AEROSOL GENERATION ASSEMBLY, MECHANISM, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS
An aerosol generation assembly (10) includes an upright ceramic (100) and a heating element (200). The upright ceramic (100) includes a solid post (110) and at least one liquid-conducting projection (120) arranged on the solid post (110). A gas channel zone (101) is formed between a side wall of the liquid-conducting projections (120) and an outside wall of the solid post (110). A liquid passage zone (102) is formed on the liquid-conducting projection (120). The heating element (200) is at least partly arranged in the outside wall of the solid post (110) and located in the gas channel zone (101).
The present invention relates to an aerosol generation assembly, mechanism, device, and apparatus.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ARTIn an electronic cigarette that includes a cylindrical ceramic heating core, which is also referred to as an instantaneous ceramic electronic cigarette, the cylindrical ceramic heating core has an axial opening formed in the center of the ceramic to serve as a gas channel, and a heating filament in largely embedded in an internal side of the ceramic, while an external side of the ceramic is fit to a hardware base in a manner of being wound with cotton.
However, at the site where the aerosol is generated in an electronic cigarette, a phenomenon of “frying” may readily occur. With the axial opening in the center of the cylindrical ceramic being the gas channel, when a gas flow of the electronic cigarette reaches the cylindrical ceramic, the gas flow is allowed to smoothly move through the gas channel formed in the cylindrical ceramic without being obstructed, condensate that is induced by “frying” or large liquid droplets will be largely inhaled by a user, causing discomfortable to the user. Further, during the generation of the aerosol, the cylindrical ceramic will be dynamically supplementing liquid to the aerosol generation site, namely the cylindrical ceramic consistently conducting liquid toward the aerosol generation site, however, as the heating filament is largely embedded in the internal side of the ceramic, the cylindrical ceramic has to supplement the liquid by adopting a manner of circumferentially transferring, so that liquid may not be timely supplemented, and dry burning may occur.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn view of the above, it is desired to provide an aerosol generation assembly, mechanism, device, and apparatus, which effectively reduce the frying induced discomfort that a user may experience during the course of use and also effectively reduce dry burning.
An aerosol generation assembly comprises:
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- an upright ceramic, the upright ceramic comprising a solid post and at least one liquid-conducting projection arranged on the solid post, a liquid passage zone being formed between a side wall of the liquid-conducting projection and an outside wall of the solid pos, the at least one liquid-conducting projection being provided with a liquid passage zone; and
- a heating element, the heating element being at least partly arranged in the outside wall of the solid post and located in the gas channel zone.
An aerosol generation mechanism comprises a liquid guiding member and an aerosol generation assembly described in any of the above embodiments. The liquid guiding member comprises an end attaching portion and a projection attaching portion connected to the end attaching portion, the end attaching portion being attached to an end portion of the solid post, the projection attaching portion being attached to the liquid passage zone of the liquid-conducting projection, the end attaching portion comprising a hollowed region, the hollowed region being arranged to correspond to the gas channel zone.
An aerosol generation device comprises a base and an aerosol generation mechanism described in any of the above embodiments. The base is formed with a liquid ingress hole and an aerosol generation compartment, the aerosol generation mechanism being disposed, through insertion, in the aerosol generation compartment, a compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment enclosing the gas channel zone, the projection attaching portion being in contact engagement with the compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment, the liquid ingress hole being in communication with the liquid passage zone.
An aerosol generation apparatus comprises an aerosol generation medium storage member and an aerosol generation device described in any of the above embodiments. The aerosol generation medium storage member is connected to the base, and the aerosol generation medium storage member is in communication with the liquid ingress hole.
Details of one or multiple embodiments of the present invention will be introduced in the following drawing and description. Other features, objectives, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the disclosure, the drawings, and the claims.
To more clearly expound the technical solution of embodiments of the present invention, as well as that of the prior art, a brief description will be provided below for the drawings that are necessary for the illustration of the embodiments of the present invention or that of the prior art. Obviously, the drawings described below show only some of the embodiments of the present invention, and those having ordinary skill in the art may envisage, based on the attached drawings, drawings of other embodiments without creative endeavor.
