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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshiaki Mizuta, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C / ; G08C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34087002 ; 34087019 ; 34087014 ;
Abstract
A remote meter reading arrangement in which power for the remote terminal is supplied from the data collection terminal by transmission lines. At the moment power is applied to the remote terminal, a clock pulse generator in the remote terminal is supplied with power and begins to generate clock pulses to a counter, which successively couples each stage of the meter to the data collection terminal so that pulses of greater or lesser amplitude are generated in sequence, corresponding to each significant digit of the remote meter, to indicate the meter reading.