| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40111 |
Wireless alarm system |
February 26, 2008 |
| A remote power meter monitoring system using spread spectrum transmitters, fast frequency shift keying, spread spectrum receivers and a computer. The spread spectrum transmitter uses a chip code generator, preamble register, address register data register and oscillator coupled to a |
| 7359221 |
Power supply for use in an electronic energy meter |
April 15, 2008 |
| A three-phase electronic electricity meter that includes a power supply circuit operable to create a constant voltage output when receiving a variable voltage input. The power supply circuit of the electricity meter receives a three-phase line voltage and converts the variable three phas |
| 7221286 |
Inductive communications port for an automatic meter reading communication device |
May 22, 2007 |
| A system for providing the ability to obtain consumption data from a communication device used to transmit accumulated data from the meter register. The system includes a programming port formed as part of the communication device. The programming port includes the programming coil t |
| 7012546 |
Modular wireless fixed network for wide-area metering data collection and meter module apparatus |
March 14, 2006 |
| A one way direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communications wide-area network is the data collection channel (uplink) of an automatic meter reading (AMR) system, and a paging network, or other suitable communication channel is the optional forward (downlink) channel. The communic |
| 7009530 |
Modular wireless fixed network for wide-area metering data collection and meter module apparatus |
March 7, 2006 |
| A one-way direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communications wide-area network is used as the data collection channel (uplink) of an automatic meter reading (AMR) application and a paging network, or other suitable downlink network, is used as an optional forward (downlink) channel in |
| 6982651 |
Automatic meter reading module |
January 3, 2006 |
| An automatic meter reader module is provided that is adapted to be retrofitted or installed in a new or existing utility meter. The module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) on which is mounted on-board circuitry and detection equipment configured to detect utility consumption me |
| 6972555 |
Electronic electricity meter having configurable contacts |
December 6, 2005 |
| A three-phase electronic electricity meter that includes configurable voltage sensing blades such that the electricity meter can be configured for use with various electrical service types. The electricity meter includes a base having a configuration to correspond to standard ANSI-type |
| 6943749 |
Printed circuit board dipole antenna structure with impedance matching trace |
September 13, 2005 |
| A printed circuit board antenna structure for the transmission of radio frequency energy. The printed circuit board antenna of the present invention includes a circuit board subassembly having a component mounting section and an antenna section. The antenna section of the circuit board |
| 6918311 |
Weather resistant automatic meter reading unit |
July 19, 2005 |
| A chassis for a residential utility meter reading unit includes individual chambers including a transmitter chamber containing a printed circuit board, an indexing unit chamber containing the mechanism for operating dials that rotated in response to use of the utility product to indicate |
| 6850197 |
Printed circuit board antenna structure |
February 1, 2005 |
| A printed circuit board antenna structure for the transmission of radio frequency energy. The printed circuit board antenna of the present invention includes a circuit board subassembly having a component mounting section and an antenna section. The second planar surface of the circuit |
| 6836108 |
Three-phase electricity meter including integral test switch |
December 28, 2004 |
| A three-phase electricity meter that includes an integral test switch member that allows the electricity meter to be tested without accessing the enclosed meter housing. The test switch member is operable to move a plurality of contact members into and out of engagement with the bus bars |