| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 377006000 | Counting animate or inanimate entities | 17 |
| 20110170655 | TABLET FEEDER - A tablet T is divided without moving a cutter and divided tablets T | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110182397 | SEED COUNTING DEVICE - A seed counting device where accuracy is maintained at higher counting rates. The seed counting device has a hopper in communication with a tray. An activator is connected to the tray to vibrate the tray. Connected to one end of the tray is a separator having sensors. Below the tray and in partial alignment with the separator is a projecting device. The projecting device projects seeds that fall from the tray past the sensors and into a seed chamber. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110317801 | Counting Device for Counting Nested Articles and Method for Counting Nested Articles - A counting device for counting rimmed articles arranged in a nested configuration to define a series of stacked rims defining a stacked direction is disclosed. The counting device has a gear with a plurality of teeth adapted to engage the article rims such that advancement of the articles along the stacked direction adjacent the gear rotates the gear. An indicator wheel is provided configured to rotate with rotation of the gear. The indicator wheel has a plurality of indicia thereon for monitoring rotation of the gear. At least one sensor is positioned to detect the indicia and to generate an output signal as the indicator wheel rotates to bring the indicia into alignment with a detection axis. The sensor is in communication with a counter which produces in response to the output signal of the sensor a usable output representing a quantity of articles having engaged the gear. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120014497 | DOOR CYCLE TRACKER - A door cycle tracker for a door with at least an open position and a closed position mounted on a track having at least one spring. The door cycle tracker includes a counter mounted to the door having an actuator for incrementing the counter; a trip lever pivotally mounted adjacent to the counter and moveable to a position in which the trip lever actuates the counter actuator; and a plate assembly mounted adjacent to the track in a location such that when the door approaches a selected position, the trip lever contacts the plate assembly. When the door slides on the track and the trip lever contacts the plate assembly, the trip lever pivots, contacts the counter actuator and increments the counter. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120063563 | SCREW COUNTER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A screw counter includes a first interface, a second interface, and a processing unit. The first interface connected to a screwdriver, the screwdriver is adapted for screwing a predetermined total number of screws into a workpiece to perform a screwing operation on the workpiece. The second interface is connected to a detecting unit. The detecting unit detects a start time and a finish time of the screwing operation. The processing unit counts a variable, each time when the processing unit is changed from a first state to a second state, the variable adds one; a total added value of the variable is calculated during a time interval between the start time and the finish time to acquire a total number of screws which are completely screwed into the workpiece. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120243654 | Methods for Interrupted Counting of Particles in Cells - A method executed by a circuit for counting electrons in storage cells in an array of at least two storage cells is provided. The method includes providing a storage array of at least two storage cells, and each of said at least two storage cells containing an unknown amount of electrons. A receiving array of at least two receiving cells is provided, where said at least two receiving cells initially contain no electrons. Then, extracting a layer of said electrons from said storage array of cells and inserting said layer into corresponding locations in said receiving array. The method then repeats said steps of extracting and inserting while at least one of said at least two storage cells is not empty. The method counts, for each said storage cell in said storage array, a productive-extraction amount. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20150023462 | CUP COUNTER - A handheld cup counter is disclosed. The cup counter may have a mechanical or optical sensor used to count the number of brim portions within a stack of cups. In order to properly position the optical or mechanical sensor, the sensor is disposed in relation to a ridge plate that helps the user to properly align the sensor to the stack of cups so that the sensor may accurately sense the number of brim portions within the stack of cups. The cup sensor may also have additional calculator functionality that works in conjunction with the sensed number of cups in order to more efficiently add and subtract the sensed number of cups of a plurality of stack of cups. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150124923 | PEOPLE COUNTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An apparatus configured to count people in a target area includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver is configured to radiate an impulse electromagnetic wave to the target area and receive a reflection signal from the target area, and the controller is configured to obtain a signal strength of the reflection signal over a reception time period during which the reflection signal is received and count people according to the signal strength, considering that the signal strength is weakened in proportion to the reception time period. | 05-07-2015 |
| 377008000 | Flat articles (e.g., sheet, bill, ticket) | 3 |
