Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a wire connection section and a female connection section. The hood surrounds the female connection section of the first terminal. The hood is a stamped and rolled sheet metal member which has a general tube shape. The filter member is connected to the first terminal for providing electromagnetic induction suppression. The filter member can be on a filter assembly having a multi-capacitor chip attached to a spring lead frame.

Abstract: A hydraulic tool including a frame having a hydraulic fluid conduit system; a hydraulic pump coupled to the conduit system; and a tactile feedback system. The tactile feedback system is coupled to the conduit system and is adapted to signal a user of an occurrence of a predetermined event.

Abstract: A method is disclosed that includes measuring, during a measurement period, values corresponding to noise and interference signals received from a channel. The measurement period coincides with a period when no signal is transmitted on the channel. The method also includes determining one or more thresholds based upon the measured values. Second signals that correspond to a message are received on the channel. The message includes an indicator having a number of possible states. A value is determined corresponding to the indicator based upon the second signals. One of the possible states is assigned to the indicator of the received message based upon the one or more thresholds and the determined value.

Abstract: A simple admission control mechanism for IP based networks is provided. The decision on whether a new flow is accepted is based on the link load information on the paths from the source to destination. The new flow is accepted when the link load is less than a threshold. When at least one of the links on all of the available paths is larger than the acceptable threshold, access is denied to the flow. More than one threshold level may be used. Under the multiple threshold scenario, the traffic may be divided into different classes. The admission control mechanism helps to ensure a network that is not heavily congested.

Abstract: A method and system for the automatic determination of the behavioral profile of a program suspected of having worm-like characteristics includes analyzing data processing system resources required by the program and, if the required resources are not indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics, running the program in a controlled non-network environment while monitoring and logging accesses to system resources to determine the behavior of the program in the non-network environment. A logged record of the observed behavior is analyzed to determine if the behavior is indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics. The non-network environment may simulate the appearance of a network to the program, without emulating the operation of the network.

Abstract: A receiver (20) for performing timing recovery over at least one complex channel at low or less than zero SNR (signal power to noise power, in dB) has at least one receive element such as an antenna, an analog-to-digital converter 21 (ADC), a fractional interpolation filter 23, a matched filter 24, and a timing correction loop 26. The timing correction loop 26 selects a minimum mean square error from the output of the matched filter 24 to determine a timing signal output to the interpolation filter 23, and provides one-bit weights to the matched filter 24. Preferably, the timing correction loop 26 includes a magnitude detector 26c, a moving average filter 26b, and a timing error detector 26a that outputs an integer m and fractional ? timing factor to the interpolation filter 23. Within a phase correction loop 27 is a maximum likelihood channel estimator 27b and a phase error detector 27a that controls a phase rotator 22 disposed between the ADC 21 and the interpolation filter 23.

Abstract: A hand-held portable electronic device frame assembly including a heat spreader made from a thermally conductive material; and an overmolded frame member which has been overmolded onto the heat spreader. The overmolded frame member includes a molded polymer material which forms a thermal insulator on the heat spreader. The frame member is adapted to structurally support at least one component of a hand-held portable electronic device thereon.

Abstract: A panel movement system including top and bottom rails having racks with registration teeth along their lengths; top and bottom rail attachments movably attached to respective ones of the rails for lateral movement along lengths of the rails; and a gear movement synchronization system. Each rail attachment includes a rotatable gear engaging the registration teeth on respective ones of the rails. The gear movement synchronization system connects the rotatable gear of the top rail attachment to the rotatable gear of the bottom rail attachment such that the top and bottom rail attachments move along the rails in unison. The top and bottom rail attachments are adapted to have a panel connected therebetween.

Abstract: This contact includes a closed-section crimp barrel, which is crimped by deforming the section thereof from an initial generally convex shape to a final crimping shape in which it is compression-necked onto the strands of the cable. At least one section of the crimped barrel has, in its thickness, at least two adjacent indentations, which extend along the outer periphery of said section and which are directed inward. The invention also relates to a method of crimping such a contact and to a corresponding crimping tool.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a method of performing an area update for a terminal equipment (4A, 4B) in a communication network (1, 2, 3, 5, 6), the communication network comprising at least two areas (5, 6) being defined within an access network, at least one of said areas being served by at least two core network elements (1-2, 2-3) of corresponding network element types, each of said at least two core network elements communicating with said access network defining said areas via a different interface (Iu, Gb), the method comprising the steps of: monitoring, at the terminal equipment side, via which of said at least two core network elements (1, 2) serving a currently visited area (5) the communication with the terminal equipment (4A) is effected, detecting, at the terminal equipment side, an area update condition for said terminal (4A, 4B), requesting, by said terminal equipment, an area update for said terminal equipment (4B), and wherein said terminal equipment (4B) sets an identifier in said area upd

Abstract: An emulator functionality is provided at both ends of a satellite communication link that is used between wireless network cells inside a vehicle, such as an aircraft, and a terrestrial communication system. The emulator is capable of providing required state signalling without a connection between a base station of the wireless network inside the vehicle and a base station controller of the terrestrial communication system. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention the satellite communication link can be switched to an off-state when it is not needed for transferring calls or other information. A further non-limiting exemplary embodiment of the invention provides for a use of alternative satellite connections depending on the location of the vehicle is provided.

