Thermal Related Property Patents (Class 702/136)
  • Patent number: 11869088
    Abstract: Systems and methods for converting live weather data to a weather index for offsetting weather risk. Weather data source systems generate one or more weather data streams that include weather forecast model and observations data. A data distribution system receives a weather index request, identifies at least one instrument and at least one location associated with the request. Weather risk indication data is extracted among the weather data streams associated with the identified location based on predefined parameters associated with the identified instrument. The extracted data is converted into a set of weather index values corresponding to the location, based on a predetermined algorithm associated with the identified instrument. A weather index presentation package is generated that includes the set of weather index values for distribution to at least one user device. The weather index presentation package being distributed is updated concurrent with changes to weather risk indication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen John Mitchell, Charles Gabriel Harris
  • Patent number: 11808641
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices relate to remote temperature sensing responsive to fractional currents used to bias a remote temperature diode. Fractional currents may be selected to simplify at least some temperature calculations performed using digital logic. Values of at least two voltage changes may be determined at least partially based on values of voltages generated across a pair of nodes at least partially responsive to excitation currents. Such pair of nodes associated with sensing paths coupled with a remote diode. A value of temperature may be determined at least partially based on the values of at least two voltage changes and a stored value of a fractional mirror ratio. The fractional mirror ratio represents a relationship between current magnitudes of excitation currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar, Hyunsoo Yeom
  • Patent number: 11788879
    Abstract: A system analyzes a state of an inductive operator. The system includes a measuring device that is configured to: detect an acoustic reference signal and a plurality of operating variables, which can change over time, of the inductive operator or a reference inductive operator during a reference time period; and detect an acoustic signal and the operating variables during a productive time period. The system also includes an evaluating device that is configured to: generate a reference data set from the reference signal and a productive data set from the acoustic signal; perform a regression analysis of the reference data set and thereby create a model for description of the acoustic reference signal by the operating variables; and generate a state evaluation of the inductive operator from a difference between the productive data set and values modelled in accordance with the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK REINHAUSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Viereck, Anatoli Saveliev
  • Patent number: 11694017
    Abstract: A quality rating for a memory device to be installed at a memory sub-system is determined, where the quality rating corresponds to a performance of the memory device at one or more operating temperatures. A determination is made whether the quality rating for the memory device satisfies a first quality rating condition associated with a first temperature zone of two or more temperature zones of the memory sub-system. Responsive to the determination that the quality rating for the memory device satisfies the first quality rating condition, the memory device is assigned to be installed at a first memory device socket of the first temperature zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenlei Shen, Tingjun Xie, Charles See Yeung Kwong
  • Patent number: 11586932
    Abstract: A computer-implemented machine learning model training method and resulting machine learning model. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving at a computer memory training data; and training on a computer processor a machine learning model on the received training data using a plurality of batch sizes to produce a trained processor. The training may include calculating a plurality of activations during a forward pass of the training and discarding at least some of the calculated plurality of activations after the forward pass of the training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Goyal, Anamitra Roy Choudhury, Yogish Sabharwal, Ashish Verma
  • Patent number: 11454092
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method operates a heat pump that uses a ground loop to perform heating or cooling in a site. During the operating of the heat pump over a time period: the method measures a first series of measurements of a ground loop water flow rate by the heat pump; a second series of measurements of a ground loop fluid temperature for the heat pump; and measures a third series of measurements of a local soil or deep earth temperature. The first measurement, the second measurement, and the third measurement are outputted where a ground loop thermal resistance value is calculated for the heat pump based on the first measurement, the second measurement, and the third measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Dandelion Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev James Quazi, Ryan Joseph Carda, Brian Lee Zimmerly
  • Patent number: 11421312
    Abstract: A method comprises: annealing a steel sheet by conveying the steel sheet through a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone in the stated order in an annealing furnace; and then applying a hot-dip galvanized coating onto the steel sheet discharged from the cooling zone. Reducing or non-oxidizing humidified gas and reducing or non-oxidizing dry gas are supplied into the soaking zone. A CO gas concentration is measured using a CO gas concentration meter provided in an exhaust portion for gas in the soaking zone. A decarburized layer thickness of the steel sheet is calculated from the measured CO gas concentration. At least one of a flow rate and a dew point of the humidified gas is controlled so that the calculated decarburized layer thickness is less than or equal to a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gentaro Takeda, Yoichi Makimizu, Gosuke Ikeda, Hideyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11416786
