Patents Issued in July 25, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190227469
    Abstract: A fuser is described including a heater, a belt, a rotating member, and a pad. A nip portion is formed between the belt and the rotating member as the pad presses the belt toward the rotating member. The pad is biased toward a restricting member. The biasing may be performed by one or more springs. The spring may be a compression spring, a tension spring, and/or a plate spring among other types of springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Masahito Kajita, Shuhei Fukue, Kenji Takeuchi, Zhang Mingguang, Tomonori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190227470
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus measures a density of a first test chart printed using first pattern data obtained by binarizing multi-value patch pattern data with a first resolution, converts the first pattern data into second pattern data with a second resolution, and measures a density of a second test chart printed using the second pattern data. The apparatus obtains difference correction data for correcting differences between the densities of the first and second test charts, corrects the density of the multi-value patch pattern data with the first resolution based on the difference correction data, and generates test chart data including a first pattern obtained by converting pattern data obtained by binarizing the corrected multi-value patch pattern data into pattern data with the second resolution and a second pattern obtained by binarizing multi-value patch pattern data with the second resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20190227471
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a conductive roller that abuts the image carrier to rotate; a power supply circuit that applies voltage to the roller; a controller that controls the power supply circuit so as to apply the voltage to the roller over a predetermined detection period in a state in which the image carrier and the roller are rotated; a detection value acquirer that acquires a detection value acquired by the application of the voltage indicating a state of the image carrier in the detection period; and a state detector that detects a state of the image carrier on the basis of a plurality of acquired detection values, wherein a length of the detection period is set to a length at which both the numbers of rotations of the image carrier and the roller from a start of the detection period are integers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro HAYASHI, Yuhei TATSUMOTO, Koji OHARA, Makoto SHIMAZOE, Yasuhiro KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20190227472
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a container that contains a developer, a temperature information acquisition unit that acquires temperature information of the container, and a control unit that controls an image formation operation for forming an image and, in the image formation operation, the control unit executes a suspension operation for suspending the image formation operation in the case that t?toth(toth?0) is satisfied, where t is defined to be an elapsed time from when a temperature corresponding to the temperature information of the container exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature Tth, and where toth is defined to be an exceeding time threshold value related to a period during which the temperature corresponding to the temperature information of the container remains higher than the threshold temperature Tth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jun Hara, Kenichi Iida, Ryuji Hamasaki, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190227473
    Abstract: A recording sheet characteristics sensing device includes: a transmitted-light source that emits light onto a principal surface of a recording sheet being conveyed; a transmitted-light quantity detector that measures a quantity of transmitted light having passed through the recording sheet, the transmitted light being of the light emitted by the transmitted-light source; a transmitted-light diaphragm that has a diaphragm hole and limits the transmitted light entering the transmitted-light quantity detector to the transmitted light having passed through the diaphragm hole; and a sensor that senses characteristics of the recording sheet being conveyed, using the quantity of transmitted light detected by the transmitted-light quantity detector, wherein the diaphragm hole is narrower in a conveying direction than in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi GONDA, Shogo ASAOKA
  • Publication number: 20190227474
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of types of parts, and forms an image on a sheet using the plurality of parts. The apparatus includes the following. An image former forms the image on the sheet. An image reader reads image data of the sheet on which the image is formed. A hardware processor detects an image abnormality from the read image data, specifies a target part for diagnosis from the plurality of parts based on the detected image abnormality, calculates a deterioration degree of the specified target part, and diagnoses whether the target part is a cause for the detected image abnormality based on the calculated deterioration degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi ISAMIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190227475
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to perform image formation using a plurality of consumable parts includes a display unit and a display control unit. The display control unit displays, on the display unit, a first screen indicating at least a degree of consumption of a consumable part of a type in which an image forming operation stops in response to the consumable part reaching a time for replacement from among the plurality of consumable parts, and displays, on the display unit, a second screen indicating at least a degree of consumption of a consumable part of a type in which an image forming operation does not stop in response to the consumable part reaching a time for replacement from among the plurality of consumable parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshiro Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20190227476
