Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185244 | Ventilation system and method An amount of time that air has been delivered from an air handler to a space is tracked, and based on the tracked amount of time, at least one turn-on time or one turn-off time of the delivery of air from the air handler to the space is controlled. Other features re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8046116 | Controlling an adjustable bed and a second system with a modular controller An adjustable bed is associated with a second system and both the bed and the second system are controlled by a modular control system. The modular controller further facilitates using a global command input to control both the bed and the second system. In an embod... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041464 | Network radiality in reconfiguration of a radial power distribution system using a matrix-structured knowledge-based system A knowledge-based system is defined that ensures network radiatity during reconfiguration of a power distribution system. Network radiality heuristics idenufy a pair of switching operations that will preserve radiality. A line section table specifies the line sectio... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036763 | Dynamic controller utilizing a hybrid model A system and method for predicting operation of a plant or process receive an input value from the plant or process. An integrity of a non-linear model corresponding to a local input space of the input value may be determined. The non-linear model may include an emp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8024076 | Voltage collapse diagnostic and ATC system A plurality of buses of an electrical power system are grouped into agents, family lines of agents and families of agents based on the reactive reserves depleted when the buses are loaded. Contingencies are applied and the reactive reserves are monitored to determin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019479 | Control algorithm of variable speed pumping system A pumping system includes a pump for moving water. In one aspect, this is in connection with performance of an operation. The system includes a variable speed motor operatively connected to drive the pump. A value indicative of flow rate of water is determined and t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019447 | Method and system to control operation of a device using an integrated simulation with a time shift option A method to control a device may include forming an integrated simulation model of an actual environment in which the device is or will be operating. The integrated simulation model may be formed using pre-existing data and real-time data related to the actual envir... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014904 | Hybrid modular/decoder irrigation controller A plurality of receptacles in an irrigation controller removably receive a plurality of modules. At least one station module is configured for insertion into a first one of the receptacles and is connectable to a corresponding solenoid actuated valve through a dedic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014894 | Method of surface manufacture with an apex decentered from a spindle axis The present invention is related to manufacturing surfaces with an axis decentered from the spindle axis. In particular, the present invention is related to compensating for tool geometry in cutting processes that involve an oscillating tool. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000815 | Method for the supplying and installation of device-specific functionalities and/or data for the field devices of a distributed system The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the directed supplying and installation of device specific functionalities and/or data for field devices that are disposed in a distributed system. At least one device-specific component is provided which coop... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996100 | Method and system for modeling a batch manufacturing facility A system and method for the modeling of biopharmaceutical batch process manufacturing facilities uses process time lines. The system employs an eleven-field delimited string code which specifies the unit identifier code and the iteration value for each of the ten le... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991499 | Advanced finishing control A factory, an apparatus, and methods of using an in situ finishing information for finishing workpieces and semiconductor wafers are described. Changes or improvements to cost of manufacture of a workpiece using current in-process cost of manufacture information, tr... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983775 | Material reservation distribution system and method The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating material-driven processing in an industrial controller environment. Various models supported by database objects are provided to automatically and dynamically map inventory systems/processes to c... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979169 | Methods and systems of an adjustable bed Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include one or more articulating portions, and may include one or more components, including an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame, a programmable logic controller, a remote... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979165 | Mass flow rate control apparatus, its calibration method and semiconductor-producing apparatus A method for calibrating a mass flow controller comprising a calibrating valve disposed on the most upstream side of a path, a mass flow rate control valve mechanism, a tank provided at the path on the upstream side of the mass flow rate control valve mechanism, a m... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979163 | Devices and methods for providing configuration information to a controller A controller equipped with a controller interface configured to accept one or more input parameters is disclosed, including methods for programming such devices. An illustrative controller interface may include a number of knobs, slides, buttons, or other input mean... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962236 | Method and apparatus for downloading data from a machine A device for downloading data from a machine having a touch screen or PLC to govern its operation, the device includes a handheld control unit that is operably associated with the touch screen or PLC such that the touch screen or PLC can be downloaded from the touch... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7937181 | Clamp instruction method A clamp of less waste instruction method for an addition axis, which omits instructions for clamping and unclamping and working in response to those instructions, includes the steps of, at a stage of working a work piece with a tool, measuring a rotational torque ge... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937188 | Chip overheating protection Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for controlling the temperature of an internal device while reducing or minimizing the involvement of the host. Thus, some of the heat monitoring and remediation work may be offloaded to the ac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937180 | Methods and systems for ascertaining web cutting locations In one embodiment, a method comprises storing information in a database that describes cutting locations on a web upon which multiple images are printed; embedding, in an area on the web, a key into the database; and using the key to ascertain, from the database, th... