Non-combustible vaping device

US11160936B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Altria Client Services LLC · US

Inventors

• Terry Bache · Richmond, US
• Ryan Newcomb · Richmond, US
• Eric Hawes · Glen Allen, US
• Dmitriy Kirzhner · Richmond, US
• Raymond Lau · Richmond, US
• Danielle R. Crawford · Chester, US
• Dwight D. Williams · Powhatan, US
• William Eugene Rabbitt · Chesterland, US
• Carl Roy Stevens · Stow, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 2, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 2, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2205/8206
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

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.