MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517058658 A) filed by Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited; and Suwa University Of Science, Tokyo, on June 18, for 'precipitation gauge.'
Inventor(s) include Ichikawa, Shintaro; Yamane, Kohei; Sasaki, Kyosuke; Kobayashi, Seiji; Watanabe, Takeshi; and Sato, Kazuhiro.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A precipitation meter (100) comprises: a receiver (14) for receiving water as a substance that falls from the sky; a water storage tank (15) for storing water that reaches a predetermined water level; a drainage pipe (16) connected to a drain outlet (15a) of the water storage tank (15); a drainage device (17) which is attached to the drain outlet (15a) or the drainage pipe (16) and which drains a predetermined amount of the water in the water storage tank (15) with each operation; a water level indicator (18) for measuring the water level in the water storage tank (15); a detector (21) for detecting a rise in the water level in the water storage tank (15); a controller (22) for causing the drainage device (17) to drain water in the water storage tank (15), in response to the detection of an increase in the water level in the water storage tank (15), in order to lower the water level in the water storage tank (15) to the predetermined water level; and a calculator (23) for calculating an amount of precipitation and/or a precipitation intensity using the number of times the drainage device (17) drains water."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 02, 2023, under International application No.PCT/JP2023/039623.
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