Patent ID: 11877658
Assignee: RATERMANN MANUFACTURING, INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  F | IPC A  F

Claim 14:
15. A method of determining an inventory of a gas cylinder storage rack, comprising:
providing a set of shelves with storage locations for a plurality of gas cylinder tanks, each shelf resting upon a plurality of load cells fixed to a storage rack frame structure, the load cells coupled together to register in tandem a weight of one of the plurality of gas cylinder tanks present on one of the shelves; and
processing output signals from the load cells using an associated set of threshold values to indicate the presence or absence of a respective one of the Plurality of gas cylinder tanks on the respective shelf and a fill state of the respective gas cylinder tank and to determine an inventory state of the storage rack representing a map of full and empty ones of the plurality gas cylinder tanks present.