Method of generating and storing and operating an user program consisting of instructions for a stored-program control unit
U.S. Patent US6144889 | Filed: 05/18/1998 | Issued: 11/07/2000
During the program execution of a user program, the function code assigned to an output signal and the function parameters assigned to this function code are read first. For each function parameter...
Assignee(s): Siemens AG | Inventor(s): Heiko Kammler + 1 | Agent(s): Kenyon & Kenyon | Examiner(s): Thomas C. Lee |
Actuator control apparatus and magnetic disk unit
U.S. Patent US6216050 | Filed: 02/27/1998 | Issued: 04/10/2001
An actuator control system and a magnetic disk device having a hybrid control system. The actuator control system includes an LPF that can be processed by the hardware architecture of a HDD that do...
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation | Inventor(s): Hiroyuki Ono + 1 | Agent(s): Monica D. Lee + 1 | Examiner(s): Ayaz Sheikh |
Alarm event generator apparatus, means and system
U.S. Patent US6223091 | Filed: 05/29/1998 | Issued: 04/24/2001
An alarm event generation method and apparatus for signaling an alarm (436, 1400) for a process control system (100). The process control system (100) monitors a production run using a computer sys...
Assignee(s): Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. | Inventor(s): Terry Wayne Powell | Examiner(s): Paul P. Gordon |
System for and method of allocating processing tasks of a control program configured to control a distributed control system
U.S. Patent US6104962 | Filed: 03/26/1998 | Issued: 08/15/2000
A method and system for allocating programming objects of a control program configured to control a distributed control system having a plurality of distributed control modules. A graph model of th...
Assignee(s): Rockwell Technologies, LLC | Inventor(s): Shivakumar Sastry | Agent(s): Diane M. Sangalli | Examiner(s): Joseph E. Palys |
Method and system for determining an effective amount of light energy to delivery to fluids having targets for the light energy
U.S. Patent US6219584 | Filed: 07/09/1999 | Issued: 04/17/2001
Systems and methods for determining an effective amount of light energy to deliver to fluids, particularly fluids having target and non-target materials. The systems and methods specifically relate...
Assignee(s): Therakos, Inc. | Inventor(s): Kyu Ho Lee | Agent(s): McKenna & Cuneo, LLP | Examiner(s): William Grant |
Electronic device controller
U.S. Patent US6253114 | Filed: 06/03/1998 | Issued: 06/26/2001
The present invention relates to a technique to realize the copying operation without any deterioration of information by simplified operation on the occasion of copying information to a plurality ...
Assignee(s): Sony Corporation | Inventor(s): Masahiro Takihara | Agent(s): Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. | Examiner(s): William Grant |
Video acquisition system including objects with dynamic communication capabilities
U.S. Patent US6256625 | Filed: 09/15/1998 | Issued: 07/03/2001
A video capture system and method which includes improved software control of image acquisition and processing. The method comprises first creating an image application using one or more objects. A...
Assignee(s): National Instruments Corporation | Inventor(s): John R. Breyer + 1 | Agent(s): Conley, Rose & Tayon PC + 1 | Examiner(s): Jack Choules |
Constructing applications in distributed control systems using components having built-in behaviors
U.S. Patent US6205362 | Filed: 11/24/1997 | Issued: 03/20/2001
A distributed control system including self-organizing components which are preselected on the basis of built in behaviors which are needed to perform a particular application. The built in behavio...
Assignee(s): Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Inventor(s): John C. Eidson | Examiner(s): William Grant |
Surface determination and automatic milling in spinnerette manufacturing
U.S. Patent US6161050 | Filed: 03/26/1998 | Issued: 12/12/2000
A numerically controlled milling machine is used to mill the surface of a coined spinnerette after punching and before broaching the holes in the spinnerette. A probe is mounted on the milling mach...
Assignee(s): Eastman Chemical Company | Inventor(s): Ernest Edward Jessee + 3 | Agent(s): Cheryl J. Tubach | Examiner(s): Paul P. Gordon |
System for analyzing and improving pharmaceutical and other capital-intensive manufacturing processes
U.S. Patent US6243615 | Filed: 09/09/1999 | Issued: 06/05/2001
A method for displaying a visual process signature for ready visual recognition and communication of otherwise complex manufacturing process information. Process data may be stored in a plurality o...
Assignee(s): Aegis Analytical Corporation | Inventor(s): Justin O. Neway + 2 | Agent(s): Holland & Hart LLP | Examiner(s): William Grant |
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