ELECTRONIC VAPORISER SYSTEM

• US 20170048371A1
• Filed: 09/01/2016
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AYR Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beyond Twenty Ltd.
• Inventors: MURISON, Ian, MARSH, Stephen, GORILOVSKY, Dmitry
• Granted Patent: US 10,219,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/167 in liquid or vaporisable form, e.g. liquid compositions for electronic cigarettes
• 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 40/40 Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/53 Monitoring, e.g. fault detection
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/95 structurally associated with cases
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/042 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/13 with means for the detection of operative contact with patient, e.g. lip sensor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/14 Detection of the presence or absence of a tube, a connector or a container in an apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/27 preventing use
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3379 Masses, volumes, levels of fluids in reservoirs, flow rates
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3653 by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 : with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/583 : by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 : with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 : battery-operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8237 : Charging means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/045 : for filling, e.g. for filling reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/086 : Docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/04 : Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/005 : Side walls formed with an aperture or a movable portion arranged to allow removal or insertion of contents B65D5/16, B65D7/40 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/02 : for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/046 : with piezoelectric drive
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 15/044 : spring-loaded
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 24/00 : Devices, e.g. valves, for venting or aerating enclosures equalising valves F16K17/00; arrangement or mounting in pipes or pipe systems F16L55/07; venting or aerating as an additional function of steam traps or like apparatus F16T; ventilation of rooms, vehicles, see the appropriate subclass, e.g. F24F
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/285 : the water being fed by a pump to the reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 37/38 : Determining or indicating operating conditions in steam boilers, e.g. monitoring direction or rate of water flow through water tubes measuring or indicating instruments in general G01
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/041 : of a solid body
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 : After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 : using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 : characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 : specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 : concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0063 : with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007 : Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 : The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 : using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0227 : Applications
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0244 : Heating of fluids H05B1/0247 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0297 : Heating of fluids for non specified applications
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/021 : Heaters specially adapted for heating liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/44 : heating conductor arranged within rods or tubes of insulating material
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/80 : Portable immersion heaters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 30/00 : Adapting or protecting infrastructure or their operation

Abstract

An electronic cigarette vaporiser system including a cartridge designed to provide a liquid or other substance for the electronic vaporiser system, the cartridge including a chip that stores data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge, and the cartridge being adapted to be inserted into or form an integral part of the electronic vaporiser system. The electronic vaporiser system reads the data from the chip and compares that data with stored data and, depending on the result of that comparison, either prevents or permits use of that substance.

Claims

1. An electronic cigarette vaporiser system including a cartridge designed to provide a liquid or other substance for the electronic vaporiser system, the cartridge including a chip that stores data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge, and the cartridge being adapted to be inserted into or form an integral part of the electronic vaporiser system.

2. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 which reads the data from the cartridge chip and compares that data with stored data and, depending on the result of that comparison, either prevents or permits use of that substance.

3. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 which prevents use of that substance by preventing or not initiating use of a fluid transfer mechanism that would otherwise transfer some of that substance from the cartridge.

4. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 which prevents use of that substance by sending a signal to the chip that sets a flag or other marker on the chip that, when read by the vaporiser system, prevents the vaporiser system from using the cartridge.

5. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 4 in which the flag or marker disables or prevents the cartridge from discharging any of the substance from the cartridge

6. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 which receives a wireless signal that controls the disablement of a specific cartridge.

7. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 which receives a wireless signal that includes batch numbers that are defective or not to be used.

8. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which a wireless signal that controls the disablement of a specific cartridge, batch number or range of batch numbers is sent from a connected smartphone app or other personal electronic device, which in turn receives a wireless control signal from a remote control centre.

9. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge is a number or other identifier that allows the specific substance in the cartridge to be tracked back to its manufacture.

10. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge is a batch manufacture number.

11. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the data related to the batch number of the substance stored in the cartridge is an ID, unique to that cartridge.

12. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the case or connected smartphone app or other personal device stores the data related to the batch number for the cartridge used or inserted into the electronic vaporiser system.

13. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the cartridge, in use, engages with a fluid transfer mechanism that extracts the substance from the cartridge.

14. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the substance is e-liquid.

15. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the chip stores data related to the date of manufacture of the substance stored in the cartridge and the system reads the date data from the cartridge chip and either prevents or permits use of that substance depending on that date.

16. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the cartridge is adapted to be inserted into or attached to a portable, personal storage and carrying case for an electronic vaporiser and further adapted to engage with a fluid transfer system in the case.

17. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the cartridge is adapted to be inserted into or attached to an electronic vaporiser and further adapted to engage with a fluid transfer system in the vaporiser.

18. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the cartridge includes an integral fluid transfer mechanism.

19. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the cartridge is no larger than 10 mL in capacity.