E-cigarette personal vaporizer
AssigneePhilip Morris Products S.A.
InventorsKaveh Memari, Adrian Bennett, Ian Murison, Stephen Marsh
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Abstract
A user-replaceable e-liquid reservoir for dispensing e-liquid, the reservoir being inserted into, or otherwise attached to, a portable, personal e-cigarette device and engaging with an electrical or electronic pump fluid transfer system in the device, the device including: an electrical or electronic pump, being configured to transfer e-liquid from the e-liquid reservoir to an atomizing unit in the device, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; and in which the reservoir is not user-refillable.
Claims28
A portable, personal, battery powered, nicotine delivery system comprising:
- (a) a portable charger including a main battery;
- (b) a user-replaceable, consumable item that includes nicotine;
- (c) a personal vaporizing device (PV) that is storable in and removable from the portable charger and includes a secondary battery that is re-charged from the main battery;
- in which the user-replaceable, consumable item is configured to be pressed on to the end of the PV by an end-user and to securely engage with the PV;
- in which the portable charger includes a recess positioned along one side of the portable charger and that is configured to receive the PV;
- and in which the recess is configured to be exposed along its length;
- and in which the portable charger includes a locking mechanism that is configured to engage with a first end of the PV, to lock that end of the PV into the recess;
- and in which the PV is shaped as tube in which a first end face of the tube has a circular cross-section of a first diameter, and an opposite end face has a circular cross-section with a diameter that is smaller than the first diameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.