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US 10,244,792 B2Granted
Personal vaporizer
OwnerJ. Christian Radoinventor
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Abstract
A personal vaporizer is configured to be usable both for non-liquid vaporizing media and for liquid vaporizing media. In some embodiments an electrically conductive check valve blocks vaporizing media from leaking out of air intake apertures during periods of nonuse, and delivers electric power to a heating element during use. In some embodiments, no wick structures extend into a fluid chamber, but a wick extends from a wick holder downstream of the fluid chamber to a vaporizing chamber.
Claims20
A personal vaporizer, comprising:
- an atomizer module having a proximal end and a distal end, and comprising a bowl and a coil arranged in or adjacent the bowl, the bowl configured to accept a wax having an essential oil, the bowl having an open proximal end, the open proximal end disposed at the proximal end of the atomizer module;
- a battery assembly, the atomizer module connectable to the battery assembly so that actuation of the battery assembly delivers electrical energy to the coil, causing the coil to heat and vaporize a wax that may be in the bowl;
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- a tank module selectively attachable to the proximal end of the atomizer module so that the atomizer module is disposed between the tank module and the battery assembly, the tank module comprising a fluid tank configured to contain a vaporizing liquid therewithin, a distal wall of the fluid tank comprising a fluid delivery hole, an elongated wick extending through and supported by the fluid delivery hole so that a proximal end of the wick is within the fluid tank and a distal end of the wick extends distally from the fluid tank, the wick configured to communicate vaporizing liquid from the fluid tank to the distal end of the wick;
- wherein when the tank module is attached to the atomizer module the distal end of the wick extends into the bowl;
- wherein when the tank module is removed from the atomizer module, the distal end of the wick is removed from the bowl, and the open proximal end of the bowl is accessible so as to place a wax into the bowl;
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- wherein a wax placed in the atomizer module bowl and a vaporizing liquid supplied from the fluid tank to the atomizer module bowl can be simultaneously vaporized within the bowl by the coil so as to form a combined vapor by simultaneously vaporizing both the wax and the vaporizing liquid.
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A personal vaporizer, comprising:
- an atomizer module comprising a bowl and a heat element arranged in the bowl, a vaporizing chamber defined in the bowl adjacent the heat element;
- a tank module selectively attachable to the atomizer module, the tank module comprising a fluid tank configured to contain a vaporizing liquid therewithin, the fluid tank comprising a bottom wall having at least one fluid delivery hole extending therethrough;
- a wick holder disposed distal of the fluid tank bottom wall and supporting a wick having a wick proximal end and a wick distal end, a fluid receiver space being defined between the fluid tank bottom wall and the wick proximal end and being in communication with the at least one fluid delivery hole, the wick configured to communicate vaporizing fluid from the fluid receiver space to the wick distal end in the vaporizing chamber;
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- a vapor tube extending through the fluid tank and defining a vapor passage that is separated from the fluid in the fluid tank;
- wherein vapor from the vaporizing chamber is directed through the vapor passage.
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A personal vaporizer, comprising:
- an atomizer module comprising a bowl and a heat element arranged in the bowl, a vaporizing chamber defined in the bowl adjacent the heat element;
- a tank module selectively attachable to the atomizer module, the tank module comprising a fluid tank configured to contain a vaporizing liquid therewithin, the fluid tank comprising a bottom wall having at least one fluid delivery hole extending therethrough;
- a wick holder disposed distal of the fluid tank bottom wall and supporting a wick and defining a fluid receiver space, the fluid receiver space being between and in communication with the at least one fluid delivery hole and a wick proximal end, the wick configured to communicate vaporizing fluid from the fluid receiver space to wick distal end in the vaporizing chamber;
- a vapor tube extending through the fluid tank and defining a vapor passage that is separated from the fluid in the fluid tank;
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- a transfer member interposed between the wick holder and the fluid tank bottom wall, the wick holder connected to the transfer member so that the fluid receiver space is defined between the wick holder and the transfer member, the transfer member having a secondary fluid delivery hole aligned with the fluid delivery hole of the fluid tank and with the fluid receiver space so that fluid from the fluid tank flows through the fluid delivery hole to and through the secondary fluid delivery hole to the fluid receiver space;
- wherein vapor from the vaporizing chamber is directed through the vapor passage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.