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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120109362 | Programmable Product Picking Apparatus Techniques for construction and operation of a programmable product picking apparatus are described herein. Such an apparatus picks up product according to a first spacing (e.g., from a conveyor) and releases the product according to a second spacing (e.g., into a carto... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072010 | TRANSFER DEVICE, PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSFER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A transfer device for transferring a transfer target object includes a support member, which is movable forward and backward, for supporting the transfer target object, and a sensor for detecting that a tip of the support member comes into contact with an obstacle when ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120041589 | NAIL POLISH DISPLAY SYSTEM A nail polish display system includes a case, which may take the form of a shelving system or platform, sized to hold and display multiple bottles of nail polish. The bottles are attached to coupling devices, such as clamps, sleeves, magnetic couplers, etc. to an agitat... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120004764 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTI-POCKET DISPENSE DRAWER A drawer assembly that includes a cartridge, a drawer configured to receive the cartridge, and a docking connector attached to the drawer. The cartridge includes a body having a plurality of bins, a plurality of lids that are moveably attached to the body and releasably... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320033 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING LOADING OF FOOD PRODUCTS IN A FOOD MIXING UNIT An embodiment of a system for controlling loading of food products in a food mixing unit by means of a loader unit, the system having: a weighing device, which is mounted on the mixing unit and has a memory for storing at least one recipe of food products to be loaded a... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313562 | DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS A control device of a transfer module and a process module in a vacuum processing apparatus collects state data from the modules. The control device has a state data set including data on the entire module, updates its own state data in the set of its own state data acq... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295414 | WORKPIECE CARRIER AND WORKPIECE POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD A workpiece carrier for supporting a plurality of workpieces, the workpiece carrier comprising a supporting body including a plurality of workpiece support elements, each for supporting a workpiece and providing for individual positioning of the same, the workpiece supp... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110270437 | PERFORMANCE VENUE WITH DYNAMIC MECHANICAL LOAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A performance venue having a dynamic load management system for use in managing loads. The system uses a dead man circuit as a means for determining the actual or anticipated dynamic load produced by moving loads, and then disables the system by opening the dead man cir... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110257782 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A PROCESSING INSTALLATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COLLECTIONS OF PRINTED PRODUCTS A control device controls a processing installation for the production of collections of printed products, wherein the processing installation comprises installation sections (1, 2, 3, 4) which combine input streams (11, 12; 21, 22; 31, 32; 41, 42) of part... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251716 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR IMPROVING CONTAINER FLOW IN A PORT FACILITY A system and process for improving container flow within a port facility, including improved equipment and software for controlling operation and flow of the equipment in the part facility. The system may include a port facility geographically arranged to separate land ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251935 | Mobile Battery Replacement Unit This present invention provides a method for portable electric vehicle battery replacement comprised of providing a platform adapted for holding an electric vehicle upon it, storing a plurality of electric vehicle batteries, and loading charged batteries into the electr... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110213493 | Entrance Gate For An Automatic Parking Garage Having Mechanism For Centering A Vehicle On The Entrance Gate An entrance gate and an automatic parking garage having such an entrance gate are provided. The entrance gate includes a stationary ground plate; two trace plates thereabove, movable in the plane in any direction in a gliding manner, each for receiving thereon a front a... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110172807 | Enclosed Operating Area for Storage Device Testing Systems A storage device testing system includes one or more test racks, and one or more test slots housed by the one or more test racks, each test slot being configured to receive a storage device for testing. The storage device testing system also includes a transfer station ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110160897 | ROBOT AND INSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF A robot control unit that turns off a holding unit for a plate member, while the plate member is placed on an end effector, and lower the end effector, by a predetermined distance, from an initial position higher than a preset temporary placing position toward the tempo... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110144796 | BILL ACCEPTOR FOR A GAMING MACHINE A bill acceptor 24.2 for a gaming machine includes a receiving zone for receiving a tendered bill. A sensing device 48 is arranged at an input region of the receiving zone for sensing at least one characteristic of the bill A controller 52 is in com... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137451 | Method for Modeling a Control Circuit for a Processing Machine The invention relates to modeling a control circuit (300) for a processing machine for processing a material web, particularly shaft-less printing machine, wherein at least one dead time (Tt,SENSOR, Tt,NET, Tt,SPS, T(v)R 06/09/2011 | |
| 20110137452 | A UNIVERSAL TOOL MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR A MACHINING CENTRE A universal tool mounting system for a machining centre relates to CNC machine tools, comprising a main drum into which mounts a plurality of tool holder unit stations, these create a platform to attach, mount and interchange tool holder units on each station, where eac... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110130865 | METHOD OF MANUALLY TRANSPORTING ITEMS The disclosed technology includes methods for providing a hand truck with a powered lifting feature controlled by an electronic module associated with a scale where such scale is used to determine the weight of an item to be lifted and manually transported. The electron... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110130863 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CRANE A method for controlling a crane includes controlling a rope part connected to a hook of the crane with a friction-operated driving wheel, extra rope being coiled into a plurality of layers onto a storage reel. In the method, two machineries are used, of which the first... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110130864 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS, POSITION TEACHING METHOD, AND SENSOR JIG Disclosed are a transport apparatus that holds and transports an object on a predetermined transport track using a transport portion provided at the leading end of an arm and is capable of acquiring the teaching information of a transport position using a normal transpo... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110130862 | SENSOR FOR HANDLING SYSTEM The cable lift system provides assistance to movement of a flexibly suspended payload actuated by operator input into one or more sensing devices attached to the payload. The sensing device is configured to collect information about the typical push-pull and lift-lower ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110125311 | METHOD OF RECEIVING AND PAYING OUT BILLS A method of receiving and paying out bills including the steps of providing a bill passage in about the central portion of an elongate casing that extends along one side of a bill receiving chamber having a bill payback: outlet; providing a bill conveying apparatus for ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110106293 | BOOK PROCESSING LINE INVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Book-turning equipment is detailed. The equipment acts on horizontally-oriented books and rotates them vertically through approximately one hundred eighty degrees without reorienting their backbones (spines). Mechanical assistance is provided only for the first approxim... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110106297 | Bag top registration apparatus Bag top registration apparatus includes infeed mechanism that feeds bags, which may be of different lengths, from a magazine to positioner assemblies which have back lights and bag clamps that are operable for moving the bags, if necessary, to have their bag top edges o... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110106294 | Automatic battery exchange system for mobile vehicles A battery exchange system for a battery-powered mobile vehicle comprises an exchanger automatic guided vehicle (“EAGV”) which is controlled by a central computer and which comprises a linking member that is temporarily connectable to the battery and a motive member ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110089388 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ROTATION SPEED OF MOTOR OF SPEED-CONTROLLABLE HOIST DRIVE, AND HOIST DRIVE A method according to the invention of controlling a rotation speed of a motor of a speed-controllable hoist drive comprises receiving a lift speed instruction; forming a final speed instruction by using initial information containing the lift speed instruction; and usi... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110074100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN A DOCUMENT JOGGER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO CONDITIONS OCCURRING IN THE DOCUMENT JOGGER SYSTEM A method and apparatus for use in document jogger system are provided. The apparatus includes a document detector that detects the presence and absence of documents in the pocket of the document jogger system and that automatically activates and deactivates the document... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074171 | OBJECT GRASPING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS An object grasping control method, in which an object grasping control apparatus grasps a plurality of graspable members using a grasping unit, includes recognizing at least one of a shape, position, and attitude of each of the plurality of graspable members, setting, b... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110071664 | HUMAN GRASP ASSIST DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE A grasp assist device includes a glove portion having phalange rings, contact sensors for measuring a grasping force applied by an operator wearing the glove portion, and a tendon drive system (TDS). The device has flexible tendons connected to the phalange rings for mo... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110066278 | DEVICE FOR POSITIONING A PATIENT WITH RESPECT TO A RADIATION A device is provided for positioning a patient with respect to a radiation, the device being a polyarticulated robot including: —at least one linear horizontal displacement rail, —a connecting part capable of carrying out translations with respect to the linear rail... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054666 | MONEY HANDLING APPARATUS AND MONEY HANDLING METHOD A money handling apparatus 10 includes: an operation/display unit 30 configured to display thereon a count result on money as well as configured to display thereon a part or all of various operation keys, based on existence or nonexistence of display, cont... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110054672 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TIMED PROCESSING OF A PRINTED PRODUCT WITH THE AID OF A TRANSFER DEVICE With an arrangement for the timed processing of a book block, consisting of at least one printed sheet or at least one signature, a transfer device (10) is arranged in-between the feed devices for the book blocks (61) and the device for the further conveyi... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110020097 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FIXING AND TRANSPORTING IMPACT SENSITIVE SHEETS IN SPUTTER FEED SYSTEMS The invention relates to a device and method for fixing glass sheets in a superclean room for feeding a sputter system, comprising the following: a) a roller drive (12), designed to convey a transport frame (19) to a centering unit that centres the transpo... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017693 | CONTAINER TRACKING AND LOCATING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for tracking and locating shipping containers in rail car unloading operations in a railway switchyard using a rail mounted gantry crane. The systems, methods, and computer program products configured to estab... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110015780 | System And Method For Tracking Inventory An RFID enabled paper roll includes a tubular core, a paper stock wound around the core, and a radio frequency integrated circuit electrically coupled to an antenna and positioned on the core. A system for reading a radio frequency integrated circuit positioned on an it... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110000744 | STAIRLIFTS The invention provides a enhancement to stairlift safety by separately monitoring the angular movement of a stairlift chair levelling motor, and the angular position of a chair leveled by that motor. By comparing the angular positions, any failure in the levelling syste... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110000866 | Apparatus for Controlling the Position of Crane Tong According to Slab Bending and the Method Thereof An apparatus and method for controlling the position of the tongs of a crane depending on bending of a slab are disclosed. Side surface detection units are installed at both ends of the tongs of a crane for gripping the side surfaces of one or more slabs, and are config... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328695 | BOOKLET PAGE TURNING APPARATUS, BOOKLET PAGE TURNING METHOD, AND ID PRINTING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a control device which controls to, after the feed device has fed the booklet so as to bring the page on the other surface side of the booklet into contact with the contact roller unit and fold the page on the other surface side, feed the bo... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332019 | LevPro safety system A load monitoring system to provide the user with pertinent information necessary to plan, install and monitor load and tension measurements during over-head lifting practices. The process includes the measurement instrument with a power supply and data converter with a... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324723 | HANDLING INSTALLATION, IN PARTICULAR FOR CONTAINERS, WITH A RETROACTIVE CORRECTION CAPABILITY A device and a method for the handling of containers with a plurality of handling units. In the case of the device according to the invention and in the case of the method according to the invention a defective state in a handling element situated downstream is recogniz... | 12/23/2010 |
