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Location sensor and flow rate meter

Granted 11 Feb 2020 · no office action yet

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29/643,348
filed 6 Apr 2018
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US D874954
granted 11 Feb 2020

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Description

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›FIG. 1 depicts an isometric view of an…

FIG. 1 depicts an isometric view of an example location sensor and flow rate meter.

FIG. 2 depicts a front view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 depicts a back view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 depicts a side view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 5 depicts an opposite side view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 6 depicts an off-angle view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 7 depicts another off-angle view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 8 depicts a top view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 9 depicts a bottom view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 10 depicts an isometric view of another example location sensor and flow rate meter.

FIG. 11 depicts a front view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 12 depicts a back view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 13 depicts a side view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 14 depicts an opposite side view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 15 depicts an off-angle view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 16 depicts another off-angle view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

FIG. 17 depicts a top view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 ; and,

FIG. 18 depicts a bottom view of the location sensor and flow rate meter of FIG. 10 .

The location sensor and flow rate meter in the accompanying figures may be positioned on or near a fluid conduit, such as a pipe or a standpipe.

Stipple shading is used in all of the accompanying Figures to convey surface contouring and not texture.

The tangent edges, for the sake of clarity, represent transitions between a surface and a rounded surface, i.e., where these two surfaces are tangent to one another.

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