Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160724 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium and program An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second co... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8126573 | Method and device for optimizing processes The invention relates to a process-optimizing device, particularly a manufacturing execution system device. Such a process-optimizing MES device is mounted between an enterprise production planning system, especially an enterprise resource planning device, and a con... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112162 | System level function block engine A function block engine, a block execution list and a parameter and/or variable storage space being resident in a memory supporting the engine. The function block engine may execute a program according to a list of function blocks identified in the block execution l... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108055 | Method, system and apparatus for controlling an electrical device A system, method and apparatus for controlling an electrical device are provided. At least one image of at least one moving entity is processed, for determining if the at least one moving entity is at least one of entering and exiting a monitored area, and for deter... | 01/31/2012 |
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| 8050777 | Gobo virtual machine Producing complicated effects based on image processing operations. The image processing operations are defined for a processor which may be different than the processor which is actually used. The processor that is actually used runs an interpreter that interprets ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8014879 | Methods and systems for adaptive control A digital controller includes a sampling component that samples an output signal from a system and an input signal to the system at a first sampling rate, which is at least equal to a predetermined operating rate. An input parameter obtaining component obtains a plu... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010211 | Appliance with a service interface for communicating with a consumable holder An appliance configured to perform a physical operation on an article, using a resource, includes a process control apparatus to control a cycle of the physical operation, and a service interface in communication with the process control apparatus and configured to ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006204 | Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same An automated processor design tool uses a description of customized processor instruction set extensions in a standardized language to develop a configurable definition of a target instruction set, a Hardware Description Language description of circuitry necessary t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996093 | Automatic controller relationship resolution In an industrial control system, a relatively large number of bindings can permeate between different controllers. As a modification is made in a primary binding, supplemental bindings can be impacted and can become erroneous. The supplemental bindings can be automa... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7925359 | Air compressor and work management data collection system An air compressor 1 is provided with a clocking mechanism and an RFID reader/writer 2, detects a time-in and a time-out etc. of a worker, and writes time data into an RFID tag 4 of a time card 3 held by a worker using the RFID reader/writ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904182 | Scalable motion control system A control system includes a clustered architecture having a master controller, a central control section including one or more first remote controllers under direct control of the master controller, and a distributed control section including a cluster controller co... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904181 | Model for communication between manufacturing and enterprise levels A device for communicating with low level controllers and sensors located on the production floor of an enterprise directly from the top level of the enterprise. The device comprises a controller which interfaces with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) via the ba... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7860582 | Compact modular embedded device A compact modular embedded device. A base module includes a processor, a memory medium operable to store a bootloader for executing graphical programs, a bus, and a power input coupled to the processor, memory medium, and bus, for receiving power from a power source... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853334 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium and program An information processing apparatus which is capable of executing applications includes first control means for controlling a system of the information processing apparatus and second control means for controlling the execution of the applications, and the second co... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831314 | Driving operation assisting system, method and vehicle incorporating the system A driving assisting for calculating risk potential by considering a response delay by the driver and transmitting information related to the risk potential to the operator in a haptic manner. A controller is provided to estimate the response delay based on an operat... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7813813 | Safety unit, controller system, connection method of controllers, control method of the controller system and monitor method of the controller system Safety units 1d to 1f for executing a safety function processing are connected to a non-safety controller constituted by connecting a plurality of units 1b, 1c including CPU units 1a. A CPU bus | 10/12/2010 |
| 7765016 | Brush control system and method on a washing brush installation for cleaning vehicles The brush control system in a washing brush installation for vehicles comprises a first means (5) of control of the rotation speed and torque of a first actuation motor (2) for the rotation of at least one brush (1) of said installation, directl... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7738971 | Post-sterilization programming of surgical instruments A surgical instrument with a programmable control unit and methods for programming the control unit while the surgical instrument is in a sterile container. The method may comprise packaging the surgical instrument in the container and then sterilizing the surgical ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720551 | Coordinating service performance and application placement management Apparatus, systems and methods for service and/or business for coordinating tasks of performance management and application placement management in a dynamic fashion. An example process is dynamic in the face of fluctuations in the request load to the distributed co... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715928 | Efficient communications and data compression algorithms in sensor networks using discrete wavelet transform Techniques and sensor networks based on distributed wavelet transform algorithms for efficient sensor networks. Wireless multihop sensor networks can implement the described techniques to exploit the data flow direction in the network to perform partial computations... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698000 | Microscope system and method An optical system and method are presented for use in a multi-photon microscope. The system comprises an imaging lens arrangement, and a pulse manipulator arrangement. The pulse manipulator arrangement comprises a temporal pulse manipulator unit which is accommodate... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689632 | Adaptive data dictionary language, extendable for a security system A system, method and computer program product for storing configuration data for use in configuring a device while a program utilizing the configuration data is undergoing a revision at the device. The method includes a first step of providing a data structure indic... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680545 | System and method for speed measurement verification This Invention provides for a method and system for speed measurement verification. The method comprises the step of automatically measuring the speed of a vehicle traveling on a surface which includes a fixed marker at a predetermined distance from a point where th... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676277 | Data receiving apparatus and control method thereof A data receiving apparatus and control method are provided. The apparatus includes a determining part determining whether a clock signal and a data signal are respectively in a high state and/or in a low state based on a predetermined value of a standard level, when... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672737 | Hierarchically structured data model for utilization in industrial automation environments An industrial automation device comprises a data storage component that retains at least a portion of a schema, the schema facilitates usage of a hierarchically structured data model by the industrial automation device. A processor is communicatively coupled to the ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7657327 | Remote controller for portable electronic device A control device for operating electronic equipment having a generally elongated body and rotatable selection portion that is rotatable to any one of a plurality of operation mode positions. A display unit displays information associated with each mode, and a single... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7643888 | Control apparatus A control apparatus which generates control information on the basis of control target information from a control target, controls the control target by using the generated control information, and transmits the control information to an off-system control apparatus... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7643889 | Circuit and method of outputting temperature data of semiconductor memory apparatus A circuit for outputting temperature data of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a temperature detecting circuit that generates a temperature voltage corresponding to a change in temperature and outputs the temperature voltage, an A/D converter that converts t... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7613525 | Disk device for serial communication and method of controlling the same Embodiments of the invention provide a disk device and a method of controlling the device which is capable of suppressing peak current, even for serial communication, that is required when initiating rotation of a spindle motor down to a level equivalent to that of ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613526 | Control system for a reciprocating object The present invention is related to a control system of the reciprocating object comprising a microprocessor (01), a reciprocating mode control circuit (02), a reciprocating travel control circuit (03), a power supply circuit (04) and a m... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7603180 | Method and system for orthogonalizing input signals A method for the orthogonalization of initially overlapping vectors, the uses for which include the re-encoding and decoding of representations triggered by sensory arrays. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596416 | Project management tool A system for managing a project that includes multiple tasks and a plurality of workers. Input information includes characterizations based upon a human model, a team model and a product model. Periodic reports, such as a monthly report, a task plan report, a budget... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7587249 | Electronic appliance An electric appliance 1 has a code correspondence data table that accommodates the correspondence among the control signals of the remote control units belonging to recording medium drive apparatuses 2-1 to 2-m and signal reception... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580759 | Systems and methods for in-situ recording head burnishing Systems and methods are provided for burnishing a recording head in-situ in a magnetic recording disk drive. The burnishing process generates a tribocurrent, which is electricity generated by the rubbing of dissimilar materials. Different materials exhibit widely di... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574267 | Controller for a machine-tool or production machine A controller for a machine tool or production machine includes a computer with a software program that is not executable in real-time, an interpreter implemented in the non-real-time software program, and a storage medium storing an executable macro loadable into th... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574268 | Modular control system with terminal and function modules A modular control system, which is constructed from terminal modules and function modules to fit these, for use in industrial automation in particular is provided. With the known embodiments, which comprise different terminal modules for different functionalities, s... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561925 | Motor vehicle control device A motor vehicle control device is provided with first and second partial devices. The first partial device houses sensors and/or associated functions of the control unit that are identical for all vehicle models in a series. The second partial device houses the sens... | 07/14/2009 |
| RE40817 | Process control system including automatic sensing and automatic configuration of devices A digital control system with a predetermined configuration automatically senses the connection to a network of a digital device that is not included in the predetermined configuration. The digital device is assigned temporary address information and placed in a tem... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7509176 | Circuit for reducing the wiring needed to control the functions of a vehicle The wiring needed to control all the functions in a vehicle is reduced, especially where the input source for operating a given function is remote from the function. A control member is provided that receives the input signal and converts it to a coded message that ... | 03/24/2009 |