Abstract: A system for making up wiring harnesses includes a base harness having a set of flexible multi-conductor cables and a set of supplementary wiring harnesses adapted to connect in a particular location of said base harness. The connection area does not have a multi-conductor replaceable connector to the base harness, so that the cost of unused connectors is not incurred. Each supplementary wiring harness connects to a reserved location. The reserved locations may be shared between mutually exclusive options.

Abstract: A method of user data entry in communicating to a remote destination from a terminal includes displaying at least one data entry field to a user, automatically displaying a user selectable option in response to user selection of the data entry field, and providing access to an electronic wallet application for the transfer of data into the data entry field in response to user selection of the selectable option.

Abstract: In one aspect this invention provides a data processing system (10) that includes a plurality of self-organizing software agents (40) capable of autonomously establishing relationships between themselves, where the totality of the relationships can be represented by a topological structure having nodes that each contain one of the plurality of software agents and links between the nodes that are the established relationships. The data processing system further includes a topology tuning function that obtains information that is descriptive of the topology and, based at least in part on the obtained information and on at least one criterion, that makes a recommendation to at least one of the plurality of software agents that is intended to modify the topology.

Abstract: A data processing system includes a main processor that runs an operating system; a microcontrol processor coupled to the main processor that controls a first plurality of hardware processes as directed by the main processor, and a switching matrix controlled by the microcontrol processor and coupled between input ports and output ports of individual ones of the first plurality of hardware processes for routing data between individual ones of the first plurality of hardware processes. In one aspect there is a unit having an interface for coupling to at least one peripheral unit, where each of the unit and the peripheral unit include a system on a chip. Operations of a local microcontrol processor of the unit are directed through macro commands issued by the main processor, and for the execution of some macro commands the local microcontrol processor of the unit communicates with the local microcontrol processor of the peripheral unit via an interconnecting bus that implements a plurality of virtual channels.

Abstract: A receiver, such as a CDMA MIMO receiver, includes a LMMSE-based chip-level equalizer constructed so as to implement a FFT accelerated iterative algorithm having a complexity of order O(N log2(N)), where N is the dimension of a covariance matrix. The equalizer uses one of an overlap-save or an over-lap add FFT architecture.

Abstract: A low power radio frequency transceiver is arranged to form a network of communicating low power radio frequency transceivers. It comprises a transmitter for transmitting packets of data and means for controlling the transmitter to transmit a series of messages of a first type outside the network of transceivers, for maintaining synchronisation.

Abstract: An electrical connector including dielectric housing; and a plurality of arrays of terminals disposed in respective portions of the dielectric housing, wherein at least two of the arrays of terminals have different pitches; and wherein at least one of the respective portions of the housing is partially removed such that a value of the dielectric constant between terminals of the array of terminals in said portion of the dielectric housing is controlled.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for determination of parameter variability for one or more given interconnects of a plurality of interconnects in a simulated semiconductor circuit. The simulated semiconductor circuit is defined at least in part by a plurality of input parameters. From a distribution of first values of a given input parameter, a plurality of the first values are determined to use when calculating a corresponding plurality of second values for each of one or more output parameters. By using at least the determined plurality of first values for the given input parameter and selected values for other input parameters in the plurality of input parameters, the corresponding plurality of second values are calculated for each of the one or more output parameters. The one or more output parameters correspond to the one or more given interconnects. Each of the second values corresponds to one of the determined plurality of first values.

Abstract: A power gated semiconductor integrated circuit comprises: (1) logic circuit to be power gated, said logic circuit having a virtual ground rail; (2) footer device disposed between said virtual ground rail and a ground rail for reducing power consumption of said logic circuit; and (3) virtual rail voltage clamp disposed electrically in parallel with said footer device for limiting the voltage at the virtual ground rail, the virtual rail voltage clamp comprising at least one NFET. A total of Nf NFETs are connected to the virtual ground rail of the integrated circuit for use as both virtual rail voltage clamps and footer devices. A quantity of Nmax-VC NFETs are scanned and perform the function of voltage clamps and the remaining (Nf?Nmax-VC) NFETs perform power gating. Manufacturing variability immunity and tuning of the variability immunity is achieved by adjusting the quantity Nmax-VC based upon testing of the manufactured integrated circuit.