Electronic cigarette
An electronic cigarette comprises nicotine without harmful tar. The cigarette includes a shell, a cell, nicotine solution, control circuit, and an electro-thermal vaporization nozzle installed in the air suction end of the shell. The advantages of the present invention are smoking without tar, reducing the risk of cancer, the user still gets a smoking experience, the cigarette is not lit, and there is no fire danger.
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This Application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/548,659, filed Jul. 13, 2012 and now pending, which is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/088,276 filed Apr. 15, 2011 and now pending U.S. Pat. No. 8,511,318, which is a Division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/547,244 filed Feb. 27, 2006 and now abandoned, which is the U.S. National Phase Application of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2004/000182 filed Mar. 8, 2004, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 03111582.9 filed Apr. 29, 2003. These applications are incorporated herein by reference.
TECHNICAL FIELDThe invention relates to an electronic cigarette which contains only nicotine without tar.
BACKGROUND ARTDespite it is commonly known that “smoking is harmful to your health”, the number of smokers worldwide is up to 1 billion, and the number is increasing every year. According to the statistical data from the World Health Organization, about 4.9 million people die of diseases caused by smoking each year. Although smoking may cause serious respiratory diseases and cancer, it remains extremely difficult for smokers to quit smoking completely.
The active ingredient in a cigarette is nicotine. During smoking, nicotine, along with a lot of tar aerosol droplets produced in the burning cigarette, enters smoker's alveolus and is rapidly absorbed. After being absorbed into the blood of a smoker, nicotine then produces an effect on the receptors of the smoker's central nervous system, which makes him/her relax and enjoy an inebriety similar to that produced by an exhilarant.
Nicotine is a kind of alkaloid with low molecular weight. A small dose of nicotine is essentially harmless to human body and its half-life in blood is quite short. The major harmful substance in tobacco is tar, and the tar in tobacco is composed of thousands of ingredients, tens of which are cancerogenic substances. At present, it has been proven that passive smoking can be more harmful on non-smokers.
Some cigarette substitutes that contain only nicotine without tar have been proposed, and many of them, such as “nicotine patch”, “nicotine mouthwash”, “nicotine chewing gum”, “nicotine drink” etc., are made of pure nicotine. Although these cigarette substitutes are free from tar, their major disadvantage is that an effective peak concentration cannot be reached in the blood of a smoker due to slow absorption of nicotine. In addition, these cigarette substitutes cannot satisfy habitual smoking actions of a smoker, for example, inhaling action or sucking action, and thus are not likely to be widely accepted as effective substitutes for quitting smoking.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONAn objective of the present invention is to provide an electronic cigarette that overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages and provides a cigarette that looks like a normal cigarette. The electronic cigarette, which is an integrated assembly resembling a cigarette holder, includes a shell, a cell, nicotine solution, a control circuit, a high temperature vaporization nozzle and accessories. An electro-thermal vaporization nozzle is arranged within an air suction end of the shell. The control circuit provides starting current to the electric heater within the vaporization nozzle. Under the high temperature in the vaporization nozzle, the liquid is rapidly vaporized to form a puff of smoke. The cell which provides power to the electric heater via the control circuit can be a disposable battery or a rechargeable battery.
The advantages of the present invention include smoking without tar, significantly reducing the cancerogenic risk. Furthermore, users still feel as if they are smoking, and the cigarette has no need to be lit and has no fire risk.
The high frequency generator of a control circuit board 8 is composed of a capacitance connecting three point type oscillator, an inductance connecting three point type oscillator, or a transformer-type oscillating circuit, which has the frequency of 35 KHz to 3.3 MHz. The circuit includes a automatic frequency fine-adjusting circuit resonating with a piezoelectric element 20. A nicotine solution storage container 13 is made of silicon rubber, alternatively, other polymers that can be protected against the penetration of nicotine can be used. A one-way valve for liquid injection 12 is sealed by a ball or cone member under the pressure of a spring. An airflow sensor 18 can be comprised of an array of integrated thermal sensitive resistors in the shape of film. The electrode of a resistance or capacitance sensor 19, which is sensitive to touches of human body, is composed of an upper metal film and a lower metal film and located at the end of the cigarette holder. The changes of the resistance or capacitance parameters due to human touch are inputted into the control circuit to perform the operation of a body sensitive switch.
The electric controlled pump 11, driven by a motor or a linear motor, drives a retarder that has a large speed ratio, via a shaft coupling, to revolve at a low speed but with large torque. The pump can be a peristaltic pump, a plunger pump, an eccentric pump or a screw pump. Alternatively, the liquid pump can use piezoelectric pump, a super magnetostrictive pump, a thermal expansion drive pump, a thermal contraction drive pump, a thermal bubble pump. The electric control pump or valve may be thermal contractible.
The valve is formed on a silicon rubber tube by nickel-titanium memory alloy or copper-based memory alloy under the force of electro-thermal contractions.
