US 11,937,639 B2
Electronic cigarette
Tuanfang Liu, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to ASPIRE NORTH AMERICA LLC
Filed by Shenzhen Eigate Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/164,771.
Claims priority of application No. 202011034246.2 (CN), filed on Sep. 27, 2020; and application No. 202022155733.6 (CN), filed on Sep. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095683 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/48 (2020.01); H05B 6/80 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 40/46 (2020.01) [A24F 40/48 (2020.01); H05B 6/80 (2013.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic cigarette, comprising a microwave heating module, wherein the microwave heating module comprises a cup, a cylindrical shielding net, a cover, a magnetron, and a microwave source;
wherein:
the cup is fixed in the cylindrical shielding net for accommodating a tobacco material;
the cylindrical shielding net is disposed above the microwave source;
the magnetron is disposed on the microwave source; the microwave source is adapted to activate microwaves in a power-on state, and the magnetron is adapted to emit the microwaves into the cylindrical shielding net to heat and atomize the tobacco material in the cup;
the cover is disposed on the cylindrical shielding net, and a shielding chamber is confined by the cylindrical shielding net and the cover;
each of the cylindrical shielding net and the cover is in a mesh configuration and has a plurality of mesh holes;
the cylindrical shielding net and the cover are adapted to convey air or vapor through the mesh holes;
the cylindrical shielding net and the cover are adapted to confine the microwaves within the shielding chamber and to concentrate the microwaves on the tobacco material in the cup; and
the cup comprises a non-metallic material selected from glass, ceramic, quartz, crystal, agate, and jade.