Abstract: A method for creating a sensor includes generating in a housing a measurement cavity that is hermetically sealed, the measurement cavity is formed by an inside surface of a cover chip and an opposing top surface of a base chip. The inside surface has a membrane electrode and the top surface has a base electrode; the membrane electrode and the base electrode form a sensing capacitance. A first terminal contacts the membrane electrode and a second terminal contacts the base electrode. Each of the terminals is a horizontal metal layer that contacts a vertical metal layer of a vertical electrical connection through the housing. The horizontal metal layer and the vertical metal layer form a hermetically sealed contact. The method further includes forming a eutectic bond hermetically sealing the measurement cavity from an outside.

Abstract: A vaporisation device for an inhalator comprising an electrical resistance heating element for the vaporisation of liquid brought into contact with the resistance heating element by means of electrical energy. The resistance heating element consists of a material in which the resistance change per temperature interval, in a temperature range around a vaporisation temperature, is at least three times as large as in a temperature range around room temperature.

Abstract: A method for determining at least one parameter for vaporization in an inhaler comprising a vaporizer, based upon resistive heating, and an electronic control device is characterized in that the electronic control device is configured to carry out the following initialization procedure—in particular, after a replacement of a vaporizer cartridge in the inhaler: outputting an inhalation request to a user of the inhaler; in the case of a puff taken by the user following the inhalation request, operating the vaporizer with a comparatively to low vaporization capacity P, and recording a time measurement series of an electrical parameter of the vaporizer; determining a transition point ÜP between a region of low vaporization and a region of high vaporization in the recorded time measurement series; determining and storing at least one parameter associated with the initialization procedure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vaporisation device for an electronic inhaler, comprising a vaporiser having a thermally conductive substrate, wherein a plurality of continuous channels extend through the substrate from an inlet side to an outlet side of the substrate, and an electrical resistance heating element. The resistance heating element is arranged on one side of the substrate, consists of a material with higher electrical conductivity than the material of the substrate and has passage openings communicating with the channels of the substrate.