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8185341 |
Surface temperature profile
Thermometric apparatus includes one or more temperature sensors, which are configured to provide respective temperature-dependent readings at two or more locations on a surface in a vicinity of a...
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8145337 |
Methodology to enable wafer result prediction of semiconductor wafer batch processing equipment
A method to enable wafer result prediction from a batch processing tool, includes collecting manufacturing data from a batch of wafers processed in batch in the batch processing tool, to form a...
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8131495 |
Particulate matter sensor calibration
A system includes a filter, a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The filter can be coupled to an engine exhaust and can operate in an accumulating mode during which particulate matter (PM) from the...
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8032234 |
Diagnostics in process control and monitoring systems
A condition of an industrial process is diagnosed based upon process variable information related to a value of a measured process variable. Histogram information is calculated based upon the...
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7984399 |
System and method for random defect yield simulation of chip with built-in redundancy
In random defect yield simulation, a specific defect size interacts with a specific physical design and has a calculated probability of failure associated with it. The failure model is in terms of...
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7871237 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring particles in a gas turbine working fluid
A method and system for monitoring a gas turbine engine (20) to predict maintenance requirements. Particles suspended in a gas flow (24, 32) of the engine (20) are monitored and quantified to...
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7855370 |
Pileup rejection in an energy-dispersive radiation spectrometry system
A method of detecting edges of a preamplifier signal including identifying a first portion of the signal wherein each part thereof has an instantaneous slope having a first polarity, identifying a...
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7791482 |
Using RFIDs to detect material dilution
A material is laced with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags at a known concentration of RFID tags per unit of material. Subsequently, if an interrogation of the RFID tags reveals a reduced...
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7689385 |
Method of animating structural vibration under operational conditions
A method of analyzing structural vibration according to one aspect of the present invention includes reception of data from a plurality of sensors on a structure, filtration of the data to exclude...
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7657392 |
Method and apparatus for detecting and characterizing particles in a multiphase fluid
A method and apparatus for measuring the size and distribution of particles within a multiphase fluid flowing within a pipe is provided, wherein the apparatus includes at least one metering device...
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7623943 |
Methods and systems for pack-size-oriented rounding
Methods and systems are provided for packing a required quantity of products, wherein a plurality of different packages for packing the products and a plurality of packaging specifications...
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7623978 |
Damage assessment of a wafer using optical metrology
A method of assessing damage of a dual damascene structure includes obtaining a wafer after the wafer has been processed using a dual damascene process. A first damage-assessment procedure is...
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7558680 |
Characterisation of progressive system dysfunction
Methods and systems of measuring progressive multilateral dysfunction of a system are provided. Methods of measuring progressive multilateral dysfunction of a system include, obtaining a plurality...
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7526535 |
Network-based system for configuring a programmable hardware element in a modeling system using hardware configuration programs determined based on a user specification
A system and method for online configuration of a measurement system. The user may access a server over a network and specify a desired task, e.g., a measurement task, and receive programs and/or...
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7506282 |
Apparatus and methods for predicting and/or calibrating memory yields
An apparatus and methods for predicting and/or for calibrating memory yields due to process defects and/or device variations, including determining a model of a memory cell, identifying a subset of...
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7502709 |
Dynamic metrology sampling for a dual damascene process
A method of monitoring a dual damascene procedure that includes calculating a pre-processing confidence map for a damascene process, the pre-processing confidence map including confidence data for...
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7463158 |
Acoustic particle alarm including particle sensor
The present invention provides an acoustic particle alarm comprising a particle sensor for indicating the concentration of particles exceeding a specified size and specified concentration, for...
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7412508 |
Device for indicating downloading of data items
A device (1) for indicating downloading of a data item (3) by a user computer (5) from a first computer (7) using a data communication network (9) is disclosed. The device (1) comprises a processor...
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7308380 |
Vehicular collision object determining system
A planar pressure-sensitive switch unit has multiple pressure-sensitive switches that are disposed in a longitudinal direction of a bumper cover of a vehicle with given intervals for detecting the...
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7277777 |
Method and system for real time reporting of boiler adjustment using emission sensor data mapping
A method to adjust a boiler having a flue gas duct including: sensing flue gas emissions in the gas duct with a plurality of emission sensors arranged in an array; generating a multidimensional...
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7243034 |
Sensor device
A sensor device according to the present invention has a detection mode for detecting an object W, a first setting mode for changing the output duration of an output signal, and a second setting...
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7200498 |
System for remediating cross contamination in semiconductor manufacturing processes
The present invention defines a system (100) for detecting copper contamination within a semiconductor manufacturing process. According to the present invention, a semiconductor wafer (102) is...
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7130771 |
System and method for optimization of and analysis of insulated systems
The present invention is directed to a method for generating a list of package shipment routes in a shipment solution system comprising the steps of entering product information, place of origin,...
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7115857 |
Apparatus for remotely counting objects in a collection using differential lighting
Apparatus for remotely counting the number of individual objects of the same general shape and disposed in a collection having a front end in a common vertical plane.
