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20080231410 | RFID Open Fuse Indicator, System, and Method - Electrical fuse indicators used to detect when fuses enter an open state. Each fuse in an electrical system may be connected to a wireless identification element, which alerts a communication unit that the fuse has entered an open state. The wireless identification device may include an antenna. The antenna may be in contact with a fuse element, such that opening of the fuse element renders the antenna inoperable. Alternatively the antenna may be connected to the fuse element in such a manner that opening of the fuse element alters the frequency on which the antenna transmits. A logic port may also be used to detect the operational state of a fuse. Use of such indicators is compatible with existing infrastructure. | 09-25-2008 |
20080246443 | System and Method for Boosting Battery Output - Electrical systems and methods are described. | 10-09-2008 |
20080276892 | Methods and Systems for Supplying Power to a Load - Methods and systems for controlling a supply of power to a load are provided. | 11-13-2008 |
20100188187 | CIRCUIT PROTECTOR MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Electronic systems and methods automatically monitor a presence, absence, and change of circuit protectors at specified locations in an electrical system. Circuit protectors may be automatically detected and correlated with specific circuit protection holders as they are installed and replaced in the electrical system. Determinations may be made regarding whether the installation or replacement is proper or improper for optimal protection of the electrical system. | 07-29-2010 |
20100259351 | LOW PROFILE LAYERED COIL AND CORES FOR MAGNETIC COMPONENTS - A low profile magnetic component includes at least one coil layer defining a generally planar coil winding having a center area and a number of turns extending about the center area. A body encloses the coil layer, and is fabricated from one of a dielectric material and a magnetic material. A magnetic core material occupies at least the center area of the coil layer. | 10-14-2010 |
20100277267 | MAGNETIC COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Magnetic component assemblies including layered moldable magnetic materials and coils are advantageously utilized in providing surface mount magnetic components such as inductors and transformers. | 11-04-2010 |
20110260825 | LAMINATED MAGNETIC COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURE WITH SOFT MAGNETIC POWDER POLYMER COMPOSITE SHEETS - Miniaturized magnetic components for electronic circuit board applications include enhanced magnetic composite sheets facilitating increased direct current capacity and higher inductance values. The components may be manufactured using relatively simple and straightforward lamination processes. | 10-27-2011 |
20120271468 | ZERO POWER APPLIANCE CONTROL, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Power management controls for electrical appliances and devices include a supercapacitor and processor based controls for automatically disconnecting the appliance or device from a main power supply when not in active use. The control may include a micropower controller that enters a very lower power sleep mode and may wake up for limited times to detect and respond to various states of the appliance and the supercapacitor by connecting or disconnecting the appliance and a main power supply, all while drawing effectively zero power from the main power supply. The control may be interrupted when the appliance is switched on for active use. | 10-25-2012 |
20130207455 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE STATE DETECTION FOR ZERO POWER CHARGER CONTROL, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A charger appliance configured to determine a no-load, disconnected state from an electronic device having a rechargeable battery, and configured to determine a connected state of the charger with an electronic device in which recharging power may be supplied through the charger to the electronic device. Automatic connection and disconnection of a mains power supply is made depending on the detected state of the charger to avoid wasteful energy consumption in a no-load state. State detection may be determined by monitoring a voltage on one or more signal lines associated with the electronic device. | 08-15-2013 |
20140312691 | SMART POWER STRIP WITH AUTOMATIC DEVICE CONNECTION DETECTION - A multi-port power switch device may intelligently detect whether a portable electronic device is connected to one of the output ports provided. The output ports can automatically be switched on and off as needed depending on whether they are connected to a portable electronic device. | 10-23-2014 |
20150285841 | MAGNETIC SENSOR WITH THIN-WALLED MAGNETIC CORE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - A non-contact magnetic sensor assembly includes a thin-walled magnetic ring that facilitates a reduction in the size of the device without compromising performance. The component assembly may be configured as a Hall effect current sensor and may be included in a string monitor for a photovoltaic power system. | 10-08-2015 |
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20090083204 | HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS - Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083648 | DIRECT SUBSCRIPTION TO INELLIGENT I/O MODULE - Systems and methods that supply direct access (e.g., bypassing the controller) to embedded historian via a subscription and notification component. By modeling the notification related information (e.g., subscription queries, subscriber information, event information . . . ) as data and leveraging the power of database systems to perform set-oriented manipulations on this data efficiently, the subject innovation enables for a highly scalable and efficient subscription and notification system for direct access to the historians. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083649 | CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR HISTORIANS IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that discover relations and correlates among disparate pieces of data, to infer possible relationships between the industrial process and historian data/events to improve industrial operations. A correlation component can employ heuristic models to capture process data/event data, and can further include an implicit correlation component and an explicit correlation component. Accordingly, relations among various parameters can be discovered (e.g., dynamically) and proper corrective adjustments supplied to the industrial process. | 03-26-2009 |
