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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082047 | Adaptive control method that compensates for sign error in actuator response An adaptive control method that provides the ability to address control uncertainties in both the sign and magnitude of the control power of the system to ensure stability and command tracking. The adaptive control system also functions correctly and remains interna... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7869888 | Information processing apparatus, semiconductor manufacturing system, information processing method, and storage medium A information processing apparatus 100 for processing an acquired value, which is a value acquired in regard to a state during a treatment, performed by a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus 200 for performing a treatment on a treatment target contai... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7437202 | System and method for control scheduling A system and method for controlling a device such that device operates in a smooth manner. The system may switch between control architectures or vary gain coefficients used in a control loop to control the device. As the architecture or gains are switched, the cont... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415311 | System and method for adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear processes A computer system for controlling a nonlinear physical process. The computer system comprises a linear controller and a neural network. The linear controller receives a command signal for control of the nonlinear physical process and a measured output signal from th... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400933 | SISO model predictive controller A method of predictive control for a single input, single output (SISO) system, including modeling the SISO system with model factors, detecting output from the SISO system, estimating a filtered disturbance from the output, determining a steady state target state f... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400935 | Method for implementing indirect controller A system and method for implementing an indirect controller for a plant. A plant can be provided with both a direct controller and an indirect controller with a system model or a committee of system models. When the system model has sufficient integrity to satisfy t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386355 | Close loop control system and method of the same A close loop control system includes a controlled system having a controlled variable and a control variable, a first detecting unit, a second detecting unit, and a feedback control unit. The first and the second detecting units detect the controlled system to outpu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7366133 | Integrated, self-optimizing, multi-parameter/multi-variable point-to-multipoint communication system [II] A method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The method and system integrate adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for communication parameters related to multiple characteristics of wireless communication links, both for a single sende... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363308 | System and method for obtaining keyword descriptions of records from a large database A computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling is disclosed. The present invention includes a method for using the Internet to obtain inf... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363200 | Apparatus and method for isolating noise effects in a signal A matrix includes samples associated with a first signal and samples associated with a second signal. The second signal includes a first portion associated with the first signal and a second portion associated with at least one disturbance, such as white noise or co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346432 | Earthquake disaster prevention system An earthquake disaster prevention system having: an estimation section to estimate a size of an earthquake from a P-wave of the earthquake detected by the earthquake detector; a stopping control section to control to stop the motion of the operation device when the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7334226 | Autonomic auto-configuration using prior installation configuration relationships A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for installing software in a network data processing system. An event is detected in the network data processing system indicating that a software module is to be installed in a set of data processing systems in the net... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328075 | Method of automatic adjustment of the control parameters of a magnetic suspension system In adjustment of the control parameters of a magnetic suspension system, an object of the present invention is to provide a technique for adjusting the control parameters to optimum values automatically by employing the iterative feedback tuning method, without incr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321846 | Two-wire process control loop diagnostics A diagnostic device for coupling to a process control loop includes digital communication circuitry configured to receive a digital communication signal from the process control loop. The digital communication signal is a digitally modulated analog signal on the pro... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315430 | Servo controller in magnetic disk drive Embodiment of the invention inhibit an effect of repeatable runout errors without expanding servo data areas of the magnetic disk. With regard to low frequency components of positional information read by a magnetic head, which are substantially equivalent to a rota... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315433 | Non-repeatable run out compensating apparatus and method and disc drive using the same An apparatus and method are provided for quickly and finely compensating for non-repeatable run out (NPRO) of a disc drive. The NPRO compensation control apparatus in a run out compensation apparatus of a system includes: a frequency estimator directly estimating a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7301297 | Synchronous control device An ‘interval’ in which the synchronization status between the movable axes subject to synchronous control is monitored, an equation between the movable axes in the ‘interval’, and an ‘allowable displacement’ for the positional relationship obtained with ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290450 | Process diagnostics A diagnostic device for use in a industrial process includes monitoring electronics or diagnostic circuitry configured to diagnose or identify a condition or other occurrence in the industrial process. The system can be implemented in a process device such as a flow... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289884 | Hand control system, method, program, hand, and robot According to the hand control system (2), the position and posture of a palm (10) are controlled such that the object reference point (Pw) and the hand reference point (Ph) come close to each other and such that the i-th object re... