Portable Foodstuff Container
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsEric Scalf, Robert M. Digman, Paul Staun
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Abstract
A portable foodstuff container and method of dispensing foodstuff from the portable container are disclosed herein. Such a portable foodstuff may include a portable body with a reservoir configured to contain a foodstuff and a dispenser configured to dispense the foodstuff contained in the reservoir, a pump disposed within the body and configured to convey the foodstuff from the reservoir to the dispenser when activated to dispense the foodstuff through the dispenser, and a controller disposed in the body and coupled to the pump. The controller may be configured to activate the pump to dispense a user-selected amount of foodstuff from the dispenser.
Claims31
A portable foodstuff container, comprising:
- a portable body including a reservoir configured to contain a foodstuff and a dispenser configured to dispense the foodstuff contained in the reservoir;
- a pump disposed within the body and configured to convey the foodstuff from the reservoir to the dispenser when activated to dispense the foodstuff through the dispenser;
- and
- a controller disposed in the body and coupled to the pump, wherein the controller is configured to activate the pump to dispense a user-selected amount of foodstuff from the dispenser.
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A portable foodstuff container, comprising:
- a portable body including a reservoir configured to contain a foodstuff and a dispenser configured to selectively dispense the foodstuff contained in the reservoir;
- a flow meter disposed in the body and configured to measure an amount of foodstuff dispensed by the dispenser;
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- a controller coupled to the flow meter and the dispenser, wherein the controller is configured to control the dispenser to dispense a user-selected amount of foodstuff in response to the amount of foodstuff sensed by the flow meter.
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A method of dispensing a material from a portable container, the method comprising:
- sensing tilting of the portable container with a gyroscope coupled to the container;
- sensing a level change of the material in the portable container during tilting of the portable container with a level sensor;
- determining a value representative of a viscosity of the material based upon the sensed tilting and sensed level change;
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- controlling an amount of material dispensed from the portable container using the determined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.