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WEIGH CELL [2 records]

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Record 1 1993-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A tiny dot of heat that can be used with other pixels to create an image, the way the TV does.

OBS

A recent invention of A. Parameshwaran(Simon Fraser Univ.), an expert in nanotechnology who has also built a miniature pressure sensor, and a microscopic scale that can weigh a single living cell in nanograms. The thermal pixel has already been licensed by a US company.(Financial Times of Canada, 10 March, 1993, p. 10).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

Par analogie à "image thermique", "configuration thermique", "détecteur thermique", "point thermique", "traceur thermique" et "thermoplastique".

Spanish

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Record 2 1992-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
OBS

Insert the weigh cell into the Toledo weigh module.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
DEF

Elle a pour but d'élaborer un signal fonction de la quantité de produit contenu dans le récepteur de charge. Ses divers éléments constitutifs doivent être conçus et disposés de façon à éviter le plus possible un dépôt de produits susceptible d'influencer le résultat des pesées. (...) Enfin, il doit être conçu de façon à pouvoir recevoir des poids pour permettre d'effectuer en toute sécurité la vérification statique de la cellule de pesage.

Spanish

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