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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1984
Filed:
Oct. 08, 1981
Jack M White, Novelty, OH (US);
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New orleans, LA (US);
Abstract
A force transducer for producing an output signal in proportion to the magnitude of an input force wherein an equal and opposite force is produced by a flexure assembly comprised of a compound leaf-spring flexure having opposed outer sections, anchored in and cantilevered from a fixed and a movable base respectively, which gradually decrease in cross-sectional area to a thin middle section wherein the movable base is constrained to linear displacement from a null or neutral position by having the force applied along a line normal to and passing through the center of the thin middle section and transmitted to the movable base through a rigid connection. A modified form of flexure assembly is disclosed comprised of parallel compound flexures each having a thin middle section and opposed outer sections which are anchored in and cantilevered from a fixed common base and a movable common base.