KR20160139741A - A electronic cigarette - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic cigarette and a method for evaluating a user's smoking cessation success rate.
The electronic cigarette includes a housing for supporting an atomizing portion, a battery for supplying power to the atomizing portion, and a smoking switch for selecting operation of the atomizing portion; A habit information measuring unit installed in the housing and measuring habit information of a user; And a control unit for generating smoking information based on the operation of the smoking switch and generating health evaluation information based on the habit information from the habit information measurement unit. Further, a method for evaluating the cigarette smoking success rate includes: measuring a user's habit information on the electronic cigarette; Generating smoking information of a user based on the operation of the atomizing unit and generating health evaluation information of the user based on the habit information; And calculating the user's smoking cessation success rate using the smoking information and the health evaluation information.

Description

Electronic cigarette {A ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE}

The present invention relates to electronic cigarettes.

Recently, the number of non-smokers using electronic cigarettes without tar is increasing. The electronic cigarette comprises a rechargeable battery, a solution containing portion for containing a nicotine-containing tobacco solution, and an atomizing portion for vaporizing the discharged solution of the solution containing portion. When the user inhales through the suction portion, the solution flows from the solution containing portion to the vaporizing portion, whereby the user may have a feeling similar to smoking the vapor by vaporizing the solution flowing out from the power source of the battery.

The ultimate goal of a person who e-cigarettes is complete smoking cessation. However, the biggest impediment to smoking is the increase in smoking cessation stress and weight, which is inevitably accompanied by smoking cessation. Therefore, in order for smoking cessation to be successful, it is desirable to suppress the increase in body weight through adequate exercise while appropriately relaxing the smoking cessation stress. However, existing e-cigarettes are only converting the desire for smoking cessation and do not help users to quit smoking properly.

Therefore, the success of smoking cessation is required to maintain cessation of smoking cessation, to optimize stress, and to maintain proper exercise and weight.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic cigarette which can appropriately evaluate the degree of cessation of smoking to help alleviate smoking cessation stress and strengthen cessation of smoking cessation.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing supporting an atomization unit, a battery for supplying power to the atomization unit, and a smoking switch for selecting an operation of the atomization unit; A habit information measuring unit installed in the housing and measuring habit information of a user; And a control unit for generating smoking information based on the operation of the smoking switch and generating health evaluation information based on the habit information from the habit information measuring unit.

Wherein the fitness information measuring unit includes a motion sensor for detecting the motion of the housing and a body fat measurement unit having at least a pair of contact electrodes capable of contacting the user's skin and the health evaluation information is based on a motion signal from the motion sensor And body fat information obtained based on the body fat measurement signal from the body fat measurement unit.

The electronic cigarette may further include a display unit, and the control unit may display the smoking information and the health evaluation information on the display unit.

The control unit may generate a smoking cessation success index (QI) according to the following equation (1) based on the smoking information, the exercise information, and the body fat information.

(%) = 100 {a * (SS-MS) / SS + b * 1- (SW-MW) / SW) + c * 1- + c)

Here, SS is the starting smoking amount, MS is the measured smoking amount, SW is the reference step number, MW is the measured step number, SF is the starting body fat mass, MF is the measured body fat mass, and a, b and c are weighting constants.

The electronic cigarette may further include a warning unit, and the controller may generate a warning through the warning unit if the smoking cessation success index (QI) falls below a predetermined criterion.

A method of evaluating a user's smoking cessation success using an electronic cigarette according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: measuring a user's habit information on the electronic cigarette; Generating smoking information of a user based on the operation of the atomizing unit and generating health evaluation information of the user based on the habit information; And calculating a user's smoking cessation success rate using the smoking information and the health evaluation information.

According to the electronic cigarette according to the present invention, the user using the electronic cigarette analyzes the exercise amount, the state of the body fat, As a result, the user can check the result of the smoking cessation effort at any time, strengthen the smoking cessation intention, and increase the smoking cessation success rate.

1 is a perspective view of an electronic cigarette according to the present invention,
2 is an exploded view of an electronic cigarette according to the present invention,
3 is a block diagram illustrating an integrated circuit portion of an electronic cigarette according to the present invention and FIG.
4 is a flowchart showing a method of evaluating the success rate of smoking cessation using the electronic cigarette according to the embodiment of the present invention.

