Cigar moisture meter with direct relative humidity readout
AssigneeCigarmedics, Inc.
InventorLuigi Lucente
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Abstract
A meter includes prongs that detect the moisture content value of a tobacco product, and an electrical circuit of the meter receives this information and converts the moisture content value to a relative humidity value of the tobacco product. The relative humidity value is displayed as a numeral on a display sensor connected to the electrical circuit.
Claims8
A meter for detecting the moisture content of a tobacco product and displaying the relative humidity of the tobacco product, comprising:
- a casing forming an interior chamber of the casing;
- a pair of prongs extending outwardly from the casing;
- an electronic measuring circuit disposed in the interior chamber, the electronic circuit including a power source;
- the electronic measuring circuit including an electronic display screen;
- the electronic display screen and the pair of prongs electrically connected to the electronic measuring circuit;
- the pair of prongs adapted to be inserted into the tobacco product and generate an electrical signal reflecting a tobacco product moisture content value across the pair of prongs;
- the electrical signal reflecting the tobacco product moisture content value transmitted to the electronic measuring circuit;
- the electronic measuring circuit converting the tobacco product moisture content value signal to a signal reflective of a relative humidity value of the tobacco product;
- the electronic measuring circuit displaying a numerical designation of the relative humidity of the tobacco product on the electronic display screen.
The method of detecting the moisture content of a tobacco product and displaying a numerical representation on an electronic display screen of a meter, the numerical representation displaying the relative humidity value of the tobacco product, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a measurement of a tobacco product moisture content value;
- electronically converting the tobacco product moisture content value measurement to a relative humidity value for the tobacco product;
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- displaying a numerical representation of the relative humidity value of the tobacco product on the electronic display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.