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Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180482 | Method for producing a rotationally symmetric lens from a ceramic green body and moulding tool for performing the method The method for producing at least one rotationally symmetrical lens consisting of an opto-ceramic includes the step of moulding a ceramic green body for the lens, wherein the mould has a shaping surface, which is described by the following equation B: | 05/15/2012 |
| 8116903 | Control system and method for display of injection molding machine A control system for controlling the display of an injection molding machine (IMM) includes a human machine interface (HMI), a driver, a controller, a timer, and a time display module. The controller controls the driver to drive the IMM to do a plurality of operatio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8019461 | Moulding tool for moulding a ceramic green body and use of said moulding tool The moulding tool is a near-net-shape negative mould for shaping a ceramic green body for the lens. The mould has a shaping surface, which is described by the following equation B: ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010228 | Process monitoring apparatus and method for monitoring process A sensor on a semiconductor wafer is used as a process monitor and a capacitor is employed as a power supply for the sensor. The capacitor can be formed by stacking a poly-silicon layer and a silicon nitride layer on the wafer. A timer can be used to specify an oper... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7937183 | Molded-component stress-strain curve estimation device A molded-component characteristic estimation device that estimates the stress-strain curve of each portion of a molded-component includes a storage unit that stores correlation data showing the correlation between solidification time and mechanical characteristics o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7894931 | Method and apparatus for prediction of amount of deformation due to shrinkage of molded article The method of predicting the amount of deformation due to shrinkage of a molded article of the present invention finds a support point P of the bending moment M from a distribution of shrinkage rates of a molding material forming a molded article 10 and uses ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7797076 | Control unit for powder material compression molding machine A control unit for a powder material compression molding machine including a powder material compressor which compresses a powder material filled between compressing members in an adjusted filled amount by making the compressing members approach to each other at a p... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7584015 | Method for designing mold, mold and molded product A molded product from a mold, the mold for molding a molded product in a desired shape can be designed with high precision by correcting a shape change of the molded product. A mold in which use surfaces of an upper mold and a lower mold are formed to be design curv... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7433755 | Controlling the curing of a rubber compound A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7363195 | Methods of configuring a sensor network A sensor network collects time-series data from a process tool and supplies the data to an analysis system where pattern analysis techniques are used to identify structures and to monitor subsequent data based on analysis instructions or a composite model. Time-seri... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358966 | Selective update of micro-electromechanical device The present invention provides a data controller for controlling an electrostatically-controlled micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device having a variable operating characteristic based on control data. The data controller comprises a data comparator and an upd... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349747 | Monitoring device and monitoring method for injection molding machine A monitoring device and a monitoring method for an injection molding machine, in which a trend chart is displayed on a common axis so that changes of set values of molding conditions and changes of measured values of monitoring items can be grasped correspondingly. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343352 | Method and system for assessing the quality and cost of inspection A method, system, and software for assessing the cost tradeoffs associated with performing inspection includes determining measurement variations and product characteristic variations to define an inspection plane. The inspection plane is divided into a plurality of... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319921 | Water treatment control system A water filter system comprising a control system, communication means, piping, actuators, sensors and valves. The control system utilizes a communication bus for controlling and monitoring water flow through the piping via control of the actuators and valves. The c... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310562 | System and method for scheduling mold manufacturing A system for scheduling mold manufacturing includes a number of user computers (1) connected with a server (3) by a network (2), a standard parameter database (5), and a task scheduling database (6). Each user computer includes a s... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7289866 | Plasma processing method and apparatus In a plasma processing method for monitoring data, first and second measurement data are obtained; and a first and a second model are formulated based on the first and the second measurement data. Further, third measurement data is obtained; and weight factors are o... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287074 | Method and system for property notification A method system for tracking the state of an entity (e.g., an object) on behalf of a client (e.g., an application program). The states of an entity include up and down. The tracking system of the present invention receives a request from a client to track the state ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281918 | Injection molding system An injection molding system includes an injection molding machine, a pressure valve, a flow ratio control valve, a frequency converter, and the flow ratio control valve, a motor controlled by the frequency converter, a hydraulic pump connected to the motor, and an i... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266469 | Method and article of manufacture for determining a rate of change of orientation of a plurality of fibers disposed in a fluid A method and an article of manufacture for determining a rate of change of orientation of a plurality of fibers disposed in a fluid are provided. The method includes determining a first tensor indicative of the rate of change of orientation of the plurality of fiber... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266734 | Generation of problem tickets for a computer system A computer system and program product for managing events. Program instructions, respond to notification of an event, by determining if a problem ticket can be automatically generated for the event. If so, the program instructions make a request to generate the prob... