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4030011 Multimode control systems  
A control system exhibiting more than one system response characteristic depending on input signal parameters, and without requiring discrete switching of system components, is disclosed. At least...
4025837 Adaptive control circuit for a stepping motor  
Adaptive control circuit for a stepping motor in which each motor displacement from a present position to a target position is monitored and the proportion of acceleration signals to deceleration...
4025839 Device for an accurate control of final positioning and follow-up of a displaceable member with respect to a reference  
A system for positioning a displaceable member with respect to a reference conventionally uses a servo-mechanism having feedback position sensing and speed sensing loops connected to an input of...
4007361 Adaptive control system using position feedback  
A control computer produces a position error signal in accordance with the difference between the desired position of a controlled device and the actual position of the controlled device. The...
4007407 Turbo-electric marine power plant and method of regulating the same  
In a marine power plant which has an rpm-regulatable heavy gas turbine, a propulsion generator driven by the turbine, a propulsion motor driven by the generator and a fixed propeller driven by the...
3984663 Signal maximum or minimum seeking circuit  
In a feedback control circuit, a circuit maximizes or minimizes a controlled signal by incrementally varying the controlling signal in one sense, determining the direction of controlled signal...
3974431 Quick response circuit for control of a machine tool apparatus  
A circuit for controlling the application of an error compensation circuit in a feedback control system which in turn automatically controls the feedrate of a machine tool apparatus such as a...
3969663 Capstan control for a tape drive system  
A control system for precisely locating a tape upon deceleration thereof from a transport velocity to rest. A signal is generated which represents the distance traversed by the tape subsequent to...
3967515 Apparatus for controlling vibrational chatter in a machine-tool utilizing an updated synthesis circuit  
A method and apparatus for controlling vibrational chatter in a machine tool operation wherein a workpiece and a tool are mounted in a manner to permit controlled and forced engagement of the tool...
3962618 Digital following error measurement system  
A following error measurement system for phase analog servo systems is disclosed. The leading or lagging status of a phase analog servo system's command signal with respect to its feedback signal,...
3961234 Adaptive filtering  
An adaptive filter circuit using a time modulated dead band for suppressing the effects of spurious noise associated with an error signal used in controlling a position drive motor associated with...
3952238 Programmable positioning apparatus and acceleration control system particularly useful therein  
Programming positioning apparatus is described for performing a programmed motion in a quick and smooth manner avoiding shock loads that shorten equipment life. The described apparatus is a...
3950685 DC motor position controller  
A system enables selective control of instantaneous motor armature position and, thus, the corresponding position of one or more elements driven by the motor. As utilized in a high speed printer,...
3926390 Control valve logic  
The roll and the pitch axes of an elliptical shaped missile are controlled y 28 jets shared by both attitude controllers. The proper jets are selected in accordance to the two error signals which...
3924170 Bang-bang servo system  
A servo control apparatus for controlling a paper tractor drive motor is described in which the current supply to the motor is controlled digitally so that for short movements a braking current is...
3917930 Method and apparatus for adaptively positioning a machine element  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for use with a drive system iteratively moving a machine element through a positioning cycle in response to input signals defining each of the positions in the...
3914678 Control system for compensating for cutting machine tool wear  
A control system for adjusting the cutter of a boring machine or the like to compensate for cutter wear and other cutting dimensional changes such as those due to temperature variations which is...
3914677 PRECISION MOTION CONTROL DEVICE OR THE LIKE  
A paper advance system for a high speed printer is provided and includes an electronic counter which is initially set to store a sprocket pulse count indicative of the number of lines of paper...
3911345 Adaptive control system using command tailoring  
An adaptive control system for the tailoring of outer loop error command nals so that established performance capabilities of inner loop elements are not exceeded. Self-adaptive optimal response...
3893616 Speed control for electromechanical plotters  
The specification discloses a digital control device that extends the performance capability of digitally controlled electromechanical plotters by regulating the rate at which plot commands are...
3885207 Optimized editing system for a servo controlled program recording system  
An automatic work handling and/or performing machine responsive to a recorded program having multiple recording mediums for said program and the capability to transcribe one or more copies of said...
3876873 Machine tool control system and method  
A machine tool control method wherein a supervising computer is operated to observe acceleration and deceleration characteristics of the particular control system and then to compute optimum...
3873816 AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER  
An automatic adaptive controller having a data file previously supplied with various control parameters for a process to be controlled, and detectors for observing the process and disturbances...
3864554 TIME DELAY COMPENSATION IN A CLOSED-LOOP PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM  
A closed-loop feedback control system for industrial processes, wherein a rrector receives a signal of variation and produces a process-regulating signal in the form of a transfer function F × G,...
3860861 DISK DRIVE HEAD POSITIONING SERVO INCLUDING TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE SAFETY MEANS  
The specification and drawings disclose a head positioning servo system for disk drives in which the temperature of the servo motor is monitored. Power is applied to the motor only when its...
3855513 PERFORATED-TAPE READER DRIVE SYSTEM  
A control system for incrementally driving perforated-tape readers in which both a velocity control loop and a position control loop are provided. A speed-controllable motor is initially driven by...
3849712 ADAPTIVE NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED MACHINE TOOL RESPONSIVE TO DEFLECTION FORCES ON THE TOOL NORMAL TO THE CUTTING PATH  
A data processing system supplies numerical control data to a controller for a machine tool connected in a system for adaptively controlling the machine tool feedrate in response to data measured...
