Non-Combustion Smoking Tool

a smoking tool and non-combustion technology, applied in the field of tools, can solve the problems of reducing work efficiency, reducing work time, and unsatisfactory smell of non-smokers in the room or car, and achieve the effects of reducing the amount of electric power used, increasing heat utilization efficiency, and small heaters

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-12-01
KAZUHIKO SHIMIZU
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[0019]While products of prior inventions cannot be used without filling tobacco leaves in a container or forming the tobacco leaves in a sheet shape, the present invention has an advantage to allow use of a commercial cigarette or cigar as it is, which is practically very convenient.
[0020]Further, the prior inventions heat tobacco leaves by allowing “hot air” to pass through in the container filled with the tobacco leaves. However, the present invention has an advantage that by inserting a heater into a commercial cigarette or cigar and supplying heat from the heater directly to the tobacco leaves, it is possible to vaporize nicotine from the tobacco leaves at a relatively low temperature (70° C. to 230° C.) and supply nicotine from the real tobacco leaves to the smoker without producing harmful tar, carbon monoxide, benzopyrene, and so on that are produced at the time of lighting tobacco for smoking and are inhaled into the body.
[0021]Further, the present invention also has an advantage that since the heater inserted in the real cigarette or cigar directly heats the tobacco leaves, the heat utilization efficiency increases, making it possible to use a relatively small heater, and reducing the amount of electric power used, so that if a battery is used

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However, when a cigarette is lighted for smoking, it is known that the tobacco leaves are burned, and at the same time the wrapping paper containing many chemicals is burned, so that the tobacco smoke contains many harmful materials to human bodies, other than nicotine, as represented by tar, carbon monoxide, acetaldehyde, acrolein, benzopyrene, and so on.
However, although the harm of tobacco to a smoker smoking a filter cigarette and thus inhaling smoke with a reduced level of these harmful materials is reduced, bad effects of so-called passive smoking have been pointed out that people around the smoker are forced to directly smoke the smoke (secondary smoke) rising from the burning portion, and thus to directly inhale the smoke containing these harmful materials.
Furthermore, smoking causes that a room or car where the smoking has taken place is filled with specific smell of tobacco smoking, and very unpleasant smell

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[0043]FIG. 1 shows appearance of an example of a tool according to the present invention. A tool 100 comprises: a tobacco insertion opening 9 for inserting a filter cigarette 90; a projection 10; an indicator 5 for indicating an operation state; a connector 6 (shown in FIG. 2) for receiving electric power from outside; an outside air inlet 8; and inner constituents shown in FIG. 2.

[0044]FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the inner structure along section line A-A′ of FIG. 1. The tool of the present invention basically comprises: a slender heater 1 with a heater sleeve 7; a thermal insulation pipe 2 for preventing heat of the heater 1 from being transferred to an outer case 3; the outer case 3 with the outside air inlet 8; a stopper 4 for fixing an insertion stop position of the filter cigarette; the indicator 5 for indicating the operation state of the tool; and the connector 6 for receiving electric power from outside. The heater sleeve 7 includes a sealing portion 28 for securing lon...

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[0058]Hereinafter, a slender heater 1 having a sharp end to be used for the present invention will be described in detail.

[0059]Approximate dimensions of a general filter cigarette 90 are tobacco portion L2=58 mm, filter portion L1=26 mm, and diameter=8 mmΦ.

[0060]Insertion of a slender heater into the filter cigarette 90 is not easy. First of all, it is required to have a sharp end as a condition.

[0061]FIG. 5 shows a cross-sectional view of an inner structure of a general slender heater 1. A metal tube 22 is sealed with an end sealing portion 21 to prevent moisture from entering inside. The metal tube 22 has inside a resistance heating wire 24 (which portion is heated to serve as a heater) and an inner lead wire 25 connected to the resistance heating wire 24 by welding, and contains magnesium oxide powder 23 filled inside. The inner lead wire 25 which extends from the heater sleeve 7 is in turn connected on the outside to a lead wire 8 made of a solderable wire. While the end sealin...

example 3

[0066]Next, tobacco leaves of a real filter cigarette were taken out, and the components vaporized from the tobacco leaves were analyzed, using a gas chromatography mass spectrometer, by putting only the tobacco leaves in a vessel and heating the vessel. Here, a focus was placed on the amount of nicotine produced among the components vaporized from the tobacco leaves, and its data were obtained. Table 2 shows the results. The heating time was 5 minutes.

TABLE 21Heating temperature = 70° C.1000 μg2Heating temperature = 150° C.3600 μg3Heating temperature = 200° C.4300 μg4Heating temperature = 230° C.4300 μg5Heating temperature = 250° C.3060 μgLeaves get combusted.6Heating temperature = 280° C.1027 μgLeaves get combusted.

[0067]An encyclopedia says that nicotine is oily liquid with a boiling point (decomposition) of 247° C. The reduction in the analyzed data amount when the heating temperature reaches 250° C. is presumably because decomposition of nicotine vaporized out of the tobacco le...

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Abstract

In order to use a commercially available cigarette or cigar as it is, vaporize nicotine from the tobacco leaves, and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine without burning the product, a non-combustion smoking tool comprises a slender heater 1 having a sharp end which is directly inserted into a commercially available cigarette or cigar 100 to directly heat the leaves of the cigarette or cigar by the heater so as to vaporize nicotine contained in the tobacco leaves and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a tool for allowing smoker to inhale nicotine vaporized from tobacco leaves by directly heating the tobacco leaves without combusting the tobacco leaves.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Tobaccos include chewing tobacco, snuffing tobacco, cigarette, cigar and so on, in which the cigarette and the cigar allow vaporization and inhalation of nicotine, tar and other components contained in tobacco leaves by lighting the tobacco leaves and combusting the tobacco leaves. The temperature of the burning portion reaches 600 to 900° C. Many fires are reported to be caused by smoking in bed, throwing burning cigarette, and so on.[0003]In recent years, many cigarettes are smoked because of the easiness of handling. However, when a cigarette is lighted for smoking, it is known that the tobacco leaves are burned, and at the same time the wrapping paper containing many chemicals is burned, so that the tobacco smoke contains many harmful materials to human bo...

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IPC IPC(8): A24D1/08A24F40/20A24F40/46
CPCA24F47/004A61M15/06A61M15/0023A61M11/042A61M2205/8206A24F40/46A24F40/20
Inventor SHIMIZU, KAZUHIKO
Owner KAZUHIKO SHIMIZU
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