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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864039 | Methods and systems for monitoring structures and systems Methods and systems for passenger monitoring and system control is provided. The system includes at least one sensor system configured to monitor an environment immediately surrounding the respective passenger and biometrics of the respective passenger and generate ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7705725 | Methods and systems for monitoring structures and systems Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor sy... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7301440 | Power line communication system and method The present invention provides a device for providing communications through power lines comprised of multiple conductors by transmitting the data signals through a plurality of the conductors. One embodiment of the present invention may be comprised of a transmit c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7268740 | Method for forming radio frequency antenna A metalized circuit suitable for application as a radio frequency antenna is produced by forming an antenna coil pattern on a flexible substrate. The antenna coil pattern is formed using a conductive ink which is patterned on the substrate. The conductive ink is cur... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253633 | Threshold adjustment accuracy for ground fault condition determination A polyphase power system with a system safety ground supplies a plurality of power phases over a respective plurality of power lines to power a load. A plurality of phase fault detectors of a fault detection component monitor the plurality of power lines, respective... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248157 | Wireless phone-interface device In one aspect, a phone-interface device determines whether a problem has occurred at a control panel by determining whether a signal from the control panel has been received, and when a signal has not been received within a period of time, the phone-interface device... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239982 | Information processing device and method The present invention suppresses charges incurred by data communications. A controller transmits data values acquired by sensors to a data center at predetermined intervals. When a predetermined interval has elapsed, a data value to be transmitted is compared with t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7196623 | Remote reminding system The inventive device functions to warn a user of the undesirable condition of an appliance or other equipment. An “undesirable condition” may be an automatic garage door that is left open, a toaster oven or electric heater that is left on, an air conditioner tha... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7145452 | Detection of bodies Detection of the presence of an animal body, for instance a human, in a detection zone is achieved by generating a low power LF field (17) between antennae (12, 18), and by measuring the disturbance of this field by the body. An analyser (16) is... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138732 | Security and energy control system and method A system detects for the presence of an identification (ID) code associated with an object. The detected ID code is communicated to a computer and power is provided to an energy consumption device. In response to detecting that the ID code has been absent for less t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7132819 | Floating power supply and method of using the same A power supply of the present invention comprises a transducer having a transducer and a voltage regulator. The transducer is coupled to an electrically non-conductive medium, which may be a light pipe. The electrically non-conductive medium is coupled to a non-elec... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7113134 | Transformer antenna device and method of using the same The invention contemplates an antenna device, system and method of installing the antenna device for receiving a wireless signal at a pad mounted electrical transformer. The novel device includes an antenna capable of communicating the wireless signal and a material... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102478 | Power line coupling device and method of using the same The coupling device of the present invention includes a housing, a first fastening member attached to said housing and coupled to the power line, a second fastening member attached to the housing and coupled to the power line, an inductor providing an impedance to d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7064654 | Power line communication system and method of operating the same A system for operating a power line communication system is provided. One embodiment is comprised of a plurality of network elements, which may take the form of repeaters, bypass devices, backhaul devices, wireless backhaul devices, enhanced bypass devices, communic... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053756 | Facilitating communication of data signals on electric power systems The invention includes a method, system, and device for communicating a data signal on an electric power system. The inventive method includes communicating the data signal to the electric power system, and modifying the characteristics of the electric power system ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053768 | Detecting communications disconnect and enabling wireless emergency call A process of detecting and communicating alarm events by a security system is disclosed. Sensors in communication with the security system are monitored, where specific changes in outputs of the sensors indicate an alarm event. It is determined whether a landline co... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054414 | Wireless phone-interface device A phone-interface device receives a wireless signal from a control panel. The wireless signal encodes information regarding a system condition that has occurred in a facility. The phone-interface device communicates the system condition to a monitoring station. The ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046124 | Power line coupling device and method of using the same The coupler of the present invention couples broadband RF signals to and from a power line conductor. The coupler of one embodiment that is for use with overhead power lines includes a length of URD MV cable with the neutral conductor removed and that is communicati... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042351 | Data communication over a power line Data signals are communicated between a power line and a computer, wherein the power line provides power to the computer via a distribution transformer and the computer is in communication with a wireless communication path. A first data signal is communicated with ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030741 | Vehicle-mounted intrusion detection apparatus A vehicle-mounted intrusion detection apparatus for detecting an intrusion into a vehicle based on a wave transmitted inside the vehicle and reflected from an object located inside the vehicle, wherein the vehicle-mounted intrusion detection apparatus is configured ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7002464 | Relative timing mechanism for event sequencing without clock synchronization A remote sensing system operable to collect sensor timing data comprising a central data hub for detecting the occurrence of an event and processing information about the detected event, the remote sensing system comprising a central data hub, at least one sensor ha... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998962 | Power line communication apparatus and method of using the same A communication device for use with a power line communication system is provided. One embodiment forms a bypass device and comprises a low voltage coupler, a low voltage signal conditioner, a controller, a medium voltage modem, a first medium voltage signal conditi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6980089 | Non-intrusive coupling to shielded power cable The invention describes a method and a device for transporting a signal over a power line. The inventive method includes inducing an alternating current (AC) voltage from the power line, powering a transceiver device with the induced AC voltage, communicating the si... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980091 | Power line communication system and method of operating the same The present invention provides a system for operating a power line communications system that is comprised of a plurality of network elements, which may take the form of repeaters, bypass devices, backhaul devices, wireless backhaul devices, enhanced bypass device, ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980090 | Device and method for coupling with electrical distribution network infrastructure to provide communications A device for providing communications through power lines that are communicatively coupled to an electrical distribution network infrastructure and to the internal wiring of at least one customer premises having one or more communication devices therein is provided.... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6965303 | Power line communication system and method A method of communicatively coupling power line communication (PLC) devices to a first and second overhead power line conductor that travel in a substantially parallel physical arrangement and in spaced-apart relation is provided. The method may comprise coupling a ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961771 | Multi-unit building with secure entry system A secure entry system for a building having a plurality of units provided therein, each of the units permitting only entry of a designated person thereto, the system comprising: an administration server operable to administrate a computer network system in the build... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958680 | Power line communication system and method of using the same The last portion of the electrical distribution system is used to provide high-speed communications to residential homes. An aggregation point interfaces a medium voltage power line with a point-of-presence, and a power line bridge enables flow of communications sig... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954145 | Proximate sensor using micro impulse waves for monitoring the status of an object, and monitoring system employing the same The objective of the present invention is to provide proximity sensors employing impulse waves to detect the characteristics of objects lying inside the object of surveillance, such as a container, including their distance, the reflection strength from an object, th... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950567 | Method and apparatus for providing inductive coupling and decoupling of high-frequency, high-bandwidth data signals directly on and off of a high voltage power line The present invention is drawn to an electrically “closed” method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data signals over a high voltage power line. Inductive coupling is employed for coupling and decoupling the data signal directly on to and off of a sin... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6933835 | Data communication over a power line A signal is received from a first portion of a power line and at least a portion of the signal is converted to a non-electrically conducting signal. The non-electrically conducting signal may be communicated to a non-electrically conductive communication path. In th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6826463 | In-vehicle button-stuck malfunction notice system An in-vehicle electronic control unit is equipped with the following: a control section for detecting a button-pushed state; a button-stuck notifying function for notifying button-stuck malfunction information that button-stuck malfunction occurs when the button-pus... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6693527 | Warning system A warning system (10) arranged in a house (200) having a controller (11) which is designed to operate a first buzzer (17) in response to the activity sensor (20) detecting a person (204) in the vicinity of the house (200) and operate a floodlight (19) and... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6535124 | Method and apparatus for digital analysis and signal conditioning in a turbine generator silo combustor A method and apparatus for analyzing and signal conditioning the pulsation signal derived from combustion of fuel in a turbine. There are one or more user defined frequency bands and the method and apparatus provides a digital signal for the true RMS valu... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6504482 | Abnormality detection apparatus and method An abnormality detection apparatus for detecting an event where a monitored object in a room has lapsed into an abnormal state. The apparatus includes an image pickup system for picking up an image of a scene in the room, and feature-quantity extraction d... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6462663 | Use of detector arrays to detect cessation of motion A sensor comprising an array of detectors for e.g. infrared radiation of the type for use in security or surveillance application has means for identifying the entry of an object into a first selected area of a scene and means for generating a warning or ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6462657 | Intrusion detection apparatus having a virtual capacitor An apparatus (10) and a method for detecting an intrusion into an area (e.g., 14) are provided. The apparatus (10) has a transmitter (30) for transmitting a signal within the area. The apparatus (10) also has a receiver (32) for receiving reflected return... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6353393 | Switch status monitoring system A switch status monitoring system (10) includes a switch signal processor (16) that operates in either of a supervised mode or an unsupervised mode for each monitored switch (12). Selection of the operating mode is made via configuration data provided to ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6294991 | Method and system therefor for ensuring a true activation of distributed restoration in a telecommunications network To ensure that the distributed restoration process of a DRA provisioned network proceeds only in response to true failures, the present invention DRA network provisions to each of the ports of the nodes a timer mechanism for ascertaining whether an alarm ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6265970 | Event detection device with fault monitoring capability An event detection device comprising a sensing means for generating an output signal in response to the detection of an event, the device comprising a fault monitoring system which comprises: comparator means for comparing the output signal with a thresho... | 07/24/2001 |
