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7587289 Data cable powered sensor fixture  
A sensor fixture can be affixed within a wall and powered using the same cable along which data signals are transmitted. A data cable is attached to the fixture, and power for a sensor is isolated...
7577539 Sensor interface and sensor calibration technique  
Apparatus and an accompanying method for calibrating a sensor signal conditioner coupled to a sensor. The signal conditioner sensor enables relatively easy and precise calibration of bridge sensors...
7493222 High density metering system  
A modular metering system comprises a data processing module, a current module and a voltage module. The current and voltage modules include sensor memories characterizing the respective current...
7415363 High resolution torque measurement on a rotating shaft with movement compensation  
An apparatus for determining the torque imposed on a rotatable shaft. The shaft has at least four paired probes, paired horizontal probes and paired vertical probes. The horizontal probes are...
7386408 Parallel kinematic machine, calibration method of parallel kinematic machine, and calibration program product  
A parallel kinematic machine has a parallel kinematic mechanism including an end effecter and a parallel link mechanism. A numerical control device controls a position and orientation of the end...
7366624 Multi-element smart gas sensor  
An electronic gas sensor signal conditioner which can automatically adapt to a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf sensors and provide a digital output in a standard, easily used format. The...
7313495 Method of processing marine magnetic gradient data and exploration methods using that data  
A method of processing marine magnetic data is disclosed which comprises towing first and second magnetometers M 1 and M 2 behind a ship ( 10 ). Raw magnetic gradient data is obtained from the...
7299145 Method for the automatic simultaneous synchronization, calibration and qualification of a non-contact probe  
The present invention relates to an improved method for the simultaneous calibration and qualification of a non-contact probe on a localizer using a single artifact, in which non-contact probe...
7279046 Method and apparatus for aligning patterns on a substrate  
A system and method for aligning prior patterning positions formed by a first SPM tip with a second SPM tip in combination with an SPM system includes identifying first location information that...
7231641 X-ray examination apparatus containing a shared software modules and an application to access software module services  
A family of complex systems has a shared family architecture. A component framework supports participating plug-in components. Individual plug-in components provides one or more services. The...
7181356 Device and method for analyzing the structure of a material  
The invention relates to a device that is used to analyse the structure of a material. The inventive device comprises: probe elements ( 5 ) which are used to (i) emit a wave, in the material, with...
6996486 Vibration instrument calibration method and apparatus  
A method of and apparatus for enabling on-site calibration of an instrument, which measures vibration in a machine to assure that the instrument functions within instrument performance...
6944564 Method for the automatic calibration-only, or calibration and qualification simultaneously of a non-contact probe  
The present invention relates to a method for calibrating a non-contact probe on a localizer. The present invention further relates to a method for the simultaneous calibration and qualification of...
6941192 Robot machining tool position and orientation calibration  
A robot having a spindle is calibrated by disposing a calibration tool in the robot spindle. The position of the calibration tool is measured. An axis of the spindle is determined based on the...
6845336 Water treatment monitoring system  
A computer system linked by the internet to various remote waste water treatment facilities. The system receives real-time data from the facilities and analyzing the data to determine likely...
6804620 Calibration method for system performance validation of automatic test equipment  
An ATE calibration method and system that does not require external test equipment to calibrate individual functional pins and provides balanced timing skews among the functional pins and pincards...
6795779 High resolution torque measurement on a rotating shaft  
An apparatus comprises a rotatable shaft and first and second targets coupled to the rotatable shaft so as to rotate therewith, a first probe for transmitting a first transmission signal to the...
6768956 High precision position detecting apparatus capable of removing error contained in signal  
A high precision position detecting apparatus is provided in which a periodical position detecting error caused by an offset, dispersion of an amplitude difference, or a phase difference in an...
6725170 Smart probe apparatus and method for automatic self-adjustment of an oscilloscope's bandwidth  
The invention involves storing information about the probe frequency response in the probe itself. The information preferably consists of a set of one or more characteristic frequency response data...
6701265 Calibration for vector network analyzer  
An improved calibration method for a vector network analyzer stores sparse calibration data, interpolates system error data from the sparse calibration data for each measurement by the vector...
6701194 Control board for controlling and monitoring usage of water  
An electronic control board for supplying control signals including an activation signal to a controlled device in response to a detection signal created by a sensor comprises an on delay timer, a...
6697684 Programmable field measuring instrument  
A programmable field measuring instrument includes a control unit, and a connector terminal, and a software protection device. The control unit executes a control program. The connector terminal is...
6598000 Method and apparatus for detecting motion of a motor for a disk drive system  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling the operation of a polyphase motor, and particularly to determining whether the motor is spinning. The method and apparatus include initially...
6587802 Calibration device for a parallel kinematic manipulator  
A calibration device for a parallel kinematic manipulator having a base unit and a manipulator platform movable with respect thereto, the manipulator platform being connected to the base unit via a...
6560555 Method for facilitating the field replacement of sensors  
A method for facilitating field replacement of sensors is presented. The replacement sensor's transfer function need only be measured, not adjusted, and the signal-processing unit's transfer...
