Digital Taste Mouthpiece With Capacitance Lip Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic cigarette technologies lack the ability to digitally implement taste and flavor without a physical stick or cigarette, limiting user experience and convenience.
Innovation Solution
A method and electronic device that receive digital recipes, determine contact with a user's mouthpiece, and apply currents corresponding to the recipes, heating nicotine mediums and flavor cartridges to provide digital taste and flavor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If digital recipe implementation is introduced to provide taste and flavor without physical cigarettes, then user convenience and experience are improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple sensors and control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The mouthpiece unit is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both the interface for user contact (lip detection via capacitance sensor, tongue contact via voltage measurement) and the heating element for vapor generation. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, thereby managing device complexity while enhancing user convenience through integrated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects user contact and initiates heating operations without requiring manual activation. The capacitance sensor detects lip contact and the voltage measurement detects tongue contact, automatically triggering the appropriate heating power levels. This self-service mechanism improves ease of operation while the automatic control algorithms manage the complexity of the control system.
2Measurement precision
If multiple contact detection methods are used to ensure accurate recipe application, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple sensing mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Different sensing mechanisms are applied to different locations of the mouthpiece unit: capacitance sensors are positioned to detect lip contact on the outer surface, while voltage measurement terminals are positioned to detect tongue contact inside the mouthpiece. This localized application of appropriate sensing methods achieves high measurement precision for each specific contact point without requiring a single complex sensing system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical contact detection systems with electrical sensing methods. Instead of using mechanical switches or physical contact points, the system uses capacitance sensing to detect lip proximity and voltage measurement to detect tongue contact. This substitution achieves high measurement precision while reducing mechanical complexity.
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 the provision of various digital recipes to users, offering a digital taste and flavor experience without the need for physical cigarettes or sticks, enhancing user convenience and satisfaction.
Implementation Method 1
heating a nicotine medium and a heating wire of the mouthpiece unit based on the received digital recipe
Implementation Method 2
determining whether a first area of the mouthpiece unit is in contact with a first portion of an object, determining whether a second area of the mouthpiece unit is in contact with a second portion of the object
Implementation Method 3
heating a nicotine medium and a heating wire of the mouthpiece unit based on the received digital recipe
Data Source
AI summary
The embodiments herein relate to a method for implementing a digital cigarette taste and a digital cigarette scent, and, particularly, to a method by which a user using a digital cigarette uses a digital recipe so as to smoke same with the digital cigarette. A method for controlling an electronic device, according to one embodiment, comprises steps in which the electronic device: receives a digital recipe; determines whether a first region of a mouth piece part is in contact with a first portion of a subject; determining whether a second region of the mouth piece part is in contact with a second portion of the subject; determining whether a first terminal and a second terminal of the mouth piece part are in contact with a third portion of the subject; and applying, to the third portion of the subject, a current corresponding to the digital recipe on the basis of whether the first terminal and the second terminal of the mouth piece part are in contact with the third portion of the subject.