Refrigerator for health management

• US 20060217600A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Jae Hoon, Jun, Jae Wook, Lee, Ik Kyu, Son, Hee Soo
• Application Number:
  US11/384,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20060217600A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/12 Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/06 Refrigerators with a vertical mullion
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/361 Interactive visual displays

Abstract

A refrigerator for health management is disclosed, by which user'"'"'s health is efficiently managed to prevent corpulence and other diseases of adult people. The present invention includes an input device for inputting user data, a controller computing user'"'"'s health information based on the user data, and a display device for displaying the health information to the user.

Claims

1. A refrigerator for health management, comprising:

an input device for inputting user data;

a controller computing user'"'"'s health information based on the user data; and

a display device for displaying the health information to the user.

2. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 1, wherein the user data inputted by the input device includes at least one of a height of the user, a weight of the user, a sex of the user, user recognizing information and body composition information.

3. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 1, wherein the input device includes at least one of a data input unit inputting the user data by the user, a scale detachably provided to the refrigerator, a sensor unit recognizing the user and a measuring unit measuring body components.

4. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 1, the controller comprising:

a data processing unit computing health information based on the user data inputted by the input device; and

a data storing unit accumulating and storing at least one of the user data inputted by the input device and the health information computed by the data processing unit.

5. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 3, the data input unit comprising a mode switching unit for entering a health management mode.

6. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 3, wherein the scale is loaded in an accommodating part provided to a body of the refrigerator.

7. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 3, the scale comprising an input terminal transferring information measured by being selectively contacted with a connection terminal provided at a body of the refrigerator to the controller.

8. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 3, the scale comprising a connecting wire connected to the controller.

9. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 8, wherein the connecting wire passes through a hinge portion of a door of the refrigerator.

10. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 3, the sensor unit comprising at least of a fingerprint recognizing sensor for inputting fingerprint information of the user and an iris recognizing sensor for inputting iris information of the user.

11. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 10, wherein the controller decides whether a preset value passes since a latest time of measuring the user recognized by the sensor unit through the scale or the measuring unit, and

wherein if the preset value passes, the controller transfers an announcement signal inducing a measurement of the user to the display device.

12. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 1, wherein the display device displays a character according to the health information.

13. The refrigerator for the health information of claim 3, wherein the measuring unit measures body components of the user based on an electric resistance of a human body.

14. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 13, wherein the measuring unit is provided to a door handle of the refrigerator.

15. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 13, the measuring unit comprising:

a contact member configured to be outwardly projected, the contact member formed of an electric conductor coming into contact with a body of the user;

an elastic member elastically supporting the contact member; and

a connecting terminal selectively coming into contact with the contact member to guide a current to the contact member.

16. The refrigerator for the health management of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s health information computed by the controller includes at least one of a menu corresponding to the health information, information for a corpulence degree and information for an exercise method.