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930069 | Irrigation flow converter, monitoring system and intelligent water management system The present invention is directed to an intelligent water management irrigation system for monitoring the total water usage for a billing site and preventing cumulative water usage from exceeding a water budget by adjusting the amount of water used for irrigation. I... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925366 | System and method for real-time system control using precomputed plans Features described herein relate to optimizing a job plan procedure for selecting a plan for executing a manufacturing job. A planner can receive a model of a system that is to perform a job, and may select a precomputed plan that is sufficient to perform the job. T... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925384 | Location-based provisioning of wireless control systems Exemplary systems and methods for provisioning wireless control of facilities systems are provided. A message is broadcast to a network that includes one or more control devices, which may be associated with one or more control points (e.g., lights in lighting syste... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7899561 | Operating time reducing method, operating time reducing apparatus, program and component mounter An operating time reducing method in which a processing procedure of a component mounting order determination method can be changed depending on the type of an operation loss that affects a component mounting time for mounting components onto the board is an operati... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7844358 | Method for material handling, materials handling cell and electric motor therefor The invention relates to a method for materials handling via a number of materials handling cells by passing on materials handling containers, in which each materials handling cell includes a first electric motor and a first control unit, in which each materials han... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831326 | Graphical user interface for presenting multivariate fault contributions Recipe steps of a manufacturing process run that generated a fault are displayed in a current view of a user interface, the recipe steps being displayed in association with a first axis. At least one of measured parameters or calculated parameters of the manufacturi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822511 | System and method for communicating data in an automated irrigation system A communications system for an automated irrigation system includes one or more communication lines connecting one or more irrigation units and a main control system of the automated irrigation system, a communications device and a means for transmitting and receivi... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809451 | Method for operating an automation device A method is specified for operating an automation system, wherein a description object appropriate to a type of the respective program code object and a description object reference referencing the respective description object are created when a program code object... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805215 | Programming device and programming method A programming device programs a machining control program to be used on a numerical control device for machining an object. A setting unit sets an axial direction of the tool with respect to the data on the machining-target area and sets a deepest position of a tip ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7792599 | Electrical field device for use in process automation In one aspect, an electric field device for use in process automation is provided to simplify supply of an electric field device located at an installation site in the process with information originating from its process environment. At least one transponder is arr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787967 | Process control system A function block used in another process control system is previously associated with an data item by taking the function block being as data on a same rank as the data item. A definition-information generating section previously generates definition information abo... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783370 | System for configuring graphic display elements and process modules in process plants A system for facilitating configuration of a process plant may include a process graphics editor and a process module editor. The process graphics editor may facilitate creation and/or modification of a graphical representation of physical entities in the process pl... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778724 | Device for estimating machining dimension of machine tool A device for estimating machining dimensions of a machine tool which employs tool members each being rotatably driven by a driving unit includes: a vibration sensor; a characteristics extracting unit for extracting amounts of characteristics from an output of the vi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774101 | System and method for managing buildings A method for managing buildings comprises providing a computer database 10 operative to store information relating to at least one building 30, said information comprising building characteristics; Each said building having associated therewith a facil... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765020 | Graphical user interface for presenting multivariate fault contributions Methods and apparatuses for presenting multivariate fault contributions in a user interface are described. A user interface is provided to illustrate a fault for a sample manufactured by a process containing multiple variables, each having at least two components. T... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761188 | Fluid evacuation system with two-way communication filter An evacuation system includes at least one fluid intake, at least one fluid outlet, at least one operational component, such as an evacuation motor, and a first read/write device for transmitting, receiving, or storing information. The evacuation system also include... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761187 | Tub oscillation control method of drum type washing machine A method controls tub oscillation in a drum type washing machine by utilizing a ball balancer. The method includes maintaining an rpm of a drum in a predetermined rpm level for a predetermine period of time during a dehydration operation, thereby reducing a differen... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751942 | Method and system for managing and operating a plurality of farm houses A system for monitoring, managing, and/or operating a plurality of farm houses on a plurality of farms. The system includes a controller and/or a monitor box in the farm house and a computer in communication with the controller for controlling and adjusting various ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747336 | Apparatus for creating a turning program One element is taken from a machined shape. When the element is a straight line element, whether or not the distance D between the start point and the end point of the element in a direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the workpiece is equal to or greater ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738984 | System for and method of interpolation for supply chain planning A method of iterative negotiation for improved production planning between one or more purchasers and suppliers in a supply chain. The method includes a purchaser in a supply chain generating a request schedule that is communicated to a supplier. In response to the ... | 06/15/2010 |
