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7580956 System and method for rating reliability of storage devices  
A method for rating reliability of storage devices is disclosed. A reliability rating for a group of storage devices is assigned to a first rating. The first rating indicates an expected...
7574271 Passenger transportation system especially an escalator or moving walk  
A passenger transportation system, such as an escalator or moving walk, contains a circulating band, a driving station, and a reversing station. The driving station is arranged in the area of a...
7573315 Control device and method of operating the control device having controller chips and change-over unit  
A control device contains a plurality of controllers, a common signal output, and a change-over unit. The controllers are coupled on an output side to the common signal output through the...
7562261 Single-signal transmission of safe process information  
A method and apparatus for the transmission of safe process information including detecting two or more process signals redundantly, identifying an event that is relevant to system safety, and...
7562135 Enhanced fieldbus device alerts in a process control system  
Enhanced Fieldbus device alerts enable Fieldbus devices within a process control system to report alarm or alert conditions that are detected within the devices to a system user or operator using a...
7561926 Apparatus for monitoring and controlling an isolation shelter and providing diagnostic and prognostic information  
Monitoring and controlling apparatus and related methods for use with collective protection shelters or other isolation environments utilizing one or more digital processors to monitor and control...
7561392 Intrinsically safe data transmission device  
A process control system ( 1 ) comprises at least one process control computer ( 2 ) and field units ( 4 ) connected thereto via a bus system. An, in particular, intrinsically safe data...
7555353 Input device of safety unit  
This invention provides an input device of safety unit which enables an error diagnosis result referred to in a process of input processing for generating a control data from raw input signal to be...
7542875 Reciprocating pump performance prediction  
Performance parameters for a reciprocating pump including pulsation energy, temperature energy, solids, Miller number and chemical energy and the like are monitored and employed to at least...
7541767 Decentralized error response in cam disk axes  
The invention relates to a method for error response when an error occurs in response to a motion, particularly of a drive mechanism in a machine, the motion taking place while using at least one...
7538770 Tree-based compositing system  
A method of rendering a graphical image described by an expression tree is disclosed. The expression tree has one or more parent nodes and one or more leaf nodes, with each parent node representing...
7532956 Distributed power and protection system  
A power distribution and protection system and method where an electrical power source distributes power to different load circuits and provides protection that changes on the fly as required by...
7515975 Technique for switching between controllers  
A controller design for switching between m linear multivariable controllers each of whom stabilizes a linear plant has been presented. A Youla-Kucera factorization was exploited in the interest of...
7515973 Method and system for modeling of magnet cryogen cooler systems  
According to one embodiment, the present technique provides a method for servicing an imaging device having a cryogenic cooling system. In the exemplary embodiment, servicing of an MRI scanner may...
7505819 Redundant fieldbus system  
A redundant fieldbus redundant system includes two independent conditioned power modules which automatically detect cable faults, such as short or open circuits on both the host and field sides of...
7496429 Power plant operation control system and a power plant maintaining and managing method  
Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by...
7486997 Safety condition setting support device, program product and device control method for obtaining safety condition for safety network  
A safety condition setting support device is used for a safety network to which an input device and an output device are connected and the output device serves to stop a controlled apparatus based...
7474989 Method and apparatus for failure prediction of an electronic assembly using life consumption and environmental monitoring  
Presently disclosed are a method and apparatus for predicting a failure in an electronic assembly by detecting an incremental change exhibited by a sacrificial sensor that is integrated into the...
7471015 Electronic apparatus controlling an electric power supply to a main microprocessor and peripheral devices through an auxiliary microprocessor  
In an electronic apparatus such as a DVD recorder ( 1 ) which controls electric power supply to a main micro processor ( 3 ) and peripheral devices ( 10, 11, 15 ) with a auxiliary micro processor (...
7451002 Automated generation of transfer functions based upon machine data  
A system and method for servicing a medical device, which provides for generation of a transfer function that correlates historical machine data with the health of the medical device. The transfer...
7437596 Self-healing control network for building automation systems  
In building automation architectures, components may be associated through physical communications paths and at a different level through building automation applications. Building automation...
7437200 Software based control system for nuclear reactor standby liquid control (SLC) logic processor  
A method and system is provided for a nuclear reactor safety related application. The method includes executing two forms of a same application-specific logic, one of the two forms implemented as...
7437199 Method for data pre-population  
A method of using an APC system to perform a data pre-population function is described in which the APC system is coupled to a processing element. The APC system comprises an APC computer including...
7436291 Protection of devices in a redundant configuration  
A network communication device is provided, comprising a control processor for controlling operation of the device, a reset module which is controllable independently of the control processor for...
7430451 Safety unit, controller system, connection method of controllers, control method of the controller system and monitor method of the controller system  
Safety units 1 d to 1 f for executing a safety function processing are connected to a non-safety controller constituted by connectting a plurality of units 1 b, 1 c including CPU units 1 a...
