WEIGHING SYSTEM AND WEIGHING WORK METHOD

• US 20130264127A1
• Filed: 05/23/2011
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamato Scale Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yamato Scale Company Limited
• Inventors: Kawanishi, Shozo
• Granted Patent: US 9,228,884 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 177/1
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/20 for separating articles of less than a predetermined weight from those of more than that weight
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 13/29 involving digital counting
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/393 using two or more weighing units
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/3707 using a microprocessor

Abstract

A weighing system (100) comprises a platform scale (50) on which a container containing objects is placed; and a hand-operated combination weigher 10 including a plurality of weighing trays 12 on which the objects are put; wherein a controller of the weighing system (100) derives a target weight of the objects in the combination weigher (10) using a weight of the container which is weighed by the platform scale (50); and the controller selects a combination of the weighing trays (12) so that a combination weight of the objects on the weighing trays (12) falls within an allowable range of the target weight.

Claims

1. A weighing system comprising;

a platform scale on which a container containing objects is placed; and

a hand-operated combination weigher including a plurality of weighing trays on which the objects are put;

wherein a controller of the weighing system derives a target weight of the objects in the combination weigher using a weight of the container which is weighed by the platform scale; and

the controller selects a combination of the weighing trays so that a combination weight of the objects on the weighing trays falls within an allowable range of the target weight.

2. The weighing system according to claim 1,

wherein the combination weigher includes a notification means;

and

wherein the controller notifies the selected weighing trays using the notification means.

3. The weighing system according to claim 1,

wherein the controller obtains an allowable weight range of the weight of the container;

and

wherein when the weight of the container falls outside the allowable weight range, the controller does not select the combination of the weighing trays and notifies an error.

4. The weighing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a means which inputs a total weight of the objects to be filled into the container and a tare weight of the container;

wherein the target weight is a weight derived by calculating a sum of the total weight of the objects and a tare weight of the container, and calculating a difference between the sum and the weight of the container.

5. The weighing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a means which inputs the total number of the objects to be filled into the container, the number of objects inside of the container on the platform scale, and the number of objects put on each of the weighing trays in a case where the number of objects put on each of the weighing trays is fixed;

wherein the target number of the weighing trays selected to make up the combination is a value obtained by dividing a difference between the total number of the objects and the number of objects inside of the container by the number of objects put on each of the weighing trays.

6. A weighing work method comprising:

a step of stacking containers in plural layers on a platform scale of subtraction type, each of the containers containing the objects of predetermined number;

a step of putting the objects of predetermined number on each of a plurality of weighing trays in a hand-operated combination weigher;

a step of obtaining a weight of one container when one of the containers is taken out of the platform scale;

a step of deriving a target weight of the objects in the combination weigher using the weight of the container;

a step of selecting a combination of the weighing trays so that a combination weight of the objects on the weighing trays falls within an allowable range of the target weight; and

a step of storing the objects on the weighing trays selected to make up the combination into an empty space of the container taken out.

7. The weighing work method according to claim 6,

wherein a makeup box of the objects is used as the container.