Patent ID: 9579479
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61M

Claim:
1. A process for providing moistened breathing gas, the process comprising the steps of: feeding incoming gas to be moistened into a gas inlet of a moistener; feeding of liquid into a vapor feed device of the moistener; evaporating the fed liquid by means of an evaporating device to form vapor; mixing the incoming gas with the vapor to form a moistened gas which exits a gas outlet of the moistener as moistened outgoing gas; presetting a desired outlet temperature and setting a desired outlet moisture of the moistened outgoing gas; determining, by means of a control device connected to the evaporating device, an outlet temperature of the moistened outgoing gas that is to be expected for a preset desired moisture of the outgoing gas, and setting a new desired outlet temperature of the outgoing gas, while maintaining the outlet moisture setting of the moistened outgoing gas, by the control device, to a temperature above the desired outlet temperature in cases in which the outlet temperature of the moistened outgoing gas to be expected exceeds the desired outlet temperature of the moistened outgoing gas.