WO2017218445A1 - Reservoir for use in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens - Google Patents
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- WO2017218445A1 WO2017218445A1 PCT/US2017/037111 US2017037111W WO2017218445A1 WO 2017218445 A1 WO2017218445 A1 WO 2017218445A1 US 2017037111 W US2017037111 W US 2017037111W WO 2017218445 A1 WO2017218445 A1 WO 2017218445A1
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- 239000003571 electronic cigarette Substances 0.000 title claims abstract description 8
- 229940025704 inhalant product Drugs 0.000 claims abstract description 30
- 230000009977 dual effect Effects 0.000 claims abstract description 15
- 230000008016 vaporization Effects 0.000 claims description 20
- 238000009834 vaporization Methods 0.000 claims description 17
- 229920001296 polysiloxane Polymers 0.000 claims description 7
- 235000019640 taste Nutrition 0.000 claims description 6
- 239000002699 waste material Substances 0.000 claims description 5
- 238000001035 drying Methods 0.000 claims description 3
- 230000000593 degrading effect Effects 0.000 claims 2
- 239000007788 liquid Substances 0.000 abstract description 8
- 238000012986 modification Methods 0.000 description 11
- 230000004048 modification Effects 0.000 description 11
- 239000003921 oil Substances 0.000 description 7
- 239000000919 ceramic Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000003365 glass fiber Substances 0.000 description 4
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 4
- 230000015556 catabolic process Effects 0.000 description 3
- 238000006731 degradation reaction Methods 0.000 description 3
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 3
- 208000025371 Taste disease Diseases 0.000 description 1
- 230000006978 adaptation Effects 0.000 description 1
- 150000001875 compounds Chemical class 0.000 description 1
- 238000010276 construction Methods 0.000 description 1
- 235000004626 essential fatty acids Nutrition 0.000 description 1
- 230000007717 exclusion Effects 0.000 description 1
- 235000019656 metallic taste Nutrition 0.000 description 1
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 description 1
- 230000037361 pathway Effects 0.000 description 1
- 239000010773 plant oil Substances 0.000 description 1
- 125000006850 spacer group Chemical group 0.000 description 1
- 230000002123 temporal effect Effects 0.000 description 1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
- A24F47/00—Smokers' requisites not otherwise provided for
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
- A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
- A24F40/40—Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
- A24F40/44—Wicks
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
- A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
- A24F40/40—Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
- A24F40/42—Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M15/00—Inhalators
- A61M15/06—Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D15/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials
- B65D15/02—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, sections made of different materials of curved, or partially curved, cross-section, e.g. cans, drums
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
- B65D85/70—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for materials not otherwise provided for
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
- A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
- A24F40/10—Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
Definitions
- the invention deals with reservoirs for use in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens. More particularly, the reservoir of the present invention incorporates a convex catch basin for its bottom wall which, when combined with a dual wick design, ensures that all product is directed to the wicks for maximized use of the inhalant product within the reservoir. Therefore, regardless of how much or how little oil/liquid inhalant remains in the reservoir, or the relative position thereof, it is always being directed toward the wicks so there is no unusable space in the reservoir where product can collect and be wasted.
- reservoirs of this type are known to have incorporated a substantially centralized single siphon wick which allows inhalant product to be left in the tank which is unable to be wicked to the vaporizing area. Also, a single wicking point or wick increases the likelihood of failure if the wick should become clogged or degraded.
- the prior art reservoirs all have a substantially, flat inside base or bottom wall with a wick about 7 cm higher than the base. What this means is that when the wick has vaporized the e-liquid inhalant product it can contact, there will typically always be a little product left at the bottom, below the wick which cannot be contacted by the wick and burned. When the wick becomes dried out and is burned, it produce an undesirable burned taste as it is not be able to burn all the remaining e-liquid inhalant product, and creates waste and means money lost for the buyer.
- the proposed reservoir or tank of the present invention includes a convex shaped bottom wall.
- the material of the bottom is smooth so that the e-liquid inhalant product easily travels down to the outer bottom edge of the central convex shaped bottom wall to at least one of the dual wicks with which the bottom is in contact.
- the dual wicks delivers the e-liquid inhalant product to a vaporization chamber, and the convex shape of the bottom provides that substantially all of the e-liquid inhalant product will all be used, without any substantial waste and therefore substantially no money lost for the buyer.
- the dual ended wick stays wet so that a burned taste is not produced.
