Seb S.a.

Tefal S.a.

Michel Sarrazin

Alain Duborper

Bernard Pitaud

Bénédicte Simond

Henri Piera

Didier Anthoine-Milhomme

Benoit Linglin

Yves Patras

Jacky Veniat

Stéphane Thirouin

Martine Dizin

Jérôme Viguier

A household scale including a housing intended to be placed horizontally during use, the housing including a support, at least one weight measuring system, connected to a display unit for the result of the measurement, the scale being designed to hold on the support, during use, and a container for holding an item or ingredient. The housing includes a connection to the support enabling the support to hold the container in the following two positions. A stowage position in which the container is attached to the support regardless of the position of the scale in space, and a position of use in which the container is set down on the support not attached to it.

Optimized household scale with removable storage container

The invention concerns an apparatus for measuring a subject's body composition comprising a first electronic module () for measuring a bioelectric impedance and at least an electric power source () for generating a variable electric signal () which passes through the body or part of the body of the subject when the latter is connected to the measuring apparatus (). The invention is characterized in that said power source is a voltage generator () designed to supply a rectangular voltage signal ().

Apparatus for measuring body composition

Personal weighing scale

A device for measuring the composition of the body of a person includes a first electronic module which measures a bioelectrical impedance and including at least one current source which delivers a variable electrical signal that passes through the body of the person when the person is connected to the measuring device. The electrical signal is a squarewave the duration of which is variable to determine the global impedance, the intracellular impedance and the extracellular impedance of the body of the person directly.

Device and method for measuring the composition of the body

Body fat analyzer

A force-measuring apparatus is provided having a first plate, a second plate disposed above the first plate and spaced apart from the first plate, an optical sensor having at least one optical fiber disposed between the first plate and the second plate, and a clamp for moving the first plate and the second plate together to compress the optical fiber, thereby applying a prestressing force to the fiber to reduce eccentricity effects.

Force measuring apparatus with optical sensor enabling limitation of

A method is disclosed of making connections by gluing terminals or like components to a resistive track for a heating plate. A terminal for use in this method is also disclosed. Fine lamellae are cut out from one or more areas of the base of the terminal, which is coated with a conductive resin. The conductive resin is then dried and cross-linked to glue the terminal to the resistive track. During this step, the lamellae serve as drains to evacuate the bubbles of gas that form. Applications include heating plates for kettles or similar heating receptacles.

Method of making an electrical connection by gluing a rigid terminal to

A weight sensor includes a test body in the form of a bar carrying strain gauges, the bar bending due to the effect of the weight to be measured. The bar extends inside a frame, one end of the bar being joined to the frame, its other end being free with respect to the frame and having a bearing surface designed to be subjected to a force in the opposite direction to a reaction force applied to a bearing surface of the frame. The entire sensor is made in one piece in the form of a flat block.

Self-supporting weight sensor and scale incorporating sensors of this

In order to calibrate an appliance for measuring force or moment, the measuring element (l) carries a strain gage bridge (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4) for delivering a signal which is mainly sensitive to the force or to the moment to be measured and is provided at the time of manufacture with two other strain-gage bridges (R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8); (R.sub.9, R.sub.10, R.sub.11, R.sub.12) for delivering signals which are mainly sensitive to two parasitic stresses other than the force or the moment to be measured. In a first stage, the method consists in measuring the signals delivered by the three strain-gage bridges in the absence of any load applied on the measuring element, then under a number of known reference loads chosen from among those to which each strain-gage bridge is the most sensitive. In a second stage, the reference measurements are used as a basis for calculating the parameters of sensitivity according to which each of the signals delivered by the measuring bridges is a function of the applied loads. In a third stage, these parameters of sensitivity are used as a basis for calculating the correction to be made in the force or the moment measured by the first strain-gage bridge (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4).

Method for calibrating appliances for the measurement of force or moment

The opposite ends of a metal bar placed between a weighing platform and a base plate are rigidly fixed respectively to the platform and base plate. The metal bar carries flexure-sensitive strain gages and torsion-sensitive strain gages for cancelling the torsional stresses detected by the gages. Two pairs of flexure-sensitive strain gages are mounted on one face of the bar and aligned along the bar axis X--X'. The gages of each pair are connected in opposition of sign in a Wheatstone bridge circuit and an electric signal which is proportional to the force applied on the weighing platform is measured at the bridge terminals.

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Massingy, France

Michel Sarrazin