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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:
Sep. 23, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald F Hansen, Needham, MA (US);
William K Shubert, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
HSS Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G01W / ; G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364420 ; 7317 / ; 73171 ; 250574 ; 356336 ; 356338 ;
Abstract
A present weather observing system including a radiation source for providing a beam of radiation in the atmosphere and a detector for detecting scattered radiation from suspended or precipitating particles within a sample volume, the detector having a field of view intersecting the beam to define the sample volume. The invention further includes a device for determining the size and velocity of at least one particle precipitating through the sample volume, and an element responsive to the device for determining size and velocity for identifying the type of precipitation.