Patents Issued in September 20, 2018
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Publication number: 20180267468Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology and provides an addressing method of a spatial light modulator, a holographic display device and a control method thereof, which can simplify the addressing process of the spatial light modulator. The addressing method of the spatial light modulator comprises the steps of: dividing the spatial light modulator to obtain one or more modulation regions, each modulation region comprising M loading subregions, and each loading subregion comprising at least one pixel unit, wherein M?12, and M is a positive integer; and addressing one loading subregion of each modulation region within a frame so as to load holographic data of a frame of a hologram to all the pixel units of all the addressed loading subregions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hao CHEN, Wei WEI
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Publication number: 20180267469Abstract: A dual bellows system and method that includes a main bellows which interacts with a thermally compensating bellows, whereby interaction of the main bellows with the thermally compensating bellows results in a transfer of force and/or displacement that is insensitive to temperature changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Preciflex SAInventor: Lucien VOUILLAMOZ
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Publication number: 20180267470Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanism for winding a timepiece comprising at least first and second energy accumulators, said winding mechanism comprising a winding stem, a winding pinion and a sliding pinion having face gear toothings, arranged to allow the winding pinion to be driven by the sliding pinion in both directions of rotation of the winding stem, the winding stem and the sliding pinion occupying the same axial winding position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Montres Jaquet Droz SAInventors: Bernat Monferrer, Edmond Capt
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Publication number: 20180267471Abstract: A winding device on a structure of a movement or watch case, including a telescopic push-piece, independent of the control stem, driving a rack for winding a barrel, and including, between a pipe fixed to the case and an operating head, first elastic return device tending to move the head away from the pipe, this head being capable of occupying an angular, longitudinal locking position corresponding to a rest position, or an angular position of freedom allowing axial mobility, or a stop position wherein it has one degree of freedom, this rack, which is movable against second elastic return device, cooperates with a winding wheel set meshing with an intermediate rack actuated by a return spring of the second elastic return device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Harry Winston SAInventors: Johnny BUEHLER, Bernat MONFERRER
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Publication number: 20180267472Abstract: A monolithic timepiece mechanism made in a single plate of material, comprising a frame, a first elastic suspension and an inertial regulating member which is connected to the frame by the first elastic suspension so as to be able to oscillate, a blocking mechanism having a blocking member connected to the frame by a second elastic suspension. The blocking member is controlled by the regulating member to be able to regularly and alternatively hold and release a energy distribution member and to regularly transmit energy from the energy distribution member to the regulating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Guy Semon, Wout Johannes Benjamin YPMA, Nima TOLOU
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Publication number: 20180267473Abstract: A lunar phase display device including an annular cover including four ring portions, two successive ring portions being separated by a convex lobe projecting radially towards the inside of the annular cover; a moon indicator disc, a drive device arranged to move the moon indicator disc so that the disc makes a cycloidal trajectory between two successive lobes, the moon indicator disc being at least partially occulted by each of the two lobes during one portion of the cycloidal trajectory so as to reproduce the phases of the moon during a lunar month.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Blancpain SAInventor: Martin ROBIN
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Publication number: 20180267474Abstract: Universal moon phase display device for a watch, comprising first means for calculating or receiving the date and second means for receiving a geolocation signal, and third means for calculating or receiving a lunar calendar with the correlation between the date of the moon phase, position calculating means arranged to convert the day's moon phase into a first angular position of a first display member comprised in this device and which comprises a representation of the normal moon, and further arranged to determine the northern or southern hemisphere in which this device is located, to control the direction of rotation of first drive means comprised in this device in order to drive the first display member in opposite directions in the northern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Pascal LAGORGETTE, Thierry BONNET
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Publication number: 20180267475Abstract: The invention relates to a winding mechanism of a timepiece comprising at least one first and one second power accumulators, said winding mechanism comprising a winding stem, a winding pinion and a sliding pinion having face gear toothings, facing one another, provided in order to allow driving of the winding pinion by the sliding pinion in the two directions of rotation of the winding stem, said winding stem and the sliding pinion occupying the same axial winding position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Montres Jaquet Droz SAInventors: Bernat Monferrer, Edmond Capt
