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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110290567 | Method And System To Determine Need For Dimensional Weighing A system and method for assisting a party (e.g., a freight carrier) in determining whether dimensional weight or actual weight should be used for shipping particular freight. A weighing device may be associated with a forklift, and may also include a DIM comparator in a... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110240379 | ELECTRONIC WEIGHING SYSTEM An electronic weighing device is provided. The electronic weighing device comprises an elongate frame; a head unit, wherein the head unit is supported by the frame. The electronic weighing device further includes a scale platform coupled to a base of the frame, and a lo... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110213268 | LIVING BODY INDEX MEASUREMENT APPARATUS A pillar (18) is connected to a base plate unit (12) of a living body index measurement apparatus (11) in a detachable manner. A display unit (22) is mounted on the pillar (18) in a detachable manner. There is built in the base plate u... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110209923 | Method and Device for Weighing Objects of Different Weight Classes A method and device for weighing at least one object, particularly a mail item, includes a scale for weighing an object with a first tolerance in a first operating mode if the object has a first property and for weighing the object with a second tolerance in a second op... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110186356 | Handheld Electronic Luggage Scale A hand-held electronic luggage scale includes a handle designed to be held generally horizontally, and a hook supported by the handle, which extends generally vertically below the handle. The handle houses an electronic scale, the electronic scale connected to the hook ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20100294572 | DYNAMIC THICKNESS ADAPTATION FOR AN IN-LINE SCALE Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed. An article (900) is received from an intake transport (1200), and gripped in a weighing station (1310), in between a capstan roller and a... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100263941 | BODY-REGION SEPARATELY WEIGHING SYSTEM AND METHODS [Problems] To provide a system and a method for accurately measuring the weight of a portion of a human body. [Means for Solving the Problems] This system for measuring the weight of each of six body portions of a human body comprises suppo... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100252334 | WEIGHING SCALE A weighing scale has a display unit for displaying the weight of an object loaded on a platform measured by a weight measurer, a communication unit for transmitting weight data to, or receiving from, another weighing scale, a determiner that determines whether the weigh... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100228224 | SURGICAL FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONTROL AND DEFICIT MONITORING Surgical fluid management systems and methods of operating surgical fluid management systems which may provide one or more functions associated with suction, irrigation, distention, deficit monitoring, infusion, fluid warming, and the like. Some example embodiments may ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228522 | ELECTRONIC BALANCE An electronic balance 1 having a switching function for selecting and setting one measurement mode from among a number of measurement modes corresponding to the type of object to be measured and/or the type of measuring work and/or the situation in terms of the w... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100228521 | ELECTRONIC BALANCE An electronic balance 1 is provided with a measured weight storage controlling portion 33 for storing measured weight in sequence, a measuring mode storing portion 42 for storing a number of measuring modes where different averaging parameters are p... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100191978 | Method For The Parameterization And Operation Of Weighing Scales The invention relates to a method for the parameterization of scales which have a weighing belt for the weighing of products in a conveying process, wherein a teach procedure and subsequently a verification procedure take place after the input of product-specific data. ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100147597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CHECK WEIGHING A method and an apparatus for dynamically checking the weight of objects (18a-c) which are guided across a weight-sensitive zone (14) of a weighing device (12) at an adjustable conveying rate by a conveying mechanism (20a... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100147598 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CHECK WEIGHING A method and an apparatus for dynamically check weighing objects (18a-c) that are guided across a weight-sensitive zone (14) of a weighing device (12) by a conveying mechanism (20a-c). At regular intervals, the wei... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100116559 | INTEGRATED AND STORABLE LUGGAGE SCALE Removable luggage scale devices are disclosed herein that include: at least one measuring device, at least one gripping member coupled to the measuring device, at least one coupling unit, wherein the coupling unit couples the at least one measuring device to at least on... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100089152 | FOOD PRODUCT MEASURING VESSEL WITH INTEGRATED SCALE The present invention comprises a portable measuring vessel with a removably attached digital measuring device. The digital measuring device includes one or more load cells, one or more processors, an input unit, and an output unit. Preferably the input unit is one or m... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100084199 | MULTIPLE FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE, FORCE-MEASURING MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A CONDITION OF THE MULTIPLE FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE A multiple force-measuring device, especially a multiple weighing device has at least two force-measuring modules. Each force-measuring module includes a force-measuring cell and a power delivery means. The power delivery means of at least one of the force-measuring mod... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100078228 | METHOD OF MONITORING THE CONDITION OF A FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE, FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE AND FORCE-MEASURING MODULE A force measuring device, especially a weighing device, has at least one force-measuring module that includes a force-measuring cell, a communication means, a terminal and at least one communication line, through which communication signals are transmitted between the t... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100051353 | Child Growth Monitoring A device for monitoring growth of a child includes a platform to support the child during a measurement of weight, a transducer coupled to the platform to generate an indication of the weight of the child, a controller configured to determine a timing of the weight meas... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100012393 | BOTTOMING DETECTION WEIGHING SCALE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WEIGHING SCALE A body weighing machine (100) is provided with a distance measuring sensor (30) at the central position (C) of a base plate unit (50). A CPU (10) measures the body weight of a human subject. The CPU (10) then drives the distance measur... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090301790 | ELECTRONIC SCALE COMPRISING A BUBBLE LEVEL An electronic scale having a measuring sensor (1 . . . 16), a digital signal processing unit (18), a digital display (19), a bubble level (20), which includes a container (21) that is partially filled with a liquid (22) while fo... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090288887 | Electronic scale An electronic scale serves to weight a food and provide information through a screen. The information comprises a category and a name of the food, and calories as well as nutritional elements contained in the food of such weight.... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090242279 | ELECTRONIC SCALE COMPRISING AN INCLINOMETER AND CORRESPONDING SIGNAL EVALUATION METHOD An electronic scale having a measuring sensor (1 . . . 16), a digital signal processing unit (18), a digital display (19) and an inclinometer (40). The inclinometer derives a signal for the tilt of the scale from the difference of at least tw... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090205875 | Portable Digital Scale A portable scale includes an instrumentation housing having a plurality of sides, a carrying handle disposed on the instrumentation housing and configured for carrying the portable scale, a platform assembly spaced from the instrumentation housing for movement during a ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090205876 | Digital Scale with Magnetic Engagement of a User Interface Unit A digital scale includes an instrumentation unit to which a load is applied for a weight measurement, and a user interface unit communicatively coupled with the instrumentation unit to receive an indication of the weight measurement. The user interface unit includes a h... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090178857 | Medicine weighing device A medicine weighing device that includes, not only a weighing function, but also an inspection function. The medicine weighing device has a compact structure capable of displaying a weighed value and an inspection result on the same screen, and which can execute inspect... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090090564 | High Capacity and High Resolution Scale A scale can include a low capacity sensing mechanism operatively coupled to a load, wherein the low capacity sensing mechanism may detect movement of the load. A transfer mechanism can be operatively coupled to the low capacity sensing mechanism, wherein the low capacit... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090071729 | ELECTRONIC SCALES AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF Electronic scales having an integrated computer including a display for presenting information to a user, an input unit for entering selection data by a user, a memory for storing a plurality of activatable profiles as sets of parameter values for assignment to correspo... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090057035 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CHANGES IN BODY COMPOSITION When a human subject presses a start switch S and stands on a platform (10) of a measurement apparatus (100), the weight of the human subject is measured, and the measurement result is stored as measurement data xi (i is a natural number) in a rewritable m... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090038859 | Measuring Method And Measuring Device Using Quartz Oscillator An object of the present invention is that any of mass load, viscous load and viscoelasticity load is measured separately from other load whereby properties of the substance to be measured are able to be measured correctly. The characterist... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090008156 | ELECTRONIC SCALE WITH MEMORY SPACE DIVIDED INTO PARAMETER GROUPS An electronic scale having an integrated computer with an input unit for entering selection data, a memory for storing a plurality of parameter values, which can be assigned to function-specific parameters dependent on the entered selection data, a data processing unit ... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080314648 | Biometric apparatus A biometric apparatus includes a weight measuring unit having a predetermined zero-point for measuring a load applied to a platform provided on a body of the biometric apparatus and outputting a load signal which indicates the load; a detecting unit for detecting the st... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080289882 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring Weight of CNC Workpieces This invention discloses a method and apparatus for measuring the weight of a CNC workpiece. As the weight of the workpiece on a loading platform increases, the loading of a driving module which drives the loading platform in constant speed increases accordingly. On the... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080236901 | ELECTRONIC SCALE WITH DISPLAY DISABLEMENT An electronic scale (1) with a display unit (9), at least one control button (11 . . . 14), a digital signal processing unit (5) and a digital interface (7) to a higher-level electronic data processing (EDP) system (15). The dig... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080223625 | Measuring Device, Such as a Scale or Medical Scale A medical scale for determining the weight of a person where the person is one of self-supported, partially self-supported, and supported by a support device, such as a wheelchair. In some embodiments, the scale is provided with wheels to be portable. Also, some scales ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080179110 | Apparatus and method for determining growth status of a human subject A measurement device and method that in one aspect determines and displays percentile information relating to growth indices, such as BMI, weight-for-length, and weight-for-height, based on a subject's age and gender. The device and method may also provide classificatio... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080110681 | METHOD OF MONITORING AND/OR DETERMINING THE CONDITION OF A FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE, AND FORCE-MEASURING DEVICE A force-measuring device (100) with at least one housing (20) has an interior space and at least one force-measuring cell (110) installed therein. At least one parameter characterizing an existing high-frequency electromagnetic field is determined b... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080060853 | Scales displaying nutritional information A scale provides a user with a display of a nutritional parameter on the basis of the weight of the food being weighed. The values for a plurality of food items can be accumulated and a single nutritional parameter characterizing a complete meal or recipe may be display... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070209843 | Apparatus and Method for Measuring Luggage Weight An apparatus (100) such as a portable weight measuring device for the purpose of simultaneously determining weigh and time data purposes includes a container support member (104) having a container engagement portion (102) and a time-determining dev... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070187156 | Method and device for determining a variable characteristic of a mass that rests on the seating area of a seat A method and a device allow to detect and optionally to indicate the improper use of a seat. For this purpose, an estimated value of a variable characteristic of a mass that rests on a seating area of a seat is determined depending on at least one force that acts upon t... | 08/16/2007 |
