SMOKING JIG
A product called IQOS, glo, or Ploom S sold as a heated tobacco product uses a filter-attached cigarette using tobacco leaves, which are treated to generate smoke by being heated, as tobacco leaves, in which the filter-attached cigarette is inserted into an exclusive heating jig, thereby allowing a user to enjoy nicotine and tobacco flavor evaporated by heating the tobacco leaves with an embedded heater. A smoking jig is provided having an electronic cigarette smoke generating part (e.g., an atomizer) mounted in the jig and configured to control, individually, a heater for heating tobacco leaves and a heater for generating electronic cigarette smoke, thereby allowing a smoker to smoke in accordance with his/her preference. Furthermore, the jig may also be used to cut tobacco leaves for a pipe or cut a filter-attached cigarette, which is used by burning, thereby enabling a smoker to enjoy smoking at a low running cost.
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This application claims priority to and the benefit of Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-050700 filed in the Japanese Patent Office on Mar. 19, 2019, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
TECHNICAL FIELDThe present invention relates to a smoking jig which heats tobacco leaves with a heater to enable a smoker to inhale nicotine evaporated from the tobacco leaves, the smoking jig being mounted with an atomizer for an electronic cigarette, such that when the smoker inhales smoke from a filter of a filter-attached cigarette for a heated tobacco product inserted into the jig, or from a drop tip attached to a tobacco leaf insertion tube into which the tobacco leaves are inputted, the smoker may inhale nicotine and tobacco flavor generated by heating the tobacco leaves and inhale vapor (smoke) generated by the atomizer. In this case, the atomizer for an electronic cigarette uses a liquid containing glycerin, propylene glycol, or the like as main substances, and generates vapor (smoke) by heating the liquid with a heater disposed in the atomizer Hereinafter, in the present application, the vapor (smoke) is referred to as electronic cigarette smoke.
BACKGROUND ARTA heated tobacco product is a product such as IQOS launched by Philip Morris in Japan in 2014, glo launched on trial by BAT in 2016 in Sendai, or Ploom S released by JT in 2019. Each of the heated tobacco products has an exclusive smoking jig into which an exclusive filter-attached cigarette is inserted, and nicotine, tobacco flavor, and smoke are generated by heating tobacco leaves with a heater disposed in the jig. When tobacco leaves of a normal filter-attached cigarette, which allows a user to smoke by burning the tobacco leaves, are heated by a heater, nicotine and tobacco flavor are somewhat released, but smoke is hardly generated. As the tobacco leaves of the exclusive filter-attached cigarette, tobacco leaves, which have been subjected to a special chemical treatment in order to generate smoke by being heated by the heater, are used. A filter-attached cigarette for IQOS is heated at about 300° C., is called a ‘Heat Stick’, and is about 7.2 φ in diameter and about 45 mm in length. A filter-attached cigarette for glo is heated at about 300° C., is called a ‘Neo-Stick’, and is about 5.2 φ in diameter and about 83 mm in length. A filter-attached cigarette for Ploom S is heated at about 200° C., is called a ‘Tobacco Stick’, and is about 7.0 φ in diameter and about 55 mm in length. As described above, the filter-attached cigarettes for heated tobacco products manufactured by respective companies cannot be used by a single heating jig because the filter-attached cigarettes are different from one another in terms of the heating temperature or the diameter and the length of the filter-attached cigarette. However, all the filter parts of the filter-attached cigarettes have many gaps in order to transfer nicotine, tobacco flavor, or smoke, which is generated by heating the tobacco leaves, to a smoker's mouth without absorbing the nicotine, the tobacco flavor, or the smoke. In addition, a typical filter-attached cigarette, which is about 8.0 φ diameter and used by burning, is widely used.
[Documents of Related Art]
PATENT DOCUMENTSPatent Document 1: Japanese Patent Application No. 2018-246902
Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-171743
Patent Document 3: Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-079479
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to the further improvement of the smoking jig disclosed in Patent Document 1. The present inventor manufactured a smoking jig on trial, requested a smoker to use the smoking jig, and investigated a problem. As a result, it could be found that when using the smoking jig, a heating tube part is withdrawn when using tobacco leaves for a typical filter-attached cigarette or using the ‘Heat Stick’ and replacing a tobacco retaining part. It could be found that the smoking jig needs to be reassembled each time the cigarette to be used is changed. Further, it could be found that the smoking jig is very difficult to use.
The smokeless smoking jig 100 disclosed in Patent Document 2 or 3 uses ‘Heat Stick’ 68, the filter-attached cigarette for IQOS, and uses a slide SW 121 and a slide SW 222 to set a heating temperature or time for heating inserted tobacco leaves to a temperature or time preferred by a smoker even though IQOS cannot implement this setting.
