Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
  • A24B15/00—Chemical features or treatment of tobacco; Tobacco substitutes, e.g. in liquid form
  • A24B15/10—Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes
  • A24B15/16—Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes of tobacco substitutes
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
  • A24B15/00—Chemical features or treatment of tobacco; Tobacco substitutes, e.g. in liquid form
  • A24B15/10—Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes
  • A24B15/16—Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes of tobacco substitutes
  • A24B15/167—Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes of tobacco substitutes in liquid or vaporisable form, e.g. liquid compositions for electronic cigarettes
• • 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
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61K—PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES
  • A61K47/00—Medicinal preparations characterised by the non-active ingredients used, e.g. carriers or inert additives; Targeting or modifying agents chemically bound to the active ingredient
  • A61K47/06—Organic compounds, e.g. natural or synthetic hydrocarbons, polyolefins, mineral oil, petrolatum or ozokerite
  • A61K47/08—Organic compounds, e.g. natural or synthetic hydrocarbons, polyolefins, mineral oil, petrolatum or ozokerite containing oxygen, e.g. ethers, acetals, ketones, quinones, aldehydes, peroxides
  • A61K47/10—Alcohols; Phenols; Salts thereof, e.g. glycerol; Polyethylene glycols [PEG]; Poloxamers; PEG/POE alkyl ethers
• • 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 present invention concerns an electronic smoking substitutive device, commonly known as electronic cigarette.
• the electronic cigarettes generally contain a rechargeable electric battery, an atomizer powered by a battery and a container for the liquid to be vaporized placed in contact with the smoke atomizer.
• the battery, the atomizer and the liquid container are housed inside a casing of elongated shape which reproduces also visually the shape of a normal cigarette.
• certain electronic cigarettes types are known, in which the liquid container is placed inside a portion of the tubular casing that simulates the filter of the cigarette and is inserted in the atomizer associated with the battery, which is placed inside a distal portion of the tubular casing simulating the cylindrical body of the cigarette.
• the liquid solution in the container vaporizes and can be inhaled by the user.
• the dose of liquid solution contained in the container is such as to allow, once vaporized, a predetermined number of inhalations.
• An electronic smoking substitutive device of such type is described for example in patent application GB 2465247.
• Such device is made up of a tube containing a tank which contains a liquid comprising an inhalable substance, for example an aqueous solution of nicotine and other flavorings.
• the device also comprises a heating element which is in direct contact with the tank.
• the heating element is suitable to be powered by a rechargeable electric battery.
• the tank is not removable from the tube without breaking or destroying other parts of the same device. Therefore, the device is of disposable type, like a normal cigarette, that is, when the contents of the tank are exhausted, the whole device is trashed.
• a different type of electronic smoking substitutive device illustrated for example in patent application US2013/0081642, comprises a first tubular unit, inside which the electric battery is housed, and a second tubular unit, also known as cartomizer, which, in use, is axially coupled with the first unit and carries, inside, the tank for the liquid solution and the atomizer, positioned in contact with the tank.
• cartomizer is disposable, while the battery unit is reusable.
• Patent application WO2013/040193 discloses an electronic cigarette having a first portion, which is a tubular reusable element housing electric components, including a rechargeable battery and a heating element.
• a second portion is hermetically coupled with the tubular element and can be periodically replaced.
• Such replaceable portion contains a cartridge with the material to be vaporized, for example synthetic cotton fibre saturated with a mixture of polyethylene glycol, nicotine and other flavorings.
• the first portion allows the passage of hot air when the user draws air through a mouthpiece placed at the end of the cigarette.
• the hot air flows through the volatile material, providing the user with the vaporized nicotine or other substances to be inhaled.
• the cartridge allows to perform 150 to 200 inhalations. Since the atomizer is separated from the cartridge containing the volatile substance, the cost of the replaceable piece is reduced.
• the currently most widespread electronic cigarettes provide, as container of the inhalable liquid, a refillable tank associated with the tubular body, in which the electric battery and the atomizer are housed.
• This tank is suitable to contain a suitable amount of liquid.
• the tank has sufficient capacity to allow a continued use of the electronic cigarette, for example, for one or more days, depending of course on the individual habits, that is, on the frequency with which the user normally uses the device.
• the tank is filled with the suitable amount of liquid; when the amount of liquid is exhausted, the user shall remove the tank from the body of the device and refill it by drawing from a suitable bottle.
• the task of the present invention is that of solving the aforementioned problems, by devising an electronic smoking substitutive device which does not require a frequent refilling of the tank for the liquid.
