Vapor Sample Collection for Precise Active Ingredient Dosing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vaporizer devices lack the capability to accurately control and monitor the dosage of active ingredients, leading to unpredictable and potentially excessive effects on users.
Innovation Solution
A vaporizer device equipped with sensors to capture and analyze vapor production data, correlated with specific material samples, allowing for precise control of vaporizer parameters to deliver a specified dose of active ingredients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If vaporizer devices use simple heating elements without sensors, then the device complexity is low, but the dosage control precision is poor leading to unpredictable effects
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by collecting vapor samples and analyzing their composition before the user inhales. Sensors detect active ingredient concentrations in real-time, and this data is used to predict and adjust the dosage that will be delivered, ensuring precise control before the actual vaping occurs.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention implements feedback mechanisms where sensors continuously monitor vapor composition and active ingredient concentrations. This data feeds back to the control system, which adjusts heating parameters and airflow to maintain the desired dosage levels, creating a closed-loop control system that improves precision while managing complexity.
2Measurement precision
If vaporizer devices incorporate multiple sensors and data analysis systems, then the dosage control precision improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system serves multiple functions: it manages heating elements, controls airflow, analyzes sensor data from multiple sensors, predicts active ingredient concentrations, and provides user feedback. By making the control system universal and multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function, thereby improving measurement precision without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges multiple sensors (temperature, flow rate, composition analysis) and their processing functions into an integrated data analysis system. Rather than having separate independent systems for each measurement, the patent combines them into a unified control architecture that shares processing resources and data pathways, reducing complexity while maintaining high measurement precision.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the vaporizer device monitors and controls mass flow rate, then the dosage consistency improves, but the ease of operation decreases due to additional control parameters
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically monitoring mass flow rate, analyzing vapor composition, and adjusting operating parameters without requiring user intervention. The control system autonomously maintains dosage consistency by responding to sensor data and making real-time adjustments, freeing the user from needing to understand or control complex parameters while ensuring stable and consistent dosing.
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 achieve consistent and controlled dosing of active ingredients, reducing the risk of excessive effects and improving the overall vaping experience.
Implementation Method 1
a heating element for heating the receptacle or for heating air as it flows to the receptacle
Implementation Method 2
a vacuum pump connected to a second end of the tube. The vacuum pump is configured to draw a predetermined pressure on the tube
Data Source
AI summary
A vapor sample collection apparatus and method of vapor sample collection. The vapor sample collection apparatus has a connection port to connect a first end of a tube to an exhaust port of a vaporizer device, a vacuum pump connected to a second end of the tube, a manifold connected to the vacuum pump, and a vapor containment vessel for collecting a vapor sample, where the vacuum pump is configured to draw a predetermined pressure on the tube. The method of vapor sample collection includes connecting a connection port to an exhaust port of a vaporizer device, the connection port being attached to a first end of a tube, activating the vaporizer device to vaporize a sample containing an active ingredient, drawing a predetermined pressure on a second end of the tube using a vacuum pump, and collecting a vapor sample from the vaporizer device in a vapor containment vessel.