Patents Examined by Eliseo Ramos-Feliciano
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Patent number: 8204692Abstract: A system to monitor drilling rig activity and to provide and manage drilling rig information, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system can include a communication network, a drilling rig information management server, a database accessible to the processor of the server, and drilling rig information management program product stored in the memory of the drilling rig information management server and including instructions that when executed by the processor of the drilling rig information management server cause the server to perform the operations of retrieving drilling rig location data from the database responsive to user selection of a geospatial location attribute, accessing digital mapping data to display a digital map associated with the user selected geospatial location attribute, and providing data to display indicia of a drilling rig location for at least one drilling rig overlaid upon and spatially oriented to at least portions of the digital map.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Guillermo Arango, Wesley C. Vestal, Daniel D. Blue, III, Andreas Sadlier
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Patent number: 8204690Abstract: A machine, method and computer-usable medium for modeling an average flow of a substance through a composite material. Such a modeling includes an analytical calculation of an effective tensor Kå suitable for use with a variety of media. The analytical calculation corresponds to an approximation to the tensor K, and follows by first computing the diagonal values, and then identifying symmetries of the heterogeneity distribution. Additional calculations include determining the center of mass of the heterogeneous cell and its angle according to a defined Cartesian system, and utilizing this angle into a rotation formula to compute the off-diagonal values and determining its sign.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventor: Rosangela De Fatima Sviercoski
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Patent number: 8175819Abstract: A tire inspection device generates an analyzing wavelet for wavelet transformation correlating time, corresponding to tire surface position, and frequency, based on a frequency representing a characteristic portion of a predetermined tire surface structure. After this, the tire inspection device generates and stores an integer numeric filter from the created analyzing wavelet, detects the tire surface structure, carries out wavelet transformation on a signal obtained by the detection by using the numeric filter as the analyzing wavelet, and outputs the transformation result as the characteristic information representing the characteristic portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventor: Yoshitaka Fujisawa
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Patent number: 8165842Abstract: A measuring device for measuring the speed of a vehicle running on wheels has a first sensor and a second sensor. The two sensors are arranged on the same wheel of a vehicle and rotate with this wheel. Both sensors are arranged in such a way that they measure forces which are each perpendicular to the axis of the wheel and at an angle to one another, and act on the same point. An evaluation device is provided to which the measured values of the two sensors are fed, with the evaluation device obtaining the acceleration of the vehicle in the direction of travel therefrom, and calculating the current vehicle speed from it.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: TraJet GmbHInventor: Christian Helck
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Patent number: 8160823Abstract: A contact pressure and position detecting device includes a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer located on the first sensing layer, and a processor. The first sensing layer includes a number of parallel first pipes, and the second sensing layer includes a number of parallel second pipes perpendicular to the first pipes. Each first pipe includes a first pressure sensor received therein for generating a first electrical signal according to the gas pressure therein. Each second pipe includes a second pressure sensor received therein for generating a second electrical signal according to the gas pressure therein. The processor compares the first electrical signals with a first threshold value, and the second electrical signals with a second threshold value to judge which first pipe and second pipe is pressed, and then obtains the contact position on the detecting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhong Xu
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Patent number: 8145449Abstract: A system management apparatus includes a countermeasure-result evaluating unit that evaluates whether a countermeasure taken by a countermeasure taking unit has been solved, and that stores the result of evaluation in a countermeasure database to reflect the result to a criterion for selecting the countermeasure by a countermeasure determining unit next time.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kuniaki Shimada, Keiichi Oguro, Masazumi Matsubara
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Patent number: 8121798Abstract: A system for obtaining emission flux of a gas plume, emanating from a source, includes an airborne differential absorption lidar (DIAL) system for determining multiple concentration path length (CPL) values along a flight path; and an airborne wind measuring system (WMS) for determining a wind vector at the aircraft altitude. Also included is a processor for receiving the multiple CPL values determined by the DIAL system and the wind vector determined by the WMS. The processor uses the CPL values to compute either (a) an area-integrated concentration (AIC) value or (b) an average concentration value over a cross-plume extent, defined along the length dimension of the flight path. The processor also scales the wind vector to the near ground altitude level of the gas plume to obtain a scaled wind vector. The emission flux is obtained by multiplying either the AIC value or the average concentration value with a component of the scaled wind vector.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Lippert, Steven Vincent Stearns, Daniel Everett Brake, Caren M. Fisher
