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Briquet electronique et paquet de cigarettes avec briquet incorpore Download PDF

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WO2004106170A2
WO2004106170A2 PCT/IB2004/001494 IB2004001494W WO2004106170A2 WO 2004106170 A2 WO2004106170 A2 WO 2004106170A2 IB 2004001494 W IB2004001494 W IB 2004001494W WO 2004106170 A2 WO2004106170 A2 WO 2004106170A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1081—Inserts or accessories added or joined to the container, e.g. coins, pens, cards, spacers
    • B65D85/109—Lighting means, e.g. matches or lighters

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  • This invention relates to an electronic cigarette lighter and cigarette pack embodying same. More particularly, but not exclusively, the invention relates to an electronic cigarette lighter and cigarette pack embodying same that may be made as a disposable item.
  • cigarette lighter and cigarette pack are not be interpreted as being limited to what are strictly known as cigarettes but is to be interpreted as including lighters and packs for similar items, in particular, cigars and cigarillos.
  • an object of this invention to provide a combination cigarette pack and lighter that will obviate at least some of the disadvantages associated with the prior art proposals of such a combination or, alternatively, that will simply be more appealing to a smoker. It is another object of the invention to provide an electronic lighter that is particularly suitable for incorporation into such a cigarette pack in amongst other applications.
  • a cigarette pack manufactured from one or more blank components of cut and sulcated sheet material that is folded to form a generally rectilinear shaped container defining a cigarette pack that embodies an electronic cigarette lighter, the cigarette pack being characterized in that the cigarette lighter includes an electronic circuit and electronic components at least part of which are applied to a blank component prior to folding thereof to form the container, and in that the electronic lighter includes a battery formed on, or attached to, at least one wall of the cigarette pack.
  • the battery to be of a multi- layered configuration applied to at least one major wall of the cigarette pack in a printing-like or laminating process; for the circuit of the electronic lighter to include touch activated switch means exposed either to the outer surface of the pack (when devoid of any outer wrapper) or, in the case of a flip top cigarette box, to the outer surface of the upwardly projecting inner skirt that is located inside the flip top lid in the closed condition; for the touch activated switch means to include, in the case that same is exposed to the outside of the pack, two touch activated switch means exposed on opposite faces of the outer surface of the pack, preferably, the two side surfaces, with the exposed switch means preferably being located centrally up the height of the pack and wherein the two touch activated switch means are arranged in series or in an "AND" configuration so that both need to be activated simultaneously for operation of the electronic lighter; for the electronic lighter to include a hot spot energized by the battery in response to activation of the switch means with the hot spot being adapted to ignite at
  • the entire circuit of the electronic lighter is applied to one or other blank component of the cigarette pack by well known electronic production processes that are very much akin to printing processes and whereby the entire circuit can be applied in a stepwise, layered manner to the blank component prior to its being folded to form, or to be incorporated in, the cigarette pack.
  • the cigarette pack will be of the so-called flip top configuration in which case at least a major part of the electronic circuit can be embodied in the relatively small separate blank component that, in the assembled condition of the flip top cigarette box, forms the upwardly projecting inner skirt that fits into the lid in the closed condition.
  • This arrangement has the particular advantage that the blank of the inner skirt component can be preformed on flexible electrically insulating material, in well known manner, and such electrically insulating material can be laminated with a card or the like to form the final inner skirt blank component.
  • the advantage of this is that the inner skirt component is rather small relative to the major blank component that forms the majority of the sidewalls and top.
  • Such prefabricated inner skirt components can thus be mass-produced at an electronics factory at a place remote from that where the cigarette packs are assembled.
  • an electronic cigarette lighter that includes, as a hot spot for igniting a cigarette end, a plurality of fine heating elements arranged to preferentially contact the outer paper of a cigarette end to ignite same as required.
  • the plurality of heating elements to be arranged radially with respect to a circular shaped hot spot; for there to be a series of such radially extending heating elements or, alternatively, for the heating elements to be arranged in a polygonal shape dimensioned so that the outer paper of a cigarette engages the heating elements at two positions in respect of each corner of the polygonal shape; for the heating elements to be inclined progressively upwardly or outwardly with increasing distance from the centre of the hot spot so as to favour contact with the outer paper of a cigarette engaged therewith; and for the plurality of heating elements to be connected to electronic circuitry for energising same wherein the electronic circuitry is adapted to apply power across the plurality of heating elements in a sequential manner in order to limit the rate at which power is drawn from a battery energising same.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic isometric view of a cigarette pack according to the invention taken from the front and top thereof;
  • Figure 2 is a schematic isometric view of the cigarette pack taken from the rear and bottom thereof;
  • Figure 3 is a plan view of a cut and sulcated blank to which has been applied the electronic circuit and battery of the electronic lighter according to the invention
  • Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1 of a second embodiment of the invention and showing the flip top lid in an open condition from one side of the pack;
  • Figure 5 is a view of the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4 from the opposite side of the pack;
  • Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 3 but showing the blank with an inner skirt defining component attached thereto that carries the circuit in a prefabricated form;
  • Figure 7 is a view of the skirt defining component illustrated in Figure 6 from the opposite side thereof;
  • Figure 8 is a schematic plan view of one form of hot spot of an electronic lighter according to the invention.
  • Figure 9 is an elevation of the hot spot shown in Figure 8.
  • Figure 10 is a view similar to figure 8 but showing an alternative arrangement of heating element wires.
