EP2032900B1 - Briquet pour chauffer une cigarette sans fumee - Google Patents

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EP2032900B1
EP2032900B1 EP07703574A EP07703574A EP2032900B1 EP 2032900 B1 EP2032900 B1 EP 2032900B1 EP 07703574 A EP07703574 A EP 07703574A EP 07703574 A EP07703574 A EP 07703574A EP 2032900 B1 EP2032900 B1 EP 2032900B1
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Christian Wengert
Thomas Philipp
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/28—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel
    • F23Q2/285—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel with spark ignition
    • F23Q2/287—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel with spark ignition piezoelectric

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  • the invention relates to a lighter for heating a smokeless cigarette.
  • German patent application 10 2005 034 169.1 is a smoke-free cigarette as described in Fig. 6 is shown in cross-section and exploded.
  • a generally cylindrical mouthpiece 10 consists of known per se filter material, as used for example for filter mouthpieces of conventional cigarettes.
  • An end face of the mouthpiece 10 is designed as a suction opening 18.
  • the side facing away from the suction port 18 end face of the mouthpiece 10 is formed with a hollow cylindrical recess 20.
  • the surface 22 of the mouthpiece 10 is with the exception of the surface of the recess and the according to Fig. 6 closed front side formed pores.
  • the cigarette body 12 has a cylindrical jacket 24 of thermally insulating material, for example a ceramic material, which contains a heat pipe 26 made of thermally highly conductive material, such as copper.
  • a heat pipe 26 made of thermally highly conductive material, such as copper.
  • the according to Fig. 1 left end of the heat pipe 26 protrudes from the jacket 24, wherein the outer contour of the protruding portion 28 corresponds approximately to the contour of the recess 20.
  • the end face of the projecting portion and the cylindrical wall of the projecting portion are formed with through holes 30.
  • the front side of the projecting area can also be completely open.
  • the jacket 24 is formed with a recess 32 at the bottom of which the right end of the heat pipe 26 is exposed.
  • the right-hand end of the jacket 24 forms, together with the opening of the heat pipe 26, an air inlet opening which is connected to an air outlet formed by the left-side end of the heat pipe 26 and the end of the shell 24 by means of an air passageway formed through the interior of the heat pipe 26.
  • the mouthpiece 10 is coated on the inside of the recess 20 with a volatile flavoring agent 33, for example nicotine mixed with fragrances and / or flavorings.
  • a volatile flavoring agent 33 for example nicotine mixed with fragrances and / or flavorings.
  • the mouthpiece 10 is enclosed, for example, by a plastic film, so that the stimulant 33 can not evaporate.
  • the mouthpiece is attached to the projecting portion 28 of the cigarette body 12, so that an assembly is formed, which has the appearance of a conventional cigarette (mouthpiece with cigarette body).
  • Fig. 6 For heating or "lighting” is the according to Fig. 6 inserted right end of the cigarette body 12 in an adapter, via which it is connected to a lighter, so that the heat pipe 26 is heated by the flame of the lighter and the stimulant 33, which is in intensive contact with the heat pipe, on his or slightly over its solution or evaporation temperature of, for example, 50 degrees to 60 degrees is heated.
  • the heat capacity of the heat pipe 26 is sufficient to ensure that even after removing the cigarette from the adapter when sucking in air through the suction port 18 through the evaporated components and other volatile components of the stimulant 33 are taken over a sufficiently long period of time, so that the stimulant up to at least approximately its complete consumption in the mouth or by inhalation can be enjoyed.
  • a cigarette which contains within a sleeve a flammable carbonaceous fuel which is in heat conducting relation with an aerosol generating substrate.
  • the sleeve consists of a metal foil which is wrapped in paper.
  • a tobacco filling which is flowed through by the aerosol.
  • a protruding from the sleeve end of the fuel assembly is flammable. The end remote from the fuel element of the sleeve into which a filter body may be inserted, forms a mouthpiece.
  • the DE 68 04 373 U Described in the preamble of appended claim 1, describes a lighter for motor vehicles, in which a directed perpendicular to the lighter flame funnel is attached to the lighter, that a front end of a conventional, introduced into the funnel cigarette is ignited.
  • a cigar lighter is particularly suitable for use in motor vehicles, the housing is inserted into a power supply socket and having an electrically heated ignition element, with one end side of a cigar to be ignited can be brought into contact.
  • the tubular device has at one end an approach that covers the mouth and nose of a smoker. At its other end, the device has a filter device that filters out harmful components of the smoke exiting into the environment.
  • the US 53 96 907 A also describes a device allowing to smoke a conventional cigarette received within the device such that only filtered smoke enters the environment.
  • the US 47 74 970 also describes an apparatus by means of which a conventional cigarette can be enjoyed so that tobacco smoke is isomerized, oxidized and catalyzed prior to inhalation and the amount of smoke exiting into the environment is reduced.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a way with which the heating of the smoke-free cigarette can be done as safe and comfortable.
  • the erfmdungshiele lighter is further developed with the features of claims 2 to 5 in an advantageous manner.
  • Fig. 1 protrudes from the top of a housing 70 of a lighter before a handle 72 for actuating the lighter. Furthermore, a hole 74 is formed in the upper side, which leads into a receptacle 76 formed in the interior of the housing 70. An area 78 of the wall of the housing 70 is transparent and formed with holes 79.
  • Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal section through the lighter according to Fig. 1 ,
  • a burner nozzle 86 of the burner assembly 84 is connected via a line 88 to a valve assembly 90 which is formed on an outlet pipe of a fuel storage container 92, for example, the usual LPG contains and is refillable in a conventional manner.
  • the handle 72 is loosely connected via a rocker arm 94 with the valve assembly 90.
  • an ignition unit 96 for example a piezo ignition device, is arranged below the handle 72, the ignition electrodes 97 of which are located in the region next to the burner nozzle 86.
  • the valve assembly 90 When moving down the handle 72, the valve assembly 90 is opened, so that fuel gas flows from the burner nozzle 86 and is ignited there by the ignition electrodes 97 of the ignition unit 96.
  • the sleeve 82 is dimensioned such that the cigarette body 12 (FIG. Fig. 6 ) is inserted into the sleeve 82 up to the stop 80.
  • a bimetallic strip 98 On the outside of the sleeve 82, a bimetallic strip 98, for example at its two ends intensively heat-conducting, attached in the lower region of the cigarette body 12, which extends with a spacer wire 100 to the valve assembly 90.
  • Fig. 3 shows the arrangement with pressed handle 72 and thus open valve of the valve assembly 90 and thus burning flame 102, but still cold sleeve 82.
  • the sleeve 82 is heated so far that the bimetallic strip 98 according to Fig. 4 is bulged to the left and over the spacer wire 100, the valve of the valve assembly 90 closes.
  • the lighter By appropriate dimensioning of the receiving compartment 76 with the sleeve 82 and, if necessary, inserting an additional, temperature-insulating sleeve, the lighter can be used in a conventional manner by the flame, if necessary, adjusted by means of a protruding from the housing knurled screw (not shown) in that it burns to the outside of the housing. It is also possible that the valve assembly 90 closes when the handle 72 is no longer actuated and additionally closes when the handle 72 is pressed, when it is released by the bimetallic strip 98 to close. This release can for example be done by the bimetallic strip pushes the spacer wire under a head of a valve stem and thereby the valve is closed by a biased in the closed position spring.
  • the cigarette body 12 is conveniently heated with the mouthpiece 10 mounted on the lighter, as the heated air, including nicotine and flavoring, can then be inhaled through the heat pipe with a slight draft, as in a conventional cigarette.
  • exhaust holes are similar to the exhaust holes 30 in FIG Fig. 6 additionally in accordance with Fig. 6 formed on the left side edge region of the jacket 24 and pass radially through the heat pipe 26 therethrough.
  • the cigarette can be heated with attached mouthpiece without sucking air through the mouthpiece must become.

