Bottle having water volume measuring function

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10219641
APP PUB NO 20170332813A1
SERIAL NO

15593327

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A bottle having a water volume measuring function comprises a bottle-lid, a bottle-body, and a measure module disposed in the bottle-lid which comprises at least a micro controller unit, a memory unit and a sound wave transceiver unit. The memory unit stores a lookup table with corresponding relationships between a plurality of frequencies and remained water volumes in the bottle-body. The sound wave transceiver unit emits sound waves with sweeping frequencies towards the bottle-body and receives reflected waves. The micro controller unit determines if any frequency of the sound waves is an air-resonance frequency according to the energy level of each of the reflected waves. When a sound wave frequency is determined as an air-resonance frequency, the micro controller unit obtains the corresponding remained water volume by checking with the air-resonance frequency in the lookup table and users can view the remained water volume without opening the bottle-lid.

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  • BALTEK CO., LIMITED

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Liao, Tzu-Chuan Wanchai, HK 4 65

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