US 12,324,459 B2
Electronic smoking device with capillary element
Stefan Biel, Hamburg (DE); and Simon James Smith, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed by Fontem Ventures B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/504,764.
Application 18/504,764 is a continuation of application No. 16/978,886, granted, now 11,844,375, previously published as PCT/EP2019/055419, filed on Mar. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18160870 (EP), filed on Mar. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0298704 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. A24F 40/44 (2020.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/44 (2020.01) [A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A capillary element for an electronic smoking device comprising:
outer metal meshes having capillarity; and
inner metal meshes having a higher capillarity than the outer metal meshes, wherein the inner metal meshes are enclosed by the outer metal meshes, wherein the inner and outer metal meshes are configured and arranged to draw liquid towards a heating coil by capillary action, and wherein different capillary actions result in an overall capillary action which is directed from the outer metal meshes towards the inner metal meshes.