Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
177250140 | Multiplying or dividing scales | 22 |
20090057036 | PRECISION GAUGE FOR LIQUID FUEL IN A VEHICLE'S TANK - Precision gauge for liquid fuel in a vehicle's tank, based on the usage of electronic scales, a computer, the odometer and an electronic circuit based on the tank weight previous to the loading (Weight | 03-05-2009 |
20110005842 | Food Scale that measures specific volume and weight from preprogrammed densities while compiling nutritional data of used ingredients from stored data. - Scale that can measure volume of many foods and ingredients based on density calculations and input of mass from scale. User able to input desired quantity, unit of measurement, and food item by both keypad on unit and or voice recognition. User is then guided to the addition of specified ingredient to targeted amount by visual and auditory indication. The food scale compiles the nutritional information of all used ingredients from programmed nutritional data for the user's knowledge. The food scale is capable of listing ingredient substitutions and storing recipes as well as prompting for additional ingredients in a preprogrammed recipe. | 01-13-2011 |
20120312605 | COMMODITY SEARCH DEVICE AND COMMODITY INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A commodity search device includes a storage unit, a measuring unit, a number input unit, a unit average weighing value calculator, and a first commodity search unit. The storage unit stores commodity information including a reference unit weight determined for each commodity. The measuring unit measures a total weight of commodities placed at a predetermined weighing position. The number input unit allows inputting the number of the weighed commodities. The unit average weighing value calculator divides the total weight of the commodities weighed by the measuring unit by the number input by the number input unit to calculate a unit average weighing value per one commodity. The first commodity search unit searches for commodities falling within a weight deviation from the storage unit using the unit average weighing value. | 12-13-2012 |
20130306382 | WEIGHING APPARATUS - To provide a weighing apparatus by which it is possible for a user himself/herself to determine poor performance of the apparatus is a factor attributable to an installation environment, and the weighing accuracy is improved. Respective temporal fluctuations in weighed data detected from a load measuring mechanism | 11-21-2013 |
177250150 | Price | 9 |
20080245581 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALERTING AN OPERATOR - A system for alerting an operator of a weighing apparatus is described. The weighing apparatus may be capable of displaying a message in a message area to an operator. The message may be displayed in response to a command sent from a remote device. | 10-09-2008 |
20080277168 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A CUSTOMER - Described embodiments relate to systems and methods for providing information to a customer. A weigh station has an input module for receiving a product identifier corresponding to a product and a scale for weighing the product. A storage module stores product information for a plurality of products. An information retrieval module identifies a related information profile from the product information based on the product identifier. An interactive customer display displays visual information based on the related information profile to the customer, which includes a plurality of customer-selectable items. The interactive customer display includes a customer-operated input module operable by the customer to select a selected item from the plurality of customer-selectable items. | 11-13-2008 |
20100000801 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECIPES ON A SCALE - A weighing scale adapted to automatically present one or more recipes to a user thereof, and a method of presenting such recipes. The recipes are preferably, but not necessarily, related in some way to a product being weighed or otherwise examined by the weighing scale. A recipe software application selects one or more recipes from a database of recipes and presents the recipes on one or more display devices of the weighing scale. One or more of the presented recipes may be selected by a user for delivery in one or more forms. Recipes may be delivered to a user according to the present invention, by one or more of providing the user with a printout of the selected recipe(s), by emailing the selected recipe(s) to a user, and/or by providing the user with a website URL from which the selected recipe(s) can be downloaded. | 01-07-2010 |
20100084200 | FOOD PRODUCT PRICING SCALE WITH AUTOMATED MULTI-LANGUAGE INTERFACE - A scale, such as a food product scale in a perishables department of a store, identifies an operator via an RF detection system, or other operator identification system, and displays information on the scale user interface in a preferred language for the identified operator. | 04-08-2010 |
20110079447 | Adjustable Media Width Sensor for a Mailing Machine - An illustrative mailing machine is provided including at least one adjustable optical media width sensor that may be reconfigured for differing postal rating requirements. The media width sensor subassembly has a narrow linear sensor window that is positioned perpendicular to the path of travel of the mail piece. The media width sensor subassembly includes a sensor carriage mount and width measurement scale for facilitating the accurate placement of the adjustable, but secure when placed, sensor carriage. The sensor carriage slidably engages a mount and is spring biased into a locking mechanism in the underside of the media width sensor locating scale. | 04-07-2011 |
20110147095 | MAILING MACHINE TRANSPORT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRAL SCALE FOR WEIGHING MAIL PIECES - A transport system that reduces the amount of oscillation of the weighing platform thereby weighing mail pieces faster. A take-away nip of the weighing module is formed by a pivot arm having a roller mounted thereon and a drive roller mounted in the weighing platform. The take-away nip feeds mail pieces from the weighing platform to the subsequent module of the mailing machine. The pivot arm has a biasing mechanism with a force that results in less impact force between the pivot arm roller and drive roller when the trailing edge of each mail piece passes through the take-away nip, resulting in less vibration of the weighing platform as mail pieces exit the weighing platform. The reduction in vibration results quicker settling of the weighing platform during weighing of subsequent mail piece, allowing for faster weighing of the mail pieces, which increases the throughput of the mailing machine. | 06-23-2011 |