For better understanding of the present invention, the following provides a more comprehensive description of the present invention by taking reference to the attached drawings. However, the present invention can be embodied in various forms and is not limited to the embodiment described herein. On the contrary, the purpose of providing such embodiments is to allow the disclosed contents of the present invention to be understood in a more throughout manner.
It is noted that when an element is referred to as being “fixed” on another element, it can be directly arranged on said another element or there can be an intermediate therebetween. When an element is referred to as being “connected” to another element, it can be directly connected to said another element or there can be an intermediate element therebetween. The terms “vertical”, “horizontal”, “left” and “right”, and similar expressions as used herein are only for the purpose of illustration and are not intended to define a sole way of embodying.
Unless otherwise defined, all the terminology and scientific terms used herein are of the same meaning as that commonly understood by the technicians of the art to which the invention belongs. The terminology used in the disclosure of the present invention is only adopted for the purposes of illustrating specific embodiments, and is not for limiting the present invention. The term “and/or” as used herein includes any and all combinations of one or more related items that are listed.
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The aerosol generation assembly 10 as discussed above makes the gas channel zone 101 formed between the side wall of the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the outside wall of the solid post 110 of the upright ceramic 100, and the gas channel zone 101 of the aerosol generation assembly 10 is located on an external circumference of the solid post 110 of the upright ceramic 100, so that when a gas flow of an electronic cigarette moves to the site of the aerosol generation assembly 10, the solid post 110 provides an effect of flow blocking to the gas flow, causing the gas flow reaching the gas channel zone 101 to pass therethrough in a turbulence form, making a liquid condensate or large liquid droplets caused by frying more frequently impacting the side walls of the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110 to get attached to the side walls of the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110, and thus reducing an amount of the liquid condensate or the large liquid droplets caused by frying to be brought out to thereby reduce the feeling of discomfort of a user caused by frying during the course of use, and also, the liquid-conducting projection 120 is provided with the liquid passage zone 102 formed thereon, and the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110 are arranged in combination with the heating element 200 being at least partly arranged in the outside wall of the solid post 110 and located in the gas channel zone 101, meaning an atomizable cigarette liquid passes over the liquid-conducting projection 120 to be guided onto the solid post 110, and the atomizable cigarette liquid that is guided onto the solid post 110 is subjected to heating and atomizing by the heating element 200 arranged on the outside wall of the solid post 110 to form an aerosol. Compared to a cylinder, the solid post 110 exhibits a relatively large liquid storage capacity, and this implies a time period in which the atomizable cigarette liquid is continuously atomized at the site of the solid post 110 can be significantly extended. Further, the liquid-conducting projection 120 takes a form of linear transfer to carry out liquid supplementing to the solid post 110, and this, compared to liquid supplementing in a form of circumferential transfer, exhibits a relatively high efficiency of liquid supplementing, and this better ensures the timeliness of supplementing of the atomizable cigarette liquid to the site of the solid post 110 to thereby better reduce dry burning caused by untimely liquid supplementing.
It is noted that liquid supplementing taken in the form of circumferential transfer is that in a cylindrical ceramic having a central axial opening to serve as a gas channel, during the course of liquid supplementing, when the atomizable cigarette liquid flows from a liquid chamber to the surface of the cylindrical ceramic, the atomizable cigarette liquid has to move in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical ceramic to have the atomizable cigarette liquid transferred to an inner circumferential wall of the cylindrical ceramic. The transfer path is relatively long, making it easy to cause untimely liquid supplementing that results in dry burning. Liquid supplementing taken in the form of linear transfer is that during the course of supplementing liquid through the liquid-conducting projection to the solid post, when the atomizable cigarette liquid flowing from the liquid chamber reaches the liquid-conducting projection, the atomizable cigarette liquid moves in a direction of thickness of the liquid-conducting projection, namely moving in a linear direction, to have the atomizable cigarette liquid transferred to the site of the solid post, and compared to circumferential transfer, the transfer path of linear transfer is relatively short and timeliness of liquid supplementing can be improved.
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In one embodiment, the heating element comprises a heating filament. Further, a portion of the heating filament is attached to, partly embedded, or fully embedded in the outside wall of the solid post serves as the direct heating portion. Further, a portion of the heating filament embedded in the liquid-conducting projection serves as the embedded portion. Further, the direct heating portion and the embedded portion are made as an integrally formed structure. It is appreciated that the direct heating portion and the embedded portion forming the heating filament and being made as an integrally formed structure could better improve the connection stability and connection compactness of the direct heating portion and the embedded portion to thereby better ensure the structure compactness and structure stability of the heating element to better ensure the stability of heating and atomizing of the heating element.
