CN105233380B - A kind of vaporizer - Google Patents
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Abstract
A kind of vaporizer, is related to the field of medical instrument technology.It is serious in order to solve existing vaporizer drug waste,In the presence of the risk that the pollutants such as pathogen in air are sucked to air flue when patient breaths,It is inconvenient to use,Efficiency and the speed for generating atomization medicine is not good enough,The long problem of nebulisation time,The atomizer includes atomizing cup,It is atomized cup core and atomization is covered,The top of atomizing cup side is equipped with suction nozzle mouth,The junction of suction nozzle mouth and atomizing cup is equipped with switch,The switch of suction nozzle mouth and the size of opening are controlled by switch,The top of the atomizing cup other side is equipped with pressure release orifice,Pressure release orifice is equipped with filter membrane,It includes support portion and nozzle casing to be atomized cup core,The inner wall of nozzle casing is equipped with narrow groove,Narrow groove forms gas passage,The bottom of nozzle casing is equipped with bottom notch,One end of narrow groove extends to the bottom notch,The other end of narrow groove is connected to the space that nozzle and nozzle casing are surrounded.Suitable for treating breathing problem.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to the field of medical instrument technology.
Background technology
Atomization inspiration treatment breathing problem is a kind of important, effective method, is a kind of accurate therapeutic treatment disease
Method, using nebulizer by liquid by sucking by the way of enter respiratory tract and lung, reach noninvasive, local treatment,
Purpose that is painless, rapid, effectively treating, can also utmostly avoid systemic complications.
Main two kinds of the principle of the atomizer clinically used at present, one is ultrasonic atomizers, and one is jetting type mists
Change device, jet flow type atomizer forms high-speed flow by tiny nozzle according to venturi ejector principle, using compressed air, generates
Negative pressure drive liquid be ejected into obstruction together, under high-speed impact around splash so that drop becomes droplet particle
It is sprayed from escape pipe.
But there are three kinds of defects for the jet flow type atomizer clinically used at present：
First：When patient expiration, atomization medicine is discharged while row pressure, exhaust in atomizer exhaust outlet, causes drug unrestrained
Take, the effect of national medical insurance input and patient itself economic loss are serious, patient gives a discount；In air-breathing, Sucked medicine simultaneously,
Have and the pollutants such as pathogen in air are sucked into air flue risk, leads to cross-infection；
Second：Patient oneself cannot control Sucked medicine flow velocity, inconvenient to use；Such as the case where can all spit at any time
Under, a people can not only spit but also close atomizer in time in time, lead to drug waste, inconvenient to use；
Third：Efficiency and the speed for generating atomization medicine is not good enough, and nebulisation time is long.
Invention content
The present invention is serious in order to solve existing vaporizer drug waste, and existing when patient breaths will be sick in air
The pollutants such as substance suck the risk of air flue, and inconvenient to use, efficiency and the speed for generating atomization medicine is not good enough, nebulisation time mistake
Long problem, to provide a kind of vaporizer.
A kind of vaporizer of the present invention, including atomizing cup, atomization cup core and atomization lid；
The bottom of atomizing cup is equipped with air inlet pipe, and one end of air inlet pipe is equipped with nozzle, and nozzle includes nozzle body and nozzle bore, spray
Mouth body is cylindrical, and in cone, nozzle bore is located at nozzle tip center, is communicated with air inlet pipe on the top of nozzle body；Atomizing cup one
The top of side is equipped with suction nozzle mouth, and the junction of suction nozzle mouth and atomizing cup is equipped with switch, by switch control suction nozzle mouth switch and
The top of the size of opening, the atomizing cup other side is equipped with pressure release orifice, and pressure release orifice is equipped with filter membrane, and atomization lid is fixed on
On atomizing cup；
Atomization cup core includes support portion and nozzle casing, and the bottom of support portion connects nozzle casing, and atomization cup core is fixed on atomization
In cup, nozzle casing is cylinder, and the top of nozzle casing is cone, and top is provided with aperture, and nozzle casing is tightly placed in nozzle exterior,
The inner wall of nozzle casing is equipped with narrow groove, and narrow groove forms gas passage, and the bottom of nozzle casing is equipped with bottom notch, and the one of narrow groove
End extends to the bottom notch, and the other end of narrow groove is connected to the space that nozzle and nozzle casing are surrounded.
