US 11,717,625 B2
Component part and base part for an inhaler, and method for making same
Gunnar Niebuhr, Hamburg (DE); Rene Schmidt, Buchholz (DE); and Marc Kessler, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 16/648,482
Filed by KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/075165
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/057694, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 121 664.2 (DE), filed on Sep. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0229499 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. A24F 13/00 (2006.01); A61M 15/08 (2006.01); A24F 40/70 (2020.01); A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); H01R 24/62 (2011.01); H01R 105/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01)
CPC A61M 15/08 (2013.01) [A24F 40/40 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); A24F 40/70 (2020.01); H01R 24/62 (2013.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); H01R 2105/00 (2013.01); H02J 7/0042 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A component part for an inhaler, the component part comprising:
a carrier;
an electric evaporator disposed on the carrier for evaporating liquid supplied to the electric evaporator supplied from a liquid tank in operable communication with the electric evaporator;
one or more sensors disposed on the carrier for measuring an operation state of the component part;
an electric connection disposed on the carrier for supplying the electric evaporator with electric energy and/or for receiving control signals for the electric evaporator, wherein the electric connection comprises a plug connector part that is arranged for reversible interaction with a corresponding plug connector part of a base part of the inhaler; and
an electronic control device dispose on the carrier for controlling and/or regulating the electric evaporator,
wherein the electric evaporator comprises at least one electric resistance heating element,
wherein the at least one resistance heating element comprises heating resistors that are measured by the electronic control device,
wherein transmission of measurement data from the heating resistors and/or from the one or more sensors to the electric control device is analog, and
wherein the plug connector part of the electric connection comprises electric contacts for power supply lines, a digital data bus comprising at least one wire, and at least one analog signal line.