Abstract: A configurable device interface enhances the ability of a processor to communicate with other devices. A configurable serial interface promotes efficient data transmission and reception. The configurable serial interface includes a source of transmit data that the configurable serial interface may access even while data reception is simultaneously completing.

Abstract: A doctor blade for a printer may include a cantilever spring. The free end of the cantilever spring includes a section with a first bend in one direction and a second bend in the opposite direction. Thus, a bump end may be formed which has a surface which is generally tangential to the surface of a developer roll against which the doctor blade is biased.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a game that provides different and varying scenarios relating to budgeting wherein the student is given a Monthly Budget Sheet containing a Before Column, an After Column, and a plurality of spaces and fill-in-the blank lines for such information as Income, and for Expense Items such as Housing, Auto, Food, Clothing, Medical/Health, and Personal Expenses. Income allows the inclusion of a First Wages and a Second Wages, depending upon whether the student participant is single or married and whether the spouse earns a wage. Each Expense Item has expense estimate blank space in the Before Column and in the After Column, thus allowing the student to make changes to the Budget Sheet based upon understandings and realizations arrived at during the game.

Abstract: An integrated circuit including an input/output pad, an intergrated circuit, and a test circuit. The input/output pad is configured to receive first output signals of another integrated circuit that are based on input signals. The internal circuit is configured to receive the input signals and provide second output signals based on the input signals. The test circuit is configured to receive the first output signals and the second output signals, wherein the test circuit includes a comparator, a first switch, and second switch. The comparator is configured to compare the first output signals and the second output signals and provide comparison results. The first switch is configured to route the second output signals to one of an input of the comparator and the input/output pad. The second switch is configured to route the first output signals to another input of the comparator.

Abstract: A memory device including at least two output pads and at least two memory die. Each of the at least two memory die is configured to provide an output signal that includes compressed test results to any of the at least two output pads.

Abstract: A memory testing system includes a tester interface. The tester interface is configured to couple a tester control driver to a master memory component and a slave memory component, the tester control driver configured for controlling the master memory component and the slave memory component. The tester interface is configured to couple a tester input/output driver to the master memory component and the slave memory component, the tester input/output driver configured for providing first data to write to the master memory component and the slave memory component and for receiving second data read from the master memory component. The slave memory component is configured to receive the second data and compare the second data to third data read from the slave memory component to determine a test result for the slave memory component. The tester input/output driver is configured to compare the first data to the second data to determine a test result for the master memory component.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided including a switch to selectively supply a test signal to a pin on the integrated circuit device in response to a switch control signal. A control circuit is also provided to generate the switch control signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method that is capable of adjusting the position of a developing agent metering device. Developing agent may therefore be metered in an image forming device.

Abstract: A toner feeding device and method to supply toner from a toner reservoir to a selected location in the printer such as a toner supply roll. The toner feeding device may contact with a portion of an inner wall of a toner reservoir and may flex and may subsequently recover to convey toner particles.

Abstract: A testing system for testing a manufactured semiconductor component includes a main processor and a pattern generator. The main processor is configured to run a main program. The pattern generator is configured to generate a plurality of functional test patterns, and each test pattern is assembled to test the manufactured semiconductor component thereby producing a test result for each test pattern. The main processor and main program communicate with the pattern generator and functional test patterns such that the plurality of functional test patterns is sequentially run on the manufactured semiconductor component. Furthermore, the main program receives the test result of each functional test pattern after it is run. The manufactured semiconductor component continues to operate between each of the functional test patterns.

Abstract: A device to regulate toner within an image forming apparatus. The regulating member has a first section and a toner regulating edge with at least one gap. The regulating member controls the amount of toner that is distributed on the surface of the toner developer roller by contacting the toner developing roller in a contact region. The gap, having at least one upper edge, may regulate toner on the toner developer roller near the contact region. The toner regulating device may prevent inadvertent toner marks that may appear on printed media.

Abstract: A toner layer regulating system for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprises a toner carrier; a metallic toner regulating member having a stress-strain curve prior to assembly with an elastic region, an inelastic region, and an initial yield stress value; and the toner regulating member supported in cantilevered fashion against the toner carrier so as to form a toner nip therebetween with an applied stress on the toner regulating member greater than the initial yield stress value. The metallic toner regulating member may comprise a metallic substrate and a coating thereon; the coating helping to form the toner nip. By deflecting the toner regulating member, when installed, by an amount that induces strains falling outside the elastic region of the corresponding stress-strain curve, the toner regulating system is less sensitive to geometrical variances.

Abstract: A fuel rail is provided for delivering fuel to a plurality of fuel injectors for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine which in a preferred embodiment includes a sealed housing having an inlet for receiving fuel, the housing having at least first and second outlets for delivering fuel to fuel injectors, a first chamber forming a first control volume with an inlet connected with an interior of the sealed housing, the first chamber forming a vapor space for the sealed housing interior, and a second chamber forming a second control volume with an inlet to the first control volume, the second chamber forming a vapor space for the first control volume.

Abstract: A receiver circuit is connected to a differential serial bus having first and second signal conductors. The receiver circuit includes a fault detection circuit which generates a difference signal representing a difference between a first signal on the first conductor and a second signal on the second conductors. A comparing circuit includes a plurality of comparators for comparing the difference signal, the first signal and the second signal to predetermined voltage levels. The comparing circuit also includes a plurality of logic units coupled to outputs of the comparators. A signal select circuit has a pair of inputs coupled to the first and second conductors, logic inputs coupled to logic outputs of the comparing circuit, and a signal output. The signal select circuit and the comparing circuit cooperate to control communication of the first and second conductors with the signal output as a function of fault conditions on the first and second conductors.

Abstract: A lighting fixture assembly having a plaster plate, and a tubular lamp housing for installing a recessed light into a ceiling. The plaster plate has a blank portion removed to form a lamp housing receiving aperture. The tubular lamp housing has a tubular sidewall, an open bottom end aligned with the lamp housing aperture in the plaster plate and a closed top end, which is formed by the blank portion removed from the plaster plate to form the lamp housing receiving aperture. Preferably, the tubular lamp housing is substantially cylindrical with the sidewall tapering slightly inwardly and upwardly from its open bottom end to its closed top end.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of the heterocyclic compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, lower alkyl or phenyl, which comprises simultaneously decarboxylating and dinitrating a compound of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R has the meaning stated above, and finally hydrolyzing off the acyl group.

Abstract: A power tong unit which is operable as a closed head or open head unit. The jaws of the tong unit are rotatable to an extended pipe gripping position from either of opposite directions to make-up or break-out pipe from a single retracted position. An improved reversal means controls the direction of rotation of the jaws between the make-up and break-out positions.

Abstract: An apparatus for converting molten elemental sulphur into solid pellets is described. Droplets of molten sulphur are passed through a liquid cooling medium, preferably water, the medium being maintained at a temperature range wherein annealing of the sulphur will occur. The pellets thereby obtained are hard surfaced, resistant to crushing and have low water retention in storage. In one embodiment semi-molten droplets are flattened during passage through the cooling medium by engaging deflection plates so that less flowable and more economically storable pellets are obtained.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of the heterocyclic compounds of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon radical, which comprises decarboxylating and dinitrating a compound of the formula: ##SPC2##Wherein R has the meaning stated above, and finally hydrolysing off the acyl group, and the use of the said heterocyclic compounds as diazo components in the production of azo dyestuffs.