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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150562 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include one or more articulating portions, and may include one or more components, including an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, a programmable logic controller, a remote... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8086360 | Device and a method for moving a jet member A device for moving a jet member on a carriage (6) between two selectable extreme positions along a guide (5) has means for detecting that the carriage has reached a selectable extreme position, said means comprising members (24, 25) adapted to ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078337 | Control of an adjustable bed through a network An adjustable bed is controlled through a network. When controlled through a telephone network, a phone provides communication with a control box for the adjustable bed, and optionally a second system associated with the bed and controlled through the control box. W... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078336 | Two-way communication between a bed facility controller and a remote control for the bed facility A remote control communicates via two-way communication with a controller for a bed facility to allow a user of the remote control to control a function of the bed facility. Adjustable features of an adjustable bed can be controlled through the two-way communication... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8050805 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include one or more articulating portions, and may include one or more components, including an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, a programmable logic controller, a remote... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046116 | Controlling an adjustable bed and a second system with a modular controller An adjustable bed is associated with a second system and both the bed and the second system are controlled by a modular control system. The modular controller further facilitates using a global command input to control both the bed and the second system. In an embod... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046117 | Wireless control of an adjustable bed A controller for an adjustable bed manages at least one wireless communication function, such as Bluetooth, IEEE 802.x, and peer-to-peer functions in association with controlling the bed. The controller also can control a second system associated with the adjustable... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046115 | Common control of an adjustable bed and a second system using stored preferences An adjustable bed is associated with a second system and both the bed and the second system are controlled by a common control system. In one embodiment the control system is integrated, in another it is distributed, in yet another it is a programmable logic control... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046114 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include one or more articulating portions, and may include one or more components, including an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, a programmable logic controller, a remote... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032263 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed A method includes providing an adjustable bed flame including one or more articulating portions; providing an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed flame to form an adjustable bed, said air inflatable mattress including flex regions about which ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027753 | Microscope control unit A microscope control unit which is composed of a bracket-shaped support frame having a support area, a pillar standing vertically erect on the support area, and a support arm, which emanates from the upper end of the pillar and is aligned parallel to the support are... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019486 | Voice command control of adjustable bed functions A controller for an adjustable bed can accept voice input, such as spoken commands to control functions of an adjustable bed. The controller can also accept voice commands to control functions of a second system associated with the bed. One or more voice commands ca... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005577 | Apparatus for controlling the movement of furniture parts which can be moved with respect to one another, and piece of furniture The invention relates to a device for controlling the movement of furniture parts which can be moved with respect to one another, having a drive unit by means of which a first furniture part can be moved in a driven manner relative to a second furniture part via a m... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7979169 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include one or more articulating portions, and may include one or more components, including an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, a programmable logic controller, a remote... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7949436 | Method and apparatus for automatically detecting and correcting misalignment of a semiconductor chip One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically detects and corrects a misalignment of a semiconductor chip. During operation, the system uses a position-detection mechanism integrated with the chip to determine the misalignment of the c... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945352 | Generalized predictive control (GPC) based position control method for an axle A position value, a desired position value and future desired position values as well as, for each future desired position value, a value which is characteristic of the temporal offset between said future desired position value and the respective immediately precedi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7877171 | Switching device for medical or surgical equipment In order to simplify the switching of medical or surgical equipment in an operating theatre, there is proposed a switching device for medical or surgical equipment which is characterized by a planar floor mat having sensors distributed over the surface area thereof,... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7756610 | Solenoid controller An autonomous solenoid controller which in its broad aspect includes a microprocessor, a communication bus, and a solenoid driver. The microprocessor includes logic in order to control drivers for at least one solenoid. The communications bus is operably connected t... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7502669 | Apparatus and method for graphically displaying disk drive enclosures and cabling in a data storage system A data storage system is configured to provide a graphical display that shows the user a logical schematic of interconnected disk enclosures of a data storage system along with any erroneous connections among the disk enclosures. The graphical display, therefore, al... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7477965 | Twisting wire actuator A twisted wire actuator, whereby the shortening of the length of a wire or a bundle of wires, as it is twisted, is used to control the motion of an actuated element, achieving sub-micron motion resolution. The control can be performed robotically. The high resolutio... | 01/13/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7426451 | Handheld surface coordinate measuring device A surface coordinate measuring device (1) includes a computing unit (8) arranged in a handheld housing (9), a positioning device (2) for positioning the coordinate measuring device at a surface point (P) on a wall surface (3), a di... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7418302 | Floating deadband control A method of controlling an input device is disclosed. A deadband is generated about a first position when the input device is at the first position. The input device is moved from the first position to one or more additional positions. The deadband width is varied b... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406360 | Method for detecting transfer shift of transfer mechanism and semiconductor processing equipment A dummy substrate (17) differs from a substrate to be processed in having a first guide (G1) for assisting centering, however, it can be handled as a substitute of the substrate to be processed. In a process chamber (2), a second guide (G2 | 07/29/2008 |
| 7379840 | Arranging mobile sensors into a predetermined pattern Moving a target mobile node to arrange a number of mobile nodes includes determining a first direction. A first relative position for each of the neighboring mobile nodes of the target mobile node is established. The target mobile node moves according to a first ali... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369960 | Device and method for detecting an angular position of a rotating object In detecting the time at which a rotating object passes a given angular position, a value range of an angular position sensor output signal which varies relatively rapidly with angular position acts as a trip threshold that, when exceeded, indicates the object has a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7331105 | Method for placing components by means of at least one component placement unit Provided is a method and system for placing components by means of at least one component placement unit wherein the component placement unit is moved over a distance between a component pickup position and a component placement position located on a substrate. In a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321811 | Methods and systems of adjustable bed position control Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include providing a plurality of values that may define a range of available positions for an adjustable bed; receiving a request to save a position of the adjustable bed as a user selected position; det... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317393 | Object tracking method and system with object identification and verification A system and method for tracking and controlling access to objects such as keys includes a lockable storage cabinet adapted to receive, store, and dispense objects within transparent security containers. A control computer is operably coupled to the cabinet. Informa... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305319 | Methods and systems for three-dimensional motion control and tracking of a mechanically unattached magnetic probe Methods and systems for controlling motion of and optically tracking a mechanically unattached probe (202) in three-dimensions are disclosed. A mechanically unattached magnetic probe (202) is placed in the system under test. The position of the probe i... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295893 | Manipulator and its control apparatus and method A manipulator operative in a master/slave operative mode includes a master unit commanding an operation; a slave unit having a work unit; a detector detecting the orientation of the master unit and the orientation of the slave unit; and a control device controlling ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275417 | Fueling system vapor recovery and containment performance monitor and method of operation thereof A method and apparatus for monitoring and determining fuel vapor recovery performance is disclosed. The dispensing of liquid fuel into a tank by a conventional gas pump nozzle naturally displaces a mixture of air and fuel ullage vapor in the tank. These displaced va... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266427 | Intelligent valve flow linearization A feed-forward flow controller is designed to calculate a target valve position from a target flow. Correction is made for liquid or gas pressure drop across the valve and for the valve flow modulating member geometry. This feed-forward action may also be used to li... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260048 | Object lens for optical pickup and method for designing the same An optical pickup records data in or reproduces data from optical recording media respectively having recording faces at different heights, and includes a semiconductor laser diode array having light emitting portions for respectively emitting laser beams of differe... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7250865 | Object tracking system with non-contact object detection and identification An object tracking system is provided for tracking the removal of objects from a location and the replacement of the objects at the location. The system includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag attached to each of the objects to be tracked and each tag h... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227748 | Cooling module A cooling module is provided for an electrically powered apparatus. The cooling module comprises a non-volatile memory arranged to store a module identifier code for the module. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225048 | Gap adjustment apparatus and gap adjustment method for adjusting gap between two objects A first stage and a second stage are disposed to face each other. A first object is fixed on the first stage. A first displacement sensor attached on the first stage is used to measure a distance extending from the first displacement sensor to a plane disposed in fr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7206627 | System and method for intra-operative haptic planning of a medical procedure In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, attractive haptic objects are associated with a target region for performing a medical procedure and repulsive haptic objects are associated with anatomical features to be avoided during the medical procedur... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206626 | System and method for haptic sculpting of physical objects In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for haptic sculpting of a physical object using a haptic device comprises defining a haptic object for aiding in the sculpting of the physical object, dynamically modifying a configuration of the ha... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206716 | Wheel alignment with surface-oriented runout determination Methods and systems for measuring and calculating wheel alignment angles are disclosed. The measuring methods include mitigating alignment error by compensating for wheel runout, and further include measuring wheel runout while the wheel maintains contact with an al... | 04/17/2007 |
