Watt-hour meter display for informing consumer of energy consumption

Patent · Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6925313

Pettis, C D

This patent describes a system associated with an electric meter for displaying real time data for a consumer regarding consumption of electricity for a special use in a home having ac supply lines with a plurality of outlets, the system comprising: a detector means for sensing on the order of 200 equally spaced marks on the circumference of a surface of a rotating disk within the electric meter and for generating meter signals corresponding thereto; means for applying the meter signals as high frequency electrical signals on the ac supply lines; means capable of being plugged into any outlet of the a.c. supply lines for receiving the high frequency signals and generating digital meter pulses; a clock means for generating digital time pulses representative of real time; a microprocessor means including a first counting means for counting the digital meter pulses and a second counting means for counting the digital time pulses to define successive fixed time period, each fixed time period being on the order of 5 seconds in duration; and a display selector for controlling data being displayed by the microprocessor means on the display means and including a total use display setting and a special use display setting.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-87-039029; EDB-87-031036
• Patent Number(s): US 4630211
• OSTI ID: 6925313
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 23 Apr 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AC SYSTEMS
COST
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
MEMORY DEVICES
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