METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANTICIPATING SALT DEPLETION

Patent №

US 6,696,963

Granted

2004-02-24

Filed 2002

Owner

ECOWATER SYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10052112

The present invention provides a method and system of anticipating salt depletion in a brine tank of a water softener system, the system including a controller having a user interface and display, the method comprising the steps of tracking salt usage; determining the amount of salt remaining in the brine tank; calculating the number of days before salt is required in the brine tank based on salt usage and the amount of salt remaining in the brine tank; and providing an indication of the number of days to empty, whereby a user is able to anticipate the need to replenish the salt supply and plan accordingly to assure continuous satisfactory operation of the water softener system.

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.79
Planning0.55
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

ECOWATER SYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 126360508

Assignors

ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY A., KENNEDY, GREGORY JOHN, CASTRO, JOSE A., CHAPMAN, WESLEY F., ZIEGENFUSS, JOHN E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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