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US 2020/0069146 A1Published application
Dosing device for a cleaning machine
AssigneeHenkel AG & Co. KGaA
InventorsARND KESSLER, THOMAS WEBER, JOHANNES ZIPFEL, CHRISTIAN NITSCH, LARS ZUECHNER, NADINE FRANKE, GEORG WAWER, ALEXANDER MUELLER
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Abstract
A system for dosing substances such as cleaning and/or care agents is disclosed. The system includes a dosing device, at least one energy source, a control unit, a sensor unit, and at least two cartridges for respectively accommodating at least one of the cleaning and/or care agents. The at least two cartridges are capable of being coupled to the dosing device.
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A system comprising:
- a dosing device for dosing a substance chosen from cleaning and/or care agents comprising a control unit and a sensor unit, and
- at least two cartridges for respectively accommodating at least one of the cleaning and/or care agents, wherein the at least two cartridges is coupled to the dosing device, and
- wherein the dosing device optionally comprises a communication interface.
A method for dosing substances including cleaning and/or care agents comprising the following steps:
- measuring and/or determining sensor information using at least one sensor unit;
- determining dosing information based on at least one piece of the measured and/or determined sensor information;
- generating a control signal by a control unit based on the determined dosing information;
- and
- initiating dosing of at least one of the cleaning and/or care agents accommodated in at least two cartridges of at least one dosing device.
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A system comprising:
- at least two cartridges each accommodating a cleaning and/or care agent;
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- a dosing device coupled to the at least two cartridges and configured to dose the cleaning and/or care agent accommodated by the at least two cartridges with the dosing device comprising:
- a sensor unit adapted to capture sensor information including physical, chemical, and/or mechanical properties of an environment of the dosing device,
- a control unit configured to control dosing of the cleaning and/or care agent based on the sensor information, and
- a communication interface for transmitting a control signal generated by the control unit to an external device;
- and
- the external device configured to receive the control signal from the communication interface of the dosing device to implement the dosing of the cleaning and/or care agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.