| 摘要 |
An atomiser 9 for atomising a composition for subsequent inhalation comprising a heating element 11 and a sensor 31 configured to generate data related to temperature of the heating element and/or composition, wherein the heating element of the atomiser is controllable based upon a rate of heating derived from the generated data. Preferably the atomizer is also controllable based upon a pre-determined operating temperature which is related to an optimum atomization temperature of the composition, obtained from a look up table. Control of the heating element can be achieved by means of a feedback loop based on the output of the sensor and /or power input to the heating element. Preferably the sensor is a ceramic thermocouple and the composition is a fluid contained in a reservoir. Also claimed is an e-cigarette 1 comprising the atomizer, and a method of operating the atomizer comprising providing, from a computing device, mobile phone 33 (figures 2 and 3) or server 41 (figure 2), data relating to the composition 37 (figure 2), e.g. identification data, or obtaining composition identification data by a camera 57 (figure 3) associated with the computing device configured to read machine readable data 39 (figure 2). |
