Patent ID: 8436261
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: G01G,G01L

Abstract:
1. An improved mobile or vehicle mounted device for measuring weight or force comprising: a cantilever beam secured or affixed at one end to the vehicle or mobile platform, with an array of multiple gauges or sensors placed at known locations on or in said beam substantially near to a secured end, so as to detect a local tensile stress or strain and a local compressive stress or strain in the beam outboard of the sensors; wherein the ratios of outputs from the array of multiple gauges or sensors can be used to determine weight or force applied anywhere along said beam; where the local compressive stress and the local tensile stress are measured substantially simultaneously; where the individual sensors are pressed into a receiver hole formed or cut into the cantilever beam; where the receiver hole is formed around each sensor; and where each receiver hole substantially forms a cylindrical shape around each sensor.