Indicator Structure Patents (Class 177/173)
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Patent number: 11064915Abstract: A device that enables an assessment or a management of a medical condition in a patient, includes a base member comprising a pair of surface spaced apart from each other to define a thickness of the base member. The base member can be provided as an elongated base member. Markings are disposed on one surface from the pair of surfaces of the elongated base member along a length of the elongated base member. An array of targets is provided with targets being disposed, during use of the device, below a bottom edge of the elongated base member. Coupling members are also provided with each coupling member coupling a respective target from the array of targets to the elongated base member for a reciprocal linear movement along the length of the elongated base member. The device can be affixed to a structure or provided as a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventor: Norman L Johnson
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Patent number: 10274362Abstract: The invention discloses a measuring device for measuring the mass of a weight, comprising: a main frame; a main beam supported on main frame; a balancing system loaded on one end of the main beam; a weighting system, loaded on the other end of the main beam; a weight transportation system capable of transporting and loading a standard weight or a test weight into the weighting system and capable of unloading and transporting them away from the weighting system; and a control system comprising an optical sensor mounted in the main frame, a laser displacement sensor mounted on the main beam, a monitor, and a control unit connected electrically to the optical sensor, the laser displacement sensor and the monitor. The control system is adapted to compare a main beam first displacement data obtained by the optical sensor and a main beam second displacement data obtained by the laser displacement sensor to accurately measure the actual displacement of the main beam.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGYInventors: Jian Wang, Changqing Cai, Xiaoping Ren, Tao Li, Manhong Hu, Xiaolei Wang, Honglei Ji, Xiang Wang, Ping Chen
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Patent number: 10254153Abstract: A weight scale (100) for assisting with management of congestive heart failure and other ailments includes a housing (101) that can define a substantially flat planar surface (102). A weight measurement device (202) measures a weight of a user. A control circuit (201) stores in a memory (203) a first predefined weight threshold (205) and a second predefined weight threshold (206). The scale includes light sources (107,108,109) operable with the control circuit to selectively present one of three color-coded indications. When the weight is between the below the first predefined weight threshold, the light sources present a first color indication. When the weight is between the first predefined weight threshold and the second predefined weight threshold, the light sources present a second color indication. When the weight is above the second predefined weight threshold, the light sources present a third color indication.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Martie Moore, Derek Roberts
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Patent number: 9562805Abstract: A scale includes a load detection unit detecting a load to a placing unit, a storage unit storing a zero point in advance, a calculation/control unit calculating a load calculation value using a load signal corresponding to the load to the placing unit, based on an output of the load detection unit, and a display unit displaying the load calculation value. When a load is applied to the placing unit, the calculation/control unit calculates a loading state load calculation value based on the load signal in a loading state and the zero point of the storage unit. Subsequently, when the load is removed from the placing unit in a non-loading state, the calculation/control unit calculates a non-loading state load calculation value based on load signals in the loading and non-loading states, and displays the non-loading state load calculation value on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: TANITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kosei Fukada, Masayuki Kenmochi, Kazuyasu Koyama
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Patent number: 9212945Abstract: A portable luggage scale (20) comprising a lifting handle (22) or grip, a luggage support (24), a housing (28), a spring based weighing mechanism (26) within the housing (28), a weight indicating dial (30), the weight indicating dial (30) being adapted for movement relative to the housing (28) in response to spring reactions of the spring based weighing mechanism (26), and a measured weight indicating marker (36) for indicating a measured weight, that weight being readable off the dial (30) at the location of the marker (36). The lifting handle (22) can be telescopic, and the luggage support (24) can be a loop (42) of webbing.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: DG International Holdings LimitedInventors: Barnaby Bevan Edwards, Steven Richard Spong
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Patent number: 9157787Abstract: An interactive body weight scale is presented. The body weight scale may have computing and data communication ability to track a user's weight by connecting to a number of different electronic devices. The body weight scale is capable of recording an audio message, converting the audio message to message text, and transmitting the message to a remote social network. The scale may also receive message responses from the remote network and play the messages back based on whether a particular message is a positive message. A scale use indicator provides a reminder for a user to use the body weight scale.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: BBY Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Anshuman Sharma
