Electronic cigarette and the method for detecting expiration date of the electronic cigarette

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9877507-B2
Application number	US-201313900011-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2013
Priority date	Apr 7, 2013
Publication date	Jan 30, 2018
Grant date	Jan 30, 2018

Abstract

An electronic cigarette and the method for detecting expiration date of the electronic cigarette is provided in the present invention; the electronic cigarette comprises: a power supply battery, a microcontroller connected and an atomizer connected with said power supply battery respectively; the microcontroller contains a first timing module, a comparison module and a control module; the first timing module is configured to timing; the comparison module is configured to compare said first timing module's timing period with a presetting period; the control module is configured to control the power supply module being disconnected with the atomizer when the comparison module's comparison result is that the timing period is equal to or greater than the presetting period. When an expiration date of an electronic cigarette is passed, the electronic cigarette will stop working and remind users.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for detecting an expiration date of an electronic cigarette, said electronic cigarette comprises a microcontroller, a power supply battery connected with said microcontroller and an atomizer connected with said power supply battery; said microcontroller includes a first timing module, a comparison module and a control module; wherein said method comprising the steps of:
setting a presetting period according to said expiration date of said electronic cigarette;
beginning a timing period by said first timing module;
comparing said presetting period with said timing period from said first timing module by said comparison module;
when said timing period is equal to or greater than said presetting period, said control module of said microcontroller controls said power supply battery being disconnected with said atomizer;
wherein a start timing time of said first timing module is a time of an electronic cigarette production date or a time which a user set, said user uses an input module to set said start timing time or a stop timing time, said microcontroller receives a inputted signal from said input module and sets said start timing time and said stop timing time for said first timing module;
wherein said method further comprises: when said first timing module's timing period is equal to or greater than said presetting period, said microcontroller controls a prompt module to output reminding information to users; said reminding information is outputted by way of voice and/or display;
wherein said prompt module comprises a LED displayer, a light-emitting diode and a speaker;
wherein said electronic cigarette comprises a smoking sensor and a switching circuit, and said input module which is connected with said microcontroller, said switching circuit which is connected with said microcontroller, said power supply battery and said atomizer separately;
wherein said microcontroller is a single-chip microcomputer with a type of Sn8P2711B; said switch circuit includes a MOSFET; a first pin of said microcontroller is connected with a positive of said power supply battery and connected with ground via a filter capacitor; a second pin of said microcontroller is connected with said smoking sensor; a fourth pin of said microcontroller is connected with a grid of said MOSFET; a fifth pin of said microcontroller is connected with said prompt module; a ninth pin of said microcontroller is connected with said input module; a tenth pin of said microcontroller is connected with ground; and
wherein a source of said MOSFET is connected with ground and a negative of said power supply battery; a drain of said MOSFET is connected with one end of said atomizer; the other end of said atomizer is connected with said positive of said power supply battery.

2. A method for detecting an expiration date of an electronic cigarette, said electronic cigarette comprises a microcontroller, a power supply battery connected with said microcontroller, an input module connected with said microcontroller, an atomizer connected with said power supply battery, and a second timing module which is respectively connected with said microcontroller and said power supply battery; said microcontroller includes a comparison module and a control module; wherein said method comprising the steps of:
when a smoke liquid is replaced, a user sets expiration date of the replacement of the smoke liquid via said input module, a presetting period according to said expiration date of said smoke liquid is set;
said microcontroller controls said second timing module to begin a timing period according to a time which said user set, obtains said timing period from said second timing module and compares said presetting period with said timing period by said comparison module;
when said second timing module's timing period is equal to or greater than said presetting period, said control module of said microcontroller controls said power supply battery being disconnected with said atomizer;
when smoke liquid is replaced again, presetting period and timing period are reset again;
wherein said method further comprises: when said second timing module's timing period is equal to or greater than said presetting period, said microcontroller controls a prompt module outputting reminding information to users; said reminding information is outputted by way of voice and display;
wherein said electronic cigarette comprises a smoking sensor which is connected with said microcontroller, a switching circuit which is connected with said microcontroller, said power supply battery and said atomizer separately;
wherein said microcontroller is a single-chip microcomputer with a type of Sn8P2711B; said switch circuit includes a MOSFET wherein a first pin of said microcontroller is connected with a positive of said power supply battery and connected with ground via a filter capacitor; a second pin of said microcontroller is connected with said smoking sensor; a fourth pin of said microcontroller is connected with a grid of said MOSFET; a fifth pin of said microcontroller is connected with said prompt module; a ninth pin of said microcontroller is connected with said input module; a tenth pin of said microcontroller is connected with ground;
wherein a source of said MOSFET is connected with ground and a negative of said power supply battery; a drain of said MOSFET is connected with one end of said atomizer; the other end of said atomizer is connected with said positive of said power supply battery; and
wherein said second timing module is a calcuagraph chip with a type of RX8025.

Assignees

• Xiang Zhiyong
• Huizhou Kimree Technology Co Ltd Shenzhen Branch

Inventors

• Xiang Zhiyong

Classifications

• A24F47/008 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G06Q10/00 Primary

  Administration; Management · CPC title

• A24F40/60

  Devices with integrated user interfaces · CPC title

• A24F40/53

  Monitoring, e.g. fault detection · CPC title

• A24F40/10

  Devices using liquid inhalable precursors · CPC title