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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8068941 | User-controllable power-assisted system and method for the application of pressure A system and a method for a controllable power-assisted application of pressure includes a force sensor capable of sensing a user-applied force; and a force generator responsive to the sensed user-applied force and capable of generating a force that is applied to a ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7970495 | Method for regulating airflow in a rodent containment system Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7925390 | Mini environment apparatus, inspection apparatus, manufacturing apparatus and cleaning method of space An outer dust collecting filter covers a casing an intake port and an outer fan flows air from an external environment into the casing via the outer dust collecting filter. A clean chamber has an intake port within the casing, an inner dust collecting filter for cov... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7890220 | Low overhead closed loop control system A tool includes a chamber, a network, a sensor, a tool controller, and a pressure controller. The network carries messages to and from devices on the network. A header portion of a message indicates a sender of the message and at least one intended recipient of the ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7734381 | Controller for regulating airflow in rodent containment system Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages, modular rack units and controllers. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems. The single-use animal containm... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7680563 | Pressure control device for low pressure processing chamber A control method which quickly adjusts a plasma processing apparatus to a desired pressure regardless of gas type, gas flow rate or target pressure simply by optimizing constants. The plasma processing apparatus includes: gas supply means which supplies processing g... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7434459 | Context acquisition based on load sensing Methods and systems are described for sensing force information at a plurality of points on a continuous surface, and detecting contextual information about an object on the surface based on the distribution of force on the surface. For example, a plurality of senso... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7413499 | Grinding process and apparatus with arrangement for grinding with constant grinding load A process of grinding a surface of a workpiece, by a grinding tool rotated about its axis. The process includes a grinding step of grinding the workpiece surface, by pressing at least one of the grinding tool and the workpiece against the other of the grinding tool ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415376 | Valve tester control enhancements A valve tester system is disclosed that comprises a valve tester assembly for rotating a valve stem of a valve. The valve tester assembly may include a support, a rotation element mounted on the support for rotating a valve during a rotation event, a control element... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7379792 | Pressure transmitter with acoustic pressure sensor A transmitter configured to measure a process variable of an industrial process, includes a pressure sensor configured to couple to a pressure of a fluid. An acoustic detector receives an acoustic signal from the fluid. Measurement circuitry coupled to the pressure ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370786 | Bonding method and bonding apparatus Disclosed are a bonding method for a semiconductor chip, which employs an ultrasonic bonding scheme that prevents wear-out of the top surface of a mount tool and ensures both high reliability and high productivity, and a bonding apparatus which is used to carry out ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360492 | Railway car with overload detector The invention provides an overload detector with a simplified system configuration to be applied to a railway car having a connecting bogie. A connecting bogie 52 (two axle bogie) having front and rear wheels 52C and 52D are disposed to extend b... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7334469 | Methods and systems using ratiometric characterizations to improve air data accuracy A method for characterizing pressure sensors to improve accuracy in an air data system is described where the sensors include at least one static pressure sensor and at least one total pressure sensor. The method includes characterizing the static pressure sensor an... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320225 | Refrigeration system and method of operating the same A refrigeration system including a compressor, condenser, valve, and refrigeration branch, all of which is in fluid communication. The refrigeration branch includes an evaporator coil. The refrigeration system further includes a case adapted to be cooled by the evap... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7276397 | Integrated circuit package separator methods An integrated circuit package separator method for separating integrated circuit packages from a board having a plurality of integrated circuits. The method includes providing a base having a plurality of pins, providing a support over the base and having a pluralit... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7246028 | Method for transmitting data from sensor to a control unit, and a corresponding sensor and control unit A method of data transmission from a sensor to a control unit and a sensor and control unit are described, the sensor transmitting both differential values and absolute values. The differential values are analyzed in the control unit to perform the function provided... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240537 | Method for the determination of the wall friction profile along pipes by pressure transients measurements The present invention deals with a method which allows to determine the wall friction profile along pipes transporting liquids, particularly petroleum industry liquids, by measuring the pressure transients induced by fast changes in the flow rate. This method is app... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231277 | Surface shape determining device for a machining apparatus and surface shape determining method In a state of separating a front end face of an air injecting nozzle 23 from a worked work W by a predetermined interval h, the air injecting nozzle 23 is moved at a constant speed in an X axis direction, injects air from an injecting hole 27... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209050 | Automatic vehicle collision avoidance and warning system An integrated system for automatic vehicle collision avoidance and warning for vehicles operating on any highway or road system globally. The system may be used to not only illuminate the brake lights on the following vehicle but also to begin the application of bra... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209806 | Self-contained electronic pressure monitoring and shutdown device The invention is a self-contained process shutdown device that detects abnormal pressures and initiates shutdown by removing the pneumatic or hydraulic pressure needed for a given process or flow to continue. The process' pressure is detected by means of a switch-ga... