Abstract: Perforated slits are formed lengthwise between lead wires in a band portion which continue to a connector inserted portions with buried lead wires in a plurality of rows, the perforated slit is made long in the connector inserted portion and short in the band portion, a flexible cable may be separated into two or more pieces as needed at the perforated slit, and small projecting parts are defined for fitting in notches at edges of the connector inserted portion, where the connector inserted portion is inserted into said connector at one end.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for post-fabrication calibration and adjustment of a delay locked loop leakage current is provided. The calibration and adjustment system includes an adjustment circuit that adjusts a leakage current offset circuit to compensate for the leakage current of a capacitor. The capacitor connects to a control voltage of the delay locked loop. Such control of the leakage current in the delay locked loop allows a designer to achieve a desired delay locked loop operating characteristic after the delay locked loop has been fabricated. A representative value of the amount of adjustment desired in the leakage current may be stored and subsequently read to adjust the delay locked loop.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2002
Date of Patent:
September 2, 2003
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Inventors:
Claude R. Gauthier, Pradeep Trivedi, Brian W. Amick, Dean Liu
Abstract: A multilingual agent of the present invention assists clients and users of clients in locating, accessing, and understanding documents on servers and also assists servers and providers of servers in making documents on the servers available to clients and users of clients, regardless of the languages in which the documents are written. A networked computer system in which the preferred embodiment of the present invention operates includes a client, a server, and a multilingual agent connected to one another via a network. The multilingual agent includes a document analyzer, a language identifier, a language converter, and a link modifier. In the operation of one aspect of the multilingual agent of the present invention, when the client retrieves a document from the server, the multilingual agent determines whether the document is written in a language that is unfamiliar to the user of the client.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 26, 1996
Date of Patent:
September 2, 2003
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Inventors:
Philip Stuart Resnik, Gary R. Adams, Robert J. Kuhns, Mark C. Torrance
Abstract: A delay locked loop having an adjustable capacitance stage is provided. The adjustable capacitance stage facilitates a selective post-silicon adjustment of capacitance amounts between a DLL loop filter capacitance and a power supply noise filter capacitance, thereby allowing a designer to reduce capacitance area space wastage and to obtain an optimal DLL performance level.
Abstract: A heat exchange cooling system for cooling an object of heat exchange such as machinery, air, or liquid is provided. The system includes a heat exchanger, a cooling water supply device, cooling water circulation piping, a flow rate adjustment valve, a cooling water supply system, and a controller for controlling the flow rate of cooling water. The system includes separate loops for the circulation piping and the cooling supply system. The separate loops are coupled to one another at an inlet and an outlet of the system.
Abstract: A reaming tool which includes a body having reaming blades affixed thereto at azimuthally spaced apart locations around a circumference of the body is shown and described. The reaming blades each have at least one cutter attached thereto at selected positions and orientations on each of the blades to minimize a net lateral force developed by the reaming tool. The tool includes a pilot hole conditioning section having a plurality of azimuthally spaced apart pilot blades affixed to the body longitudinally ahead of the reaming blades.
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a GaN-based semiconductor device in which an ohmic contact can be provided between the semiconductor layer and the electrode material. In a method for manufacturing wherein an n-GaN layer, an emissive layer, a p-GaN layer are formed on a substrate in that order; etching is performed to expose a portion of the n-GaN layer; and a negative electrode is formed on the n-GaN layer, the etching is performed in two sub-steps, an etching step using BCl3 gas and an etching step using Cl2 gas. The surface of the n-GaN layer is exposed in the first sub-step and the B (boron) contamination layer is removed in the second sub-step.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for dividing a signal's frequency by a non-integer value is provided. Further, a method and apparatus for dividing a signal's frequency by a non-integer value by counting phases of the signal is provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 26, 2003
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Inventors:
Pradeep R. Trivedi, Tyler J. Thorp, Dean Liu
Abstract: A radially expandable tubular connection including a box member having an internal thread and a first seal surface and a pin member having an external thread and a second seal surface. The external thread threadedly engages the internal thread and the first and second seal surfaces form a metal-to-metal seal upon engagement of the seal surfaces. At least one groove is formed on an outer surface of the box member, and the at least one groove is shaped so that the box member radially deforms in a direction toward the pin member in a region near the metal-to-metal seal after radial plastic expansion of the pin and box members after engagement of the threads.
Abstract: A tubular light bulb device includes an arc tube, a lighting circuit for lighting the arc tube, a case housing the lighting circuit and having a base at one end, and a heat-transferring member disposed in the case for conducting heat from a space formed in the case to the base. This allows the tubular light bulb device to discharge heat in the space formed in the case to the outside to reduce temperature of a phosphor film and electronic parts of the lighting circuit, whereby increased life can be obtained.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 28, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 19, 2003
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Abstract: In an apparatus for and method of producing absorbent pads from a flock-air mixture which is fed through a feed conduit to a shaping recess carrier to form the respective absorbent pad, the carrier rotates or circulates in a predetermined direction of operation. For excess air in the region of the flock-laying device is to be sucked away in a simple fashion without adversely affecting the process of shaping the absorbent pad, the feed conduit feeding the flock-air mixture to the carrier is branched into at least first and second conduits, the first conduit carrying a first partial flow of the mixture and the second conduit carrying a second partial flow thereof. The first and second conduits are directed on to the carrier in such a way that the second partial flow meets the carrier substantially downstream of the first partial flow in the direction of operation of the carrier.
