Patents Examined by Ryan Jarrett
  • Patent number: 11726454
    Abstract: An information collection system for industrial machines includes processing circuitry that communicates with one or more industrial machines that execute one or more predetermined processes with respect to an object, identify, based on predetermined information received from the one or more industrial machines, the one or more predetermined processes executed with respect to the object, and assigns process identification information related to the one or more predetermined processes to collected information related to the object collected from the one or more industrial machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takuya Takizawa, Takeshi Nagata, Takaaki Shogaki
  • Patent number: 11717926
    Abstract: To provide a control device for a machine tool capable of performing thread cutting while reducing the load on the machine tool from the oscillating operation, without extending the cycle time, and capable of reliably shredding chips in a case of performing the non-oscillating operation in the present pass after the oscillating operation in the previous pass. A control device for a machine tool includes: an oscillating operation execution determination unit that determines whether to execute an oscillating operation that causes the cutting tool to oscillate in the radial direction of the workpiece; an oscillation command generation unit that generates an oscillation command of the oscillating operation based on a determination result; a control unit that superimposes the oscillation command on a position command of the feed axis to generate a drive command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuutarou Horikawa, Masashi Yasuda, Kenta Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11720082
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Higashiya, Akira Nojima, Nobuo Shimizu, Ryo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11712773
    Abstract: A system and method for machine tool operations optimization is disclosed. The computer based system contains vibrational data for at least one machine tool, where the vibrational data is used to determine optimal machining, parameters for the machine tool and where an amount of profit improvement gained by adopting the optimal machining parameters is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MSC Services Corp.
    Inventors: James Paul Goettler, Alan P. Yang, David Wayne Barton
  • Patent number: 11712827
    Abstract: Provided is a molding machine management system that manages production of a plurality of molding machines, including: a display unit configured to display a production performance and a planned production status in association with a time axis for each molding machine, and, when the molding machine management system receives an abnormality of a molding machine, to display the abnormality of the molding machine in association with the time axis for each molding machine. The molding machine management system configured as described above can appropriately manage each molding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke Mitsuma, Yoshiaki Otsuki, Ko Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11709510
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system including a sensor system configured to detect heat indications within a plurality of areas of a conditioned space, wherein the sensor system comprise a thermal light detector, and a controller configured to receive feedback from the sensor system and, based on the feedback, control airflow distribution, via an airflow distribution system, such that airflow management for each of the plurality of areas is individually correlated to a heat indication detected for the respective area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC
    Inventors: Jason T. Letterman, David G. Pich, Virginia M. Sivie, Kazim C. Demirhan, Hajo C. M. Siemers
  • Patent number: 11708248
    Abstract: The present invention provides a linear quadratic regulator (LQR)-based anti-sway control method for a hoisting system, comprising the following steps: obtaining a target position of a trolley, and obtaining a planned real-time path of the trolley according to the maximum velocity vm and maximum acceleration am of the trolley; establishing a dynamic model of the hoisting system according to a Lagrange's equation, for the Lagrange's equation, the trolley displacement x, the spreader sway angle ?, and the rope length l of the hoisting system being selected as generalized coordinate directions; observing lumped disturbance d using an extended state observer, and compensating for same in a controller, the lumped disturbance d comprising the dynamic model error and external disturbance to the hoisting system; tracking the planned real-time path of the trolley by a Q matrix and an R matrix using a linear quadratic regulator controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Master Matrix Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhi Feng
  • Patent number: 11703891
    Abstract: A method for controlling a filling process, wherein a predetermined filling quantity of a medium is filled into a container, the flow rate of the medium flowing into the container is measured as a time series of measured values for the instantaneous flow rate and a filling quantity already filled is estimated from the time series, wherein at least one current measured value of the time series is corrected on the basis of at least one earlier measured value of an earlier time series of measured values of the flow rate of an earlier filling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Thomas Weber, William Weigold
  • Patent number: 11703828
    Abstract: A system, method, and device for automated precision control of a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to a workpiece. The system receives via at least one visual input device at least one detectable marking on a workpiece. The system decodes the at least one detectable marking and determines a stored and pre-defined movement routine of a cutting element attached to the CNC machine relative to the workpiece based on the at least one marking. The system then determines, using the at least one visual input device and/or another visual input device, a current position of a working end of the cutting element relative to the at least one marking. Finally, the system performs the pre-defined movement routine including cutting into the workpiece with the cutting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Brett Bond
  • Patent number: 11698622
    Abstract: A method for computer numerically controlled processing may include generating a user interface to enable the configuration of an edge treatment. The user interface may also be generated to enable the configuration of a design corresponding to a combination of the first object and the second object generated by applying one of a plurality of Boolean operation. A computer numerically controlled machine may be configured to deliver an electromagnetic energy in order to effect, in a material, one or more changes corresponding to the edge treatment and/or the design configured by the user. For example, the one or more changes corresponding to the edge treatment may include a variable depth engraving along at least a portion of a perimeter of a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Glowforge Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Shapiro, Mark Gosselin, Bonny P. Lau, Jonathan Daniel Park, Malous Kossarian
  • Patent number: 11698619
    Abstract: A machining step monitoring apparatus includes a data segmentation unit, a data length adjuster, and a determination processor. The data segmentation unit defines machining start time and machining end time of each single cycle, and segments, from a first physical quantity that temporally changes during the cycle machining in the machining machine, first measurement data indicating the first physical quantity from the machining start time to the machining end time for each single cycle. The data length adjuster generates the second measurement data by adjusting the data length of the first measurement data to match with the data length of the determination reference data indicating, as a reference, a change in the first physical quantity during the single cycle when the machining machine is normally operating. The determination processor compares the second measurement data with the determination reference data to determine whether the machining machine is normally operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Nojiri
