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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110270421 | PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM AND PROGRAM RELOCATE METHOD According to one embodiment, a plant control system includes a station mounting controllers thereon, an engineering device which manages programs, and a device which connects the controllers and the engineering device. The engineering device includes database which stor... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110054641 | CONTROLLING DEVICE, CONTROLLED DEVICE, CONTROLLING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROLLING AUTHORITY Systems and method for controlling a device are provided, including at least one controlling device and at least one controlled device. The controlling system includes a first controlling device which has controlling authority over the controlled device and a second con... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100318197 | CONTROL SYSTEM Provided is a control system capable of reducing cost while securing reliability of original processing of a microcomputer. An engine control device and a meter control device each store a control amount calculating procedure for calculating a control amount regarding a... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100222896 | Method of Providing Data Access in an Industrial Automation System, Computer Program Product and Industrial Automation System In an industrial automation system comprising a plurality of industrial control devices connected to an industrial communication network, control and/or supervision functions of the industrial automation system are provided by services implemented by computer-based obje... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100049336 | AUTOMATION SYSTEM COMPRISING AN IMPLEMENTED ENGINEERING-ENVIRONMENT An automation system including a service-oriented architecture and decentralized, distributed components and/or devices in a flexible and reconfigurable production environment. The system includes at least one host computer which is connected to service-oriented compone... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090271006 | Method for synchronizing two control devices, and redundantly designed automation system A method for synchronizing a first control device and a second control device of a redundantly structured automation device that controls a technical process is provided. The first control device and the second control device are connected to each other. The first and s... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090238234 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A MELT-METALLURGIC FURNACE, AND FURNACE The invention relates to a method for operating a melt-metallurgic furnace (2), particularly an arc furnace, during the operation of which a number of operating parameters are maintained within predetermined thresholds, wherein for this purpose a control or regul... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090204269 | Variable Transmission Window Constructions An electrical control system is disclosed for controlling a plurality of variable transmittance windows. The electrical control system of the present invention comprises a master control circuit for supplying control signals representing transmittance levels for the var... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090157199 | Motion Control Systems A system for allowing communication between a software application and at least one motion controller in a set of motion controllers comprising a set of motion operations, a set of motion commands, a set of selectable software modules, a software system, and a driver ad... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20080208368 | CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF INDUSTRIAL CONTROL ENGINES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates optimizing a controller within an industrial automation environment. A controller can be associated with an industrial automation environment. Two or more controller engine instances can execute... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080208369 | SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH AN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT EMPLOYING CONTROLLER ENGINE INSTANCES The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates providing a service to an industrial environment. A selection component can identify a portion of data hosted by a remote server. A build component can construct at least one of a portion of a c... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080147207 | DYNAMIC PROCEDURE SELECTION A dynamic selection component for an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes one or more abstraction layers that are executed by a controller, the abstraction layers specify higher level requirements of a process. At least one execution layer is pr... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080125875 | A SYSTEM FOR GAIN SCHEDULING CONTROL A system for controlling nonlinear plants which may be effected with gain scheduled feedback controllers. Several linear sub-controllers having various gains may be put together as one unit. The overall controller may be changed by switching from one sub-controller to a... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080053532 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF TOILETS AND RELATED METHOD An adapter includes an interface module that receives signals from a first sensor that indicate a first fill status of a holding tank. A control module of the adapter generates a control signal based on the first fill status. The toilet is at least partially controlled ... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20070282463 | Apparatus and method for converting between device description languages in a process control system A device description language (DDL) converter is provided for converting a first DDL file into one or more second DDL files. The DDL files may be associated with wireless field devices that are or could be used in a process control system, such as wireless sensors or wi... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070270981 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus in which its function can be improved by installing an additional module to an existing module in a module configuration system. A video information processing apparatus 100, which is an existing ... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070255430 | SHELF MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER WITH HARDWARE/SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTED DUAL REDUNDANT CONFIGURATION A fault tolerant, multi-protocol shelf management controller architecture that is extensible provides an intelligent platform management interface that is version indifferent as well as programmable and reconfigurable. The shelf management controller is arranged in a du... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070250183 | Method for synchronization of a controller A system and method for reintegration of a redundant controller after occurrence of a fault is provided, comprising synchronizing outputs of a primary controller with outputs of secondary controllers. The controller is placed in a different mode of operation in which it... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070244573 | Self-Healing Control Network For Building Automation Systems In building automation architectures, components may be associated through physical communications paths and at a different level through building automation applications. Building automation applications implement control processes for a building function. Due to chang... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070168051 | Method and system for filtering home-network content The present invention relates to a method for filtering and storing information about content, which is available on a network device in a network, wherein said network further comprises network rendering devices adapted for rendering content, the method comprising filt... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070142932 | Technique for switching between controllers A controller design for switching between m linear multivariable controllers each of whom stabilizes a linear plant has been presented. A Youla-Kucera factorization was exploited in the interest of obtaining a closed-loop system that is exponentially stable for any swit... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070129820 | Integrated fieldbus data server architecture A new and improved control system architecture with a single server interface for application software that eliminates manual intervention by providing online, immediate access to information needed for plant/enterprise optimization, operation, configuration, maintenanc... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070124002 | Method and System for Manual and Autonomous Control of an Infusion Pump A method and system for both autonomous and manual control of an infusion pump for delivering medication to a patient is provided. ... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070093918 | Non-periodic control communications in wireless and other process control systems Disclosed is a controller having a processor and a control module adapted for periodic execution by the processor and configured to be responsive to a process variable to generate a control signal for a process. An iteration of the periodic execution of the control modu... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070093921 | Wireless industrial control user interface An industrial control system includes a motor drive, a wireless interface module, and a wireless user interface. The motor drive has at least a first port. The wireless interface module is coupled to the first port of the motor drive. The wireless user interface is oper... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070078535 | System and method for identifying particularized equipment information of interest to varied users in an industrial automation environment Systems and methods are provided that enable various interface applications that more efficiently communicate data to users in an industrial control system. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a base presentation component to ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070061020 | System for home automation A home automation protocol system provides a network consisting of a number of node devices, controllers, and servers for storing information about node device settings and scene settings in a home environment is provided. The node devices are controlled by the controll... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070055390 | EXTENSIBLE UNIVERSAL HOME AUTOMATION INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK AND USER INTERFACE A software architecture and methods that provide an extensible and intuitive interface to all digital managed resources in the residential environment. The application of data management methods will create a normalized representation of all potentially managed digital ... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070050053 | Adaptive multivariable MPC controller A method is disclosed for developing and using a high-speed adaptive multivariable controller by removing the dynamics of the PID controllers from a Model Predictive Controller that was developed using identification testing of a process. The resulting multivariable con... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070043476 | Dynamically extensible and automatically configurable building automation system and architecture A building automation system (BAS) architecture is disclosed. The BAS comprises, in one embodiment, an architecture comprising a communication network and having a dynamic extensibility capability and an automatic configuration capability; an engine communicatively coup... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20070032888 | Control apparatus, communication device, and communication method A control apparatus receives, from a device to be controlled, information concerning the device and related to time, obtains specific-time information concerning the device to be controlled, on the basis of the received information concerning the device to be controlled... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20070027560 | Device Control System, Device Control Method, and Device Control Program A device control system, a device control method, and a device control program for rendering a trace function as a function added to a service object that provides the software application with an interface to a particular device based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. T... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070027559 | Control method using dynamic latitude allocation and setpoint modification, system using the control method, and computer readable recording media containing the control method In a system including a plurality of elements, or plurality of subsystems of elements, each performing a process using process control to maintain operation within a latitude of a setpoint and having an output characteristic that contributes to an overall output quality... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070021847 | Distributed control system A distributed control system having a plurality of network-connected control units is realized in which a task having characteristics specific to a controller, such as input/output processing being necessary, or data stored in a dedicated controller having to be used, c... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070016311 | CONTROLLER INTERFACE WITH MULTIPLE DAY PROGRAMMING A controller equipped with a user interface having multiple-day programming capabilities, including methods of programming such devices, are disclosed. The user interface may include one or more menus or screens that can be used to program a schedule for one or more sel... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20070016308 | Communication system, and master apparatus and slave apparatus used in the same, and communication method This communication system performs serial data communication between a master apparatus and a plurality of the slave apparatus via a data transmission line. The master apparatus generates, by using a controller, a serial conversion order control signal for controlling s... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20070010899 | Control apparatus and control method Each of controllers includes: a transistor; a data processor for executing predetermined data processing and turning the transistor on or off in accordance with the data processing result; a pull-up resistor connected to an output terminal of the transistor; and a level... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20070005159 | DIGITAL VALVE CONTROLLER A deterministic controller for an actuator includes, for example, adaptation for installation in an explosion-proof housing and a primary controller sealed within the housing for controlling outputs. A backup controller is optionally provided for alternatively controlli... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060287735 | Multifunctional system for application in home automation This system comprises a central unit (1) responsible for controlling the system and to which are connected: an intercom unit (2), an electronic learning unit (3), a consumption management unit (4), a receiver link unit (5), a simulatio... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060276912 | System for motion control, method of using the system for motion control, and computer-readable instructions for use with the system for motion control A motion control system and method that includes a central controller configured to generate first and second demand control signals to be used to define actuation motion of respective first and second actuators. The central controller is in communication with first and... | 12/07/2006 |
