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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8335573 | Safety-oriented control system For the purpose of controlling safety functions as part of a system controller which is not oriented to safety functions in an automation system, the invention provides safety modules having a sound functionality and provides a safety protocol which transmits data i... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8326440 | System for intelligent delegation of irrigation control A node of a fault-tolerant system relies upon a primary communication mechanism, when possible, for primary connection to a central server. The node monitors its primary connection to the server. While the primary connection is active, the node operates in a supervi... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8280530 | Plant control system A plant control system includes: an engineering apparatus for defining change information so as to change definition information about the system; and a control apparatus for referring to the change information downloaded from the engineering apparatus to set an out... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8255065 | Mobile function block for a PLC based distributed control system Methods and architectures are described that provide function block mobility between PLCs. Each PLC configured with Mobile Function Blocks (MFBs) may forward and execute MFBs from each other. To enable MFB mobility over a communication bus, each PLC having one or mo... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8249728 | Method for operating a management system of function modules Methods for operating a management system that manages a large number of first function modules and second function modules. An inhibitor module I sets first control statuses to designating blocking when associated events are detected by an event detecting device, a... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8150538 | Triggering and activating device for two coupled control systems that can be mutually activated, and corresponding method A triggering and activating device and an automated process coupling two reciprocally activatable monitoring devices or operational-intervention devices. A first synchronizing module synchronizes transmissible operational-intervention parameters of a lookup table wi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8099179 | Fault tolerant control system A dual-redundant propulsion-by-wire control architecture with robust monitoring is presented to increase system availability without compromising safety. The dual-redundant controllers are able to cross-monitor and self-monitor. Self monitoring is effected at the ap... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7966079 | System, method, and apparatus for managing wastewater treatment installation Apparatus for managing a residential wastewater treatment system includes an in situ control unit that monitors an individual system. The control unit provides local control and alarms, and also sends status reports and/or alarms to a remote monitoring center via a ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953501 | Industrial process control loop monitor A process control loop monitor includes a housing configured to mount in the field of an industrial process. A loop interface circuit couples to a process control loop and receives data from the process control loop. A memory stores data received by the loop interfa... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7930042 | Redundant fieldbus system A redundant fieldbus redundant system includes two independent conditioned power modules which automatically detect cable faults, such as short or open circuits on both the host and field sides of the network. The power modules are interfaced directly on one side to... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925361 | Fault detection for a resistive position sensor Circuits for detecting faults in variable resistive position feedback sensors common in the use of motion control systems, provide a filter coupled to an output signal of the variable resistive position sensor for processing the signal to detect noise indicative of ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899560 | Electronic switching apparatus and method for switching autonomous intervention means for automatically redressing malfunctions The invention proposes an electronic switching apparatus (11) and an appropriate method for electronically switching two autonomous emergency intervention systems (10, 12) for automatically redressing malfunctions in locally arranged installations, whe... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890196 | Magnetic and optical rotating storage systems with audio monitoring A device includes an integrated circuit, a fan that cools the integrated circuit, and an audio monitoring module that analyzes audio signals that are based on noise generated by the fan during operation. The audio monitoring module is integrated into the integrated ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7865253 | System and method for detecting shakes and percussive impacts and for protecting portable electronic devices when pre-specified shake patterns and percussive impact levels are detected A system and method detects low grade physical motions of an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, and takes protective measures if the physical motions match a pre-specified physical motion pattern. The pre-specified physical motion pattern may have been se... | 01/04/2011 |
| RE42017 | Configurable safety system for implementation on industrial system and method of implementing same A configurable control system for operating an industrial system in a reliable, safety-enhanced manner, and method of implementing such a system in any of a variety of particular industrial systems of a given class, are disclosed. The method includes storing, onto a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848828 | Method and apparatus for managing manufacturing equipment, method for manufacturing device thereby Provided is a method for managing manufacturing apparatuses used in a managed production line including a plurality of manufacturing processes for manufacturing an electronic device, each of the apparatuses being used in one or more of the processes. The method incl... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7809449 | Coupling of safe fieldbus systems Generally, a means for coupling widely differing fieldbus or network systems to their own respective safety mechanisms is provided, in such a way as to ensure the transmission of safety data between at least two bus/network systems with different safety mechanisms. | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797061 | Redundant fieldbus system A redundant fieldbus system provides power and communications in a parallel physical configuration between the host system and attached field devices irrespective of any single point failure in the network. In case of a fault, the redundant fieldbus system automatic... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792594 | Redundant automation system comprising a master and a standby automation device The invention concerns a redundant computerizing system comprising additionally to a master programmable automaton and a standby programmable automaton, a computerized monitoring device enabling a memory image of the comparison process concerning a certain number of... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7702401 | System for preserving and displaying process control data associated with an abnormal situation A system for preserving process variable data relating to the operation of a process is provided. The system is adapted to preserve process variable data obtained before, during, and after the occurrence of an abnormal situation or event. The preserved process varia... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684877 | State propagation for modules A system facilitates state processing in an industrial control environment is provided. The system includes a module component to facilitate control operations in an industrial control environment. A propagation component is embedded within the module component to c... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7574271 | Passenger transportation system especially an escalator or moving walk A passenger transportation system, such as an escalator or moving walk, contains a circulating band, a driving station, and a reversing station. The driving station is arranged in the area of a first end of the passenger transportation system and has a slave control... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7515973 | Method and system for modeling of magnet cryogen cooler systems According to one embodiment, the present technique provides a method for servicing an imaging device having a cryogenic cooling system. In the exemplary embodiment, servicing of an MRI scanner may be scheduled via a model correlating a measured condition of the MRI ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7505819 | Redundant fieldbus system A redundant fieldbus redundant system includes two independent conditioned power modules which automatically detect cable faults, such as short or open circuits on both the host and field sides of the network. The power modules are interfaced directly on one side to... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7486997 | Safety condition setting support device, program product and device control method for obtaining safety condition for safety network A safety condition setting support device is used for a safety network to which an input device and an output device are connected and the output device serves to stop a controlled apparatus based on a detection signal outputted from the input device when the input ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7454252 | Redundant fieldbus system A redundant fieldbus system provides power and communications in a parallel physical configuration between the host system and attached field devices irrespective of any single point failure in the network. In case of a fault, the redundant fieldbus system automatic... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451002 | Automated generation of transfer functions based upon machine data A system and method for servicing a medical device, which provides for generation of a transfer function that correlates historical machine data with the health of the medical device. The transfer function may be validated and stored. The transfer function is automa... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437200 | Software based control system for nuclear reactor standby liquid control (SLC) logic processor A method and system is provided for a nuclear reactor safety related application. The method includes executing two forms of a same application-specific logic, one of the two forms implemented as hardware logic, and the other of the two forms implemented as software... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436291 | Protection of devices in a redundant configuration A network communication device is provided, comprising a control processor for controlling operation of the device, a reset module which is controllable independently of the control processor for performing a reset operation of the device, and a reset control interf... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437199 | Method for data pre-population A method of using an APC system to perform a data pre-population function is described in which the APC system is coupled to a processing element. The APC system comprises an APC computer including operational software, a database coupled to the APC computer, and a ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437596 | Self-healing control network for building automation systems In building automation architectures, components may be associated through physical communications paths and at a different level through building automation applications. Building automation applications implement control processes for a building function. Due to c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430451 | Safety unit, controller system, connection method of controllers, control method of the controller system and monitor method of the controller system Safety units 1d to 1f for executing a safety function processing are connected to a non-safety controller constituted by connectting a plurality of units 1b, 1c including CPU units 1a. A CPU bus | 09/30/2008 |
| 7418360 | Project design method A configurable system for automating a control sequence, in particular a motion sequence, has several components which exchange in regular time intervals during the control sequence with each other information via communication relationships. The system selects exac... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412291 | Ground-based software tool for controlling redundancy management switching operations Systems, methods, and computer program products for easily altering redundancy management data values associated with redundancy management logic that is executed by redundant data processing systems. The redundancy management data values are altered on a computer d... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412293 | Process control The invention relates to a method for process control, wherein at least one process device to be controlled is controlled by at least one process module and by at least one safety module, in that process signals not relevant to safety are transmitted to a local cont... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403841 | Control system and method for controlling a moving body An automatic steering control system comprises a behavior detector, a pattern matching section and a control parameter setter. The behavior detector sequentially determines a time duration of each of specific kinds of behaviors of a ship based on heading data detect... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395123 | Configurable modular safety system A modular safety system for controlling emergency stop applications includes a plurality of inputs, a plurality of output groups, and a plurality of safe relay outputs. The plurality of inputs is assigned to at least one of the output groups. Each output group is co... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7392098 | Control system A control system for a load (10), the system comprising a first microprocessor (16) having an output to drive one side of a load (10), a second microprocessor (18) having an output to drive the other side of the load (10), the syst... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386744 | Rack equipment power pricing plan control system and method A rack equipment power pricing plan control system and method is presented. In one embodiment of the present invention, a power pricing plan rack equipment control method is utilized to control operation of rack equipment. A power pricing plan for operating the rack... | 06/10/2008 |