    Abstract: An image bearing member unit and a developing unit are respectively configured to be attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus, the image bearing member unit has a first memory that stores information related to a toner amount during a toner supply in accordance with a drive amount of the image bearing member, the developing unit has a second memory that stores information related to a toner amount during the toner supply in accordance with a use amount of the developing unit, and a control device controls, during the toner supply, the toner supply with a toner amount based on the information stored in the first memory and the information stored in the second memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kodai Hayashi, Taku Watanabe, Shuhei Kawasaki, Keisuke Endoh
  • Publication number: 20190227477
    Abstract: A first opposing portion of the coupling includes first latchet hook and a second opposing portion of the second rotary body includes a second latchet hook. One of the third opposing portion of the coupling and the fourth opposing portion of the first rotary body includes a cam and the other one includes a cam face. When the first rotary body rotates in a forward direction, a camming action turns on the transmission of torque. When the first rotary body rotates in a backward direction, the transmission of torque is turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiko HANAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190227478
    Abstract: A cabinet includes a first body side engagement and a second body side engagement mounted on a body and a first cover side engagement and a second cover side engagement mounted on a cover. Slide restriction faces of the first cover side engagement and the second cover side engagement come into contact with slide restriction faces of the first body side engagement and the second body side engagement, respectively, to restrict sliding of a slider when the first cover side engagement does not engage the first body side engagement. The slide restriction face of at least one of the first body side engagement and the first cover side engagement has a length that is greater than a length of the slide restriction face of other one of the first body side engagement, the first cover side engagement, the second body side engagement, and the second cover side engagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kikura, Yoshihide Ohta, Shoji Asanuma, Gakushi Tanaka, Tomoya Tanaka, Akimitsu Obana, Taiga Shoen
  • Publication number: 20190227479
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a removable component configured to be removably installed in an installation position in the apparatus body, a cover configured to open and close when the removable component is removed from or installed in the installation position, a replacement removable component configured to be installable in and removable from the installation position in which the removable component is installed, and a holder configured to hold the replacement removable component at a different position from the installation position when the removable component is installed in the installation position and the cover opens. The replacement removable component held by the holder is configured to inhibit the cover from closing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Michiharu SUZUKI, Jun SHIORI, Hideo YOSHIZAWA, Toshio KOIKE, Teppei KIKUCHI, Kazuhiro ASO, Keinosuke KONDOH
  • Publication number: 20190227480
    Abstract: A cartridge mountable to and dismountable from a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes a memory, a guide configured to guide a portion-to-be-guided provided in the main assembly and to guide a main assembly contact provided in the main assembly to a memory contact of the memory when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and a grip portion. The guide is provided at a bottom of the cartridge when the cartridge is hung by gripping the grip portion and constitutes a part of a supporting portion configured to support the cartridge when the cartridge is placed on a horizontal placement surface. The guide has a chamfered surface formed by being chamfered. When the cartridge is supported at the supporting portion, the chamfered surface opposes the horizontal placement surface, and a surface of the memory contact is inclined with respect to the horizontal placement surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujiwara, Tadashi Horikawa, Naoki Matsumaru, Ryuta Murakami, Daisuke Makiguchi
  • Publication number: 20190227481
    Abstract: A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuo Chadani, Tomonori Mori, I, Koji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190227482
    Abstract: The separation holding member 36 includes a grip portion 36h for detaching the separation holding member 36 from the cartridge B, the grip portion 36h being configured so as to assume a first shape of protruding in a direction of separation from a surface of the cartridge B when the cartridge B mounted with the separation holding member 36 is detached from the apparatus main body A and to assume a second shape in which a gap with the surface of the cartridge B is smaller than in the first shape when the cartridge B mounted with the separation holding member 36 is mounted to the apparatus main body A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kohei Koguchi, Yoichiro Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20190227483
