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8185871 |
System for configuring a process control environment
An apparatus having a programmable processor and a memory for performing a plurality of user-selectable control functions includes a database for storing a plurality of items associated with each...
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8175752 |
Control system methods for networked water heaters
Disclosed is a control system for controlling a plurality of fluidly and operably connected water heaters to meet a hot water demand such that overall efficiency is maximized and usage disparity...
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8170694 |
Network unit and programmable controller using the same
A network unit in a programmable controller of a building block mutually connects an information system network and a control system network. The network unit includes transfer analyzing units that...
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8170722 |
Method and apparatus for coding and linking electrical appliances for control and status report
A coding method and apparatus for linking electrical appliances for control and status reporting by arbitrarily appending the appliances remote control protocol with the premise's room/zone code...
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8145327 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a consumer-configurable modular electrical system
A system of electrical modules includes a plurality of modules, including power modules, control modules, and output modules. Power modules provide power for powering one or more control and output...
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8140192 |
System and method to program air conditioner modules
A system to program microcomputers associated with a plurality of bus rooftop air conditioners comprises a plurality of air conditioner modules located on a bus rooftop. Each air conditioner module...
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8131396 |
Numerical control apparatus and numerical control system
A first NC apparatus includes a virtual-axis setting unit that sets a predetermined axis coupled to a second NC apparatus as an axis controlled by itself. The second NC apparatus includes an...
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8127063 |
Distributed equipment arbitration in a process control system
A distributed process control equipment ownership arbitration system and method for arbitrating equipment ownership conflicts are disclosed. Individual control modules representing various process...
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8116914 |
Wind turbine and operating method thereof
A pitch controller, uninterruptible power supply, and rotational speed detector are disposed in the rotor in a wind turbine. When a slip ring failure or wire breakage occurs, the pitch controller...
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8090452 |
Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network
The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for control using field and control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network. By way of...
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8086757 |
Intelligent gateway for heterogeneous peer-to-peer home automation networks
A solution for home automation management includes, at a network device configured to support multiple home automation technologies, receiving a message from a first home automation control device...
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8086771 |
TCET expander
The present invention relates to the field of embedded processing systems and electronic control units (ECUs) and to autonomic embedded computing solutions. The present invention proposes to remove...
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8086326 |
Fail-safe system for controlling wind turbines
A wind turbine control system is provided. The control system includes a first and a second control unit which are coupled to each other over a first network. The first control unit is configured...
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8078335 |
Storage system, storage system control method and storage system control apparatus
A storage system includes a housing, a cooling unit cooling the interior of the housing, and a plurality of control units adapted to control the cooling unit. The control units each include a mount...
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8078289 |
Model predictive control with variable trajectory sharing
One or more techniques are provided for the sharing of variable trajectories between multiple controllers in a control system. In general, the present technique is based upon the sharing of...
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8078296 |
Dynamic procedure selection
A dynamic selection component for an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes one or more abstraction layers that are executed by a controller, the abstraction layers specify...
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8073557 |
Motion control systems
A motion control system comprising an application program, a plurality of motion controllers, a set of software drivers, and a motion component. Each software driver exposes a service provider...
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8068922 |
Method for operating a block model based field device for a distributed automation system
In a method for operating a field device working according to the block model for a distributed automation system, which exchanges data via a fieldbus, a first function block application serving...
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8055386 |
Building automation system data management
A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, and a protocol-independent server engine. In one embodiment, the BAS comprises real and...
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8055387 |
Building automation system data management
A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, and a protocol-independent server engine. The end devices are each associated with at...
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8050801 |
Dynamically extensible and automatically configurable building automation system and architecture
A building automation system (BAS) architecture is disclosed. The BAS comprises, in one embodiment, an architecture comprising a communication network and having a dynamic extensibility capability...
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8036779 |
Air-conditioning system controller
In an air-conditioning system controller provided with a central control unit and a local control unit, the central control unit includes a heat source machine measurement system for measuring an...
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8036758 |
System and method for continuous supply chain control and optimization using stochastic calculus of variations approach
A system includes a first controller configured to monitor processes associated with a process facility and to generate control data for optimizing the process facility. The system also includes a...
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8005553 |
Automatic configuration of synchronous block execution for control modules run in fieldbus networks
A method or apparatus automatically configures a control module for synchronous execution on a Fieldbus segment of a process control network by determining if all of the critical function blocks of...
