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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190273 | Method and apparatus for controlling fans in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems Systems, apparatus, and methods of controlling a variable-speed fan of an environmental maintenance module that controls temperatures of a plurality of zones of a building are provided. A first critical zone of the building is identified by analyzing the first zone ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190272 | Geometric inspection of machined objects A method and apparatus may be present for inspecting an object. A plurality of locations associated with a plurality of operations performed by a tool on the object may be tracked. The plurality of locations is tracked while the plurality of operations is performed ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190298 | Apparatus and method for controlling voltage and frequency in network on chip An apparatus and a method for controlling a power in a Network on Chip (NoC) are provided. The apparatus includes a storage for storing status information of links interconnecting processing elements (PEs), link configuration information for establishing paths betwe... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190276 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature variations in a computer system Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that controls a temperature variation in a computer system. First, a performance parameter of the computer system is monitored. Next, a future temperature of the computer system is predicted based on the per... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185225 | Program creation apparatus, numerical control apparatus, program creation method An NC programming assisting apparatus that creates an NC machining program reflecting dimensional tolerance data on shape data of a machining subject includes a machining target dimension calculation unit that calculates machining target dimensions of the machining ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185221 | Multifunction receiver-on-chip for electronic warfare applications What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185238 | System for carrying out automatic drilling / riveting process in aeronautical assembly pieces A system of automatic drilling/riveting of pieces for aeronautical assembly, includes a robot governed by a numerical control device containing drilling/riveting information. A module allows for introduction of data by the operator. A piece checking module detects a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175742 | Apparatus and method for machining workpieces Disclosed are apparatus and methods for manufacturing complex gears includes the creation of a data set to control a robotic machine tool enabling the tool to machine the contours of the gears accurately after the gear has been cut. Each gear is mounted to an indexa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170697 | System and method for repairing and re-aligning damaged vehicle body and frame structures Systems and methods for evaluating damage to a vehicle and controlling a vehicle repair process to bring all aspects of the damaged vehicle back within manufacturer's specification during repair. Processes for evaluating, measuring and repairing specified reference ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165703 | Computer assisted method for the advanced design of bent parts of composite material Computer assisted method for the advanced design of bent parts of composite material using a computer assisted CAD system comprising the following stages: a) Supplying the 2D mesh model (11) of the part; b) Generating the 3D outer surface (19) of the p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160727 | Mobile workstation control system configured for power system and peripheral device control A mobile workstation includes a control system having computer readable memory storing a power sourcing algorithm and a data processing algorithm, a power interface having a first input interface and a second input interface, and an output interface configured to su... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155767 | Remote building control data display with automatic updates A method includes receiving at a first computer at least one interpreted program over the Internet using a web-browser. The method further includes executing at the first computer at least one interpreted software program to display at least a first graphical elemen... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155782 | Fluid heating apparatus A fluid heating apparatus heats fluid in a passage to a target temperature. The fluid heating apparatus includes a fluid heating unit that heats the fluid, a fluid temperature measuring unit that measures a temperature of the fluid, and a pressure control unit that ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135488 | Controller for a positioning device, method for controlling a positioning device, positioning device, and lithographic apparatus provided with a positioning device A controller for a positioning device is constructed and arranged to receive a position signal indicative of a position of the positioning device, compare the position signal to a set-point signal indicative of a desired position of the positioning device to obtain ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127158 | Self-powered devices and methods The self-powered device is configured to be powered by energy collected from a surrounding environment. The self-powered device includes an energy collector, and a memory having instructions for selecting one of a plurality of modes of operation. The energy collecto... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121735 | Control device A control device is configured to control an air conditioner that includes an air conditioner outdoor unit and an air conditioner indoor unit. The control device includes a microcomputer and a storage element. The microcomputer causes a signal to be transmitted and ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116913 | Heating and cooling system using compressed fluid Use of compressed air for indoor ambient temperature conditioning. Thermal energy is imparted to or extracted from compressed air, and the compressed air is released inside a structure enclosing a space. The compressed air may be used as a direct heat conduction/ext... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108078 | Integrated actuator coil and decoder module for irrigation control An integrated actuator coil and decoder module for use in decoder-based irrigation control systems, and related methods of manufacture and installation, are provided herein. In one implementation, an irrigation control device comprises a body, decoder circuitry loca... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108056 | Industrial controller using shared memory multicore architecture A multicore processor for industrial control provides for the execution of separate operating systems on the cores under control of one of the cores to tailor the operating system to optimum execution of different applications of industrial control and communication... