CN108371346B - Device and method for smoking cigarettes - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic device and method for directly lighting and smoking a conventional, commercially available cigarette. The device comprises a combustion tube, at least 3 electric arc generating assemblies, a power supply assembly and a control assembly, wherein all the electric arc generating assemblies are arranged at intervals in the axial direction of the combustion tube, and the control assembly can drive all the electric arc generating assemblies to light cigarettes successively. The smoking method is that the cigarettes are inserted into the combustion tube, the electric arc generating assembly at the forefront end is driven to ignite the cigarettes, the smoking of the first cigarette is completed by matching with the suction action, and the cigarettes are extinguished immediately; when the preset condition is reached, the control device is switched to the adjacent arc generating assembly to ignite the cigarettes; the cycle is repeated until the cigarettes are smoked. The invention performs relative accurate ignition on the cigarettes in the combustion tube in a sectionally fixed ignition mode, skillfully utilizes the characteristic that the electric arc moves along with the direction of the airflow, and realizes smoking of the whole cigarettes by matching with the inspiration action of a smoker.

Description

Device and method for smoking cigarettes

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of smoking tools, in particular to an electronic device and a method for directly igniting and smoking common commercially available cigarettes.

Background

A cigarette is a tobacco product which is produced by drying tobacco, shredding, and rolling into a cylindrical shape. When sucking, one end is ignited, and then the smoke generated by tut-tut is sucked at the other end. In order to reduce smoke, edible oil and suspended particles generated during combustion at the inlet of the cigarette, a filter tip is additionally arranged at one end of the cigarette. Smoking cigarettes is a non-contending fact that the physical health of the smoker is impaired, and the physical and psychological health of surrounding people and the environment are impaired by smoke and soot generated during smoking.

The most popular alternative is electronic cigarettes, which directly atomize tobacco tar for smoking through electronic equipment, and the scheme directly abandons tobacco. Although somewhat less dangerous than conventional cigarettes, the manner, taste and feel of smoking is essentially different from conventional tobacco and does not truly replace cigarettes. There is, of course, also a product similar to an electronic cigarette but closer to a normal cigarette, which smokes normal tobacco as well, but unlike normal cigarette smoking methods, it does not ignite tobacco but heats it, the so-called "heat does not burn". The prior art basically does not generate soot, and has no open flame, and has certain advantages, but has the defect that the smoke feeling generated by sucking and heating is quite obvious from the smoke difference generated after burning the fragrant smoke even if the tobacco is specially treated. More importantly, it requires the use of a specially made cigarette, such as a cartridge, which makes it difficult to use the commercially available cigarette product directly (at the expense of quality if not to be used), which can cause significant inconvenience in use.

In order to reduce the harm caused by smoking common commercial cigarettes, the prior art also provides an electronic smoking device, which comprises a combustion chamber, a heating wire, a motor and a screw rod, wherein the motor can drive the heating wire to move back and forth in the combustion chamber through the screw rod. When the cigarette is inserted into the combustion chamber, the heating wire can be controlled to move towards the cigarette and be ignited, and after the cigarette is ignited, a smoker can take the cigarette.

Compared with an electronic cigarette, the prior art has the advantages that the experience of smoking common cigarettes is reserved to a large extent, open fire is avoided, and potential safety hazards are reduced. However, the defects are very obvious, the prior art adopts a movable ignition mode, so that the combustion chamber cannot be completely isolated from electromechanical equipment such as a motor, a screw rod and the like, a great amount of tar and dust can be generated in the combustion process of cigarettes, the cigarettes are attached to the related electrical equipment for a long time, and the cigarettes are difficult to clean and extremely easy to cause faults; secondly, as the heating wire is used as the ignition device, the temperature can be increased to the ignition point of the cigarette after waiting for a certain time, the ignition waiting time is long, in addition, tar and dust can be attached to the heating wire, the heating wire can be required to be longer even the cigarette is difficult to ignite due to accumulation to a certain degree, and ignition faults can occur frequently; finally, the moving ignition mode has a great problem that the accurate position of the cigarette end is difficult to determine, and certainly, the heating wire cannot be moved to the position to be ignited of the cigarette accurately to perform accurate ignition.

