Electronic cigarette oil vaporization method, electronic cigarette control circuit, and electronic cigarette

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016374401-A1
Application number	US-201615263607-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 13, 2016
Priority date	Mar 18, 2014
Publication date	Dec 29, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electronic cigarette oil vaporization method, an electronic cigarette control circuit, and an electronic cigarette are provided. The method includes: a smoking switch generating according to a user's operation a trigger signal; a microcontroller module receiving the trigger signal and according to same, turning on one of a plurality of vaporization control switches electrically connected to the microcontroller module; a heating wire electrically connected to the activated vaporization control switch vaporizing the electronic cigarette oil to supply smoke to a user to take in.

First claim

1 . An electronic cigarette oil vaporization method, comprising:
generating, by a smoking switch module configured to generate a trigger signal according to an operation of a user, the trigger signal according to the operation of the user; receiving, by a microcontroller module, the trigger signal; turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of a plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal; and vaporizing, by a heating wire among a plurality of heating wires which is electrically connected to the turned-on vaporization control switch, electronic cigarette oil to supply smoke for the user to take in, wherein the plurality of heating wires correspond to the plurality of vaporization control switches and a variety of electronic cigarette oil respectively.

2 . The electronic cigarette oil vaporization method according to claim 1 , wherein the turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal comprises:
on every detection of the trigger signal by the microcontroller module, turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module for one time in response to the detected trigger signal, wherein the plurality of vaporization control switches are turned on sequentially in response to the trigger signal, or on every detection of the trigger signal by the microcontroller module, turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module for one time in response to the detected trigger signal, wherein the plurality of vaporization control switches are turned on randomly in response to the trigger signal.

3 . The electronic cigarette oil vaporization method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by a first setting switch electrically connected to the microcontroller module, a first control instruction according to a pressing operation of the user; and receiving, by the microcontroller module, the first control instruction, wherein the turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal comprises: in a case that it is detected by the microcontroller module that the trigger signal generated by the smoking switch module is received by the microcontroller module, turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module for one time in response to the detected trigger signal and based on the first control instruction, wherein the plurality of vaporization control switches are turned on sequentially in response to the trigger signal.

4 . The electronic cigarette oil vaporization method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, by a second setting switch electrically connected to the microcontroller module, a second control instruction according to a pressing operation of the user; receiving, by the microcontroller module, the second control instruction, wherein the turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal comprises: in a case that it is detected by the microcontroller module that the trigger signal generated by the smoking switch module is received by the microcontroller module, turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module for one time in response to the detected trigger signal and based on the second control instruction, wherein the plurality of vaporization control switches are turned on randomly in response to the trigger signal.

5 . The electronic cigarette oil vaporization method according to claim 1 , wherein the turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal comprises:
turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal, and determining, by the microcontroller module, the turned-on vaporization control switch as a target vaporization control switch; wherein the method further comprises: generating, by a third setting switch electrically connected to the microcontroller module, a third control instruction according to a pressing operation of the user; receiving, by the microcontroller module, the third control instruction; and in a case that it is detected by the microcontroller module that the trigger signal generated by the smoking switch module is received by the microcontroller module, controlling, by the microcontroller module, the target vaporization control switch to remain on in response to the detected trigger signal and based on the third control instruction.

6 . The electronic cigarette oil vaporization method according to claim 1 , wherein the vaporizing, by the heating wire electrically connected to the turned-on vaporization control switch, the electronic cigarette oil to supply smoke for the user to take in comprises:
determining, by the microcontroller module, a target flavor of the electronic cigarette oil vaporized by the heating wire electrically connected to the turned-on vaporization control switch; displaying, by the microcontroller module, the target flavor in a form of text by means of a display screen electrically connected to the microcontroller module; or playing, by the microcontroller module, the target flavor in a form of voice by means of a sound generator electrically connected to the microcontroller module.

7 . An electronic cigarette control circuit for implementing an electronic cigarette oil vaporization method, the method comprising:
generating, by a smoking switch module configured to generate a trigger signal according to an operation of a user, the trigger signal according to the operation of the user; receiving, by a microcontroller module, the trigger signal; turning on, by the microcontroller module, one of a plurality of vaporization control switches which are electrically connected to the microcontroller module in response to the trigger signal; and vaporizing, by a heating wire among a plurality of heating wires which is electrically connected to the turned-on vaporization control switch, electronic cigarette oil to supply smoke for the user to take in, wherein the plurality of heating wires correspond to the plurality of vaporization control switches and a variety of electronic cigarette oil respectively, the electronic cigarette control circuit comprising: a battery, the smoking switch module, a heating wire assembly, a vaporization control switch module and the microcontroller module, wherein the heating wire assembly comprises the plurality of heating wires; the vaporization control switch module comprises the plurality of vaporization control switches electrically connected to the heating wires and the battery respectively; and the microcontroller module is electrically connected to the battery, the smoking switch module and the vaporization control switch module respectively, to turn on one of the plurality of vaporization control switches which are electric

Assignees

• Huizhou Kimree Technology Co Ltd Shenzhen Branch

Inventors

• Liu Qiuming

Classifications

• G06F3/16

  Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) · CPC title

• H05B2203/021

  Heaters specially adapted for heating liquids · CPC title

• A24F47/008 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• H05B1/0244 Primary

  Heating of fluids (H05B1/0247 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A24F40/60

  Devices with integrated user interfaces · CPC title