Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Cody Ryder Volk

Paul Eugene Munger

Robert M Riggs

Graham Cyril Jordan

Andrew James Pierce

Jacob Drewniak

Alexander Eugene Choi

Rafiuddin Arif Ahud

An apparatus includes a platform or other accessory that is supported by one or more transducer assemblies using piezoelectric transducers. In one implementation, a saddle structure provides mechanical support to a platform while transferring force from a load onto a portion to which a pair of piezoelectric transducers are affixed. As a load on the saddle changes, the resulting change in strain on the portion produces signals from the piezoelectric transducers. In another implementation a beam provides mechanical support to a platform or other accessory. A pair of piezoelectric transducers are affixed near a strain concentrator, such as a hole in the beam, produce signals indicative of a change in load on the beam.

Piezoelectric weight sensing apparatus

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

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