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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190277 | Method for limiting expansion of earthquake damage and system for limiting expansion of earthquake damage for use in semiconductor manufacturing apparatus To predict occurrence of an earthquake so as to minimize damage by preventing an object to be processed from flying out of an opened container. An emergency earthquake notice, which is delivered based on a preliminary tremor through a communication line, is received... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180466 | Process device with supervisory overlayer A process device is configured to meet a desired Safety Integrity Level (SIL). A device interface is configured to couple to the process device and provide an output related to operation of a component of the process device. A component monitor monitors operation of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175768 | Area health managers for aircraft systems An aircraft system includes an aircraft subsystem generating monitor trips related to the health of the aircraft subsystem; and an area health manager coupled to the aircraft subsystem. The area health manager includes a data receiver for receiving the monitor trips... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165699 | Programmable controller system A programmable controller system includes a programmable controller apparatus, a remote input and output apparatus connected to the programmable controller apparatus via a field bus and a monitoring apparatus configured to be located on a communication path between ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8112164 | Low maintenance spa control system A spa control system designed to reduce maintenance cost by providing modular construction for major control functions, with built-in diagnostic capabilities for isolating defective spa components. Multi-colored LEDs on the spaside panel constantly report the status... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8032239 | Product for controlling behavior of control signals from a certified application A product for controlling physical properties including data processing means with inputs and outputs is provided. The product has approved bounds of behavior. At least one of the outputs includes a control signal disposed to be output by the product. The product is... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024053 | Safety instrumentation system and plant safety system An instruction converting unit converts the data form of an instruction of an operation received by a receiving unit to the data form of a safety instrumentation system from the data form of a plant control system. An operation carrying out unit receives the instruc... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010213 | Safety device for the safe activation of connected actuators A safety device is set forth having at least one safety control and having a plurality of outputs for the safe activation of connected actuators and having inputs for the reception of signals of connected sensors as well as having a serial communications device, in ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7945340 | Programmable controller system A programmable controller system includes a programmable controller apparatus, a remote input and output apparatus connected to the programmable controller apparatus via a field bus and a monitoring apparatus configured to be located on a communication path between ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7912563 | Safety control system A safety control system includes a plurality of safety control stations connected to a control bus to communicate with each other and with a distributed control system including a plurality of control stations connected to the control bus, wherein each of the plural... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899563 | Protective system feedback control device A system control device includes a protective control section for providing protective control while allowing a first control command value computation section to perform computations during a period during which a first feedback control section exercises control; a... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7869889 | Distributed and adaptive smart logic with multi-communication apparatus for reliable safety system shutdown This invention relates to safety instrumented systems (“SIS”) for monitoring and controlling chemical and other industrial process field devices, and that are responsive to signals for the emergency shutdown of the process or system. The patent will significantl... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7813820 | Method to increase the safety integrity level of a control system Controller capable of executing non-safety-related control logic. A safety module is added to the controller in order to increase the safety-integrity level of a control system. The controller is able to execute safety-related control of real-world objects. Such a c... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805209 | Light barrier having separate output signals A contact-less safety device, i.e., a safety device operating without contact has an interface for the transmission of output signals to connectable appliances for signal processing. The output signals from the individual sensors of the safety device operating witho... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7756593 | Anomaly anti-pattern A method is presented for representing anomalies to a process. These anomalies are represented in an anti-pattern, which depicts non-productive emergent information that describes activities that are detrimental to the progress of the process. The anti-pattern inclu... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7715932 | Method and apparatus for controlling a safety-critical process The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling safety-critical processes, such as the monitoring of protective doors, emergency stop switches, light curtains and the like. A control unit is connected to a plurality of I/O units via a data transmi... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7693589 | Anomaly anti-pattern A method is presented for representing anomalies to a process. These anomalies are represented in an anti-pattern, which depicts non-productive emergent information that describes activities that are detrimental to the progress of the process. The anti-pattern inclu... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7684880 | Fuel cells service method and apparatus Embodiments for servicing a system including a fuel cell and at least one sensor. In one embodiment, the at least one sensor is implemented for generating information indicative of operation of the system. The information is communicated to a tool operatively connec... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7636606 | Method and a system for controlling a process device The present 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 at least one safety module in that process signals of the process module not relevant to safety and s... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7627388 | Reliability tools for complex systems Tools for the maintenance of complex plants or systems are provided. A master equipment list of components included in a complex plant are organized according to systems. Those components that are critical to the function of the associated system are identified. A t... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7546171 | Method, apparatus and system for recovery of a controller with known-compatible configuration and run-time data A method includes obtaining current structural information describing a current structure of a process control system and retrieving from a checkpoint file stored structural information describing a previous structure of the process control system. If the current st... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7526347 | Security for objects in a process plant configuration system A configuration system uses process plant items that may represent, or be capable of representing, entities in a process plant to assist in configuring, organizing, and changing the control and display activities within the process plant. Access to the items may be ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7489977 | System and method for implementing time synchronization monitoring and detection in a safety instrumented system An apparatus, system and process is provided for communicating safety-related data, over an open system, from a sender to a receiver. Safety-related components, including function blocks, flexible function blocks, resource blocks and transducer blocks, as well as, s... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486999 | System and method for implementing safety instrumented systems in a fieldbus architecture An apparatus, system and process is provided for communicating safety-related data, over an open system, from a sender to a receiver. Safety-related components, including function blocks, flexible function blocks, resource blocks and transducer blocks, as well as, s... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7480536 | Method for assessing reliability requirements of a safety instrumented control function A method for analyzing a system for safety to personnel is disclosed comprising: identifying at least one operating parameter of a first subcomponent of said product; identifying an inherent hazard of said first subcomponents based on an analysis of the at least one... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7454255 | Methods and apparatus for safe, fault-tolerant control of complex technical systems A system to control a dynamic system, comprising actuators, sensors, a control module and a plurality of observers to monitor the state of the actuators is disclosed. Certain embodiments of the invention comprise a global failure detection and identification module,... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444251 | Detecting and diagnosing faults in HVAC equipment A method and system detects and diagnoses faults in heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. Internal state variables of the HVAC equipment are measured under external driving conditions. Expected internal state variables are predicted for the HVA... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443660 | Information processing apparatus in which a storage medium is removably mountable An information processing apparatus, which is capable of improving security and operationality in handling of storage media, includes a system bay and a data bay that are provided on the main body of the information processing apparatus and allow respective disks to... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7437203 | Remote terminal unit assembly A construction of RTU assembly having a number of independently operational cells for systems functions is provided. Each cell is formed from a configurable component and effectively could be of the same construction as a conventional RTU that would be used for a pa... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7430452 | Apparatus, system, and method for selectivity protecting a motion sensitive component in a computerized device An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for balancing the read and write requirements of applications running in a computerized system against the requirements to protect a motion sensitive device in the system and requirements to protect data. The apparatus ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430502 | Using thermal management register to simulate processor performance states Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with simulating a processor performance state by controlling a thermal management signal are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a data structure for storing bit patterns that facilitate... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428473 | Health monitoring in a system of circumvention and recovery A system comprises at least one non-hardened processor configured to run a plurality of mission related processes; at least one threat detector configured to detect one or more conditions which indicate the onset of a threat to the operation of the at least one non-... | 09/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7389204 | Data presentation system for abnormal situation prevention in a process plant A system for visually presenting data receives signal processing data generated signal processing data collection blocks corresponding to devices associated with a process plant. The signal processing data collection blocks may generate data such as statistical data... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7373208 | Control apparatus and control method Each of controllers includes: a transistor; a data processor for executing predetermined data processing and turning the transistor on or off in accordance with the data processing result; a pull-up resistor connected to an output terminal of the transistor; and a l... | 05/13/2008 |
