# US 10,869,500 B2 · Electronic cigarette and atomizer device thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,869,500 B2 - Document ID: US10869500B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/924,085 - Filed: 2020-07-08 - Published: 2020-10-29 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2019-06-03 - Assignees: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited - Applicants: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited - Inventors: Zhiping Chen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10869500B2 ## CPC - H05B 1/0227: {Applications} - A24F 40/44: Wicks - A24F 40/46: Shape or structure of electric heating means - A24F 40/70: Manufacture - F22B 1/284: {with water in reservoirs} - H05B 3/44: heating conductor arranged within rods or tubes of insulating material - A24F 40/10: Devices using liquid inhalable precursors - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL - A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) - F22B: METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS ## Abstract An electronic cigarette, an atomizer device thereof and a method for assembling the atomizer device are provided. The atomizer device comprises an atomizer assembly (14) having an atomizer base (141), a heating member (142), and a liquid transport member (143). The atomizer base (141) includes a tubular body (1412) having an inserting end (1413); and a side wall of the tubular body (1412) defines at least one slot (1414) extending along a longitudinal direction and communicating with an end surface of the inserting end (1413). The heating member (142) is tubular and arranged in the tubular body (1412), and an air flowing channel is defined inside the heating member (142). The liquid transport member (143) comprises a tubular liquid transport body (1431) and at least one couple of connecting portions (1432) connected together in a circumferential direction of the liquid transport body (1431). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for assembling an atomizer assembly for an electronic atomizer device, comprising: step S1, providing a heating member and at least one sheet of liquid transport material, wherein each sheet of the liquid transport material comprises a first portion used to surround the heating member and two second portions extending from two opposite sides of the first portion respectively; step S2, surrounding the at least one first portion of the at least one sheet of liquid transport material around an outer periphery of the heating member, and contacting each two adjacent second portions of the at least one sheet of liquid transport material such that the two contacting second portions extend outwards; step S3, providing an atomizer base, wherein the atomizer base comprises a tubular body having an inserting end, and a side wall of the tubular body defines at least one slot extending along a longitudinal direction and communicating with an end surface of the inserting end; step S4, inserting the heating member and the at least one first portion surrounding the heating member into the tubular body via the inserting end, and inserting each two contacting second portions into each corresponding slot. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: step S5, cutting a portion of the second portion extending out of the corresponding slot. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the liquid transport material comprises liquid transport sponge. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sheet of liquid transport material comprises one sheet of the liquid transport material; said step S2 comprises: surrounding the first portion of the one sheet of liquid transport material around an outer periphery of the heating member, and contacting the two second portions of the one sheet of liquid transport material to each other such that the two contacting second portions extend outwards. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the method further comprises: step S5, cutting a portion of each second portion extending out of the slot. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the liquid transport material comprises liquid transport sponge. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sheet of liquid transport material comprises two sheets of the liquid transport material; said step S2 comprises: surrounding the first portions of the two sheets of liquid transport material around an outer periphery of the heating member, and contacting the two second portions of one sheet of the liquid transport material to the two second portions of another sheet of the liquid transport material respectively such that the two contacting second portions extend outwards. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises: step S5, cutting a portion of each second portion extending out of the corresponding slot. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the tubular body defines two of the slots, and the two slots are symmetrically arranged along a circumferential direction of the tubular body. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the liquid transport material comprises liquid transport sponge. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the heating member is tubular, and an air flowing channel is defined inside the heating member. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein a guiding portion is arranged between the slot and the inserting end for guiding the two contacting second portions to be inserted into the slot. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12, wherein the guiding portion comprises a chamfered fillet or a chamfered bevel. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein a guiding surface is defined in an inner ring of the inserting end for guiding an insertion of the at least one first portion surrounding the heating member. ### Claim 15 A method for assembling an atomizer assembly for an electronic atomizer device, comprising: providing a heating member and one sheet of liquid transport material, wherein the one sheet of liquid transport material comprises a first portion used to surround the heating member and two second portions extending from two opposite sides of the first portion respectively; surrounding the first portion of the one sheet of liquid transport material around an outer periphery of the heating member, and contacting the two second portions to each other such that the two contacting second portions extend outwards; providing an atomizer base, wherein the atomizer base comprises a tubular body having an inserting end, and a side wall of the tubular body defines a slot extending along a longitudinal direction and communicating with an end surface of the inserting end; inserting the heating member and the first portion surrounding the heating member into the tubular body via the inserting end, and inserting the two contacting second portions into the slot. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises: cutting a portion of each second portion extending out of the slot. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein the liquid transport material comprises liquid transport sponge. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein a guiding surface is defined in an inner ring of the inserting end for guiding an insertion of the first portion surrounding the heating member. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein a guiding portion is arranged between the slot and the inserting end for guiding the two contacting second portions to be inserted into the slot. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein the heating member is tubular, and an air flowing channel is defined inside the heating member.