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US 8,910,641 B2Granted
Electronic cigarette
AssigneeFontem Holdings 1 B.V.
InventorLik Hon
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Abstract
An electronic cigarette comprises nicotine without harmful tar. The cigarette includes a shell, a cell, nicotine solution, control circuit, and an electro-thermal vaporization nozzle installed in the air suction end of the shell. The advantages of the present invention are smoking without tar, reducing the risk of cancer, the user still gets a smoking experience, the cigarette is not lit, and there is no fire danger.
Claims20
An electronic cigarette, comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet;
- a battery and an atomizer in the housing, with the atomizer including a tube having a metal wire heater coil within the tube electrically linked to the battery;
- a liquid source in the housing and outside of the tube;
- with liquid in the liquid source capable of moving from the liquid source into the tube and contacting the wire heater coil to create vapor.
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An electronic cigarette, comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet;
- a battery and an atomizer in the housing including a vaporization tube, a wire heater coil within the vaporization tube electrically connectable to the battery, and with the vaporization tube having a first end connected to receive liquid from a liquid source outside of the vaporization tube, and a second open end to allow vapor, formed within the vaporization tube from liquid from the liquid source, to flow out of the vaporization tube of the atomizer, and out of the outlet of the housing;
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- with a longitudinal axis of the wire heater coil substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the vaporization tube.
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An electronic cigarette comprising:
- a housing, an air inlet leading into the housing, and an air outlet leading out of the housing;
- a battery, a control circuit, a sensor, and a vaporization nozzle in the housing, with the control circuit electrically connected to the battery and to the sensor;
- the vaporization nozzle including a coil heating element within a tube and with the coil heating element electrically connected to the control circuit;
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- a solution storage in the housing outside of the tube, wherein solution in the solution storage is capable of moving from the solution storage into the tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.