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a computer system that is located within a power grid and that is associated with its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding a future load event associated with the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more operations are performed to balance the computer system with the power grid during the future load event, and to ensure a determined availability of services associated with the computer system during the future load event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rees Helsel, Vincent Joseph Blas, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Sean Michael James, Brandon Middaugh
  • Patent number: 11333791
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of calculating the radiogenic heat production (RHP) of a geophysical structure, wherein there is provided at least one geophysical parameter of the geophysical structure, the method including inverting the at least one geophysical parameter to estimate the RHP of the geophysical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
    Inventors: Ketil Hokstad, Kenneth Duffaut, Christine Fichler, Rune Kyrkjebø, Zuzana Alasonati Tasarova
  • Patent number: 11247232
    Abstract: In described examples, a first and second driver each include a first-rail output transistor including a first terminal coupled to a first power rail and a second-rail output transistor including a first terminal coupled to a second power rail. The first-rail output transistor of each of the first and second drivers includes a second terminal coupled to a second terminal of the second-rail output transistor of an output node of each respective first and second driver. A resistive load includes a first terminal coupled to the first-driver output node and includes a second terminal coupled to the second-driver output node. A sampling circuit generates an indication of an impedance of at least one of the output transistors of the first and second drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Krishnaswamy Nagaraj, Asif Qaiyum, Baher S. Haroun
  • Patent number: 11231758
    Abstract: The CPU includes a plurality of CPU cores. The temperature determination unit determines whether or not the temperature indicated by the acquired temperature information is equal to or higher than a threshold value. When it is determined that the temperature indicated by the temperature data is equal to or higher than the threshold value, the thermal generation control unit performs thermal generation control on the CPU. The group data includes high-priority group information specifying a CPU core of a first group to which execute of a high-priority application is allocated in the CPU, and low-priority group information specifying a CPU core of a low-priority group to which execution of a low-priority application is allocated in the CPU. Based on the group data, the control target determining unit determines a CPU core to be subjected to thermal generation control from among the CPU cores of the low priority group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Gomi, Gaku Inami, Ryu Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11220357
    Abstract: In an example, a method for on-board maintenance of an aircraft is described. The method includes measuring, by a pressure sensor, a pressure in a tube associated with an engine of an aircraft. The method also includes determining, by a control system and based on the pressure measured by the pressure sensor, that the tube is at least partially blocked by moisture. Additionally, the method includes, responsive to determining that the tube is at least partially blocked by the moisture, providing an alert signal from the control system to a flight deck of the aircraft. The method also includes, responsive to the alert signal, operating an actuation switch at the flight deck to actuate a valve to an open state. The method further includes, responsive to actuating the valve to the open state, supplying an inert gas from an inert gas supply to the tube to expel the moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Timothy A. Best, Ravin R. Pierre, Hamid R. Nikjou
  • Patent number: 11221245
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for metering water are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a first meter that is connected to a first pipe, first audio data collected during a time period and first temperature data collected during the time period. The actions further include receiving, from a second meter that is connected to a second pipe, second audio data collected during the time period and second temperature data collected during the time period. The actions further include, based on the first audio data, the first temperature data, the second audio data, and the second temperature data, determining a first amount of material that has flowed through the first pipe during the time period relative to a second amount of material that has flowed through the second pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Vaughn Realty Ventures LLC
    Inventors: William J. Raduchel, Bradley Moser Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11151735
    Abstract: A deformation processing support system acquires target shape data of a work having a reference line; acquires intermediate shape data from the work in an intermediate shape having a reference line marked thereon; and overlaps the two data on each other by aligning the reference lines relative to each other, to calculate a necessary deformation amount of the work based on a difference between the two data overlapped on each other. To align the reference lines with each other, first and second alignment axes with the same length calculated for the respective reference lines are superimposed on each other. Subsequently, the intermediate shape data is relatively rotated with respect to the target shape data around the first alignment axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuki Nakagawa, Shinichi Nakano, Naohiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11127611
