Ultrasonic E-Cigarette Atomizer Layout for Fast Startup and Leak Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizers suffer from tobacco tar accumulation due to gravity, leading to slow atomization startup, poor user experience, and potential leakage, as well as poor smoke taste due to unfiltered particles.

Innovation Solution

The ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer design features a tobacco tar storage bottle and ultrasonic atomization piece aligned parallel to the device's length, with a tobacco tar guide body that prevents accumulation and ensures quick atomization startup, while a vertical vent groove and tobacco tar guide needle enhance sealing and filtration of smoke particles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the ultrasonic atomization piece and flaky tobacco tar storage body are horizontally arranged below the tobacco tar storage device, then the structure is compact, but tobacco tar accumulates at the storage body and atomization piece due to gravity, causing slow atomization startup

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural arrangementVSAvoidatomization startup time
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the conventional horizontal arrangement by placing the ultrasonic atomization piece and flaky tobacco tar storage body vertically above the tobacco tar storage device. This inversion uses gravity to feed tobacco tar upward to the atomization piece, eliminating accumulation issues and enabling immediate atomization startup without waiting for tar to migrate horizontally.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Device complexity

If tobacco tar is output from a downward-opening bottle by external guide structure, then the structure is simple, but tobacco tar flows out from gaps between the guide structure and bottle opening, causing leakage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetobacco tar output structureVSAvoidsealing property
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates the tobacco tar guide structure inside the tobacco tar storage bottle rather than placing it externally. The guide structure is nested within the bottle's internal cavity, eliminating gaps between the guide and bottle opening that cause leakage. Tobacco tar flows through the guide structure's internal passage directly to the atomization piece without exposure to external gaps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Device complexity

If the smoke release surface of the tobacco tar storage body is not blocked and communicates directly with the suction nozzle, then the structure is simple, but small-granule and large-granule smoke particles are both inhaled, resulting in poor taste

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesmoke release structureVSAvoidsmoke particle quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the smoke release path into two distinct channels: a first smoke release passage for large-granule particles and a second smoke release passage for small-granule particles. This segmentation allows selective delivery of different particle sizes to the user, improving taste by controlling which particle types are inhaled, rather than allowing unfiltered mixed particles through a single open surface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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

This design prevents tobacco tar submersion, reduces leakage, and improves atomization speed and taste by ensuring efficient tobacco tar transfer and filtration, resulting in a better user experience and cleaner operation.

Implementation Method 1

heat the tobacco tar by the oscillation of the ultrasonic atomization piece to generate smoke

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectUltrasonic vibration: Ultrasonic Vibration

Data Source

PatentUS12022864B2Ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer and electronic cigarette
Publication Date: 2024.07.02 CHINA TOBACCO HUNAN IND CORP
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AI summary

An ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer and an electronic cigarette, wherein the ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer comprises a shell, a tobacco tar storage bottle, an ultrasonic atomization piece and a flaky tobacco tar storage body fit to one side face of the ultrasonic atomization piece are provided in the shell, and a tobacco tar guide body is fixed to an outer wall of at least one side of the tobacco tar storage bottle; one side face of the tobacco tar guide body is communicated with the inner cavity of the tobacco tar storage bottle, and the other side face of the tobacco tar guide body is contacted with the side face of the tobacco tar storage body which is away from the ultrasonic atomization piece; and the ultrasonic atomization piece and the tobacco tar storage body are provided to be parallel to the length direction of an electronic cigarette.