US 12,349,741 B2
Aerosol provision device
Adrian Jakóbczyk, Poznan (PL); Lukasz Milewski, Poznan (PL); Marcin Kozlowski, Poznan (PL); Marcin Kos, Poznan (PL); Andrzej Szykowny, Poznan (PL); Krzysztof Szeinig, Poznan (PL); Maciej Maciagowski, Poznan (PL); and Pawel Zielazek, Poznan (PL)
Assigned to eSmoking Institute Sp. z o.o., Poznan (PL)
Appl. No. 18/001,399
Filed by eSmoking Institute Sp. z o.o., Poznan (PL)
PCT Filed Jun. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/065445
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/250088, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 434277 (PL), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0218013 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A24F 40/90 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); H01M 10/44 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A24F 40/90 (2020.01) [A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); H01M 10/44 (2013.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/0068 (2013.01); H02J 7/00712 (2020.01); H01M 2220/30 (2013.01); H02J 2310/22 (2020.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for an aerosol generating device, the apparatus comprising:
a control module; and
a charging controller,
wherein:
the charging controller is configured to control charging of a battery at a first charging rate in a first charging mode and to control charging of the battery at a second charging rate, lower than the first charging rate, in a second charging mode,
the control module is configured to determine whether the aerosol generating device is in use, and
the charging controller, when operating in the second charging mode, is configured to change to the first charging mode if the control module determines that the aerosol generating device is in use.