Nokia Corporation

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Simon Cox

Michihiro Inagaki

Yuki Abe

Franck Rubiconi

Takahisa Kudo

Jumpei Inoue

Adam Geernaert

Yuki Minami

Rishi Jobanputra

Neil Briffett

Richard Lancaster Croyle

Graham Clay

Murray Brown

A controller for controlling an atomizing unit, wherein the atomizing unit includes a piezoelectric element substrate including an IDT including a pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes, and a liquid supplier configured to supply liquid, which is to be atomized, to the piezoelectric element substrate; wherein the piezoelectric element substrate is configured to atomize the liquid by use of a surface acoustic wave generated by applying a high-frequency voltage to the pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes; and the controller is configured to periodically change amplitude and/or a frequency of the high-frequency voltage applied to the pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes.

Inhaler

An inhaler includes an atomizing unit including a piezoelectric element substrate having a first IDT including a pair of interlocking comb-shaped electrodes. The atomizing unit is configured to atomize liquid by a surface acoustic wave generated by applying a high-frequency voltage to the pair of interlocking comb-shaped electrodes, and a controller is configured to monitor a resonant frequency of the pair of interlocking comb-shaped electrodes and apply a voltage to the pair of interlocking comb-shaped electrodes at a frequency determined based on the monitored resonant frequency.

A inhaler includes a piezoelectric element substrate having an IDT constructed by use of a pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes, a liquid supplier for supplying liquid, which is to be atomized, to a front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate on which the pair of interlocking comb-shaped metallic electrodes is positioned, a sensor, which includes at least a pair of detection parts which are opposite to each other, for detecting liquid supplied to the front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate, and a controller for controlling, based on result of detection by the sensor, the liquid supplier in such a manner that the liquid supplier supplies a certain quantity of the liquid to the front surface of the piezoelectric element substrate.

Flavor inhaler

Apparatus comprising one or more inputs configured to receive a configurable control signal from a configurable signal generator; and a non-calibrated touch input signal from a touch sensor. Said non-calibrated touch input signal generated by detecting both internal and external forces applied to the touch sensor. The apparatus also comprises a calibrator configured to process the non-calibrated touch input signal and the configurable control signal to remove the contribution of the internal forces from the non-calibrated signal to generate a calibrated signal, the calibrated signal for use in the detection of an external force applied to the touch sensor.

User interfaces and associated apparatus and methods

A mobile telephone handset is provided with a connector () and circuitry () which permits universal serial bus (USB) and single-ended (SE) modes of data transmission with another device such as a personal computer, another mobile telephone handset or keyboard.

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Hampshire, United Kingdom

Simon Cox