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257520 | Method and system for in-mold coating flow simulation A numerical method operating within a processor-based environment for predicting the fill pattern and coating pressure distribution for a substrate in a computer simulation of an in-mold coating flow within a two-dimensional flow domain having a plurality of possibl... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251535 | Location based diagnostics method and apparatus A method and apparatus for use with a component assembly that forms part of an enterprise and at least one processor, the processor programmed to perform at least one diagnostic process on the assembly and to at least periodically perform at least one summary proces... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245986 | Control device for use in injection molding machine In an injection molding machine configured to extrude a melted resin under temperature control and inject the resin into metal molds to provide a molded product, there are provided an HMI section having a built-in general-purpose operating system and configured to c... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245985 | Process and apparatus for improving and controlling the vulcanization of natural and synthetic rubber compounds A process for curing a natural or synthetic rubber compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a non-bridged impedance sensing circuit and a capacitor having the rubber compound... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237418 | Method of extruding hollow light metal member, die for extruding hollow light metal, and member for extruding hollow light metal It is an object to realize and establish new extrusion technology for manufacturing a light-metal hollow member (product) having excellent mechanical properties with constant stability and also efficiently manufacturing the product having a strength satisfying a req... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7208900 | Industrial robot system An industrial robot including a manipulator, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, and a portable operating unit for teaching and manually operating the robot. The portable operating unit is adapted for wireless communication with the control unit and incl... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7186429 | Food product marking apparatuses and methods A method and apparatus for marking, imprinting or applying a pattern, design or mark to a plurality of individual pieces of food product to be divided from a sheet of food product is described. In one aspect of the invention, a method may include the steps of supply... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168852 | Method and a device for thermal analysis of cast iron The present invention provides a novel method and a system of modules for carrying out thermal analysis of cast iron melts. The characterizing step of the method is de-termination of the position of the thermocouples used for recording cooling curves. The system com... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167773 | Process and apparatus for improving and controlling the curing of natural and synthetic moldable compounds A process for curing a moldable compound under a plurality of curing conditions by: (1) obtaining time dependent data streams of dielectric or impedance values from a plurality of sensors distributed within a curing mold, wherein the moldable compound is a dialectri... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158855 | Two-dimensional depiction of components of a film extrusion system on an output device An operating panel for a film extrusion plant displays the spatial relationship of operating elements of the plant relative both to each other and to an operator viewing the display. The panel has a terminal for inputting functional parameters of the operating eleme... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158854 | Universal mold vacuum system A controller for a mold vacuum unit uses a programmable logic controller to provide flexible translation of pre-existing signals present on the injection-molding machine avoiding the need for modification of that machine by the addition of limit switches or the like... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151978 | System and method for the control of a production machine The disclosure comprises methods for controlling a production machine having a converter controlled drive wherein the applicable converter receives data from its associated drive as well as additional data from the machine and wherein the converter provides actuatio... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149643 | Integrated process condition sensing wafer and data analysis system A process condition measuring device and a handling system may be highly integrated with a production environment where the dimensions of the process condition measuring device are close to those of a production substrate and the handling system is similar to a subs... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139631 | Method and system to compensate for scanner system timing variability in a semiconductor wafer fabrication system A semiconductor wafer fabrication system that includes at least a track system and a scanner system compensates for deviations from nominal periodicity in the scanner system by dynamically introducing time delays when such deviations are detected. Preferably prior a... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139564 | Wireless communication device for field personnel First, a system for providing direct field technical, troubleshooting, engineering analysis, equipment performance and efficiency analysis, new equipment and parts information, invoicing and sales support by means of data input and data retrieval in the field throug... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7127380 | System for performing coupled finite analysis A graphical user interface, together with a comparable scripting interface, couples a plurality of finite element, finite volume, or finite difference analytical programs and permits iterative convergence of multiple programs through one set of predefined commands. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7076312 | Integrated electronic signatures for approval of process control and safety system software objects A software object approval system is integrated with a process control or safety system environment and, in particular, with a process control or safety system design environment to implement and manage electronic approval of new software objects created within the ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076324 | Directionless rotary encoder control system for a household appliance An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and processing the signals from the direction encoder according to a control ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072735 | Control system for utilizing active material elements in a molding system Method and apparatus for controlling an injection molding machine having a first surface and a second surface includes a piezo-ceramic sensor configured to be disposed between the first surface and a second surface. The piezo-ceramic sensor is configured to sense a ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7043534 | Remote execution of commands in a multi-host network A multi-host data processing network and associated method are disclosed. The network includes a local host, a remote host, and a terminal including a display, a keyboard, and a pointing device. A display server associated with a user of the terminal is present on t... | 05/09/2006 |