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller calculates an estimation temperature profile, which represents a change with time in temperature of a substrate mounting surface in a state where a substrate is placed on a substrate stage, from warp amount information indicating a warp of the substrate. Further, the controller detects abnormality of a placement state of the substrate, on a basis of a difference between an actual measurement temperature profile, which represents a change with time in actual temperature measured by a temperature sensor in a state where the substrate is placed on the substrate stage, and the estimation temperature profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Aida
  • Patent number: 10955884
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing power in a thermal couple aware system includes determining a candidate configuration mapping based upon one or more criteria, the candidate configuration mapping being a mapping of performance for a candidate configuration of processor sockets in the thermal couple aware system. The candidate configuration mapping is evaluated by comparing the candidate configuration mapping to a stored configuration. If the evaluated candidate configuration mapping provides a better metric than the stored configuration, the stored configuration is updated with the evaluated candidate configuration mapping, and programming instructions are executed in accordance with the candidate configuration mapping if no other configuration mappings are to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Huang, Manish Arora, Abhinandan Majumdar, Indrani Paul, Leonardo de Paula Rosa Piga
  • Patent number: 10861726
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a first image capture module, a second image capture module, and a first projector. The first image capture module has a first optical axis forming an angle from approximately 70° to approximately 87° with respect to the surface of a carrier. The second image capture module has a first optical axis forming an angle of approximately 90° with respect to the surface of the carrier. The first projector has a first optical axis forming an angle from approximately 40° to approximately 85° with respect to the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Chun Hung Tsai, Hsuan Yu Chen, Ian Hu, Meng-Kai Shih, Shin-Luh Tarng
  • Patent number: 10716174
    Abstract: A heating cooker includes shooting section (201) for shooting an image inside a heating chamber that accommodates a heat-target object, and controller (200) that sets a shooting condition for shooting the image of an interior of the heating chamber and carries out an image recognition to the image. Controller (200) analyzes the image of the interior of the heating chamber, thereby recognizing a state inside the heating chamber, and then changes the shooting condition in response to the state inside the heating chamber for shooting the image. The structure discussed above allows this heating cooker (100a), which carries out the image recognition to the image of the interior of the heating chamber, to achieve a greater accuracy in the image recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gantetsu Matsui, Hirohisa Imai
  • Patent number: 10628762
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a data center that is located within a power grid and that includes its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Current and/or future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding an upcoming, anticipated load for the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more mitigation operations are selected and then performed at the data center to ensure that the data center is adequately available. Some of these mitigation operations include, but are not limited to, causing the data center to consume more power, causing the data center's power sources to store more power, or causing the data center to migrate services and/or data to a different data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rees Helsel, Vincent Joseph Blas, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Sean Michael James, Brandon Middaugh
  • Patent number: 10541164
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a substrate metrology system. The substrate metrology system includes a substrate warpage measurement module configured to determine one or more substrate warpage parameters of a substrate by taking a plurality of separate measurements at a plurality of different positions over a substrate. The substrate has a plurality of conductive interconnect layers within a dielectric structure over a semiconductor substrate and a conductive bump disposed over the dielectric structure and configured to be coupled to an additional substrate of a multi-dimensional chip. A substrate metrology module has an optical component and is configured to measure one or more dimensions of the conductive bump. A position control element is configured to move the optical component. A feed-forward path is coupled between an output of the substrate warpage measurement module and an input of the position control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nai-Han Cheng, Chi-Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 10317975
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and a method pertain to monitoring on the computing device resource consumption, storing resource consumption data obtained from the monitoring, receiving a request from the user for information regarding resource consumption or environmental impact associated with the user's operation of the computing device, and presenting to the user information regarding resource consumption or environmental impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Bruce David Michelson
  • Patent number: 10102469
