Patents Examined by Christopher E Everett
  • Patent number: 11929616
    Abstract: Responding to grid events is provided. The system determines, based on an event, to modify an electrical load of a site. The system selects a parameter for the site to adjust to modify the electrical load. The system identifies a script constructed from previously processed interactions between a human-machine interface of the building management system to adjust the parameter for the site. The system establishes a communication session with a remote access agent executed by a computing device of the site to invoke the building management system of the site. The system generates a sequence of commands defined by the script to adjust the one or more parameters for the site. The system transmits the sequence of commands to cause the remote access agent to execute the sequence of commands on the human-machine interface of the building management system to modify the electrical load of the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Peak Power, Inc.
    Inventor: Benson Pei Sen Hu
  • Patent number: 11921495
    Abstract: A method (500), performed by an industrial automation system, for condition monitoring an industrial plant includes receiving (502) operational data of die industrial plant and obtaining an information model corresponding to at least one asset of the industrial plant from a cloud infrastructure. The method (500) further includes processing (504) die operational data using the information model to generate a recommendation for a control action. The industrial automation system (200) is configured to provide a means to update the information model by dynamically receiving (510) a new scheme for condition monitoring from a user and generating (512) an updated information model based on the received scheme using an engineering tool m the cloud infrastructure. The step of updating the information model is performed by storing the updated information model in a machine readable file format on the cloud infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Varghese Riju, Milind Bhangale, Vivek Nair, Anders Trosten
  • Patent number: 11914350
    Abstract: For manufacturing process control, closed-loop control is provided (18) based on a constrained reinforcement learned network (32). The reinforcement is constrained (22) to account for the manufacturing application. The constraints may be for an amount of change, limits, or other factors reflecting capabilities of the controlled device and/or safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Max Fahrenkopf, Chengtao Wen, Juan L Aparicio Ojea
  • Patent number: 11914360
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to implement safety applications associated with process control systems are disclosed. An apparatus includes a configuration controller to: provide a plurality of available safety applications for implementation by a safety trip device to a user for selection, a first one of the safety applications associated with a first set of I/O signals, a second one of the safety applications associated with a second set of I/O signals, the first safety application implemented based on first pre-programmed instructions stored in memory of the safety trip device, the second safety application implemented based on second pre-programmed instructions stored in the memory; and, in response to a user selection of the first safety application, prompt the user to specify values for configuration settings associated with the first safety application. The apparatus also includes an I/O analyzer to implement the first safety application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMONT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Godfrey Sherriff, Sergio Diaz
  • Patent number: 11906954
    Abstract: A method for providing automated assistance with repairing a motor-driven tool, includes the steps of: ascertaining at least one boundary operating condition of the tool, wherein the tool has previously not functioned properly under this boundary operating condition; determining a set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults of the tool, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts for the tool, on the basis of the ascertained boundary operating condition; and outputting the determined set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Boeker, Martin Bobert
  • Patent number: 11900488
    Abstract: An energy control and storage system includes an energy monitor, a power controller, an energy storage device, and a computing unit. The energy monitor monitors power provided between an electric distribution system and a load. The power controller exchanges power with the energy monitor and receives power from a power generation system. The energy storage device stores energy received through the power controller. The computing unit receives a load shape from outside the energy control and storage system. The computing unit controls power exchanged between the energy control and storage system and the electric distribution system based on power indicated by the load shape that changes in response to varying conditions affecting the electric distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Sacramento Municipal Utility District
    Inventors: Nikolas Rechtiene, James Frasher, Obadiah Bartholomy
  • Patent number: 11899436
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to nesting sub-spaces for a machine tool by reading in evaluation criteria for an arrangement of nested sub-spaces, generating sequence data for an arrangement of nested sub-spaces, repeatedly performing a process until the result data exceeds a specified range. The process includes: generating evaluation data by evaluating the sequence data with an evaluation algorithm, generating result data based on a combinatorial logic of the evaluation data with the evaluation criteria, generating calculation data from the sequence data, the evaluation data, and the result data using the evaluation algorithm, generating further sequence data taking into account the calculation data with the evaluation algorithm, and repeating the process until the result data exceeds a specified range. The calculation data acts onto the generation of new sequence data to improve an arrangement of nested sub-spaces with respect to evaluation criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG
    Inventor: Stephan Fischer
  • Patent number: 11899417
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to implement predictive analytics for continuous processes are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a virtual batch unit controller to implement a sampling batch on a virtual batch unit. The sampling batch corresponds to a discrete period of time of a continuous control system process. The virtual batch unit includes input and output parameters corresponding to parameters associated with the continuous control system process. The example apparatus further includes a sampling batch analyzer to generate predictive analytic information indicative of a predicted quality of an output of the continuous control system process at an end of the discrete period of time based on an analysis of the sampling batch relative to an analytical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Zuwei Jin
  • Patent number: 11892183
    Abstract: An information processing device has a control unit that acquires information relating to a fluctuation of power consumed by an electrical product operating around a user, and that estimates a product consumed by the user and a consumption quantity of the product based on the information relating to the fluctuation in the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyokazu Nakashima, Takayuki Hatori, Shuichi Sawada, Daiki Kubo, Tomoki Ishikawa, Naoya Oka
  • Patent number: 11886209
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) operates a plurality of HVAC devices to affect a physical state or condition and detects a fault condition at a second HVAC device affected by the physical state or condition and having causal relationships with the plurality of HVAC devices such that faulty operation of one or more of the plurality of HVAC devices causes a detectable effect at the second HVAC device. The BMS identifies, based on the fault condition, a predetermined set of system parameters corresponding to the fault condition and comprising a plurality of system parameters of the plurality of HVAC devices that are potential causes of the fault condition. The BMS retrieves operating data for the predetermined set of system parameters and transmits a signal to display a user interface comprising the operating data on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Homero L. Noboa, Kirk H. Drees, Vivek V. Gupta, Mark T. Fischbach
