发明授权
US09222816B2 Apparatus configured to detect gas usage, method of providing same, and method of detecting gas usage
有权
用于检测气体使用的装置，其提供方法以及检测气体使用的方法
- 专利标题： Apparatus configured to detect gas usage, method of providing same, and method of detecting gas usage
- 专利标题（中）： 用于检测气体使用的装置，其提供方法以及检测气体使用的方法
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申请号： US12780713申请日： 2010-05-14
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公开(公告)号： US09222816B2公开(公告)日： 2015-12-29
- 发明人: Shwetak N. Patel , Sidhant Gupta , Matthew S. Reynolds
- 申请人： Shwetak N. Patel , Sidhant Gupta , Matthew S. Reynolds
- 申请人地址： US CA Santa Monica
- 专利权人： Belkin International, Inc.
- 当前专利权人： Belkin International, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址： US CA Santa Monica
- 代理机构： Bryan Cave LLP
- 主分类号： H04B15/00
- IPC分类号： H04B15/00 ; G01F1/66 ; F23K5/00 ; F23N5/16 ; F23N5/18
摘要：
In some embodiments, an apparatus can be configured to detect gas usage. The apparatus can include: (a) a processing module configured to run on a computational unit; and (b) a sensing unit configured to be coupled to a gas regulator, the sensing unit having: (1) at least one acoustic sensor configured to detect two or more acoustic signals produced by the gas regulator and convert the two or more acoustic signals into one or more first data signals; and (2) a transmitter electrically coupled to the at least one acoustic sensor and configured to transmit the one or more first data signals to the computational unit. The processing module is configured to use the one or more first data signals to determine the gas usage. Other embodiments are disclosed.