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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:
Aug. 14, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard G Kirman, Walsall, GB;
Sally A Spencer, Halesowen, GB;
Assignee:
W & T Avery Limited, , GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7386259 ; 1772 / ;
Abstract
A vibrating force sensor comprising a metallic strip having three metallic coplanar beams (20, 21, 22). The sensor also includes capacitive transducers (30, 31) for driving the beam or beams into flexural vibration in a plane normal to their common plane and for detecting changes in the frequency of vibrations in response to changes in tension applied to the sensor. Drive and detect electrodes (50, 51) are formed on the surface of an intermediate insulating layer (70) in turn located on the surface of a shielding layer (71) of conductive material.