Aerosol Generation Device Battery Monitoring
AssigneeJT International SA
InventorGrzegorz Aleksander Pilatowicz
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Abstract
There is provided an aerosol generation device comprising a battery module, and a battery temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor a temperature of the battery during charging of the battery to detect an indication of an end-of-charge temperature rise and determine whether the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise has been detected in the monitored battery temperature. The controller controls the aerosol generation device to perform an action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is detected, and maintain the aerosol generation device in an operable state and not control the aerosol generation device to perform the action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is not detected.
Claims18
An aerosol generation device comprising:
- a battery module;
- a battery temperature sensor;
- a battery charge sensor;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- monitor the charge level of the battery during charging of the battery using the battery charge sensor;
- monitor a temperature of the battery during charging of the battery using the battery temperature sensor to detect an indication of an end-of-charge temperature rise in the monitored battery temperature;
- determine whether the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise has been detected in the monitored battery temperature only when it is determined that the monitored charge level of the battery has exceeded a predetermined charge level threshold;
- control the aerosol generation device to perform an action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is detected;
- and
- maintain the aerosol generation device in an operable state and not control the aerosol generation device to perform the action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is not detected.
A method of monitoring an aerosol generation device battery, the method comprising:
- monitoring a temperature of a battery of an aerosol generation device during charging of the battery using a battery temperature sensor of the aerosol generation device to detect an indication of an end-of-charge temperature rise in the monitored battery temperature;
- monitor the charge level of the battery during charging of the battery using a battery charge sensor;
- determining whether the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise has been detected in the monitored battery temperature only when it is determined that the monitored charge level of the battery has exceeded a predetermined charge level threshold;
- controlling the aerosol generation device to perform an action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is detected;
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- maintaining the aerosol generation device in an operable state and not controlling the aerosol generation device to perform the action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is not detected.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that when executed by one or more processors of an aerosol generation device cause the processors to:
- monitor a temperature of a battery of the aerosol generation device during charging of the battery using a battery temperature sensor of the aerosol generation device to detect an indication of an end-of-charge temperature rise in the monitored battery temperature;
- monitor the charge level of the battery during charging of the battery using a battery charge sensor;
- determine whether the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise has been detected in the monitored battery temperature only when it is determined that the monitored charge level of the battery has exceeded a predetermined charge level threshold;
- control the aerosol generation device to perform an action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is detected;
- and
- maintain the aerosol generation device in an operable state and not control the aerosol generation device to perform the action when the indication of the end-of-charge temperature rise is not detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.