Electronic smoking article with haptic feedback
AssigneeRAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
InventorsMichael Ryan Galloway, Raymond Charles Henry, Jr., Glen Kimsey, Frederic Philippe Ampolini
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides an electronic smoking article adapted to provide haptic feedback to a user. The smoking article can comprise a housing that includes a haptic feedback component, such as a vibration transducer. The smoking article can be formed of a control body and/or a cartridge, and the haptic feedback component may be present in any one or both of the control body and the cartridge. The haptic feedback component is adapted to generate a waveform that defines a status of the electronic smoking article. The disclosure also provides a method for providing haptic feedback in an electronic smoking article.
Claims17
An electronic smoking article comprising:
- a control body housing including a haptic feedback component, a microcontroller, a haptic driver in electrical communication with the microcontroller and the haptic feedback component, and an electrical power source, wherein the haptic feedback component is configured to provide haptic feedback by generating one or more different waveforms defining a status of the electronic smoking article, and wherein the haptic driver is adapted to convert one or more signals from the microcontroller to an output that directs the haptic feedback component to generate the one or more different waveforms to provide the haptic feedback;
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- a cartridge housing adapted for connection to the control body housing, the cartridge housing including a heater and a reservoir containing an aerosol precursor composition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.