Dispensing systems
OwnerBernard Lim, David Matsuura +2inventors
InventorsBernard Lim, David Matsuura, Philip Simpson, Walter Gillespie
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a delivery system, comprising dispensing means having an outlet for delivering one or more materials or one or more articles; dispensing control means for controlling the passage of the material or article through the outlet; first identification means operable for recording, emitting, carrying or associating first identity data to identify the dispensing means, or the material or article carried thereby; and permission control means operable to establish a predetermined condition of the dispensing control means when a corresponding predetermined relationship is established between the first identity data and second identity data of an associated entity.
Claims50
1-49. (canceled)
A delivery system, comprising:
- a dispenser having an outlet for delivering one or more materials;
- a dispenser control for controlling the passage of the material through the outlet;
- a first identifier having first identity data associated with the dispenser or the material carried thereby, the first identifier operable in a data recording mode or a data emitting mode;
- a second identifier means having second identity data associated with an entity, the entity being associated with the dispenser, the second identifier operable in a data recording mode or a data emitting mode;
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- a permission controller operable to establish a predetermined condition of the dispenser control when a corresponding predetermined relationship is established between the first identity data and the second identity data.
A system as defined in 56 wherein the valve is a pulse width modulated on-off valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.