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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185216 | Plant controlling device and method, thermal power plant, and its control method A controlling device that includes a model that predicts the value of a measured signal obtained when an operation signal is given to a thermal power generation plant, a function that learns a method of generating a model input such that a model output satisfies the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180491 | Systems and methods for solar affected environmental control One embodiment of the present invention relates to a solar affected environmental control system. The system includes a set of input devices, a priority device, an output device, and a control module. The input devices measure environmental values such as temperatur... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180479 | Adaptive control of composite plycutting The feed rate of an ultrasonic knife used to cut composite material is optimized using adaptive control. One or more parameters such as ultrasonic power or side load on the knife is sensed and used to generate feedback control signals. The feedback control signals a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170707 | Failure detecting method, failure detecting apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method A method for inputting a foreign substance inspection map created by foreign substance inspection for a wafer surface after each processing process in a wafer processing process, inputting a die sort map created by a die sort test after the wafer processing process,... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165726 | Water heater energy savings algorithm for reducing cold water complaints An energy savings water heater is described. The water heater is controlled by an energy savings algorithm that uses one or more of a variable setpoint differential, a variable setback threshold, additional setback thresholds, and an adjustable minimal setpoint to i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155762 | Instrumentation control system In an instrumentation control system in which plural control devices are connected to each other through a network, and transfer of data is performed asynchronously, a reset switch is provided in one of a control device, and when this switch is depressed, an instruc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155797 | Window fan control system and method of controlling a fan unit In the specification and drawings a window fan control system and a method of controlling a fan unit are described and shown. The window fan control system may comprise an electronic controller, an indoor sensor responsive to at least one characteristic of interior ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145330 | Plant growing system using portable telephone A plant growing environment control terminal (P) comprises an image data receiving section (1a) for receiving image data on the image of a plant from a plant growing facility (Q), an image display section (1b) for displaying the plant ima... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145358 | Method and system for detecting abnormal operation of a level regulatory control loop A system facilitates detecting an abnormal operation associated with a level regulatory control loop in a process plant. A model for modeling at least a portion of the level regulatory control loop may be utilized with respect to first and second signals associated ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8112182 | Mass flow rate-controlling apparatus A mass flow rate-controlling apparatus including a mass flow rate-detecting mechanism 8 a flow rate-controlling valve mechanism 10 and a mechanism 44 for controlling the flow rate-controlling valve mechanism based on a flow rate-setting signal S... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108063 | User interface for color transfer control in textile processing equipment Dye transfer in a dying machine or washing machine is controlled via a user display by showing a dialog having with color level indicators for setting a threshold to trigger a dye transfer control action, and with threshold adjustment controls; responsive to the thr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103366 | Apparatus and method for installing a foam proportioning system in existing fire fighting equipment A method and apparatus for installing a foam proportioning system into existing fire fighting equipment is provided. The method can include installing a foam proportioning library into a first application of a processor of the existing fire fighting equipment and in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095242 | Method for controlling the operation of a device for dispensing hot liquid A beverage maker for making a hot beverage includes a boiler for heating a quantity of water, and a pump. When the beverage maker is operated, a heating element of the boiler is activated, and the water inside the boiler is heated. When the temperature of the water ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090464 | Method and system for enhancing the yield in semiconductor manufacturing Roughly described, a manufacturing process is enhanced by using TCAD and TCAD-derived models. A TCAD simulation model of the process is developed, which predicts, in dependence upon a plurality of process input parameters, a value for a performance parameter of a pr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086357 | Offline configuration using USB download in an integrated power distribution system In accordance with the invention a configurable electrical distribution system is provided for selectively connecting an electrical power source to load devices. The system comprises a panel and a plurality of switching devices mounted in the panel, each switching d... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8060230 | System for synchronizing part design and die design, server, part design terminal apparatus and die design terminal apparatus used therefor Information with regard to each finished part model is transmitted from a part design terminal 1 to an exclusive server 3 at each time of finishing each part model formed in steps for designing a part. Further, the information with regard to the each p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055388 | Maintenance and control system for ground support equipment Ground support equipment for servicing an airplane includes a ground support equipment cart upon which are mounted at least two equipment modules and a control module. A first equipment module mounted upon the cart contains ground support equipment for servicing an ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032260 | Method and system for controlling a power distribution system A method and system for a power distribution system are provided. The method includes determining at a central controller normal mode configuration settings for a plurality of circuit breakers of the power distribution system and determining at the central controlle... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019456 | Product repair support system, product manufacturing system, and product manufacturing method A product repair support system is configured to support repair of a product rejected in an inspection based on a prescribed inspection standard. The product repair support system includes: repair information storage part; reference information storage part; and rep... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005575 | Methods and apparatus for model predictive control in a real time controller Methods and apparatus for controlling load on a machine are provided. The method includes determining a maximum value of a process variable using a predictive model of the machine while holding a control output associated with the process variable substantially cons... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000841 | Power management in a process transmitter An industrial process transmitter for transmitting a process variable on a two-wire process control loop include, a loop current control to control a loop current level on the two-wire process control loop that is related to the process variable. Power is provided t... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991514 | Processor temperature measurement through median sampling Temperature readings obtained within a computer system from the location of monitored circuit elements may be oversampled at least three times, and a median average of the three parameter readings rather than the arithmetic mean may be used for controlling a device,... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991486 | Process control apparatus rejecting disturbance applied to feedback loop A process control apparatus for controlling a control target includes, but is not limited to, first and second control units. The first control unit is designed in a design environment unspecifying any period of disturbance. The first control unit performs a feedbac... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987024 | Fan speed control A method for controlling fan speed includes providing a fan that is in fluid communication with at least one heat producing component, detecting a temperature, determining a fan speed using the detected temperature and a nonlinear fan speed function, and applying a ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983799 | System and method for controlling microgrid A system for controlling a microgrid includes microgrid assets and a tieline for coupling the microgrid to a bulk grid; and a tieline controller coupled to the tieline. At least one of the microgrid assets comprises a different type of asset than another one of the ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7957843 | System and method for irrigation controller A method of controlling the duration of irrigation is described, comprising compiling a database that includes information relating to historical evapo-transpiration rates for a plurality of sectors (preferably identified by zip code) located within a geographical a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949433 | Sensor device for interrupting irrigation Methods and apparatus are provided herein for permitting or interrupting irrigation using sensor equipment. In one embodiment, a method for controlling irrigation comprising the steps of: generating an indication representing the amount of rain fall at a sensor unit... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937167 | Methodology to program sensors into collaborative sensing groups Embodiments of the invention employ a distributed algorithm to enable sensor nodes in a sensor network to adaptively self-configure into sensor clusters to provide a desired higher-level functionality. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933688 | Electrically controlled pressure relief valve and system and method for controlling same A system and method for controlling an electrically controlled pressure relief valve may use a soft position control loop to control the position of the valve. A pressure relief valve may also include a modified orifice shape to improve stability, to uniformly distr... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925373 | Machine tool and control method thereof An acceleration/deceleration control method of a CNC machine tool includes receiving an acceleration/deceleration timing signal and a velocity signal. The acceleration/deceleration timing signal is calculated to acquire a plurality of different first weight values a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912558 | PLC for distributed control and distributed control system A PLC for distributed control includes a storage unit that stores common-data specifying information for specifying common data shared by a corresponding PLC and another PLC, a receiving unit that receives the common-data specifying information from another PLC, and... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908025 | Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and control system and control method therefor Disclosed herein is technology for, among other things, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a control system and a control method therefor, by which a target parameter that is measured from a wafer processed with a plurality of processing parameters that ar... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899569 | Method for building three-dimensional objects with extrusion-based layered deposition systems A method of forming a three-dimensional object using an extrusion-based layered deposition system, the method comprising generating a build path for building a layer of the three-dimensional object, where the build path defines a void region. The method further comp... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894918 | System for analyzing batch processes The present invention is directed to a batch system for managing and analyzing batch runs of a batch process in a process cell. The batch system includes a computer readable medium, a plurality of batch management routines and a plurality of batch analysis routines ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890197 | Dual model approach for boiler section cleanliness calculation A method of controlling soot blowers near a heat exchange section includes generating models of both the ideal clean operating condition of the section and the dirty operating condition. The current operating condition of the section is used to calculate a reliabili... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877167 | Reducing vibration in an electronic system In a method for reducing vibration in an electronic system, at least one component of interest that is subject to vibration is identified, at least one component that is a source of the vibration is identified, a resonant frequency of the at least one component of i... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853347 | Semiconductor manufacturing system, controller, semiconductor manufacturing system control method, and processing liquid collection method A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a first controller for controlling the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, an auxiliary machine for the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a second controller for controlli... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848825 | Master/slave mode for sensor processing devices A computer system having two or more controllers operating in a Master/Slave configuration is disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer system includes: a sensor panel having a first portion for generating a first set of sense signals indicative of a touch or no-to... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840306 | Molding-system set-up based on molded-part attribute A molding-system set-up process has: (i) a receiving operation, including receiving an attribute associated with a molded part, (ii) a determining operation, including determining a molding-system set-up parameter based on the attribute associated with the receiving... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831332 | Engagement milling A method for generating a tool path for machining a pocket with a milling cutter is disclosed. The tool path includes a first portion, a second portion and a transition portion connecting together the first portion and the second portion. The method includes the ste... | 11/09/2010 |
