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Electronic counting scale

  • US 4,493,384 A
  • Filed: 03/28/1983
  • Issued: 01/15/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electronic counting scale comprising a weighing tray to be loaded with items whose number is to be counted, a weight measuring means for measuring a gravitational force acting on said items loaded on said tray and for outputting a digital weight value corresponding to said gravitational force, a central processing unit which includes an arithmetic organ for processing said digital weight value according to a predetermined program, a memory for storing various calculating formulae, various calculated values and said predetermined program, said various calculating formulae containing a maximum number calculating formula which gives, in consideration of the weight fluctuations of the items to be counted, a maximum addable number rounded to the nearest whole number for fractions equal to or over 0.5 without giving a counting error, a number displaying means for displaying the number of said items calculated by said arithmetic organ, and an informing means for informing whether an unknown number of items added to an already counted known number of items is equal to or exceeds said maximum addable number calculated according to said maximum addable number calculating formula.

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