Method and device for measuring the length and weight of a body
AssigneeSeca AG
InventorMarc-Oliver Von Maydell
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Abstract
A method and device for simultaneously measuring the mass and the height of a body, wherein the measurement of the body mass is carried out by measuring the deformation of at least one deformable element, during which a scale platform is lowered, and the height measurement is realized as an absolute distance measurement relative to the scale platform, so that the distance measurement is subject to an error equal to the amount by which the scale platform is lowered. The error-prone distance measurement is converted by a correction factor into a height measurement value the absolute value of which corresponds to the averaged lowering of the scale platform.
Claims13
A method for simultaneously measuring mass and height of a body, comprising the steps of:
- measuring the body mass by measuring deformation of at least one deformable element, during which a scale platform is lowered;
- and realizing the height measurement as an absolute distance measurement relative to the scale platform, so that the distance measurement is subject to an error equal to an amount by which the scale platform is lowered, wherein the error-prone distance measurement is converted by a correction factor into a height measurement value that corresponds to an averaged lowering of the scale platform.
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