Compared with existing atomizer, the invention is by by atomizing cup integrally closed, in conjunction with switch and filter membrane so that treatment
The waste of drug is dropped in the process very low, while not influencing normal use, do not interfere with sucking and include atomization liquid oxygen
Pressure when closing under normal oxygen pressure flow in atomizing cup of normal discharge, pressure and switch, the present invention not will increase mist
Change the volume of device.Pressure excessively high in atomizer can be discharged in a kind of vaporizer of the present invention, filter membrane, moreover it is possible to prevent mist
The drug of change leaks, and prevents the pollutant in ambient atmos from entering, reduces cross-infection risk, improve utilization ratio of drug, pole
The big waste for reducing drug, filter membrane is waterproof, and can also dismantle and replace, cheap, has been carried out industrial metaplasia
Production will not increase the burden of patient and national medical insurance input.Narrow groove and bottom notch can guarantee the oxygen entered by air inlet pipe
High speed is generated when being contacted with liquid, improves nebulization efficiency and atomization speed, shortens nebulisation time, it is easier to by patient
Receive.The junction of suction nozzle mouth and atomizing cup is equipped with switch, and the switch of suction nozzle mouth and the size of opening are controlled by switch, is realized
The flow and flow rate of atomization medicine is freely adjusted, and patient can be operated by single hand, facilitate patient under the premise of not changing position with
Shi Zihang closes atomizer, saves drug；Patient closing control can switch easily at any time spitting, and drug of avoiding waste be easy to
Operation, facilitates patient.
Atomizer of the present invention greatly improves utilization ratio of drug, greatly reduces drug waste, avoids state
Family medical insurance input waste, save patient's medical expense, alleviate patient economy burden, greatly improve curative effect, to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
For asthmatic patient, if calculated by normal use amount, it is contemplated that a patient saves 57.6 yuan for one day, saves about 2.1 ten thousand within 1 year
Member saves about 210,000 yuan in 10 years.The present invention is easy to industrialized production, does not increase manufacturing process difficulty, is more suitable for medical applications.
The present invention is suitable for treatment breathing problem.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode one.
Specific implementation mode
Specific implementation mode one：Present embodiment is illustrated referring to Fig.1, a kind of medical atomized described in present embodiment
Device, including atomizing cup 1, atomization cup core 2 and atomization lid 3；
The bottom of atomizing cup 1 is equipped with air inlet pipe 4, and one end of air inlet pipe 4 is equipped with nozzle, and nozzle includes nozzle body 5 and nozzle
Hole 6, nozzle body 5 is cylindrical, and the top of nozzle body 5 is in cone, and nozzle bore 6 is located at nozzle tip center, with 4 phase of air inlet pipe
It is logical；The top of 1 side of atomizing cup is equipped with suction nozzle mouth 7, and suction nozzle mouth 7 and the junction of atomizing cup 1 are equipped with switch 13, pass through switch 13
The switch of suction nozzle mouth 7 and the size of opening are controlled, the top of 1 other side of atomizing cup is equipped with pressure release orifice 8, pressure release orifice 8
It is equipped with filter membrane 9, atomization lid 3 is fixed on atomizing cup 1；
It includes support portion 21 and nozzle casing 22 to be atomized cup core 2, and the bottom of support portion 21 connects nozzle casing 22, is atomized cup core 2
It is fixed in atomizing cup 1, nozzle casing 22 is cylinder, and the top of nozzle casing 22 is cone, and top is provided with aperture, nozzle casing
22 are tightly placed in nozzle exterior, and the inner wall of nozzle casing 22 is equipped with narrow groove, and narrow groove forms gas passage, and the bottom of nozzle casing 22 is set
There are bottom notch 221, one end of narrow groove to extend to the bottom notch 221, the other end and nozzle and the nozzle casing of narrow groove
The 22 space connections surrounded.
Support portion 21 is connected by a snap nozzle casing 22, and liquid is positioned in atomizing cup 1.
Specific implementation mode two：Present embodiment is to make a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode one into one
Step illustrates, in present embodiment, atomizing cup 1 is cylinder, and bottom is infundibulate.
Specific implementation mode three：Present embodiment is made to a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode one or two
It further illustrating, in present embodiment, the side of support portion 21 is buckled equipped with No.1, and the inner wall of atomizing cup 1 is equipped with No. two buckles,
By the cooperation of No.1 buckle and No. two buckles, atomization cup core 2 is made to be fixed in atomizing cup 1.
Specific implementation mode four：Present embodiment is to make a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode three into one
Step illustrates, in present embodiment, the quantity of narrow groove is four, and four narrow grooves are evenly distributed on the inner wall of nozzle casing 22.
The quantity of narrow groove is four, and is evenly distributed on the inner wall of nozzle casing 22, and nebulization efficiency can be not only improved,
It can also ensure that the atomization speed around nozzle casing 22 is identical.
Specific implementation mode five：Present embodiment is made to a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode one or four
It further illustrates, in present embodiment, the top of support portion 21 extends to atomization lid 3, and atomization lid 3 is pressed on cup core 2 is atomized
In air inlet pipe 4.
