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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Imperial Tobacco Limited;
Oliver Talbot, Liverpool, GB;
Imperial Tobacco Limited, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
A smoking substitute device and a method of operating a smoking substitute device. The smoking substitute device comprising: a control unit; and an accelerometer, configured to detect an orientation of the smoking substitute device and provide data indicative of the detected orientation to the control unit. The control unit is configured to trigger an alert when it determines from the data indicative of the detected orientation that the smoking substitute device will function improperly. The control unit is configured to determine from the data indicative of the detected orientation that the smoking substitute device will function improperly when the data indicative of the detected orientation indicates that a gravity fed heating device of the smoking substitute device has been located above a tank containing a vaporizable liquid for a predetermined period of time (t), wherein the predetermined period of time is at least 30 minutes.