Electronic scales configured to determine a profile and perform a weighing operation, and associated method

US7705249B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sartorius AG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer RINDERMANN · Oettingen, DE
• Jan Von Steuben · Oettingen, DE
• Thomas Pertsch · Oettingen, DE
• Apolonija Kordes · Oettingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 15, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01G23/3707
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Electronic scales having an integrated computer including a display for presenting information to a user, an input unit for entering selection data by a user, a memory for storing a plurality of activatable profiles as sets of parameter values for assignment to corresponding sets of parameters, and a data processing unit for controlling the display, the input unit, and the memory, and for determining and processing measured values in accordance with the current activated profile. The measured values are generated during a weighing operation by the user. To determine a profile, a user is requested, over a plurality of successive steps, to select one of several options presented by the display, the combination of the options presented in a step being dependent on the selection made in the preceding step. Then, during the weighing operation, the user is requested, again, over a plurality of successive steps, to perform an action presented by the display. A request, is a function of the type of actual current activated profile, and is made only if the action requested in the preceding step is confirmed as carried out.