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Granted Patent B2
US 10,582,790 · App. 15/891,009 · Granted Mar 10, 2020

Bottle storage

Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki (Kanagawa, JP); Masahiro Ishii (Hyogo, JP); Akira Kataoka (Shiga, JP); Rinako Kamei (Tokyo, JP); Toyoshi Kamisako (Shiga, JP); Masanori Fukata (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,582,790
App. No.
15/891,009
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A bottle storage includes a container that contains a bottle; a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container. The cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.

Claims (28)

1. A bottle storage comprising:

a container that contains a bottle;

a cooling-warming apparatus provided to surround a position where the bottle is contained; and

an image capturer that captures an image of the bottle contained in the container,

wherein the cooling-warming apparatus has a gap at least at a portion of the cooling-warming apparatus corresponding to at least a part of an image capturing region of the image capturer.

2. The bottle storage according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a position adjuster that moves the cooling-warming apparatus in at least one of a direction in which the cooling-warming apparatus becomes close to the position where the bottle is contained and a direction in which the cooling-warming apparatus becomes distant from the position where the bottle is contained,

wherein the gap is reduced when the cooling-warming apparatus is moved to be close to the position where the bottle is contained, and is increased when the cooling-warming apparatus is moved to be distant from the position where the bottle is contained.

3. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , wherein the gap has such a distance that the image capturing region of the image capturer includes the bottle when the cooling-warming apparatus is moved to be close to the position where the bottle is contained.

4. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , wherein the gap has such a distance that the image capturing region of the image capturer does not include the bottle when the cooling-warming apparatus is moved to be close to the position where the bottle is contained.

5. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , wherein the position adjuster moves the cooling-warming apparatus in accordance with image capturing of the image capturer.

6. The bottle storage according to claim 5 , wherein the position adjuster moves the cooling-warming apparatus in such a manner that the cooling-warming apparatus becomes distant from the position where the bottle is contained, before the image capturer performs image capturing.

7. The bottle storage according to claim 5 , wherein the position adjuster moves the cooling-warming apparatus in such a manner that the cooling-warming apparatus becomes close to the position where the bottle is contained, after the image capturer has performed image capturing.

8. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , wherein the position adjuster moves the cooling-warming apparatus in accordance with a temperature of the bottle.

9. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a size detector that detects a size of the bottle,

wherein the position adjuster moves the cooling-warming apparatus in accordance with the size that is detected.

10. The bottle storage according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of contents of the bottle,

wherein the position adjuster moves a part of the cooling-warming apparatus in accordance with the remaining amount that is detected.

11. The bottle storage according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling-warming apparatus includes a cooling-warming medium and a case that contains the cooling-warming medium.

12. The bottle storage according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling-warming apparatus includes

a Peltier device in which a cooling surface faces the bottle and in which a heat generating surface faces away from the bottle, and

a coolant that cools the heat generating surface of the Peltier device.

13. The bottle storage according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling-warming apparatus is disposed such that a center of the cooling-warming apparatus is more distant from the image capturer than a center of the bottle storage.

14. The bottle storage according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an information manager that identifies a brand of the bottle in accordance with an image obtained from the image capturer; and

a presenter that presents the brand that is identified and related information related to the brand.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 5, 2018
From: YUKI, YASUHIRO; ISHII, MASAHIRO; KATAOKA, AKIRA; KAMEI, RINAKO; KAMISAKO, TOYOSHI; FUKATA, MASANORI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (2)
JP 2017-032640 · Feb 23, 2017 · national
JP 2017-208810 · Oct 30, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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