Patent ID: 7220924

Claim:
A force-transmitting device in a force-measuring cell, comprising: a parallel-guiding mechanism, comprising a stationary parallelogram leg and a movably guided parallelogram leg, the respective parallelogram legs being connected to each other by parallelogram guides; one of the parallelogram legs further comprising a fastening part with at least two fastening portions, each fastening portion having a fastening pad surface that is raised relative to a surface of the parallelogram leg, each fastening portion having a hole running perpendicular to the parallelogram leg surface; and a first slot-shaped incision associated with each fastening pad surface, each first slot-shaped incision penetrating in a straight line only partially through each of the two dimensions of the parallelogram leg that are orthogonal to the hole in the fastening pad surface; wherein each hole is adapted for at least one of fastening a load carrier to the force-transmitting device, fastening the force-transmitting device to a housing, and fastening the force-transmitting device to an intermediate holder.