Dietary fat control automatic calculator system and fold label fat evaluator

• US 5,796,640 A
• Filed: 06/21/1995
• Issued: 08/18/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Henry Sugarman, Marcia S. Sugarman
• Original Assignee: Henry Sugarman, Marcia S. Sugarman
• Inventors: Sugarman, Marcia S., Sugarman, Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): Elmore, Reba I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MOISE, EMMANUEL LIONEL
• Application Number:
  US08/493,258
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 364/709.02, 364/709.03, 364/715.01, 364/413.29
• US Class Current: 708/132
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

A relatively small, compact, portable, hand-held, pre-programmed, dedicated, automatic calculator for dietary fat control, having a limited number of data enter keys, a cusom program, a memory for storing user-entered data, said program, and user prompts, a command and control system for executing said program to solve and evaluate automatic mathematical equations, and a display panel for showing user prompts, user-entered data and final results. With a first program the calculator solves for the percentage of fat calories, and evaluates for per serving contained in a given food item under evaluation using fat grams and total calories as inputs. In an alternate embodiment, a second programs allows the user to enter ones actual body weight or desired ideal body weight and it provides important results which disclose daily calorie intake allowance for a given body weight, determines the maximum daily fat grams intake allowance for that given body weight, and then the maximum daily saturated fat grams intake allowance for the given body weight.

Claims

1. A relatively small, compact, portable hand-held, multi-purpose, dedicated dietary fat control automatic calculator system for calculating the percentage of fat calories per serving of a given food item, including in combination:

a memory for storing user entered data, at least first and second operating programs, and a plurality of user prompts for at least said first operating program comprising

     1) "enter fat grams";

     2) "enter saturated fat calories"; and

     3) "enter calories";

a keypad for enabling a user to enter numerical data into said memory, and for selecting one of said operating programs;

a display for visually displaying information to the user;

a command and control circuit for executing said selected program, performing mathematical calculations, and generating control signals;

a logic circuit in said command and control circuit and coupled with said keypad for causing said command and control circuit to operate said selected program in response to entry of numerical data on said keypad following each of said user prompts, said command and control circuit coupled with said display for displaying information corresponding to said selected program and numerical data entered on said keypad; and

an alarm circuit responsive to said command and control circuit for producing alarm signals in response to predetermined combinations of numerical data supplied from said keypad to said command and control circuit for said selected first program indicative of the percentage of fat calories per serving exceeding a predetermined amount.

2. The calculator system according to claim 1 wherein said alarm circuit supplies an alarm message to said display.

3. The calculator system according to claim 1 further including a visual indicator coupled with said alarm circuit and operated thereby to produce a visual alarm signal.

4. The calculator system according to claim 1 further including a loudspeaker coupled with said alarm circuit for operation thereby.

5. A circuit comprising a hand-held calculator system to enable a user to evaluate a given food item to determine its percentage of fat calories per serving, said system including in combination:

a keypad for supplying user entered numerical data in response to user prompts;

a memory;

command and control logic circuitry including a stored program for calculating the percentage of fat calories per serving and coupled with said memory and said keypad for operating said program in response to information stored in said memory and numerical data supplied from said keypad;

a display panel coupled with said command and control circuit for displaying information supplied thereto from said command and control circuit, said command and control circuit supplying successive user prompts for

     1) "enter fat grams";

     2) "enter saturated fat calories" and

     3) "enter calories" to said display panel from said memory;

said command and control circuit operating in response to data supplied from said keypad following display of each of said user prompts for transferring user entered data to said memory for storage therein;

a logic circuit in said command and control circuit coupled with said memory for retrieving at least user entered data from said memory, said logic circuit operating to compute predetermined mathematical information in a predetermined sequence in response to data supplied from said keypad following said user prompts with said logic circuit coupled with said command and control circuit for causing the storage of intermediate computational results in said memory and for causing the display of the percentage of fat calories per serving on said display panel.

6. The calculator system of claim 5 wherein said intermediate computational results include three subequations comprising:

(1) the number of grams per serving in the food item under evaluation times the mathematical constant "9" to yield an intermediate mathematical RESULT 1;

(2) the intermediate RESULT 1 divided by the total number of calories per serving in the given food item under evaluation to yield a second intermediate RESULT 2; and

(3) the second intermediate RESULT 2 times 100% to produce the percentage of fat calories per serving contained in the given food item under evaluation for display on said display panel.