Patents Examined by Kidest Bahta
  • Patent number: 11883991
    Abstract: A control device of an injection molding machine, the injection molding machine including: a mold clamping device that advances and retracts a movable mold with respect to a fixed mold; and an injection device that injects and fills a molten material into a cavity formed between both the molds, the control device including: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting molding conditions of the injection molding machine; and a setting unit that sets the molding conditions based on information displayed on the setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: UBE MACHINERY CORPORATION, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Okamoto, Yuuichirou Arima, Kazuaki Miyamoto, Yuuichirou Fukuda, Fumihiko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11883986
    Abstract: A method for operating an injection-molding machine, including the steps: a) in a current injection-molding cycle, after an accepted-part reference injection-molding cycle learned in a learning phase: detecting a compound pressure change k1 relative to an accepted-part reference compound pressure pmasse, ref during at least part of an injection phase of the current injection-molding cycle by measuring a current compound pressure pmasse, act and comparing the current compound pressure pmasse,act with the accepted-part reference compound pressure pmasse,ref, b) determining a target mold internal pressure curve pwkz,soll (t) for a holding-pressure phase of the current injection-molding cycle, wherein for this purpose a mold internal pressure curve pwkz,ref (t) of the accepted-part reference injection-molding cycle is adjusted at least in dependence on the compound pressure change k1 detected in step a), and c) traveling the holding-pressure curve pmasse, Hld, act (t) of the current injection-molding cycle in suc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KRAUSSMAFFEI TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Stefan Moser, Nicolina Topic, Sina Greger
  • Patent number: 11874707
    Abstract: This application is directed to a display assistant device that acts as a voice-activated user interface device. The display assistant device includes a base, a screen and a speaker. The base is configured for sitting on a surface. The screen has a rear surface and is supported by the base at the rear surface. A bottom edge of the screen is configured to be held above the surface by a predefined height, and the base is substantially hidden behind the screen from a front view of the display assistant device. The speaker is concealed inside the base and configured to project sound substantially towards the front view of the display assistant device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Castro, Marc Davidson, Chih-Min Chien, Daniel Corbalan, Carl Cepress, Liang Ching Tseng
  • Patent number: 11869784
    Abstract: A detection method includes: determining process data of a new process; according to the process data of the new process, detecting, by a first production system, whether a wafer carrier type of the new process matches an acceptable level of a corresponding process step or not and whether the new process matches a flag of the corresponding process step or not; if not, determining that the process data does not pass the detection and outputting first detection information; or if the wafer carrier type of the new process matches the acceptable level of the corresponding process step and the new process matches the flag of the corresponding process step, detecting, by a second production system, if the second production system detects a mismatch, determining that the process data does not pass the detection and outputting second detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dandan Chen, MingHung Hsieh, Sheng-Hua Su
  • Patent number: 11865787
    Abstract: There is provided a method of additive manufacturing using at least one processor, the method includes: determining a first slicing layer of a three-dimensional (3D) model of a 3D object; determining a second slicing layer of the 3D model based on the first slicing layer, the second slicing layer being immediately subsequent to the first slicing layer; and determining a thickness of the second slicing layer and an orientation for a third slicing layer of the 3D model based on a difference between the second slicing layer and the first slicing layer, the third slicing layer being immediately subsequent to the second slicing layer. There is also provided a corresponding system and computer program product for additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Xiling Yao, Youxiang Chew, Guijun Bi, Seung Ki Moon
  • Patent number: 11862496
    Abstract: A substrate processing control method in a substrate processing apparatus, includes: acquiring a data set for each substrate sequentially subjected to first and second processes at first and second levels, the data set including information specifying the first level at which the first process has been performed, information specifying the second level at which the second process has been performed and information about a characteristic amount relating to characteristics of the substrate; calculating information including an expected value of the characteristic amount, and level deviations of the first and second levels to the expected value based on the data set; and correcting the first parameter at the first level or the second parameter at the second level based on the calculated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Toyohisa Tsuruda, Yoshitaka Konishi
  • Patent number: 11858172
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a controller configured to acquire environment data, acquire GPS data including information regarding characteristics of a route between an initial location of a vehicle and a destination for the vehicle, receive an initial property of drum contents within a mixing drum of the vehicle, receive a target property for the drum contents, operate a drum drive system of the vehicle at a first drive speed determined based on the initial property, the target property, the environment data, and the GPS data, receive a signal from a mixture sensor indicative of a current property of the drum contents at a current location of the vehicle different than the initial location, and adjust the first drive speed of the drum drive system to a second drive speed where the second drive speed is determined based on the target property, the current property, updated environment data, and updated GPS data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan S. Datema, Christopher K. Yakes
  • Patent number: 11846927
    Abstract: A method for generating print images for additive manufacturing includes: accessing a part model; accessing a set of dimensional tolerances for the part model; and segmenting the part model into a set of model layers. The method also includes, and, for each model layer: detecting an edge in the model layer; assigning a dimensional tolerance to the edge; defining an outer exposure shell inset from the edge by an erosion distance inversely proportional to a width of the dimensional tolerance; defining an inner exposure shell inset from the outer exposure shell and scheduled for exposure separately from the outer exposure shell; defining an a outer exposure energy proportional to the width of the dimensional tolerance and assigned to the outer exposure shell; and defining an inner exposure energy greater than the outer exposure energy and assigned to the inner exposure shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.
