The present invention relates generally to the field of vaping devices for herbs, including vaping devices for tobacco and cannabis materials, and more particularly to methods and systems for vaping devices, which are adapted to receive ground material and perform efficient heating of the ground material.
Vaping devices are well-known for use in smoking materials, such as cannabis and tobacco.
However, conventional vaping devices typically do not provide convenient means for filling an interior of a vaping device with ground smoking material.
Further, conventional vaping devices for use with ground smoking material provide inefficient heating of the ground smoking material.
Conventional conduction vaping devices have a heating chamber, which is heated by direct radiation. Herb are placed in this heating chamber and vaporized. Usually the external layer of such heating chamber is covered with heat resistant material to prevent the heat from transferring to the external casing of a vaporizer. The internal chamber's heat is used to vaporize herbs deposited in the heating chamber. However, a recurring problem with such conduction vaporizers is that when a user inhales for too long, the chamber air is replaced with incoming cool air and eventually it is no longer hot and vaporization of the herbs stops. Even so, this method consumes less power and can make the vaporizer smaller.
In another approach, conventional convection vaping devices use a convection heating method, wherein incoming cool air passes through a long heated path, which is usually swiveling to increase the time of exposure to heat, such that when the heated air arrives at the chamber it is already hot. This ensures the heat is consistent and eliminates the problems of conduction vaporizers. However, such conventional convection vaping devices usually requires a long rod to be heated and thereby require higher power consumption. Further, such devices will typically be relatively large, to fit the long heated rod and large-size batteries, and will therefore also be relatively expensive.
As such, considering the foregoing, it may be appreciated that there continues to be a need for novel and improved devices and methods for vaping devices.
The foregoing needs are met, to a great extent, by the present invention, wherein in aspects of this invention, enhancements are provided to the existing model of vaping devices.
In an aspect, a vaping device can include:
a main body, which comprises:
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, certain embodiments of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof herein may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional embodiments of the invention that will be described below and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of embodiments in addition to those described and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. In addition, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein, as well as the abstract, are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Before describing the invention in detail, it should be observed that the present invention resides primarily in a novel and non-obvious combination of elements and process steps. So as not to obscure the disclosure with details that will readily be apparent to those skilled in the art, certain conventional elements and steps have been presented with lesser detail, while the drawings and specification describe in greater detail other elements and steps pertinent to understanding the invention.
The following embodiments are not intended to define limits as to the structure or method of the invention, but only to provide exemplary constructions. The embodiments are permissive rather than mandatory and illustrative rather than exhaustive.
In the following, we describe the structure of an embodiment of a vaping device 100 with reference to
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Thus, in various related embodiment, the vaping device 100 combines conduction and convection heating by making the intake air travel around the external wall of the heating chamber, effectively using the heat that previously was wasted in conduction heating as the heated rod of a convection heating vaporizer, such that the external heating canal 344 heats the air and the internal heating chamber 215 heats the herb material, whereby the vaping device 100 achieves both convection heating and conduction heating with the cost and size of a conventional conduction heating vaporizer.
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such that the herb loading shovel 213 can slide out of the main body 170, such that the herb loading shovel 213 aids in shoveling the herb material 280 into the heating chamber, when the mouthpiece 101 is open and the loading shovel 213 is fully extended.
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In conventional vaping devices, usually loading a herb in a vaporizer chamber requires careful loading of small pinches of herb, whereas the vaping device 100 herb loading shovel allows a user to simply scoop the herb in, such that the heating chamber 215 can be loaded with one hand when the herb material is located externally, such as in a bag, tray, table or box.
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In a related embodiment, the vapor cooler can be configured to be removable when the mouthpiece 101 is opened, such that the vapor cooler 306 can be pulled out from the vapor canal, cleaned, and then reinserted into the vapor canal. The vapor cooler can be configured as a screw that screws into the vapor canal or it can be configured to slide in, as an insertable plug.
