Patents Examined by Gary Collins
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Patent number: 10738790Abstract: A motor-driven fan device includes a motor, a processor, a storage with a lookup table stored therein, and a speed detection unit. The processor queries the lookup table or calculates to acquire the target driving voltage and a corresponding target rotating speed of the motor. When the rotating speed difference is not within the range of the preset rotating speed difference, the processor repeatedly adds a gain value to the target driving voltage to acquire a new target driving voltage, acquires the actual rotating speed and the target rotating speed, and determines whether the rotating speed difference is within the range of the preset rotating speed difference. The processor maintains the operation of the motor at the target rotating speed at that point by using the constant speed control method when the absolute value of rotating speed difference is within the range of the preset rotating speed difference.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Chiping Sun, Shinghin Yeung, Haibo Jiang, Yunlong Jiang, Guodong Liu, Zhiwang Chen
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Patent number: 10739031Abstract: A system for an automatic temperature control of a space is described. The system includes a temperature maintaining unit, a controller connected to the temperature maintaining unit, and a user device that is communicably connected to the controller. There may also be a temperature sensing unit. The controller is configured to detect a presence of a user device within its vicinity. When the user device is detected, the controller reads the personal thermal comfort parameters from the user device, that may be stored within the user device. The controller further detects the temperature of the space through the temperature sensing unit and controls various functional parameters of the temperature maintaining unit based on the personal thermal comfort parameters of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Skylett Environmental Engineering Co. LimitedInventors: Tak On Andrew Lau, Gin Nam Sze To
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Patent number: 10739736Abstract: An asset class type of a new asset is predicted or determined based upon an evaluation of time series data from the new asset. A predicted asset type is used to identify sensors of the new asset to use for data collection. Using the readings of selected sensors from the new asset, states of the new asset are obtained. The duration at least one of these states of the new asset is determined. This information can be subsequently used to optimize the performance of the new asset.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rohit Deshpande, Fei Huang, Sivanvitha Devarakonda
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Patent number: 10734812Abstract: A renewable power system according to the exemplary embodiment includes a renewable power plant (121), a controllable plant (123) and an energy management system (128) which keeps an energy schedule within a certain tolerance in the next k (an integer greater than or equal to 1) steps by using a method that includes an optimization algorithm for a total power output shape within a step, and schedule changing algorithm for changing the energy schedule after the next k steps to keep a needed capacity of the plant regarding power and energy small. By keeping the energy schedule within a certain range for a renewable power plant combined with controllable plant, it is possible to keep the needed power and energy capacity of controllable plant small and to guarantee favorable total power output shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander Viehweider, Koji Kudo
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Patent number: 10732689Abstract: The vector data path is divided into smaller vector lanes. A register such as a memory mapped control register stores a vector lane number (VLX) indicating the number of vector lanes to be powered. A decoder converts this VLX into a vector lane control word, each bit controlling the ON of OFF state of the corresponding vector lane. This number of contiguous least significant vector lanes are powered. In the preferred embodiment the stored data VLX indicates that 2VLX contiguous least significant vector lanes are to be powered. Thus the number of vector lanes powered is limited to an integral power of 2. This manner of coding produces a very compact controlling bit field while obtaining substantially all the power saving advantage of individually controlling the power of all vector lanes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Timothy David Anderson, Duc Quang Bui
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Patent number: 10719055Abstract: A control device for a technical process, having at least two devices for detecting a respective input signal and at least one manipulated variable output device. The output device forms a difference between a reference variable and a controlled variable and ascertains a manipulated variable therefrom. The control device additionally has at least one internal signal processing system for influencing the time response and damping behavior of a control loop formed by the control device and technical process. At least two filter devices provide signal processing. A first filter device interacts with the process such that the control loop time response can be influenced by a filter device property change, and at least one amplification element interacts such that the control loop damping behavior can be influenced by an amplification element amplification factor change and such that the second filter device and the I element can be activated individually.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: KHD HUMBOLDT WEDAG GMBHInventor: Dieter Burgwinkel
