Customizable User Actuatable Portions Aerosol Provision System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol provision systems, such as electronic cigarettes, lack customization options, making them inefficient for individual user preferences and operating habits, as they typically have fixed functionalities without user-adjustable settings.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of user actuatable portions that can be customized to select from a variety of predetermined functions, allowing users to tailor the operation of the aerosol provision system to their specific needs, including adjusting power settings, mode operations, and aerosol delivery rates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed functionality is provided in aerosol provision systems, then device simplicity is maintained, but user customization capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic functionality by allowing user actuatable portions to be reconfigured between different functions through software or electronic settings. This enables the device to adapt to different user preferences without changing its physical structure, resolving the contradiction between customization capability and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to change operational parameters such as power settings, heating temperature, and aerosol generation rates through customizable user actuatable portions. This enables flexibility in device operation without requiring multiple physical components, maintaining simplicity while enhancing adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If multiple functions are integrated into a single location, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by designing user actuatable portions that can perform different functions based on configuration settings. A single physical component (such as a button or interface element) can control multiple operations including power adjustment, mode switching, and aerosol delivery control, improving ease of operation without adding multiple separate controls.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple control functions are merged into unified user actuatable portions. Instead of having separate controls for each function, the system combines power control, mode selection, and delivery adjustment into integrated interface elements that users can operate from a single location, enhancing usability while managing complexity through software integration.
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
Enables users to efficiently operate the aerosol provision system according to their preferences, enhancing usability and flexibility by allowing customizable functions through user-selectable options, improving the overall user experience.
Implementation Method 1
an aerosol provision system for generating an aerosol... a vaporiser (also called an aerosol generator), e.g. a heating element, arranged to aerosolise a portion of aerosolisable material to generate a vapour
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AI summary
A customisable system 300 comprising an aerosol provision system 1 for generating an aerosol, and one or more user actuatable portions 200 which are each operable to effect a respective function. Each user actuatable portion 200 is configured to be customisable for allowing the function of that user actuatable portion 200 to be selected from a plurality of different predetermined functions. Any given user actuatable portions 200 may comprise an actuator 201 such as a button 202 on the aerosol provision system 1, or a portion of a user interface, such as an icon 256, which is configured to be displayed on a touch-sensitive display 254 from the customisable system 300.