CN106072768B

CN106072768B - Atomizer and electronic cigarette thereof

Info

Publication number: CN106072768B
Application number: CN201610484111.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 不公告发明人
Original assignee: Joyetech Europe Holding GmbH
Current assignee: Joyetech Europe Holding GmbH
Priority date: 2016-06-28
Filing date: 2016-06-28
Publication date: 2020-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 2036-06-28
Also published as: CN106072768A

Abstract

The utility model provides an atomizer, it is provided with the atomising head in atomizing chamber including the air inlet and outlet subassembly and in it, the air inlet and outlet subassembly includes shunt tubes and intake pipe, set up the air inlet duct on the shunt tubes and reach the air outlet groove of keeping apart with the air inlet duct, the one end and the shunt tubes of intake pipe are connected, the other end of intake pipe extends atomizing chamber bottom along the atomising head axial, form the inlet channel of a intercommunication air inlet duct and atomizing chamber bottom in the intake pipe, the clearance between the inner chamber wall in atomizing chamber and the intake pipe forms a outlet channel who communicates between atomizing chamber bottom and air outlet groove. According to the invention, the external air can carry the smoke in the whole atomization cavity to flow out, so that the problem that the smoke at the bottom of the atomization cavity is not mixed and carried out by the external air to form accumulated liquid is prevented. In addition, the direct atomizing chamber bottom of outside air can be to atomizing chamber bottom cooling, can not lead to the tobacco juice on the drain spare to permeate to atomizing chamber bottom and form the hydrops because of atomizing chamber top and bottom temperature difference. The invention also provides the electronic cigarette.

Description

Atomizer and electronic cigarette thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic cigarettes, in particular to an atomizer and an electronic cigarette thereof.

Background

The existing upper air inlet electronic cigarette has the air inlet channel and the air outlet channel which are communicated with each other at the top of the atomization cavity only at the top of the atomization cavity. Therefore, in the use process, the external air reaches the top of the atomizing cavity through the air inlet channel, and the smoke at the top of the atomizing cavity is mixed and then flows out of the air outlet channel. And after the atomizer stops using, the smog that the atomising head bottom was not taken away is cooled and is replied to liquid for the atomising head bottom forms the hydrops, and the user can send "guru and Rou" sound when using again, and the risk that the tobacco juice was inhaled the oral cavity by the user exists. On the other hand, outside air only reaches the atomizing chamber top, and atomizing chamber bottom is not outside air cooling, and consequently, the temperature of atomizing chamber bottom is higher, and after the atomizer stopped to use, the temperature of atomizing chamber bottom can sharply drop for atomizing chamber bottom pressure sharply reduces, thereby leads to the tobacco juice on the drain spare to permeate to the bottom and form the hydrops.

Disclosure of Invention

Accordingly, there is a need for an atomizer that can mix ambient air with smoke sufficiently and improve the temperature difference inside the atomizing head to prevent liquid accumulation.

The utility model provides an atomizer, its includes the inlet outlet subassembly and is provided with the atomising head in the atomizing chamber in it, the inlet outlet subassembly includes shunt tubes and intake pipe, seted up on the shunt tubes the air inlet duct and with the air outlet groove that the air inlet duct was kept apart, the one end of intake pipe with the shunt tubes is connected, the other end of intake pipe is followed the atomising head extends axially atomizing chamber bottom, form a intercommunication in the intake pipe the air inlet duct with the inlet channel of atomizing chamber bottom, the inner chamber wall in atomizing chamber with clearance between the intake pipe form a intercommunication in atomizing chamber bottom with air outlet channel between the air outlet groove.

In one embodiment, the atomizer further comprises an air regulating assembly, the air regulating assembly comprises an air regulating inner ring and an air regulating outer ring, one end of the air regulating inner ring is sleeved on the periphery of the flow dividing pipe, the other end of the air regulating inner ring is connected with the atomizing head, an air inlet communicated with the air inlet groove is formed in the air regulating inner ring, the air regulating outer ring is rotatably sleeved outside the air regulating inner ring, and the inner wall of the air regulating outer ring is provided with the air regulating groove communicated with the outside and communicated with the air inlet hole or staggered with the air inlet hole.

In one embodiment, the flow dividing pipe comprises a flow dividing part extending along the radial direction of the atomizer and a connecting part extending along the axial direction of the atomizer, the flow dividing part is clamped in the air adjusting inner ring, and the connecting part penetrates through the bottom of the flow dividing part and is connected with the top of the flow dividing part; the inlet duct is followed the atomizer radially link up in reposition of redundant personnel portion with between the connecting portion, go out the air duct and follow the atomizer axial link up set up in between the bottom and the top of reposition of redundant personnel portion.

