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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108082 | Outdoor enclosure cooling system operating at off-peak hours A cooling system and method for an outdoor electronics enclosure includes an air conditioner controlled to operate during off-peak hours, so as to pre-cool batteries. The cooled batteries keep the enclosure cool during peak hours so that it is not necessary to run t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7937189 | Method and system for controlling semiconductor manufacturing equipment A method for controlling semiconductor manufacturing equipment in a waiting mode, comprising: retrieving information about a waiting time for a product to be provided to the semiconductor manufacturing equipment on a production lin... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7885728 | Method and system for controlling semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A method for controlling a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in a wait mode, including: obtaining information regarding a waiting time required for a product to arrive at the apparatus on a production line, the product being subjected to a predetermined process ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7684903 | Method and system for controlling semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A method for controlling a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in a wait mode, including: obtaining information regarding a waiting time required for a product to arrive at the apparatus on a production line, the product being subjected to a predetermined process ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7269481 | Method and apparatus for memory bandwidth thermal budgetting An electronic system includes a device and a controller to the device. The controller is adapted to calculate a temperature estimate of the device and to control access to the device in accordance with the calculated temperature estimate. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260733 | Distributed control system In a distributed control system, a first electronic control unit sends trigger information to a second electronic control unit. The trigger information includes a timing that triggers the second electronic unit to obtain second sensor information from a second senso... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7184846 | Systems and methods for providing optimal light-COcombinations for plant production Method and system for optimizing plant production in a cost effective manner. System (100) includes a processor (102) in communication with resource controllers (110, 112) for controlling resources (106, 108) such as, for example, lightin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7149606 | Synchronizing controllers linked by a communications network A control system includes controllers that are coupled mutually by a communications network, on which information, transmitted from a master controller to a slave controller, is used to make timing corrections on the slave controller in order to synchronize event ti... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7141416 | Multi-purpose optical analysis optical bio-disc for conducting assays and various reporting agents for use therewith The present invention relates to optical bio-disc systems and related methods and to immobilizing receptor molecules. When a sample is injected into a fluidic circuit, the target agent binds to a capture probe bound in a capture zone. A signal is generated from tags... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114554 | Controller interface with multiple day programming A controller equipped with a user interface having multiple-day programming capabilities, including methods of programming such devices, are disclosed. The user interface may include one or more menus or screens that can be used to program a schedule for one or more... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7089144 | Determining impact of test operations at a product assembly and test facility with repairable product A method and apparatus for establishing an average test time (TA) include determining a first time interval (TG) nominally associated with non-failing testing of a unit under test (UUT), and determining a second time interval (TPR) n... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7058460 | Real-time control process for a controller of an industrial technical process, and a real-time operating process for a computing device Measuring units measure state signals of an industrial technical process. The entirety of the state signals represents an image of the process. The measuring units transmit the state signals to a common logic unit which transmits the image of the process at least pa... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7043317 | Semiconductor wafer fabrication furnace idle monitor and method of operation A system and method is disclosed for monitoring each of a plurality of furnaces in a furnace process in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A furnace that is left open too long will absorb moisture from the atmosphere and should not be used for a furnace task. The syst... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024254 | Method for controlling a discrete system A system and method for controlling a controlled parameter that affects a target parameter of a target zone is disclosed. The method comprises providing a feedback control loop having a switching controller, a controlled device, and an averaging device. The controll... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020231 | Technique for creating extended bit timer on a time processing unit A technique for implementing an extended bit timer with a time processing unit (TPU), without using the channel hardware of the TPU includes a number of steps. A timer of the TPU is periodically read to determine the value of the timer. A counter is incremented when... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014815 | Trackable optical discs with concurrently readable nonoperational features Design, manufacture and use of optical discs that permit the concurrent and discriminable acquisition of signals from both operational features and nonoperational features is presented. The disc geometries and tracking schemes permit such discs to be read in, and da... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009379 | Electricity meter with power supply load management An electricity meter for monitoring electric power consumed from a service line is disclosed. The electricity meter includes a power consumption metering system for measuring the amount of power consumed from the service line, a peripheral device providing a non-cri... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007807 | Sorting system for multiple conveyor belts An apparatus and a method for sorting workpieces (204) includes multiple conveyors (201, 202), a scanner (208), an offloading device (216), a workpiece processor (218), and a computer (210). The computer has instructions for... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003416 | Method and a device for monitoring the performance of test apparatus for testing components A method for monitoring the performance of a test apparatus (1) for testing a batch of integrated circuits. The apparatus 1 comprises a test site 2 in which the integrated circuits are sequentially tested, and a microprocessor (4) for car... