US 11,751,605 B2
Securely attaching cartridges for vaporizer devices
Adam Bowen, San Mateo, CA (US); Steven Christensen, Burlingame, CA (US); Christopher Nicholas HibmaCronan, Oakland, CA (US); James Monsees, San Francisco, CA (US); and Joshua Morenstein, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to JUUL Labs, Inc., Washington, DC (US)
Filed by JUUL Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/864,007.
Application 16/864,007 is a continuation of application No. 15/430,357, filed on Feb. 10, 2017, granted, now 10,638,792.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/294,281, filed on Feb. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0260785 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. A24F 40/42 (2020.01); H05B 1/02 (2006.01); A24B 15/167 (2020.01); A61M 11/04 (2006.01); A61K 31/465 (2006.01); A61M 15/06 (2006.01); A61M 11/06 (2006.01); B65D 25/54 (2006.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/42 (2020.01) [A24B 15/167 (2016.11); A61K 31/465 (2013.01); A61M 11/042 (2014.02); A61M 11/06 (2013.01); A61M 15/06 (2013.01); B65D 25/54 (2013.01); H05B 1/0227 (2013.01); H05B 1/0244 (2013.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A61M 2205/3653 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8206 (2013.01); H05B 2203/021 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic vaporization device including cartridge receptacle, the cartridge receptacle comprising:
an opening for receiving a portion of a cartridge, the opening having a cross-section and the portion of the cartridge comprising a portion of fluid storage compartment;
a base opposite the opening, the base including a bottom surface, a first electrical contact, and a second electrical contact;
a first pair of parallel interior walls extending from the opening to the bottom surface, wherein the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are disposed in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to the first pair of interior walls; and
a second pair of interior walls extending from the opening to the bottom surface, each wall of the second pair of interior walls including a detent extending therefrom, each detent configured to cooperate with a recess in a wall of the fluid storage compartment of the cartridge to securely retain the portion of a cartridge within the cartridge receptacle.