Patents Examined by Lyudmila Zaykova-Feldman
  • Patent number: 11138351
    Abstract: An estimated distance calculator 10 generates, on the basis of a first state element model comprising multiple state elements, a second state element model which is another state element model, wherein the state elements include multiple states and state transitions assigned with transition conditions between the multiple states. The calculator includes a generation unit 11 which generates the second state element model in such a manner as to comprise any one state element among the multiple state elements and state elements other than the one state element which are selected from among the multiple state elements after transition conditions satisfying predetermined condition are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11131596
    Abstract: A vibration detection device for detecting vibration of a cartridge including a bearing housing that accommodates a rotor coupling a wheel and a rotor shaft, and a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor, the bearing housing including a lubricant-oil passage port for allowing lubricant oil to pass through an interior of the bearing housing, includes: a sensor mount attached to an oil-flow-passage forming member configured to be capable of connecting to and separating from the bearing housing, the oil-flow-passage forming member including, inside thereof, an oil flow passage through which one of lubricant oil to be supplied to the interior of the bearing housing via the lubricant-oil passage port or lubricant oil discharged from the interior of the bearing housing via the lubricant-oil passage port flows; a vibration sensor disposed on the sensor mount; and a vibration transmission leg portion connected to the sensor mount and configured to be in contact with the bearing housing in a state where the oil-flow-pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Shoji, Hideo Mori, Shota Yoshikawa, Yousuke Danmoto, Shuichi Miura
  • Patent number: 11092627
    Abstract: A method for detecting an operational malfunction of a renewable energy power plant includes measuring the energy production of the power plant over a time period, designated production period Tprod; calculating an actual production indicator from the production measured during the measuring of the energy production; calculating, from a physical model of the power plant, a theoretical production indicator over the production period Tprod; calculating the ratio between the actual production indicator and the theoretical production indicator over the production period Tprod; the measurement of the performance being given by the value of the ratio between the actual production indicator and the theoretical production indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Duy Long Ha, Hervé Guillou
  • Patent number: 11085754
    Abstract: Metrology targets designs, design methods and measurement methods are provided, which reduce noise and enhance measurement accuracy. Disclosed targets comprise an additional periodic structure which is orthogonal to the measurement direction along which given target structures are periodic. For example, in addition to two or more periodic structures along each measurement direction in imaging or scatterometry targets, a third, orthogonal periodic structure may be introduced, which provides additional information in the orthogonal direction, can be used to reduce noise, enhances accuracy and enables the application of machine learning algorithms to further enhance accuracy. Signals may be analyzed slice-wise with respect to the orthogonal periodic structure, which can be integrated in a process compatible manner in both imaging and scatterometry targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: KLA Corporation
    Inventors: Eran Amit, Amnon Manassen, Nadav Gutman
  • Patent number: 11067639
    Abstract: A method for determining a dynamic rating for a conductive path includes using a sensor to measure a value for a load parameter and selecting a heating process associated with the load parameter. A rated temperature change is changed by removing temperature changes due to a heating process other than the selected heating process to produce an impaired rated temperature change. A thermal load percentage is determined from the impaired rated temperature change. The thermal load percentage and the measured value are then used to determine the dynamic rating for the load parameter. A method also includes measuring a temperature rise, a current, and a voltage on the conductive path multiple times. Using at least two basis functions and the multiple measured temperature rises, currents and voltages, the values for at least two variables are determined. Trends in each variable are determined to determine a condition of electric equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Andle, Thomas M. Cunneen, David Lane
  • Patent number: 11047843
    Abstract: An atmospheric environment monitoring apparatus includes: a communication interface unit which sequentially receives first atmospheric environment measurement data to N-th atmospheric environment measurement data from any one atmospheric environment sensor when a measurement period of an atmospheric environment sensor comes; a data storage unit which stores the first atmospheric environment measurement data to the N-th (N is an integer of 1 or more) atmospheric environment measurement data; and a control unit which checks the total number of the first atmospheric environment measurement data to the N-th atmospheric environment measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SmartCityGrid Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Se Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11029179
    Abstract: The present application relates to a calibration enclosure, systems that include a calibration enclosure, and methods of using the same. A calibration enclosure includes a body having an interior surface and one or more projections disposed at one or more locations on the interior surface of the body. Each one of the one or more projections provides an encoded signal that is usable for calibrating a vehicle sensor when the calibration enclosure is placed over a vehicle including the vehicle sensor such that the calibration enclosure covers the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Brian J. Pinkelman, Todd Muck, Danil Prokhorov
  • Patent number: 11025065
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring oscillations that are liable to interact in an electrical power network, in dependence on measurement of AC waveforms in the electrical power network. The method comprises receiving first waveform data corresponding to an electrical quantity in each phase of at least two phases of three-phase AC waveforms at a location in the electrical power network. The method further comprises applying a transformation to the first waveform data to provide therefrom second waveform data corresponding to an electrical quantity at the location in a single phase representation, the second waveform data depending on the at least two phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Kyriaki Maleka, Oleg Bagleybter, Natheer Al-Ashwal, Stuart Clark, Douglas Wilson
  • Patent number: 10989730
    Abstract: A device for determining a kinematic magnitude of a bicycle and a rate of the pedal-thrust exerted by a user on the pedals of the bicycle includes a sensor of the bicycle, adapted to be associated to the bicycle, suitable for detecting the bicycle kinematic magnitude (?i) and for generating a signal representative of the bicycle kinematic magnitude; a filter connected to the sensor of the bicycle kinematic magnitude, configured for receiving at the input the signal representative of the bicycle kinematic magnitude (?i) and for supplying, at the output, an optimized signal (?opt) of the bicycle kinematic magnitude; and a module for the frequency-analysis of the optimized signal (?opt) of the bicycle kinematic magnitude, connected to the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: BLUBRAKE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Matteo Corno, Simone Formentin, Gianmarco Rallo, Sergio Matteo Savaresi, Fabio Todeschini
  • Patent number: 10948299
    Abstract: Methods and systems for relative inertial measurement may include a user device comprising an inertial measurement device and/or a camera. A second inertial measurement device may be configured to move with a reference frame. One or more processors may receive inertial measurements from the first and second inertial measurement devices and determine movement of the user device relative to the reference frame by comparing the received inertial measurements. Additionally reference objects in a view of a camera may be used to calibrate the determined motion of the user device within the reference frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Y. Zhang, Sonca Teng
  • Patent number: 10816365
    Abstract: A method for automatically calibrating an engine camshaft sensor, the sensor measuring variations in magnetic field value and delivering an electrical signal having a high state after the passage of the values of the magnetic field above the switching threshold on a rising edge and a low state after the passage of the values of the magnetic field below the switching threshold on a falling edge. After the passage of the values of the magnetic field above the switching threshold and measuring a new maximum value, the electrical signal remains in a high state as long as the magnetic field values are higher than a hysteresis threshold, which is dependent on the amplitude of the magnetic field calculated with the measured new maximum value; after the passage of the values of the magnetic field below the hysteresis threshold, a new switching threshold is calculated according to the new maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: David Mirassou