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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/04 (2006.01); F25D 25/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/0485 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0258 (2013.01); F25D 25/00 (2013.01); F25D 2700/06 (2013.01); F25D 2700/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A refrigerator is an example of a storage cabinet, and includes a door sensor, a weight sensor, a wireless tag reader, a memory, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer identifies an ID that is not readable by the wireless tag reader after a timing at which a weight increase is detected by the weight sensor in a first period, as an ID of a newly loaded food item, the first period being a period from when a door is opened to when the door is closed that is determined based on a result of detection performed by the door sensor, and adds the identified ID to registration information that is stored in the memory.