Capacitive weighing device

• US 4,679,643 A
• Filed: 01/17/1986
• Issued: 07/14/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Electronic Components and Systems
• Original Assignee: Advanced Micro Electronic Components and Systems
• Inventors: Bove, Bertrand
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER JR, GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US06/820,548
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• Field of Search: 177/210 C, 73/862.64, 361/283, 361/288
• US Class Current: 177/210.00C
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/44 for weighing persons
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 21/23 Support or suspension of weighing platforms G01G21/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 7/06 by electrostatic action

Abstract

There is described a device, comprised of a frame or substructure, four arms arranged in cross shape or substantially in cross shape and hingedly supported on knife-edge in said frame, a weighing plate vertically movable relative to said frame, bearing through knife-edges on said arms, in notches provided therefor in the arms, in which said arms bear with the mutually-facing ends thereof on a box-design sensor, whereby the sensor capacity is changed proportionally to that force being exerted on said weighing plate, and in which said sensor is formed by a box-like holder with a bottom whereon a first insulated armature which acts as lowermost capacitive plate, is firmly secured.

Claims

1. Capacitive weighing device, comprised of a frame or substructure, four arms arranged in cross shape or substantially in cross shape and hingedly supported on knife-edges in said frame, a weighing plate vertically movable relative to said frame, bearing through knife-edges on said arms, in notches provided therefor in the arms, in which said arms bear with the mutually-facing ends thereof on a spring plate, wherewith an armature or upmost capacitive plate is insulatedly connected, said spring plate bearing with the one end thereof on one upstanding side from a box-like holder with a bottom whereon a metal film which acts as a lowermost capacitive plate is insulatedly fixed, and bearing with the opposite end thereof on an upstanding knife-edge, said knife-edge being supported in two slots provided in the bottom, in such a way that during a weighing operation, said knife-edge may slightly swing and always form substantially the same angle with the spring plate bearing on said knife-edge.

2. Capacitive weighing device as defined in claim 1, in which said upstanding side and said knife-edge comprise an integral part of said spring plate.

3. Capacitive weighing device as defined in claim 1 or 2, in which said spring plate bears on said knife-edge through the use of a knife seat.

4. Capacitive weighing device as defined in any one of claims 1-3 in which said knife-edge bears by means of a knife seat in said slots.

5. Capacitive weighing device as defined in any one of claims 1-4, in which the upstanding side and said knife-edge are integral with said spring plate.

6. Capacitive weighing device as defined in any one of claims 1-5, in which said spring plate forms a single unit with said knife-edge.

7. Capacitive weighing device as defined in any one of claims 1-5, in which said spring plate is machined along both sides to a knife-edge wherewith said spring plate bears on the bottom.