29th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130184927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIBRATION MONITORING OF A MINING MACHINE - A mining machine having a control system for operating the mining machine, the control system having a vibration monitor. The mining machine comprising a mining machine, a sensor sensing vibration of a component of the mining machine, and a vibration module. The vibration module determining when the mining machine is moving in a predetermined cycle, obtaining vibration sensor data from the sensor based on determining that the mining machine is moving in a predetermined cycle, processing the vibration sensor data to generate processed vibration data, and outputting the processed vibration data. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184928 | DRIVER BEHAVIOR DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention is related to a driver behavior diagnostic method. The method involves sampling event signal values associated with a vehicle and analyzing the event signal values. The sampling of the event signal values includes buffering the values over a limited buffer time. The analyzing of the event signal values includes reconstructing events based on the buffered event signal values. Further, the invention is related to a driver behavior diagnostic system including a sampling device for sampling event signal values associated with a vehicle and an analyzing device for analyzing the event signal values. The sampling device includes a buffer for buffering event signal values for a limited buffer time, and the analyzing device is adapted for reconstructing events based on the buffered event signal values. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184929 | Co-Operative On-Board and Off-Board Component and System Diagnosis and Prognosis - A cooperative diagnostic and prognosis system for generating a prognosis of at least one component in a vehicle. An in-vehicle diagnostic unit determines a diagnostic signature of the component each time an occurrence of a condition is triggered and transmits the diagnostic signature to an off-board diagnostic unit. The off-vehicle diagnostic unit determines a SOH of the component and a rate-of-change in the SOH of the component. The off-vehicle diagnostic unit determines whether the rate-of-change in the SOH is greater than a threshold. The off-vehicle diagnostic unit requests additional information from the vehicle in response to the rate-of-change in the SOH being greater than the threshold. The additional information relating to operating parameter data associated with the component. The off-vehicle diagnostic unit receives the requested information and predicts a time-to-failure of the component. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184930 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE - A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle, includes providing and using data for making a decision as to whether or not the driver assistance system is to provide a driver assistance function, detecting a vehicle position when the driver assistance function is provided, and assigning the detected vehicle position to the used data to create a set of driver assistance system data. A device for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle, as well as a vehicle system for a vehicle and a computer program are also described. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184931 | TIRE PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT - A tire pressure adjustment method and system is provided. The method includes receiving from a plurality of sensors in a vehicle, tread depth data associated with tread depths at multiple points on a tire tread comprised by a tire on the vehicle. The tread depth data is analyzed. A tire pressure value for an internal portion of the tire is determined based on results of the analysis. The tire pressure value is associated with modifying a group of tread depths during operation of the vehicle. In response, a command signal is generated. The command signal is configured to command a tire pressure modification device to adjust a current tire pressure value of the internal portion of the tire to the determined tire pressure value. The command signal is transmitted to the tire pressure modification device resulting in the current tire pressure value being adjusted to determined tire pressure value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184932 | VIDEO VEHICLE ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE WITH DRIVER SAFETY MODE - This document relates to a vehicle entertainment device | 2013-07-18 |
20130184933 | Apparatus and Method for Selectively Restricting or Disabling Electronic Device Functionality - An apparatus that restricts or disables electronic device functionality based on vehicle status data received from the on-board computer (“OBD”) of a public service vehicle. In some embodiments, the vehicle status data is accessed from the OBD through an assembly line diagnostic link (“ALDL”) connector, which eliminates any need for modification of the vehicle during installation. If the software determines the vehicle status data is outside a preset range, which could be customized on a case-by-case basis, the on-board computer of the vehicle could be restricted or disabled until the vehicle status data returns to within the preset range. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184934 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle control system includes: an acceleration acquisition unit that detects or estimates an acceleration of a vehicle; and a control unit that is configured to change a running characteristic, which includes at least any one of a driving force characteristic, shift characteristic, steering characteristic and suspension characteristic of the vehicle, on the basis of the acceleration, wherein the control unit is configured to relatively delay a change of the running characteristic for decreasing quickness of behavior of the vehicle with respect to a change of the running characteristic for increasing quickness of behavior of the vehicle, and is configured to limit a change of the running characteristic when a jerk, which is a time differential value of the acceleration, is larger than a limit determination threshold as compared with when the jerk is smaller than or equal to the limit determination threshold. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184935 | ACTIVE DAMPING DEVICE, VEHICLE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE DAMPING DEVICE - Provided is an active damping device (X) that suppresses vibrations of an object (T) to be damped by utilizing a reaction force generated when an auxiliary mass ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130184936 | VEHICLE ROLLOVER MITIGATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a system and a method for mitigating vehicle rollovers, the method comprises monitoring a vehicular tilt and sensing a vehicular rollover in a particular direction, through a tilt sensor. Further, the system determines an occurrence of a rollover according to a calculated tilt threshold, through a central processing unit. Steering the vehicle in the sensed direction of the rollover, accelerating the vehicle in the same direction, and braking the vehicle upon sensing a decrease in the rollover, all being controlled through a controller, enables the vehicle to eventually stabilize and return to track. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184937 | VEHICULAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - In a vehicular power supply system, a main battery supplies electric power to both main machine drive circuit, which drives a main motor for driving a vehicle, and a steering assist drive circuit, which drives a steering assist motor of a power steering apparatus. A main machine switching circuit, which is capable of shutting off power supply to the main machine drive circuit, and an auxiliary machine switching circuit, which is capable of shutting off power supply to the steering assist drive circuit are provided in parallel. As long as the auxiliary machine switching circuit is turned on, power supply to the steering assist drive circuit is continued even when the main machine switching circuit is turned off. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184938 | GPS-BASED MACHINE VISION ROADWAY MARK LOCATOR, INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND MARKER - An apparatus for locating, inspecting, or placing marks on a roadway. The apparatus includes a GPS-based machine vision locator for sampling discrete geographical location data of a pre-existing roadway mark evident on the roadway. A computer may determine a continuous smooth geographical location function fitted to the sampled geographical location data. And a marker is responsive to the GPS-based locator and geographical location function for replicating automatically the pre-existing roadway mark onto the roadway. The apparatus is typically part of a moving vehicle. A related method is disclosed for locating, inspecting, and placing marks on a resurfaced roadway. A similar apparatus can be used to guide a vehicle having a snow plow along a snow-covered roadway, or a paving machine along an unpaved roadway surface. