Patents Examined by Mi?schita? Henson
  • Patent number: 12326799
    Abstract: A log data analysis support system includes multiple logging devices to generate log data by logging control data about device control, and a support device to support analysis of the log data. The logging devices provide logging durations to the support device. Each logging duration is a duration of logging of the control data. The support device includes an indicator that indicates each logging duration in a manner associated with a device ID identifying the corresponding logging device, a receiver that receives selection of at least one logging duration from the indicated logging durations, and a communicator that acquires the log data generated during the logging duration corresponding to the selection and generated by a logging device corresponding to the device ID associated with the logging duration. The indicator indicates information about the log data acquired by the communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12174264
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for detecting inconsistency of single cells in vehicle battery, and a medium. The method includes obtaining current battery data for a vehicle under test, determining whether the current battery data corresponds to a charging or discharging condition, and separately evaluating the presence of inconsistency in cells under each condition. This enables distinct detection for charging and discharging conditions, thereby enhancing detection accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD., AUTOMOTIVE DATA OF CHINA (TIANJIN) CO., LTD., AUTOMOTIVE DATA OF CHINA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaoqing He, Fang Wang, Peng Zhang, Xiongbo Hao, Juntong Cai, Nanlin Lei, Chunhui Wang, Qingkun Hou
  • Patent number: 12163975
    Abstract: A signal processing method includes a processing target signal generation step of generating a processing target signal which is a time-series signal based on a source signal which is a time-series signal output from an object, and a vibration rectification error calculation step of calculating a plurality of vibration rectification errors by performing product-sum operation processing of a first signal based on the processing target signal and a second signal based on a phase-shifted signal of the processing target signal a plurality of times by changing a shift amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayoshi Todorokihara
  • Patent number: 7933724
    Abstract: Method of tracking the performance of an industrial appliance (E), in which an estimate (We) of the quantity representing the electrical power consumed is calculated, in real-time, using the model (M), based on the values of the set (F) of operating parameters of the industrial appliance (E), the difference between the measured value (W) of the electrical power consumed (W) and the estimated value (We) provided by the model (M) is calculated, to obtain the overconsumption value, based on a statistical test on the overconsumption variable, using the distribution of this variable, an overconsumption score is deduced from this corresponding to a probability of overconsumption (p1) and an alarm is triggered if the probability of overconsumption (p1) exceeds a given overconsumption probability threshold (sp1), so constituting an overconsumption indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Caroline Drouart, Thierry Roba, Alain Donzel
  • Patent number: 7840361
    Abstract: A technology is provided in which it is not necessary to modify a system on a production side, and in which man-hours required for registering an environmental load value on a supplier side are not increased, in cases of an item having a mismatch between units, in a process of adding up the environmental load values of a post-production product. The technology includes generating correction information for calculating the environmental load that is registered by the supplier at design time, and calculating the environmental load value at design time by using the correction information. In cases of calculating the environmental load value of a product actually produced from a designed product, the environmental load value is calculated using the correction information generated at design time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kumazawa, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yoshiharu Sekiya
  • Patent number: 7835878
    Abstract: In a travel angle detection system for a mobile object having a detector installed in the mobile object to produce angular velocity outputs successively, the detector outputs are read and one output is determined as a provisional calibration value indicative of zero-point. Integrated values of differences between the calibration value and successive outputs and output variation width are calculated. When they are within predetermined permissible ranges, the mobile object is determined to be in static condition and the calibration value is corrected by an average value of the integrated values. The travel angle of the mobile object is detected from the calibrated outputs of the detector, thereby achieving accurate calibration of detector output by enabling accurate determination of the static condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuyasu Ino
  • Patent number: 7756659
    Abstract: In an integrated circuit with at least two separate timing circuits, for example both a serializer and a deserializer, a trim value correction factor is developed and applied at the testing of the chip. The correction trim value brings the VCO frequency of the serializer into specifications, but the trim value may also be used to alter the delay between a received clock and data in the deserializer. Since both the serializer and the deserializer were made with the same process, the received clock delay may be corrected by substantially the same correction factor as that applied to the VCO. Illustratively the trim values may be stored on the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: David P. Morrill
  • Patent number: 7698091
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detecting the start of a dive for a portable electronic device (1) comprising a pressure sensor (5) for measuring the value of the ambient pressure (P) as well as electronic circuits (2) for processing the pressure measurement results comprising a time base (4) and at least one memory zone (7, 8). The detection method updates the reference pressure value (Pref) on the basis of ambient pressure (P) measurements, this value being used to detect the start of a dive. In certain particular conditions, the method according to the present invention suspects the start of a dive, and backs up the value (Psauv) of the reference pressure (Pref) stored before updating. If the start of a dive is confirmed after having been suspected, the reference pressure value (Pref) stored is replaced by the backed up value (Psauv) upon activation of the dive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Stéphane Claude
