Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) monitors activities of a user operating a vehicle with a navigational device providing route guidance, via a first route, to a geographic destination. The processor(s) identifies driving patterns of the user to generate a driver profile for the user, including a baseline activity pattern. The processor(s) determines, at a given time, that the monitored activities of the user are outside of the baseline activity pattern and enables an integrated image capture device in the vehicle and captures images of an environment outside of a the vehicle. The processor(s) utilizes the image capture device, to capture images and derives data describing environmental conditions, based on performing a semantic analysis of the images. The processor(s) transmits the data to a repository and generates a second route to the destination, based on the driver profile and relevant data from the repository data.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of using telematics data associated with an originating vehicle at a destination vehicle is provided. The method may include receiving telematics data associated with the originating vehicle by (1) a mobile device or (2) a smart vehicle controller associated with a driver or vehicle. The mobile device or smart vehicle controller may analyze the telematics data received to determine that (i) a travel event exists, or (ii) that a travel event message or warning is embedded within the telematics broadcast received. If the travel event exits, the method may include automatically taking a preventive or corrective action, at or via the mobile device or smart vehicle controller, which alleviates a negative impact of the travel event on the driver or vehicle to facilitate safer or more efficient vehicle travel. Insurance discounts may be provided to insureds based upon their usage of the risk mitigation or prevention functionality.

Abstract: An approach is provided for synchronizing a function among an embedded system and/or one or more devices. The approach involves causing, at least in part, an authentication of at least one user at an embedded system. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, an association of the at least one user with at least one cloud account associated with the embedded system. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a registration of one or more devices associated with the at least one user to the at least one cloud account. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a synchronization of at least one function, data associated with the at least one function, or a combination thereof among the at least one embedded system, the one or more devices, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the registration.

Abstract: A multi-stop route selection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device, and a server computer. The server computer may receive driving data of a driver of the vehicle and a vehicle location from the telematics device, determine one or more driving behaviors of the driver based on the driving data, receive data regarding a calendar of the driver from the mobile device, identify a plurality of appointments in the calendar, determine a route comprising multiple destinations for the driver based on the vehicle location, the one or more driving behaviors, and the plurality of appointments, transmit the route to the mobile device, receive a request to add a new destination to the route from the mobile device, generate a modified route comprising the new destination, and transmit the modified route for the driver to the mobile device.

Abstract: A load and route assignment system is provided and generally includes a computing device and a database. The database may store historical inbound load data and historical outbound load data related to previous inbound and outbound loads. The computing device can obtain and aggregate the historical inbound and outbound load data from the database, and determine an optimal path based on the aggregated historical data. The optimal path, along with load attribute data, may be stored in the database as a tour template for future load executions. The computing device may use the tour templates to determine future load assignments to vehicles. The computing device may also obtain real-time load requests, and match them to one or more of a plurality of tour templates. The computing device may assign the matched real-time load requests to a vehicle for execution in accordance with the corresponding load and tour template.

Abstract: A method includes storing representations of a passengers and fleet vehicles. The method includes generating a graph representation of a geographic map that includes requested pick-up locations and drop-off locations for the passengers and generating a state graph representation of the passengers and the fleet vehicles. The state graph representation includes a plurality of nodes connected by edges. Each of the plurality of nodes represents a candidate state of the passengers and the fleet vehicles. A respective edge of the state graph representation represents an action of a respective vehicle picking up or dropping off a passenger. The respective edge has a cost that is based at least in part on traversal of the graph representation of the geographic map. The method further includes using the state graph representation to generate a set of routes and route the fleet vehicles in accordance with the generated set of routes.

Abstract: A method includes of routing an autonomous vehicle includes receiving information obtained from a camera on a second vehicle distinct from the autonomous vehicle. The method includes automatically identifying a road condition using image analysis of the information received from the camera on the second vehicle. The method includes receiving a request to route the autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location; and in response to the request: generating a cost model for routing the autonomous vehicle, wherein the cost model includes a cost of the road condition automatically identified from the information received from the camera on the second vehicle; selecting a route from the first location to the second location in accordance with the cost model; and routing an autonomous vehicle in accordance with the selected route.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for acquiring route popularity in road networks.