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process cartridge detachably mounted in an imaging device having a driving head. The imaging device includes a force applying assembly that includes a force applying part. The process cartridge includes a developer bearing member that rotates about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge frame supporting the developer bearing member; a driving force receiving assembly arranged on one side of the developing cartridge frame, the driving force receiving assembly having a power receiving part extending and retracting substantially in the first direction; and a control mechanism controlling the power receiving part to extend and retract, the control mechanism receiving the force of the force applying part to control the extension and retraction of the power receiving part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Mingsheng ZHAO, Liangliang HU, Shiping AO, Xiaobing LIU, Mei YAN
  • Publication number: 20190227484
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing drum; an exposing unit for exposing the drum; an electric circuit board provided substantially perpendicularly to an apparatus installing floor; a driving unit for supplying a driving force; a first metal plate supporting the exposing unit; a second metal plate supporting the electric circuit board; and a third metal plate supporting the driving unit. At least one of the first, second and third plates is provided at each of four sides of the apparatus, the four sides being substantially perpendicular to the floor. The first, second and third plates are electrically connected with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Satoru Takahashi, Yuichiro Inaba, Takeo Kawanami, Tetsuji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190227485
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus in which a movable member comes close to an opening to cover a part of the opening in the open state of an opening and closing member. In the course of change from the open state to the state in which an entering portion enters the inside of the housing, the movable member is pressed by the entering portion to move away from the opening and the opening and closing member moves toward the opening. In the closed state of the opening and closing member, the movable member is placed in a position further away from the opening than in the open state, and the opening and closing member is in the position in which the opening and closing member covers a part of the opening while forming a gap between the opening and closing member and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Ryuji Hamasaki, Tetsuji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190227486
    Abstract: A heater unit is detachably attachable to an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including an intake port configured to be provided in an exterior of a body of the image forming apparatus, and the heater unit includes: a power plug configured to receive power from a commercial power supply; a heater configured to generate heat by the power received from the power plug; a fan configured to rotate by the power received from the power plug and blow air warmed by the heater; and a screw hole configured to fix the heater unit to the image forming apparatus by a screw, wherein the heater unit is configured to be mounted on the intake port so that an air flow generated by the fan of the heater unit flows into the intake port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Michihito Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20190227487
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for representing a transfer of a digital object using holographic images. User input is received that is indicative of a selection of the digital object for transfer from a sending device to a receiving device. Spatial attribute data is generated based at least in part on at least one of a distance or a relative orientation between the sending device and the receiving device, and a transition path is determined based at least in part on the spatial attribute data. Holographic image data is then generated based at least in part on the transition path, and the holographic image data is sent to one or more holographic projectors to cause a first holographic image representative of the digital object and a second holographic image representative of the transition path to be projected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Eric V. Kline, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20190227488
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that controls formation of an image to be formed in air so that the image and a user do not overlap each other in a space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190227489
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detector and a reception unit. The detector detects approaching of a user toward an image formed in midair. The reception unit receives an action of the user as an operation in a case where the user approaches the image from a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190227490
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for 3D-Scanless Holographic Optogenetics with Temporal focusing (3D-SHOT), which allows precise, simultaneous photo-activation of arbitrary sets of neurons anywhere within the addressable volume of the microscope. Soma-targeted (ST) optogenetic tools, ST-ChroME and IRES-ST-eGtACR 1, optimized for multiphoton activation and suppression are also provided. The methods use point-cloud holography to place multiple copies of a temporally focused disc matching the dimensions of a designated neuron's cell body. Experiments in cultured cells, brain slices, and in living mice demonstrate single-neuron spatial resolution even when optically targeting randomly distributed groups of neurons in 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Laura Waller, Hillel Adesnik, Nicolas C. Pégard
  • Publication number: 20190227491
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detector that detects a direction of movement of a user relative to an image formed in an air, and a controller that controls formation of the image based on the detected direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190227492
