...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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AbstractA vehicle-load-weight display system includes a weight calculating means 1 which obtains the load weight from output signals from sensors mounted in a vehicle, a display means 2 displaying the load weight obtained by the calculating means 1, and a display control means 3 controlling the display means 2 during a run so as to display the load weight obtained prior to the run. The weight calculating means 1 obtains the load weight from output signals provided by the weight sensors in the initial part of each period at constant intervals, and the display control means 3 decides whether the vehicle is running by a pulse outputted from a run sensor during each of multiple periods. A detecting means 4 detecting the start of loading and unloading works when a given time has passed after the vehicle stopped running. During the period from the detection of the start of loading and unloading works to the start of the vehicle running, the weight calculating means 1 calculates the difference in the load weights between the present period and the previous period, and moreover the display control means 3 makes the display means 2 display the present weight obtained by adding the difference in the load weights to the previously displayed weight. | InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 531647 filed on 09/21/1995US Classes:177/136, Vehicle177/25.13, Digital177/25.19Weight historyField of Search177/25.11, COMPUTER177/25.12, Electrical177/25.13, Digital177/25.19, Weight history177/136, Vehicle177/137, Running gear springs177/138, With indicator disconnect means177/139, Unitary load transferrer and weigher177/141Hydraulic weigherExaminersPrimary: Gellner, Michael L.Assistant: Gibson, Randy W. Attorney, Agent or FirmUS Patent References4839835Apparatus and method responsive to the on-board measuring of the load carried by a truck bodyIssued on: 06/13/1989 Inventor: Hagenbuch Foreign Patent References
International ClassG01G 019/02Foreign Application Priority Data1994-11-07 JP |