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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7195407 | Method of controlling a lithographic processing cell, device manufacturing method, lithographic apparatus, track unit, lithographic processing, cell and computer program A method of controlling a track apparatus in a lithocell apparatus arrangement, is presented herein. The lithocell includes a lithographic exposure apparatus configured to expose substrates and a track apparatus configured to prepare substrates before exposure and d... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197727 | Interconnect speed sensing circuitry A mechanism has been developed by which the impact on speed from back end-of-line interconnect layers may be characterized. A method for designing interconnect layers of an integrated circuit includes coupling a capacitive load to a speed sensing circuit to measure ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197372 | Apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a sheet metal production facility An apparatus prepares data for manufacturing a product or a part with a pre-determined shape by using a bending press provided with detachable tools. The apparatus includes a computer memory that stores bending order information for manufacturing the product or the ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194323 | Method and system for object oriented approach and data model for configure-to-order manufacturing system A method and system for product fulfillment in an automated manufacturing system is disclosed. The method and system of the present invention includes obtaining requirements for a product from a customer. The method and system further includes creating a plan from t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194388 | Method for determining a die profile for forming a metal part having a desired shape and associated methods A method for determining a die profile for forming a metal part having a desired shape. The method includes the steps of providing a nominal die profile, determining a springback profile based on the nominal die profile and employing a compensation strategy to deter... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194324 | Method and configurator for creating a plant concept from a number of plant components An electronic data processing (EDP)-based method and configurator are for creating a plant concept from a number of plant components. A desired specification of a technical plant is recorded using specification data. Then, from a stored supply of plant component typ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7191271 | Two level multi-tier system bus The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus utilizing a two-level, multi-tier system bus. The multi-tier system bus of the present invention allows for the flow of information to be managed among plural processors by connecting processors within modu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191102 | Computer-readable recording medium recorded with numerical analysis program, numerical analysis system, and numerical analysis method A computer-readable recording medium recorded with a numerical analysis program, a numerical analysis system, and a numerical analysis method, where creation and modification of an analytic model is simplified by applying load region data for specifying a load apply... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187992 | 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 relates to decision-making and logic structures, implemented in a computer so... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184943 | Evolutionary technique for automated synthesis of electronic circuits An evolvable circuit includes a plurality of reconfigurable switches, a plurality of transistors within a region of the circuit, the plurality of transistors having terminals, the plurality of transistors being coupled between a power source terminal and a power sin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181303 | Building blocks for describing process flows A method for describing a process flow includes receiving a first root-independent building block and a second root-independent building block, receiving assembly instructions for assembling the first building block and the second building block to describe the proc... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181355 | Automatic quality control method for production line and apparatus therefor as well as automatic quality control program Production condition data and product quality data in a production line are monitored and stored in a production history database. When a quality deterioration event in the production line is detected while checking the product quality data, the improvement contents... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181685 | XML generator for objects with binary branching topology A method for generating an XML file having a nesting structure equivalent to the topology structure of an object in an image. Under the method, the topology of an object having a structure including multiple binary branches is traced, while XML elements representing... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7179664 | Method for generating work-in-process schedules A method and program is disclosed for generating work in progress (WIP) schedules in semiconductor manufacturing facility. After determining starting and ending dates of predetermined schedule periods for generating WIP schedules, remaining days are determined for c... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177713 | Method and system for optimizing manufacture of parts The present invention discloses a method and system comprised of a combination of submethods and subsystems relating to the manufacture of parts. By these submethods and subsystems, the present invention discloses using part data, machine data, and tool data to crea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177827 | Generating an order plan for a supply chain network Generating an order plan is disclosed. Data describing priority levels including at least one item request is accessed. Data describing a supply chain network (10) including network components (11) that supply one or more items to satisfy an item reque... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175277 | Generation system of design data, generation method of design data, recording medium and program A central processing unit of a calculation server apparatus includes a reference design data selection unit for selecting reference design data from a plurality of reference design data stored in reference design data storage of storage memory, and an arrange design... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177774 | System and methods for quantitatively evaluating complexity of computing system configuration Techniques are disclosed for configuring computing systems. Configuration-related data for the system under evaluation is collected. At least a portion of the configuration-related data is quantitatively analyzed to estimate a configuration complexity of the system ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177719 | Pattern builder The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an item. The method includes providing a pattern building program to a client, wherein the client is to build a pattern using the program. The method also includes manufacturing the item based on the pattern. