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US 12,628,877 · App. 17/554,783 · Granted May 19, 2026

Electronic smoking article with haptic feedback

Inventors: Michael Ryan Galloway (Winston-Salem, NC); Raymond Charles Henry, Jr. (Cary, NC); Glen Kimsey (Cary, NC); Frederic Philippe Ampolini (Winston-Salem, NC)
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Patent No.
US 12,628,877
App. No.
17/554,783
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (28)

1 . An electronic smoking article comprising:

a housing;

a control component within the housing;

a haptic feedback component within the housing;

a haptic driver within the housing;

a heater within the housing; and

a reservoir within the housing and containing an aerosol precursor composition;

wherein the control component is configured to deliver instruction to the haptic feedback component via the haptic driver, the instruction being effective to cause the haptic feedback component to generate a defined waveform; and

wherein the haptic driver is in electrical communication with the control component and the haptic feedback component such that the control component and the haptic driver direct the haptic feedback component to form haptic feedback that is defined by one or more different waveforms.

2 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback component is configured to apply vibrations to a user.

3 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback component is configured to apply forces or motions to a user.

4 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the one or more different waveforms directly correspond to an instruction from the control component.

5 . The electronic smoking article of claim 4 , wherein the one or more different waveforms vary based upon an input provided to the control component.

6 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the one or more different waveforms are predetermined to correspond to a specific status of the electronic smoking article.

7 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic driver is combined with the control component.

8 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic driver is programmed to vary motor speed to control vibration amplitude and frequency to generate the defined waveform.

9 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback component is configured to not be coordinate specific.

10 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback component is adapted for touch-coordinate specific responses that enable localized haptic effects at a specific location on the control body.

11 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback component is a vibrating haptic actuator.

12 . The electronic smoking article of claim 11 , wherein one or more of the following conditions is met:

the vibrating haptic actuator comprises a linear resonant actuator (LRA);

the vibrating haptic actuator is adapted for electroactive polymer actuation;

the vibrating haptic actuator is adapted for piezoelectric actuation;

the vibrating haptic actuator is adapted for electrostatic actuation;

the vibrating haptic actuator is adapted for audio wave actuation;

the vibrating haptic actuator is a vibration transducer.

13 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , further comprising a flow sensor within the housing.

14 . The electronic smoking article of claim 1 , wherein the haptic driver is configured for overdrive operation so as to reduce a time required to reach a nominal vibration level.

Continuity (2)
Continuation 13946309 · Jul 19, 2013
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