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Patent number: 7607401Abstract: Load-bearing devices, each including an overload indicator of the present invention interconnecting load bearing connectors, preferably elongated load bearing connectors are provided. In preferred embodiments, the load bearing connectors are chains, ropes, wire ropes, cables, straps and the like, preferably chain. The overload indicator includes a link having a strand of wire form material. The strand of wire form material having first and second portions, the first portion having a first strength; the second portion including a weaker segment having a second strength which is less than the first strength. The weaker segment preferably has a generally predetermined load bearing capacity or capability and is calibrated to reduce the load bearing capacity or capability of the overload indicator. Methods of making an overload indicator and a load bearing device including an overload indicators of the present invention are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Peerless Chain CompanyInventor: John McCauley
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Patent number: 7544902Abstract: A lift measurement system is provided for determining a position of a load during a lift operation. The system includes a display that includes a scale and encloses a movable indicator that moves relative to the scale. A linkage is in communication with the load and the scale, such that movement of the load is translated to movement of the indicator relative to the scale to provide an indication of the position of the load. A plurality of displays and linkages may be installed at various load support zones such that the relative position of the corresponding indicators provides feedback related to the orientation of the load.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Actuant CorporationInventor: Frantz D. Stanford
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Patent number: 7316169Abstract: Load-bearing devices, each including an overload indicator of the present invention interconnecting load bearing connectors, preferably elongated load bearing connectors are provided. In preferred embodiments, the load bearing connectors are chains, ropes, wire ropes, cables, straps and the like, preferably chain. The wire form overload indicator preferably includes a modified wire form link, preferably either a modified welded link or a modified quick link, generally having a first thickness and first and second elongated sides. The modified link preferably includes two elongated sides, one of which preferably has a portion having a diminished thickness narrower than the first thickness. The diminished thickness preferably has a generally predetermined load bearing capacity or capability and is calibrated to reduce the load bearing capacity or capability of the overload indicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Peerless Chain CompanyInventor: John McCauley
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Patent number: 7129426Abstract: A weight scale with hybrid graduation includes an elastic element, a carrier mounted to the lower end of the elastic element, an indicator block mounted between the elastic element and the carrier, and a graduated housing for receiving the elastic element and the indicator block. The indicator block includes at least one auxiliary graduation. The graduated housing includes at least one primary graduation having a unit different from that of the auxiliary graduation. A weight of an object attached to the carrier is measured through vertical relative movement between the primary graduation and the auxiliary graduation to provide more accurate measuring result.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Inventor: Huang-Lin Wang
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Patent number: 7122750Abstract: A mechanical weighing scale having mechanical parts driving a pointer rotating around a fixed disc or dial having slots or holes formed therein. The mechanical pointer operates to provide an analog display of one's weight to the user. An optical sensor system is responsive to the mechanical motion of the mechanically-rotating pointer as it passes over each of the holes or slots for determining a number of counts associated with the mechanical motion of the rotating pointer and translating the counts to a corresponding weight value for display onto a digital display.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Inventor: Steven Petrucelli
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Patent number: 7032466Abstract: A load-bearing device including an overload indicator and a wire form overload indicator are provided for interconnection of load bearing connectors, preferably elongated load bearing connectors, for bearing a load. In preferred embodiments, the load bearing connectors are chains, ropes, wire ropes, cables, straps and the like, preferably chain. The wire form overload indicator preferably includes a wire form quick-link having a first thickness, and first and second elongated sides. The first elongated side preferably includes an interconnectable gap through which connection loops of the load bearing connectors can pass when the interconnectable gap is unconnected. The interconnectable gap includes a connection end and a connectable end, the connecting end having a connector capable of connecting the connecting end to the connectable end to close the gap. The second elongated side preferably has a portion having a diminished thickness as compared to the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Peerless ChainInventor: John J. McCauley
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Patent number: 6781067Abstract: A body weigh scale that mounts into a floor of a room, for example in the floor of a bathroom, and that is designed to receive tiles or other floor covering materials thereon. A weighing mechanism of the body weigh scale generates weight information and transmits that weight information to a remote countertop or wall mounted display. The display may normally show a clock or another displayed item, and may convert its view to show weight units when a user steps on a platform. The display may also be configured to receive medical information from other medical devices, such as blood glucose monitors, heart rate monitors, or blood pressure monitors. The medical information may be shown by the display, may be received by the display and transmitted to another computer (e.g., at a hospital), or may be stored in the display for later transmission or evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Sunbeam Products, Inc.Inventors: James G. Montagnino, Anson Wong, Ricardo Murguia