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display device, in particular a head-mounted display or a head-up display, for representing a two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional scene. The display device comprises a spatial light modulator device having pixels, and a beam offset device. The spatial light modulator device is illuminatable with light. The beam offset device is configured to be controllable in such a way that the light modulated by the pixels of the spatial light modulator device is laterally displaceable by less than one pixel extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
    Inventors: Bo KROLL, Norbert LEISTER
  • Publication number: 20190227493
    Abstract: A mechanical isotropic harmonic oscillator including a frame, a mass configured to oscillate, and three flexure rods, each flexure rod connecting the mass to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Simon Henein, Lennart Rubbert, Ilan Vardi
  • Publication number: 20190227494
    Abstract: The Invention relates to the technical field of watches, and in particular, to a screw-bezel interchangeable watch, comprising a watch case, a watch mechanical rotational apparatus, and an energy-supply knob. A watch bezel and the watch case are tightly threaded and movably connected. An upper end surface of the watch case has a circular structure. A transparent lens with a smaller diameter is provided in the middle of circular structure. An annular decorative ring is disposed on an outer side of the transparent lens, several decorative rings are disposed, and the decorative rings have different decorative effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Guofu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190227495
    Abstract: This accessory has adjustable elasticized straps, used to attach it on various types of containers; it contains a digital tinier encased in a magnifying plastic shell. When the timer shell cover is press down it resets the timer to zero and begins to track elapsed time in minutes, hours and days. This accessory has any number of uses, for example someone taking medication can determine the last time they took their medication, by resetting the timer on the attached accessory, each time they take a dosage. This can lessen the possibility of under or over dosing medication. Another example is on a beverage container, when the product is opened for the first time, the timer on the attached accessory is set to zero and begins to track elapsed time. By tracking its age after opening, it lessens the possibility of someone consuming a product past its recommended useful life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Frank Marinello, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190227496
    Abstract: Provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a radiation shield 10 including a shield wall surrounding a hollow region capable of accommodating therein atoms for an optical lattice clock 100, the shield wall having, provided therein, at least two apertures communicating with outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KATORI, Masao TAKAMOTO, Ichiro USHIJIMA, Takehiro TAWARA, Hideo YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20190227497
    Abstract: In an analog electronic watch system, a terminal equipment detects current display positions of hands in an image of the hands and a dial plate, and generates current display time information based on the current display positions. An analog electronic watch corrects the display positions of the hands based on the display time information. The terminal equipment at least acquires hand identification information including hand shape information about a shape of the hand of the analog electronic watch based on watch identification information transmitted from the analog electronic watch. The terminal equipment detects the current display positions based on the hand identification information, and transmits display time information based on the current display positions to the analog electronic watch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke MATSUOH
  • Publication number: 20190227498
    Abstract: A control device for a process that influences the process via a manipulated variable in accordance with a control deviation between a setpoint and a controlled variable influenced by a disturbance variable, includes a controller that produces the manipulated variable from the control deviation fed to the controller, a controller dead zone element arranged before the controller and which can be activatable/deactivatable via a control apparatus, where the controller dead zone element is deactivated when the control deviation exceeds a first threshold value and reactivated when the control deviation falls below a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value, and includes an adding element that contains a low-pass filter and preferably a disturbance-variable dead zone element arranged after the low-pass filter and which produces an auxiliary manipulated variable from the disturbance variable and adds the auxiliary manipulated variable onto the manipulated variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd-Markus PFEIFFER, Daniel LABISCH, Felix POHMER
  • Publication number: 20190227499
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled with computer memory and configured to perform operations of one or more components of the computer-implemented system. The system includes a detachable module (DM) delivery system configured to deploy, from release grooves of the NRSS and during a survey of the NRSS inside a wellbore during drilling of a well, plural DMs into an environment surrounding the NRSS, wherein the plural DMs are pre-loaded into the NRSS, and plural DMs are configured to gather and store sensing data from the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Bodong Li, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Shaohua Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190227500
