Abstract:
A retention system is provided for a surface mounted electrical connector on a printed circuit board. A dielectric connector housing is adapted for mounting on a surface of the printed circuit board. A plurality of terminals are mounted on the housing for engaging appropriate circuit traces on the printed circuit board. A retaining clip is mounted on the housing and includes a board mounting tab for solder connection to an appropriate ground trace on the surface of the printed circuit board. The tab mounting tab has an opening. A conductive shield is disposed about portions of the housing and includes a projection extending into the opening in the board mounting tab. Therefore, solder material engages the projection of the shield through the opening in the board mounting tab to thereby mechanically and electrically secure both the retaining clip and the shield to the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A drywall brace that is a bar that is flattened on at least one side, with a thin, line or wire such as a multi-strand wire strategically attached on both sides of a mounting aperture in the bar. The thin strand wires are at least as long as two-thirds of the length of the bar. The drywall brace is pushed through an aperture in the sheet of drywall lengthwise, either end first. The flat side of the drywall brace is positioned against the sheet of drywall. The thin line or wire is utilized to position the drywall brace and to hold the thin line or wire until a fastener such as a screw is mounted into the drywall brace. Prior to inserting the drywall brace through the sheet of drywall, a pilot aperture is drilled into the drywall brace midway between the mounting locations of the thin line or wire.
Abstract:
Methods and compositions are provided for binding a target molecule comprising expressing a recombinant binding protein, such as an anticalin, an OB-domain protein, or an alpha-helix coiled-coil forming polypeptide in a plant. Methods for producing such a recombinant binding protein that binds to a target molecule are also provided. Further provided are plant lipocalin, OB-domain, and alpha-helix coiled-coil forming polypeptide coding sequences and recombinant polypeptides derived therefrom.
Abstract:
This disclosure describes genetically modified photosynthetic microorganisms, including Cyanobacteria, that contain one or more mutations or deletions in a glycogen biosynthesis or storage pathway, which accumulate a reduced amount of glycogen as compared to a wild type Cyanobacterium, and which are capable of producing an increased amount of lipids and/or fatty acids. In certain embodiments, the genetically modified photosynthetic microorganisms also contain one or more exogenous genes encoding a diacyglycerol acyltransferase, a phosphatidate phosphatase, and/or an acetyl-CoA carboxylase, and which are capable of producing increased amounts of lipids or fatty acids and/or synthesizing triglycerides.
Abstract:
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a compression status bit cache with deterministic latency for isochronous memory clients of compressed memory. The compression status bit cache improves overall memory system performance by providing on-chip availability of compression status bits that are used to size and interpret a memory access request to compressed memory. To avoid non-deterministic latency when an isochronous memory client accesses the compression status bit cache, two design features are employed. The first design feature involves bypassing any intermediate cache when the compression status bit cache reads a new cache line in response to a cache read miss, thereby eliminating additional, potentially non-deterministic latencies outside the scope of the compression status bit cache. The second design feature involves maintaining a minimum pool of clean cache lines by opportunistically writing back dirty cache lines and, optionally, temporarily blocking non-critical requests that would dirty already clean cache lines. With clean cache lines available to be overwritten quickly, the compression status bit cache avoids incurring additional miss write back latencies.
Abstract:
A method is provided for configuring the service quality profile of a given flow at the access node of a packet communication network to which is connected to the gateway of a receiving user of the flow. The method includes a step where the gateway determines on its own a service quality profile to be associated with the flow, that is triggered upon reception of a packet from the access node, and a step where the service quality profile thus determined is sent to the access node. The profile is used by the access node for transmitting packets intended for the gateway and belonging to the flow in question.