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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2014
Quantronix, Inc., Farmington, UT (US);
Robert L. Kennington, Farmington, UT (US);
Eve A. Carlsruh, Layton, UT (US);
Craig R. Bailey, Mantua, UT (US);
Marie L. Midboe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Brandon M. Taylor, Fruit Heights, UT (US);
Randy B. Neilson, Syracuse, UT (US);
Quantronix, Inc., Farmington, UT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for dimensioning and, optionally, weighing an object. A platform with a surface is used for supporting an object. A user selects between two different dimensioning devices of the apparatus. The first device employs three distance sensors to determine a distance between each of the distance sensors and a side of an object. The second device includes a movable gate that is passed over and about an object or objects on the platform. Sensor arrays, such as paired, aligned light emitter and receiver arrays, are used in combination with a plurality of sensed gate positions to determine the dimensions of the objects(s) as the gate passes around the object(s) based on whether or not light from an emitter on one side of the gate reaches a light receiver on another, opposing side of the gate.