• a further scope of the present invention is that of providing an electronic smoking substitutive device which ensures, in use, the best hygienic conditions.
• Another scope of the present invention is that of providing an electronic smoking substitutive device provided with an easy constructive and functional conception, a versatile use as well as relatively economic costs.
• the electronic smoking substitutive device provides the use of a disposable mouthpiece of plastic material for the inhalation of an inhalable vaporized substance, which is suitable to be axially associated, in removable manner, with one end of a tubular body of the electronic device and has in its inside a chamber suitable to shape a tank for the inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• said chamber is prefilled with a predetermined quantity of said inhalable substance in aqueous solution, suitable to allow a predetermined number of inhalations.
• the electronic smoking substitutive device according to the present invention consequently, does not require the tank of the liquid to be refilled.
• said chamber is closed in hermetic manner, at one end suitable to be placed close to an atomizer, placed inside said tubular body of the electronic device, through means which can be opened for use.
• said means which can be opened for use comprise a tear-off removable peel, suitable to close a front opening of said tank.
• said means which can be opened for use comprise a lid for the front closure of said tank, suitable to be pierced by insertion means associated with an atomizer of the electronic smoking substitutive device.
• the disposable mouthpiece is of hypoallergenic plastic material.
• the present invention concerns as well a disposable tank of an inhalable substance to be used in an electronic smoking substitutive device, such tank being prefilled with a predetermined quantity of an inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• the disposable tank is sold sealed inside a small bag.
• the tank of the inhalable substance comprises a disposable casing of plastic material suitable to be axially associated with one end of a tubular body of the electronic smoking substitutive device and shaping a mouthpiece for the inhalation of a inhalable substance vaporized by said device, said casing having in its inside a chamber prefilled with a predetermined quantity of said inhalable substance in aqueous solution, suitable to allow a predetermined number of inhalations, and closed in hermetic manner, at one end turned in use towards the inside of said device, through means which can be opened for use.
• the chamber prefilled with a predetermined quantity of an inhalable substance in aqueous solution is shaped in a central portion of said casing and has a front opening closed in hermetic manner, before its use, by said opening means.
• said means which can be opened for use comprise a lid for frontally closing said chamber, suitable to be pierced by insertion means associated with an atomizer of said smoking substitutive device.
• said lid is made of a material of the type of silicon, and centrally has a lightened zone for easing the piercing by means of said insertion means of the atomizer.
• said disposable casing shapes at one end, close to the bottom of said chamber prefilled with said inhalable substance in aqueous solution, a housing vane for a sealing element suitable to prevent losses of the vaporized substance.
• said sealing element is fastened against the bottom of the chamber prefilled with said inhalable substance in aqueous solution by a closure element inserted on the end of said disposable casing.
• the sealing element and the closure element centrally have an aspiration hole for the vaporized inhalable substance.
• At least one longitudinal channel is provided for the aspiration of said vaporized inhalable substance.
• a couple of longitudinal channels shaped in diametrically opposed positions externally to said chamber prefilled with said inhalable substance in aqueous solution is provided.
• said longitudinal channels for the aspiration of the vaporized inhalable substance are made up of a couple of grooves shaped on the external surface of a container inserted inside said casing and shaping said chamber prefilled with said inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• said longitudinal channels for the aspiration of the vaporized inhalable substance end in said vane housing a sealing element suitable to prevent losses of the vaporized substance.
• said casing has a portion having rounded section suitable to be inserted at least partially in the tubular body of said smoking substitutive device and joined to a portion of substantially flattened shape, suitable to shape said mouthpiece.
• said inhalable substance in aqueous solution comprises a natural glycol made by 1 ,3-propandiole.
• said 1 ,3-propandiole is obtained through a biologic process starting from corn sugars.
• said 1 ,3-propandiole is present in a quantity comprised between 32% and 98% in weight.
• figure 1 shows a perspective view of the electronic smoking substitutive device according to the invention
• figure 2 shows a front view of a tank of inhalable liquid which can be used in the device according to the invention
• figures 3a, 3b, 3c and 4a, 4b, 4c show a front view, respectively in closed and open configuration, of sales packages of said tank having different size;
• FIG. 1 shows perspective views, with enlarged details, of the successive steps of use of the tank of inhalable liquid
• figure 8 shows a front view of a different embodiment of the electronic smoking substitutive device according to the invention.
