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20130006782 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS OF A COMPUTERIZED BILL PRESENTER SYSTEM - In some embodiments, an electronic check presenter includes a bi-fold booklet and a tablet personal computer. The tablet personal computer includes at least a non-transitory processor-readable medium, a processor, a display, a magnetic stripe reader, and a communication interface. The non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code to cause a processor to send a signal to display information on the display associated with a check and/or payment thereof. | 01-03-2013 |
20130282470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME LOYALTY DISCOUNTS AND PAPERLESS RECEIPTS - Systems and methods for transaction-based recordation of a new payment identifier. A payment identifier and a first user account associated with the payment identifier are received, the payment identifier and the first user account associated with a transaction. A user status associated with a user of the first user account is determined. A record is generated that includes the payment identifier, the first user account, and the user status. The record is recorded for use with subsequent transactions by the user. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290591 | DOCKING STATION FOR COMPUTERIZED BILL PRESENTER SYSTEM - Embodiments described herein generally relate to a docking station which can serve as a self-contained mobile and cloud connected communication system. In some embodiments, a docking station includes a docking portion that defines a recess configured to removably receive a portion of a computerized bill presenter. The docking station also includes a charging mechanism disposed in the docking station, which is coupleable to the computerized bill presenter. The charging mechanism is configured to charge a power source disposed in the computerized bill presenter and is also configurable to provide two-way communication between the docking station and the computerized bill presenter. The docking station also includes a communications module configured to provide wireless two-way communication between the docking station and a host device over a network and between the docking station and the one or more computerized bill presenters over the network. | 10-31-2013 |
20130339116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TRANSACTION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for determining transaction information for a purchase are provided. A system for determining transaction information for a purchase includes a processor having a user account module configured to receive order information associated with a user account. The order information is associated with a purchase and is received via the user account. The system also includes a payment module configured to receive payment information. The payment information does not identify the purchase, and does not identify the user account. The system also includes a token management module configured to determine that the payment information is associated with the purchase, and to determine transaction information associated with the purchase based on the order information and based on the payment information. The user account module is further configured to transmit at least a portion of the transaction information to the user account. | 12-19-2013 |
20140058927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A PROVIDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for selecting a payment provider. A request for provider information is received. The request includes merchant information associated with a merchant. A provider is selected from one or more providers as a function of the merchant information. The merchant is registered with the selected provider. | 02-27-2014 |
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20090100665 | Method for Producing a Bar Winding for the Stator of an Electric Machine - The invention relates to a method for producing a bar winding ( | 04-23-2009 |
20110043059 | ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATOR COMPRISING A STATOR AND A STATOR WINDING INSERTED IN STATOR GROOVES MADE OF WINDING ELEMENTS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INVENTIVE STATOR - An alternating-current generator, in particular a three-phase generator, for a motor vehicle, having a rotor including north and south poles, particularly having claw-pole fingers extending in the axial direction and alternating as north and south poles at the rotor's periphery, a stator having a magnetic core, especially laminated core, having slots and a stator winding disposed in the magnetic core's slots, the stator winding having winding overhangs that are coolable by an approximately radial air flow produced by at least one fan mounted at the rotor, the stator being situated opposite the rotor, and the stator and the rotor having defined positions relative to each other, the multiphase stator winding being made up of winding elements, at least one winding element having more than two sections inserted in slots, and at least one winding element having more than one reversal section which brings about a change in the radial position. | 02-24-2011 |
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20080197795 | Asymmetric Control System For a Sensorless and Brushless Electric Motor - A particularly high level of performance in a sensorless, electronically commutated multiphase electric motor can be achieved, wherein for one full cycle at least, one motor phase is controlled in an asymmetrical manner relative to a further motor phase by controlling a commutation angle of one motor phase by reduction relative to a corresponding commutation angle of the other motor phase. Alternatively or in addition, according to the aforementioned method, at least one motor phase is asymmetrically controlled by reduction by self-reference for a full cycle, a commutation angle being controlled by reduction relative to a preceding or subsequent commutation angle or the size of the intermediate angles between two commutation angles being varied, the reduced commutation angle always being preceded or followed by a measurement angle within which the relevant motor phase is switched at zero current for detecting the rotor position by measuring the counter-electromotive force. | 08-21-2008 |
20090302790 | Circuit Arrangement - The invention specifies a circuit arrangement ( | 12-10-2009 |
20100019710 | Method and device for determining the position of a rotor of a brushless and sensorless electric motor - The invention relates to a method carried out with simple means for determining the position of the rotor in a sensorless and brushless multi-phase electric motor ( | 01-28-2010 |
