Vaporizer with Improved Ventilation

• US 20180279674A1
• Filed: 03/31/2017
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zipline Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Zipline Innovations LLC
• Inventors: Watson, James Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 10,159,285 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/485 Valves; Apertures
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 7/02 with detachable connecting members

Abstract

Disclosed is a tip and a corresponding vaporizer with improved ventilation. The vaporizer can include a mouthpiece and, at an opposite end, a vent opening that allows for better ventilation of the vaporizer and improved comfort and flavor during use. The vaporizer tip can also include holes that allow air to flow inside the tip and around the coil to further improve ventilation and comfort of use.

Claims

1. A vaporizer having opposing first and second ends and comprising:

a body;

a power source disposed within the body;

an air hole defined within the body at the first end;

a tip coupled to the body proximate the second end, the tip having a heating element capable of being activated by the power source upon selective activation by a user, the tip further including an opening fluidly communicating with the air hole through the body; and

a cap having a mouthpiece, the mouthpiece being disposed proximate the first end and including an orifice adapted to receive suction to obtain gases or vapors from the tip.

2. The vaporizer of claim 1, further comprising a ventilation path beginning at the tip, continuing through the opening, through the body, out of the body through the air hole, and to a user through the mouthpiece.

3. The vaporizer of claim 2, wherein the opening directs at least part of the ventilation path through a central axis of the heating element.

4. The vaporizer of claim 2, wherein the tip further comprises a stem, and wherein the opening is defined within the stem.

5. The vaporizer of claim 1, further comprising a reclaim chamber coupled to the body, the reclaim chamber having a reclaim opening and the tip having a base, a cross-sectional area of the reclaim opening being smaller than a cross-sectional area of the base.

6. The vaporizer of claim 5, wherein the tip includes tip threads and the body includes body threads, the tip threads coupling to the body threads to couple the reclaim chamber between the tip and the body.

7. The vaporizer of claim 1, wherein the tip includes a stem, and wherein the tip threads are disposed on an end of the stem.

8. The vaporizer of claim 1, further comprising a rim adapted to removably receive the cap.

9. The vaporizer of claim 1, wherein the tip is a quartz crystal atomizer tip.

10. The vaporizer of claim 1, further comprising a reclaim chamber coupled to the body, the reclaim chamber including an O-ring adapted to removably receive the cap.

11. The vaporizer tip of claim 1, wherein the heating element is a coil.

12. A vaporizer tip comprising:

a base;

a heating element disposed within the base, the heating element having a central axis extending longitudinally through the heating element; and

an opening directing a ventilation path into the base and through at least the central axis of the heating element.

13. The vaporizer tip of claim 12, wherein the heating element is a coil and wherein the central axis is through the central longitudinal axis of the coil.

14. The vaporizer tip of claim 12, further comprising a stem coupled to the base, the stem having the opening defined therein.

15. The vaporizer tip of claim 12, further comprising a stem coupled to the base, the stem including tip threads adapted to couple to threads of a vaporizer body to couple a reclaim chamber to the vaporizer tip.

16. A method of using a vaporizer comprising:

removing a cap from a body, the cap having a mouthpiece;

contacting the tip against a product to be consumed;

placing the cap onto the body;

activating a heating element in a tip;

inhaling the product, causing air to flow in a ventilation path from a first end of the vaporizer through the body and cap of the vaporizer and out through the mouthpiece.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising causing the ventilation path to flow through an opening in the tip such that the ventilation path flows through a central axis of the heating element.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising removably coupling the cap to a rim of the vaporizer.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising decoupling the tip from the body, thereby allowing the removal of a reclaim chamber.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising recoupling the tip to the body to thereby couple the reclaim chamber therebetween.