Patent ID: 9717867
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A61M

Claim:
1. A method for operating an aerosol inhalation device including a gas pumping component, a vibrator, an aerosol generator and a control, the method comprising the steps of: generating, by the aerosol generator, a certain amount of an aerosol in said aerosol inhalation device, transporting, by the gas pumping component, the certain amount of the aerosol to a desired location outside said aerosol inhalation device, vibrating, by the vibrator, the transported aerosol in a vibrating mode, and controlling, by the control, the vibrator to operate in the vibrating mode when the transported aerosol has reached said desired location and controlling the gas pumping component so that the aerosol transport is stopped when said certain amount of aerosol has reached said desired location and so that the vibration is induced in the transported aerosol only at a time when an aerosol flow rate is substantially zero, wherein the control comprises a computer, and controlling aerosol generation and controlling the vibrator to operate in the vibrating mode are performed by the computer.