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103386 | Power system A data acquiring unit (122) acquires external factor data such as day of the week, date and time, or weather together with electric power data in a house, and stores the data in a storage unit (114). A classification/learning unit (124) reads th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103384 | Air conditioner An air conditioner provided with a spatial recognition and detection function for deciding the room shape by integrally determining based on a temperature difference information between the floor and the walls occurring during the air conditioning operation, a human... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103387 | Adaptive power system Aspects of the disclosure provides an adaptive power system to relieve manual efforts for performing appropriate power procedures. The adaptive power system can include a power source unit including a plurality of power sources and a power bus. The power source unit... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099181 | Method for the computer-aided regulation and/or control of a technical system, especially a gas turbine A method for the computer-aided regulation and/or control of a technical system is provided. In the method, first a simulation model of the technical system is created, to which subsequently a plurality of learning and/or optimization methods are applied. Based on t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095243 | Power monitoring and control system and method A system includes first and second controllers coupled together with a communication channel. The first controller provides a first signal to the second controller and the second controller provides a second signal to the first controller in response. The second sig... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095246 | System and method for automatically determining temperature tolerance range A system for automatically determining a temperature tolerance range of an electronic device directs a temperature regulator to regulate a temperature equaling a previous regulated temperature plus or less a temperature difference. When a determination module determ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095229 | Three-dimensional (3D) manufacturing process planning Manufacturing process planning is usually considered as not intuitive for non-expert user. This is because a user needs to deal with processes, describing a work to be done, and other abstract concepts that are loosely related to the real world. Accordingly, a metho... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095233 | Interconnected premises equipment for energy management Energy commodities in the form of electricity and combustible fuel (e.g. natural gas, propane) are used by appliances within a residence or commercial premises in a fashion which is monitored and controlled through a Premises Energy Management System (PEMS). The sys... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095231 | Graphical automated machine control and metrology A graphical programming system allows a user to place geometric shapes onto a scaled image, the shape having associated behavior that operates on the image or on the object of which the image is formed. In a preferred embodiment, the shapes are objects in the Visio ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090479 | Electricity market-oriented DC-segmentation design and optimal scheduling for electrical power transmission A method of segmenting a power distribution network which comprises a plurality of AC power generating stations synchronously interconnected by AC power transmission paths is disclosed. The stations operate within associated market sectors and are subject to associa... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090460 | System and method for protection system design support A method and system for examining, auditing, and safely evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure design and/or sizing of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsy... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090457 | Method for operating a lighting system A method for operating a lighting system comprising at least one central control unit and a plurality of lighting devices, including in the lighting devices a positioning sensor system, by which the locations of the lighting devices is determined and wherein locatio... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086354 | Optimizing consumption of resources Methods, systems and apparatus for optimizing consumption of one or more resources are presented. For example, a method may be implemented on a processor device and includes obtaining user preferences for the consumption of resources that include water and electrici... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082067 | Method and system of controlling a hydroelectric plant An embodiment of the present invention may incorporate an adaptive model based control (MBC) for determining a physical parameter including: generator output, head, generator speed, or the like. The adaptive MBC may reduce the need for pre-defined control curves. Th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078318 | Appliance control apparatus and method An appliance control apparatus acquires, at intervals of predetermined time, a state data including values of operation states of respective appliances, stores the state data as one record in a memory, to store time-series records, classifies the records in the memo... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078327 | Control method of a hydraulic machine for saving energy or improving efficiency An energy-saving or speed-increase control method for a hydraulic machine is disclosed in this invention, the characteristics of which includes a control plan to adjust pressure or flow amount of the machine for energy-saving or production efficiency increase; setti... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078305 | Numerical control arrangement A numerical control arrangement, comprising a sheet metal data file defining a part blank having a plurality of position elements from a processed design file; a machine controller comprising tool-related operations and control data from said sheet metal data file d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073558 | Critical resource notification system and interface device A system and device that communicates critical resource information is described. The resource notification system comprises a resource distributor, a resource notification server, and a networked interface device. The resource distributor generates a demand respons... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065039 | Control for positioning multiple barriers apparatus and method A control routine for groups of remotely controlled, variable-position, position-aware, transceiver-equipped actuators manages data discrepancies by issuing a first set of generic actuation commands to start and stop the actuators, then polling the actuators to repo... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065040 | On-site power plant control including adaptive response to transient load requirements An on-site power plant (24) has a controller (40) that selectively controls operation of prime movers (26, 28, 30). In one example, the controller (40) changes the number of operating prime movers responsive to a transient in a load (2... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055366 | Simulation model creating method, mask data creating method and semiconductor device manufacturing method A simulation model creating method computes, for measurement results of a line width of a resist pattern formed with varied an exposure amount and focus value, a permissible fluctuation range of the pattern line width from a distribution of the exposure amount and a... | 11/08/2011 |
