Patents Examined by Ryan Jarrett
  • Patent number: 11953885
    Abstract: A method for displaying a sequence of workpiece-illustrations and/or order information for supporting a sorting process during manufacturing of workpieces with a manufacturing system includes transporting manufactured workpieces with the conveyor system to the sorting point according to a sequence and arrangement specified by the processing plan. The method further includes receiving, in the processor of the display unit, workpiece image data and/or order data provided by the machine tool control system for the workpieces transported to the sorting point. The method additionally includes displaying the workpiece image data and/or the order data on the monitor of the display unit in a sequence and/or an arrangement such that the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpiece image data and/or the order data corresponds to the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpieces transported from the conveyor system to the sorting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF WERKZEUGMASCHINEN SE + CO. KG
    Inventors: Manuel Kiefer, Willi Poenitz, Dominik Bitto, Marc Teschner
  • Patent number: 11925992
    Abstract: In a method of setting heat-resistant alloy cutting conditions used to set cutting conditions under which a heat-resistant alloy is cut with a cutting tool, the cutting tool has a long shaft mounted on a spindle and extended in the axial direction and teeth formed on the shaft. The cutting conditions include a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool in the radial direction. When the radial direction cutting amount in which one tooth is constantly in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a smallest radial direction cutting amount and the radial direction cutting amount in which three or more teeth are not in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a largest radial direction cutting amount, a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool is set in the range from the smallest radial direction cutting amount to the largest radial direction cutting amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Eto
  • Patent number: 11927976
    Abstract: A system and method for managing power consumption and storage in a power grid. Measurements are received from a plurality of geographically distributed energy management controllers. Each energy management controllers has energy storage units with stored energy. The measurements comprise the energy production and storage capacity of the energy management controllers and their associated energy storage units. The measurements are processed, e.g., aggregated, and displayed on a graphical user interface. Commands are transmitted to a first subset of the energy management controllers to command the units to discharge their stored energy into a power grid through an inverter. Commands are transmitted to a second subset of the plurality of energy management controllers to store energy in each unit's energy storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GRIDPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Golden, Courtney McMahan, David Hakim, Edward Shnekendorf
  • Patent number: 11927936
    Abstract: A method and an associated controller for safely operating a multi-axis kinematic system by using a safety function are disclosed. The method includes calculating compensation values at the run time of a controller of the multi-axis kinematic system, wherein the calculation is performed based on predefinable error values of respective axes, geometric parameters of the multi-axis kinematic system, and current axis values of the multi-axis kinematic system. The method further includes operating the safety function based on the calculated compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Walter, Dominik Budday, Minh Le, Alexander Stein, Sören Burmeister
  • Patent number: 11921489
    Abstract: A numerical control device for machining a workpiece while performing vibration cutting in which a tool and the workpiece are relatively vibrated by driving a first axis that drives the tool or a second axis that drives the workpiece, includes a parameter adjustment unit that adjust a parameter related to a vibration condition for the vibration cutting, based on the amount of cutting load generated on the first axis or the second axis when the vibration cutting is performed, and a controller that controls the vibration cutting using the adjusted parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11915959
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: treatment parts each of which performs a predetermined treatment; and a transfer mechanism which transfers a transfer object. Transfer objects are transferred in a predetermined transfer-in order into the substrate treatment apparatus. The substrate treatment apparatus includes a controller which acquires a process job. The controller determines before starting transfer of one transfer object to the treatment part, when the process job is different between the one transfer object and a preceding transfer object transferred into the substrate treatment apparatus prior to the one transfer object and a same kind of treatment is included in the respective process jobs thereof, a possibility of performing preceding execution of executing the same kind of treatment on the one transfer object previous to completion of the same kind of treatment on the preceding transfer object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kenichirou Matsuyama, Yuichiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11914344
