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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7661306 | Instruments for flow meters Some embodiments of an instrument for a flow meter can automatically adjust in response to the rotational direction of the drive shaft of the flow meter, thereby permitting the instrument device to perform its intended function regardless of the fluid flow direction... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7343795 | Meter register and meter register tampering detector A meter register includes a sealed register body having a face portion and a body that are coupled to form an internal cavity. The internal cavity includes a rotatble member, a power source and a visual display. A microprocessor is included that coacts with the powe... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7284455 | Electronic environment sensing instrument having an analog indicator An electronic environment sensing instrument having an analog indicator has a casing having a front panel with a scale, an electronic sensing and driving assembly mounted in the casing, a needle and a DC power supply. The electronic driving indicator assembly has a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7245230 | Dual magnetic field sensor unit The present inventions relate to a method and apparatus for adding Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) capabilities to utility meters that generate a magnetic field comprising magnetic flux that varies proportionally with the rate of resource consumption. The apparatus co... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7235909 | Electromagnetic motor/generator In some embodiments, an electromagnetic motor/generator may include one or more of the following features: (a) a frame, (b) a magnetic section having an upper magnet, a lower magnet, and a center magnet, coupled to the frame, and (c) at least one solenoid coupled to... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7171852 | Gas meter operation tracking assembly A tracking assembly and method for tracking the operation of a rotary gas meter that has a driven member includes a connecting member, a gear assembly and a mechanical counter. The connecting member is adapted to be coupled to the driven member. The gear assembly is... | 02/06/2007 |
| 6945125 | High resolution pulse count interface A high resolution pulse count interface is situated between a positive displacement (PD) meter and a flow computer. A magnetic wheel attaches to the PD meter, with the interface using Hall Effect sensors to detect the rotation of the wheel. A pulse prediction algori... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931954 | Power transmission device A power transmission device includes a pair of gear assemblies and an idle. Each of the gear assemblies includes a first gear having continuous external teeth on a peripheral wall and a second gear having continuous external teeth on a peripheral wall. The first gea... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6666083 | Apparatus for detecting fraud on a fluid meter A meter, in particular a fluid meter, having a meter body provided with a flow rate measuring device, a counter mounted on the meter body and provided in a top portion with a display for displaying the quantity of fluid that has been consumed, and in a bo... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6611769 | Meter register with programming and data port and meter input resolution factor An electronic, programmable meter register (10) includes an input section (18, 19, 30) for generating pulses in response to units of flow in a water meter, a stored control program (46), a microelectronic CPU (31) for executing the program (46) to read in... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6098456 | Anti-fraud liquid meters having a drive and driven magnets with double polarity faces A liquid meter includes a housing with two compartments with respectively a motor member disposed in the path of movement of a stream of the liquid to be measured and a counter, the transmission of the movement of the motor member to the counter being car... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5559289 | Integral water flow meter and backflow prevention assembly A water meter and backflow preventer for use in a water supply system having a meter box includes a housing having water infeed and outfeed openings which are connected to supply water from a main utility pipeline to a water customer domestic system throu... | 09/24/1996 |
| 4489600 | Water meter with an anti-reverse-rotation device An improved magnetic rotor type water meter having an anti-reverse-rotation device for preventing the reverse rotation of the pointer driving gear of the water meter, although the rotor or impeller of the water meter is rotated in the reverse direction by... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4461174 | Vane wheel water meter A vane wheel water meter having a vane wheel disposed in a vane chamber located between an inlet and an outlet with the meter body being positioned above the vane chamber. The vane wheel has a body with several vanes extending outwardly perpendicular to t... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4245504 | One-way index for gas meters A gas meter is disclosed having a one-way index incorporated therein for causing the indicating means thereof to run only in a forward direction regardless of the actual direction of gas flow. A pivoting member is oscillated by a rotating cam coupled to t... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4080827 | Unidirectional index drive for gas meters An improvement in the drive to the index, or register, of diaphragm-type gas meters is disclosed, in which the index always runs in the same direction, regardless of the direction of flow of fluid through the meter.... | 03/28/1978 |
