Valve for Pod Containing E-Liquid

Abstract

The present invention relates to a capsule for use with an electronic smoking device The capsule includes: a shell having an outer housing and a receiving portion, wherein the receiving portion is configured to receive a connecting portion of a vaporization engine structure of the electronic smoking device, and a vaporizable material encapsulated within the shell The receiving portion is made at least partially of an elastic material and comprises at least one opening that can be brought into an open state, in which the vaporizable material encapsulated in the shell is allowed to flow through the opening, and a closed state, in which the vaporizable material is not allowed to flow through the opening, and the at least one opening is brought into the open state by elastic elongation of the receiving portion, which can occur in a substantially axial direction of the capsule.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.