Disclosure of Invention

One of the technical problems to be solved by the invention is to provide a device for smoking cigarettes, which has compact structure and low failure rate, and can realize more accurate and effective ignition.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a device for smoking cigarette, but including holding cigarette's combustion tube, the electric arc that can ignite cigarette take place subassembly, power supply unit and control assembly, electric arc takes place the subassembly at least 3, all electric arc takes place the subassembly all fixed the wearing establish on the combustion tube, and in the axial of this combustion tube interval each other, control assembly and electric arc take place the subassembly all with power supply unit electricity is connected, control assembly can all of tandem drive electric arc takes place the subassembly and ignites the cigarette.

After adopting such structure, can carry out relative accurate and effectual ignition to the cigarette in the combustion tube through the electric arc subassembly that takes place of drive in the different positions department on the combustion tube to ingenious utilization electric arc can be along with the characteristic that the air current direction moved, cooperation smoker's action of breathing in realizes the smoking of whole cigarette. Compared with the prior art, the movable ignition mode is changed into a multi-section fixed-position ignition mode, the whole set of electromechanical equipment for realizing movement is omitted, the combustion pipe can be relatively independent and isolated from other devices, so that the failure rate is greatly reduced, and the ignition obstacle caused by the adhesion of tar and ash to the heating wire in the prior art can be solved by adopting the arc ignition mode.

As a further improvement of the foregoing technical solution, the arcs generated by two adjacent arc generating assemblies are not in the same plane, and have an included angle therebetween. This allows the location of each arc generating assembly where the cigarette is lit to be spatially interdigitated, which is very effective in reducing the problems of insufficient cigarette burning.

More specifically, the number of the arc generating assemblies is 6-8, and the arcs generated by two adjacent arc generating assemblies are perpendicular to each other. Experiments prove that the fixed-position arc ignition is respectively carried out in 6-8 sections, which is preferable for the size of the commercial cigarettes, and the vertical crossed multi-section arc ignition is the best mode for solving the insufficient combustion.

As another improvement of the foregoing technical solution, each of the arc generating assemblies includes two groups of arc probes capable of generating arcs simultaneously, and the two arcs generated by the two groups of arc probes are in the same plane and have included angles with each other. This corresponds to the use of cross-arc ignition for each arc generating assembly, as well as solving the problem of insufficient combustion.

Further improvement, every electric arc generating assembly all includes two electric arc probes that correspond the setting, and the interval between two electric arc probes that is arranged in the electric arc generating assembly of forefront is less than the interval between two electric arc probes in other electric arc generating assembly, still be equipped with a stopper on the combustion tube for the preceding terminal surface of cigarette after inserting is located between electric arc generating assembly and the adjacent electric arc generating assembly of forefront. The unlit cigarette, especially the foremost section is harder to ignite, sets up the arc probe in the arc generating module of foremost to less interval, and is located before the cigarette front end face, helps realizing quick breakdown air and sends out the electric arc, and the characteristic that the electric arc can move along with the air current direction is recycled, and the electric arc will move to the cigarette when the smoker inhales realizes lighting.

Preferably, the power supply assembly comprises a boost circuit board and 1 high-voltage component electrically connected to the boost circuit board, and the high-voltage components are electrically connected to all the arc generating assemblies, and the control assembly can control the high-voltage components to selectively drive any arc generating assembly to generate an arc.

In another preferred scheme, the power supply assembly comprises a boost circuit board and high-voltage components electrically connected to the boost circuit board, the number of the high-voltage components is the same as that of the arc generating assemblies, and each high-voltage component is electrically connected with the corresponding arc generating assembly.

Preferably, the control assembly comprises an information input unit and a metering unit electrically connected with the information input unit, and the metering unit drives all the arc generating assemblies to light cigarettes successively by counting the times or time information input by the information input unit.

