Abstract: A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifter has an article gauge for measuring the height of a stack having a set or desired number of fragile articles, such as crackers or cookies. An article stripping device may be quickly and accurately adjusted in-process to measure the thickness of a set number of stacked articles contained in a given batch coming from an article infeed. The article gauge provides a measure of the height of a stack of a set number of articles sampled from an article infeed. The stack height is equivalent to the height of the stack of articles stripped by the strip feeder.

Abstract: A machine for fabricating ornamental bows feeds slit sheet material from a roll, and cuts trapezoidal or truncated-triangle portions from the roll. The cut sheets are translated by a rotatable transfer head to a roll-up station, where a folding apparatus or harp receives the sheets. The folding harp has smaller dimensions than the separated sheets, so there is an overlap. The harp folds, to juxtapose border portions of the sheets. A hold-down bar presses the protruding borders onto a row of needles on the upper surface of a roll-up bar. An element guard bar is lowered, to press loops of the bow onto a front surface of the roll-up bar. A collet is introduced and grasps the sheets, and is raised and rotated to roll up one edge of the sheets against the upper surface of the roll-up bar. When rolling is finished, fingers grasp the hub of the bow, and the collet is retracted. The fingers carry the bow to a glue operation for finishing.

Abstract: A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifter has an article gauge for measuring the height of a stack having a set or desired number of fragile articles, such as crackers or cookies. An article stripping device may be quickly and accurately adjusted in-process to measure the thickness of a set number of stacked articles contained in a given batch coming from an article infeed. The article gauge provides a measure of the height of a stack of a set number of articles sampled from an article infeed. The stack height is equivalent to the height of the stack of articles stripped by the strip feeder.

Abstract: A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifter has an article gauge for measuring the height of a stack having a set or desired number of fragile articles, such as crackers or cookies. An article stripping device may be quickly and accurately adjusted in-process to measure the thickness of a set number of stacked articles contained in a given batch coming from an article infeed. The article gauge provides a measure of the height of a stack of a set number of articles sampled from an article infeed. The stack height is equivalent to the height of the stack of articles stripped by the strip feeder.

Abstract: A sun visor assembly which utilizes a plurality of modular visor core components and an outer covering. The visor core components each include an alignment element which cooperates with an alignment element on the outer covering thereby maintaining the visor core components in the proper location. The modularity of the visor core components allows for their use with any one of a plurality of differently configured outer coverings and in a plurality of different visor core component combinations. The modular components include a hinge block for rotatably engaging a visor support rod, a pin section having an exposed support member for supporting a free end of the visor blade and track components for slidingly engaging other components such as a sun visor extension panel.

Abstract: A flip chip is soldered to an array of flexible pillars of compliant dielectric material on a circuit board. Each pillar has an electrically conductive core electrically coupled to the circuit board. The pillars absorb movement due to differences in the coefficient of thermal expansion of the chip and board, and hence reduce the possibility of fatigue failure of the solder joint. The pillars are manufactured by forming a layer of compliant dielectric material on the circuit board, forming blind holes in the layer, filling the holes with electrically conductive material overlapping the edges of the holes, and then laser ablating to remove the compliant dielectric material except where protected by the electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A small number of redundant circuits are freely allocable to any of a plurality of partitions or systems within an integrated circuit, such as a large dynamic random access memory (DRAM) consistent with the provision of parallel simultaneous refresh of corresponding addresses in all partitions or systems thereof. A valid address of a redundant circuit substituted for a partial address of a circuit in any partition or system is detected to disable refresh of that address in all partitions. The partition in which the substitution has been made is sensed and the disablement of refresh of all other partitions is overridden so that all partitions or systems in which a substitution has not been made may be refreshed concurrently with the substituted redundant circuit.

Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a memory system for use in a computer system that improves the performance of a bit redundancy steering mechanism. The preferred embodiment provides a timing signal path to the bit steering mechanism with a delay shorter than that to the memory data array. Additionally, the required address signals are provided to the bit steering mechanism before the addresses are provided to the memory data array. This is preferably accomplished by bypassing the buffers and providing the address signals directly to the bit steering mechanism.