US 12,213,536 B2
Electronic cigarette
Jianfu Liu, Hunan (CN); Kejun Zhong, Hunan (CN); Xiaoyi Guo, Hunan (CN); Wei Huang, Hunan (CN); Yuangang Dai, Hunan (CN); Xinqiang Yin, Hunan (CN); Jianhua Yi, Hunan (CN); Hong Yu, Hunan (CN); and Yang Wang, Hunan (CN)
Assigned to CHINA TOBACCO HUNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., Hunan (CN)
Filed by CHINA TOBACCO HUNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., Hunan (CN)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/135,713.
Application 18/135,713 is a division of application No. 16/306,828, granted, now 11,744,282, previously published as PCT/CN2016/110393, filed on Dec. 16, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 201620643868.8 (CN), filed on Jun. 27, 2016; and application No. 201620644519.8 (CN), filed on Jun. 27, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0248057 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 7/00 (2006.01); A24F 40/05 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A61M 11/04 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 7/00 (2013.01) [A24F 40/05 (2020.01); A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24F 40/42 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A61M 11/042 (2014.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic cigarette, comprising a shell and a power supply installed in the shell, wherein:
the electronic cigarette further comprises a tobacco bin which is provided in the shell and communicates with an outside air, and a suction nozzle which communicates with the tobacco bin; and
a piezoelectric ceramic piece which clings to the tobacco bin is provided in the shell,
the piezoelectric ceramic piece is a bearing surface of the tobacco bin on which a tobacco material is loaded as well as a heating surface of the tobacco bin, wherein the piezoelectric ceramic piece is vertically installed at an upper part of the shell, and the tobacco bin is provided on one side of the piezoelectric ceramic piece;
a tobacco bin cover capable of sealing the tobacco bin is provided at the tobacco bin, and an air inlet which communicates with the tobacco bin is provided in the tobacco bin cover;
and the piezoelectric ceramic piece is electrically connected with the power supply.