  • Patent number: 11698625
    Abstract: A stochastic model predictive controller (SMPC) estimates a current state of the system and a probability distribution of uncertainty of a parameter of dynamics of the system based on measurements of outputs of the system, and updates a control model of the system including a function of dynamics of the system modeling the uncertainty of the parameter with first and second order moments of the estimated probability distribution of uncertainty of the parameter. The SMPC determines a control input to control the system by optimizing the updated control model of the system at the current state over a prediction horizon and controls the system based on the control input to change the state of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Berntorp, Rien Quirynen, Sean Vaskov
  • Patent number: 11685008
    Abstract: A dodge method of machining path and a machining system is provided. By inserting a flag into an original machining path, an interference between the flag and a suction cup of a support unit is determined. A coding instruction is inserted at the interference to edit the original machining path, thereby generating an edited machining path. Therefore, when a machining equipment executes the edited machining path, the support unit may smoothly dodge a knife of the machining equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chun-Ting Chen, Cheng-Wei Wang, Po-Hsun Wu, Chien-Chih Liao, Jen-Ji Wang
  • Patent number: 11662760
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide a system including an intelligent electronic device (IED) comprising a first processor configured to communicate control commands to power equipment, receive measurements from the power equipment, use a secure wireless system to send data to an access point, wherein the data includes the measurements, and use the secure system to communicate with a management device, via the access point, to receive configuration information, command information, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Anca Lucia Cioraca, Daniel Thanos, Evgeny Pronin, Michael Shane Pilon
  • Patent number: 11656604
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting speed planning system including a graphic preprocessing engine, a first speed planning engine, an included angle calculation engine, a second speed planning engine and a speed determination engine. The graphic preprocessing engine substitutes a simplified cutting route for a plurality of short straight paths of a graphic path. The first speed planning engine calculates a reasonable maximum cutting speed of each cutting route. The included angle calculation engine calculates the included angle between two adjacent ones of the cutting routes. The second speed planning engine adjusts the terminal cutting speed and the initial cutting speed of the cutting routes. The speed determination engine performs speed planning on the cutting routes according to digital control system period time. A cutting speed planning method and a non-transitory storage medium are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ADLINK TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Li Chuang, Wei-Fan Chen, Yu-Yen Chen
  • Patent number: 11656603
    Abstract: An industrial gateway device supports interactive feature engineering tools that guide a user through an intuitive process for configuring data analytics for key performance indicators (KPIs) of interest. A feature engineering interface renders an interactive model view that displays available data points such that the data points are organized hierarchically according to plant, machine, machine property, or other elements. The user can select, from this model view, data points having an impact on the KPI of interest. The interface also allows the user to define an executable script that defines a mathematical relationship between the selected data points and the KPI. This configuration yields an output model that defines a reduced set of data points to be collected and analyzed, as well as an executable script for assessing a state of the KPI as a function of the reduced data point values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Achim Thomsen, Cyril Perducat, Manuel Sukerman, Arvind Vijayanagar Rao, Chirayu Shah, Stephen C. Briant, Bijan SayyarRodsari
  • Patent number: 11650574
    Abstract: A method for custom logic engineering in an industrial modular plant executing a production process includes receiving process data for the production process using at least one physical process module; determining a custom process topology by selecting, based on the received process data, at least one module type package, MTP; correlating to the at least one respective physical process module from a database, wherein the module type package is a digital representation of the respective physical process module; selecting at least one extender unit from the database based on the received process data; representing a logical function of the production process; determining connections between the extender unit(s) and the at least one MTP; setting properties of the extender unit(s) based on the received process data; and determining an extended control scheme for controlling dynamic behavior of the production process using the determined custom process topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Dirk Schulz, Katharina Stark, Mario Hoernicke
  • Patent number: 11644817
    Abstract: A control system operable to train a control tuner to generate temperature setpoint tracking improvements for a thermal processing system is provided. In one example implementation, temperature setpoint tracking improvements are achieved by generating system controller parameter adjustments based on a difference between a simulated workpiece temperature estimate and an actual workpiece temperature estimate. For example, a system model can generate a simulated workpiece temperature estimate simulating an actual workpiece temperature estimate, and based on the difference between the simulated and actual workpiece temperature estimates, generate clone controller parameter adjustments. The clone controller parameter adjustments can be used to generate system controller parameter adjustments, which can improve temperature setpoint tracking for the thermal processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING E-TOWN SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, MATTSON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael X. Yang, Markus Lieberer, Joseph Cibere
  • Patent number: 11644818
    Abstract: A method of predicting sequence for a manufacturing process to assemble a product based on a target plan for the manufacturing process includes retrieving, from a historical process database, a plurality of surrogate process segments based on the target plan, determining, for each surrogate process segment from the plurality of surrogate process segments, a segment similarity value based on a data analysis model, and generating a target process defining a process sequence for performing the manufacturing process based on the segment similarity values of the plurality of surrogate process segments and a sequence inference model that classifies the process segment of the target plan to sequences defined by the plurality of surrogate process segments. The target process includes data that defines a plurality of selected process steps and one or more workstations for the process segment of the target plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lijun Wang, Seema Jain, Shanshan Qiu, Saumuy Puchala
  • Patent number: 11644812
    Abstract: A machine tool management method, a machine tool management system and a medium are disclosed, the machine tool management method including: determining at least one target component of a machine tool; generating an evaluation result of the machine tool according to a preset processing rule based on the determined at least one target component; for each target component of one or more target components in the at least one target component, acquiring a target evaluation result corresponding to the target component from the evaluation result of the machine tool; determining a preset management rule based on the target evaluation result and type information and attribute information of the target component, and managing the target component according to the preset management rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Kaihuan Zhang, Gang Cheng