US PATENT SUBCLASS 164 / 154.1-- CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR MEASURING A CONDITION OR VARIABLE (I.E., AUTOMATIC CONTROL)

US PATENT SUBCLASS 164 / 154.1
CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR MEASURING A CONDITION OR VARIABLE (I.E., AUTOMATIC CONTROL)

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164 /	HD	METAL FOUNDING

154.1		CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR MEASURING A CONDITION OR VARIABLE (I.E., AUTOMATIC CONTROL) {6}
155.1	DF	.~> Control of feed material enroute to shaping area {5}
413	DF	.~> Control of product withdrawal means in continuous casting apparatus
414	DF	.~> Control of coolant applied to continuously cast product
154.2	DF	.~> Responsive to position or spatial dimension {2}
154.6	DF	.~> Responsive to thermal condition {1}
154.8	DF	.~> Responsive to pressure

DEFINITION

Classification: 164/154.1

CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR MEASURING A CONDITION OR VARIABLE (I.E., AUTOMATIC CONTROL):

(under the class definition) Apparatus having means to regulate the operation thereof influenced by means monitoring a process parameter of the apparatus.

(1) Note. A patent need not claim the monitoring means to be classified hereunder, so long as it claims the regulating means.

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151.5, for an apparatus having means to indicate a failure or imminent failure of a continuous casting strand.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, for a servo motor and controller, per se.

364, Electrical Computers and Data Processing Systems,

130+, for computer controlled systems or methods, generally, and subclasses 475.01+ and 477.01+ particularly for control systems related to molding and melting, respectively.