WO2019061907A1

WO2019061907A1 - Method and apparatus for determining smoking puff number and electronic cigarette device

Info

Publication number: WO2019061907A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/118790
Authority: WO
Inventors: 孙国立
Original assignee: 绿烟实业（深圳）有限公司
Priority date: 2017-09-27
Filing date: 2017-12-27
Publication date: 2019-04-04
Also published as: CN107836752A

Abstract

A method and apparatus for determining the smoking puff number and an electronic cigarette device. According to the electronic cigarette device, the smoking puff number of a user can be determined according to the temperature of a heating unit (12). In this way, on the condition that a microphone is not provided in the electronic cigarette device, the smoking puff number of the user can be obtained, which helps to lower the cost of the electronic cigarette device.

Description

Method, device and electronic cigarette device for determining smoking mouth

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 200910895231.7, entitled "Methods, Apparatus and Electronic Cigarette Apparatus for Determining Smoking Ports", filed on September 27, 2017, the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference. In this application.

Technical field

The present disclosure relates to the field of electronic technologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and an electronic cigarette device for determining the number of smoking ports.

Background technique

There are dozens of carcinogens in tobacco-burning smoke, such as tar, which cause great harm to human health. Moreover, smog is in the air, forming second-hand smoke, and the surrounding people will also cause harm to the body after inhalation. Therefore, smoking is prohibited in most public places. In order to meet the needs of some smokers, electronic cigarettes came into being.

In the prior art, the method for determining the number of smoking ports by the electronic cigarette device is generally implemented by a microphone disposed on the electronic cigarette device. Specifically, the inhalation sound of the user when smoking is recorded by the microphone, and the number of cigarettes to be smoked is determined based on the sound. The method of determining the number of smoking mouths by means of a microphone requires a microphone to be specially set, resulting in a relatively high cost of the electronic cigarette.

Summary of the invention

A primary object of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure is to provide a method and related apparatus capable of determining the number of smoking ports without the aid of a microphone.

In a first aspect, a method for determining the number of smoking outlets includes: at an electronic cigarette device,

Obtaining temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device;

The number of mouths of the user's smoking is determined based on the obtained temperature change information.

In a second aspect, a device for determining the number of smoking ports includes:

And a control module, configured to acquire temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device; and determine the number of the user's smoking according to the obtained temperature change information.

In a third aspect, an electronic cigarette device includes: a heat generating body, a memory, and a processor; the heat generating body and the memory are coupled to the processor; and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor Code; the instruction code, when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the method of any of the first aspects.

In a fourth aspect, an intelligent electronic device includes: a memory and a processor; the memory is coupled to the processor; the memory stores an instruction code executable by the processor; the instruction code The steps of the method of any of the first aspects are performed when executed by the processor.

In at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the number of smoking ports of the user can be determined according to the temperature of the heat generating body. In this way, the number of smoking ports of the user can be obtained without providing a microphone in the electronic cigarette device. Helps reduce the cost of e-cigarette equipment.

DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates an implementation environment of a method for determining the number of smoking ports provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 shows a main flow of a method for determining the number of smoking ports provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 shows a main structure of an apparatus for determining the number of smoking ports according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 shows a main structure of an intelligent electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

It is understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the disclosure and are not intended to limit the disclosure.

The implementation environment of the embodiment of the present disclosure may be an electronic cigarette device or an intelligent electronic device.

FIG. 1 illustrates an implementation environment of a method for determining the number of smoking ports provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The utility model mainly comprises an electronic cigarette device, which mainly comprises a controller unit 11, a heating element 12 and the like. The controller unit 11 is usually a microcontroller unit (MCU), which may include a processor 111 and a memory 112; and may also include corresponding peripheral circuits, such as the communication module 113 and the like. Optionally, the electronic cigarette device may further include a display screen 13 . The display screen 13, the communication module 113, the memory 112, and the heating element 12 are all coupled to the processor 111;

The processor 111 can be used to execute a computer program stored in the memory.