3848171 ARRANGEMENT FOR THE OPTIMUM SETTING OF THE ROTOR BLADES OF WATER TURBINES  
The gain factor of the transfer function between the angle of the rotor blades and the efficiency of a water turbine is identified, and by means of an extreme value regulator and adjustment of the...
3842331 DIGITAL STEPPING MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM  
A control system for a stepping motor operating on the bang-bang principle in which opposing torque is exerted on the rotor of the motor as the rotor oscillates across its desired or home position....
3836833 ADAPTIVE MOTOR ACCELERATION  
A magnetic tape unit's DC capstan motor is closed-loop speed controlled from a rest position to a steady-state speed and is subsequently controlled from the steady-state speed to a rest position....
3835360 NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEM  
In a point-to-point control system of a modified, optimum, nonlinear type, a digital servomechanism employs an error counter receiving an input from a position-error-to-frequency-converter. The...
3834615 METHOD FOR MONITORING MACHINING CONDITION OF MACHINE TOOL  
In a machine tool having a work holder and a cutting tool which is brought into cutting engagement with a workpiece held on the work holder to machine the same, the reaction force on the cutting...
3835361 AUTOMATIC PROXIMITY BRAKING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES  
A vehicle braking system for automotive vehicles in which a circuit is provided for continually calculating a controllable deceleration figure which is related to the required vehicle velocity...
3829750 SELF-ADAPTIVE PROCESS CONTROL  
A control system for a surface grinder includes sensors associated with the machine-workpiece interface operative to generate signals proportional to parameters associated with the machine process...
3828236 LINEAR MOTOR ACCELERATION CONTROL SYSTEM  
A control system for programming and executing the displacement characteristics of a transit vehicle propelled by one or more linear motors. Computers are provided for planning speed change points...
3828237 FUEL-AIR RATIO CONTROLLER  
An electronic valve characterizer for fuel-air ratio control wherein the primary valve may be arbitrarily set and the secondary valve or valves are actuated by a slave motor or motors to a...
3825307 MEANS FOR DETECTING FAILURE OF VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF AN ADAPTIVE BRAKING SYSTEM THROUGH THE USE OF TRICKLE CURRENTS  
A circuit useful in adaptive braking systems for detecting sensor and load failures provides an operator warning and prevents automatic braking should a failure occur. Cross coupled comparators...
3818300 CONVEYOR SERVO MOTOR STOPPING CONTROL UNIT  
A self balancing servo system is disclosed for positioning a controlled element at a plurality of discrete positions. Switch means is provided for conducting a mark signal to the servo system when...
3818334 DETERMINING CUTTING TOOL FORCE BY MEASURING ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE OF A BEARING  
The side thrust established when a cutting tool of a machine tool is moved into engagement with a work piece may be measured by measuring the resistance change which occurs across the bearings...
3806789 CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR DIAPHRAGM CONTROL  
A circuit arrangement, comprising a direct-current source, and means having time constants including an electric motor, having an operative condition and an inoperative condition, the transition...
3803506 CONTROL CONVERTER AMPLIFIERS  
Matched video variable gain amplifiers having dynamic resistances coupled the input and output circuits thereof and having reciprocal logarithmic responses so that the output of a video servo loop...
3793574 AIRCRAFT ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM  
A control system for providing automatic compensation of variations in the ain of the controlled member, such as an aircraft control surface, comprising a closed-loop circuit which operates in...
3785091 DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE SPEED OF REMOVAL OF THE CHIPS IN A GRINDING MACHINE  
A device for detecting the speed of removal of the chip from a workpiece in a grinder comprising a measuring member adapted to detect at each moment the dimension of the part being machined, and...
3781626 OPTIMIZED P.I.D. CONTROLLER  
A system is disclosed for optimizing the operation of remote controlled devices or systems which are subject to changing response characteristics, due for example, to widely varying load...
3759139 RUNOUT COMPENSATION FOR MAGNETIC MILLING FORCE SENSORS  
An improved system is provided for sensing spindle deflection of a milling machine and developing a feedrate control signal in accordance therewith to achieve optimum tool life consistant with high...
3758762 DECOUPLED FEEDFORWARD-FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM  
A control system combining feedforward and feedback control of a manipulated variable of a process is arranged to provide a modification of the error signal to which the feedback control responds...
3754487 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A MACHINE TOOL  
A method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a machine tool on a workpiece in which said workpiece and tool are mounted in a machine tool assembly in a position to permit said tool to...
3752968 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SIGNALS REPRESENTING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ECCENTRICITIES OF A PLURALITY OF SIMULTANEOUSLY ROTATING SPINDLES  
An apparatus and method for producing a signal representing the most significant eccentricities of a plurality of rotating spindles in a multiple spindle machine tool. The eccentricities of each...
3746955 ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR NUMERICAL CONTROL OF A CUTTING TOOL  
A detector detects the state of load of machine, for example, the torque load of the spindle or the cutting resistance of the tool. Control means connected to the detector compares the detected...
3731177 DISC FILE HEAD MOVEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM  
According to the present invention a movement control system comprises a motor for moving said body into a required position, a motor control unit for controlling the acceleration and deceleration...