In one embodiment, a sealing groove is formed in the circumferential direction of the flow dividing part towards the side edge of the air regulating inner ring.

In one embodiment, one end of the air inlet pipe is connected with the connecting part, the other end of the air inlet pipe penetrates through the air adjusting inner ring and extends to the bottom of the atomizing cavity along the axial direction of the atomizing head, and the air outlet channel further comprises a gap between the air adjusting inner ring and the air inlet pipe.

In one of them embodiment, the atomizer still includes the stock solution subassembly, the stock solution subassembly is including the stock solution pipe that is used for storing the tobacco juice, the atomising head includes atomising head base, atomization component and atomising head sleeve pipe, the atomising head base accept in the stock solution pipe, the atomising head overlaps the pipe box and locates on the atomising head base, atomization component set up in on the atomising head base and accept in the atomising head overlaps intraductally.

In one of them embodiment, atomizing component includes drain and the piece that generates heat, the drain set up in on the atomizing head base and accept in the atomizing cover, the relative both ends of drain are followed the drain axial is link up and is formed the atomizing chamber, the piece that generates heat hugs closely the inner chamber wall setting in atomizing chamber, set up the intercommunication on the atomizing head base the liquid storage pipe with the feed liquor groove of drain.

In one embodiment, the liquid storage assembly further includes an atomizer base and a first electrode disposed on the atomizer base, the atomizing head base is provided with a second electrode, and the first electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode.

In one embodiment, the atomizer further comprises a protective sleeve sleeved outside the liquid storage pipe.

An electronic cigarette comprises any one of the atomizers.

According to the invention, the shunt pipe is added, the inlet and outlet directions are changed, and the smoke in the whole atomizing cavity can be carried to flow out in the process that the external air flows to the top of the atomizing cavity after directly passing through the bottom of the atomizing cavity, so that the problem that the smoke at the bottom of the atomizing cavity is cooled and returns to a liquid state after the atomizer stops using due to the fact that the smoke is not carried out by mixing of the external air can be effectively solved, and liquid accumulation is formed. On the other hand, the direct atomizing chamber bottom of outside air can cool off atomizing chamber bottom, reduces the difference in temperature between atomising head top and the bottom, makes the atomising head when stopping using, can not be because atomising head bottom temperature is higher than atomising head top temperature and is too much, and rapid cooling for the pressure of atomizing chamber bottom reduces suddenly, thereby leads to the tobacco juice on the drain spare to permeate to atomizing chamber bottom and forms the hydrops.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of an atomizer according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the atomizer shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the atomizer shown in FIG. 2 taken along the axial direction;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the distributor tube in the atomizer of FIG. 3 taken in the axial direction;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the atomizer of FIG. 1 taken along the direction D-D

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of an atomizing head of the atomizer shown in fig. 3.

Detailed Description

To facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the electronic cigarette includes an atomizer 100 and a battery assembly (not shown) electrically connected to the atomizer 100. The atomizer 100 includes a mouthpiece component 10, an air inlet and outlet component 30, an atomizing head 50 having an atomizing chamber 5210 disposed therein, a liquid storage component 70 having a liquid storage chamber 710 disposed therein, and an air regulating component 90. The air regulating component 90 is connected between the mouthpiece component 10 and the liquid storage component 70, and the atomizing head 50 is accommodated in the liquid storage component 70 and located at the bottom of the liquid storage cavity 710. One end of the air inlet and outlet assembly 30 is accommodated in the air regulating assembly 90, and the other end of the air inlet and outlet assembly passes through the air regulating assembly 90 and extends into the atomizing chamber 5210. In use, after entering the atomizing head 50 through the air inlet and outlet assembly 30, the external air is fully mixed with the atomized smoke in the atomizing chamber 5210, and the mixed smoke flows out through the mouthpiece assembly 10 along with the suction action of the user and is inhaled into the mouth of the user.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3 together, the mouthpiece component 10 includes a mouthpiece connecting member 13 and a mouthpiece 11 disposed on top of the mouthpiece connecting member 13 for a user to inhale. The air regulating assembly 90 includes an air regulating inner ring 91 and an air regulating outer ring 93. One end of the air adjusting inner ring 91 is sleeved on the periphery of the mouthpiece connecting piece 13, and the other end is accommodated in the liquid storage component 70 and connected with the atomizing head 50. An air inlet hole 910 is formed in the part of the air adjusting inner ring 91 between the mouthpiece connecting part 13 and the liquid storage component 70. The air adjustment outer ring 93 is rotatably sleeved outside the air adjustment inner ring 91, and an air adjustment groove 930 is formed in the inner wall of the air adjustment outer ring, and the air adjustment groove 930 extends to the bottom edge of the air adjustment outer ring 93 along the axial direction of the air adjustment outer ring and is communicated with the outside.