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method and apparatus for hybrid process recipes, and a device and a medium. The control method includes: acquiring hybrid process recipe operation groups associated with process recipes operated by etching chambers of an etching machine, where different process recipes correspond to different hybrid process recipe operation groups; acquiring a switching rule of different hybrid process recipe operation groups; and controlling, based on a reserved process recipe for a real-time reserved demand of a target etching chamber and a requirement of the switching rule, the etching machine to automatically switch to a target hybrid process recipe operation group associated with the reserved process recipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Xingle Zhao, Yuming Wang, Zhengqing Sun
  • Patent number: 11899429
    Abstract: A controlling apparatus for controlling operation of a substrate processing apparatus includes a first CTC, and a second CTC. When the first CTC stops operating, the second CTC is preset to control each module in the substrate processing apparatus in place of the first CTC. As the first CTC and the second CTC are dualized to provide the controlling apparatus, even when one of the CTCs stops operating, another dualized CTC is used to control the substrate processing apparatus, so that operation-stop of the substrate processing system is prevented and entire process efficiency is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Bo Seo
  • Patent number: 11898212
    Abstract: A method and device for blast furnace state monitoring based on multi-modes fusion. In the process of blast furnace state monitoring, the concept of sub-mode is introduced, and the method for pre-acquisition and multi-modes weighted fusion by sub-mode is proposed to monitor blast furnace state. After preprocessing the main parameter data of the blast furnace, several sub-modes of the blast furnace and their corresponding blast furnace state indication variable data are obtained by means of a mean shift clustering algorithm. Taking the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace as inputs, the Euclidean distance between the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace and each sub-mode is calculated, and the sub-modes are weighted and fused according to the distance, and the fusion result is the real-time blast furnace state, so as to realize the real-time state monitoring of the blast furnace in a smooth operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Tang, Xin Wang, Chunjie Yang, Wenhai Wang
  • Patent number: 11899414
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods for calibrating a technical system with respect to stochastic influences during real operation of the technical system. In one example embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes the steps of: determining the values of a number of control variables, carrying out the calibration on the basis of a load cycle which results in a sequence of a number of operating points, executing the load cycle multiple times under the influence of at least one random influencing variable, with each realization of the load cycle resulting in a random sequence of the number i of operating points, defining a risk measure of the probability distribution, with which the probability distribution is mapped to a scalar variable, and optimizing the risk measure by varying the number of control variables in order to obtain optimal control variables for calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AVL LIST GMBH
    Inventors: Nico Didcock, Alexander Wasserburger, Christoph Hametner
  • Patent number: 11892821
    Abstract: An electronic device manufacturing system that includes a process tool and a tool server coupled to the process tool and comprising a communication node and an evaluation system. The communication node is configured to obtain one or more attributes from an evaluation system and provide a monitoring device comprising a data collection plan that is based on the one or more attributes. The communication node is further configured to register the monitoring device with a process tool. The communication node is further configured to receive, from the process tool, data based on the data collection plan and send the received data to the evaluation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Howells, Thorsten Kril, Hemanth Konanur Nagendra, Jatinder Sasan
  • Patent number: 11880189
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for optimizing a gasifier model. Some examples include: virtually partitioning the gasifier by temperature; enabling the gasifier model to input feed split from total feed based on a respective proportion coefficient in each virtual partition to perform gasification reactions independently by each virtual partition; enabling the gasifier model to determine a virtual value of a gasifier parameter after mixing the virtual partitions, quenching and shifting when gasification reactions reach an equilibrium in each virtual partition; determining a measured value of the gasifier parameter when the total feed is input; and adjusting the proportion coefficients based on a comparison result between the measured value and the virtual value of the gasifier parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: De Hui Wang, Shuang Zhao, Zhong Wei Tian
  • Patent number: 11880188
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the intelligent distribution of data for robotic, autonomous, and similar systems. To reduce the impact of multi-agent coordination on networked systems embodiments are disclosed that include the use of action-based constraints which yield constrained-action POMDP (CA-POMDP) models, and probabilistic constraint satisfaction for the resulting infinite-horizon finite state controllers. To enable constraint analysis over an infinite horizon, an unconstrained policy is first represented as a finite state controller (FSC). A combination of a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routine and a discrete optimization routine can be performed on the finite state controller to improve probabilistic constraint satisfaction of the finite state controller, while minimizing impact to a value function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Fowler, Ryan Williams
