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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7894917 | Automatic fault tuning System(s) and procedure(s) facilitate monitoring of devices and automatic adjustment of fault timing parameters. A fault tuning component is embedded within a control module involved in a batch operation. The component executes a configurable tuning method that allo... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7653443 | Methods, systems, circuits and computer program products for electrical service demand management Methods of controlling activation of electrical appliances can include reducing overlapping activation time of different electrical appliances located at a single customer location of an electrical service provider during at least one time interval during a day. Rel... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647125 | Time-based control of a system having integration response A time-based controller provides control for a controlled system including a plant having an integration response. The time-based controller includes a comparator that detects a polarity change in a comparison of a sensed signal from the plant and a reference signal... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7432681 | Scanner system A scanner system includes a servo control unit. A rotation angle of a rotating shaft supporting a mirror is detected, and an error of the detected value with respect to a commanded value is integrated by an integral compensator so that the detected value is able to ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7406353 | 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... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7376548 | Methods and apparatus for simulating industrial processes In order to design and implement industrial processes in an efficient manner, an apparatus (1) is provided which can simulate a process to be implemented. The processing of the simulation is controlled by a modelling module (17) and is arranged to caus... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365282 | Pull out air gap switch for wallbox-mounted dimmer A push/pull switch control is incorporated into the surface pattern of a wall box dimmer having a planar face surface. The switch control is finger nail operated and contains a finger nail groove which is accessible on the bottom end surface of the operator so it ca... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349763 | System and method for systematically irrigating subregions of an irrigation region A method for irrigating an irrigation region (30) with an irrigation unit (20) includes the steps of subdividing the irrigation region (30) into a plurality of subregions (34), establishing a sequence for irrigating the subregions (34 | 03/25/2008 |
| 7328232 | Distributed multiprocessing system A distributed multiprocessing system includes a number of nodes 1-6 interconnected through a central signal routing hub. Each of the nodes 1-6 are preferably connected to an actuator and include a processor for processing information. The... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325171 | Measurement and data acquisition system including a real-time monitoring circuit for implementing control loop applications A measurement and data acquisition system including a real-time monitoring circuit for implementing control loop applications. The system control loop may include the real-time monitoring circuit, a data acquisition device, a processing unit, and a plurality of subs... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7291285 | Method and system for line-dimension control of an etch process A method and system for controlling a dimension of an etched feature. The method includes: measuring a mask feature formed on a top surface of a layer on a substrate to obtain a mask feature dimension value; and calculating a mask trim plasma etch time based on the ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7272531 | Aggregation of asset use indices within a process plant A method of monitoring an entity within a process plant wherein the entity includes a plurality of lower level entities, includes acquiring a plurality of use indices, acquiring a plurality of weighting values, and creating an aggregate use index from a combination ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261436 | Linear fluorescent high-bay A method for implementing lighting utilizes a lighting fixture having a plurality of lateral reflector positions, including selectively installing a first type reflector panel or a second type reflector panel in individual ones of the plurality of lateral reflector ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261245 | Adaptive irrigation of vegetation Adaptive irrigation of vegetation is achieved with a probe implanted into the soil for detecting rootage wetness needs by measuring soil impedance with contacts distributed along the probe. When a dryness threshold indicating rootage needs is met at a depth ZBE... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260663 | System and method for presenting interrupts An information processing system is provided which includes an interrupt table including a plurality of entries relating to interrupts requested by entries in a plurality of event queues. The entries of the interrupt table reference identifiers, and the identifiers ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256769 | System and method for text entry on a reduced keyboard A system and method for efficient Asian character text input into a reduced keypad machine such as a word processor, telephone, hand-held computer, or personal computer is provided. The system comprises a data entry keypad associated with a monitor, and a disambigua... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244905 | Method for estimating nugget diameter and weld parameters A method for estimating weld nugget diameter includes receiving current and voltage inputs, a time input, and a force input. In certain embodiments, the method also uses other weld parameters including type of material, type of stack, stack thickness, applied force,... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233831 | Systems and methods for controlling programmable lighting systems One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a control system. The control system may be adapted to control one or more lighting systems (e.g. stand-alone or networked lighting systems). The control system may also have a user interface (e.g. dial or butto... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231262 | Apparatus for monitoring and controlling use of equipment Apparatus is provided for controlling and limiting the amount of time that a television, computer game, or other electrical appliance can be utilized. The apparatus is inserted in the electrical cord leading to the electrical appliance and is programmable to limit t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228185 | Method for controlling and/or regulating industrial processes In a method for controlling and/or regulating industrial processes (1, 20), a standard operating system (3) with a real-time module or a real-time operating system is implemented on a hardware platform (2) and simultaneously at least two real-ti... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221988 | Creation and display of indices within a process plant A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7206646 | Method and apparatus for performing a function in a plant using process performance monitoring with process equipment monitoring and control A process control system uses a data collection and distribution system and an asset utilization suite to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the proces... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7182272 | System and method for facilitating control of irrigation systems A system for providing reliable communications between components of an irrigation system is provided. The system includes a central control, a number of communication systems each representing a transmission channel, an irrigation controller having a receiver that ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176948 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling LED backlights and for improved pulse width modulation resolution A method for driving an LED backlight device using pulse width modulation with an additional timer to manage the power consumption, thermal output, and lighting level of the device with improved resolution. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174232 | Job release with multiple constraints To schedule the release of jobs from a pool of pending jobs, machine information and information about items to be processed are used to determine available machine capacity. Available machine capacity is allocated to jobs subject to multiple job release constraints... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167772 | Machining time calculating apparatus A structure having a parameter storing unit which stores a parameter to be used when a numeric control apparatus drives and controls the numeric control machine tool, a program interpretation unit which reads a part program to generate machining data for each block,... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167912 | Method and apparatus for detecting failures in network components A monitoring system includes a monitoring component that compares a number of application-specific request packets sent with a number of response packets received pursuant to the sent request packets during a designated monitoring period to detect failure in a monit... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168075 | Automation device and updating method A device used for control or monitoring of a process is updated without interruption or exceeding upper response time limits for response to a change in the state of the process. If the updating task requires too much run time, the updating task is terminated. As so... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164998 | Method for determining programmable coefficients to replicate frequency and supply voltage correlation in an integrated circuit One use for delay adjustment circuit (32), coarse-grain delay offset circuit (34), and fine grain delay systhesis circuit (36) may be as part of a delay replication circuit (30) used to replicate the frequency versus voltage behavior of a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7149606 | Synchronizing controllers linked by a communications network A control system includes controllers that are coupled mutually by a communications network, on which information, transmitted from a master controller to a slave controller, is used to make timing corrections on the slave controller in order to synchronize event ti... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146265 | Control device with time measuring function A control device with a time measuring function measures a turned-off time of an ignition switch with a low consumption current and high accuracy at a level adapted for a demand from the controlling side, as well as a turned-on time of the ignition switch. The contr... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7127371 | Customized medical equipment preventative maintenance method and system A technique is provided for determining service intervals for devices, such as medical equipment. Data related to a device is collected and compared to data from a population of like devices. A service interval may be calculated based on the comparison. The data reg... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122976 | Light management system device and method A lighting control system is disclosed. The lighting control system is electrically coupled to a load circuit for controlling indoor and/or outdoor lighting. The lighting control system includes a control module with a night light for providing low-level night light... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114554 | Controller interface with multiple day programming A controller equipped with a user interface having multiple-day programming capabilities, including methods of programming such devices, are disclosed. The user interface may include one or more menus or screens that can be used to program a schedule for one or more... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110836 | Controllable appliance arrangement A transmission/reception device is provided merely as an embedded system, and a domestic appliance control program and/or an industrial appliance control program is/are transferred from the transmission/reception device to an external control apparatus, and the latt... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107120 | Apparatus and method for controlling inter-process buffer, and program and storage medium realizing the same An object of the invention is to minimize the number of in-process items. To this end, in an inter-process buffer controlling apparatus according to the invention, the size of a buffer to be used for storage of work subjects of predetermined work is increased if a d... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099723 | Providing distributed scene programming of a home automation and control system A method and apparatus for providing a simple user interface for programming scenes and multi-way groups in a home automation and control system is provided. Each device participating in the home automation and control system is equipped with control logic for provi... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096094 | Automatic irrigation frequency adjustment for deep watering The present invention provides systems and methods in which a microprocessor (220) is programmed to calculate an accumulated watering need for an irrigation zone of station (400)and control irrigation to the zone or station (400) using an automa... | 08/22/2006 |
