Weighing machine

• US 6,437,257 B1
• Filed: 10/05/2000
• Issued: 08/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Minoru Yoshida
• Original Assignee: Minoru Yoshida
• Inventors: Yoshida, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Randy W.
• Application Number:
  US09/679,148
• Time in Patent Office: 684 Days
• Field of Search: 177/199, 177/200, 600/587, 600/592
• US Class Current: 177/199
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1036 Measuring load distribution, e.g. podologic studies
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/44 for weighing persons

Abstract

A weighing machine useful for chiropractic and other medical treatment by accurately grasping the bias of the right and left, and front and rear weights of the person, and by recording momently changing center of the weight rested on right and left feet each, and center of the weight of the whole body. The weighing machine comprises two weighing device arranged right and left with a predetermined distance between them, and each weighing device is provided with a case body with a bottom plate, four weighing mechanisms arranged right and left, and back and forth on the bottom plate, means for positioning a person to be measured on the four weighing devices.

Claims

1. A weighing machine comprising two weighing devices arranged right and left with a predetermined distance between them, wherein each said weighing device further comprises a case body with a bottom plate, and four weighing surfaces arranged right and left, and back and forth, on the bottom plate.

2. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, comprising channels formed between side walls of said four weighing surfaces.

3. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said weighing surfaces comprises a respective weighing mechanism comprising a load cell, and a converter to convert electrical voltages measured by each said load cell to respective weight data, storing means for storing said respective weight data, processing means for processing said respective weight data stored in the storing means, and displaying means for displaying data processed by the processing means.

4. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of said weighing surfaces comprises a respective weighing mechanism comprising a load cell, and a converter to convert electrical voltages measured by each said load cell to respective weight data, storing means for storing said respective weight data, processing means for processing said respective weight data stored in the storing means, and displaying means for displaying data processed by the processing means.

5. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, comprising means for positioning a person to be measured on the two weighing devices.

6. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the four weighing surfaces comprises a respective weighing mechanism.

7. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weighing surfaces are generally co-planar.

8. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weighing surfaces comprise four rectangles having unequal lengths, in pairs.

9. The weighing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weighing surfaces are contiguous.