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7996094 |
Usage of a virtual unit
Problems can occur when a controller is limited in ownership to one process. To minimize these problems, phantom Units can be used that are direct replicas of actual Units. Thus, multiple processes...
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7990080 |
System and method for controlling multiple light sources
A system for controlling multiple light sources is provided. The system includes a controller, a digital to analog converter (DAC), and at least one power amplifier. The controller is configured...
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7987003 |
Network media appliance system and method
A network media appliance, comprising at least one packet data network interface, adapted for communicating data packets with a data network according to an Internet Protocol; a media data...
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7972755 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing system
There is disclosed a substrate processing method by a multi-patterning technique, which comprises a lithography process and an etching process, each of the processes is performed to one substrate...
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7966078 |
Network media appliance system and method
A network media appliance, comprising at least one packet data network interface, adapted for communicating data packets with a data network according to an Internet Protocol; a media data...
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7962246 |
Method and apparatus for operating a wind turbine during a loss of communication
A method for operating a wind turbine during a loss of communication is described that includes coupling a pitch controller to at least one wind turbine blade and to a wind turbine controller,...
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7957321 |
Device control system, method, and apparatus for server-based or peer-to-peer network environments
In a device control system that provides a means for controlling a variety of device types via a unified interface, such as via a handheld controller, a synchronization protocol ensures...
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7953501 |
Industrial process control loop monitor
A process control loop monitor includes a housing configured to mount in the field of an industrial process. A loop interface circuit couples to a process control loop and receives data from the...
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7941233 |
System and method for limitation handling
System and method for controlling at least one device such as for example an operator for a door, a gate, a window, blinds, shutters, a curtain, an awning or a light source including a controllable...
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7930261 |
Historians embedded in industrial units
Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit...
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7912560 |
Module and controller operation for industrial control systems
A controller and module for an industrial automation system is provided. A logical module employs resources and logic to expose functionality of the module while providing generic interfaces to...
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7904187 |
Internet appliance system and method
An Internet appliance, comprising, within a single housing, packet data network interfaces, adapted for communicating with the Internet and a local area network, at least one data interface...
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7902966 |
Microcontroller for controlling an actuator
A microcontroller for controlling an actuator includes a single wire controller configured to receive data and power from a base station through a single wire bus, where the single wire bus is part...
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7899559 |
Language-based organization of controller engine instances
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing multiple computer languages within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time...
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7881812 |
Editing and configuring device
The claimed subject matter provides an editor system for employment in an industrial automation environment that enhances programmability of at least one of a controller and an industrial process....
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7869886 |
Control block with a point-to-point communication link between a control master module to be connected to a data bus and expansion slave modules
The invention relates to an input/output channel control block that comprises a number of successive input/output modules. The first is a control master module and the subsequent ones are expansion...
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7865252 |
Upgradeable automation devices, systems, architectures, and methods
A multi-level automation control architecture, methods, and systems are disclosed, which provide enhanced scalability, functionality, and cost effectiveness for energy, access, and control. The...
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7853347 |
Semiconductor manufacturing system, controller, semiconductor manufacturing system control method, and processing liquid collection method
A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a first controller for controlling the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, an auxiliary machine for the...
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7853336 |
Dynamic versioning utilizing multiple controller engine instances to limit complications
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates deploying data within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the...
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7853361 |
System and method for command execution handling
System and method for controlling at least one device such as for example an operator for a door, a gate, a window, blinds, shutters, a curtain, an awning or a light source including a controllable...
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7848825 |
Master/slave mode for sensor processing devices
A computer system having two or more controllers operating in a Master/Slave configuration is disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer system includes: a sensor panel having a first portion for...
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7839516 |
Printing control method and apparatus
When registration of favorite is designated in a group printer driver capable of comprehensively controlling a plurality of member printer drivers, a name input window is presented. When the name...
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7835805 |
HMI views of modules for industrial control systems
A human machine interface (HMI) interface for an industrial automation system is provided. A module is provided that employs resources and logic to expose functionality of the module while...
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7831315 |
Method for controlling semiconductor-processing apparatus
A method controls an apparatus such as a semiconductor-processing apparatus including a controller and at least one device controlled by the controller, wherein the controller is provided with an...
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7831323 |
Control system and method therefor
A flexible control system and method of controlling a processing operation. The control system and method may be employed to control a high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of...
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7826937 |
Aircraft equipment control system
The control system (1) comprises at least one control panel (P1, Pn) comprising a plurality of operable control means (2) for controllable pieces of equipment (EC1, ECk) of the aircraft, each of...
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