Tanita Corporation

Kotaku Kobayashi

Senri Tanida

Seiya Ichihara

Hiroyuki Yamada

A weight measurement device comprises: an upper surface cover on which a measurement target is placed; a load cell to detect weight of the measurement target placed on the upper surface cover; a bridge to support the load cell; a receiving member to receive the weight of the measurement target placed on the upper surface cover; and a bottom surface cover provided on a lower surface side of the receiving member, and further comprises a sliding part provided between the lower surface of the receiving member and an upper surface of the bottom surface cover to enable the receiving member to move in a horizontal direction relative to the bottom cover. The bridge comprises a pivot which is a fulcrum to make it possible to change inclination of the bridge relative to the bottom surface cover and is in contact with an upper surface of the receiving member.

Weight measurement device

A body weighing machine () is provided with a distance measuring sensor () at the central position (C) of a base plate unit (). A CPU () measures the body weight of a human subject. The CPU () then drives the distance measuring sensor () to measure a distance (Dm) between the sensor and a floor surface and determines whether a minimum distance (D) between the base plate unit () and the floor surface is zero. The CPU () displays via a display unit () a message indicating that an error has occurred in a case in which the minimum distance (D) is zero, and otherwise displays the measured body weight on the display unit ().

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Shiki, Japan

Kotaku Kobayashi