Patents Examined by Joshua T Sanders
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Patent number: 10744643Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot servo jitter suppression method and device. The method includes: counting an amount of reciprocating jitter of an angular position of an output shaft of a robot servo in a predetermined period, after the robot servo enters a lock position state for a first predetermined period; determining whether the robot servo is in a jitter state according to the amount of the reciprocating jitter of the angular position of the output shaft of the robot servo and a predetermined fluctuation value; and suppressing the jitter of the robot servo by adjusting control parameter(s) of the robot servo, in response to the robot servo being in the jitter state. The robot servo jitter suppression method and device solve the problem of the jitter of the robot servo appears when the virtual positions of the robot servo and the robot joint structure are not properly controlled.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORPInventors: Youjun Xiong, Lifu Zhang, Wenhua Fan, Zhenmin Mo
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Patent number: 10746449Abstract: A method for controlling an air conditioner and an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include a compressor that compresses a refrigerant; and a control unit that controls the compressor. The control unit may include a main control unit that controls an entirety of the air conditioner; a start-up control unit that controls the compressor at an initial start-up of the compressor; a normal control unit that controls the compressor according to a target room temperature after the start-up control unit completely controls the compressor; and a bumpless control unit that calculates a compensation value for lowering an operating frequency of the compressor according to an indoor load when a priority for controlling the compressor is transferred from the start-up control unit to the normal control unit. The bumpless control unit lowers the operating frequency of the compressor according to the compensation value.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jinsung Kim, Dongryul Park, Jungwoo Lee
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Patent number: 10732613Abstract: Provided is a smart factory for production and quality management of a thermoplastic and thermosetting compound capable of predicting and controlling quality and production schedule in the future as well as monitoring a current state of factory by acquiring various types of data generated during a manufacturing process such as a manufacturing schedule, a quality condition, or the like of a manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: DYM Solution Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Ha Park
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Patent number: 10725485Abstract: A temperature controller for a substrate support in a substrate processing system includes a power parameter module configured to calculate a power parameter indicative of power supplied to the substrate support. A coolant temperature parameter module configured to calculate a coolant temperature parameter indicative of a temperature of a coolant supplied to the substrate support. A heat transfer gas parameter module is configured to calculate a heat transfer gas parameter indicative of flow rates of a heat transfer gas supplied to the substrate support. A temperature calculation module is configured to calculate a temperature of the substrate support using the power parameter, the coolant temperature parameter, and the heat transfer gas parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: David Joseph Wetzel, Alexander Bleakie, Jacob Frederick Theisen
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Patent number: 10723026Abstract: The electronic device manufacturing apparatus includes a cable holding tool, a work stage, a robot section, a first position detector, a second position detector, and a controller. The first position detector detects positions in a two-dimensional plane direction of the cable held by the cable holding tool and the connector of the electronic device held by the work stage. The second position detector detects positions in a height direction of the cable held by the cable holding tool and the connector of the electronic device held by the work stage. The controller controls the robot section based on the detection result of the first position detector and the second position detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Takano, Minoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10712724Abstract: An input system and failsafe automation system, wherein the failsafe automation system includes a motion controller connected to multiple failsafe processors that are each respectively associated with a safety level, and wherein the motion controller includes at least one associated drive, where the respective drive is respectively associated with areas and each respective area has an associated safety level that indicates the level of (fail)safety level with which the respective area needs to be established such that the failsafe automation system allows individual areas in spaces such as production halls to be easily equipped with the necessary (fail)safety level.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Johannes Extra, Hermann Jartyn
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Patent number: 10709919Abstract: Fire suppression systems (10) for vehicles and industrial applications including arrangements of an input bus (24) and output bus (26) coupled to a centralized controller (20) to provide for automatic and manual detection of a fire (H) and manual and automatic system actuation in response to the fire. The arrangements further provide for system information regarding the status and operation of the system components. Additionally, the arrangement of system components provide for expandability and programmability to configure the system for the protection of multiple and variable hazards (H) using customized or programmed detection and/or actuation. The systems include configured connectors (25) and colour coded schemes to facilitate system installation.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LPInventors: Derek M. Sandahl, Brian L. Counts, Marvin B. Fernstrum, Chad Ryczek, Saul Escalante-Ortiz, John T. Werth, Gregory J. Lilley, David R. Strehlow, Anthony J. Kreft, Thomas John Myers, John S. Bushert, Richard J. Hackl, Marvin D. Thorell