20110303468 | PRODUCE TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A produce transaction system and method which is located in a produce section of a store. The produce transaction system includes a scale below a container in a produce section of a store, the container storing a single type of produce item, and a computer coupled to the scale for receiving a weight decrease signal from the scale when a customer removes an amount of the single type of produce item from the scale and for storing produce purchase information associated with the single type of produce item for later retrieval by a checkout computer. | 12-15-2011 |
20120000714 | FOOD PRODUCT SCALE AND RELATED PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A product pricing and incentive system uses a label supply in which continuous label stock has a series of laterally extending weakening lines spaced apart to define multiple label segments of common size. Single segment labels or multiple segment labels can be printed and output by a printing device based on whether an incentive-free product pricing label is to be produced or a combined product pricing and incentive label is to be produced. | 01-05-2012 |
20140020961 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING WEIGHING FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC WEIGHING SYSTEM USING SAME - A portable electronic device includes a housing, a pressure sensor, a signal processing module, an analog-to-digital converting module, a processor, and a setting keypad. The housing supports an object to be weighed. The pressure sensor is mounted on the housing and outputs an analog voltage signal that varies with a pressure exerted on the pressure sensor. The signal processing module amplifies and filters the analog voltage signal. The analog-to-digital converting module converts the analog voltage signal into a digital signal. The processor calculates a weight exerted on the pressure sensor according to the digital signal and calibrates the weight of the pressure sensor when the setting keypad is activated. | 01-23-2014 |
177250160 | Calorie counting | 3 |
20100038149 | Device and System for Calculating and displaying the Calories in a Meal by a Built In Weigh-Scale and Computer Program in a Kitchen Plate or a Spoon - A system for calculating the calories in a meal by a kitchen plate or spoon with a built in weigh-scale and dedicated software to support a computer program for calculating the number of calories in a meal or portions of the meal according to the weight of specific kind of food. The program might calculate the number of calories in every bite, specific kind of food, and or the whole meal, remembering this information and providing it with accordance to the wishes and needs of the user. | 02-18-2010 |
20100258356 | Refrigerator for obese persons - This is a modified fridge ( | 10-14-2010 |
20110168456 | Food calorie counting system - The food calorie counting system relates to a calorie counting system that utilizes a container with at least one chamber for holding food materials, sensitive scales integrated into the chambers to weigh the food, and a processor to calculate the number of calories in the food items based on weight, type of food and method of preparation. The number of calories is then displayed on a display device to a user. The system may be used as a stand-alone device, or may further utilize an external central control unit where information from the container is transmitted to the external control unit for processing, food calorie calculation and transmission back to the containers for display. | 07-14-2011 |
177250170 | Counting | 6 |
20090065264 | ELECTRONIC BALANCE - To enhance the precision in balancing measurement, an electronic balance is provided. The electronic balance includes a door open/close detection sensor | 03-12-2009 |
20090183926 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE MASS OF POSTAL ARTICLES TRANSFERRED IN SUCCESSION ALONG A PATH - Method and device for determining the mass of postal articles transferred in succession; according to the method, the postal articles are transferred along a path having a change of direction, which entails an acceleration on the postal articles; at least one quantity is measured indicating of the force of reaction to the inertia of the postal articles associated to said acceleration so as to determine then the mass of the postal articles. | 07-23-2009 |
20090301791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUNT BY WEIGHT CORRECTION - A method and apparatus for counting nominally identical articles employs weighing apparatus, which comprises a load hod ( | 12-10-2009 |
20100065340 | ELECTRONIC BALANCE - An electronic balance is provided, which adequately exhibits quick response and displaying stability when being used to measure a number of objects. The electronic balance includes a number-of-objects calculating section, for counting a number (Nwa) of objects from the moving average (Wa) and the unit weight (Wu) when the moving average process is being executed and counting a number (Nw) of objects from the load value (W) and the unit weight (Wu) when the moving average process stops; and a display section, for displaying the calculated numbers (Nw, Nwa) of the to-be-measured objects. | 03-18-2010 |
20100147599 | Counting Scale with Multilevel Hinkley Detector - Counting scale with a multilevel Hinkley detector that can recognize the jumps of a very noisy signal s(t) from an average value (standard level) to a new average value. The measured signal s(t) is tested for several hypothetical jump sizes m | 06-17-2010 |
20110036644 | PILL COUNTER - The pill counter of the present invention, counts pills by measuring the weight of individual or a small number of pills as they gradually drop onto a weight scale. During the time between each pill drop, the count is obtained by comparing the weight of latest pills dropped to the expected weight ranges of one or more pills. The expected weight range includes pill weight variation and weight scale error. When the measured weight is between two expected ranges, there is at least one broken pill in addition to the whole pill count of the lower expected range. The counter adds the count of each pill drop to obtain the total count of the pills. In different approach, whenever there is a change in the reading of weight scale more than the error of the weight scale or a predetermined value, the count of pills is increased by one. | 02-17-2011 |