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Patent number: 8116991Abstract: A device for measuring a flow rate of Ringer's solution includes a key input unit including a number input key through which a user can make an input each time when a drip drips in a drip chamber; a power supply unit for supplying power; an oscillation circuit for oscillating a signal having a preset frequency; a display unit for quantitatively outputting a calculated flow rate of Ringer's solution; and a control unit for calculating an elapsed time when the input is made through the number input key of the key input unit for a preset number of times, calculating the number of drips per an hour using the preset number of times and the calculated elapsed time, acquiring a quantitative flow rate of Ringer's solution by multiplying a preset volume of each drip and the calculated number of drips, and outputting the acquired flow rate to the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Inventor: Doo Yong Lee
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Patent number: 8108163Abstract: Disclosed is a method including: calculating power supply input impedance of the LSI from the number of output buffers of the LSI, output impedance of an output buffer, signal characteristic impedance and characteristic impedance of power supply/ground of an LSI terminal, a package, and a chip terminal part, characteristic impedance of wiring connected to an LSI output terminal, and output signal damping resistance calculating a reflected voltage of power supply noise at a semiconductor device mounted on an electronic circuit board, based on impedance characteristic between a power supply and ground of the semiconductor device; and analyzing power supply noise of the electronic circuit board, based on the reflected voltage of the power supply noise at the semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kazuhiro Kashiwakura
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Patent number: 8095315Abstract: The disclosure relates to a meteorological system and a method of generation with progressive prediction of data relating to the meteorological situation around a carrier. In at least one embodiment, the method includes reading data relating to the speed of the carrier and to the cloud formations and calculating for each cloud formation the geographical position and the vector of voluminal parameters predicted at a given time horizon. The time horizon is dependent for each cloud formation on the speed of the carrier and the distance separating the cloud formation from the carrier. The method also includes generating a mapping including a representation corresponding to the calculated geographical position and to the calculated vector of voluminal parameters of each cloud formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventor: Jean-Paul Artis
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Patent number: 8078424Abstract: Provided is a test apparatus 10, which includes: a plurality of test modules 150, each of which is connected to any of the plurality of devices under test 100 to supply a test signal to the connected device under test 100; a plurality of site controllers 130 that control the plurality of test modules 150 to test the respective plurality of devices under test 100 simultaneously; a connection setting device 140 that sets a connection mode between the plurality of site controllers 130 and the plurality of test modules 150 so that each of the test modules 150 is connected to any of the plurality of site controllers 130; and a plurality of system controllers 110, each of which controls any of the plurality of site controllers 130, in which a predetermined system controller of the plurality of system controllers 110 assigns, in response to a request from another system controller of the system controllers, a site controller of the site controllers, which is to be controlled by the another system controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Toshiaki Adachi
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Patent number: 8078431Abstract: Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote server. The systems allows the user of a power consuming device to receive instructions or other information from the server. The method includes using stored program instructions to generate power device related information on a display, collecting power device data representative of the electrical current or power consumed, connecting to a remote computing facility having a server, and providing the data to a computer remotely located from the central server.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Health Hero Network, Inc.Inventor: Stephen J. Brown
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Patent number: 8073649Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes an acceleration detection unit, an evaluation-signal generation unit, and a control unit. The acceleration detection unit is configured to detect an acceleration generated in the portable electronic apparatus. The evaluation-signal generation unit is configured to carry out a predetermined process based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit in order to generate an evaluation signal representing the amplitude and positive or negative polarity of the acceleration. The control unit is configured to produce a result of determination as to whether or not the portable electronic apparatus has been driven to make a predetermined movement on the basis of the evaluation signal and carrying out a predetermined operation on the basis of the result of determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akane Sano, Kenichi Makino, Motoyuki Takai, Hiroshi Ito, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Hirofumi Tamori