Abstract: A method and a system for predicting traffic conditions of a geographical area are provided. A directed graph of a road network of the geographical area is generated. Position information, received from devices of corresponding vehicles that are traversing between road segments including at least first and second road segments, is located on the generated directed graph. Further, first and second times are determined based on the located position information on the generated directed graph. A traffic time of the first road segment is determined based on an average of time differences of the first and second times of each of the one or more first vehicles after filtering out a time period between the first and second times. The traffic conditions of the road network are predicted based on the determined traffic time of each of the road segments.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for establishing direction based traffic events and lane-level traffic associated therewith. Methods may include receiving a plurality of probe data points, where each probe data point includes location information associated with the respective probe apparatus; determining a path through an intersection from among a plurality of paths through the intersection for each probe apparatus based, at least in part, on a sequence of probe data points from each respective probe apparatus; determining, for each path through the intersection, an average speed of probe apparatuses traveling along the respective path and an average travel time along a road link approaching the intersection of the probe apparatuses traveling along the respective path; and determining a direction based traffic event in response to the differential amount of time between the highest average travel time and the lowest average travel time.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to generating turn-by-turn direction previews. In one aspect, one or more computing devices, may receive a request for a turn-by-turn direction preview. The one or more computing devices may generate a set of turn-by-turn directions based on a series of road segments connecting a first geographic location and a second geographic location. Each direction in the set of turn-by-turn directions may be associated with a corresponding waypoint. The one or more computing devices then identify a set of images corresponding the series of road segments between two adjacent waypoints of the set of turn-by-turn directions, and determine a subset of the set of images to include in the turn-by-turn direction preview. Subsequently, the one or more computing devices may generate the turn-by-turn direction preview based on at least in part on the determined subset of the set of images.

Abstract: A system for determination of port arrival and departure, includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor displays a map including sea areas, receives designation of a line on the displayed map, obtains position information on a vessel, and determines arrival to a port or departure from a port of the vessel according to movement of the vessel across the line between a first area corresponding to one side of sides of the line and a second area corresponding to the other side of the sides. The movement is detected based on the position information.

Abstract: An interactive viewing system of the present invention provides a user with a viewing duality in which a user is shown a floor plan, schematic layout, or other diagram on one side of a display and a visual representation, such as a digital image, corresponding to a selected portion of the schematic layout or diagram, on the other side of the same display. The user is presented with a current position marker and a directional indicator as they navigate through the schematic layout. At designated positions within the schematic layout, a corresponding image is concurrently displayed. In this manner, the user maintains a sense of where they are within the entire structure, while at the same time seeing images of the corresponding area.

Abstract: A request for geographic content is received from a client device. The request includes (i) an indication that a user invoked the digital mapping service in a vehicle and (ii) an identifier of the user. In response to the request, profile data for the user including indications of previous interactions of the user with a digital mapping service is automatically retrieved. Geographic content is generated based on the indications of previous interactions in view of relevance of the previous interactions to an automotive context. The geographic content is provided to the client device for presentation in the vehicle.

Abstract: A navigation application that provides a dynamic set of warnings based on a set of collected and calculated data. The navigation application collects a series of data and identifies a set of critical points along the route. The navigation application analyzes the collected data to determine whether to provide a navigation warning to the user. The navigation application uses the collected data to determine whether a navigation instruction for the critical point should be modified to account for different driving conditions. Finally, the navigation application of some embodiments determines a timing for when a navigation instruction should be provided to the user, ensuring that the instruction is presented to the user with sufficient time to safely adjust their behavior.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the frequency of a user feeling annoyed. A map display system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display; an icon display control part that selects a type of icons to be displayed from among a plurality of types based on a number of the icons displayed on the map, and displays ground objects by the icons of the selected type on the map; and an icon selection control part that allows or prohibits a change in the type of icons selected by the icon display control part, and prohibits, when scrolling of the map is performed, a change in the type of icons before and after the scrolling.

Abstract: A rotation angle sensing device is provided with a magnet that is placed to be integrally rotatable with a rotary shaft of a rotating body in association with a rotating body, where the shape of the magnet as viewed along the rotary shaft is substantially circular; a magnetic sensor part that outputs a sensor signal based upon a change in a direction of a magnetic field in association with the rotation of the magnet; and a rotation angle detecting part that detects a rotation angle of the rotating body based upon the sensor signal output by the magnetic sensor part. The magnet has a component of a magnetization vector in a direction that is orthogonal to the rotation axis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising: an encoder the magnetic track of which has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions in Archimedean spiral, a rotation sensor able to detect the periodic magnetic field emitted by the encoder using a plurality of magnetic sensitive elements, distributed angularly along the magnetic track. Each magnetic sensitive element delivers a signal representative to the rotation of the encoder. The sensor further comprises a device for subtracting the signals (V1, V2) delivered by two sensitive elements forming therebetween an angle ? that is such that: 0.55?<?·Npp, <0.83?, modulo 2? or 1.17?<?·Npp<1.45?, modulo 2?.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a sensing element portion and a first magnetic portion. The sensing element portion includes a supporter, a deformable film portion supported by the supporter, and a first element including a magnetic layer and being provided at the film portion. The first magnetic portion is separated from the sensing element portion. The first magnetic portion includes a plurality of first holes. A width of one of the plurality of first holes along a second direction is narrower than a length of the sensing element portion along the second direction and wider than a length of the first element along the second direction. The second direction crosses a first direction from the film portion toward the first element.

