Measurement device

• US 9,285,263 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2012
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: A&D Company Limited
• Original Assignee: A&D Company Limited
• Inventors: Izumo, Naoto, Ota, Akiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Randy W
• Application Number:
  US14/353,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20140291043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 21/22 Weigh pans or other weighing receptacles; Weighing platforms
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 21/23 Support or suspension of weighing platforms G01G21/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/00 Auxiliary devices for weighing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/005 Means for preventing overload
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 23/06 Means for damping oscillations, e.g. of weigh beams

Abstract

To prevent measurement errors caused by impact including an impact load transmitted at high speed or static electricity and prevent destruction of a sensor unit due to the above-mentioned impact load. Through-holes (12f) are formed in four corners of a pan receiver, upwardly protruding pieces (14a) of a plate spring fixed to a bottom surface of the pan receiver are inserted into the through-holes (12f), and pan receiver legs are attached to the upwardly protruding pieces (14a). When a pan is mounted on the pan receiver, four corners of the pan are supported by the upper surfaces of gel-like cushioning bodies and the upper ends of coil springs, impact applied to the pan including an impact load transmitted at high speed is absorbed by the gel-like cushioning bodies, and the lower ends of the coil springs contact the upwardly protruding pieces (14a) of the plate spring, so that the pan assumes a conducting state with the pan receiver via the coil springs and the plate spring, and even if the pan is charged with static electricity, the static electricity due to charging can be released to the pan receiver via the coil springs and the plate spring.

Claims

1. A measurement device including a pan formed so that a measuring object can be mounted thereon, a pan receiver disposed facing the pan, a conductive plate spring fixed to the pan receiver and formed with a plurality of upwardly protruding pieces, and a pan receiver leg attached and integrated with each upwardly protruding piece of the plate spring so that the upwardly protruding piece is exposed from an opening provided at a distal end of a top-of-head portion, the pan receiver being coupled with a side of application of load of a weighing sensor that weighs a measuring object on the pan based on a load that acts on the pan receiver via the plate spring, wherein

between the pan and the pan receiver leg, disposed is a gel-like cushioning body that contacts the pan at an upper surface and is installed at a lower surface side via a placing plate on the top-of-head portion of the pan receiver leg, while provided is a conductive spring member that is supported on the gel-like cushioning body, contacts the upwardly protruding piece of the plate spring at a lower end, and contacts the pan at an upper end.

2. The measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the placing plate has an annular projection edge that is annular and along a central hole, and is installed in this annular projection edge part on the top-of-head portion of the pan receiving leg, and the gel-like cushioning body is annular, and fixed at its central hole with the annular projection edge to be fixed to the placing plate.

3. The measurement device according to claim 1, wherein through-holes are formed in four corners of the pan receiver, the plate spring is fixed close to an edge portion on a back surface side of the pan receiver and formed at both end sides thereof with upwardly protruding pieces that penetrate through the respective through-holes upward, and the pan receiver leg is formed in a mushroom shape, and is attached and integrated with each upwardly protruding piece of the plate spring so that an upper end of the upwardly protruding piece is exposed from an opening provided in a top-of-head portion of an umbrella portion having a circular arc shape in a longitudinal section thereof.

4. The measurement device according to claim 2, wherein through-holes are formed in four corners of the pan receiver, the plate spring is fixed close to an edge portion on a back surface side of the pan receiver and formed at both end sides thereof with upwardly protruding pieces that penetrate through the respective through-holes upward, and the pan receiver leg is formed in a mushroom shape, and is attached and integrated with each upwardly protruding piece of the plate spring so that an upper end of the upwardly protruding piece is exposed from an opening provided in a top-of-head portion of an umbrella portion having a circular arc shape in a longitudinal section thereof.