Still further preferably, the information input unit includes an air flow control switch that can emit the number of times or time information according to an air flow generated when smoking the cigarette.

Preferably, the device for smoking cigarettes further comprises a cigarette ash collecting bin, the cigarette ash collecting bin comprises a cigarette ash inlet which can be communicated with the combustion tube and a baffle door which can seal the cigarette ash inlet, the combustion tube is provided with a cigarette inserting opening, a flue sealing door which is in linkage with the baffle door is further arranged outside the cigarette inserting opening, the baffle door is opened or closed along with the opening or closing of the flue sealing door, and when a cigarette to be smoked is inserted into the combustion tube, the flue sealing door is closed, and the flue sealing door is abutted against the cigarette to be fixed.

The second technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a method for smoking cigarettes, which adopts the following technical scheme:

a method of smoking a cigarette, comprising the steps of:

a. providing a combustion tube, a control device and a power supply, wherein at least 3 arc generating components are arranged on the combustion tube at intervals, and the power supply can supply power to the control device and the arc generating components;

b. inserting the cigarettes to be smoked into the combustion tube, wherein the control device drives the electric arc generating assembly at the forefront end to light the cigarettes, and the cigarettes are extinguished immediately after the cigarettes are smoked by the smoker in cooperation with the inhaling action of the smoker;

c. when the second cigarette is required to be smoked, the control device drives the electric arc generating assembly positioned at the forefront end to light the cigarette again, and the cigarette is extinguished again after the smoking of the cigarette is completed;

d. when the preset times or time in the control device reaches, and the cigarettes are smoked again, the control device drives the arc generating assembly adjacent to the forefront arc generating assembly to light the cigarettes;

e. this is cycled until the rearmost arc generating assembly engages the end of the cigarette that the smoker has smoked.

The features of the present invention will be more readily understood and appreciated by reference to the following figures and description of the embodiments.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of the present invention;

figure 2 is a schematic view of the construction of figure 1 after insertion of a cigarette;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an exploded construction of a first embodiment provided by the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the longitudinal cross-sectional structure of the burner tube of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the burner tube of FIG. 3;

figure 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the first embodiment of the present invention with the flue closing door closed, prior to insertion of a cigarette;

FIG. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the flue closure door of FIG. 6 in an open condition;

figure 8 is a schematic view of the cigarette of figure 6 after insertion;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the direction of air flow in a first embodiment provided by the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic view of an exploded structure of a second embodiment provided by the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages to be solved more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

All of fig. 1-10 disclose only some, but not all, of the structures closely related to the present invention. A first embodiment of the invention, shown in fig. 1-9, is an electronic device for directly lighting and smoking a conventional, commercially available cigarette. The term "cigarette" as used herein means a commercially available conventional cigarette with a filter tip, and the length (including the filter tip) thereof is mainly 84mm according to national standards. By "lighting" in the present invention is meant that the ignition of the cigarette must be achieved and post-combustion, and any means of heating only without combustion is outside of this range. As shown in fig. 3 to 5, the apparatus comprises a box-like body 1, and a burner tube 2, an arc generating assembly 3, a power supply assembly 4, a control assembly and the like are provided in the body 1. The combustion tube 2 is generally made of a high-temperature resistant material such as ceramic, and the cross section of the combustion tube can be round, square or polygonal, etc., so that the combustion tube can be used for accommodating cigarettes 6 to be smoked.

At least 3 arc generating assemblies 3 are provided, and all the arc generating assemblies 3 are fixedly arranged on the combustion tube 2 and are mutually spaced in the axial direction of the combustion tube 2. Specifically, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, each arc generating assembly 3 is formed by combining two arc probes 31 disposed opposite to each other, and each arc probe 31 is disposed through the wall of the combustion tube 2 and has a portion extending into the combustion tube 2; all the arc generating assemblies 3 are spaced from each other in the direction of the central axis of the burner tube 2 from top to bottom, so-called "axially spaced from each other". For the existing heating type smoking technology, the heating elements must contact all parts of the cigarettes, so that the interval between the heating elements is not allowed, but the invention belongs to the combustion type smoking technology, and the characteristic that the electric arc moves along with the airflow is skillfully utilized, so that the ignition positions can be mutually separated.

