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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369062 | Networked communication devices An aircraft emergency lighting system includes a plurality of light units arranged to guide passengers to and to identify exits in an emergency. The light units communicate wirelessly with a remote master control unit operable from the cockpit using a low power spre... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7346051 | Slave device, master device and stacked device A stacked device is disclosed which is easily manufactured while identifying a plurality of devices that are stacked in the stacked device. The stacked device includes a stack of a plurality of slave devices and a master device having identical terminal arrangements... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7299512 | Motorized operating table The present invention pertains to a motorized operating table (1) of the type comprising a horizontal platform (2) for supporting a patient, equipped at least in part with a side rail (3) for accessories, said platform (2) being affixed o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294106 | Cable-free medical detection and treatment system A system for medical detection and treatment comprising a number of treatment and/or detection devices which exchange data with each other within the context of a medical treatment, in particular a surgical or radiotherapeutic and/or radiosurgical operation, wherein... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7247139 | Method and apparatus for natural voice control of an ultrasound machine The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing voice control of a device, an ultrasound device for example. One embodiment of the present invention comprises an apparatus for providing voice control of the ultrasound device having a plurality ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7228186 | Field-mounted process device with programmable digital/analog interface Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a field-mountable process device that receives digital information from one or more process devices, and provides an associated analog output. Embodiments of the present invention include providing a wireless in... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221984 | Method and system of programming at least one appliance to change state upon the occurrence of a trigger event An automation system for programming appliances having programmable controllers, programmable devices and trigger devices that communicate over a communication link. The user programs the programmable devices by placing the programmable controller in its training mo... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7190126 | Daylight control system device and method A system and device for and a method of programming and controlling light fixtures is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention includes a stationary controller unit that is electrically coupled to the light fixtures. The stationary controller uni... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7148786 | Network communication and message protocol for a medical perfusion system A network communication and messaging protocol for use in a medical perfusion system, provides the rules which govern how, among other things, information and data is conveyed between the various devices which are connect to the network. The rules define the differe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129823 | Communications setting method and communications setting system for power line communications system A communications setting method for a communications network system for performing data communications among a plurality of devices through power line has a house code notification including a house code to be uniquely set for the communications network syste... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127401 | Remote control of a medical device using speech recognition and foot controls A system and method for controlling a medical device is provided such as a medical imaging device. The preferred embodiment of the present invention receives a verbal command for assigning a function of a medical imaging device from an operator. An additional verbal... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119708 | Apparatus and method for providing visual and hardware addressing information An apparatus and method combine visual addresses and electronic addresses for identification of electronic units. In which, the apparatus is one device per electronic unit. Each device comprises a circuit board encapsulated in a device enclosure, and the circuit boa... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103428 | Remote display module A portable display unit includes a serial port to connect to a device such as a vacuum network controller, cryopump, turbomolecular pump, gauges or compressor. In particular, the display unit can be plugged and unplugged to devices of different types. The portable d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7053752 | General purpose distributed operating room control system The present invention pertains to control systems and provides a run time configurable control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system comprising a master controller having a voice contro... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043532 | Method and apparatus for universally accessible command and control information in a network A method and system for performing a service on a home network, by: connecting a first and a second home device to the home network; providing a database including a plurality of application interface description data objects, where each application interface descri... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027878 | Method and system of programming at least one appliance to change state upon the occurrence of a trigger event An automation system for programming appliances having programmable controllers, programmable devices and trigger devices that communicate over a communication link. The user programs the programmable devices by placing the programmable controller in its training mo... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7009527 | Control system for suppling power by power line communication The power supply control system using PLC includes a repeater for recognizing a remote control signal transmitted by a remote control signal transmitter and an ID number of a corresponding electronic equipment to remote control signal transmitter and an ID number of... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6975993 | System, a server for a system and a machine for use in a system A system has a first machine (9 to 11,12,13,15) couplable to a network (N) and capable of carrying out at least one function, a speech data receiver (26,27) for receiving speech data representing instructions spoken by a user and specifying a fu... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961624 | Two-wire field-mounted process device A two-wire field-mounted process device with multiple isolated channels includes a channel that can be an input channel or an output channel. The given input or output channel can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process device is wholly po... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6744348 | Security system utilizing group supervision polling In a security system that has a large number of individually-addressable modules interconnected on a data bus to a control panel, a method of concurrently supervising the modules by first configuring each module with a unique zone number including a group number and... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6727813 | Alarm notifying device and computer program An alarm notifying device comprises a circuit which performs communications via a communication line, a circuit which detects a signal indicative of an operating condition of a facility to be monitored, and an alarm signal sent therefrom, and a CPU. The alarm notify... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6683526 | Pager-based communications system A communications system is provided for communicating information to and from recipients scattered over wide geographic areas. A computer controlled head end communications interface adds address information to a message in accordance with who the intende... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6646541 | General purpose distributed operating room control system A control system for controlling a plurality of medical devices. The control system includes a controller that receives select and control commands from an input device. The controller compares the select commands and control commands to corresponding lis... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6642836 | General purpose distributed operating room control system A control system for selecting and operating one of a plurality of operating room devices from a single input source, the system includes a master controller that has a voice control interface and can route control signals. The system additionally may inc... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6633581 | Serial communication apparatus A data transfer system capable of effectively performing serial communication by dividing communication lines into one or plural systems and using the divided lines, according to the number of communication IC's connected on the communication line and a l... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6476728 | Power consumption management apparatus and method The invention intends to provide an apparatus and a method capable of measuring power consumption in a home office and informing an integrated value of the power consumption at certain intervals to an employer of a homeworker, etc. The apparatus supplies ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6448901 | Status indicator for an interface circuit for a multi-node serial communication system A controller area network (CAN) has a plurality of nodes connected to transmit and receive data over a serial data line using an interface circuit to connect the node to the data line. Each interface circuit includes an isolation element, typically a diod... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6229433 | Appliance control An automated appliance control system includes a unit which transmits binary coded address and function control signals along the a.c. power line to a plurality of appliance control modules connected to the power line at various locations in the home. The... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6008733 | Air conditioning system master/slave control unit determination A plurality of air conditioning system control units are connected to each other through a communication line (20). Discharge resistors (R1, R2) are provided for discharging residual charges of the communication line (20). The control unit has a power sup... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5805073 | Apparatus for connecting electric appliances The device provides a signal to an electronic appliance and is used in a system including a plurality of electronic appliances connected in series so that they can transmit and receive information and control signals amongst each other, with the transmiss... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5745493 | Method and system for addressing multiple components on a communication bus A method and system for sequentially addressing multiple components, having a limited number of externally available address lines, on a communication bus. The method and system employs an addressing scheme in combination with a specific interconnection o... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5687391 | Fault tolerant multipoint control and data collection system A multipoint data collection system uses multiple parallel data buses connecting a central controller to addressable sensor interfaces to permit any sensor to be connected to a central controller over any one of the data buses. Both ends of each data bus ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5661468 | Radio paging electrical load control system and device A system for remote control of electrical load devices, particularly electrical lighting where the commands are broadcast over a radio pager system. A radio pager receiver is located within or nearby the electrical light fixture and is normally in a stand... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5650800 | Remote sensor network using distributed intelligent modules with interactive display A system remote sensor network that uses distributed intelligent modules includes a control panel having at least one intelligent sensor loop for coupling intelligent sensors, i.e., sensors having a unique ID, with the control panel and at least one remot... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5570085 | Programmable distributed appliance control system A device for incorporation into a variety of consumer appliances for use in a home automation environment. The invention comprises an electronic hardware module having software resident on the module, providing an interface between an appliance and other ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5353009 | Communication system A communication system comprises a control station and a number of remote stations connected to the control station by a multi-conductor harness. The control station houses a computer and supplies the remote stations with electrical power, as well as comm... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5204669 | Automatic station identification where function modules automatically initialize The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dynamically assigning addresses and determining the configuration of a plurality of programmable function modules connected to an electrical conductor, such as a serial bus. The programmable functi... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5200743 | Multiple remote sensor system for real time analog sensing and differential cummunication A four-wire system is disclosed for communicating between the host station and several remote stations. A first pair of wires is employed across which the remote stations are coupled in shunt, and over which the host station addresses the particular remot... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5175730 | Communication control unit A communication control unit controls data transmission and reception between a terminal and a communication network which includes a full duplex communication path, and a communication is made by transmitting a sending signal which includes a destination... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5095417 | Apparatus for carrying out serial control This apparatus for carrying out serial control comprises a plurality of node controllers each including a group of sensors (21S to 2nS), a group of actuators (21A to 2nA) or the like terminal components and a main controller for controlling the node contr... | 03/10/1992 |
