Integrated Lighter and Pipe Storage for Portable Smoking Use

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smoking devices require separate carrying of lighters and smoking vessels, leading to inconvenience and increased risk of loss or disruption, with no effective integration of lighter and smoking vessel technologies.

Innovation Solution

An integrated smoking device combining a lighter with a smoking vessel, featuring a body, igniter, and compartments for energy storage and vessel storage, with various securement mechanisms for ergonomic and compact design.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If lighter and smoking vessel are carried separately, then each item can be optimized independently, but user convenience deteriorates and risk of loss increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidintegration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the lighter and smoking vessel into a single integrated device. The lighter body houses both the ignition system and a compartment for the smoking vessel, allowing users to carry and use both items together as one unit, thereby improving convenience and reducing the risk of loss or disruption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Volume of moving object

If smoking vessel is stored within lighter body, then portability improves, but lighter size increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoverall device volumeVSAvoidportability

Core Design Contradiction:

Volume of moving objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The smoking vessel is stored within a compartment inside the lighter body. The compartment is designed to fit the smoking vessel securely, allowing the vessel to be nested within the lighter when not in use. This integration minimizes the overall volume increase while maintaining portability, as the combined device can still be carried conveniently.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

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

Provides a compact, ergonomic, and safe solution for smokers by integrating a lighter and smoking vessel, enhancing convenience and reducing the risk of loss or disruption.

Implementation Method 1

an igniter coupled to the body and operable to create an ignition event of a smokeable substance

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectCombustion: Combustion

Data Source

PatentUS20260002672A1Integrated lighter with smoking vessel for smokeable substances

Publication Date: 2026.01.01 NIFTY GOODS LLC

AI summary

Disclosed are devices and systems with an integrated lighter and smoking vessel, and methods of manufacture and/or use thereof. In some aspects, an integrated smoking device includes a lighter comprising a body, an igniter coupled to the body and operable to create an ignition event of a smokeable substance, and a first compartment coupled to the body to store an energy source to be provided to the igniter; a smoking vessel comprising a pipe having an interior chamber between a first aperture and a second aperture; and a second compartment coupled to the body of the lighter and configured to store and provide the smoking vessel.