Bizarre Patents
An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8392001 | Method and apparatus for externally aided self adjusting real time clock A method and apparatus for externally aided self adjusting real time clock have been disclosed. A circuit having a pulse train output is coupled to an adjusting circuit, a real-time clock is coupled to the adjusting circuit, and a proportional integral derivative ti... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8301275 | Modified proportional integral derivative controller A method and device for controlling a process variable based upon a set point is disclosed. A process variable is measured, and a proportional term is assigned to a manipulated variable that is based upon a product of a proportional gain coefficient and an error mag... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8255066 | Method and apparatus for tuning a PID controller In tuning a PID controller for a process in a feedback control system, a method is provided for bringing the system into symmetric self-excited oscillations for measuring the frequency and the amplitude of the oscillations, and tuning the controller in dependence on... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8219218 | Plant controlling system and plant controlling method A plant controlling system includes: a velocity-type PID controlling unit to receive a control deviation between a process value and control set value, and calculate and output a manipulated variable deviation for operation targets; a switching unit to switch and th... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8090455 | Motion control servo loop apparatus A motion control servo loop apparatus, comprising: a feed-forward control module, and a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loop and a compensation adder. The feed-forward control module is capable of generating a feed-forward compensation. The PID contro... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086328 | Systems and methods for vibration rectification error reduction in closed-loop accelerometer systems Systems and methods for controlling a closed-loop accelerometer system. A system includes an accelerometer with a driver that responds in a nonlinear manner and a rebalancing controller in signal communication with the driver. The rebalancing controller includes a p... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7987006 | Automatic generation of PID parameters for a scanning probe microscope Linear PID controllers have a transfer function that resembles the frequency response of a notch filter. The PID parameters, KP, KI, and KD (proportional, integral, and derivative gains, respectively) can be extracted from the parame... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979143 | Apparatus and method for proportional-integral-derivative control A PID controlling apparatus and method for providing a control value to a control object according to the difference between an output value of the control object and a target value are provided, in which an error calculator outputs an error value between the target... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7937166 | Method for adjusting a system that is modified in a cycle to a non-constant cyclical target profile and controller therefor The invention relates to a method for adjusting a system that changes in a cycle to a nonconstant cyclic target profile by comparing measured actual values with appropriate target values for the target profile and outputting a control value. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7860585 | Heat processing apparatus, method of automatically tuning control constants, and storage medium A heat processing apparatus includes a reaction vessel, a heating unit in the reaction vessel to heat the processing region, a temperature detector that detects temperature in the processing region, and a control part to control the heating unit by PID control. The ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7805207 | Method and apparatus for adaptive parallel proportional-integral-derivative controller An adaptive parallel proportional-integral-derivative controller produces a fixed controller output including a fixed proportional-integral-derivative and a fixed feedforward controller command, and an adaptive controller output including an adaptive parallel PID an... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7706899 | Method and apparatus for adaptive cascade proportional-integral-derivative controller An adaptive cascade proportional-integral-derivative controller produces a fixed controller output including a fixed proportional-integral-derivative and a fixed feedforward controller command, and an adaptive controller output including an adaptive cascade PID and ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7668606 | Control device for controlling a control object at a ratio of on-time to off-time for a time-proportional output There is realized a control device capable of speeding up an output response without causing deterioration in the resolution of a time-proportional output. The control device controls a control object at a ratio of ON-time to OFF-time for a time-proportional output.... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7542810 | System and method for user controllable PID autotuning and associated graphical user interface A system and method for user configuration of an autotuning algorithm for a PID controller. User input is received via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) indicating a desired characteristic of a PID controller, such as stiffness or response time. The system is excited... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7477951 | Servo controller and control method using the same When an integral calculation of a physical quantity representing a state of a controlled system is performed, two integral calculations, that is, a positive-integral calculation and a negative-integral calculation are performed. In this way, differentiated informati... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7432681 | Scanner system A scanner system includes a servo control unit. A rotation angle of a rotating shaft supporting a mirror is detected, and an error of the detected value with respect to a commanded value is integrated by an integral compensator so that the detected value is able to ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433762 | Methods for controlling multiple actuators Methods for controlling at least two actuators are provided. An internal control system sends an input received from the main control system to a first actuator and diverts a portion of the input to a second actuator when an input constraint of the first actuator is... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7392113 | Systems for controlling multiple actuators Methods, control systems, and information handling systems for controlling at least two actuators are provided. An internal control system sends an input received from the main control system to a first actuator and diverts a portion of the input to a second actuato... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7376470 | Control method and apparatus In a control method, when a state quantity serving as a specific reference is defined as a reference state quantity, and a state quantity which is controlled to maintain a relative quantity with respect to the reference state quantity at a specified value is defined... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7358711 | Adaptive control loop A digital controller for controlling a regulated output of an output regulator. The output regulator responsive to a pulse width signal for controlling the transfer of energy between an input source and the regulated output. The digital controller including a duty c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354420 | Closed loop system for controlling insulin infusion A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The sensor system includes a sensor for monitoring a condition of the user. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349296 | Write control in response to tracking error A method for controlling writing on a data carrier device, at least including: writing data on the data carrier device with a data writer device; obtaining a tracking error signal corresponding to a position of the data writer device with respect to a track on the d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346403 | Pid parameter adjustment device A PID parameter adjustment device includes: a model storage section (1) for storing an equation model to be controlled; a PID controller storage section (2) for storing a control algorithm; a constraint condition storage section (3) for storing ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337041 | Feedback control methods and apparatus for electro-pneumatic control systems Methods and apparatus related to feedback control for electro-pneumatic control systems are disclosed. An example electro-pneumatic control system comprises an electro-pneumatic controller and a secondary pneumatic power stage coupled to the electro-pneumatic contro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7317953 | Adaptive multivariable process controller using model switching and attribute interpolation An adaptive multivariable process control system includes a multivariable process controller, such as a model predictive controller, having a multivariable process model characterized as a set of two or more single-input, single-output (SISO) models and an adaptatio... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7289858 | Lithographic motion control system and method A lithographic apparatus comprising a control system, such as a motion control system, is presented. The control system includes an actuator for moving a moveable part, a feed-forward path from a setpoint input of the control system to the actuator, a feed-back loop... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280879 | Interfaces from external systems to time dependent process parameters in integrated process and product engineering A method and apparatus for computer modeling the production process is disclosed. An integrated product and process engineering system may be a computer modeling system that models both a generic production process and a specific individual production process. The i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278066 | Automatic fieldbus device load-mode identification A Fieldbus device and method for handling errors arising from parameter write messages. A load mode identifier detects if the parameter write messages are operator initiated or program initiated. If program initiated, communication of errors resulting from execution... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272459 | Method, system and medium for controlling manufacture process having multivariate input parameters A method, system, and medium of modeling and/or for controlling a manufacturing process is disclosed. In particular, a method according to embodiments of the present invention includes the step of identifying one or more input parameters. Each input parameter causes... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267665 | Closed loop system for controlling insulin infusion A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The sensor system includes a sensor for monitoring a condition of the user. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251593 | Simulation system, method and computer-readable medium for human augmentation devices A system, a method and a computer readable medium are provided for simulating a combined musculoskeletal and augmentation device system. The dynamics model of the combined musculoskeletal and augmentation device system receives computed torques at the joints as inpu... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7241633 | Heat treatment apparatus and heat treatment method A reference value, which defines electric power to be supplied to a heating element, is generated. Deviation ΔT of temperature T1 measured by a radiation thermometer from target temperature T0 defined by a target temperature rising curve is determined... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233882 | Method and apparatus for monitoring process transitions A method for identifying modes and transitions during plant operation, wherein measured values of process variables are used to evaluate a current state of the process and its sections and subsections. An identified state of the plant is signaled and the plant is mo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228546 | Dynamic management of computer workloads through service level optimization The inventive work load manager (WLM) dynamically responds to changes in workload characteristics. The WLM bases response on performance goals set by the administrator, and manipulates the resources to achieve these goals. The WLM receives performance information fr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225215 | Adaptive filter employing adaptively controlled forgetting factor and adaptively controlling method of forgetting factor An adaptive filter, employing an adaptively controlled forgetting factor, includes a first circuit for determining a gradient of an error signal and a second circuit for determining a value of the forgetting factor. The value of the forgetting factor is updated base... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216497 | Slope predictive control and digital PID control The present invention provides an airflow control loop that uses averaged airflow measurements without the problems that are normally encountered with averaging measurements, such as the delay introduced into the airflow control loop. This is accomplished, in the pr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7194320 | Method for implementing indirect controller A system and method for implementing an indirect controller for a plant. A plant can be provided with both a direct controller and an indirect controller with a system model or a committee of system models. When the system model has sufficient integrity to satisfy t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184847 | Method and system for controlling a process in a plant A method and system are disclosed for controlling a process by establishing a control factor for a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller used to control a parameter of a process relative to a setpoint. A feedback signal regarding the parameter of the pro... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181295 | Method and apparatus for PID controller with adjustable deadtime compensation In the present invention, a Smith predictor enhanced PID controller, SP-PID, is proposed. A tuning parameter Ksp is devised and the SP-PID controller would be gradually transformed from a PID controller to a Smith predictor as Ksp changes from ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177710 | System and method for adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear processes A computer system for controlling a nonlinear physical process. The computer system comprises a linear controller and a neural network. The linear controller receives a command signal for control of the nonlinear physical process and a measured output signal from th... | 02/13/2007 |
