ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES HAVING ADJUSTABLE VAPORIZER

• US 20160262452A1
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Kanger Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen Kanger Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhu, Xiaochun
• Application Number:
  US14/395,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20160262452A1
• 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 40/44 Wicks
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/46 Shape or structure of electric heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/485 Valves; Apertures
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 5/00 Plants characterised by use of means for storing steam in an alkali to increase steam pressure, e.g. of Honigmann or Koenemann type

Abstract

The present invention relates to electronic cigarette having adjustable vaporizer. In certain embodiments, the electronic cigarette includes: a mouth piece assembly, a heating assembly, an electric connector assembly, an e-liquid storage assembly, and a vapor adjusting ring. The mouth piece assembly has a mouth piece connector, a mouth piece attached to the mouth piece connector, and a vapor tube. An upper end of e-liquid storage assembly is connected to mouth piece assembly through an e-liquid injection tube which is detachably inserted into vapor tube. Heating assembly is disposed inside of the e-liquid storage assembly. The electric connector assembly includes a lower tubular body electrically connected to a connecting ring assembly and an upper tubular body. One end of upper tubular body is threaded into the mouth piece assembly and another end is threaded into connecting ring assembly 6. The present invention also provides a method to adjust e-cigarette'"'"'s vapor flow.

Claims

1. An electronic cigarette having adjustable vaporizer, comprising:

a mouth piece assembly having an upper end, and an opposite, lower end, a mouth piece connector, a mouth piece detachably disposed on the mouth piece connector, and a vapor tube extending downwards from the lower end of the mouth piece assembly;

an e-liquid storage assembly, having an upper end detachably connected to the lower end of the mouth piece assembly through an e-liquid injection tube detachably inserted into the vapor tube, and an opposite, lower end;

a heating assembly having one or more ceramic e-liquid media for absorbing e-liquid to be vaporized, one or more heating wires to vaporize the e-liquid absorbed in the ceramic e-liquid media, each of the heating wires has a positive terminal and a negative terminal, wherein the heating assembly is disposed inside of the e-liquid storage assembly;

a vapor adjusting ring adapted for adjusting vapor flow; and

an electric connector assembly having a lower tubular body, electrically connected to a connecting ring assembly and an upper tubular body, wherein the upper tubular body has an upper end threaded into the lower end of the mouth piece assembly and an opposite, lower end threaded into an upper end of the connecting ring assembly.

2. The electronic cigarette of claim 1, comprising:

one or more vapor tubes on the mouth piece assembly;

one or more heating assemblies; and

one or more e-liquid storage assemblies,

wherein the electronic cigarette has the same number of vapor tubes, the heating assemblies, and the e-liquid storage assemblies, each of the one or more heating assemblies has an e-liquid injection tube detachably inserted into a corresponding vapor tube of the mouth piece assembly, and each of the one or more heating assemblies is disposed inside of a corresponding e-liquid storage assembly.

3. The electronic cigarette of claim 2, comprising two vapor tubes, two heating assemblies, and two e-liquid storage assemblies.

4. The electronic cigarette of claim 2, wherein the electric connector assembly comprises:

a body connector sleeved and sealed outside of the one or more e-liquid storage assemblies;

an electric connector plate;

an electric contact pin extended downward;

a negative connector terminal electrically connected to the body connector; and

a positive connector terminal electrically connected to the electric connector plate and the electric contact pin, and electrically insulated from the body connector.

5. The electronic cigarette of claim 4, further comprising an insulation layer disposed between the body connector and the electric connector plate.

6. The electronic cigarette of claim 4, wherein the electric contact pin is a metal contact pin and it is electrically connected to the electric connector plate through a retractable connection.

7. The electronic cigarette of claim 4, wherein the electric contact pin is electrically connected to the electric connector plate through a threaded connection.

8. The electronic cigarette of claim 4, wherein the body connector comprises:

a lower tubular body rotatably sleeved with a vapor adjusting ring;

a plurality of body air intake holes arranged along the perimeter of the lower tubular body; and

a protrusion ring extended radially to align with an outside edge of the vapor adjusting ring,

wherein the vapor adjusting ring has a vapor adjusting groove adapted for adjusting air intake by covering and uncovering the plurality of body air intake holes as the vapor adjusting ring is rotated.

9. The electronic cigarette of claim 8, wherein each of the one or more e-liquid storage assemblies comprises

a vaporizer air intake hole;

an electric connector tube;

an e-liquid injection tube; and

an e-liquid storage tube having an upper end connected to the e-liquid injection tube, and an opposite, lower end connected to the electric connector tube.

10. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein the path of air flow includes:

the plurality of body air intake holes on the lower tubular body, the vaporizer air intake holes, the e-liquid storage assemblies, the e-liquid injection tubes, the vapor tubes, and the mouth piece.

11. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein each e-liquid injection tube of the plurality of e-liquid storage assemblies is electrically connected to the electric connector plate.

12. The electronic cigarette of claim 11, wherein each of the positive terminal of the one or more heating assemblies is electrically connected to a corresponding e-liquid storage tube, a corresponding electric connector tube, the electric connector plate, and the corresponding electric contact pin, and each of the negative terminal of the one or more heating assemblies is electrically connected to the body connector.

13. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein the body connector is engaged with a threaded connecting ring, wherein the internal wall of the threaded connecting ring is threadedly engaged with the one or more e-liquid storage assemblies, and the external wall of the threaded connecting ring is threadedly engaged with the body connector.

14. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein the threaded connecting ring has a threaded connecting ring support extending radially to be aligned with the outside edge of the vapor adjusting ring, and the connecting ring assembly is disposed on and supported by the threaded connecting ring support, and rotatably engaged with the threaded connecting ring support.

15. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein the vapor adjusting ring includes an upper end, and an opposite, lower end rotatably and slidably engaged with the protrusion ring of the electric connector assembly.

16. The electronic cigarette of claim 15, wherein the protrusion ring of the electric connector assembly includes a position limit pin extending upward along the axis of the protrusion ring.

17. The electronic cigarette of claim 16, wherein the vapor adjusting ring has an arc shaped position limiting groove slidably engaged with the position limit pin to limit angle of the rotation of the vapor adjusting ring.

18. The electronic cigarette of claim 9, wherein the mouth piece is removable such that e-liquid can be refilled by removing the mouth piece and injecting e-liquid through the each of e-liquid injection tube of the plurality of the e-liquid storage assemblies.

19. A method of adjusting vapor flow of an electronic cigarette having a vapor adjusting ring and a plurality of body air intake holes, comprising an operation of rotating the vapor adjusting ring of the electronic cigarette.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the rotating operation comprising:

rotating the vapor adjusting ring in one direction to uncover more of a plurality of the body air intake holes on the electronic cigarette to increase vapor flow; and

rotating the vapor adjusting ring in an opposite direction to cover more of the plurality of the body air intake holes on the electronic cigarette to decrease the vapor flow.