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7117101 |
Remote particle counter for remote measurement of the number and size distribution of suspended fine particles in the atmosphere
A remote particle counter comprising a pulsed laser generator, laser light emitting optics, scattered light collecting optics, a high-sensitivity two-dimensional photo detector as a scattered light...
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7085670 |
Reconfigurable measurement system utilizing a programmable hardware element and fixed hardware resources
A system and method for configuring a device to perform a function, where the device includes a programmable hardware element and one or more fixed hardware resources. A program is stored which...
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7043394 |
Method and device for measuring fine particles in ultrapure water
A novel measuring method which allows measurement of fine particles which are extremely fine and contained in a very small amount in ultrapure water is provided. The number frequency with respect...
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7028723 |
Apparatus and method for automatic prescription verification
An apparatus and method are used to perform the verification of a pharmaceutical prescription after it is filled but prior to shipment. Due to the high volume of mail/internet orders, the analysis...
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6970799 |
Method and apparatus for particle sizing
A method and apparatus provides for particle size detection. A particle detector signal is utilized to provide particle size information. The particle detection signal is obtained by utilizing...
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6963782 |
System and method for effecting control tuning of a manufacturing process
The present invention includes a system and method for fine tuning the control of a manufacturing process. A material adjusting device is in communication with a PID controller and PID control...
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6941185 |
Operating method of vacuum processing system and vacuum processing system
A vacuum processing apparatus and method wherein a plurality of processing units are for conducting processing, a transfer processing unit is connected with the plurality of processing units for...
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6937647 |
External perimeter monitoring system
A system for monitoring activity along a wire-bounded perimeter. The monitoring system includes a single-conductor wire which bounds a protected area. In communication with the wire at...
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6922652 |
Automated quality assurance method and apparatus and method of conducting business
The present invention provides a dynamic continuous and/or semi-continuous and/or static product measurement characterizing and identifying system and apparatus for food stuffs and food product...
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6873725 |
Simultaneous measurement and display of 3-D size distributions of particulate materials in suspensions
An apparatus and method in which a still image, or still images, are obtained of a plurality of particles suspended in a fluid medium. Each still image is transferred to an image analyzing unit...
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6820033 |
Method and apparatus for estimating the weight of horses
A method and an apparatus for estimating the weight of horses. To estimate the weight of a horse, a girth, a length, and a height of the horse are measured. The measurements can be taken with...
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6796195 |
Apparatus for determining particle size
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for measuring the size, concentration and size distribution of particles in a fluid by determining the characteristics of an acoustic speckle signal...
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6778936 |
Consistency determining method and system
A system (30) and method for determining stock consistency and for using consistency as a process variable to control some aspect of operation of a refiner (32) used to refine stock. The system...
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6748815 |
Method for determining particle size
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for measuring the size, concentration and size distribution of particles in a fluid by determining the characteristics of an acoustic speckle signal...
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6698276 |
Method and apparatus for determining particle size distribution by acoustic speckle
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for measuring the size, concentration and size distribution of particles in a fluid by determining the characteristics of an acoustic speckle signal...
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6681191 |
Frequency domain analysis system for a time domain measurement instrument
A frequency domain analysis system incorporated into time domain measurement instrument has duration and resolution controls that respectively adjust the acquisition time intervals of a waveform...
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6631336 |
Nondestructive method of quality control of high-voltage systems and device for use of the method
A method and device applicable to HV generators and X-ray tubes, and a computer program and support for the program. In the method a determination is made of a scale of values representing the...
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6625561 |
Method and apparatus for media height sensing
The present invention employs an inexpensive method and apparatus for media height sensing. A sheet fed media-using-machine has a media holder. The media holder holds a stack of a variable quantity...
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6587806 |
Method and system for determining time to sort mailpieces
A system and method for estimating an amount of time required to complete a mail processing job. A control module receives and maintains real time data of quantity of mailpieces and time to sort...
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6577983 |
Produce recognition method
A produce recognition method which determines an optimal number of candidate identifications in a candidate identification list. The method includes the steps of obtaining produce data associated...
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6574580 |
Pharmacy pill counting vision system
A semi-automated pill counting system (10) using digital imaging technology and image recognition software including a modified Hough Transform. The system (10) comprises a light source (12); a...
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6546352 |
Method and apparatus for evaluation of aggregate particle shapes through multiple ratio analysis
A method and apparatus for performing multiple ratio analysis of aggregate particles, wherein the method includes the steps of measuring a first maximum dimension of a particle, measuring a second...
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6502052 |
Note bundle managing apparatus to store and count note bundles
An internal sensor is moved in a direction of stacking of note bundles within a cashbox along bands of the bundles. The bands of bundles are detected in accordance with movement of the internal...
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6442499 |
Methods and apparatus for statistical process control of test
Methods and apparatus for statistical process control of test according to various aspects of the present invention optimize the wait period between applying input signals and collecting output...
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6381555 |
Measurement system
The invention concerns measurement apparatus for obtaining measurements relating to an attributes or attributes θ of a succession of events in which an event generates a measurable physical ...
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6360181 |
System and method for collecting data on product consumption
A system and method for collecting data on individual and aggregate use of various washroom products. The system includes one or more product dispensers having a sensor associated therewith for...
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