• FIGS. 9 and 10 show perspective views, with enlarged details, of the successive steps of use of the tank for inhalable liquid intended for use in the electronic smoking substitutive device of figure 8;
• figure 1 1 shows a perspective view of a sales package of said tank of inhalable liquid intended for use in the electronic smoking substitutive device of figure 8;
• figure 12 shows a front view, in assembly configuration and in exploded, of a further embodiment of the electronic smoking substitutive device according to the invention
• figures 13 and 14 show perspective views, with enlarged details, of successive steps of use of the tank of inhalable liquid intended for use in the electronic smoking substitutive device of figure 12;
• figure 15 shows a front and perspective view of a further embodiment of the tank of inhalable liquid
• FIG. 16 and 17 respectively show a perspective view, from different angles, of a further embodiment of the tank of inhalable liquid
• figure 18 shows an exploded perspective view of the tank of figure 16
• figure 21 shows an axial cross-section view of one part of the tank in a further embodiment.
• the electronic cigarette 1 comprises a tubular body 2 of rigid material, for example metal or plastic material.
• the tubular body 2 has, for example, circular or oval profile.
• the tubular body 2 has a distal portion 2a and a proximal portion 2b axially coupled.
• the distal portion 2a of the tubular body 2 is closed at the free end, while the proximal portion 2b has an open entrance, preferably circular.
• the tubular body 2 has a different shape, according to the exigencies.
• a rechargeable electric battery known per se, is placed inside the tubular body 2 .
• the electric battery is for example of the type of lithium ions battery.
• the electric battery can be connected, in known way, to a socket through a conventional battery charger.
• the electric battery can be connected through a USB connection to a USB port, for example in a personal computer.
• an atomizer Inside the tubular body 2 also an atomizer, known per se, is arranged, suitable to be powered by the electric battery.
• the atomizer is connected to the electric battery through a suitable connector.
• the electronic cigarette 1 provides the use of a non-refillable tank 10, prefilled with a predetermined quantity of an inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• the tank 10 is therefore of disposable type.
• the inhalable substance in aqueous solution comprises a natural glycol in substitution of the propylene glycol of synthetic origin, and possibly glycerol, nicotine and other flavourings.
• the natural glycol being used is 1 ,3-propandiole.
• the 1 ,3-propandiole is obtained starting from corn sugars.
• the 1 ,3-propandiole is obtained through the fermentation of the corn sugars.
• the quantity of 1 ,3-propandiole in the inhalable substance is comprised between 32% and 98% in weight.
• the used 1 ,3-propandiole is of the type sold with name "Zemea" (DuPont Tate & Lyle Bioproducts brand).
• the tank 10 is suitable to be placed in removable manner on the tubular body 2, close to the atomizer. More in particular, the tank 10 for the inhalable solution is shaped by a disposable mouthpiece of plastic material for the aspiration of the vaporized inhalable substance, suitable to be axially associated with one end of the tubular body 2, at the said open entrance.
• a disposable mouthpiece shapes a casing containing in its inside a chamber 12 suitable to shape the tank 10 for the inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• the chamber 12 is prefilled with a predetermined quantity of said inhalable substance, for allowing a predetermined number of inhalations or drags.
• the mouthpiece is made of plastic hypoallergenic material.
• the casing of the tank 10 has a central portion 1 1 of substantially cylindrical shape which is suitable to be inserted at least partially onto the tubular body 2 through the open inlet of the proximal portion 2b.
• a vane or chamber 12 is shaped, which is the container for the liquid.
• an external portion 13 is connected, for example having substantially flattened shape, suitable to be the mouthpiece of the electronic cigarette and provided in known way with a suitable aspiration hole.
• the tank 10 is suitably closed in hermetic manner through means which can be opened for use.
• means which can be opened for use comprise a tear-off removable peel 14, suitable to close a front opening connected with the chamber 12 of the tank.
• peel 14 is made of a material of the type of aluminium.
• a lid 15, suitable to ensure the hermetic closure of the same tank, is as well suitably associated with the tank at said front opening, thus preventing incidental breaking or tearing-off of the peel 14 and the consequent leakage of the liquid.
• the tank for the liquid has a shape different with respect to the one described above.
• the peel 14 for the hermetic closure is applied on the closure lid 15 of the tank, to make a seal on the peripheral rim of the front opening of the tank when the lid 15 is applied on the same tank.
• the peel 14 of hermetic closure can be opened through piercing when inserting in a suitable pin of the atomizer.
• the predetermined quantity or dosage of liquid contained in the tank 10 is preferably not less than 0,5 ml and for example comprised in a range between 0,5 and 2,0 ml. It is anyway evident that such predetermined quantity can be different, according to different exigencies.