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6975047 | Temperature-based cooling device controller apparatus and method A temperature-based cooling device controller is implemented in an integrated circuit such as a microprocessor. The temperature-based cooling device controller includes a register to store a threshold temperature value, a thermal sensor, and clock adjustment logic t... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6882656 | Speculative transmit for system area network latency reduction A speculative transmit function, utilizing a configurable logical buffer, is implemented in a network. When a transmission is started the logical buffer is configured as a FIFO to reduce transmit latency. If a data under-run lasts for more than a fixed time interval... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6868312 | Method for real-time control of the fabrication of a thin-film structure by ellipsometric measurement Method for real-time control of the fabrication of a thin-film structure comprising a substrate by ellipsometric measurement in which: variables directly linked to the ellipsometric ratio ρ=tanΨ exp(iΔ) are measured; and ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865437 | Robot pre-positioning in a wafer processing system A wafer cluster tool is described which operates in a regular, periodic fashion. Embodiments of the invention have a periodicity of one sending period. The invention enables the determination of pick-up times for process chambers in the cluster tool, and embodiments... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6820018 | Power control circuit Disclosed is a power control circuit utilizable in an electronic device. The power control circuit includes a power on/off switch having first and second switches; a capacitive element connected to a power section via the first switch; a first switching element conn... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6804562 | Method and apparatus for overload-free driving of an actuator The invention relates to a method for overload-free driving of an actuator, in which an activation counter is incremented or decremented each time an activation request signal occurs, in which, depending on each occurrence of an activation request signal, a drive si... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6795738 | Programmable controller Whenever operating tasks by means of which control functions are implemented, for example, are no longer called by a central task, that is to say the scheduler of a real-time operating system, for example, but instead are called by the respective user-adaptable task... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789001 | Digital multifunction relay A digital multifunction relay, for controlling one or more protection devices of an power distribution network from fault events, which comprises a digital signal processor for executing a set of processing activities for regulating the operating state of said prote... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6765922 | Speculative transmit for system area network latency reduction A speculative transmit function, utilizing a configurable logical buffer, is implemented in a network. When a transmission is started the logical buffer is configured as a FIFO to reduce transmit latency. If a data under-run lasts for more than a fixed time interval... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6741916 | Accident point locating system An accident point locating system locates an accident point on a power transmission line. A digital protective control system has a plurality of digital protective controllers that receive state data representing a state of an electric power system and convert the s... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6483887 | Timer control circuit A timer control circuit includes timers that perform count operations. A signal selection circuit selectively passes underflow signals supplied from the timers, based on control signals. A flip-flop is supplied with an output of the signal selection circu... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6422264 | Parallel divided flow-type fluid supply apparatus, and fluid-switchable pressure-type flow control method and fluid-switchable pressure-type flow control system for the same fluid supply apparatus A fluid supply apparatus with a plurality of flow lines branching out from one pressure regulator with the flow lines arranged in parallel and constructed so that opening or closing one flow passage will have no transient effect on the steady flow of the ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6415190 | Method and device for executing by a single processor several functions of different criticality levels, operating with high security A processor for executing several functions. The processor has access to an addressable space including memories for program and for data and input/output registers. The method of operation includes the allocation of a right of access to each function, th... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6374160 | Method and device for monitoring fluid consumption A method and device are disclosed for monitoring lacquer consumption per can in a lacquer application unit. The device includes a counter providing can number data on the number of cans being applied with lacquer in the application unit; a tank for interm... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6345215 | Phototherapeutic device and method A microprocessor to control and to prevent failure in mechanisms, particularly those that perform timed intervals of work. The microprocessor controls the length of each interval of work, and limits the mechanism to perform only a predetermined number of ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6173207 | Real-time control system with non-deterministic communication A control system that provides accurate timing information for sensor data samples and accurate timing for the application of control values to actuators in the face of non-deterministic communication. The control system employs circuitry for accurately a... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6067483 | Electrical distribution computer An electrical distribution computer panel for delivering and controlling power to a plurality of electrical circuits. The electrical distribution computer includes a unitary enclosure having a top, bottom, sides and a door. Located within the enclosure is... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5999921 | Electronic postage meter system having plural clock system providing enhanced security A system includes a system time counter associated with a micro controller and a secure clock module having a real time clock and an elapsed time counter. The system synchronizes operation between the secure clock module and the system time counter. The s... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5990800 | Remote engine starting and stopping device for construction machine The invention relates to a device which aims to improve safety and reliability in a remote engine starting and stopping device for construction machines. A starting signal for starting an engine is transmitted to a construction machine from a transmission... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5974364 | Method for controlling a test mode of an electric device A method for performing a test and controlling the test mode of an electric device. The method reduces the amount of time and labor expended during fabrication, and accordingly enhances productivity by detecting time information from a timer (a clock gene... | 10/26/1999 |
