Electronic vaporiser system
An electronic cigarette vaporizer that includes an IMU (inertial measurement unit). The IMU enables the vaporizer to detect when it is being lifted up and out of a case in which it has been stored so that it can change state. The change of state can be to turn on and to start heating an atomizing element. Data from the IMU may also enable the vaporizer to tell if it is not being used and so can power down.
1. An electronic cigarette vaporiser system that includes an electronic vaporiser, wherein the electronic vaporiser includes an IMU (inertial measurement unit) and a heating element, in which the electronic vaporiser system includes (i) a user-replaceable, e-liquid cartridge that is attached to or integral with at least a part of the system, but is not user-refillable and includes no heating element and (ii) an e-liquid reservoir that is separate from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge; and (iii) an electric or electronic pump that is configured to withdraw e-liquid from the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge and pump pressurised e-liquid to the e-liquid reservoir; and (iv) the heating element that is not in the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge but is instead in, or in e-liquid communication with, the e-liquid reservoir.
2. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the IMU enables the vaporiser to detect when it is being lifted up and out of a case in which it has been stored so that it can change state.
3. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 2 in which the change of state is to turn on.
4. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 3 in which the change of state also includes to start heating an atomising element.
5. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the data from the IMU enables the vaporiser to tell if it is not being used and so can power down.
6. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which movement data from the IMU is combined with data from a pressure activated sensor or switch in the vaporiser that detects an inhalation.
7. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the time of day of all events, including movement events, is recorded.
8. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which data collected by the vaporiser is sent from the vaporiser for external storage.
9. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 8 in which the external storage is a memory in a case in which the vaporiser is stored.
10. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 9 including data transfer contact(s) that engage with data transfer contact(s) in the case.
11. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the electronic vaporiser is a medicinally approved nicotine drug delivery system.
12. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the electronic vaporiser is the same approximate size as a cigarette and includes no control buttons.
13. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 12 in which the electronic vaporiser is automatically activated when it detects that it has been withdrawn from a case that otherwise stores the vaporiser.
14. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the electronic vaporiser has a square or rectangular cross-section with rounded corners and includes a long PCB inserted lengthwise into the vaporiser.
15. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 14 in which the electronic vaporiser has a squircle cross-section.
16. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the user-replaceable e-liquid cartridge is a user-replacement closed cartridge, and in which the electronic vaporiser is only re-fillable from the user-replaceable closed, e-liquid cartridge.
17. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the electronic vaporiser that includes the heating element is refillable with e-liquid only when inserted, whole and intact and not dis-assembled, into a re-fill case that includes a fluid transfer mechanism to transfer e-liquid into the vaporiser from the user-replaceable closed, e-liquid cartridge.
18. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 including a case for storing the electronic vaporiser.
19. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 18 in which the case includes the electric or electronic pump.
20. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 in which the electronic vaporiser includes the electric or electronic pump and the user-replaceable cartridge is removably insertable or integral to the vaporiser.
21. The electronic vaporizer system of claim 1 , further comprising a structure that is configured to enable excess air-pressure arising from the pressured e-liquid to escape from the e-liquid reservoir and that is non-porous to the pressurized e-liquid.
22. The electronic vaporiser system of claim 1 , in which the pump is in a desktop station.