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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8032236 | Asymetrical process parameter control system and method A technique is disclosed for asymmetrically controlling a process parameter based upon the direction of a prediction error between a predicted value determined using an inferential model and a laboratory measurement of the parameter. The present technique provides f... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7957821 | Systems and methods for statistical process control A system for performing statistical process control. A storage device stores a plurality of SPC charts, specifying data collected from a system during testing. A controller categorizes the SPC charts into a plurality of groups based on characteristics thereof. A det... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7941233 | System and method for limitation handling System and method for controlling at least one device such as for example an operator for a door, a gate, a window, blinds, shutters, a curtain, an awning or a light source including a controllable unit associated with the at least one device and a plurality of node... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7917234 | Manufacturing design and process analysis system Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an understanding of how the multiple characteristics of a given proc... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7805206 | Method for increasing the capacity of an installation used to carry out an industrial process The invention relates to a method for increasing the capacity of an installation used to carry out an industrial process in an economical and sustainable manner. Said method consists of the following steps: process variables relevant to the capacity of the installat... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7499764 | Constraint-based solution method, constraint-based solver and constraint-based solution system The purpose is to solve target problems in short calculation time certainly without describing algorithms that are data procedures on computers. As the solution method, because it is configured so that, when the initial values or variation values, which are used for... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7401013 | Method to optimize test data A method for optimizing data gathering, is provided wherein the method comprising the steps of designing a first system test comprising two or more maneuvers, compiling a one or more data variable for each of the two or more maneuvers from the first system test, poo... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392159 | Method and apparatus of capacity learning for computer systems and applications The present invention provides a method of determining a metric of capacity in computing systems and computer applications. Capacity in this sense refers to the ability of computer systems and computer applications to perform work. Many applications and multi-hop sy... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386355 | Close loop control system and method of the same A close loop control system includes a controlled system having a controlled variable and a control variable, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a feedback control unit. The first and the second detecting units detect the controlled system to outpu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376471 | System and method for exploiting a good starting guess for binding constraints in quadratic programming with an infeasible and inconsistent starting guess for the solution The present invention provides an algorithm that does not relax the problem at the very onset, even if xf is infeasible. Instead, it solves the EQP with the initial guess for the active set without relaxing the problem. If this solution to the first EQP i... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363094 | Multivariable controller design method for multiple input/outputs systems with multiple input/output constraints A method for dynamically controlling a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system having multiple input and output constraints, the method comprising. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes configuring a MIMO tracking controller to implement closed loop ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337022 | Constraint and limit feasibility handling in a process control system optimizer An optimization technique for use in driving a process plant controller, such as a model predictive controller, uses an organized, systematic but computationally simple method of relaxing or redefining manipulated, control and/or auxiliary variable constraints when ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328073 | Controller for processing apparatus The present invention relates to processing apparatus utilising dynamic scaling of voltage (DVS), and in particular although not exclusively to a controller for such apparatus. The invention is especially applicable to software defined radio (SDR), but is not so lim... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321848 | Manufacturing design and process analysis system Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an understanding of how the multiple characteristics of a given proc... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7289739 | Polarization mode dispersion controller device and method for its operation A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) controller device for controlling the state of polarization of an optical light wave comprising a dispersion compensation unit (2; 25; 40) and an adaptation control unit (6; 28; 44), wherein the dispersion compensat... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272531 | Aggregation of asset use indices within a process plant A method of monitoring an entity within a process plant wherein the entity includes a plurality of lower level entities, includes acquiring a plurality of use indices, acquiring a plurality of weighting values, and creating an aggregate use index from a combination ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257522 | Simulator for automatic vehicle transmission controllers A simulator comprising computer-aided design programs for simulating a shift control algorithm stored in an ECU of an automatic transmission having hydraulic clutches. In the simulator, a simplified hydraulic model describes the entire system so as to design a third... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251971 | Method for regulating the temperature of strip metal The invention relates to a method for controlling or regulating the temperature of a metal strip in a cooling path of a hot rolling system. A desired temperature gradient is compared to an actual temperature gradient in order to determine adjusting signals for the c... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254453 | Secondary process controller for supplementing a primary process controller A method and an apparatus for implementing a multi-variate process control system. A workpiece is processed using a primary process control function during a first time period. A secondary process control function is performed during at least a portion of the first ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7225113 | Systems and methods for statistical modeling of complex data sets The present invention comprises methods and a computer-readable medium comprising programming code for automatic statistical modeling of data. In an embodiment, the analysis is completely automatic with a single computer stroke providing an analysis of data with at ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221988 | Creation and display of indices within a process plant A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218999 | Target value processing unit, temperature controller, control process implementing system, process controlling method, target value processing program, and recording medium A target value processing unit, includes: an input section to which a target value signal showing a target value of a control process is inputted; a target value shaping unit shaping the target value signal inputted to the input section, into a signal form which is ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7194645 | Method and apparatus for autonomic policy-based thermal management in a data processing system A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided to autonomically monitor and adjust system characteristics based on a customer optimization goal specified in a policy or profile. An autonomic management component is implemented in firmware comprising a se... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194319 | Method and arrangement for controlling the position of an actuating element The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling the position of an actuating element (1) which prevent damage to the actuating element by a collision with at least one stop (25, 30) and simultaneously ensure good dynamic charac... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7152023 | System and method of accelerated active set search for quadratic programming in real-time model predictive control An active set algorithm exploits a ‘hot start’ for the set of binding constraints at optimality along with efficient linear algebra to make rapid progress towards the solution. The linear algebra is designed to deal with degenerate constraints as the required fa... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7117046 | Cascaded control of an average value of a process parameter to a desired value At least one of the multiple process parameters (MPPs) is a controllable process parameter (CTPP) and one is a targeted process parameter (TPP). The process also has a defined target limit (DTV) representing a first limit on an actual average value (AAV) of the TPP.... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113890 | Method and apparatus for detecting faults in steam generator system components and other continuous processes A method and apparatus and for detecting faults in components of a continuous process such as a steam generator. A model of the process is developed using a modeling technique such as advanced pattern recognition and the model is used to generate predicted values fo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113834 | State based adaptive feedback feedforward PID controller A state based adaptive PID controller includes a model set component including a plurality of process models, each process model including a plurality of parameters. An error generator generates a model error signal representative of a difference between a model out... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113835 | Control of rolling or moving average values of air pollution control emissions to a desired value A controller directs performance of a process having multiple process parameters (MPPs), including a controllable process parameter (CTPP), a targeted process parameter (TPP), a defined target value (DTV) representing a limit on an actual average value (AAV) of the ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7103423 | Method for process-variable-dependent identification signal emission The invention relates to a method for process-variable-dependent identification signal emission for a closed-loop and/or open-loop control program with cyclic sampling of process variables from a technical process. A threshold value crossing time (ts1, ts3... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7082746 | Process and device for the piecing of a yarn in an open-end spinning device For the piecing of a yarn in an spinning device, various computation formulas are stored in a control device into which calculated values as well as special data converted into numerical values relating in particular to the fiber material, the yarn and the spinning ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072808 | Manufacturing design and process analysis system Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an understanding of how the multiple characteristics of a given proc... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069090 | Systems and methods for providing variable output feedback to a user of 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 ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065414 | Methods and apparatus for operating production facilities A method and apparatus for operating a production system that includes a plurality of production facilities is provided. The method includes receiving, in real-time, for each facility, cost data for a first resource used by each respective facility to produce an out... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062334 | Positioning control method, positioning control device, and electronic component mounting apparatus using same There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and deceleration operations during travel from an original position to a targ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055466 | Control system for a portable instant hot water heater A portable instant water heater. Water is delivered to a base unit of the instant hot water heater by a pump that draws water from a reservoir through a flow control valve. The water flows into a pre-heater that wraps around a base of the burner and that is heated b... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050865 | Control system for plant 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... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047090 | Method to obtain improved performance by automatic adjustment of computer system parameters A method for the automatic selection of computer system parameter values to improve system performance as workload on the system changes. Methods are disclosed for automatically making minor adjustments to computer system parameters and comparing long-term associate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043330 | System and method for closed-loop control of laser cladding by powder injection A system is disclosed for monitoring and controlling laser cladding process by powder injection in real-time. The invention combines laser cladding technique along with automated direct feedback control to achieve a good quality clad in terms of dimensional and meta... | 05/09/2006 |
