Personal Vaporizer Check Valve and Modular Atomizer
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a personal vaporizer that can simultaneously accommodate both liquid and wax media, resist leaking, especially during nonuse, and maximize vapor delivery while minimizing the device's cross-sectional profile.
Innovation Solution
A personal vaporizer design featuring an atomizer module with a bowl and coil for wax vaporization and a tank module for liquid vaporization, connected by a check valve with a sealing mechanism to prevent leaks, allowing simultaneous vaporization of both wax and liquid, and a vapor tube for efficient vapor delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the vaporizer is designed to accommodate both liquid and wax media simultaneously, then versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vaporizer is divided into separate functional modules: a tank module for liquid media and an atomizer module for wax media. These modules can be attached or detached from each other, allowing the device to accommodate different media types without requiring a completely redesigned structure for each media type.
Solution Approach 2:
The atomizer module is designed with a universal interface that can work with both liquid and wax media. The heating element and vaporization chamber can process both media types, making the same structural components multi-functional and reducing the need for separate dedicated systems.
2Productivity
If air holes are provided for vapor delivery, then vaporization function is improved, but leaking occurs during nonuse
Solution Approach 1:
A check valve is installed in the air path to prevent backward flow of vaporizing media during nonuse. The valve automatically closes to seal the air holes when not in use, preventing leaks before they can occur, and opens to allow vapor delivery when the user activates the device.
3Area of moving object
If the cross-sectional area of the vaporizer is reduced, then device profile is improved, but vapor delivery is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The vapor delivery tube is designed with a helical or spiral configuration that utilizes the longitudinal dimension of the device. This allows the vapor passage to have sufficient cross-sectional area for good vapor delivery while fitting within a compact overall device profile by extending along the length of the vaporizer rather than requiring a large radial cross-section.
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 design enables simultaneous vaporization of wax and liquid, preventing leaks and maximizing essential oil delivery with a compact device profile, allowing for higher volume of essential oils per user pull and easy switching between flavors.
Implementation Method 1
actuation of the battery delivers electrical energy to the coil, causing the coil to heat and vaporize a wax that may be in the bowl
Implementation Method 2
a wick that communicates liquid from the chamber to the atomizer
Implementation Method 3
A typical personal vaporizer has an atomizer having a heating element that selectively heats the medium in order to produce the vapor
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AI summary
A personal vaporizer is configured to be usable both for non-liquid vaporizing media and for liquid vaporizing media. In some embodiments an electrically conductive check valve blocks vaporizing media from leaking out of air intake apertures during periods of nonuse, and delivers electric power to a heating element during use. In some embodiments, no wick structures extend into a fluid chamber, but a wick extends from a wick holder downstream of the fluid chamber to a vaporizing chamber.