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5960374 |
System for time synchronous monitoring of product quality variable
A system for monitoring of a product quality variable of a moving web produced by associated equipment defines cross-direction (CD) data increments across a width of the web and machine direction...
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5956692 |
Attribute inductive data analysis
A method and apparatus for monitoring a physical process comprising a plurality of interacting attributes where the attributes are components of the physical process. The method and apparatus...
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5956251 |
Statistical tolerancing
A process of establishing valid statistical dimensional tolerance limits for designs of detail parts that will enable accurate prediction of an economically acceptable degree of non-conformance of...
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5943236 |
Plant-operation-information displaying method and plant-operation monitoring apparatus
A large amount of information on unsteady events each occurring at a plant at a time not predicted by the user is superposed on contents of a display of existing drawings in a form that allows the...
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5937364 |
Automatic selection of statistical quality control procedures
Disclosed is a computer implemented method for automating the selection of an analytical statistical quality control (QC) procedure. Inputs of a quality requirement and observed performance...
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5896294 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting manufactured products for defects in response to in-situ monitoring
An apparatus and method for selecting products to inspect for defects performs in-situ monitoring of a processing tool during a manufacturing processing step. The data from the in-situ monitoring...
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5884242 |
Focus spot detection method and system
A method and system for detecting focus spots. Data from a file created during stepper operation is extracted to get field coordinate position, leveling scheme, and tilt with respect to the x- and...
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5831435 |
Battery tester for JIS Standard
A method and apparatus for testing JIS rated batteries is disclosed. A JIS battery type reference number is provided to a battery tester. Battery test information for the JIS rated battery is...
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5742525 |
Method for eliminating the fluctuation and drift of spectral line intensities
This invention is a method for improving the quality of analytical measurement data by eliminating the fluctuation and drift of spectral line intensities obtained by an atomic emission spectrometer...
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5715181 |
Isogrammetric analysis method for high-yield processes
A method is provided for process monitoring by statistical measurement of level-of-defectives performance in manufacturing and other processes. Statistical performance data functions of mean-value...
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5654903 |
Method and apparatus for real time monitoring of wafer attributes in a plasma etch process
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring the state of an attribute of a product during the manufacturing process. The invention employs an intelligent system trained in...
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5636144 |
Evaluation and ranking of manufacturing line non-numeric information
An apparatus and method for quantitatively ranking the performance of each attribute contributing to a manufacturing process. Various signals representing the measure (i.e., quality or yield) of a...
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5615138 |
Method for establishing the working mantime in the production line
Disclosed is a method of establishing working mantime in a production line comprising the steps of: numerically evaluating the work volume for the working means performed in each production...
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5548535 |
Monitor utility for use in manufacturing environment
Method and apparatus for a utility for monitoring, tracking and scheduling the performance of periodic activities in a manufacturing environment is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the monitor...
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5499196 |
Sensor interface for computer-based notification system
A notification system for reporting events occurring within a defined area being monitored thereby. The notification system includes a plurality of sensors installed at selected locations within...
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5461570 |
Computer system for quality control correlations
A computer control system for optimizing process parameters in an automated production line for producing contact lenses. The system comprises a plurality of process controllers for controlling one...
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5423199 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring stamping press process
Method of and system for monitoring the operation of a stamping press including a punch and a die for forming parts from a blank based on processed punch tonnages measurements at predetermined...
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5422831 |
Acoustic and video imaging system for quality determination of pharmaceutical products
A flexible system for determining the quality of pharmaceutical products based on characteristics such as, for example, mass, shape, hardness, size, color and surface texture is disclosed herein....
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5392226 |
Computer-implemented method and apparatus for monitoring statistical process control data
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for monitoring a process operating under statistical process control (SPC). The computer displays a "target control chart" to represent SPC data from the...
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5384859 |
Method for quality control of printed sheets
Individual printed image elements from an image to be inspected are allotted individual nominal ink density values, as by scanning an ideal printed sheet by a CCD matrix camera. The ideal values...
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5381340 |
Quality control system in a spinning mill
A quality control system in a material processing mill. The mill may include several different processing machines for performing several different processing steps to produce several different...
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5347471 |
Checking fixture with computer compensation for data collection device locators
A checking fixture for checking the accuracy of manufactured parts has a base with origin surfaces or tooling balls defining an orthogonal plane system. A series of net pads, clamps and pins formed...
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5341436 |
Nondestructive analysis of dispersion and loading of reinforcing material in a composite material
A real-time radioscopy system produces an X-ray image of a sample of reinforced composite material or a manufactured part that has been molded from the reinforced composite material. By examining...
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5284164 |
Method for improving the quality of products produced in the cigarette manufacturing process
The present invention comprises a method for improving the quality of products produced in a cigarette manufacturing process. Selected machine operating parameters for at least one machine are...
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5247460 |
Apparatus and method for improving quality of comminuted meat products
An apparatus and method for estimating and evaluating acceptability of process variations in a blended meat processing facility. The apparatus implementing the method includes a keyboard, a data...
