Patent ID: 11893665
Assignee: METTLER-TOLEDO (ALBSTADT) GMBH
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for displaying, during an operation of filling a material into a container, an evolution of a measured current filling quantity of the material from an initial filling quantity to a target filling quantity, the method comprising the steps of:
measuring measured current filling quantity, using a measurement means; and
displaying a first pointer on a display means, where the first pointer has a position on the display means that represents the measured current filling quantity as a monotonic function of the measured current filling quantity, wherein the position of the first pointer is defined as a first function of the measured current filling quantity when the measured current filling quantity is in a first range from the starting filling quantity to a lower limit quantity, and the position of the first pointer is defined as a second function of the measured current filling quantity, different from the first function, when the measured current filling quantity is in a second range from the lower limit quantity to the target filling quantity;
wherein the first pointer has an artificial pointer speed and an artificial pointer acceleration during the operation of filling;
wherein the artificial pointer speed corresponds to a first derivative of the function defining the position of the first pointer with respect to the measured filling quantity and the artificial pointer acceleration corresponds to a second derivative of the function defining the position of the first pointer with respect to the measured filling quantity;
wherein the first function is such that the artificial pointer speed is a strictly increasing function for at least an extended subrange of the measured current filling quantity in the range between the starting filling quantity and the target filling quantity, wherein an endpoint of the subrange is defined by the lower limit quantity.