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Patent number: 8068993Abstract: A system and method of diagnosing diseases from biological data is disclosed. A system for automated disease diagnostics prediction can be generated using a database of clinical test data. The diagnostics prediction can also be used to develop screening tests to screen for one or more inapparent diseases. The prediction method can be implemented with Bayesian probability estimation techniques. The system and method permit clinical test data to be analyzed and mined for improved disease diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments IncorporatedInventors: Valeri I. Karlov, Bernard Kasten, Carlos E. Padilla, Edward T. Maggio, Frank Billingsley
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Patent number: 8065097Abstract: An energy usage display unit for displaying energy usage of gas used for a water heater, water used for the water heater or electricity used in housing where the water heater is set. The energy usage display unit includes a clock section; a counting section for counting usage of gas, water or electricity; a memory section for storing a count value of usage counted by the counting section retroactive to past by a predetermined number with a predetermined time unit; a counting control section for writing the count value of usage at predetermined time; a display control section for reading one or both of the count value and a stored value in the memory section to prepare display data of usage; and a display section for displaying usage based on the display data prepared by the display control section.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Rinnai CorporationInventors: Keiji Kato, Hideki Kitagawa, Hiroaki Mori, Yukihiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 8065087Abstract: A method reduces error contributions to gyroscopic measurements from a wellbore survey system having two gyroscopic sensors adapted to generate signals indicative of at least one component of the Earth's rotation substantially perpendicular to the wellbore and indicative of a component of the Earth's rotation substantially parallel to the wellbore. The method includes generating a first signal indicative of the at least one substantially perpendicular component while the first sensor is in a first orientation; generating a second signal indicative of the at least one substantially perpendicular component while the first sensor is in a second orientation; generating a third signal indicative of the substantially parallel component while the second sensor is in a first orientation; and generating a fourth signal indicative of the substantially parallel component while the second sensor is in a second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: GYRODATA, IncorporatedInventors: Roger Ekseth, John Lionel Weston, Gary William Uttecht
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Patent number: 8050885Abstract: A method for determining the effects of the wind on a blind (1) or the like that is provided with a sensor means (231) for measuring the effects of the wind in a first measurement direction (X1) and in a second measurement direction (Y1), the two directions being different, the method comprising the following steps: collecting, from the sensor means, a first signal representative of the effects of the wind on the blind or the like, in the first measurement direction; collecting, from the sensor means, a second signal representative of the effects of the wind on the blind or the like, in the second measurement direction; which comprises the step of: processing these signals so as to provide a secondary signal representative of the effects of the wind and independent of the orientation of the sensor means in a plane defined by the two directions, in order to obtain uniform sensor detection sensitivity irrespective of the orientation of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Somfy SASInventor: Stéphane Lapierre
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Patent number: 8050880Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention relates to an iterative method for generating an almost-constant, nearly constant, or substantially-constant envelope time signal with prescribed Fourier transform magnitude in the frequency domain, and a constant envelope time signal whose Fourier transform magnitude closely matches the prescribed Fourier transform magnitude in the frequency domain. Different starting points for the iterative algorithm give rise to different solutions and their accuracy can be adjusted using a monotonic error criterion presented here.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: C & P Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai, Ke Yong Li
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Patent number: 8027798Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating digital thermal sensors. A processor chip with a plurality of digital thermal sensors receives an analog voltage. A test circuit coupled to the processor chip receives a clock signal and a register coupled to the test circuit outputs a value on each clock cycle to a digital thermal sensor in the plurality of digital thermal sensors. The digital thermal sensor transitions an output state in response to the value of the register received in the digital thermal sensor equaling a temperature threshold of the digital thermal sensor. The value of the register at the point of transition is used to calibrate the digital thermal sensor. An incrementer increments the value of the register on each clock cycle in response to the value of the register received in the digital thermal sensor failing to equal the temperature threshold of the digital thermal sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles R. Johns, Mack W. Riley, David W. Shan, Michael F. Wang
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Patent number: 8010300Abstract: A system is provided for determining emission rate of a gas from a source. The system includes a selector for designating an in-plume area extending across a plume of gas. The in-plume area includes a length dimension greater than a width dimension. The system also includes a processor for determining an area-integrated concentration value for the in-plume area. The system further includes a wind vector received by the processor. The processor determines the emission rate of the gas based on the area-integrated concentration value and a vector component of the wind vector.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Steven Vincent Stearns, Joseph Lawrence Lippert