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US 10,085,586 B2Granted
Dispensing nutrients
AssigneeICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
InventorsTony Smith, William T. Dalebout, Jared Willardson
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Abstract
A system for dispensing a nutrient includes a dispensing device having a container, an orifice defined in the container, and a receiver that receives communications from an activity collecting device. The container dispenses the nutrient contained therein through the orifice in response to a communication from the activity collecting device.
Claims20
A system for dispensing a nutrient, comprising:
- a dispensing device, the dispensing device comprising:
- a container containing a nutrient;
- a receiver that receives communications from a fitness activity collecting device;
- and
- a processor and memory, wherein the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to:
- determine a user fitness activity performed by a user;
- and
- determine an amount of the nutrient to dispense based at least in part on the user fitness activity.
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A dispensing device for dispensing nutrients, comprising:
- multiple containers constructed to hold multiple nutrient types;
- orifices defined in the multiple containers;
- a receiver in communication with a fitness activity collecting device;
- an actuator that dispenses the nutrient by opening the orifices based on data from the fitness activity collecting device;
- and
- a processor and memory, wherein the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to:
- determine a user fitness activity performed;
- and
- determine an amount of the nutrients to dispense based on the user fitness activity.
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A dispensing device for dispensing nutrients, comprising:
- multiple containers constructed to hold multiple nutrient types;
- orifices defined in the multiple containers;
- a receiver in communication with a fitness activity collecting device;
- an actuator that dispenses the nutrient by opening the orifices based on data from the fitness activity collecting device;
- electronic table that associates a type of nutrient with at least some of the multiple containers;
- and
- a processor and memory, wherein the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to:
- automatically determine a user fitness activity performed;
- based on the determined user fitness activity performed, automatically select at least one nutrient type to dispense based on the user fitness activity;
- automatically determine an amount of the at least one selected nutrient to dispense based on the user fitness activity;
- and
- automatically send a command to open the orifices of at least one of the multiple containers based on the selected nutrient type and the amount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.