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6314385 |
Method for controlling maintenance of semiconductor fabricating equipment arranged in a processing line
A method for controlling semiconductor fabricating equipment includes receiving at a maintenance module in a host computer first maintenance data generated from semiconductor fabricating equipment....
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6304791 |
Method for controlling semiconductor equipment interlocked with a host computer
A method for controlling semiconductor fabrication equipment prevents an operator from accidently operating a piece of equipment which is in an interlocked state, since a host computer...
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6292790 |
Apparatus for importing and exporting partially encrypted configuration data
An apparatus for importing and exporting computer based configuration data to and from text based files in which part of the data is encrypted for confidentiality. The apparatus allows the...
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6240534 |
Apparatus and method for detecting abnormality-Monitoring circuit malfunction
Reliably detecting malfunction of an abnormality-monitoring circuit during operation of a processing unit. An electronic control unit provided with a CPU level-inverts and outputs an actuating...
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6236901 |
Manufacturing system and method for assembly of computer systems in a build-to-order environment
Parallel organized unit-by-unit manufacturing and assembly systems and methods for computer systems and other products advantageously integrate into a build-to-order environment. Responsive to...
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6232674 |
Control device for a vehicle electric system
A control device for an on-board electrical system with at least two batteries which can be charged by a generator and serve to supply various consumers is described. This control device is located...
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6223091 |
Alarm event generator apparatus, means and system
An alarm event generation method and apparatus for signaling an alarm (436, 1400) for a process control system (100). The process control system (100) monitors a production run using a computer...
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6219584 |
Method and system for determining an effective amount of light energy to delivery to fluids having targets for the light energy
Systems and methods for determining an effective amount of light energy to deliver to fluids, particularly fluids having target and non-target materials. The systems and methods specifically relate...
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6201996 |
Object-oriented programmable industrial controller with distributed interface architecture
A controller capable of interacting with a remotely located computer has an object-oriented control structure facilitating remote access to data formatted in accordance with instructions defined by...
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6188874 |
Control and telemetry signal communication system for geostationary satellites
A geosynchronous satellite control and telemetry communication system has branch modules distributed throughout the satellite which serially interface clusters of control and/or analog nodes to the...
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6185481 |
Air cooled electronic equipment apparatus
A semiconductor device provided with a first cooling fan and heat-radiating fins is mounted on a board, and there is provided a second cooling fan for supplying cooling air to the board, such that...
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6175774 |
Method for burning in and diagnostically testing a computer
An apparatus and method for burning in a computer having a parallel port, includes a diagnostic program, stored in an internal memory of the computer, for running diagnostic tests on at least one...
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6169930 |
Method and apparatus for preventing cold temperature induced damage in a disk drive
A method and apparatus are provided for preventing cold temperature induced damage in a direct access storage device (DASD). A temperature of the direct access storage device (DASD) is measured and...
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6170019 |
Means system and method for operating an apparatus
A device for operating an apparatus includes a server, a central monitoring module, an apparatus for communicating between the server and the monitoring module, a plurality of control, maintenance...
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6167316 |
Distributed object-oriented building automation system with reliable asynchronous communication
A computer-implemented building automation system is provided with an asynchronous communication architecture for supporting object-oriented applications that interact with distributed building...
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6157864 |
System, method and article of manufacture for displaying an animated, realtime updated control sequence chart
A system software solution for controlling an enterprise which defines and illustrates the electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, logic, diagnostics, external behavior, controlled resources and safety...
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6154682 |
Self-checking circuit in microwave equipment
A self-checking circuit in a microwave equipment comprising: directional couplers each for separating and extracting a portion of a microwave signal from each monitoring point on a microwave main...
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6144887 |
Electronic control unit with reset blocking during loading
An electronic control unit has a microprocessor having a nonvolatile memory which is electrically reloadable. Data, with a predetermined loading voltage, is supplied as a condition. The...
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6141596 |
Fieldbus network configuration utility with improved scheduling and looping
A system and method for creating a fieldbus configuration on a computer system. The user assembles a graphical program or wiring diagram on the screen which comprises a selected plurality of...
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6131050 |
Control device having a control logic switching function
A control device having control logics that respectively generate operated quantities by simutaneously parallel-processing observed quantities obtained from a controlled object. A switch...
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6128543 |
Method and apparatus for collecting manufacturing equipment downtime data
A method and apparatus for collecting manufacturing equipment downtime data which electrically blocks stopped equipment (production) from restarting until an acceptable reason (either by code or...
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6112312 |
Method for generating functional tests for a microprocessor having several operating modes and features
A method is presented for generating functional tests for a microprocessor having several operating modes and features. A test module template file includes a basic set of instructions required to...
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6100655 |
Mechanical return fail-safe actuator for damper, valve, elevator or other positioning device
The electrically powered actuator includes a capacitor for supplying supplemental electrical power to a motor in response to a loss of power to the motor from a main power source in order to enable...
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6101421 |
Reset recovery in a microprocessor controlled device
A method for recovering from a reset in a microprocessor includes steps of evaluating a predetermined pattern in a volatile memory (102), determining the type of reset which occurred depending upon...