  • Patent number: 11886163
    Abstract: A method for operating a machine control system and a corresponding machine control system uses a portable hand-held terminal for functionally influencing at least one machine controller. The terminal includes at least one emergency stop actuation element for terminating potentially dangerous machine operations. The controller and/or the terminal is adapted for indicating a representation of the control system on the terminal display. The controller and/or the hand-held terminal is adapted for indicating the operational range(s) of the at least one emergency stop actuation element by the terminal display. The controller and/or the hand-held terminal are further adapted for simultaneously representing the operational range(s) of the at least one emergency stop actuation element by selective, fail-safe controlling of at least one lighting device at the hand-held terminal and/or at least one discrete lighting device in or at the at least one emergency stop actuation element at the hand-held terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KEBA Industrial Automation Gmbh
    Inventor: Bernhard Lehner
  • Patent number: 11886173
    Abstract: A method for employing a plurality of automated machines to deposit composite material includes a first tool located in a first station and a second tool located in a second station. The first station and the second station are located on a production line. The first station includes at least one automated machine of the plurality of automated machines and the second station includes at least two automated machines of the plurality of automated machines. At least one of the automated machines is movable from the second station to the first station. The method includes monitoring machine capacity and workload requirements of the plurality of automated machines. The method further includes determining an efficiency threshold based upon the machine capacity and workload requirements. The method further includes reallocating at least one of the automated machines from the second station to the first station once the efficiency threshold is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael K Louie, Jordan S. Erickson, Daniel R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11886970
    Abstract: An apparatus control device includes: at least one processor; and at least one first memory that stores a program executed by the processor, in which the processor acquires input data based on at least one of acceleration and angular velocity generated by application of an external force to an apparatus, classifies a plurality of the acquired input data into a plurality of clusters by an unsupervised clustering method, acquires relationship data representing relationship between the acquired input data and the plurality of classified clusters, and controls movement of the apparatus based on the acquired relationship data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Hiroki Atsumi, Miyuki Urano, Toshiaki Kanamura
  • Patent number: 11886159
    Abstract: A system and method of configuring monitor blocks and effect blocks associated with a process control system for a process plant includes causing a display device to display a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface indicating a first monitor block, a second monitor block, and an effect block. The system and method further includes enabling a user to input configuration data via the input device, including: (i) configuring one of the outputs of the first monitor block to serve as one of the inputs of the second monitor block, (ii) configuring an additional one of the outputs of the first monitor block and one of the outputs of the second monitor block to serve as inputs to the effect block, and (iii) designating at least one of the plurality of cells of each of the first monitor block, the second monitor block, and the effect block as a trigger associated with the respective input/output pair for the respective cell and corresponding to a condition in the process plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Godfrey R. Sherriff
  • Patent number: 11886175
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system of an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) for an automated guided vehicle (AGV) control, a method, and a medium. The method includes: obtaining an AGV circuit layout and forming an AGV operation model; obtaining a feeding time, each AGV being fed for at least once within a preset period; the material end point being a node for receiving material in the AGV operation model; calculating an operation track of each AGV of the AGV operation model within the preset period based on the operation speed and the feeding time; adjusting the operation speed to recalculate the operation tracks until the operation process is qualified; and sending the operation track of the qualified operation process to a user platform through the service platform to display to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yaqiang Quan, Junyan Zhou, Xiaojun Wei, Yongzeng Liang
  • Patent number: 11874012
    Abstract: A server device includes a collecting unit that stores operation history data collected from an air conditioner in a server-side storage device, a learning unit that stores a learning model generated based on the operation history data in the server-side storage device, a sending unit that sends the learning model to the air conditioner such that the air conditioner performs air conditioning inside a room by using the learning model, and an erasing unit that erases the operation history data and the learning model from the server-side storage device when an erasure instruction signal sent from the air conditioner is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yutaka Shimamura, Tomofumi Kawai
  • Patent number: 11867417
    Abstract: An on-site controller for an HVAC system is operated to maintain temperature and humidity set points inside an enclosed facility. A weather station inside the facility records microclimate data pertinent to environmental conditions inside the facility, and a weather station outside the facility records microclimate data pertinent to meteorological conditions outside the facility. A summing network compares the inside microclimate data with the outside meteorological data to establish an actuating signal. A throttle, responsive to the actuating signal, varies the power demand for the HVAC system to maintain the predetermined set points for environmental conditions inside the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: James Eric Taylor
  • Patent number: 11858175
    Abstract: In a continuous kneading apparatus according to an embodiment, for each of a plurality of ring-shaped heaters, a control unit determines a current state and a reward for an action selected in the past based on a control error calculated from an acquired temperature; updates a control condition based on the reward, and determines an optimum action corresponding to the current state under the updated control condition, the control condition being a combination of a state and an action; and controls a target ring-shaped heater based on the optimum action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Maenishi, Soma Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11850764
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shaver element including at least a shaver handle element (2) for a wet shaver, comprising a digital fabrication step (123) wherein said shaver element is made by digital fabrication technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventors: Spiros Gratsias, Ioannis Marios Psimadas, Efstratios Christofidellis, Ioannis Bozikis, Anestis Tsegenidis
  • Patent number: 11852357
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method and system for controlling an air conditioner, the air conditioner, and a household appliance. The method comprises: data collected by a control device during an operation of the air conditioner is received, wherein the data comprises question information, and at least one of indoor image data and an operation status diagram of the air conditioner located indoors; the collected data is input to a training model to obtain an answer that corresponds to the question information; and the answer is played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Shaobo Wu, Bin Yi, Jingwen Gao, Jutao Jia