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7620521 |
Dynamic weight sensing and classification of vehicular occupants
Arrangement and method for classifying an occupying item in a seat includes at least one force sensor arranged to measure the force applied to the seat at time intervals, and a processor coupled to...
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7620520 |
Methods for determining weight of a person
A method for monitoring fractional weight supported by one foot of a person, comprising the steps of adhering a movement monitor device underneath the foot such that the device is compressed when...
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7610167 |
Controlled material processing device, controller and method
A viscous material processing system comprises a feed system controller having a set of instructions to store an input set point weight or amount; sense a progressing weight or amount of material...
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7596453 |
Digital scale
A digital scale is provided that switches a measuring interval according to the amount of variation of sampled data, and computes a weight. Embodiments include a scale with pre-stored scale...
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7593830 |
Controlled material processing method
A viscous material processing system comprises a feed system controller having a set of instructions to store an input set point weight or amount; sense a progressing weight or amount of material...
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7584073 |
Method for checking the appropriateness of a mass value of an aircraft
A method for checking the appropriateness of an aircraft ground mass value M s , communicated to a flight management system of the aircraft by a crew member of the aircraft or by an airline...
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7581876 |
Dual energy source loss-on-drying instrument
An instrument and associated method are disclosed for the loss-on-drying determination of the volatile content of a wide variety of samples. The instrument includes a cavity in which a sample for...
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7536272 |
Method and device for estimating the total mass of a motor vehicle
A method for estimating the total mass of a motor vehicle by a recursive least squares algorithm. The method involves a vehicle longitudinal acceleration computing according to a fundamental...
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7526376 |
In-vehicle determination of the relative center of gravity height
Relative center of gravity height in a motor vehicle changes from a nominal value to an actual value depending upon vehicle loading. Method and apparatus for determining actual relative center of...
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7522397 |
Input/output interface with current sensing
An interface circuit includes an input terminal, a controlled current sink, a current measurement arrangement, and a logic circuit. The input terminal is configured to receive an input signal. The...
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7516035 |
Method for the adaptive correction of drift phenomena in a force-measuring device, and force-measuring device
A method serves to correct drift phenomena, in particular creep effects, occurring in an electronic balance that has a measuring transducer through which a measuring signal is formed which is...
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7512520 |
Method for logging the performance of a vehicle suspension system
A method for logging the performance of a vehicle suspension system including the steps of measuring the dynamic effect of an impulsive load with an electronic weighing system, wherein the...
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7509228 |
Systems and methods for forecasting container density
A system and methods for estimating the size of a parcel based on a mathematical formula derived from other parcels within a size category. The system may include a variety of modules in...
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7467062 |
Reel mechanism with environmental and fish weighing sensors
A fishing reel with an integrated barometer sensor, a temperature sensor, and a weight sensor forming a sensorized fishing reel to enhance the fishing experience of an angler is disclosed. The...
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7446668 |
Vehicle occupant sensing system having a low profile sensor assembly
A low profile sensor assembly for use in a vehicle occupant sensing system that comprises a base, an upper slide member, and at least one intermediate guide member. Also disclosed is a low profile...
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7444244 |
Method and device for determining a variable characteristic of a mass that rests on the seating area of a seat
A method and a device allow to detect and optionally to indicate the improper use of a seat. For this purpose, an estimated value of a variable characteristic of a mass that rests on a seating area...
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7434459 |
Context acquisition based on load sensing
Methods and systems are described for sensing force information at a plurality of points on a continuous surface, and detecting contextual information about an object on the surface based on the...
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7430491 |
Tractor-trailer having self-contained apparatus on-board tractor for estimating trailer weight
A method and system for estimating weight of a trailer ( 10 ) being towed by a tractor ( 22 ) along a generally horizontal underlying surface. A portion of the trailer weight is borne on the...
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7418365 |
Method for verifying and/or detecting tampering
There is disclosed method of shipment verification and/or tamper detection, wherein a purchaser generates an ordering document such as a purchase order RFID-encoded with data identifying items on...
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7395183 |
Weight measuring device
A weight measuring device comprises a load detecting section for constantly detecting a load value (W) of a sample placed on a measuring pan; a moving average processing section for calculating a...
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7382267 |
Systems and methods for area activity monitoring and personnel identification
“Smartmat” (Smartmat Area Activity Monitor and Personnel Identification System) monitors and identifies people, animals and other objects that pass through a control volume. Among other...
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7366634 |
Gantry with auto-adjusting prestressing
A gantry to be used in the construction process of bridges, viaducts and other structures, which is equipped with a system that automatically adjusts the prestressing of the gantry's structure in...
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7359527 |
Combined occupant weight and spatial sensing in a vehicle
Method and system for obtaining and optionally utilizing information about an occupant of a vehicle includes a weight sensor system arranged in connection with a bottom portion of a seat on which...
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7353137 |
Shoe-based weight measuring system
A shoe-based weight measuring system, comprising: a shoe; one or more weight sensitive detectors constructed and arranged with the shoe to sense weight of a person wearing the shoe and walking or...
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7353136 |
Electronic drink coaster
A system for ordering drink refills, comprising a coaster body with a processor, a wireless transmitter and at least one button, the processor responding to user inputs to activate the wireless...
