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| 1 | DD | GENERIC CONTROL SYSTEM, APPARATUS OR PROCESS |
| 2 | DD | .~ Plural processors |
| 3 | DD | .~.~ Master-slave |
| 4 | DD | .~.~ Parallel |
| 5 | DD | .~.~.~ Shared memory |
| 6 | DD | .~.~ Hybrid types (analog, digital) |
| 7 | DD | .~.~ Including sequence or logic processor |
| 8 | DD | .~ Cascade control |
| 9 | DD | .~ Supervisory control |
| 10 | DD | .~.~ Of analog controllers |
| 11 | DD | .~ Sequential or selective |
| 12 | DD | .~.~ State of condition or parameter (e.g., on/off) |
| 13 | DD | .~.~.~ Position responsive |
| 14 | DD | .~.~.~ Time responsive (duration) |
| 15 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having display |
| 16 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Clock-calendar (e.g., time of day) |
| 17 | DD | .~.~ Operator interface (e.g., display with control) |
| 18 | DD | .~.~.~ Specific programming (e.g., relay or ladder logic) |
| 19 | DD | .~.~ Plural controlled systems, mechanisms, or elements |
| 20 | DD | .~.~ Plural controllers |
| 21 | DD | .~.~ Failure protection or reliability |
| 22 | DD | .~.~ Electrical power distribution |
| 23 | DD | .~.~ Sequence program response |
| 24 | DD | .~.~.~ Addressing |
| 25 | DD | .~.~.~ I/O table |
| 26 | DD | .~.~.~ Diagnostics or debugging |
| 27 | DD | .~.~.~ Having status indication |
| 28 | DD | .~ Optimization or adaptive control |
| 29 | DD | .~.~ Having model |
| 30 | DD | .~.~.~ Comparison with model (e.g., model reference) |
| 31 | DD | .~.~.~ Having adjustment of model (e.g., update) |
| 32 | DD | .~.~ Specific criteria of system performance |
| 33 | DD | .~.~.~ Constraint or limit (e.g., max/min) |
| 34 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Variable |
| 35 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Bidirectional (e.g., oscillatory) |
| 36 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Economic (e.g., cost) |
| 37 | DD | .~.~.~ Gain (e.g., tuning) |
| 38 | DD | .~.~ Having perturbation |
| 39 | DD | .~.~.~ Test signal |
| 40 | DD | .~.~ Plural modes |
| 41 | DD | .~.~.~ Proportional-Integral (P-I) |
| 42 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Proportional-Integral-Derivative (P-I-D) |
| 43 | DD | .~.~.~ Proportional-Derivative (P-D) |
| 44 | DD | .~.~ Feed-forward (e.g., predictive) |
| 45 | DD | .~.~.~ Combined with feedback |
| 46 | DD | .~.~ Rate control |
| 47 | DD | .~.~ Trainable system (e.g., self-learning, self-organizing) |
| 48 | DD | .~.~.~ Neural network |
| 49 | DD | .~.~ Expert system |
| 50 | DD | .~.~ Fuzzy logic |
| 51 | DD | .~.~ Statistical process control (SPC) |
| 52 | DD | .~.~ Parameter estimation or identification |
| 53 | DD | .~.~ Multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) system feature (e.g., decoupling) |
| 54 | DD | .~.~ Having particular compensation or stabilization feature |
| 55 | DD | .~.~.~ Filtering |
| 56 | DD | .~ Digital positioning (other than machine tool) |
| 57 | DD | .~.~ Alignment or registration |
| 58 | DD | .~.~.~ Having position marking |
| 59 | DD | .~.~.~ Having optical sensing (e.g., image projection) |
| 60 | DD | .~.~ Support positioning (e.g., table, stage) |
| 61 | DD | .~.~ Multiple axis motion or path control |
| 62 | DD | .~.~.~ Orientation (e.g., posture, pose) |
| 63 | DD | .~.~.~ Including velocity or acceleration control |
| 64 | DD | .~.~.~ Position recording |
| 65 | DD | .~.~ Operator control of remotely located element |
| 66 | DD | .~.~ Having particular position determining apparatus (e.g., portable or handheld) |
| 67 | DD | .~ Plural variables |
| 68 | DD | .~.~ Ratio |
| 69 | DD | .~.~ Positional (e.g., velocity, acceleration) |
| 70 | DD | .~.~.~ Positional with nonpositional |
| 71 | DD | .~ Specific compensation or stabilization feature |
| 72 | DD | .~.~ Lag (e.g., deadtime) |
| 73 | DD | .~ Sampled data system |
| 74 | DD | .~.~ Variable rate |
| 75 | DD | .~ Multiple modes (e.g., digital/analog) |
| 76 | DD | .~.~ Manual/automatic |
| 77 | DD | .~.~ Fine/coarse |
| 78 | DD | .~ Having specific error signal generation (e.g., up/down counter) |
| 79 | DD | .~ Having protection or reliability feature |
| 80 | DD | .~.~ Warning or alarm |
| 81 | DD | .~.~ Self-test |
| 82 | DD | .~.~ Backup/standby |
| 83 | DD | .~ Having operator control interface (e.g., control/display console) |
| 84 | DD | .~.~ Keyboard |
| 85 | DD | .~.~ Positional (e.g., joystick) |
| 86 | DD | .~ Having preparation of program |
| 87 | DD | .~.~ Editing/modifying |
| 88 | DD | .~.~ Playback |
| 89 | DD | .~ Having a specific algorithm |
| 90 | DD | SPECIFIC APPLICATION, APPARATUS OR PROCESS |
| 91 | DD | .~ Contest or contestant analysis, management, or monitoring (e.g., statistical analysis, handicapping, scoring, etc.) |
| 92 | DD | .~.~ Scoring |
| 93 | DD | .~.~ Probability determination or handicapping |
| 94 | DD | .~ Digital audio data processing system |
| 95 | DD | .~ Product assembly or manufacturing |
| 96 | DD | .~.~ Integrated system (Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CMI)) |
| 97 | DD | .~.~ Design or planning |
| 98 | DD | .~.~.~ 3-D product design (e.g., solid modeling) |
| 99 | DD | .~.~.~ Resource allocation |
| 100 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Job scheduling |
