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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1998
Donald T. Lamb, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Gary L. Hoffer, Marietta, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A portable weather display device including an upper and a lower hollow housing connected together by a hinge containing a power on/off switch. In the upper housing there is a backlit approximately 6″ diagonal SVGA color touch-sensitive display and a warning speaker to signal NOAA weather alerts. The upper housing also includes a rubber gasket which seals out dust and water when closed. In the lower housing there is a central processing unit (CPU), 32 megabytes of RAM, 64 megabytes of Flash ROM, a display driver, a communications interface or device, an NiMH battery (and an external AC power adapter), a standard RJ11 phone jack, a plastic sliding protector to cover over these ports, a cellular antenna, a locking clasp to keep the device closed tightly, and battery and power indicator lights. Software embedded in the portable weather display device includes a custom-built operating system and application programs to perform receive, read, and display functions of the weather information coming into and stored on the portable weather display device.