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Patent number: 10709224Abstract: A device control system including a wearable device and a server. The wearable device includes a device that ejects a fragrance material, a biological sensor, and a computer. The computer transmits biological data to the server, receives a first control signal, and causes the device to eject a fragrance material upon receipt of the first control signal. The server includes a computer. The computer receives the biological data, estimates user's emotion from the received biological data, and in a case where it is determined that the user has positive emotion by using a result of the estimation, (i) transmits the first control signal to the wearable device and (ii) transmits, to an aroma device, a second control signal for causing the aroma device to eject a fragrance material at a predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuaki Okumura, Hiroto Yanagawa, Yumiko Ohno, Yuichi Aoki, Mikiya Nakata, Akira Asai
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Patent number: 10709050Abstract: A component management system includes an acquirer that acquires the component information from the component supply device, a management system side storage that stores the component information acquired by the acquirer in association with the component supply device, and an information updater that updates the component information stored in the component supply device side storage and the management system side storage based on a detection result of the detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihide Otsuka, Yasutomo Terashima, Yuji Nakamura
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Patent number: 10705504Abstract: A server for storing a machining result of a machine tool and one or a plurality of first terminals connected to the server via a network are included. The server includes an information disclosure part for disclosing the machining result, a request acceptance part for accepting from each of the first terminals a request for the machining result disclosed by the information disclosure part, and a machining condition provision part for providing each of the first terminals with a machining condition corresponding to the machining result in response to the request accepted by the request acceptance part. Each of the first terminals includes a request transmission part for transmitting the request for the machining result disclosed by the information disclosure part, and a machining condition acquisition part for acquiring the machining condition provided by the machining condition provision part in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Tadashi Kurosawa
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Patent number: 10698393Abstract: The invention pertains to a method of manufacturing a population of parts produced with a manufacturing device, based on the analysis of at least one statistical indicator representative of a characteristic dimension of the parts, according to which: a) a sample comprising a number n of parts is collected from among the parts produced with the manufacturing device; b) the characteristic dimension of each part of the sample is measured, and a measured value of the statistical indicator is calculated for the sample; c) a mathematical expectation of the proportion of parts which are noncompliant with respect to a specification regarding the characteristic dimension is calculated, said calculation being performed on the basis of the measured value of the statistical indicator for the sample collected and of the number n of parts of the sample; d) the mathematical expectation of the proportion of parts that are noncompliant calculated is compared with a threshold value of proportion of noncompliant parts; e) the mType: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Olivier Ferry, Arnaud Cambefort, Pascal Courtin, Nicolas Hardouin, Charles Cleret De Langavant
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Patent number: 10698380Abstract: A numerical controller performs machine learning to calculate tailstock pressing force to stabilize behavior of a workpiece during lathe machining and acquires, as state information, current tailstock pressing force. Then, the numerical controller acquires, as determination data, current vibration or displacement of the workpiece, or power consumption by tailstock pressing force, updates a value function based on the acquired determination data, and outputs an adjustment value of the state information based on the updated value function.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 10700523Abstract: A method for short term load forecasting in a power grid includes obtaining historical data comprising power data, load data and weather data corresponding to time index data recorded from a location in a power distribution network of the power grid. The method further includes receiving power grid data comprising a plurality of power values, and a plurality of weather parameter values corresponding to a plurality of recent time instant values. The method also includes generating modified historical data using statistical techniques to rectify error conditions. The method further includes estimating one or more power values at a future time instant based on the modified historical data and the power grid data. The method also includes balancing load of the power distribution network based on the estimated one or more power values.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Yan Pan, William James Premerlani
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Patent number: 10694842Abstract: An automatic elevation-adjusting system includes an elevating unit, a control panel, a setting module, a calculating module and a central control module. The control panel includes a power icon, a direction icon unit, a setting icon, and a mode icon unit. The setting icon is operable to actuate the setting module to allow a user to press the direction icon unit and the power icon to enter data including a name, height, sex and age. The calculating module calculates average elevations for playing games, writing, reading and standing based on the user's sex and age, a pre-set specification of the table and an average height corresponding to the user's sex and age. The central control module actuates the elevating unit to move a table to the average elevation for playing games, writing, reading or standing when the game, writing, reading or standing icon of the mode icon unit is pressed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: TCT Nanotec Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-I Chen
