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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:
Mar. 27, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore H York, Raleigh, NC (US);
Roger D Moates, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C / ; G08C / ; G08C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34087002 ; 34087006 ; 34087019 ; 3403 / ; 371 68 ; 377 28 ; 377 39 ;
Abstract
A remote meter reading system includes a dial register encoder and a pulse encoder both coupled to the same rotary disc of our induction watthour meter. A first electronic data register stores the non-volatile dial register encoder output, and a second electronic data register stores a value consisting of an initial value set by the dial register encoder at start-up time continuously augmented by the output of the pulse encoder since start up. Comparison and selective readout of the two electronic data registers reduces erroneous meter reading outputs.