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7596451 |
Mobile-machine navigation system
A method of navigating a mobile machine dependent upon the relationship of the mobile machine to a target path includes operating a steering system to change the heading of the mobile machine in...
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7520308 |
Drive unit for controlling reciprocating electromagnets
A drive unit for use with a vibration welder having first and second electromagnets, each having first and second terminals, and being operable to reciprocate a vibration platen, includes phase U,...
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7507296 |
Methods and apparatus for determining scrubber brush pressure
In a scrubber adapted to clean a semiconductor wafer, the torque of a brush rotation motor is monitored while a scrubber brush is in contact with the wafer and is being rotated by the motor. The...
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7502669 |
Apparatus and method for graphically displaying disk drive enclosures and cabling in a data storage system
A data storage system is configured to provide a graphical display that shows the user a logical schematic of interconnected disk enclosures of a data storage system along with any erroneous...
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7477965 |
Twisting wire actuator
A twisted wire actuator, whereby the shortening of the length of a wire or a bundle of wires, as it is twisted, is used to control the motion of an actuated element, achieving sub-micron motion...
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7434459 |
Context acquisition based on load sensing
Methods and systems are described for sensing force information at a plurality of points on a continuous surface, and detecting contextual information about an object on the surface based on the...
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7426451 |
Handheld surface coordinate measuring device
A surface coordinate measuring device ( 1 ) includes a computing unit ( 8 ) arranged in a handheld housing ( 9 ), a positioning device ( 2 ) for positioning the coordinate measuring device at a...
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7418302 |
Floating deadband control
A method of controlling an input device is disclosed. A deadband is generated about a first position when the input device is at the first position. The input device is moved from the first...
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7406360 |
Method for detecting transfer shift of transfer mechanism and semiconductor processing equipment
A dummy substrate ( 17 ) differs from a substrate to be processed in having a first guide (G 1 ) for assisting centering, however, it can be handled as a substitute of the substrate to be...
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7379840 |
Arranging mobile sensors into a predetermined pattern
Moving a target mobile node to arrange a number of mobile nodes includes determining a first direction. A first relative position for each of the neighboring mobile nodes of the target mobile node...
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7369960 |
Device and method for detecting an angular position of a rotating object
In detecting the time at which a rotating object passes a given angular position, a value range of an angular position sensor output signal which varies relatively rapidly with angular position...
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7331105 |
Method for placing components by means of at least one component placement unit
Provided is a method and system for placing components by means of at least one component placement unit wherein the component placement unit is moved over a distance between a component pickup...
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7321811 |
Methods and systems of adjustable bed position control
Aspects of this invention relate to an adjustable bed that may include providing a plurality of values that may define a range of available positions for an adjustable bed; receiving a request to...
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7269475 |
Distributed control system with global contraints for controlling object motion with smart matter
Embedded in a transport assembly are arrays of microelectromechanical sensors and actuators for detecting and propelling an object. A controller having defined therein local computational agents...
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7266427 |
Intelligent valve flow linearization
A feed-forward flow controller is designed to calculate a target valve position from a target flow. Correction is made for liquid or gas pressure drop across the valve and for the valve flow...
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7227748 |
Cooling module
A cooling module is provided for an electrically powered apparatus. The cooling module comprises a non-volatile memory arranged to store a module identifier code for the module.
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7206716 |
Wheel alignment with surface-oriented runout determination
Methods and systems for measuring and calculating wheel alignment angles are disclosed. The measuring methods include mitigating alignment error by compensating for wheel runout, and further...
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7200910 |
System and method of disposing a substrate in a housing
A method of making a gas treatment device, the method includes projecting a laser line onto a side of substrate from a laser line generator angled away from a viewing source; projecting a laser dot...
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7196487 |
Method and system for robot localization and confinement
The present invention discloses a system and method for confining a robot to a particular space. The system includes a portable barrier signal transmitter that produces a barrier signal primarily...
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7174586 |
Operation control apparatus for electric bed
An MPU sends pieces of information supplied by the input signals from a hand switch to a semiconductor memory device and the memory device stores these pieces of information. These pieces of...
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7156168 |
Method for controlling an air conditioning unit for an automobile
An intensity of solar radiation is determined in a vehicle based on an absolute position of the sun, a spatial orientation of the vehicle, and a measured intensity of the sun. A position of the sun...
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7139621 |
Floating deadband control
A control system having a floating deadband control includes an input device moveable from a first position to a second position. In addition, the control system includes a controller configured to...
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7123997 |
Gap adjustment apparatus and gap adjustment method for adjusting gap between two objects
A first stage and a second stage are disposed to face each other. A first object is fixed on the first stage. A first displacement sensor attached on the first stage is used to measure a distance...
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7096093 |
Intelligent valve flow linearization
A feed-forward flow controller is designed to calculate a target valve position from a target flow. Correction is made for liquid or gas pressure drop across the valve and for the valve flow...
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7047097 |
High performance controller for shifting resonance in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices
Devices being controlled electronically via physical manipulation often display a resonance. In many circumstances, the frequency range of operation is not close to the resonance frequency. In...
