Disposable E-Cigarette Atomizer Assembly with Tar Guide Rope
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic cigarettes face issues such as inconvenient assembly, insufficient smoke production, poor tobacco liquid flowability, unpleasant odors, low efficiency, and high labor costs due to complex designs and inefficient components.
Innovation Solution
A disposable atomizer design featuring a battery component with an atomizer comprising a tar guide rope and fibre pipes that ensure full contact with tobacco tar cotton, allowing for efficient smoke production while maintaining a controlled temperature and simplifying assembly through coaxial arrangement and silicone components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the atomizer uses a complex assembly structure to improve manufacturing precision, then the assembly becomes more difficult and labor cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple components into an integrated atomizer assembly where the heating wire, tar guide rope, and fibre pipes are pre-arranged together. The atomizer sleeve houses all these components in a single unit that can be inserted as one piece, reducing the number of separate assembly steps and lowering labor costs while maintaining precise component positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The atomizer is divided into distinct functional modules: the heating component (heating wire), the tar guidance system (tar guide rope and fibre pipes), and the housing (atomizer sleeve). This segmentation allows each module to be manufactured and prepared separately with precise positioning features, then assembled together more easily than a fully integrated complex structure.
2Ease of manufacture
If the tar guide rope is shortened to simplify assembly, then the contact area with tobacco tar cotton decreases, resulting in insufficient smoke production
Solution Approach 1:
The tar guide rope is designed with varying properties along its length: the portion in contact with tobacco tar cotton has specific texture and length characteristics to maximize tar absorption, while other portions are optimized for guidance and structural integrity. This local optimization ensures sufficient smoke production without requiring the entire rope to be excessively long, simplifying assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The tar guide rope is nested within the atomizer sleeve, with specific sections positioned at different depths. The heating wire is wound around the tar guide rope, and the fibre pipes are arranged coaxially around them. This nested arrangement maximizes the contact area between the tar guide rope and tobacco tar cotton within a compact space, ensuring sufficient smoke production without increasing overall assembly complexity.
3Productivity
If the heating wire operates at high temperature to improve smoke production efficiency, then tobacco tar decomposes and produces bad smells
Solution Approach 1:
The tar guide rope acts as an intermediary between the heating wire and the tobacco tar cotton. It is positioned between the heat source and the tar, distributing heat more evenly and preventing direct high-temperature contact that would cause decomposition. This intermediary layer allows efficient smoke production while avoiding the harmful effects of excessive heat on the tobacco tar.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent controls the temperature parameter by adjusting the heating wire's power output and the tar guide rope's thermal properties. The tar guide rope's material and structure are designed to conduct heat at an optimal rate, ensuring the tobacco tar vaporizes efficiently without reaching decomposition temperatures. This parameter optimization maintains high smoke production efficiency while preventing bad smells from tar decomposition.
4Manufacturing precision
If multiple components are assembled separately to improve manufacturing precision, then the assembly process becomes more complex and labor cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The heating wire, tar guide rope, and fibre pipes are pre-arranged and positioned within the atomizer sleeve during manufacturing, with precise positioning features built into the structure. This preliminary arrangement ensures accurate component positioning is achieved during production, and the completed assembly can then be installed as a single unit, improving both manufacturing precision and assembly efficiency.
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 solution enables high smoke production with minimal odor, simplifies assembly, and reduces labor costs by ensuring the tar guide rope fully contacts the tobacco tar cotton, maintaining optimal temperature and facilitating efficient production.
Implementation Method 1
the heating wire is connected with one ends of both wires... when the atomizer is powered on by the battery to produce certain amount of heat
Implementation Method 2
the tar guide speed of the tar guide rope can guarantee the supply of sufficient tobacco tar... the first fibre pipe is arranged in the tar guide rope
Data Source
AI summary
The invention discloses a disposable atomizer of an electronic cigarette, comprising a battery component and an atomizer, wherein the atomizer comprises an atomizer cover, a rubber sleeve, an atomizer sleeve, a tobacco tar cotton, two wires, a heating wire, a rubber pad, a threaded sleeve, a propping pin, a first fiber pipe, a tar guide rope and a second fiber pipe; the heating wire is connected with one ends of both wires, and each of the other ends of the wires is fixedly connected with the propping pin; the heating wire and the tar guide rope are wound around together; the first fiber pipe is arranged in the tar guide rope, the second fiber pipe and the first fiber pipe are coaxially arranged, and the second fiber pipe is positioned behind the first fiber pipe; both the tar guide rope and the second fiber pipe are arranged in the tobacco tar cotton, and both the tobacco tar cotton and the threaded sleeve are arranged in the atomizer sleeve; the atomizer cover is arranged at the tail end of the atomizer sleeve; and the rubber sleeve is arranged in the atomizer sleeve and positioned between the second fiber pipe and the atomizer cover. So that the disposable atomizer of an electronic cigarette has the advantages of simple production process, high production efficiency and low labor cost.