When the air adjusting outer ring 93 is rotated to communicate the air adjusting groove 930 with the air inlet hole 910, a gap for external air to enter is formed between the air adjusting groove 930 and the air inlet hole 910, so that a user can conveniently adjust the size of the air inlet amount according to the requirement; when the air adjustment groove 930 is staggered with the air inlet hole 910 by rotating the air adjustment outer ring 93, a gap between the air adjustment groove 930 and the air inlet hole 910 is closed, and outside air is prevented from entering. In addition, since the air adjustment groove 930 is opened on the inner wall of the air adjustment outer ring 93, the possibility of the air adjustment groove 930 being contaminated by the outside can be reduced, and the appearance is beautiful.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the air inlet/outlet assembly 30 includes a dividing tube 31 and an air inlet tube 32. The air adjusting inner ring 91 is sleeved on the periphery of the shunt tube 31, and the shunt tube 31 is provided with an air inlet groove 310 communicated with the air inlet hole 910 and an air outlet groove 312 isolated from the air inlet groove 310 and communicated with the cigarette holder component 10. One end of the air inlet pipe 32 is connected to the shunt pipe 31, and the other end extends through the air adjusting inner ring 91 along the axial direction of the atomizing head 50 and extends to the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210. An air inlet passage 321 is formed in the air inlet pipe 32 to communicate the air inlet groove 310 with the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210. A gap between the inner cavity wall of the atomizing cavity 5210 and the air inlet pipe 32 and a gap between the air regulating inner ring 91 and the air inlet pipe 32 form an air outlet channel 323 communicated between the bottom of the atomizing cavity 5210 and the air outlet groove 312.

Specifically, the shunt tube 31 is substantially T-shaped, and includes a shunt portion 314 extending along the radial direction of the atomizer 100 and a hollow connecting portion 316 extending along the axial direction of the atomizer 100. The flow dividing portion 314 is laterally clamped in the air adjusting inner ring 91 along the atomizer 100, and a sealing groove 3141 is formed in the circumferential direction of the air adjusting inner ring 91 at the side edge of the flow dividing portion facing the air adjusting inner ring 91. The connection portion 316 is connected to the top of the flow dividing portion 314 through the bottom of the flow dividing portion 314. The air inlet groove 310 radially penetrates between the flow dividing portion 314 and the connecting portion 316 along the atomizer 100, and is used for directly communicating with the connecting portion 316 through the air inlet groove 310 when the outside air enters the air inlet hole 910 through the air adjustment groove 930. The sealing groove 3141 is provided with a sealing ring (not shown) to prevent outside air from flowing along the axial direction of the atomizer 100 and being staggered with the air inlet groove 310 when entering the air inlet hole 910 through the air adjustment groove 930. The outlet slot 312 is axially disposed through the bottom and top of the flow splitting portion 314 and is isolated from the inlet slot 310.

It is understood that in other embodiments, the air regulating assembly 90 may be omitted, and the air may be directly introduced through the bypass pipe 31, which is not limited herein.

The air inlet pipe 32 is generally tubular with two ends penetrating through, the top end of the air inlet pipe is screwed to the connecting portion 316, and the bottom end of the air inlet pipe passes through one end of the air adjusting inner ring 91 opposite to the mouthpiece connecting member 13 and extends to the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210 along the axial direction of the atomizing head 50. At this time, the gap between the inner cavity wall of the atomizing chamber 5210 and the air inlet pipe 32 and the gap between the air adjusting inner ring 91 and the air inlet pipe 32 are communicated to form the air outlet channel 323.

With continued reference to fig. 5, the reservoir assembly 70 includes a reservoir tube 71 for storing the tobacco smoke, a connecting base 74 and an atomizer base 75. The liquid storage pipe 71 is tubular with two open ends, and the connecting seat 74 is connected to the top of the liquid storage pipe 71 and is in threaded connection with the periphery of the air-adjusting inner ring 91. The atomizer base 75 is provided at the bottom of the liquid storage tube 71. When the smoke liquid is needed to be injected, the thread connection between the air adjusting inner ring 91 and the connecting seat 74 is unscrewed, and the air adjusting inner ring 91 and the atomizing head 50 are integrally moved out of the liquid storage pipe 71 and exposed out of the opening of the liquid storage pipe 71.

