Bizarre Patents
A helium-filled sun shade for protecting individuals engaged in outdoor activities.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185220 | HMI devices with integrated user-defined behavior The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing a human machine interface (HMI). An interface component can facilitate receipt of data. A human machine interface (HMI) component communicatively coupled to the interface component... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184417 | Apparatus for fault tolerant analog inputs An input termination board for use with an industrial controller in a safety system is disclosed herein. The industrial controller may be populated with standard analog input modules according to the requirements of the application. The termination board may selecti... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660246 | Female communication connector of an automation device | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181157 | Custom language support for project documentation and editing A software documentation system is provided. This includes a documentation object to store documentation data of an application. One or more custom language components are stored with the documentation objects to provide language display options for the application.... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179065 | Position sensorless control of permanent magnet motor Systems and methods of controlling a permanent magnet motor without a mechanical position sensor are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a motor control system includes an inverter configured to receive direct current (DC) power and output a power waveform ... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659652 | Automation controller | 05/15/2012 |
| D659651 | Automation controller | 05/15/2012 |
| D659650 | Input/output module | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175427 | Apparatus and methods for use of a tunable optical source in safety curtain applications Apparatus and methods for using a tunable optical source in safety curtain applications provide for enhanced operation of the safety curtain. In an embodiment, a safety curtain includes a transmit unit and a receive unit to operate as the safety curtain, where a sin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175089 | Extended address space capability for an industrial protocol Systems and methods are provided for communicating with control objects according to a singular and unified address space. In one aspect, an industrial communications system is provided. The system includes a global address protocol that can be employed to communica... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174810 | Method and apparatus for reducing differential mode and common mode reflections in motor drives A filter device reduces reflections on power lines from the motor drive to AC motors by providing a differential mode choke in series with a common mode choke both shunted by resistances tailored to the characteristic impedance of the power cable for differential mo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164435 | Subscribing to alarms and events in a hierarchy An alarm provision system comprises a recognizer component that receives an alarm/event and recognizes the alarm/event. A provision component analyzes hierarchical relationships associated with an industrial environment and automatically provides a subscribing entit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156232 | Network communications in an industrial automation environment An industrial automation device comprises a reception component that receives a request for data resident within the industrial automation device. An encoding component communicatively coupled to the reception component that receives a binary bit stream associated w... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154895 | Method and apparatus for DC bus capacitor pre-charge A method and apparatus for converting three phase AC voltages on first, second and third input lines to DC voltage across positive and negative DC buses, the apparatus comprising a rectifier including first, second and third rectifier legs, each leg including a swit... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152053 | RFID architecture in an industrial controller environment An RFID reader and/or writer module in an industrial controller (e.g., PLC). The RFID module interfaces internally to the controller for tight integration therewith. The RFID module can also be part of a controller communications framework and as a standalone module... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151196 | Abstracted display building method and system A technique is provided for configuring and interface device. The interface device includes a plurality of device elements, each having visual representation and a state engine defining a functionality. A server module in the interface device receives a query from a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150959 | Systems and methods for notifying multiple hosts from an industrial controller The subject invention facilitates alert notification in an industrial environment. The systems and methods enable subscribing devices, such as hosts, to receive events and/or alarms associated with industrial controllers. In addition, a subscribed component can unsu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149587 | Drive modularity A modular industrial drive system includes a base that receives one or more control modules as a face template. The control modules provide a set of functionalities to the drive system, and the face template serves as a user interface to the drive system. The drive ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149554 | Apparatus for fault tolerant digital inputs An input termination board for use with an industrial controller in a safety system is disclosed herein. The industrial controller may be populated with standard input modules according to the application. The termination board, in conjunction with the controller al... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148929 | Power electronic module IGBT protection method and system A power electronics device with an improved IGBT protection mechanism is provided. More specifically, systems and methods are provided for reducing the switching frequency of an inverter module based on the junction temperature variation of the IGBT. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145333 | Ontology-based system and method for industrial control An industrial control system and method of controlling an industrial process are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the control system includes an order system configured to receive an order from an external source and process the order to generate an ord... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138709 | Control method and system Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including an induction-motor controller that has a motor controller configured to receive alternating current (AC) power with a voltage that varies generally sinusoidally and transmit the AC power during a conduction angl... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134474 | Remote monitoring of real-time industrial automation information A method for remote monitoring of real-time information is provided. In the method, a representation is displayed of each of a plurality of items configured to generate the real-time information. Also displayed is a representation of each of a plurality of destinati... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134435 | Flux mitigation Aspects relate to mitigation of a magnetic field produced by one or more units to be shipped such that a magnitude of magnetic field measured is maintained at or below a threshold level. A counter-flux is applied through the use of one or more magnets, magnet arrays... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132127 | System and methodology providing adaptive interface in an industrial controller environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing adaptive user interface capabilities in an industrial control environment. A user interface is provided that can operate across various software and/or hardware platforms. The platforms can be adapt... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131827 | PLC with web-accessible program development software An industrial control system that is for controlling an industrial process and that can be accessed via the Internet is disclosed. The industrial control system includes a plurality of I/O devices exchanging signals with the industrial process, and a web access modu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126574 | System and method for dynamic multi-objective optimization of machine selection, integration and utilization The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, comp... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125753 | Brownout ride-through system and method A device is provided for riding through brownouts, or transitory losses of control power applied to electromagnetic devices such as contactors and relays. An energy storage circuit stores charge that can be discharged into a contactor operating coil during partial o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125304 | Power electronic module with an improved choke and methods of making same An improved choke assembly for a power electronics device is provided. More specifically, a choke assembly with improved protection from environmental conditions such as dirt and water is provided. An improved choke assembly may include an insulative housing for an ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117008 | Junction temperature prediction method and apparatus for use in a power conversion module A method and apparatus for predicting junction device temperature of at least a first switching device in a power conversion module that includes the first switching device and at least a second switching device, the method comprising the steps of identifying a cros... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115437 | Torque limit of PM motors for field-weakening region operation The invention includes a motor controller and technique for controlling a permanent magnet motor. In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a permanent magnet motor is controlled by receiving a torque command, determining a physical torque limit based ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115099 | Industrial automation input output module with elastomeric sealing An industrial automation input output module is protected against ingress of water, oil, debris, dirt and other contaminants without use of a potting compound. An elastomeric main seal provides a fluid-tight connection between inter-fitted inner and outer housing me... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112769 | System and method for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications A computer system, and related components including network interface devices, as well as methods for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the computer system incl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110940 | Single input and dual-output power supply with integral coupling feature A control and monitoring system power supply is described that receives a single power input and distributes power to two distinct segments of a control and monitoring system network. The power supply includes a single power input configured to receive AC from a pow... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108056 | Industrial controller using shared memory multicore architecture A multicore processor for industrial control provides for the execution of separate operating systems on the cores under control of one of the cores to tailor the operating system to optimum execution of different applications of industrial control and communication... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107267 | Systems and methods for common-mode voltage reduction in fully regenerative AC drives Control systems, methods and fully regenerative power conversion systems are presented for mitigating common mode voltages in AC loads by employing inverter and/or active rectifier PWM control using switching sequences with only active vectors where a first vector o... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103460 | Customizable contactor prognostics system A method and apparatus for identifying the health status of a contactor include the steps of counting the number of operations performed by the contactor, identifying a closing time of the contactor, using the number of operations and the closing time to assess the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103385 | Optimizing product drying through parallel lines of centrifuges and dryer process units The present invention provides novel techniques for controlling flow rates through parallel distribution paths of centrifuges and dryers using model predictive control. In particular, the present techniques are presented in the context of biofuel production, wherein... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102559 | System and method for controlling printing applications over variable layouts A system and method for accurately controlling a printing process regardless web width or printing layout. A user interface is provided for configuring a printing application that includes a plurality of sensors arranged to form an interface region. The sensors are ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8093882 | Low heat dissipation I/O module using direct drive buck converter A current-loop output circuit for an industrial controller provides for low power dissipation and reduced part count by driving current loads of different resistances directly from a switched voltage source. Proper filtering and design of a feedback loop allows the ... | 01/10/2012 |
