Zoned vaporizer

• US 9,894,936 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2016
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mark Krietzman
• Original Assignee: Mark Krietzman
• Inventors: Krietzman, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US15/045,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20160235123A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/16 of tobacco substitutes
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/42 Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0225 actuated by timers
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0244 Heating of fluids H05B1/0247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/014 Heaters using resistive wires or cables not provided for in H05B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/021 Heaters specially adapted for heating liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/022 Heaters specially adapted for heating gaseous material
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/146 Conductive polymers, e.g. polyethylene, thermoplastics
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/42 non-flexible

Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods and systems to vaporize or release organic material from plant material containing the organic material and the like, including utilizing zoned heating of a common chamber. A controller in signal communication with two or more heating elements each adjacent to a zone to be heated controls at least the heating of the elements.

Claims

1. A vaporizer system comprising:

a controller;

a heating chamber comprising;

an open top surrounded by an annular wall and having a floor;

vents in at least one of the annular wall and the floor;

at least two heating elements in thermal contact with the heating chamber;

wherein each heating element is separately controlled by the controller;

a lid with an interface to close off the open top of the chamber;

an intake connected to a fluid pathway passing from inside the lid

an on/off switch;

a power supply; and

,

wherein the power supply is electrically connected to the heating elements and the controller via the on/off switch.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one temperature sensor.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the temperature sensor is connected to the controller and the controller in response to temperature sensor measurements adjusts the amount and/or timing of electricity provided to a turned on heating.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising an illumination communications system controlled by the controller.

5. The system of claim 1 further comprising a case surrounding at least the heating chamber.

6. The system of claim 5 further comprising an illumination communications system controlled by the controller visible from the exterior of the case.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller at least one of monitors the amount of time a heating element is at a predetermined range of temperature and monitors when a predetermined time is met.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the controller determines if any zone or heating element has not timed out and then controls the heating of the untimed out zone until such time as it is heated for a predetermined amount of time.

9. The system of claim 8 further comprising a sensor which measured one or more of when the lid is place on the chamber and removed from the chamber.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the controller will not provide heating for any zone until such time as the lid has been placed on the chamber.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the controlled turns will provide heating for any zone until such time as the lid has been removed from the chamber.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the controller controls heat to each zone heating element based on one of a fixed time, a variable time and a selected time.

13. The vaporizer system of claim 1 further comprising at least one divider;

and,

wherein the divider at least one of divides at least a portion of the annular wall or extended from the floor into at least a portion of the heating chamber.

14. The vaporizer system of claim 1 wherein the fluid pathway in the lid further comprises one or more baffles to direct the flow of vapor.

15. A portable vaporizer comprising:

an enclosure comprising;

vents forming a fluid pathway into the enclosure;

a controller;

a heating chamber comprising;

an open top surrounded by an annular wall and having a floor;

vents in at least one of the annular wall and the floor;

at least two heating elements in thermal contact with the heating chamber;

wherein each heating element is separately controlled by the controller;

a lid with an interface to mate with the top of the enclosure and close off the open top of the chamber;

an intake connected to a fluid pathway passing from inside the lid

an on/off switch;

a rechargeable battery power supply; and

,

wherein the power supply is electrically connected to the heating elements and the controller via the on/off switch.

16. The vaporizer of claim 15, further comprising at least one temperature sensor connected to the controller and the controller in response to temperature sensor measurements adjusts the amount and/or timing of electricity provided to a heating element.

17. The vaporizer of claim 15 further comprising an illumination communications system controlled by the controller.