| 101 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Priority ordering |
| 102 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Job release determination |
| 103 | DD | .~.~.~ Constraints or rules |
| 104 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Knowledge base (e.g., expert system) |
| 105 | DD | .~.~.~ Rework or engineering change |
| 106 | DD | .~.~.~ Material requirement |
| 107 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Bill of material |
| 108 | DD | .~.~ Performance monitoring |
| 109 | DD | .~.~.~ Quality control |
| 110 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Defect analysis or recognition |
| 111 | DD | .~.~.~ Worker or work station efficiency |
| 112 | DD | .~.~ Having particular work transport control between manufacturing stations |
| 113 | DD | .~.~.~ Mobile transport |
| 114 | DD | .~.~ Work positioning |
| 115 | DD | .~.~ Product tracking (e.g., having product or carrier identification) |
| 116 | DD | .~.~.~ Having identification controlled manufacturing operation |
| 117 | DD | .~.~ Particular manufactured product or operation |
| 118 | DD | .~.~.~ Three-dimensional product forming |
| 119 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Rapid prototyping (e.g., layer-by-layer, material deposition) |
| 120 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Stereolithography |
| 121 | DD | .~.~.~ Integrated circuit production or semiconductor fabrication |
| 122 | DD | .~.~.~ Continuous material having indeterminate length (e.g., web, strand, strip, or sheet) |
| 123 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Material deposition or application (e.g., spraying, coating, etc.) |
| 124 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Registration control |
| 125 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Having a reference mark or pattern |
| 126 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Winding |
| 127 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Sheet making (e.g., paper product) |
| 128 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Paper machine or subsystem control |
| 129 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Profile analyzer or controller |
| 130 | DD | .~.~.~ Textile |
| 131 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Pattern design |
| 132 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ For a garment |
| 133 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Having particular pattern producing operation (e.g., dyeing) |
| 134 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Pattern cutting |
| 135 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Pattern matching or positioning |
| 136 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Sewing |
| 137 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Having particular input data (e.g., stitch) |
| 138 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Embroidering |
| 139 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Spinning or winding (e.g., yarn) |
| 140 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Loom control |
| 141 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Knitting |
| 142 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Fiber preparation |
| 143 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having monitoring or inspecting (e.g., abnormality detection) |
| 144 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Yarn quality |
| 145 | DD | .~.~.~ Metal |
| 146 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Casting or drawing |
| 147 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Control of metallurgical property |
| 148 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Rolling |
| 149 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Having schedule adjustment |
| 150 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Control or detection of a particular condition |
| 151 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Speed control |
| 152 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Tension control (e.g., interstrand) |
| 153 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Temperature control |
| 154 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Flatness or crown control |
| 155 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Thickness control |
| 156 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Roll eccentricity compensation |
| 157 | DD | .~.~.~ Glassware forming |
| 158 | DD | .~.~.~.~ IS (individual section) machine |
| 159 | DD | .~.~.~ Machining |
| 160 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having particular tool or tool operation |
| 161 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Tracing or duplicating |
| 162 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Electrical discharge machining (EDM) |
| 163 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ 3-D sculpturing using nontracing prototype sensor |
| 164 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Grinding |
| 165 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Bending (e.g., press brake) |
| 166 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Laser |
| 167 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Of elongated material (e.g., timber, veneer, web) |
