Patents Examined by Sean Shechtman
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Patent number: 12217182Abstract: Supervised learning is implemented to improve the accuracy of automated diagnoses performed by monitoring units installed at a machine. The monitoring units perform indicator acquisition and automated diagnoses based on a Bayesian model derived in accordance with the machine's known configuration. Raw data is collected, including machine vibration data and other diagnostic data. The data is analyzed to diagnose for specific fault defect assumptions so as to generate the automated diagnoses results and a rating for overall health of the machine. The results are uploaded to an external environment that can be accessed by an expert for review and correction. Based upon the expert's corrections, the Bayesian model is adjusted using supervised learning to improve the automated diagnoses performed by the monitoring units.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: ACOEM FranceInventors: Bertrand Wascat, Philippe Poizat, Jean Michel Becu
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Patent number: 12190701Abstract: Systems and methods of preventing an event occurrence or mitigating effects of an event occurrence in an industrial facility are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a first input is received from a first sensor and, based at least in part on the first input, an initial action is automatically generated. In response to the initial action, a second input is received from a second sensor and, based at least in part of the received first and second inputs, a likelihood of an event occurrence is determined. Based at least in part of the determined likelihood, a remedial action configured to prevent the occurrence of the event occurrence is automatically generated. In some embodiments, the remedial action is generated in real-time and can be directed to a process condition, environmental condition, or secondary source.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: John Francis Quanci, Andre Vassilnenko Kalinin
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Patent number: 12189366Abstract: The present disclosure discloses the industrial internet of things (IoT) with a sensing network platform in a post-sub-platform type and controlling method thereof, which has adopted a form of a five-platform structure to construct an intelligent manufacturing industrial IoT. Each platform has a corresponding hardware device. As a service platform and a management platform adopt a centralized layout, while the sensing network platform adopts a post-sub-platform layout, the sensing network platform may receive large quantities of instructions issued by the management platform, and balance the coordination of various instructions at the same time, which makes the present disclosure very suitable for large-scale production lines with the requirement of high overall coordination and makes the present disclosure have strong applicability.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Haitang Xiang, Yongzeng Liang, Yong Li, Bin Liu
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Patent number: 12154682Abstract: Examples described herein may include a surgical power device to balance power needs. The surgical power device may determine a first power expectation associated with a first surgical module, a second power expectation associated with a second surgical module, and an available amount of operating room power within an operating room; determine a power budget for the first surgical module and the second surgical module based on the available amount of operating room power, the first power expectation, and the second power expectation; and control the power distribution unit, based on the power budget, to a set a first portion and a second portion of the operating room power supplied to the power distribution unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Shane R. Adams
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Patent number: 12140914Abstract: A method for closed-loop control of a chemical process may involve acquiring process data with sensors, transferring the process data to a control system via a fieldbus, transferring a subset of the process data to a computer system that includes a simulation program for stationary and dynamic process simulation of the chemical process, a closed-loop control program for implementing a closed-loop controller, and a memory for storing simulated state variables, cyclically repeatedly calculating and storing the simulated state variables of the chemical process by the simulation program from the subset of the process data, transferring a setpoint value of a control variable of the chemical process to the closed-loop control program, reading a subset of the simulated state variables for input into the closed-loop control program, ascertaining a manipulated variable to achieve the setpoint value by the closed-loop control program, and transferring the calculated manipulated variable to the control system.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Marcel Schulz, Dirk Scheckreiter
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Patent number: 12136355Abstract: Creating a replica of an anatomical structure. In one embodiments a method includes: accepting pictures of the anatomical structure of a subject; creating an object file that contains an initial model of an outside surface of the anatomical structure; cutting the initial model to a predetermined exterior shape circumscribing the anatomical structure to create a positive model; creating a negative model from the positive model; placing a stem tool object on an outside surface of the negative model in relationship to an orifice, thereby creating a final negative model; placing a zeroing and angling object to align the negative model to a predetermined angle; placing a base tool object by coupling the base tool object to the outside surface; printing, by way of a three-dimensional printer, the final negative model to create a negative mold; and casting the replica of the anatomical structure using the negative mold.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Inventor: Steven A. Shubin, Sr.
