Electronic-cigarette box, LED light guide piece and box body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10036548-B2
Application number	US-201314412436-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2013
Priority date	Apr 7, 2013
Publication date	Jul 31, 2018
Grant date	Jul 31, 2018

Abstract

An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, an LED lamp for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamp are disposed on the first printed circuit board, two or more through holes are disposed in the side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinder and push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinder corresponds to the LED lamp, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch. The LED light guide piece has a simple structure and is easy to be installed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, more than two light emitting diode (LED) lamps for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamps are disposed on the first printed circuit board, more than two through holes are disposed in one side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinders and a push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinders correspond to the LED lamps, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch;
a baffle provided in the box body extends along a lengthwise direction of the side wall, wherein the baffle has a shape of strip and forms an import slot together with the side wall; the LED light guide piece is assembled in the box body along the import slot, the light guide cylinders on the LED light guide piece are aligned to the LED lamps of the first printed circuit board in one-to-one correspondence, and the push-button on the LED light guide piece is aligned to the push-button switch of the first printed circuit board, the light guide cylinders and the push-button are aligned to the through holes in the box body respectively;
the substrate with the light guide cylinders and the push-button thereon forms an integrated LED light guide piece;
the LED lamps are arranged at intervals on the first printed circuit board with uniform length and direction, the light guide cylinders on the LED light guide piece are arranged at intervals on the substrate with uniform length and direction correspondingly, and accommodate the LED lamps one-to-one correspondingly;
the cigarette box includes a main bracket which is accommodated inside the box body;
the cigarette box includes a cover body;
the cigarette box includes a semi-automatic clamshell mechanism and a vice bracket the semi-automatic mechanism comprises a cam, a sliding block and a damping element the vice bracket defines an accommodation cavity, in which both of the sliding block and the damping element are disposed; the cam is rotatably fixed to the main bracket, the sliding block is connected between the cam and the damping element;
the damping element has one end thereof abutting against a bottom end of the sliding block, and the other end abutting against a bottom wall of the accommodation cavity;
the vice bracket is located at one side of the main bracket and installed on top of the other side wall of the box body; the sliding block is provided with a convex block on top thereof, the cam remains point contact with the first convex block at any time;
the sliding block and the damping element are capable of performing linear reciprocating motion in the accommodation cavity; the damping element is compressed downward via an external force acting on the cover body to drive the cam rotating, and the semi-automatic clamshell mechanism is capable of automatically opening or closing the cover body under an upward force of the compressed damping element without the external force, whereby to realize the semi-automatic clamshell performance.

2. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 1 , wherein, a bottom wall of the box body is provided with a positioning bone, one end of the LED light guide piece is snap-fitted in the space formed between the positioning bone and the side wall of the box body.

3. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 2 , wherein, the positioning bone is configured on the bottom wall of the box body by integrally molding.

4. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 1 , wherein the LED light guide piece in the import slot is disposed between the box body and the main bracket, an inside of the main bracket is provided with a rechargeable battery, which is electrically connected with the first printed circuit board, and a remaining electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is shown via a lightening status of the LED lamp.

5. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4 , wherein, the first printed circuit board is provided with four monochrome LED lamps of same color, which in order are first LED lamp, second LED lamp, third LED lamp and fourth LED lamp from top to bottom, the first LED lamp, the second LED lamp, the third LED lamp and the fourth LED lamp are arranged at intervals on the first printed circuit board with uniform length and direction.

6. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 5 , wherein, under a control of the push-button switch, the first, second, third and fourth LED lamps are all lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 76% to 100%; the first, second and third LED lamps are all lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 51% to 75%; the first and second LED lamps are both lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 26% to 50%; the first LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is 25%.

7. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 5 , wherein, under a control of the push-button switch, the fourth LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 76% to 100%; the third LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 51% to 75%; the second LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 26% to 50%; the first LED is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is 25%.

8. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4 , wherein the cover body is rotatably fixed to the box body by a shaft.

9. An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, more than two light emitting diode (LED) lamps for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamps are disposed on the first printed circuit board, more than two through holes are disposed in one side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinders and a push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinders corresponds to the LED lamps, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch;
the cigarette box includes a main bracket which is accommodated inside the box body;
the cigarette box includes a cover body, the cover body is rotatably fixed to the box body by a shaft;
wherein the cigarette box includes a semi-automatic clamshell mechanism and a vice bracket; the semi-automatic mechanism comprises a cam, a sliding block and a damping element; the vice bracket defines an accommodation cavity, in which both of the sliding block and the damping element are disposed; the cam is rotatably fixed to the main bracket, the sliding block is connected between the cam and the damping element;
the damping element is a compression spring, or is made from elastic rubber;
the damping element has one end thereof abutting against a bottom end of the sliding block, and the other end abutting against a bottom wall of the accommodation cavity;
the vice bracket is located at one side of the main bracket and installed on top of the other side wall of the box body; the sliding block is provided with a convex block on top thereof, the cam remains point contact with the first convex block at any time;
the sliding block and the damping element are capable of performing linear reciprocating motion in the accommodation ca

Assignees

• Kimree Hi Tech Inc
• Huizhou Kimree Technology Co Ltd Shenzhen Branch

Inventors

• Liu Qiuming

Classifications

• H01M10/488

  Cells or batteries combined with indicating means for external visualization of the condition, e.g. by change of colour or of light density · CPC title

• A24F15/18

  combined with other objects · CPC title

• F21W2111/10

  for personal use, e.g. hand-held · CPC title

• B65D25/10

  Devices to locate articles in containers {(for protecting articles from mechanical damage B65D81/02)} · CPC title

• F21V17/16

  by deformation of parts; Snap action mounting · CPC title