Wireless rain sensor with a graphical user interface

- Rain Bird Corporation
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Description

FIG. 1 is a first embodiment of a wireless rain sensor with a graphical user interface, where the graphical user interface of this embodiment indicates that irrigation is allowed; and,

FIG. 2 is a second embodiment thereof, where the graphical user interface of this embodiment indicates there is a rain sensor override and irrigation is allowed.

The broken lines showings of the values of the battery indicator, the signal strength indicator, the pairing indicator, the temperature threshold indicator, the temperature indicator, the rainfall threshold indicator, the rainfall indicator, the rain trip indicator, the freeze indicator, and the suspend irrigation indicator in FIGS. 1 and 2, and the irrigation override indicator in FIG. 1 are included for the purpose of illustrating unclaimed portions of the wireless rain sensor with graphical user interface and form no part of the claimed design. The perimeters of the portion of the underlying wireless rain sensor and the graphical user interface are understood to be flush.

Claims

The ornamental design for a wireless rain sensor with a graphical user interface, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D638028
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 30, 2010
Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation (Asuza, CA)
Inventors: Carl Dennell Cook (San Diego, CA), William John Leach (Oakdale, CA), Charles S. Curbbun (Leucadia, CA)
Primary Examiner: Cathron C Brooks
Assistant Examiner: Karen E Kearney
Attorney: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery
Application Number: 29/366,882