1 to 3, the electronic cigarette 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a perspective view of an electronic cigarette according to the present invention. As shown in Fig. 1, the electronic cigarette 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention has a housing 10 on a long rod. The housing 10 includes a first housing part 11 for housing the atomization part 100, a second housing part 12 for accommodating the power supply part 200, a third housing part 30 for housing the integrated circuit part 300, (13). Although the housing 10 is divided into three housing parts 11, 12 and 13 in the present embodiment, the first, second and third housing parts 11, It is also made. In the first housing part 11, a suction part 14 for sucking vapor vaporized in the atomizing part 100 is formed at one end. The suction unit 14 may be integrally formed with the first housing 11 or separately. The second housing part 12 is formed with a charging port, for example, a USB port 15 for charging the power supply part 200 with power. The third housing part 13 is provided with a smoking switch 340 for controlling the operation of the atomizing part 100 and two electrodes 322 and 324 of a body fat sensor 320 to be described later. The smoking switch 340 and the electrodes 322 and 324 of the body fat sensor may be disposed in the first housing 11 or the second housing 12 in addition to the third housing 13.

2 is an exploded view of an electronic cigarette according to the present invention.

2, the atomization unit 100 includes a liquid storage unit 110 for storing a liquid material made of a substance such as a nicotine solution, a smoking cessation aid solution, or the like in the first housing unit 11, 110), or an atomizer (120) for vaporizing the smoking solution. The user sucks the vaporized nicotine solution stored in the liquid phase storage unit 110 or the smokeless auxiliary solution through the suction unit 14 on the side of the atomizer 120.

The liquid-storing portion 110 may be a metal or plastic container, and may be configured to be capable of charging a nicotine solution or a smoking-quenching auxiliary solution through one side, or may be replaceable in a cartridge form.

The atomizer 120 includes an induction pipe 122 for inducing a solution of nicotine stored in the liquid phase storage portion 110 or a smoking cessation auxiliary solution, a heating coil 124, and a heating coil 124, An air discharge hole 126 for discharging the vaporized vapor, and an air inlet hole 129 for introducing air from the outside. The present invention is not limited to the atomizer 120 of the above-described configuration. Accordingly, the atomizer 120 can be applied to any structure as long as it can vaporize the nicotine solution or the smoking cessation aid solution.

In FIG. 2, the power supply unit 200 supplies power to the atomization unit 100 and the integrated circuit unit 300. The power supply module 200 includes a battery unit 210 and a charging circuit unit 220. Of course, when the detachable battery is used, the charging circuit unit 220 may be omitted. The battery unit 210 is implemented as a secondary battery such as a rechargeable lithium ion battery. The charging circuit unit 220 charges the battery unit 210 using, for example, an input DC power source input through the USB port 15. [

The integrated circuit unit 300 includes a habit information measurement unit and a control unit 330 that measure user's habit information. The habit information measuring unit includes, for example, a motion sensor 310 and a body fat sensor 320.

3 is a block diagram of the integrated circuit unit 300 of the electronic cigarette 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

3, the integrated circuit unit 300 includes a motion sensor 310, a body fat sensor 320, a display unit 350, a communication unit 360, a storage unit 380, and a warning output unit 390 . At this time, if necessary, the motion sensor 310, the body fat sensor 320, the control unit 330, the display unit 350, the communication unit 360, and the storage unit 380 may be integrated into one printed circuit board or separately And is installed on a plurality of printed circuit boards.

The motion sensor 310 is, for example, for measuring a user's walking motion, and is implemented with an acceleration sensor or a vibration counter. The acceleration sensor is capable of measuring the acceleration of the electronic cigarette 1 in the up, down, left, and right directions. The control unit 330, which will be described later, counts only a predetermined size or more of the measured movement acceleration values and calculates the motion information as the user's motion information.

The body fat sensor 320 includes at least a pair of contact electrodes 322 and 324 that are exposed to the outside of the third housing part 13, for example, the user's skin, as shown in Fig. Of course, one of the pair of contact electrodes 322 and 324 is disposed on the third housing part 13 and the other is disposed on the outside of the first housing part 11, specifically, the suction part 14, It is possible to make natural contact with the lips of the user through the hand. The body fat sensor 320 measures current body impedance by applying current to the user's body through the electrodes 322 and 324. The body fat sensor 320 measures the body fat, muscle mass, inorganic mass, intracellular fluid, extracellular fluid, etc. of the user through the measured body impedance to measure the obesity degree.

The smoking switch 340 is embodied as a button-shaped switch exposed to the outside of the third housing part 13 of the electronic cigarette 1. The smoking switch 340 may be implemented as a switch using a touch sensor (not shown) instead of a button.

The control unit 330 includes various components of the electronic cigarette 1 such as a motion sensor 310, a body fat sensor 320, a transmitter 120, a display unit 350, a communication unit 360, a user input unit 370 And a storage unit 380, as shown in FIG. The controller 330 is implemented by a semiconductor chip such as a micro controller unit (MCU), a microprocessor unit (MPU), or a central processing unit (CPU).

