Magnetic Sliding-Lid Case for Easy Inhalation Device Removal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol generating systems, such as e-cigarette cases, are not easily manufacturable and user-friendly for removing the inhalation device, often requiring complex mechanisms or visible magnetic components.
Innovation Solution
A compact aerosol generating system with a sliding and pivotable lid featuring magnets and ferritic elements, allowing easy removal of the inhalation device while maintaining a compact size, using a sliding pin for interaction with the device's magnets or ferritic elements, ensuring the device can be fully protected and easily brought to a ready-to-use state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a magnet is used to retain the inhalation device in the case, then the device is held securely, but the mechanism becomes complex and difficult to manufacture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the magnet and ferritic element into a single integrated retaining mechanism within the case body, eliminating the need for separate complex mechanical retention systems. The magnet and ferritic element work together as a unified system to hold the inhalation device securely without requiring additional components or complex assembly steps.
2Ease of operation
If a lifting device with permanent magnet is provided to cause the inhalation device to rise up, then the device removal is facilitated, but the case structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the lifting function from a complex mechanical structure and implements it solely through the magnetic interaction between the magnet and ferritic element. When the lid is opened, the magnetic force automatically causes the inhalation device to rise up without requiring any additional lifting mechanisms, levers, or complex structural modifications to the case.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces what would traditionally be a mechanical lifting system with a magnetic field-based system. The interaction between the magnet and ferritic element creates an automatic lifting action when the lid is opened, eliminating the need for mechanical linkages, springs, or other moving parts that would complicate the case structure.
3Volume of moving object
If the lid is made slidable relative to the body, then the case remains compact, but the mechanism for moving the inhalation device becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the sliding lid self-sufficient by integrating the magnet directly onto it. The magnet on the sliding lid automatically interacts with the ferritic element in the case body to perform the inhalation device lifting function, eliminating the need for additional mechanisms or linkages that would connect the lid movement to the device retrieval action.
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 system is easy to manufacture, user-friendly, and maintains a compact size even when open, ensuring the inhalation device is fully protected and easily accessible, with the use of magnets and ferritic elements providing a reliable and efficient interaction mechanism.
Implementation Method 1
The inhalation device and the lid has a combination of at least one magnet and at least one ferritic element, which cooperate to move the inhalation device relative to the body, when the lid is moved relative to the body
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AI summary
An aerosol generating system includes a case and an inhalation device, which can be accommodated in the case. The case has a body and a lid movable relative to the body. The inhalation device and the lid have a combination of a magnet and a ferritic element, which cooperate to move the inhalation device relative to the body, when the lid is moved relative to the body. The lid has at least one sliding pin, which is slidable relative to the body, and on which the magnet or ferritic element is provided.A method of removing at least one inhalation device from the case, includes the step of removing the inhalation device partially from the case by cooperation of the magnet and the ferritic element and the lid to the effect that the inhalation device is moved relative to the body, when the lid is moved relative to the body.