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6097995 |
Hazardous materials and waste reduction management system
A user controlled chemical management system for small-, medium- and large-sized organizations for use with a computer. The chemical inventory management system includes a chemical inventory...
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6081752 |
Computer system having power supply primary sense to facilitate performance of tasks at power off
A computer system having suspend and resume capabilities that uses the hard drive to extend the amount of nonvolatile memory (NVRAM) in the system. As the system is powered down, the system...
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6067476 |
Apparatus and method to detect tampering with fuel dispenser totalizer
Apparatus to detect tampering with a totalizing device on a fuel dispenser with a totalizing device acting to keep a running total of fuel dispensed from the fuel dispenser and including an...
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6049578 |
Digital plant protection system
A digital plant protection system for use in nuclear power plants of the pressurized water type includes cross-connected sensed-parameter processing channels that provide a suitably conditioned...
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6047222 |
Process control network with redundant field devices and buses
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RE36631 |
Robot teaching pendant
A robot teaching pendant having improved operability achieved by being provided with a display function for a personal computer. The robot teaching pendant includes an emergency stop switch and a...
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6038690 |
Remote automatic diagnostic analyzer for integrated mailing machines
This invention utilizes several coordinating devices that together provide a more comprehensive set of diagnostics which support both on-site and remote diagnostics of the customers equipment....
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6032086 |
Control system for industrial robots
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6008724 |
Method and apparatus for checking the integrity of an autolubrication system
A method and apparatus for checking the integrity of an autolubrication system for large trucks, busses and the like includes an autolubrication system which includes a pump in communication with a...
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5997167 |
Programmable controller including diagnostic and simulation facilities
A controller for one or more pieces of industrial equipment accommodates multiple sensed conditions--that is, different conditions each associated with a different response, which may be an alarm...
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5993039 |
Power-loss interlocking interface method and apparatus
A latching interface is provided between a machine and a monitoring or control system for the machine to latch the machine in a mode that is safe for the machine and for operating personnel upon...
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5980081 |
Control system having effective error detection capabilities
A monitoring process of a subordinate CPU executes a monitoring subroutine based on external data to check if a main CPU is operating properly or not. A ROM stores test input data for the...
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5975738 |
Method for detecting failure in redundant controllers using a private LUN
Methods and associated apparatus within a RAID subsystem having redundant controllers define a private LUN as a data storage area known and accessible to all controllers in the system and used by...
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5956663 |
Signal processing technique which separates signal components in a sensor for sensor diagnostics
A device in the process control system includes a sensor input receiving a sensor signal. The sensor signal comprises a process variable signal and a residual sensor signal related to sensor...
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5949676 |
Method and system for diagnosing the behavior of a machine controlled by a discrete event control system
A method and system for diagnosing the behavior of a machine which performs a discrete event process. A diagnostic engine observes occurrences of discrete events to detect timing patterns. A...
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5949677 |
Control system utilizing fault detection
A control architecture having improved fault detection and correction capabilities is disclosed. The system comprises primary and monitor control systems, each having an associated control signal....
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5943232 |
Autonomous overload control for distributed real time systems
A method of responding to overload in a real time control system. Overload is measured through the use of a control parameter such as the occupancy of a control processor or the number of entries...
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5933347 |
Industrial controller with program synchronized updating of back-up controller
An industrial control system employs a primary and secondary controller each having a processor and an I/O data table. Updating of the secondary processor's I/O data table is accomplished...
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5914875 |
Method and apparatus for diagnosing plant anomaly
Determined results of which measured data of a plant is normal/abnormal are mapped to a plant model in an abstract function level hierarchically represented with flow structures of mass/energy and...
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5914874 |
Automatic application restarting system and method
In a multi-tasking operating system, when an application has terminated, a termination discriminator designating section designates a termination discriminator (termination code) the content of...
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5910252 |
Technique for extracorporeal treatment of blood
Blood from a patient is treated extracorporeally by any selected one of a plurality of predetermined treatments. Each of the treatments involves the flow of blood from the patient into a primary...
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5903453 |
Method for estimating software operation and performance using a goal-question-metric paradigm
The present invention is a method for estimating software operation and performance measures using a goal/question/metric paradigm. In the present invention, each goal is associated with questions...
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5880954 |
Continous real time safety-related control system
A safety-related control system (SRCS) designed to safeguard personnel operating hazardous production equipment. The SRCS integrates the safety-related part of a machine into one homogenous system...
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5877956 |
System for burning in and diagnostically testing a computer
An apparatus and method for burning in a computer having a parallel port, includes a diagnostic program, stored in an internal memory of the computer, for running diagnostic tests on at least one...
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5873009 |
Equipment management system that issues a warning when the lifetime of a component has been exceeded and disables the warning when such a warning is to be generated for a different component
In a system in which a host computer performs lifetime management for components of a plurality of copiers, components whose lifetimes are to be managed can be freely selected copier by copier and,...
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5867096 |
Method for signal degradation alarm detection and cancellation in synchronous digital microwave system
A method for signal degradation alarm detection in a digital microwave system, includes the steps of: summing code violation values from cells of a given buffer except for one of the cells...
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