20090089029 | ENHANCED EXECUTION SPEED TO IMPROVE SIMULATION PERFORMANCE - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate simulation(s) of components of an industrial control system. Simulation(s) execution time can be decreased by conducting the simulation in a parallel computing platform, and coupling the simulation with an optimization component that restructures the simulation code. Such automated reconfiguration removes inhibitors for parallelism, resulting in optimized code to execute the simulation, with the ensuing reduction in execution time. Execution time can also be reduced by applying an adaptive time step during state propagations that are part of the simulation. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089030 | DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION - System(s) and method(s) facilitate a distributed simulation of an industrial control system. A model of the industrial control system is generated and computing resources are scheduled for simulating portions of a simulation according to the model. Computing resources are scheduled to mitigate computational bottlenecks in the simulation and synchronize portions of the simulation deployed in disparate computing resources. Sub-processes of a control process can be simulated in dedicated computing resources as a part of a distributed simulation of the control process. Execution time of one or more portions of a distributed simulation can be increased or slowed down to synchronize said portions. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089031 | INTEGRATED SIMULATION OF CONTROLLERS AND DEVICES - A tool for simulating an industrial control system is provided. The tool includes a simulation component to emulate a controller according to a simulated execution environment and one or more simulation models for simulating devices associated with the controller, where the controller and the devices are integrated in a common simulation platform. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089032 | ENHANCED SIMULATION MODELS FOR AUTOMATION - A simulation tool for an industrial automation system is provided. The tool includes a simulation component that simulates one or more components of an industrial control system. At least one directed model provides one or more suggested parameters or profiles to the simulation component, where the suggested parameters or profiles are derived from data relating to an industry or controls application. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089227 | AUTOMATED RECOMMENDATIONS FROM SIMULATION - An industrial controller simulation system is provided. The system includes a simulation component that enables modeling of an industrial controller system. A suggestion component offers automated recommendations in accordance with the modeling of the industrial controller system. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089231 | ADAPTIVE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS VIA EMBEDDED HISTORIAN DATA - Systems and methods that provide for adaptive processes in an industrial setting. Historian data, in conjunction with current collected data, can be converted into decision making information that is subsequently employed for modifying a process in real time. A process trend component, which is associated with a controller, can access historian data (e.g., trends collected via historians) to determine/predict an outcome of a current industrial process. Such enables a tight control and short reaction time to correcting process parameters. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089232 | MICROHISTORIANS AS PROXIES FOR DATA TRANSFER - Systems and methods that enable historians (e.g., micro-historians) to function as proxies, to supply plant level data, (e.g., history data) back to the controllers. Accordingly, typically such micro historians can function as clients/servers, to provide higher level data to the controllers (e.g., from third part databases). The historians can create a proxy that image an object on a server associated with controllers (e.g., programmable logic controller.) Such objects can contain data; pieces of code; attributes; operations or combinations thereof, for example. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089234 | AUTOMATED CODE GENERATION FOR SIMULATORS - A system that generates deployable runtime code modules is provided. The system includes an input component that accepts specifications in accordance with design preferences, a simulation component that creates and executes a simulation of the control program to be implemented, and a code generation component that creates the deployable runtime code. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089695 | PLATFORM INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN - Systems and methods that provide for historians communicating in a plurality of protocols/languages with various resources via employing an abstraction component that normalizes such communication. Accordingly, the historian can supply a common configuration for various data (e.g., events, command, event, alarm, scenarios, transactions, messages, and the like), and hence provide support for third party devices. The abstraction component can further facilitate: Filtering, Bridging, Routing, Propagation, Transformation and Monitoring of data exchange with third party devices. | 04-02-2009 |
20110196528 | HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS - Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof. | 08-11-2011 |
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20140031814 | GAS SENSING SURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - A handheld surgical assembly has a body, a first end, a second end, and a body length separating the first and second ends, an energy input and output, the energy output located at the first end of the body, the assembly also having a sensor that is coupled to the handheld surgical assembly, in fluid communication with an outside environment, and operable to identify a plurality of gases, with the assembly additionally having an electronic circuit system communicatively coupled to the sensor, the electronic circuit system being operable, upon the identification of at least one of the plurality of gases by the sensor, to control the energy output from the handheld surgical device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140217291 | METHOD OF SENSING GASES DURING MEDICAL PROCEDURES - A method of sensing gases during medical procedures that includes electronically altering a gas-identification sensor, coupled with an electronic medical device, to selectively detect at least one of a plurality of gases, receiving the at least one of the plurality of gases in the electronic medical device, the electronic medical device having an energy output, transferring the at least one of the plurality of gases to the gas-identification sensor for identification, and then reducing an amount of energy emitted from the energy output upon identification of the at least one of the plurality of gases. | 08-07-2014 |