Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic cigarettes, and in particular to an electronic cigarette and a power control method thereof. The power control method is used for controlling an output power of a power device to a heating element, and the method includes: determining a target power; setting an intermediate power according to the target power, the intermediate power being less than the target power; controlling the power device to output a power to the heating element, and enabling the output power of the power device to directly reach the intermediate power at a first stage; adjusting the output power of the power device to gradually reach the target power at a second stage, a duration of the first stage being less than a duration of the second stage; and controlling the power device to constantly output the target power to the heating element at a third stage.

Abstract: A light system for a vehicle is provided herein. The light system includes a trim member defining an aperture. A light guide is disposed within the aperture. The light guide has a proximal portion operably coupled with a light source. A lens is integrally formed with the light guide and is disposed at a distal portion of the light guide. A deformable attachment mechanism is integrally formed on the light guide between the proximal and the distal portions of the light guide. The light guide is compressively retained within the aperture by a forward portion of the attachment mechanism and a rearward portion of the lens.

Abstract: An bottle warming apparatus may be provided. The apparatus may include a bottle for storing food and fluids. The bottle may include a recessed portion and indentations positioned on opposite sides of the bottle. Additionally, the apparatus may include a bottle housing configured to receive the bottle. The apparatus may also include a heating element that is positionable into the recessed portion of the bottle. Furthermore, the apparatus may include a pressure-sensitive switch that activates the apparatus when the bottle exerts enough pressure against the switch as the bottle is positioned into the bottle housing. Heat may be generated by the heating element when the apparatus is activated and be utilized to warm the bottle. The apparatus may further include a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the bottle. A signal may be transmitted to instruct the apparatus to deactivate when an optimal temperature is reached.

Abstract: A configuration in which fixing is performed by inserting a rear end of a lead shaft member into an attachment hole of an external terminal at the rear of a glow plug and crimping an outer peripheral face of the external terminal. The outer peripheral face of a crimp formation region (78) of the external terminal (70) having a polygonal cross section is formed into a crimped portion (79) provided by round crimping toward a circle, and the external terminal (70) is fixed to the rear end (55) of the lead shaft member (50). Due to the configuration obtained from the round crimping of the polygon, plating breaks and the like are not easily produced in the plating layer on the surface of the external terminal.

Abstract: A car cigarette lighter with a light indicator includes a power socket and a cigarette lighter. The car cigarette lighter is characterized in attaching an external sleeve to a bottom tube of a handle, and installing a circuit board in electric connection with a circuit of the car cigarette lighter in the external tube. The circuit board has at least one light emitting diode located at a bottom of the transparent handle. A switch in electric connection with the car cigarette lighter is further mounted on the external sleeve. By plugging the car cigarette lighter into the power socket and pushing the handle, the circuit board is conducted, and the light emitting diode is switched on. By the switch of the external sleeve, the electro-thermal winding film is conducted and heated.

Abstract: A food cooking container, with means for monitoring the operating temperature thereof, comprises, in the handle support (3) and/or in the handle (2) of the container, temperature monitoring and indicating means for monitoring and indicating a preset operating temperature of the container.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lighter assembly for use in a receptacle. A rigid elongate body is frictionally retained in the receptacle and an engaging arm projects into an axial passage way. An item to be lit engages the engaging arm, which completes a switch and actuates a heating element to ignite the item. An insulator block supports the heating element and protects the heating element from damage during use. Vents allow smoke and ash to escape the lighter assembly, and a lens assembly actuated by the engaging arm lights up for easy location.

Abstract: An automobile cigarette case with electrical lighter for dispensing lit cigarettes to the driver of an automobile, having a substantially rectangular case housing which is selectively mountable on the dashboard of an automobile. The case housing contains an electric lighter having an electrical cord which terminates in a lighter adaptor which may be plugged into a standard cigarette lighter outlet for powering of the electric lighter. The case with electrical lighter has a cigarette passageway which holds a plurality of cigarettes and directs and biases the cigarettes toward the electric lighter whereupon they are ignited. After the cigarette has been ignited, a coiled lighter spring is allowed to expand, and thereby raises the unlit end of the cigarette so that it partially protrudes from an opening on top of the case housing, where it may be easily grasped by a user.