Abstract: A device has a construction capable of promoting miniaturization, and comprises: a coil; a magnetism-responsive member disposed so as to be displaced relative to the coil according to a position of a detection object; and a self-oscillation circuit that incorporates the coil therein as an oscillation element so that an oscillation frequency varies with an inductance variation of the coil responsive to an displacement of the magnetism-responsive member relative to the coil. An arithmetic section generates a measured value responsive to oscillation frequency based on an oscillation output of the self-oscillation circuit, calculates velocity data by differentiating successive measured values, and calculates displacement data by integrating the velocity data.

Abstract: A pitch compensated inductive position encoder includes a scale comprising first and second tracks including periodic patterns having a wavelength W, a detector, and signal processing. The second track pattern may be shifted along the measuring direction by a pattern offset STO relative to the first track pattern. In the detector, first-track and second-track field generating coil portions generate fields in first and second interior areas aligned with the first and second pattern tracks, respectively. First and second sensing coil configurations that are aligned with the first and second tracks, respectively, are offset relative to one another by STO+/?0.5*W along the measuring direction. In various embodiments, the first and second sensing coil configurations may have the same sequence of individual coil polarities if the generated field polarities are different, and may have inverted or opposite sequences if the generated field polarities are the same.

Abstract: A rotary encoder may include a first sensor unit including a first magnet, and a first magnetosensitive unit facing the first magnet; a second sensor unit including a second magnet with a plurality of pairs of N poles and S poles alternately magnetized, and a second magnetosensitive unit facing the second magnet; a circuit to generate pulses for counting from an output of the second sensor unit; and a counter to count the pulses. During activation, an angle position of the rotating body is calculated based on outputs of a first and second sensor unit, and after activation, pulse counting is counted by a counter.

Abstract: A rotary encoder may include a first sensor unit comprising a first magnet, and a first magnetosensitive unit facing the first magnet; a second sensor unit comprising a second magnet, and a second magnetosensitive unit facing the second magnet; a circuit to generate pulses; a counter to count the pulses; a first arithmetic unit to calculate a first angle value based on an output of the first magnetosensitive unit; and a second arithmetic unit to calculate a second angle value based on an output of the second magnetosensitive unit. One of the first magnet and the first magnetosensitive unit is provided in the fixed body and the other is provided in the rotating body. One of the second magnet and the second magnetosensitive unit is provided in the fixed body and the other is provided in the rotating body.

Abstract: An optical position-measuring device for determining the relative position of two objects includes two scanning units which are connected to one of the objects and each include a light source, one or more gratings and a detector assembly. A scale is connected to the other object and has two tracks each containing incremental graduations extending along a first one of the measurement directions. The incremental graduations each are composed of graduation regions which have different optical properties and are periodically arranged along an incremental graduation direction. The two incremental graduation directions form an angle of between 0° and 90° relative to each other. Each of the two incremental graduations has a reference mark integrated therein such that scanning of the reference mark allows a reference signal to be generated at a defined reference position along each of the measurement directions. The reference marks include both aperiodic and periodic portions.

Abstract: A code plate including a pattern thereon is provided. The pattern includes a first set of codes and a second set of codes. The first set of codes is associated with a first waveform. The second set of codes is associated with a second waveform.

Abstract: Template matching with an image captured by the first imaging element is performed to obtain a first movement amount in a circumferential direction of the first mark, template matching with an image captured by the second imaging element is performed to obtain a second movement amount in a circumferential direction of the second mark, and a rotation angle is calculated and output by using the first movement amount and the second movement amount.

