Utility usage

CL 705 SC 412
4218737 Revenue metering system for power companies
Aug-19-1980 An energy meter at an electrical substation contains a detector which chas state each time a quantity of energy is consumed. This data is accumulated in a microprocessor system. Real time energy consumption...
4207557 User electric energy consumption apparatus
Jun-10-1980 A supplemental energy register in which successive increments of consumed electrical energy are detected at a kilowatthour meter, and are translated into electrical pulse signals. Digital calculation and...
4162530 Automatic energy supply systems of the multi-rate calculating type
Jul-24-1979 According to the supply system, a customer purchases a chip corresponding to a predetermined amount of electricity from a power company and sets the chip in a control device installed in the customer house....
4133034 Method and means of assimilating utility meter data
Jan-2-1979 A method of assimilating utility meter data at the meter locations by accumulating on an input tape customer profile information for a plurality of meter customers, including the customer's account number,...
4120031 Utility usage monitoring systems
Oct-10-1978 Utility usage monitoring systems for monitoring the consumption or use of a particular utility and displaying the accumulated use in terms of its cost. The rate of usage of the utility is converted to...
4110606 Utility meter readout system
Aug-29-1978 A portable automatic billing and printing device which provides for an automatic calculation and printout of a customer bill for utilities such as water, gas and electricity. A customer utility card is...
4106095 Electrical usage display system
Aug-8-1978 The specification discloses a system for displaying a cumulative indication of the estimated cost of electrical usage in a dwelling wherein electricity is applied through an electrical supply main. A coil...
4080568 Energy monitoring device
Mar-21-1978 The monitoring of energy consumed in a single phase, three wire electrical system is accomplished by generating a voltage proportional to the current flowing in the system, which is conveyed to a linear...
4034839 Simplified multi-price vend control circuit
Jul-12-1977 A vend and price selection control circuit including selection switches actuatable by a customer to produce any of a plurality of possible vends at different vend prices, all of which are controlled by...
4002890 Method of charging fuel costs among the various apartments in an apartment house or the like and suitable devices in this connection
Jan-11-1977 Allocation of heating costs in an apartment building having a central heating plant common to a number of apartments in dependency of the heat comfort really enjoyed by the consumers concerned by basing...
3932730 Point-of-action billing transactor
Jan-13-1976 A utility billing transactor is disclosed for entering a new meter reading, computing the amount of utility service delivered as the difference between a previous meter reading and the new meter reading,...