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Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);

Inventor:

Paul F. Tramontina, Harleysville, PA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/36 (2006.01); A47K 5/12 (2006.01); A47K 10/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 10/36 (2013.01); A47K 5/1217 (2013.01); A47K 2010/3226 (2013.01);
Abstract

A dispensing system for dispensing consumable product comprising a dispenser including a body comprising a front side and aback side, and a product holding area defined by the front side and the back side, wherein the product storage area is configured to store the consumable product within the dispenser; a dispensing mechanism operatively coupled to the consumable product through a consumable product holder in the product storage area, and wherein the dispensing mechanism is configured to facilitate a dispensing cycle to dispense a portion of the consumable product; a first impact sensor configured to sense a first impact to the dispenser; a dispenser event sensor configured to sense an operational status of the dispenser; and a data processing device configured to store impact data describing the first impact and operational status data describing the operational status and associate the first impact data and the operational status data.


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