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184939 | COLLISION SAFETY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A vehicular collision safety control apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an image acquirer for acquiring an image of a face of an occupant of the vehicle, a face position acquirer for acquiring a position of the face in a three-dimensional space based on the image, a distance calculator for calculating a distance between the acquired position of the face and a reference position located in front of the face, an airbag activator for increasing airbag pressure to a predetermined pressure in response to impact detection, and a setting device for setting a waiting time from the impact detection to start of airbag inflation, so that as the calculated distance is smaller, a pressure-reach time for the airbag pressure to reach the predetermined pressure is smaller. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184940 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION SYSTEM AND A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for operating a pedestrian protection system in a motor vehicle for reducing the severity of an accident in a frontal collision with pedestrians includes evaluating the measurement data from at least one detection device depending on at least one trigger condition, wherein the trigger condition includes a height criterion evaluating whether a height of a collision object determined from measurement data from an optical detection device exceeds a height threshold value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184941 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROTECTING A VEHICLE OCCUPANT IN THE EVENT OF AN IMPACT - A method and a device for protecting a vehicle occupant. In the event of an impact in which the vehicle occupant is moved in an impact direction prior to the impact. During a first phase, the vehicle occupant is stabilized by a first actuator as a function of a pre-crash signal. During a second phase, which follows the first phase, the vehicle occupant is moved by a second actuator in the impact direction as a function of a signal characterizing a starting or an inevitable crash. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184942 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Position of Motor Vehicle Seat - Apparatus for moving an automotive vehicle seat along a track includes a motor, a first sensor sensing rotation of the motor, and a second sensor detecting presence of the seat at a reference position along the track. A controller determines a seat position based upon signals from the first sensor and calibrates the determined seat position based upon a signal from the second sensor indicating that the seat is at the reference position. This allows any error that as accumulated in the seat position as determined by the first sensor to be eliminated each time the seat reaches the known reference position. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184943 | FAILURE DETERMINATION DEVICE FOR SHUTTER DEVICE OF VEHICLE - A failure determination device capable of performing failure determination for a shutter device of a vehicle with accuracy in a short time period. In an engine room of a vehicle, a condenser for a refrigeration cycle for an aircon is provided and at a front grille of the vehicle, a grille shutter device is provided for introducing ambient air for cooling the condenser into the engine room by opening a grille shutter. According to the failure determination device of the shutter device, a pressure of the refrigerant discharged from the condenser is detected as a refrigerant pressure. A failure of the grille shutter device is determined based on the refrigerant pressure, which changes at a large rate according to the opening/closing of the grille shutter, enabling failure determination with accuracy in a short time period. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184944 | Method and device for predictive control of agricultural vehicle systems - The present invention provides a method for controlling an agricultural vehicle system when moving along a course of travel over a field. The method comprises:
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20130184945 | RAPID SYNCHRONIZER TOUCH POINT ADJUSTMENT - A method of adapting transmission controls to locate synchronizer touch points in an automated layshaft transmission. This method may include actuating a motor to move a shift drum along a layshaft at an essentially constant speed; measuring a feedback current as the motor moves the shift drum; detecting a first spike in feedback current adjacent to a second spike in feedback current for a gear; determining a shift drum angle for the first spike; and adjusting a transmission controller to set a synchronizer touch point at a shift drum angle adjacent to the first feedback current spike for the gear. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184946 | DUAL CLUTCH TRANSMISSION - A transmission for a motor vehicle with an engine includes a transmission housing and a dual clutch assembly with a clutch housing connectable to an engine output member. The clutch housing is rotationally supported within the transmission housing. The selective engagement of the dual clutch assembly interconnects the dual clutch housing with at least one of a first input member and a second input member. The transmission also includes a plurality of gear sets associated with various forward and reverse gear ratios, a controller implemented with an algorithm that provides a lock-up profile for the dual clutch assembly, and a plurality of synchronizer assemblies that couple at least one of the gear sets with at least one of a first countershaft and a second countershaft. The selective engagement of at least one of the synchronizer assemblies establishes at least one of the forward speed ratios. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184947 | VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT - When a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a first vehicle speed threshold value or an uphill gradient is lower than a first gradient threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than a second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than a second gradient threshold value continues for a first set time, uphill start control is executed. When the vehicle speed is decreased after being once increased within a range where the vehicle speed is lower than the first vehicle speed threshold value and uphill start control is cancelled, if a state where the vehicle speed is lower than the second vehicle speed threshold value and the uphill gradient is equal to or higher than the second gradient threshold value continues for a second set time, the uphill start control is executed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184948 | Method Of Controlling Gear Ratio Rate Of Change In Continuously Variable Transmission - A method for controlling a gear ratio rate of change in a machine having a continuously variable transmission includes moving an operator input device to a changed position, receiving electronic data indicative of the changed position, and determining a non-limited desired gear ratio based on the changed position. A maximum gear ratio rate of change corresponding to the non-limited desired gear ratio and an actual gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is selected from an electronically stored gear ratio rate map. A current desired gear ratio is determined based on a previous desired gear ratio and the maximum gear ratio rate of change. A commanded gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is changed to the current desired gear ratio using electronic signals. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184949 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - For each engine operation state to which a variable cylinder engine can be switched, a fuel consumption amount to be consumed to generate a driving force required to maintain a current traveling state of a vehicle for each of a current gear and a new gear after a possible shift-up is calculated. An automatic shift control of shifting up to the new gear is performed in a condition that a calculated fuel consumption amount of the new gear after the possible shift-up is smaller than a calculated fuel consumption amount of the current gear. In this way, the fuel consumption amount can be optimally reduced and the shift control can be performed without degrading the traveling performance, even in the vehicle equipped with the variable cylinder engine. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184950 | Control System and Method for the Transmission of a Vehicle - A control system for the transmission of an agricultural vehicle or an industrial off-highway vehicle, wherein the system comprises a controller of the clutch, connected thereto to supply an operating signal, a plurality of sensors suitable for measuring a plurality of characteristic quantities of the transmission and connected to the controller to supply a plurality of signals proportional to the quantities, a torque processor suitable for calculating a reference torque and connected to the controller to supply thereto a signal proportional to the reference torque, and a thermal load managing device suitable for receiving at least some of the plurality of quantities and for receiving the reference torque in order to calculate at least one operative datum on which the thermal power exchanged in the clutch is dependent. The control system is suited to process the operative datum to operate the transmission so as to limit the temperature in the clutch. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184951 | CLOSED-LOOP CLUTCH CONTROL USING A FILTERED PISTON POSITION SIGNAL - A vehicle includes an engine, transmission, and controller. The transmission includes a clutch pack, a clutch piston, and a position sensor. The sensor measures a changing magnetic field with respect to the piston, and encodes the measured magnetic field as a raw position signal. The controller receives the raw position signal and processes the raw position signal through a signal processing module to generate a filtered signal attenuating signal noise in the position signal. The controller determines a commanded position of the piston, and calculates separate proportional (P), derivative (D), and integral (I) control terms using the commanded position and filtered position signal. The controller also calculates a feed-forward control term using the commanded position, and a required flow rate for actuating the clutch pack as a function of the PID terms and the feed-forward commanded position term. The controller actuates the clutch pack using the commanded flow rate. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184952 | METHOD FOR SETTING CHARACTERISTIC VARIABLES OF A BRAKE SYSTEM IN A MOTOR VEHICLE - In a method for setting characteristic variables of a brake system in a motor vehicle, driver type identification is performed first and the identified driver type is classified into an assigned driver type class. Brake system characteristic variables of this class of driver type are then activated. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184953 | VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicle brake controller is provided with a master cylinder, a wheel cylinder, a brake hydraulic actuator, a vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF controller and a pressurization rate controller. The vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF controller performs a vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF control that stops the pump motor upon the vehicle being stopped by the brake operation, and that maintains a stop state of the pump motor as is during stopping of the vehicle. The pressurization rate controller adjusts a pressurization rate of the wheel cylinder pressure to a higher value as a road surface gradient becomes larger upon resuming operation of the pump motor after the vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF control ends due to acceleration from the vehicle stop state. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184954 | RETAINING FUNCTION FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method and a brake system, in which method a vehicle having a service brake and a parking brake is held by autonomous brake actuation, wherein in a first step, an actuation of the service brake is performed, and in the event of a predefined condition being met, a transfer from the service brake to the parking brake takes place. According to an aspect of the invention, during the transfer, both an actuation of the parking brake and also an additional actuation of the service brake takes place. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184955 | VEHICLE BRAKE HYDRAULIC PRESSURE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes a hydraulic pressure adjusting unit, a split road determining section, a differential pressure control section, and a hydraulic pressure adjusting and driving section. The hydraulic pressure adjusting unit individually adjusts brake fluid pressures acting on wheel brakes for wheels. The split road determining section determines whether road surfaces which the wheels are in contact with constitute a split road. In a state where the split road determining section determines during execution of antilock braking control that the road surfaces constitute the split road, the differential pressure control section determines command pressures for the wheel brakes so that differential pressures between the brake fluid pressures of the right and left wheel brakes are equal to or less than a permissible differential pressure. The hydraulic pressure adjusting and driving section controls the hydraulic pressure adjusting unit based on the determined command pressures. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184956 | VEHICLE BRAKE HYDRAULIC PRESSURE CONTROL APPARATUS - A wheel deceleration calculating sections individually calculate, as negative values, wheel decelerations of front and rear wheels. If, at a time when the antilock braking control for at least one of the right and left front wheels is started or at a time when the antilock braking control for at least one of the right and left rear wheels is started, (i) a maximum value of the wheel decelerations calculated by the wheel deceleration calculating sections is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value and (ii) a difference between the wheel decelerations of the right and left front wheels or the right and left rear wheels which are in an antilock braking control state is equal to or larger than a second predetermined value, a split road determining section determines that road surfaces constitute a split road. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184957 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BRAKE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE WITH AN ELECTRONICALLY RGULATED REAR-AXLE BRAKE CIRCUIT AND AN PNEUMATICALLY CONTROLLED FRONT-AXLE BRAKE CIRCUIT - A method for controlling a brake system, which has pressure medium-activated wheel brakes and is at least partially electronic, and which is in a vehicle that includes at least two axles, including generating brake pressures for the wheel brakes on an axle in a pressure-controlled manner, and electronically regulating the brake pressures for the pressure medium-actuated wheel brakes on at least one further axle in terms of a brake pressure regulation for adjusting an actual brake pressure to a desired brake pressure. A related braking system device is also described. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184958 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A GROUP OF ENGINES, AND AN AIRCRAFT - A method of controlling a group ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130184959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MEASURING AND MONITORING TORQUE IN A ROTORCRAFT DRIVE SYSTEM - A method of optimizing an operation of a rotorcraft includes measuring actual usage of the tail rotor drive shaft during operation of the rotorcraft, the actual usage including at least a torque measurement. The method further includes a step of adjusting a life of the tail rotor drive shaft based upon the measuring of the actual usage. Another method of the present disclosure includes determining a main rotor mast torque by measuring a tail rotor drive shaft torque and deriving a main rotor mast torque by considering the measured tail rotor drive shaft torque and a total torque output of an engine. A system of the present disclosure is configured for determining the main rotor mast torque in part by measuring the tail rotor torque. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184960 | MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE HAVING A CONTROL APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN ACCELERATION VALUE - A materials handling vehicle is provided comprising: a frame; wheels supported on the frame; a traction motor coupled to one of the wheels to effect rotation of the one wheel; a speed control element operable by an operator to define a speed control signal corresponding to a desired speed of the traction motor; a system associated with a steerable wheel to effect angular movement of the steerable wheel; and control apparatus coupled to the speed control element to receive the speed control signal, and coupled to the traction motor to generate a drive signal to the traction motor in response to the speed control signal to control the operation of the traction motor. The control apparatus may determine an acceleration value for the traction motor based on at least one of an angular position of the steerable wheel, a speed of the traction motor and a current position of the speed control element as defined by the speed control signal. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184961 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING POWER OF AN ENGINE - A method and system for online power management of a turbine engine is provided. The method includes operating an engine control system on a first bandwidth, filtering at least one data input from the engine control system to a second bandwidth, and receiving, by a power management system operating on the second bandwidth, the at least one filtered data input. The method also includes predicting an engine operating condition using the at least one filtered data input using a closed-loop engine model, determining an optimal engine power management based on the prediction, solving a constrained optimization for a desired optimization objective, and outputting the optimal engine power management to the engine control system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184962 | Detection System For Front-Mounted Mid-PTO Driven Implements - A detection system for front-mounted mid-PTO driven implements includes a sensor positioned adjacent a shaft connected between a mid-PTO driveshaft and a front mounted-implement. A controller may be electrically connected to the sensor, to a fuel pump solenoid, and to a reverse sense switch that indicates to the controller if a reverse pedal is actuated. When the controller receives a signal indicating the reverse pedal is actuated, the controller does not shut off the fuel pump solenoid if the controller also receives pulse signals from the sensor within a specified frequency range based on a desired PTO speed, but shuts off the fuel pump solenoid if the controller does not receive pulse signals from the sensor or receives pulse signals from the sensor outside the specified frequency range, | 2013-07-18 |