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Publication number: 20040149496Abstract: A digital type pointer indicator includes a signal output unit, a microprocessor unit, a digital display unit, and a pointer unit. The pointer unit includes a digital/analogue conversion control unit, a step motor, and a pointer. Thus, the digital type pointer indicator provides a digital indication manner and a pointer indication manner simultaneously, so that the user has two value reading manners, thereby facilitating the user identifying the value of the weight of the object to be measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Pin-Hsin Ho, Yu-Mei Chen
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Patent number: 6689964Abstract: A mechanical weighing scale having mechanical parts driving a pointer rotating around a fixed disc or dial having slots or holes formed therein. The mechanical pointer operates to provide an analog display of one's weight to the user. An optical sensor system is responsive to the mechanical motion of the mechanically-rotating pointer as it passes over each of the holes or slots for determining a number of counts associated with the mechanical motion of the rotating pointer and translating the counts to a corresponding weight value for display onto a digital display.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Measurement Specialties, Inc.Inventor: Steven Petrucelli
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Patent number: 6600110Abstract: A portable scale is provided that includes a fulcrum, a balance beam pivotally mounted on the fulcrum, the balance beam supporting a load pan on one end and including an elongated portion having a measurement strip extending along the elongated portion of the balance beam. The portable scale includes a dynamic weight movable along the elongated portion of the balance beam. The dynamic weight includes a display unit on the elongated portion of the balance beam for detecting the location of the dynamic weight along the measurement strip, for electrically converting the location to a weight measurement, and for displaying the weight measurement. The portable scale may include luminescent material.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Gram PrecisionInventors: Mohan Thadani, Peter Klein
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Publication number: 20030056994Abstract: A body weigh scale that displays a user's weight in a gravity system other than where the scale is being used, such as a planet, the sun, the moon, or another celestial body. The body weigh scale includes a conversion component that converts the user's weight to the other gravity system. In one embodiment, the scale utilizes a mechanical weighing mechanism, having an analog display, and also has a digital display, where weight information is generated, for example, by a pulse counter. The user's weight may be simultaneously displayed both in the “home” gravity system where the scale is used (e.g., the earth), and another, “away” gravity system (e.g., the sun). The display of the home weight may be via an analog dial, and the display of the away weight may be via a digital display such as an LCD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: Sunbeam Products, Inc.Inventors: James G. Montagnino, Janice M. Biang
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Patent number: 6410863Abstract: An apparatus which measures the body weight of an individual, comprising a platform for supporting the individual to be weighed; a plurality of sensors disposed within the platform for sensing a force exerted on the platform indicative of the weight of the individual and generating an analog signal proportional to the sensed force; electronic means for combining the analog signals from the plurality of sensors to form a combined electronic signal indicative of the weight of the individual; a processor for generating a digital signal based on the electronic signal for driving an electro mechanical actuator for displaying the measured body weight on a display device, the display device comprising a graduated dial having at least one concentrically arranged scale and a rotatable pointer, the pointer driven in rotation by the actuator according to the processor to a position on the graduated dial which corresponds to the measured body weight of the individual.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Measurement Specialties, Inc.Inventor: Mark Cappiello
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Patent number: 5986222Abstract: A hand-held electronic scale for weighing an object is provided. The scale includes display assembly pivotally connected to a handle assembly for viewing the weight of an object at an optimum viewing angle relative to the eyes of the individual. The object to be weighed being supported on a support member having a hook shaped first end adapted to transfer the force of the object supported thereon to a force sensor contained within the handle assembly and transmitting a value to a micro-controller for generating an alphanumeric readout representing the weight of the object for viewing on an electronic display contained within a display assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Zorix InternationalInventor: Gary L. Helberg
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Patent number: 5895893Abstract: A combination flight simulating mobile device and scale formed in appearance of a variety of different birds, or like flying creatures, that may be fabricated from steel sheet or like material, readily assembled, and balanced in such manner that when suspended, the weight of the wings (12 and 14) of the bird is used to counterbalance both the body (10) of the bird and the weight of a lightweight object (74), such as an envelope, and provide a measurement of the object's weight and a realistic replication of a creature in flight.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Inventor: John McMillian
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Patent number: 5895892Abstract: A mechanical load indicator device continuously monitors the position of the frame of a vehicle relative to some point on the vehicle suspension. The load indicator device is calibrated to be triggered when a certain vehicle load limit is reached. When that load limit is reached or exceeded, the device is "triggered," providing an unambiguous visual indication to the vehicle operator that a vehicle overload condition has occurred. A method of installing, operating, and calibrating an overload detection system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: Interpool LimitedInventor: George John Braun
