Patents Examined by Tejal Gami
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Patent number: 8401692Abstract: A system and method for improving a tool tip path of a machine, such as a waterjet cutting machine, by testing and compensating for tool misalignment. The system and method using a sensor positioned to sense a portion of the machine, such as a cutting head assembly, during a sequence of movements thereof and configured to output information indicative of various positions and orientations of a tool of the machine so as to generate an improved tool tip path based on transformation parameters derived from such information.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Flow International CorporationInventors: Michael Knaupp, Andreas Meyer
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Patent number: 8392032Abstract: A method is provided to heat a target device of a computer system by a heater equipped therein. The target device is heated to reach a target temperature through multiple temperature intervals. The method senses the current device temperature of the target device to compare with the preset interval temperature of the temperature interval and obtain a phase difference for adjusting a heating power. When heating the target device by the heating power, the current preset interval temperature of the current temperature interval is increased progressively by a preset temperature rising value to obtain the next preset interval temperature of the next temperature interval. Repeat the foregoing steps in every temperature interval until the preset interval temperature or the device temperature reaching the target temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Getac Technology CorporationInventor: Shih-Hao Yu
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Patent number: 8386082Abstract: A cell phone location-based system is described that determines the occupancy of a home and controls home energy consumption such that energy is saved when the home is unoccupied. Occupancy is determined according to cell phone locations, occupant behavior patterns, or burglar alarm status. When an occupant is determined to be returning to their unoccupied home, the heating or cooling apparatus is activated to return the temperature in the home to a comfortable level by the time the occupant arrives.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Alertme.com Ltd.Inventor: James Ian Oswald
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Patent number: 8369976Abstract: A method for increasing overall yield in semiconductor manufacturing including routing wafers or wafer lots from tool to tool in a manner which at least partially neutralizes or compensates for processing variations. A system for increasing overall yield in semiconductor manufacturing includes a module for recording processing data from plural first and second types of tools and a module for routing wafers or wafer lots from tools of the first type of tools to tools of the second type of tools so as to at least partially neutralizes or compensate for processing variation.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Keith Kwong Hon Wong, Xu Ouyang, Yunsheng Song
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Patent number: 8359110Abstract: Diagnostic systems and methods are presented for determining the current condition of a production plant and the resources thereof, in which successively more complex diagnostic abstractions are used to determine the plant condition, with a more complex abstraction being selected when the most recently selected diagnostic abstraction is logically inconsistent with the current fault status indications.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Inventors: Lukas D. Kuhn, Johan de Kleer
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Patent number: 8355821Abstract: A motor control host includes a plurality of ports, a memory, and a processing device. The memory is operable to store an enable mask defining an enablement state for each of the ports. The processing device is operable to send a first message over those selected ports having an affirmative enablement state to maintain a communication link over the selected ports and inhibit the first message for those ports having a negative enablement state. A method for configuring a motor control system including a motor control host having a plurality of ports includes storing an enable mask defining an enablement state for each of the ports. A first message is sent over those selected ports having an affirmative enablement state to maintain a communication link over the selected ports. The first message is inhibited for those ports having a negative enablement state.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James S. Rustad, Scott D. Braun, Neil W. Knutsen, Gregory W. Mears, John H. Stuedemann, James B. Vitrano
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Patent number: 8355808Abstract: It is possible to compose a chart by filtering measurement information using a product wafer number in a server device including: an instruction receiving unit for storing therein plural measurement information, which is time sequential information measured in a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses and has a product wafer number and time information, and for receiving an output instruction of a chart containing the product wafer number; a fault detection unit for, when the instruction receiving unit receives the output instruction, reading a multiplicity of measurement information satisfying a product wafer number condition contained in the output instruction, and determining whether the read multiplicity of measurement information satisfies the condition information; an output information composing unit for composing the output information according to a determination result of the fault detection unit; and an output unit for outputting the output information composed by the output information composing unType: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takumi Inokawa, Noriaki Koyama
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Patent number: 8355804Abstract: Systems and methods are presented that enable a higher-level software application to query and control a sensor through a generic interface. In one embodiment, a system includes a controller, and interface, and a set of sensor driver modules. The interface receives a command from the controller and sends it to the driver modules. The interface includes a client, a server, and a network. The server includes two interfaces: a client interface to communicate with the client and a driver interface to communicate with the driver modules. The server also includes two buffers: a command queue and a reply queue. The command queue stores commands received from the controller (via the client). The reply queue stores replies received from the driver modules.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos, Joel A. Wormer, Li Guan
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Patent number: 8355235Abstract: A plurality of reference signals output from a controller which computes an operation amount of an electric actuator is subjected to the logical operation, and the power supply to a drive circuit for the electric actuator is shut off based on an output by the logical operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Machida, Satoru Watanabe
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Patent number: 8355812Abstract: A shaping machine system is presented. The shaping machine system includes a shaping device including at least one jig mount body for mounting a jig for supporting a workpiece, a shaping tool support body for supporting a shaping tool for shaping the workpiece, a first drive device for rotating the shaping tool, and a second drive device for driving at least one of the shaping tool support body, the jig mount body, or to change a posture of the shaping tool relative to the workpiece. The shaping machine system also includes a computer including an input unit for receiving a jig selection, a shaping tool selection, a shape data reading unit for reading shape data representing a shape of the workpiece after shaping, a shaping data producing unit for producing shaping data for controlling the first and the second drive devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Roland DG CorporationInventors: Akihiro Suyama, Ryo Sato, Yoshimitsu Asahina, Makoto Yoshida