    Inventor: Joel Ong
  • Patent number: 11844194
    Abstract: Thermal monitoring and analysis of conditions in a power electronic system include sensing of thermal parameters of interest, such as temperature and humidity in an enclosure housing power electronic components. The components are cooled by a liquid coolant flow from a chiller through chiller plates associated with the power electronic components. Air is circulated through the enclosure for heat rejection from the chiller plates. Based on the sensed parameters, factors such as relative humidity and dew point of the cooling air may be computed and evaluated to determine the potential for condensation. Alarms, notices, or recommendations may be output for regulation of the chiller to avoid condensation. The system may also provide for evaluation of installation errors, and degradation of performance over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeljko Jankovic, Garron Koch Morris, Timothy James Strandt, Junsheng Mu, Yiqing Lin, Jianfeng Wu, Tongxi Wu, Haochen Zhu
  • Patent number: 11821259
    Abstract: The system includes information and data from analysis systems about optimal window covering positions that is communicated to building occupants. The analysis system communicates information to the occupant via the occupant's client computer to allow the occupant to fully or partially adjust the position of a manual shade or motorized shade, without the need for the analysis system to fully or partially electronically control the shades. The system may also adjust window covering systems and other systems to ensure desired or optimal daylight exposure in order promote optimal circadian functionality in the occupants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MECHOSHADE SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen P. Hebeisen, Eugene Miroshnichenko, Xi Ming Liarno
  • Patent number: 11820080
    Abstract: Apparatus (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects (2) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material (3) which can be consolidated by means of an energy source (4), which apparatus (1) comprises an application unit (6) with at least one application element (7) adapted to apply build material (3) on a build plane (8), characterized in by a determination unit (12) that is adapted to determine contact information relating to a force acting on the at least one application element (7), preferably during an application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CONCEPT LASER GMBH
    Inventor: Jürgen Werner
  • Patent number: 11822318
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce the amount of data used in an apparatus, a system, and a method for performing a substrate processing. In order to achieve this object, a substrate processing apparatus includes one or more processing units each for performing a processing on a substrate and one or more arithmetic processing parts. One or more arithmetic processing parts generate a flow recipe defining a flow of a series of processings for a substrate by combining two or more processing recipes among a plurality of processing recipes each defining a processing condition relating to a processing to be performed on a substrate in the one or more processing units. The plurality of processing recipes include a plurality of liquid processing recipes each defining a condition of a processing to be performed on a substrate by using a processing liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hashimoto, Shinji Shimizu, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11823932
    Abstract: A substrate processing system includes manufacturing process equipment including a plurality of process chambers and a control server configured to control the manufacturing process equipment. When a transporting order of semiconductor substrates is transmitted from the control server to the manufacturing process equipment, the control server provides, to the manufacturing process equipment performing an Nth process cycle (where N is a natural number) in a first transporting order, a command to switch to a second transporting order from an N+1th process cycle immediately when a restriction on at least one process chamber, into which insertion of the semiconductor substrate is restricted, is lifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Eungjin Kim, Pyongil Cho, Hyeonjun Jeon, Kyoungho Kim
  • Patent number: 11821961
    Abstract: A method for electricity-related security awareness of distributed power supply systems considering spatio-temporal distribution of rainstorms, including: establishing a multi-dimensional parallel parasitic capacitance calculation model of the distributed photovoltaic-energy storage power supply system considering accumulated water depth and micro-terrain environment; performing multi-source spatio-temporal hierarchical correlation analysis between rainstorm spatio-temporal distribution characteristics (including rainfall peak position, cloud movement, rainfall intensity and rainfall duration) and an operating state of the distributed power supply system; constructing a leakage current probability prediction model considering unevenness and randomness of the rainstorm spatio-temporal distribution; and establishing an electricity-related security awareness model based on deep meta-learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hunan University
    Inventors: Bin Zhou, Ziqi Da, Zhikang Shuai, Lipeng Zhu, Cong Zhang, Jiayong Li, Yifang Jin
  • Patent number: 11816755
