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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7047096 | Remote maintenance method, industrial device, and semiconductor device The present invention provides a remote maintenance method, a remote maintenance system, and an industrial device for enabling control and thorough services and billing according to the contents of the remote maintenance operation and the request destination of main... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043166 | Methods and systems for providing firmware to a printing device A method of providing firmware for a printing device includes attaching a memory module storing the firmware to a printing device consumable. The memory module contains the firmware being provided for the printing device and a firmware interface object that can be u... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043405 | Distribution of processing activity in a multiple core microprocessor Distribution of processing activity across processing hardware based on power consumption and/or thermal considerations. One embodiment includes a plurality of processing units and a monitor to obtain monitor (e.g., power consumption, or temperature or some combinat... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043402 | On-line oil condition sensor system for rotating and reciprocating machinery An on-line sensing system and method for monitoring in real-time thermal-oxidative breakdown, water contamination, and/or fuel dilution conditions in operational engine lubricating oils. The method of the invention includes an electrochemical impedance analysis tech... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039744 | Movable lead access member for handheld field maintenance tool A handheld communication and diagnostic tool is provided. The tool is usable with process industry standard protocols having varying physical layers. Each physical layer includes at least one distinct lead. To facilitate proper loop connections, the tool includes a ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039557 | Device and method for the early recognition and prediction of unit damage In a method and apparatus for early detection and prediction of damage to assemblies in machine plants, including mobile machine plants, structure-borne sound of the machine system is sensed by a sensor, output as an acceleration signal and analyzed in a digital sig... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039539 | Rack equipment environmental condition adjustment system and method A rack equipment environmental condition adjustment system and method is presented. In one embodiment of the present invention, a rack equipment environmental condition adjustment system includes rack equipment for processing information. An environmental condition ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039510 | Method of transmitting vehicle data The invention relates to a method for wirelessly transmitting vehicle data, whereby vehicle data provided for data exportation is stored in a storage medium, and is read out and transmitted within the framework of a vehicle data acquisition. At the beginning of the ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036386 | Multipurpose utility mounting assembly for handheld field maintenance tool A multipurpose utility mounting assembly for a handheld field maintenance tool is disclosed. The assembly includes a number of features that allow effective use of the handheld field maintenance tool for a wide variety of mounting techniques that may be encountered ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035768 | Method for collecting remote maintenance and diagnostic data from subject equipment, other device and manufacturing execution system Upon performing a remote maintenance/diagnosis of a manufacturing equipment, data deriving from the manufacturing equipment that is a subject of the remote maintenance/diagnosis, data deriving from a manufacture related equipment other than the manufacturing equipme... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035765 | Disaster predicting method, disaster predicting apparatus, disaster predicting program, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with disaster predicting program A disaster predicting method, a disaster predicting apparatus, a disaster predicting program, and a computer-readable recording medium recorded with a disaster predicting program, which automatically order satellite image data based on periodically observed or predi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034674 | Hour meter with incremental service indicator An hour meter having a display that provides a visual indication of a total time an engine has operated and a visual indication of engine operation time remaining in a predetermined service time interval. A plurality of segments on the display are selectively displa... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031950 | Method and apparatus for providing a virtual age estimation for remaining lifetime prediction of a system using neural networks A method for providing a virtual age estimation for predicting the remaining lifetime of a device of a given type, comprises the steps of monitoring a predetermined number of significant parameters of respective ones of a training set of devices of the given type, t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031878 | Systems and methods for diagnosing the cause of trend shifts in performance data Automated systems and methods for diagnosing the cause of a trend shift in performance data associated with a system including selecting a fuzzy model describing how the mean associated with a parameter shifts when a predetermined problem occurs and receiving perfor... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026733 | Drive system for a motor vehicle having an electric machine A drive system for a transportation device having an electric machine. The electric machine has a converter unit and a cooling unit with the converter unit being embodied at least partially in the shape of a ring and surrounding the electric machine or components of... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027952 | Data transmission method for a multi-protocol handheld field maintenance tool A method for preventing unsafe transmission on an incompatible network with a multi-protocol intrinsically safe handheld field maintenance tool as provided. The method preferably includes checking voltage levels on two sets of network connections when a network conn... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7026784 | Inverter An inverter has a measuring part that measures an operating time such as the time interval from when a command to start a specified operation by an associated system until a signal indicating the completion of the operation is received. A comparing part compares thi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027953 | Method and system for diagnostics and prognostics of a mechanical system A vibrational analysis system diagnosis the health of a mechanical system by reference to vibration signature data from multiple domains. Features are extracted from signature data by reference to pointer locations. The features provide an indication of signature de... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018800 | Process device with quiescent current diagnostics A process device for use on an industrial process control system includes a quiescent current sensor configured to sense quiescent current draw of the process device. Diagnostic circuitry determines a diagnostic condition of the process device as a function of the s... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020697 | Architectures for netcentric computing systems An execution architecture, a development architecture and an operations architecture for a netcentric computing system. The execution architecture contains common, run-time services required when an application executes in the netcentric computing system. The develo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016808 | Analyzing and servicing imaging devices According to a particular embodiment, a method of analyzing and servicing an imaging device involves receiving data from the imaging device; determining whether the received data matches existing data; upon determining that the received data matches the existing dat... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016741 | Process control loop signal converter A device for use in a process control system includes a first pair of electrical connections configured to couple to a two-wire process control loop. The loop includes a two-wire process variable transmitter. A second pair of electrical connections is configured to ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010459 | Process device diagnostics using process variable sensor signal A diagnostic device for use in a process control system receives a sensor signal related to a process variable of a process sensed by a process variable sensor. A signal preprocessor provides a sensor power signal output as a function of a frequency distribution of ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010294 | Wireless control of a field device in an industrial process A mobile terminal is arranged to communicate over a cellular communication system with a control system connected to a plurality of field devices in an industrial process, in order to remote control, configure or monitor the field devices. The mobile terminal access... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010467 | Web-based generator testing and monitoring system A web-based generator testing and monitoring system is provided that includes monitoring logic, and a web server. The monitoring logic typically monitors an AC output signal associated with an AC plant. The web server is typically coupled to the monitoring logic and... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007084 | Proactive predictive preventative network management technique A next generation performance network management system (30′) includes a first component (34a) that monitors one or more attributes of network elements (111–11n, 121–12m | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003560 | Data warehouse computing system A data warehouse computing system including a server connected to a client, a data warehouse architecture, metadata management, a population architecture, an end-user access architecture, an operations architecture, and a development architecture. The operations arc... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002462 | System and method for remote monitoring and maintenance management of vertical transportation equipment The Vertical Transportation-Maintenance Management System (VTMMS) invention described herein is directed towards an automated system and method for monitoring, management, and maintenance of transportation equipment, including but not limited to escalators, elevator... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003434 | Electronic maintenance record file system for equipment such as a elevators An electronic maintenance record file system for facilities including local monitoring units, installed near the equipment to be maintained, a calculator made available to the maintenance company and connected to the local units using a transmission network to recei... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999897 | Method and related system for semiconductor equipment early warning management A method and related system for semiconductor equipment early warning management. The method includes recording process parameters of each piece of equipment, recording equipment parameters when each piece of equipment is processing, evaluating and recording the qua... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999903 | Remote monitoring diagnostic system and method thereof The remote monitoring diagnostic system and method includes a data storage file used to collect the plant data representing the operation status of a plant and to store the plant data, a monitoring system to monitor the field plant according to the collected plant d... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999890 | Measurement data processing system A measurement data processing system is provided, which can transmit measurement data for processing from a data measuring device that has measured and stored the data to a data processing device without a complicated operation. When a personal measuring instrument ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996498 | System and method for remote inbound vehicle inspection A system and method for reducing the shop time of a vehicle, e.g., a locomotive, at a maintenance facility by obtaining onboard systems parameter data during a period when the vehicle is inbound to the maintenance facility for required periodic scheduled maintenance... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994258 | Technician safety confirmation The present invention provides safety confirmation or hazard warning to a technician in the field, e.g., by scanning an equipment identification label and comparing the identification to a schedule of equipment inactivation times. The systems and methods of the inve... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996751 | Method and system for reduction of service costs by discrimination between software and hardware induced outages A method (and system) of reducing warranty costs includes discriminating between hardware- and software-induced problems or outages in a computer system. ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990398 | System for controlling operating information of construction machine and construction machine therefor The present invention provides an operating information control system of a construction machine comprising: operating information collection device for collecting operating information regarding operation of a construction machine; storage device for storing the op... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6990432 | Apparatus and method for performing gas turbine adjustment A system for performing gas turbine system adjustments includes a server installed on a computer, the server coupled to a gas turbine engine control system and configured to transmit data indicative of an operating state of a gas turbine engine, and a client applica... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980891 | Power plant operation control system and a power plant maintaining and managing method An operation control system for a plurality of power generating plants and a method of maintaining and managing a plurality of power generating plants which supply power to arbitrary power systems. The operation control system includes a general supervision/diagnosi... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978675 | Vehicle maintenance sensing device and method therefor A vehicle maintenance device for acoustical and vibration sensing of an engine has a flexible wand member having a channeling running the length of the flexible wand member. A housing is coupled to a first end of the flexible wand member. A handle section is coupled... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980928 | System and method for providing efficiency and cost analysis during steam path audits This disclosure describes a system and method for providing efficiency and cost analysis for a power generation unit. The system of this disclosure includes a current condition data acquisition logic that acquires a plurality of current condition variables for the p... | 12/27/2005 |
