Patents by Inventor Ronald N. Koch
Ronald N. Koch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8448845Abstract: A meter for flowing material, e.g., water, has a meter register having an electronic display, e.g., an LED or LCD display, and a mechanical read-out display driven by a stepper motor to record units of water that flowed through the meter. In the event of an electrical power failure, the LED or LCD readout values are lost, however, the mechanical read-out values remain. Further, signals are transmitted to a microprocessor of a meter register to change the rotation of the stepper motor so that the meter register can be used with different types of meters. Still further, a meter generator co-acting with a meter register forwards an electrical pulse signal after a quantity of material or utility passes through a water meter to a microprocessor of a remote reader. The remote reader includes an odometer coupled to a stepper motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Arad Measuring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Dan Winter, Ronald N. Koch
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Publication number: 20120179393Abstract: A meter for flowing material, e.g., water, has a meter register having an electronic display, e.g., an LED or LCD display, and a mechanical read-out display driven by a stepper motor to record units of water that flowed through the meter. In the event of an electrical power failure, the LED or LCD readout values are lost, however, the mechanical read-out values remain. Further, signals are transmitted to a microprocessor of a meter register to change the rotation of the stepper motor so that the meter register can be used with different types of meters. Still further, a meter generator co-acting with a meter register forwards an electrical pulse signal after a quantity of material or utility passes through a water meter to a microprocessor of a remote reader. The remote reader includes an odometer coupled to a stepper motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: ARAD MEASURING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Dan Winter, Ronald N. Koch
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Patent number: 8157160Abstract: A meter for flowing material, e.g., water, has a meter register having an electronic display, e.g., an LED or LCD display, and a mechanical read-out display driven by a stepper motor to record units of water that flowed through the meter. In the event of an electrical power failure, the LED or LCD readout values are lost, however, the mechanical read-out values remain. Further, signals are transmitted to a microprocessor of a meter register to change the rotation of the stepper motor so that the meter register can be used with different types of meters. Still further, a meter generator co-acting with a meter register forwards an electrical pulse signal after a quantity of material or utility passes through a water meter to a microprocessor of a remote reader. The remote reader includes an odometer coupled to a stepper motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Arad Measuring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Dan Winter, Ronald N. Koch
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Publication number: 20100302061Abstract: A meter for flowing material, e.g., water, has a meter register having an electronic display, e.g., an LED or LCD display, and a mechanical read-out display driven by a stepper motor to record units of water that flowed through the meter. In the event of an electrical power failure, the LED or LCD readout values are lost, however, the mechanical read-out values remain. Further, signals are transmitted to a microprocessor of a meter register to change the rotation of the stepper motor so that the meter register can be used with different types of meters. Still further, a meter generator co-acting with a meter register forwards an electrical pulse signal after a quantity of material or utility passes through a water meter to a microprocessor of a remote reader. The remote reader includes an odometer coupled to a stepper motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: ARAD MEASURING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Dan Winter, Ronald N. Koch
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Patent number: 7775422Abstract: A meter for flowing material, e.g., water, has a meter register having an electronic display, e.g., an LED or LCD display, and a mechanical read-out display driven by a stepper motor to record units of water that flowed through the meter. In the event of an electrical power failure, the LED or LCD readout values are lost, however, the mechanical read-out values remain. Further, signals are transmitted to a microprocessor of a meter register to change the rotation of the stepper motor so that the meter register can be used with different types of meters. Still further, a meter generator co-acting with a meter register forwards an electrical pulse signal after a quantity of material or utility passes through a water meter to a microprocessor of a remote reader. The remote reader includes an odometer coupled to a stepper motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Arad Measuring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Dan Winter, Ronald N. Koch
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Patent number: 7493811Abstract: A positive displacement water meter includes a measuring chamber having an outlet port defined therein, wherein the outlet port includes a channel defined around the outlet port. A seal includes a planar surface and a curved surface, wherein the planar surface is substantially parallel to the curved surface, and the planar surface is situated within the channel. A meter casing includes an outlet port defined therein, wherein the meter casing receives the measuring chamber therein such that the outlet port of the measuring chamber is substantially aligned with the outlet port of the meter casing. The curved surface of the seal abuts a periphery of the outlet port of the meter casing forming a seal therewith. Due to the substantially arcuate cross section, the seal is adapted to resist the dislodging thereof from the channel during assembly of the positive displacement water meter.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Master Meter, Inc.Inventors: Ronald N. Koch, James L. Rogers
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Patent number: 5554981Abstract: A number wheel assembly (10) for a counter mechanism has a plurality of number wheels (13-18), each number wheel (13-18) having a sleeve (48) around its circumference with a plurality of positions representing successive increments in a count, a substrate (26-31) opposite one surface of the number wheel (13-18), the substrate (26-31) carrying an electrode (42) that is spaced from the number wheel (13-18) to form an air gap for a variable capacitor, and wherein the number wheel (13-18) carries at least one dielectric element (46) that is rotated with the number wheel (13-18) to vary the capacitance of the variable capacitor according to the position of the number wheel (13-18). Circuitry for detecting the capacitance and the position of the number wheels (13-18) is provided on a circuit board (39) that is electrically connected to the number wheels (13-18).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1994Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignee: Badger Meter, Inc.Inventors: Ronald N. Koch, Richard H. Koch, Ray J. Thornborough
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Patent number: 4478440Abstract: Disclosed is a pipe coupling for coupling a first section of pipe with a second section of pipe. A threaded sleeve comprised of two identical semi-circular connector members is received in an annular recess formed in the exterior surface of the first pipe section. The second pipe section is secured to the first pipe section by means of an internally threaded female coupling nut. Piloting means are provided on the connector members and first pipe section to ensure proper orientation of the connector members with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1982Date of Patent: October 23, 1984Assignee: Rockwell International CorporationInventors: Ronald N. Koch, David A. Yanov
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Patent number: 4301011Abstract: A water strainer is comprised of a body which contains a central chamber with which the inlet and outlet passages communicate. Strainer grids angularly oriented with respect to each other meet to form the apex of a triangle within the central chamber adjacent the inlet passage. Debris and foreign material caught on the grid is washed by the flow of water through the strainer towards regions near the side of the interior of the body where it will not impede the flow of the mainstream of the water through the grid, or cause an unsymmetrical flow velocity profile in the water stream issuing from the strainer.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1980Date of Patent: November 17, 1981Assignee: Rockwell International CorporationInventors: Johann A. Stamm, James C. Sarver, Jr., Ronald N. Koch
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Patent number: D468222Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Master Meter, Inc.Inventors: Ronald N. Koch, James L. Rogers