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James A. Rodrian President
Jim is a registered professional engineer with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering and a Master of Science degree from
Marquette University. He has been designing
electronic circuits for twenty-seven years and
software for twenty-one years. Jim has provided
expert opinions for patent infringement lawsuits.
His leisure interests include water sports,
downhill skiing and the construction of a
"home-built" aircraft.
Jim's design projects include:
- Researcher, and hardware/software
designer of an animal identification and
estrous detection system
- Researcher, and hardware/software
designer of a solar tracker
- Hardware/software designer of a Van
Norman grinder control system
- Hardware/software designer of a pH
controller
- Researcher, and hardware/software
designer of a self-contained estrous
detection tag
- Hardware/software designer of a stepper
motor controller used in programmable
controller systems
- Hardware/software designer of a
flow-based cooling tower controller
- Hardware/software designer of a Nemesis
Igo Dojo hand-held computer game
- System and hardware designer of a
conductivity-based cooling tower
controller
- System and hardware designer of a line
isolation monitor that uses digital
signal processing
- Hardware/software designer for a small
programmable controller RTD input module
- Hardware designer for a small
programmable controller analog input
module
United States Patents
- #4,129,855
Animal Identification System
- #4,215,410
Solar Tracker
- #4,247,758
Animal Identification and Estrous
Detection System
- #4,445,610
Self-contained Estrous Detection Tag
- #5,152,252
Water Treatment Control System for a
Boiler
- #5,294,916
Water Treatment Controller for an
Evaporative Condenser
- #5,446,682
System for Calibrating a Line Isolation
Monitor
- #5,448,491
Monitor for an Ungrounded System
- #5,450,328
System for Measuring Line to Ground
Impedance
- #6,546,344
Magnetic Anomaly Sensor System
DESIGN NEWS Articles About Elsyn, Inc.
Projects
- Activity of Cow is Monitored by
Microprocessor-based Tag, Sept. 3, 1984
- NOVRAM Retains Water Softening System's
Operating Parameters, June 17, 1985
- Stepping Motor Controller Module
Calculates ACCEL/DECEL Profile, June 17,
1985
Technical Articles (James A. Rodrian,
co-author)
- Electronic Activity Monitoring As An Aid
In Estrous Detection. ASAE Summer
Meeting, June 28, 1982.
- Transducers For Capture Of Activity Data.
Proceedings of the Symposium
AUTOMATION IN DAIRYING, April 1983,
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Use of Electronic Pedometers to Measure
Hourly Activity Before and After
Conception in Dairy Cows. 10th
International Congress on Animal
Reproduction and Artificial Insemination,
June 1984.
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