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Publication number: 20180267476Abstract: A timepiece part according to the invention includes: a substrate; and a first coating configured from a material containing cobalt as a primary component, and 26 mass % to 30 mass % of Cr, and 5 mass % to 7 mass % of Mo. The first coating has a surface with a percentage surface area increase of 0% to 1.2% as measured by atomic force microscopy against a reference flat surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Tomohiko SOGO, Yuzuru TSUKAMOTO, Atsushi KAWAKAMI, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180267477Abstract: A timepiece including a dial defining an XY plane, an automaton disposed above the dial, the automaton having at least one first member and one second member, which are articulated in order to reproduce beating movements, and a driving mechanism of the automaton. The first member is provided in order to pivot about a first axis which is non-parallel to the XY plane and the second member is provided in order to pivot about a second axis which is different from the first axis. The driving mechanism of the automaton includes actuators of the first and second members, provided in order to make the first and second members respectively pivot according to non-symmetrical pivoting movements and in order to coordinate the pivoting movements of the first and second members so that the combination thereof gives a beating effect of the first and second members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Montres Jaquet Droz SAInventors: Bernat MONFERRER, Edmond CAPT
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Publication number: 20180267478Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for setting a quartz watch, the watch comprising an optical sensor and a microcontroller configured to receive electrical signals generated by the optical sensor, the method being performed by way of a portable electronic appliance comprising a point light source and a microcontroller configured to control said point light source, the method comprising the following steps: placing the optical sensor of the watch facing the point light source of the electronic appliance on the order of the microcontroller of the electronic appliance, flashing the point light source of the electronic appliance so as to form a sequence of light pulses corresponding to a coding of setting parameters, the sequence then being received by the optical sensor of the watch decoding the received light sequence, by way of the microcontroller of the watch, in order to recover the setting parameters on the order of the microcontroller of the watch, setting the watch according to the setting paraType: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Pascal LAGORGETTE, Raphael Balmer, Jean-Bernard Peters
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Publication number: 20180267479Abstract: Methods and apparatus that provide for inertial sensing. In one example, a method for inertial sensing includes trapping and cooling a cloud of atoms, applying a first beam splitter pulse sequence to the cloud of atoms, applying one or more augmentation pulses to the cloud of atoms subsequent to applying the first beam splitter pulse sequence, applying a mirror sequence to the cloud of atoms, applying a one or more augmentation pulses to the cloud of atoms subsequent to applying the mirror sequence, applying a second beam splitter pulse sequence to the cloud of atoms subsequent to applying the second augmentation pulse, modulating at least one of a phase and an intensity of at least one of the first and the second beam splitter pulse sequences, performing at least one measurement on the cloud of atoms, and generating a control signal based on the at least one measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Krish Kotru, Justin M. Brown, David L. Butts, Richard E. Stoner, Jennifer T. Choy, David M.S. Johnson, Nicole Pomeroy, Stephen P. Smith, Nancy Wu
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Publication number: 20180267480Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first clock line to provide a first clock; a second clock line to provide a second clock; a delay line having a plurality of delay cells, wherein the delay line is coupled to the first and second clock lines, wherein the first clock is to sample the second clock; and circuitry coupled to the delay line, wherein the circuitry is to determine first or latest edge transitions from the outputs of the plurality of delay cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Tarun MAHAJAN, Dheeraj SHETTY, Ramnarayanan MUTHUKARUPPAN
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Publication number: 20180267481Abstract: Time measuring circuitry has a ring oscillator, a time-to-digital converter, a time measurer and a phase randomizer. The ring oscillator has a plurality of delay circuitries connected in a ring shape, the ring oscillator adjusting delay times of the plurality of delay circuitries based on an oscillation control signal to generate an oscillation signal. The time-to-digital converter quantizes a phase of the oscillation signal at a transition timing of a reference signal. The phase synchronizing circuitry to generate the oscillation control signal based on an output signal of the time-to-digital converter so that a phase of the oscillation signal coincides with a phase of the reference signal. The time measurer to measure a time interval based on the output signal of the time-to-digital converter. The phase randomizer to randomly shift the phase of the oscillation signal to be locked by the phase synchronizing circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Satoshi KONDO, Akihide SAI
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Publication number: 20180267482Abstract: A time-to-digital converter includes: an input for receiving a time-domain input signal; an output for providing a digital output signal; a time register coupled to the input and to a first node; a time quantizer coupled to the time register for providing the digital output signal at the output; and a digital-to-time converter coupled to the output for providing a feed-back signal at the first node.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Ying WU, Robert Bogdan STASZEWSKI, Yihong MAO
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Publication number: 20180267483Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes: an information display unit; a storage unit which stores a plurality of pieces of region information and a daylight savings time observation rule corresponding to the region information; a selection unit which selects one of the plurality of pieces of region information stored in the storage unit; a determination unit which determines whether it is a region where daylight savings time is observed or not, based on the daylight savings time observation rule corresponding to the region information selected by the selection unit; and a display control unit which causes the information display unit to display that it is the region where daylight savings time is observed, if it is determined as the region where daylight savings time is observed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Norimitsu BABA
