Electrical apparatus for vaporizing of active substances

• US 5,222,186 A
• Filed: 12/06/1991
• Issued: 06/22/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Globol GmbH
• Original Assignee: Globol GmbH
• Inventors: Fischer, Jurgen, Hautmann, Horst, Schimanski, Georg
• Primary Examiner(s): Walberg, Teresa J.
• Application Number:
  US07/778,065
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 392/394, 392/395, 392/392, 392/403, 392/405, 392/406
• US Class Current: 392/395
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/03 Apparatus therefor

Abstract

To provide an electrical apparatus for vaporizing active substances, perfumes or the like volatile substances, consisting of a housing having an electrical heating means and a container for liquid to be vaporized connectable to the housing, in the container a wick or the like being mounted by means of which the liquid is supplied to the heating means, and the wick passes through the heating means at a through passage adapted to the wick, the heating means further consisting of a ceramic heating body with electrical heating coil let into said body, said coil having a high functional reliability and long life with simple production, it is proposed that the heating body (2) comprises a recess (8) which extends tangentially to its through passage (5) and which is made rectilinear and into which the heating coil (7) is inserted, and which is filled with potting composition, the electrical leads (9) of the heating coil (7) being led out of the heating body (2) substantially coaxially to the heating coil (7).

Claims

1. Electrical apparatus for vaporizing active substances, perfumes or similar volatile substances, comprising a housing having an electrical heating means and a container for the liquid to be vaporized which is connectable to the housing and in which a wick is mounted by means of which the liquid is supplied to the heating means, and the wick passes through the heating means at a passage adapted to the wick, the heating means further comprising a ceramic heating body with an electrical heating coil let into said body, wherein the heating body comprises a recess extending tangentially to said passage, said recess being rectilinear and into which the heating coil is inserted and which is filled with potting composition.

2. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the heating body is a substantially triangular flat disc, the through passage is formed extending transversely to the area extent of the disc near one tip thereof and near the edge opposite said tip the recess for the heating coil is arranged.

3. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating coil has a length corresponding substantially to the diameter of the passage.

4. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating body is provided with leads which are electrically connected within the recess to terminal ends of the heating coil, and wherein the connection points are covered with a potting composition.

5. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating coil is covered with a potting composition, whereas the insulated leads are led out of the heating body.

6. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wick consists of a plurality of textile individual filaments which extends parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction of the wick and which are held together and surrounded by a tube-like fabric sheath, the individual filaments projecting beyond the fabric sheath at both wick ends.

7. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the housing consists of two half shells, one of which forms the housing base with container connection means and the other of which forms the housing top, the heating means being held clamped between the two shells.

8. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating body comprises leads which are led to a connector plug mounted for limited relation between the edges of the housing half shells.

9. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating body comprises leads which are surrounded by an insulating sheath, led in zig-zag manner round pins projecting from the housing base to the housing top, and emerge radially from the housing.

10. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the container is provided at the wick outlet opening with an outer threaded neck which can be screwed into a corresponding threaded recess of the base.

11. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the container comprises a neck and wherein on the neck of the container lying at the rear in the screw-in direction of the threaded an encircling ring rib is formed and an annular groove is formed at the front in the threaded recess of the housing, the ring rib engaging in the annular groove when the container is in the screwed-in desired position.

12. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the container comprises a bottom which forms the standing base of the apparatus.

13. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the housing comprises a base with side walls which are formed to project beyond the bottom surface of the container.

14. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the container comprises an outer wall and the housing an inner wall, and wherein the container may be brought into a screw-in desired position between the container outer wall and the inner wall of the housing base an air gap is formed which opens into corresponding through openings of the housing.

15. Electrical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the heating coil comprises electrical leads which are led out of the heating body substantially coaxially to the heating coil.