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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4208653 | Data collection apparatus Remote stations are connected to utility meters in individual dwellings. A main station is connected to the remote stations via first, second and third transmission lines. The main station applies power and interrogation signals to a selected remote stati... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4194177 | Transducer system for continuous monitoring liquid levels in storage tanks and the like The liquid level within a storage tank network is continuously monitored by a transducer system of the present invention formed essentially of MSI's (Medium Scale Integrated Chips) including a differential pressure (dp) cell in circuit with a digital volt... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4194180 | Apparatus for registering quantity values of corresponding volume or energy quantities by means of counters in a central station Apparatus for registering quantity values of corresponding volume or energy quantitites measured at consumption points at a distance from a central station which has a number of counters corresponding to the various consumption points. Each time a predete... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4188618 | Digital tachograph system with digital memory system A digital tachograph system includes a vehicle unit operative to detect vehicle performance characteristics such as vehicle speed, elapsed trip distance, engine rpm, total engine revolutions, total fuel consumption, rate of fuel consumption and the like a... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4160239 | Transponder system including an oscillator/ripple counter controlling a fixed Gray code logic network in circuit with a decoder/driver network for generating "red alert" end condition digital signals in a storage tank gauging system A "red-alert" end condition digital signal is generated by a transponder system of the present invention formed essentially of MSI's (Medium Scale Integrated Chips) including an oscillator/ripple counter controlling a fixed Gray code logic encoding networ... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4158195 | Pulse transmission-reception system A system wherein a train of a predetermined number of electrical pulses are generated whenever a predetermined quantity of electricity, gas or water is consumed. The pulses are transmitted to a remotely located data station or the like for remotely measur... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4155074 | Data collection system A data collection system wherein the data in remotely located terminal equipment are read out through three transmission lines by a data collection station. The data collection station selects a terminal equipment and supplies power and clock pulses to th... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4150358 | Temperature measuring system for rotating machines A system for transmitting signals between stationary and movable portions of a machine without utilizing any direct electrical contacts. An alternating supply source for the system is provided on the stationary portion and is connected to a stationary cou... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4132981 | Self-powered system for measuring and storing consumption of utility meter A system is disclosed for storing signals indicative of a customer's consumption of a utility as measured by a meter, such as adapted to measure the flow of water, gas or electricity, for example, and for storing a corresponding data word to permit subseq... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4119948 | Remote meter reading system An electro-optical remote meter reading system, including an electro-optical monitor unit having a non-contact meter scanner providing meter data to a digital storage and readout unit, and an electro-optical transponder effective to receive and to transfe... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4109243 | Data sequence display system and time-compression system therefor A system for the cyclical time-compression of a signal waveform, particularly applicable to displays. Continuous input data is temporarily stored, as in a recirculating memory, during the trace and retrace phases (B & A) of a processing or display operati... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4090176 | Telemetric measuring apparatus for biological objects Signals from a high frequency transmitter outside of the biological object are received in a resonant receiving circuit inside the object whose resonant frequency corresponds to the value of the parameter being measured. The signal from the resonant recei... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4085287 | Data transmitting apparatus This data transmitting apparatus is illustrated in a system for the remote reading of water meters. It includes a passive transmitter operated by the meter, a receiver including a source of energy, and means for connecting the receiver and its energy sour... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4074241 | Radiosonde circuitry for impedance measurement of an Al2 O3 absolute water vapor sensor An improved circuit permits measurement of the impedance of an Al2 Ob.3 water vapor sensor used with conventional radiosonde telemetry systems. The circuit includes an oscillator, an output pulse shaper and a voltage regulator. The oscillator ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4062004 | Dual range, torque rebalancing of inertial sensor The pulse torque rebalancing feedback applied to a gyro, or other inertial sensor, is selected to be a low current for low angular rates (or other outputs) and is selected to be a high current, such as eight times greater than the low current, for high an... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4053714 | Electrical data collecting device This invention relates to data transmission system of the type where a plurality of transmitters are located at a location remote from a receiver and are adapted to transmit information from their location in turn to the receiver. The transmitters in the ... | 10/11/1977 |
| 4028686 | Digital detector A detector for a dynamic phenomenon with a cyclically varying condition, as motion of a rotating part. At least three digital sensors are separated in phase with respect to the cyclic condition. The instantaneous outputs of the sensors have a plurality of... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4018986 | Circuit arrangement for the transmission and presentation of an analog signal with a video signal A circuit arrangement for the transmission and presentation of an analog signal with a video signal, which permits analog signals which incorporate particular measured values or data, to be subverted into a video signal, to be transmitted with the video s... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4011551 | Multiple data channel wireless data coupling system for transmitting measured data from a plurality of rotating sources A multiple data channel wireless data coupling system which transmits measured data from a plurality of rotating data sources to a stationary receiver. It includes several rotating transmitters, each producing a unique carrier frequency, which are capacit... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3992705 | Remote adding and reading device for a meter A remote adding and reading device useful in reading a utility meter is disclosed. The device includes a main totalizing register having a first decade counter adapted to be driven by the measuring device of the meter and an auxiliary totalizing register ... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3990062 | Resolver to digital converter A resolver to digital converter which provides digitally generated sinusoidal voltages to apply to the stator windings of the resolver. The oscillator providing the digital pulses is connected to a counter which is reset on a particular phase of one of th... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3987422 | System for detecting signal quality of a phase-modulated wave A system for detecting the signal quality of a phase-modulated wave, in which the phase positions of the signal elements of the digital phase-modulated wave are each detected with respect to a reference phase carrier by a phase detector for developing dig... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3979716 | Means and method for transmitting a high count rate pulse signal over a common well logging cable A conventional type radiation detector in cooperation with a photomultiplier tube provides data pulses of one polarity, corresponding in peak amplitude and number to detected radiation in a borehole traversing an earth formation. Each data pulse is effect... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3962691 | Device for the transmission over a distance of indications in particular of a meter A meter to be read which has indicator drums and an exterior connector and, on the other hand, a reading apparatus for making a reading of the indications of the drums detachably connected to the connector. A coding unit in the meter comprises for each dr... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3944928 | Harmonic communication system A communication system comprising a transmitter for radiating a carrier frequency signal, which may be modulated, to a data station. The station includes a rectifier for rectifying the received carrier signal to provide energy to the station elements. A d... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3937880 | Magnetic disc coder-decoder 1. A magnetic disc coder-decoder comprising a rotatable magnetic disc mea said disc means being adapted to have a code comprising a plurality of tone bursts recorded thereon, means for rotating said disc means, means for taking said tone bursts from said... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3935556 | Dual function logging tool and method A method and apparatus for converting a single function, i.e., hydrocarbon detection, well logging tool to a dual function tool, i.e., the detection of naturally occurring gamma rays, by making the amplitude reference pulses necessary for single function ... | 01/27/1976 |
