Disclosure of Invention
Based on the above, it is necessary to provide an integrated electronic cigarette and a processing method thereof, which are beneficial to keeping the cartridge clean, easy and convenient to take out and insert the cartridge, good in user experience and good in appearance integrity.
The integrated electronic cigarette comprises a main machine, a cigarette bullet and a shell, wherein the main machine and the cigarette bullet are arranged in the shell and are respectively positioned at two ends of the shell; the cigarette cartridge is characterized by further comprising a self-ejection structure arranged between the host machine and the cigarette cartridge, wherein the end face of the end of the shell body where the cigarette cartridge is arranged is provided with a through hole, and the self-ejection structure controls the cigarette cartridge to be inserted or ejected from the through hole.
In one embodiment, the self-elastic structure comprises an elastic element, a movable base, a movable supporting rod and a guide rail positioning groove; the elastic element is connected with the shell and the movable base, and the movable base is arranged between the host and the cigarette bullet and is propped against the bottom of the cigarette bullet; the guide rail positioning groove is formed in the inner wall of the shell, one end of the movable supporting rod is rotatably connected with the movable base, and the other end of the movable supporting rod is positioned or slides in the guide rail positioning groove; the guide rail positioning groove guides the cigarette bullet and the movable supporting rod.
In one embodiment, the inner wall of the shell is provided with a frame, and the host is fixed in a corresponding installation position of the frame; the frame also comprises a limit column parallel to the running direction of the cartridge, and the elastic element is fixed on the limit column; the movable base is provided with a limiting hole, the elastic element is a spring, one end of the spring is sleeved on the limiting column, and the other end of the spring is inserted in the limiting hole.
In one embodiment, the movable supporting rod is a U-shaped hook, the movable base is provided with a hook hole, one end of the U-shaped hook is arranged in the hook hole, and the other end of the U-shaped hook slides in the guide rail positioning groove.
In one embodiment, the guide positioning groove comprises an ejecting guide groove and an inserting guide groove, the ejecting guide groove is parallel to the spring, the inserting guide groove is arranged in a forked mode with the ejecting guide groove, and the end point of the inserting guide groove coincides with the starting point of the ejecting guide groove; the ejection guide rail groove protrudes from the insertion guide rail groove at a branching position with the insertion guide rail groove.
In one embodiment, the self-ejection structure is a double-rail self-ejection structure, and the guide rail positioning grooves and the U-shaped hooks are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the cartridge to guide the cartridge; the movable base is a U-shaped frame movable base, and three sides of the U-shaped frame movable base are in contact with the cigarette cartridges.
In one embodiment, the self-elastic structure further comprises an elastic pressing piece, wherein the elastic pressing piece is fixed on the shell and presses the movable supporting rod in the guide rail positioning groove.
In one embodiment, the host includes a battery, a circuit board, a pneumatic switch, and a first air flow channel, the battery, the circuit board, and the pneumatic switch being electrically connected; the battery, the circuit board and the pneumatic switch are arranged in the mounting position corresponding to the inner wall frame of the shell, the pneumatic switch is communicated with the first air flow channel, and the circuit board is provided with a conductive column electrically connected with the cartridge; the cigarette bullet comprises an atomization assembly, an oil storage bin and a second airflow channel, the atomization assembly comprises an electrode column, a heating element and an oil guide element, the heating element is connected with the electrode column and the oil guide element, the electrode column is matched with the oil guide column, and the oil guide element is communicated with the oil storage bin; the first air flow channel is communicated with one end of the second air flow channel, and the other end of the second air flow channel is a suction nozzle.
In one embodiment, the shell is flat, and a toughened glass cover plate is arranged on two sides of the outer wall of the shell; the host is also provided with an indicator light connected with the circuit board and arranged on the inner side of the toughened glass cover plate.
An integrated electronic cigarette processing method comprises the following steps:
s1: opening a die, namely extruding and opening the die on an aluminum-magnesium alloy or stainless steel base material, and performing preliminary molding;
s2: CNC machining, namely accurately machining the base material which is preliminarily formed in the step S1 to form a frame;
s3: nanometer corrosion, namely sequentially placing the frame formed in the step S2 into alkali liquor, acid liquor and T liquor to form nanometer micropores on the surface of the frame, and cleaning and drying;
s4: injection molding, namely injection molding PPS plastic or PET plastic to form a mounting panel;
s5: nanometer injection molding, namely placing the mounting panel in the frame, and penetrating the mounting panel into nanometer micropores of the frame through injection molding to fasten the mounting panel and the aluminum alloy frame to form a shell;
s6: anodic oxidation, namely placing the shell formed in the step S5 into electrolyte for anodic oxidation;
s7: CNC machining, namely finishing the shell in the step S6;
s8: the parts of the main machine and the self-elastic structure are arranged in the shell;
s9: and (3) gluing the glass cover plate to the shell, and gluing the glass cover plate on both sides of the shell.