The control component and the electric arc generating component 3 are electrically connected with the power component 4, the specific connection mode adopts the prior art, and the control component can drive all the electric arc generating components 3 to light cigarettes 6 successively. Specifically, referring to fig. 1-3, the control assembly may include a key 15 disposed on the exterior of the main body 1, and when the smoker presses the key 15, the arc generating assembly 3 is driven to light the cigarette 6 (see fig. 4); when the number of times or time of pressing the key 15 reaches a preset value (the preset value can be set and modified by the smoker according to the smoking habit of the smoker), and the key 15 is pressed again, the control assembly automatically switches to the next adjacent arc generating device; and so on, a so-called "tandem drive" is achieved.

Although the arc generating assembly 3 is arranged in a sectionally fixed way, the invention fully utilizes the characteristic that the arc moves along with the direction of the airflow, and can move along with the inhalation of a smoker so as to ignite tobacco shreds within a certain interval, thereby finally completing smoking of the whole cigarette 6. Compared with the prior art, the movable ignition mode is changed into a multi-section fixed-position ignition mode, the whole set of electromechanical equipment for realizing the movement of the ignition device is omitted, the combustion tube 2 can be relatively independent and isolated from other devices, so that the failure rate is greatly reduced, and the ignition obstacle caused by the adhesion of tar and ash to heating wires in the prior art can be solved by adopting an arc ignition mode. It is pointed out that, for the form of "heating not burnt" of the tobacco to be smoked, the prior art also discloses some so-called "staged heating" solutions, but the main purpose of the staging is to achieve different heating temperatures, whereas the main purpose of the staging of the present invention is to solve the problem of precise ignition, both of which have a substantial difference. Furthermore, the publication shows that when high pressure breaks down air to create an arc, a certain amount of ozone is generated, helping to kill some of the harmful substances in the smoke, making smoking relatively healthier.

Preferably, considering the movable distance of the arc along the airflow direction and the length of the cigarette sold on the market, it is recommended to divide the arc into 6-8 ignition sections (i.e. the distance between two adjacent arc generating devices), and to arrange 6-8 arc generating assemblies 3, as shown in fig. 4 and 6, and in this embodiment, 8 arc generating assemblies are disclosed.

In order to make the combustion of the cigarette 6 more sufficient, this embodiment also adopts the technical means of "cross arc", that is, the electric arcs generated by two adjacent electric arc generating assemblies 3 when driven by the control assembly are not in the same plane, and have included angles with each other. This allows the position of each arc generating assembly 3 at which the cigarettes 6 are lit to be spatially interdigitated (with emphasis on figure 5), i.e. so-called intersecting arcs are formed. It should be noted that the intersecting arcs described herein do not occur at the same point in time, but rather occur sequentially. More specifically, in this embodiment, the angles between the arcs generated by the two adjacent arc generating assemblies 3 are 90 degrees, i.e. perpendicular to each other. Because vertically intersecting multi-segment arc ignition is the best way to address the combustion inadequacies.

As an alternative to the implementation of "cross-arcing" (not shown in the figures), each of said arc generating assemblies 3 comprises two groups of arc probes 31 which can simultaneously generate an arc, corresponding to the addition of two arc probes 31 compared to the previous one. It should be understood that the two arcs occurring simultaneously by the two groups of arc probes 31 are in the same plane and form an included angle with each other, and it should be clear that the two arcs occurring "simultaneously" herein are generated by the same arc generating assembly 3, and the arcs generated by two adjacent arc generating assemblies do not occur simultaneously. This means that each arc generating assembly 3 achieves a "cross-arc" ignition, as well as solving the problem of insufficient combustion of the cigarettes 6.

