Battery-Operated Fire Bong with Nichrome Ignition and Filtration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smoking bongs lack efficient and convenient ignition methods and fail to effectively filter out harsh smoke, tar, and fine particles, making them difficult to use and unpleasant to inhale.
Innovation Solution
A battery-operated ignition smoking bong with a replaceable nichrome wire, a fuel reservoir, and a filter that allows for one-handed ignition and reduces harshness by using a rechargeable battery, igniter wire, and a micro USB charge system, enabling easy and efficient combustion of smoking substances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual ignition is used in traditional bongs, then the device structure remains simple, but the ignition process becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical ignition with an electrical ignition system consisting of a battery, ignition switch, and nichrome wire. The battery provides electrical power, the switch controls circuit activation, and the nichrome wire generates heat through electrical resistance to ignite the smoking substance, eliminating the need for manual lighting methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a nichrome wire as an intermediary element between the battery and the smoking substance. The wire acts as a heat transfer medium, converting electrical energy from the battery into thermal energy that then ignites the smoking material, facilitating the ignition process without direct contact between the battery and substance.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If no filter is used in traditional bongs, then the device structure remains simple, but the smoke contains excessive tar and fine particles making it harsh to inhale
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a filter as an intermediary component positioned in the airflow path between the combustion chamber and the user's mouth. The filter captures and removes harmful particles, tar, and excess smoke from the vapor stream, allowing only cleaned vapor to reach the user, thereby reducing harshness without requiring fundamental changes to the bong structure.
3Productivity
If traditional ignition methods are used, then the ignition process is slow and inefficient, but adding electrical ignition components increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces slow manual ignition methods with rapid electrical ignition using a battery-powered nichrome wire system. When the ignition switch is activated, electrical current flows through the high-resistance nichrome wire, generating immediate high heat that quickly ignites the smoking substance, dramatically increasing ignition speed and efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the temperature parameter rapidly by introducing electrical heating through the nichrome wire. The wire's high electrical resistance converts electrical energy into intense thermal energy almost instantaneously, raising the temperature of the smoking substance to its ignition point quickly, thereby achieving fast and efficient ignition.
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 battery-operated ignition smoking bong provides easy, fast, and efficient ignition with reduced harshness and particle inhalation, enhancing user experience through the combination of a rechargeable battery, igniter wire, and filter.
Implementation Method 1
a replaceable nichrome wire removeably disposed within a continuous indentation disposed along the inner perimeter proximal the top edge
Implementation Method 2
a filter provided to reduce the amount of smoke, any tar present, and fine particles which would otherwise be inhaled during combustion of the smoking substance
Implementation Method 3
A battery, disposed within the stem, or in the proximal bottom, either way is in operational communication with the ignition switch
Implementation Method 4
An igniter wire is continuously disposed from the ignition switch, to the battery, and encircles the interior cavity. The igniter wire is in operational communication with the length of nichrome wire
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AI summary
A rechargeable battery-operated ignition smoking bong including a replaceable nichrome wire within an indentation on an inner perimeter of a bowl of the bong body, a fuel reservoir directly below and adjacent the interior cavity of the bowl, an ignition switch on a stem of a bong body to selectively activate one of the nichrome wire and an amount of fuel within the fuel reservoir to combust an ignitable smoking substance, such as tobacco, contained within the bowl, and a filter disposed between the stem and the bowl. The present device permits one-handed ignition to combust the smoking substance. The rechargeable battery-operated ignition smoking bong also includes a micro USB outlet and wireless charging receptacles to permit the bong to recharge without the hassle of changing batteries.