    Abstract: A control system comprising a feedback controller 1 for determining an operation amount u in a control-implemented system based on a command value r*, a detection value y of the control-implemented system and phase information ? for die control-implemented system, wherein the feedback controller 1 has a periodic disturbance suppression controller 4 for outputting a periodic disturbance compensation signal rpd* based on the detection value y mid the phase information ?; and a resonance/disturbance suppression controller 3 for calculating the operation amount u based on the detection value y and a corrected command value r obtained by adding the periodic disturbance compensation signal rpd* to the command value r*. The periodic disturbance suppression controller 4 uses a generalized periodic disturbance observer. In the control system, resonance, non-periodic disturbances and periodic disturbances are all suppressed in order to raise the system control performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yugo Tadano, Masakatsu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20190227501
    Abstract: An automatic control apparatus including a controller and a motor device is provided. The motor device includes an output shaft. The controller drives the motor device so that the motor device is operated in a non-fixed mode or a fixed mode. If the motor device is operated in the fixed mode, a rotation angle of the output shaft of the motor device is maintained at a target angle. When the controller determines that the rotation angle of the output shaft is changed, if the controller determines that a difference between a current angle and the target angle exceeds a threshold angle, the controller resets the target angle by the current angle, so that the output shaft is maintained at a reset target angle. In addition, an automatic control method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Tung
  • Publication number: 20190227502
    Abstract: A machine learning device that performs machine learning with respect to a changing unit configured to change a parameter of a control unit configured to control a servo motor and a compensation value of at least one of a position command and a torque command includes: a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire state information including the position command, a positional error, a combination of the parameter and the compensation value; an action information output unit configured to output action information including adjustment information of the combination of the parameter and the compensation value included in the state information; a reward output unit configured to output a reward value of reinforcement learning based on the positional error included in the state information; and a value function updating unit configured to update a value function based on the value of the reward, the state information, and the action information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu NAKAMURA, Satoshi IKAI
  • Publication number: 20190227503
    Abstract: A process and a system collect data from a data-source into a manufacturing operation management (MOM) data warehouse. The data in the MOM data-warehouse are exposed according to a basic data model in which a performance parameter is linked to a basic set of context identifiers for MOM analysis purposes. The data in the data source are exposed according to a source data model in which a source performance parameter is linked to a source set of context identifiers. A data extensor module is provided for processing the data received from the data source to add, upon need, a context identifier linked to the source performance parameter. Whereby the added context identifier is present in the basic set but it is not present in the source set. The data extensor module processing data is received from the data source to obtain augmented data stored in the MOM data warehouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: GIORGIO CORSINI, GIULIANO TRIFOGLIO
  • Publication number: 20190227504
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to computer methods and systems that build and deploy a pattern model to detect an operating event in an online plant process. To build the pattern model, the methods and systems define a signature of the operating event, such that the defined signature contains a time series pattern for a KPI associated with the operating event. The methods and systems deploy the pattern model to automatically monitor, during online execution of the plant process, trends in movement of the KPI as a time series. The methods and systems determine, in real-time, a distance score between a range of the monitored time series and the time series pattern contained in the defined signature. The methods and systems automatically detect the operating event in the online industrial process based on the determined distance score, and alter parameters of the process (e.g., valves, actuators, etc.) to prevent the operating event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jian Ma, Hong Zhao, Ashok Rao, Andrew L. Lui, Willie K. C. Chan
  • Publication number: 20190227505
    Abstract: A control device for a technical process, having at least two devices for detecting a respective input signal and at least one manipulated variable output device. The output device forms a difference between a reference variable and a controlled variable and ascertains a manipulated variable therefrom. The control device additionally has at least one internal signal processing system for influencing the time response and damping behavior of a control loop formed by the control device and technical process. At least two filter devices provide signal processing. A first filter device interacts with the process such that the control loop time response can be influenced by a filter device property change, and at least one amplification element interacts such that the control loop damping behavior can be influenced by an amplification element amplification factor change and such that the second filter device and the I element can be activated individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Dieter BURGWINKEL
