US 11,528,939 B2 · Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices

Abstract

A non-nicotine pod assembly for a non-nicotine e-vaping device may include a pod body and a connector module. The pod body has an upstream end and a downstream end and is configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation. The upstream end of the pod body defines a cavity. The connector module is configured to be seated within the cavity of the pod body. The connector module may include an external face and a side face. The external face of the connector module includes at least one electrical contact and defines a pod inlet. The side face of the connector module defines at least one module inlet. The side face of the connector module faces a sidewall of the cavity in the pod body when the connector module is seated within the cavity.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A non-nicotine pod assembly for a non-nicotine e-vaping device, comprising:

a pod body configured to hold a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation, the pod body having an upstream end and a downstream end, the upstream end defining a cavity;
and
a connector module configured to be seated within the cavity of the pod body, the connector module including an external face and a side face, the external face including at least one electrical contact, the external face defining a pod inlet, the side face defining a first module inlet, the side face facing a sidewall of the cavity when the connector module is seated within the cavity.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/696,189Filed 26 Nov 2019

Published

US 2021/0153569 A127 May 2021

Granted

20 Dec 2022

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A24F 40/42
Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts: cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
A24F 40/40
Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially…:…
A61M 11/042
Using heaters: electrical
A24F 40/10
Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially…:…

Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices

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Non-nicotine pod assemblies and non-nicotine e-vaping devices

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