| 20090028285 | Bill discriminating and counting apparatus - The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus including a display section which can perform display written in plural languages. The bill discriminating and counting apparatus includes a second storage area in which display data of a mother language can be written in addition to a first storage area in which data for the display written in commonly-used English is stored, and the display written in the mother language can be performed by writing the display data written in the mother language in the second storage area in the country where the bill discriminating and counting apparatus is used. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20110033021 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COUNTING STACKED OBJECTS - An application for a device for directly measuring the number of homogeneous objects in a linear collection of homogeneous objects. In a preferred embodiment, the device is an elongated object having one or more sets of gradients in which each set of gradients corresponds to a specific type of homogeneous objects and each gradient represents a specific count of the specific type of homogeneous objects | 02-10-2011 |
| 20140016736 | SHEET EJECT DEVICE, FULLNESS DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A sheet eject device is provided for detecting whether a sheet eject tray is filled with ejected sheets. The sheet eject device includes an ejecting unit that ejects sheets onto the sheet eject tray; a counting unit that counts an accumulated eject number every time a sheet is ejected by the ejecting unit; a storing unit that stores a defined eject number threshold and a defined eject interval time; a fullness detecting unit that detects that the sheet eject tray is filled with ejected sheets when the accumulated eject number counted by the counting unit exceeds the defined eject number threshold; and a reset unit that resets the accumulated eject number counted by the counting unit when an eject interval time exceeds the defined eject interval time, the eject interval time extending from when one sheet is ejected until a next sheet is ejected by the ejecting unit. | 01-16-2014 |
| 377009000 | Vehicles | 3 |
| 20090180583 | BLOCK-BASED OBJECT COUNTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A block-based object counting apparatus and a block-based object counting that improves the counting of objects by using a camera. The object counting apparatus includes: a camera acquiring an image; a storage unit for storing average sizes and error data of an object in units of image blocks; and a control unit having a data inputter for receiving the acquired image for input, an object size determinator for determining appearance of the object by comparing a current image with a previous image and then determining the size of the object, a block determinator for determining a block where the object is located, and a counter for counting the object and fixing the counting of the object by comparing the size and location data of the object with data stored in a storage unit. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20120128115 | TRAFFIC DETECTOR - The invention concerns a traffic detector ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20150124924 | TRAFFIC-MONITORING SMART TAPE - The present invention generally relates to techniques for traffic monitoring. The techniques utilize a relatively low cost sensing system, referred to here as “smart tape.” Smart tape is adhered directly to the roadway and provides the ability to temporarily monitor traffic. It can be applied in an appropriate length for the roadway condition. Smart tape is responsive to the pressure of a vehicle's tires passing over it. Furthermore, smart tape does not require an attached monitoring device, unlike certain known traffic monitoring techniques. | 05-07-2015 |
| 377010000 | Field of view contains plural entities or entities scanned plural times (e.g., microscopic particles) | 3 |
| 20090252284 | MULTI-CHECKPOINT TYPE CLUSTERED ANIMAL COUNTING DEVICE - A multi-checkpoint type clustered animal counting device is proposed, which is capable of providing a counting function that can be used for statistically determining the number of animals (such as fruit flies) within a region such as farmland or garden. The proposed animal counting device is characterized by the utilized to at least two object sensors, wherein the first object sensor is disposed at a first checkpoint while the second object sensor is disposed at a second checkpoint, and wherein the first object sensor is initially set to power-on state while the second object sensor is initially set to power-off state and can be switched on only when the first object sensor is triggered. When the second object sensor is triggered, the counting operation will increase the output count number by one. This feature allows a more accurate result and can help save power consumption. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20120106694 | SEED COUNTING DEVICE - A seed counting device where accuracy is maintained at higher counting rates. The seed counting device has a hopper in communication with a tray. An activator is connected to the tray to vibrate the tray. Connected to one end of the tray is a separator having sensors. Below the tray and in partial alignment with the separator is a projecting device. The projecting device projects seeds that fall from the tray past the sensors and into a seed chamber. | 05-03-2012 |
| 377011000 | Including particle size determination variations | 1 |
| 20080205580 | REAL-TIME MULTIPLICITY COUNTER - A neutron multi-detector array feeds pulses in parallel to individual inputs that are tied to individual bits in a digital word. Data is collected by loading a word at the individual bit level in parallel. The word is read at regular intervals, all bits simultaneously, to minimize latency. The electronics then pass the word to a number of storage locations for subsequent processing, thereby removing the front-end problem of pulse pileup. | 08-28-2008 |
