Aerosol Provision Device Dynamic Heating Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current aerosol provision devices lack the ability to maintain optimal operating conditions for aerosol generation while offering users varied sensorial experiences, as they typically operate with fixed heating profiles that do not accommodate different user preferences.
Innovation Solution
The aerosol provision device features a controller that allows for multiple heating profiles to be set, enabling the same average operating temperature to be maintained while allowing users to select between different profiles, which can have varying maximum temperatures, step-wise or smooth temperature changes, and different durations, thereby facilitating diverse sensorial experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a fixed heating profile is used to maintain optimal operating temperature, then aerosol generation efficiency is improved, but user sensorial experience variety is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The heating profile is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. The controller enables users to select between multiple heating profiles (e.g., first heating profile and second heating profile) that differ in temperature characteristics, allowing the system to adapt to different user preferences while maintaining optimal aerosol generation conditions for each profile.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes heating parameters such as temperature profile, heating rate, and duration to create different sensorial experiences. By varying these parameters across multiple profiles while maintaining an optimum average operating temperature, the system provides diversity in user experience without compromising aerosol generation efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple heating profiles with different maximum temperatures are implemented, then user sensorial experience variety is improved, but device complexity is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The controller is designed with multi-functionality to manage multiple heating profiles. It integrates the ability to store, select, and switch between different heating profiles (first heating profile, second heating profile, etc.) within a single control unit, avoiding the need for separate control mechanisms for each profile and thus limiting the increase in device complexity.
3Duration of action of moving object
If heating profiles with different durations are used, then session duration is extended, but optimal temperature maintenance is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The heating profiles employ periodic temperature variations rather than continuous constant heating. By implementing cyclic heating patterns with different durations and temperature levels, the system extends session duration while maintaining optimal average operating temperature through periodic thermal cycles that prevent material degradation and sustain aerosol generation quality.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution ensures that the aerosolizable material is maintained at an optimal temperature, allowing users to experience different sensorial profiles by selecting between various heating profiles, enhancing the overall user experience and extending the session duration.
Implementation Method 1
heats smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material, typically to form an aerosol
Implementation Method 2
volatilize at least one component of the smokable material, typically to form an aerosol
Data Source
AI summary
An aerosol provision device, for generating aerosol from aerosol generating material can include one or more aerosol generators arranged to cause aerosol to be generated from the aerosol generating material and a controller for controlling the one or more aerosol generators. The controller may be operable in a first mode of operation to set a first heating profile for the aerosol generators such that during a session of use the average operating temperature of the aerosol generators is T1. The controller may also be operable in a second mode of operation to set a second different heating profile for the aerosol generators such that during a session of use the average operating temperature of the aerosol generators is also T1.