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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112174 | Processor, method and computer program product for fast selective invalidation of translation lookaside buffer A processor including a microarchitecture adapted for invalidating mapping of at least one logical address to at least one absolute address, includes: at least one translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a plurality of copies thereof; logic for independent indexing o... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7930059 | Temperature regulating method, thermal processing system and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor manufacturing method includes a determination of, when the heater is controlled using a first output control pattern, an output amount by differential operation, and an output amount by a proportional operation such that a temperature detected by the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7835816 | Heat processing apparatus, heat processing method, computer program and storage medium In a vertical-type heat processing apparatus, it is intended to stabilize the temperature of an inner wall of the reaction vessel upon loading as well as to reduce particle contamination, for example, by suppressing peeling of films attached to the inner wall. An in... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7676298 | Method and apparatus for surface shaping of polymer composite components A method of precision surface re-profiling of a composite polymeric component comprising a region capable of being re-profiled, comprising the steps of locating the polymeric composite component with a formable surface relative to a supporting fixture, the thickness... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7577493 | Temperature regulating method, thermal processing system and semiconductor device manufacturing method A temperature regulating method in a thermal processing system includes controlling a heating means by performing integral operation, differential operation and proportional operation by means of a heating control section in a manner a detection temperature by a tem... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7515986 | Methods and systems for controlling and adjusting heat distribution over a part bed Methods and systems for controlling and adjusting heat distribution over a part bed are disclosed. In one embodiment, a technique for providing a calibrated heat distribution over a part bed includes determining the temperature distribution within a part bed, genera... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7415312 | Process module tuning A process module tuning method characterizes a process module by gathering data using a process condition measuring device to measure process outputs while inputs are excited. The data is used to identify a dynamic process model. The dynamic process model is then be... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412299 | Process for determining the temperature of a semiconductor wafer in a rapid heating unit The invention relates to a process for determining at least one state variable from a model of an RTP system by means of at least one measurement signal measured on the RTP system—the measurement value—which has a dependency upon the state variable to be determi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7384667 | System and method for producing simulated oil paintings A method and apparatus for producing simulated oil paintings by means of a variety of commercial software programs. A digital color image is created and printed on to a substrate. Also printed on to the same substrate and registered thereto, is a slow drying, clear,... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376485 | Method of remotely programming and updating food product holding apparatus using hand held computer A remotely programmable food product holding system includes a hand held computer (10) and a food product holding apparatus (12). The computer includes a processor (11), touch screen display (15), and a first communication interface (1... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7300146 | Embossing using clear ink A printing device including a plurality of cartridges, at least one cartridge including a visible ink and at least one cartridge including a clear ink; a print portion; and an accessory module in connection with the print portion; wherein the clear ink of at least o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7261407 | Process and printing apparatus for ink jet printing on cloth using ultraviolet ray curable ink The present invention aims to provide a process for ink jet printing on cloth, in which the pre-treatment step can be omitted and by which printed matter having excellent design, wherein the image is unblurred and has high optical density, can be obtained. Specifica... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248057 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable code for detecting on the fly an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system of a locomotive Method, apparatus and computer-readable code are provided for detecting a location of an incipient ground fault in an electrical propulsion system of a relatively large land-based vehicle, such as a locomotive. The detection is performed essentially in real time and... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245992 | Automatic selfoptimising and pressure regulated control unit for pumps The invention concerns a new control unit for pumps (3) for heat- and chill-transferring media, which records all parameters for the regulation of the pump in or close to the pump independently from the distance to the heat source (2) or cooling source... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7174239 | Retrieving diagnostic information from an HVAC component A control is provided for controlling the operation of a climate control system, which includes a processor that is capable of receiving power from a low voltage power supply adapted to be connected to an external alternating current power source, or a second extern... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7133739 | Intelligent microwave oven The invention may be broadly conceptualized as an approach in which a microwave oven receives a plurality of program recipes from a network that are executed by scanning with a scanner a symbol and associating the scanned symbol with one of the plurality of program ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7096075 | Apparatus, method and program for physical state controller For determination as to whether there is a possibility that temperature control satisfying conditions according to an upper limit LH_i and a lower limit LL_i of the annealing control temperatures of annealing object steel sections i will be realized under restrictio... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084379 | Control apparatus for gas sensor A control apparatus for a gas sensor, wherein a microcomputer 44, which is connected to an oxygen sensor 30 including a detection element 12 and a heater 14, detects the cooling water temperature Tw of the engine. The control apparatus de... | 08/01/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7069109 | Systems and methods of using multiple microcontrollers for fail-safe control and enhanced feature operation of an appliance Multiple microcontrollers are used in controlling operation of an appliance thereby providing enhanced safety. User input deactivating the appliance is received and processed by a first and second microcontrollers, which separately and independently act to remove po... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7060953 | Automatic cooking system and microwave oven A microwave oven and automatic cooking system uses a food package provided with a noncontact IC tag storing information about a food contained in the food package, where the information about the food includes information about a method of heating the food and an am... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048367 | Preconditioning media for embossing A preconditioning process is disclosed that provides applying a first fluid to a media; applying a second fluid including an ink to the media, at least a portion of which is applied over the first fluid, wherein a sufficient amount of the first fluid extends a dryin... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036982 | Method and apparatus to control an exhaust gas sensor to a predetermined termperature The invention provides a control strategy and a control system to control a gas sensor to a target operating temperature. It relies upon both feedback and model-based feedforward control systems to achieve and then maintain the sensor at the target operating tempera... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039300 | Identification of electric heater capacity An electric heater is provided with an identifying resistor associated with a connection between the heater and a fan control. When the electric heater is connected to the control, the identifying resistor provides information with regard to the capacity of the part... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7017567 | Device and method for measuring element temperature of air-fuel ratio sensor, and device and method for controlling heater of air-fuel ratio sensor A device according to the present invention is provided with element temperature measurement voltage application circuit for temporarily applying a predetermined voltage for element temperature measurement to a sensor element of an air-fuel ratio sensor equipped to ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020540 | Temperature control A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling temperature of a plant comprising plural temperature control zones, wherein an effective control parameter for a first zone for which a signal representing measured temperature is available is produced according t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004739 | Apparatus for injection molding multilayered articles An apparatus for injection molding two compatible polymeric materials, in which two or more plasticizing zones on a screw are used to simultaneously or sequentially plasticize the two materials into a common accumulation space through separate pathways. The charge c... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6959228 | Method of protecting data stored in a memory of welding controller A method of protecting data stored in a memory of a welding controller provided with an EEPROM as a storage element capable of storing welding control data in a welding controller, thereby enhancing reliable protection of data stored in the EEPROM. The method of pro... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6921883 | Gas sensor and method of heating the same Temperature of a heater is controlled by switching an increasing rate of a resistance value of heating unit of the heater. During a period T1 from a time point when heating of the heater is started until the resistance value of the heating unit reaches a refe... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909928 | Method for manufacturing coils A method for manufacturing coils which achieves an uniform and complete curing of the paper impregnated with epoxy thermo curable resin placed between conductors by applying an electric current uniformly to all portions of the coil thus completely heating the coil, ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6813538 | Welding system A welding system is capable of shortening length of connection lines and of effectively utilizing devices as a whole. The system includes a welding controller provided with an I/O interface, a controller unit provided with a programmable logic controller and connect... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6772045 | System for determining dry cleaning timing, method for determining dry cleaning timing, dry cleaning method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A system for determining dry cleaning timing, includes: a manufacturing apparatus configured to process materials assigned by a sequence of lots; an apparatus controller configured to control the manufacturing apparatus and obtaining operational conditions of the ma... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766268 | Method for calculating heating procedure of linear heating A distribution of bending principal strains giving a target shape of a curved surface is obtained (Step S1), and a calculation grid is divided along the direction of the bending principal strains (Step S2). A database storing actual measurement values ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6744026 | Microwave oven for easily setting food menu required to be cooked Cooking information (CI) concerning different dishes is preliminarily registered as a standard in a mask ROM (11A) or the like of a microwave oven (1), to enable automatic cooking of a variety of dishes for every user. In practice, however, the dishes ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6735496 | System and method of monitoring multiple control loops in a heater system A monitoring system includes a sensor that detects operating conditions in a plurality of control loops of a heater system and generates signals corresponding to the detected operating conditions. The monitoring system also includes a controller that receives the si... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6594617 | Pedometer navigator system A pedometer navigator system has an Euler Angle Measuring Subsystem (EAMS) coupled to a body frame provides Euler angles of a fixed coordinate system with respect to a navigational coordinate system. Left and right sensors are mounted on a surveyor's feet... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6505099 | Radiant energy control system In a radiant energy heating system having one or more types of radiant energy heating sub-systems, a control system comprising a solid state electronic control panel pre-programmed to control two or more of the types of radiant heating sub-systems, wherei... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6453219 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature response of a part in a conveyorized thermal processor A method and apparatus for controlling the temperature response profile of a part being exposed to heating and/or cooling conditions in a thermal processor incorporates measured data from the part to adjust the thermal processor control settings by closed... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6381518 | Electronic oven temperature controller having adaptable temperature regulation limits An oven temperature controller for regulating temperature to a temperature setpoint over a temperature range in an oven compartment comprising a microprocessor and memory storage means. The memory storage means stores temperature setpoint related informat... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6336051 | Agricultural harvester with robotic control An agricultural harvesting machine (harvester) is automatically controlled and steered so as to completely harvest all crop in a field. A Global Positioning System (GPS) and an Inertial Navigation System provide data regarding the position and orientation... | 01/01/2002 |