Abstract: Described herein is a method for and a device configured to generate an energy amount via a received magnetic field. A sensor may be configured to generate an output voltage based on a sensor reading by using a portion of the energy amount and a diode biased in its active region via a resistor may generate an operating voltage to shift the output voltage into a positive region. The resistor may be configured to modify an operating voltage of the diode by using a portion of the energy amount. An analog to digital converter may be configured to receive a combined voltage or to combine received voltages to convert a combined voltage such that a combined voltage is the output voltage shifted by or added to the operating voltage. A transmitter may transmit a sensor output based on the combined voltage by using a portion of the energy amount.

Abstract: A sensor hub includes a bit packer that receives sensor data from a plurality of sensors and bit packs the sensor data so that the sensor ID, time stamp and each axis of the measured data is stored contiguously. The bit packer may compress the sensor data by removing the sensor ID and/or the time stamp in the sensor data. The bit packed sensor data is stored in batching memory. A bit unpacker receives the sensor data from the batching memory and unpacks the sensor data, e.g., so that the sensor ID, time stamp and each axis of the measured data is stored in its own word. Additionally, the bit unpacker may decompress the bit packed sensor data by reinserting the sensor ID and/or time stamp in the sensor data.

Abstract: A portable metrology stand is disclosed that has three primary legs, which are rigidly, rotatably attached to a base support, which prevents the leg tubes from rotating outwardly beyond a defined angle by adjustable hard stops associated with the base support. The base support is itself supported by a center column disposed between the three legs. The legs are rigidly displaced from the center column by struts. A tensioning nut is threaded onto a bottom end of a clamping collar which is pulled up against an adjustable snap-ring in a snap-ring groove in the center column. Tightening the tensioning nut onto the clamping collar draws the clamping collar down into the tensioning nut thereby forcing outwardly the struts and forcing the legs against the adjustable hard stops.

Abstract: An angle sensor includes a detection signal generation unit, an angle detection unit for generating a detected angle value by performing an operation using detection signals, and a condition determination apparatus. The condition determination apparatus includes an initial determination value generation unit, correction processing unit and determination unit. The initial determination value generation unit performs an operation using the detection signals to generate an initial determination value corresponding to the angle sensor condition. The correction processing unit performs correction processing on the initial determination value to generate a corrected determination value. The determination unit determines whether the angle sensor is in a normal condition on the corrected determination value basis. The initial determination value contains a variation component which varies depending on an angle to be detected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control circuit (10; 110; 210; 310) and a method for checking the plausibility of a rotor position angle. The control circuit is designed with: a rotor position angle determination device (12) for determining a first rotor position angle, ?(tk), at a first time, tk, and at least one second rotor position angle, ?(tk?1), at a second time, ?k?1, before the first time, tk; a computing device (14; 114; 214; 314) for determining a rotor position angle, mod(tk), to be expected at the first time, tk, from a computational model of the computing device (14; 114; 214; 314) using at least the second rotor position angle, ?(tk?1); and a plausibility-checking device (16) for outputting a signal (51) which indicates the determined first rotor position angle, ?(tk), as plausible if an amount of a difference between the rotor position angle, mod(tk), to be expected and the determined first rotor position angle, ?(tk), does not exceed a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: Smart measurement probes may provide information regarding calibration data. However, an electronic instrument connected to such a smart measurement probe may be unable to fully utilize the capacities of the smart measurement probe. A measurement probe may be configured to provide information regarding calibration data to an instrument, but may not be able to take into account calibration settings of that instrument if that instrument lacks the capability to communicate that information to the smart measurement probe. To address such issues, an interface device may be connected between the smart measurement probe and the instrument, with the ability to generate simulated sensor outputs. A transmitter interrogation process utilizing these simulated sensor outputs may be used to determine the transmitter settings and provide an emulated sensor output emulating a previous sensor-transmitter pairing.

Abstract: The fluid in a vessel can be monitored in real-time by a system that consists of at least a level module positioned proximal a vessel. The level module may be connected to a first sensor and a second sensor that are each attached to the vessel and responsive to changes in fluid within the vessel. The level module can employ a stored log of sensor measurements to provide a real-time volume of fluid within the vessel while fluid is flowing into or out of the vessel.

Abstract: A method of reducing a phase error of a flow rate measurement in an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed. The flow meter has a flow path for a fluid to be measured, a first ultrasonic transducer having a characteristic quantity and a second ultrasonic transducer having a second characteristic quantity. The method comprises repeatedly measuring the first and second characteristic quantities of the ultrasonic transducers and determining a relation between the characteristic quantities, estimating a phase error value indicative of the phase error from the determined relation between the characteristic quantities, and using the estimated phase error value for correcting a difference between transmission times measured by the ultrasonic flow meter. An output is provided indicative of the flow rate of the fluid in the flow path with reduced phase error from the corrected difference between transmission times.