As described above, each of the arc generating assemblies 3 includes two arc probes 31 disposed correspondingly, and a certain distance is provided between the two arc probes 31. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 9, the distance between two arc probes 31A in the arc generating module 3A (see fig. 4) located at the forefront (the forefront in the present invention is the position corresponding to the initial ignition end of the cigarette 6, and is shown as the lowermost end in the figure) is smaller than the distance between two arc probes 31 in the other arc generating modules 3. Specifically, a stopper 21 may be provided on the combustion tube 2, and as shown in fig. 4 and 6, the stopper 21 in this embodiment is provided near the foremost arc probe 31, so that it is ensured that the front end surface 61 (i.e., the initial ignition end) of the cigarette 6 is located between the foremost arc generating assembly 3 and the adjacent arc generating assembly 3 after the cigarette 6 is inserted. The movable range of the arc is known to those skilled in the art, and therefore, as shown in fig. 9, the front face 61 of the cigarette 6 should be close to the foremost arc probe 31, otherwise the arc cannot contact the cigarette for ignition. The present inventors have found from a number of experiments that the unlit cigarette 6 is not charred, and that the foremost cut tobacco is generally more tightly packed and more difficult to ignite if arranged in accordance with other arc probes 31. However, the arrangement of the two arc probes 31 in the foremost arc generating assembly 3 at a smaller distance and close to the front face 61 of the cigarette 6 helps to achieve a rapid breakdown of the air to generate an arc, and the characteristic that the arc moves with the direction of the air flow is utilized to move the arc in front of the cigarette 6 to achieve ignition when the smoker inhales.

As shown in fig. 4 and 6, the tobacco shreds at the rear stage of the cigarette 6 are loosely filled, and the charring degree of the cigarette 6 is higher at this time, so that the interval between the arc generating assembly 3B at the rearmost end (the uppermost end in the drawing) and the arc generating assembly 3 adjacent thereto (the lower end in the drawing) is larger than the interval between the other two adjacent arc generating assemblies 3. Otherwise, if the same spacing is used, the length of cigarettes 6 may be smoked in a very short time, affecting the precise operation of the control assembly and the smoking experience of the smoker.

As shown in fig. 3, the power module 4 includes a battery 41, a low voltage control circuit board 42, a boost circuit board 43, and a high voltage component 44, the battery 41 is electrically connected to the low voltage control circuit board 42, the low voltage control circuit board 42 is electrically connected to the control module, and the high voltage component 44 is electrically connected to the boost circuit board 43. In practice, the low voltage control circuit board 42 and the boost circuit board 43 may be independent of each other or may be integrated together. Since the control assembly uses low voltage power and the arc generating assembly 3 requires high voltage power to break down the air to generate the arc, the boost circuit board 43 must be used to boost the low voltage to a high voltage of about 8000 v. In this embodiment, the number of the high-voltage components 44 (only 6 are shown in the drawing) is the same as the number of the arc generating assemblies 3, that is, all the high-voltage components 44 are 8, and each high-voltage component 44 is electrically connected to the corresponding arc generating assembly 3 in a one-to-one correspondence manner (connection mode is not shown in the drawing). The control assembly effects actuation of the designated arc generating means by switching on the corresponding high voltage components 44.

The control assembly includes an information input unit and a metering unit (not shown) electrically connected to the information input unit. As shown in fig. 1-3, the information input unit may include the aforementioned key 15 provided on the exterior of the body 1, and the smoker may actuate the arc generating assembly 3 to arc the cigarette 6 by manually operating the key 15. At the same time, the metering unit will count the number of times or time information input by the key 15 in the information input unit and drive all the arc generating components 3 to light the cigarettes 6 successively. More specifically, a certain number of times or time information is preset in the metering unit, and when the preset number of times is the number of times information, the metering unit only collects the number of times information (the number of key presses) input by the information input unit, and in the embodiment (aiming at standard commercial cigarettes and divided into 8 sections of fixed arc ignition) is 5 times; similarly, when the preset time information is the time information, the metering unit only collects the time information (the total time for which the key lasts) input by the information input unit, which is 8 seconds in this embodiment.

