METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXECUTING AN E-VAPING DEVICE OPERATING SYSTEM, E-VAPING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, AND E-VAPING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

• US 20160143361A1
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC (Altria Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bernard Juster
• Inventors: JUSTER, Bernard, Levitz, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 10,945,461 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/10 Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/53 Monitoring, e.g. fault detection
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/60 Devices with integrated user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/65 Devices with integrated communication means, e.g. wireless communication means
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/90 Arrangements or methods specially adapted for charging batteries thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0244 Heating of fluids H05B1/0247 takes precedence

Abstract

An electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, the housing including a mouth-end and a connection-end, a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir in the housing, a heating element in the housing, the heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, the heating element configured to generate a vapor, and a rechargeable battery configured to power at least the heating element and any other potential power consuming element(s) such as electronic circuits. The electronic vaping device also includes a first memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions relating to an electronic vaping operating system (OS), and at least one processor configured to execute the OS computer readable instructions to execute the operating system, the operating system including a real-time kernel configured to operate the electronic vaping device, and execute object code related to electronic vaping device functionality.

Claims

1. An electronic vaping device, comprising:

a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, the housing including a mouth-end and a connection-end;

a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir in the housing;

a heating element in the housing, the heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, the heating element configured to generate a vapor;

a rechargeable battery configured to power at least the heating element;

a first memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions relating to an electronic vaping operating system (OS); and

at least one processor configured to execute the OS computer readable instructions to,

execute the operating system, the operating system including a real-time kernel configured to operate the electronic vaping device, and

execute object code related to electronic vaping device functionality.

2. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control vapor generation using the heating element and the reservoir based on the object code.

3. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, further comprising:

a charging interface configured to interface the rechargeable battery and an external power source; and

the at least one processor is further configured to control charging of the rechargeable battery using the external power source through the charging interface based on the object code.

4. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one input/output element that includes at least one of a light-emitting diode, a button, a switch, and an airflow sensor; and

the at least one processor is further configured to control the at least one input/output element based on the object code.

5. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, wherein the object code related to electronic vaping device functionality includes computer readable instructions for at least one of:

electronic vaping device identification, powering on, powering off, power consumption, operating efficiency, heating element temperature control, reservoir pre-vapor formulation level detection, operating time, power reduction, power increase, battery charging control, user interface, communications, self-test and &

e-vaping device monitoring.

6. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, further comprising:

a reservoir interface configured to transfer data communications between the at least one processor and the reservoir; and

wherein

the reservoir includes a second memory configured to store reservoir profile information related to the pre-vapor formulation, and

the at least one processor is configured to receive the reservoir profile through the reservoir interface for storage in the first memory based on the operating system.

7. The electronic vaping device of claim 6, wherein the reservoir profile includes at least one of:

pre-vapor formulation type, pre-vapor formulation identifier, vendor identifier, capacity, heating element configuration data, measurement capability, deliverable function amount, consumption capacity, and software capability.

8. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, further comprising:

a host interface configured to transfer data communications between the at least one processor and an external computing device; and

the at least one processor is configured to receive data from the external computing device through the host interface for storage in the first memory based on the operating system.

9. The electronic vaping device of claim 8, wherein the data of the external computing device includes profile information associated with an owner of the electronic vaping device.

10. The electronic vaping device of claim 8, wherein the data received from the external computing device includes object code related to operating the electronic vaping device and the reservoir according to desired operational constraints.

11. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, wherein

the housing includes a battery section and a reservoir section;

and

the first memory and the at least one processor are disposed in the battery section.

12. The electronic vaping device of claim 8, wherein

the housing includes a battery section and a reservoir section;

and

the first memory and the at least one processor are disposed in the reservoir section.

13. The electronic vaping device of claim 1, wherein the object code is based on source code written using an e-vaping programming language associated with the e-vaping operating system.

14. A method for operating an electronic vaping device, comprising:

executing, using at least one processor, an electronic vaping operating system, the operating system including a real-time kernel configured to operate the electronic vaping device; and

executing, using the at least one processor, object code related to electronic vaping device functionality,

the electronic vaping device functionality relating to at least one of a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir in a housing, a heating element in the housing, the heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, the heating element configured to generate a vapor, a rechargeable battery configured to power at least the heating element, and a first memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions relating to the operating system.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the executing the object code related to electronic vaping device functionality includes controlling vapor generation using the heating element and the reservoir.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the electronic vaping device includes a charging interface configured to interface the rechargeable battery and an external power source; and

the executing the object code includes controlling charging of the rechargeable battery using the external power source through the charging interface based on the object code.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the electronic vaping device includes at least one input/output element, the at least one input/output element is at least one of a light-emitting diode, a button, a switch, and an airflow sensor; and

executing the object code includes controlling the at least one input/output element based on the object code.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the object code related to electronic vaping device functionality includes computer readable instructions for at least one of:

electronic vaping device identification, powering on, powering off, power consumption, operating efficiency, heating element temperature control, reservoir pre-vapor formulation level detection, operating time, power reduction, and power increase, battery charging control, user interface, communications, self-test, and e-vaping device monitoring.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the electronic vaping device includes a reservoir interface configured to transfer data communications between the at least one processor and the reservoir;

the reservoir includes a second memory configured to store reservoir profile information related to the pre-vapor formulation; and

executing the operating system includes receiving the reservoir profile through the reservoir interface for storage in the first memory.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the reservoir profile includes at least one of:

pre-vapor formulation type, pre-vapor formulation identifier, vendor identifier, capacity, heating element configuration data, measurement capability, deliverable function amount, consumption capacity, and software capability.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the electronic vaping device includes a host interface configured to transfer data communications between the at least one processor and an external computing device; and

executing the operating system includes receiving data from the external computing device through the host interface for storage in the first memory.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the data of the external computing device includes profile information associated with an owner of the electronic vaping device.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the data received from the external computing device includes object code related to operating the electronic vaping device and the reservoir according to desired operational constraints.

24. The method of claim 14, wherein the object code is based on source code written using an e-vaping programming language associated with the e-vaping operating system.

25. A non-transitory computer readable media including computer readable instructions, which when executed by at least one processor, configures the processor to:

execute computer readable instructions associated with an electronic vaping device (EVD) operating system, the EVD operating system including a real-time kernel configured to operate an electronic vaping device;

execute object code related to electronic vaping device functionality; and

the electronic vaping device includes,

a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, the housing including a mouth end and a connection end,

a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir in the housing,

a heating element in the housing, the heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, the heating element configured to generate a vapor, and

a rechargeable battery configured to power the heating element.