  • Patent number: 11860590
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a model-free optimization method of process parameters of injection molding to solve the problems of frequent tests required and performing adaptive adjustment on different parameters in the existing optimization method. The method need not build a surrogate model between a product quality index and a process parameter to render the process parameter to converge nearby the optimal solution by an on-line iteration method. The present invention calculates the gradient direction of a current point by an iterative gradient estimation method, and uses adaptive moment estimation algorithm to allocate an adaptive step for each parameter. The method can significantly reduce the cost and time required in the process parameter, which greatly helps improving the optimization efficiency of process parameters of injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Zhengyang Dong, Kaipeng Ji, Hongwei Zhou, Jianguo Zheng, Tingyu Wang, Jianzhong Fu
  • Patent number: 11853031
    Abstract: Cutting a workpiece using a cutting tool associated with a system, whereby the system includes a guide having a first glyph and second glyph. The first and second glyphs are both visible on a single side of the guide. The guide is associated with a specific three-dimensional model of a plurality of three-dimensional models. The system further includes an input mechanism, configured to receive a location of the first glyph and of the second glyph, relative to the cutting tool. The system further includes a control system, functionally associated with the input mechanism and with the cutting tool. The control system is configured to direct the cutting tool to cut a version of the specific three-dimensional model into the workpiece at a location, such as at least partially between the locations of the first glyph and the second glyph, which locations were received by said input mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Brett Bond
  • Patent number: 11850781
    Abstract: To easily check a changing trend of machine state data on an injection molding machine during a predetermined period and/or in every predetermined period. An injection molding information management support device for managing machine state data regarding a machine state in operation of an injection molding machine during a predetermined period and/or in every predetermined period includes a machine state data acquisition unit that acquires a machine state data value for each molding cycle in the injection molding machine, and a frequency distribution data recording unit that converts the machine state data value into a preset class data value and records the class data value in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Kusakabe, Junpei Maruyama, Masaya Tajika
  • Patent number: 11846931
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an Industrial Internet of Things, a control method, and a medium for regulating multi-type of working parameters. The Industrial Internet of Things may include a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform and an object platform that interact in turn. The service platform, the management platform and the sensor network platform may be all arranged in a front sub-platform layout. The control method may be applied to the Industrial Internet of Things. The optimal value of the working parameter may be obtained based on the product manufacturing data, and the optimal selection of the parameter may be realized under the condition of ensuring the production, and then the working parameters of all the manufacturing devices may be further regulated or determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Haitang Xiang, Yaqiang Quan, Xiaojun Wei, Yongzeng Liang
  • Patent number: 11835934
    Abstract: The problem of addressing vibrational disturbances in mechanical positioning systems is addressed by systems and methods that use a combination of active vibration dampening and passive vibration dampening. A system described herein generally comprises a mechanical positioning system; a payload; and a vibration dampening module coupled to the mechanical position system and to the payload. The vibration dampening module generally comprises an active vibration dampener and/or a passive vibration dampener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Parker-McCormick Bjork
  • Patent number: 11833632
    Abstract: Provided is a disclosure for a cutting device configured to control a linear speed of a cutting wheel as the cutting wheel gets smaller with use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Marie Beranek, John Edward Bussan, Douglas A. Ceckowski, Christian Chkaiban, Chelsea B. Frid, Jeffrey E. Joray, Michael E. Keeble, Bryan J. Kordus, Michael Shtilman
  • Patent number: 11823331
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of a project is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes inputting parametric information, and accessing a file associated with a schematic drawing of a project and identifying a plurality of elements in the schematic drawing from the file. The method further includes obtaining geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements by analyzing each of the plurality of elements. Additionally, the method includes selecting one or more predefined objects from a spatial database based on the geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements and the inputted parametric information. The method further includes automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of the project using the one or more predefined objects, wherein the coordination drawing provides routing information of the plurality of elements in the project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MECHANICAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brendan Cunney, Michael Cunney, Shaun Cunney, Keith Pedrick, Joshua Whitman