Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Karlheinz Amtmann

Harry Hedler

Daniel Reznik

Arno Steckenborn

Dirk Scheibner

Jörg Hassel

Oliver Theile

Klaus Röther

Andreas Kaszkin

Hans-Peter Lindner

Delphine Meunier

Dieter Thürauf

Dominik Braun

A force transducer, in particular a load cell, includes a spring body that deforms when loaded with a force or load to be measured. Two support parts, which are separated by a gap, are moved out of a position of rest. A capacitive displacement detector is used to detect the relative movement of the support parts, where the capacitor includes two electrode combs that are each held on one of the support parts and includes a multiplicity of electrode fingers. The electrode combs are configured designed and mounted on the two support parts such that the electrode fingers of the one electrode comb pass into the finger interspaces of the other electrode comb when the spring body is loaded so that the force transducer is resistant to overloading.

Force transducer forming a capacitive load cell

Calibration-required data displayed by an industrial visual display system, which can be configured using a predetermined configuring software and which has a standard interface for integrating additional applications. To this end, the calibration-required data are integrally protected and optionally encoded. The calibration-required data are then transmitted to the visual display system and decoded therein by an application that is integrated via the standard interface, after which they are visually displayed in a form that is different from the presentation possibilities that can be configured by the configuring software.

Method for displaying calibration-required data

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Gerhardshofen, Germany

Karlheinz Amtmann