6549816 Network software for a plumbing control system  
A plumbing control system includes a plurality of plumbing fixtures operated by an electronic control board having a microprocessor. The control board can form a node on a network that monitors and...
6487514 System and method for computer controlled interaction with integrated circuits  
A method and system for programmed interaction with integrated circuits (ICs) are disclosed in various embodiments. The system allows a hard-coded program that is suitable for a family of ICs...
6418392 System and method for simulating operations of an instrument  
A system and method for controlling an instrumentation system, wherein the present invention includes an improved instrument driver software architecture. The instrument driver software...
6405145 Instrumentation system and method which performs instrument interchangeability checking  
A system and method for controlling an instrumentation system, wherein the present invention includes an improved instrument driver software architecture. The instrument driver software...
6385550 Apparatus and method for providing forward and backward compatibility between a host instrument and an accessory  
A probe or accessory incorporating the features of the subject invention includes a communications arrangement for communicating topology-related data to a host instrument connected to the probe or...
6324482 Sensor provided with adjusting function  
An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic compensation sensor that can eliminate an exclusive input terminal for the compensation mode signal. To achieve this object, the...
6269317 Self-calibration of an oscilloscope using a square-wave test signal  
Self-calibration of a digitizer is carried out by using a square-wave test signal which is digitized by the digitizer, and temporal positions of the digitized values output by the digitizer are...
6246968 Device for pin adjusting in sensors  
In order to enable frequent and easy adjustment of a physical quantity transformed by a sensor into starting values or curves, the following method is applied: a) the modifying unit keeps...
6246966 Method and apparatus for data management authentication in a clinical analyzer  
A method and apparatus are provided for data management authentication in a clinical analyzer. The clinical analyzer includes a sensor for receiving a user sample to be measured and a processor for...
6233533 Turning center with integrated non-contact inspection system  
A non-contact inspection system has one or more pairs of non-contact sensors, pointing at the braking surfaces and a non-contact sensor pointing at the outer diameter of a disc. The non-contact...
6115678 Universal host interface for data acquisition systems  
A universal interface system for use with a data acquisition system including a data acquisition device such as a bar code scanner or scanner integrated terminal for providing digital data signals...
6088665 Schematic generator for use in a process control network having distributed control functions  
A schematic generator for use in a process control network, in which control functions are implemented by field devices interconnected at various and distributed locations on a bus, polls each of...
6085156 Instrumentation system and method having instrument interchangeability  
A system and method for controlling an instrumentation system, wherein the present invention includes an improved instrument driver software architecture. The instrument driver software...
5946641 Universal measuring instrument with signal processing algorithm encapsulated into interchangeable intelligent detectors  
A reading meter (10) is capable of use with a plurality of different sensor heads (16, 16b). The reading meter (12) includes a digital display (20), a processor (22) and memory (23), and an...
5940780 Universal transceiver  
A device is disclosed for interfacing with a variety of transducer types to generate a measurement value of a certain property. The device has at least one sensor block that in turn has at least...
5918194 Integrated modular measurement system having configurable firmware architecture and modular mechanical parts  
An integrated modular measurement system includes a universal module which is operable to receive measurement data from one or more measurement sensors, convert the measurement data into a value...
5918193 Clonable measurement display instrument  
A clonable display device includes an input port for receiving digital data representative of non-linear input variable. Computer CPU is connected to the input port for receiving digital data, and...
5875413 Digital remote gauge assembly  
The present invention includes a portable, damage resistant, palm-held, low cost, high sensitivity ergonomically dimensioned digital remote gauge assembly unit for the measurement of external...
5839094 Portable data collection device with self identifying probe  
The present invention provides a portable data collection device that has a variety of sensors that are interchangeable with a variety of input ports in the device. The various sensors include a...
5444642 Computer system for monitoring events and which is capable of automatically configuring itself responsive to changes in system hardware  
A system for monitoring events which is capable of automatically configuring itself responsive to changes in system hardware comprising: a plurality of input circuits for detecting events and a...
5377128 Self-calibrating instrumentation system with multiple sensor modules  
An instrumentation system includes a hand-held computer-based measuring meter having a visual display and a plurality of individual sensor modules that can be selectively coupled to the measuring...
5375073 Instrumentation system with multiple sensor modules providing accuracy code information  
An instrumentation system includes a hand-held computer-based measuring meter having a visual display and a plurality of individual sensor modules that can be selectively coupled to the measuring...
5365462 Instrumentation system with multiple sensor modules providing calibration date information  
An instrumentation system includes a hand-held computer-based measuring meter having a visual display and a plurality of individual sensor modules that can be selectively coupled to the measuring...
5249143 Coupling radiant energy/electric current transducers to processors  
In methods and apparatus for operatively coupling a radiant energy/electric current transducer to an electric current processor, a removable coupling module is provided for insertion between that...
5162725 Modular metering instrument including multiple sensing probes  
A modular metering instrument including one of a plurality of sensing probes or probe modules including identification and calibration information stored therein and a meter module which can...
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