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20110191636 | Microprogrammable Device Code Signature - A microprogrammable electronic device has a code memory storing a software and/or firmware code having instructions. The microprogrammable electronic device is configured to compute a signature of the code stored in the code memory, and to detect any corruption of the code stored in the code memory on the basis of the computed signature. The microprogrammable electronic device is characterized by being further configured to operate according to instruction cycles, each divided into a respective first and a respective second operating phase; to read a first instruction from the code memory at the first operating phase of an instruction cycle; to decode and execute the read first instruction at the second operating phase of the instruction cycle; to read a second instruction from the code memory at the second operating phase of the instruction cycle; and to compute the signature on the basis of the read second instruction. | 08-04-2011 |
20110197050 | Wait Instruction - A microprogrammable electronic device comprises a code memory storing a plurality of instructions. At least one instruction, when executed by the device, causes the device to enter into a wait state associated with a plurality of predefined wait state exit conditions. The device is configured to load into an electronic table each condition together with a corresponding code memory address of an instruction to be executed when the condition occurs; to execute, when is in the wait state, a wait instruction stored in the code memory and which, when executed, is such as to cause the device to check simultaneously the conditions loaded into said electronic table to detect if condition occurs; and, if a condition occurs, to exit from said wait state and to execute the instruction stored in the code memory at the code memory address loaded into the electronic table together with the condition that occurred. | 08-11-2011 |
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20110124057 | ORGANIC MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL AND METHOD - An organic material production system using biomass material includes: a hydrothermal decomposition apparatus ( | 05-26-2011 |
20120178154 | ORGANIC MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL AND METHOD - An organic material production system using biomass material includes: a hydrothermal decomposition apparatus that causes the biomass material and hot compressed water to countercurrently contact with each other and undergo hydrothermal decomposition, so as to separate the lignin component and the hemicellulose component from a biomass solid residue; a cellulose enzymatic saccharification device that treats, cellulose in the biomass solid residue, so as to enzymatically saccharify the cellulose to a first sugar solution containing hexose; an alcohol fermenter that produces alcohols by fermentation using the obtained first sugar solution; a sulfuric acid decomposition device that decomposes the hemicellulose component in hot water discharged from the hydrothermal decomposition apparatus, which contains the eluted lignin component and the eluted hemicellulose component, so as to decompose the hemicellulose component to a second sugar solution containing pentose; and a second alcohol fermenter that produces, using the second sugar solution containing pentose, alcohols by fermentation. | 07-12-2012 |
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20110300617 | BIOMASS HYDROTHERMAL DECOMPOSITION APPARATUS, TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ORGANIC RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING BIOMASS MATERIAL - A biomass hydrothermal decomposition apparatus that feeds a solid biomass material | 12-08-2011 |
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20120290261 | Valve actuator fault analysis system - A valve actuator fault analysis system for detecting, analyzing and reporting valve actuator performance characterized as deviations, malfunctions and failures. The fault analysis system includes an expert system that monitors the valve actuator and related components, such as the power supply and signal line, for determining causal factors of degraded and/or defective performance; generation of fault-analysis reports in a readable text format file; and methods for characterizing deviations, malfunctions and failures, for generating and concatenating event messages and for detecting and characterizing events that take place in valve actuators, peripheral systems and devices and displaying the results on a display device. The system can operate either in conjunction with, or be embedded in the hardware of a pneumatic valve positioner, an electrical valve actuator and/or similar devices, and can receive messages from external sources, process them, and produce fault-analysis reports in text format for display to the user. | 11-15-2012 |
20130013228 | Airport jet fuel piping leak detection and location system through pressure and cathodic protection soil potential - A fuel leakage detection system for an underground fuel piping system having fuel service pits installed at locations along the piping. Each pit has a pressure sensor and a reference electrode positioned external to the pit assembly for continuous and automatic monitoring of fuel pressure and pipe-to-soil potential measurements of an impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP), and each pit assembly includes a processor and a transceiver. The system provides simultaneous and synchronized pressure and ICCP potential measurements which are transmitted over a wireless network to a control station that performs accurate location of a leakage point in the underground piping and can detect pressure loss during fueling operations which produce strong pressure transients that normally mask detection of pressure loss in the fuel piping, and can determine a leak in the piping and its location by analyzing the pipe-to-soil potentials taken on the fuel piping and pressure losses occurring between transients. | 01-10-2013 |
