Phyto Material Tablet with Break Regions for Vaporization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for vaporizing phyto materials like cannabis face challenges in ensuring consistent dosing, efficient vaporization, and handling due to variability in vaporization temperature, duration, and packing density, leading to suboptimal vaporization and difficulty in tracking consumed doses.
Innovation Solution
The development of phyto material tablets with designed regions of weakness for fracturing into multiple pieces, allowing for increased surface area exposure during vaporization, and a vaporization device with fracturing components to facilitate efficient vaporization, along with a method for forming tablets using compression molds with protrusions to define break regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If phyto material is compressed into a solid tablet, then dosing consistency and handling are improved, but vaporization efficiency decreases due to limited surface area exposure
Solution Approach 1:
The tablet is designed with multiple through-holes that segment the solid phyto material into separate chambers, allowing vapor to penetrate through the entire tablet structure. This segmentation increases the effective surface area for vaporization while maintaining the dosing consistency of the compressed tablet form.
Solution Approach 2:
The tablet incorporates through-holes and ribbed edges that create a porous structure, enabling vapor to flow through the tablet from one side to the other. This porous design increases the exposed surface area during vaporization, improving vaporization efficiency while maintaining the benefits of compressed tablet form.
2Productivity
If through-holes are added to increase surface area, then vaporization efficiency improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The through-holes and ribbed edges are integrated into a single compression mold design, combining multiple structural features into one manufacturing process. This merging allows the tablet to be formed with both vaporization channels and structural reinforcement in a single compression step, reducing manufacturing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The compression process uses controlled pressure and heat parameters to simultaneously form the tablet body, create through-holes, and generate ribbed edges. By optimizing compression parameters, the manufacturing process achieves complex geometry without requiring multiple processing steps.
3Productivity
If ribbed edges are added to increase surface area, then vaporization efficiency improves, but tablet structural integrity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The ribbed edges are positioned at specific locations on the tablet periphery rather than uniformly across the entire structure. This local quality approach provides vaporization surface area enhancement at the edges while maintaining the structural integrity of the central tablet body.
Solution Approach 2:
The ribbed edges create a curved, textured surface at the tablet periphery, increasing the exposed surface area for vaporization. The curved geometry of the ribs provides both vaporization surface and structural reinforcement, balancing the two competing requirements.
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 solution ensures consistent and efficient vaporization of phyto materials by increasing the exposed surface area, reducing manufacturing difficulties, and improving handling and dosing accuracy, while the vaporization device enhances vaporization efficiency and dose management.
Implementation Method 1
a heating element assembly positioned proximate the heating chamber, the heating element operable to heat phyto material within the phyto material receiving cavity to a predetermined vaporization temperature to cause emission of vapor
Implementation Method 2
a first compression member and second compression member moveable towards one another to compress phyto material between the first compression surface and the second compression surface
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AI summary
Phyto material tablets, tablet vaporizers, methods and apparatus for forming phyto material tablets. The tablets are formed to increase vaporization efficiency. Tablets can include break regions to facilitate fracturing into multiple pieces for vaporization. The tablets can also include multiple layers of different phyto material mixtures. Compression molds are used to shape the tablets. The compression molds can be provided on a rotational assembly to facilitate rapid manufacturing of multiple tablets. The vaporizers include heating chambers that are configured to increase the surface area of the tablets exposed for vaporization. The heating chambers include compression or fracture members that compress and/or encourage fracturing of the tablets to assist vaporization.