    Abstract: A vision inspection system includes an imaging device that is configured to image parts being inspected. The vision inspection system includes a vision inspection controller that is configured to be communicatively coupled to a machine controller of the part manufacture machine by a communication network. The vision inspection controller communicates with the communication network using a first communication protocol. The vision inspection controller creates an absolute path directory at the machine controller. The vision inspection controller receives an image from the imaging device. The vision inspection controller communicates a first trigger to the absolute path directory upon receipt of the image from the imaging device. The vision inspection controller processes the image from the imaging device to determine inspection results for a first part of the parts. The vision inspection controller sends at least one of the image or the inspection results to the machine controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sonny O. Osunkwo, Lei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11808486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of a server for controlling a water heater on the basis of artificial intelligence learning, and a server for controlling a water heater according to one embodiment of the present invention receives operation information related to the water heater from the water heater, receives schedule information of a user controlling the water heater from either a terminal device or a schedule server linked to the terminal device, and uses the schedule information to generate control information for controlling the water heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Eung-Shin Lee
  • Patent number: 11806768
    Abstract: An edge drop control device calculates a first calculated manipulated amount of a work roll shift device for bringing a difference between a measured edge drop amount and a target amount close to zero without using a work roll bender device. The edge drop control device calculates a second calculated manipulated amount of the work roll bender device for bringing a difference between a measured edge drop amount and the target amount close to zero without using a work roll shift device. The edge drop control device outputs, when the first calculated manipulated amount is out of an allowable range, the second calculated manipulated amount to the work roll bender device and also outputs a difference between an amount that corresponds to the second calculated manipulated amount and the first calculated manipulated amount, to the work roll shift device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tezuka
  • Patent number: 11809168
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system are for displaying measurement information. An embodiment of the method includes: obtaining a display instruction for displaying measurement information of at least one second transmitter; and displaying, after obtaining the display instruction, the measurement information of the at least one second transmitter on a display screen of the a first transmitter. The first transmitter and the at least one second transmitter perform data communication with a distributed I/O device according to a preconfigured data transmission path. Further, the measurement information of the at least one second transmitter is obtained by means of the distributed I/O device according to the preconfigured data transmission path. The embodiment of the method enables an operator to conveniently view the measurement information of the second transmitter on the first transmitter nearby, without viewing the information on a remote device manager or the second transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Yan bin Peng, Qing Gang Wang, Meng Zhang, Xiao Bo Yang, Yao Lei Kang
  • Patent number: 11811231
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing power from an energy storage system (ESS). A method may include, for each of a plurality of energy storage units, calculating a length of time to complete discharge for the energy storage unit according to a rated power capacity of the energy storage unit and an amount of stored energy in the energy storage unit; determining a discharge control protocol for the plurality of energy storage units based on the calculated lengths of time to complete discharge, the discharge control protocol indicating a period of time to discharge power to an energy grid and an amount of power to discharge to the energy grid during the period of time; and discharging the plurality of energy storage units to the energy grid according to the discharge control protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Nadim Kanan, Finbar Sheehy
  • Patent number: 11809150
    Abstract: Traditional home-automation systems utilize a single hub for controlling secondary devices within a home. The techniques described herein, meanwhile, utilize multiple hubs within the environment and/or located remotely from the environment. For instance, an environment may include multiple electronic devices, each configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. In addition, a remote service may be configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. As such, each controlling device stores and executes an instance of a control engine, rather than relying on a single instance of a control engine located at a single controlling hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Peter Raeber, Robert Franklin Ebert, Adam Barry Fineberg, Mark Sander Urbanus, Miroslav Ristic, Maxim Spivak