Quotables
"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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 |
| 8185290 | Data acquisition system indexed by cycle segmentation A data acquisition system for an excavation machine having a power source configured to drive a tool through a work cycle is disclosed. The data acquisition system may have a first sensor associated with the power source to generate a first signal indicative of a pe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8165743 | Controller for inverter A high-reliability controller for inverter is provided with a simple configuration. The controller for inverter includes a CPU 14 controlling energy of a vehicle, a CPU 15 controlling a power generation amount or an assist amount of a first motor 26... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150576 | Engine glow plug diagnosis using crankshaft sensor data A motor vehicle engine (10) has glow plugs (20) for aiding combustion of fuel in combustion chambers of the engine when the engine is cold and an ignition switch (24) is operated to crank the engine. An aberration in engine speed (36) is ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135532 | Method for controlling output power of an energy storage device in a powertrain system A method for controlling a powertrain system includes monitoring a state-of-charge of the energy storage device and determining a first set of electric power limits and a second set of electric power limits based on the state-of-charge of the energy storage device. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8068969 | Power distribution system A power distribution system is provided having a power source configured to generate a power output. The power distribution system also has an available power module configured to determine a total available power generated by the power source. In addition, the powe... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7979192 | Aircraft-engine trend monitoring system Methods and systems for aircraft engine trend monitoring include periodically recording the outputs of engine-condition sensors and analyzing the results to examine piston-engine performance trends and predict the need for engine maintenance. Various analyses can be... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962271 | Vehicle diagnostic tool providing information on the operating condition of a power plant utilizing voltage data An analysis tool which extracts all the available parameter identifications (i.e. PIDS) from a vehicle's power train control module for diagnostic decisions. This is done by checking these PIDS and other information (e.g., calculated PIDS, Break Points, charts and a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953538 | Control apparatus for vehicular drive system A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system including an electric differential portion and a mechanical power transmitting portion which are disposed in series in a power transmitting path between an engine and a drive wheel of a vehicle, the control apparatus ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941262 | Method for storing plant process signals Disclosed is a method for storing process signals of a plant or technical installation. A compression method is adapted for a current operating state of the plant is applied to the set of process signals in accordance with the current operating state of the plant an... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7917276 | Vehicle-use power supply apparatus The vehicle-use power supply apparatus includes an alternator driven by an engine mounted on a vehicle to generate electric power in accordance with a command value, a battery electrically connected to the alternator to be charged by the alternator, and connected to... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917277 | Control apparatus for vehicular drive system A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system including an electrically controlled differential portion having a differential mechanism, and an electric motor which is operatively connected to the differential mechanism and an operating state of which is controll... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7853391 | Energy-saving driving promotion system and method An energy-saving driving promotion system includes: a vehicle state detecting device; a current value calculating device that calculates a current value associated with an accelerator operation amount or a vehicle drive power; a recommended value calculating device ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848868 | Method and apparatus for pressure reducing valve to reduce fuel pressure in a common rail It is a objective of the present invention to provide a control apparatus which is capable of compensating a delay time for opening a pressure reducing valve since an electronic control unit sends a command signal for driving the pressure reducing valve so as to dis... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7818111 | Motor control apparatus and motor control method This motor control apparatus is provided with: a reduced energy calculation device that calculates a reduced energy that is produced when a drive mode of a hybrid vehicle is shifted from a drive mode driven by a motor to a drive mode driven by an internal combustion... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801660 | Methods and systems for estimating compressor fouling impact to combined cycle power plants A system and method for estimating the impact of compressor fouling in a combined cycle power block. The current performance of the combined cycle power block is determined and normalized to one or more reference conditions. A baseline performance of a gas turbine o... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801661 | Power boost system and method A power boost system and method. An illustrative embodiment of the power boost system includes an operator interface having a system activation button; a vehicle system controller connected to the operator interface; and at least one of an engine system controller, ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7747374 | Driving force control unit for a vehicle The driving force control unit for a vehicle comprises a plurality of control modes for controlling a driving force, each of control modes having each driving force characteristic, a vehicle driving condition detecting unit for detecting a vehicle driving condition,... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742865 | Driving force control unit for a vehicle The driving force control unit comprises a plurality of control modes for controlling a driving force, each of control modes having each driving force characteristic; a vehicle driving condition detecting unit for detecting a vehicle driving condition; a selector fo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7668639 | Method and apparatus for optimizing the performance envelope of an engine A method for doing an optimization of the performance envelope initially authorized for an existing rotorcraft engine (M) to enable the engine (M), to be used in an optimized performance envelope that is different from the performance envelope initially authorized f... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7653474 | Method of determining engine output power in a hybrid electric vehicle This novel silent operating mode for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) reduces noise and emissions compared to traditional HEV operating modes. It is a complementary series of software control functions that allows the vehicle to operate with reduced noise and emissio... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7509206 | Electronic control unit for automobiles and output driver circuit used in the same The microcomputer 1 operates a control signal for controlling the state of an automobile on the basis of an input signal from a sensor. The output driver ICs 2A and 2B include the output driver 22 having power transistors in correspondenc... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7444226 | Electronic control device and method for controlling the operation of motor vehicle When a microcontroller, having associated output stages which are used to control components, is used, a digital release signal, in addition to the control signal, is supplied to an output stage which signals the blocking or releasing of the output stage according t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7432005 | Model-based feed-forward control system for power (or current) in a fuel cell system A control system and method controls an output of a fuel cell. A fuel cell stack controller that receives an output request signal and that generates an oxidant request signal and a fuel request signal using a first inverse model. A fuel delivery controller receives... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424360 | Overspeed control system for gas turbine electric powerplant A turbine overspeed control system for use with a gas turbine engine of a gas turbine electrical powerplant. The overspeed control system preferably comprises a first and second overspeed control subsystem. When an overspeed condition of the gas turbine engine is de... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421323 | Automated vehicle battery protection with programmable load shedding and engine speed control Automated motor vehicle battery voltage protection is provided by setting voltage trip points for increasing engine speed and for shedding selected electrical loads. The system is effected by programming a vehicle body computer which communicates with, and exerts co... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7370635 | System and method for resolving electrical leads A control system for controlling a device, the device having at least two functional elements, each functional element being controlled by a control signal, is disclosed in the present disclosure. The control system may include detecting means operatively connected ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369932 | System and method for turbine engine fault detection using discrete event system modeling A system and method is provided for fault detection in a turbine engine. The fault detection system and method uses discrete event system modeling to provide improved fault diagnosis and prognosis. The fault detection system and method receives sensor taken at multi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363175 | Query based electronic battery tester An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery provides a test output indicative of a condition of the battery. Electronic measurement circuitry provides a measurement output related to a condition of the battery. The battery condition is determined base... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362711 | Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting malicious data in an ad-hoc network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects malicious data in an ad-hoc network. During operation, the system receives data at a node in the ad-hoc network, wherein the data was sensed and redundantly communicated to the node by other node... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346592 | Method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure of an internal-combustion engine A method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure are presented, to compensate for a large lag or a large time delay without producing an overshot or discontinuous behaviors of a predicted value. The method comprises the step of obtaining a differenc... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333012 | Vehicle monitoring and control using radio frequency identification An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to monitor a vehicle. A radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID) tag is installed in a vehicle to transmit vehicle information to a vehicle monitor. The vehicle monitor transmits a command to the vehicle ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329528 | Enzyme multimer and process of producing same An enzyme multimer is provided which comprises a plurality of monomer units including a first monomer unit having enzymatic activity and a second monomer unit having enzymatic activity, wherein each of the first monomer unit and the second monomer unit comprise a cy... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324919 | Apparatus for analysing the condition of a machine An apparatus for analysing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft, includes: at least one input for receiving measurement data from a sensor for surveying a measuring point of the machine, the measurement data being dependent on rotation of the shaft; an... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319304 | Shunt connection to a PCB of an energy management system employed in an automotive vehicle A method of coupling a shunt to a printed circuit board (PCB) of an energy management system is provided. The method includes coupling flexible electrical connectors to the shunt and soldering the flexible electrical connectors to connection points on the PCB of the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319208 | Controller and glow plug for controlling energization modes There is provided a control device for a glow plug, capable of controlling the energization of a resistance heater of the glow plug by a resistance control process while attaining good resistance control response under cooling of the heater by fuel injection and com... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7295918 | Automobile and control method of automobile When an automobile moves in a reverse direction opposite to an expected driving direction according to the current setting of a gearshift position SP, the automobile of the invention sets an adjustment torque Ta corresponding to a measured road surface gradient θ a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295949 | Energy efficient achievement of integrated circuit performance goals A system and method for meeting performance goals in an electronic system in an energy efficient manner. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise operating an electrical circuit at a current level of performance and a current level of energy efficiency ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295936 | Electronic battery tester with relative test output An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery determines a condition of the battery. The condition is a relative condition and is a function of a dynamic parameter of the battery and an empirical input variable. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296006 | Method of inferring rotorcraft gross weight Described are systems and methods for determining the gross weight of an aircraft. A flight regime is determined based on one or more inputs. A neural net is selected based on a flight regime. The neural net inputs may include derived values. A first estimate of the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291813 | Controller for electric article for human body A controller for an electric article includes a voltage-stabilizing circuit for supplying voltage stable DC power, a microprocessor, a temperature-detecting circuit, a protecting circuit, a control circuit, and a switch circuit. The temperature-detecting circuit inc... | 11/06/2007 |
