Abstract: A low-power planar transformer for cell phone chargers or the like includes a primary bobbin structure carrying connection pins aligned for mounting the transformer in a through-hole configuration or directly on a circuit board, and a secondary bobbin structure that fits wholly within the primary bobbin structure.

Abstract: A method of detecting streaks in a web of, for example, moving paper which may be moisture, basis weight or caliper. A cross-direction profile is sensed and a moving average computed and then using minimum thresholds for the variation of the streak value from the average and its width in profile data boxes, the streak is detected.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling liquid-crystal-display (LCD) shutter glasses for making the right and left LCD-type shutter of the LCD shutter glasses transparent alternately. An observer who wears the LCD shutter glasses controlled by the apparatus will experience the three-dimensional effect if the alternately transparent speed of the right and left LCD-type shutter is matched with the vertical synchronization signal. The apparatus for controlling liquid-crystal-display (LCD) shutter glasses comprises a first means, a second means, and a third means. The first means is responsive to a vertical synchronization signal and generates a light-passing enable signal. The second means could generate a first voltage signal. The third means is responsive to the light-passing enable signal and the first voltage signal to generate a first and a second controlling signals to control the left and the right LCD-type shutters such that a three dimension image effect is observed by the observer.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an apparatus and corresponding method for controlling inrush current in an AC-DC power converter by providing a control circuit to limit inrush current efficiently during cold startup, warm startup, and power line disturbance conditions. The present invention controls inrush current without the need for an extra series lossy dissipative device and without causing undesirable voltage surges at the input of the DC—DC converter stage. The preferred embodiment includes use of the present invention for AC-DC converters having active power factor correction.

Abstract: A chair of the tilting type which includes a base, a seat and back, with the base pivotally supporting the seat with two parallel links of a four-bar parallel linkage, with one of the links extending to support the back. The four-bar linkage is duplicated on each side of the chair by forming the two opposite parallel links or cranks from the upturned ends of the tubes which pass through the base in parallel but vertically offset fashion, the base thus forming the fixed bar of the linkage with its opposite bar or coupler being formed by the seat. A spring within the base is operative on one (of both) of the tubes to urge the chair to an upright position. The tubes are pivotally connected to the seat and one of the tubes extends and is fixedly connected to the back. As the back tilts, the four-bar mechanism is engaged and lifts the seat which thereby uses the occupant's weight to counteract the reclining.

Abstract: The present invention is a programming language method called Pipeline Language 1 (PL1) and its associated compiler system for generating logical circuit designs. The semantics allow the implementation to add more slack than exists in the specification, aiding the design of slack-elastic systems. In PL1, the value probe and peek are the most basic operations: receiving a value is done by first using the peek, and then acknowledging it as a separate action. Another embodiment is a PL1 compiler comprised of a technology-independent front-end module and a technology-dependent back-end module. It parses the input, converts it into BDD expressions, checks determinism conditions, generates BDD expressions for assignments and sends and converts the BDD expressions to unary representation. The back-end compiler module is technology-dependent, meaning that different back-end modules generate different circuit design types (e.g. QDI and STAPL).

Abstract: A device is provided to serve a dual purpose of a sleeping bag and sleeping or resting mat for users, e.g., infants and small children, that is easily transportable to an from day care centers or other places while the users are away from their home. The device includes a main body having a front, a back, two sides, a head end, a bottom end, a head section, a body section, and a pocket. The pocket is attached to the sides of the head section and has a slit extending laterally from side to side to receive the main body after it has been rolled up. The sleeping bag in this form is compact and ready for being transported or stored. The body section of the main body has mating zipper halves attached to each sides of the body section to permit parallel zippers to be engaged when the bottom end is adjacent the lateral slit in the pocket. This permits the caregiver to place a child on the front of the bag, bring the bottom end up over the child, and engage each of the parallel zippers without disturbing the child.

Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, such as dish soaps. The dispenser includes a bottom-dispensing squeeze container with flow controlled by a pressure actuated, self-closing valve, and a base integrated into the container. The container is ergonomically shaped to provide a handgrip to allow gripping with either hand from any direction and to provide a natural location to grip and squeeze the container. The base threads onto the stand to support the container on a surface while preventing other elements, such as the valve, from contacting the surface and allowing for a liquid to be dispensed through the stand. An alternative embodiment is also provided that includes a sealing mechanism for transport of the dispenser.

