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Electronic scale with display disablement

US7563994B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Sartorius AG · DE

Inventors

Jean-Claude Bertoldi · Oettingen, DE
Klaus Fuelscher · Oettingen, DE
Rainer Kirchhoff · Herzberg, DE
Swen Weitemeier · Hedingsen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 6, 2008
Grant date	Jul 21, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 6, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01G23/00
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An electronic scale (1) with a display unit (9), at least one control button (11 . . . 14), a digital signal processing unit (5) and a digital interface (7) to a higher-level electronic data processing (EDP) system (15). The digital signal processing unit (5) has an activatable switch or program part for locking the scale. This switch or part releases the display of the weighing result only for as long as the higher-level EDP system (15) communicates with the scale (1) and locks the display at other times. The activation of the switch or part for the locking process is stored in a power-failure-proof memory (21).

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