| 168 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Portable (e.g., handheld) |
| 169 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Supervisory control (e.g., plural tools or plural processors) |
| 170 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having particular control of a motor parameter |
| 171 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Material usage optimization |
| 172 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Multiple mode (e.g., rough-finish, coarse-fine) |
| 173 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Adaptive (optimizing) system |
| 174 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Performance monitoring |
| 175 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Condition of tool or workpiece (e.g., tolerance, tool wear) |
| 176 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Offsetting |
| 177 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Protective or diagnostic feature |
| 178 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Tool/workpiece interference prevention |
| 179 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Tool selection/change |
| 180 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having operator interface feature |
| 181 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Specific programming format (e.g., macro) |
| 182 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Including CAD, CAM, or CIM technique |
| 183 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Preset pattern |
| 184 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Machining path display |
| 185 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Prompting technique |
| 186 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Digital positioning technique |
| 187 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ For curve or contour |
| 188 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Including velocity or acceleration control |
| 189 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Interpolation |
| 190 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Specified tool feed path at entry or withdrawal |
| 191 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Repeated machining passes |
| 192 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Alignment of tool or workpiece (e.g., origin or path return) |
| 193 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Positional compensation or modification |
| 194 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Coordinate transformation technique |
| 195 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having particular measuring device (e.g., probe) |
| 196 | DD | .~.~.~ Extruding |
| 197 | DD | .~.~.~ Molding |
| 198 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Control of curing |
| 199 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Vulcanization |
| 200 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Injection |
| 201 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Plural molding machines or stations |
| 202 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Control of temperature |
| 203 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Control of pressure |
| 204 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Monitoring, inspection, or control of a particular condition |
| 205 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Control of temperature |
| 206 | DD | .~.~.~ Pressing |
| 207 | DD | .~.~.~ Heating |
| 208 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Drying |
| 209 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Furnace |
| 210 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Multizone |
| 211 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Oven |
| 212 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Sintering, soldering, or bonding |
| 213 | DD | .~ Article handling |
| 214 | DD | .~.~ Article storing, retrieval, or arrangement (e.g., warehousing, automated library) |
| 215 | DD | .~.~.~ Having an identification code |
| 216 | DD | .~.~.~ Order filling |
| 217 | DD | .~.~.~ Article support load management (e.g., palletizing) |
| 218 | DD | .~.~.~ Particular charging or discharging apparatus |
| 219 | DD | .~.~ Associating or disassociating plural articles |
| 220 | DD | .~.~.~ Inserting |
| 221 | DD | .~.~.~ Having an identification code |
| 222 | DD | .~.~.~.~.~ Monitoring or inspection (e.g., incomplete assembly) |
| 223 | DD | .~.~.~ Collating or sorting |
| 224 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Having an identification code |
| 225 | DD | .~.~ Having an identification code |
| 226 | DD | .~.~.~ Identification code determines article destination |
| 227 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Preparation of an article for an identification code (e.g., printing, encoding, etc.) |
| 228 | DD | .~.~ Having particular transport between article handling stations |
| 229 | DD | .~.~.~ Transport position identification |
| 230 | DD | .~.~.~ Having a conveyor |
| 231 | DD | .~.~ Dispensing or vending |
| 232 | DD | .~.~.~ Operator or payment initiated |
| 233 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Customized dispensed article (e.g., operator design) |
| 234 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Demonstration or duplication of article (e.g., software, video, etc.) |
