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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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3521039 |
COMPUTER VERIFICATION
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3518633 |
WEIGHTED TIME ACCOUNTING IN TIME SHARED COMPUTER
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3490147 |
METHOD FOR OPTIMALLY CUTTING SUCCESSIVE PANELS OF PIECES FROM A SHEET OR STRIP
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3269505 |
Control system for vending machines
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3235713 |
Automated price computation
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