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Patent number: 12124241Abstract: To control a motion of a device subject to constraints, a sequence of states and corresponding control inputs are transformed into a lifted space to determine a linear model of the dynamics of the device in the lifted space by minimizing fitting errors between the lifted states and approximation of the lifted states according to the linear control law. The fitting errors define an error model as a function bounding a data-driven envelope of a Lipschitz continuity on the fitting errors allowing to solve an optimal control problem in the lifted space according to the linear model subject to the constraints reformulated based on an evolution of the error model. The control input in the lifted space is transformed back to the original space for control.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Abraham P. Vinod, Giorgos Mamakoukas, Stefano Di Cairano
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Patent number: 12086879Abstract: A cryptocurrency mining system and a cryptocurrency mining method are provided. The system includes a plurality of mining modules. Each mining module includes: a plurality of AntBoxes, each AntBox being a computational unit that houses a plurality of miners for cryptocurrency farming; a transformer configured to convert an input voltage to a working voltage to supply electric power to the plurality of AntBoxes; and a switchgear and a plurality of panelboards configured to connect the AntBoxes with the transformer. The plurality of mining modules has substantially same structure arrangement. The structure arrangement includes: configurations of the AntBoxes, the transformer, the switchgear, and the panelboards, and relative locations among the AntBoxes, the transformer, the switchgear, and the panelboards.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: BITMAINTECH PTE. LTD.Inventors: Tao Wu, Clinton Brown, Xin Wang, James Buchanan
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Patent number: 12071689Abstract: A substrate processing system is provided and includes a substrate support, a memory, and calibration, operating parameter, and solving modules. The substrate support supports a substrate and includes temperature control elements. The memory stores, for the temperature control elements, temperature calibration values and sensitivity calibration values. The calibration module, during calibration of the temperature control elements, performs a first calibration process to determine the temperature calibration values or a second calibration process to determine the sensitivity calibration values. The sensitivity calibration values relate at least one of trim amounts or deposition amounts to temperature changes. The operating parameter module determines operating parameters for the temperature control elements based on the temperature and sensitivity calibration values.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Ramesh Chandrasekharan, Michael Philip Roberts, Pulkit Agarwal, Adrien Lavoie, Ravi Kumar, Nuoya Yang, Chan Myae Myae Soe, Ashish Saurabh
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Patent number: 12061450Abstract: A control system, computer program product, and method for generating a logically-represented policy for a control system operating based on a CMDP model are provided. The control system directs the operation of a controlled application system that is subject to a constraint. The method includes receiving, at the control system, data corresponding to control action variables and system state variables relating to the controlled application system, data corresponding to a cost/reward, and data corresponding to the constraint, and automatically training a CMDP model for the operation of the controlled application system based on the received data, where the CMDP model is formulated using dual linear programming, and where the CMDP model includes a policy corresponding to occupation measures that are decision variables of the dual linear programming formulation. The method also includes automatically generating a logically-represented policy for the control system based on the policy of the CMDP model.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alexander Zadorojniy, Yishai Abraham Feldman, Lan Ngoc Hoang
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Patent number: 12055914Abstract: A data processing method includes: obtaining a defect type of a sample set in response to a first input of a user on a first interface, the sample set including samples, each sample having a first parameter used to represent a defect degree of the sample with regard to the defect type and a second parameter used to represent device informations of sample production devices through which the sample passes; calculating yield purity indexes of sample production devices on the samples based on first parameters and second parameters of the samples, so as to obtain influencing parameters of the sample production devices, an influencing parameter of each sample production device being used to represent an influence degree to which the sample production device affects an occurrence of the defect type on the samples; and displaying the influencing parameters of the sample production devices on a second interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: BEIJING ZHONGXIANGYING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu Wang, Haijin Wang, Jianmin Wu, Hong Wang
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Patent number: 12050453Abstract: An autonomous metal-plate inspection apparatus, an inspection method, and a method for manufacturing a metal plate by using the inspection apparatus. The autonomous metal-plate inspection apparatus includes a carriage that travels on a surface of a metal plate, a navigational transmitter or a navigational receiver, an inspection device that includes flaw detection head including an inspection sensor, which scans an inspection region of the metal plate, and an inspection-result generation unit for generating an inspection result, and a control unit that performs, on the basis of a position of the carriage measured by the position measurement system and a target position, control the carriage to autonomously travel to the target position and control the flaw detection head to scan. The inspection-result generation unit generates the inspection result on the basis of inspection information obtained by the inspection sensor and position information of the flaw detection head.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Ohara, Fumihiko Takahama
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Patent number: 12050450Abstract: A machine tool management system includes a machine tool, a memory, a display, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to record, in the memory, a time point at which detection information with respect to a machine tool is detected and the detection information corresponding to the time point; determine selected detection information among the detection information to satisfy a determination condition; record, in the memory, the selected detection information corresponding to the time point; display a list of the selected detection information according to predetermined display items; extract from the memory at least part of the detection information including one of the selected detection information corresponding to one display item selected among the display items listed on the display; and to display a graph of a change over time in data included in the at least part of the detection information.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Yamamoto, Masatoshi Itoh, Kenji Sano, Tatsuya Matsuda, Kento Yoshida, Jumpei Kitayama
