Personal vaporizer
AssigneeVaporous Technologies, Inc.
InventorJ. Christian Rado
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Abstract
A personal vaporizer includes a heating element having a generally upside-down cup shape. An air warming space is defined within the cup shape, and intake air is delivered into the air warming space. Vaporization media is delivered adjacent a top wall of the heating element. The heating element warms the vaporization media so that it flows downwardly along a side wall of the heating element. The side wall of the heating element is heated sufficient to atomize the vaporization media. Warmed intake air from the air warming space is drawn through the atomized media, forming a vapor that can be inhaled by a user.
Claims15
A personal vaporizer, comprising:
- an atomizer module having an atomizer bowl opening toward a top end and defining a bowl space;
- a heating element disposed within the atomizer bowl, the heating element having a top wall and a tubular side wall extending downwardly from the top wall, an air warming space defined within the heating element, the heating element configured to atomize a vaporization media when actuated;
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- a vaporization space defined between the heating element side wall and the atomizer bowl, a vaporization media disposed in the vaporization space on a first surface of the heating element side wall;
- wherein when the heating element is actuated and air is drawn through the vaporizer, the intake air is drawn into the air warming space and along a second surface of the heating element side wall before flowing into the vaporization space.
A method of vaporizing a vaporization media, comprising:
- applying a vaporization media onto a first surface of a heating element;
- actuating the heating element to warm the first surface so that the vaporization media on the first surface of the heating element is melted but not atomized, so that the melted vaporization media flows to a second surface of the heating element;
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- actuating the heating element to heat the second surface sufficiently so that the vaporization media on the second surface is atomized.
A method of vaporizing a vaporization media, comprising:
- actuating a heating element having a first surface and a second surface so that a vaporization media on the second surface is atomized;
- drawing an input air across the first surface so that heat from the first surface warms the air;
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- after the air has been warmed, drawing the input air across the second surface and through the atomized vaporization media;
- wherein no vaporization media is on the first surface
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.