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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Drs Sustainment Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Roark D. Weil, St. Louis, MO (US);
Matthew J. Hollander, St. Louis, MO (US);
Asdrubal Garcia-Ortiz, St. Louis, MO (US);
William F. Maciejewski, St. Louis, MO (US);
DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A flexible storage container may have a first footprint when empty, and retracts to a second footprint when filled with a substance. A load sensing apparatus used for determining the volume of the substance in the flexible storage container can include a first set of load-sensitive sensors arranged in at least a region of the first footprint external to the second footprint, and a second set of load-sensitive sensors arranged within the second footprint. The sensor data from the load-sensitive sensors can be used to create a pressure level profile, and the volume of the substance contained in the flexible storage container can be calculated from the pressure level profile.