Abstract: A fluid manifold is capable of channeling and monitoring fluid flow within a fluid distribution system. The manifold includes one or more input lumens. Each input lumen associated with a respective inlet port. The manifold also includes a plurality of output lumens such that each output lumen is associated with a respective outlet port and at least one input lumen is coupled to two or more output lumens. The manifold also includes one or more flow sensors capable of measuring fluid flow parameters of fluid flowing through at least one of the one or more input lumens and the plurality of output lumens. In some implementations, a flow sensor can be mounted to each output lumen of the manifold.

Abstract: This invention provides an insertion type ultrasonic flow meter, flow measuring system and method, which related to the field of flow measuring and metering. The insertion type ultrasonic flow meter includes a first insertion type sensor and a second insertion type sensor. The first insertion type sensor is equipped with a first ultrasonic transducer; the second insertion type sensor is equipped with a second ultrasonic transducer. The first insertion type sensor and the second insertion type sensor are installed at upstream and downstream of the pipeline respectively. The first ultrasonic transducer and the second ultrasonic transducer are equipped face-to-face. Compared to current technology, the insertion type ultrasonic flow meter provided by this invention has better signal receiving capability and smaller channel noise, therefore lower power consumption that can be powered with battery. It can also conduct accurate measurement to low velocity and flow rate of water in pipeline.

Abstract: To obtain a flow meter with which it is possible to facilitate establishing an electrical connection with a conductor exposed in a location through which a gas to be measured passes. A flow meter that is provided with a lead and a circuit component placed on the lead, and that has a package in which part of the lead is molded from a resin, wherein the package is provided with an exposure portion for exposing part of the lead from the resin member, the exposure portion being electrically connected to a conductor that constitutes part of an auxiliary passage.

Abstract: Provided is a physical-quantity detecting device having high reliability by preventing water droplets from attaching to a diaphragm area. A physical-quantity detecting device according to the present invention includes: a circuit board having provided thereon at least one detecting unit that detects a physical quantity of gas to be measured that passes through a main passage and also having provided thereon a circuit unit that executes computational processing on the physical quantity detected by the detecting unit; and a housing accommodating the circuit board, wherein the physical-quantity detecting unit on the circuit board is constructed to be exposed to the main passage. Furthermore, convex projections are provided around a through hole directly communicating with the physical-quantity detecting unit implemented on the circuit board.

Abstract: Example systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed sensing a flow of fluid using a thermopile-based flow sensing device. An example apparatus includes a flow sensing device comprising a heating structure having a centerline. The flow sensing device may further comprise a thermopile. At least a portion of the thermopile may be disposed over the heating structure. The thermopile may comprise a first thermocouple having a first thermocouple junction disposed upstream of the centerline of the heating structure. The thermopile may further comprise a second thermocouple having a second thermocouple junction disposed downstream of the centerline of the heating structure.

Abstract: A plant evaluation apparatus includes: a first computation unit configured to compute a first estimated value of a plant state quantity by using a steady-state model; a first determination unit configured to compute a second estimated value of the plant state quantity by assigning an equipment parameter in a normal state to an equipment parameter of a non-steady-state model; a second computation unit configured to compute a third estimated value of the plant state quantity by using the steady-state model in a case where the first determination unit determines that an error between the second estimated value and an actually measured value is equal to or more than a threshold value; and a second determination unit configured to determine whether or not a difference between the equipment parameter in the normal state and the equipment parameter in an abnormal state is equal to or more than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A system includes an agricultural metering system a meter roller configured to meter product from an agricultural product storage compartment to a product distribution system via rotation of the meter roller. The meter roller includes a first meter roller segment having a first plurality of flutes and a corresponding first plurality of recesses, and a second meter roller segment having a second plurality of flutes and a corresponding second plurality of recesses. The first meter roller segment includes a first profile, the second meter roller includes a second profile, and the first profile is different from the second profile. The system also has a dividing ring axially positioned between the first meter roller segment and the second meter roller segment.

Abstract: A system includes an agricultural metering system with a meter roller configured to meter product from an agricultural product storage compartment to a product distribution system via rotation of the meter roller. The meter roller includes a first meter roller segment having a first plurality of flutes and corresponding recesses, and a second meter roller segment having a second plurality of flutes and a corresponding second plurality of recesses. The flutes of the first meter roller segment are axially separated from the flutes of the second meter roller segment by a gap. The meter roller also includes a dividing ring disposed about the shaft and axially positioned between the first meter roller segment and the second meter roller segment. A width of the dividing ring is substantially equal to the gap.