It is pressed in air inlet pipe 4 by being atomized lid 3 by cup core 2 is atomized, atomization cup core 2 is more firmly fixed to be atomized
In cup 1.
Specific implementation mode six：Present embodiment is to make a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode five into one
Step illustrates, in present embodiment, atomization lid 3 is equipped with internal thread, and the rim of a cup of atomizing cup 1 is equipped with and the matched outer spiral shell of internal thread
Line, atomization lid 3 are threadably secured on atomizing cup 1.
Specific implementation mode seven：Present embodiment is made to a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode one or six
It further illustrates, in present embodiment, atomization cup core 2 is equipped with spray protective cover 11 close to the lower part of 8 side of pressure release orifice.
Spray protective cover 11 can make the fog of generation flow to suction nozzle mouth 7, it is possible to reduce the gas of breathing is to atomization medicine
The influence of airflow direction.
Specific implementation mode eight：Present embodiment is to make a kind of vaporizer described in specific implementation mode seven into one
Step illustrates, in present embodiment, the top of 1 outer wall of atomizing cup is equipped with handrail pendant 10.
Not only it is convenient for taking and placing atomizing cup 1 using handrail pendant 10, but also atomizer can be hung up, convenient for places.
Specific implementation mode nine：Present embodiment is to a kind of doctor described in specific implementation mode one, two, four, six or eight
It is described further with atomizer, in present embodiment, atomizing cup 1 is equipped with buoy scale 12.
Buoy scale 12 can show dose.
It cannot be assumed that the specific implementation of the present invention is confined to these specific implementation modes, to the technical field of the invention
Technical staff for, without departing from the inventive concept of the premise, do not make the creative labor under the premise of, make several simple
Deduce, replace or improve etc., it is all considered as belonging to the scope of protection of the present invention.
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1. a kind of vaporizer, which is characterized in that including atomizing cup (1), atomization cup core (2) and atomization lid (3)；
The bottom of atomizing cup (1) is equipped with air inlet pipe (4), and one end of air inlet pipe (4) is equipped with nozzle, nozzle include nozzle body (5) and
Nozzle bore (6), nozzle body (5) is cylindrical, and in cone, nozzle bore (6) is located at nozzle tip center on the top of nozzle body (5),
It is communicated with air inlet pipe (4)；The top of atomizing cup (1) side is equipped with suction nozzle mouth (7), the junction of suction nozzle mouth (7) and atomizing cup (1)
Equipped with switch (13), control the switch of suction nozzle mouth (7) and the size of opening by switch (13), atomizing cup (1) other side it is upper
Portion is equipped with pressure release orifice (8), and pressure release orifice (8) is equipped with filter membrane (9), and atomization lid (3) is fixed on atomizing cup (1)；
Atomization cup core (2) includes support portion (21) and nozzle casing (22), the bottom connection nozzle casing (22) of support portion (21), atomization
Cup core (2) is fixed in atomizing cup (1), and nozzle casing (22) is cylinder, and the top of nozzle casing (22) is cone, and top is opened
There are aperture, nozzle casing (22) to be tightly placed in nozzle exterior, the inner wall of nozzle casing (22) is equipped with narrow groove, and it is logical that narrow groove forms gas
The bottom in road, nozzle casing (22) is equipped with bottom notch (221), and one end of narrow groove extends to the bottom notch (221), narrow recessed
The other end of slot is connected to the space that nozzle and nozzle casing (22) are surrounded；
It is atomized cup core (2) and is equipped with spray protective cover (11) close to the lower part of pressure release orifice (8) side.
2. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 1, which is characterized in that atomizing cup (1) is cylinder, and bottom is leakage
Bucket shape.
3. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 1 or 2, which is characterized in that the side of support portion (21) is equipped with one
Number buckle, the inner wall of atomizing cup (1) is equipped with No. two buckles makes atomization cup core (2) by the cooperations of No.1 buckle and No. two buckles
It is fixed in atomizing cup (1).
4. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 3, which is characterized in that the quantity of narrow groove is four, four narrow
Groove is evenly distributed on the inner wall of nozzle casing (22).
5. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 1 or 4, which is characterized in that support portion extends at the top of (21)
Atomization lid (3), atomization lid (3) will be atomized cup core (2) and be pressed in air inlet pipe (4).
6. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 5, which is characterized in that atomization lid (3) is equipped with internal thread, atomizing cup
(1) rim of a cup, which is equipped with, to be threadably secured with the matched external screw thread of internal thread, atomization lid (3) on atomizing cup (1).
7. a kind of vaporizer according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the top of atomizing cup (1) outer wall is equipped with and helps
Hand pendant (10).
8. according to a kind of vaporizer described in claim 1,2,4,6 or 7, which is characterized in that atomizing cup (1) is equipped with floating
Indexing (12).
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