Patent ID: 7429705

Claim:
Weighing module, comprising: a load receiver; and a weighing cell connected to the load receiver by a force-transmitting rod, wherein the weighing module is arranged inside a design space whose dimensions in a plane extending orthogonal to a load direction are limited by design spaces occupied by neighboring weighing cells or represent the largest dimension of the weighing cell in said plane, and wherein said weighing cell includes: a parallel-guiding mechanism which has at least one movable parallel leg connected to the force-transmitting rod and at least one stationary parallel leg, and wherein said parallel legs are arranged relative to each other at a predefined guiding distance and are connected to each other by at least one upper parallel-guiding member and at least one lower parallel-guiding member, the force-transmitting rod being arranged substantially geometrically centrally within the parallel guiding mechanism; wherein: an actual stretched-out length or length of bending-stress-neutral core fibers of the parallel-guiding members, inclusive of the connecting areas to the parallel legs and, if applicable, inclusive of thin flexure joints belonging to the parallel-guiding members, is larger than said guiding distance, and wherein the movable parallel leg does not protrude out of the design space of the weighing module.