Balance with force support

US5525762A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Sartorius AG · DE

Inventors

• Gunther Maaz · Uslar, DE
• Matthias Eger · Wollbrandshausen, DE
• Werner Schulze · Göttingen, DE
• Christoph Berg · Oettingen, DE
• Michael Müller · Hennef (Sieg), DE
• Eberhard Lubke · Hardegsen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 1995
• Grant date: Jun 11, 1996
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01G21/244
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed is a balance with a first parallel guide (3, 3') which resiliently connector a load receiver (2) to an area (5, 5') fixed to the housing and which is resiliently deformed under the influence of the weight to be measured, and with a second, softer parallel guide (8) which is connected by its one end to the load receiver (2) and by its other (11) end via a force receiver which is at least approximately without displacement to the area (5, 5') fixed to the housing and which transfers as a result thereof a fraction of the force of the weight onto the force measuring receiver that both parallel guides (3, 3', 8) exhibit at least approximately the same height and the same length and are arranged close to one another laterally. The second parallel guide is advantageously locate between two partial areas (3, 5, and 3', 5') of the first parallel guide.