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Patent number: 10699035Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for managing a part design. The method comprises processing, by a computer system, a finite element model for a part to refine a part topology and generate a number of configurations, in which each configuration has a part weight and a number of different parameters that change the part weight and meet a specification for the part. The method analyzes a part geometry model and a selected manufacturing process to estimate a resource use for manufacturing the part. In response to determining that the part weight or the resource use for a configuration is unacceptable, the method iteratively edits the configuration, refines the part topology to generate an updated configuration, and analyzes the selected manufacturing process to estimate the resource use, until an optimized configuration is identified. The method outputs a file for the optimized configuration, enabling manufacturing of the part using the part design.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Omid B. Nakhjavani
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Patent number: 10691106Abstract: The present invention relates to numerical controller having a function for collecting the data regarding machining without using external devices such as data logger and outputting the data in batch.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Akira Kanemaru
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Patent number: 10673235Abstract: In a power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, a balance between the power system voltage and the reactive power can be maintained even when, for example, the output of renewable energy varies over time due to the weather, or the power supply configuration or system configuration changes, and the economic efficiency can be improved. In the power system voltage reactive power monitoring control device, which supplies transmission data to individual devices capable of adjusting the voltage and the reactive power of a power system, indices indicating the stability of the power system are used to determine one or more target value restrictions, information about the target value is obtained from the target value restrictions, transmission data containing information about the target value is supplied to the individual devices, and the voltage and reactive power at the relevant installation site are adjusted by the individual devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eisuke Kuroda, Daichi Kato, Osamu Tomobe, Haruki Miyoshi, Shintaro Ueno
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Patent number: 10671053Abstract: A numerical controller (100) capable of shortening the cycle time during tool replacement without modifying an existing program is provided. A numerical controller (100) includes a block information checking unit (108) that analyzes a program for respective blocks. When it is determined that one or two or more feed axis positioning commands are present before a tool replacement command found in the analysis result of the program, the block information checking unit (108) modifies the analysis result of the program so that a rotating tool axis orientation operation in the tool replacement command is executed during execution of a feed axis positioning command in any one of the one or two or more feed axis positioning command blocks.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Takenori Ono
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Patent number: 10656615Abstract: A received-data writer of a network unit records first data in a first data area when a flag is set indicating that a write is allowed, and records second data in a second data area. The first data are data for which data consistency is to be guaranteed among received data that is received from the first slave station and a second slave station, and the second data are data for which real-timeliness is to be guaranteed among the received data. A first transferrer of a CPU transfers the first data recorded in the first data area to a first storage at an interval of a first transfer period when the flag is set indicating that a read is allowed. A second transferrer of the CPU transfers the second data recorded in the second data area to a second storage at an interval of a second transfer period.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiro Annen
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Patent number: 10642238Abstract: Module 1 for a technical facility 90 comprising a technical hardware 10 for the execution of a technical sub-process, a control 20 for a local control of the technical hardware 10, wherein the control 20 is adapted to control the technical hardware 10 autarkical, and an external interface 22 of the control 20, wherein the external interface 22 comprises an administration shell 23, wherein the administration shell 23 publishes at least one service relating to an output product 140 of the module 1 via a network 62, and wherein the external interface 22 is adapted to request at least one service relating to an input product 130 of the module 1 via the network 62. Furthermore, a corresponding system for the execution of a process by means of a technical facility 90 as well as a corresponding method for the execution of a technical process by means of a technical facility 90 is claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbHInventors: Thomas Albers, Thomas Holm