The electro-thermal vaporization nozzle 17 is made of high-temperature resistant materials with low thermal conductivity. The nozzle 17 is a tubule, with the internal diameter of 0.05-2mm and the effective working length of 3-20 mm. An electric heating element is provided within the nozzle, and the shapes of the electric heating element and the cavity of the nozzle are designed to facilitate vaporization and ejection of liquid. The vaporization nozzle 17 may be made of conventional ceramics, or be made of aluminum silicate ceramics, titanium oxide, zirconium dioxide, yttrium oxide ceramics, molten silicon, silicon dioxide, molten aluminum oxide. The vaporization nozzle 17 may be in the shape of straight tube or spiral, and may also be made from polytetrafluoethylene, carbon fiber, glass fiber or other materials with similar properties.
The electric heating element arranged within the vaporization nozzle 17 may be made of wires of nickel chromium alloy, iron chromium aluminum alloy, stainless steel, gold, platinum, tungsten molybdenum alloy, etc., and may be in the shape of straight line, single spiral, double spiral, cluster or spiral cluster, wherein the straight line and cluster are preferred. The heating function of the electric heating element may be achieved by applying a heating coating on the inner wall of the tube, and the coating may be made from electro-thermal ceramic materials, semiconductor materials, corrosion-resistant metal films, such as gold, nickel, chromium, platinum and molybdenum. The method for coating can include a coat sintering process, a chemical deposition sintering process and an ion spraying process. The materials mentioned above can be provided within the inner wall of vaporization nozzle in any of the processes mentioned above.
The nozzle with high resistance, made of metal, can have no electric heating element being attached, and can be directly applied with heating current. Alternatively, the materials mentioned above can be arranged outside of the nozzle in any of the ways mentioned above, and an appropriate response time can also be achieved in the power supply mode of short-term preheating. Nicotine solution used in the atomization process comprises nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerol, organic acids, anti-oxidation agents, essence, water and alcohol, in which the nicotine content is 0.1%-6%, propylene glycol content 80%-90%, organic acids 0.2%-20%, the rest is glycerol, essence, anti-oxidation agents, water and alcohol.
EXAMPLE 1 The Structural Diagram of the Device Shown in FIG. 1When a smoker puts the cigarette holder on his/her mouth, the resistance sensor 19 activates the control circuit board 8. The control circuit board 8 then outputs two driving voltages respectively, one used to supply power to the electric heating element of the vaporization nozzle 17 and the other used to activate the micro pump 11 (shown in
The effect of the ultrasonic piezoelectric element 20 mounting on the nozzle is that, firstly, the large liquid droplets in the unstable thermal airflow under high pressure will be in sufficient contact with the electric heating element, and thereby be vaporized. Secondly, the liquid droplets in the nozzle 17 are directly fragmented and atomized. Thirdly, possible bumping when the liquid is above a boiling point will be avoided. The effect of integrated atomization will allow aerosol droplets with diameters of 0.2-3 um to enter into the alveolus easily and be absorbed. The airflow sensor 18 is sensitive to the diluted air which enters through air inlet 16 when a “suction” action take places. The sensed signals are transmitted to the control circuit, and the control circuit then stop to supply power to the micro pump and the electric heater after a certain time delay.
The relay relationship between the time delays of the micro pump and electric heater is as follows: after the electric heater is activated, the micro pump is activated after a time delay of 0.1-0.5 seconds; the electric heater is then turned off after a time delay of 0.2-0.5 seconds when the control circuit of the micro pump is turned off, so as to guarantee a complete vaporization of the liquid after quantitative liquid injection without any leftovers.
The nicotine solution container may be designed to be different sizes as required. The nicotine solution may be refilled once a day, or once a couple of days. The liquid crystal display screen 10 can show operating state parameters, such as cell capacity, smoking times per day, average using cycle and warnings for over smoking. A red LED 3 blinks for each smoking action, and a sawtooth wave signal that lasts for 1.2 seconds is given by the control circuit for blinking signals, which provides a gradual change of luminance to imitate the ignition and combustion process of a conventional cigarette. The charger 1, charging jack 2, spring 4, shell 6, threads 7, switch 9, passage tube 14 and baffle plate 15 are shown in
The control circuit and the ultrasonic micro pump may be integrated on one single chip by using a Micro Electronic Mechanical System (MEMS).
