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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7327273 | Fluid monitoring device This invention relates to a device to monitor the administration of a fluid through a conduit, such as intravenous fluid, and detect the completion of fluid delivery by monitoring the fluid level inside a chamber. The device will monitor, through an optical fluid se... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7274306 | Traffic management device and system A smart traffic control device transmits information to approaching vehicles regarding its current and future state enabling vehicles to control their speed to avoid arriving at the traffic control device until it permits the passage of traffic, thus avoiding stoppi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6937161 | Traffic signal control method In traffic signal control for setting a green light time to a value between the lower limit time and the upper limit time in real time depending on a traffic volume sensed by vehicle sensors Sa, Sb, and so forth, the upper limit time Gmax is set longer wi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6801638 | Device and method for recognizing traffic signs The invention concerns a process and a device, which make it possible to reliably, with the least amount of computing power, recognize traffic signs and to display these as memory aids for an observer. Image data of an image sensor are analyzed and classified in an ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6320515 | Method and equipment for motorway control The method and the means concern a system for control of motorway traffic, with focus on access control. The network characteristics of the traffic, according to the invention, is treated by traffic control functions based on the traffic as well as the ac... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6072408 | Simulating the presence of a large motor vehicle in an inductive loop of a vehicular traffic signal light control system In a first embodiment, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is driven by a generator that provides a cyclic voltage having a sawtooth waveform. The VCO cyclicly provides a signal at a frequency that varies over a range that includes a frequency of a tran... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6049295 | Method and system for avoiding a collision at an intersection and a recording medium storing programs performing such a method Vehicles are prevented from colliding with each other at an intersection provided with no traffic light or having an obstructed view. A road-side apparatus is provided in the intersection and a on-board apparatus is provided on a vehicle. The on-board app... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5319365 | Portable hazard-warning light assembly A portable hazard-warning light assembly (10) that is designed to warn on-coming vehicular traffic of a hazardous traffic/road condition. The assembly (10) consists of an elongated tubular body (12) having attached to its top edge (12A) a removable lens h... | 06/07/1994 |
| 4303905 | Method and apparatus for calculating the green light time in traffic-dependently controllable street traffic signal systems A traffic-dependently controllable signaling system utilizing the lengths of the time intervals between two successive vehicles for terminating the green light duration for the involved flow of traffic, in which each time interval is compared with a first... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4031507 | Traffic controller, electromechanical sequencer for a traffic controller The phase sequence of a traffic light is determined by a reprogramable revolving encoder. In one embodiment the encoder has a light source and a drum revolving therearound with selectively positioned apertures. Photocells positioned outside the drum detec... | 06/21/1977 |
