Abstract: Systems and methods for discrete power control of components within a computer system are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a system that includes a subsystem with a plurality of components (configurable to operate at one or more power levels), a control register (coupled to the plurality of components) including a plurality of bits (each uniquely associated with a one of the plurality of components), and a power controller coupled to, and configurable to cause, the plurality of components to operate at the one or more power levels. The power controller asserts a signal transmitted to the subsystem, commanding the subsystem to transition to a first power level. A first of the plurality of components, associated with an asserted bit of the control register, operates at a second power level corresponding to a level of power consumption different from that of the first power level indicated by the power controller.

Abstract: Compression piston ring for internal combustion or compressor cylinder and piston comprising double layer of segmented ring sectors having free form circumferential curvature matching the cylinder bore. The double layers are adapted to effectively seal or minimize bypass with resilient means provided for maintaining ring cylinder engagement under light radial pressure.

Abstract: A cylinder and piston assembly with an oil scraper ring having a radially washer seated in a radial piston groove, and a scraping skirt having a radially resilient truncated portion with the base edge engaging the cylinder wall in a scraping line located in or substantially close to the median plane of the washer so as to avoid bending moments on the washer tending to interfere with its free radial movement in the piston groove as required to maintain uniform scraping contact with the cylinder wall.

Abstract: New assembly of cylinder, lightweight piston and piston rings for engines and compressors comprising in a cylinder a reduced weight piston provided with a new simpler piston rings set of a high efficiency producing a very small tension against the cylinder and lighter than the piston rings set known heretofore and wherein each of the purposes ascribed to the individual piston rings of the set is entirely attained by each piston ring of this assembly.

Abstract: A piston is formed with a peripheral groove for receiving a scraper ring, and an annular, axially extending recess is formed in the face of the scraper ring groove on the side thereof toward the piston crown and adjacent the piston wall, with the recess terminating in an oil-recovery lip at the piston wall and spaced from the adjacent oil-scraping edge of a scraper ring mounted in the groove. The annular recess acts as a reservoir for oil scraped from the wall of a cylinder in which the assembly is reciprocated, which oil is subject to a force attracting it toward the crown of the piston and permits the oil from the reservoir to flow between those adjacent surfaces of the ring and groove closer to the piston crown and out through an outlet from the groove.

Abstract: New assembly of cylinder, lightweight piston and piston rings for engines and compressors comprising in a cylinder a reduced weight piston provided with a new simpler piston rings set of a high efficiency producing a very small tension against the cylinder and lighter than the piston rings set known heretofore and wherein each of the purposes ascribed to the individual piston rings of the set is entirely attained by each piston ring of this assembly.