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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:
Dec. 29, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard K Ng, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
f.m.e. Corporation, Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ; G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
177-1 ; 177 2515 ; 177164 ;
Abstract
A postage scale (1) and method of operation. The scale has two or more modes (M.sub.1, M.sub.2, M.sub.3) of operation. In a first mode the scale outputs the weight of an item to within a first, coarse increment. In a second mode (M.sub.2), the scale outputs the weight of an item to within a second, fine increment. In one embodiment, a third mode (M.sub.3) is selected with a coarse increment depending on the type of carrier and item weight.