Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Counting animate or inanimate entities
Patent
1994-01-25
1996-07-02
Heyman, John S.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Counting animate or inanimate entities
364403, G06F 1524
Patent
active
055330797
ABSTRACT:
Inventory monitoring apparatus capable of real-time counting of objects added to or subtracted from a location whose inventory is to be monitored. The apparatus includes structure for supporting a plurality of objects and at least one lever adapted to be contacted and displaced by movement of the objects to and from the supporting structure. Movement of the lever in one direction triggers a switch which generates a signal indicating that an object is being added to the support structure. Similarly, opposite movement of the lever triggers another switch which generates a signal indicating that an object is being removed from the support structure. A microprocessor receives and counts the signals generated by the switches to provide a real-time total of the quantity and, if desired, the locations of objects borne by the supporting structure.
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Colburn Eric R.
Fedor Max A.
Gillio Robert G.
Neu Daniel W.
Heyman John S.
MedSelect Systems, Inc.
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