Cigarette monitoring
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorsGraham Albert Read, Nigel David Warren
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Abstract
A cigarette monitoring device capable of monitoring individual smoking behaviour and particularly smoke deliveries and of communicating this and other information to a remote location and/or the consumer. The device comprises a cigarette monitoring means, fluid-flow pressure drop and smoke density detection means, data transmission means, data receiving and processing means, as well as means to display the processed data. Display means of the invention may display information that is of interest to the smoker and may offer a direct sales service to the consumer.
Claims28
A cigarette monitoring means capable of monitoring smoking behaviour of an individual smoker comprising:
- cigarette mounting means by which a cigarette can be mounted at the mouth end thereof, said mounting means comprising a mouthpiece, which mouthpiece is, when said mounting means mounts a cigarette, in fluid-flow communication with the mouth end of the cigarette;
- in unit with said mounting means fluid-flow pressure drop detection means and smoke density detection means;
- at the locations of said mounting means data transmission means operable to transmit data derived from said pressure drop detection means and said smoke density detection means;
- data receiving and processing means operable to receive and process data transmitted by said transmission means, the processing effected by said processing means comprising a calculation of a delivery value of particulate phase smoke components from a cigarette when mounted by said mounting means and being smoked via said mouthpiece;
- display means operable to display processed data from said receiving and processing means;
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- a second transmission means operable to transmit processed data input from data processing effected by said data receiving and processing means.
A cigarette monitoring means capable of monitoring smoking behaviour of an individual smoker comprising:
- cigarette mounting means by which a cigarette can be mounted at the mouth end thereof, said mounting means comprising a mouthpiece, which mouthpiece is, when said mounting means mounts a cigarette, in fluid-flow communication with the end of the cigarette;
- in unit with said mounting means fluid-flow pressure drop detection means and smoke density detection means;
- at the location of said mounting means processing means operable to process data from said pressure drop detection means and said smoke density detection means, the processing effected by said processing means comprising a calculation of a delivery value of particulate phase smoke components from a cigarette when mounted by said mounting means and being smoked via said mouthpiece;
- at the location of said mounting means data transmission means operable to transmit processed output data from said processing means;
- data receiving means operable to receive processed output data from said transmission means;
- display means operable to display processed data from said receiving means;
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- at the location of said processing means, second display means, which said second display means is operable to display processed data from said processing means.
A cigarette monitoring means capable of monitoring smoking behaviour of an individual smoker comprising:
- cigarette mounting means by which a cigarette can be mounted at the mouth end thereof, said mounting means comprising a mouthpiece, which mouthpiece is, when said mounting means mounts a cigarette, in fluid-flow communication with the end of the cigarette;
- in unit with said mounting means fluid-flow pressure drop detection means and smoke density detection means;
- at the location of said mounting means processing means operable to process data from said pressure drop detection means and said smoke density detection means, the processing effected by said processing means comprising a calculation of a delivery value of particulate phase smoke components from a cigarette when mounted by said mounting means and being smoked via said mouthpiece;
- at the location of said mounting means data transmission means operable to transmit processed output data from said processing means;
- data receiving means operable to receive processed output data from said transmission means;
- display means operable to display processed data from said receiving means;
- and, wherein said cigarette monitoring means further comprises second transmission means, second data receiving means and second, associated display means at the location of said cigarette mounting means, and data input means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.