The integrated electronic cigarette and the processing method thereof at least have the following advantages:
the electronic cigarette shell is internally provided with a self-ejection structure, so that the insertion or ejection of the cigarette shell can be controlled according to the operation of a user; when a user needs to suck the electronic cigarette, the cigarette bullet is inserted into the through hole arranged at the end part of the shell, and then pressed, so that the self-bullet structure can return to the preset position and be positioned, and at the moment, the cigarette bullet is connected with the host machine, so that the electronic cigarette can be sucked; when a user needs to replace the cartridge or add tobacco tar, the cartridge at the through hole is pressed, so that the self-ejection structure is forced to eject and position the preset position, and then the cartridge is released, so that the cartridge can be ejected out of the shell for a certain distance, and then the cartridge can be pulled out by hand. On the one hand, from the whole external view, only the integrally designed shell is seen, and the appearance integrity is good; on the other hand, the shell is internally provided with the cartridge, so that the cartridge is kept clean, and the cartridge is taken out and inserted only by slightly pressing, so that the device is simple and convenient, and the user experience is good.
The processing method of the built-in electronic cigarette of the cigarette bullet adopts nanometer injection molding, so that the plastic mounting panel is fastened with the aluminum alloy frame after acid etching, the plastic is injected to generate reaction of grease and amine, the plastic mounting panel is exchanged and fused with the aluminum alloy frame, nanometer micropores formed by the acid etching of the aluminum alloy frame are rapidly filled with the grease and the amine, so that the anchor bolt effect of the aluminum alloy frame and the plastic mounting panel are tightly combined together, the metal appearance texture can be considered, the design of a structural member of a product can be simplified, and the product is lighter, thinner, shorter and smaller.
Detailed Description
In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the invention will be readily understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. The invention may be embodied in many other forms than described herein and similarly modified by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention, which is therefore not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "fixed 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 herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. The term "and/or" as used herein includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Please refer to fig. 1-4, which are schematic structural diagrams of an integrated electronic cigarette in an embodiment. The electronic cigarette in this embodiment includes a main unit 10, a cartridge 20, a housing 30, and a self-ejection structure 40, where the main unit 10, the cartridge 20, and the self-ejection structure 40 are all disposed inside the housing 30, and the main unit 10 and the cartridge 20 are respectively located at two ends of the housing 30, the self-ejection structure 40 is located between the main unit 10 and the cartridge 20, the housing 30 is provided with a through hole 32 at an end face of the end of the cartridge 20, and the self-ejection structure 40 controls the cartridge 20 to be inserted into or ejected from the through hole 32. The main unit 10 is matched with the cartridge 20, and the cartridge 20 is inserted into the shell 30 and connected with the main unit 10, so that the suction can be performed.
The self-ejection structure 40 may control the insertion or ejection of the cartridge 20 into or out of the housing 30 according to user operation; when a user needs to inhale the electronic cigarette, the cartridge 20 is inserted into the through hole 32 arranged at the end of the shell 30, and then pressed, so that the self-cartridge structure 40 can return to a preset position and be positioned, and at the moment, the cartridge 20 is connected with the host 10, so that the electronic cigarette can be inhaled; when a user needs to replace the cartridge 20 or add tobacco tar, the cartridge 20 at the through hole 32 is pressed, so that the self-ejection structure 40 is forced to eject and position at a preset position, and then loosened, the cartridge 20 can be ejected out of the shell 30 for a certain distance, and then the cartridge 20 can be pulled out by hand.
Referring to fig. 3, specifically, the host 10 includes a battery 12, a circuit board 14, a pneumatic switch 16, and a first air flow channel, where the battery 12, the circuit board 14, and the pneumatic switch 16 are electrically connected; the inner wall of the shell 30 is provided with an integrally formed frame, the frame comprises mounting positions matched with all parts of the host 10, and the battery 12, the circuit board 14 and the pneumatic switch 16 are arranged in the corresponding mounting positions of the frame of the inner wall of the shell 30; the circuit board 14 is provided with conductive posts 18 electrically connected to the cartridges 20; the pneumatic switch 16 is communicated with the first air flow channel, when smoking, air flows through the pneumatic switch 16 through the first air flow channel, the pneumatic switch 16 is triggered to be opened by the air flow, so that the cartridge 20 starts to work, and the atomized tobacco tar is supplied for a user to inhale.