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277777 | Method and system for real time reporting of boiler adjustment using emission sensor data mapping A method to adjust a boiler having a flue gas duct including: sensing flue gas emissions in the gas duct with a plurality of emission sensors arranged in an array; generating a multidimensional graphical depiction of the flue gas emissions by plotting sensor data ca... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272523 | Trimming for accurate reference voltage A method for trimming reference voltage circuitry includes defining a desired target reference voltage for a set of at least one die. At least two reference voltages are measured for at least two different trim settings associated with a given die of the at least on... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260516 | Optimization of a design An apparatus, system, and method for optimization. The apparatus, system, and method include a mechanism for ending an optimization when all models within one design tolerance of an optimum model have been simulated. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254518 | Pressure transmitter with diagnostics In one embodiment, a pressure transmitter is provided which diagnoses the condition of a primary element and/or an impulse line which connects to a pressure sensor. A difference circuit coupled to the pressure sensor has a difference output which represents the sens... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7216006 | Control system for a plant including a slide mode controller A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode cont... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7199784 | One-handed operation of a handheld field maintenance tool A handheld field maintenance tool is provided with features that improve one-handed operation. In one aspect, the tool includes a side strap to allow a technician to exert additional leverage on the tool during one-handed operation. Another aspect includes providing... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194320 | Method for implementing indirect controller A system and method for implementing an indirect controller for a plant. A plant can be provided with both a direct controller and an indirect controller with a system model or a committee of system models. When the system model has sufficient integrity to satisfy t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184858 | Apparatus and method for controlling elastic actuator An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement value of the displacement are inputted so that a position error is compe... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168680 | Embedded control valve using electroactive material A microfluidic control valve (100) comprising a dielectric structure (105) defining at least one cavity (260) therein. An electroactive material (305), such as an electroactive polymer, is disposed in a portion of the cavity. The electroa... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7160490 | Process for control of production machine The invention relates to a production machine with a hydraulic and/or electric drive and also measured data acquisition for at least one positional determination and at least two measured variables dependent on the latter in the production machine. If a further setp... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7142617 | Narrow band chaotic frequency shift keying A system and method for signal transmission and reception by narrow band chaotic frequency shift keying includes a forward error correction encoder for receiving input data, a data packetizer in signal communication with the forward error correction encoder, a compr... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127303 | System for automating, monitoring and controlling technical processes and acquiring measurements thereof A system for automation, monitoring and measurement acquisition for technical processes, having measurement and control units (2, 14, 15, 16) that are connected to sensors and actuators of the processes (1, 8, 9, 10) via measurement and control lines (... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123973 | Partitioned control system and method A method for controlling a controlled process in response to an input signal and a disturbance signal includes modeling the controlled process in a process model; controlling the process model by a first controller; isolating the first controller from the disturbanc... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117109 | Procedure for processing measuring data and device to perform the process A method for processing measuring data and a device to perform the method, wherein the measuring data can be determined by using a measurement system, more particularly a chromatographic analyzing system, for the measurement of measuring values that correspond to ce... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117122 | Field maintenance tool An improved field maintenance tool is provided. The tool is operable with process communication loops in accordance with a plurality of process industry standard protocols. Aspects of the invention include hardware features such as an infrared port; removable memory... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110834 | Kiln thermal and combustion control A kiln thermal and combustion control. A predictive model is provided of the dynamics of selected aspects of the operation of the system for modeling the dynamics thereof. The model has at least two discrete models associated therewith that model at least two of the... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107120 | Apparatus and method for controlling inter-process buffer, and program and storage medium realizing the same An object of the invention is to minimize the number of in-process items. To this end, in an inter-process buffer controlling apparatus according to the invention, the size of a buffer to be used for storage of work subjects of predetermined work is increased if a d... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092770 | Feedback control method and feedback control device The response process of disturbance recovery control is divided into a follow-up phase, a convergence phase, and a stable phase. A feedback control device includes a first phase switching unit (3) which switches to the follow-up phase, a second phase switchin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7072734 | Method and apparatus for controlling a machine tool When a command radius r of a circular interpolation control exceeds a threshold value, a computer computes a speed limit for the circular speed at which the acceleration becomes constant. When the command radius r of the circular interpolation control is less than o... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057366 | Method for estimating load inertia and a system for controlling motor speed using inverse model A method for estimating load inertia and system for controlling motor speed using inverse model are provided, suitable for an alternating current (AC) servo module. An inverse system is connected to an actual system to inversely deduce a substantial torque output, w... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053584 | Motor driving device Disclosed is a driving device for a motor such as a stepping motor etc. for controlling an angle and a speed of the motor, wherein the driving device comprises exciting current detectors for detecting exciting currents of motor windings of the motor, an exciting cur... | 05/30/2006 |
