Electronic Cigarette With Adjustable Airflow and Ceramic Atomizer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic cigarettes lack adjustable airflow, use harmful plastic materials, and fail to replicate the smoking experience due to low nicotine absorption and inability to regulate smoke volume, leading to an unsatisfactory user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic cigarette design featuring a metal cigarette holder, a glass housing with vertically arranged heating wires, and a gas flow control assembly with large-sized holes, allowing for adjustable airflow and safer, more environmentally friendly materials, ensuring uniform heating and evaporation of smoke oil and smoother smoke production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If plastic materials are used in conventional electronic cigarettes, then manufacturing cost is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but harmful chemical reactions occur between plastic and tobacco tar producing harmful matters
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces durable plastic components with disposable ceramic atomization assemblies. The ceramic material is chemically inert and does not react with tobacco tar, eliminating harmful chemical reactions. While ceramic may be more expensive to manufacture, the disposable nature of the atomization assembly simplifies the overall device structure and ensures safety without compromising manufacturing feasibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a composite structure combining ceramic material for the atomization assembly with metal components for the housing and heating elements. This composite approach leverages the chemical stability of ceramic to prevent harmful reactions while using metal for structural integrity and electrical conductivity, resolving the contradiction between safety and manufacturability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional electronic cigarettes use fixed airflow design, then device structure is simple, but smoke volume cannot be adjusted according to personal preference
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates adjustable airflow control mechanisms that allow users to dynamically modify the air intake rate according to their preferences. The airflow regulation structure enables the device to transition between different airflow states, providing adaptability while maintaining a relatively simple overall design through mechanical adjustment rather than complex electronic control.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If nicotine substitutes are used instead of cigarettes, then tar delivery is eliminated, but nicotine absorption is slow and peak concentration is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes phase transition of water in the atomization assembly to deliver nicotine. The heating element vaporizes the liquid nicotine solution, transforming it from liquid to gas phase, which enables rapid absorption into the user's bloodstream through inhalation. This phase transition mechanism achieves high peak nicotine concentration while eliminating tar delivery, as only the nicotine solution is vaporized without combustion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the chemical combustion process of traditional cigarettes with a physical vaporization process. Instead of burning tobacco to release nicotine, the system uses an atomization assembly that heats and vaporizes liquid nicotine solution, substituting the mechanical/chemical combustion with a controlled thermal vaporization process that delivers nicotine more efficiently without producing harmful combustion byproducts.
4Ease of operation
If tobacco tar is loaded into conventional electronic cigarettes, then smoking action is replicated, but loading is difficult and chemical reactions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a disposable ceramic atomization assembly that is pre-filled with nicotine solution during manufacturing. This eliminates the need for users to load tobacco tar themselves, as the atomization assembly is discarded after use and replaced with a fresh one. The pre-filled design ensures proper loading while preventing chemical reactions between user-loaded materials and the device components.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design achieves a larger smoke volume, higher nicotine concentration, and proper temperature, enhancing user satisfaction by allowing adjustable airflow and using safer materials, while preventing mouth burning.
Implementation Method 1
the smoke oil in the height direction is uniformly heated and evaporated in the glass housing
Implementation Method 2
the heating wires are spirally disposed at intervals and are vertical to a cylindrical surface of the glass housing
Implementation Method 3
the gas flow control assembly comprises large sized gas holes in order to realize smoother smoke and larger smoke volume
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AI summary
An electronic cigarette, including: a cigarette holder assembly; a fixing seat assembly; an atomization assembly; a gas flow control assembly; and a glass housing. The cigarette holder assembly is made of metal. The fixing seat assembly operates to fix the glass housing and to regulate an air flow. The atomization assembly is disposed inside the glass housing. The heating wires are disposed inside the atomization assembly. The cigarette holder assembly is connected to the fixing seat assembly in the manner of plugging. The glass housing is connected to a middle support via a fixing jaw. The atomization assembly is assembled with the gas flow control assembly using screw threads to form an integrated structure, and the integrated structure of the atomization assembly and the gas flow control assembly is then assembled with the fixing seat assembly.