Bizarre Patents
An electrified table cloth for preventing crawling insects from gaining access to the consumer's food or drink.
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 |
| 8160832 | Apparatus and method for identifying a defect and/or operating characteristic of a system An apparatus and methods for identifying a defect and/or an operating characteristic of a system being monitored (and/or one or more of the system's components) are described. In an embodiment, orthogonally related data monitored by two or more detectors may be fuse... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8126672 | Ear-type thermometer and a control method thereof An ear-type thermometer which measures body temperature using a temperature detection element 21 that detects ambient temperature and an infrared detection element 22 that detects infrared radiation from a measurement site within the aural cavity, the ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8024145 | Method and system for signal generation via a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit Aspects of a method and system for signal generation via a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit are provided. In this regard, a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit (TSCIC) comprising a memory and a crystal or crystal oscillator may generate a si... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019563 | Method for determining the exhaust gas temperature of an internal combustion engine A method for determining an exhaust gas temperature of an internal combustion engine, which is performed by measuring a lambda value of the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine and calculating a calculated exhaust gas temperature as a function of the measur... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991571 | Providing nonlinear temperature compensation for sensing means by use of padé approximant function emulators Pade Approximant function emulators are used to model the nonlinear offset and/or nonlinear sensitivity behaviors of a sensor relative to temperature sub-ranges and to produce temperature compensating corrections for both offset and sensitivity as desired. In order ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7957926 | System and process for calibrating pyrometers in thermal processing chambers A method and system for calibrating temperature measurement devices, such as pyrometers, in thermal processing chambers are disclosed. According to the present invention, the system includes a calibrating light source that emits light energy onto a substrate contain... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953569 | On die thermal sensor of semiconductor memory device and method thereof An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) includes a thermal sensor for outputting a first comparing voltage by detecting a temperature of the semiconductor memory device; a comparing unit for outputting a trimming code by comparing the first comparing voltage with a second c... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925463 | Method and system for compensating temperature readings from a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit Aspects of a method and system for compensating temperature readings from a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit are provided. In this regard, a temperature indication and calibration voltages from a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit (TSCIC) m... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7853424 | Method of using a bipolar transistor as a self-calibrated thermometer and/or temperature sensor This invention relates a method to use a bipolar transistor as temperature sensor and/or self-calibrated thermometer which is immune to errors generated by parasitic elements as resistances and ideality factors and their evolution. In this invention the product of t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7826991 | Temperature-averaging field device compensation An average-temperature compensated field device comprises a field module, a temperature-averaging sensor, a microprocessor, and an interface. The field module is configured to characterize a process parameter. The temperature-averaging sensor is configured to genera... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809519 | System and method for automatically calibrating a temperature sensor There is provided a system and method for automatically calibrating a temperature sensor. More specifically, there is provided a system made up of a temperature sensor which includes a first resistance configured to indicate a temperature of the temperature sensor a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7756663 | Self-calibration systems and methods Various embodiments of self-calibration systems and methods are described. One method embodiment, among others, includes imposing an alternate test to components within the device, responsive to the imposition of the alternate test, providing test responses correspo... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742890 | Cold junction compensation method for temperature controlling console A compensation method for cold junction of temperature controlling console is used to compensate the temperature difference of cold junctions when a plurality of temperature controlling consoles are connected in series, where one temperature controlling console is m... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739067 | In-service calibration of temperature measurement devices using plant monitoring system data System for automating the determination of cross calibration coefficients based on data stored by a plant computer and data storage unit or a plant monitoring system. The automated system includes a processor executing software for retrieving data, determining avera... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734440 | On-chip over-temperature detection An improved method and apparatus for setting a trip-point temperature value for detection of an over-temperature condition in a chip when a reading from a main temperature sensor exceeds the trip-point temperature value. In one embodiment, the trip-point temperature... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734439 | System and process for calibrating pyrometers in thermal processing chambers A method and system for calibrating temperature measurement devices, such as pyrometers, in thermal processing chambers are disclosed. According to the present invention, the system includes a calibrating light source that emits light energy onto a substrate contain... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706997 | Method and device for compensating temperature dependencies A method for measuring the temperature dependency of a sensor element for a variable, the value of which varies with the temperature, for any liquid. The method includes the steps of changing the temperature of the liquid over time, simultaneously collecting the dat... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693673 | Apparatus and method for identifying a defect and/or operating characteristic of a system An apparatus and methods for identifying a defect and/or an operating characteristic of a system being monitored (and/or one or more of the system's components) are described. In an embodiment, orthogonally related data monitored by two or more detectors may be fuse... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7676338 | Method for detecting abnormality of temperature sensor in machine tool The invention enables an abnormality of a temperature sensor to be simply detected. In S1, a temperature measurement is performed with each temperature sensor, and measured signals are digitalized to obtain a temperature value. Then, in S2, a detection... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7596464 | Determining the thermal influence of components within a system and usage of a matrix for power and thermal management A method of creating a thermal influence table to describe thermal relationships between components in a system and use of the thermal influence table in a system is described. The thermal influence matrix may be generated dynamically for a system. The matrix may be... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7552022 | Method and arrangement for temperature calibration The invention concerns an arrangement on a semiconductor chip for calibrating temperature setting curve having a signal generation unit (2) for providing a first signal (Iptat1, Vptat1, fptat1), which is proportional to the ac... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548825 | Method and apparatus for current and temperature measurement in an electronic power circuit A current/temperature measurement method using parasitic components in an electronic power circuit is disclosed. The measured values derived from these parasitic components with inadequate precision are first of all compensated for, in terms of their current/tempera... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7526397 | Methods and apparatus for calibrating distributed fiber temperature sensing system Systems and methods for calibrating a temperature sensing system are disclosed. In one respect, a line may be placed in operative relation with a first reference cell and a second reference cell. The temperatures of the first and second reference cells may be adjust... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523008 | Thermal calibration in cell processor This is an embodiment for enabling calibration of the bus interfacing cell processors and I/O Controllers in a multi-cell system without rebooting the system in response to a change in the environment temperature. This is accomplished by periodically checking the in... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7472030 | Dual mode single temperature trimming In a system for performing a dual mode single temperature trim upon an electronic device to remove combined mismatch and process variation errors, a dynamic element matching control is configured for enabling dynamic element matching of components of the electronic ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7451053 | On die thermal sensor of semiconductor memory device and method thereof An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) includes a thermal sensor for outputting a first comparing voltage by detecting a temperature of the semiconductor memory device; a comparing unit for outputting a trimming code by comparing the first comparing voltage with a second c... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7441949 | System and method for providing temperature data from a memory device having a temperature sensor A circuit and method for providing temperature data indicative of a temperature measured by a temperature sensor. The circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor and configured to identify for a coarse temperature range one of a plurality of fine temperature ranges... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434985 | Calibrated built-in temperature sensor and calibration method thereof A built-in calibration device is for a temperature sensor. A voltage divider is configured for receiving one reference voltage with a negative temperature coefficient and generating a plurality of input voltages. Comparing apparatus is connected to the voltage divid... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433790 | Automatic reference voltage trimming technique In one set of embodiments, trimming of a reference, which may be a bandgap reference and which is configured on an integrated circuit, may be controlled by an algorithm executed by logic circuitry also configured on the integrated circuit. The bandgap reference may ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429128 | Failure determination system and method for temperature sensors, as well as engine control unit A failure determination system for determining failures of temperature sensors, which is capable of easily and accurately determining failures of the sensors in actual operating temperature ranges thereof, even when the ranges are different from each other. Temperat... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7422366 | Current mirror methodology quantifying time dependent thermal instability accurately in SOI BJT circuitry A current mirror method is provided that can be utilized to evaluate thermal issues is silicon-on-insulator (SOI) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). The method significantly improves safe operating area (SOA) measurement sensitivity. Unlike conventional methods, t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7413343 | Apparatus for determining a temperature sensing element An apparatus and method measure a temperature of a temperature sensing element having a temperature dependent resistance based on a ratio of discharge times of a capacitor through a reference resistance and through the combination of the reference resistance in para... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7404071 | Memory modules having accurate operating current values stored thereon and methods for fabricating and implementing such devices Memory modules having accurate operating current values stored thereon and methods for fabricating and implementing such devices to improve system performance. Memory modules comprising a number of volatile memory devices may be fabricated. Operating current values ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398173 | Providing nonlinear temperature compensation for sensing means by use of Padé approximant function emulators Sensors and/or transducers can exhibit nonlinear response to temperature changes in terms of offset and also in terms of sensitivity to variations in a sensed physical attribute (pressure, strain, displacement, etc.). Padé Approximant function emulators are used to... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395466 | Method and apparatus to adjust voltage for storage location reliability According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at least one register to store an acceptable number of unreliable storag... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392158 | Drive unit for compressor and refrigerator An instantaneous current and instantaneous voltage of a three-phase coil of a brushless DC motor are detected, and the internal condition of a compressor is predicted from these detection values. The prediction about the internal condition of the compressor is made ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383144 | Method and apparatus for calibration of an on-chip temperature sensor within a memory device According to embodiments of the present invention, an automatic trim or calibration for a temperature sensor of a chip or memory device is performed on that chip. An embodiment of the present invention includes a calibration unit that increments trim or calibration ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373266 | Sensor calibration using selectively disconnected temperature Calibration of a sensor circuit that includes a sensor, a temperature measurement circuit and a signal processing path. The sensor senses a physical parameter to be measured and generates an electrical sensor output signal representing the physical parameter. The te... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373231 | Articulated equipment position control system and method An articulated equipment position control system and method are provided for equipment consisting of motive and working components. The components are connected by an articulated connector, such as a pivotal hitch. GPS-derived positional data is utilized for power-a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
