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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110184569 | VISCOUS MATERIAL NONCONTACT JETTING SYSTEM A viscous material noncontact jetting system has a jetting dispenser mounted for relative motion with respect to a surface. A control is operable to cause the jetting dispenser to jet a viscous material droplet that is applied to the surface as a viscous material dot. A... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110029151 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A STORAGE SYSTEM In a temperature adjustment system and method for a storage system, a corresponding relationship between data transfer rates of the storage system and rotational speeds of electric fans coupled to the storage system is established. Real-time data transfer rates of the s... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029135 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PAPER-PROCESSING MACHINE A method is provided to control a paper-processing machine. Following an occurrence of at least one error, the error is automatically detected with at least one detection device. Following the detection of the error, a measure is automatically introduced to counteract t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110018916 | ECCENTRICITY AMOUNT ESTIMATION DEVICE, ROTATION VELOCITY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM There is provided an eccentricity amount estimation device, including: a rotation body provided with plural detected portions disposed along the rotation direction at predetermined rotation angle intervals, each of the plural detected portions being formed such that fro... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100315223 | COOLING-CONTROL TECHNIQUE FOR USE IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM A method for providing control signals to a fan in a computer system is described. During the method, an electronic device receives temperature measurements and a fan-speed measurement performed in the computer system. Using a pattern-recognition model, the electronic d... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100274409 | Stairlifts The invention describes an over-speed governor for a stairlift which not only triggers a safety gear or brake upon the carriage exceeding a pre-determined speed, but also triggers the safety gear in the event the carriage unexpectedly reverses its direction. In a prefer... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100076619 | FOLDER GLUER A folder gluer for conveying a cardboard sheet and folding up the cardboard sheet from a deployed state thereof is disclosed. The folder glurer comprises two flat belts including a first belt and a second belt arranged in parallel for conveying a cardboard sheet, two pu... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070073 | Bulk Material Transport System In a material handling system having a material feeder, a material container may be configured to discharge material to the material feeder and a process aid may be engaged with the material container, a method including determining a process indicator associated with a... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100063633 | Operation control method, operating device, and circuit-board working apparatus A method of controlling an operation of an operating member from a first position to a second position, wherein an operating speed of the operating member is initially increased from zero while an acceleration value of the operating member is first increased from zero a... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100042266 | CONTROL OF FRICTION AT THE NANOSCALE Methods and apparatus are described for control of friction at the nanoscale. A method of controlling frictional dynamics of a plurality of particles using non-Lipschitzian control includes determining an attribute of the plurality of particles; calculating an attribute... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090177328 | System and method for shaft heat treament for correction slow roll Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities comprising, for a shalt of an electric motor, the shaft comprising a runout sensing area: determining an electrical runout value for the runout sensing area; rotating the shaft; and/or ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090106912 | MOTOR APPARATUS AND METHOD A method of operating a motor, the method comprising: operating a motor at a first speed; operating the motor in negative slip; imbalancing at least one phase of the motor to dissipate regeneration energy using windings of the motor; and wherein a next motor speed is de... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090038347 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Redundancy in Monitoring the Lid Switch and Basket of a Washing Machine A method and control system for automatically halting operation of a washing machine by stopping operation of the washing machine motor is provided. The washing machine that implements the method includes a motor controller having a primary microprocessor and a secondar... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080183308 | RESONANT FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION Systems and methods that determine resonant frequencies of a motor system via employing an output of a velocity regulator. The velocity regulator enables the motor drive to command the rotation of the motor at predetermined rotations, by setting rotational speeds of the... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080061723 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VELOCITY DETECTING DEVICE AND SERVO MECHANISM A driving velocity of a motor is detected by processing a position information signal output from a sensor in accordance with a driving position of a motor. The signal processing device includes a position information signal processor (410) that processes the pos... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080004755 | Apparatus and method for automatically configuring control of a fan to be exclusively performed by a motherboard A method and apparatus are described for automatically configuring control of a fan to be exclusively performed by a motherboard is disclosed. In an embodiment, the motherboard includes remote fan speed control module and a signal module, each to be coupled with a fan o... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070219756 | Microcontroller Methods of Improving Reliability in DC Brushless Motors and Cooling Fans A method of controlling a motor speed for a fan assembly includes receiving a duty cycle value at a microcontroller. The microcontroller receives a measured fan speed from a speed sensor. An expected fan speed is determined, where the expected fan speed corresponds to t... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070067070 | Rotary work lifter and working machine The invention is provided with means for detecting a situation of rotating a rotary work lifter at any time, and a determining portion for determining whether operation of the rotary work lifter is to be stopped by a state of rotating the rotary work lifter detected by ... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070032890 | Method and apparatus for robust vibration suppression According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a system and method of robust vibration suppression which might be used in many subject matters, but which is preferably used in connection with computer controlled electromechanical devices suc... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20050004718 | Integrated circuit speed capability indicator A single integrated circuit (12). The integrated circuit comprises a first circuit (14x) having a data path, the first circuit consisting of a first number of logic gates for performing a plurality of logic functions. The integrated circuit also... | 01/06/2005 |
