Patents Examined by Alicia M. Choi
  • Patent number: 12172255
    Abstract: An automated mechanical machining system for machining a metal panel having a first face and a second face. The automated mechanical machining system further including at least one machining tool, at least one holding tool, a control module configured to control the at least one machining tool and the holding tool in a coordinated manner, a matching module configured to determine simple actual machining paths TRAJr1 from, on the one hand, predetermined simple theoretical machining paths TRAJt1 and, on the other hand, measurement of the actual surface SURFr of the second face and a slope management module configured to determine sloping actual machining paths TRAJr2 from sloping theoretical machining paths TRAJt2, the simple theoretical machining paths TRAJt1 and the simple actual machining paths TRAJr1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: STELIA AEROSPACE
    Inventors: Nicolas Gaulin, Yoann Aubert, Giovanni Gerard, David Rivalland, Gwénolé Le Moal
  • Patent number: 12173917
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes secondary control circuitry configured to communicatively couple to primary control circuitry of the HVAC system that is configured to operate the HVAC system in a variable operating mode. The secondary control circuitry is configured to cause operation of the HVAC system in a calibration mode to determine a calibrated target temperature and transmit the calibrated target temperature to the primary control circuitry to enable operation of the HVAC system in the variable operating mode via the primary control circuitry based on the calibrated target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Andrew Michael Boyd, Theresa Thy Nguyen Gillette, D Gamage Methmini Umayangana Maheshwari Sumanasekara, Mason Sloan Dewald
  • Patent number: 12163678
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a first condenser coil of a refrigerant circuit, wherein the first condenser coil is configured to receive a first refrigerant flow from a compressor of the refrigerant circuit, a modulating valve of the refrigerant circuit, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the modulating valve. The modulating valve is configured to receive a second refrigerant flow from the compressor and configured to direct the second refrigerant flow to a second condenser coil of the refrigerant circuit and to a reheat coil of the refrigerant circuit in a parallel flow arrangement, and the control circuitry is configured to operate the modulating valve to apportion the second refrigerant flow between the second condenser coil and the reheat coil based on a detected operating parameter of an air flow directed across the reheat coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Stephen Blake Pickle, Norman Jack Blanton, Kerry Lyman Shumway
  • Patent number: 12164272
    Abstract: A building management system is provided. The building management system uses a ventilation system to exchange air within a room in the building. A controller uses a sensor to determine a property about the room and operates the ventilation system in response thereto. The controller also operates an indicator to provide the users with the status of the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Mehran Rafiee, Sean Giblin, Brendan Collins, Paul Cowling, Dan Landers, Maciej Skrzyniarz, Gabriel Rosu
  • Patent number: 12158737
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a first user interface, displaying a first simulated operating state of a smart home device in a status display area in response to selecting a first control, receiving an association success notification, displaying a second user interface, and sending a control instruction to the smart home device in response to selecting a second control. The first user interface includes the first control for controlling the smart home device and a status display area of the smart home device. The second user interface includes the second control for controlling the smart home device and the status display area of the smart home device. The control instruction instructs the smart home device to enter a first operating state according to the selecting the second control, and displaying a second simulated operating state of the smart home device in the status display area of the second user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoqi Yan, Bo Wang, Xin Zhao, Shuanqing Dai
  • Patent number: 12145185
    Abstract: The prediction system of strip chew collects and stores first data and second data as adaptive model construction data. The first data indicates the occurrence or non-occurrence of the strip chew in an object rolling path and the occurrence point of the strip chew. The second data includes information on a preceding rolling path and attribute information on an object strip. The system constructs an adaptive model using the stored adaptive model construction data, and stores the constructed adaptive model as an adapted model. The system collects prediction data similar to the second data. Then, the system inputs the prediction data to the adapted model to predict the occurrence or non-occurrence of the strip chew in the object rolling path and all or some of the occurrence points of the strip chew before the prediction object strip reaches the object rolling path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TMEIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Sekimoto, Hiroyuki Imanari, Mitsuhiko Sano, Girish Babu Meruva, Sai Prem Kumar Ayyagari
  • Patent number: 12144574
    Abstract: A system and method of assisting tool exchange includes a computer-assisted device having a manipulator configured to have at least one tool of multiple tools mounted thereon and a control unit coupled to the manipulator. The control unit is configured to detect initiation of a tool exchange, locate a source of a replacement tool to be mounted to the manipulator, determine, based on the located source, a configuration of the manipulator that facilitates mounting of the replacement tool to the manipulator, and command movement of the manipulator into the configuration. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to determine the configuration further based on a type of the source of the replacement tool. In some embodiments, to locate the source of the replacement tool, the control unit is configured to locate at least a part of an assistant or locate a tool holding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul G. Griffiths, Xingchi He
  • Patent number: 12140917
    Abstract: Method and training server for generating a predictive model for the control of an appliance by an environment controller. The predictive model allows a neural network inference engine to infer output(s) based on inputs. The training server receives room characteristic(s), current environmental characteristic value(s), and set point(s) from the environment controller. The training server determines command(s) for controlling the appliance based on the current environmental characteristic value(s), the set point(s) and the room characteristic(s). Each command is executed by the controlled appliance. The training server receives updated environmental characteristic value(s) and determines a reinforcement signal based on the set point(s), the updated environmental characteristic value(s), and a set of rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: DISTECH CONTROLS INC.