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Patent number: 8355828Abstract: A power model that relates the settings of resource actuators to power consumption levels of the resource actuators and a condition model that relates the settings of the resource actuators to an environmental condition at the location of the at least one entity and a power consumption level of the at least one entity are developed. A constraint optimization problem having an objective function and at least one constraint is formulated, where the objective function computes at least a proportional quantity of a total power consumption level of the resource actuators and the at least one constraint comprises a setpoint environmental condition at a location of the at least entity. A solution to the constraint optimization problem is determined, where the solution provides optimal values for the resource actuator settings.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Niraj Tolia, Zhikui Wang, Manish Marwah, Cullen E. Bash, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Xiaoyun Zhu
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Patent number: 8355810Abstract: A method and system for estimating context offsets for run-to-run control in a semiconductor fabrication facility is described. In one embodiment, contexts associated with a process are identified. The process has one or more threads, and each thread involves one or more contexts. A set of input-output equations describing the process is defined. Each input-output equation corresponds to a thread and includes a thread offset expressed as a summation of individual context offsets. A state-space model is created that describes an evolution of the process using the set of input-output equations. The state-space model allows to estimate individual context offsets.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: Jianping Zou
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Patent number: 8352058Abstract: An OA device for preloading content on memory cards is disclosed. A handler control module of a control unit performs a preloading process which comprises a preload check, preloading content based on digital content stored in buffers, and a preloaded content comparison, wherein memory cards at the initial column of a tray are checked, preloaded, and compared with the preloaded digital content using probes of a probe module. When the preloading content for the memory cards at the initial column of the tray is complete, the tray module or the probe module is moved by a stepper module by a predetermined distance, or the moving arm moves the probe module with a predetermined distance, to enable the memory cards at the next column of the tray to be checked, preloaded, and compared with the preloaded digital content using the probes while a sorting module picks up failed memory cards from the previous column based on records and instructions from the handler control module of the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Condel International Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chi-Yang Chou, Pei-Yen Chou, Yeu-Chung Lin
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Patent number: 8352094Abstract: Embodiments of a system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for aggregating an energy service from a group of loads with time-varying operating cycles are described. This aggregation may be performed by an aggregator, which provides the energy service to a power-system operator. In particular, for a desired demand response, a demand-response mechanism may modify a demand response of a given load by mapping an initial operating cycle of the load before a demand-response event to a final operating cycle. In addition, the demand-response mechanism may transition the given load to a new operating cycle associated with the demand-response event using a temporal set-point trajectory. This aggregation technique may ensure that a distribution of phases of the group of loads is, on average, uncorrelated with each other, either by preserving or modifying the distribution of phases prior to the demand-response event.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Jay T. Johnson, Daniel H. Greene, Haitham Ali Salem Hindi
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Patent number: 8352066Abstract: A machine tool with a main positioning device for positioning a main support element in a translational linear direction within a main region of displacement is provided. A main machining device and an accessory machining device are arranged on the main support element. The machining devices have pivoting devices for pivoting the machining heads in a rotatory basic pivoting direction. Every accessory pivoting device is connected to the main support element via a respective supplementary accessory positioning device for positioning the respective accessory machining head in the translational linear direction relative to the main support element within a respective supplementary accessory region of displacement.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Eberhard Zentgraf
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Patent number: 8352051Abstract: An output module for an Industrial Process Control System that drives a load in a failsafe manner. The output module drives a load in response to a driving signal and includes a controller that generates a command signal and a drive enable signal in response to said driving signal. A keep alive circuit generates an active keep alive signal unless the drive enable signal is inactive. The output module includes a driver circuit that generates a drive signal in accordance with the command signal when the keep alive signal is active such that the load can be driven with a channel failsafe switch in response to the drive signal. The output module can be integrated into any of a number of industrial process control systems to enhance the operability of such systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Automation LimitedInventor: Thomas Bruce Meagher
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Patent number: 8352050Abstract: The invention is a system for monitoring the status of a field device having data including a data acquisition module, a first and a second diagnosis engine, and a client having a user input element for receiving user input status.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Hafeezur Rahman, Rajesh Kumar Jain
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Patent number: 8348676Abstract: A method includes opening an access member of a sensing assembly to access programming features of the sensing assembly. Operating instructions for the sensing assembly are selected, and then a teaching actuator is actuated. The method further includes indicating the teaching actuator has been actuated, such as by visually indicating with an LED, and ceasing the indication. The method further includes implementing the operating instructions if the teaching actuator is released within a predetermined time period from cessation of the indication.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rudolf Engl, Helmut Pall, Reinhard Schwarz
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Patent number: 8344665Abstract: A controller for controlling a plurality of devices configured for wireless communications in a facility includes a data communications interface communicating with at least one of the devices. The controller further includes a control module configured to provide a control signal to the data communications interface for communicating to a transceiver associated with the device and for turning off the device according to an algorithm wherein the control signal is provided based on a time of day and/or a sensed condition relating to use of the facility. The transceiver reports device data to the control module to quantify a reduction in power obtained by controlling the devices according to the algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Orion Energy Systems, Inc.Inventors: Neal R. Verfuerth, Michael J. Potts, Jun Wang, Anthony J. Bartol
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Patent number: 8346512Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing the probability of a collision between a first object, whose trajectory is substantially controlled by an operator input command, and a second object.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: CMTE Development LimitedInventor: Ross McAree