Vaporizer Battery Wireless Location Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vaporizer batteries are often underutilized, wasted, and discarded prematurely due to their small size and interchangeability, leading to redundancy and waste, as consumers tend to replace them instead of reusing them.
Innovation Solution
A wirelessly connected vaporizer battery device with a processor, output devices such as a speaker or LED light, and a communication module that allows users to locate the battery via smartphone app control, reducing the likelihood of misplacement and encouraging reuse.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vaporizer batteries are made small and interchangeable, then consumer choice and device versatility are improved, but batteries are easily misplaced and discarded prematurely
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the battery device communicates its location status to the consumer through a mobile application. The system provides real-time feedback about whether the battery is attached or detached, enabling consumers to locate and retrieve misplaced batteries instead of discarding them, thus resolving the contradiction between interchangeability and retention reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mobile application as an intermediary between the battery device and the consumer. This intermediary facilitates communication and provides location tracking capabilities, allowing consumers to monitor and retrieve their batteries, thereby maintaining interchangeability while improving battery retention and reducing premature disposal
2Weight of moving object
If vaporizer batteries are small in size, then device portability is improved, but batteries are forgotten and discarded before end of useful life
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to consumers about their battery's location and status through a mobile application. This feedback mechanism compensates for the small size of the battery by enabling consumers to locate and retrieve it, thereby extending the actual useful life of the battery and preventing premature disposal despite its compact dimensions
3Ease of operation
If consumers replace batteries instead of reusing them, then ease of operation is improved, but battery waste and redundancy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback system that notifies consumers when their battery is detached or lost through a mobile application. This feedback prevents the need for replacement by enabling retrieval of the original battery, thus maintaining ease of operation while significantly reducing battery waste and redundancy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables the recovery of batteries that would otherwise be discarded. By providing location tracking and notification capabilities, the system allows consumers to recover misplaced batteries instead of replacing them, thereby reducing waste while maintaining the ease of battery replacement operation
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AI summary
Various embodiments of a wirelessly connected vaporizer battery device are provided. In one example, a vaporizer battery device includes a battery configured to selectively provide electrical power to an external cartridge when the external cartridge is mechanically coupled to the vaporizer battery device, a housing encasing the battery, an output device embedded in the housing, and a processor positioned within the housing and coupled to the battery. The processor controls the output device responsive to wirelessly receiving commands from an external computing device, such as a smartphone. The output device includes a speaker and/or light configured to generate sound and/or light, thereby assisting users in locating the vaporizer battery device. The output device also wirelessly transmits signals so that external computing devices can detect the presence and location of the vaporizer battery device.