VOLUME-RATE FOOD-WASTE DISPOSAL APPARATUS AND CHARGING APPARATUS FOR USE WITH THE SAME

• US 20140172658A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: CHO, In Kui, YUN, Je Hoon, KIM, Seong-Min, MOON, Jung Ick, BYUN, Woo Jin, CHOI, Jae Ick
• Application Number:
  US13/909,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20140172658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/30 Administration of product recycling or disposal
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 90/00 Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions mitigation

Abstract

A volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus recognizes a user who discharges food-waste into the food-waste disposal apparatus to produce source information and weights the food-waste to produce weight information. The food-waste disposal apparatus receives an electrical power in a wireless manner and dries the food-waste using magnetic waves. The food-waste disposal apparatus transmits the source information and the source information to a charging server so that an on-line food-waste disposal fee per source is billed on a basis of a prefixed food-waste disposal fee per weight.

Claims

1. A volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus comprises:

a user recognition unit configured to recognize a user who discharges food-waste into the food-waste apparatus to produce source information;

a weight measuring unit configured to measure a weight of the food-waste to produce weight information;

a power supply unit configured to receive an electrical power from an exterior power feeder in a wireless manner;

a drying unit configured to dry the food-waste with magnetic waves; and

a communication unit configured to transmit the source information and the source information a charging server so that an on-line food-waste disposal fee per source is billed on a basis of a prefixed food-waste disposal fee per weight.

2. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user recognition unit recognizes the user using RFID tag or NFC (Near Field Communication) technique.

3. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the power supply unit is supplied with the electrical power through the use of an inductive coupling or a resonant coupling from the exterior power feeder.

4. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the exterior power feeder supplies the electrical power from a regenerative energy or a commercial power.

5. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drying unit dries the food-waste using microwaves.

6. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drying unit comprises a structure of a coupled transmission line which generates electric fields of the microwaves in a space where the food-waste is stored.

7. The volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drying unit comprises a waveguide structure designed to operate at higher mode.

8. A charging apparatus comprises:

a receiving unit configured to communicate with a volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus and receive source information indicative of a source that discharges food-waste and weight information indicative of a weight of the discharged food-waste;

a calculation unit configured to calculate a volume-rated food-waste disposal fee of the discharged food-waste depending on a prefixed food-waste disposal fee per weight; and

a billing unit configured to produce a fee per source based on the calculated volume-rated food-waste disposal fee and the source information, thereby billing the user who discharges the food-waste for the fee per source.

9. The charging server of claim 8, wherein the billing unit provides information on the fee per source to the volume-rate food-waste disposal apparatus in real-time.