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Patent number: 12036594Abstract: A method for determining the temperature of a metal strip (1) inside a cooling apparatus (4) of a hot rolling installation is implemented by an electronic device (12). This method includes acquiring a temperature measure of a strip portion at a current time instant; estimating, at the current time instant, a heat flux extracted from the strip portion inside the cooling apparatus according to a thermal model, and computing a strip portion temperature at a next time instant from the acquired temperature measure and the estimated extracted heat flux. The thermal model models an air cooling of the strip portion, a coolant header cooling of the strip portion by a coolant header and a remaining coolant cooling of the strip portion, wherein for the coolant header cooling the model models both an impingement cooling of the strip portion and a parallel flow cooling of the strip portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: ARCELORMITTALInventors: Ronan Jacolot, Didier Huin, Christian Moretto, Daniele Corsello
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Patent number: 12038739Abstract: A machine tool includes a tool and a workpiece machined by the tool, and sensors configured to detect a position of the tool and/or the tool holder holding the tool in a spatially and time resolved manner A method for offline and/or online identification of a state of the machine tool includes: a) detecting or providing positions pi of the tool and/or of the tool holder at a series of points in time i, i=1 . . . n; b) determining for the series of points in time i a series of position changes ?mi according to the formula ?mi=pi/pi-1 and a series of speed changes ?vi according to the formula ?vi=vi/vi-1 with v i = P i - P i - 1 t i - t i - 1 and formula v i - 1 = P i - 1 - P i - 2 t i - 1 - t i - 2 ; c) identifying the state of the tool, the tool holder, the machine tool and/or the workpiece machined in the machine tool based on the position changes ?mi and the speed changes ?vi.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dominik Knappe, Arthur Waschew
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Patent number: 12028182Abstract: A smart home system and a product thereof, comprising two types of smart home products and a method for building and operating a smart home system. One type of product is a central control unit serving as the core of the smart home system, and the other type is a human-computer interaction product. The smart home system is composed of a central control unit, human-computer interaction products and other various home products. The central control unit serves as a monitor with respect to various home products and monitors the running of the home products, and serves as a server with respect to the human-computer interaction products, the human-computer interaction products are clients with respect to the central control unit, and the control unit receives service requests of the human-computer interaction products and returns request results thereof, and can actively contact them to acquire various items of data.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Inventor: Baodong Zhu
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Patent number: 12013687Abstract: An industrial automation system is described including multiple devices, a master container node, a container node, and a control system. The devices may connect to an external application programming interface (API) of an external device (e.g., an electric power utility company), receive an API call from the external API indicative of a time window for monitoring electrical power consumption of the devices by the external API, and output one or more information technology (IT) commands in response to receiving the API call. The container node may be coupled to the master container node, wherein the container node may map the IT commands to operation technology (OT) commands. The control system may be coupled to the container node and the plurality of devices. The control system may implement the OT commands on the devices to perform one or more operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dave C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Jonathan A. Mills
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Patent number: 11995579Abstract: Planner insight analytics identifies orders and sizes customers can execute to achieve business and operational efficiency. Generating optimal trimming patterns for trimming raw rolls and/or sheets of a flat sheet stock/customer orders includes: (a) receiving customer orders, primary and secondary machine specifications, warehouse inventory, and trade constraints; and (b) generating solutions for (i) order quantity fulfillment, (ii) a primary cutting pattern for the primary machine, (iii) a secondary cutting pattern for the secondary machine, and (iv) inventory details, wherein the solutions are generated with consideration of the initial trade constraints; (c) executing a batch and generating suggestions; (d) generating modified solutions for the parameters in step (b) using revised trade constraints derived from the suggestions generated that override the initial trade constraints in (c); and (e) operating a cutting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Honeywell LimitedInventors: LingaThurai Palanisamy, Gajanan Rothe, Avijit Das
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Patent number: 11995586Abstract: The time required to modify order allocation rules is shortened in a production planning system. A performance rule is generated, in which a manufacturing condition is set as the input and a manufacturing facility is set as the output, based on allocation performance data representing a performance of allocating the manufacturing facility for the manufacturing condition. A comparison table is generated representing a difference between the performance rule and an existing rule in which the manufacturing condition is set as the input and the manufacturing facility is set as the output. A modification rule is generated in which the existing rule is modified according to a user operation on the comparison table; and an evaluation index is calculated for production plan data corresponding to each of the existing rule and the modification rule. The rule modification unit generates the comparison table including a modification plan for the existing rule.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Urabe, Yuuichi Suginishi, Akira Tada, Satoshi Fukuda
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Patent number: 11982988Abstract: A numerical control device includes—a screen processing unit that divides a waveform of a commanded oscillatory movement quantity specified by a vibration cutting command and a waveform of an actual position detected by detectors, into sections each corresponding to a unit time, and this screen processing unit displays, on a display unit, an n-th commanded oscillation waveform, which is an n-th waveform of the commanded oscillatory movement quantity; an (n+1)-th commanded oscillation waveform, which is an (n+1)-th waveform of the commanded oscillatory movement quantity; an n-th actual position waveform, which is an n-th waveform of the actual position; and an (n+1)-th actual position waveform, which is an (n+1)-th waveform of the actual position, being superimposed on one another along a time axis, where n is a natural number.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Masakazu Sagasaki