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20100090396 | CONVEYING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A conveying device performs an appropriate initialization sequence at start of an operation thereof in response to a manipulation of a lever of a non-operational conveying mechanism thereof. The conveying device includes a pair of rollers configured to convey a sheet, a separating unit configured to separate one of the pair of rollers from another of the pair of rollers, a holding unit configured to retain a status representing whether a separation process is performed by the separating unit, a memory unit configured to store information representing a state of the conveying device at power-off, and a control unit configured to control the conveying device based on the status retained by the holding unit and the information stored by the memory unit. | 04-15-2010 |
20110279077 | APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH MOTOR - An apparatus includes a driven member, a DC brushless motor, a first signal generation unit configured to output a first signal according to rotation of the DC brushless motor and to change an output value of the first signal each time the DC brushless motor rotates by a predetermined amount, a movement unit configured to move the driven member by a driving force of the DC brushless motor, a second signal generation unit configured to output a second signal each time the driven member moves by the predetermined amount, and a control unit configured to control driving of the DC brushless motor based on the output value of the first signal and a value of a number of times that the second signal is output during a period in which the DC brushless motor rotates by a predetermined amount. | 11-17-2011 |
20120263514 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, AND CONVEYANCE CONTROL METHOD - This invention has been made to cause a printing apparatus for conveying roll paper and performing printing to simultaneously attain a stable conveyance accuracy and prevent skewed conveyance independently of LF roller driving conditions and disturbance conditions that variously change as the roll paper state changes. For this purpose, a feed motor is used as a load generator for the roll paper. A section from a conveyance operation by the LF roller to the next conveyance operation is divided into a plurality of sub-sections. A feed mechanism is controlled by switching between a feeder load generation section and a feeder load zero section for each sub-section. | 10-18-2012 |
20130026283 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND PRINTER - A conveyance apparatus includes: a supply unit rotatably supporting a roll member around which a sheet is wound in form of a roll and configured to supply the sheet from the roll member; a motor for rotating the roll member; a roller pair configured to convey the sheet supplied from the supply unit while pinching the sheet; and a control unit configured to set the torque of the motor according to sheet information related to the sheet when taking up the sheet on the roll member by driving the motor while the sheet is pinched by the roller pair being stopped. | 01-31-2013 |
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20130286078 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND COLOR MEASURING METHOD FOR RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit for applying ink on a sheet by a printing head; a drying unit for drying the sheet; a measuring unit for measuring patterns on the sheet; a conveying unit for conveying the sheet; a recovering unit for performing a printing head-recovering operation; and a control unit for controlling the apparatus such that, the recording apparatus performs recording to form patterns, the conveying unit performs first conveying to convey the sheet from a recording region to a drying region, the drying unit performs drying, the conveying unit performs second conveying to convey the sheet from the drying region to a measuring region, and the measuring unit performs measuring, in sequence, wherein the recovering operation is performed at timing at least partially overlapping at least one of the first and second conveying operations, the drying operation, and the color measuring operation, after the recording operation. | 10-31-2013 |
20140008408 | CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveyance apparatus includes a feeding unit, on which a roll sheet is settable, configured to feed the roll sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey a sheet fed from the feeding unit, a first detection unit configured to detect a conveyance distance of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, a second detection unit configured to detect a conveyance distance of the sheet drawn out from the roll sheet set on the feeding unit, a driving unit configured to synchronously drive the feeding unit when the sheet is conveyed by the conveyance roller, and a determination unit configured to determine a state of an end portion of the roll sheet based on detection results by the first detection unit and the second detection unit. | 01-09-2014 |
20140239113 | ROLL SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND SHEET CONVEYING CONTROL METHOD - There are provided a roll sheet conveying apparatus and a sheet conveying control method wherein it is possible to control motor driving for conveying a roll sheet at appropriate timing to keep constant the tension of the sheet to be conveyed without performing a special identifying operation. For this feature, a relationship between friction load torque on the roll sheet and the mass of the roll sheet is previously stored in a storing unit, whereby the moment of inertia of the roll sheet can be detected at appropriate timing during printing. As a result, the optimum tension of the sheet to be conveyed can be maintained by appropriately adjusting the driving control of a sheet feeding motor and a conveying motor without performing a special identifying operation. | 08-28-2014 |