Patent Application
20200245680
Vaporizers, or portable vaporizers, are generally battery powered devices that provide an alternative to burning, allowing for vaporizing of inhalation ingredients often from plant material such as tobacco, various herbs, herbal blends, and cannabis. Vaporizers provide for a healthier experience than burning with exciting and diverse user experiences.
I like to think that vaporization experiences can achieve a sense of well-being. What is needed is that perfectly tuned vaporizer experience. Optimal vaporizing experiences are often hindered by undesirable flow of vapor and/or clogging due to unintended blockage from leaking liquids or substances contained within the vaporizer.
To address problems in the art with respect to providing an optimal vaporizing experience provided herein, in various embodiments, is a vaporizer that produces a desirable flow of vapor due to a controlled, consistent airflow that is unlikely to clog due to unintended blockage from leaking liquids to be vaporized. The vaporizer described herein, in various embodiments, comprises a consumer safety benefit due to mechanical features that prevent access to the liquids or substances contained within. In addition, in various embodiments, provided herein is a vaporizer that has a label describing vaporizable contents provides for additional user optimal experience. The label, in some embodiments, is affixed to the interior chassis of the vaporizer. In various embodiments, the label is inset into a well such that its exterior surface is flush with the bottom edge of the exterior housing.
In various embodiments provided herein is a vaporizer, or portable vaporizer, comprising an airflow routing and governing system which comprises an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube that locks and aligns the vaporizer exterior housing to the interior chassis of the vaporizer. The airflow routing and governing system, in various embodiments, serves as the primary aperture through which air which will later be used to create vapor to be inhaled enters the device in a controlled fashion. In various embodiments, further airflow routing and governing is facilitated by an airflow sensor routing gasket comprising an aperture that governs the airflow to an integrated airflow sensor and IC assembly and is coupled to a corresponding aperture in the airflow routing/governing gasket such that when coupled the apertures align to create a single tube that connects airflow between the two areas.
In various embodiment, provided herein is a vaporizer, portable vaporizer, comprising an airflow routing and governing system, a locking mouthpiece, and a label describing vaporizable contents. In various embodiments, provided herein is a portable vaporizer comprising an airflow routing and governing system, a locking mouthpiece which further comprises a mouthpiece gasket that seals against the interior walls of a liquid tank to enable vapor flow to the user to proceed with no leaks, and a label describing the vaporizable contents.
In various embodiments, the vaporizer provided herein comprises a heating element connected to a power source that provides wattage in a range configured to provide for optimal vaporizer experiences.
In some embodiments described herein, a vaporizer is described that provides a desirable flow of vapor due to a controlled consistent airflow, a locking mouthpiece that prevents unauthorized user access, structure to prevent resist clogging and prevent leakage, and a label element that describes the vaporizer contents.
In various embodiments, provided herein is a vaporizer wherein the wattage ranged is tuned to provide an optimal vaporizer experience.
Optimal vaporizing experience can be achieved, in some embodiments described herein, by using a controlled consistent airflow using an airflow routing and governing system comprising an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube that locks and aligns the exterior housing to the interior chassis of a vaporizer.
The vaporizer described herein, in various embodiments, provides an improvement of prior devices through the integration of the functions of the primary aperture for controlling fresh air intake with the locking and unlocking features of the locating pin.
In some embodiments, provided herein is a vaporizer that achieves an optimal vaporizing experience producing a desirable flow of vapor due to a controlled consistent airflow. The vaporizer described in various embodiments herein addresses the problem of providing an optimal vaporizing experience by producing a desirable flow of vapor due to a controlled, consistent airflow, wattage calibrated to produce desired temperature, and combinations thereof. The vaporizer described herein, in various embodiments, provides is an improvement of prior devices in that it does not clog due to unintended blockage from leaking liquids to be vaporized. In some embodiments described herein, a consumer safety benefit is achieved by mechanical features that prevent access to liquids or substances contained within.
In various embodiments described herein, the tangs on the locking mouthpiece form a mechanical engagement with the corresponding slots in an interior chassis such that the mouthpiece cannot be removed without a tool, such as pliers, and physical effort beyond the capabilities of a child to prevent access to the contents of a liquid tank to prevent ingestions of the contents of the liquid tank by a child.
