Electronic cigarette and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9723871-B2
Application number	US-201313895655-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2013
Priority date	Apr 16, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

The present invention discloses an electronic cigarette and a method for disposing smoking data of the electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette includes a microcontroller, a smoking signal detecting module and a memory that are both connected with the microcontroller; the smoking signal detecting module configured to detect smoking signals and send the smoking signals to the microcontroller; the microcontroller configured to record a time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal, and calculate a smoking data according to the time and the continuation time length; the memory configured to store the time, the continuation time length and the smoking data; the smoking data including a time interval between every two smoking signals and a number of receiving the smoking signals during a preset period. The smoking data of the users using the electronic cigarette can be recorded and stored.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic cigarette, comprising: a microcontroller, a smoking signal detecting module, a memory, a data transmission module, a display module, a speaker, a semiconductor switch and an atomizer and a power supply battery, the smoking signal detecting module, the memory, the data transmission module, the display module, the speaker and the semiconductor switch is connected with the microcontroller respectively, the semiconductor switch is connected with the atomizer and the power supply battery;
wherein the smoking signal detecting module is configured to detect smoking signals and send data regarding said smoking signals to the microcontroller;
wherein the microcontroller is configured to record a time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal, and calculate a smoking data according to the time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal;
wherein the memory is configured to store the time of each reception of the smoking signals, and the continuation time length of each received smoking signal;
wherein the smoking data includes a time interval between every two smoking signals and the number of receiving the smoking signal during a preset period;
wherein the data transmission module is configured to transmit the time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal and the smoking data to an external device; the smoking signal detecting module is a sensor or an input module; the input module is a keyboard or a touch screen;
wherein the display module is configured to display the time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal and the smoking data; wherein the display module is an LCD panel or an LED panel;
wherein the microcontroller is also configured to compare the number of reception of the smoking signal with a preset first threshold, and compare the continuation time length of each received smoking signal with a preset second threshold;
wherein when the number of receiving the smoking signal exceeds the first threshold and the continuation time length of each received smoking signal exceeds the second threshold, the microcontroller controls the semiconductor switch to be OFF and the power supply battery stops supplying power to the atomizer; wherein the electronic cigarette further comprises a speaker, the microcontroller further controls the display module and/or the speaker to output prompting message for users; the semiconductor switch is any one of a triode, a MOS tube, a transistor and a thyristor; the memory is a flash memory chip or an EEPROM chip; the microcontroller is a MCU or a CPU; and
wherein the data transmission module is a radio frequency interface, and the radio frequency interface transmits the data in the frequency of 315 MHz, 433 MHz or 900 MHz.

2. A control method for an electronic cigarette comprising the following steps:
a smoking signal detecting module detecting a smoking signal and sending data regarding said smoking signal to a microcontroller;
the microcontroller recording a time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal, and calculating a smoking data according to the time of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal;
a memory storing the time of each reception of the smoking signals, the continuation time length of each received smoking signal and the smoking data;
wherein the smoking data includes a time interval between every two smoking signals and the number of receiving the smoking signal during a preset period;
wherein the method further comprises: transmitting of each reception of the smoking signals and a continuation time length of each received smoking signal and the smoking data to an external device and displaying them on a display module;
wherein the method further comprises: comparing the number of receiving the smoking signal with a preset first threshold and comparing the continuation time length of each received smoking signal with a preset second threshold; wherein when the number of receiving the smoking signal exceeds the first threshold and the continuation time length of each received smoking signal exceeds the second threshold, the microcontroller controls a semiconductor switch to be OFF and a power supply battery stops supplying power to an atomizer; the microcontroller further controls the display module and/or a speaker to output prompting message for users; and
wherein the data transmission module is a radio frequency interface, and the radio frequency interface transmits the data in the frequency of 315 MHz, 433 MHz or 900 MHz.

Assignees

• Xiang Zhiyong
• Huizhou Kimree Technology Co Ltd Shenzhen Branch

Inventors

• Xiang Zhiyong

Classifications

• A24F47/008 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A24F40/65 Primary

  Devices with integrated communication means, e.g. wireless communication means · CPC title

• A24F40/60

  Devices with integrated user interfaces · CPC title

• A24F40/51

  Arrangement of sensors · CPC title