The predetermined value is set according to the experimental result of the inventor, and the cigarette 6 corresponding to the two arc generating assemblies 3 is sucked 5 times or 8 seconds according to the smoking habit of the common people. In this embodiment, the number of times and the time can be set and modified according to the needs of the smoker. After these values are reached, the control unit will default to the end of smoking the corresponding cigarette 6, and pressing the key 15 again will automatically cut into the adjacent arc generating assembly 3 for the next ignition. In order to facilitate the smoker's knowledge of which arc generating assembly 3 is currently in operation, and thus to approximate the remainder of the cigarette 6, as shown in fig. 1-3, LED indicators 11 (only 6 are shown) are provided on the exterior of the device body 1, the number of which corresponds to that of the arc generating assemblies 3, and can be used to indicate whether the corresponding arc generating assemblies 3 are in operation.

In order to further increase the automation level of the device, as an alternative (not shown in the figures), an air flow control switch may be added to the information input unit as an alternative to the aforementioned manually operated keys 15. Because the airflow control switch can drive the corresponding arc generating component 3 to light the cigarettes 6 according to the preset program according to the airflow emission times or time information generated when the cigarettes 6 are smoked, a smoker does not need to additionally operate the key 15 manually.

As shown in fig. 3, the present embodiment further includes a soot collection bin 5, and referring to fig. 6 and 7, the soot collection bin 5 includes a soot inlet 51 that can communicate with the combustion tube 2, a shutter 52 that can close the soot inlet, and a soot outlet 53. The burner tube 2 has a cigarette insertion opening 22, and an opening 12 is also provided at a corresponding position of the main body 1. In addition to the cigarette insertion opening 22, a flue closing door 13 is further provided at the opening 12 of the main body 1, and the flue closing door 13 can be linked with the shutter 52, and the specific linkage mode can adopt various schemes provided in the prior art. The shutter 52 is opened when the flue closing door 13 is opened (the state shown in fig. 7), whereas the shutter 52 is closed when the flue closing door 13 is closed (the state shown in fig. 6).

More specifically, the flue closing door 13 in the present invention also has the function of fixing the cigarettes 6, and its specific implementation manner is as follows: when the flue closing door 13 is opened, the shutter 52 is opened in a linkage manner, namely, in the state shown in fig. 7, at the moment, cigarettes 6 can be inserted into the combustion tube 2 through the opening of the main body 1 and the cigarette inserting opening 22 of the combustion tube 2 in sequence, and the soot accumulated in the combustion tube 2 after the previous cigarette combustion can be pushed into the soot collecting bin 5 together in the inserting process; after the cigarette 6 is inserted into place, the flue closing door 13 is closed and the shutter 52 is also closed in accordance with the aforementioned linkage. However, unlike the state shown in fig. 6, when the cigarette filter 62 is inserted into the opening 12 (refer to fig. 3) of the main body 1, the flue closing door 13 is blocked from being closed, so that the flue closing door 13 applies a leftward force, and thus the function of relatively fixing the cigarettes 6 can be achieved, and the cigarettes can be prevented from sliding out of the combustion tube 2 during smoking, and the state shown in fig. 8 and 9 can be referred to specifically; when smoking is completed, the smoke stack closing door 13 will be closed in place after the cigarette filter 62 is withdrawn, and the shutter 52 is still closed, and the ash outlet 53 can be opened to pour the ash, as shown in fig. 6.

As shown in fig. 1-3 and 9, an air inlet 14 is provided at the upper end of the main body 1 near the flue closing door 13, air can enter the combustion tube 2 along the direction indicated by the arrow in fig. 9, and air entering the combustion tube 2 can provide enough oxygen to ignite the cigarettes 6, but when a smoker stops smoking the cigarettes 6, the cigarettes 6 are not enough to be burned continuously and extinguished in a short time, so that the effect of 'mouth-by-mouth smoking' is achieved. The cigarette dry burning device can effectively avoid the condition of waste caused by dry burning of cigarettes, is more beneficial to reducing the number of cigarettes by smokers, and reduces the damage to the health of the smokers.

