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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:
Oct. 13, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter C DiGiulio, Fairfield, CT (US);
Williams J Linkowski, Poughquag, NY (US);
Francis E McDermott, Watertown, CT (US);
Edilberto I Salazar, Brookfield, CT (US);
Robert J Tolmie, Jr, Brookfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
177 2515 ; 36446403 ;
Abstract
A sensor processor for cooperating with a drive controller in a high-speed mail-handling machine. The sensor processor access periodically a plurality of sensors distributed throughout the machine, and then writes the sensor data to an NVM-RAM shared with the drive controller. Time-critical sensors are accessed more frequently than non-time-critical sensors.