Unless otherwise stated, "coupling" in the various embodiments of the present disclosure refers to a state in which a communication connection between components can exchange data. It is not required that the two components be directly connected.

The display in various embodiments of the present disclosure may be a liquid crystal display, an OLED display, an LED display, and the like having other display functions, which may be used to display information sent by the processor 111, such as the number of cigarettes to be smoked.

Optionally, the communication module 113 herein may be a wireless communication module such as a Bluetooth communication module, or a wired communication module.

In baking and not burning electronic cigarettes, the main function of the heating element 12 is to bake the shredded tobacco in the cigarette so that the shredded tobacco generates smoke under the action of high temperature.

Generally, in the working process of the electronic cigarette device, in order to enhance the user experience, it is usually necessary to perform certain temperature monitoring and control on the heating element 12.

The inventors of the embodiments of the present disclosure found in the related art research process that the temperature of the heating element 12 may change significantly when the user smokes. For example, when the temperature of the heating element 12 is stabilized at about 300 ° C without the user smoking, the temperature of the heating element 12 will instantaneously and significantly decrease below 295 ° C when the user smokes. Based on the above findings, the inventors of the embodiments of the present disclosure have proposed to determine whether the user has taken a cigarette by analyzing the temperature change of the heating element 12, thereby determining the number of smoking ports. Since the existing electronic cigarette device itself is provided with a structure for monitoring the temperature of the heating element 12, there is no need to additionally add corresponding hardware, and the method of monitoring by setting a microphone in the prior art can reduce the hardware. cost.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining the number of smoking ports; the method can be performed by an electronic cigarette device such as the electronic cigarette device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2 shows the main flow of the method. , including: at the electronic cigarette device,

Step S11, acquiring temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device.

It should be noted that the temperature change information in the embodiment of the present disclosure refers to information that the temperature changes with time, and may be, for example, a curve of temperature with time.

Step S12, determining the number of mouths of the user smoking according to the obtained temperature change information.

In the specific implementation, the acquired temperature change information may be analyzed according to the correspondence between the number of previously collected smoking ports and the temperature change information.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the number of smoking ports of the user can be determined according to the temperature of the heat generating body. It is also possible to obtain the number of smoking ports of the user in the case where the microphone is not provided in the electronic cigarette device. This saves the microphone set up to determine the number of smoking ports.

In a specific implementation, when the electronic cigarette device further includes the display screen 13, after the step S12, the determined number of ports can also be displayed through the display screen, so that the user can know the number of the user's smoking in time and improve the user's experience.

Timing to get temperature change information

In an embodiment, the obtaining the temperature change information in step S11 may refer to acquiring temperature change information within a period of time before the current time, for example, after each time the user finishes smoking (it is required to be explained here) Smoking is a process in which the user takes a period of time from the start of smoking to the end of continuous smoking; during a smoking process, the user may smoke several times), obtains temperature change information of the smoking, and then determines the user to smoke according to step S12. The number of mouths.

In another embodiment, the obtaining temperature change information in step S11 may refer to acquiring temperature change information in real time, and in step S12, determining the number of users smoking according to the obtained temperature change information in real time.

How to determine the number of cigarettes based on temperature change information

In some embodiments, the above method may further include:

In step S01, the temperature of the heating element is adjusted in real time so that the temperature of the heating element is within the first predetermined range.

It should be noted that “the temperature of the heating element is within the first predetermined range” means the purpose of each adjustment, and is not an inevitable adjustment effect. The adjusting process also includes: adjusting when the temperature of the heating element deviates from the first predetermined range, so that the temperature of the heating element returns to the first predetermined range. Generally, when the user is in a relatively stable environment and there is no action of smoking inhalation, the temperature of the heating element can be made within the first predetermined range by the above adjustment. The first preset range here can be set as needed.

In some embodiments, the first predetermined range described above has a width of 2-6 °C. The width here refers to the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the first preset range. For example, the lowest temperature of the first predetermined range may be 297 ° C - 299 ° C, and the maximum temperature may be 301 ° C - 303 ° C.