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Patent number: 5811739Abstract: A bale weighing device for use with a mobile baler is disclosed. The weighing device comprises a support structure which is attached to the baler and pivotably supports a pivot shaft. Two balance arms are rigidly attached to the pivot shaft and support a bale chute. One of the balance arms has a forward end and a rear end which form an angle in the balance arm. The bale chute is attached to the baler by a double hinge which allows the bale chute to move vertically relative to the baler. When a bale is resting in the bale chute, the forward end of the balance arm moves upward and a pointer indicates the relative weight of the bale on a gauge. An electronic position sensor may also be used to indicate the weight of the bale.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1997Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Inventor: Donald Palmore
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Patent number: 4591011Abstract: An optical display is provided to guide the operator during metering of a substance to a desired value. The desired value is entered into a computer and the substance to be metered is applied to a balance. The display is in the form of a clock having a coarse and fine indicator hand. During the coarse metering at the start of the metering cycle, the coarse metering hand is rotated at a first rotational speed relative to the metering rate, i.e. the rate at which the substance is being applied to the balance. During the fine metering phase, namely when the weight on the balance approaches the desired weight, either the same or another hand moves at a rotational speed relative to the metering rate which exceeds the first rotational speed, thereby expanding the sector over which the hand moves while a given amount of the substance is being applied. This greatly facilitates the operator's control over the process and decreases the possibilities that excess weight is added.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1984Date of Patent: May 27, 1986Assignee: Mettler Instrumente AGInventor: Arthur Baumann
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Patent number: 4462475Abstract: A weighing scale is provided in which a horizontally disposed weighing platform contains a weighing scale dial on a side of said platform so that it can be read both from directly above and from the side, and means for transmitting weight response from a weighing mechanism mounted beneath said platform to said dial.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1982Date of Patent: July 31, 1984Assignee: Continental Scale CorporationInventor: Walter P. Kushmuk
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Patent number: 4223750Abstract: The weighing instrument has a receiving tray and an index mark displaceable in front of a fixed dial graduated in weight. It comprises means enabling the user to place, in a position enabling it to operate in association with said index mark, any one of several removable scales which are calibrated, for categories of foods of similar characteristics, in at least one of the magnitudes involved in dietetics and proportional to the weight of the foodstuffs placed on the tray. The instrument is useful in feeding in cases of obesity, diabetes, low calorie, low sugar, low protein, low fat or low residue, etc. diets.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1978Date of Patent: September 23, 1980Assignees: Jean-Jacques Menage, Francois Le BarsInventor: Jean-Claude Perego
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Patent number: 4149605Abstract: In known scales, switching from a fine to a course measurement range automatically decreases the resolution by at least one place. Since the change in range takes place in dependence upon the total weight applied to the scale, displayed values after taring still lack at least one significant digit relative to the fine indication. In the present invention this digit is reactivated automatically upon activation of the tare key if the weight after taring is less than the predetermined fine range limiting weight.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1978Date of Patent: April 17, 1979Assignee: Mettler Instrumente AGInventors: Erhard Mettler, Hans Frey
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Patent number: 4083418Abstract: A beam weighing scale is provided wherein the index bars of the beam are rotatable so that different types of weight units can be displayed such as ounces and pounds, on the one hand, or grams and kilograms, on the other, or different values of the same weight units, for example, 0.1 pound and 0.25 pound. The sensitivity can also be altered by varying the center of gravity of the index bar and poise assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1977Date of Patent: April 11, 1978Assignee: Continental Scale CorporationInventors: William Y. Hutchinson, Walter P. Kushmuk
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Patent number: 4023631Abstract: An adjustable balance and indicating device for removably attaching to a beam scale of the type having a balance beam with a distended end thereof movable in an oscillating plane and having further a support adjacent the balance beam. The adjustable balance and indicating device includes a bracket for removably mounting to the support adjacent the balance beam and a coupler having a first end coupled to the balance beam and a second end spaced therefrom. The balancing and indicating device also includes an indicator for illustrating the displacement of the second end of the coupler from a reference position representative of the balance beam being in a balancing condition. A deformable member is included for providing a biasing force on the second end of the coupler to displace the second end to the reference position, thereby balancing the balance beam of the balance beam scale.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1975Date of Patent: May 17, 1977Inventor: Donald R. Langevin