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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. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Lazar, New Berlin, WI (US);
Tienchu Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Noel Marshall, Sebastopol, CA (US);
John Glissman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Richard Jensen, Helenville, WI (US);
Assignee:
Badger Meter, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/38 ; H01Q 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/38 ; H01Q 1/04 ;
Abstract
An antenna assembly (,) for subsurface utility metering equipment includes a disk-shaped radiating element (,) which is connected through a wire (,) having a self-inductance to a capacitor C and then to a ground plane (,) and a connector (,) for a coaxial cable (,) to provide an LC circuit for impedance matching of the antenna assembly (,) to a transmitter.