Fig. 10 shows a second embodiment of the present invention, which differs from the first embodiment only in that: there are only 1 high voltage components 44' in the power supply assembly 4 and all the arc generating assemblies 3 are electrically connected. In operation, the control assembly may control the high voltage components 44' to selectively drive any of the arc generating assemblies 3 to generate an arc. This helps to further streamline the internal structure and circuitry of the device, making the overall device more compact and slim.

The present invention also provides a method of smoking a cigarette 6 using the device of figures 1 to 9, comprising the steps of:

step 1: a device for smoking cigarettes 6 as shown in figures 1-9 is provided.

Step 2: pushing open the flue closing door 13, the shutter 52 on the ash collection bin 5 will also be opened in a linked manner, inserting the cigarettes 6 to be smoked into said combustion tube 2, if there is an accumulation of ash previously, pushing the inserted cigarettes 6 into the ash collection bin 5 through the ash inlet; the flue closing door 13 is closed, and the shutter 52 on the ash collection bin 5 is closed, so that the flue closing door 13 is clamped on the cigarette filter 62 to fix the cigarettes 6 due to the obstruction of the cigarette filter 62. By operating the key 15 in the control device to drive the arc generating assembly 3 at the forefront end (i.e. the lowest end in fig. 1-9) to generate an arc at the front end surface 61 of the cigarette 6, the corresponding LED indicator lamp 11 arranged on the main body 1 will also be lightened, and the arc moves towards the cigarette 6 and lights up in cooperation with the inhalation action of the smoker on the cigarette filter 62, thereby completing the smoking of the first cigarette 6. After the smoker finishes the first inhalation, the cigarette 6 is extinguished in a short time; if the smoker only wants to smoke one cigarette, smoking can be stopped.

Step 3: when the smoker wants to smoke the second cigarette 6, only the key 15 is operated again to drive the arc generating assembly 3 at the forefront to light the cigarette 6 again, and the arc follows the air flow movement principle to match to finish the second smoking of the cigarette 6, and then the cigarette 6 is extinguished again.

Step 4: when the preset times or time in the control device is reached, the times are 5 times when the preset times in the control device are reached; when the time is preset in the control device, the time is 8 seconds. At this time, the first segment of the cigarette 6 is defaulted to being smoked. When the smoker is to inhale the cigarette 6 again, the control device will automatically switch to the next ignition position, i.e. drive the arc generating assembly 3 adjacent to the front-most arc generating assembly 3 to ignite the next segment of the cigarette 6. At this time, the LED indicator lamp 11 provided on the main body 1 is also switched accordingly.

Step 5: this cycle is repeated until the rearmost arc generating assembly 3 engages the end of the cigarette 6 drawn by the smoker to withdraw the cigarette filter 62. The flue closing door 13 is pushed to a closed state, and the shutter 52 of the ash collecting bin 5 is also closed in a linkage manner, so that the ash outlet 53 can be opened to pour ash.

The method for smoking cigarettes, although using electronic equipment, still smokes the ignited cigarette, obviously can fully retain all the feelings brought by the common smoking mode compared with the mode of heating without burning in the prior art. At the same time, this method has the obvious advantages: firstly, cigarettes are extinguished immediately when the cigarettes are not smoked, so that the emission of second-hand cigarettes is stopped; secondly, although the cigarettes are lighted, no open fire is exposed, so that potential safety hazards are eliminated; thirdly, the ash can be collected and intensively treated, so that the problem that the ash flies around during ordinary smoking is solved; finally, the problem that the smoker is forced to smoke the whole cigarette because of pursuing a short smoking desire is avoided, the amount of the smoker to smoke the cigarette is effectively reduced, the state of relative health is achieved, and more second-hand smoke emission is also effectively prevented.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and principles of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A device for smoking cigarettes comprising a burner tube for receiving cigarettes, an arc generating assembly for igniting the cigarettes, and a power supply assembly, characterized in that: the device for smoking cigarettes further comprises at least 3 electric arc generating assemblies, wherein all the electric arc generating assemblies are fixedly arranged on the side wall of the combustion tube in a penetrating manner and are mutually spaced in the axial direction of the combustion tube, the control assemblies and the electric arc generating assemblies are electrically connected with the power supply assembly, and the control assemblies can drive all the electric arc generating assemblies to light cigarettes successively;

the control assembly comprises an information input unit and a metering unit electrically connected with the information input unit, and the metering unit drives all the arc generating assemblies to light cigarettes successively by counting the times or time information input by the information input unit.

