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US 12,338,116 B2Granted
Product dispensing system
AssigneeDEKA Products Limited Partneship
InventorsRussell H. Beavis, Benjamin W. Jones, Jr., John M. Kerwin, Larry B. Gray, Casey P. Manning, Felix Winkler, Robert A. Charles
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Abstract
A flow sensor includes a fluid chamber configured to receive a fluid. A diaphragm assembly is configured to be displaced whenever the fluid within the fluid chamber is displaced. A transducer assembly is configured to monitor the displacement of the diaphragm assembly and generate a signal based, at least in part, upon the quantity of fluid displaced within the fluid chamber.
Claims8
A product dispenser configured to dispense at least two ingredients, comprising:
- a flow control device;
- a flow measuring device configured to provide a feedback signal based upon a volume of a first ingredient flowing within the flow control device;
- a pump module coupled to a supply of a second ingredient;
- a controller providing a first control signal to the flow control device for controlling the supply of a first quantity of the first ingredient based upon, at least in part, a predetermined recipe, and to provide a second control signal to the pump module for controlling the supply of a first quantity of the second ingredient based upon, at least in part, the predetermined recipe;
- an RFID antenna assembly;
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- at least two slot assemblies for releasably engaging first and second product containers, wherein the first and second product containers include a first and second RFID tag assembly that are positioned within a detection zone of the RFID antenna assembly when the first and second product containers are in the at least two slot assemblies.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.