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From the moment when intelligent water meter was invented, it faced the bad working environment and harsh cost. The technology for intelligent water meter is not difficult, the challenge thing is to satisfy both needs. The NingBo LongKang Intelligent Water Meter Company has tackled more than 20 crucial technical problems including IC Card Stand, valve. The original creation of forerunner valve, the seal, the dry cell battery and the antimagnetic adsorption technology are our profession only until now.
1.Valve technology:
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The simple structured and low cost Ball Valve was first applied in the intelligent water meter industry. However, the problems were large power loss, easily affected by water filthy, water pressure, water leakage and long switch time. The company has developed different technique to solve the problems. The switching valve can be used for more than 10000 times. It is first introduced in mainland and granted five technical patent.
2. Seal technology
The intelligent water meter is a kind of integrated machinery product. It’s electronic component is unable to work in water, so the first thing we have to do is to separate the circuit board and water. The other concern is to have good seal in the meter to avoid water leakage due to the increasing pressure in the pipeline. Our company separates the intelligent water meter into two parts. They are the Valve and Meter Base. They are strengthened and protected by a layer of brass and use the magnetic transmission. The highest pressure resistance amounts to 25 kilograms, so there will not have water leakage absolutely. We produce two kind of standard sealed product: Spray sealed, soak sealed. The spray sealed products can work normally under water pours for more than 2 hours. The soak sealed products can work normally in water for a long time. The picture above showed that the sealed Valve and Meter Base in a intelligent water meter can withstand 2.5Mpa water pressure.
3.Power source technology
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The dry cell that sets outside |
The intelligent water meter generally uses the lithium battery for power supply. However, the problem of deactivation of the lithium battery makes it easy to expire. Besides, it is difficult to replace the batteries. These are the main unstable factors for the intelligent water meter. The lithium battery is set outside the intelligent water meter, so it does not need to open the meter when replacing the batteries. Therefore it is quite convenient. This kind of intelligent meter can allow the customers to replace the batteries by themselves. It also has low power loss design and will automatically close after removal of batteries. This is a kind of original product from our company.
4.Base meter technology
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The machine core of meter base |
The special design against the decreasing magnetic 、anti-magnetic absorption can avoid inaccurate measures. The low resistance machine core structural design (patent numberZL01 224,631) increase the measuring accuracy and reduce driving capacity. The multi- class impeller technology lower the inaccuracy occurred during construction. The tentative data from a long time simulating measurement accumulate massive curves which meets the requirement from the Chinese quality measurement.
5. Guards against the disturbance technology
Picture:magnetism attack+high pressure attack against the vibration
Double reed pipe pulse sample technique(patent number: ZL01224631)prevents the magnetic attack effectively and at the same time prevents the sampling error from vibration. The cover of the machine guards against sprays so the card can be read and inserted to card base when situated in water. The software inside can guard against the high pressure attack and adopted in moist environment.
6.The patent for intelligent water meter
| 1.The patent of Valve design |
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Patent name: Driver(ZL01275828.0) |
| Introduction : This invention mainly applies to valve driver which controls two magnetic pins. Using the power supply from the electrical machinery, through the gear changing rotation, the motion electrical machinery will change from rotation to straight transmission. This can coordinate with accurate switch localization. The machine moves in one |
| direction by the movement of straight line cam transformation. There is double magnetic field in straight line movement. The double magnetic steel is installed. When the exterior magnetic steel is installed to pin valve core, simultaneously it will link to the control pin valve. This is used in the driver of Large Caliber IC -Ca Water Meter. |
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Patent name:Water hammer proof Precursor Valve (ZL01228921.3) |
| Introduction: The invention uses the traditional film type structured pilot valve foundation. The valve core has been installed with guidance structure to solve the problem of water hammer vibration in the process of opening and closing of valves. |
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Patent name:Adjustable pilot valve (ZL01278800.7) |
Introduction : This type of product breaks the traditional idea of not easy to adjust the current capacity of the valve. It also solves the problem of vibration and valve water hammer. It highlights the merits of low power consumption and simple operation. Market Foreground: Currently, the pilot valve has a problem |
| about water hammer and very short life span, the vibration of valve is serious. Because of the structure, the damage to current is large. So that the market lack a reliable large caliber valve. This product solved the above problem and add a filter at the controller hole of pilot valve to make the product to be more reliable.
This product has provided a reliable tool for the aspect of automation, especially for “south-to-north water diversion”.
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Patent name:Membrane magnetic pilot valve(ZL012118838.7) |
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Our development solves the problem of valve suffocation in the drainage hole. The drainage hole is washed automatically. The differential pressure warehouse is set at the lower side and the valve opening is pointed downward, so it is not easy to split up in long term usage. |
The pressure in the front and back valve is the same so that the closing and opening of the valve is normal and will not be affected by any pressure change. The other merits are the low power consumption and stability of the work.
