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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7977586 | Weight sensor and balance controller for a blood purification system A weight sensor includes an arm having an end fixed to a pillar and a free end; a filtrate holder, a replacement fluid holder, and a dialysate holder provided at three locations of the arm along a longitudinal direction of the arm to hold respective substances; a fi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7341054 | Raised-level built-in cooking appliance A raised-level built-in cooking appliance, such as a wall-mounted oven, has a muffle and a bottom-side muffle opening. The latter can be closed with a lowerable bottom door. A drive device produces a lifting movement of the bottom door. In order to determine the wei... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333023 | Occupant classification system and method A system for classifying an occupant located on a vehicle seat comprising a controller configured to receive signals from a plurality of sensors for detecting the vertical forces on the seat. The controller is configured to determine whether the detected vertical fo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7299692 | Method for determining an indicator of the stresses to which a construction vehicle tire is subjected The invention relates to a method for determining an indicator of the stresses to which a construction vehicle fire is subjected during a given period in which the product of the load transported by the vehicle and the distance traveled by the vehicle during the per... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7276669 | Payload overload control system A work machine may have a payload overload control system. The system may include a payload carrier and a lift mechanism configured to raise and lower the payload carrier. The system may further include a payload monitor configured to determine a payload in the payl... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271353 | Scale which indicates a relative force applied between two attachment points The present invention provides airline travelers with a method of determining baggage weight compliance while traveling, prior to having baggage rejected or additional fees assessed at the baggage check counter at the airport. In a first aspect, a scale is disclosed... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267001 | Apparatus for securely mounting and continuously monitoring the weight of a liquified gas tank A bottle plate mates or is integrated with brackets for mounting a gas bottle atop the plate. An aft end of the bottle plate is spacedly affixed to a top of a base plate, the bottle plate being bendable about its aft end corresponding to the weight of a bottle mount... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257495 | Flow meter filter system and method A flow meter filter system (200) according to an embodiment of the invention includes a noise pass filter (203) configured to receive a first version of a flow meter signal and filter out the flow meter data from the flow meter signal to leave a noise ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253366 | Exit alarm for a hospital bed triggered by individual load cell weight readings exceeding a predetermined threshold A system for monitoring a patient on a hospital bed includes load cells and a controller for detecting patient movement on, exit from, and impending exit from the hospital bed, including movement across or outside a virtual boundary or region located on the bed. The... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7232962 | Mobile hospital bed scale A mobile hospital patient bed scale is contemplated which lifts the entire bed with patient in situ on a load platform with an aperture to accommodate the undercarriage of many hospital beds such as a motor. The scale minimizes both vertical and horizontal displacem... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7193162 | Method for assessing the operation of a conveying apparatus The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for measuring the weight of material such as rock, earth, wood, pulp, grain, gravel, sand, ore, cement etc. being processed or moved by an apparatus such as a conveyor, apron conveyor or bucket elevator dr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7146580 | Interchangeable integrated circuit building blocks Interchangeable integrated circuit building blocks include functionally equivalent integrated circuit building blocks, having similar footprints, and having one or more dissimilar features or operational characteristics. The functionally equivalent integrated circui... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7061389 | Seat weighing device A seat weighing device wherein a load transmitting member for transmitting the seat load to a load sensor is formed without extremely high precision required, thereby enabling simple manufacturing of the load transmitting member. The seat weighing device includes a ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7009118 | Vehicle load weighing system and load cells for such systems The present invention relates to a load cell operable with a vehicle having a chassis and a container carried by the chassis, with the load cell supported by the chassis and supporting the container for measuring the weight of the container and any load therein, and... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6998541 | Automatic surgical sponge counter and blood loss determination system A surgical sponge detection system includes a plurality of surgical sponges (2) having radio frequency identification tags (1) securely attached thereto and a non-optical hand-held reader (40) for detecting the sponges by detecting the tags (... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6968805 | Fuel level indicator for a portable fuel tank A fuel level indicator for a portable fuel tank comprises a base, a platform hingedly connected to the base, a biasing member between the base and the platform to bias one end of the platform away from the base, and a visual indicator. When the fuel level indicator ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6924441 | Load cell apparatus A patient support including a mattress, a load cell apparatus, and a frame having an intermediate frame and a weigh frame. The load cell apparatus is positioned relative to the intermediate frame and the weigh frame. The load cell apparatus includes a load cell, a m... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6912775 | Assembly device for assembling components An apparatus for assembling components of a data storage system. Assembly components are housed by a component storage member removably coupled to the frame of the apparatus for supporting a plurality of component stacks for automated assembly. The apparatus include... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6617530 | Scale with use reminder and weight change messages A scale with use reminder and weight change messages including a scale portion capable of accurately determining a weight of a person standing thereon. The scale portion includes a display for registering the weight of the person standing thereon. A centr... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6590167 | Digital filter for fluid scale A device for weighing fluid includes a scale from which a fluid receptacle is suspended. Oscillations in the weight reading due to the pendulous motion of the receptacle are suppressed by a digital filter selected to have rejection notches at the frequenc... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6528739 | Fluid container sensor A fluid sensor apparatus for monitoring fluid in a container. The fluid sensor apparatus comprises a housing having an upper hook extending from a top thereof to allow the housing to be suspended. A lower hook is telescopically received in the housing and... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6307163 | Chemical mixer tank calibrator and calibrating method for the same A chemical mixer tank calibrator and a calibrating method for the same. The chemical mixer tank calibrator calibrates the weight of the mixer tank through a step motor. Once the chemical in the mixer tank is used up, the mixer tank can be automatically fi... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6137066 | Weighing device The present invention relates to a method and a device for weighing moving objects wherein at least two measurements are carried out with respect to each object by means of separate weighing machines (1, 2), whereupon an average value is computed by a cal... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6121555 | Fluid container sensor A fluid sensor apparatus for monitoring fluid in a container. The fluid sensor apparatus comprises a housing having an upper hook extending from a top thereof to allow the housing to be suspended. A lower hook is telescopically received in the housing and... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6118082 | Solid-state sliver sensor and auto-leveler for textile machine A strain gauge sensor for measuring the unit weight of a moving sliver in a textile machine, comprising a support rigidly mounted on a sliver output end of the textile machine and a trumpet carried by the support for outputting a condensed sliver. At leas... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6066252 | Alarm mechanism for chlorinator in aerobic waste treatment system An alarm mechanism for use in chlorinators using chlorine tablets. The alarm mechanism signals when the chlorine tablets have dissolved to a pre-determined quantity and are in need of replenishment. The alarm mechanism has a low tablet register mechanism ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6025563 | Apparatus and method for indicating load weight of a vehicle An apparatus and methods are provided for for indicating load weight of a vehicle. The apparatus preferably includes a fluid pressure sensor, such as a transducer, associated with a fluid pressure line of a vehicle for producing a plurality of fluid press... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6018129 | Solid-state sliver sensor and auto-leveler for textile machine A strain gauge sensor for measuring the unit weight of a moving sliver in a textile machine, comprising a support rigidly mounted on a sliver output end of the textile machine and a trumpet carried by the support for outputting a condensed sliver. At leas... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5994650 | Safety system for lift trucks In order to increase safety of lift trucks, a weight indication for the driver is provided so that the driver may know how heavy a load he is handling,. This weight indication is obtained by measuring the current to the motor of the hydraulic pump. In ord... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5986220 | Deadweight calculating apparatus and medium having program recorded thereon for calculating deadweight A deadweight calculating apparatus including a deadweight calculating section for calculating deadweight of a vehicle provided with a start assisting unit for urging and pressing drive wheels to a road surface in response to signals output from sensors ar... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5900592 | Load sensing system A load sensing system inexpensively monitors the weight and temperature of stored nuclear material for long periods of time in widely variable environments. The system can include an electrostatic load cell that encodes weight and temperature into a digit... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5895892 | Overload detection system A mechanical load indicator device continuously monitors the position of the frame of a vehicle relative to some point on the vehicle suspension. The load indicator device is calibrated to be triggered when a certain vehicle load limit is reached. When th... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5837945 | Refuse weighing system and method A weighing system for determining the weight of material deposited from a container into a collection truck for collecting refuse or recyclable material includes at least one load cell installed into a lifting fork of the truck lifting arm for producing o... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5819901 | Coin hopper measurement and control system The present invention provides a weighing apparatus for weighing coins accumulated in a coin hopper using a load cell and automatically taking a periodic readings of the number of coins accumulated in the hopper. By periodically monitoring the hopper and ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5773767 | Scale with reset extender bar A weighing scale includes a housing having a top opening defined by a top flange. A weighing module is mounted inside the housing for measuring weight. A scale platform is disposed inside the top opening and rests atop the weighing module by gravity. A pr... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5767454 | Electronic scale including a fault-detecting electronic display module An electronic scale including a fault-detecting electronic display module which can detect a crack in a display, a separation in a cable connected to the display, and a separation between the cable and a connector on a printed circuit board. The fault-det... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5635906 | Retail store security apparatus A security apparatus for a retail store in which each item for sale has a security tag attached thereto. A computerized database stores the approximate weight of each item for sale. During a purchase transaction, a predicted total weight of the items purc... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5545855 | Electronic fish scale for coding and storing weights and displaying same in inverse order An electronic scale for use in fishing competitions employing a load cell for accurate measurement and including memory for storing and coding measured fish weights. The scale automatically sorts and scrolls through the stored information to display the c... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5539157 | Multi-check metering method using load cells and metering device for the same A multi-check metering method employing load cells, characterized in that a plurality of load cells preferably stacked one upon another are attached to a metering table, a meterial to be metered is placed on said metering table, said load cells are operat... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5393935 | Portable scale A portable patient scale has a flexible carrier which may be placed under a hospital bed mattress. Pockets in the carrier hold weighing slats. Each slat has an upper beam and lower beam, with load cells interconnecting the beam on opposite ends of the sla... | 02/28/1995 |