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Publication number: 20180267484Abstract: The communication device includes a receiver, a counter, an operation member and a processor. The receiver receives an external time from an external device. The counter clocks time. The operation member receives a time correction operation to correct the time clocked by the counter. The processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the received external time. The processor sets a frequency at which the time correction process is performed after the operation member receives the time correction operation, higher than a frequency at which the time correction process is performed before the operation member receives the time correction operation, until a predetermined time elapses. In the time correction process, when the difference between the time clocked by the counter and the external time received by the receiver is within a predetermined range, the processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the external time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi MOROHOSHI
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Publication number: 20180267485Abstract: An intelligent switching method and system. The method includes retrieving by a computer processor of an intelligent switching device, detection data indicating that an individual is located within a specified proximity of an apparatus. The intelligent switching device is lockably attached to the apparatus. The computer processor receives a request from an individual for enabling the apparatus. The computer processor determines that the individual is in compliance with safety procedures associated with operating the apparatus and generates an enable signal. The enable signal enables a power signal for the apparatus. The computer processor indicates that the apparatus has been enabled and is operational.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Mark A. Nelson, Kevin H. Peters, Louis R. Ruggiero
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Publication number: 20180267486Abstract: A control device includes an interface for exchanging data with a servo driver. The servo driver is configured to execute a control arithmetic operation in which a manipulation amount for driving the servo motor is determined on the basis of a control parameter determined in accordance with a control target. The control device includes a creation unit that acquires the control parameter of the servo driver and creates an internal model representing a motion characteristic of the control target, and a target value calculation unit that calculates a corrected target value to be supplied to the servo driver on the basis of a target value corresponding to a target track and a feedback value from the control target.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Mikiko MANABE, Masaki NAMIE, Mamoru EGI
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Publication number: 20180267487Abstract: The present disclosure provides a smart household equipment controlling method and apparatus, an apparatus and a non-volatile computer storage medium. In embodiments of the present disclosure, input information input by the user based on a natural dialog mode interface is obtained, then the control instruction of the smart household equipment is obtained according to the input information, so that the control instruction can be sent to the smart household equipment such that the smart household equipment executes an operation according to the control instruction. Since the natural dialog mode interface is used as an interaction mode with the user, it is unnecessary to display all operable controls of the smart household equipment provided by the application on the screen of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Guang LI, Tian XIA, Chang HUANG
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Publication number: 20180267488Abstract: A control device includes a picture generation module, an identification module, and a downloading module. The picture generation module is used for generating a panoramic picture, wherein the panoramic picture corresponds to a scene and contains a product. The identification module is used for identifying product data of the product. The downloading module is used for searching for a control program in a cloud server and downloading the control program to control the product according to the product data. The control device and an operating method therefor can control household appliances supporting different communication protocols by means of panoramic pictures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Sheng-Hsin LO
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Publication number: 20180267489Abstract: A cleaning process optimization device includes a machine learning device that learns a cleaning condition when cleaning an object to be cleaned. The machine learning device includes: a state observation unit that observes cleaning condition data indicating the cleaning condition, and contamination state data indicating a contamination state of the object to be cleaned measured before cleaning as a state variable representing a current state of environment; a determination data acquisition unit that acquires determination data indicating an adequacy determination result on accuracy of a contamination state of the object to be cleaned after cleaning; and a learning unit that learns the cleaning condition when cleaning the object to be cleaned in association with the contamination state data using the state variable and the determination data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Chikara TANGO, Masahiro MUROTA
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Publication number: 20180267490Abstract: A cognitive control of a potentially hazardous item is disclosed. A user profile can be generated for the potentially hazardous item, the user profile including a risk value and a risk threshold. A risk value can be calculated for the potentially hazardous item based on the user profile and context associated with the potentially hazardous item. The risk value can be continuously determined. The risk value can be compared to the risk threshold, and the operational state of the potentially hazardous item changed a first state to a second state, based at on a determination that the risk value exceeds the risk threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Michael S. Gordon, Jinho Hwang, Roxana Monge Nunez, Maja Vukovic