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Patent number: 10678225Abstract: A data analytics service for performing data analytics functions within a distributed process control environment is provided. The service may provide a user interface for creating a first diagram, representing a data model. The first diagram may be configured, compiled, and evaluated using off-line (i.e., historical) data from a distributed process control system, which may include data stored in distributed data engines (DDEs). Following evaluation, the first diagram may be automatically converted into a second diagram that is bound to on-line (i.e., real-time) data sources within the process control environment, which may then be compiled and executed to generate performance or predictive analytics data for the process. The diagrams may comprise a plurality of configurable function blocks or modules, connected logically via wires conveying outputs or inputs of the blocks or modules.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Joshua Brian Kidd, Mark John Nixon, Alper Turhan Enver, Noel Howard Bell, Paul R. Muston
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Patent number: 10678221Abstract: Signals are transmitted between a device placed on an object and at least one further device. Based on measurement of the signals transmitted between the device and the at least one further device, a position of the object is determined. Further, data associated with the object are stored in the device. The stored data are then transmitted from the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hannes Bergkvist, Mattias Falk
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Patent number: 10650336Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system is provided. The system adaptively switches prediction strategies to optimize time-variant energy demand and consumption of built environments associated with renewable energy sources. The system analyzes a first, second, third, fourth and a fifth set of statistical data. The system derives of a set of prediction strategies for controlled and directional execution of analysis and evaluation of a set of predictions for optimum usage and operation of the plurality of energy consuming devices. The system monitors a set of factors corresponding to the set of prediction strategies and switches a prediction strategy from the set of derived prediction strategies. The system predicts a set of predictions for identification of a potential future time-variant energy demand and consumption and predicts a set of predictions. The system manipulates an operational state of the plurality of energy consuming devices and the plurality of energy storage and supply means.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Conectric, LLCInventor: Phillip Kopp
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Patent number: 10642331Abstract: An electronic device may include a transducer configured to generate an electrical output responsive to an input, and a data storage element configured to change state responsive to the transducer. The electronic device may include a power circuit configured to turn on and supply power responsive to the data storage element changing state, and a processing circuit configured to be powered by the power circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.Inventors: Roberto Larosa, Daniele Mangano, Riccardo Condorelli, Giulio Zoppi, Natale Aiello
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Patent number: 10620593Abstract: An electronic device is provided comprising a sensor configured to acquire at least one biological signal of a user; a communicator configured to communicate with the external electronic device; and a controller configured to determine a behavior evaluation level of the user based on the at least one biological signal, pairing with the external electronic device, determine control information corresponding to the behavior evaluation level determined and the paired external electronic device, and control the communicator to transmit the determined control information to the paired external electronic device. Accordingly, the electronic device naturally measures the user's behavior patterns and provides a notification to the user, and improves the user's behavior by interworking with an external electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mi-young Kim, Tae-ho Hwang, Jin-sung Kim, Min-su Hwangbo, Sun-ah Kim, Jong-tae Kim
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Patent number: 10620614Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nakazono, Hisashi Maezono, Kazunori Tomotake, Hideo Matsuoka
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Patent number: 10606251Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for controlling a process in a process plant using a controller. The method comprises receivable associated with the process, determining a first value of at least one key performance indicator associated with the transition from the process data of the first process variable between the first steady state and the second steady state, comparing the determined first value of the at least one key performance indicator against a threshold value of the at least one key performance indicator; and determining a correction factor for modifying a set point of the process variable based on the comparison, for controlling the process.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Jinendra Gugaliya, Naveen Bhutani, Nandkishor Kubal, Kaushik Ghosh, Moncef Chioua