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7021355 |
Disc tray error system
A processor, such as a laminator for laminating a film onto a disc, such as a CD, DVD or the like has a tray for holding a disc for movement from a loading position to a processing position. The...
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6996506 |
Process and device for displacing a moveable unit on a base
A Process and device for displacing a moveable unit on a base. The process includes: a) a force (F) is determined which, applied to the moveable unit ( 4 ), produces a combined effect, on the one...
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6993411 |
System and method for discrete time trajectory planning for lithography
A lithography system and method for calculating an optimal discrete time trajectory for a movable device is described. A trajectory planner of the lithography system calculates an optimal discrete...
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6975923 |
Autonomous vehicle guidance on or near airports
A method for operating an autonomous vehicle at an airport comprises the steps of: receiving a set of general purpose navigation signals; receiving a supplementary set of navigation signals;...
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6934603 |
Multiblock robot system
The advantage of flexible multi-axis robot systems and robot cell-unit systems being further extended by providing electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock individual...
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6910569 |
Load singulation system and method
A system and method for singulating loads are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of similarly configured load manipulation cells arranged to form an array. Each cell has a generally planar...
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6901314 |
Alignment apparatus for substrates
An alignment apparatus for substrates comprises a first movement mechanism moving a substrate to be treated in a horizontal direction, a second movement mechanism moving the substrate in a vertical...
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6898484 |
Robotic manufacturing and assembly with relative radio positioning using radio based location determination
Global positioning system inputs are used in a manufacturing process where location of a work piece relative to a robotic manipulator is input into a control system. The manipulator is located and...
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6894716 |
Method and apparatus for identifying a position of a predetermined object in free space using a video image
A method and apparatus is disclosed for identifying a position of an object in free space using a video image wherein the object is comprised of at least three equidistantly spaced, co-linear...
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6882899 |
Sensing head positioning system using two-stage offset air bearings
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for positioning a sensing head relative to a workpiece, involving a control unit operative to provide a plurality of control signals to iteratively...
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6879863 |
User interface for controlling a whirlpool tub
An apparatus is provided to control a plumbing fixture, such as a whirlpool, that has electrically operated components. The apparatus has a dial that is moveable by the user into a plurality of...
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6871120 |
Device for actuating a seat element and seat comprising it
A device ( 22, 24 ) for actuating a seat element comprises an actuator ( 26, 28 ) equipped with a transducer designed to supply a crude measurement value representing the current position of the...
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6845287 |
Method, system, and computer program product for improved trajectory planning and execution
A method, system, and computer program product for non-real-time trajectory planning and real-time trajectory execution. A trajectory planning process receives data generated by high-level control...
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6823754 |
Method of calibrating a clutch actuator with a compensating spring
A method of calibrating an equilibrium position of an actuator driven by an electric motor with the assistance of a compensating spring, wherein the actuator moves a mechanism and the mechanism...
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6823221 |
Motion control system and method which includes improved pulse placement for smoother operation
A motion control system and method are disclosed which provide improved pulse placement for smoother operation of a motion device such as a stepper motor. A placement of pulses may be determined...
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6804583 |
Automatic locating system for a vehicle crash pad and a method thereof
In order to automatically supply and locate a crash pad assembly in a vehicle by means of a robot in an automobile manufacturing plant, an automatic locating system of a crash pad for a vehicle...
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6799079 |
Method and apparatus for correcting positional deviation of finite linear rolling guide
There is provided a finite type rolling guide deviation correcting method and system capable of detecting the deviation in relative position between a rolling guide and a movable body if the...
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6772053 |
Aspects of a control system of a minimally invasive surgical apparatus
A surgical method and a control system is provided. The surgical method and the control system can advantageously be used in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus. The method includes generating...
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6760641 |
Discrete time trajectory planner for lithography system
A lithography system and method for calculating an optimal discrete time trajectory for a movable device is described. A trajectory planner of the lithography system calculates an optimal discrete...
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6714843 |
Closed-loop control method for operation of individually driven rotating machine elements
The invention relates to a closed-loop control method for operation of individually driven rotating machine elements (M 1, M 2 ) with angle position control, which elements are coupled with a...
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6714842 |
Synchronous position control apparatus and method
A synchronous position control apparatus includes position controllers which perform control based on position feedback for a plurality of axes to be controlled, target position command value...
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6708132 |
Microsystems integrated testing and characterization system and method
An improved microsystems testing and characterization system which allows the system user to identify specific structures, and thereby to initiate an automated testing sequence to be applied to...
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6688342 |
Fuel dispenser using infrared technology to facilitate the communication of structured data
An apparatus and method is available for transferring data relating to the functioning of a fuel dispenser between a wireless device and the fuel dispenser. The wireless device activates a sensor...
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6678565 |
Control unit
The control unit sets up the center and an insensitive zone of a zoom seesaw switch provided in a drive unit of an ENG lens by an electrical processing. The control unit is capable of dispensing...
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6629020 |
Control device for the position of a valve slide
A control device for the position (x) of a valve slide ( 3 ), with a d.c. voltage (U B ) operated set point transmitter ( 11 ), which produces a set point value (U w ) proportional to the position...
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