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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:
Apr. 21, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard O Juengel, Romeo, MI (US);
Assignee:
GTE Valeron Corporation, Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
33558 ; 3317 / ;
Abstract
Provision is made in a battery operated probe for detecting and wirelessly transmitting information to a remote receiver indicating that the battery power in the probe is low. In the preferred embodiment, both probe stylus position information and low battery information are transmitted by way of at least one infrared optical transmission device in the probe. A pair of phase locked loop circuits in the remote receiver are used to discriminate stylus position information from low battery condition information in the optical transmission.