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Publication number: 20180267491Abstract: A cognitive control of a potentially hazardous item is disclosed. A user profile can be generated for the potentially hazardous item, the user profile including a risk value and a risk threshold. A risk value can be calculated for the potentially hazardous item based on the user profile and context associated with the potentially hazardous item. The risk value can be continuously determined. The risk value can be compared to the risk threshold, and the operational state of the potentially hazardous item changed a first state to a second state, based at on a determination that the risk value exceeds the risk threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Michael S. Gordon, Jinho Hwang, Roxana Monge Nunez, Maja Vukovic
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Publication number: 20180267492Abstract: A method for automated configuration of an industrial controller comprises the steps of providing an identification from an industrial controller to a server connected to said industrial controller via a network, said identification identifying said industrial controller, and receiving, from said server via said network, an industrial program and/or a parameter for an industrial program in accordance with said identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Christoph Schneider, Dieter Hess
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Publication number: 20180267493Abstract: The invention relates to a safety controller for an actuating drive (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) for controlling a gas flow or a liquid flow in an open-loop or closed-loop manner by means of a flap (3.1, 3.2, 3.3) or a valve, in particular in the field of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, fire-protection systems, and/or room protection systems. A safety circuit (9.1, 9.2, 9.3) is implemented to ensure the energy supply in a safety operating mode if an electricity supply circuit (8.1, 8.2, 8.3) drops off or is lost. A control value output circuit (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) detects status signals, in particular signals of a sensor (11.1, 11.2, 11.3), and/or status parameters of a system and/or a specifiable setting of an adjustment device that can be actuated manually. The safety control value is set to one of at least two different control values (SW1, SW2, . . . ) depending on the status signals so that the safety position of the flap is determined adaptively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: BELIMO HOLDING AGInventors: Andreas Furrer, Martin Ochsenbein
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Publication number: 20180267494Abstract: A service ticket control can close an open service ticket for a field service visit to resolve a power outage experienced at a given customer premises. The open service ticket can be closed in response to usage data from a given smart meter at the customer premises indicating that the customer premises is consuming power above a predetermined threshold level. The service ticket control closes the open service ticket prior to a service crew assigned the service ticket arriving at the given customer premises.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANYInventors: ADAM D. MERANDA, DANIEL J. BARBOSA, LAKSHMI R. PENMETSA
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Publication number: 20180267495Abstract: A distributed logic control apparatus is usable to control a system and includes a plurality of enhanced intelligent devices and a network protocol control that are connected with a data network. The intelligent devices each have a processor apparatus and an algorithm operable thereon that enables each intelligent device to control a corresponding part of the system. Other algorithms on the intelligent devices provide an advantageous setup operation that enables the intelligent devices to cooperate with one another in a self-setup operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: EATON CORPORATIONInventor: Steven Dale Rees
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Publication number: 20180267496Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for development of a control application for a controller of an automation system. The controller receives sensor signals associated with perception of a first real component during an execution of the control application program. Activity of a virtual component, including interaction with the real first component, is simulated, the virtual component being a digital twin of a second real component designed for the work environment and absent in the work environment. Virtual data is produced in response to the simulated activity of the virtual component. A control application module determines parameters for development of the control application program using the sensor signals for the first real component and the virtual data. An AR display signal for the work environment is rendered and displayed based on a digital representation of the virtual data during an execution of the control application program.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Lingyun Wang, Hasan Sinan Bank, Mareike Kritzler, Phani Ram Kumar Kuruganty, Naveen Kumar Singa, Ziyan Wu
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Publication number: 20180267497Abstract: A safety control device comprises: at least one input module having a number of input interfaces; at least one output module having a number of output interfaces; and a computing unit that includes: a programmable processor; a read-only memory to store an operating program for the processor with program code in machine-readable form for providing a function library with a number of functions of the safety control device; and a non-volatile, overwritable storage medium. A number of function activation codes are stored downloadably in the storage medium, and each of the function activation codes is capable of being assigned a function of the function library such that by logically linking the function activation codes to their associated functions of the function library only those functions of the function library can be activated whose function activation codes are stored in the storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jochen BAUKNECHT, Jörg BRUCHERTSEIFER, Károly RICK, Marcel WÖHNER