• the electronic cigarette 1 is provided with activation means for the atomizer for heating it by means of the electric battery.
• activation means comprises for example a button 5 arranged in an intermediate position on the tubular body 2 of the electronic cigarette. By pressing the button 5, the user activates the heating of the atomizer which determines the vaporization of the liquid solution contained in the chamber 12 of the tank.
• the functioning of the electronic cigarette is easy to understand from the preceding description.
• the user proceeds with inserting on the tubular body 2 of the electric cigarette the mouthpiece shaping the disposable tank of the liquid, prefilled with the provided liquid quantity.
• the tank is sold sealed inside a bag 16, for example of transparent material, which ensures its integrity and preserves the flavourings contained in the inhalable liquid (see figure 2).
• the user then proceeds with opening the bag 16, with extracting the disposable tank from such bag 16 and, after removing the lid 15, with removing, from the front opening of the case, the peel 14 which ensures the hermetic closure thereof (see figures 5, 6 and 7).
• the opened tank 10 is inserted, as it was mentioned before, inside the proximal portion 2b of the tubular body 2 of the electronic cigarette.
• the so prepared electronic cigarette is ready for allowing a predetermined number of inhalations. After consuming the whole liquid contained in the tank 10, this is extracted by the tubular body 2 of the cigarette and trashed. At its place, the user will proceed with inserting, in the same way, a new tank prefilled with the above mentioned dosage of liquid.
• FIG 8 a second embodiment of the electronic cigarette is shown, in which the tubular body 2 is made in a single piece having a substantially oval cross-section.
• the disposable tank which can be used for such electronic cigarette, for more clarity indicated again with 10, has a cross-section suitably oval, in order to be able to be inserted for one portion in an inlet 2c of the tubular body 2 of the cigarette.
• the tank 10 has also in this case a portion 1 1 in which the chamber 12, which represents the container for the liquid, is shaped; the external portion 13 which acts as mouthpiece is connected to such portion 1 1 of the tank.
• the chamber 12 is connected with the outside through a front opening 17 which is closed, before the use, through the tear-off disposable peel 14.
• the tank 10 is suitably closed frontally by the lid 15 suitable to ensure the hermetic closure and is sold sealed inside a bag 16.
• the user opens the bag 16, extracts the tank 10 and removes from the front opening 17 the peel 14 which ensures the hermetic closure thereof, after the removal of the lid 15 (see figures 9 and 10).
• the tank 10 opened is inserted in the inlet 2c of the tubular body 2 of the electronic cigarette.
• FIG 12 a further embodiment of the electronic cigarette is shown, in which the tubular body 2 is associated with a lid 6 for closing the inlet 2c; the lid 6 is inserted in the tubular body 2 to cover the tank 10 when the electronic cigarette is not used.
• the tank 10 suitably has a reduced axial extension.
• the tank 10 is made up only of the casing which shapes the chamber 12 containing the liquid.
• the user proceeds with opening the bag 16 in which the tank 10 is sealed, with extracting such tank 10 and removing from the front opening of it the peel 14 which ensures the hermetic closure thereof, after removing the relative lid 15
• the opened tank 10 is inserted in the inlet 2c of the tubular body
• FIG 15 a different embodiment of the tank 10 is shown in which the lid 15 for front closure of the chamber 12 is fixed to the portion 1 1 in which the above mentioned chamber 12 is shaped.
• the lid 15 is made for example of a material of the type of silicon.
• the lid 15 is suitable to be pierced by insertion means associated with the atomizer.
• the lid 15 is suitable to be pierced by a pin of the atomizer which is axially inserted in the same lid.
• the lid 15 suitably has a central lightening 18 suitable to ease the piercing by the pin of the atomizer.
• FIG. 16 - 20 a further embodiment of the tank is shown, obtained through the assembly of a plurality of components.
• Such tank 10 comprises in substance a shell 23 of tubular shape, for example having oval cross-section slightly tapered, making up the external casing of the tank; in particular such external shell 23 is progressively more tapered starting from the distal part, for insertion in the tubular body of the device, towards the proximal part which shapes the mouthpiece.
• a container 24 is inserted having a shape complementary to the internal shape of the same shell 23 and an axial extension suitably smaller.
• the internal container 24 is closed at the bottom and shapes the chamber 12 for containing the inhalable substance in aqueous solution.
• the internal container 24 is brought against a diaphragm 25 transversally shaped inside the external shell 23, in a position close to the above mentioned proximal part.