In one embodiment, the heating filament comprises a spiral heating filament. The heating filament is spirally wound around the side wall of the solid post, and a portion of the heating filament extends through the liquid-conducting projection. It is appreciated that the heating filament being spirally wound around the side wall of the solid post could allow the solid post to better achieve fully and uniformly heating to thereby enhance the effect of atomization of the atomizable cigarette liquid to better ensure mouth feeling of inhaling the aerosol.
In one embodiment, the solid post and the liquid-conducting projection are made as an integrally formed structure. It is appreciated that making the solid post and the liquid-conducting projections as an integrally formed structure could better enhance connection stability and connection compactness of the solid post and the liquid-conducting projections to thereby better ensure the structure stability and structure compactness of the upright ceramic.
In one embodiment, the heating element comprises a heating rack, a heating net, or a heating plate. The heating element is arranged on the outside wall of the solid post and located in the gas channel zone. It is appreciated that the heating rack, the heating net, or the heating plate may be, but not limited thereto, attached to, partly embedded in, or fully embedded in the outside wall of the solid post to better realize stable generation of aerosol in the gas channel zone.
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In one embodiment, there are a plurality of liquid-conducting projections, and the number of the liquid-conducting projections is defined by M, M being greater than two. The M liquid-conducting projections are arranged to distribute in a circumference about the central axis of the solid post to define M gas channel zones. It is appreciated that circumferential distribution about the central axis of the solid post is to distribute along a circular circumference of a circle about the central axis of the solid post, for better realizing a multiplicity of paths for liquid supplementing to the solid post to thereby ensure the amount of liquid supplemented to the solid post and enhancing the effect of atomization. However, it is not the case that the greater the value of M, the better the effect of atomization, the sum of the lengths of the shorter arc lines of the liquid-conducting projections taking ⅓-⅗ of the circumference length of the solid post provides a better intensity of liquid supplementing and shows a better quantity of aerosol generation so as to ensure a better effect of atomization.
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In the aerosol generation mechanism 10A discussed above, the aerosol generation mechanism 10A is adopted to have the end attaching portion 201 attached to the end portion of the solid post 110, so that the liquid guiding member 20 is fixed to the end portion of the solid post 110 by means of the end attaching portion 201 to effectively ensure the stability of fixing of the liquid guiding member 20 to better realize a sealing effect that the liquid guiding member 20 applies to the atomizable cigarette liquid, and also, the end attaching portion 201 includes the hollowed region 203, and the hollowed region 203 is arranged to correspond to the gas channel zone 101, and the projection attaching portion 202 is attached to the liquid passage zone 102 of the liquid-conducting projection 120, so that the liquid guiding member 20 can avoid the gas channel zone 101 by applying the projection attaching portion 202 to attach to the side surface of the liquid-conducting projection 120 that is distant from the solid post 110 to effectively ensure the effect of liquid guiding that the liquid guiding member 20 applies to the liquid-conducting projection 120.
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In one embodiment, the end attaching portion and the projection attaching portion are made as an integrally formed cotton structure to enhance the connection stability and connection compactness of the end attaching portion and the projection attaching portion to thereby better ensure structural strength and compactness of the liquid guiding member and also to enhance the fabrication efficiency of the liquid guiding member.
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In the aerosol generation device 10B discussed above, the aerosol generation mechanism 10A is adopted to have the compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment 202A enclose the gas channel zone 101, and the projection attaching portion 202 is in contact engagement with the compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment 202A, and the liquid ingress hole 201A is in communication with the liquid passage zone 102, so as to better realize the atomizable cigarette liquid being guided linearly from the projection attaching portion 202 and the liquid-conducting projection 120 onto the solid post 110 for heating and atomizing, thereby better ensuring reduction of the feeling of discomfort of a user caused by frying during the course of use, and better ensuring reduction of dry burning caused by untimely liquid supplementing.