In some embodiments described herein, provided is single use vaporizer capable of being disassembled. While in various embodiments, the vaporizer described herein is disposable, in some embodiments, the vaporizer is recyclable. In some embodiments described herein, provided is a single use vaporizer cable of being disassembled and recycled.
In various embodiments described herein, the vaporizer, the device, is designed for recycling. In some embodiments, the vaporizer described herein is disposable. In some embodiment described herein, the vaporizer is recyclable, and was designed to be recyclable by having easily separable constituent parts, such as the battery, plastics, metals, and electronics, that wherein the parts have accepted recycling or e-waste treatment destination. The recyclable vaporizer, in various embodiment is designed so that individual users can recycle the vaporizer following simple procedures outlined herein. The integrated locating pin and fresh air tube can function in the recycling procedures as an unlocking pin between external housing and the interior chassis. The vaporizer can be separated into its constituent parts to be recycled and the process of disassembly can be actuated by using the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube to actuate disassembly by pressing the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube down from the surface of the exterior housing and when the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube is below the level of the inside surface of the exterior housing the exterior housing becomes decoupled from the interior chassis. The interior chassis once decoupled from the exterior housing can be removed from the exterior housing by pushing and pulling it from the exterior housing. Thus, the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube has an additional function in the disassembly process. In various embodiments, the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube can be pressed down to decouple the exterior housing from the interior chassis using a standard ballpoint pen or thumbtack, the exterior shapes of which are calibrated with the internal diameter of the integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube. On pressing on the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube, mechanical engagement is created, allowing the pen or thumbtack to gain purchase on the integrated locating pin and fresh air tube to press it downwards and out of the plane of the exterior housing such that the interior chassis, now decoupled from the exterior housing, can easily slide out of the exterior housing.
In some embodiments, the vaporizer comprises a battery pull tab which enables easy removal of the battery from the battery well. The pull tab is configured, in some embodiments, to be disposed between the battery and interior chassis. In various embodiments, the pull tab and interior chassis are compressed together and an adhesive layer can cover an exposed area of the battery such that the battery adheres to the interior chassis, and wherein the pull tab can, in various embodiments, be reinforced in the graspable portion of the pull tab that, in various embodiments, protrudes from the battery and interior chassis.
In various embodiments, the vaporizer comprises an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube and battery pull tab that facilitate disassembling the vaporizer. In various embodiments, the vaporizer which comprises an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube and battery pull tab that facilitate disassembling the vaporizer is comprised of recyclable parts and is a recyclable vaporizer.
As used herein, portable vaporizer and vaporizer are used interchangeably. The terms vaporizer and portable vaporizer are both used in the art and commercially and will be considered synonymous terms in this specification. Recyclable vaporizer, and portable recyclable vaporizer are also used interchangeably herein.
In various embodiments provided herein is a vaporizer, or portable vaporizer that can be used such that a user would insert the end of the exterior housing that contains the locking mouthpiece into their mouth, creating a seal with their lips around the exterior housing and mouthpiece and inhale comfortably, which draws fresh air in through an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube, which automatically activates an airflow sensor, which connects power stored in a battery to a resistive element embedded in a porous ceramic cylinder, which heats and vaporizes the liquid contents stored in a tank, liquid tank, as the user inhales such that an ideal flow of vapor can be inhaled into the users lungs resulting in a pleasurable experience. In some embodiments the liquid contents stored in the tank can be cannabis “oil” extractions.
As used herein, “integrated locating pin/fresh air intake tube” and “integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube” are used interchangeably. It is a unique and valuable feature of the vaporizer described herein, in some embodiments, that the integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube has three functions, it functions, in some embodiments as an integrated locating, locking/unlocking pin, and fresh air intake tube and might be referred to, in some embodiments herein, as an “integrated locating locking/unlocking pin and fresh air intake tube”. The integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube can, in some embodiments, function to lock the interior chassis and exterior housing in place, provide for fresh air intake, and disengage, or decouple, the interior chassis and exterior housing.
