| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 340870280 | Via radiant energy beam (via particular energy) | 14 |
| 20100045480 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTENNA SELECTION IN A DIVERSITY ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING WITH IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE - A diversity antenna system including a plurality of antennas can include an antenna interface circuit configured to connect an antenna of the plurality of antennas to a transceiver using an antenna selection signal. The antenna control circuit can be configured to produce the antenna selection signal using at least one of a random sequence generator configured to generate a random antenna selection signal or a predetermined sequence generator configured to generate a predetermined antenna selection signal according to a predetermined sequence. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100085212 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCATING EACH OF THE WHEELS OF A PAIR OF TWIN WHEELS MOUNTED ON A VEHICLE - A method and device for locating each of the wheels of a pair of twinned wheels mounted on a vehicle. Each twinned wheel is equipped with an electromagnetic receiving antenna, and these two twinned wheels are provided with elements of relative blocking rotation-wise designed to make it possible to obtain an offset by a predetermined angle (α), such that (α) is different from 0° and 180°, between the receiving antennas with which the two twinned wheels are equipped. The vehicle is equipped with a fixed source of emission of an electromagnetic signal suitable for covering an area passed through by the receiving antennas, and the electromagnetic field received by each of the receiving antennas is measured, so as to deduce, from the analysis of the time offset between the variations of the two measured electromagnetic fields, the location of each of the twinned wheels. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100201542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE SAMPLING OF CONDITIONS USING WIRED SENSORS CONNECTED TO WIRELESS NODES - A system for collecting data includes a remote sensor assembly and a central data collection device. The remote sensor assembly has a data bus, a remote wireless node, and a plurality of remote sensor modules in wired communication with the remote wireless node via the data bus. Each of the remote sensor modules converts a sensed condition into data in response to a request from the remote wireless node. The central data collection device has a master wireless node for periodically wirelessly communicating with the remote wireless node. The remote wireless node collects data from each of the plurality of remote sensor modules and periodically transmits the data to the master wireless node. The remote sensor modules are interchangeable and new remote sensor modules may be added. The remote wireless node may detect the sequence of the attached remote sensor modules to enable three-dimensional mapping of the sensed conditions. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110063128 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING CHAMBER STATUS IN SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION PROCESS - A chamber-status monitoring apparatus includes a plurality of chambers, a time-division multiplexer configured to receive, via optical fiber probes, optical signals from each chamber, to divide each optical signal into first time slots having a predetermined duration, and to multiplex the first time slots to generate an OTDM signal, a multi-input optical emission spectroscope configured to receive and disperse the OTDM signal according to wavelengths to measure spectrum information, and a controller configured to divide the spectrum information of the dispersed OTDM signal into second time slots with a predetermined time interval therebetween, to classify the second time slots according to the chambers to obtain spectrum information of the optical signals of the individual chambers, and to control endpoint detection in each of the chambers in accordance with the spectrum information of the optical signal of the corresponding chamber. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110133949 | INSTRUMENTED COMPONENT FOR WIRELESS TELEMETRY - A telemetry system for use in a combustion turbine engine ( | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110133950 | INSTRUMENTED COMPONENT FOR WIRELESS TELEMETRY - A telemetry system for use in a combustion turbine engine ( | 06-09-2011 |
| 20120026009 | MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A MULTI-ELEMENT ANTENNA - Medical devices are provided with multi-element antenna systems that may function to automatically tune the antenna as a function of the operating environment of the medical device. The tuning methodology may incorporate a multi-element antenna having a variable capacitive element on a first of the antenna elements with that antenna element being driven by a second of the antenna elements. In an embodiment, a multi-element antenna system may acquire measurements of predefined criteria and the antenna may be tuned as a function of the measured criteria to optimize operation of the antenna in both reception and transmission of signals. In so doing the antenna impedance can be matched to the transmission line impedance. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20130162446 | OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEM WITH REDUNDANT INPUT AND OUTPUT TREES - An optical sensing system, comprising a plurality of optical sensors ( | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130300579 | Detector System - The system includes an active unit, such as a detector unit, which has a processor, a network port for connection to a central control unit, and an optical data input port. The processor is arranged to enable the optical data input port on receipt of an enable signal received by the active unit from the central control unit via a network. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20140320313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING POWER TO TRANSMISSION TOWER USING OPTICAL POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING THE OPTICAL POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - There is provided a system and method for supplying power to a transmission tower using an optical power transmission device including a transmission line, an optical power transmission device which is mounted on the transmission line and converts power obtained in the transmission line into an optical signal, a transmission tower, an optical power reception device which is mounted on the transmission tower and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal to supply power to various devices mounted on the transmission tower, and an optical fiber which has one end connected to the optical power transmission device and another end connected to the optical power reception device and transmits the optical signal of the optical power transmission device to the optical power reception device, wherein the optical fiber is insulated with an insulator string. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150022375 | TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE AND INFRARED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INTEGRATED INTO A BATTERY - Apparatuses and methods relating to interfacing and controlling external batteries are described. In one embodiment, an external battery is integrated with a touch screen display. In one embodiment, the external battery provides an infrared communication link with a detachable device or system controller. In one embodiment, the external battery touch screen interface provides data received from a detachable device or system controller. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150294561 | Optical Fiber-Based Remote Gas Leakage Monitoring - An analyzer operable with an optical network is responsive to a probe signal reflected by a sensor in the network to convey information about targeted matter in air in the sensor. Multiple sensors at different locations in the network can be associated with respective selective optical wavelength filtering thereby enabling the analyzer to associated respective ones of the sensors. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294562 | Optical Fiber-Based Remote Gas Leakage Monitoring - The invention uses a point-to-multi-point (P2MP) discovery process conducted in a passive optical network PON system to identify each sensor that returns a probe pulse identified with a respective sensor without adding any equipment at the remote sensors. The sensors provide with the returned signal information indicative of measured gas leakage in the air in the sensor. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20160088371 | INFRARED PROXIMITY SENSOR CONTROL OF DEVICES - Infrared proximity sensor control of devices is described herein. One disclosed example apparatus includes an infrared proximity detection sensor disposed within a substantially environmentally-isolated zone of an electronic device, where the infrared proximity detection sensor is to detect an input sequence, and a processor to receive the input sequence, where the processor is programmed to interpret a command by comparing a defined sequence to the input sequence. | 03-24-2016 |