At this time, in step S12, the number of the user's smoking is determined according to the obtained temperature change information, which may specifically include:

When the temperature of the heating element changes to the second predetermined range every time, the number of smoking ports of the user is increased by one.

It is not difficult to understand that each change here to the second preset range can be understood as a continuous process in which the temperature of the heating element enters the second predetermined range to jump out of the second predetermined range. If the monitoring result indicates that the heating element continues to be within the second preset range, it is still counted as “the heating element changes once to the second preset range”.

In this way, the process of determining the number of mouths can be made relatively simple and more accurate.

In practical applications, in other embodiments, the magnitude of the temperature change of the heating element may also be calculated, and when the magnitude of the temperature change exceeds the set value, the number of smoking ports is increased by one. For example, when it is monitored that the temperature of the heating element is reduced by more than 5° with respect to the last monitored temperature (in the case of implementation, the value here can be actually calculated according to the difference in air volume of different devices, where 5 ° C is only exemplary). Increase the number of cigarettes by 1.

Way of controlling the heating element

In some embodiments, in step S01 described above, real-time adjustment of the temperature of the heating element can be implemented as follows:

The temperature of the heating element is adjusted in real time by a proportional control algorithm.

The proportional control algorithm, abbreviated as the PID control algorithm, combines the proportionality (Proportional), integral (Integral) and differential (Differential) to form a control quantity by linear combination. For specific content of the PID control algorithm, reference may be made to related prior art, which will not be described in detail herein.

Noise filtering

In a specific implementation, in the foregoing step S12, the determining, according to the obtained temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

Performing signal noise filtering processing on the obtained temperature change information;

The number of mouths of the user's smoking is determined based on the processed temperature change information.

This can make the result of the counting more accurate. In a specific implementation, the signal noise filtering process herein may include amplitude filtering and sorting, and the like.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a device for determining the number of smoking ports, which may be used to perform the method described in the first aspect. Referring to FIG. 3, the device includes:

The control module 31 is configured to acquire temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device, and determine the number of the user's smoking according to the obtained temperature change information.

In some embodiments, the control module 31 is further configured to adjust the temperature of the heating element in real time so that the temperature of the heating element is within a first preset range;

Correspondingly, the control module 31 is configured to determine, according to the acquired temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

In some embodiments, the first predetermined range has a width of 2 ° C to 6 ° C.

In some embodiments, the control module 31 is configured to adjust the temperature of the heating element in real time, including:

In some embodiments, the control module 31 is configured to determine, according to the acquired temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

It will be readily understood that the device for determining the number of smoking ports provided by the embodiment of the second aspect is a device that can be used to perform the method of determining the number of smoking ports described in the first aspect. For related terms and specific embodiments in the embodiments of the second aspect, reference may be made to the description of the first aspect. It will not be described in detail here.

It should be noted that the apparatus for determining the number of smoking ports provided by the embodiment of the second aspect of the present disclosure may be implemented by software; or may be implemented by hardware, such as the above-mentioned control module 31 may be provided by a microcontroller unit provided on the electronic cigarette device. composition.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an electronic cigarette device, which can be used to perform the method of the first aspect. The main structure of the electronic cigarette device can refer to FIG. 1 , and mainly includes a controller unit 11 and a heating element. 12 and so on. The controller unit 11 is usually a microcontroller unit (MCU), which may include a processor 111 and a memory 112; and further includes corresponding peripheral circuits, such as a communication module 113 and the like. Optionally, the electronic cigarette device may further include a display screen 13 . The display screen 13, the communication module 113, the memory 112, and the heating element 12 are all coupled to the processor 111;

The processor 111 can be used to execute computer programs stored in the memory 112.

The computer 112 is stored in the memory 112 of the electronic cigarette device, and the processor 111 can execute the steps in the method described in any of the first aspects when executing the computer program.

For related terms and specific embodiments in the embodiments of the third aspect, reference may be made to the description of the first aspect. It will not be described in detail here.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides an intelligent electronic device. The main structure of the smart electronic device may refer to FIG. 4, where the smart electronic device generally includes a processor 41, a memory 42, a display 43, and a communication module 44. The memory 42, the display 43 and the communication module 44 are each coupled to the processor 41; the memory 42 stores instruction code; the instruction code is for performing any implementation as in the first aspect when executed by the processor 41 The various steps of the method of the example.

