Patents Examined by Gary Collins
  • Patent number: 11131981
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a functional safety module for industrial devices, the functional safety module being connected between the industrial devices to manage safety according to a state of the industrial devices. The functional safety module may include a first controller and a second controller each configured to execute a common predetermined operation command including operation commands. The first controller is configured to output digital signals, and sequentially convert the digital signals into analog voltages. The second controller is configured to receive the analog voltages, sequentially converts the analog voltages, and outputs the digital signals, and determine whether the first controller is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Masayasu Yoshigi
  • Patent number: 11126725
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a firmware update package at an information handling system, the package including a payload containing a first firmware image. In response to executing the firmware update package while the information handling system is under control of an operating system, identifying a non-volatile storage device; authenticating the first firmware image; and storing the first firmware image at the non-volatile storage device. In response to successfully authenticating the first firmware image, initiating a reboot of the information handling system to invoke an initialization routine. The initialization routine includes retrieving the first firmware image from the non-volatile storage device and installing the first firmware image at a first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Sumanth Vidyadhara
  • Patent number: 11106187
    Abstract: A flexible assembly system for variable reconfiguration, and a method of reconfiguring a production line. The method includes receiving line configuration information based on a reconfigured production line, retrieving process terminals required to be included in the reconfigured production line based on the line configuration information, when at least one among the process terminals required to be included in the reconfigured production line is not retrieved, transmitting information about the process terminal not retrieved to a line installer terminal, when all the process terminals required to be included in the reconfigured production line are retrieved, dividing the line configuration information based on each of the retrieved process terminals, and transmitting the divided line configuration information to each of the retrieved process terminals and verifying whether a component is provided in each of the process terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hark Jin Lee, Hyun Jong Kim, Ji Yeon Son, Yong Kwi Lee, Young Ae Jeon
  • Patent number: 11073891
    Abstract: A distributed power management system is configured determine a node power consumption of a node during a first time interval. The system can determine a node power cap. The system can determine a proportional component power budget for a component of the node based, at least in part, on the node power consumption and a component power consumption. The system can determine a power budget for the component for a second time interval based, at least in part on the proportional component power budget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Drake, Guillermo J. Silva, Timothy G. Hallett, Heather L. Hanson, Jordan Keuseman, Charles R. Lefurgy, Karthick Rajamani, Todd J. Rosedahl, Malcolm S. Allen-Ware
  • Patent number: 11041377
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to remote data aggregation, data management, and data visualization of field data from remote field site locations. Actions can include generating, by one or more sensors, the field data, each sensor of the one or more sensors being responsive to field site activity, transmitting, through a regional network, the field data to a back-end system, processing, by the back-end system, the field data to provide visualization data, transmitting the visualization data to one or more mobile computing devices, and providing a computer-executable application for execution on a mobile computing device, the computer-executable application processing the visualization data to provide data visualizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: WellAware Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Harrison, William Cameron Powell, Stephen Trey Moore
  • Patent number: 11029670
    Abstract: A management apparatus manages works to supply components to component mounting devices in a component mounting line. The management apparatus includes a component remaining number information acquisition portion that acquires, from each of the component mounting devices, a remaining number of components stored in the component mounting device, a worker information storage portion that stores worker information including a working range of each of workers in the component mounting line, a work sequence decision portion that generates work sequence information indicating a work sequence of component supply works for each of the workers based on the worker information and component remaining number information about a plurality of components within a predetermined period of time, and an information transmission portion that transmits the work sequence information to the workers who should perform the works.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakazono, Hisashi Maezono, Kazunori Tomotake, Hideo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 10995594
    Abstract: A monitoring system can include a position sensor coupled to a pump to sense a position of a rotating assembly member of the pump and generate an associated position signal. The position signal can be used to determine a position of a displacement member in a chamber in a fluid end of the pump. The monitoring system can include a strain gauge to measure strain in the chamber and generate an associated strain signal. The strain signal can be used to determine an actuation point for a valve in the chamber. A computing device can determine an actuation delay of the valve by correlating the position of the displacement member in the chamber with the actuation point for the valve. The actuation delay can represent the actuation point relative to the position of the displacement member during operation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph A. Beisel
  • Patent number: 10994381
    Abstract: To provide a controller, a data generation device, a control method, and a control program allowing a part of a machining program to be changed easily. A controller comprises: a storage unit that stores change designation data describing a command value in association with respective identifiers indicating at least one block among multiple blocks constituting a machining program for a machine tool; a change unit that reads the multiple blocks in the machining program sequentially, and changes the block indicated by the identifier based on the command value described in the change designation data; and an analysis unit that analyzes the block changed by the change unit, and generates execution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giichi Nakanishi, Yorikazu Fukui
  • Patent number: 10988323
    Abstract: A maintenance system is disclosed for assisting in maintaining an automated carrier system for moving objects to be processed. The maintenance system includes a plurality of automated carriers that are adapted to move on an array of discontinuous standard track sections, each said automated carrier including a carrier body that is no larger in either a length or width direction that a standard track section, and an automated maintenance carrier that is adapted to move on the array of discontinuous track sections, said automated maintenance system including a maintenance body that is larger in at least one of a length or width direction than the standard track section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, John Richard Amend, Jr., Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, William Hartman Fort, Christopher Geyer, Jennifer Eileen King, Thomas Koletschka, Michael Cap Koval, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, William Chu-Hyon McMahan, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 10990066
