US 2022/0023550 A1 · NON-COMBUSTIBLE VAPING DEVICE

Abstract

A vapor cartridge for a non-combustible vaping device may be configured to receive a flavor cartridge, generate a vapor, and direct the generated vapor through the flavor cartridge to provide a flavored vapor. The flavor cartridge may include an instance of electrically conductive material extending at least partially around the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may include an authentication assembly including a set of electrically conductive instruments may independently and directly contact the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge inserted into the vapor cartridge, such that the electrically conductive instruments are electrically connected to each other through the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may be coupled with a base that includes a control circuitry configured to control vapor generation by the vapor generator, based on the electrically conductive instruments being electrically connected to each other through the flavor cartridge.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A flavor cartridge configured to be used in a non-combustible vaping device, the flavor cartridge comprising:

a flavor material extending along a longitudinal axis of the flavor cartridge;
an outer shell at least partially enclosing the flavor material, the outer shell extending coaxially with the longitudinal axis of the flavor cartridge;
and
an instance of electrically conductive material extending at least partially around the flavor cartridge.

1 more element

A base for a non-combustible vaping device, the base comprising:

a power supply;
a memory storing a program of instructions;
and
a processor configured to execute the program of instructions to
determine that the base is coupled to a vapor cartridge such that the base is configured to supply electrical power from the power supply to the vapor cartridge, the vapor cartridge configured to heat a pre-vapor formulation to implement an instance of vapor generation based on the supply of electrical power,
detect a flavor cartridge inserted into the vapor cartridge, based on receiving an electrical signal at the base from an authentication assembly of the vapor cartridge, and
based on the detecting,
selectively enable the supply of electrical power from the power supply to the vapor cartridge to enable vapor generation by the vapor cartridge,
determine a remaining count associated with the inserted flavor cartridge, the remaining count being a particular quantity of instances of vapor generation and/or a particular period of elapsed time,
successively decrement the remaining count in response to each successive, respective instance of vapor generation by the vapor cartridge, and
in response to a determination that the remaining count is less than a particular threshold value, selectively disable the supply of electrical power from the power supply to the vapor cartridge to disable vapor generation by the vapor cartridge.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/494,102Filed 5 Oct 2021

Priority

23 Jun 2017

Published

27 Jan 2022

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

A61M 11/042
Using heaters: electrical
A24F 40/30
Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially…:…
A24F 40/42
Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts: cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors
A24F 40/53
Control or monitoring: monitoring, e.g. fault detection

Non-combustible vaping device

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Non-combustible vaping device

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Abstract

Claims20