Smoking Member Cleaning Device with Motor-Driven Brush

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in maintaining and cleaning smoking members, which limits user convenience and affects the performance and safety of smoking devices.

Innovation Solution

A smoking member cleaning device with a main body unit, accommodating unit, cleaning unit, cleaning driving unit, and power supply unit, designed to accommodate, clean, and drive the cleaning process of smoking members, including a heater unit and brush-like cleaning unit for effective residue removal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual cleaning methods are used for smoking members, then device complexity is reduced, but cleaning effectiveness and user convenience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidcleaning device structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cleaning device enables self-service by automatically cleaning the smoking member without requiring manual disassembly or complex user intervention. The device inserts into the smoking member and performs cleaning autonomously through motor-driven cleaning units, making maintenance simple while improving user convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The cleaning device is segmented into multiple functional units (cleaning unit, heating unit, driving unit) that can operate independently. This segmentation allows the device to be compact and simple overall while containing complex cleaning mechanisms only where needed, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If cleaning devices are designed to be simple, then device complexity is reduced, but cleaning effectiveness worsens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecleaning effectivenessVSAvoidcleaning mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex manual mechanical cleaning systems with an automated motor-driven cleaning unit. This substitution maintains simplicity in the overall device structure while achieving effective cleaning through controlled mechanical motion generated by the motor, improving both reliability and ease of use.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The cleaning effectiveness is improved by changing operational parameters such as motor speed, cleaning unit movement patterns, and contact pressure. These parameter adjustments allow the simple device structure to achieve reliable cleaning performance without requiring complex mechanical systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If automated cleaning systems are implemented, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemaintenance easeVSAvoidcleaning system structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cleaning device merges multiple functions (cleaning, heating, driving) into a single integrated unit that inserts into the smoking member. This consolidation improves user convenience by providing automated maintenance while minimizing device complexity by combining rather than multiplying separate components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The cleaning device is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a cleaning tool and as a component that can be integrated with smoking member systems. This universality allows the device to improve maintenance ease without requiring separate specialized components, thereby controlling overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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

Improves user convenience by facilitating easy maintenance and cleaning of smoking members, ensuring better performance and safety by removing residues and by-products from the insertion groove and heater unit.

Implementation Method 1

a cleaning unit formed in the accommodating unit and configured to clean the smoking member

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectFriction: Friction

Implementation Method 2

a heater unit arranged in the insertion groove and configured to heat a smoking material

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectJoule heating: Joule Heating

Data Source

PatentUS11432593B2Device for cleaning smoking member, and smoking member system

Publication Date: 2022.09.06 KT&G CO LTD

AI summary

Provided is a smoking member cleaning device formed to clean a smoking member, the smoking member cleaning device including a main body unit; an accommodating unit formed in one region of the main body unit to accommodate one region of the smoking member when the smoking member is being cleaned; a cleaning unit formed in the accommodating unit and configured to clean the smoking member; a cleaning driving unit connected to the cleaning unit and configured to clean the smoking member by moving the cleaning unit; and a power supply unit configured to supply driving energy to the cleaning driving unit.