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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clifford Lee Greenblatt, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Mellissa Jamie Stuart Dalby, Woodlawn, MD (US);
Steven Mang, Forest Hill, MD (US);
Assignee:
Belfort Instrument Company, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01W / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7317017 ; 7317021 ;
Abstract
A precipitation gauge that collects liquid and frozen precipitation in a reservoir, suspended by force-sensing transducers, permitting the accurate and precise measurement of accumulated precipitation. A proportionally-heated collector assembly prevents the accumulation of frozen rain or snow on the collector inner surface, converting it into water that enters the reservoir, with minimum electrical energy consumption. The force-sensing transducer may be a programmably excited vibrating strip transducer.