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5315521 Chemical process optimization method  
A method for producing two or more products from a production site such as an air separation plant to satisfy a given demand for each of the products in which energy consumption and the rate of...
5301234 Radiotelephone installation for prepayment operation with security protection  
In the course of the intercommunication between the base station and the autonomous telephone set, the first means of authentication initially generates a keyword dependent on the call charge for...
5255207 Method for designing and detailing cabinets  
An interactive method for designing and detailing cabinets utilizes a computer for storing design constraints and standards in a database and for performing the tedious parts of cabinet placement,...
5249120 Automated manufacturing costing system and method  
An automated manufacturing cost estimating method and system with indirect cost allocation which identifies a material in an initial state for manufacturing a product in a final state; defines an...
5196686 Checkout system with inlaid checkout counter keypad  
A checkout counter includes an optical scanning system mounted therein for projecting scanning light beams through an aperture in the counter for scanning a coded label attached to a merchandise...
5172314 Apparatus for communicating price changes including printer and display devices  
An improved price updating apparatus for use in retail store pricing systems has an input for receiving update data indicative of a product for which a price change is desired and the changed...
5109337 Conceptual design tool  
A conceptual design tool uses a sketch sheet approach on a computer display to enter the functional design of a product, thereby encouraging the designer to use a top down approach to the design...
5081591 Optimizing reactive power distribution in an industrial power network  
A system and method for optimizing the costs associated with the generation and flow of reactive power in an industrial plant connected to receive power from an electrical power utility and...
5063506 Cost optimization system for supplying parts  
A cost estimation system estimates the cost of supplying parts to a manufacturing facility. The system comprises a first database for storing cost information for various supply methods including...
5050031 Video cassette rental system and method and record playback counter therefor  
A computerized video record rental system and method in which a video record unit such as a tape cassette is provided with an integral counting device for counting the number of times the record is...
5005125 Surveillance, pricing and inventory system  
An EAS (electronic article surveillance) system and tag of type responsive to incident energy comprising EAS messages and other messages related to pricing and identification of articles includes...
4984170 Automatic ticket vending machine  
Two different values of fare or fee are previously stored, and tickets are issued or vended at the first fare or fee in specific day and time and at the second fare or fee in other day and time....
4893248 Monitoring and reporting system for remote terminals  
A system is disclosed for monitoring and accumulating data indicative of viewer authorized pay per view TV programs at each of a plurality of remote terminals, wherein each remote terminal is...
4887206 Automated system for estimating impact on inventory cost due to an engineering change to a component  
A conceptual tool for inventory cost analysis based on an engineering change request for an item. The invention is a conceptual tool that uses both existing and new product structure in which an...
4885694 Automated building control design system  
Disclosed is a computer system for substantially automating the design of a building control system. The system comprises a processor for processing data stored in a data base, the data being...
4870589 Management apparatus for equipment  
A management apparatus for equipment such as a copying machine has cards recording section data or the like, a card controller for reading the data from a card when the card is inserted and used...
4868758 Data communication system  
A data communication system comprises calculation means for calculating a communication charge to be charged when a given amount of data is to be transmitted, and display means for displaying the...
4782448 Contract estimating system utilizing a digitizing ruler  
A contract estimating system includes a digitizer ruler divided into a plurality of equally spaced increments. The ruler generates an output signal representing the distance along the ruler at a...
4766295 Electronic pricing display system  
An electronic pricing display system for displaying pricing and other specialized information in real time on shelf display tags (18). Display tags (18) are battery operated and receive remotely...
4751669 Videotex frame processing  
A videotex decoder apparatus which, in various aspects, displays a status line to indicate when connect charges are occurring; overlays menus over displayed videotex frames with portions of the...
4679150 Automatic vending machine with discount function  
An automatic vending machine is provided which has a continuous sale controller for continuously selling a plurality of products within a total amount of coins inserted therein for a single...
4675824 Method of replacing a tolling system for toll roads  
A method of replacing a punched-card tolling system with a magnetic-card tolling system gradually by installing controllers sequentially at entrance and exit gates, each of which controllers is...
4593361 Vending machine control circuit  
A vending machine control circuit having a plurality of capacitively coupled switches for enabling a customer to indicate his choice of a product to be vended. A logic circuit is responsive thereto...
4528638 Shopping calculator with comparison feature  
The present invention discloses a shopping calculator into the budget memory of which, when shopping, a previously decided budget value is entered for storage by means of a budget key, and each...
4503503 Transaction processing apparatus for storing and/or calculating costs, sales, deductions, number of sales, cost multiplier, and profit, in a departmentalized format  
A transaction processing apparatus comprises a memory having a sales information storing region defined for each of a plurality of commodity departments, a cost multiplier rate information storing...
4500880 Real time, computer-driven retail pricing display system  
A computer driven, informational display system is disclosed which visually displays selected information in real time. The arrangement is particularly adapted for displaying pricing and other...
4458320 Electronic calculating device  
An electronic calculating device having a keyboard with input keys for the digits 0-9, an item register and display for storing and displaying, in a fixed-point format of dollars and cents, an...
4435769 Portable type automobile repair estimate issuing device  
An automobile repair estimate issuing device having a part data file made up of a first file for storing part data other than name data and a second file for storing the name data. The data file is...
4408296 Digital timing system for spark advance  
A means to set spark timing in accordance with engine speed includes a counter to count clock pulses between engine speed reference pulses. A read-only memory has successive memory locations...
4280181 Cash accountability control circuit for vending and like machines  
A control circuit for vending and other coin controlled devices including a first accumulator for accumulating the price of each vend, said accumulator having a first input where signals that...
4128758 Electronic order pricing system  
An electronic order pricing system including a data card having a plurality of item lines, each representing an orderable item with certain of the lines bearing indicia representing a quantity of...
4065661 Photofinishing apparatus  
Photofinishing apparatus for producing photographic prints from originals such as positive transparencies, negative transparencies or positive reflection prints and for printing a customer bill is...
3761701 DRILLING COST INDICATOR  
In drilling oil and gas wells, particularly by the rotary drilling technique, it is necessary periodically to pull the drill string from the well in order to replace a worn bit. The most economic...
3752966 DRILL BIT UTILIZATION OPTIMIZER  
Disclosed is a special purpose digital data processor to generate information for optimizing the utilization time of a drilling bit for oil wells, etc. The system includes a series of registers for...
3682544 ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER FOR COPYING MACHINE  
The machine controller is adapted for use with a copying machine which is adapted to perform a plurality of functions including printing copies. The controller includes various machine...
3660649 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING DRILLING COSTS  
Apparatus and method for computing the cost per unit length of borehole drilled by a drilling apparatus, as for example, the cost per foot of borehole drilled. First signals representative of...
3581072 AUCTION MARKET COMPUTATION SYSTEM  
A special purpose digital computer matches orders and establishes market prices in an auction market for fungible goods. Priced orders to buy are arranged in descending order by price and priced...
3521039 COMPUTER VERIFICATION  
3518633 WEIGHTED TIME ACCOUNTING IN TIME SHARED COMPUTER  
3490147 METHOD FOR OPTIMALLY CUTTING SUCCESSIVE PANELS OF PIECES FROM A SHEET OR STRIP  
3269505 Control system for vending machines  
3235713 Automated price computation  
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