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Publication number: 20180267498Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for wire processing. In certain examples, a wire processing system is disclosed. The wire processing system includes an electrical wire and solder sleeve joining system. The electrical wire and solder sleeve joining system includes an end effector configured to hold a solder sleeve and a split funnel configured to guide insertion of wire into the solder sleeve, allow movement of the solder sleeve through the split funnel in a second position, and prevent movement of the solder sleeve through the split funnel in a first position. The end effector can additionally be configured to remove a slug from the wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Eerik J. Helmick, Bradley J. Mitchell
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Publication number: 20180267499Abstract: A machine learning device performs machine learning with respect to a servo control device including a velocity feedforward calculation unit. The machine learning device comprises: a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire from the servo control device, state information including at least position error, and combination of coefficients of a transfer function of the velocity feedforward calculation unit; an action information output unit configured to output action information including adjustment information of the combination of coefficients included in the state information, to the servo control device; a reward output unit configured to output a reward value in reinforcement learning based on the position error included in the state information; and a value function updating unit configured to update an action value function on the basis of the reward value output by the reward output unit, the state information, and the action information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Ryoutarou TSUNEKI, Satoshi IKAI, Naoto SONODA
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Publication number: 20180267500Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method comprising receiving at a memory device a manufacturing process plan having a plurality of operating steps including data from a bill of specification including manufacturing process step requirements for a manufactured product and data from a bill of characteristics including dimensions and tolerances for the manufactured product where the system or method extract data via a processor executing instructions from both the bill of specification and the bill of characteristics relating to inspection of the manufactured product and define a job to produce the manufactured product wherein the job includes assigning an identification number, specifying the product to be manufactured, identifying the quantity to be made, and identifying the number of manufactured products to be inspected.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: InspectionXpert CorporationInventor: Jeffery Neal Cope
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Publication number: 20180267501Abstract: A motor selection apparatus includes: a mechanical condition obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to a distance between a center of mass of a workpiece and a rotation center of a motor; an operating pattern obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to an operating pattern; a motor information obtainment unit that obtains information pertaining to instantaneous torque; an eccentric load torque calculation unit that calculates eccentric load torque, which is load torque acting on the motor in accordance with the rotation phase of the motor; an acceleration/deceleration torque calculation unit that calculates acceleration/deceleration torque; a required torque calculation unit that calculates a required torque from a sum of the eccentric load torque and the acceleration/deceleration torque; and a motor selection unit that determines whether a motor can be selected, based on whether the required torque is less than or equal to the instantaneous torque of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuo Yamada
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Publication number: 20180267502Abstract: A servo motor control apparatus for controlling a servo motor includes a storage unit configured to store a torque constant predefined for the servo motor, a torque constant correction unit configured to correct the torque constant stored in the storage unit when magnetic saturation occurs in a winding of the servo motor, and an output calculation unit configured to calculate an output of the servo motor on the basis of the torque constant stored in the storage unit or the torque constant after correction calculated by the torque constant correction unit, a value associated with a current of the servo motor, and a value associated with a speed of the servo motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Satoshi IKAI, Tomoyuki AIZAWA
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Publication number: 20180267503Abstract: A method for extracting a set of principal time series data of dynamic latent variables. The method includes detecting, by a plurality of sensors, dynamic samples of data each corresponding to one of a plurality of original variables. The method also includes analyzing, using a controller, the dynamic samples of data to determine a plurality of latent variables that represent variation in the dynamic samples of data. The method also includes selecting, by the controller, at least one inner latent variable that corresponds to at least one of the plurality of original variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Si-Zhao Qin, Yining Dong
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Publication number: 20180267504Abstract: When carrying out an industrial process or during the operation of an industrial system or machine, relevant data is to be detected without additionally loading the control of the industrial process or the system or machine in question. For this purpose, the invention provides a control system (1, 4, 5; 1?, 4?, 5?; 1?, 4?, 5?) with a real control (1; 1?; 1?) for controlling an industrial process, a system or a machine; a virtual control (4; 4?; 4?) for simulating the control of the industrial process, the system, or the machine; synchronization means for synchronizing the real control (1; 1?; 1?) and the virtual control (4; 4?; 4?); and a higher-level processor unit (5; 5?; 5?) for detecting and/or generating operating data and/or state data with respect to the process, the system, or the machine, wherein the operating data and/or state data is based on data originating from the virtual control (4; 4?; 4?).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: KARL-JOSEF AMTHOR, GUIDO SEEGER