In a related embodiment, the herb material 280 can be processed tobacco leaves, cannabis flowers or other cannabis materials, or some other form of smokable plant or herb material.
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It shall be understood that the above-mentioned components of the vaping device control unit 810 are to be interpreted in the most general manner.
For example, the processor 902 can include a single physical microprocessor or a microcontroller.
In a further example, the non-transitory memory 904 can include various forms of non-transitory storage media, including random access memory and other forms of dynamic storage, and hard disks. Similarly, the input/output 906 can each respectively include a plurality of well-known input/output devices, such as screens, keyboards, pointing devices, motion trackers, communication ports, and so forth.
Furthermore, it shall be understood that the vaping device control unit 810 can include a number of other components that are well known in the art of general computer devices, and therefore shall not be further described herein. This can include system access to common functions and hardware, such as for example via operating system layers such as WINDOWS™, LINUX™, and similar operating system software, but can also include configurations wherein application services are executing directly on server hardware or via a hardware abstraction layer other than a complete operating system.
An embodiment of the present invention can also include one or more input or output components, such as a mouse, keyboard, monitor, and the like. A display can be provided for viewing text and graphical data, as well as a user interface to allow a user to request specific operations. Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention may be connected to one or more remote computers via a network interface. The connection may be over a local area network (LAN) wide area network (WAN), and can include all of the necessary circuitry for such a connection.
In a related embodiment, the vaping device control unit 810 can communicates with external mobile devices over a network, which can include the general Internet, a Wide Area Network or a Local Area Network, or another form of communication network, transmitted on wired or wireless connections. Wireless networks can for example include Ethernet, Wi-Fi, BLUETOOTH™, ZIGBEE™, and NFC. The communication can be transferred via a secure, encrypted communication protocol.
Typically, computer program instructions may be loaded onto the computer or other general-purpose programmable machine to produce a specialized machine, such that the instructions that execute on the computer or other programmable machine create means for implementing the functions specified in the block diagrams, schematic diagrams or flowcharts. Such computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable medium that when loaded into a computer or other programmable machine can direct the machine to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable medium produce an article of manufacture including instruction means that implement the function specified in the block diagrams, schematic diagrams or flowcharts.
In addition, the computer program instructions may be loaded into a computer or other programmable machine to cause a series of operational steps to be performed by the computer or other programmable machine to produce a computer-implemented process, such that the instructions that execute on the computer or other programmable machine provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the block diagram, schematic diagram, flowchart block or step.
Accordingly, blocks or steps of the block diagram, flowchart or control flow illustrations support combinations of means for performing the specified functions, combinations of steps for performing the specified functions and program instruction means for performing the specified functions. It will also be understood that each block or step of the block diagrams, schematic diagrams or flowcharts, as well as combinations of blocks or steps, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based computer systems, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions, that perform the specified functions or steps.
As an example, provided for purposes of illustration only, a data input software tool of a search engine application can be a representative means for receiving a query including one or more search terms. Similar software tools of applications, or implementations of embodiments of the present invention, can be means for performing the specified functions. For example, an embodiment of the present invention may include computer software for interfacing a processing element with a user-controlled input device, such as a mouse, keyboard, touch screen display, scanner, or the like. Similarly, an output of an embodiment of the present invention may include, for example, a combination of display software, video card hardware, and display hardware. A processing element may include, for example, a controller or microprocessor, such as a central processing unit (CPU), arithmetic logic unit (ALU), or control unit.
Here has thus been described a multitude of embodiments of the vaping device 100, and methods related thereto, which can be employed in numerous modes of usage.
The many features and advantages of the invention are apparent from the detailed specification, and thus, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such features and advantages of the invention, which fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
Many such alternative configurations are readily apparent, and should be considered fully included in this specification and the claims appended hereto. Accordingly, since numerous modifications and variations will readily occur to those skilled in the art, the invention is not limited to the exact construction and operation illustrated and described, and thus, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Design application No. 29/698,999, filed Jul. 22, 2019; which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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