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) sensing device in an assembly is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a remote transceiver. The sensing device includes a substrate; an antenna disposed on the substrate; an electronic circuit disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the antenna; a heating element electrically coupled to the electronic circuit for heating a target area; and a sensing element thermally coupled to the heating element for sensing a temperature of the heating element. The RF sensing device is configured to wirelessly receive a power and provides the power to the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Ronald D. Jesme, Nicholas T. Gabriel, Andrew P. Bonifas
  • Patent number: 10031989
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for integrated circuit (IC) performance modeling, wherein a design layout of an IC is analyzed to identify a first conductive shape (e.g., an internal local interconnect or contact bar shape) on a diffusion boundary shape of a semiconductor device and to also identify the first conductive shape's connectivity to any second conductive shapes (e.g., a via, via bar, or external local interconnect shapes) inside and/or outside the limits of the diffusion boundary shape. A condensed resistance model for the first conductive shape is selected from a model library based on the previously identified connectivity. The selected condensed resistance model will have a lesser number of nodes and/or resistive elements than a full resistance model for the conductive shape. The selected condensed resistance model is used to construct a condensed netlist, which is used in a combined netlist to simulate IC performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Ralph M. Alfano, Arnold E. Baizley, Ning Lu, Judith H. McCullen, Cole E. Zemke
  • Patent number: 9928152
    Abstract: A method(s) and system(s) provide a non-intrusive sensing and instrumentation of work processes performed in computing environment. The method includes providing a pre-defined collection of work processes covering the entire activities to be performed by the end user on the IT system. Each of the process steps of the work processes are assigned with a meta-data. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of measures for each of the process step and obtaining task performance metrics by analyzing the plurality of measures. Furthermore, the method includes collecting a set of actions being performed by the user on the IT system. The method further includes identifying the work processes performed by the user and subsequently, identifying the task performance measures of the user by comparing the identified work processes with the task performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
    Inventors: Anand Kumar, Kesav Vithal Nori, Nikhil Ravindranath Zope
  • Patent number: 9859139
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of bump metrology that relies upon advanced process control (APC) to provide substrate warpage parameters describing a warpage of a substrate to a bump metrology module to improve focus of the bump metrology module. In some embodiments, the method measures one or more substrate warpage parameters of a semiconductor substrate. An initial focal height of a lens of a bump metrology module is calculated based upon the measured substrate warpage parameters. The lens of the bump metrology module is then placed at the initial focal height, and height and critical dimensions of a plurality of bumps on the semiconductor substrate are subsequently measured using the lens. By providing the substrate warpage parameters to the bump metrology module, the bump metrology module can use real-time process control to account for wafer warpage, thereby improving throughput and yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nai-Han Cheng, Chi-Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 9830410
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for evaluating cooling performance of an electronics system is provided. The method includes acts of dividing the electronics system into a computational grid including a plurality of fluid cells and a plurality of solid cells, determining air flow values for the plurality of fluid cells using a potential flow model analysis, determining a temperature of a fluid cell by calculating heat transfer into the fluid cell from any adjacent fluid cells and from any adjacent solid cells, determining a temperature of a solid cell by calculating heat transfer into the solid cell from any adjacent solid cells and heat transfer out of the solid cell into any adjacent fluid cells, and storing, on a storage device, the air flow values and the temperature of the fluid cell and the temperature of the solid cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventor: James William VanGilder
  • Patent number: 9655684
    Abstract: A catheter guidance system and method for guiding a catheter through the bloodstream of the patient's cardiovascular system in a medical procedure. The catheter has a front tip with a heating element for slightly heating a media surrounding the front tip in a blood vessel of the patient's cardiovascular system, and two temperature measuring elements located adjacent to and in front and behind the heating element respectively for measuring temperatures in the media at their respective locations. A guidance device is coupled to the catheter for converting the heating power and temperature measurement signals to digital signals, processing the digital signals, and displaying guidance information indicative of the location of the front tip of the catheter relative to the blood vessel wall of the patient's cardiovascular system. The guidance information may be shown by an intuitive traffic light type display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Evgeny Ter-Ovanesyan
  • Patent number: 9658663
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3-D) processor stack includes a plurality of processor cores implemented in a plurality of layers. A controller is to selectively throttle one or more of a plurality of processor cores in response to detecting a thermal event. The controller selectively throttles the one or more of the plurality of processor cores based on values of thermal couplings between the plurality of layers and based on measures of criticality of threads executing on the plurality of processor cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Huang, Manish Arora, Yasuko Eckert, Indrani Paul