The product mainly applies in IC intelligent water meter. The properties of low power consumption, stability and other factors make it very important among the similar kind of products. This is ideal to be used in intelligent meter. |
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Patent name:Electromagnetic valve drive machinery(ZL00266691.X) |
| Introduction: The invention uses the electrical machinery as power supply. Through the driving gear, the electrical machinery rotation changes to straight line motion. It then coordinate with the opening and closing localization. The straight line back and forth movement of the electrical |
| machinery is formed from the cam transformation. The product gained the champion in the world Chinese patent exposition, the 2001world Chinese patent promotion project and world Chinese science technological development prize. |
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Patent name:Electromagnetic Self-adjust valve(ZL01224834.7) |
| Introduction: Our product mainly applies in air valve. Through the outer magnetic motion, the sealing is good. The valve core is regulated by the machine. It use the tension to close the valve under low pressure and use high pressure to closely lock the valve. When the valve is opened, the |
| pressure lost is nearly zero. Our product is used in remote-transmitting meter and IC card Gas Turbine meter. According to the present market, there are two problems: great pressure of valve door and low anti- explosion property. The gap of the valve lever is sealed by rubber, so we doubted about the safety problem. However, our product has been improved now. |
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Patent name:Electromagnetic valve drive machinery(ZL00205851.0) |
| Introduction: This installment uses electrical machinery as power supply. Through the rotation of screw, the machinery rotation changes to straight line transmission. It also carries the a let of migration to coordinate accurate localization. The pro and con electrical machinery |
| revolution controls the slide’s back and forth movement. |
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Patent name:Transition machinery for signal transmit(ZL00243948.4) |
| Introduction: This invention change the electrical machinery rotation to pulse. The whole process will not produce critical switch state. That is producing a arm’s length distance state. This applies in low speed rotation measurement. The product has small size and it is made of |
| non-magnetic material. Therefore it has anti-disturbance property. It will not be disturbed by magnetic field and vibration. This can be used in pulse water meter. The product has gained the champion in the Second session Asian international technological product exposition and technical invention progressive prize and so on. |
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Patent name:Separated Water Meter(ZL01224631.X) |
| Introduction: This invention applies in multi-stream hub water meter chip. The main structure is under improvement. There is gear wheel buffer added to the water meter chip and there is isolating clamping plank. This reduces the resistance, increse the measuring accuracy and solve the problem of overload current capacity to escape the |
| magnetism. As a result, it alleviates the influence of the decreasing magnetic force. |
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Patent name:Electric meter Double light path sampling(ZL00209868.7) |
| Introduction: This product solves the problem of incorrect sampling. By using the double checking method, it can judge the reversed meter and it is easy to judge the wrong sampling equipment. The product is designed from IC Card Water Meter. It is using the correlation type fluorescent |
| tube sampling to collect the data. The product is simple and stable, so it is welcomed by the market. Along with the development of intellectualized and digital city, the product will be more successful in the market. |
| 3.Patent for Structure design |
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Patent name:Valve with same body of meter(ZL01259636.1) |
| Introduction: This invention is about the mixing of the meter and valve as whole structure. Valve-sampling membrane magnetic-drive Precursor valve. The structure of the valve uses the pressure in the pipeline to open and close the valve. Besides, the energy consumption is low and the |
| control is very easy. The valve has automatic cleaning structure i.e. it will be cleaned once for each time of opening. The structure of valve is simple. It has nice appearance and good sealing property. It is best used in intelligent water meter. |
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Patent name:表阀连体表(ZL02232727.4) |
| 简 介:本项发明主要在结构上表体与阀门为一体,并且阀门采用皮膜式磁传动先导阀。阀门结构上利用水管内压力结合阀针运动开启和关闭阀门,而阀针运动的耗能较小,具有耗能小易控制的特点。阀门先导孔采用自清洗机构,即开闭一次自动清洗一遍。阀门阀芯运动采用磁耦合传动,使阀门密封简单可靠。结构简单,紧凑美观,密封性能好。应用于智能化水表方面。 |
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Patent name:Installation Structure of Cassette Gas Turbine Meter, Water Meter(ZL00205850.2) |
| Introduction: This patent stated that our company’s ZSLC products are very convenient and has modular design. |
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Patent name:Sealed-up Structure of Gas Turbine Meter and Water meter (ZL00205852.9) |
| Introduction: This patent stated our company's ZSLC products seal ways. |
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Patent name:Patent name: Waterproofing dustproof card stand(ZL00257348.2) |
| Introduction: This invention is mainly based on traditional Card Base with outer cover added. There is a plastic rod in the outer cover. When inserting the card, the card base will be out of the plastic rod. If it is not in use, the plastic rod will prevent the dust and water getting into the |
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| 4.Patent for Appearance design |
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Patent name:Sensitive Water-cut Valve (ZL00345932.2) |
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Patent name:整体水表(ZL02333229.8) |
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Patent name:感应式截水阀门 |
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Patent name:Sensitive Water Tap |
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Patent name:Gas Turbine Exterior Valve |
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7. Technical assistance unit:
Zhejiang University project and computer graphics research institute
Nanjing University information department |