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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7292951 | Systems for compensating for creep and hysteresis in a load cell A method of compensating for hysteresis in a load cell, by: (a) pre-calibrating a load cell by: measuring load cell deflection under progressively increasing loads; determining a first set of coefficients correlating the deflection of the load cell to the measured l... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7265302 | Article of luggage with internally built-in weight measurement and display and method therefor An article of luggage has a casing and at least a carrying handle attached to the casing. A member engageable with a predetermined portion of the casing for measuring a weight of contents loaded therein and for generating display signals. A display is connected to t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7235747 | Arm scale apparatus An arm scale apparatus includes a casing shaped to fit partly around a person's arm and having a casing strap attached to the casing and having a fastener thereon for strapping the casing to a person's arm. A display on the casing is positioned to face a person havi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7168480 | Off-axis cooling of rotating devices using a crank-shaped heat pipe The present invention is a crank-shaped heat pipe for cooling rotating machinery and a corresponding method of manufacture. The crank-shaped heat pipe comprises a sealed cylindrical tube with an enclosed inner wick structure. The crank-shaped heat pipe includes a co... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6958452 | Conveyor apparatus and commodity inspecting equipment utilizing the same A weighing conveyor having an increased weighing accuracy. This conveyor includes a conveyor apparatus 3 for transporting an article X to be weighed, a load detector 5 for detecting the weight of the article X to be weighed, and a housing 7 for ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6667444 | Fluid container weighing apparatus which uses the fluid conduit as the weighing mechanism An apparatus for determining the weight of a flowable material in a vessel, which includes a support and a deformable member attached to the support. The deformable member includes a deformation measuring device to detect the extent of deformation caused ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6555765 | Method and apparatus for determining the weight of the contents of a vessel A method and apparatus for accurately determining the weight of the contents of a vessel at selected time intervals. The apparatus of the invention can be quickly and easily installed on an existing structure without requiring substantial modification to ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6448512 | Weight sensing apparatus A vehicle has a seat (12) for a vehicle occupant (14) and a vehicle floor pan (16) for supporting the vehicle seat (12). An apparatus (40) includes a vehicle seat frame (42) for supporting a weight load of the vehicle occupant (14) in the vehicle seat (12... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6376783 | Removable electronic scale cartridge, and a system and method which uses the scale cartridge to compute postal/carrier rates An electronic scale cartridge plugs into a piece of office equipment and/or a portable electronic device to provide a weight signal to be used in computing a postal or private carrier rate. The piece of office equipment may be a personal computer or one o... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6249778 | Integrated electronic scale, and a system and method which uses the scale automatically to compute postal/carrier rates An electronic scale integrally formed within the housing of a piece of office equipment increases a user's work space in a home or business environment. The piece of equipment may be a personal computer or one of its peripheral devices. A mailing system a... | 06/19/2001 |
| 5922999 | Portable scale for fishing purposes A scale includes a housing having a graduation disposed beside a groove and a casing secured on the housing for receiving a band tape. A slide is slidably received in the housing and has a projection slidably engaged in the groove for indicating the gradu... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5811740 | Weight measuring device for cooking appliance A weight measuring device for an appliance which has a heating portion configured for receiving and heating a container having food products contained therein. A housing is attached to the cooking appliance. A resilient support is connected to the housing... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5421433 | Elevator load-weighing at car hitch The invention obtains the weight of an elevator car in a manner which is minimally dependent on the distribution of the load within the cab by means of a load cell and support sandwiched between a first and second plate, the load being shared between the ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 4930588 | Electronic balance An electronic balance with a weighing scale which is connected via a parallel guide to a system carrier, and with a translation lever which is rotatably mounted on the system carrier and onto the shorter lever arm of which the force of the weight acting o... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4566505 | Packaging machine A packaging machine useful for packaging fluidized dry, divided, solid material into containers such as valve bags is provided with an isolator section for isolating forces generated in the flow path of the material from a filling and weighing section. Th... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4094370 | Vessel for weighing materials Vessel for weighing hot or cold fluid materials, having an elastic filling conduit of which a temperature difference may give a reading error. This error is corrected by a prestressing force on this conduit.... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4043415 | Precision balance with pan assembly guided by parallelogram linkage having two flexible members A precision balance in which the weighing pan assembly is connected to the stationary supporting structure of the balance by two flexible links in a parallelogram configuration is equipped with coarse adjustment and fine adustment for the connected end of... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3930546 | Weight grading apparatus A weight grading apparatus with self-compensating adjustment means to maintain accurate grading over a wide range of ambient temperatures. The apparatus comprises a scale beam, a fulcrum, a weight sensing surface on the scale beam on one side of the fulcr... | 01/06/1976 |
