Malleable Container with Magnetic Heating for Smokable Material
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smoking alternatives, such as 'heat not burn' products, face challenges in efficiently heating smokable materials without combustion, requiring innovative methods to volatilize components effectively.
Innovation Solution
The use of a malleable container with heating material that is heatable by a varying magnetic field, allowing for efficient heating of smokable materials within the container, which can be porous to release volatilized components, and incorporating materials like electrically-conductive and magnetic materials for enhanced heating.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional heating methods are used to heat smokable material, then combustion may occur, but efficient and controlled volatilization without combustion is difficult to achieve
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional thermal conduction heating with electromagnetic induction heating. The heating material contains electrically conductive and magnetic components that respond to an alternating magnetic field generated by the heating apparatus, converting electromagnetic energy directly into heat within the heating material, which then transfers to the smokable material. This substitution enables precise temperature control and eliminates uncontrolled combustion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the heating parameters by using alternating magnetic field frequency and intensity control. The heating apparatus generates an alternating magnetic field at specific frequencies that induce eddy currents in the electrically conductive heating material, creating controlled heat generation. By adjusting the magnetic field parameters, the system achieves optimal volatilization temperature without exceeding combustion thresholds.
2Temperature
If heating material is added to achieve efficient heating, then heat distribution improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The heating material is formulated as a composite containing both electrically conductive components (such as carbon particles, metal flakes, or conductive polymers) and magnetic components (such as iron oxide or ferrite particles). This composite structure enables simultaneous response to alternating magnetic fields through both eddy current induction in conductive phases and magnetic hysteresis in magnetic phases, achieving uniform and efficient heat distribution throughout the heating material and subsequently to the smokable material.
3Productivity
If a porous container is used to release volatilized components, then vapor generation efficiency improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The container is fabricated from porous material such as porous ceramic, porous metal, or porous polymer foam. The porous structure provides numerous channels and pathways that facilitate the efficient release of volatilized components from the smokable material to the external environment. The porous walls allow vapor permeation while maintaining structural integrity and containing the smokable material during heating. This approach achieves high vapor generation efficiency through the inherent surface area and flow channels of the porous structure.
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 enables efficient heating of smokable materials without combustion, achieving rapid and uniform temperature rise, improved heat distribution, and cost-effective design, allowing for progressive vapor generation and efficient release of volatilized components.
Implementation Method 1
heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field
Implementation Method 2
heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field
Implementation Method 3
at least a portion of the container is porous for permitting volatilized material generated by heating the smokable material within the cavity to leave the cavity
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material, the article including: a malleable container defining a cavity; a mass of smokable material in the cavity; and heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field to heat the smokable material. Also disclosed is a system including: such an apparatus; and an article for use with the apparatus, the article including a container defining a cavity, and a mass of smokable material in the cavity; wherein the apparatus includes a heating zone for receiving at least a portion of the article, and a magnetic field generator for generating a varying magnetic field to be used in heating the smokable material when the portion of the article is in the heating zone. In the system, the container is malleable, or a portion of the container is porous for permitting volatilised material generated by heating the smokable material within the cavity to leave the cavity.