EXAMPLE 2 The Simplified Electronic CigaretteThe thermal drive pump is an electro-thermal shrinkable peristaltic pump, made of wires of nickel titanium memory alloy or copper based alloy, with gel tube which is pressed at three points respectively during the process of electro-thermal contraction to form a pressure cavity for pumping out liquid. The change of volume of the cavity within the thermal drive pump determines the quantity of the solution to be atomized each time. Upon contacting with user's mouth, the resistance sensor 119 activates the control circuit 108, the control circuit 108 then provides operating current to the thermal drive pump and the electric heater, and the output of the control circuit is turned off after the delay of 2 seconds for reactivation at the next smoking action. Alternatively, a thermal expansion drive pump or a thermal bubble pump is also applicable. The thermal expansion drive pump forms a pressure cavity for pumping out liquid by allowing a micro hydrogen container with an embedded electric heating element to block the liquid inlet and open the liquid outlet at the time of thermal expansion. The charging jack 102, LED 103, cell 105, switch 109, liquid-refilling valve 112 and air hole 116 are shown in
The electrode lead wire 401, heating wire 402, thread 403, base 404 and nozzle 405 are shown in
In the device (see
The silicon gel tube 406, pressure-stopping plate 407, memory alloy wires 408, support 409, electrode lead wire 410 and pressure spring 411 are shown in
The recipes of nicotine solution used are:
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- 1. 6% nicotine, 85% propylene glycol, 2% glycerol, 2% essence, 1% organic acid and 1% anti-oxidation agent;
- 2. 4% nicotine, 80% propylene glycol, 5% glycerol, 1% butyl valerate, 1% isopentyl hexonate, 0.6% lauryl laurate, 0.4% benzyl benzoate, 0.5% methyl octynicate, 0.2% ethyl heptylate, 0.3% hexyl hexanoate, 2% geranyl butyrate, 0.5% menthol, 0.5% citric acid and 4% tobacco essence;
- 3. 2% nicotine, 90% propylene glycol, 2.5% citric acid, 1% essence and 4.5% tobacco essence;
- 4. 0.1% nicotine, 80% propylene glycol, 5% glycerol, 8% alcohol, 2.9% water, 1% essence, 1% tobacco essence and 2% organic acid.
Claims
1. An electronic cigarette, comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet;
- a battery and an atomizer in the housing, with the atomizer including a tube having a metal wire heater coil within the tube electrically linked to the battery;
- a liquid source container in the housing and outside of the tube;
- with liquid in the liquid source container capable of moving from the liquid source container into the tube and contacting the wire heater coil to create vapor formed within the tube.
2. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 with the tube comprising a fiber material.
3. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 wherein the wire heating coil is in contact with the tube.
4. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 further comprising a base attached to the tube.
5. The electronic cigarette of claim 4 further comprising screw threads on the base.
6. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 with the tube having an inner diameter of.05 to 2 mm.
7. The electronic cigarette of claim 6 with the tube having a length of 3-20 mm.
8. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 with an unobstructed flow path between the tube and the outlet.
9. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 with the housing having a first section attached to a second section.
10. The electronic cigarette of claim 9 with the inlet in the first section and the outlet in the second section.
11. The electronic cigarette of claim 9 with the battery in the first section and the atomizer and the liquid source container in the second section.
12. An electronic cigarette, comprising:
- a housing having an inlet and an outlet;
- a battery and an atomizer in the housing including a vaporization tube, a wire heater coil within the vaporization tube electrically connectable to the battery, and with the vaporization tube having a first end connected to receive liquid from a liquid source container outside of the vaporization tube, and a second open end to allow vapor, formed within the vaporization tube from liquid from the liquid source container, to flow out of the vaporization tube of the atomizer, and out of the outlet of the housing; and
- with a longitudinal axis of the wire heater coil substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the vaporization tube.
13. The electronic cigarette of claim 12 with liquid from the liquid source container moving into direct contact with the wire heater coil in the vaporization tube.
14. The electronic cigarette of claim 12 wherein a central section of the heating coil is in contact with the vaporization tube.
15. The electronic cigarette of claim 12 with an unobstructed flow path between the second open end of the vaporization tube and the outlet of the housing.
16. The electronic cigarette of claim 12 with the vaporization tube comprising a fiber material and the wire heater coil comprising metal.
17. An electronic cigarette comprising:
- a housing, an air inlet leading into the housing, and an air outlet leading out of the housing;
- a battery, a control circuit, a sensor, and a vaporization nozzle in the housing, with the control circuit electrically connected to the battery and to the sensor;
- the vaporization nozzle including a coil heating element within a tube and with the coil heating element electrically connected to the control circuit; and
- a solution storage container in the housing outside of the tube, wherein solution in the solution storage container is capable of moving from the solution storage container into the tube, wherein the solution is vaporized in the tube.
18. The electronic cigarette of claim 17 wherein a central section of the heating coil is in contact with the vaporization nozzle.
19. The electronic cigarette of claim 17 with an unobstructed flow path between the vaporization nozzle and the air outlet.
20. The electronic cigarette of claim 17 with the vaporization nozzle comprising a fiber material and the wire heater coil comprising metal.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 24, 2016
Date of Patent: Aug 20, 2019
Assignee: FONTEM HOLDINGS 1 B.V. (Amsterdam)
Inventor: Lik Hon (Beijing)
Primary Examiner: Terrence R Till
Application Number: 15/080,341
International Classification: A61K 9/00 (20060101); H02J 7/00 (20060101); H05B 1/02 (20060101); H05B 3/00 (20060101); A24B 15/16 (20060101); A24F 47/00 (20060101);