[summary of the invention]
Easily occurring burning or the problem of other exception for overcoming current electronic cigarette atomizing assembly, the invention provides a kind of power regulating method and device, electronic cigarette of electronic cigarette.
The present invention provides technical scheme as follows for solving the problems of the technologies described above: a kind of power regulating method of electronic cigarette, and it comprises the steps: step S1, obtains the resistance value of atomizing component; And step S2, switch the power of described atomizing component according to described resistance value to corresponding power interval.
Preferably, described method also comprises: step S3, obtains trigger pip; And step S4, in corresponding power interval, regulate described atomizing component to corresponding power work according to described trigger pip.
Preferably, described step S2 comprises: step S21, judges whether described resistance value is positioned between the first resistance area; If the determination result is YES, then described atomizing component to the first power interval is switched; If judged result is no, then enter step S22; Step S22, judges whether described resistance value is positioned between the second resistance area; If the determination result is YES, then described atomizing component to the second power interval is switched; If judged result is no, then enter step S23; And step S23, stop powering to described atomizing component and/or sending rub-out signal.
Preferably, described step S4 comprises: step S41, obtains the performance number that described trigger pip is corresponding; Step S42, calculates the magnitude of voltage that described performance number is corresponding; And step S43, regulate the voltage of described atomizing component to described magnitude of voltage.
Preferably, above-mentioned step S1 comprises further: the resistance value at least being obtained described atomizing component by analog to digital converter.
Preferably, being 0.01ohm-0.99ohm between described first resistance area, is 1ohm-3ohm between described second resistance area.
Preferably, described first power interval is for being not less than 20W, and described second power interval is for being less than 20W.
Preferably, described method also comprises: step S5, judges whether smoking period exceedes the very first time; If the determination result is YES, then stop powering to described atomizing component and/or sending rub-out signal.
The present invention provides another technical scheme as follows for solving the problems of the technologies described above: a kind of PCU Power Conditioning Unit of electronic cigarette, is characterized in that: described device comprises: resistance acquiring unit, for obtaining the resistance value of atomizing component; Switch unit, is connected with described resistance acquiring unit, for switching the power of described atomizing component according to described resistance value to corresponding power interval.
Preferably, the PCU Power Conditioning Unit of described electronic cigarette also comprises: signal acquiring unit, for obtaining trigger pip; Power adjustment unit, is connected with described signal acquiring unit, for regulating described atomizing component to corresponding power work in corresponding power interval according to described trigger pip.
Preferably, the PCU Power Conditioning Unit of described electronic cigarette also comprises: performance number detecting unit, connects described signal acquiring unit, for obtaining performance number corresponding to described trigger pip; Computing unit, is connected with described performance number detecting unit, for calculating magnitude of voltage corresponding to described performance number; Voltage regulation unit, is connected with described computing unit, for regulating the voltage of described atomizing component to described magnitude of voltage.
Preferably, the PCU Power Conditioning Unit of described electronic cigarette also comprises: judging unit, for judging whether smoking period exceedes the very first time; Signal transmitting unit, connects described judging unit, is yes, then stops powering to described atomizing component and/or sending rub-out signal for the judged result when described judging unit.
The present invention provides another technical scheme as follows for solving the problems of the technologies described above: a kind of electronic cigarette, and it comprises the PCU Power Conditioning Unit of an electronic cigarette described above.
Compared with prior art, the power regulating method of electronic cigarette provided by the present invention and device thereof and the electronic cigarette that comprises this PCU Power Conditioning Unit at least have following advantage:
The invention provides the resistance value that can obtain atomizing component in a kind of power regulating method of electronic cigarette and device thereof, electronic cigarette and can for being positioned at the power switching atomizing component between different resistance area, make to may correspond in different power interval between different resistance areas, and finally power adjustments is realized by voltage-regulation within the scope of this power interval, thus the size of amount of smoke is controlled, can realize the stable output of atomizing component under a certain accurate performance number of electronic cigarette, and the multiple difference suction that user can be made to obtain large amount of smoke and little amount of smoke is experienced.
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In order to make object of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage are clearly understood, below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and embodiment, are further elaborated to the present invention.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the present invention, be not intended to limit the present invention.