• the container 24 externally shapes, at the ends of the major axis of the oval cross- section, a couple of longitudinal grooves 26 extended along the whole length of the internal container.
• the grooves 26 ends in respective slots 27 made in the diaphragm 25.
• the diaphragm 25 shapes, on the side opposite to the side for the insertion of the internal container 24, a vane 28 in which a seal element 33 is inserted, suitable to prevent losses of the atomized substance, as it is better described in the following.
• the seal element 33 is made up in substance of a plate having a profile complementary to the internal shape of the shell 23 and provided with a perimetral rim which is brought in contact with the diaphragm 25.
• the seal element 33 is fixed against the diaphragm 25, in assembly position, by a closure element 34 which is inserted in the opening of the external shell 23 of the tank 10 and is peripherally supported on the peripheral border of the same shell 23.
• the seal element 33 and the closure element 34 centrally have a hole 35, 36 for the aspiration of the vaporized inhalable substance.
• a correspondent closure element 37 is inserted, substantially made of a plate shaping on one side a crown 38 having a profile complementary with the internal shape of the same container and on the other side an axial sleeve 39 turned outwards; the sleeve 39 is closed by a lid 15, for example of a material of the type of silicon.
• the plate 37 as an external profile which copies the internal surface of the shell 23.
• the lid 15 which frontally closes the chamber 12 for containment of the inhalable substance in aqueous solution is pierced by the suitable insertion means associated with the atomizer.
• the lid 15 centrally has a lightened zone.
• the activation of the atomizer produces the vaporization of the liquid substance contained inside the chamber 12.
• the vaporized inhalable substance is inhaled by the user through the lateral channels shaped, inside the casing, by the longitudinal grooves 26 of the internal container 24.
• the seal element 33 arranged inside the vane 28 of the external shell 23, substantially at the portion of the tank shaping the mouthpiece, is suitable to prevent losses of the atomized substance, possibly reverted to the condensation state. Such condensed substance is in fact not able to outflow through the aspiration hole 35 of the seal element 33 but it remains bounded inside it.
• FIG 21 an embodiment of the casing is shown conceptually similar to the one previously described, in which the external shell and the internal container, for more clarity indicated again with 23 and 24, are made up of a single piece.
• the casing has at one end, close to the diaphragm 25 which shapes the bottom of the container 24, the housing vane 28 for housing the suitable seal element fastened by the closure element, both not represented; at the opposite end the relative the closure element is inserted, carrying the lid of the atomizer which can be pierced.
• the electronic cigarette according to the present invention attains the scope of not requiring a frequent refill of the tank of the liquid.
• the tank for the liquid is not refillable but is provided prefilled with a dosage of liquid and must be trashed at the end of its use, that is when the smoker has inhaled the whole liquid of the tank.
• the invention overcomes the technical prejudice according to which the current electronic cigarettes use a refillable tank which must periodically be refilled with a liquid separately provided. This makes easier the use of the electronic cigarette, since it prevents the user to bring with himself the tank for the inhalable liquid and to be forced to perform the refilling operation.
• Another advantage of the electronic cigarette according to the present invention is the fact that it has reduced size and weight, since the tank is inserted only in use and can have itself reduced weight and size, since it must not be used for a long period.
• a further advantage of the electronic cigarette according to the present invention is that of ensuring its use in the best hygienic conditions.
• the single tank 10 prefilled with the predetermined dosage of liquid, inside a sealed bag 16, for example of transparent material.
• a sealed bag 16 for example of transparent material.
• the user will open the bag only at the moment of its use, ensuring the maximal hygiene, as well as the perfect preservation of the flavouring of the inhalable substance.
• the use of a new container contributes in considerable manner to the perfect hygiene of the electronic cigarette.
• the tank 10 sealed inside the bag 16 can be sold in single or multiple packages 20, as it is possible to see in figures 3a, 3b, 3c and 4a, 4b, 4c.
• such packages 20 can realize a pocket 21 for housing one or more tanks placed side by side.
• a foldable tab 22 suitably closes the packaging, preventing the dispersion of the tanks.
• the number of tanks contained in one single packaging 20 can be different from the one illustrated as an example.
• the tanks are sold in a box package 30 of rigid or semi-rigid material, for example cardboard, as it is possible to see in figures 9, 1 1 and 13.
• a box package 30 is suitably provided with a closure element 31 articulated at its top part.
• the size of the packaging 30 will be different according to the number of tanks 10 contained inside it.
• the embodiment of the invention may vary depending on the requirements.

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