20130184963 | FUEL SYSTEM BLOCKAGE DETECTION AND BLOCKAGE LOCATION IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system for a vehicle includes a first pressure module and a blockage indication module. The first pressure module receives a signal from a pressure sensor that measures pressure within a fuel vapor purge system. The first pressure module generates a first pressure based on the signal at a first time and generates a second pressure based on the signal at a second time. The second time is after the first time. The blockage indication module indicates whether a blockage is present in the fuel vapor purge system between the pressure sensor and a fuel tank based on a difference between the first and second pressures. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3-D ACCELEROMTER BASED SLOPE DETERMINATION, REAL-TIME VEHICLE MASS DETERMINATION, AND VEHICLE EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS - Three dimensional accelerometer data is used to determine a slope the vehicle is traveling over at a specific point in time. The slope data can then be combined with other metrics to provide an accurate, slope corrected vehicle mass. The vehicle mass can then be used along with other vehicle data to determine an amount of work performed by a vehicle, enabling s detailed efficiency analysis of the vehicle to be performed. To calculate slope, horizontal ground speed (V | 2013-07-18 |
20130184965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3-D ACCELEROMETER BASED SLOPE DETERMINATION, REAL-TIME VEHICLE MASS DETERMINATION, AND VEHICLE EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS - Three dimensional accelerometer data is used to determine a slope the vehicle is traveling over at a specific point in time. The slope data can then be combined with other metrics to provide an accurate, slope corrected vehicle mass. The vehicle mass can then be used along with other vehicle data to determine an amount of work performed by a vehicle, enabling s detailed efficiency analysis of the vehicle to be performed. To calculate slope, horizontal ground speed (V | 2013-07-18 |
20130184966 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENGINE TORQUE CONTROL - Methods and systems are provided for improving vehicle torque control accuracy. Data points of an engine torque data set are adjusted en masse by an on-board vehicle controller while also being adjusted individually by an off-board controller. By adjusting engine operation based on a torque data set that is updated by each of the on-board and off-board controllers, engine torque errors can be reliably determined and compensated for. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OPERATING IN HCCI COMBUSTION MODE - A method for operating the internal combustion engine includes determining a first integrated thermal state parameter corresponding to engine environment factors affecting a combustion parameter during engine operation in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode. A difference in the first integrated thermal state parameter is determined corresponding to a difference between a monitored state for the combustion parameter and an estimated state for the combustion parameter. The first integrated thermal state parameter is corrected in response to the difference in the integrated thermal state parameter. Operation of the internal combustion engine is controlled in response to the corrected first integrated thermal state parameter. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184968 | Electric Power Supply System and Controller of Vehicle that can Supply Electric Power to Outside - Provided is an electric power supply system which includes a plurality of electric power sources and supplies electric power corresponding to demanded electric power. In supplying electric power to the outside from a vehicle which constitutes one of the electric power sources, the electric power supply system realizes generation of power by an engine at high efficiency while maintaining a balance between power income and expenditure. In supplying electric power from the vehicle, an amount of electric power generated by an engine mounted on the vehicle is decided based on information supplied from an external device such as transition over time in an amount of electric power demand including future prediction and transition over time in an amount of electric power which is suppliable from other electric power sources including future prediction. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184969 | AIR/FUEL IMBALANCE MONITOR - Systems and methods for monitoring cylinder air/fuel imbalances are provided. In one example approach, a method comprises, identifying a cylinder with a potential air/fuel imbalance based on crankshaft accelerations generated by a series of rich, lean, and stoichiometric conditions in the cylinder while keeping the engine at stoichiometry. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184970 | ENGINE REMOTE START CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided and may include monitoring operation of an engine of a vehicle, determining if the engine is started, and determining if the engine was started via an ignition or via a remote signal. The method may further include controlling operation of the engine at a first temperature if the engine was started via the ignition and controlling operation of the engine at a second temperature—different than the first temperature—if the engine was started via the remote signal. The second temperature may be higher than the first temperature to increase a temperature of coolant circulating within the engine. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184971 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A control device for an internal combustion engine that enhances precision of realization of required torque while enhancing emission performance by positively changing an air-fuel ratio. The control device generates a target air-fuel ratio by lessening a change speed of a required air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine. However, when the required air-fuel ratio is made rich with return from fuel cut, lessening of the change speed of the required air-fuel ratio is stopped, and the required air-fuel ratio is directly outputted as a target air-fuel ratio. The control device calculates a target air quantity for realizing the required torque under the target air-fuel ratio. The control device manipulates an actuator for air quantity control in accordance with the target air quantity, and manipulates an actuator for fuel injection quantity control in accordance with the target air-fuel ratio. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184972 | AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND CONTROL METHOD - An air-fuel ratio control apparatus that is applied to an internal combustion engine having an intake passage to which a canister is connected via an evaporative fuel supply passage, and an exhaust passage that is provided with an exhaust gas purifier, includes a first sensor provided upstream of the exhaust gas purifier, a second sensor provided downstream of the exhaust gas purifier, and a controller that corrects a fuel injection amount through feedback on a basis of the air-fuel ratio acquired by the first sensor, modifies a correction coefficient used for feedback correction on a basis of the air-fuel ratio acquired by the second sensor, and has a storage unit that stores the modified correction coefficient. The controller prohibits the modified correction coefficient from being stored into the storage unit if a concentration of fuel in purge gas is equal to or higher than a predetermined criterial concentration. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184973 | FUEL INJECTION AMOUNT CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A fuel injection amount control apparatus disclosed in the present specification calculates a time integral value SDVoxslow by accumulating values each obtained by multiplying a deviation DVoxslow between an output value Voxs of a downstream air-fuel ratio sensor disposed downstream of a catalyst and a predetermined downstream target value Voxsref by a predetermined adjusting gain K (step | 2013-07-18 |