Abstract: A method is described for establishing a focus traversal protocol in a graphical user interface having a plurality of components within at least one top-level window. The method includes defining the top-level window as a first focus cycle root, assigning a plurality of components to a first focus traversal cycle associated with the first focus cycle root, and for each component in the first focus traversal cycle, establishing a focus traversal key definition including a forward traversal key and a backward traversal key. The method further includes establishing a first focus traversal policy associated with the first focus traversal cycle. A windowing toolkit is also described for use by a developer in establishing a focus traversal protocol for a graphical user interface having a plurality of components within at least one top-level window.
Abstract: A drill bit including a roller cone and a plurality of cutting elements. The roller cone is affixed to a bit body and is arranged circumferentially about a bit axis of rotation. In one aspect, the cutting elements are arranged so that the crests of at least half of the cutting elements are within about 10 degrees of perpendicularity to the bit axis when each of these cutting elements is in a downwardmost rotary orientation. In another aspect, the roller cone and the cutting elements are arranged so that crests on the cutting elements define a substantially flat profile. Substantially flat in this aspect includes the profile having an endmost angle, either at the gage side or the centerline side, with respect to perpendicular to the bit axis, of less than about 11 degrees.
Abstract: A method for using a low voltage power supply to generate a temperature-independent voltage and temperature-dependent voltage is provided. Further, an apparatus that uses a low voltage power supply to generate a temperature-independent voltage and temperature-dependent voltage is provided. The apparatus generates a temperature-dependent voltage and a temperature-independent voltage using an amplifier stage that generates a feedback signal; a startup stage that generates a startup signal dependent on the feedback signal; and an output stage that outputs the temperature-dependent voltage and the temperature-independent voltage dependent on the feedback and startup signals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 19, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2003
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Inventors:
Claude Gauthier, Brian Amick, Spencer Gold, Kamran Zarrineh
Abstract: A holder 1 is provided with two first engaging frame parts 2 and 3 and one second engaging frame part 4. The second engaging frame part 4 includes a pair of supporting parts 41, an elastic beam part 42, and an operating piece 44. The elastic beam part 42 is bendable outward and twistable. A width of the opening of the second engaging frame part 4 is shorter than the sum of a thickness of a flange 61 and a thickness of an edge frame member 62. When the elastic beam part 42 is twisted, the opening width of the second engaging frame part 4 is increased, and the elastic beam part 42 comes in engagement with the rear surface of the flange 61.
Abstract: A test signal supplying apparatus for a semiconductor device testing apparatus that tests a plurality of semiconductor devices; including: a test pattern generating unit for outputting an input signal pattern to the semiconductor devices and receiving a match signal which indicates the semiconductor device, to which the input signal pattern is applied, is passed in the test; and a match-fail detecting unit for receiving the match signal to detect a semiconductor device that fails in the test and outputting a match-fail signal for identifying the semiconductor device that fails in the test; and a stop signal output unit connected to the match-fail detecting unit for receiving the match-fail signal from the match-fail detecting unit, storing the match-fail signal, and outputting a first stop signal that stops an application of the input signal pattern to the semiconductor devices that fail in the test identified by the stored match-fail signal.
Abstract: A technique for verifying on-chip decoupling capacitance using transistor and capacitor surface area information is provided. The technique broadly includes determining a surface area of a transistor, determining a surface area of a decoupling capacitor, comparing the surface area of the transistor to the surface area of the decoupling capacitor to obtain a surface area ratio, and verifying whether there is enough decoupling capacitance based on the surface area ratio. Further, the present invention also provides a technique for determining when and how to redesign a microprocessor in order to have sufficient decoupling capacitance.
Abstract: A computer cooling system including a cooling fluid source, and a cooling duct array adapted to distribute cooling fluid from the cooling fluid source over a plurality of high dissipation components on a circuit board.
Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming a drill bit structure to which a cutting element is to be affixed. The method includes applying a layer of hardfacing material to a basic bit structure, removing the layer of hardfacing material in a location to which the cutting element is to be affixed, and forming an attachment structure at the location. In one embodiment, the removing is performed by electrode discharge machining. In one embodiment, the basic bit structure is a roller cone, and the cutting element is an insert adapted to be interference fit within a socket in the roller cone.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 5, 2003
Assignee:
Smith International, Inc.
Inventors:
Peter M. Davies, Dennis Bond, Hubert W. Penka, Jr., Cary Roth
Abstract: Cutting structures for roller cone drill bits are disclosed. One aspect is a drill bit which includes a bit body, and a plurality of roller cones attached to the bit body and able to rotate with respect to the bit body. The bit further includes a plurality of cutting elements arranged on each of the roller cones so that cutting elements on adjacent cones intermesh between the adjacent cones. The cutting elements are arranged so that a rotation speed of each cone differs by less than about 7% from the rotation speed of each of the other cones during drilling. Another aspect is a drill bit which includes a bit body, and a plurality of roller cones attached to the bit body and able to rotate with respect to the bit body. The bit also includes a plurality of cutting elements arranged on each of the roller cones so that cutting elements on adjacent cones intermesh between the adjacent cones.