  • Publication number: 20190227506
    Abstract: A network driven actuator mapping agent is provided. A system includes a sensor configured to sense an event in a first environment. The system also includes an actuator configured to perform an action in a second environment. Moreover, the system further includes a mapping manager configured to map the sensed event to the actuator to provide a custom interaction in the second environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Anthony E. Martinez, Bradley S. Tagg
  • Publication number: 20190227507
    Abstract: A system for controlling a remote electronics system includes a configuration device, a venue device, a user device, and a storage device storing configuration information relating to each piece of equipment included in a list of equipment. The configuration device performs a series of steps, including: accepting from the venue device, at least one piece of venue equipment from the list of equipment; accessing the configuration information relating to the at least one piece of venue equipment; accepting from the user device at least one generalized instruction (agnostic as to which equipment was selected) for a piece of equipment; creating at least one instruction specific from the at least one generalized instruction based on the configuration information; and transmitting the at least one specific instruction to the venue device. The venue device then uses same to control the at least one piece of venue equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Edward W. Miles
  • Publication number: 20190227508
    Abstract: An automation system for process automation including at least one automation device which has at least one fieldbus interface for connection to a bus for transmitting process data, an arithmetic unit, a digital data memory and a data interface for transmitting program-flow-related event data; and an analysis device connected to the at least one automation device. The automation device is set up to run one or more computer programs with the aid of the arithmetic unit and to capture program flow events occurring during the running of the at least one computer program and to store them together with current time information as program-flow-related event data in the digital data memory, and wherein the arithmetic unit of the automation device is set up to continuously send the program-flow-related event data stored in the digital data memory to the analysis device connected via the data interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: WAGO VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Stefan VAN LIER
  • Publication number: 20190227509
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing equipment maintenance are disclosed. The method receives data that is captured by at least one sensor deployed at a location, wherein the data is associated with at least one parameter of an equipment, receives atmospheric data for the location, monitors the at least one parameter of the equipment and the atmospheric data for the location, determines for the at least one parameter, whether an update to a risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, when a deviation from a baseline is detected that is greater than a threshold for a maximum deviation from the baseline, performs the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment, when the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, and generates a ticket for a remedial action based on the risk measure, when the risk measure triggers the scheduling of the remedial action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Anoop Viswanath, James Gavillet, Otis Jennings, Satya Vivek Kanakadandila, Weiping Liu, Brian Lois, Muhammad Sabir, John Schinter, Christopher Tsai, Vinu Varghese
  • Publication number: 20190227510
    Abstract: A monitoring, alerting and reporting system and methods for recording and monitoring specific portions of static and digital displays and display panels, such as billboards, by recording the display using multiple cameras and providing remote monitoring, operational reporting and alerts, along with POP services, which include a web-based or application-based monitoring, alerting and reporting system. For accuracy purposes, the system relies on a camera to record the actual advertisement or message being displayed on the billboard, while a second camera is used to record a unique identification code or mark pertaining to the particular advertisement being displayed, whether the advertisement is an image, a video or even text. By recording both the actual video and the identification code, the system can accurately monitor and report on the various advertisements being displayed, including the time and length of display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: William Hoggatt
  • Publication number: 20190227511
    Abstract: Techniques for error handling by a servomechanism are disclosed. The servomechanism determines, based on a first set of values assigned to servomechanism variables, electrical signals for controlling a component during a particular time interval, and applies the electrical signals to move the component. Subsequently, the servomechanism measures values for attributes associated with the component. Based on the measured attribute values, the servomechanism computes a second set of values for the servomechanism variables. Responsive to determining that the measured attribute values are erroneous, the servomechanism refrains from modifying the electrical signals based on the second set of values for the servomechanism variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher West, James Baer, Terry Lane
  • Publication number: 20190227512
