Monolithic flexible joint assembly, and bottom-loading balance

A monolithic flexure joint arrangement comprising a main body through which two pairs of channels, namely a first pair of channels and a second pair of channels, pass and which pairs of channels are aligned perpendicular to each other in a radial plane and intersect each other and a central axis normal to the radial plane in a center of the main body,

• wherein each of the pairs of channels has two individual through channels aligned parallel to one another, which are arranged with convexly curved channel wall portions facing one another and adjoining one another such that webs extending between the curved channel wall portions commonly form a flexure joint,
• wherein a central piece of the main body is pivotably articulated to an input piece, which is otherwise unconnected thereto, by a first flexure joint formed between the through-channels of the first pair of channels and is pivotably articulated to an output piece, which is otherwise unconnected thereto, by a second flexure joint formed between the through-channels of the second pair of channels, and
• wherein the input piece and/or the output piece is configured as a beam passing radially through the central piece.