US 11,944,174 B2
Unit of luggage configured to ascertain its own weight
Alberto Carballeira, Miami, FL (US); Robert Brady, Sarasota, FL (US); Anthony James Kelbert, Venice, FL (US); and Matt Vergin, St. Petersburg, FL (US)
Assigned to Smart Luggage One, Inc., Miami, FL (US)
Filed by Smart Luggage One, Inc., Miami, FL (US)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/243,718.
Application 18/243,718 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/194,475, filed on Mar. 8, 2021, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/006,179, filed on Apr. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0413964 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. A45C 13/00 (2006.01); A45C 5/14 (2006.01)
CPC A45C 13/001 (2013.01) [A45C 5/14 (2013.01); A45C 2005/148 (2013.01); A45C 2200/05 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A unit of luggage configured to ascertain its own weight,
the unit of luggage comprising:
a case comprising a plurality of wheels disposed thereon,
a detection assembly comprising a plurality of sensor assemblies, each one of the plurality of sensor assemblies being adjacently disposed to a corresponding one of the plurality of wheels, each one of the plurality of sensor assemblies comprising:
a housing assembly,
a sensor comprising a stem and a base connected to one another,
a shaft disposed within the housing assembly and connected around a distal end thereof to a corresponding one of the plurality of wheels, the shaft being adjacently disposed to a bottom side of the sensor,
the housing assembly comprising:
a sensor housing comprising a sidewall and a barrier, the barrier disposed on a bottom portion of the sidewall, the sidewall configured to define an enclosure area on an interior thereof, the sensor disposed within the sensor housing on the interior of the sidewall,
a cylinder comprising a hollow interior and configured to enclose the shaft, the cylinder configured to permit a reciprocal movement of the shaft within the hollow interior,
a cylinder housing adjacently disposed to the sensor housing and configured to at least partially enclose the cylinder, at least a portion of the cylinder housing being connected to the case,
a cap disposed on a proximal end of the cylinder the barrier configured and dimensioned to prevent a vertical movement of the can and the cylinder outside of the cylinder housing,
the cylinder hosing comprising a first mating structure disposed around a proximal end thereof and the cap comprising a mating structure; the first mating structure of the cylinder housing and the mating structure of the can collectively configured and dimensioned to define a mating engagement between them,
each of the first mating structure of the cylinder housing and the mating structure of the cap comprising threaded configurations collectively configured and dimensioned to enable a rotational, upward and downward movement of the can and the cylinder with respect to the cylinder housing,
a processing unit operatively disposed within the case,
the shaft, the cylinder, the cylinder housing and the sensor housing collectively configured and dimensioned to allow a movement, at least in a downward direction, of the case with respect to the shaft when the case is disposed in a substantially upright position, and
the sensor operatively configured with the processing unit to ascertain at least a portion of the weight of the unit of luggage when the case is disposed in the substantially upright position.