The cartridge 20 comprises an atomization assembly, an oil storage bin and a second airflow channel, the atomization assembly comprises an electrode column, a heating element and an oil guide element, the oil guide element is wound on the heating element and is communicated with the oil storage bin for guiding oil, the heating element is connected with the electrode column, and the heating element can generate heat when being electrified to atomize tobacco tar; the electrode column is matched with the conductive column 18, when the electrode column is connected with the conductive column 18, the pneumatic switch 16 is triggered to be opened by air flow, so that the electrode column is electrified with the conductive column 18, the heating element generates heat, and smoke oil is atomized; the first air flow channel is communicated with one end of the second air flow channel, the other end of the second air flow channel is provided with a suction nozzle 22, when the electronic cigarette is sucked, air flow can flow in from the first air flow channel and the second air flow channel by sucking air at the suction nozzle 22, in the process, the air flow accompanied with smoke is finally sucked into the mouth of a user due to the fact that the pneumatic switch 16 is triggered to enable the atomization assembly to work.
In this embodiment, a one-way silica gel valve may be further disposed at the air inlet of the second airflow channel, and the one-way silica gel valve is opened due to suction force during inhalation, and the air inlet is air-filled; if the misoperation blows at the suction nozzle 22, the one-way silica gel valve seals the air inlet, the air flow between the air inlet and the pneumatic switch 16 is cut off, and the pneumatic switch 16 is closed, so that the problem that the atomization component is burnt and scrapped due to misoperation and even a user is scalded is avoided; condensate within the cartridge 20 is also reduced from flowing back to the circuit board 14 through the air inlet, causing shorting and damage to the circuit board 14.
Referring to fig. 5, in the present embodiment, the self-elastic structure 40 includes an elastic element 42, a movable base 44, a movable support rod 46 and a guide rail positioning slot 48; the movable base 44 is disposed between the host 10 and the cartridge 20 and abuts against the bottom of the cartridge 20, and the elastic element 42 connects the housing 30 and the movable base 44; the guide rail positioning groove 48 is formed in the inner wall of the shell 30, specifically, the die is integrally formed, one end of the movable supporting rod 46 is rotationally connected with the movable base 44, the other end of the movable supporting rod 46 is positioned or slides in the guide rail positioning groove 48, when the cartridge 20 is inserted into the shell 30, the movable supporting rod 46 is positioned in a preset position, and the movable supporting rod 46 is subjected to pressure provided by the combined action of the elastic element 42 and the guide rail positioning groove 48; the guide track positioning groove 48 guides the cartridge 20 and the movable support rod 46.
Specifically, the frame of the casing 30 further includes a limiting post 34 parallel to the running direction of the cartridge 20, the movable base 44 is provided with a limiting hole, the elastic element 42 is a spring, one end of the spring is sleeved and fixed on the limiting post 34, the other end of the spring is inserted in the limiting hole, and the limiting post 34 corresponds to the limiting hole; when the cartridge 20 is pressed by an external force, the elastic element 42 can provide an axial elastic force parallel to the running direction of the cartridge 20 for the movable base 44, so as to drive the cartridge 20 to run stably.
The movable supporting rod 46 is a U-shaped hook, the movable base 44 is provided with a hook hole, one end of the U-shaped hook is arranged in the hook hole, the other end of the U-shaped hook slides in the guide rail positioning groove 48, and the U-shaped hook can freely rotate in the hook hole according to the stress condition of the cartridge 20. Preferably, the U-shaped hook has a certain deflection angle with the linear direction of the elastic element 42, and when the cartridge 20 is pressed to release the U-shaped hook from positioning, the U-shaped hook can enter the guide rail positioning groove 48 according to the expected running track.