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7340373 |
Weight detecting apparatus for crane and crane having the same
A weight detecting apparatus for a crane includes a base machine comprising a lower traveling body and an upper rotating body; weights mounted on this base machine; ID (identification) tags which...
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7340372 |
Apparatus and method for investigating parameters of layers deposited on semiconductor wafers
In order to determine the dielectric constant of a layer deposited on a semiconductor wafer ( 2 ), the density of the layer is obtained. To obtain that density, the wafer ( 2 ) without the layer is...
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7305324 |
System and method for identifying, validating, weighing and characterizing moving or stationary vehicles and cargo
An asset identification and information infrastructure management (AI3M) device having an automated identification technology system (AIT), a Transportation Coordinators' Automated Information for...
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7289035 |
Seat folding apparatus with a passive radio frequency link and foreign object detection system
A seat folding apparatus is provided with a passive Rf frequency link that requires that a person be within a certain limited distance from the vehicle to operate the seat folding mechanism. A...
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7248996 |
Vehicle-occupant fatigue-level assessment method, vehicle seat assessment method, and vehicle seat assessment device
A highly reliable vehicle driver's fatigue evaluating method is provided, which is capable of quantitatively calculating a degree of fatigue of a driver seated on a seat. The degree of fatigue of...
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7247801 |
System and method for fast weighing of items such as mailpieces
A system and method for fast weighing of items such as mailpieces. The system includes a scale system having a platform connected to a load cell that provides an output signal to an...
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7225102 |
Reel mechanism with watertight electronics module
A fishing reel with an electronics module enclosed by an exterior housing of the fishing reel is disclosed. The electronics module provides a watertight environment for a plurality of circuits. The...
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7193163 |
Handheld electronic scale with background digital animation on display screen
The hand held scale of the present invention comprises a rectangular casing with a weighing platform, for supporting items to be weighed, a display screen, for displaying the weight of the objects...
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7158916 |
Method for analyzing net weights of packaged goods
A method for analyzing the net weight of packaged goods includes obtaining a sample lot having one or more samples of the packaged goods and recording a stated net weight value for each sample. A...
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7132953 |
Spring sensor assembly for a vehicle seat cushion
A sensor assembly for use in a vehicle seat cushion for detecting the presence of an occupant includes a first member defining an internal bore. A second member has a portion slidably disposed in...
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7120554 |
Method of determining and indicating airbag suppression status
An occupant weight-based airbag suppression method utilizes adjustable time constant filtering and dynamic threshold adjustment to reliably determine and indicate airbag suppression status. The...
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7107048 |
Inversion-conforming data sets processing
In lieu of the common practice of attempting to maximize the likelihood of sample deviations from unknown true values, representations of data inversions are generated by implementing optimizing...
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7096152 |
Method and apparatus for determining weight of moving mailpieces
The invention pertains to a mailpiece weight measuring apparatus for use with a high speed automatic mailpiece processing system. The weight measuring apparatus measures the inertial mass of the...
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7096151 |
Method for detecting tampering
There is disclosed method of detecting tampering with product packages, using an RFID transponder on the package, wherein the weight before shipment is encoded into the RFID transponder, and the...
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7079976 |
Dense object detection system and method
Provided herein is a method and system for detecting hidden dense objects in cargo containers including at least a cargo container platform with two-dimensional sensor arrays in juxtaposition...
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7072774 |
System and method for determining and employing consumable use by electric arc welders
A system and method for determining the approximate weight of metal consumables used by an electric arc welder over a period of welding time, the system comprises a program to calculate the total...
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7072763 |
Intelligent load distribution system
A vehicle information system has a first load sensor for generating a first load signal based on a first vehicle load. A first position sensor generates a first position signal based on a position...
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7026557 |
Apparatus and method for weighting objects on a fork lift truck
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for measuring the weight of an object being carried by a fork lift truck. Accurate weight is obtained by combining the measurements of the tension...
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7024295 |
Method and system for determining weight and position of a vehicle seat occupant
A method and system for determining weight and/or position of a vehicle seat occupant to be used for controlling the reaction of a safety restraint system. A plurality of spaced weight sensors are...
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7020577 |
Apparatus and method for investigating semiconductors wafer
In order to determine the dielectric constant of a layer deposited on a semiconducotr wafer ( 2 ), the density of the layer is obtained. To obtain that density, the wafer ( 2 ) without the layer is...
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7016804 |
Seat weighing device
A seat weighing device which is not readily affected by the heat, as well as maintaining stable sensitivity of a load sensor. Four deformation resistors are disposed on a sensor plate with the same...
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6990425 |
Automatic mattress selection system
A person shopping for a mattress is helped to select a physiologically suitable mattress by a system which uses a questionnaire to elicit important information from the person. The questionnaire is...
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6989494 |
Scale with memory display function
A scale equipped with a memory display section comprises, separately from a regular display section 19 for indicating a current measured value, additionally a memory display section 20 for...
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6985828 |
Loading-assisting apparatus for use with centrifuge
A loading-assisting apparatus for use with a centrifuge is provided with a measuring device configured to measure the weight of each of the object processing groups, a detector device configured to...
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6980925 |
Real-time signal processing for vehicle tire load monitoring
A system for real-time signal processing for vehicle monitoring, including a first device disposed in a tire of a vehicle and producing a signal that is a function of a tire contact time period,...
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