  • a substantially conventional flip top type of cigarette pack is provided with an electronic cigarette lighter according to the invention.
  • the electronic cigarette lighter has an active hot spot (2) exposed to the outer surface thereof and, in this embodiment of the invention, located on the bottom (3) of the pack.
  • the hot spot is carried on a suitable heat insulating base (4) carried by the bottom (3) of the pack itself.
  • the hot spot is configured and dimensioned so that it is small enough not to consume excessive electrical energy but is adequate to comfortably ignite at least part of an end of a cigarette to effectively light same. It is particularly envisaged that the technology on which the hot spot will operate will preferably be as is described below in more detail with reference Figures 8, and 9 or 10.
  • Switch means are provided for activating the hot spot as and when required.
  • the switching means comprises a pair of oppositely located touch activated switch means (5) that in this embodiment of the invention are located midway up the height of each of the two side walls (6) of the pack.
  • the location of the switch means midway up the height of each of the two side walls means that either end of the pack can be gripped between a finger and thumb, for example, without accidentally activating the cigarette lighter.
  • the two switch means need to be operated simultaneously by simultaneous touch contact, typically with a finger and thumb, in order to close the circuit that supplies the hot spot with electrical energy. Accidental activation of the hot spot is thus rendered substantially impossible, or at least completely unlikely.
  • the shape of the switch means is preferably an elongate shape extending across the width of the side wall to facilitate ease of contact and thus ease of operation. It is also envisaged that the two switch means could be located at different heights up their sidewalls that correspond to an unnatural grip on the two sides of the pack to provide for the protection against both being inadvertently attached to the same time.
  • any suitable touch type of technology can be employed such as that which provides contact in the area of touch through the skin of a finger or thumb in contact with the touch means to change the state of an electronic component such as a MOSFET in the electronic circuitry referred to below from a nonconducting condition to a conducting condition.
  • an electronic component such as a MOSFET in the electronic circuitry referred to below from a nonconducting condition to a conducting condition.
  • a multi-layered battery (9) of substantially known type such as that made available by Power Paper Limited of Einat, Israel under their registered trademark "POWER PAPER".
  • the capacity of the battery can be selected according to the number of cigarettes to be lit by the lighter and also according to the remainder of the circuit and the power demands thereof.
  • the circuit of the electronic lighter also includes a control unit (10) that serves as a CPU and embodies the required electrical switching component that is typically, as indicated above, a MOSFET.
  • the control unit also preferably includes a timing device to limit power drain from the battery and typically limiting the "on time" of the power supply to the battery to say five to seven seconds or any other time period that may be suitable.
  • the control unit also serves to apply current sequentially to the various heating elements.
  • the control unit is applied to the blank by a printing type of process of any suitable type and conductors, generally indicated by numeral (11), are simultaneously formed during the composite printing process.
  • the electronic circuit and battery can be applied to either the inner or outer surfaces of the final pack, the final choice being determined by various constraints. In the event that the circuit and battery are applied to the outer surface of the pack, they will have to be covered adequately by a protective and insulating layer. In the event that the circuit and battery are applied to the inner surface of the pack then arrangement must be made for enabling the hot spot and the touch activated switch means to be located on the outer surface. There are various ways of achieving this.
  • substantially the entire circuit of the electronic lighter is applied to a prefabricated flexible printed circuit sheet (12) that is laminated with a cardboard sheet (13).
  • the laminated sheet is shaped to define the upwardly projecting inner skirt (14) that is typically made as a separate blank component from the main blank component (15) wherein the two ends (16) of the laminated sheet are to be attached to the main blank component in the usual way.
  • the flexible printed circuit sheet has a single touch activated switch means (17) that is in registration with an aperture (18) cut through the cardboard sheet (13) and a hot spot, generally indicated by numeral (19) also in registration with an aperture (20) die cut through the cardboard sheet.
  • the switch means and hot spot are located on opposite sides of the upwardly projecting inner skirt.
  • the flexible printed circuit sheet also carries the control unit (21) and the entire circuit is energized by a similar battery (22) to that described above and carried by the rear wall of the main blank component. Only two suitable electrical connections need to be made between the conductors on the flexible printed circuit sheet and the battery.
  • the hot spot in this instance, comprises a series, in this case six, radially extending fine heating element wires (23) connected at their inner ends to a common terminal (24) and at their outer ends (25), individually to the control unit.
  • the heating element wires are inclined away from an electrically insulating support base (26) with increasing distance from the centre of the hot spot so that initial contact with the outer paper of a cigarette end is favoured.
  • the control unit is configured to energize the heating elements to a red hot ignition temperature sequentially so as to limit current demand on the battery.
  • the electronic lighter described above when energized, thus causes the heating elements to be heated sequentially in rapid succession and the arrangement of the heating elements is such that they will tend to cut into the end edge of the paper of a cigarette and thereby greatly facilitate ignition thereof.
  • the heating element wires (27) is may be arranged to a polygonal configuration, in particular triangular, and more particularly, square, as illustrated.
  • This arrangement of heating element wires is dimensioned so that the paper of cigarettes will contact the wires towards the corners of the polygonal shape so that the paper is cut/ignited twice towards each corner.
  • the invention therefore provides an extremely useful, self-contained cigarette pack and lighter assembly that it is envisaged will generally be disposable but that may, as required, be reusable and indeed, the battery could be rechargeable.