When using the smoking jig disclosed in Patent Document 1, the smoking jig cannot be used unless the tobacco retaining part and the heater part are mounted. However, even in a case in which the tobacco retaining parts are changed, the heater part is also withdrawn. In case of actual use, the withdrawal of the heater part causes inconvenience, and a monitor, who has actually used the smoking jig, has requested a structure capable of changing only the tobacco retaining parts.
Therefore, the present inventor installs a vertical part 611 on a right tip portion of the lower/outer tube 105, as illustrated in
In order to manufacture the tobacco insertion tube 605 at low costs, the present inventor made the tobacco insertion tube 605 by cutting the AL tube into a required dimension and fitting a bushing 710, which is made of PTFE and illustrated in
The smoking jig according to the present invention has built-in software made to perform customization in accordance with customers. First, the built-in software is made such that when a smoker turns on the power source by pushing the button SW, preset values of the slide SW1 and the slide SW2 are read. The slide SW has three contact points in one circuit, and as a result, when ‘slide SW1=1’ and ‘slide SW2=1, 2, 3’ are set, the smoke generation time of the atomizer may be customized as 3 seconds, 3.5 seconds, and 4 seconds. When ‘slide SW1=2’ and ‘slide SW2=1, 2, 3’ are set, this may be customized as ‘the built-in buzzer sounds’, ‘the buzzer does not sound’, and ‘used for only the electronic cigarette’. When ‘slide SW1=3’ and ‘slide SW2=1, 2, 3’ are set, the smoking time may be customized as 4.5 minutes, 5.5 minutes, and 6.5 minutes.
The heating temperature for heating tobacco leaves is adjusted by DC output voltage of the lithium ion rechargeable battery immediately after turning on the power source, such that the temperature of the heater is rapidly increased, thereby shortening the waiting time until a smoker begins to smoke. Furthermore, about 1 minute before the end of smoking, the voltage is applied so that the heating temperature for heating the heater is slightly increased, thereby releasing nicotine remaining in the tobacco leaves.
The resistance value of the heater of the atomizer and the resistance value of the heater 131 are very low values of about 1.0 to about 2.0Ω, and as a result, when the power is applied to the heater of the atomizer and the heater 131 at the same time, the output voltage greatly decreases due to the internal impedance of the lithium ion rechargeable battery. For this reason, the heater of the atomizer and the heater 131 cannot be turned on at the same time. Therefore, because the power cannot be supplied, for several seconds while the smoke is generated, to the heater for heating the tobacco leaves, there occurs a problem that the heating temperature for heating the tobacco leaves decreases while the smoke is generated. In order to solve this problem, the present inventor applies output voltage of the lithium ion rechargeable battery directly to the heater at a time proportional to the smoke generation time in order to rapidly restore the temperature of the heater, such that the heater temperature for heating the tobacco leaves may be constantly maintained even while the smoke is generated. In addition, the power supply to a typical heater is not performed by directly supplying the voltage of the lithium ion rechargeable battery, but the voltage of the lithium ion rechargeable battery is changed to a square wave output and then supplied.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITYThere has been developed the smoking jig in which the atomizer for an electronic cigarette and the tube for heating the tobacco leaves are inserted into the smoking jig, both the atomizer and the tube are structured in an air-tight manner, and the time taken to apply power to the atomizer and the heater and the time taken to apply power to the heater for heating the tobacco leaves are individually controlled, such that it is possible to set a preferred amount of smoke and a preferred nicotine or tobacco flavor and to allow a user to enjoy various smoking methods. Furthermore, it is possible for a user to smoke by putting tobacco leaves into the tobacco leaf insertion tube, and it is possible to greatly reduce a smoking cost. Furthermore, even if types of filter-attached cigarettes to be inserted are different, it is possible for a user to smoke only by changing the tobacco retaining parts 93.
Claims
1. A smoking jig comprising:
- a heater configured to heat inserted tobacco leaves; and
- an atomizer configured to generate electronic cigarette smoke,
- wherein a smoker is allowed to inhale smoke generated by the atomizer in addition to nicotine and tobacco flavor generated by heating the tobacco leaves with the heater, and filter-attached cigarettes having different outer diameters or different lengths are used only by changing a tobacco retaining part.
2. The smoking jig of claim 1, wherein the tobacco retaining part used for the smoking jig has a protrusion portion, and filter-attached cigarettes having different outer diameters are used by changing an inner diameter of the tobacco retaining part.
3. A smoking jig, wherein a smoke intake port is provided at a position of a tobacco introducing tube which is not covered by a tip portion of an inserted tobacco.
4. A smoking jig, wherein a heating tube part has a space configured to determine a position into which an inserted tobacco is inserted, and to introduce smoke from an atomizer to a side of the tobacco.
Type: Application
Filed: Mar 18, 2020
Publication Date: Sep 24, 2020
Applicant: . (Seoul)
Inventor: Kazuhiko SHIMIZU (Hyogo)
Application Number: 16/822,229