To address the problem of providing an optimal vaporizing experience producing a desirable flow of vapor due to a controlled, consistent airflow that is unlikely to clog due to unintended blockage from leaking liquids to be vaporized, and a consumer safety benefit due to mechanical features that prevent access to the liquids or substances contained within, the inventor provides, in some embodiments, a portable vaporizer comprising an airflow routing and governing system, a locking mouthpiece, which in some embodiments comprises a locking mechanism to prevent accidental access and a mouthpiece gasket that seals against the interior walls of a liquid to enable vapor flow without leakage.
In various embodiments, provided herein is a vaporizer comprising an airflow routing and governing system, which comprises an integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube 111 that locks and aligns the exterior housing 10 to the interior chassis 20 and can also, in some embodiments, actuate disassembly on pressing. In some embodiments, disassembly can be actuated by pushing 111 with a ballpoint pen, or similarly sized object. The airflow routing and governing system, in various embodiment, is also the primary aperture through which air which will later be used to create vapor to be inhaled enters the device in a controlled fashion. Further airflow routing and governing can be by the airflow sensor routing gasket 50 which has an aperture that governs the airflow to the integrated airflow sensor and IC assembly 60 and is coupled to a corresponding aperture in the airflow routing/governing gasket 70 such that when coupled the apertures align to create a single tube that connects airflow between the two areas.
In various embodiments described herein, provided is a vaporizer comprising an airflow routing/governing gasket 70 that has four apertures, two of the apertures are used as passageways for electrical leads 72 but do not contribute substantially to airflow into the vaporizing chamber subassembly. A secondary routing aperture 65 connects to the corresponding aperture in the airflow routing gasket for airflow sensor 50 as described herein in the previous paragraph. The fresh airflow into the ceramic heating assembly 80 can be controlled by the primary governing aperture 64, the diameter of which in combination with the suction strength supplied by the user determines the flow rate and “feel” of inhaling through the overall device. In various embodiments, all four of the apertures in the airflow routing/governing gasket 70 are on raised “stalks” inset into a well molded into the gasket 73, such that the openings of those apertures resist clogging from un-vaporized liquids that might drip down from the vaporizing chamber, since it would tend to pool below in the well and not cover the aperture openings.
In some embodiments of the vaporizer described herein, the interior chassis 20 is a molded shuttle that organizes the internal components into discrete component positioning areas. The three primary component positioning areas of the interior chassis 20 are for the battery, the airflow sensor/IC assembly 60, and the liquid tank 90. In various embodiments, the flexibility of the interior chassis arms 22 allows them to capture the liquid tank 90.
In various embodiments of the vaporized described herein, the vaporizer comprises a locking mouthpiece 30 that has two locking mouthpiece tangs 31 that lock into corresponding slots 21 molded into the interior chassis arms 22 of the interior chassis 20. As the mouthpiece is inserted into the device, the tangs flex toward the center axis of the device and then snap into the slots in a permanently locked fashion. In various embodiments of the vaporizer described herein, this locking mechanism serves to prevent accidental access to the liquid to be vaporized such that it can only be removed with a tool and is intended to be child-resistant. In various embodiments, the mouthpiece gasket 35 seals against the interior walls of the liquid tank 90 and the vapor routing tube 100 to provide for vapor flow to the user without leaks.
In some embodiments of the vaporizer, a label describing vaporizable contents 40 is affixed with adhesive to the interior chassis 20 so it is visible on the bottom surface of the device. In some embodiments, the label can be inset into a well such that the exterior housing wall edges 11 of the exterior housing 10 are seen as a frame around the label describing vaporizable contents 40. The advantages of such a label arrangement wherein the label is inset into a well such that the exterior housing wall edges 11 of the exterior housing 10 are seen as a frame around the label describing vaporizable contents 40 is that it is at the same time easily assembled onto the device at the time of filling with a specific liquid to be vaporized, the name of which is presented on the label and not easily removable by the user without a tool such as an exacto knife.