Refer to Fig. 1, first embodiment of the invention provides a kind of electronic cigarette PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40, and an atomizing component 43 is provided further, described PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 is connected with described atomizing component 43, described PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 comprises resistance acquiring unit 401, switch unit 402, signal acquiring unit 403 and a power adjustment unit 404.
Described resistance acquiring unit 401 is for obtaining the resistance value of described atomizing component 43.Described switch unit 402 is connected with described resistance acquiring unit 401, for switching the power of described atomizing component 43 according to the resistance value of described atomizing component 43 to corresponding power interval.
Described signal acquiring unit 403 is for obtaining trigger pip.Described power adjustment unit 404 is connected with described signal acquiring unit 403, for regulating described atomizing component 43 to work to corresponding power in corresponding power interval according to described trigger pip.Wherein, described trigger pip can by the signal produced after the control module on user's triggerable electronic cigarette.
Described power adjustment unit 404 comprises performance number detecting unit 405, computing unit 406 and a voltage regulation unit 407 further.Wherein, described performance number detecting unit 405 connects described signal acquiring unit 403, and described performance number detecting unit 405 is for obtaining performance number corresponding to described trigger pip; Described computing unit 406 is connected with described performance number detecting unit 405, for calculating magnitude of voltage corresponding to described performance number; Described voltage regulation unit 407 is connected with described computing unit 406, and described voltage regulation unit 407 is for regulating the voltage of described atomizing component 43 to described magnitude of voltage.
In the present embodiment, described PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 comprises judging unit 408 and a signal transmitting unit 409 further, described PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 is provided with the very first time, the described very first time is the maximum duration allowing the smoking of user's a bite, as user's a bite smoking period exceedes the very first time, then may cause damage to electronic cigarette.
Wherein, described judging unit 408 is for judging whether smoking period exceedes the very first time; Described signal transmitting unit 409 connects described judging unit 408, for when the judged result of described judging unit 408 is for being, then stops powering to described atomizing component 43 and/or sending rub-out signal.
The PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 provided in the present embodiment can realize the size of the resistance value according to described atomizing component 43, thus described resistance value is switched to power interval corresponding thereto and regulates described atomizing component 43 to work to corresponding power, to make the resistance value of described atomizing component 43 corresponding with its operating power in this interval by realization.
Refer to Fig. 2, described resistance acquiring unit 401 can comprise I/O connector 31, analog to digital converter 32, triode 33 and a reference resistance R1, wherein, described I/O connector 31 is connected with the base stage of described triode 33, and one end of described reference resistance R1 is connected with described triode 33.Described atomizing component 43 comprises a heating wire 132, and the other end of described reference resistance R1 is connected with one end of the heating wire 132 of the described atomizing component 43 of required detection resistance value, the other end ground connection of the heating wire 132 of described atomizing component 43.Wherein, the resistance of described reference resistance R1 fixedly can be 10ohm.
Described analog to digital converter 32 is connected in parallel in the circuit formed with the heating wire 132 of described reference resistance R1 and described atomizing component 43, for detecting the resistance value size of the heating wire 132 of described atomizing component 43.During heating wire 132 resistance change of described atomizing component 43, then described analog to digital converter 32 the signal that produces and send also can change.Further, the simulating signal of collection also can be converted to digital signal by described analog to digital converter, thus obtains the resistance value of described atomizing component 43.
In a further embodiment, described resistance acquiring unit 401 also detects by other existing resistance or the resistance of obtain manner to described atomizing component 43 detects and obtains its resistance value, does not repeat in embodiments of the present invention.
Refer to Fig. 3 A, second embodiment of the invention further provides a kind of power regulating method of electronic cigarette, and in the present embodiment, provide an atomizing component, the step of the power regulating method of described electronic cigarette is specific as follows:
Step S1, obtains the resistance value of atomizing component;
Step S2, according to the power extremely corresponding power interval that described resistance value switches.
The resistance value of described atomizing component is wherein at least obtained in above-mentioned steps S1 by analog to digital converter.
In an embodiment, by above-mentioned step S1-S2, atomizing component works under can realizing any power in the power interval corresponding with the resistance value of described atomizing component.
Further, in order to realize the stable output of atomizing component under a certain accurate performance number of electronic cigarette, present invention also offers a kind of power regulating method preferred embodiment of electronic cigarette, refer to Fig. 3 B, concrete steps step is as follows:
Step S1 ＇, obtains the resistance value of atomizing component;
Step S2 ＇, according to the power extremely corresponding power interval that described resistance value switches;
Step S3 ＇, obtains trigger pip;
Step S4 ＇, regulates described atomizing component to corresponding power work according to described trigger pip in corresponding power interval.