    Inventor: Francois Gervais
  • Patent number: 12127552
    Abstract: Historical information is accessed that describes a previous state of a field, previous environmental conditions for the field, and previous farming machine actions performed in the field. A tank management model is applied to the historical information to determine expected weed densities within field portions and an amount of treatment fluid required to treat plants within the field. While the farming machine is treating plants in the field, current information describing a current state of the field is accessed. The tank management model is applied to the current information to determine updated weed densities within field portions not yet treated. The farming machine performs a modified plant treatment action based on the updated weed densities and a comparison of a remaining amount of treatment fluid within a tank of the farming machine and an updated amount of treatment fluid for treating plants within field portions not yet treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Kent Michael Anderson, Benjamin Ray Chostner
  • Patent number: 12126179
    Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a solar component having a power generation capacity of at least C kW for every C kW of a power consumption requirement of a data processing component executing a high computational workload, with the solar component designed for addressing the power consumption requirement of the high computational workload for at least 25% of at least 50% uptime of the data processing component per day. The solar power generation system also includes an energy storage device having a power storage capacity proportionate to the C kW of the power consumption requirement of the data processing component such that the energy storage device is designed to address the power consumption requirement of the high computational workload for a duration within a range of 16% to 75% of the at least 50% uptime of the data processing component per day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Sean Walsh
  • Patent number: 12124978
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing transformation of automation equipment in a power distribution network based on reliability, including determining installation states of respective components in the power distribution network and operation criterions for fault isolation, load transfer and fault recovery after a fault occurred in a feeder segment; determining a target function which is a target function for minimizing a total transformation cost of the power distribution network; determining constraint conditions including reliability constraints; establishing an optimization model for evaluating the reliability of the power distribution network based on the reliability constraints in accordance with the target function and the constraints; and solving the established optimization model for evaluating the reliability of the power distribution network based on the reliability constraints to obtain optimal solutions as optimization results of the automation transformation state of the cir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Zihao Li, Hongbin Sun, Bin Wang, Qinglai Guo
  • Patent number: 12117787
    Abstract: The possibility of using a blockchain for industrial applications, in particular in the manufacturing sector, is provided. For example, time requirements are specified by the configurability and the selectability of the validation and/or transmission. The distributed database system only validates those transactions which are executed by a corresponding blockchain-based manufacturing system, by a number of nodes confirming that they execute the transactions. The provided is suitable in particular for blockchain IoT applications in which at least one device is intended to execute some kind of control action, and the execution is subject to certain requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Jetzfellner, Markus Sauer
  • Patent number: 12117196
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to providing asset behavior modeling. In this regard, a request to obtain one or more asset insights with respect to an asset is received. In response to the request, a model is executed based on sensor data associated with the asset and asset scenario data associated with different operation scenarios for the asset. The model represents predicted asset behavior of the asset to provide the one or more asset insights. Furthermore, in response to the request, one or more actions are performed based on the one or more asset insights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Marek Sikora, Jiri Rojicek
  • Patent number: 12111650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for coordinating operation control and operation maintenance for an urban rail transit and a method using the same, where the system includes: an intelligent operation maintenance subsystem and an intelligent operation control subsystem, the intelligent operation maintenance subsystem and the intelligent operation control subsystem include coordination linkage engine modules respectively, and the intelligent operation maintenance subsystem synchronizes, by using the coordination linkage engine modules, a fault handling plan to the intelligent operation control subsystem. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages of scientific and reasonable dispatching decision-making, high efficiency and high intelligence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CASCO SIGNAL LTD.
