Who invented the 801 connection?

[robertboyl]

Hi, guys

I was curious... Who invented 801 connection? The chinese? Was curious on some background history on connection types, but didnt find any. I believe 501 was invented by Joye, and the rest?

Thanks

 

[Izan]

I think you might need to look at Janty for some of the early developments.

Good luck.
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[Jerms]

Yep, the connection types came from what the original Chinese makers of e-cigs used. Joye was the creator of the 510. The rest I'm not 100% sure of, but I think DSE created the 901 and 801 and Kanger created the KR808D. SLB is involved somewhere, but I think they just used already established connection types.

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[robertboyl]

Thanks, guys. So basically its all Chinese made it seems, interesting. Id imagine someone from US would invent something also possibly. Maybe it already exists...

 

[jerseyrob]

I'm pretty sure is was General Custard, But don't quote me on that.

 

[budynbuick]

I'm pretty sure is was General Custard, But don't quote me on that.

Nope! al gore done it.

 

[Jerms]

Thanks, guys. So basically its all Chinese made it seems, interesting. Id imagine someone from US would invent something also possibly. Maybe it already exists...

It'll be interesting to see what the big tobacco companies use. My guess is most will come up with their own, so if you buy an ecig from them you have to use a prefilled carto from them. I would think they would go after new vapers more then established ones, for whom the 510 has become a pretty standard connection.

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[robertboyl]

Hi,

Yeah... I was doing a small paper at my university about origin of ecig, thus the interest if any connection not made in china

Yes, will be interesting to see... I saw the articles about Phillip Morris, etc. patenting some type of inhaler, similar to the asma ones. Not sure theyd release ecigs themselves, but I guess its just a matter of time right

Thanks for feedback.

 

[FantWriter]

I would say that no one 'invented' the connection, as such.

I don't know the diameter, pitch, and length on the 801, but 501s, 901s, 808s, and every other one I know of uses a thread that's a standard size used for a variety of other things.

I'm sure it was simply a matter of "we have to connect two pieces of X diameter. What's the closest size for tooling we can buy off-the-shelf?" Someone made a decision as to which part gets the male thread (and 501 got it wrong), and Bob's your uncle.

I have seen connectors on other things that were invented specifically for an item (7.21 mm, 17 threads per inch, left-hand) to keep it proprietary, but I haven't run across that in vaping. (Probably because it'd cost too much to manufacture -- standard sizes have cheap taps and dies widely available, specialty threads are usually two or three orders of magnitude more expensive.)