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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6229439 | System and method of filtering An ambient condition detector includes at least a sensor for a first ambient condition and a second, sensor which is responsive to a second ambient condition not necessarily correlated to the first condition. Control circuitry, coupled to both sensors, pr... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6225907 | Environmental control system incipient failure indicator apparatus An incipient failure indication apparatus for an environmental control system which includes a heat exchanger through which air flows and a temperature control thermostat. The indication apparatus includes an indicator having an alarm in communication wit... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6195010 | On-line early warning detection system of runaway initiation using chaos theory techniques An online early warning detection system of runaway initiation in a batch chemical reactor. The system includes sensors for measuring the temperature in the reactor and/or jacket in different regions and at different instants and a device for deducing the... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6184782 | Vehicle with rear vehicle detecting apparatus In order to achieve an aspect of the present invention, a rear vehicle detecting apparatus of a vehicle include an alarm unit, a temperature detecting section, a reference temperature data generating section, a comparing section, and a drive section. The ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6172611 | Independent hardware thermal sensing and monitoring An apparatus for monitoring a thermal state of a system includes a thermal management integrated circuit (IC). The thermal management IC is coupled to receive a remote temperature signal. The remote temperature signal is indicative of a system temperature... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169486 | Monitoring and control system for monitoring the temperature of a glass ceramic cooktop A system is disclosed for determining the temperature of a cooktop having an upper surface and a lower surface. At least one controllable energy source is located below the lower surface of the cooktop to heat the area above the energy source on the cookt... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6121882 | Munitions cook-off warning system A process for indicating the likelihood of cook-off for energetic materials by calculating the heat flux and chemical venting relative to known crial parameters for the energetic materials. The process further may include an alarm.... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6087944 | System for indicating the residual heat of the pan support grids of domestic gas cooking appliances A system for indicating by means of at least one warning light the residual heat of at least one pan support grid for a gas burner in domestic cooking or heating appliances controlled by an electronic control device, in which the residual heat of the grid... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6072397 | Method and apparatus for reducing flame emissions from an electronics enclosure A method and apparatus which reduces flame emissions from an electronics enclosure in the event of a fire within the enclosure. At least one fan is utilized to provide air flow along an air flow path between an air intake port and an air exhaust port of t... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6064310 | Security system with HVAC fault reporting The performance of an HVAC system in a building is monitored by connecting a thermostat to an alarm system which is equipped to provide notification of alarm conditions through telecommunication or other direct means to some responsible entity. The alarm ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6046678 | Protective device for storage and transport containers A protective device for storage and transport containers comprises, in accordance with the present invention, a housing or frame carrying a sensor for detecting orientation, an attachment element for securing the housing or frame to a container, an alarm ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6034607 | Electronic refrigeration unit temperature alarm An electronic freezer thermometer alarm computes an estimation of contents temperature in a freezer from the freezer air temperature. The calculated contents temperature is displayed by a LCD display and is used to trigger a sound alarm, by use of a piezo... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6026650 | Freeze point protection for water cooled chillers A freeze point protection method and system is provided for water cooled chillers. The method prevents freezing of chilled water and damage to the chiller. The method allows the evaporator temperature to drop below a freezing temperature for a predetermin... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6021956 | Thermal image judging method and air conditioner control method Whether a thermal image is in a steady state or an unsteady state is judged based on measurement values of temperatures of objects and ambient temperature and previously obtained relational expressions between ambient temperature and the temperatures of t... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5969604 | System and method of adjusting smoothing An ambient condition detector includes a sensor for a first ambient condition and a second, sensor which is responsive to a second ambient condition not necessarily correlated to the first condition. Control circuitry, coupled to both sensors, processes a... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966070 | Child alert alarm for automobiles The present invention, in one form, is an alarm system for detecting the presence of a child locked within a parked automobile during extreme temperatures. The alarm system includes a temperature detecting element and a child detecting element electricall... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5949332 | Fire alarm radio transmitter and receiver set A fire alarm radio transmitter and receiver set is provided with a radio transmitter and a radio receiver. The radio transmitter has a plurality of temperature sensors, a first memory keeping data including an address of a building, a first controller for... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5939978 | Temperature sensing brake lining wear indicator A brake lining wear indicator utilizes a temperature sensor assembly embedded in a brake lining of a drum brake assembly. The temperature sensor assembly includes two temperature sensors with a first temperature sensor located at a first distance X from t... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5909171 | Temperature sensing brake lining wear indicator A brake lining wear indicator utilizes a temperature sensor assembly embedded in a brake lining of a drum brake assembly. The temperature sensor assembly includes two temperature sensors with a first temperature sensor located at a first distance X from t... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5867809 | Electric appliance, printed circuit board, remained life estimation method, and system thereof The present invention relates to an electric appliance and a remaining life estimation system wherein the electric appliance having a printed circuit board on which at least LSI components are mounted includes an IC with sensor. The IC includes a time mon... