US 12,471,625 B2
Electronic devices and liquids for aerosolizing and inhaling therewith
Mario Danek, Los Angeles, CA (US); Christopher Kar-Heng Cheng, Los Angeles, CA (US); Joseph Gene Walsh, Los Angeles, CA (US); Brian Quigley, Richmond, VA (US); Ian Kovacevich, Carlsbad, CA (US); and Kassie Betts, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QNOVIA, INC., Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by QNOVIA, INC., Richmond, VA (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,572.
Application 17/518,572 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/516,666, filed on Nov. 1, 2021, abandoned.
Application 17/518,572 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2021/057477, filed on Oct. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/108,880, filed on Nov. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/108,881, filed on Nov. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/108,405, filed on Nov. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132920 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24B 15/167 (2020.01); A24F 40/05 (2020.01); A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/44 (2020.01); A61M 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 40/05 (2020.01) [A24B 15/167 (2016.11); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/44 (2020.01); A61M 11/005 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0294 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device for producing an aerosol for inhalation by a person, comprising:
(a) a cartridge assembly; and
(b) a handheld base assembly;
(c) wherein the cartridge assembly and the handheld base assembly are configured to removably couple together; and
(d) wherein the cartridge assembly comprises,
(i) a mouthpiece; and
(ii) a cartridge comprising a container for containing liquid to be aerosolized and a mesh assembly located on an exterior of the cartridge on top of a lip of a mouth of the container, the mesh assembly comprising a mesh material and a piezoelectric material that vibrates when actuated whereby an aerosol is produced such that the aerosol may be inhaled through the mouthpiece;
(iii) wherein the mouthpiece is attached to the cartridge in covering relation to the mesh assembly such that the aerosol produced by the mesh assembly may be inhaled through an opening in the mouthpiece, the mesh assembly being held in tension seated on top of the lip of the mouth of the container by compressed engagement with an O-ring resulting from the attachment of the mouthpiece to the cartridge; and
(e) wherein the cartridge assembly further comprises a wick comprising a lengthwise channel formed in an exterior surface of the wick and located within and extending between a bottom of the container and the mouth of the container, and wherein the wick is retained in constant contact with the mesh assembly by protuberances proximate the bottom of the container that surround the first end of the wick in a discontinuous circular pattern and receive the end of the wick in frictional fit therewith.