Atomizing Apparatus Docking Post Guided Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable atomizing devices require users to manually align and rotate electrical contacts, leading to a poor user experience due to misalignment issues and off-center air intake, which affects the smoothness of operation.
Innovation Solution
The atomizing apparatus features a guiding structure with a curved surface that aligns with the power supply apparatus under gravity or user pressure, allowing for easy electrical connection and visual confirmation of fitting, along with a magnetic component to assist in alignment, ensuring the electrical contacts remain in the same plane for seamless connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the atomizing apparatus uses a concave-convex structure for docking, then the docking of atomizing apparatus and power supply apparatus is facilitated, but the user needs to rotate the atomizing apparatus to align electrical contacts, which reduces ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring the guiding curved surface on the docking post and the corresponding guiding groove on the power supply apparatus. This guiding structure is designed in advance to automatically guide the atomizing apparatus into the correct rotational position during docking, eliminating the need for manual alignment of electrical contacts while maintaining the concave-convex docking structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a guiding curved surface as an intermediary element between the docking post and the power supply apparatus. This guiding structure acts as a mediator that facilitates the automatic alignment of electrical contacts during the docking process, resolving the contradiction between maintaining a simple docking structure and achieving easy electrical contact alignment.
2Reliability
If the atomizing device employs a ring electrode with off-center air inlet, then electrical connection is achieved, but the smoothness of air intake is affected, reducing user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by optimizing the local structure of the air inlet and electrode arrangement. Instead of using an off-center air inlet with ring electrode, the patent configures the air inlet and electrode structures to be centrally aligned, ensuring both reliable electrical connection and smooth air intake flow through the atomizing chamber.
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
This solution simplifies the operation by allowing users to insert the docking post at any angle, correcting misalignment easily, and ensures a secure, efficient electrical connection, enhancing user experience and preventing external gas entry, which improves the reliability of the gas sensor.
Implementation Method 1
the guiding structure is provided with a guiding curved surface capable of guiding the atomizing apparatus to rotate with respect to the power supply apparatus, so that the atomizing apparatus can be aligned with the power supply apparatus under its own gravity or a pressure applied by a user
Implementation Method 2
an atomizing apparatus, configured to combine with a power supply apparatus to form an atomizing device
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AI summary
An atomizing apparatus and an atomizing device are provided. The atomizing apparatus includes: an atomizing housing, defined with a vapor outlet communicating with an interior of the atomizing housing; and an atomizing assembly, disposed inside the atomizing housing and configured to output vapor. The atomizing housing is provided with a docking post for being inserted into a docking slot of the power supply apparatus and a guiding structure arranged on a side surface of the docking post along a circumferential direction of the docking post. The guiding structure includes a guiding curved surface projecting or concave inward in an axial direction of the docking post with respect to the power supply apparatus. The atomizing assembly is provided with an atomizing electrical contact for abutting against a power supply electrical contact of the power supply apparatus. The atomizing electrical contact is exposed out of a bottom surface of the docking post.