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Publication number: 20180267505Abstract: A control system of a machine tool which machines a work includes: a numerical control device which controls the drive axis of the machine tool based on control data; a machined surface measurement device which measures the machined surface of the work; and a data processing device, and the data processing device includes a drive axis control data acquisition portion which acquires, from the numerical control device, the chronological control data when the work is machined; a machined surface measurement data acquisition portion which acquires spatial machined surface measurement data after the machining of the work measured by the machined surface measurement device; and a data-associating processing portion which associates the chronological control data acquired by the drive axis control data acquisition portion and the spatial machined surface measurement data acquired by the machined surface measurement data acquisition portion with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Shougo SHINODA, Satoshi IKAI
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Publication number: 20180267506Abstract: Embodiments describe a method of augmenting a reliability model for a manufactured product. The method includes receiving a product attribute identifying a product, receiving a first component attribute and a second component attribute, and receiving first manufacturing data and second manufacturing data, the first manufacturing data comprising manufacturing data associated with the first component and the second manufacturing data comprising manufacturing data associated with the second component. The method can include applying a set of compatibility rules to the first manufacturing data and the second manufacturing data, determining pairing data from the application of the set of compatibility rules to the first manufacturing data and the second manufacturing data, obtaining a reliability model of products including the product, augmenting the reliability model based on the pairing data, and performing one or more actions with the augmented reliability model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Shaul Teplinksy, Bruce Alan Phillips, Michael Schuldenfrei, Dan Sebban
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Publication number: 20180267507Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for precise localization and treatment of a target site, which builds a 3D digital model of an anatomical structure of a patient in accordance with tomographic image data of the patient; a structure model for locating a target site which comprises a template model for locating a target site and an angle locating auxiliary unit model is customized, and a position and an angle for loading and treating a target site are designed according to 3D position of the target site; then a target site locating structure is printed by 3D printing technology, and the target site locating structure is utilized to treat the target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Shanghai Pulmonary HospitalInventors: CHANG CHEN, Mu Li, Lei Zhang, Zeyao Li, Long Wang, Donglai Chen, XierMaiMaiTi Kadeer, Yawei Gu, Ziwen Fan
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Publication number: 20180267508Abstract: The invention pertains to a method of manufacturing parts, where each part must satisfy a global dimensional requirement on a specific dimension of said part akin to a tolerance stack up comprising at least two tolerances, each tolerance corresponding to a characteristic dimension of the part, where: the global dimensional requirement is fixed so that the specific dimension of the parts has a mean ?0 and a standard deviation oG lying in a global acceptance range constructed on the basis of one or more statistical criteria; a reference dimension is chosen from among the characteristic dimensions, and a mean ??? and a standard deviation oref of said reference dimension are calculated on the basis of a sample of collected parts; a range of acceptance for the other characteristic dimensions of the tolerance stack up constructed with the same statistical criterion or criteria as the global acceptance range is calculated on the basis of the global acceptance range and on the basis of the mean ??? and the standard dType: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Olivier FERRY, Arnaud CAMBEFORT, Charles CLERET DE LANGAVANT, Pascal COURTIN, Nicolas HARDOUIN
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Publication number: 20180267509Abstract: A system and a method is provided in which a CAD system receives a solid model and receives user input to select points on the surface of the solid model, to create a wire part program file based on the selected points, and to transmit the wire part program file to a bending machine. The wire part program files is configured such that the bending machine will manufacture a wire based on the wire part program file.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Constantine Grapsas
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Publication number: 20180267510Abstract: In a control device having functions of collecting and storing time series data, a system for facilitating posteriori analysis and interpretation is provided. The control device includes: a control operation unit acquiring input data from a control target and determines output data for the control target by executing a control operation based on the acquired input data; a manufacturing data acquisition unit acquiring manufacturing data from a manufacturing execution system associated with the control target; a time series database storing at least some of the input data, the output data, operation data calculated in the control operation according to the control operation unit, and the manufacturing data in a time series; and an outside output unit outputting a data set including observed values composed of at least some of the input data, the output data and the operation data and the manufacturing data corresponding thereto to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshihide NISHIYAMA, Shigeyuki EGUCHI, Masanori OTA