Abstract: A motor vehicle cigar lighter of the luminous type comprises a lighter body which is a receptacle for a luminous and removable heating plug which consists of a fixed part and a moving part. The moving part is displaceable axially in the fixed part. The moving part includes a push button and a light guide for propagating light received by it from an external light source when the plug is in position in the body. The light guide is an element of the fixed part of the heating plug, and surrounds the push button.

Abstract: An automatic cigarette lighter comprises a thermal resistance element mounted in a sealed case and powered by a switch activated power supply. Operation of the thermal resistance element is controlled by a timer to heat for a predetermined time after activation of the switch and then to remain off for a predetermined period of time before reactivation is possible. The automatic cigarette lighter finds particular advantage in situations where naked flame is unsafe or undesirable. It is also useful in secure establishments, such as prisons.

Abstract: An illumination module (20) for illuminating an object (10) comprises a number of illumination rings (62, 64, 66) each comprising a number of radiation-generating elements (50) which are all arranged on a flat plate (42). For each ring, a light guide (72, 82, 84) is provided for guiding the radiation from the ring to the exit window (60) where the radiation exits at a range of angles which are specific to said ring. The rings can be switched on individually, so that different kinds of illumination can be realized.

Abstract: A glow plug and method for manufacturing the same. The glow plug includes a metallic sleeve 1; a cylindrical metallic shell 2, which holds the metallic sleeve 1; a terminal electrode 3, which is attached into the cylindrical metallic shell 2 while being insulated therefrom; a ceramic heating member 4, which is fitted into the metallic sleeve 1; and a glass coating layer 5. In the glow plug, a portion of an ion detection electrode 411 is exposed at the surface of an insulator 44 of the ceramic heating member 4. The exposed portion is coated with a glass coating layer 5, which is formed in such a manner as to extend all around the insulator 44 of the ceramic heating member 4 and has a thickness of 10-200 &mgr;m and a softening point of not lower than 600° C.

Abstract: A heating element, preferably for oblong plate-shaped sensors for measuring oxygen concentration in internal combustion engine exhaust gas, has a conductive heating strip at one end of the heating element and electrical conductors which are connected electrically to the conductive heating strip and which supply the heating current and provide connection to the other end of the heating element. The positive temperature coefficient of the resistor material of the conductive heating strip is lower than the positive temperature coefficient of the material of at least one section of the conductors.

Abstract: The illuminating sleeve has at least one fastening tongue which is extended towards its front collar portion, so as to pass through the aperture in the fixed wall to which the illuminating sleeve is fastened.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cigarette identifier system comprising a coil at a location along the cigarette-receiving receptacle of the lighter, an oscillation circuit in communication with the coil and a controller configured to activate or deactivate the lighter responsively to output of the oscillator circuit.

Abstract: A ceramic heater includes a silicon nitride ceramic and a heating element embedded in the ceramic. The heating element is formed through use of, as a main component, a silicide, carbide, or nitride of at least one element selected from the group consisting of W, Ta, Nb, Ti, Mo, Zr, Hf, V, and Cr. The ceramic includes, as sintering aids, 1 to 20% by weight of at least one rare earth element calculated as an oxide thereof; 0.5 to 8% by weight of V (vanadium) calculated as V.sub.2 O.sub.5, and, 0.5 to 8% by weight of at least one Va/VIa group element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, and W calculated as an oxide thereof. The proportion in total of vanadium and the Va/VIa element is 1 to 10% by weight calculated as oxides. The ceramic heater has excellent high-temperature strength and acid resistance.

Abstract: In an ignition system for sensing a change in a resistance value during a combustion of a heating resistive element and detecting a fire extinction, a resistance value of the heating resistive element is sensed by a resistance value detecting circuit at a predetermined time interval set by an interval setting circuit, and a difference between the resistance value and that sensed before an elapse of the predetermined period of time is calculated by a resistance value calculating circuit. A comparing circuit compares a difference in the resistance values with a reference value stored in a reference value memory, and a extinction detecting circuit detects a fire extinction when the difference calculated by the resistance value difference calculating circuit had exceeded the reference value. Accordingly, there is attained an ignition system which reasonably determines a fire extinction without an additional complex structure.