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201180 | Water supply system A water supply system comprising a supply line and a network of consumers, one of which being a monitored consumer who receives the least amount of pressure, a pressure regulation system comprising a pressure reducing valve (PRV) associated with a pilot valve preset... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194900 | Collision reaction force measurement apparatus A collision reaction force measurement apparatus has a collision surface receiving a collision of a portable electronic device and a measurement part measuring a collision reaction force occurring when the portable electronic device makes the collision against the c... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196487 | Method and system for robot localization and confinement The present invention discloses a system and method for confining a robot to a particular space. The system includes a portable barrier signal transmitter that produces a barrier signal primarily along an axis, and a mobile robot capable of avoiding the barrier sign... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191026 | Apparatus and method for selecting a mechanical seal An automated seal selection, seal design, manufacturing, and post sales system allows a distributor or untrained user to select a replacement seal for a pump. The automated system designs and engineers the seal, whether standard or special, and creates all drawings,... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190281 | Vehicle environment monitoring device, vehicle environment monitoring method, control program and computer-readable recording medium A vehicle environment monitoring device comprises an imaging section for taking image data of an environment of an automobile, the image including at least two types of colors; a setting section for setting a specific area of the image data obtained by the imaging s... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181654 | System and method for detecting an abnormal situation associated with a reactor A system for detecting abnormal situations associated with a reactor in a process plant receives statistical data associated with pressure within a reactor vessel. For example, a pressure sensor device disposed at least partially within the reactor vessel may genera... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168333 | Monitoring system for pressurized container A system and method of monitoring a pressurized container having an auxiliary device are provided. The system includes a sensor operable to provide a signal representative of at least one operating condition of the pressurized container. The system also includes a c... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7144155 | Method, system and apparatus for measuring temperature with cold junction compensation A cold junction compensation system for a temperature measurement device having a processing circuit is disclosed. The cold junction compensation system includes a cold junction temperature sensor arranged in signal communication with the processing circuit, a therm... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7081037 | Pad conditioner setup A method for inspecting the uniformity of the pressure applied between a conditioner and a polishing pad on a chemical mechanical polisher. A sheet of pressure sensitive material is placed between the conditioner and the polishing pad, and the conditioner is lowered... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7069137 | Valve flow metering control system and method A turbine valve control system is provided. The turbine valve control system includes a variable flow metering device, a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a fourth sensor, memory, and processing circuitry. The variable flow metering device is capable of... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7039502 | Risk assessment for relief pressure system Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) can be applied to provide a more realistic assessment of the risk associated with vessel accumulation due to common mode scenarios. The QRA process takes the results of a traditional flare study and QRA inputs such as the frequencies... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031807 | Device and method for securing apparatuses with parts freely movable in space The invention relates to a safety device for apparatuses having parts freely movable in space, particularly handling equipment such as industrial robots or driverless transportation means, as well as a method for securing such apparatuses by means of such a safety d... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013968 | Method and apparatus for individually cooling components of electronic systems A cooling system is configured to supply individually metered amounts of cooling fluid to heat generating components, e.g., processors, micro-controllers, high speed video cards, disk drives, semi-conductor devices, and the like, of an electronic system. The cooling... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999840 | Vacuum pump A vacuum pump (10) includes a control device (20) for processing operational data and operational instructions. Further, the vacuum pump (10) includes a touch screen (40) serving as display for displaying the operational data callable fro... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993403 | Facility monitoring method A method of monitoring plant performance within a facility in which having averages of cost contributing items such as raw material usage, product recovery, unit production efficiency, power usage and controller error performance are evaluated, statistically weighte... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6973373 | System for measuring change in fluid flow rate within a line A method and system for determining change in a fluid's flow rate within a line. The pressure variation in a second fluid, separated from the first by a pumping membrane, is measured in response to energy applied in a time-varying manner to the second fluid. From th... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6957153 | Method of controlling production of a gaseous product A method of controlling production of a gaseous product produced by one or more production plants such as an air separation plant, having a control system to vary production of the gaseous product. The gaseous product is consumed by a customer in accordance with a v... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6944524 | Air cylinder controller An air flow regulator includes a damper (14) and an air cylinder (20) operatively connected with the damper (14) to adjust a damper setting. A pressure sensor (52) indicates a pneumatic pressure in the air cylinder (20). An air pre... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934604 | Robot apparatus, method of controlling robot apparatus, method of display, and medium A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20. The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of the feeling model exceeds a pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the output ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922612 | Combustion vibration estimating apparatus, plant and gas turbine plant The combustion vibration estimating apparatus comprises an inputting unit for inputting limiting values of plant data, weather data and internal pressure variation, an internal pressure variation characteristic grasping unit for making internal pressure variation of... | 07/26/2005 |