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5244020 |
Dispenser
A dispenser of foodstuff is particularly well adapted to deliver cheese for pizza making. A refrigerator contains a bin which may be completely removed from said refrigerator for cleaning, as in a...
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5203188 |
System and method for monitoring a rolling mill
A system and method for monitoring a rolling mill which includes a data acquisition module that continually acquires, from mill instrumentation computers, time domain data relating to finished...
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5178008 |
Method and apparatus for the qualitative assessment and classification of yarns during a yarn clearing process
For the purpose of establishing the clearing limit of a yarn clearing system, the yarn faults are determined, classified and counted. The parameters reference length and sensitivity are set in...
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5077674 |
Performance feedback system
The present invention is a method of quality assurance and rectification of defects in the process of assembling a vehicle on a continuously moving assembly line. The method includes the steps of...
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4967381 |
Process control interface system for managing measurement data
A system and method for computer control of machine processes. The system and method provide a set of predefined data management or data analysis tasks which an operator of the system can use when...
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4858154 |
Interlaboratory quality assurance program
An improved procedure for statistically evaluating the performance, precision and/or accuracy, of at least one analytical instrument in a pool of like or substantially like instruments by comparing...
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4855923 |
Parts assembly using signature analysis
A method of assembling parts in which, before actual assembly of the parts, the forces associated with a good assembly of parts and the forces associated with a faulty assembly of parts are...
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4789947 |
Inspection system and method for mechanical structures
In conjunction with an unmanned, remotely controllable apparatus for inspecting, testing and viewing and for examination and evaluation of the general condition, state of repair, and of the quality...
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4774673 |
Method for monitoring yarn quality on a textile machine
Method for the simultaneous monitoring of yarn quality on a number of similar monitoring points of a textile machine, in which each monitoring point uses one measuring element together with the...
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4758968 |
Method and apparatus for continuously measuring the variability of textile strands
A method and apparatus for continuously measuring the variability of an advancing textile strand is disclosed, and wherein the output signal is useful in diagnosing the source of the variations....
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4757263 |
Insulation power factor alarm monitor
The present invention teaches a technique and provides for apparatus eminently useful for the continuous, simultaneous monitoring of the insulation quality of one or more pieces of high voltage ac...
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4691830 |
Inspection and sorting of molded containers as a function of mold of origin
A completely automated system for inspection and sorting of molded containers, such as glass bottles, as a function of mold cavity of container origin. In a first system section, finished...
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4599699 |
Cigarette manufacturing machines
A method is provided for monitoring cigarette manufacturing machinery in order to provide the machine minder with automatically displayed messages relating to process fault or deterioration...
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4561103 |
Print inspecting method and apparatus
This invention relates to a technique for inspecting picture patterns on prints which are being run in a rotary press or the like, and more particularly to a method in which reference data read out...
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4550376 |
Inspection system for mechanical structures
Remotely controllable and manipulable unmanned apparatus for safely inspecting, testing, viewing and for non-invasive examination and evaluation of the general condition, the state of repair, and...
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4376387 |
Dynamic shock absorber evaluator
A shock absorber testing device wherein the vehicle body is raised relative to the vehicle wheels, and is then released. The vehicle wheels are not raised. Upon releasing of the raised...
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4360887 |
Skin categorizing apparatus
Skin categorizing apparatus comprises a conveyor on which skins are categorized by automatic area scanning and thickness measuring means generating data for transmission to a remote location for...
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4349112 |
Pellet inspection apparatus
Apparatus for inspecting nuclear fuel pellets in a sealed container for diameter, flaws, length and weight. The apparatus includes, in an array, a pellet pick-up station, four pellet inspection...
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4287769 |
Apparatus and method whereby wave energy is correlated with geometry of a manufactured part or the like or to positional relationships in a system
A way of automatically inspecting a machined part, for example, to a tolerance of 0.001 inches. A minicomputer monitors a change in phase of acoustic wave energy impinging upon a sample part and...
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4051722 |
Method and apparatus for measuring irregularities in the cross-section of yarns, roving, bands and the like
A method of, and apparatus for, measuring irregularities in the cross-section of yarns, rovings, bands and the like, by means of a preferably portable measuring apparatus or device providing a...
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3982440 |
Method of determining molded part profile
A method is provided for determining the profile of a molded part as a means of checking the quality of a given molded part and/or as a basis for effecting adjustments in the molding machine...
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3725650 |
METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR OPTICALLY REPRESENTING INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT DATA
Data obtained in industrial production or office work, such as rate or quantity of output of a machine or a worker, are applied to computers for deriving electric signals characterizing the...
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VARIANCE PARTITIONING
Disclosed are a system for and method of dividing or partitioning the total variance properties of a moving sheet into the components of: cross direction; long-term machine direction; short-term...
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3151237 |
Statistical quality-control method and apparatus
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3150253 |
Product analyzer
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