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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1986
Filed:
May. 01, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masami Yamanaka, Miki, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ; G01G / ; G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
177-1 ; 177 25 ; 177200 ; 177229 ;
Abstract
A mass meter of the type of conventional weighing scale having an elastic cantilever mechanism provided with a weighing cradle, and a mechanoelectric transducer for sensing a strain of the cantilever to produce a weight indicative signal, which further includes, for cancelling the effect of gravity, a reference weight accompanied with its loading and unloading means, and an arithmetic unit for processing the weight data obtained in both reference weight loaded and unloaded states to calculate the mass of an article on the weighing cradle.