The present invention relates to a method of reminding water drinking and particularly to a method of automatic reminding water drinking that calculates water drinking amount within a preset time period and issues alarm signals for insufficient or excessive water drinking condition.
According to medical reports, normal people have to produces at least 1500 milliliters of urine every day to maintain normal operation of body and keep urinary system in a healthy state. To meet this end, an adult is recommended to drink water of 2000 milliliters or more a day.
It is generally not recommended to drink the total amount of needed water at one time, but replenish the daily required amount of water regularly at a constant amount each time. However, people nowadays often are busy at work and not easy to maintain a habit of drinking water regularly at a constant amount. Moreover, many senior or aged people require assistance and care of other people. When caregivers are busy, to maintain regular water drinking habit is more difficult. This creates concerns and problems of caring the aged people (maintain regular excretion also is difficult). As a result, people's health condition could suffer.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a method of active reminding water drinking to help users to develop a healthy water drinking habit through a thoughtful and delicate fashion. The method provides a main function of calculating total water drinking amount within a preset time period and water drinking amount in each stage, issues reminding alert in the event of insufficient or excessive water drinking amount and informs users the water drinking condition.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a passive calculating function to allow users to press a pushbutton to count water drinking frequency to calculate water drinking amount.
The method according to the present invention includes the procedures as follow:
Step S1: set a total water drinking time period and a total water drinking amount within the total water drinking time period to get an average value thereof, and calculate a staged water drinking amount;
Step S2: a user starts drinking water, and counts water drinking amount each time and total water drinking amount in an automatic counting or passive counting manner after drinking water each time;
Step S3: compare whether water drinking amount each time at step S2 coinciding with the staged water drinking amount at step S1, and judge whether user's water drinking progress is normal, ahead or lagged, and generate actively a reminding alert signal; and
Step S4: finish counting water drinking amount by fulfilling the conditions set at step S3.
The foregoing, as well as additional objects, features and advantages of the invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Step S1: set a total water drinking time period and a total water drinking amount within the total water drinking time period to get an average value thereof and also calculate a staged water drinking amount;
Step S2: a user starts drinking water, and count water drinking amount each time and total water drinking amount in an automatic counting or passive counting manner after drinking water each time;
Step S3: compare whether water drinking amount each time at step S2 coinciding with the staged water drinking amount at step S1, and judge whether user's water drinking progress is normal, ahead or lagged, and generate actively a reminding alert signal; and
Step S4: finish counting water drinking amount by fulfilling the conditions set at step S3
In addition, the step S1 further includes another step P1 in which no settings are made for total water drinking amount and staged water drinking amount, but they can set the total water drinking amount and staged water drinking amount through parameters set in the system. At step S4, different reminding alert signals are issued in the event that water drinking amount is excessive or insufficient within the staged time period.
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Also referring to step S1, the total water drinking amount setting unit 22 is connected to the control unit 21 to perform calculation and inputs at least one total water drinking amount message. The water drinking time setting unit 23 is connected to the control unit 21 to perform calculation and inputs at least one water drinking time period message. The reminding alert unit 24 is connected to the control unit 21 to perform calculation, incorporating with step S3, in the event that water drinking standard is not met within the preset time period, the control unit 21 transmits a signal to the reminding alert unit 24 to generate at least one reminding alert signal. The reminding alert signal is generated by the calculation of linking control unit 21, total water drinking amount setting unit 22, water drinking time setting unit 23 and counting unit 25 to generate a water drinking time reminding alert and a water drinking amount reminding alert. The reminding alert unit 24 can generate different types of reminders and alerts according to insufficient or excessive staged water drinking amount. The staged water drinking amount is an accumulated water drinking amount or an average water drinking amount should be achieved within the staged time period. The reminders and alerts may be selected from a group consisting of sound, text, graphics, vibration or a combination thereof.
The control unit 21 is connected to the counting unit 25. The counting unit 25 provides an automatic amount counting function and a passive amount counting function. The automatic amount counting function is a sensing method selected from a group consisting of a probe sensing method, a weight sensing method, an infrared sensing method or a combination thereof to automatically sense water amount in the water drinking container 30. The passive amount counting function allows users to press a pushbutton 281 to count water drinking frequency, thereby to calculate water drinking amount.
Moreover, the control unit 21 also is respectively connected to a power supply unit 26 and a display unit 28 to perform calculation. The display unit 28 is located on an outer side of the case 10 and at least includes the pushbutton 281 and a progress display strip 282. The pushbutton 281 is connected to the counting unit 25, and the pushbutton 281 is activated when the passive amount counting function is used. The progress display strip 282 is provided to show the total water drinking amount message. The display manner of the display unit 28 is selected from a group consisting of numerals, graphics, text or a combination thereof.
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The user can also select the passive amount counting function as required. Each time the user drinks water, the pushbutton 282 is pressed manually to count water drinking amount by pressing frequency. By setting of the total water drinking amount setting unit 22 and water drinking time setting unit 23, the control unit 21 can perform calculation and comparison, and through the progress display strip 282 to present the total water drinking amount message at a given time to keep the user informed. The control unit 21 and the reminding alert unit 24 also generate reminding alerts of water drinking progress conformation, excessive water drinking and insufficient water drinking. Thus when the user is in the excessive or insufficient water drinking condition, namely water drinking does not perform regularly at a desired amount can be timely alerted to the user via the reminding alert unit 24. As a result, a healthy water drinking practice can be accomplished.
As a conclusion, the present invention provides a method of active reminding water drinking that sets total water drinking amount and staged water drinking amount within a preset time period to remind and alert users in excessive water drinking or insufficient water drinking condition. The present invention also provides a passive amount counting approach to keep users informed of their water drinking amount in the preset time period. It is a thoughtful and delicate approach to help the users to develop a healthy water drinking habit, and also help caregivers to take care of several senior and aged people or patients at one time to drink proper amount of water and record accurate water drinking amount to improve nursing quality.