    Inventors: Jiafu Pei, Enhua Hu, Li Lin, Bingfeng Zhang, Xiangping Zhu, Ning Zheng, Shuanglei Yang, Jiafeng Guo
  • Patent number: 12107716
    Abstract: A stored power production source management device of an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a power storage management unit, and a discharging management unit. The acquisition unit acquires first information indicating a power supply source when a power storage is charged. The power storage management unit stores information indicating a power supply source for power stored in the power storage in a data storage in association with an amount of stored power on the basis of the first information. The discharging management unit specifies a power supply source for the power to be discharged on the basis of information indicating the power supply source stored in the data storage when the power storage is discharged, and subtracts the amount of power to be discharged from the amount of power corresponding to the specified power supply source in the data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki KaishaToshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Shibuya, Mitsuru Kanda, Yuzuru Kurihara, Yoshiaki Ohsako, Takahiro Kase, Chikara Takashima
  • Patent number: 12098858
    Abstract: System recognition is performed on devices connected to an identical system without recognizing a device of a different system as a device of the identical system in high-frequency communication. In a device network system, an outdoor unit selected from among all outdoor units of a first network performs a recognition process on the outdoor units and indoor units of the first network. In the first network, communication between individual devices including the outdoor units and the indoor units is performed by using a high frequency, and the recognition process performed by the selected outdoor unit uses a recognition signal having a low frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Higashiyama, Hiroshi Dohmae
  • Patent number: 12083727
    Abstract: A technique for providing assistance in setting the time to increase the clamping force is provided. A control device of an injection molding machine includes a clamping control part and a monitoring part. The clamping control part is configured to change, in a filling step of filling the inside of a mold device with a molding material during clamping, a set value of clamping force from a first set value to a second set value that is larger than the first set value, at a predetermined pressurizing timing in the middle of the filling step. The monitoring part is configured to monitor changes in the actual value of the clamping force due to changes in the set value of the clamping force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tsutsumi, Daigo Hotta, Shun Shibuya, Yuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 12076901
    Abstract: An injection molding system configured to operate in a plurality of cycles includes, amongst other things, a controller that is configured for performing a comparison of a variable pressure setpoint with a target pressure value. The controller is configured to, when the target pressure value is less than the variable pressure setpoint by at least a predetermined lower bound, (i) decrease the variable pressure setpoint to a reduced variable pressure setpoint and (ii) not further decrease the variable pressure setpoint from the reduced variable pressure setpoint until the pump assembly operates for a plurality of stabilizing cycles at the reduced variable pressure setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Weichun Yu, Gregory Allan Schultz
  • Patent number: 12061466
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for two-dimensional and three-dimensional scanning path visualization are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to identify at least one melt pool dimension using a beam parameter setting, the at least one melt pool dimension identified from a plurality of melt pool dimensions obtained by varying the beam parameter setting, identify a response surface model based on the plurality of melt pool dimensions to determine an effect of variation in the beam parameter setting on the at least one melt pool dimension, output a three-dimensional model of a scanning path for an additive manufacturing process using the response surface model, and adjust the beam parameter setting based on the three-dimensional model to identify a second beam parameter setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Pinghai Yang, Hongqing Sun, Manuel Acosta, Ruben E. Fairman
  • Patent number: 12055031
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a solution for monitoring stick-slip vibrations without using any surface torque measurements. Instead, the disclosure provides a method to monitor stick-slip vibrations based on rotational speed. A stick-slip monitor, a top drive controller and a method of operating a drill string are provided herein that use rotational speed for monitoring stick-slip vibrations. In one example, the method of operating a drill string includes: (1) performing a frequency domain analysis of an RPM signal associated with a top drive that is used to rotate a drill string, and (2) determining a presence of torsional oscillations of the drill string based on the frequency domain analysis of the RPM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhijie Sun, Ketan C. Bhaidasna, Ganesh Ramakrishnan