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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100230364 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WATER PURIFICATION PROFILE An apparatus for optimizing water purification profile, has a front processing unit, a booster pump having a water inlet, a rear processing unit, a waterflow control unit, an emission control unit, a control circuit, and a temperature sensing probe. The front processing... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A MOBILE STATION Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein allow a requesting party to control use of another user's mobile station. In some aspects, a server is configured to communicate with a plurality of remote computer systems and target mobile stations. The server include... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100198425 | PROGRAMMABLE THERMOSTAT A programmable thermostat is disclosed having a continuously movable indexing mechanism, such as a rotatable wheel, that allows a user to scroll or cycle through sequential time intervals ranging over a complete week to view currently programmed time intervals and to se... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100138076 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS A method for controlling a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in a wait mode, including: obtaining information regarding a waiting time required for a product to arrive at the apparatus on a production line, the product being subjected to a predetermined process by t... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100076620 | CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR A GREENHOUSE The invention relates to a controlling device (10) for a greenhouse (15), with a computerized control element (20), a lighting element (30) and at least one detector element (40), wherein the lighting element (30) and the detect... | 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 |
| 20100063647 | OUTDOOR ENCLOSURE COOLING SYSTEM OPERATING AT OFF-PEAK HOURS A cooling system and method for an outdoor electronics enclosure includes an air conditioner controlled to operate during off-peak hours, so as to pre-cool batteries. The cooled batteries keep the enclosure cool during peak hours so that it is not necessary to run the a... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090314464 | HEATING SYSTEM A heating system in which a warmed fluid is circulated through a delivery network space heaters to provide space heating, further comprising a thermal store and means arranged to circulate the warmed fluid through the thermal store during a heating shut down sequence to... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090265037 | System and Method for Assessing and Reducing Air Pollution by Regulating Airflow Ventilation Disclosed are means for monitoring the levels of air pollution in urban areas for the purpose of optimizing the conditions of airflow ventilation of buildings according to air pollution levels in their area. The invention supplies data in real time regarding local air p... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090211940 | CLOSED CONTAINER AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CLOSED CONTAINER A closed container in which a reticle etc. is stored and kept is provided with a pressure sensor, transmission means for transmitting data on the pressure, a controller that controls the operation of them, and a battery serving as a power source of the above elements. T... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090192657 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HOUSEHOLD COOKING APPLIANCE USING A TIMER Described herein is a method for controlling a baking oven using a timer module, said timer module comprising a timer relay, a switch for operating mode selection, and a switch for setting a heating temperature or a heating power. The timer relay is serially connected i... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090164049 | Residential Environmental Management Control System with Automatic Adjustment Automatic adjustment of the control and operation of residential environmental management systems is made based upon a time of year, a geographic location, or both. A controller receives input of the time of year or the geographic location of the residential environment... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090101443 | LUBRICATING DEVICE, PRINTER, LUBRICATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LUBRICATION An object is to supply a fixed amount of oil determined in advance. In the present invention, a lubricating device that supplies oil to each sliding device of a printing machine includes a lubricating section and a metered valve. The lubricating section ejects oil in an... | 04/23/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090012656 | STEP TIME DISPLAY DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE A step time display device for an injection molding machine selects two events (a time measurement start event and a time measurement end event), time of each of which is to be measured, from among a plurality of events (starts and ends of mold clamping, injection, hold... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080250797 | REFRIGERATOR INCLUDING FOOD PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A refrigerator includes at least one refrigerated compartment and a food product management system. The food product management system includes a container for storing foodstuffs in the at least one refrigerated compartment. The container includes a storage zone and a l... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080231224 | TIMER CIRCUIT AND TIME COUNT METHOD A timer circuit includes a storage unit to store a series of first data content relating to a time into a specified address area, a target value generation unit to read the first data content from a read address of the storage unit and to generate, as a target value, th... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080148749 | Air Conditioning Control System and Air Conditioning Control Device An air conditioning control system includes an air conditioner, an operating capacity setting unit, an operating capacity range changing unit, a first authentication information inputting unit, and an operating capacity range change allowability determining unit. With t... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080046211 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE In general, the present invention provides a method and system for calibrating an electrical device that utilizes a data networking protocol (e.g., 802.1X) over a power delivery network. Specifically, the present invention leverages information gathered and store... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080035864 | Skin tanning and light therapy incorporating light emitting diodes The invention relates to a skin tanning chamber, the improvement comprising at least one light emitting diode emitting a UVA light, such as a UVA LED that emits essentially only UVA. Additionally, multiple LEDs of varying types with various characteristic wavelengths ar... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070289604 | Substrate Processing Apparatus To provide an apparatus and a method capable of supplying a gas containing an evaporated reducing organic compound while strictly controlling the flow rate thereof to process a surface of a metal on a substrate without causing any deterioration of various types of films... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070269875 | Method and apparatus for cell permeabilization The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for introducing and releasing substances into and out of cells, and more specifically to methods and apparatuses for transiently permeabilizing a living cell so that any one or more of a variety of substances, such as ion... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070124003 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMAL LIGHT-CO2 COMBINATIONS FOR PLANT PRODUCTION Method for optimizing plant production in a cost effective manner, System (100) includes a processor (102) in communication with resource controllers (110, 112) for controlling resources (106, 108) such as, for example, lighting and carbon di... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070050094 | ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANER An electric vacuum cleaner comprises an electric blower having a commutator motor connected to an alternate current power source though a switching element, a current detecting section detecting a load current flowing in the electric blower, a control section generating... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20050038527 | Apparatus and method for programming a motor control of a motor An interface for programming a motor control of a motor includes a microcontroller in signal communication with a first signal port and a second signal port, and a solid state relay in signal communication with the microcontroller and the second signal port. The solid s... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050033469 | Working time period grasping system and work instruction preparing system A working time period grasping system includes: an input unit having a start button for a worker to input start of a product manufacturing work and a completion button for the worker to input completion of the product manufacturing work; and a time period detection unit... | 02/10/2005 |
| 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 |