20150054436 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSITIONING A BRUSHLESS ELECTRIC DRIVE - A method for positioning a brushless electric drive comprising a stator that has at least one phase winding to which a voltage signal can be applied, and a rotor equipped with magnetic poles. In the method, a voltage signal is applied to the at least one phase winding, the voltage signal generates a magnetic field as a result of the current flowing in the phase winding. The magnetic field putting the rotor into alignment, and as long as the rotor is in motion, the voltage signal is modified in accordance with the intensity of the current induced in the at least one phase winding by the moving rotor, in such a way that the induced current is increased. | 02-26-2015 |
20150054441 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A BRUSHLESS ELECTRIC DRIVE - A method for determining the position of an at least two-phase, in particular three-phase bmshless electric drive comprising at least two phase windings, each of which has a first and a second terminal, a second terminal of a first phase winding being electrically connected to the first terminal of a second phase winding at a common connecting terminal. In order to be able to reliably determine the position of the electric drive even at low speeds, a voltage pulse is applied between the first terminal of the first phase winding and the second terminal of the second phase winding, the resulting voltage at the connecting terminal or at a third phase winding connected thereto is detected and the voltage ratio between the first phase winding and the second phase winding is determined therefrom, and the ratio between the variable inductances is determined from said voltage ratio. | 02-26-2015 |
20150177297 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ROTOR POSITION OF AN ELECTRICALLY-COMMUTED MULTI-PHASE DIRECT CURRENT MOTOR - The invention relates to a generic method for determining the rotor position of an electronically-commutated multi-phase direct current motor, characterised in: (a) generating of a plurality of test voltage pulses in the winding system with a specified switch-on duration ΔT by means of the commuting device in different phase distributed over 360°; (b)—measurement of the current values of the current responses of the test voltage pulses on expiration of the switch-on period of the respective test voltage pulse; (c) approximation of the measured current values by means of a periodic approximation function from a superimposition of a preferably sinusoidal fundamental wave with an amplitude IEMK and the associated first harmonic with an amplitude Und as a factor of the phase of the test voltage pulse, wherein the sinusoidal fundamental wave follows the chronological progression of the counter EMF voltage of the stator and the first harmonic follows the chronological progression of the stator of the direct current motor; (d) determination of an amplitude ratio value I | 06-25-2015 |
20150214869 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING A ROTATING, BRUSHLESS ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A method for operating a brushless, rotating electrical machine, including at least three phase windings, each of which has a first phase winding terminal and a second phase winding terminal. The phase windings are connected to each other, in particular the particular second phase winding terminals are connected to a shared star point, and phase-width-modulated voltage signals being applied separately to each individual phase winding, and at least one selected phase winding being at least temporarily connected to a constant electrical potential. To minimize switching operations and to reduce the alternating current component of the current source, the pulses of the pulse-width-modulated signals applied to the remaining phase windings are at least temporarily phase-shifted with respect to each other during the period in which the selected phase winding is connected to a constant electrical potential. | 07-30-2015 |
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20110046350 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE NANOSCALE TETHER FOR BINDING TARGETS TO SUBSTRATES - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to reusable, length-adjustable nanoscale tethers that can be incorporated into a variety of different sensors and other electrical, electro-mechanical, electro-optical-mechanical, and optical-mechanical devices. An optionally reusable, length-adjustable nanoscale tether that represents one embodiment of the present invention comprises a binding-structure component, having a substrate-anchor subcomponent and a binding-adapter binding domain, and a binding adaptor that binds to the binding-adapter binding domain and that has a target-binding subcomponent that binds to a target molecule, target particle, or other target entity. The binding-adapter binding domain can be positioned at different distances from the substrate anchor within the binding-structure component so that the distance between a bound target and a sensor substrate can be precisely controlled. | 02-24-2011 |
20110280766 | EFFICIENT SENSOR FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATIONS OF TARGETS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to efficient sensors for detecting the presence and concentration of one or more particular target molecules in solutions, air or other gasses, or otherwise present in an environment or sample. Various embodiments of the present invention provide relatively large binding constants or, equivalently, relatively small dissociation constants for binding of target biopolymers or other target molecules with complementary probes bound to, or associated with, a sensor substrate. In addition, various embodiments of the present invention increase the area of the surface of the sensor affected by binding of a target biopolymer or other target molecules to the sensor which, in turn, produces a stronger signal and greater signal-to-noise ratio for a given number or concentration of bound target biopolymers or other target molecules. In certain embodiments of the present invention, large binding constants, large signal-to-noise ratios, and strong signals are achieved by including probe molecules on the surface of the sensor directed to multiple binding sites within a target biopolymer or other target molecules, so that each bound target biopolymer or other target molecule is bound to, or associated with multiple probes. | 11-17-2011 |
20110281368 | NANOPARTICLE DERIVATIZATION OF TARGETS FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATIONS OF TARGETS BY IMPEADANCE-SPECTROSCOPY-BASED SENSORS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to for detecting the presence and concentration of one or more particular target molecules in solutions, air or other gasses, or otherwise present in an environment or sample, by impedance-spectroscopy-based sensors. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for derivatizing target molecules with nanoparticles to increase capacitance changes at electrode surfaces in order to generate stronger signals and improve signal-to-noise ratios of impedance-spectroscopy-based sensors. | 11-17-2011 |