Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: M*1st conductors in a first layer of metallization (M*1st layer) and being aligned correspondingly along different corresponding ones of alpha tracks and representing corresponding inputs of a cell region in the semiconductor device; and M*2nd conductors in a second layer of metallization (M*2nd layer) aligned correspondingly along beta tracks, and the M*2nd conductors including at least one power grid (PG) segment and one or more of an output pin or a routing segment; and each of first and second ones of the input pins having a length sufficient to accommodate at most two access points; each of the access points of the first and second input pins being aligned to a corresponding different one of first to fourth beta tracks; and the PG segment being aligned with one of the first to fourth beta tracks.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an impeller for use in a centrifugal fan that also includes a housing and a drive shaft. The impeller is mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith within the housing. The impeller further includes a disk-shaped back plate and an axis of rotation extending through the center of the circular back plate. A plurality of circumferentially spaced fins or blades extend generally radially of the axis of rotation, selected blades including mulching parts and the remainder of the blades being devoid of the mulching parts. The mulching parts are adjacent the radially inner portions of the selected blades and the mulching parts extend substantially axially of the impeller and into an air intake opening of the housing. The selected blades having the mulching parts are circumferentially spaced and are separated by at least one remaining blade which is devoid of a mulching part.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a rotor for a centrifugal clutch of the type where the rotor resides inside a drum and engages the drum above a predetermined speed. The rotor comprises a plurality of randomly oriented similar rotor elements each capable of expanding ourwardly independently of one another to engage the drum. The rotor elements are preferably stamped from sheet metal.

Abstract: Automatic compression release for a two-cycle engine is provided in a simple and effective manner by connecting a chamber defined by a diaphragm to the crankcase of the engine with a fluid flow path defining structure. In the fluid flow path, a check valve and orifice are disposed in parallel. The check valve, for example, a duckbill valve, allows the flow of fluid from the diaphragm chamber to the crankcase but not vice versa, and fluid can bleed through the orifice in either direction. The diaphragm operatively engages a valve stem, and a first spring biases the valve stem so that the valve is in open position. A second spring biases the valve to the closed position, and when the first spring is neutralized by a vacuum drawn in the diaphragm chamber, the valve will close. The valve is in communication with a pressure relief opening at an end of the engine cylinder opposite the crankcase.

Abstract: A speed governor for an internal combustion engine comprises a flexible reed having a portion overlying the air intake aperture of the carburetor. The overlying portion of the reed is movable by flexing of the reed from a normal open position to a closed position in which it at least partially blocks the air intake aperture. The reed is tuned to vibrate at a frequency approximately equal to that of air intake pulses at selected maximum engine speed. As the engine speed approaches the selected maximum, the air intake pulses induce resonant vibration of the reed so as to bring the overlying portion intermittently into closed position. The air intake of the engine is thereby reduced so as to limit engine speed in part by providing a lesser charge and in part by increasing the fuel/air ratio to the point where engine power is reduced.