Measuring and testing – Dynamometers – Responsive to multiple loads or load components
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-05
2011-04-05
Caputo, Lisa M (Department: 2855)
Measuring and testing
Dynamometers
Responsive to multiple loads or load components
Reexamination Certificate
active
07918143
ABSTRACT:
The present disclosure is directed to a platform balance that is suitable for transmitting forces and moments in a plurality of directions. The platform balance is adapted to support a test specimen, such as a large vehicle, in a test environment such as a wind tunnel. The platform balance includes a frame support and at least three spaced-apart transducers coupled to the frame support. Each of the transducers is sensitive about two orthogonal sensed axes. The transducers cooperate to provide signals indicative of forces and moments with respect to at least two orthogonal axes. Each transducer includes a transducer body having a support coupled to a sensor body along an axis of compliance. The sensor body is adapted to deflect about the two orthogonal sensed axes where the sensed axes are mutually orthogonal to the axis of compliance.
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Kunsch Ian T.
Meyer Richard A.
Olson Douglas J.
Caputo Lisa M
Davis Octavia
Koehler Steven M.
MTS Systems Corporation
Westman Champlin & Kelly P.A.
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