Abstract: An ejection system is provided which has a mechanism such as a plunger which is positioned to eject at least a portion of a cigarette from the lighter cavity upon actuation by a smoker. The plunger is also positionable to occlude the lighter opening to protect the lighter cavity from dust, moisture, etc. The plunger is shaped, located and arranged to apply a force on the cigarette end inserted into the lighter. Further, an icon based indicator informs the smoker of the status of a cigarette inserted into the lighter.

Abstract: An electric cigar lighter for installation in a dashboard of a motor vehicle, has an electrically conductive lighter plug containing an electrically conductive glow coil dish with a glow coil having one end electrically connected to the glow coil dish and another end connected to the lighter plug. A socket having a plug-in contact electrically connected to a negative-pole terminal establishes electrical connection with the lighter plug when the lighter plug is inserted therein. A switch associated with the lighter plug includes a fixed non-flexible contact element secured in the bottom of the socket in electrically insulated relationship thereto and electrically connected to a positive-pole terminal and the glow coil dish which is mounted at the end of the lighter plug and arranged for movement relative thereto into and out of electrical contact with the contact element.

Abstract: An electric cigar lighter which can be fitted and illuminated automatically is disclosed. A reduction in parts of the electric cigar lighter, with the product being easier to fit in a dashboard, is achieved when the holding cup is additionally designed as a socket for the igniter plug having an incandescent head. A bimetallic spring contact electrically connected to the positive potential contact part, which in the operating state contacts an ignition dish of the incandescent head, is disposed on the inside wall area of the cup bottom, and at least one spring contact of the negative potential contact extends through the cup bottom to electrically contact and electrically engage with a conductive edge bead of the igniter plug. This means that the holding cup according to the present invention is used in an advantageous manner not only for illumination purposes, but also as a socket for the igniter plug.

Abstract: An illuminated electric cigarette lighter which can be assembled automatically includes a beaker-shaped clamping sleeve which encloses a socket preassembled therein and has an arrangement of a lamp and of contact parts which is central and near to the axis of the sleeve. In this manner, an illuminated electric cigarette lighter is provided which is largely of rotationally-symmetric construction and which can be assembled automatically by means of one single linear mating movement.

Abstract: A cigar or cigarette lighter, particularly for mounting on the instrument panel of a motor vehicle, is effective to light the cigar or cigarette when a control knob is moved within a cylindrical casing, the control knob being connected to a metal rod which is provided at its inner end with a movable contact engageable with a fixed contact to energize an electrical heating resistance element within a hot plate, the cigar or cigarette being lighted when placed against the heating plate on energizing the heating resistance element to incandescence. A bimetal safety contact is insulatingly fitted on a threaded stem below the hot plate, the threaded stem also carrying the hot plate at its inner end and feeds electric power thereto. The bimetal safety contact expands under prolonged heat action to establish a contact to the cylindrical casing which is grounded thereby producing a short circuit which blows a fuse in the instrument panel to interrupt the feed of electrical power to the lighter.

Abstract: A combined cigarette and chart/map lighter includes a elongated plug body which is adapted to cooperate with a socket connected to a source of electrical energy. An ignitor coil and cup are formed at a first end of the plug body, and a lamp socket, for receipt of a light bulb, is disposed interiorly of the plug body at a central portion of the plug body. A removable cap is formed at the second end of the plug body. A leaf spring electrical contact is provided within the plug body and is biased into engagement with a ground formed by the interior shell of the plug body. A cam follower is formed at the end of the leaf spring contact. A plastic generally U-shaped reciprocal element has linear cams formed at the free ends of each of the legs of the U, the linear cams capable of engaging the leaf spring cam follower and moving the leaf spring out of contact with the ground.

