Electronic Atomizer Child Lock Assembly with Rotating Cover
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic atomizers lack effective child safety mechanisms, as existing child safety packages require multiple actions to open, which are not sufficient to prevent young children from accessing and ingesting e-liquid or other hazardous substances.
Innovation Solution
An electronic atomizer with a child lock assembly featuring a rotating cover and an elastic locking member that requires a specific combination of actions to open, making it difficult for children to disassemble while allowing easy access for adults, incorporating a silica gel plug to prevent leakage and a mouthpiece groove for rotating functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a common e-liquid package with a burette structure is used, then the package is colorful and attractive, but children may easily open it and ingest e-liquid by mistake
Solution Approach 1:
The package is divided into multiple functional components: a cover body, a rotating cover, an elastic locking member, and a mouthpiece. Each component serves a specific function, and their combination creates a multi-step opening mechanism that is difficult for children to operate but manageable for adults.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic locking member is pre-configured to engage with the rotating cover and mouthpiece, creating an automatic locking mechanism. This preliminary anti-action prevents unintended opening by children while allowing authorized adults to open it by applying the correct sequence of actions.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a pressing and twisting cover is used, then the difficulty for children to open the package is increased, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating cover introduces a dynamic element to the package opening mechanism. It can rotate relative to the cover body, and this rotation is coupled with the elastic locking member to create a multi-step opening process. The dynamic nature of the rotating cover adds safety without requiring excessive structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic locking member automatically engages with the rotating cover and mouthpiece to lock the package. When the rotating cover is rotated to the correct position, the locking member self-activates to secure the package, eliminating the need for additional complex locking mechanisms or user interventions.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple actions are required to open the package, then child safety is improved, but the ease of operation for adults decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating cover is pre-configured with specific rotational positions that correspond to the locked and unlocked states of the elastic locking member. Adults only need to rotate the cover to the correct position and press it, and the preliminary positioning ensures the locking member engages or disengages automatically, simplifying the operation while maintaining safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic locking member acts as an intermediary between the rotating cover and the mouthpiece. It translates the rotational motion of the cover into a linear locking or unlocking action, mediating the interaction between these components and enabling a simple rotational motion to control a complex locking mechanism.
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 child lock assembly effectively prevents children from accessing the e-liquid by requiring a specific combination of actions to open, thereby enhancing child safety while maintaining ease of use for adults, and can be applied to various atomization devices.
Implementation Method 1
an elastic locking member arranged between the mouthpiece and the cover
Implementation Method 2
one end of the cover is capable of rotating around the supporting housing
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic atomizer having a child lock assembly and an application thereof. The atomizer includes: a supporting housing, on which a movable cover with one end rotatable around the supporting housing is arranged; an e-liquid bin arranged in a cavity of the supporting housing for storing e-liquid, where an e-liquid injection hole for injecting the e-liquid into the e-liquid bin is formed in the supporting housing; an atomization core arranged in the cavity of the supporting housing for heating and atomizing the e-liquid stored in the e-liquid bin; a smoke guiding tube having an inlet end communicated with the atomization core for introducing smoke and an outlet end for smoking; a mouthpiece communicated with the smoke guiding tube, where an elastic locking member is arranged between the mouthpiece and the cover, and the mouthpiece, the cover, and the elastic locking member form a child lock assembly.