure and a second end, distal from the first end, the second end including a mouthpiece having a hole therethrough in fluid communication with the vaporizing device; and

e) a sealing member adjacent the second open end of the tube, the sealing member consisting essentially of a substantially fluid impermeable material that is shaped and sized to prevent direct fluid communication between the matrix and the hole of the mouthpiece.

2. The filter of claim 1, wherein the matrix encircles the tube.

3. The filter of claim 1, wherein the mouthpiece is selectably removably coupled to the outer housing.

4. The filter of claim 1, wherein the sealing member is a nipple extending between the hole of the mouthpiece and the second open end of the tube.

5. The filter of claim 1, wherein the sealing member forms a conduit between the hole of the mouthpiece and the tube.

6. The filter of claim 4, wherein the nipple is fixedly coupled to the mouthpiece and seats into the second open end of the tube when the mouthpiece is coupled to the flexible outer housing.

7. The filter of claim 1, wherein the sealing member is annular and encircles the tube.

8. The filter of claim 1, wherein the matrix is a hollow cylinder.

9. The filter of claim 1, wherein the coupling structure of the first end of the outer housing includes both a physical coupling structure and an electrical coupling structure, each configured to couple to corresponding components of an electronic-cigarette battery housing.

10. The filter of claim 1, wherein the sealing member is highly elastic.

11. An electronic-cigarette filter, comprising:

a) a tube housing a vaporizing device, including a first open end and a second open end each distal from the other;

b) a fluid permeable matrix disposed adjacent to an exterior of the tube and in fluid communication with the vaporizing device through a region of the tube spaced from the second open end of the tube;

c) a vaporizing liquid disposed throughout the matrix;

d) a substantially flexible outer housing enveloping the matrix and the tube, the outer housing having a first end and a second end, distal from the first end, the second end including a mouthpiece having a hole therethrough in fluid communication with the vaporizing device; and

e) a sealing member adjacent the second open end of the tube, the sealing member consisting essentially of a substantially fluid impermeable material that is shaped and sized to prevent direct fluid communication between the matrix and the hole of the mouthpiece.

12. The filter of claim 11, wherein the matrix is a hollow cylinder that encircles the tube.

13. The filter of claim 12, wherein walls of the tube are substantially fluid impermeable.

14. The filter of claim 13, wherein the sealing member is annular and encircles the tube.

15. The filter of claim 14, wherein the sealing member is flush with the second open end of the tube and is spaced from an interior wall of the mouthpiece.

16. The filter of claim 13, wherein the sealing member forms a conduit between the hole of the mouthpiece and the tube.

17. The filter of claim 13, wherein the sealing member is a nipple extending between the hole of the mouthpiece and the second open end of the tube.

18. The filter of claim 17, wherein the nipple is fixedly coupled to the mouthpiece and seats into the second open end of the tube when the mouthpiece is coupled to the flexible outer housing.

19. An electronic-cigarette filter, comprising:

a) a tube housing a vaporizing device, wherein walls of the tube are substantially fluid impermeable, and wherein the tube includes a first open end and a second open end each distal from the other;

b) a fluid permeable matrix shaped as a hollow cylinder disposed adjacent to an exterior of the tube, encircling the same, and in fluid communication with the vaporizing device through a region of the tube spaced from the second open end of the tube;

c) a vaporizing liquid disposed throughout the matrix;

d) a substantially flexible outer housing enveloping the matrix and the tube, the outer housing having a first end including a coupling structure and a second end, distal from the first end, the second end including a mouthpiece having a hole therethrough in fluid communication with the vaporizing device; and

e) a sealing member adjacent the second open end of the tube, the sealing member consisting essentially of a substantially fluid impermeable material that is shaped and sized to prevent direct fluid communication between the matrix and the hole of the mouthpiece.

20. The filter of claim 19, wherein the sealing member is selected from the group of sealing members consisting of an annular plug and a seating nipple.