Abstract: A two-piece metal clamping shell for electric cigar lighters of the type employed in automobiles and other vehicles wherein a socket is carried in an aperture of the vehicle dashboard or other panel and an igniting unit or plug is receivable in the socket. The clamping shell includes a cylindrical body member which encircles the cigar lighter socket and which is adapted to secure the latter in its operative position. The body member of the shell is disposed behind the dashboard, and retains the socket by its engagement with the rear surface of the dash. The socket has a threaded portion at its inner end, and a similarly threaded clamp ring is applied thereto with the said body member being disposed between it and the dashboard's rear surface. The clamp ring has a peripheral nest portion adapted to centralize the body member with respect to the socket, and is capable of being tightened on the socket so as to secure the latter in place.

Abstract: The car cigar lighter of the present invention has such construction that it can easily be mounted on the panel nearby the driver's seat of a car and is superior in the operating ease and safety. Namely, it is characterized in that a holder and a positioning projection are formed on a socket by processing and on the other hand, at the center of a plug housed into said socket, a circular groove is formed and at the skirt portion of said plug, a ringed projection is formed respectively to enable controlling the sinking action of the knob by engaging the component members mentioned above with each other and also, with a base holder fixed into the cavity of the knob, a push nut secured to the base shaft of shaft body is press-fitted into the base holder to stick the knob easily to the shaft body. Further at the opening edge of a flange, a heat insulating resin ring is fitted to cover the edge, whereby any person who uses the cigar lighter can be prevented from getting burned.

Abstract: A cigar lighter, particularly for motor vehicles, comprising a plug body, which is insertable into a socket provided with current supply connections and in which an electrical heating element is mounted. An actuating device for switching current on, an indicator for indicating the operational state and a control device for automatically switching the heating process off is provided.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter, particularly for mounting on the dashboard of a motor vehicle, having a control knob mounted for sliding movement within a cylindrical casing and acting through a spring upon a control rod extending up to and in engagement with a pivotally mounted contact plate for energizing and deenergizing a hot plate adapted to light a cigarette when it is placed with its end thereagainst. A bimetal tongue is secured adjacent the hot plate and grips one edge of said pivotally mounted contact plate in the operative position thereof to release it when the bimetal tongue gets hot and thereby deenergize the hot plate.The cigarette is held in a removable insert in the control knob. When the insert is removed, the lighter can be used for lighting cigars. The cylindrical casing is surrounded by spring means for attachment of the lighter in a hole in the dashboard.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter with a built-in battery checker for use in automobiles which comprises two parts, one being a heater part in which a movable body provided with a heater at the tip of a push nob is mounted slidably in reciprocal front and rear directions to a holder and the other being a basal part into which the heater part is detachably inserted in such manner that when the push nob is pushed to bring the heater into contact with an electrode plate connected to a battery, the heater can be heated by electric current sent from the battery so as to enable the heater part to be pulled out from the basal part, characterized in that the push nob is provided inside with a variable illumination means in which brightness of the illumination is diminished according to increase in the degree of consumption of the battery and a standard illumination means for comparison in brightness with the variable illumination means.

Abstract: The dashboard of the automobile has an opening through which a tubular casing projects behind the dashboard. On the casing is a bell having a tubular extension telescoped on the casing. The bell, its extension and the casing are clamped to the dashboard. A trigger is pivoted to the tubular extension and has a hammer to strike the bell, a trigger finger projecting into the casing, and a spring to bias the hammer against the bell. Slidably and removably mounted in said casing is a push-pull unit comprising a plug telescoped within a sleeve and adopted to be moved forwardly relative to the sleeve to compress a coil compression spring between the plug and sleeve.

Abstract: This invention relates to cigar lighters of the removable igniting unit type. According to this invention the core of the knob mounted on the igniting unit is made of a material having the property of piping light. A lamp housing is mounted on the sleeve of the holding device over a side wall opening thereof. An electric lamp in said housing produces light to pass into the interiors of the shell as well as the core of the knob whereby the front of the knob is illuminated clearly in the dark when the igniting unit is in place on the holding device and the interior of the shell is well illuminated when the igniting unit is removed. Therefore, by the provision of the present improved illuminating means, a much increased degree of safety is provided for the driver who travels at high speed at night to obtain a light for his cigarette without slowing down.