The control unit 330 allows the user to press the smoking switch 340 to supply the power of the battery unit 210 to the atomizer 120 to vaporize the nicotine solution or the smoking solution.

The control unit 330 generates smoking information based on the operation of the smoking switch 340 and generates health evaluation information based on the habit information from the habit information measuring units 310 and 320. [ The control unit 330 generates smoking information, for example, a smoking time and / or a smoking number, based on the operation of the smoking switch 340, and generates exercise information based on the exercise signal from the exercise sensor 310, And generates the body fat information, for example, the percentage (%) occupied by the body fat in the body based on the body fat measurement signal from the body fat sensor 320.

The control unit 330 displays at least one of the generated smoking information, exercise information, and body fat information on the display unit 350.

The display unit 350 may be implemented as a liquid crystal display, an LED display, or the like.

The communication unit 360 transmits and receives the user's smoking information, exercise information, and body fat information obtained from the electronic cigarette 1 to an external computer, a server, a mobile device, and the like. The communication unit 360 may be a wired or wireless communication system such as a USB, a WLAN (Wireless LAN), a Wibro, a Wimax, a High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) Communication modules include Bluetooth, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), infrared data association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), and ZigBee.

The storage unit 380 stores unlimited data such as the user's smoking information, exercise information, and body fat information under the control of the control unit 330. [ The storage unit 380 is implemented as a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory, a hard-disc drive, or the like. The storage unit 380 is accessed by the control unit 330, and the control unit 330 reads / writes / modifies / deletes / updates the data.

The alarm output unit 390 includes an audible output unit (not shown) such as a buzzer capable of outputting audible, visual, and tactile warnings, a visual output unit (not shown) such as a color LED, (Not shown).

The electronic cigarette 1 may further include a user input unit (not shown) as needed. The user can directly set the smoking amount, the exercise amount, and the body fat amount, which become the reference (target), by using the setting button, the direction key button and the like through the user input part. Of course, the user input unit can be replaced with a touch screen of the display unit 350. [

4 is a flowchart showing a method of evaluating the success rate of smoking cessation using the electronic cigarette according to the embodiment of the present invention.

First, the habit information measuring unit measures habit information such as a user's amount of exercise and a user's body fat amount (S110).

The motion sensor 310 measures the momentum of the user, for example, the number of steps, or the movement distance. Here, the momentum of the user is substantially measured by the amount of movement of the electronic cigarette 1.

The body fat sensor 320 measures the user's body fat amount, that is, the obesity degree, based on the body impedance obtained by touching the two electrodes 322 and 324 exposed to the electronic cigarette by both hands.

The control unit 330 generates smoking information and health evaluation information of the user (S120).

The user presses the smoking switch 340 of the electronic cigarette 1 to operate the atomizer 120 to perform smoking. At this time, the control unit 330 may count the number of times of operation of the smoking switch 340 to generate the user's smoking information. Of course, the control unit 330 may also generate the user's smoking information by checking the operation of the smoke-free device 120 in addition to the operation of the smoking switch 340. [

The control unit 330 generates health evaluation information based on the habit information measured in step S110, for example, the exercise amount and the body fat amount.

Thereafter, the control unit 330 calculates a smoking-cessation success index (QI) using the smoking information, the exercise information, and the body fat information (S130).

The method of calculating the QI is as follows.

(%) = 100 {a * (SS-MS) / SS + b * 1- (SW-MW) / SW) + c * 1- + c)

Where a, b and c are weighting constants, respectively, and are respectively the smoking amount, the smoking amount, the smoking amount, and the smoking amount, respectively. The amount of exercise, and the amount of body fat.

Here, the starting smoking amount SS, the reference step number SW, and the starting body fat amount SF may be aimed at maintaining the currently measured value, and more or less than the present value may be the target, Keeping mine may be your goal. That is, the reference value for calculating the QI is set to one of a reference value set by a user, a previous record data value of a user, and a standard value considering weight and weight.

For example, the starting smoking amount SS is set to 20 times, the reference momentum amount SW is set to 10,000 steps, the starting body fat amount SF is set to 15%, the number of smoking times is 8, the measured number of steps is 9,500, %, It can be calculated as follows. Here, it is assumed that each of the weighting constants a, b, and c is equal to 1, which is the same value.

(QI) = 100 {1 * ((20-8) / 20) + 1 * (1- (10000-9500) * 1/10000) + 1 * (1- (16.5-15) / 15) } / 3

              = 100 (0.6 + 0.95 + 0.9) / 3

              = 81.6

As described above, the user decreased the number of cigarettes compared with the standard, but the Qi of the final cigarette smoke (QI) is calculated as 81.6% because the exercise amount and the body fat amount are below the target.