| 235 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Printing on or of dispensed or vended article |
| 236 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Data collection or reporting (e.g., sales, inventory, etc.) |
| 237 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Authorization (e.g., password, time usage limit, personal identification number (PIN)) |
| 238 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Price adjustment |
| 239 | DD | .~.~.~ Blending or mixing |
| 240 | DD | .~.~.~ Condition controlled dispensing (e.g., weight or volume) |
| 241 | DD | .~.~.~ Central control of plural dispensing units |
| 242 | DD | .~.~.~ Particular supply arrangement (e.g., plural sources or compartments) |
| 243 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Movable (e.g., rotatable) |
| 244 | DD | .~.~.~ Monitoring or inspection |
| 245 | DD | .~ Robot control |
| 246 | DD | .~.~ Combined with knowledge processing (e.g., natural language system) |
| 247 | DD | .~.~ Plural controlled devices or plural nonvision controlling devices |
| 248 | DD | .~.~.~ Plural robots |
| 249 | DD | .~.~.~ Plural processors |
| 250 | DD | .~.~ Specific enhancing or modifying technique (e.g., adaptive control) |
| 251 | DD | .~.~.~ Coordinate transformation |
| 252 | DD | .~.~.~ Interpolation |
| 253 | DD | .~.~.~ Programmed data (e.g., path) modified by sensed data |
| 254 | DD | .~.~.~ Compensation or calibration |
| 255 | DD | .~.~.~ Collision prevention |
| 256 | DD | .~.~.~ Overload prevention |
| 257 | DD | .~.~.~ Based on user input |
| 258 | DD | .~.~ Having particular sensor |
| 259 | DD | .~.~.~ Vision sensor (e.g., camera, photocell, etc.) |
| 260 | DD | .~.~ Having control of force |
| 261 | DD | .~.~.~ Having control of robot torque |
| 262 | DD | .~.~ Using particular manipulator orientation computation (e.g., vector/matrix calculation) |
| 263 | DD | .~.~.~ Using Jacobian computation |
| 264 | DD | .~.~ Having particular operator interface (e.g., teaching box, digitizer, tablet, pendant, dummy arm) |
| 265 | DD | .~ Nonreactive mixing process (e.g., mixing cement, preparing solution, diluting chemical) |
| 266 | DD | .~ Chemical process control or monitoring system |
| 267 | DD | .~.~ Titration or pH level |
| 268 | DD | .~.~ Synthesis process |
| 269 | DD | .~.~.~ Polymerization/trimerization |
| 270 | DD | .~.~ Distillation |
| 271 | DD | .~.~ Refinement or purification or rejuvenation |
| 272 | DD | .~.~.~ Of fuel |
| 273 | DD | .~.~ Separation process |
| 274 | DD | .~.~ Control of combustion or heating apparatus (e.g., kiln, furnace, autoclave, burner, combustion system) |
| 275 | DD | .~ Mechanical control system |
| 276 | DD | .~.~ HVAC control |
| 277 | DD | .~.~.~ Multiple zones |
| 278 | DD | .~.~.~ Specific thermally responsive controller |
| 279 | DD | .~.~ Balancing or alignment |
| 280 | DD | .~.~ Vibration or acoustic noise control |
| 281 | DD | .~.~ Control of fluid level or volume |
| 282 | DD | .~.~ Flow control (e.g., valve or pump control) |
| 283 | DD | .~.~.~ Dispensing management (e.g., spraying) |
| 284 | DD | .~.~.~.~ Irrigation |
| 285 | DD | .~.~.~ Fluid mixing |
| 286 | DD | .~ Electrical power generation or distribution system |
| 287 | DD | .~.~ Turbine or generator control |
| 288 | DD | .~.~.~ Cogenerative system |
| 289 | DD | .~.~.~ Adaptive valve control |
| 290 | DD | .~.~.~.~ For turbine speed control |
| 291 | DD | .~.~ Energy consumption or demand predication or estimation |
| 292 | DD | .~.~ System protection (e.g., circuit interrupter, circuit limiter, voltage suppressor, etc.) |
| 293 | DD | .~.~.~ Abnormal power, current, or impedance condition |
| 294 | DD | .~.~.~ Abnormal phase, waveform, or polarity condition |
| 295 | DD | .~.~ Power allocation management (e.g., load adding/shedding) |
| 296 | DD | .~.~.~ Time based control (e.g., real time or duty cycle) |
| 297 | DD | .~.~ Power supply regulation operation |
| 298 | DD | .~.~.~ By voltage regulation |
| 299 | DD | .~ Specific application of temperature responsive control system |
| 300 | DD | .~.~ For heating or cooling |
| 301 | DD | .~ Specific application of pressure responsive control system |
| 302 | DD | .~ Specific application of positional responsive control system |
| 303 | DD | .~ Specific application of dimensional responsive control system |
| 304 | DD | .~ Specific application of speed responsive control system |
| 305 | DD | .~ Specific application of weight responsive control system |
| 306 | DD | .~ Specific application of control based on elapsed time |
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| 900 | DD | SPECIAL ROBOT STRUCTURAL ELEMENT |
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| FOR 101 | DD | SEQUENTIAL OR SELECTIVE DATA PROCESSING CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS (364/140) |
| FOR 102 | DD | OPTIMIZATION OR ADAPTIVE DATA PROCESSING CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS (364/148) |
| FOR 103 | DD | DIGITAL POSITIONING (OTHER THAN MACHINE TOOL) CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, OR APPARATUS (364/167.01) |
| FOR 104 | DD | GAME OR AMUSEMENT (364/410) |
| FOR 105 | DD | .~ Scoring (364/411) |
| FOR 106 | DD | .~ Wagering (364/412) |