2. A device for smoking cigarettes according to claim 1, wherein: the electric arcs generated by the two adjacent electric arc generating assemblies are not on the same plane, and included angles exist between the two electric arcs.

3. A device for smoking cigarettes according to claim 2, wherein: the number of the arc generating assemblies is 6-8, and the arcs generated by two adjacent arc generating assemblies are mutually perpendicular.

4. A device for smoking cigarettes according to claim 1, wherein: each electric arc generating assembly comprises two groups of electric arc probes capable of generating electric arcs simultaneously, and two electric arcs generated by the two groups of electric arc probes are on the same plane and form an included angle with each other.

5. A device for smoking cigarettes according to claim 1, wherein: each electric arc generating assembly comprises two electric arc probes which are arranged correspondingly, the distance between the two electric arc probes in the electric arc generating assembly at the forefront end is smaller than the distance between the two electric arc probes in other electric arc generating assemblies, and a limiter is further arranged on the combustion tube, so that the front end face of the cigarette after the cigarette is inserted is positioned between the electric arc generating assembly at the forefront end and the adjacent electric arc generating assembly.

6. A device for smoking cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the power supply assembly comprises a boosting circuit board and 1 high-voltage components electrically connected to the boosting circuit board, wherein the number of the high-voltage components is 1, the high-voltage components are electrically connected with all the arc generating assemblies, and the control assembly can control the high-voltage components to selectively drive any one of the arc generating assemblies to generate an arc.

7. A device for smoking cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the power supply assembly comprises a boost circuit board and high-voltage components electrically connected to the boost circuit board, the number of the high-voltage components is the same as that of the arc generating assemblies, and each high-voltage component is electrically connected with the corresponding arc generating assembly.

8. A device for smoking cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the information input unit includes an air flow control switch which can emit the number of times or time information according to the air flow generated when smoking the cigarette.

9. A device for smoking cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the device for smoking cigarettes also comprises a cigarette ash collecting bin, wherein the cigarette ash collecting bin comprises a cigarette ash inlet which can be communicated with the combustion tube and a baffle door which can seal the cigarette ash inlet, the combustion tube is provided with a cigarette inserting opening, a flue sealing door which is in linkage with the baffle door is further arranged outside the cigarette inserting opening, the baffle door is opened or closed along with the opening or closing of the flue sealing door, and when a cigarette to be smoked is inserted into the combustion tube, the flue sealing door is closed, and the flue sealing door is abutted against the cigarette to be fixed.

10. A method of smoking cigarettes using a device for smoking cigarettes according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

a. providing a combustion tube, a control device and a power supply, wherein at least 3 arc generating components are arranged on the combustion tube at intervals, and the power supply can supply power to the control device and the arc generating components;

b. inserting the cigarettes to be smoked into the combustion tube, wherein the control device drives the electric arc generating assembly positioned at the forefront end to light the cigarettes, and the cigarettes are extinguished immediately after the smoker finishes the inspiration action in cooperation with the inspiration action of the smoker to finish smoking the first cigarettes;

c. when the second cigarette is required to be smoked, the control device drives the electric arc generating assembly positioned at the forefront end to light the cigarette again, and the cigarette is extinguished again after the smoking of the cigarette is completed;

d. when the preset times or time in the control device reaches, and the cigarettes are smoked again, the control device drives the arc generating assembly adjacent to the forefront arc generating assembly to light the cigarettes;

e. the cycle is repeated until the rearmost arc generating assembly engages the end of the cigarette that the smoker has smoked.