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Patent number: 10639848Abstract: A method of controlling a heating sub-system in an additive manufacturing system. The method comprising receiving thermal imaging information from a temperature sensing subsystem, receiving additive manufacturing media concentration information from an additive manufacturing media concentration information database, on the basis of the received thermal imaging information and additive manufacturing media concentration information, for each pixel area in the plurality of pixel areas, determining the temperature for each additive manufacturing media agent in the plurality of additive manufacturing media agents which is present in the respective pixel area, and on the basis of the determined temperatures for each pixel area and additive manufacturing media agent, controlling the power to a heating subsystem employed in the given additive manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xavier Vilajosana, Sebastia Cortes, Yngvar Rossow
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Patent number: 10631130Abstract: A mobile function device, in particular a mobile tool-system function device configured to be disposed on an extremity of an operator, includes at least one sensor unit configured to sense at least one emission characteristic quantity and/or at least one position-specific characteristic quantity, and at least one communication unit configured to transmit electronic data to at least one external unit, in particular to a portable power tool and/or to an item of safety clothing. The mobile function device further includes at least one computing unit configured to generate, in dependence on the at least one sensed emission characteristic quantity and/or the at least one sensed position-specific characteristic quantity, electronic data configured to control the at least one external unit by open-loop and/or closed-loop control. The at least one communication unit configured to transmit the generated electronic data to the at least one external unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Florian Esenwein, Joachim Schadow, Joern Stock, Juergen Wiker
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Patent number: 10624257Abstract: A liquid application apparatus includes a plurality of control assemblies, each with input and output ports, a liquid information sensor, and a position controlled valve activator operative to activate a valve to vary a flow opening size. A controller receives liquid and position information and sets each control assembly to dispense the same desired rate of flow of liquid from the each output port by activating each valve activator to move the valve activator to a valve position where the size of the flow opening achieves the desired rate of flow. The controller is operative to compare a position of the valve activator in a first control assembly with the positions of the valve activators in other control assemblies to determine a malfunction. The liquid information sensor is typically a flow sensor or a pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Inventor: Wilfred H. Wilger
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Patent number: 10613504Abstract: A device for determining normalized occupancy of one or more spaces in a building is disclosed. The device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: poll one or more people counting sensors associated with access points to a defined region of the building to obtain counts data from the one or more people counting sensors for a specified time period and historical calibration data for the one or more people counting sensors; and process the counts data and the historical calibration data to determine a normalized occupancy of the defined region during the specified time period.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Feedback Solutions Inc.Inventor: Chandan Chowdhury
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Patent number: 10611089Abstract: In one example, a method comprises receiving data representing a first property of a three-dimensional object generated by a print apparatus, the data having been determined by measurement of the object. A difference between the data representing a first property and predetermined data may be determined, and, based on the difference, an estimate of a second property of the object may be determined.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Peter Morovic, Jan Morovic, Ingeborg Tastl, Lihua Zhao
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Patent number: 10602682Abstract: An irrigation controller is disclosed. The irrigation controller may utilize an estimated replenishment point level time to determine when to water at least one watering zone within a property. The estimated replenishment point time is a time when the estimated in-soil water level will reach or extend below a replenishment point level within the at least one watering zone. The replenishment point level may be based, for example, on plant type.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Orbit Irrigation Products, LLCInventors: Brad J. Wardle, Stuart J. Eyring, Jason R. Sims
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Patent number: 10598402Abstract: An air conditioner includes an infrared camera capturing a thermal image; a living-body detection unit detecting a living body present in an air-conditioning space based on the thermal image; a movement-distance calculation unit that calculates a movement distance of the detected living body; a temperature-control determination unit; a notification unit notifying the detected living body that it is likely to develop heat stroke or hypothermia; and a drive control unit performing the air-conditioning operation. The temperature-control determination unit provides an instruction to perform notification processing when an elapsed time, where the temperature of the detected living body is outside a normal range and the movement distance is less than a threshold value, exceeds a notification time threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yasuto Arakaki