Patents Assigned to Controls, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20190115082
    Abstract: Memory device comprising flash memory and method for controlling a write speed of a bus transmitting data for storage on the flash memory. The flash memory of the memory device comprises a plurality of physical blocks for writing data transmitted over the bus from a host device to the memory device. The writing of data in any one of the plurality of physical blocks is preceded by an erase of the physical block. The memory device also comprises a memory device controller controlling a write speed of the bus. The write speed of the bus defines a transmission rate at which data are transmitted over the bus from the host device to the memory device, for further writing on the flash memory. The control of the write speed of the bus comprises adapting the transmission rate based on a number of physical blocs erased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Distech Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Francois GERVAIS, Danny BRETON
  • Patent number: 10252046
    Abstract: A peelable lid system includes a peelable lid, a seal configured to seal the peelable lid to a container, a handle coupled to the peelable lid, and a lifting mechanism coupled to handle. The lifting mechanism can be coupled to the peelable lid at a plurality of attachment points, including at least one attachment point coupled to the peelable lid away from the handle. The lifting mechanism can be configured to lift at least one portion of the peelable lid near each of the plurality of attachment points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Ethan Albright, Ramesh Ammanath, Peter Wesley Bristol
  • Patent number: 10254719
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for surge prevention control for multistage compressors with at least two stages, at least one flow measuring device, and one overall surge recycle valve is disclosed. Furthermore, a method of accurate calculation of surge limit line for overall multistage compressor using one available flow measuring device is also disclosed. The method of surge prevention calculates multistage compressor's surge limit line as a product of individual stages surge limit lines that differs from those revealed in the prior art. This method allows accurate calculation of the distance of operating point to surge limit line that takes in account surge lines of all stages and allows reliable surge prevention control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Statistics & Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Vadim Shapiro, Andriy Nyemchyn, Alex Komm
  • Patent number: 10257287
    Abstract: A data distribution system in comprises software application nodes that utilize a publish-subscribe communication mechanism for distribution of data in real-time or near real-time within a personal area network (PAN), local area network (LAN), or wide-area network (WAN) configuration. The distributed system communication software application nodes reside in medical devices, such as monitoring devices and cardiac defibrillators, and associated patient information delivery systems and patient data management systems comprising medical software installed on servers and end-user computing devices, including mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Protas, James Wootten, Seshadri Kumar Padmanabha, Ken Peterson, Randy Merry, David Stewart
  • Publication number: 20190101453
    Abstract: A thermowell-thermocouple assembly for installation in a refractory-lined process vessel has an expansion joint for compensating for expansion, contraction and movement of the refractory. Examples of expansion joints include unsupported bellows, bellows that have a support sleeve around the bellows, a sliding, hexagonal coupling with crimping to hold the sliding tubes together, a pin-and-slot coupling and a spring-loaded, pin-and-slot sliding connection. The thermocouple-thermowell assembly can include a metal, a ceramic material, a refractory brick and/or a conical-shaped tip at a distal end, which can be or which can become fixed to the refractory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Foreman Instrumentation & Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy H. Foreman, JR.
  • Patent number: 10240768
    Abstract: A light fixture panning apparatus including a base, a light fixture rotatably coupled to the base such that the light fixture rotates about an axis relative to the base, and a bearing that facilitates rotation of the light fixture relative to the base about the axis. The bearing includes a raceway and a rolling element that rolls along the raceway as the light fixture rotates about the axis relative to the base. The raceway is curved such that the raceway extends around at least a portion of the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Cary Foster
  • Patent number: 10240597
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a pump assembly includes a fluid cylinder, the fluid cylinder including a fluid passage, the fluid passage defining a tapered internal shoulder of the fluid cylinder, the tapered internal shoulder defining a first angle. A valve controls flow of fluid through the fluid passage. The valve includes a valve seat, which is disposed in the fluid passage and includes a tapered external shoulder, the tapered external shoulder defining a second angle. In one embodiment, the first tapered external shoulder engages the first tapered internal shoulder to distribute and transfer loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: S.P.M. Flow Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Bayyouk, Tugrul Comlekci
  • Patent number: 10242771
    Abstract: A peg apparatus is described that is suitable for use with an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of an assembled wire harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Design Ready Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Daniel Coviello, Zachary Tyler Rausch, Troy Schmidtke
  • Publication number: 20190084449
    Abstract: Embodiments of a car seat include an outer protective shell, an inner seat, a suspension system connecting and permitting relative movement between the inner seat and the outer protective shell. The suspension system may include a plurality of deformable metal straps. Also, embodiments of a car seat system include a frame constructed to couple to a vehicle seat. The frame has a vertical portion that extends upwardly substantially along a vehicle seatback. The vertical portion extends at least half of the height of vehicle seatback. Also, the system includes a car seat constructed to couple to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Pidyon Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Yochanan Cohen, Velissa Van Scoyoc, Ahmet T. Becene, Ekaterina Kravchenko, Peter Byar
  • Publication number: 20190079826
    Abstract: A control system includes a computing channel and an object control channel. The computing channel includes command and monitor lanes. The command lane has a first processor core with a first core architecture receiving input data and generating first data based on the input data. The monitor lane has a second processor core with second core architecture receiving the input data and generating second data based on the input data. The first core architecture and the second core architecture are dissimilar and implemented in a single system-on chip device. The computing channel outputs the first data as command data responsive to determining the first data is matched to the second data. The object control channel corresponds to the computing channel and includes an object control system receiving the command data and generating an object control signal based on the command data to control operation of at least one part of an object system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: BAE Systems Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Dino A. Gianisis, Michael G. Adams
