Smokeless Cigarette Capsule With Segmented Chambers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smokeless cigarette designs either require combustion, electric heating, or batteries, and often fail to provide long-lasting and uniform nicotine and flavor delivery while being easy to handle and pleasant to consume.
Innovation Solution
A smokeless cigarette device featuring a capsule with removable lids at both ends, allowing pressure-activated release of nicotine and flavor ingredients into a filter, which are mixed with air and absorbed by the user, eliminating the need for combustion or batteries and ensuring fresh interaction of ingredients upon use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a capsule with a predetermined breaking point is used to release ingredients upon pressure, then the capsule opens upon pressure applied from outside, but the opening mechanism may not provide uniform or controlled release of ingredients
Solution Approach 1:
The capsule is divided into multiple chambers (first chamber and second chamber) separated by a partition, with each chamber having its own lid and opening mechanism. This segmentation allows independent control and uniform release of different ingredients (nicotine and flavor) through separate pathways, ensuring reliable and controlled delivery of each component.
2Ease of manufacture
If ingredients are pre-mixed before encapsulation, then the device is simpler to manufacture, but the nicotine and flavor may not interact freshly upon use reducing delivery quality
Solution Approach 1:
Nicotine and flavor ingredients are stored in separate chambers during manufacturing, maintaining simplicity in the manufacturing process while preventing premature mixing. The partition wall keeps ingredients separated until use, ensuring fresh interaction and optimal delivery quality when the user activates the device.
Solution Approach 2:
Ingredients are prepared and placed in separate chambers in advance during manufacturing, but their mixing action is postponed until the moment of use when both chambers are opened simultaneously. This preliminary separation followed by timed mixing ensures fresh ingredient interaction without complicating the manufacturing process.
3Device complexity
If a single-chamber capsule is used, then the device structure is simpler, but it cannot separately store and deliver nicotine and flavor ingredients
Solution Approach 1:
The capsule is segmented into multiple chambers (first chamber for nicotine, second chamber for flavor) with a partition wall between them. Each chamber has its own lid and opening mechanism, allowing separate storage and controlled delivery of different ingredients while maintaining a relatively simple overall capsule structure.
4Reliability
If lids are attached with strong bonding to prevent premature opening, then the capsule remains sealed during storage, but excessive force is needed to open the capsule
Solution Approach 1:
The lid attachment uses a frictional fit mechanism that provides sufficient bonding strength at the lid-chamber interface to prevent premature opening during storage and transport. The localized frictional engagement allows the lid to be securely held while still permitting easy removal when the user applies gentle pressure, avoiding the need for excessive force.
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 provides a long-lasting and uniform delivery of nicotine and flavor without combustion or batteries, ensuring a pleasant user experience with a frictional fit mechanism for lid attachment and a resilient polymer chamber for efficient ingredient release.
Implementation Method 1
The chamber is made of a resilient polymer which allows the chamber to be flexible upon pressure being applied from outside
Implementation Method 2
Each lid is attached to the chamber by a frictional fit
Implementation Method 3
the ingredients exits the chamber(s) / capsule preferably into the surrounding filter which allows the air to mix with it before entering the users mouth
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AI summary
The present invention concerns a nicotine delivering device (1) in the form of a smokeless cigarette. The smokeless cigarette device incorporates at least one capsule (3). The at least one capsule comprises at least one chamber (4) having an opening at both of its ends, each of which is closed by a lid (5) that both open simultaneously upon pressure being applied to the outside of the capsule.