Abstract: An illustrative light fixture providing a desired spot light pattern diameter at a given distance includes a planar light emitter providing a light source and forming a first plane, and concentric conical frustum reflectors, the first reflector having a proximate end coplanar with the first plane and the second reflector having a proximate end distal of the first plane.

Abstract: An illustrative lighting fixture provides a light housing, a thermally conductive inwardly facing annular surface, one of a selection of light reflectors, and an associated lens cover. Mounting pads defined by the annual surface and the light reflector together receiving a selected number of light emitters and associated heatsinks coupled to selected ones of the mounting pads. Each of the selection of light reflectors includes openings for the light emitters and reflective surfaces matching a number and combination of positions of light emitters on selected ones of the mounting pads.

Abstract: An illustrative light fixture includes a cylindrical lighting package housing surrounded peripherally by a cooling housing providing airflow cooling channels. The airflow cooling channels are defined in the space between the circumference of the cylindrical lighting package housing and a rim around the periphery of the light fixture. The cooling housing provides wide and long openings for air to rise vertically from below and through the airflow channels defined in part by cooling fins, and radial exit channels with vertical space for radially outward flow below a ceiling the fixture is mounted on, while also eliminating or minimizing the view through the airflow channels and to the ceiling.

Abstract: An illustrative light fixture provides an emitter housing and a driver housing in a single fixture with an airflow channel defined between the emitter and driver housings. The airflow channel minimizes thermal conduction between the emitter and driver housings, and maximizes thermal convective cooling for at least one of the emitter housing and driver housing. The emitter housing includes vertical fins extending into the airflow chamber. The left and right sides of the emitter and driver housings define top and bottom edges that are respectively coplanar with the top and bottom edges of the vertical fins.

Abstract: A pressure cooker lid includes a lid body, one or more lid clamps, a pressure valve, and a single control mechanism operable to sequentially control radial movement of the one or more lid clamps and control actuation of the pressure valve. Each of the one or more lid clamps includes a connection element and a clamp element. The pressure valve includes a valve stem. The control mechanism includes a rotary disc coupled to the connection elements and a knob mechanism operable to drive rotation of the rotary disc. Rotation of the rotary disc sequentially drives radial movement of the connection elements and axial movement of the valve stem to operate pressure valve.

Abstract: A network device for accelerating internet small computer systems interface (iSCSI) packet processing is described, which includes a host and a network card. The host includes an online command descriptor block queue, an iSCSI host manager, and an SCSI module. SCSI commands in a CDB are processed through these modules. The network card includes an LLP module and a microprocessor. Through a protocol data unit descriptor, a PDU generator and an iSCSI network card manager in the microprocessor, protocol data units in network packets can be resolved in advance, so that the host can concentrate on executing SCSI commands, thereby accelerating the network packet processing efficiency of the network device.

Abstract: Described are stable, starch-rich liquid animal feed suspensions having a high dry matter content and which do not require added heat or suspension agents for starch gelatinization and stabilization of the suspensions. Enzymatic hydrolysis and mechanical grinding are used to release starch and produce a gel-like suspension from a starting grain product, such as seeds or kernels of corn, wheat, barley, millet, oats, or rice, or flours made from the grain seeds or kernels combined with a plant processing by-product such as dried distillers grain solubles, condensed beet molasses solubles, whey, and corn steep liquor. The products produced through the processes of the present invention are flowable, dark brown to golden, gel-like suspensions with a pH of 5-7 and viscosities of 500-1000 cP at ambient temperature. In addition, the products had comparable nutritional profiles to a commercial liquid feed supplement.

Abstract: A coffee maker includes a base, a lower portion of a body, an upper portion of the body, a heater, and a water pipe. The base is placed at the bottom of the coffee maker and connected to the lower portion of the body through screws. The base has a supporter by which a coffee cup can be supported. The upper portion of the body comprising a water tank, a lid, an infusing house and a flow distributor, is placed on the top of the body. The coffee maker also includes an actuating mechanism, which allows the upper portion of the body to move up or down. Upon the height of the coffee cup placed at the supporter, by turning a knob of the actuating mechanism, the upper portion of the body may be adjusted to prevent coffee from spaying out from the coffee cup.

Abstract: A method of increasing fasting levels of cholecystokinin in a subject by the administration of potato proteinase inhibitor II is described. A method for extending satiety in a subject with elevated fasting cholecystokinin levels due to treatment is also described, along with a method of identifying subjects likely to respond to treatment.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for porosity-aware buffered Steiner tree construction are disclosed. A preferred embodiment begins with a timing-driven Steiner tree generated without regard for porosity, then applies a plate-based adjustment guided by length-based buffer insertion. After performing localized blockage avoidance, the resulting tree is then passed to a buffer placement algorithm, such as van Ginneken's algorithm, to obtain a porosity-aware buffered Steiner tree.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for allocating buffer and wire placement in an integrated circuit design is provided. In one embodiment, the surface of a integrated circuit design is represented as a tile graph. Allocation of buffer locations for selected tiles in the tile graph is then received and nets are routed between associated sources and sinks. Buffer locations within selected tiles are then selectively assigned based upon buffer needs of the nets, wherein the nets are routed through selected tiles and assigned buffer locations using a cost minimization algorithm.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for incorporating driver sizing into buffer insertion such that the two optimization techniques are performed simultaneously are provided. The apparatus and method extends van Ginneken's algorithm to handle driver sizing by treating a source node as a “driver library.” With the apparatus and method, the circuit design is converted to a Steiner tree representation of the circuit design. Buffer insertion is performed on the Steiner tree using the van Ginneken algorithm to generate a first set of possible optimal solutions. For each solution in the first set, a driver of the same type as the original driver in the Steiner tree is selected from a driver library and virtually inserted into the solution. A delay penalty is retrieved for the selected driver, which is then used long with the new driver's characteristics to generate a second set of solutions based o the first set of solutions.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for inserting buffers into integrated circuit routing trees are disclosed. The present invention dynamically modifies a Steiner tree configuration as needed to derive a maximal slack solution that takes into account blockages such as those presented by IP blocks.