7418360 Project design method  
A configurable system for automating a control sequence, in particular a motion sequence, has several components which exchange in regular time intervals during the control sequence with each other...
7412293 Process control  
The invention relates to a method for process control, wherein at least one process device to be controlled is controlled by at least one process module and by at least one safety module, in that...
7412291 Ground-based software tool for controlling redundancy management switching operations  
Systems, methods, and computer program products for easily altering redundancy management data values associated with redundancy management logic that is executed by redundant data processing...
7403841 Control system and method for controlling a moving body  
An automatic steering control system comprises a behavior detector, a pattern matching section and a control parameter setter. The behavior detector sequentially determines a time duration of each...
7395123 Configurable modular safety system  
A modular safety system for controlling emergency stop applications includes a plurality of inputs, a plurality of output groups, and a plurality of safe relay outputs. The plurality of inputs is...
7392098 Control system  
A control system for a load ( 10 ), the system comprising a first microprocessor ( 16 ) having an output to drive one side of a load ( 10 ), a second microprocessor ( 18 ) having an output to drive...
7392097 Automated attraction and ride maintenance verification system  
A system for preventative maintenance of a ride or an attraction component at a venue. A validator establishes the identity of the ride or attraction component and a controller monitors the use of...
7386744 Rack equipment power pricing plan control system and method  
A rack equipment power pricing plan control system and method is presented. In one embodiment of the present invention, a power pricing plan rack equipment control method is utilized to control...
7386423 Methods of self-diagnosing software for driving processing apparatus  
According to the present invention, as processing apparatus drive starts, the operating state of software used to drive the processing apparatus is monitored in real time to diagnose whether or not...
7378977 Current overload detecting system and method  
A current overload detecting system and method applicable in a data processing device connected with a plurality of electronic devices is disclosed, each of the electronic devices having a USB...
7352522 Control means and method of controlling a current through a coil  
Method of controlling a current through a coil (L) for the generation of a magnetic field (H) in which: a parameter is determined which is a measure for the value of the resistance (R L ) of the...
7349746 System and method for abnormal event detection in the operation of continuous industrial processes  
Thousands of process and equipment measurements are gathered by the modern digital process control systems that are deployed in refineries and chemical plants. Several years of these data are...
7340312 Method and system for monitoring and control of complex systems based on a programmable network processor  
A method and apparatus for monitoring and control of a system is disclosed. The method and apparatus include providing a plurality of sensors, a table, and a network processor. The sensors monitor...
7337020 Open-loop and closed-loop control unit  
An open-loop and closed-loop control unit for a safety-relevant apparatus, in particular for aviation applications, has a computer unit with a number of computer inputs and computer outputs, and a...
7337019 Integration of fault detection with run-to-run control  
Semiconductor wafers are processed in conjunction with a manufacturing execution system using a run-to-run controller and a fault detection system. A recipe is received from the manufacturing...
7337017 Automation system with affective control  
The invention relates to an automation system with a programmable controller ( 6 ), the programmable controller ( 6 ) exhibiting deterministic behavior and being provided to produce at least one...
7330768 Integrated configuration in a process plant having a process control system and a safety system  
A process plant includes a safety system that is physically and logically integrated with a process control system such that the safety system and the process control system can use common...
7327271 Portable weather detector and alert system  
A portable weather detection and alarm device includes an electromagnetic signal receiver that receives digital time signals and atmospheric phenomenon signals. A processor connected to the...
7313449 Handshaking configuration mechanisms in graphical programming environments  
Graphical programming or modeling environments, such as a block diagram environment, are disclosed in which graphical programs or models are configured using handshaking communication between...
7299162 Method and apparatus for providing a polynomial based virtual age estimation for remaining lifetime prediction of a system  
A method for providing a virtual age estimation for predicting the remaining lifetime of a device of a given type, comprises the steps of monitoring a predetermined number of significant parameters...
7292950 Multiple error management mode memory module  
A memory module comprises a plurality of storage bits for each memory location, and a plurality of error management storage bits for each memory location. A memory controller is operable to change...
7287184 High speed synchronization in dual-processor safety controller  
A safety controller executes a control program in two processing units to detect processor failure by comparison of the execution in each unit. This comparison is made rapid by synchronizing the...
7286885 Safety programmable logic controller  
The function block memory unit stores a plurality of function blocks by programming each ladder circuit for computing output signals which has to be determined based on input signals from each...
7269481 Method and apparatus for memory bandwidth thermal budgetting  
An electronic system includes a device and a controller to the device. The controller is adapted to calculate a temperature estimate of the device and to control access to the device in accordance...
7269465 Control system for controlling safety-critical processes  
There is provided a control system for controlling safety-critical processes that includes a fieldbus, a bus master for controlling a communication via the fieldbus, at least one signal unit for...
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