Smoking Machine Component Identity Elements for Data Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional smoking methods lack reliable association of smoking products with analysis results, leading to inefficiencies and uncertainty due to manual data handling and potential batch confusion.
Innovation Solution
Integration of identity elements, such as RFID, on smoking machine components to ensure constant identification and data linkage from preparatory to evaluation stages, allowing for automated data storage and use in controlling and adapting the smoking process based on measured parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual methods are used to determine and associate smoking parameters with analysis results, then flexibility and simplicity are maintained, but reliability and accuracy of data association deteriorate due to potential confusion and errors
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the smoking machine into multiple components (tobacco product magazine, filter holder, smoke trap, laboratory instruments) and assigns identity elements to each component. This segmentation allows independent identification and tracking of each component while maintaining overall system reliability through centralized data association in the control unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical data handling with an automated electronic identification system using identity elements (such as RFID tags) and a control unit. This substitution eliminates manual data association errors while maintaining system flexibility through programmable identification and data linkage.
2Loss of information
If automated identity elements are integrated into smoking machine components, then data association reliability improves, but device complexity increases due to additional identification components and programming requirements
Solution Approach 1:
Identity elements are pre-programmed with component-specific information before being attached to smoking machine components. This preliminary action ensures that identification data is already prepared and linked to the correct component, eliminating the need for manual data entry and reducing programming complexity during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit automatically reads identity elements from components and associates data without requiring manual intervention. The system self-services by automatically linking component identification with analysis results, reducing operational complexity while maintaining high data association reliability.
3Reliability
If identity elements are attached to replaceable components like tobacco product magazines and filter holders, then traceability and data association improve, but manufacturing complexity increases due to integration of additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The identity elements are designed as universal components that can be attached to multiple different smoking machine components (tobacco product magazines, filter holders, smoke traps). This multi-functionality simplifies manufacturing by using the same identification technology across different components rather than developing component-specific identification systems.
Data Source
AI summary
In order to reliably ensure the association of smoking products and the results of analysis with the tobacco products and guard against mistakes or data losses, there is provided a smoking machine whose structural components such as the smoke trap, a smoke trap component and/or a tobacco product magazine that is being used are provided with respective identity elements in which items of information specific to the structural component are contained and from which items of information are readable and/or into which items of information are insertible. A method of smoking tobacco products in a smoking machine comprises the storage of information about the respective structural components of the smoking machine and/or the processes of writing-into and reading-out the results of measurements and/or analysis into these identity elements as well as the process of linking to a database.