Robotic arm for simulating cigarette smoking process

US11445746B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. · CN

Inventors

• Han Zheng · Kunming, CN
• Ying Zhang · Beijing, CN
• Hao Wang · Shanghai, CN
• Jianbo Zhan · Kunming, CN
• Zhenhua Yu · Sunnyvale, US
• Jiao Xie · Kunming, CN
• Xu Wang · Jinan, CN
• Geng Li · 沙坪村, CN
• Tao Wang · Beijing, CN
• Tingting Yu · Shanghai, CN
• Liwei Li · Kunming, CN
• Haiyan Ding · Yantai, CN
• Baoshan Yue · Kunming, CN
• Jiang Yu · Shanghai, CN
• Jing Zhang · Chongqing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 2021
• Grant date: Sep 20, 2022
• Expiry date: Jan 21, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N35/0099
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A robotic arm includes a base, a first robotic arm, a second robotic arm, a robotic hand and a cigarette holder connected in sequence. The cigarette holder includes a cigarette insertion hole and a cigarette smoking tube. The cigarette smoking tube is connected to a smoking simulator. The robotic arm further includes at least one air exhausting hole. The air exhausting hole is located around the cigarette holder and communicated with an air exhauster through an air exhausting pipe. The robotic arm swings to control the cigarette holder to carry a cigarette from a smoking position to an ash flicking position. Airflow is formed near the air exhausting hole by means of air exhaustion, so as to simulate influences of a wind speed in an outdoor environment on the columnar ash in the cigarette smoking process of the human body.