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5864286 | Distributed intelligence alarm system having a two- tier monitoring process for detecting alarm conditions There is provided an alarm system for detecting and warning of the presence of alarm and trouble conditions in a plurality of zones. The system comprises a control panel having a central processing unit and a plurality of alarm devices, each having a micr... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5835885 | Over temperature protection method and device for a central processing unit An over temperature protection method and its circuital device for a central processing unit includes a read and write memory unit having pre-stored therein; an instruction for identifying a type of CPU and automatically predetermining the maximum allowab... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831524 | System and method for dynamic adjustment of filtering in an alarm system A system and a method for dynamically adjusting a level of filtering or smoothing applied to data received from fire detectors produces shortened response times for detection of a fire condition while at the same time minimizing the effects of uncorrelate... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5821861 | Monitoring wall temperatures of reactor vessels Wall temperatures of a reactor vessel are monitored by arranging an optical fibre in thermal contact with the wall and employing an optical time domain reflectometry system to monitor the respective temperatures at different points along the fibre. Such a... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5796346 | Stove having grease fire avoidance circuitry A stove including circuitry to facilitate avoidance of fires such as may be caused by grease or another flammable substance present on the stove burner. The circuitry detects when such burner has been set above a predetermined temperature or power level f... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5784004 | Apparatuses and systems for reducing power consumption in remote sensing applications The system of the subject invention includes an antenna system, a surface apparatus and a battery-powered remote apparatus useful for applications such as well bore telemetry. In well bore telemetry, the surface apparatus is located uphole on the earth's ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5774784 | Temperature control system for electronic apparatus A temperature control system for an electronic apparatus including a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature in the apparatus and outputting a temperature detection signal representing the detected temperature, a power supplier controller for gen... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5760693 | Vacuum apparatus for semiconductor device A vacuum controlling apparatus is provided. The vacuum level of a vacuum chamber can be accurately maintained by measuring and controlling the vacuum level of the vacuum chamber by using six parameters: desired pressure, predetermined time for reaching th... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5747778 | Hot melting iron having a safety control circuit board A safety device for irons used for models includes a control electrical circuit board accommodated within an iron and mounted with a temperature setting knob controllable by a variable resistor, a central processing unit, an output control device, a heate... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5737243 | Method for displaying of the outside temperature in a motor vehicle A method for displaying the outside temperature within a motor vehicle in which measured values of the outside temperature are displayed with a greater time delay in the case of increasing temperature on an outside-temperature sensor than in the case of a... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5724023 | Setting device for fire alarm system A portable fire alarm system setting device allows easy confirmation of information such as address information set in a storage element which cannot be seen visually from the outside of a terminal device, for example, a fire detector, and also allows the... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5684463 | Electronic refrigeration and air conditioner monitor and alarm An electronic refrigeration and air conditioner monitor and alarm system monitors air conditioning and refrigeration systems for inefficiencies that waste energy. The device monitors and analyzes the temperatures of the suction line of such systems for va... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5673020 | Early stage fire detecting apparatus An early stage fire detecting apparatus is arranged such that a fire state is discriminated based on a fire probability output from a signal processing network. The fire probability being prepared in such a manner that outputs from a high sensitivity smok... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5670938 | Fire alarm device In a fire alarm device for detecting the physical quantities of substances arising from the outbreak of a fire and giving a fire alarm, membership functions showing the correlation between an arising quantities calculated by the detected physical quantiti... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5646612 | Method for avoiding collision of vehicle and apparatus for performing the same An apparatus which determines a kind of an object to warn a driver based on the kind of the object and properly performs deceleration and braking operations based on a position of the object and a speed of the vehicle is disclosed. An infrared-ray camera ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5640141 | Surveillance and alarm device for room spaces A surveillance and alarm device for room spaces, comprising an infrared radar for controlling the lights as well as a fire and burglar alarm. A basic alarm is provided with a light controller to be connected in series with a ceiling light fixture in a roo... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5627514 | Fire detector and fire receiver A fire detector is capable of self-detecting its own malfunction and is also capable of quickly announcing a failure of high-level emergency in the fire detector. A plurality of determining values are established for the output level of a physical quantit... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5621388 | System for monitoring and locating a person within a preselected distance from a base-station In a system for monitoring, within a preselected distance or location defining the perimeter of a preselected distance, and locating the position of persons, animals or moving objects, a base-station generates an interrogation signal which, when detected ... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5619184 | System for monitoring disaster prevention A fire disaster monitoring system of the present invention has a control unit and a fire sensor. The fire sensor includes a sensor base and a sensor body. The sensor base incorporates a first memory which stores first address information of the first memo... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5608383 | Automatic temperature alarm system An automatic temperature alarm system is disclosed for alerting an operator of a heated apparatus that the apparatus has been heated and untouched for an excessive period of time. In a particular embodiment, the invention comprises a temperature sensor af... | 03/04/1997 |