The guide positioning groove 48 comprises an ejecting guide groove 482 and an inserting guide groove 484, the ejecting guide groove 482 is parallel to the spring, the inserting guide groove 484 is arranged in a forked manner with the ejecting guide groove 482, and the end point of the inserting guide groove 482 is overlapped with the starting point of the ejecting guide groove 482 to form a running loop; the ejection rail groove 482 protrudes from the insertion rail groove 484 at a bifurcation with the insertion rail groove 484. Preferably, the insertion track slot 484 is bifurcated from the ejection track slot 482 in a "Bu" shape. Specifically, the pop-up rail groove 482 and the insertion rail groove 484 are arranged in a trapezoid shape, the waist of the trapezoid close to the host 10 is in an arc shape, that is, the side wall of the rail where the arc waist is located is also in an arc inclined plane, one end of the movable supporting rod 46 abuts against the arc waist, and at this time, the cartridge 20 is arranged in the shell 30; when the cartridge 20 is taken out, the cartridge 20 is pressed, the movable supporting rod 46 slides out of the arc waist and is limited by the arc inclined plane, the movable supporting rod 46 slides out of the arc waist to the trapezoid bottom, the force for pressing the cartridge 20 is released, the spring provides elasticity to enable the movable base 44 to move, the cartridge 20 and the movable supporting rod 46 are driven to move, the movable supporting rod 46 slides to a preset position along the trapezoid bottom, the cartridge 20 is partially ejected out of the ejection guide rail groove 482, and the cartridge 20 can be conveniently taken out manually; when inserting the cartridge 20, insert the through-hole 32 with the cartridge 20, press the cartridge 20, the cartridge 20 removes, drive movable base 44 and movable support pole 46 and remove, because of popping out guide rail groove 482 protrusion in inserting guide rail groove 484, movable support pole 46 moves along inserting guide rail groove 484, here, insert the trapezoidal straight waist of guide rail groove 484, the guide rail groove that upper end and some arc waists formed for inserting guide rail groove 484, press the cartridge 20 and make movable support pole 46 move to arc waist department location, loosen the power of pressing the cartridge 20, the cartridge 20 also can not pop out.
Referring to fig. 4, more specifically, the straight waist of the insertion guide rail slot 484 is designed to be a plane, a slope or a plane, the slot heights of the ejection guide rail slot 482 at the arc waist and the corresponding running portion of the insertion guide rail slot 484 are not identical, and the insertion guide rail slot 484 protrudes from the ejection guide rail slot 482, so that the movable support rod 46 only slides according to the preset ejection running track under the influence of the slot surface height during ejection.
The self-elastic structure 40 further includes an elastic pressing piece 49, wherein the elastic pressing piece 49 is fixed on the housing 30, and presses the movable supporting rod 46 in the guide rail positioning groove 48. The movable supporting rod 46 slides in the guide rail positioning groove 48, and the elastic pressing piece 49 can form certain pressure on the movable supporting rod 46, so that on one hand, the movable supporting rod 46 can not slip from the guide rail positioning groove 48, and on the other hand, the resistance is larger and larger in the process of inserting the cartridge 20, and a user can judge the insertion state approximately from the stress, so that the experience is better.
In this embodiment, the self-ejection structure 40 is a double-track self-ejection structure, that is, guide rail positioning grooves 48 and U-shaped hooks are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the cartridge 20 to guide the cartridge 20; the cartridges 20 are symmetrically guided and uniformly stressed, so that the deflection and the blocking of the cartridges 20 are avoided, and the ejection or the insertion of the cartridges 20 are prevented. Referring to fig. 5, more specifically, the movable base 44 is a U-shaped frame movable base, and three sides of the U-shaped frame movable base are all in contact with the cartridge 20; namely, the positions of the cartridges 20 are limited on three surfaces, so that the deformation of the cartridges 20, which is possibly caused by the limitation of only one surface, is avoided, and the smoothness and experience of use are improved.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in the present embodiment, the housing 30 is flat, and two sides of the outer wall of the housing 30 are provided with tempered glass cover plates 36, and when seen from the outside, only the tempered glass cover plates 36 and the aluminum alloy frames on two sides can be seen, so that the integration is good, and the fashion is good; the host 10 is also provided with an indicator light 19 connected with the circuit board 14, which can be arranged on the outer surface of the battery 12 or the circuit board 14, is covered by a toughened glass cover plate 36 and is arranged on the inner side of the toughened glass cover plate 36; the horse race indicator lamp can be used, when the indicator lamp 19 is not on, the lamp decoration is not seen, and the indicator lamp 19 is on, so that the cool visual effect can be obtained from the toughened glass cover plate 36. The toughened glass cover plate 36 is high in strength, meets the strength requirement of use, and can observe the use condition of tobacco tar in the internal tobacco cartridge 20 through the toughened glass cover plate 36, so that the tobacco tar can be added or the tobacco cartridge 20 can be replaced in time when the tobacco tar is insufficient.
