Segmented Housing Airflow Channels for Aerosol Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing non-combustible aerosol delivery systems face challenges in efficiently producing aerosols with optimal particle size and quantity, storage of aerosolizable materials, and manufacturing efficiency, while also requiring robustness for multiple uses.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a non-combustible aerosol provision system with a housing structure featuring discrete airflow channels between outer and inner housings, an aerosol generating chamber, and a power source with a control unit, allowing for modular configuration and efficient aerosol production, storage, and manufacturing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If discrete airflow channels are provided between inner and outer housings, then aerosol production efficiency is improved and delivery is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is segmented into multiple discrete airflow channels between the inner and outer housings, allowing aerosol to flow through separate defined paths. This segmentation improves aerosol production efficiency by ensuring controlled and efficient aerosol delivery while maintaining a relatively simple overall housing structure that can be manufactured as separate components.
2Reliability
If multiple discrete airflow channels are implemented, then aerosol delivery reliability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing structure is divided into separable inner and outer housing components with discrete airflow channels defined between them. This allows each component to be manufactured independently using standard manufacturing processes, improving reliability through consistent aerosol delivery paths while avoiding the complexity of integrating multiple channels into a single monolithic structure.
3Quantity of substance
If inner housing defines storage area for aerosol forming material, then material storage capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The inner housing is nested within the outer housing, with the inner housing defining a storage area for aerosol forming material. This nested configuration provides dedicated material storage capacity while maintaining a compact overall device structure. The simplicity of using nested housing components avoids the complexity of separate storage mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
An article for use as part of a non-combustible aerosol provision system, the article including a housing and a substantially planar aerosol generating component, wherein the housing includes a plurality of air inlets disposed within a first plane at a first end, wherein the aerosol generating component forms a second plane, wherein the plurality of inlets are entirely within the perimeter defined by the aerosol generating component when viewed along an axis perpendicular to the first plane.