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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroaki Morinaka, Shiga, JP;
Assignee:
Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 1/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 1/304 ;
Abstract
To provide a compact vibrating transport apparatus in which the amount of an article M to be transported can be controlled highly accurately, the vibrating transport apparatus is designed to transport the article M loaded on a trough by vibrating the trough in a predetermined vibrating direction. The apparatus includes strain gauges to mounted on a portion of the transport apparatus where elastic strains are developed upon placement of the article M on the trough , and a weight detecting circuit for detecting the weight W of the article M placed on the trough on the basis of the amount of the strains detected by the strain gauges to