Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – With particular system function
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-28
2011-06-28
Crosland, Donnie L (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
With particular system function
C340S572100, C340S572700, C340S572800, C340S561000, C324S066000, C324S067000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07969295
ABSTRACT:
A device20for location and identification of pipes, conduits, cables or buried or hidden objects8is described without the need of any invasive and/or destructive work, said device comprising at least one transponder1utilizing RFID or like technology for identification without any physical contact or line-of-sight, said transponder1being attached in a support7shaped as a mesh, tape, wire, cable, cordage or alternatively in a device32/33such as a bar, tappet, line, stud, mushroom, pipe, marker or the like, device20resulting from the combination of1and7or of1and32/33. A system for location and identification of said objects8comprises said device20and further a reading and/or writing unit3of the information on said pipe, conduit, cable or buried or hidden object8, at least an antenna2besides said pipe, conduit, cable or buried or hidden object8. Also described is the method for installing device20, the method for location and identification of a pipe, conduit, cable or buried or hidden object8, as well as the method for mapping and execution of as-built plants of pipes, conduits, cable or buried or hidden objects8without the need of any invasive and/or destructive work.
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Carneiro Vinicius Rangel Duarte
Colvero Claiton Pereira
Dal Forno Alexandre De Oliveira
Crosland Donnie L
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
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