    Abstract: Described herein is a neural network-based vector control method for the induction motor. The disclosure includes an approach to implement optimal vector control for an induction motor by using an NN; a NN controller to substitute two decoupled proportional-integral (PI) controllers in current loop; and, a mechanism to train the NN controller by using a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM)+forward accumulation through time (FATT) algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
    Inventors: Xingang Fu, Shuhui Li
  • Patent number: 10977586
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for forecasting and managing daily electrical demands. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive historical demand data corresponding to historical electrical demand over a first period of time. Next, the computing platform may determine a reference rate of change (ROC) and a statistical mode corresponding to a number of positive ROCs. After, the computing platform may receive current demand data corresponding to current electrical demand over a second period of time. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine an alarm condition corresponding to a daily peak electrical demand. Following, the computing platform may generate one or more commands directing a second computing platform to display the alarm condition. Afterwards, the computing platform may transmit the one or more commands directing the second computing platform to display the alarm condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: The Trustees of Indiana University
    Inventors: Ali Razban, Da-Chun Wu, Amin Amini, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 10962952
    Abstract: A servo control apparatus for a machine that performs machining by causing a plurality of synchronizing axes to operate cooperatively in synchronized relationship with a reference axis, the servo control apparatus comprising: a position detection unit for detecting at least one of the position of the servo motor and the position of a driven body; a position error calculation unit for calculating an error between the position command and the position detected by the position detection unit; a reference axis position acquisition unit for acquiring the positions of a plurality of reference axes; a reference axis selection unit for selecting one reference axis based on a machining condition of the driven body from among the plurality of reference axes whose positions have been acquired; and a learning control unit for performing learning control using an angle synchronization method, based on the error and the position of the selected reference axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki Kameta, Naoto Sonoda
  • Patent number: 10962995
    Abstract: A method for maintaining ideal ambient conditions for goods being transported within a shipping container includes a server periodically receiving, from at least one sensor located within the shipping container, a current value corresponding to the ambient condition being monitored within the shipping container. The server compares the received first parameter value with a pre-established optimal range of values and in response to the first parameter value being outside of the optimal range of values, the server triggers a correction response that notifies at least one interested party of the failure to maintain the ambient condition within the optimal range and that causes a correction in the ambient condition within the shipping container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Overhaul Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Barry Conlon
  • Patent number: 10938214
    Abstract: A method for controlling a microgrid including a plurality of assets connected in the microgrid, including loads and Distributed Generators, of which DGs at least a plurality are resources capable of being controlled in a grid forming mode for controlling the voltage and frequency in the microgrid. The method includes selecting a set of resources of the plurality of resources based on the respective location within the microgrid of each of the resources in the selected set, and activating a grid forming control mode for the resources in the selected set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ABB POWER GRIDS SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventor: Ritwik Majumder
  • Patent number: 10937676
    Abstract: There is provided a configuration that includes a device-status-monitoring controller that stores, in a storage section, device data generated by the apparatus; an analysis-support controller that acquires the device data related to abnormality analysis information from the storage section based on basic information that includes: information that defines an abnormal event, at least one of the device data corresponding to the abnormal event, and step information indicating a step where the at least one of the device data is generated; and recipe-specific information that includes at least a recipe name; and a display device that displays the device data related to the abnormality analysis information in a manner that goes back to a past time from a time when a latest recipe specified by the recipe name is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide Asai, Hidemoto Hayashihara, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Takayuki Kawagishi, Kayoko Yashiki, Hiroyuki Iwakura
  • Patent number: 10930534
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for manufacturing a display apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingping Luo, Min Quan
  • Patent number: 10921763
    Abstract: A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. In one aspect, the monitoring system includes a sensor that is located in a room of the property and that is configured to generate sensor data. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to receive the sensor data; based on the sensor data, determine environmental conditions of the room; determine whether the environmental conditions of the room are conducive to a baby sleeping; and, based on determining whether the environmental conditions of the room are conducive to a baby sleeping, perform a monitoring system action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Daniel Correnti, Robert Nathan Picardi
  • Patent number: 10915087
    Abstract: To provide a numerical control device capable of directly determining whether or not a cutting fluid is applied to a cutting point. A numerical control device includes a determination unit configured to make, on a basis of image data acquired when a vision sensor photographs a cutting fluid jetted from an injection nozzle toward a cutting point, determination of whether or not the cutting fluid is applied to the cutting point, and an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction to a nozzle control device configured to control a position and an attitude of the injection nozzle on a basis of a result of the determination of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki Aizawa, Shouki Tani
  • Patent number: 10907851
    Abstract: An air-conditioning remote controller for operating an air-conditioning apparatus is provided. The air-conditioning remote controller includes a display unit, an image acquisition processing unit, and a display processing unit. The display unit displays various information. The image acquisition processing unit acquires image data from an external communication terminal. The display processing unit displays, on the display unit, a settings management screen used for operating the air-conditioning apparatus, and the image data acquired by the image acquisition processing unit from the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kitazaki, Hirotaka Masui
  • Patent number: 10903050
    Abstract: A substrate processing system includes model generation and setpoint modules. The model generation module receives a first time trace based on an output of an endpoint sensor and obtains a target setpoint. A portion of the first time trace is indicative of an endpoint at which a feature has been created in a first substrate. The target setpoint is generated based on a metrology process and is used to compensate for erosion of a first edge ring. The model generation module generates a conversion model based on the portion and the target setpoint. The setpoint module: based on the output, receives a second time trace that is generated subsequent to generation of the first time trace; and based on the conversion model, converts the second time trace to a predicted erosion compensation setpoint, which is set while processing a second substrate using the first or a second edge ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Luc Albarede, Yassine Kabouzi