Of course, the housing 30 is further provided with a hole for installing a charging interface, and the host 10 is provided with a charging interface connected with the battery 12 to charge the battery 12.
The electronic cigarette with the cartridge 20 at least has the following advantages:
the electronic cigarette housing 30 is internally provided with a self-ejecting structure 40 which can control the insertion or ejection of the cartridge 20 into or out of the housing 30 according to the operation of a user; when a user needs to inhale the electronic cigarette, the cartridge 20 is inserted into the through hole 32 arranged on the end face of the shell 30, and then pressed, the self-cartridge structure 40 can be returned to a preset position and positioned, and at the moment, the cartridge 20 is connected with the host 10, so that the electronic cigarette can be inhaled; when a user needs to replace the cartridge 20 or add tobacco tar, the cartridge 20 at the through hole 32 is pressed, so that the self-ejection structure 40 is forced to eject and position at a preset position, and then loosened, the cartridge 20 can be ejected out of the shell 30 for a certain distance, and then the cartridge 20 can be pulled out by hand. On the one hand, from the external integral view, only the integrally designed shell 30 is seen, and the appearance integrity is good; on the other hand, the cartridge 20 is arranged in the shell 30, so that the cartridge 20 is kept clean, and the cartridge 20 is taken out and inserted only by slightly pressing, so that the device is simple and convenient, and the user experience is good.
Referring to fig. 6, a method for processing an electronic cigarette with a cartridge 20 built in includes the following steps:
s1: opening a die, namely extruding and opening the die on an aluminum-magnesium alloy or stainless steel base material, and performing preliminary molding;
s2: CNC machining, namely accurately machining the base material which is preliminarily formed in the step S1 to form a frame; the frame is reserved with a through hole 32, a charging interface position and the like;
s3: nanometer corrosion, namely sequentially placing the frame formed in the step S2 into alkali liquor, acid liquor and T liquor to form nanometer micropores on the surface of the frame, and cleaning and drying;
s4: injection molding, namely injection molding PPS plastic or PET plastic to form a mounting panel; the mounting panel is integrally formed with the mounting positions of the battery 12, the circuit board 14, the pneumatic switch 16, the cartridge 20, the elastic element 42 and the like, and is also integrally formed with the guide rail positioning groove 48, and the stamping die is integrally formed with simple structure, convenient manufacture and low cost, and can meet certain processing quality requirements;
s5: nanometer injection molding, namely placing the mounting panel in the frame, penetrating the mounting panel into nanometer micropores of the frame through injection molding, injecting plastic to generate reaction of grease and amine, exchanging and fusing the plastic mounting panel with the aluminum alloy frame, and filling the nanometer micropores formed by acid etching of the aluminum alloy frame with the grease and the amine rapidly, so that the aluminum alloy frame and the plastic mounting panel are tightly combined together by an anchor bolt effect, and the mounting panel and the aluminum alloy frame are fastened to form a shell;
s6: anodic oxidation, namely placing the shell formed in the step S5 into electrolyte for anodic oxidation; the frame of the shell forms a layer of protective film, so that the appearance is more metal, the corrosion resistance is improved, and the wear resistance and the hardness are enhanced;
s7: CNC machining, namely finishing the shell in the step S6;
s8: the parts of the host 10 and the self-ejection structure 40 are arranged in the shell;
s9: the tempered glass cover plate 36 is glued to the housing 30 and the glass cover plate is glued on both sides of the housing 30.
The processing method of the electronic cigarette with the cartridge 20 inside at least comprises the following advantages:
the processing method of the electronic cigarette with the built-in cartridge 20 adopts nano injection molding, so that the plastic mounting panel is fastened with the aluminum alloy frame after acid etching, the plastic is injected to generate reaction of grease and amine, the plastic mounting panel is exchanged and fused with the aluminum alloy frame, the nano micropores formed by the acid etching of the aluminum alloy frame are rapidly filled with the grease and the amine, so that the anchor bolt effect of the aluminum alloy frame and the plastic mounting panel are tightly combined together, the metal appearance texture can be considered, the design of a structural member of a product can be simplified, and the product is lighter, thinner, shorter and smaller.
The technical features of the above-described embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and all possible combinations of the technical features in the above-described embodiments are not described for brevity of description, however, as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features, they should be considered as the scope of the description.
The above examples illustrate only a few embodiments of the invention, which are described in detail and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, which are all within the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present invention is to be determined by the appended claims.