If the weighting constant b related to the momentum is the most important factor, 3, then the weighting constant c related to body fat mass is 2, and the weighting constant a related to the amount of smoking is set to 1, the quit success index (QI) Can be calculated.

(QI) = 100 {1 * ((20-8) / 20) + 3 * (1- (10000-9500) / 10000) + 2 * 1- (16.5-15) ) / (1 + 3 + 2)

              = 100 (0.6 + 3 * 0.95 + 2 * 0.9) / 6

              = 87.5

As described above, the user can increase the QI (QI) to 87.5% by emphasizing the exercise amount and body fat amount compared to the standard amount.

If the thus calculated QI is higher or lower than the reference (target), it can be displayed on the display unit 350 so that the user can view the smoking amount, the exercise amount, and the body fat amount. When the calculated Qi is too low, the electronic cigarette 1 uses the display unit 350 or the red LED to give the user a visual warning, audible warning using a buzzer, Tactile alert. ≪ / RTI >

The electronic cigarette (1) is not easy to apply a sufficient size LCD according to its size or spatial limitation. Thus, the electronic cigarette 1 is connected to an external computer (not shown) such as a smart phone, a personal computer, or a server through the communication unit 360 to input a setting value for calculating the QI, The exercise information, and the body fat information. The external computer uses the user's smoking information, exercise information, and body fat information to analyze and display for smoking cessation success. That is, an external computer such as a smart phone, a personal computer, and a server analyzes and displays a quit smoking success rate (QI) through a smoking cessation management application, and inputs or changes settings of the electronic cigarette (1).

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments.

Accordingly, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the technical idea of the invention described in the following claims.

1: electronic cigarette 10: housing
11: first housing part 12: second housing part
13: third housing part 14: suction part
15: Charging port 100:
120: atomizer 200: power supply unit
210: battery part 220: charging circuit part
300: integrated circuit part 310: motion sensor
320: body fat sensor 330:
340: Smoking switch 350: Display
360: communication unit 380:

Claims (8)

In electronic cigarettes,
A housing for supporting an atomizing portion, a battery for supplying power to the atomizing portion, and a smoking switch for selecting an operation of the atomizing portion;
A habit information measuring unit installed in the housing and measuring habit information of a user;
And a control unit for generating smoking information based on the operation of the smoking switch and generating health evaluation information based on the habit information from the habit information measurement unit.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the habit information measuring unit includes a motion sensor for detecting motion of the housing and a body fat measurement unit having at least a pair of contact electrodes capable of contacting the user's skin,
Wherein the health evaluation information includes motion information obtained based on a motion signal from the motion sensor and body fat information obtained based on a body fat measurement signal from the body fat measurement unit.
3. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
Further comprising a display unit,
Wherein the control unit displays the smoking information and the health evaluation information on the display unit.
3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the control unit generates the smoking cessation success index (QI) according to the following equation (1) based on the smoking information, the exercise information, and the body fat information.
(%) = 100 {a * (SS-MS) / SS + b * 1- (SW-MW) / SW) + c * 1- + c)
Here, SS is the starting smoking amount, MS is the measured smoking amount, SW is the reference step number, MW is the measured step number, SF is the starting body fat mass, MF is the measured body fat mass, and a, b and c are weighting constants.
5. The method of claim 4,
Further comprising an alarm generating unit,
Wherein the controller generates a warning through the alert generator when the smoking cessation success rate (QI) is below a predetermined criterion.
A method for evaluating a user's smoking cessation success rate using an electronic cigarette having an atomized part,

Measuring a user's habit information on the electronic cigarette;
Generating smoking information of a user based on the operation of the atomizing unit and generating health evaluation information of the user based on the habit information;
And calculating a user's smoking cessation success rate using the smoking information and the health evaluation information.
The method according to claim 6,
Wherein measuring the habit information comprises obtaining motion information of the housing and obtaining body fat information of the user,
Wherein the health evaluation information includes the exercise information and the body fat information.
8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the smoking cessation success degree evaluation step generates a smoking cessation success index (QI) according to the following equation (1) based on the smoking information, the exercise information, and the body fat information.
(%) = 100 {a * (SS-MS) / SS + b * 1- (SW-MW) / SW) + c * 1- + c)
Here, SS is the starting smoking amount, MS is the measured smoking amount, SW is the reference step number, MW is the measured step number, SF is the starting body fat mass, MF is the measured body fat mass, and a, b and c are weighting constants.

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