Abstract: A radar level gauge comprising transceiver circuitry configured to obtain a tank signal including a peak representing a surface echo, and at least one peak caused by a ghost echo in a neighborhood of the surface echo. The gauge further includes a tank signal filter receiving the tank signal as input and providing an echo threshold profile, the threshold profile having at least one local maximum substantially coinciding with one of the peaks in the tank signal, and processing circuitry configured to use the echo threshold profile to disregard peaks in the tank signal which are associated with ghost reflections. The filtering of the tank signal thus provides an adaptive threshold, which is aligned with the peak(s) in the tank signal. By using this threshold in the surface echo identification, at least some ghost echoes occurring in the tank signal may be disregarded.

Abstract: A measurement module determines a fluid quantity which relates to a property of a fluid located in or flowing through a measurement tube. The measurement module contains a base body, a control device and first and second oscillation transducers fastened at a distance from one another on the base body. The first and/or the second oscillation transducer is controlled by the control device to excite an oscillation of a side wall of the measurement tube when a contact face of the measurement module is coupled to the side wall of the measurement tube directly or via a coupling layer. The oscillation of the side wall excites compression oscillations of the fluid, which are conducted through the fluid to the respective other oscillation transducer and recorded the control device to determine a measurement quantity. The fluid quantity can be determined by the control device in dependence on the measurement quantity.

Abstract: A method for identifying deviations in quantity in the case of a fluidic metering system (100-165), in particular an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, in which at least one conveying pump (125) for conveying a fluid, and at least one pressure sensor (135) for determining a fluidic pressure in the metering system (100-165), are disposed, wherein it is provided in particular that a test admeasurement of fluid is carried out (205), that a temporal pressure drop in the metering system (100-165) is detected (210), that the detected temporal pressure drop is compared with a pressure drop (215) that is to be theoretically expected (220), and that a deviation in quantity of the metering system (100-165) is determined based on the result of the comparison (225).

Abstract: A device and method for the non-formatted weighing of a group of products. The products rest either on a positioning surface or on a supporting surface and, due to the relative movement of the two surfaces with respect to one another, are transferred from one surface to the other surface. By the acquisition of the weight of at least one of the two surfaces, the weight of each individual product can be determined.

Abstract: A WIM system for detecting loads of vehicles on a roadway segment when a crossing wheel of a vehicle crosses a WIM sensor includes a WIM sensor arranged in the roadway segment and having a section that is flush with the roadway surface. The WIM sensor includes an elongated profile extending along a longitudinal axis and defining at least one space in which is arranged at least one force sensor, which is configured to generate a force sensor signal that corresponds to a dynamic ground reaction force to the crossing wheel. The WIM system includes at least one acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the road surface of the roadway segment in which the WIM sensor is arranged in at least one spatial direction and that accordingly provides an acceleration sensor signal indicative of the deflection of the roadway segment along the one spatial direction.

Abstract: An apparatus including a first storage tank, a frame positioned at least partially beneath the first storage tank, a first lever having a first end and a second end, and the first lever is pivotally mounted to the frame; and a first scale system positioned beneath the first storage tank, wherein in a first position, the first storage tank exerts a force against the first scale system, and wherein in a second position, the second end of the lever exerts a force on a bottom surface of the first storage tank such that the first storage tank is positioned above, and out of contact with, the first scale system, when the first storage tank is in the second position.

Abstract: A weigh module (100) comprises a load cell (4), a supporting member (1), a connecting member (23) and a sealing member (3). The supporting member (1) comprises a receiving hole (13) extending vertically and thoroughly. The connecting member (23) comprises a fixing end (231) fixed to the load cell (4) and a limiting end (232) extending into the receiving hole (13). The limiting end (232) is configured to prevent the supporting member (1) from getting rid of the connecting member (23). The sealing member (3) comprises a first end (311) fixed to the supporting member (1), a second end (321) fixed to the load cell (4) and a raised portion (323).

Abstract: The invention relates to a kitchen scale comprising a carrying plate (1), a substructure (2) supporting the carrying plate, weighing cells (6) comprising at least one strain gauge (10), an electronics unit (4), which is capable of computing the weight of the load, and comprising a display device for displaying the ascertained weight and a battery compartment for accommodating a voltage source which supplies the electronics unit (4) with power. The weighing cell (6) has at least one strain gauge, which is at least partially provided with a parylene coating.