Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6917840 | Method of ascertaining control parameters for a control system A method of ascertaining control parameters for a control system having a controller and a plant includes establishing a model of the plant and a model of the controller and calculating a performance index for a closed-loop system as a function of controller paramet... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6911607 | Dosing device The invention relates to a dosing device for mixing additive into a basic flow, comprising: a passage for the basic flow; an inlet for the additive in the passage; a container for the additive connected to the inlet via a dosing mechanism and having a controllable d... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912439 | Synthesizing semiconductor process flow models Systems and methods of modeling a best-guess semiconductor process flow for fabricating a desired semiconductor device are provided. The best-guess process flow is modeled using an inverse modeling technique. This technique reverse engineers a desired semiconductor ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912426 | Method for determining time constants of a reference model in a cascade controlling circuit A method for determining at least one time constant of a reference model, which is designed as a 2nd order time-delay element of a machine. The method includes detecting an oscillation frequency of an undamped machine oscillation and determining an optimized value o... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912433 | Determining a next tool state based on fault detection information A method and apparatus are provided for determining a next tool state based on fault detection information. The method comprises receiving operational data associated with processing of a workpiece by a processing tool, determining at least a portion of noise associ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908227 | Apparatus for thermal management of multiple core microprocessors An apparatus for managing the temperature of an integrated circuit having a multiple core microprocessor is described. Specifically, thermal sensors are placed at potential hot spots throughout each microprocessor core. A thermal management unit monitors the thermal... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909576 | Method, system, and program for generating control signals to perform a seek operation Provided are a method, system, and program for initializing a storage device. A pulse response profile is determined for a storage system in response to a series of signals generated to seek to a location in the storage system. A determination is made of a desired r... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907308 | Remote wafer flow and recipe editor for simiconductor processing control A remote track editor system, method, and computer readable medium is provided to remotely edit track flows and recipes of semiconductor processing tools. The editor system includes a processing track, a track controller, and a remote track editor for remotely editi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904422 | Adaptive control system having direct output feedback and related apparatuses and methods An adaptive control system (ACS) uses direct output feedback to control a plant. The ACS uses direct adaptive output feedback control developed for highly uncertain nonlinear systems, that does not rely on state estimation. The approach is also applicable to systems... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901308 | System level analysis and control of manufacturing process variation A computer-implemented method is implemented for determining the variability of a manufacturing system having a plurality of subsystems. Each subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is characterized by signal factors, noise factors, control factors, and an output r... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6879871 | Advanced process control for a manufacturing process of a plurality of products with minimized control degradation after re-initialization upon occurrence of reset events In a method and in a controller for an advanced process control one or more currently valid process states are stored and are compared, upon the occurrence of a reset event, with a subsequent valid process state that has been established after the re-initialization ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876893 | Order-receiving/manufacturing system for oscillators, control method therefor, business center server, and control-data writing apparatus A blank oscillator 300′ is prepared for each office, and control data is written into this blank oscillator 300′, thereby manufacturing an oscillator 300. Upon receiving an order from a user terminal 10, a business center server 10... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6868373 | Method of initializing a simulation of the behavior of an industrial plant, and simulation system for an industrial plant During an initialization of a simulation of the behavior of an industrial plant containing a number of components, a particularly reliable parameter input is intended to be ensured with a particularly low outlay. To this end, in an initialization method provision is... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6868326 | Control apparatus, control method, control unit, and engine control unit There are provided a control apparatus capable of controlling a controlled object with reduce dead time in sign inversion between the input to and the output from one of ΔΣ and ΣΔ modulation algorithms, thereby attaining improved convergence of the output from t... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862562 | Computer method and apparatus for determining state of physical properties in a chemical process Computer method and apparatus determines state of physical properties, i.e. product quality, of a chemical manufacturing process. A steady state modeler provides a rigorous steady state model of the process and instantaneous state of physical properties. An estimato... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859007 | Servo motor drive control device Learning control is performed when carrying out processing by repeating instructions in a pattern cycle. Time/position converting means determines a positional deviation for a prescribed position with respect to a reference position, from the positional deviation de... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6856845 | Monitoring and reporting incremental job status system and method For an automated manufacturing system having a number of modules with numerous alternative capabilities, a computer-controlled system provides for monitoring and reporting incremental job status. The computer-controlled system includes at least one system controller... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6845289 | Hybrid model and method for determining manufacturing properties of an injection-molded part A method of determining properties relating to the manufacture of an injection-molded article is described. The method makes use of a hybrid model which includes at least one neural network and at least one rigorous model. In order to forecast (or predict) propertie... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839598 | Control system for plant using an identified model parameter vector A control system for a plant is disclosed. According to this system, a model parameter vector of a controlled object model which is obtained by modeling the plant, is identified. A controller controls the plant using the identified model parameter vector. An identif... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839599 | Kiln/cooler control and upset recovery using a combination of model predictive control and expert systems Kiln/cooler control and upset recovery using a combination of model predictive control and expert systems. A method for controlling a non-linear process includes the steps of first providing a controller that is operable to receive inputs representing measured varia... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6836693 | Method to predict dielectric film properties using chemical bonding measurements as input to computer modeling A new computer based method is provided for the evaluation of dielectric film properties. These properties are for a given dielectric derived from measurements of the chemical bonding of that dielectric. Previously collected reference data are maintained in a refere... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6832175 | Method for managing construction machine, and arithmetic processing apparatus A hydraulic excavator 1 working in fields includes a controller 2 for measuring a working time for each of an engine 32, a front 15, a swing body 13, and a travel body 12, storing measured data in a memory of the controller ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6829514 | Balancing workloads in an electronics assembly factory A method of optimization of a product assembly line utilizes a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation. Line information, such as product data of products to be assembled by the line, parts data of the parts to be used to assemble the products, line data... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826521 | System and methodology and adaptive, linear model predictive control based on rigorous, nonlinear process model A methodology for process modeling and control and the software system implementation of this methodology, which includes a rigorous, nonlinear process simulation model, the generation of appropriate linear models derived from the rigorous model, and an adaptive, li... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822557 | Action recommendation system for a mobile vehicle Specific advertisements and other information can be communicated to the user of a mobile vehicle depending on the vehicle's position, vehicle or user characteristics, or other vehicle-specific data. ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819964 | Automated closed loop step testing of process units A multivariable process controller controls a chemical, polymer or other physical process. Slow tuning and over-conservative controlled variable values are employed during step testing. While all controlled process variables are within safe limits, only one manipula... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6819963 | Run-to-run control method for proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller tuning for rapid thermal processing (RTP) A method is provided, the method comprising measuring at least one parameter characteristic of rapid thermal processing performed on a workpiece in a rapid thermal processing step, and modeling the at least one characteristic parameter measured using a first-princip... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816798 | Network-based method and system for analyzing and displaying reliability data A network-based method and system for analyzing and displaying reliability data from a user is provided. The method includes recording reliability data, obtaining unreliability plots, obtaining Weibull distribution parameters, creating control charts for those param... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6804636 | Control program development support apparatus An apparatus enables development and debugging of a control program for controlling a relatively small product having rapid response without using an actual mechanism. A simulation unit simulates an operation of a mechanism, in a simulation cycle shorter than a cont... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6804612 | Methods and systems for performing integrated analyzes, such as integrated analyzes for gas turbine power plants Automated systems for performing integrated analyses. In one embodiment, an integrated analysis system can be used to comprehensively evaluate the effects of changes in hardware configuration or operating conditions on gas turbine power plant performance and economi... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6804600 | Sensor error detection and compensation system and method A sensor error compensation system and method is provided that facilitates improved sensor error detection and compensation. The sensor error compensation system includes an expected value generator and a sensor fault detector. The expected value generator receives ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801810 | Method and device for state estimation A method for estimating a state of a system including determining, during a current cycle of the system, an estimated state of the system based on currently measured values of the system, boundary conditions of the system, an accuracy of the currently measured value... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6799078 | Method for finding optimal set-points for machines and processes A controller and method for efficient tracking and optimizing of a machine set-point, to correct for changes in machine characteristics, can include: (a) defining allowed ranges for output product properties and possible machine set-points, and optimal set-point cri... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795798 | Remote analysis of process control plant data A system and method for analyzing a process collects process data within a process control plant and transmits the collected process data to a remote data processing facility. The remote data processing facility analyzes the process data using a process analysis too... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789052 | Method of using control models for data compression A method is provided for compressing data. The method comprises collecting processing data representative of a process. The method further comprises modeling the collected processing data using a control model. The method also comprises applying the control model to... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785583 | Management system and apparatus, method therefor, and device manufacturing method A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus management system includes a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus which operates in accordance with a parameter, an obtaining device for obtaining evaluation values of an operation result of the semiconductor de... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782295 | Optimizing the availability of a buffered industrial process A computer-implemented process determines optimum configuration parameters for a buffered industrial process. A population size is initialized by randomly selecting a first set of design and operation values associated with subsystems and buffers of the buffered ind... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778971 | Methods and apparatus for analyzing computer-based tasks to build task models Methods and apparatus for analyzing tasks performed by computer users by (i) gathering usage data, (ii) converting logged usage data into a uniform format, (iii) determining or defining task boundaries, and (iv) determining a task analysis model by “clustering” ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775578 | Optimization of oil well production with deference to reservoir and financial uncertainty Methods for optimization of oil well production with deference to reservoir and financial uncertainty include the application of portfolio management theory to associate levels of risk with Net Present Values (NPV) of the amount of oil expected to be extracted from ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6772035 | Synthesizing semiconductor process flow models Systems and methods of modeling a best-guess semiconductor process flow for fabricating a desired semiconductor device are provided. The best-guess process flow is modeled using an inverse modeling technique. This technique reverse engineers a desired semiconductor ... | 08/03/2004 |