Abstract: An environment is emulated in a host environment. Output generated in the emulated environment is displayed in a window of the host environment. The emulated environment's output is in the form of Postscript commands that map to the entire screen. The host environment emulates the Postscript commands and maps the output to a window. Input associated with the window is retrieved by an event driver running in the host environment. Each instance of input is referred to as an event. Each event is translated into an event of the emulated environment by an event driver. A translated event is stored in shared memory for access by a window server. The event driver notifies the window server that one or more events are queued in shared memory. The window server processes the queued events by, for example, transmitting the event to an application running in the emulated environment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an albuterol inhalation solution, system, kit and method for relieving bronchospasm in children suffering from asthma. In one alternative embodiment, the solution of the present invention is a sterile, premixed, premeasured single unit dose of albuterol for asthmatic patients 2 to 12 years of age. The present solution may be free of anti-microbial preservatives, such as benzalkonium chloride. In another alternative embodiment, the solution of the present invention comprises about 0.63 mg or about 1.25 mg albuterol.

Abstract: A fueling assembly for use in the transfer of fuel is disclosed. The assembly includes a platform and a plurality of swivel joints and pipe sections. The assembly can be folded onto and supported by the platform, and can be unfolded to extend away from the platform. A vertically-moving assembly and a horizontally-moving assembly are provided, each including two swivel joints and connected to each other by an elbow pipe. A coupler may be attached to one of the swivel joints for releasable coupling with a fueling assembly, and for receiving fuel from the fueling assembly. The hydrant may be attached to a pantograph or to any mobile pipeline or mobile pipe segment.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for mobile lightning protection. In one embodiment of the present invention, a lightning interception rod is positioned above a vehicle. In one embodiment, the rod connects to four down-conductors to conduct the current supplied by the lightning towards the ground. In one embodiment, the four down-conductors are positioned in a rectangular configuration. In one embodiment, down-conductors are covered by a insulating material. In one embodiment, the insulating material is a 3 mm thick layer of polymer. In one embodiment, one or more chains are attached to the vehicle and allowed to contact the ground. In one embodiment, two chains are attached to the vehicle. One chain is positioned at the front of the vehicle and another chain is positioned at the back of the vehicle.

Abstract: Unlike prior art synchronizers and asynchronous arbiters that produce glitches in their outputs, the present invention provides a failure-free synchronizer that can sample an arbitrary and unstable inputs while maintaining zero probability of system failure. In particular, the invention addresses the synchronization failure problem and the lack of a metastable state in prior art synchronizers. Prior attempts have shown that the conditions rex and rex (where re is the control input and x is the data input) cannot be arbitrated. To overcome this, embodiments of the present invention introduce explicit signals a0 and a1 to hold the values rex and rex, respectively. One embodiment is a fast synchronizer. It has four main components—an input integrator, an inverting component, a SEL component and an output filter. Another embodiment of the present invention is a safe synchronizer that meets the strictest QDI design requirements. Other embodiments use a standard arbiter and a killable arbiter for arbitration.

Abstract: A method and a device is provided for increasing the shelf life of an oxygen sensitive product such as ground meat by injecting an inert gas or blend of inert gases into the ground meat through a stopper as meat is being pushed toward the stuffer outlet and a conveyor to a chub packager. By introducing the inert gas at this early stage in the chub packaging operation, the oxygen content within each chub is reduced to 0.5% and less using the present invention. The inert gas forces substantially all of the ambient air away from the entire surface area of the ground meat as it is being circulated in the lower portion of the stuffer hopper and prior to being forced out through the stuffer outlet.

Abstract: A remanufactured and reassembled laser printing device process or toner cartridge and method of manufacture in which a recharged and reassembled process cartridge is ultrasonically resealed, without the use of replacement energy director elements, by ultrasonic welding at the location of the original manufacturing ultrasonic weld using residual material from the original energy director elements. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing commands to a command memory where a graphics processor will have commands available for execution as long as there are commands available. The command memory includes a first indicator to identify the command location most recently accessed by the graphics processor. A second indicator identifies the number of commands locations available to write commands based on the most recently accessed command location. As a result of the invention, the application processor only checks the availability of space to write commands after it has written enough commands to fill the command memory. On the graphics processor side, the command memory is never empty unless the graphics processor executes and consumes instructions faster than the instructions are written. It is also possible to associate a graphics mode with each address range. In this way, mode can be indicated without specifically sending mode information with each command.

Abstract: A method of writing information to a synchronous memory device by examining a present word of N bits to be written, where each bit has a high or low value. The present word is compared to a previous word also having N bits to identify the number of bit transitions from a low value to a high value or vice versa. The present bit is inverted when the number of transitions is greater than N/2. To avoid the need for having an extra bit accompany data bytes to indicate the presence or absence of inversion, the method takes advantage of a data mask pin that is normally unused during writing operations to carry the inversion bit. Non-inverted data is written directly into the memory device while inverted data is first inverted again before writing to storage locations, so that true data is stored in the memory device.