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In the aerosol generation apparatus 10C discussed above, the aerosol generation device 10B is adopted to have the aerosol generation medium storage member 20B connected to the base 20A and the aerosol generation medium storage member 20B in communication with the liquid ingress hole 201A, so that the base 20A and the aerosol generation medium storage member 20B are connected together to surround and define a chamber in which the atomizable cigarette liquid is stored and have the chamber in communication with the liquid ingress hole 201A to better realize contact of the atomizable cigarette liquid with the liquid guiding member 20 to thereby better ensure effective liquid guiding by the liquid guiding member 20 and the liquid-conducting projection 120.
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Compared to the known art, the present invention at least includes the following advantages:
The aerosol generation assembly 10 according to the present invention is such that the gas channel zone 101 is formed between the side wall of the liquid-conducting projections 120 and the outside wall of the solid post 110 of the upright ceramic 100, and the gas channel zone 101 of the aerosol generation assembly 10 is located on the external circumference of the solid post 110 of the upright ceramic 100 so that when a gas flow of an electronic cigarette moves to the site of the aerosol generation assembly 10, the solid post 110 provides an effect of flow blocking to the gas flow, causing the gas flow reaching the gas channel zone 101 to pass therethrough in a turbulence form, making a liquid condensate or large liquid droplets caused by frying more frequently impacting the side walls of the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110 to get attached to the side walls of the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110, and thus reducing an amount of the liquid condensate or the large liquid droplets caused by frying to be brought out to thereby reduce the feeling of discomfort of a user caused by frying during the course of use, and also, the liquid-conducting projection 120 is provided with the liquid passage zone 102 formed thereon, and the liquid-conducting projection 120 and the solid post 110 are arranged in combination with the heating element 200 being at least partly arranged in the outside wall of the solid post 110 and located in the gas channel zone 101, meaning an atomizable cigarette liquid passes over the liquid-conducting projection 120 to be guided onto the solid post 110, and the atomizable cigarette liquid that is guided onto the solid post 110 is subjected to heating and atomizing by the heating element 200 arranged on the outside wall of the solid post 110 to form an aerosol. Compared to a cylinder, the solid post 110 exhibits a relatively large liquid storage capacity, and this implies a time period in which the atomizable cigarette liquid is continuously atomized at the site of the solid post 110 can be significantly extended. Further, the liquid-conducting projection 120 takes a form of linear transfer to carry out liquid supplementing to the solid post 110, and this, compared to liquid supplementing in a form of circumferential transfer, exhibits a relatively high efficiency of liquid supplementing, and this better ensures the timeliness of supplementing of the atomizable cigarette liquid to the site of the solid post 110 to thereby better reduce dry burning caused by untimely liquid supplementing.
All the features of the embodiments described above can be combined arbitrarily, and for simplicity of the description, all possible combinations of the features of the above embodiments have been expounded. However, all the combinations of such features are all considered within the scope of the disclosure provided there is no contradiction between such features.
The above-discussed embodiments only illustrate some of the embodiments of the present invention. The illustration is made specific and detailed, and it should not be construed as being limitative to the scope of protection of the present invention. It is noted that for those having ordinary skill in the art, various changes and modifications can be contemplated without departing from the inventive idea of the present invention, and such are all considered within the scope of protection of the present invention. Thus, the scope of patent protection of the present invention is only defined by the appended claims.
Claims
1. An aerosol generation assembly, comprising:
- an upright ceramic, the upright ceramic comprising a solid post and at least one liquid-conducting projection arranged on the solid post, a gas channel zone being formed between a side wall of the liquid-conducting projection and an outside wall of the solid post, the at least one liquid-conducting projection being provided with a liquid passage zone; and
- a heating element, the heating element being at least partly arranged in the outside wall of the solid post and located in the gas channel zone.
2. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the heating element comprises a direct heating portion and an embedded portion;
- the direct heating portion is attached to, partly embedded in, or fully embedded in the outside wall of the solid post;
- the direct heating portion is located in the gas channel zone and connected to the embedded portion; and
- the embedded portion is embedded in the liquid-conducting projection.
3. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 2, wherein the heating element further comprises an electrical conducting member, the electrical conducting member extending through the solid post or the liquid-conducting projection and being electrically connected with the direct heating portion and the embedded portion.
4. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 2, wherein the heating element comprises a heating filament;
- a portion of the heating filament that is attached to, partly embedded, or fully embedded in the outside wall of the solid post serves as the direct heating portion;
- a portion of the heating filament that is embedded in the liquid-conducting projection serves as the embedded portion; and
- the direct heating portion and the embedded portion are made as an integrally formed structure.
5. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 4, wherein the heating filament comprises a spiral heating filament which is spirally wound around the side wall of the solid post, and a portion of the spiral heating filament extends through the liquid-conducting projection.
6. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the solid post and the liquid-conducting projection are made as an integrally formed structure;
- and/or the heating element comprises a heating rack, a heating net, or a heating plate, and the heating element is arranged on the outside wall of the solid post and located in the gas channel zone; and/or
- the solid post comprises a cylinder, and the liquid-conducting projection comprises a fan-shaped projection block, a top portion of the liquid-conducting projections being connected to the solid post.
7. The aerosol generation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the at least one liquid-conducting projection comprises two liquid-conducting projections and the two liquid-conducting projections are arranged in axial symmetry about a central axis of the solid post to form two gas channel zones; or
- the at least one liquid-conducting projection comprises M liquid-conducting projections which are arranged to distribute in a circumference about a central axis of the solid post to define M gas channel zones, M being an integer greater than two.
8. An aerosol generation mechanism, comprising a liquid guiding member and the aerosol generation assembly according to claim 1, wherein the liquid guiding member comprises an end attaching portion and a projection attaching portion connected to the end attaching portion, the end attaching portion being attached to an end portion of the solid post, the projection attaching portion being attached to the liquid passage zone of the liquid-conducting projection, the end attaching portion comprising a hollowed region, the hollowed region being arranged to correspond to the gas channel zone.
9. The aerosol generation mechanism according to claim 8, wherein an end portion of the solid post is provided with a positioning portion, and the end attaching portion comprises a positioning region, the positioning portion being connected to the positioning region.
10. The aerosol generation mechanism according to claim 9, wherein the positioning portion comprises a positioning projection, and the positioning region comprises a positioning hole, the positioning projection being received in the positioning hole.
11. The aerosol generation mechanism according to claim 8, wherein the end attaching portion and the projection attaching portion are made as an integrally formed cotton structure.
12. An aerosol generation device, comprising a base and the aerosol generation mechanism according to claim 8, wherein the base is formed with a liquid ingress hole and an aerosol generation compartment, the aerosol generation mechanism being disposed in the aerosol generation compartment, a compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment enclosing the gas channel zone, the projection attaching portion being in contact engagement with the compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment, the liquid ingress hole being in communication with the liquid passage zone.
13. The aerosol generation device according to claim 12, wherein a liquid blocking step is arranged at an end portion of the compartment wall of the aerosol generation compartment, and the liquid blocking step corresponds to the gas channel zone.
14. An aerosol generation apparatus, comprising an aerosol generation medium storage member and the aerosol generation device according to claim 12, wherein the aerosol generation medium storage member is connected to the base, and the aerosol generation medium storage member is in communication with the liquid ingress hole.
15. The aerosol generation apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the aerosol generation apparatus further comprises an electrical power bar and an inhalation mouth, the electrical power bar being electrically connected with the heating element, the inhalation mouth being in communication with the gas channel zone, the inhalation mouth being connectable to the aerosol generation medium storage member and/or the base.
16. The aerosol generation apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the inhalation mouth is formed with a liquid filling void area; and
- the base and the aerosol generation medium storage member are connected to form a liquid chamber, the base being formed with a liquid filling hole, the liquid filling hole being in communication with the liquid chamber, the liquid chamber being in communication with the liquid ingress hole, the liquid filling hole being also in communication with the liquid filling void area, the liquid chamber being configured for storing and holding therein the atomizable cigarette liquid.
17. The aerosol generation apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the aerosol generation apparatus further comprises a mouth cap, the mouth cap being set on and covering the inhalation mouth, the mouth cap being connectable to the inhalation mouth in a detachable manner.
Type: Application
Filed: Jul 24, 2023
Publication Date: Feb 22, 2024
Applicant: SHENZHEN AEROSOL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CO., LTD. (Shenzhen, GD)
Inventors: Chengqin WU (Shenzhen), Hui LIU (Shenzhen), Tongxing FANG (Shenzhen), Xiong JIANG (Shenzhen)
Application Number: 18/225,165