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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360202 | User interface system and methods for providing notification(s) The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate development, debug, and deployment of a notification platform application. This includes providing various editor and display tools that interact with diverse components of the application in th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7187273 | System for determining a change in vehicle tire pressure A tire pressure diagnostic system for vehicles is provided for diagnosing tire pressure for at least one of the tires based on the traveled distance of the vehicle and input indicative of the tire movement. The diagnosis of the tire pressure may be based on comparin... | 03/06/2007 |
| 6967454 | Monitoring apparatus and method for monitoring a pole circuit of an electrical power converter An apparatus monitors performance of a power inverter to detect malfunctions. A first signal indicates the direction that electric current exists between a first voltage bus and an output terminal of the power inverter. A second signal indicates the direction that e... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963821 | Stage counter mass system A wafer stage countermass assembly generally includes a base supporting one or more stages and first and second countermasses. The first and second stages move in one or more degrees of freedom. The countermasses move in at least one degree of freedom and, under ide... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6937911 | Compensating for cable drag forces in high precision stages A positioning system is disclosed. The positioning system includes a movable stage. The positioning system also includes a cable carrier movable relative to the stage. The cable carrier is configured for carrying a cable so as to prevent cable drag forces from actin... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6904383 | DISTANCE FACTOR LEARNING DEVICE, DISTANCE FACTOR LEARNING METHOD, DISTANCE FACTOR LEARNING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING SAID PROGRAM, MOVEMENT CONDITION COMPUTING DEVICE, AND PRESENT POSITION COMPUTING DEVICE A signal acquisition section 19 acquires, for example, a vehicle velocity pulse signal, which is generated from a vehicle velocity sensor 8 in accordance with the movement of a vehicle that is a mobile body. A distance information acquisition section | 06/07/2005 |
| 6885970 | Saliency-based position estimation in permanent magnet synchronous motors A method and system for the sensorless estimation of the states of the mechanical subsystem of a motor are disclosed. In particular, the method and system split the estimation problem into two sub-problems: the estimation of motor parameters as a function of positio... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6678633 | System and method for determining the height of the center of gravity of a vehicle A system for determining the height of the center of gravity of a vehicle includes an arrangement configured to determine a difference between wheel contact forces, an arrangement configured to determine a transverse acceleration, an arrangement configure... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6191795 | Ellipsoidal projection mapping A projective body is aligned with a surface to generate texture coordinates for the surface. The present invention includes selecting an appropriate projective body for a given surface, orienting and positioning the surface with respect to the projective ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6098025 | Apparatus and method for calibrating moment-of-inertia and center-of-gravity An apparatus and a related method are used to simultaneously calibrate a center-of-gravity and a moment-of-inertia. The apparatus includes: a motor rotated with a prescribed velocity; a tachometer installed at the motor for calibrating an angular velocity... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6023668 | Process and device for determining the flight configurations of an aircraft A process and system for determining the flight configurations of an aircraft are disclosed. The process includes the steps of defining various possible flight configurations of the aircraft, determining a plurality of flight phases representative of the ... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5926781 | Roundness measuring A roundness measuring machine is described which measures the position of the surface of an object as the object is rotated on a turntable. The machine determines the circle which is the best fit to the measured points and converts the measurements to dis... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5859783 | Method and apparatus for measuring flatness of a floor In a method for measuring the flatness of a floor with an inclinometer, the relative elevation of the floor is determined at the beginning and end of a survey line, and then a plurality of inclinometer measurements in one direction along the survey line a... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5708592 | Measuring apparatus for figures An apparatus for measuring figures having circular arc portions by obtaining coordinates of a starting point, an ending point and an intermediate point of each circular arc. The measuring apparatus measures at least one of coordinates or an area of a figu... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5703959 | Method and device for analyzing particles When a mixture of different kinds of particles, such as blood, is passed through a particle detector such as a flow cytometer to measure various characteristics of each particle and the measurements of two characteristics are plotted oh a two-dimensional ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5583777 | Method and apparatus for determining the weight and center of gravity of a vehicle, particularly an aircraft An apparatus for weighing aircraft, particularly aircraft prior to take-off, the aircraft having differing undercarriage wheel configurations (footprints), one to another, the apparatus for use on or in an aircraft roadway or the like. The apparatus compr... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5515299 | Device for finding centroid coordinates of figures A device for finding the centroid coordinates of a figure that can calculate the centroid from a single time measurement of the figure and display the calculated centroid of the figure. The measuring device comprises a main body having a roller capable of... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5459793 | Motion analysis system A motion analysis system utilizing an image processing technique includes a color marker attached to an object which is to be analyzed. Each color marker has a high directivity reflective member on a surface thereof, and the reflection member reflects lig... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5452370 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus calculates a feature of an object for recognition with a high degree of accuracy. Image information taken by a camera attached to a robot is first digitized and then stored into an image memory. A program in a robot program s... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5177415 | Apparatus and method for controlling a vibratory tool An apparatus 400 and a method are provided for increasing the density of a compactible material 10 while continuously evaluating the density of the material. The evaluation of material density is carried out by calculating the total of the static, dynamic... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5151870 | Apparatus and method for determining a center and measuring with reference thereto An object is positioned in fixed relation to a measuring axis without regard to centering the object on the axis and at least one series of data samples correlated to the distance between the measuring axis and a series of points located at angularly spac... | 09/29/1992 |
| 4965734 | Veneer lathe charging method for determining log spin axis A veneer lathe charging apparatus includes a break-beam scanning system and a computer for determining an optimal log spin axis. The charging apparatus further includes charger arms independently operable and adjustable to transfer a log from a scanning s... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4896279 | Method and an apparatus for inspecting an external shape of an object having a symmetry An object is sensed by a photoelectric conversion sensor having a photoelectric conversion screen expressed as an XY coordinate grid such that the symmetrical axis of the object is parallel to one axis of the XY coordinate, coordinates at a plurality of r... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4884605 | Lathe charger centering with log scanning during rotation and lateral movement of spindles Aa veneer lathe charger and method of operation to center logs for transfer to a veneer lathe to obtain optimum yield of wood veneer at a higher production rate up to 15 logs per minute is described. The method includes scanning the log to determine its o... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4866629 | Machine vision process and apparatus for reading a plurality of separated figures A machine vision process and apparatus for reading a plurality of separated figures, such as the hole-position diagram of a printed-circuit board; the apparatus comprises an X-Y table to be moved on a plane and to be positioned at a given position, two ph... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4817610 | Method of determining center of gravity and body weight Disclosed is a system, apparatus and method for gathering physiological data. Basic to the system of the present invention is a rigid body mold having preferably a negative impression of the dorsal half of the body. By connecting and/or embedding sensors ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4748676 | Pattern rotation angle detecting system A pattern rotation angle detecting system in which the angle of rotation of a pattern is detected according to the image data obtained by binary-coding and spatially-dividing the image signal of the pattern. The system comprises an extracting circuit for ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4639872 | Method and apparatus for determining weight and center of gravity of a vehicle An apparatus for use in determining the weight and the location of the center of gravity of a vehicle, particularly an aircraft prior to its taking off, comprising in combination at least one load-measuring device secured in a roadway and adapted for cont... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4622639 | Aircraft center of gravity and fuel level advisory system An aircraft center of gravity and fuel level advisory system connected to the aircraft's fuel tank gauges and operated by an aircraft personnel. The system provides the aircraft's personnel with real time display of the aircraft's center of gravity and a ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4502555 | Portable weighing system for aircraft This portable weighing system for aircraft includes a plurality of individual load cells which are connected to a central computing and display unit capable of storing dimensional characteristics of commonly encountered aircraft. The computer within the c... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4499597 | Small-object location utilizing centroid accumulation In the disclosed image-analysis scheme, a processing window of M by N pixels is successively scanned in single-pixel steps over a sensed image, with the centroid of the image data contained in each window position then being determined. When a pixel-by-pi... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4463428 | Aircraft weight and center of gravity cockpit readout system An aircraft system which provides the pilot with a continuous cockpit reat of the weight and center of gravity of an aircraft carrying an externally lifted load together with the impact on aircraft controllability of load shifts and fuel burnoff, by tran... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4219847 | Method and apparatus of determining the center of area or centroid of a geometrical area of unspecified shape lying in a larger x-y scan field A method of obtaining on-line data useful in determining the center of area or centroid of a geometrical area of unspecified shape lying in a larger x-y scan field and having its existence indicated by a level discriminated amplitude or intensity or a par... | 08/26/1980 |
| 3983368 | Apparatus for non-traumatic determination of the mass and the position of the center of gravity of a body A line body portion is subjected to a beam z or parallel beams of electromagnetic radiation having transverse dimensions which are smaller than those of the body portion. The beam is displaced in space in order to sweep the entire volume of the body porti... | 09/28/1976 |