    Abstract: In an electrical power outlet device, a processor and a memory are configured to execute an application within the outlet device, which computes a pattern of usage of the outlet device. A set of sensors in the outlet device includes a first sensor that is usable to detect an event in an environment in which the outlet device is supplying power. The environment includes elements that are not participating in an electrical circuit that receives power from the outlet device and the event is usable by the application to alter the pattern of usage. An autonomous modification of an operation of the outlet device is performed in response to the pattern of usage, the event, or both. The operation changes a power supplying state of the outlet device without using an external switching apparatus or an external logic implemented outside the outlet device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Gordon, RYAN T. GORDON, Maja VUKOVIC
  • Publication number: 20190227513
    Abstract: An analysis system for a logic program for a programmable logic controller (PLC) is provided. The analysis system includes a non-transitory memory and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the logic program and divide it into a plurality of segments. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of features among the plurality of segments. The processor is configured to assign the plurality of features to respective classes. The processor is configured to map the plurality of features to respective data objects corresponding to the respective classes. The processor is configured to write the respective data objects to the non-transitory memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Derrick Cobb, Ravish Eshwarappa, Noah Ronneberg, Soumyashree Gad, Jiongqian Liang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20190227514
    Abstract: A method determines an optimized cutting plan for using a guillotine to cut a batch of rectangular pieces of glass out from at least one sheet of glass. The method includes initializing including defining cutting constraints and positioning constraints for the pieces together with an optimization criterion; creating a tree comprising a root, leaves, each presenting a complete cutting plan enabling all of the pieces of the batch to be cut out, the cutting plan associated with a node of the tree being obtained by adding to the partial cutting plan associated with the parent node of the node, and in compliance with the constraints, the next piece for the frame determined in compliance with the sequence predetermined for the frame; and selecting a complete cutting plan associated with a leaf of the tree as a function of the optimization criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Claire LUCAS, Francois SAUSSET, Lydia TLILANE
  • Publication number: 20190227515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for verifying a value stream along a transport route (TS), in particular along a pipeline or a production line, wherein a plurality of field devices (F), each having at least one sensor (S) and/or actuator for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable and an electronic unit (EE), are arranged along the transport route (TS) and generate corresponding data (DAT), or for verifying the value stream of at least one product in warehouse stock, wherein a first service platform (SP1) is used, via which a plurality of participant nodes (TK) each with at least one database (DB) have a communication connection to one another according to a distributed ledger or the blockchain technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Nikolai Fink, Michael Gunzert, Dietmar Spanke, Ulrich Kaiser, Dimitri Mousko
  • Publication number: 20190227516
    Abstract: A carriage assembly includes a housing having first and second pieces each defining a recess that has a bearing surface with raised dimples. The first and second pieces are assembled to each other such that the recesses are aligned to form a cylindrical hole. A bushing is received in the hole and has an outer surface disposed against the dimples of the first and second pieces. The dimples are deformed during assembly to secure and locate the bushing within the cylindrical hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Jason HOOVER
  • Publication number: 20190227517
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a rotational position calculator that calculates a rotational position of a motor that rotates a rotor; an operation state controller that controls a state of supply of operation power to the rotational position calculator; a deviation calculator that calculates a deviation of a rotational position of the rotor on the basis of a stop target rotational position of the rotor and the rotational position of the rotor after supply of a drive current to a coil is stopped and before supply of operation power to the rotational position calculator is stopped; a storage controller that stores the deviation on a storage; a rotational position control signal generator that generates a rotational position control signal for controlling the rotational position of the rotor on the basis of the deviation stored on the storage and the stop target rotational position of the rotor; and a drive current output unit that outputs the drive current to the coil on the basis of the rotational position
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki FUKUHARA, Kentaro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190227518
    Abstract: A numerical controller capable of determining whether or not an input numerical value of an operator is within a range of a limit value includes: an input receiving unit receiving various operations of the operator and input of numerical values for input items; an input numerical value limiting unit determining whether or not the input numerical value is within the range of the limit value; a limit value changing unit changing the limit value when the input receiving unit receives a specific operation; and a limit value restoring unit restoring the limit value to a value before the change when the specific operation is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Ozeki