ELECTRONIC SCALE FOR RECORDING HEALTH ADMINISTRATION DATA

• US 20120055718A1
• Filed: 09/06/2011
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jiunn-Rong Chen
• Original Assignee: Jiunn-Rong Chen
• Inventors: CHEN, Jiunn-Rong
• Application Number:
  US13/226,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20120055718A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 177/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

An electronic scale for recording health administration data comprises: a micro controller, a food database module, a weight sensing device, an identification module, the food database module, and the user database module. The micro controller has at least an embedded application for processing data input, output, analysis, and calculation. The food database module is provided for storing detailed food data item. The weight sensing device comprises a weight platform for receiving the food for weight measuring and sensing the food weight. The identification module is provided for identifying the data in an identification tag of the food for weight measuring. The data identified by the identification module is used to map to the corresponding food and the associated data in the food database module for performing analysis and calculation in the micro controller. The nutrition information such as nutrition components, calories of the food for measuring is displayed on a screen so as to provide recommendation intake quantity and warnings to user, and stores the recorded data of user diet in a user database module.

Claims

1. An electronic scale for recording health administration data, comprising:

a micro controller installed in the electronic scale and having at least an embedded application for processing data input, output, analysis, and calculation;

a food database module installed in the electronic scale, the food database module connected with the micro controller and having detailed food data item therein;

a weight sensing device installed in the electronic scale and connected with the micro controller, and the weight sensing device having a weight platform for receiving the food for weight measuring whereby the food weight is sensed by the weight sensing device;

an identification module connected to the micro controller for identifying the data in the identification tag of the food for weight measuring;

a screen electronically connected with the micro controller for displaying the operating interface of the embedded application; and

a user database module installed in the electronic scale for establishing connections to the micro controller and having at least a user data and at least a recorded data of user diet stored therein;

whereby, the identification module promptly retrieves the food related detailed data in the identification tag, information records of calories and nutrition components in the food are calculated, displayed and stored after the weight platform measuring the food weight, the information records are matched with the total consumed food data of the user for providing an excessive or insufficient intake warning for the user.

2. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein the identification tag comprises the corresponding food item data.

3. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein the identification tag is a barcode and the identification module is a barcode identifier for identifying the barcode.

4. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein the identification tag is either a chip tag or a electronic tag, the identification module is a wireless radio frequency reader for identifying the chip tag and the electronic tag.

5. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein the user database module comprises a user profile database, a diet recorded database and a diet recommendation database, the user profile database is provided for storing the user data, the diet recorded database is provided for storing user diet data;

the diet recommendation database is provided by a medical provider for setting and storing related data of at least a diet intake predetermined standard or diet intake limits according to biological conditions of the user.

6. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 5, wherein, the electronic scale further comprises a connection device connected with the micro controller, the embedded application of the micro controller comprises a inquiry interface;

the connection device is provided for establishing connections with an external system;

the external system comprises a medical service platform whereby the diet data is uploaded to the medical service platform via the connections;

the latest diet medical recommendations provided by the medical service platform are updated to the diet recommendation database.

7. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein, the food database module comprises a general food database and a daily food database;

the data in the general food database comprises detailed data of food available in the market, and data of daily food database comprises detailed data of food frequently consumed by the user.

8. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein, the electronic scale further comprises an input device connected with the micro controller, and the input device is one of a touch screen, an external keyboard or keys, an audio identification device, or a video auto identification device.

9. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 1, wherein, the identification module is installed in a portable device and is comprised of a recording device and an identification application in the portable device.

10. The electronic scale for recording health administration data of claim 9, wherein, the portable device is one of a mobile phone, a PDA or a notebook computer.