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US 10,945,566 B2Granted
Product identification system
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsFrederick J. Williams, Jr., Babak R. Ghazi
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Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus for determining or identifying the type of product in a dispenser based at least in part on the length of rolled product dispensed and/or the radial measurement.
Claims16
A dispenser comprising:
- a body including a product holding area configured to hold a rolled product;
- a first sensor proximate the product holding area and configured to determine a length of the rolled product dispensed;
- a second sensor proximate the product holding area and configured to determine a radial measurement of the rolled product, wherein the second sensor is a single sensor device;
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- a processing device configured to communicate with the first and second sensors and to:
- (i) determine, multiple times for the rolled product, thicknesses of sheets of the rolled product;
- (ii) average the thicknesses;
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- (iii) determine a type of the rolled product based on the length of rolled product dispensed and the radial measurement including the average thickness.
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