Power regulating method one the preferably embodiment of described electronic cigarette, works under can realizing triggering a certain fixed point power of atomizing component in described power interval by corresponding trigger pip.The signal that described trigger pip produces be arranged on the control module on an electronic cigarette for user passes through to trigger after, wherein, described trigger pip can be a certain performance number of user's input, also can be a certain performance number obtained by a certain controller step-by-step adjustment, unrestricted at this.
In the another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the power regulating method of described electronic cigarette also can comprise further:
Step S5, judges whether smoking period exceedes the very first time;
If the determination result is YES, then by transmission coherent signal, atomizing component is made to stop powering to atomizing component and/or sending rub-out signal;
If judged result is no, then do not stop powering to atomizing component and/or not sending rub-out signal.
The described very first time is time of a setting, and the described very first time is 10s.If user's a bite smoking period is more than or equal to the very first time, then produce interpretable suction signal excessively.The described very first time can set according to the actual resistance of atomizing component, unrestricted at this.
In one preferably embodiment, described suction signal of crossing also can be sent to via the described signal transmitting unit 409 in the PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 of electronic cigarette described in first embodiment of the invention in a display (not shown), and showed suction interface, do not carry out with reminding user the suction operation being greater than 10s.
Refer to Fig. 4, in the step S2 of the power regulating method of electronic cigarette described above, comprise following step further:
Step S21, judges whether described resistance value is positioned between the first resistance area;
If the determination result is YES, then described atomizing component to the first power interval is switched;
If judged result is no, then enter step S22;
Step S22, judges whether described resistance value is positioned between the second resistance area;
If the determination result is YES, then described atomizing component to the second power interval is switched;
If judged result is no, then enter step S23;
Step S23, stops powering to described atomizing component and/or sending rub-out signal.Wherein, be 0.01-0.99ohm between described first resistance area, also can be 0.05-0.9ohm, also may further be 0.1-0.7ohm, be further preferably 0.2-0.6ohm, specifically also can be single numerical value as 0.2ohm, 0.3ohm, 0.4ohm, 0.5ohm.The first power interval corresponding between described first resistance area, for being not less than 20W, is further preferably 20-30w.
Be 1-3ohm between described second resistance area, its more preferably 1.2-2.5ohm, also can be 1.5-2.2ohm, specifically also can be single numerical value as 1.5ohm, 1.6ohm, 1.8ohm, 1.9ohm, 2.ohm, 2.1ohm and 2.2ohm.The second power interval corresponding between described second resistance area, for being less than 20W, is further preferably 8-15w.In the present embodiment, power bracket is controlled within 20W, the power of atomizing component can be prevented too high and burnt.
In a further embodiment, between the resistance area that the described atomizing component that also can arrange according to actual needs in described step S2 is corresponding and the scope of power interval judge whether described atomizing component 43 is positioned between the 3rd resistance area, between the 4th resistance area further ... between N resistance area, and be switched to the power interval corresponding with between described resistance area according to judged result or stop powering to described atomizing component 43 and/or sending rub-out signal.
Refer to Fig. 5, in the step S4 of the power regulating method of electronic cigarette described above, comprise following step further:
Step S41, obtains the performance number that described trigger pip is corresponding;
Step S42, calculates the magnitude of voltage that described performance number is corresponding;
Step S43, regulates the voltage of described atomizing component to described magnitude of voltage.
In above-mentioned steps S43, carry out voltage-regulation by a booster circuit (not shown), to reach the voltage corresponding with the magnitude of voltage of described atomizing component.When the resistance value of described atomizing component is constant, as needed increasing power, then need to be regulated by booster circuit, the voltage of described atomizing component is raised, thus the power of described atomizing component is increased, and the power of described atomizing component is larger, the heating wire (not shown) heating in described atomizing component is more, then its amount of smoke produced is also larger; Otherwise described atomizing component voltage reduces, then the power of described atomizing component increases, and the amount of smoke making it produce is less.
Refer to Fig. 6-9, provide a kind of electronic cigarette 10 in third embodiment of the invention, described electronic cigarette 10 comprises the PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 of an electronic cigarette described above.