Referring to fig. 6, the atomizing head 50 includes an atomizing head base 51, an atomizing assembly 52, and an atomizing head sleeve 53. The atomizing head base 51 is accommodated in the liquid storage pipe 71 and located on the atomizer base 75, and the atomizing head sleeve 53 is sleeved on the atomizing head base 51 and connected with one end of the air adjusting inner ring 91 opposite to the mouthpiece connecting piece 13. The atomizing assembly 52 is disposed on the atomizing head base 51 and is received in the atomizing sleeve 53 to electrically atomize the liquid smoke directed thereon.

Specifically, the atomizing assembly 52 includes a liquid guiding member 521 and a heat generating member 523. The liquid guiding member 521 is disposed on the atomizing head base 51 and is accommodated in the atomizing sleeve 53, and the atomizing head base 51 is provided with a liquid inlet tank 510 for communicating the liquid storage pipe 71 and the liquid guiding member 521. The opposite ends of the liquid guiding member 521 axially penetrate along the liquid guiding member 521 to form an atomizing chamber 5210. The heat generating member 523 is disposed closely to the cavity wall of the atomizing cavity 5210.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, in the present embodiment, the liquid storage assembly 70 and the atomizing head 50 are respectively provided with a first electrode 76 and a second electrode 54. The first electrode 76 is disposed on the atomizer base 75, and the second electrode 54 is disposed on the atomizing head base 51, which are electrically connected to each other.

Specifically, the atomizer base 75 is provided with a first through hole 750 for the first electrode 76 to pass through, and in order not to destroy the sealing effect of the liquid storage assembly 70, the first electrode 76 and the first through hole 750 may be in an interference fit manner, or may be in a threaded sealing connection manner. In order to further improve the sealing effect, when the first electrode 76 and the first through hole 750 are in an interference fit manner, a first sealing member 77 may be further disposed therebetween, and the first sealing member 77 is preferably a silicone or rubber gasket.

Further, the reservoir assembly 70 further includes a first electrode contact sleeve 78 and a first silicone gasket 79. The first electrode contact sleeve 78 is sleeved in the first silicone gasket 79 and is clamped into the other end of the first through hole 750 opposite to the first electrode 76 through the first silicone gasket 79. Specifically, after the first electrode 76 passes through the first through hole 750, the first electrode contact sleeve 78 is clamped into the first through hole 750 through the first silicone gasket 79, so that the first electrode 76 can be inserted into the first electrode contact sleeve 78, and the two are kept in contact, thereby conducting electricity. In addition, the existence of the first electrode contact sleeve 78 and the first silicone gasket 79 makes the sealing effect of the position where the first electrode 76 is in contact with the first through hole 750 better.

The atomizing head base 51 is provided with a second through hole 512, and the second electrode 54 passes through the second through hole 512 and is fixedly connected with the atomizing head base 51. Similar to the assembly manner of the first through hole 750 and the first electrode 76, the second sealing element 55 may be additionally disposed between the second electrode 54 and the second through hole 512, so as to improve the sealing reliability, and prevent excessive tobacco juice from entering the atomizing head 50, which may cause a part of tobacco juice to be inhaled by a user when the user takes a cigarette, and affect the taste of the user.

Further, the atomizer 100 includes a protective sleeve 98 sleeved outside the connecting seat 74 and the liquid storage tube 71, and a window 981 (as shown in fig. 1) for observing the remaining amount of the smoke in the liquid storage tube 71 is opened on the protective sleeve 98.