In some embodiments of the vaporizer described herein, wattage can be chosen to provided vapor flow with optimal user experiences. In various embodiments wattage tuning can be used to provide for the lowest possible wattage to achieve an optimal user experience and avoid a vapor that is too hot. In various embodiments, the vaporizer described herein can achieve a balance of airflow and heat. In various embodiments, the vaporizer provided herein can produce a puff of vapor having a certain quality of balance between easy airflow and heat to produce atomization and absorption such that an optimal experience is achieved.
In some embodiments provided herein is a vaporizer that is recyclable, that is referred to in some embodiments herein as a recyclable vaporizer. In some embodiments, provided is a single use recyclable vaporizer. The recyclable vaporizer described herein is, in various embodiments, capable of being disassembled from its parts using simple household implements. Scissors and a ballpoint pen, or tack, are all that is necessary to disassemble the recyclable vaporizer as described in various embodiments herein. Moreover, the recyclable vaporizer is made from parts that can then be recycled. Because all of the parts can be disassembled without special tools and the parts are made of recyclable materials, the recyclable vaporizer can be simply and conveniently recycled.
A method of disassembling the vaporizer described herein, in some embodiments, is described herein. It is understood by person of skill in the art that there may be other ways to prepare the vaporizer described herein in various embodiments for recycling, but the method described herein provides for a simple stepwise method wherein the constituent parts can be efficiently disengaged and recycled.
The dimensions of the integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube 111, in various embodiments, are such that it would be suitable for using a standard ballpoint pen to press on the integrated locating pin/fresh air intake tube 111, the integrated locating pin/fresh air intake tube 111 has in some embodiments an internal diameter (ID) of between about 1.25 and about 1.35 mm and an outer diameter (OD) of between about 1.9 and about 2.0 mm. In some embodiments, the integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube 111 has an internal diameter (ID) of between 1.25 and 1.35 mm and an outer diameter (OD) of between 1.9 and 2.0 mm.
The next step of the disassembly of the recyclable vaporizer, shown in
Materials that can be used in some embodiments of the recyclable vaporizer include recyclable parts made from polycarbonate, silicone, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), stainless steel, aluminum, and a Li-Ion battery. The integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube 111 and the liquid tank 90 can be made, in some embodiments, from stainless steel. The exterior housing 10, can be made, in some embodiments, from aluminum. The inner chassis 20, LED diffuser 61, and label for describing vaporizable contents 40, can be made, in some embodiments, from polycarbonate. The mouthpiece gasket 35, airflow routing/governing gasket 70, and airflow routing gasket for airflow sensor 50 can be made, in some embodiments, from silicone. The battery 120, in some embodiments, can be a Li-Ion Battery, and the locking mouthpiece 30, in some embodiments, can be made from Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS).
Biodegradable materials can be used, in some embodiments, for some of the components of the recyclable vaporizer. For example, the interior chassis 20, LED diffuser 61, and locking mouthpiece 30 could, in some embodiments be made with such materials as PE (bioplastic polyethylene), PEF (polyethylene furanoate), PLA (polylactic acid), and/or combinations thereof. The integrated locating pin and fresh air intake tube 111 could be made from an appropriate biodegradable, in some embodiments.
Further, 111, which is currently stainless steel, could be changed to a polymer that is the same as used in part 20, since then the two items could be recycled as a single unit without requiring disassembly, as they do now since the plastic part and metal part need to be separated with a mechanical action step that would be part of the recycling process.
The vaporizer described herein, in various embodiments, can be assembled from that can be purchased or manufactured by methods known in the art.
Using the parts shown in
111 slides into the hole in 10 and then into a hole in 20, located directly beneath, which affixes 10 to 20. 30 is then inserted into 35. 30 and 35 together are inserted into 20 and 90 in order to seal the tube and mechanically lock the mouthpiece to the interior chassis. 40 is then affixed to 20 such that it is flush with the bottom edge of 10 and visible to an observer.
A number of embodiments have been described and are to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive. It will be understood that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and that the claims should not be limited to the versions and embodiments described herein.
This application is an international patent application filed in accordance with the patent cooperation treaty. This international application claims priority benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/650,272, filed Mar. 29, 2018, and entitled “Portable Vaporizer.” The disclosure of the aforementioned Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/650,272 is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/US2019/025041 | 3/29/2018 | WO | 00 |
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 62650272 | Mar 2018 | US |