  • Patent number: 9609810
    Abstract: A method is provided for modulating transpiration in an organism that is capable of photosynthesis, where the method includes contacting the organism with a composition including an effective amount of an oxygen antagonist. Also provided is an apparatus for modulating transpiration in an organism that is capable of photosynthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Alistair K. Chan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9588555
    Abstract: Managing cooling operations in a parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: receiving, by a target compute node from an origin compute node, a message; identifying, by the target compute node, one or more characteristics of the message; and controlling, by the target compute node, cooling operations in dependence upon the one or more characteristics of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Globalfoundries Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Archer, Bin Cao, Phillip V. Mann
  • Patent number: 9360906
    Abstract: An interface couples a plurality of compute units to a power management controller. The interface conveys a power report for the plurality of compute units to the power management controller. The power management controller receives the power report, determines a power action for the plurality of compute units based at least in part on the power report, and transmits a message specifying the power action through the interface. The power action is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Branover, Steven Kommrusch, Marvin Denman, Maurice Steinman
  • Patent number: 9317648
    Abstract: A board design aid device includes a calculating and correcting units. The calculating unit groups a plurality of layers in a multi-layer board into a plurality of pairs of layers based on design information of the multi-layer board, the plurality of layers being stacked and derives a difference of total amounts in respect to a board design element, each of the total amounts being related to each layer of a pair of layers of the plurality of pairs of layers, the board design element being related to a warp of the multi-layer board. The correcting units, based on the difference of the total amounts, corrects an amount of the board design element for at least one of layers among at least one of the plurality of the pairs of layers so that the difference of the total amounts of the board design element is maintained within a certain range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Mami Nakadate, Tetsuyuki Kubota, Shigeo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9200982
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention include a system having: at least one computing device connected with an array of ultrasonic probes on a gas turbomachine component, the at least one computing device configured to: instruct a first probe in the array of ultrasonic probes to transmit an ultrasonic beam to at least one additional probe in the array of ultrasonic probes; and determine a property of a medium between the first probe and the at least one additional probe based upon a time between transmission of the ultrasonic beam from the first probe and reception of the ultrasonic beam at the at least one additional probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sascha Schieke, Vivek Venugopal Badami, Achalesh Kumar Pandey
  • Publication number: 20150142368
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved method for determining the mechanical heat-up lag of a building. The time lag for the heating system to reach its set point, which is referred to as the Mechanical Heat-up Lag (MHL) is dependent on the natural thermal lag (NTL) of a building. The invention provides a determination of the MHL as it relates to the NTL. The invention is very useful in reducing energy usage in commercial buildings when used in combination with a short term weather forecast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Patrick Andrew SHIEL
  • Publication number: 20150127294
    Abstract: A sensing system uses three-omega sensing to determine a spatial profile of thermal property within a sample. The sensing system electrically powers a lossy electrical conductor at different driving frequencies. The different driving frequencies produce different penetration depths within the sample. The sensing system takes multiple measurements of thermal property at the different driving frequencies. Each measurement is associated with a different penetration depth, and therefore is averaged over a differently-sized volume within the sample. The sensing system performs a fit on the multiple measurements of material thermal property versus material geometry. If one of thermal property or geometry is known beforehand, then the fit can determine the other. The lossy electrical conductor can be formed on a polymeric flexible membrane, on a probe that can be placed at a suitable location in a patient's body, and/or directly onto a heating or cooling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Sean D. Lubner, Jeunghwan Choi, Harishankar Natesan, Christopher E. Dames, John C. Bischof
  • Patent number: 9021276
    Abstract: A method and device for setting a processor performance profile for a processor that is unable to directly measure voltage supplied by a voltage regulator includes determining a voltage requested of the voltage regulator and determining a first characteristic of a first portion of the electrical component. The first characteristic is one of power consumed by the first portion of the electrical component and load presented by the first portion of the electrical component. A first current is then determined by using the first voltage, the first characteristic, and a known relationship therebetween. A third voltage that is an estimate of the voltage supplied by the voltage regulator is then determined by comparing the first current to load line characteristics of the electrical component. The third voltage is then used to manage performance of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Michael J. Osborn, Sebastien Nussbaum, John P. Petry, Umair B. Cheema
