Rotating Aerosol Reservoir With Vibrating Mesh Atomization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol delivery devices lack enhanced functionality and fail to provide the sensations of smoking without significant combustion or pyrolysis products.
Innovation Solution
An aerosol delivery device with a housing, power source, control component, mouthpiece, tank portion, and atomization assembly that includes a vibrating mesh plate and rotating reservoir, utilizing a piezoelectric component to vaporize a liquid composition into an inhalable aerosol.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If traditional combustion methods are used to deliver smoking sensations, then the sensation is achieved, but harmful combustion and pyrolysis products are generated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical/chemical combustion system with an electrical vaporization system. An atomization assembly with a heating element vaporizes liquid composition containing tobacco-derived components, delivering smoking sensations without combustion. This substitution eliminates harmful pyrolysis products while maintaining the desired sensory experience through controlled electrical heating rather than flame-based combustion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical state and temperature parameters of the tobacco-derived components. Instead of combusting solid tobacco at high temperatures, the system uses liquid composition that is heated to vaporization temperatures. This parameter change from solid combustion to liquid vaporization fundamentally reduces harmful products while preserving the smoking sensation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If electrical vaporization is used to avoid combustion products, then harmful factors are reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The atomization assembly serves multiple functions: it heats the liquid composition, vaporizes the tobacco-derived components, and delivers the aerosol to the user. By combining these functions into a single integrated assembly rather than separate components, the patent reduces overall device complexity while maintaining the electrical vaporization approach that eliminates combustion products.
Solution Approach 2:
The mesh plate is positioned within the atomization assembly, and the liquid composition is contained within the device housing. This nested arrangement allows compact integration of multiple functional elements (liquid reservoir, heating element, mesh plate, aerosol delivery path) in a space-efficient manner, reducing device complexity while maintaining the beneficial electrical vaporization function.
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 device effectively produces inhalable aerosols without combustion, replicating smoking sensations by vaporizing tobacco-derived components, offering enhanced functionality and user experience.
Implementation Method 1
the atomization assembly comprises a vibrating assembly that includes a mesh plate, and the vibrating assembly further includes a piezoelectric component affixed to and substantially surrounding the mesh plate
Implementation Method 2
an atomization assembly configured to vaporize the liquid composition to generate an aerosol
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device that may comprise a housing defining an outer wall. The device may further include a power source and a control component, a mouthpiece portion, a tank portion that includes a reservoir configured to contain a liquid composition, and an atomization assembly configured to vaporize the liquid composition to generate an aerosol. The atomization assembly may comprise a vibrating assembly that includes a mesh plate. In some implementations, the reservoir of the aerosol delivery device may be configured to rotate relative to the position of the aerosol delivery device. In some implementations, the aerosol delivery device may further comprise a perforated gate. In some implementations, the aerosol delivery device may further comprise a liquid transport element. In some implementations, the aerosol deliver device may further comprise a micropump assembly. In some implementations, the reservoir of the aerosol delivery device may be U-shaped.