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  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Lighters Containing Fuel (AREA)
  • Fats And Perfumes (AREA)
  • Manufacture Of Tobacco Products (AREA)
  • Cigarettes, Filters, And Manufacturing Of Filters (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Briquet pour l'allumage d'une cigarette sans fumée, laquelle cigarette comporte un corps de cigarette (12) ayant une enveloppe extérieure (24) en matériau calorifuge et un tube de chaleur (26) entouré par l'enveloppe (24) en matériau thermoconducteur, à une extrémité du corps de cigarette (12) une pièce à emboucher pouvant être agencée de telle sorte qu'un stimulant (33) à placer entre la pièce à emboucher (10) et l'extrémité du tube de chaleur (26) face à elle, est en contact avec la tube de chaleur (26), lequel stimulant (33) peut être chauffé par chauffage de l'extrémité du tube de chaleur (26) opposée à la pièce à emboucher (10) jusqu'à une température suffisante pour évaporer le stimulant (33),
    lequel briquet présente un carter (70) qui contient:
    un réservoir à combustible (92) raccordé par une valve (90) à une buse de brûleur (86),
    un dispositif d'allumage (97) formé dans la zone de la buse de brûleur (86), la valve pouvant être, au moyen d'une manette (72) prévue sur le carter (70), ouverte et une flamme pouvant être, au moyen du dispositif d'allumage (97), allumée,
    ainsi qu'une ouverture (76) formée à l'intérieur du carter (70), contiguë à la buse de brûleur (86) et au dispositif d'allumage (97) et accessible au travers d'un trou (74) dans le carter, dans laquelle l'extrémité du corps de cigarette opposée à la pièce à emboucher (10) peut coulisser de sorte que l'extrémité associée du tube de chaleur (26) tournée vers la buse de brûleur (86) peut être chauffée par la flamme pour évaporer le stimulant et le corps de cigarette (12) peut être retiré de l'ouverture (76) lors de l'évaporation du stimulant,
    caractérisé en ce que
    un détecteur thermique (98) est prévu, lequel prend la température du corps de cigarette (12) dans la zone terminale de celle-ci tournée vers la buse de brûleur (86) et ferme la valve (90) au dépassement positif d'une température de seuil.
  2. Briquet selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le détecteur thermique comporte un bilame (98) qui détecte la température d'une douille (82) logeant la zone terminale du corps de cigarette (12) et dont la déformation ferme la valve (90).
  3. Briquet selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel des orifices (79) sont formés dans le carter (70) pour une admission d'air frais dans la zone de la buse de brûleur (86).
  4. Briquet selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel une zone (78) du carter (70) est transparente, de sorte que la flamme (102) sortant de la buse de brûleur (86) est visible de l'extérieur du carter (70).
EP07703574A 2006-03-03 2007-03-01 Briquet pour chauffer une cigarette sans fumee Not-in-force EP2032900B1 (fr)

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DE102006009995A DE102006009995B3 (de) 2006-03-03 2006-03-03 Feuerzeug zum Aufheizen einer rauchfreien Zigarette
PCT/EP2007/001779 WO2007101608A1 (fr) 2006-03-03 2007-03-01 Briquet pour chauffer une cigarette sans fumee

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