20130184974 | PROCESS FOR REDUCING ABNORMAL COMBUSTION WITHIN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The present invention provides a process for reducing abnormal combustion within a combustion chamber of the engine. The process can include simulation of the piston-driven internal combustion engine with oil droplets from the crankcase entering into the combustion chamber. In addition, the oil drops entering into the combustion chamber can be simulated as hot spots, as can simulation of fuel combustion within the combustion chamber. A probability of pre-ignition for at least a portion of the simulated hot spots as a function of the simulated fuel combustion and the simulated hot spots within the combustion chamber can be calculated and based on the calculation a combustion chamber parameter can be altered such that pre-ignition within the combustion chamber is reduced. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184975 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ENGINE SHUT DOWN - A method of shutting down an engine determines whether an ignition key is in a first shutdown position. An exhaust gas recirculation valve closes when the ignition key is in the first shutdown position. The engine runs for a predetermined period of time after the exhaust gas recirculation valve is closed. The engine shuts down after running the engine for the predetermined period of time. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184976 | DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD - In a driving support apparatus that sets a running road, on which a vehicle is able to run, on the basis of a road marking that indicates a lane boundary or a prohibited area and that, when the vehicle deviates from the running road, issues a warning or performs assisting so as to cause the vehicle to run within the running road, when the width of a lane defined by the road marking that indicates the lane boundary is narrow, the running road is set by allowing a deviation from the lane having a narrow width. It is possible to effectively utilize the driving support apparatus by increasing a chance of using the driving support apparatus without unnecessary support. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184977 | Automated Ground Handling of Aircraft - In a system and method of navigating a plurality vehicles consisting of one or more standalone tugs, or one or more tug propelled aircraft, or some combination thereof on the grounds of an airport, a virtual safety zone is electronically defined around each vehicle. Movement of each vehicle on the grounds of an airport is controlled based on the virtual safety zones defined around the plurality of vehicles. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184978 | SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AIR TRAFFIC - A system and method to improve efficiency in aircraft maneuvers meant to accommodate time-related constraints in air traffic. Information related to flight performance and atmospheric conditions is gathered onboard an aircraft, then transmitted to an air traffic control center. In the event of a delay or any other event which necessitates an alteration in an aircraft trajectory, the data is sent to a decision support tool to compute and provide alternative trajectories, preferably including operator-preferred trajectories, within air traffic constraints. Air traffic controllers can then offer an alternative trajectory to an aircraft that is more efficient, cost effective, and/or preferable to the aircraft operator. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184979 | Method and System for Detection of Motor Vehicle Movement to Avoid Collisions - A method and system prevents accidental direction selection in a motor vehicle. The driver of the vehicle is alerted that the selected direction of the vehicle via the gear shift is opposite of the direction that the driver intends for the vehicle to move. The selected direction of the vehicle by the driver is initially detected. The invention then detects the driver's physical position and any objects in the immediate area surrounding the vehicle. Based on the information gathered from these detections, there is determination made regarding the vehicle direction selected by the driver. If the determination is the likelihood of an accident/collision if the vehicle moves in the selected direction, the present invention will alert the driver. In addition, an embodiment of the present invention may also include the ability to disable the vehicle in order to avoid a collision. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184980 | MOBILE BODY - Disclosed is a mobile body which plans an avoidance operation of the mobile body and an expected avoidance operation which is expected of a mobile obstacle, thereby improving efficiency of the avoidance operation. A mobile body ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130184981 | Systems and Methods for Interleaving Navigational Directions with Additional Audio in a Mobile Device - A method and apparatus for managing audio conflicts and priorities is disclosed. A mobile device ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130184982 | GENERATING ROUTES - A method, data processing system and computer program product for generating a route. A beginning location is received. A set of preferences for generating a set of routes is received. A set of routes is generated based upon the set of preferences, wherein each route in the set of routes starts and ends at the beginning location, and wherein at least a portion of a specified route in the set of routes does not overlap any other portion of the specified route in the set of routes. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184983 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF A USER IN AN AREA - Apparatus for orientating a user in a space wherein the space comprises a plurality of zones of which only certain zones constitute functional zones wherein each functional zone includes a first type device containing information relating to the position of the zone in the space and wherein the first type device is reactive to the presence of a second type device associated with the user to provide the user with the information to determine the orientation of the user in the space. A method of orientating the user within the space and guiding the user toward one or more features in the space is also disclosed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184984 | MOTION BASED MESSAGE DELIVERY - The present disclosure relates to motion based message delivery. A method includes receiving an information about an asset, calculating the time required for an asset to reach a safe zone, displaying the time required for an asset to reach a safe zone, displaying a communication options to communicate with a person operating the asset, and displaying a map incorporating the location of the asset, a graphical indicator of the time required to reach a safe zone, and/or a graphical indicator of communication options. Another method may include receiving a request to communicate, determining if the communication originates from, or is directed to, an asset in a safe zone, placing the communication if the asset is in the safe zone, and/or delaying the communication until the asset is in a safe zone. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184985 | PORTABLE PROCESSING DEVICES - This invention concerns a portable processing device | 2013-07-18 |
20130184986 | Probalistic Reverse Geocoding - The accuracy of a reverse geocode for a GPS fix in a mobile phone navigation device is improved significantly by considering together the user's last known location on an original route, the elapsed time between the last known location on the original route and the latest GPS fix, and the likelihood that the user could have travelled from the last known location on the original route to one of numerous candidate locations (generated from the reverse geocode) in the elapsed time. The navigation server relies only on a GPS fix, timestamps, and a back-end routing database to provide improved or superior accuracy of reverse geocoding a GPS fix (selection of a point on a road) when a relevant user has deviated from the intended route. The reverse geocoding allows for accurate and functional re-routing capabilities. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184987 | GENERATION OF PROXIMITY INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to generating proximity information. The method includes receiving and processing location information. The location information is then processed. The processed location information is then used to generate proximity information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184988 | Method and System for Saving and Retrieving Spatial Related Information - The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-related information may be obtained by using positioning tracking systems such as a global positioning system, whereas the non-spatial related information may include communication activities associated with the mobile computing device, such as phone calls, e-mails, text messages, pages, etc. The present invention also provides methods and apparatus of sharing event information between mobile communication devices as well as related navigational information for traveling to an event from a real-time position of a mobile communication device. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184989 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO INDICATE INSTRUMENT SATURATION - An apparatus and method to maintain traditional information presentation in a manner that is consistent with existing training and safety methodology, but eliminates confusion generated when a display symbol is placed in a fully pegged position by positively indicating that the symbol is off-scale and not representing actual accurate information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184990 | Location-Determining Device in a Motor Vehicle and Information Merging Method - The invention relates to a location-determining device in a motor vehicle which comprises at least one receiver device for receiving position signals and time signals for a multiplicity of satellites assigned to a global navigation system and a location-calculating module for calculating location information on the basis of received position data and time data. The location-Determining device is distinguished by the fact that the at least one receiver device is structurally integrated into the housing of an optical sensor unit, wherein the housing is arranged in a passenger compartment in a region of an upper edge of a windscreen, and wherein the housing does not have more than a single connection to a vehicle data bus and not more than a single connection to a vehicle energy supply. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184991 | Method of Generating Geometric Heading and Positioning System Using the Same Method - A method of generating a geometric heading during positioning is provided. The method includes the following steps: estimating a current declination information of a current position according to a declination database, wherein the declination database gathers a magnetic map and a plurality of declination information corresponding to a difference between a magnetic north and a geometric north at all grid positions on the magnetic map; generating a predicted heading according to an angular velocity reading of a gyroscope and a magnetic heading reading of a magnetometer; and generating the geometric heading according to the current declination information of the current position and the predicted heading. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184992 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING DRIVER'S PERSONALITY OF ROUTE SELECTION - A method for selecting a route from a departure point to an arrival point includes acquiring information concerning a departure point and an arrival point and information concerning a route from the departure point to the arrival point; generating a plurality of basic routes; calculating a parameter of an evaluation function that yields the selected route as an optimum route; generating a new route using the calculated parameter, determining whether or not the generated new route is identical to the selected route; on a condition that the generated new route is not identical to the selected route, adding the generated new route to the basic routes, recalculating the parameter, generating a new route, and comparing the new route with the selected route; and if the new route is identical to the selected route, storing the parameter when the new data becomes identical to the selected route. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184993 | PROCESS FOR GENERATING COMPUTER FLIGHT PLANS ON THE INTERNET - A process of providing an aviation navigation chart over a computer network includes receiving a request by a server computer from a client computer. The client computer is in communication with the server computer via the computer network. The request is received over the computer network. The request includes an indication of a departure point and a destination point selected by a user of the client computer. The process also includes generating, at the server computer, a composite travel navigation chart in response to the request. The composite travel navigation chart includes a travel chart image with the departure point and the destination point and a route line extending between the departure point and the destination point. Furthermore, the process includes delivering the composite travel navigation chart from the server computer to the client computer for display by the client computer. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184994 | TRANSIT ROUTING SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TRIP PLANNING - A public transit travel planning system and methodology that uses an extensive pre-processing approach of transit information prior to query time on order to determine optimal public transit routes for journeys. At query time, since the transit information has already been processed by the system, very little computation is needed in order to fulfill the query. The system then provides users with public transit directions in response to the queries for public transit journeys. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184995 | POLAR DISPLAY FOR USE WITH DRILLING TOOLS - Various techniques for generating a polar display include a method, which involves receiving information identifying a formation property of an anomaly within a geologic formation from a measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tool that includes several sensors. The formation property is identified by at least one magnitude and at least one distance. The formation property is also identified relative to a corresponding property of the geologic formation. The method also involves receiving information identifying an azimuthal angle from the MWD tool, where the azimuthal angle relates a position of the anomalous formation to a position of a first sensor. The method then generates a graphic, based upon the at least one magnitude and the at least one distance and the azimuthal angle, and displays the graphic on a polar display, in which a center of the polar display corresponds to a location of the borehole in which the MWD tool is located. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184996 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSULIN DOSING - A device and method of providing instruction to a patient regarding the dosing of insulin is provided. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184997 | Task-Modulated Neurobehavioral Status - Systems and methods for modulating a subject's neurobehavioral status by a task-dependent arousal index are provided. Neurobehavioral status may be measured or model-predicted, and the arousal index reflects the composite effect on the subject's neurobehavioral performance of behavioral, environmental, psychological, and physiological factors of the subject's performing an assigned task. Task arousal index may be selected from a database, provided by user input, or combined in real time from sensor data. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184998 | REPLICATION TIMING PROFILES FOR LEUKEMIA AND OTHER CANCERS - Described is a method for determining that a population of cells are a specific type of leukemic cell based on the replication timing fingerprint for the population of cells. | 2013-07-18 |
20130184999 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CANCER-SPECIFIC DRUG TARGETS AND BIOMARKERS DISCOVERY - The present invention provides users with cloud-based high throughput computing system for integrative analyses of next generation sequencing genomic data, such that human cancer biomarkers and drug targets can be accurately and quickly identified. Advantageously, the present invention harness a comprehensive systematic analysis pipelines for all types of next generation sequencing genomic data, advanced genomic variants calling algorithms and modeling, variant data correlation and integration, and identification of cancer specific biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Thus, the present invention will aid users so that less of their time and efforts are required in order to obtain precisely the desired information for which they are analyzing. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185000 | Automatic Collection and Updating of Compliance Data for Gas Detection Equipment - A gas detection unit ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130185001 | VEHICLE EMISSIONS TESTING AND TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM - What is disclosed is a system and method for testing a motorized vehicle's exhaust emissions in a non-controlled emissions testing environment. In one embodiment, the present system comprises a toll collection structure having a sensor for obtaining information about a registered owner of a motor vehicle and about the motor vehicle itself, as the vehicle travels on a lane which passes through the structure. At least one emissions detector, which is fixed to the toll collection structure, performs an emissions test on the vehicle by analyzing an exhaust plume emitted by the vehicle. Speed/acceleration of the vehicle is also measured. In various embodiments hereof, the emissions detector comprises a combination of dispersive or non-dispersive infrared detector and a dispersive or non-dispersive ultraviolet detector. Emissions data collected is automatically compared to emissions standards and an authority is notified if that the vehicle does not meet those standards. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185002 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE CORRECT ROTATIONAL DIRECTION OF A CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS, AND A CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS ASSEMBLY - A method is provided for detecting the correct rotational direction of a centrifugal apparatus. The method includes rotating the centrifugal apparatus in a first direction, acquiring first frequency data relating to the step of rotating the centrifugal apparatus in the first direction, rotating the centrifugal apparatus in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, and acquiring second frequency data relating to the step of rotating the centrifugal apparatus in the second direction. The method also includes detecting the correct rotational direction of the centrifugal apparatus based on comparing the first frequency data with the second frequency data, the comparison being carried out with respect to at least one significant frequency range. In each of the at least one significant frequency range, a smaller magnitude is interpreted as an indication of the correct rotational direction. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185003 | DETECTION OF A FORCE ON A FOOT OR FOOTWEAR - A system is provided for monitoring a force acting on a foot or a footwear. The system includes an assembly that is disposed proximate to a region of the foot or the footwear. The assembly includes a sensing device and a processor communicatively coupled to the sensing device. The sensing device is disposed on a flexible substrate or a stretchable substrate, where the sensing device conforms to the region of the foot or the footwear, and where the sensing device is used to measure data relating to the force acting on the foot or the footwear. The processor executes processor-executable instructions to analyze the data from the sensing device. The analysis can be used to provide an indication of the measured force. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185004 | Retrieval of Measured Values, Diagnostic Information or Device Parameters - A system, a device and a method are for retrieval of measured values, items of diagnostic information or device parameters in level measurement, pressure measurement, flow measurement or limit detection. Provided in the measuring device is a flag which is raised when the measuring device changes a measuring device parameter, for example. An external control device receives this flag and, using said flag, can determine whether a device parameter has been changed in the measuring device. If this is the case, it requests the group of device parameters, associated with this device parameter, from the measuring device. In this manner, the transfer of data can be reduced. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185005 | COMBINATION TIRE TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE AND DEPTH MEASURING DEVICE - A system for measuring tire pressure and temperature including a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a processor responsive to an output of the pressure sensor and the temperature sensor, and a display. The processor is configured to output a value on the display indicative of a measured tire pressure and an indication of measured tire temperature, wherein the indication of measured tire temperature comprises an indication of the result of a comparison between the measured tire temperature and a predetermined temperature value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185006 | NETWORK TOPOLOGY - A network analyzer device, including a control unit configured to determine network topology information related to impedance mismatches in a voltage distribution network on the basis of an evaluation of measured signals received from the voltage distribution network in response to probe signals supplied to the voltage distribution network and/or phase or running time information about noise signal components generated by appliances connected to the voltage distribution network and received by the network analyzer via different receiving paths. The network analyzer device outputs network information related to impedance mismatches in the voltage distribution network, wherein the output network information contains information about a total number of the impedance mismatches, wiring lengths between impedance mismatches, and characteristics of the impedance mismatches. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185007 | METHOD AND CONFIGURATION FOR ESTIMATING THE EFFICIENCY OF AT LEAST ONE BATTERY UNIT OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY - The state of charge of at least one battery unit of a rechargeable battery is initially estimated, and at least one variable of the battery unit which describes the state of health of this battery unit at a selected operating point with the aid of a model is estimated. The variable describing the state of health is an instantaneous charge capacity of the battery unit, which is estimated from the load current of the battery unit at the operating point and the reciprocal value of the derivation over time of the previously estimated state of charge of the battery unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185008 | PARAMETER ESTIMATION DEVICE USING FILTER - A parameter estimation device using a filter has a preprocessing computing means | 2013-07-18 |
20130185009 | HIGH SPEED HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE HIGH ACCURACY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A measuring system includes an input that emulates a bandpass filter with no signal reflections. A directional coupler connected to the input passes the filtered input to electrically isolated measuring circuits. Each of the measuring circuits includes an amplifier that amplifies the signal through logarithmic functions. The output of the measuring system is an accurate high dynamic range measurement. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185010 | MEASUREMENT COORDINATE CORRECTION METHOD AND COORDINATE MEASURING APPARATUS - A measurement coordinate correction method correcting the measurement coordinates of a work piece placed on a base, in which the measurement coordinate correction method includes a weight acquiring step, a position acquiring step, and a correcting step. The weight acquiring step acquires information related to the weight of the work piece. The position acquiring step acquires information related to the position of the work piece on the base. The correcting step corrects the measurement coordinates of the work piece based on the weight and position of the work piece. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185011 | Surface Acoustic Wave Scale - Apparatus and related methods are provided for automatically recalibrating a SAW scale for changing environmental factors. During a period of time when there is no change to a weight applied to the scale, readings of SAW transducers which relate to weight indications and environmental factor indications are taken for two adjacent operating modes of the scale, and two calibrated weight calculations are made utilizing those readings. The difference in calibrated weight calculations is then related to a variable utilized to transform the readings into weights, which is updated, thereby recalibrating the scale. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185012 | CIRCUIT, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SENSOR OUTPUT CORRECTION AND SEQUENCE CONTROL - A sensor output correction circuit includes a storage unit configured to rewritably store one or more commands for correcting a sensor output from a sensor, a reading unit configured to read a target command from the one or more commands stored in the storage part, plural execution units, each of the plural execution units configured to execute a sequence corresponding to the one or more commands, and a selecting unit configured to select a target execution unit from the plural execution units, the target execution unit configured to execute a target sequence corresponding to the target command read by the reading unit. When execution of the target sequence is completed, an address accessed by the reading unit at a time of reading the target command is shifted to another address. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185013 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASCERTAINING A STATE OF A SENSOR - In a method for determining a state of a sensor configured to ascertain an operating parameter of an internal combustion engine, at least one aging effect which has an influence on a sensor characteristic curve of the sensor is detected. The sensor has different sensor characteristic curves for different states of the sensor. The at least one aging effect is detected during operation of the sensor. An item of aging information which reflects the at least one aging effect is stored in an electronic memory. The state of the sensor is deduced from the aging information which is present in stored form and which reflects the aging effect that has acted on the sensor. The deduction is carried out based on a predefined linkage between the at least one aging effect and the state of the sensor. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185014 | SYSTEMS, PROCESSES AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A BI-DIRECTIONAL SCAN PATH FOR PEAK CAPTURE POWER REDUCTION IN LAUCH-OFF-SHIFT TESTING - Exemplary systems, methods and computer-readable mediums can assign, from the circuit, at least two scan cells as at least two interface registers, and generate at least one bidirectional scan path between the at least two interface registers of the at least one portion of the circuit. The at least two interface registers can be disposed in neighboring positions, and the assigning can include a partitioning procedure that can iteratively merge the scan cells of the at least one portion of the circuit into a plurality of regions. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING THE ANGULAR POSITION OF A ROTATING ROLL - A method of determining the angular position of a roll includes: (a) detecting signals generated by an accelerometer attached to an end of a rotating roll; (b) determining whether a signal generated in step (a) has reached a pre-trigger threshold, and repeating step (a) if the signal has not reached the pre-trigger threshold; (c) if the signal is determined in step (b) to have reached the pre-trigger threshold, detecting a subsequent signal generated by the accelerometer; (d) determining whether the signal detected in step (c) has reached a trigger threshold, and repeating step (c) if the signal has not reached the trigger threshold; and (e) if the signal has reached the trigger threshold, establishing the angular position of the roll based on the signal that has reached the trigger threshold. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185016 | Activity Points - Systems and methods are provided for calculating point values for users who participate in activities. An activity is first captured with a sensor. A processor classifies the activity by comparing a sensor signal to templates. Once the activity is classified, an activity factor is selected. Point values are then calculated as a function of the activity factor and duration of the activity. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185017 | Method for Supervising the Correct Function of a Periodically Modulated Sensor Controlling the Position of a Rotating System and Controller Device for Performing this Method - A method for supervising the correct function of a periodically modulated sensor controlling the position of a rotating system, includes the steps of a) determining a response {right arrow over (g | 2013-07-18 |
20130185018 | Apparatuses and Methods for Estimating the Yaw Angle of a Device in a Gravitational Reference System Using Measurements of Motion Sensors and a Magnetometer Attached to the Device - Methods for estimating a yaw angle of a body reference system of a device relative to a gravitational reference system using motion sensors and a magnetometer attached to the device are provided. A method includes (A) receiving measurements from the motion sensors and the magnetometer, (B) determining a measured 3-D magnetic field, a roll, a pitch and a raw estimate of yaw in the body reference system based on the received measurements, (C) extracting a local 3-D magnetic field from the measured 3-D magnetic field, and (D) calculating yaw angle of the body reference system in the gravitational reference system based on the extracted local 3-D magnetic, the roll, the pitch and the raw estimate of yaw using at least two different methods, wherein estimated errors of the roll, the pitch, and the extracted local 3-D magnetic field affect an error of the yaw differently for the different methods. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185019 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LOAD OF CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - A load measuring device for a construction machine includes a processing unit for acquiring signals indicative of cylinder pressure of front and rear suspension cylinders via pressure sensors and computing a weight value of a load put on a dump body of the construction machine. When the construction machine is traveling on a curvilinear route, the construction machine makes the output of the weight value ineffective. In particular, when the differential speed value between the rear wheels, received from a speed difference detector, is below a preset value, the arithmetic unit outputs a loading weight W computed by the processing unit, as final loading weight, and so that when the differential speed exceeds the preset value, the arithmetic unit makes ineffective the computed loading weight W as the final loading weight output. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185020 | FAULT DETECTION METHODS - A fault detection method uses inertial measurements provided by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130185021 | Automated Performance Data Management and Collection - Performance data for a healthy system is captured and used to create benchmarks that represent behavior of the computing environment in a healthy state. Current behavior (e.g, run-time characteristics) of the computing environment are monitored in an on-going manner, and are compared to the benchmarks. When a benchmark is violated, performance data capture is dynamically and automatically enabled. Or, if performance data is already being captured, then performance data capture may be enabled for a larger subset of possible data. Optionally, performance data capture may be automatically disabled upon detecting that the current behavior of the computing environment has returned to a healthy state where benchmarks are no longer violated. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185022 | AUTOMATIC REMOTE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - An automatic remote monitoring and diagnosis system includes an environmental sensor and a physical sensor which measure environmental data and physical data, respectively, on electronic control devices and send the data by wireless communication, a wireless server which collects the measurement data of the sensors, a diagnostic client connected to the wireless server by a first communication network and that collects the measurement data from the wireless server, a diagnostic server connected to the diagnostic client by a second communication network and that carries out a diagnosis based on the measurement data from the diagnostic client, a data retaining device which retains the measurement data, and a knowledge database which stores information necessary for the diagnosis. The diagnostic server sends results of the diagnosis and a remedy to the diagnostic client via the second communication network. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185023 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE-MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION COMPENSATION IN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - Exemplary systems, apparatus, methods and computer-accessible medium for generating information regarding at least one sample can be provided. For example, it is possible to receiving first data which is based on at least one first radiation provided to the sample(s) and at least one second radiation provided from the sample(s) that is/are associated with the first radiation(s) It is also possible to generate second data by reducing the influence of first optical effects induced on the first radiation(s) prior to reaching the sample(s), and second optical effects induced on the second radiation(s) after leaving the sample(s). | 2013-07-18 |
20130185024 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND TAGGING IN AN RF PLANNING TOOL - A system and method store a map of an area in a computer storage device. The map includes objects in the area. Objects on the map and locations of the objects on the map are identified, and properties are associated to the identified objects. The identified objects, the locations of the identified objects, and the properties of the identified objects are provided to a radio frequency (RF) planning tool such that the RF planning tool can determine RF wave propagation and RF wave attenuation as a function of the identified objects, the locations of the identified objects, and the properties of the identified objects. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185025 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE GENERATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) shape by specifying a boundary between materials, including acquiring numerical data of a boundary line of a two-dimensional (2D) shape in a plane, generating a next 2D shape by moving the 2D shape in a direction intersecting the plane based on numerical data specifying a shape of the boundary and also by copying or deforming the 2D shape, and configuring a solid based on data of a generated 2D shape. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING STANDARDIZED STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS - A method and system disclosed herein provides generating an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein one or more walls of the building are designated as standardized structural walls, automatically positioning each of the standardized structural walls to a geometric grid, and mapping (or “placing”), using a computer, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components, including standardized panels, standardized columns, and standardized trusses to coordinates of the geometric grid. | 2013-07-18 |