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Publication number: 20180267511Abstract: A flow path switching unit switches a flow path to an introduction state for introducing a sample in a sample loop, an analysis state for flowing a mobile phase into a column via the sample loop, or a cleaning state for introducing a cleaning solution into a sample loop. A command execution processing unit executes a plurality of preset control commands. A selection acceptance processing unit accepts a selection as to whether or not to switch the flow path from the analysis state to the cleaning state. In the case in which the selection of switching the flow path from the analysis state to the cleaning state is accepted by the selection acceptance processing unit, the command setting processing unit automatically includes the first switching command for switching the flow path from the analysis state to the cleaning state and the second switching command for returning the flow path from the cleaning state to the analysis state in a plurality of control commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Keiko Matsumoto
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DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SUBSTRATE PROCESSING
Publication number: 20180267512Abstract: A device controls a substrate processing apparatus that includes process modules for processing substrates. The device includes a memory that stores a program, and a processor that executes the program stored in the memory to perform a process. The process includes receiving a substrate processing recipe defining substrate processing and multiple conditioning recipes defining conditioning processes, generating a system recipe indicating an execution procedure of the received substrate processing recipe and the received conditioning recipes, and before controlling the substrate processing apparatus to process the substrates according to the system recipe, chronologically displaying an execution order of the substrate processing and the conditioning processes for each of the process modules based on the system recipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Satoko YAMAMOTO -
Publication number: 20180267513Abstract: A control device comprising a processor and a memory. The memory contains computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to retrieve from a memory a queue containing a plurality of sets of instructions, each set of instructions corresponding to parameters for forming a unit of packaging material, cause a packaging machine to create a plurality of packaging units according to the parameters, receive user input corresponding to a rewind queue functionality, and rewind the queue to cause the packaging machine to rerun a portion of the queue and create some of the plurality of the packaging units during the rerun.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: PREGIS INTELLIPACK LLCInventors: Thomas D. Wetsch, George Bertram, Edward Eisenberger
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Publication number: 20180267514Abstract: A production management device is communicably connected to a plurality of slave control devices respectively connected to a plurality of machine tools, and also communicably connected to a master control device for preparing an overall operation plan of the plurality of machine tools. The production management device acquires data on a machine type and an operation condition of each of the plurality of machine tools from the slave control device. The production management device selects, on the basis of the data, an alternative machine tool to be substituted for a specific machine tool from among the plurality of machine tools. Furthermore, the production management device substitutes the alternative machine tool for the specific machine tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Yuusaku Oho, Kazunori Iijima
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Publication number: 20180267515Abstract: A control system is configured to operate a plant to achieve an optimal value for a performance variable of the plant. The system comprise a feedforward controller configured to receive a measurable disturbance to the plant and generate a feedforward contribution to a control input to the plant using the measurable disturbance. The system also comprises an extremum-seeking controller configured to receive the performance variable from the plant and generate an extremum-seeking contribution to the control input to drive the performance variable to the optimal value. The system further comprises a control input element configured to generate the control input by combining the extremum-seeking contribution and the feedforward contribution and provide the control input to the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: John M. House, Timothy I. Salsbury
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Publication number: 20180267516Abstract: A system for automated batch data analysis is provided. The system for automated batch data analysis includes, for example, at least one system component and a database. The system also includes at least one computing device for executing stored programmable instructions to: acquire data associated with the system component, determine which data from the received data are identified for extraction based at least in part on a tag, and extract the tagged data based on the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Leslie FISTER, Michael GOETTER
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Publication number: 20180267517Abstract: System for controlling a conveyor system in a wallboard production line, including a computer processor and a deadband tuning module for controlling at least one of a line speed of a conveyor belt, a foam air amount for a slurry, and an amount of water deposited into a mixer. The deadband tuning module calibrates and sets a hysteresis threshold value based on input data of at least one of the line speed, the foam air amount, and the amount of water. The input data is collected over a predetermined period. A database is provided for storing at least one statistical information of the input data during the predetermined period. The deadband tuning module determines a deadband range based on the hysteresis threshold value and the at least one statistical information using the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Scott M. DellAngelo, Robert Wykoff