Electronic Cigarette Atomizing Stem with Hollow Conduit and Storage Chamber
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic cigarettes rely on cigarette cotton for guiding tobacco juice, leading to increased costs, environmental pollution, and poor sealing, resulting in inefficient atomization and smoke production.
Innovation Solution
An electronic cigarette design featuring a hollow atomizing stem with conductive rings, a conduit, and a liquid blocker forms a dedicated storage chamber for tobacco juice, eliminating the need for cigarette cotton and integrating the heating and storage units with a vacuum-simulation design, and allowing for refilling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cigarette cotton is used as guiding material for tobacco juice, then the tobacco juice can be guided between heating unit and storage unit, but the cost increases and environmental pollution occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the cigarette cotton component from the system entirely. Instead of using cotton as a guiding material between the heating unit and storage unit, the invention creates a direct fluid communication path through the hollow atomizing stem, eliminating the source of environmental pollution while maintaining tobacco juice guidance functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The hollow atomizing stem serves as an intermediary structure that replaces the cotton material. It provides a controlled pathway for tobacco juice flow from the storage unit to the heating unit, achieving the same guiding function without the harmful environmental effects of cotton.
2Reliability
If cigarette cotton is used for guiding tobacco juice, then tobacco juice flow is enabled, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent eliminates the cigarette cotton component, thereby removing its associated manufacturing costs. The hollow atomizing stem is designed to provide tobacco juice guidance as an integrated feature, reducing the bill of materials and assembly complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The guidance function previously performed by separate cotton material is merged into the hollow atomizing stem structure itself. This integration reduces the number of components and simplifies manufacturing, leading to lower production costs while maintaining the tobacco juice flow capability.
3Strength
If welding is used to connect components, then structural integrity is achieved, but soldering tin and flux pollution occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the welding/mechanical joining system with a seamless integrated structure. The hollow atomizing stem and associated components are designed to work together as an integrated unit, eliminating the need for welding operations and the associated environmental pollution from soldering materials.
4Ease of manufacture
If existing electronic cigarette structure is used, then assembly is straightforward, but sealing effect is poor causing tobacco juice leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the atomizing stem and storage unit into an integrated structure with built-in sealing features. The hollow atomizing stem is designed to fit tightly with the storage unit, creating an effective seal that prevents tobacco juice leakage while maintaining ease of assembly through the integrated design.
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 design enhances atomization efficiency, reduces manufacturing costs, and increases the duration of tobacco juice validity while being more environmentally friendly by eliminating soldering tin and flux pollution.
Implementation Method 1
The inner wall of atomizing stem, the outer wall of conduit, the top of first conductive ring, and the bottom of liquid blocker together confine a liquid storage chamber for storing tobacco juice
Implementation Method 2
a heating unit... a fiber rope 90, wherein two end portions of said fiber rope 90 are placed within the liquid storage chamber 12, and a middle portion passes transversally through said conduit 40 and is held inside first segment 41 of the conduit 40. In addition, a portion of said fiber rope 90 that is held within the first segment 41 of the conduit 40 (i.e., the middle portion) is wrapped with a heating wire 102, as a heating device 103
Implementation Method 3
when the heating wire 102 is energized, the heating wire 102 atomizes the tobacco juice adsorbed in the fiber rope 90
Implementation Method 4
when the heating wire 102 is energized, the heating wire 102 atomizes the tobacco juice adsorbed in the fiber rope 90
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic cigarette has a conduit arranged in a atomizing stem, the conduit has a first segment and a second segment in communication with the first segment, the first segment has a wider inner space than the inner space of the second segment; a storage chamber is inside the atomizing stem and surrounds the conduit; and a heating device arranged inside the inner space of the first segment of the conduit for atomizing an atomizable material coming from the storage chamber.