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Ce paquet (1) de cigarettes est produit à partir d'une ou plusieurs parties d'ébauche (7, 15, 12) en un matériau en feuilles découpées, rainurées et repliées de façon à former un récipient de forme généralement rectilinéaire qui définit un paquet de cigarettes avec un briquet électronique. Le briquet comprend un circuit électronique et des composants électroniques (2, 5, 10, 17, 19, 21) dont au moins une partie, et de préférence tous, sont appliqués sur une partie ou une autre de l'ébauche avant qu'elle ne soit repliée pour former le récipient. Le briquet électronique comprend une batterie (9, 22) formée sur ou attachée à au moins une paroi, normalement une paroi principale, du paquet de cigarettes. De préférence, la batterie a une configuration à couches multiples appliquée par un procédé de type impression ou laminage. Des commutateurs (5, 17) d'actionnement du briquet électronique sont de préférence du type actionné par le toucher et sont positionnés de manière appropriée afin d'éviter un actionnement accidentel. L'invention concerne également un briquet électronique avec un agencement spécial d'éléments de chauffage (23, 27) qui forment un point chaud (2, 19).
PCT/IB2004/001494 2003-05-28 2004-05-11 Briquet electronique et paquet de cigarettes avec briquet incorpore Ceased WO2004106170A2 (fr)

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RU2647602C1 (ru) * 2016-12-12 2018-03-16 Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "Компания "Лидерз Бренд" Пачка для курительных принадлежностей
US10034988B2 (en) 2012-11-28 2018-07-31 Fontem Holdings I B.V. Methods and devices for compound delivery
US10194693B2 (en) 2013-09-20 2019-02-05 Fontem Holdings 1 B.V. Aerosol generating device
EP3473118A3 (fr) * 2014-04-14 2019-05-01 Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH Produit à fumer à une source d'alimentation électrique et au moins une unité électrique fonctionnel
EP3057454B1 (fr) * 2013-10-16 2019-11-27 ThePeople.de GmbH Cigarette électronique avec batterie imprimée
IT201900006835A1 (it) * 2019-05-14 2020-11-14 Alessandro Penzato Pacchetto per confezionamento, di sigarette, o simili, dotato di corrispondenti mezzi di accensione delle medesime sigarette, o simili

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2013182673A1 (fr) * 2012-06-08 2013-12-12 Eibensteiner Friedrich Procédé de production de produits comportant un élément d'éclairage et munis d'informations imprimées
AT512959A1 (de) * 2012-06-08 2013-12-15 Eibensteiner Verfahren zur Herstellung von mit Information bedruckten Produkten mit Beleuchtungselement
US10034988B2 (en) 2012-11-28 2018-07-31 Fontem Holdings I B.V. Methods and devices for compound delivery
US10194693B2 (en) 2013-09-20 2019-02-05 Fontem Holdings 1 B.V. Aerosol generating device
EP3057454B1 (fr) * 2013-10-16 2019-11-27 ThePeople.de GmbH Cigarette électronique avec batterie imprimée
EP3473118A3 (fr) * 2014-04-14 2019-05-01 Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH Produit à fumer à une source d'alimentation électrique et au moins une unité électrique fonctionnel
RU2647602C1 (ru) * 2016-12-12 2018-03-16 Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "Компания "Лидерз Бренд" Пачка для курительных принадлежностей
IT201900006835A1 (it) * 2019-05-14 2020-11-14 Alessandro Penzato Pacchetto per confezionamento, di sigarette, o simili, dotato di corrispondenti mezzi di accensione delle medesime sigarette, o simili

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