Patent ID: 7758026

Claim:
Apparatus for the humidification of the air in a cabin of a passenger or cargo aircraft, comprising: an outlet nozzle ( 10 ) configured to deliver a conditioning fluid into the cabin, the conditioning fluid including water sprayed at a spraying point in close spatial association with the outlet nozzle ( 10 ) and an air flow for carrying the sprayed water; a first heating device ( 22 ) for heating the water to be sprayed at the spraying point; a second heating device ( 24 ) for heating the air flow, the second heating device being completely independent from the first heating device; and a central control unit ( 26 ) operatively connected to the first heating device ( 22 ) and the second heating device ( 24 ) and adapted to control an injection temperature of at least one of (a) the water supplied to the spraying point from the first heating device ( 22 ), and (b) the air flow from the second heating device ( 24 ), so as to assure that the conditioning fluid emerging from the outlet nozzle ( 10 ) flows into the cabin at a desired effective temperature after evaporation of the water.