Described electronic cigarette 10 comprises a cigarette holder assembly 11, oil storage assembly 12, atomizing component 13, battery component 14, controls module 15 and shell 17, wherein, described oil storage assembly 12, described atomizing component 13, described battery component 14, described control module 15, be all contained in described shell 17, in the partial receipt of described cigarette holder assembly 11 and described shell 17.The shell 17 of electronic cigarette 10 described in the present embodiment is made up of metal material, and it has good electric conductivity.Described shell 17 is metal material, and they can further including but not limited to aluminium, copper, iron and alloy thereof etc.
Described cigarette holder assembly 11 comprises the cigarette holder pumping stages 111, hollow connection tube (non-label) and the air flue 112 that connect successively from top to bottom, and user, when using electronic cigarette 10 of the present invention, can draw smog from cigarette holder pumping stages 111.Described cigarette holder pumping stages 111, described hollow connection tube and described air flue 112 form through gas channels, described air flue 112 is connected with described atomizing component 13, the material of described hollow connection tube and described air flue 112 can be conductive material, and it can be but is not limited to: aluminium, copper and alloy thereof etc.
Described cigarette holder assembly 11 also comprises connection cover (not shown) and a upper connecting base (not shown) on one, wherein, described upper connection cover is a hollow round table shape, described upper connecting base is one cylindric, and the external diameter of described upper connection cover and the internal diameter of described upper connecting base match.Described upper connection cover coordinates with described upper connecting base, and described cigarette holder assembly 11 is connected with described oil storage assembly 12.Wherein, the material of described upper connection cover can be conductive material, and it can be but is not limited to: aluminium, copper and alloy thereof etc.
Described electronic cigarette 10 can comprise conductive component 143 and a binding post 145 further, described conductive component 143 is arranged between described upper connection cover and described upper connecting base, by described upper connection cover and the fastening described conductive component 143 of described Connection Block, for preventing its position from offseting, also effectively avoid it directly contact with other assembly and cause short circuit simultaneously.Described binding post 145 is in electrical contact with described shell 17.
Described atomizing component 13 comprises a conductive electrode (not shown) one insulating plug (not shown) and an atomization housing (not shown) further.Described insulating plug is arranged on the bottom of the heating wire 132 of described atomizing component 13, one end of described heating wire is connected with described conductive electrode, the other end of described heating wire is connected with described atomization housing, described insulating plug is used for the atomization housing of described atomizing component 13 and the isolation of described conductive electrode, thus can isolate positive and negative electrode.Described battery component 14 is connected with described atomizing component 13 and described control module 15 and provides electric energy for it.
Described control module 15 comprises PCU Power Conditioning Unit (not shown) and a controller 153 of an electronic cigarette, and described battery component 14 provides electric energy for described control module 15.The PCU Power Conditioning Unit of described electronic cigarette, as described in first embodiment of the invention, does not repeat them here.Described controller 153 comprises switch key 1531, increases key 1532 and reduce key 1533, and user can trigger described electronic cigarette 10 by described controller 153 and produce trigger pip.
The first wire 1461, second wire 1462, privates 1463 and privates 1464 are comprised further in described electronic cigarette 10.Described conductive component 143 comprises an annulus section (non-label) and a rectangular section (non-label), wherein, described annulus section is fixed between the described upper connection cover of cigarette holder assembly 11 and described upper connecting base, described upper connection cover contacts with described hollow connection tube, described conductive component 143 is electrically connected with described air flue 112, and provide positive pole by described air flue 112 to the atomization housing of atomizing component 13, be specially, the annulus section of described conductive component 143 is pressed abd fixed on the below of described upper connection cover; This rectangular section extends to described battery component 14 direction, and is electrically connected with described control module 15 by one second wire 1462, the not directly conducting of described conductive component 143 and described battery component 14.Wherein said first wire 1461 is by the positive pole conducting of described control module 15 and described battery component 14, and the atomization housing (not shown) that described battery component 14 is described atomizing component 13 by described control module 15, described conductive component 143 and described air flue 112 successively provides positive pole.
In other embodiments of the present invention, this conductive component 143 can also be the combination of other any type of electric conductors or electric conductor and electrical insulator, and the mode that its shape, connected mode and material do not provide with the present embodiment limits.