- a reservoir for inhalant product used in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens which incorporates a bottom wall convex catch basin that, combined with a dual wick design, ensures that substantially all the inhalant product is directed to at least one of the dual wicks for maximized use of the inhalant product held therewithin. Therefore, regardless of how much or how little oil/liquid inhalant product is in the reservoir, it is always being directed toward at least one of the dual wicks so there is substantially no unusable space in the reservoir where inhalant product can collect and become waste.
- Figure 1 shows a prior art single wick reservoir for an electronic cigarette and electronic pens, including a mouthpiece thereof;
- Figure 2 shows a longitudinal exterior view of the reservoir made in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
- Figure 3 shows a longitudinal cross sectional view of the reservoir of Figure 2 including the convex bottom wall catch basin with dual wicks of the present invention.
- a wick 2 is usually a one-piece siphon wick, which sticks up through the middle of the tank or reservoir 1 , as shown in Figure 1 .
- This one-piece siphon wick 2 creates two primary functionality issues. First, there is approximately 5 millimeters of space where inhalant product can collect underneath the wick 2 which leads to a significant portion of the product remaining unused and unusable in the reservoir 1 . This is especially true for thicker oil inhalant products, which tend to collect along the bottom of the reservoir 1 near a silicone spacer (not shown) and cannot be moved to the wick 2 unless the reservoir 1 is heated and tilted, and even then there is no way to get all of the collected oil product to the wick 2.
- any overload of the wick's capacity or degradation of the wick 2 material due to plant matter and/or essential fatty acids in the plant oil creates a product failure either through leaking or through loss of functionality of the wicking process, which leads to no oil being delivered to the vaporization element. This creates the very common "burnt" or "metallic" taste which is produced by such single wick reservoirs 1 .
- the issues noted in the prior art have been addressed through the design of a molded, convex or conical silicone bottom wall catch basin 12 and a dual wick 14, 16 design.
- the convex or conical smooth bottom wall 12 ensures that all oil inhalant product (not shown) is funneled to at least one of the two wicks 14, 16 in the cartridge or reservoir 10, regardless of how much or how little oil inhalant product (not shown) is in the reservoir 10.
- the basin 12 is made of silicone.
- the dual-wick 14, 16 configuration allows for controlled saturation of the vaporization element, preventing both the overload or the drying out of the wick 14, 16 along the vaporization element 20 ( Figure 3).
- the wick 14, 16 is a glass fiber wick with a vaporization element 20 externally wrapped around the wick 14, 16.
- a vaporization element 20 externally wrapped around the wick 14, 16.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a glass fiber wick with a vaporization element 20 embedded in the wick 14, 16.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a ceramic wick with a vaporization element 20 externally wrapped around the wick 14, 16. An example of such an embodiment with an externally wrapped vaporization element 20 may be seen in Figure 3.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a ceramic wick with a vaporization element 20 embedded in the wick 14, 16.
- the present embodiment of the inhalant cartridge 10 of the present invention incorporates all the structures known by those skilled in the art and so will not be addressed here. Only the modifications to the prior art are described herein and it will be understood that such modifications may be applied to any cartridge/tank style reservoir, making then modifications substantially universal.
- the bottom wall has been modified to comprise a molded, convex or conical silicone bottom wall catch basin 12. Also, two wicks 14 and 16 extend along edges of the basin 12 at opposite positions along a circumference of the basin 12, each being diametrically opposite to the other.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a glass fiber wick with a vaporization element 20 externally wrapped around the wick 14, 16 as can be seen in Figure 3.
- the wick 14, 16 may also be a glass fiber wick with a vaporization element 20 embedded in the wick 14, 16 in another embodiment.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a ceramic wick with a vaporization element 20 externally wrapped around the wick 14, 16 as can be seen in Figure 3.
- the wick 14, 16 may be a ceramic wick with a vaporization element 20 embedded in the wick 14, 16.
- the inhalant cartridge 10 provides a number of advantages, some of which have been described above and others of which are inherent in the invention. Also, modifications may be proposed without departing from the teachings herein. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is only to be limited as necessitated by the accompanying claims.
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GB1820296.0A GB2565731A (en) | 2016-06-13 | 2017-06-13 | Reservoir for use in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens |
EP17813888.9A EP3468399A4 (en) | 2016-06-13 | 2017-06-13 | Reservoir for use in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens |
CN201780044825.5A CN109788799A (en) | 2016-06-13 | 2017-06-13 | Reservoir for electronic cigarette and electronic pen |
CA3027854A CA3027854A1 (en) | 2016-06-13 | 2017-06-13 | Reservoir for use in electronic cigarettes and electronic pens |
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