Electronic scale

• US 20090288887A1
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jiunn-Rong Chen
• Original Assignee: Jiunn-Rong Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Jiunn-rong
• Application Number:
  US12/154,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20090288887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 177/25.130
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/4146 for controlling caloric intake, e.g. diet control

Abstract

An electronic scale serves to weight a food and provide information through a screen. The information comprises a category and a name of the food, and calories as well as nutritional elements contained in the food of such weight.

Claims

1. An electronic scale, comprising:

a microprocessor, settled in the electronic scale for inputting, outputting, storing, analyzing, and computing data by using a built-in program;

a screen, provided at a surface of the electronic scale for being easily viewed by a user and for displaying an operational interface of the built-in program;

a general food database, which is built in the electronic scale and connected to the microprocessor for storing comprehensive and manifold food information, such as categories, names, calories, nutritional elements, contents of the nutritional elements, beneficial effects and so on;

a weighting platform, settled on a top surface of the electronic scale, for receiving a food to be weighted; and

a weight sensing device, which is built in the electronic scale and connected to the weighting platform and the microprocessor, wherein the weight sensing device weights a weight of the food and the microprocessor identifies the food with the corresponding food information in the general food database so as to present calories, contents nutritional elements of the food of the weight in the screen.

2. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a user ID database that is connected to the microprocessor and stores a personal information of at lease one user of the electronic scale.

3. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 2, further comprising an input device that is connected to the microprocessor.

4. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 3, wherein the input device comprises a plurality of keys built at an exterior of the electronic scale to be pressed by the user.

5. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 3, wherein the input device is a touch screen.

6. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 3, wherein the input device is an external keyboard.

7. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a connecting device that is built in the electronic scale and connected to the microprocessor for communicating with an external system.

8. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 7, wherein the external system is a food database system.

9. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 7, wherein the external system is a user ID database system.

10. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 7, wherein the external system is a medical service platform.

11. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a printing device that is connected to the microprocessor.

12. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 11, wherein the printing device is built in the electronic scale.

13. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 11, wherein the printing device is settled outside the electronic scale.

14. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a personal food database that is built in the electronic scale and connected to the microprocessor for storing names, calories, nutritional elements, and contents of the nutritional elements of foods frequently ingested by at least one said user.

15. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 14, further comprising a dietary record database that is built in the electronic scale and connected to the microprocessor for storing dietary information in a past time period of at least one said user.

16. The electronic scale as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a assistant consultation interface that is contained in the built-in program of the microprocessor and presented in the screen.