A power management system for controlling the power usage by a plurality of loads in a facility and including a system control unit for monitoring the power consumption of the loads and for generating a control signal when the consumption falls below a low level and when the consumption exceeds a high level, and a load control unit and a plurality of switching modules for receiving the control signal, and based upon eligibility and a preassigned priority ranking, selecting and shutting down one ...

A data processing system is described which has multiple sets of registers each of which is capable of autonomously controlling a common storage and common arithmetic and logic control circuits to execute respective tasks of a program. Level status blocks (LSBs), each assigned to a respective task, are held in main storage; and each contains such address and status data as is required for task execution in a controlled environment. Apparatus, including a current level register, a selected level ...

A board and plaques detachably securable thereto. The plaques are miniaturized versions of packaged merchandise as viewed from the front. The board is imprinted with two-dimensional miniaturized representations of shelves and/or partitions marking off shelf sections. The plaques are temporarily positioned on the board in a selected layout in simulation of full sized displays of the merchandise in order to facilitate stocking the shelves and/or re-arranging the shelves and/or vertical partitions....

A method for determining whether an infertile patient is likely to benefit from combined GH/gonadotropin or GHRH/gonadotropin therapy comprising the steps of (1) administering a predetermined dose of clonidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof to the patient; (2) monitoring the blood level of GH following the administration of clonidine or a derivative thereof; and (3) detecting whether the peak blood level of GH is above a predetermined level.

A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed product upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting use...

A device is described whereby persons required to take one or more doses of a plurality of medicines, over a span of hours and days can keep track of times said dosages should be taken, by means of an apparatus which comprises a thin sheet member having an array of apertures arranged in a multiplicity of mutually perpendicular rows, a plurality of removable color-coded pegs conveniently rounded to be rotatably secured in the holes, arrangement of said holes being indicative of the time of day on...

An address management system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and an address management unit arranged between a direct memory device (DMA) and a main memory unit to control memory access from the CPU and DMA. Segment registers for address expansion are provided in the CPU and DMA, respectively. The address management unit includes a conversion table for converting logical address data and segment data and segment data from the CPU and DMA into a corresponding physical address data, and t...

A hydromechanical/hydrostatic automotive energy management system comprising two hydraulic units, the system adapted to provide: An efficient, continuously variable optimal transmission ratio, an intermittent optimal engine operation in city traffic and regenerative braking, thereby, the system is able to reduce a car's fuel consumption by as much as one half while improving drivability.

An energy management system for limiting continuously instantaneous permissible power level of a plurality of controllable loads including a transducer device for generating an output signal when the measured instantaneous power level exceeds a pre-set instantaneous permissible power level. A programmable matrix device is provided to select a plurality of controllable loads and periods of time in a day for which each of the selected loads are connected to a power source. The selected controllabl...

An energy management system for reducing the power consumption of a plurality of loads and including a seven-day timer, a 24-hour timer and a fractional day timer such as a 30-minute timer, each controlling a plurality of subcircuits such that each subcircuit is operative to interrupt the flow of energy to it's associative load at selected times on weekends, in the evening and at synchronized periods throughout the day, the latter periods being synchronized with the other subcircuits, so as to r...