  • Patent number: 7653507
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an acceleration measuring device capable of acquiring the offset for correcting the output of a triaxial acceleration sensor. The invention is provided with an acceleration sensor for detecting the acceleration in a triaxial direction, a data acquisition portion for acquiring the triaxial output data, a data selecting portion for judging whether repeatedly acquired triaxial output data are appropriate to make a selection, a data accumulating portion for accumulating the thus selected triaxial output data, a reference point estimating portion estimating coordinate values of the reference point determined in the three-dimensional cartesian space by referring to the distribution of a predetermined number of accumulated triaxial output data in a three-dimensional cartesian space when each axial component is given as a coordinate value, and an offset correction/calculation portion for correcting the offset of the triaxial output data of the acceleration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Emd Corporation
    Inventors: Rikita Yamada, Koichi Hikida, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Masaya Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7623978
    Abstract: A method of assessing damage of a dual damascene structure includes obtaining a wafer after the wafer has been processed using a dual damascene process. A first damage-assessment procedure is performed on the wafer using an optical metrology process to gather damage-assessment data for a first set of measurements sites on the wafer. For each measurement site in the first set of measurement sites, the optical metrology process determines an amount of damage of a damaged area of a periodic grating in the measurement site. The damage-assessment data includes the amount of damage determined by the optical metrology process. A first damage-assessment map is created for the dual damascene process. The first damage-assessment includes the damage-assessment data and the locations of the first set of measurement sites on the wafer. One or more values in the damage-assessment map are compared to damage-assessment limits established for the dual damascene process to identify the wafer as a damaged or undamaged wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Lally, Merritt Funk, Radha Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 7529640
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus for calculating an angle of inclination includes a three-axis acceleration sensors used for sensing acceleration and resolving the acceleration into a first acceleration component in a first axis direction, a second acceleration component in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction, and a third acceleration component in a third axis direction perpendicular to a plane formed by the first and second axes. A calculator compares absolute values of the first, second, and third acceleration components with each other to calculate a first angle of inclination from one of the three acceleration components that is largest in absolute value and one of the remaining two acceleration components, and calculate a second angle of inclination from the one acceleration component largest in absolute value and the other of the two acceleration components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7496466
    Abstract: A positioning system is provided for mounting a circuit board or device to be tested, and for mounting a sensor assembly, the positioning system having the capability of moving the sensor assembly in three dimensions. The sensor assembly is positioned on the mounting assembly such that it is not in contact with the circuit board under test. The sensor assembly in operation samples the electromagnetic field emanating from the circuit under test and converts those signals into a representative electrical signal in a digitized format. A processing system compares the measured values from the sensor assembly with reference values from the same point in a circuit known to be good and provides an indication to the user as to whether the difference therebetween is within an acceptable range or outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Huntron, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander T. Farkas
  • Patent number: 7467056
    Abstract: Each data lane connected to a FPGA and forming part of a SFI channel may be trained independently to enable the outputs from the FPGA to be aligned. In operation, a known fixed pattern is repeated on each of the data lanes with the exception of the data lane being trained. The short fixed pattern is smaller than an SERDES capture range so that the SERDES may temporarily lock onto the short fixed pattern for all data lanes other than the lane being trained. Training data is then transmitted on the lane being trained and the preskew delay for that lane is adjusted until the receiving component indicates that the lanes are aligned. This process may iterate to find acceptable preskew delay values for all lanes. By training the lanes one at a time and using a short repeating pattern on the untrained lanes, the SERDES may register that the untrained lanes are operating correctly so that the feedback from the SERDES is related only to the lane being trained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Eric Maniloff, Ronald Gagnon, Blake Toplis
  • Patent number: 7415365
    Abstract: A structure-borne sound sensor unit, in particular for an agricultural machine, includes a signal converter, which converts a mechanical sensor signal into an electrical sensor signal, and preprocessing electronics, which are connected with the signal converter. The preprocessing electronics include at least one programmable function component, a data input for receiving configuration data, and a programming interface to configure the function component based on the configuration data received. A control unit for a such a structure-borne sound sensor unit, a sensor system, which includes such a control device and such a structure-borne sound sensor unit, and a related method for controlling such a structure-borne sound sensor unit are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Eckehard Jeppe