  • Publication number: 20150106048
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for detecting power interruption duration of an electronic device. The method can include establishing a curve model of linearly synthesized values of temperature sensor readings versus time; after power-on, acquiring each of the initial temperature values by respective temperature sensors mounted on the electronic device, and transmitting the temperature initial values to a microprocessor; calculating a linearly synthesized value of the temperature sensor readings of the electronic device according to a power-on duration for this time and a stored curve model, and storing the linearly synthesized value of the temperature sensor readings as a basis for calculating the power interruption duration thereafter. When the electronic device is powered on again after power interruption, a linearly synthesized value of the temperature sensor readings according to the power-on time for this time can be calculated, and used for calculating the power interruption duration thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Guojun XIE, Guangping Xia, Jingquan Yu
  • Publication number: 20150081244
    Abstract: A method for determining a physical and/or chemical, temperature dependent, process variable of process automation technology utilizing a resistance thermometer (RPt1000), wherein the resistance thermometer (RPt1000) is installed in an electrical circuit, comprising the steps of: measuring a first voltage (U1) across at least a first precision resistor (R1); measuring a second voltage (U2) across at least a second precision resistor (R2); measuring a third voltage (U3) across at least a third precision resistor (R3), wherein cyclically or continuously a constant electrical current (I) is sent through the at least first precision resistor (R1), the at least second precision resistor (R2) or the at least third precision resistor (R3); determining temperature coefficients (a, b, c) characteristic for the electrical circuit by means of the first voltage (U1), the second voltage (U2) and the third voltage (U3); sending the constant electrical current (I) through the resistance thermometer (RPt1000) and measuring a
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Paul, Stephan Buschnakowski
  • Patent number: 8972217
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks, and at least one cooling provider. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data regarding each of the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, the data including a layout of the equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, and a power draw value for each of the equipment racks, storing the received data, determining air flow between the at least one cooling provider and each of the equipment racks, determining inlet and exit air temperature for the at least one cooling provider based on the layout, the power draw and the airflow, and for each equipment rack, determining inlet and exit air temperature based on the layout, the power draw and the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Schneider Electric IT Corporation
    Inventors: James W. VanGilder, Xuanhang Zhang, Christopher M. Healey
  • Patent number: 8965728
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing a real time, radial exhaust temperature distribution in a gas turbine to improve the understanding of exhaust gas temperature in a manner similar to installing production rakes. The thermocouples are installed along the exhaust frame strut skins at a number of radial positions. The data from the thermocouples along each of the struts is used to produce a normalized radial profile of the turbine exhaust temperature. The existing turbine station instrumentation is then used to expand the normalized profile into an actual profile of the turbine exhaust temperature. The calculations/transfer functions for temperatures are obtained from data collected during performance testing with full rakes. This profile is integrated to determine a bulk Tx to improve gas turbine controls including model-based controls or corrected parameter controls (MBC/CPC) controls, or specific radial temperatures are used, to provide protective action for bucket platforms, or other turbine components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David August Snider, Harold Jordan, Christopher Holsonback
  • Patent number: 8954984
    Abstract: A method and associated systems for the environmentally aware load-balancing of components of a multi-component power-consuming system. The environmentally aware load-balancer receives continually updated values from at least two environmental sensors that monitor and report the values of environmental metrics that characterize components of the power-consuming system and the environments within which those components are located. When the load-balancer receives a task request directed to the power-consuming system, the load-balancer selects a balanced workload allocation as a function of the values of the received environmental metrics and communicates that balanced workload allocation to a routing mechanism. The routing mechanism then uses the communicated balanced workload allocation to determine which component or components of the power-consuming system should receive the task request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geetha Adinarayan, Andrew J. Bernoth, Sateesh S. Kannegala, Gandhi Sivakumar
  • Publication number: 20150031793
    Abstract: A multifunctional syntactic foam including a matrix material and hollow particles, where a first and second material property of the syntactic foam are tailored on the basis of the wall thickness and volume fraction of the hollow particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Nikhil Gupta, Vasanth Chakravarthy Shunmugasamy
  • Publication number: 20150025833
