Measuring and testing – Dynamometers – Responsive to multiple loads or load components
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-06
2010-06-29
Noori, Max (Department: 2855)
Measuring and testing
Dynamometers
Responsive to multiple loads or load components
C073S862041
Reexamination Certificate
active
07743672
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a multiple axis load cell or controller in which axial and torsion measurements are decoupled while maximizing the outputs of both measurements. The active member of the load cell is a wheel with dual beams as the spokes. The wheel thus has four spokes or four beam members, each spoke is a pair of rectangular cross-section beams, orthogonal to each other. The beams have strain gages on the wide surfaces which measure the bending strain which is proportional to torsion or the axial input. There is an inner beam section and an outer beam section associated with each spoke and orthogonal to each other. The outer beams have the wide surface normal to the axis of the load cell. This beam section is more sensitive to the axial tension/compression input. The inner beam sections have their wide surface parallel to the axis of the load cell and are much less sensitive to bending but are sensitive to torsion. Therefore when a torsion or twisting motion is applied to the load cell, the inner beams with their wide surface parallel to the axis of the wheel are more sensitive and bend more. These beams experience bending as a result of the torsion input and have strain gages formed in a Wheatstone bridge arrangement to provide an output proportional to the torsion. The outer beams also have gages mounted thereon which are also wired in a Wheatstone bridge configuration and which Wheatstone bridge output of these gages are proportional to the axial force.
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Gardner Robert
Kane Adam
Kurtz Anthony D.
Martin Richard
Kulite Semiconductor Products Inc.
Noori Max
Pike Bernard G.
Schutz James E.
Troutman Sanders LLP
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