E-Cigarette Vaporization Frame Wick Retention Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing supporting frames for vaporization units in electronic cigarettes suffer from liquid guiding wicks easily releasing from their slots, leading to poor vaporization and potential overheating, which results in burning or charring and a bad user experience.
Innovation Solution
A supporting frame design with slots having bottoms higher than the annular-shaped step, column parts extending to partially close the openings, and through holes for fixing the heating coil leads, ensuring the liquid guiding wick remains secure and allows smooth airflow and liquid transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the slot structure is completely open, then the liquid guiding wick can be easily introduced into the slot, but the liquid guiding wick easily releases from the slot during use
Solution Approach 1:
The slot structure is segmented into multiple functional zones: an upper open portion for easy wick insertion, and a lower closed portion with column parts that secure the wick. This segmentation allows the slot to provide both ease of operation during installation and reliability during use, resolving the contradiction between open accessibility and secure retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The column parts are pre-formed at the bottom of the slot to create a preliminary securing structure. When the liquid guiding wick is introduced, the column parts automatically engage with the wick to prevent release. This preliminary action ensures that the wick is securely retained without requiring additional fastening operations.
2Reliability
If the liquid guiding wick becomes loose and hangs down, then the heating coil may block the central hole of the inner shoulder, but the wick structure becomes more complex to prevent this
Solution Approach 1:
The slot structure applies local quality by providing column parts only at specific locations where wick support is needed, rather than making the entire slot structure complex. The column parts are strategically positioned at the bottom of the slot to prevent wick displacement, while maintaining simplicity in other areas of the supporting frame.
Solution Approach 2:
The column parts are designed to automatically secure the liquid guiding wick through their geometric configuration, without requiring additional fastening mechanisms or complex structures. The wick is passively retained by the column parts simply by being positioned in the slot, allowing the structure to serve itself in preventing displacement.
3Reliability
If the liquid guiding wick is not securely fixed, then poor transmission of e-cigarette liquid occurs, but secure fixation requires additional structural elements
Solution Approach 1:
The column parts serve multiple functions: they structurally support the slot, secure the liquid guiding wick in position, and maintain the geometric configuration needed for proper liquid transmission. This multi-functionality allows reliable liquid transmission without adding excessive structural elements, as the same components perform multiple roles.
Solution Approach 2:
The column parts are merged with the slot structure as an integrated feature rather than separate components. This combining of functions reduces the total number of structural elements needed, as the column parts are formed as part of the slot itself rather than being additional separate fixtures.
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 the liquid guiding wick from becoming loose, ensuring effective vaporization and preventing overheating, thus improving the user experience by maintaining consistent vapor production and preventing burning tastes.
Implementation Method 1
the liquid guiding wick can hardly be vertically fixedly positioned in the slot when introducing the liquid guiding wick of the vaporization unit into the slot, and the liquid guiding wick may also be easily released from the slot during use
Implementation Method 2
The electronic cigarette usually heats and vaporizes e-cigarette liquid by means of a vaporization unit, thereby producing vapor for the smoker
Implementation Method 3
A heat insulation sleeve 6 is arranged outside the supporting frame 2, so as to further prevent the heat of the vaporization unit from being transferred to the outer sleeve 1 of the electronic cigarette to burn the outer sleeve 1
Data Source
AI summary
A supporting frame comprises a hollow frame body, an circumferential protrusion is radially formed on an outer wall, an inner shoulder which has a central hole is radially formed on an inner wall, the frame body is divided into an upper and a lower cavity portion, a rectangular notch is formed on a wall of the upper cavity portion, slots are symmetrically formed on an inner wall of the upper cavity portion, a step is formed on an upper circumferential edge of the central hole, and a backflow groove is formed between the annular-shaped step and the inner wall of the upper cavity portion, bottoms of the two slots are higher than the annular-shaped step, column parts are respectively formed on two sides of openings of the two slots, extending downwards to the annular-shaped inner shoulder and protruding outwards and towards each other to partially close the openings.