Abstract:
A barrier panel adapted for operative attachment to a vehicle door panel. The barrier panel includes a main body portion and at least one tab adapted for operative attachment to the vehicle door panel. The tab extends from the main body portion and is removable from the main body portion. Furthermore, the barrier panel may be employed in a vehicle door assembly for facilitating reassembly of the same. A method of manufacturing the vehicle door assembly is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A window regulator assembly including a shaft having a pinion gear and a counter balance spring mounted on the shaft which winds or unwinds as the shaft rotates. A spring housing is mounted on the shaft. A cable-guiding drum having an inner gear is driven directly by the pinion gear, as the drum has a rotational axis that is offset from a rotational axis defined by the shaft, thus providing mechanical advantage. A casing houses the spring, spring housing and the drum in abutting relationship. A guide such as a rail is disposed on at least one of the spring housing and the drum for maintaining rotational alignment of the drum relative to the shaft.
Abstract:
In a nonvolatile memory with block management system that supports update blocks with non-sequential logical units, an index of the logical units in a non-sequential update block is buffered in RAM and stored periodically into the non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, the index is stored in a block dedicated for storing indices. In another embodiment, the index is stored in the update block itself. In yet another embodiment, the index is stored in the header of each logical unit. In another aspect, the logical units written after the last index update but before the next have their indexing information stored in the header of each logical unit. In this way, after a power outage, the location of recently written logical units can be determined without having to perform a scanning during initialization. In yet another aspect, a block is managed as partially sequential and partially non-sequential, directed to more than one logical subgroup.
Abstract:
A hand cart for gripping and transporting heavy or large pots and the like includes articulated jaws for gripping the pot. The jaws each include a front and rear section and are carried on base plates respectively while also supporting an optional bracket for engaging and supporting the rim of the pot during transport. A lever and cable mechanism control the opening and closing of the jaws.
Abstract:
A method of computing allowable routes through a data network that includes a subnetwork that introduces a subnet intransitivity constraint on allowable paths through the network involves using an abstracted network map to construct a directed graph that compensates for the subset intransitivity constraint by removing all unallowable paths. The abstracted network map may be used to compute least cost allowable paths through the network. The directed graph represents the same network, and is constructed by representing bi-directional links between the subnetwork elements with two directed edges, and representing the subnetwork elements as paired ingress and egress nodes. A method for constructing the directed graph representing an abstracted map of a network that exhibits subset intransitivity is also described.
Abstract:
In a miniature x-ray tube, which may be on the order of approximately 1 mm in diameter or even less, a high voltage cable is provided in various embodiments for conducting current to the cathode of the x-ray tube and for conducting high voltage to the cathode and anode of the tube. In various embodiments of the cable, two conductors occupy a center region of the cable, packed as closely together as possible, in various shapes that are compact and present as smooth as possible an external shape for maximizing dielectric properties against the exterior high voltage ground, surrounding and generally concentric with the inner conductors. The inner conductors, which carry high voltage in opposition to the outer ground, can be in opposed D shapes, coaxial, two flattened conductors side by side, or simply a pair of cylindrical wires positioned as closely as possible. The space between the inner conductors and the outer ground can be occupied by a glass insulator, polymer, successive layers of polymers and adhesive, air, gas, vacuum or other dielectrics. A partially conductive region can surround the inner conductors.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for a trace end predictor for a trace cache is disclosed. In one embodiment, the trace end predictor may have one or more buffers to contain a head address for a subsequent trace. The head address may include the way number and set number of the next head, along with partial stew data to support additional execution predictors. The buffers may also include tag data of the current trace's tail address, and may additionally include control bits for determining whether to replace the buffer's contents with information from another trace's tail. Reading the next head address from the trace end predictor, as opposed to reading it from the trace cache array, may reduce certain execution time delays.
Abstract:
An arrangement (1301-130p) and method based on an on-chip mechanism to increase the amount of information that can be presented for a given sized diagnostic port (120) by Exclusive-OR compression. It allows the possibility of monitoring an entire internal bus in fewer test runs whilst at the same time making more of the diagnostic port available for tracing control signals. It can reduce the time needed to determine the cause of a chip-related problem.
Abstract:
A method is provided for temporarily or permanently blocking the bore of a gas service pipe 5. In the method a resilient ball 6 is forced along the pipe 5 from the gas meter tap end of the pipe 5 by gas pressure, the ball 6 forming a force fit sufficient to resist any attempt to dislodge it by the pressure of gas in the pipe 5. The ball 6 is forced to a position where it is outside the gas consumer's premises 1.
Abstract:
A thruster for use in a spacecraft uses vaporized propellant in its combustion chamber (110). Normally two propellants are used of the kind used for main thrusters so that two vaporization chambers are needed. Pressure valves (108, 109) are controlled by electronic means (220) to maintain current pressure.