An energy management system for controlling a plurality of electrical loads having assigned priorities of use employs electronic relays to sense the flow of current in the loads. Signals from the electronic relays are used by power relays or by a combination of control relays and power relays to disable selected electrical loads. An additional control relay can be employed to prevent disabling of a selected load. A repeat cycle time delay relay can be employed to alternate disabling of selected ...

An energy management controller is coupled via a clock line pair, a "data out" line pair and a "data in" line pair, to a plurality or group of stations each having energy using equipment. Each station is electrically coupled to each line pair at spaced points along the line pairs. Each station counts the number of clock bits from the controller. After each group of a predetermined number of clock bits are received, each station provides an address count that is incremented by one after each grou...

Digitized image data provided by plural diverse non-destructive test apparatus is organized in a common format and routed, via a high speed continuous ring-type data transmission network, to a mass data storage system for redundant storage. Stored image data retrieved from storage may be placed on the network for transmission to a display console for image recreation. Through the use of group addressing, non-image data processing devices may use the data transmission network without establishing...

A data management apparatus includes a scanner for reading a plurality of pieces of image information, an optical disk for storing a plurality of pieces of image information read by the scanner, a keyboard for entering attribute names featuring the respective pieces of image information stored in the optical disk, a magnetic disk for storing classification names having higher correlation with the attribute names, and a display. The attribute name entered at the keyboard is used as a parameter to...

A relocation management and reporting data processing system processes reimbursement requests for employees who have been transferred. The system includes a data base for storing and retrieving information characterizing, inter alia, the transferred employee, the types of expenses which will be reimbursed, the limits of reimbursement for each expense and/or employee category, the amount spent to date in each category and mortgage data relating to the transferred employee's old and new dwellings....

A low cost, integrated, aircraft fuel management system. A system control unit receives engine variable signals and provides a signal to a motor control unit which thereby controls a variable speed motor. The motor drives a positive displacement pump which delivers and meters fuel to a slinger type turbine engine capable of handling slurry fuels. In a preferred embodiment, compressor discharge pressure (CDP) is supplied to the airframe fuel reservoir thereby pressurizing the fuel supply and mini...

A system for detecting standing heat of an animal (12) is provided. A generator (18) is secured to the body of the animal (12) for generating an identification signal uniquely identifying the animal (12) and for generating a time of day signal. A sensor (20) is secured to the body of an animal (10) for receiving the signals generated by the generator (18) as the animal (10) mounts the animal (12) and for receiving the signals generated by the generator (18) as the animal (10) dismounts the anima...

A novel heat management system for aircraft is provided which is based on the aircraft fuel as the heat exchange medium and comprises a dedicated thermal reserve fuel tank for containing refrigerated aircraft fuel (or other expendable liquid) which is cooled by heat exchange with the primary aircraft fuel flow to the engines, a fuel line loop for conducting fuel through a plurality of heat exchangers associated with cooling loops for heat generating aircraft systems, and a central microprocessor...

A method of, and system for, managing assembly and formatting of footnotes and body text. Following preparation and separate storage of both body and footnote text, assembly of the footnote text with the body text can be accomplished in one pass for a review of the appearance of the document in its to-be-printed format. Two techniques are available for assembly of the document. The technique selected will be the one which will provide optimum performance and will be determined by the amount of f...

A sheet for personal time management is provided with an activity section and a calendar section to provide an entire week's scheduled activities over the same working hours each day. A plurality of such sheets can be incorporated into a book so as to provide a permanent record on a day-to-day basis of what is planned to be done and what has been done. The activity section has a wide vertical column with horizontal lines to define spaces in which an activity may be written. The calendar section ...