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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
Magical BY Design, Llc, Seattle, WA (US);
Bukasa Tshilombo, Snohomish, WA (US);
Kandarp Jani, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Winkler, Seattle, WA (US);
MAGICAL BY DESIGN, LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a smart hydration container or bottle which accurately tracks a user's liquid intake. The smart hydration container utilizes a new capacitive sensing technology which does not require a complicated design for capacitive conductive surfaces and provides accurate capacitive measurements which map to volume measurements. Through the use of calibrated data, the smart hydration container accurately measures capacitance 'as a whole' of the entire container's contents even when the container is not resting upright. In some implementations, the smart hydration container utilizes a combination of capacitive sensing, motion sensing, position sensing, and/or temperature sensing to provide an accurate measure of liquid volume in the container. The capacitive sensor may be electrically shielded by a passive conductive sensor shield, a grounded conductive sensor shield, or an active conductive sensor shield.