Negative pole and the described control module 15 of described battery component 14 are electrically connected by privates 1463.Described binding post 145 realizes being electrically connected by privates 1464 with described control module 15, and described binding post 145 is for being connected described shell 17 with the conducting of described control module 15.
In a preferred embodiment, described electronic cigarette 10 comprises a copper band (not shown), and this copper band is arranged on the contact site of described shell and described atomizing component 13.Described battery component 14 successively by described control module 15, described binding post 145, described shell 17 and described copper band (not shown) for the conductive electrode (not shown) of described atomizing component 13 provides negative pole.
In the present embodiment, described battery component 14 is connected the described atomizing component 13 of rear connection with described control module 15, the PCU Power Conditioning Unit of the described electronic cigarette in described control module 15 can obtain the resistance value of described atomizing component 13, and is switched to the power of described atomizing component 13 according to described resistance value to corresponding power interval.The PCU Power Conditioning Unit of the described electronic cigarette in described control module 15 also can obtain the trigger pip of described controller 153 transmission further, regulates described atomizing component 13 to corresponding power work according to described trigger pip in the power interval corresponding to the resistance value of described atomizing component 13.
In a further embodiment, described electronic cigarette 10 is in energising operation, described atomizing component 13 can comprise organizes heating wire more, the heating wire of different resistance values can be arranged in described electronic cigarette 10 simultaneously, described controller 153 can control described battery component 14 and provide electric energy for specifying a certain group of heating wire of resistance value, also can be energized for a few groups of heating wires, described controller 153 can by user operation simultaneously.
The power regulating method of the described electronic cigarette that the embodiment of the present invention provides and device, electronic cigarette, its function both can adopt software mode to realize, also digital signal processing (DigitalSignalProcessing can be integrated into, DSP) chip or field programmable gate array (Field-ProgrammableGateArray, FPGA) chip carries out software development to realize, also realization can be solidified by the mode of special IC (ApplicationSpecificIntegratedCirCuit, ASIC).
Compared with prior art, the power regulating method of the electronic cigarette provided in the above embodiment of the present invention and the PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 of electronic cigarette, electronic cigarette 10 have following advantage:
(1) PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 of the power regulating method of electronic cigarette provided by the present invention and electronic cigarette, electronic cigarette 10 can realize for switching to corresponding power interval between different resistance areas, and finally power adjustments is realized by voltage-regulation within the scope of this power interval, realize the stable output of atomizing component under a certain accurate performance number of electronic cigarette, and can control the size of amount of smoke, the multiple difference suction making user obtain large amount of smoke and little amount of smoke is experienced.Compared with prior art, the resistance value due to atomizing component can be effectively avoided not mate with its power, and the power that atomizing component is adopted excessive and cause overheatedly even to burn, tobacco tar is atomized obtain the problem of smog with the smell of burning etc., thus affect the mouthfeel of the smog that electronic cigarette produces and the serviceable life of atomizing component 43.Also can realize under the effect of same electrical energy consumption, farthest improve the work efficiency of electronic cigarette 10.
(2) adopt the components and parts of the electronic cigarettes 10 such as shell 17, described binding post 145, described conductive component 143 and described air flue 112 as conductor in the electronic cigarette 10 comprising the PCU Power Conditioning Unit 40 of described electronic cigarette provided by the invention, make described battery component 14 by described oil storage assembly 12 for described atomizing component 13 provides positive pole, and realize described battery component 14 by described shell 17 for described atomizing component 13 provides negative pole.Need to adopt wire or the conducting of elasticity pointer to need precisely to insert and could realize compared with electrically conducting between each assembly with prior art, electronic cigarette 10 provided by the present invention adopts the electrically conducting manner of contact, when carrying out artificial replacement to described atomizing component 13, only described atomizing component 13 need be inserted and screw fixing, described atomizing component 13 is contacted with described oil storage assembly 12 and described shell 17, can realize electrically conducting, to the great facility that user arrives.The electrically conducting manner that electronic cigarette 10 provided by the present invention adopts can also effectively improve its serviceable life, avoids the problem occurring wire or elasticity pointer poor electrical contact.In addition, the number of conductors for conducting electricity in electronic cigarette 10 can also effectively be reduced.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limit the present invention, all any amendments done within principle of the present invention, equivalent replacement and improvement etc. all should comprise within protection scope of the present invention.