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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155989 | Engineered management system particularly suited for maintenance and repair (M and R) management of structure such as pavement An automated user-implemented method for optimizing cost, schedule and performance of maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) on manmade structure, such as pavements. The method utilizes a database containing information on the condition of the manmade structure, the i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8131482 | Methods and apparatus for estimating rotor slots A method of determining a quantity of rotor slots in an induction motor through analysis of voltage and current signals. An approximate slip is calculated according to an approximate slip function that is independent of a rotor slots quantity. A fundamental frequenc... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126658 | Shape defect factor identification method, device, and program Provided is a method for rapidly, surely, and easily identifying a factor of a shape defect of an artifact attributed to elastic recovery of deformation upon molding by using the numeric value simulation technique, thereby eliminating lowering of dimension accuracy.... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108155 | System for monitoring a restoration factor of a wind turbine population A system for monitoring the quality of maintenance performed on a wind turbine. A restoration factor is used to determine the quality of maintenance performed of the wind turbine. A restoration factor determined after a scheduled maintenance is compared to historica... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8055454 | Facilitating mote network configuration and layout using mechanical disturbances A method may include and/or involve at least one mote of a mote network detecting a mechanical disturbance, and the at least one mote applying information about when the mechanical disturbance was detected in order to facilitate determination of a location of the at... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041517 | Spatio-temporal and context-based indexing and representation of subterranean networks and means for doing the same Systems, methods and devices for indexing, archiving, analyzing and reporting pipe and other void network data. Specifically, multi-dimensional indexing and correlation of spatial, temporal, feature, environmental, uncertainty and/or context-based data is synchroniz... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036836 | Dynamic environmental change compensation of sensor data in structural health monitoring systems A method for adjusting signal data detected in a structural health monitoring (SHM) system to compensate for the effects of environmental variables acting thereon includes constructing a baseline data space comprised of sets of signal data. Current signal data sets ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7970554 | Method and device for securely storing data A system for providing secure access to mechanical data associated with the mechanical properties of a concrete mass. The system includes a logger associated with the concrete mass and having at least one sensor adapted to measure physical properties of the concrete... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957918 | Member designing method and apparatus A computer performs press forming analysis based on a shape of a formed product or of a member, a blank holder force, a friction coefficient, a tensile strength of a material, a yield strength, a stress-strain relation, and a sheet thickness, as press forming condit... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953559 | Systems and methods for maintaining load histories Methods and systems for constructing a load history database for a structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that may include detecting a measurable parameter on the structure utilizing a sensor positioned on the structure and determining a va... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7890271 | Revolution indicator and a program for the revolution indicator The object of the invention is providing a revolution indicator and a program for the indicator, which can detect a varying number of revolutions precisely. The indicator includes: a detecting portion detecting a physical phenomenon resulting from the revolution mov... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7826983 | Instrumented mobility assistance device Various implementations are disclosed for an instrumented mobility assistance device, such as an instrumented walker. The device includes an attached sensor that is operable to convert an operational action of a user of the mobility assistance device into a sensor s... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7797113 | Gas turbine performance analysis method and gas turbine performance analysis system A gas turbine performance analysis system includes a performance computation module for receiving an actual measured value of an inlet air temperature introduced to a compressor, a compressor pressure ratio, and a flow rate of fuel supplied to the gas turbine, and f... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7751989 | Guided wave pipeline inspection system with enhanced focusing capability A system for inspecting a pipeline having at least two transducers divided into segments, the segments each containing a number of sensors, wherein a maximum number of segments is equal to a number of transducers, an arrangement configured to send, receive and store... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7742881 | System and method for detection of rotor eccentricity baseline shift A method to determine eccentricity of a rotor in a turbine including: collecting sensor data of rotor eccentricity for a plurality of startup operations; establishing a baseline eccentricity value using the sensor data corresponding to a selected startup operation; ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7689368 | Systems and methods for early detection of machine component failure A system for early detection of component failure in a hydraulic system comprises a particle detection device disposed in a fluid flow channel of a machine, the particle detection device configured to monitor a current particle count associated with fluid flowing th... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668665 | Methods of networking interrogation devices for structural conditions Methods of operating an interrogation system that has a plurality of patches attached to a host structure. Each patch is capable of generating a diagnostic wave and/or developing a sensor signal in response to the diagnostic wave. In each method, a Euclidean undirec... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668666 | Method and device for securely storing data A method for transmitting data generated by a logger within a concrete mass and for displaying mechanical data to a device for outside the concrete mass. The method includes the step of sensing, processing, and recording the mechanical data generated by the logger w... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7653498 | Apparatus for and method of calculating many-body problem An address generator holds a cell list of cell data of a central cell containing a central particle and a predetermined number of surrounding cells located around the central cell in a system. The address generator designates particle data of a central particle and ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7610158 | Measuring device and method for measuring the arching of an elongate body The present invention relates to a measuring device for measuring the arching of an elongate body. The measuring device includes an anvil member against which the elongate body is intended to be placed, a measure-collection member movable along the line of the longi... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7590495 | Inverse method to calculate material properties using a non-resonant technique A method for calculating material properties of a material includes determining a dilatational wavespeed and a shear wave speed. The dilatational wavespeed is determined by conducting vertical vibration tests of two specimens of the material, one specimen being twic... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584060 | Inverse method to calculate material properties using an insertion loss test A method for calculating material properties of a material includes conducting two insertion loss tests of the material having a single thickness and a double thickness. These tests are conducted at a zero wavenumber. Utilizing these insertion loss tests, a dilatati... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580800 | Tools for evaluating and reporting canopy integrity A set of tools is provided for inspecting and obtaining critical data concerning the support structure of a canopy on support columns. The data obtained is entered into a computer programmed to generate a structure integrity report based on the data. The tools inclu... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571057 | System and method for monitoring degradation A degradation monitoring system including: a machine; a sensor affixed to the machine, the sensors measuring a operational parameters of the machine; a set of filters receptive of information about the machine from the sensors and the filters responsively generate s... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567872 | Film forming condition determination method, film forming method, and film structure manufacturing method Among a plurality of parameters concerning a film forming condition, different parameter values are set for one parameter and the same predetermined values are set for other parameters to manufacture two pieces of film structures including a high-dielectric constant... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7546211 | Condition detection apparatus, condition detection method, condition detection program, information recording medium therefor, and condition display apparatus, condition display method, condition display program, information recording medium therefor A condition detection apparatus comprising an AE sensor 1 that detects AE waves, which elastically-occur when a plurality of balls included in an LM system self-rotate and revolve within a circulation section at the same time, and generates detection signals ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7505852 | Probabilistic stress wave analysis system and method A statistical process, and system for implementing the process, is described for the analysis of stress waves generated in operating machinery or equipment. This technique is called Probabilistic Stress Wave Analysis. The process is applied to a population of indivi... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7499811 | System and method for measuring surface appearance of a surface The embodiments described herein include a system and method for measuring a surface appearance of a surface. An appearance sensor is positionable about a surface and is configured to measure the surface appearance. A surface relationship sensor senses the distance ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7460962 | Method for an automatic optical measuring of an OPC structure The invention relates to a method for optical measurement of an OPC structure (306), having a pre-determined structure (302) on a photo-mask, in order to determine a measurement of the structure in at least one direction, whereby, firstly, a region ( | 12/02/2008 |
| 7427916 | Method for inspecting and monitoring building, structure, or facilities accompanying them A method for performing maintenance inspection and monitoring of various structures and facilities by arranging a sensor on a moving portion of the facility of a building or a portion where wiring is difficult. The method includes a step of constructing a sensor net... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424403 | Low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system A low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system has one or more sensors that sense parameters of a machine including vibration and produces dynamic signals representing the sensed parameters. The system converts the signals to a digital format, digitall... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421349 | Bearing fault signature detection A device, and method, detects the presence of developing faults in rolling element bearings. Detection is accomplished by measuring the vibration of the apparatus in which the bearing is operating (motor, generator, engine, etc.) and searching for signatures unique ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415363 | High resolution torque measurement on a rotating shaft with movement compensation An apparatus for determining the torque imposed on a rotatable shaft. The shaft has at least four paired probes, paired horizontal probes and paired vertical probes. The horizontal probes are positioned 90 degrees apart from the vertical probes. If the shaft moves h... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7398131 | Method and system for concrete quality control based on the concrete's maturity Method and system for controlling and monitoring the quality of concrete based on the concrete's maturity. Various embodiments of the present invention are discussed. First, Enhanced Maturity involves a maturity calibration method to account for the water-to-cementi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392097 | Automated attraction and ride maintenance verification system A system for preventative maintenance of a ride or an attraction component at a venue. A validator establishes the identity of the ride or attraction component and a controller monitors the use of the ride or attraction component. The controller also manage the ride... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386408 | Parallel kinematic machine, calibration method of parallel kinematic machine, and calibration program product A parallel kinematic machine has a parallel kinematic mechanism including an end effecter and a parallel link mechanism. A numerical control device controls a position and orientation of the end effecter based on kinematics of the parallel kinematic mechanism. A pos... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383156 | Apparatus for inspecting wafer surface, method for inspecting wafer surface, apparatus for judging defective wafer, method for judging defective wafer, and apparatus for processing information on wafer surface It is possible to inspect scratches and staining on a wafer surface on the basis of an LPD map obtained from a particle counter 11, by providing a means 21 for detecting aggregation of clustered point defects (LPD) from two-dimensional distribution inf... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379825 | Multifunctional electronic device for a mechanical seal and control and management process realised by such device A multifunctional electronic device for checking and managing the operating and diagnostic conditions of a mechanical seal. A method of controlling and managing the operating and diagnostic conditions of a mechanical seal. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376519 | Method for reducing the computation resources required for determining damage in structural health management system A method for determining damage in a structural health monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensors distributed across a structure is disclosed. The method includes decomposing the plurality of sensors into a plurality of sub-arrays. Each sub-array is associa... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368827 | Electrical assembly for monitoring conditions in a combustion turbine operating environment An electrical assembly for use in various operating environments such as a casing of a combustion turbine 10 is provided. The assembly may include an electrical energy-harvesting device 51 disposed in a component within the casing of the turbine to con... | 05/06/2008 |
