Apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolizable medium, an article of aerosolizable medium and a method of operating an aerosol generating apparatus
AssigneeNicoventures Trading Limited
InventorsPatrick Moloney, Anton Korus, Justin Han Yang Chan
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Abstract
A method of operating an aerosol generating apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises: sensing, at a first sensor of a sensor arrangement, a first indicia of an article comprising aerosolisable medium; sensing, at a second sensor of the sensor arrangement spaced a predetermined distance from the first sensor, a second indicia of the article; determining a distance between the first indicia and the second indicia; and operating the aerosol generating apparatus based at least on the distance between the first indicia and the second indicia.
Claims30
An apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolisable medium, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a chamber for receiving an article, the article comprising:
- an aerosolisable medium;
- and a marker arrangement comprising a first marker and a second marker ;
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- a sensor arrangement comprising a first sensor for sensing the first marker and a second sensor for sensing the second marker, wherein the first sensor is an optical sensor and the second sensor is an optical sensor, and wherein the first sensor is configured to sense a different property to the second sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.