Inclination detecting method and apparatus for the same
AssigneeA&D Company, Limited
InventorsYoshikuni Sato, Yoshikazu Nagane, Satoshi Suzaki
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Abstract
An inclination of a weighing apparatus is automatically detected by the apparatus itself while preventing an increase in the number of components. In order to achieve the object described above, a weighing apparatus includes a weight sensor, a built-in weight to be loaded on the weight sensor, an adding/removing unit for adding/removing the built-in weight, a memory storing a theoretical value of the built-in weight, and an arithmetic processing unit, wherein the arithmetic processing unit includes an inclination angle computing unit configured to obtain an apparatus inclination angle from an arc-cosine of a weighing value of the built-in weight and the theoretical value of the built-in weight.
Claims14
A weighing apparatus comprising:
- a weight sensor;
- a built-in weight to be loaded on the weight sensor;
- an adding/removing unit for adding/removing the built-in weight;
- a memory storing a theoretical value of the built-in weight;
- and
- an arithmetic processing unit, wherein
- the arithmetic processing unit includes
- an inclination angle computing unit configured to obtain an apparatus inclination angle from an arc-cosine of a weighing value of the built-in weight and the theoretical value of the built-in weight.
An inclination detecting method comprising:
- a step (A) of adding/removing a built-in weight to/from a weight sensor;
- a step (B) of calculating a weighing value of the built-in weight;
- and
- a step (C) of obtaining an apparatus inclination angle from an arc-cosine of the weighing value of the built-in weight and a theoretical value of the built-in weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.