    Abstract: In accordance with at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for evaluating cooling performance of an electronics system is provided. The method includes acts of dividing the electronics system into a computational grid including a plurality of fluid cells and a plurality of solid cells, determining air flow values for the plurality of fluid cells using a potential flow model analysis, determining a temperature of a fluid cell by calculating heat transfer into the fluid cell from any adjacent fluid cells and from any adjacent solid cells, determining a temperature of a solid cell by calculating heat transfer into the solid cell from any adjacent solid cells and heat transfer out of the solid cell into any adjacent fluid cells, and storing, on a storage device, the air flow values and the temperature of the fluid cell and the temperature of the solid cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: James William VanGilder
  • Patent number: 8907798
    Abstract: An ice detection system comprising a first group of sensors and a second group of sensors. The first group of sensors is located in a first group of locations on an aircraft. The first group of sensors in the first group of locations is configured to detect a first type of icing condition for the aircraft. The second group of sensors is located in a second group of locations on the aircraft. The second group of sensors in the second group of locations is configured to detect a second type of icing condition for the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Charles Steven Meis, Cris Kevin Bosetti
  • Publication number: 20140343888
    Abstract: A method of measuring the amount of energy consumed from a water heater having a tank with two or more temperature sensors located a predetermined heights on or in the tank, the method including the step of; for each sensor, determining a corresponding volume of a segment of the tank, measuring the change of temperature at each temperature sensor, calculating the energy for the corresponding volume for each sensor, and summing the energy changes for all the sensors to determine the amount of energy consumed. The energy usage can be recorded with chronological information to construct a usage pattern which can be used for controlling the heater and for providing the user with details of energy usage. The system does not require the use of data derived from a flow meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: RHEEM AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Brendan Vincent Bourke, Bruce Graham Kemmis, Stephen Gerrard Wooden, Yue-Xin Peng, Charles Harry Finch
  • Patent number: 8892379
    Abstract: A system and method for soft-field reconstruction are provided. One method includes obtaining applied input and measured output information for an excited object using a plurality of transducers and forming an admittance matrix based on the applied input and measured output information. The method also includes determining a plurality of moments using the admittance matrix and calculating a property distribution of the excited object using the plurality of moments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rajesh V. V. L. Langoju, Wrichik Basu, Manoj Kumar Koyithitta Meethal, Sakethraman Mahalingam
  • Publication number: 20140324380
    Abstract: A calculating unit calculates, using information indicating temperatures of a fluid mixture at individual locations across a space, heat quantities transferred to the fluid mixture at the individual locations. The fluid mixture is a blend of a plurality of fluids allowed to flow in by a plurality of cooling apparatuses. The calculating unit calculates heat quantities transferred to each of the fluids at the individual locations based on the heat quantities transferred to the fluid mixture at the individual locations, a velocity distribution of the fluid mixture, and flow rate distributions of the individual fluids. The calculating unit evaluates, using the heat quantities transferred to each of the fluids at the individual locations, the degree of contribution of each of the cooling apparatuses to cooling of an object disposed in the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Otsuka, Masaru Sugie, Tadashi Katsui, Akira Ueda, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Furuya, Kazuhiro Nitta
  • Publication number: 20140321985
    Abstract: A method of characterising mechanical and thermal growth of a rotor tip clearance arrangement and a method of controlling such an arrangement. The characterisation method comprising constructing a finite element model and calibration cases; run the model for the calibration cases to obtain displacements; and calculating component growth therefrom. The growth is characterised and scaled for the operating conditions. The clearance is calculated in a time step from the growths and input to a control arrangement for subsequent time steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Leo Vivian LEWIS
  • Patent number: 8874374
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a rate of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation (TKED) in a turbulent fluid environment are provided. A light source provided at a first end of a predetermined path-length passes a beam of light through the turbulent fluid environment. An angle of arrival detection unit detects the angle of arrival of the at least one beam of light. The angle of arrival is then processed at a processing unit that calculates temperature dissipation spectra as a function of the autocorrelation of the angle of arrival. The peak of the temperature dissipation spectra represents the rate of TKED. A number of turbulent quantities can be determined by using the method and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Darek J. Bogucki
  • Publication number: 20140309961
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs a principal component analysis using a plurality of analysis results in an analysis area about thermo-fluid and computes an approximate solution approximate to a final solution by summing analysis patterns obtained by the principal component analysis under a new analysis condition. The information processing apparatus performs a thermo-fluid analysis using the computed approximate solution as an initial state under the new analysis condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sachio KOBAYASHI, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi IKEDA, Masayoshi HASHIMA, Yuichi SATO