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177743 | Vehicle control system having an adaptive controller The vehicle control system having an adaptive controller is provided that accomplishes unsupervised learning such that no prior extensive training is needed for every situation. The inventive controller system is based on a neural network evolved with genetic algori... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171346 | Mismatch modeling tool A mismatch modeling tool (10) comprises a software implemented mismatch model (32). The software implemented mismatch model (32) accesses: at least one editable mismatch model data library (18) comprising process parameter variables, and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171643 | System LSI design support apparatus and a system LSI design support method Adequately assigning features provided by the system to processing units having different architectures incorporated in a system LSI. An analysis unit is provided for counting the number of conditional branch statements and the number of loop control statements, the... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171391 | Custom pricing system and method The invention provides a computerized system and method for calculating a custom die price. Specifically, the invention provides an interface for designating base parameters and custom parameters. A reference die is synthetically created based on a design methodolog... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167811 | Methods and apparatus for data analysis A method and apparatus for testing semiconductors according to various aspects of the present invention comprises a test system comprising composite data analysis element configured to analyze data from more than one dataset. The test system may be configured to pro... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168012 | Error handling and representation in a computer-aided design environment The invention includes computer instructions that operate to generate a failure indication upon encountering a failure during an operation performed for a user design. The instructions further operate to automatically facilitate a user in determining a solution for ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167771 | Spectacle lens manufacturing system, method of manufacturing spectacle lens, program and recording medium therefor To provide a spectacle lens manufacturing system and a method of manufacturing a spectacle lens, as well as a program and a recording medium therefor, that can meet various demands for marking and by which customers can confirm the outer appearance or the like of th... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164959 | Method and system of classifying demand data A method of classifying demand for an allocation term. The inventive method first inputs demand data, order data, and supply data. The method then classifies the demand data into prioritized demand data according to the order data and the supply data. The method fin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164957 | Wire harness design aiding apparatus, method and computer readable recording medium storing program A wire harness design aiding apparatus for designing a wire harness includes: a display unit for three dimensionally displaying an object on which the wire harness is to be arranged and the wire harness on a CAD display in a state that two points of the wire harness... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161948 | High speed protocol for interconnecting modular network devices A network switch for network communications is disclosed. The switch includes a first data port interface, supporting at least one data port transmitting and receiving data at a first data rate and a second data port interface, supporting at least one data port tran... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162318 | Resource management and planning using a memory resident data module A method for resource management and planning includes loading into memory near real-time information associated with multiple enterprise and affiliated production facilities, the near real-time information including demand information indicating demand for a produc... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159982 | Method for providing design data and system for providing design data A method for providing design data and a system for providing design data that enable a lens processor to manufacture a desired inner-surface progressive addition lens corresponding to prescription data. A design data providing system is a system such that a design ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162402 | Posynomial modeling, sizing, optimization and control of physical and non-physical systems Methods and apparatus are disclosed to automatically generate posynonomial performance parameter models for linear and non-linear systems such as electronic circuit characteristics, based on numerical simulations, measurements or observation. The resulting models ca... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162317 | Methods and apparatus for configuring plasma cluster tools A method for configuring a specific plasma cluster tool having a plurality of modules. The method includes providing a set of module option definition files, the set of module option definition files containing generic configuration definitions for generic plasma cl... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159007 | Communication system for automation equipment based on the WSDL language Communication system on an IP network between automation equipment capable of executing at least one program to provide automation functions and one or more remote items of equipment executing one or several computer applications. The communication system conforms w... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159206 | Automated process execution for project management A computer-readable medium causes a computer to operate as a server for managing the development of software by a software development team. Stored on this computer readable medium is a computer program which includes an object module and a process execution module.... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158847 | System and method for determining components of a blended plastic material Methods and systems are disclosed for determining plastic components of a blended plastic material. According to a method of the present invention, a blending computer access supply data describing characteristics of each of a plurality of plastic components. The bl... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158858 | Method to determine when a media handling system configuration is valid and a media handling system arranged in accordance with the same method A media handling system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, the second module links to a third module of orde... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158846 | System for providing product environment information An environmental information system arranged to effectively provide environmental information. The information system has a product constitution information storage section for storing product constitution information including information on parts and/or raw materi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158922 | System and method for prediction of panel performance under localized loading conditions The present invention involves a method and apparatus to reliably determine dent resistance to localized loading, for example, denting of sheet panels of vehicle. The method and apparatus contain the following attributes: (i) an accurate Finite Element Model of the ... | 01/02/2007 |