In a specific implementation, the intelligent electronic device can receive the temperature change information sent by the communication module 113 of the electronic cigarette device through the communication module 44. The intelligent electronic device then determines the number of cigarettes to be smoked in accordance with the method provided by any of the embodiments of the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a computer storage medium storing a computer program; the computer program being used to perform the steps of the method as described in the first aspect by a processor.

It is to be understood that the term "comprises", "comprising", or any other variants thereof, is intended to encompass a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or It also includes other elements that are not explicitly listed, or elements that are inherent to such a process, method, item, or system. An element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional equivalent elements in a process, method, article, or system that includes the element, without further limitation.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present disclosure are merely for the description, and do not represent the advantages and disadvantages of the embodiments.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the foregoing embodiment method can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, can also be through hardware, but in many cases, the former is better. Implementation. Based on such understanding, portions of the technical solution of the present disclosure that contribute substantially or to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (such as a ROM/RAM as described above). , a disk, an optical disk, including a number of instructions for causing a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments of the present disclosure.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, and is not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure of the present disclosure, and the equivalent structure or equivalent process transformations made by the present disclosure and the contents of the drawings may be directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields. The same is included in the scope of patent protection of the present disclosure.

Industrial applicability

In the technical solution of the embodiment of the present disclosure, the temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device is acquired; the number of the user's smoking is determined according to the obtained temperature change information, and the number of smoking ports of the user can be determined according to the temperature of the heating element. In this way, the number of smoking ports of the user can be obtained without providing a microphone in the electronic cigarette device. Helps reduce the cost of e-cigarette equipment.

Claims

A method for determining the number of smoking mouths, comprising:

Obtaining temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device;

The number of mouths of the user's smoking is determined based on the obtained temperature change information.
The method of claim 1 further comprising:

Adjusting the temperature of the heating element in real time so that the temperature of the heating element is within a first predetermined range;

The determining, according to the obtained temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

When the temperature of the heating element changes to the second predetermined range every time, the number of smoking ports of the user is increased by one.
The method of claim 2 wherein said first predetermined range has a width of between 2 ° C and 6 ° C.
The method according to claim 2, wherein the real-time adjustment of the temperature of the heating element comprises:

The temperature of the heating element is adjusted in real time by a proportional control algorithm.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the number of cigarettes smoked by the user based on the acquired temperature change information comprises:

Performing signal noise filtering processing on the obtained temperature change information;

The number of mouths of the user's smoking is determined based on the processed temperature change information.
A device for determining the number of smoking mouths, comprising:

The control module is configured to acquire temperature change information of the heating element of the electronic cigarette device; and determine the number of the user's smoking according to the obtained temperature change information.
The device according to claim 6, wherein the control module is further configured to adjust the temperature of the heating element in real time so that the temperature of the heating element is within a first predetermined range;

The control module is configured to determine, according to the obtained temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

When the temperature of the heating element changes to the second predetermined range every time, the number of smoking ports of the user is increased by one.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said first predetermined range has a width of 2 ° C to 6 ° C.
The device according to claim 7, wherein the control module is configured to adjust the temperature of the heating element in real time, including:

The temperature of the heating element is adjusted in real time by a proportional control algorithm.
The device according to claim 6, wherein the control module is configured to determine, according to the acquired temperature change information, the number of users smoking, including:

Performing signal noise filtering processing on the obtained temperature change information;

The number of mouths of the user's smoking is determined based on the processed temperature change information.
An electronic cigarette device, comprising: a heat generating body, a memory, and a processor; the heat generating body and the memory are coupled to the processor; and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor Code; the instruction code, when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the method of any of claims 1-5.
An intelligent electronic device, comprising: a memory and a processor; the memory is coupled to the processor; the memory stores an instruction code executable by the processor; the instruction code The steps of the method of any of claims 1-5 are performed when executed by the processor.