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US 2009/0288887 A1Published application
Electronic scale
OwnerJiunn-rong Cheninventor
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Abstract
An electronic scale serves to weight a food and provide information through a screen. The information comprises a category and a name of the food, and calories as well as nutritional elements contained in the food of such weight.
Claims16
An electronic scale, comprising:
- a microprocessor, settled in the electronic scale for inputting, outputting, storing, analyzing, and computing data by using a built-in program;
- a screen, provided at a surface of the electronic scale for being easily viewed by a user and for displaying an operational interface of the built-in program;
- a general food database, which is built in the electronic scale and connected to the microprocessor for storing comprehensive and manifold food information, such as categories, names, calories, nutritional elements, contents of the nutritional elements, beneficial effects and so on;
- a weighting platform, settled on a top surface of the electronic scale, for receiving a food to be weighted;
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- a weight sensing device, which is built in the electronic scale and connected to the weighting platform and the microprocessor, wherein the weight sensing device weights a weight of the food and the microprocessor identifies the food with the corresponding food information in the general food database so as to present calories, contents nutritional elements of the food of the weight in the screen.
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