Non-Combustion Smoking Tool

• US 20110290269A1
• Filed: 02/03/2010
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kazuhiko Shimizu
• Original Assignee: Kazuhiko Shimizu
• Inventors: Shimizu, Kazuhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/147,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20110290269A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/330
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/20 Devices using solid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/46 Shape or structure of electric heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/042 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0023 retractable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 battery-operated

Abstract

In order to use a commercially available cigarette or cigar as it is, vaporize nicotine from the tobacco leaves, and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine without burning the product, a non-combustion smoking tool comprises a slender heater 1 having a sharp end which is directly inserted into a commercially available cigarette or cigar 100 to directly heat the leaves of the cigarette or cigar by the heater so as to vaporize nicotine contained in the tobacco leaves and enable inhalation of the vaporized nicotine.

Claims

1. A non-combustion smoking tool comprising one or multiple slender heaters to be inserted into a cigarette or a cigar to directly heat tobacco leaves by the heater so as to vaporize nicotine contained in the tobacco leaves and enable smoker to inhale the nicotine.

2. The non-combustion smoking tool according to claim 1, wherein the heater has an end having a sharp shape and has a diameter of 2.3 mm or smaller.

3. The non-combustion smoking tool according to claim 1, wherein the heater is controlled to have a surface temperature of 230°

C. or lower.