Referring to fig. 5, in use, the air adjusting outer ring 93 is rotated and the communication area between the air adjusting groove 930 and the air inlet 910 is adjusted as required to adjust the size of the air inflow; the outside air enters the air inlet groove 310 through the air inlet hole 910 and is guided by the connecting part 316 to be directly communicated with the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210 through the air inlet pipe 32; then flows out from the bottom to the top of the atomizing head 50 to the air outlet groove 312 through the air outlet channel 323, and finally flows out to the mouth of the smoker through the mouthpiece connecting piece 13 and the mouthpiece 11. Because the outside air flows through the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210 and then flows to the top of the atomizing chamber 5210, the mist in the whole atomizing chamber 5210 can be carried to flow out, and therefore, the problem that the mist at the bottom of the atomizing chamber 5210 is cooled and returns to a liquid state after the atomizer 100 is stopped being used due to the fact that the mist is not carried out by mixing of the outside air can be effectively solved, and liquid accumulation is formed. On the other hand, the direct atomizing chamber 5210 bottom of outside air can cool off atomizing chamber 5210 bottom, reduces the difference in temperature between 50 tops of atomising head and the bottom, makes atomising head 50 when stopping using, can not be because the bottom temperature of atomising head 50 is higher than the top temperature of atomising head 50 by too much, and rapid cooling for the pressure of atomizing chamber 5210 bottom sharply reduces, thereby leads to leading to the tobacco juice on the drain piece 521 to permeate to atomizing chamber 5210 bottom and form the hydrops.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. An atomizer, characterized by: the atomizing device comprises an air inlet and outlet component and an atomizing head, wherein an atomizing cavity is arranged in the air inlet and outlet component, the air inlet and outlet component comprises a flow dividing pipe and an air inlet pipe, an air inlet groove and an air outlet groove isolated from the air inlet groove are formed in the flow dividing pipe, one end of the air inlet pipe is connected with the flow dividing pipe, the other end of the air inlet pipe axially extends to the bottom of the atomizing cavity along the atomizing head, an air inlet channel communicated with the air inlet groove and the bottom of the atomizing cavity is formed in the air inlet pipe, an air outlet channel communicated between the bottom of the atomizing cavity and the air outlet groove is formed in a gap between the inner cavity wall of the atomizing cavity and the air inlet pipe, the atomizing head comprises an atomizing component, the atomizing component comprises a liquid guiding component and a heating component, and external air enters the air; then flows out from the bottom to the top of the atomizing head to the air outlet groove through the air outlet channel to take out the smoke in the atomizing cavity.

2. The nebulizer of claim 1, wherein: the atomizer still includes the subassembly of transferring the gas, the subassembly of transferring the gas is including transferring the gas inner ring and transferring the gas outer loop, a pot head of transferring the gas inner ring is established the periphery of shunt tubes, the other end of transferring the gas inner ring with the atomising head is connected, transfer gas inner ring on seted up with the inlet port of air inlet duct intercommunication, transfer the gas outer loop to rotate the cover and locate transfer the gas inner ring just it communicates with the external world and with the air inlet port intercommunication or staggered transfer the gas groove to set up on the inner wall of transferring the gas outer loop.

3. A nebulizer as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the flow dividing pipe comprises a flow dividing part extending along the radial direction of the atomizer and a connecting part extending along the axial direction of the atomizer, the flow dividing part is clamped in the air adjusting inner ring, and the connecting part penetrates through the bottom of the flow dividing part and is connected with the top of the flow dividing part; the inlet duct is followed the atomizer radially link up in reposition of redundant personnel portion with between the connecting portion, go out the air duct and follow the atomizer axial link up set up in between the bottom and the top of reposition of redundant personnel portion.

4. A nebulizer as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the reposition of redundant personnel portion orientation the lateral margin of adjusting the gas inner ring is followed reposition of redundant personnel portion circumference has seted up the seal groove.

5. A nebulizer as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the one end of intake pipe with connecting portion connect, the other end of intake pipe passes the interior ring edge of transferring gas the atomising head axial extends bottom the atomizing chamber, the passageway of giving vent to anger still includes transfer gas the interior ring with clearance between the intake pipe.

6. The nebulizer of claim 1, wherein: the atomizer still includes the stock solution subassembly, the stock solution subassembly is including the stock solution pipe that is used for storing the tobacco juice, the atomising head is including atomising head base and atomising head sleeve pipe, the atomising head base accept in the stock solution pipe, atomising head cover pipe box is located on the atomising head base, the atomization component set up in on the atomising head base and accept in it is intraductal.

7. The atomizer of claim 6, wherein: the liquid guide piece is arranged on the atomizing head base and contained in the atomizing sleeve, the two opposite ends of the liquid guide piece are axially communicated with the atomizing cavity, and the atomizing head base is provided with a liquid inlet groove communicated with the liquid storage pipe and the liquid guide piece.

8. The atomizer of claim 7, wherein: the liquid storage assembly further comprises an atomizer base and a first electrode arranged on the atomizer base, a second electrode is arranged on the atomizing head base, and the first electrode is electrically connected with the second electrode.

9. The atomizer of claim 6, wherein: the atomizer also comprises a protective sleeve sleeved outside the liquid storage pipe.

10. An electronic cigarette, characterized in that: the electronic cigarette comprising a nebulizer according to any one of claims 1-9.