US 11,911,557 B2
Heating element
Ariel Atkins, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher L. Belisle, Somerset, WI (US); Steven Christensen, Burlingame, CA (US); Alexander M. Hoopai, San Francisco, CA (US); Eric Joseph Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US); Jason King, San Francisco, CA (US); Esteban Leon Duque, Berkeley, CA (US); and Christopher James Rosser, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to JUUL Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by JUUL Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/161,590.
Application 17/161,590 is a continuation of application No. 16/653,455, filed on Oct. 15, 2019, granted, now 10,905,835.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/913,135, filed on Oct. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/812,161, filed on Feb. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/747,099, filed on Oct. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/745,589, filed on Oct. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0220576 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 11/04 (2006.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01); H05B 3/44 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 11/042 (2014.02) [A24F 40/46 (2020.01); H05B 3/44 (2013.01); H05B 2203/021 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An atomizer assembly for a vaporizer cartridge, the vaporizer cartridge configured to be coupled to a vaporizer body of a vaporizer device, the atomizer assembly comprising:
a wick housing comprising an opening, an outer rim surrounding and extending away from the opening, and an outer wall at least partially defining an internal volume configured to receive a wicking element and at least a heating portion of a heating element, the heating element also comprising a connecting portion configured to extend out of the internal volume and over the outer wall such that the outer wall is positioned between the heating portion and the connecting portion, the outer wall comprising two opposing short sides and two opposing long sides, each of the two opposing long sides having formed therein a recess configured to releasably couple the vaporizer cartridge to a corresponding feature of the vaporizer body;
wherein the outer rim includes an aperture through which the connecting portion of the heating element is configured to pass through.