Adjustable Airflow Cartridge With Rotatable Collar
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic vaporizer cartridges offer limited airflow customization, restricting user preferences for viscosity, flavor, and vapor cloud production, as they lack adjustable airflow features to optimize air intake during use.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable airflow cartridge with a rotatable portion that adjusts the size of intake air apertures, allowing users to customize airflow by rotating or twisting a collar, featuring a porous ceramic heating element and ceramic coating to enhance vaporization and flavor, and including a slidable or lever-operated mechanism for adjusting airflow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed airflow design is used in the cartridge, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the airflow cannot be customized to match user preferences for viscosity, flavor, and vapor cloud production
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a rotatable collar mechanism that allows the airflow aperture to be dynamically adjusted during use. The collar can be rotated to different positions to change the aperture size, transforming a static airflow system into a dynamic one that adapts to user preferences for viscosity, flavor, and vapor production.
Solution Approach 2:
The cartridge is divided into distinct functional sections: a top section with mouthpiece, middle section with tank, and bottom section with heating element and adjustable aperture. The rotatable collar is positioned at the bottom section, allowing independent adjustment of airflow without affecting other components, thus segmenting the airflow control function from the main cartridge structure.
2Temperature
If a porous ceramic heating element is used, then vaporization occurs at lower temperatures enhancing flavor and terpene profiles, but the heating element requires precise material selection and manufacturing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a porous ceramic heating element that utilizes the porous structure to increase surface area for heating. This porous ceramic material enables vaporization at lower temperatures by distributing heat across a larger surface area, thereby enhancing flavor and terpene profiles while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through established ceramic fabrication techniques.
3Ease of operation
If the airflow aperture is made adjustable via a rotatable collar, then user customization of airflow is enabled, but the device complexity increases due to the additional mechanical component
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable collar provides a dynamic adjustment mechanism that allows users to easily change airflow aperture size by simple rotation. This dynamic design enables real-time adjustment of airflow to match user preferences while maintaining a relatively simple mechanical structure that integrates with the existing cartridge components.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The adjustable airflow cartridge provides customizable vaping experiences, enhancing vapor production, flavor, and safety by allowing users to adjust airflow based on their preferences, while the ceramic components ensure efficient heating and protection against heavy metals.
Implementation Method 1
a porous ceramic heating element that may enable the adjustable airflow cartridge to vaporize liquids and oils at lower temperatures to provide for enhanced flavors and cleaner tasting terpene profiles
Implementation Method 2
a porous ceramic heating element that may enable the adjustable airflow cartridge to vaporize liquids and oils at lower temperatures
Implementation Method 3
a heating element that may include an embedded coil that is surrounded by a particular ceramic material that may provide protection for the oil or resin within the cartridge that is heated for vaping
Data Source
AI summary
An adjustable airflow cartridge for vaporizing liquids is provided herein featuring a top section including a mouthpiece, a middle section including a tank, a bottom section including a heating element and at least one adjustable intake air aperture, a tube extending from the bottom section through the tank to the mouthpiece, and a rotatable portion on the bottom section that when rotated is configured to increase or decrease a size of at least one adjustable intake air aperture. Air may flow through the adjustable airflow cartridge from the bottom section to the top section by flowing through at least one adjustable intake air aperture, through the heating element, and through the tube to the mouthpiece. In addition, the amount of air that may flow through the at least one adjustable intake air aperture may be adjusted based upon a rotation of the rotatable portion by a user.