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US 12,274,818 B2Granted
Baby bottle with bottle top attachment
AssigneeMedela Holding AG
InventorsMartin Thüring, Armin Felber, Mario Rigert
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising a baby bottle (2) and a bottle top attachment (4) coupled to the baby bottle (2) and having a connector (6) for a breast pump. The apparatus is characterized in that the bottle top attachment (4) includes a measuring head (8) with a reservoir (10) for breast milk and in that the measuring head (8) includes a sensor unit that is associated with the volume of the reservoir (10) and that enables determining a parameter of the milk expressed into the baby bottle.
Claims13
An apparatus comprising:
- a baby bottle;
- and
- a bottle top attachment coupled to said baby bottle and having a connector for a breast pump;
- wherein
- said bottle top attachment comprises a measuring head with a reservoir for breast milk;
- said measuring head comprises an optical sensor unit configured to determine a current level of breast milk within said reservoir;
- said optical sensor unit is oriented towards a cavity of the reservoir, said reservoir comprising an outflow opening to said baby bottle;
- and
- light detectors of the optical sensor unit are arranged one above another in a height direction on one side of said reservoir and light emitters of the optical sensor unit are arranged one above another in the height direction on another side of said reservoir.
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