  • Patent number: 10227221
    Abstract: A lift assembly includes an article to be lifted between a lowered position and a raised position, a drive element coupled to the article, a power mechanism coupled to the drive element, and a power transfer mechanism coupled between the power mechanism and the drive element. The power transfer mechanism includes control electronics having a first upward limit switch adapted to deactivate the power mechanism when the article is lifted to a first upward height, and a second upward limit switch adapted to deactivate the power mechanism when the article is lifted to a second upward height higher than the first upward height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald A. Hoffend, III, William Florac, Michael Lichter, Edwin W. Bolz
  • Patent number: 10221848
    Abstract: The valve member includes a valve body and a seal. The valve body defines a first frusto-conical surface and an outside annular cavity. The seal extends within the outside annular cavity and includes a first tapered and circumferentially-extending surface adapted to sealingly engage the tapered surface of the valve seat. In another aspect, the seal includes an annular bulbous protrusion from which the first tapered and circumferentially-extending surface angularly extends, the first tapered and circumferentially-extending surface extending between the annular bulbous protrusion and the first frusto-conical surface of the valve body. In another aspect, an offset distance is defined between the first frusto-conical surface of the valve body and at least a portion of the first tapered and circumferentially-extending surface of the seal, the offset distance extending in a direction that is perpendicular to at least the first frusto-conical surface of the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: S.P.M. FLOW CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Bayyouk, Charles Hensley
  • Patent number: 10220734
    Abstract: Embodiments of a car seat include an outer protective shell, an inner seat, a suspension system connecting and permitting relative movement between the inner seat and the outer protective shell. The suspension system may include a plurality of deformable webs. Also, at least one padding element may be in contact with and interposed between the outer protective shell and the inner seat. In an accident, regardless of the direction in which the seat is facing and regardless of whether the result is a sudden acceleration and/or deceleration, the inner seat will move inside the frame, and the suspension system will absorb some, much, or all of the energy either by elastic or plastic deformation. Energy not absorbed by the suspension system may be absorbed by the inner seat itself and/or an anchor system used to connect the car seat to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Pidyon Controls Inc.
    Inventors: Yochanan Cohen, Velissa Van Scoyoc, Ahmet Becene, Alexis Grant, Steven Roy Duke, Ekaterina Kravchenko
  • Patent number: 10213613
    Abstract: An external defibrillator system is disclosed that generates and applies a diagnostic signal to the patient in conjunction with defibrillation therapy. The diagnostic signal is designed to elicit a physiologic response from the patient's heart, namely, mechanical cardiac response and electrical cardiac response, electrical cardiac response only, or no cardiac response. Depending upon the type of cardiac response detected, the system selects an appropriate resuscitation protocol that considers the likely responsiveness of the patient to defibrillation therapy. In one practical embodiment, a stimulus signal is applied to patients that show mechanical and electrical capture in response to the diagnostic signal. The stimulus signal maintains the mechanical capture (and, therefore, perfusion) for a period of time prior to the delivery of a defibrillation pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: David R. Hampton, Isabelle Banville
  • Publication number: 20190049327
    Abstract: A pressure sensing system includes a pressure transducer, a pressure manifold, and a heater assembly. The pressure transducer is configured to measure pressures at one or more locations of a vehicle engine. The pressure manifold is configured to cover a face of the pressure transducer and provide an interface for transferring air or gas generated at the one or more locations of the vehicle engine. The heater assembly is configured to heat one or more portions of the pressure transducer and one or more portions of the pressure manifold and maintain a temperature of each of the pressure transducer and the pressure manifold above a predetermined temperature level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: BAE Systems Controls Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Gehm, Raymond J. Boyd, Glenn T. Diego, Robert J. Kunz, Clive A. Morris, Stephen L. Pero
  • Publication number: 20190040966
    Abstract: A valve seat for use in a fluid end of a fracturing pump that includes a first body portion having an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein the inner wall forms a fluid bore and outer wall is configured to contact an inside surface of a fluid passageway of a fluid end of the fracturing pump for support therein. The seat further includes a second body portion extending from the first body portion, the second body having a frustro-conical portion forming a seating surface for receiving a valve. A portion of the first and second body portion includes a hardened material insert forming a portion of the seating surface and a portion of the inner wall of the first body, and further includes a metallic body portion affixed to the hardened material insert, the metallic body portion forming at least a portion of first body portion outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: S.P.M. FLOW CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Myers, Joe Allen Sutton
  • Patent number: 10195452
    Abstract: A system capable of self-adjusting both sound level and spectral content to improve audibility and intelligibility of medical device audible cues. Audible cues are stored as sound files. Ambient noise is detected, and the output of the audible cues is altered based on the ambient noise. Various embodiments include processed sound files that are more robust in noisy environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Eugene Smith
  • Patent number: 10195451
    Abstract: A medical device for caring for a patient includes a patient utility for measuring a patient parameter or administering a therapy to the patient and an alarm system that has a receiver to accept status information about the medical device. A use detector of the alarm system is structured to determine when the medical device is being prepared for use and a status detector of the alarm system is adapted to determine from the status information that the medical device is in a ready state. The alarm system further includes an alarm that is activated when the medical device is both being prepared for use and not in the ready state. This description also includes methods of generating an alarm when the medical device is both being prepared for use and not in the ready state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Angela D. Barnes, Matthew Lawrence Bielstein
  • Patent number: D840504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: S.P.M. FLOW CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Bayyouk, Charles Hensley
  • Patent number: D842712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Swanson, Devin Sidell, Alexander McAuley, Gary Hsieh, Robert S. Munin