Abstract: An active balance system is provided for counterbalancing vibrations of an axially reciprocating machine. The balance system includes a support member, a flexure assembly, a counterbalance mass, and a linear motor or an actuator. The support member is configured for attachment to the machine. The flexure assembly includes at least one flat spring having connections along a central portion and an outer peripheral portion. One of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion is fixedly mounted to the support member. The counterbalance mass is fixedly carried by the flexure assembly along another of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion. The linear motor has one of a stator and a mover fixedly mounted to the support member and another of the stator and the mover fixedly mounted to the counterbalance mass. The linear motor is operative to axially reciprocate the counterbalance mass.

Abstract: An active balance system is provided for counterbalancing vibrations of an axially reciprocating machine. The balance system includes a support member, a flexure assembly, a counterbalance mass, and a linear motor or an actuator. The support member is configured for attachment to the machine. The flexure assembly includes at least one flat spring having connections along a central portion and an outer peripheral portion. One of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion is fixedly mounted to the support member. The counterbalance mass is fixedly carried by the flexure assembly along another of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion. The linear motor has one of a stator and a mover fixedly mounted to the support member and another of the stator and the mover fixedly mounted to the counterbalance mass. The linear motor is operative to axially reciprocate the counterbalance mass.

Abstract: Fields of a URL include class and method names or identifiers. An application root includes directory structure information for accessing a class associated with the class name or identifier. The application root also acts as a flag directing a server to process the URL to extract the class and method identifiers and to provide a requested resource based on the extracted class and method names or identifiers.

Abstract: An automated framework and methodology for the development, testing, validation, and documentation of the design of semiconductor products that culminates in the release of a design kit having a flow manager and flow file to actualize a methodology to design a semiconductor product. The flow framework and methodology receives a methodology and a technology description for the semiconductor product. Then the flow framework and methodology coordinates and tests flow files developed by flow developers using testcases from testcase developers, libraries from library developers and tools from tool from flow developers that may be constantly updated. When a flow file, a testcase, a library, and/or a tool is updated, added, or otherwise changed, ongoing regression testing is accomplished to update the correct flow file.

Abstract: An active balance system is provided for counterbalancing vibrations of an axially reciprocating machine. The balance system includes a support member, a flexure assembly, a counterbalance mass, and a linear motor or an actuator. The support member is configured for attachment to the machine. The flexure assembly includes at least one flat spring having connections along a central portion and an outer peripheral portion. One of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion is fixedly mounted to the support member. The counterbalance mass is fixedly carried by the flexure assembly along another of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion. The linear motor has one of a stator and a mover fixedly mounted to the support member and another of the stator and the mover fixedly mounted to the counterbalance mass. The linear motor is operative to axially reciprocate the counterbalance mass. A method is also provided.

Abstract: There is disclosed a very thin operating system for a thin client computer operative in a client/server configuration. The operating system for the thin client computer is utilized only to boot the computer and control the peripheral drivers. The application software and the desktop for the thin client computer are downloaded from the server after the operating system boots the thin client computer. Because the thin operating system presents very low overhead to the data published from the server to the client, the data is operated upon quicker and the screen refresh rate is faster. As a result there is no noticeable screen redraw due to an insufficient screen refresh rate.

Abstract: An active balance system is provided for counterbalancing vibrations of an axially reciprocating machine. The balance system includes a support member, a flexure assembly, a counterbalance mass, and a linear motor or an actuator. The support member is configured for attachment to the machine. The flexure assembly includes at least one flat spring having connections along a central portion and an outer peripheral portion. One of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion is fixedly mounted to the support member. The counterbalance mass is fixedly carried by the flexure assembly along another of the central portion and the outer peripheral portion. The linear motor has one of a stator and a mover fixedly mounted to the support member and another of the stator and the mover fixedly mounted to the counterbalance mass. The linear motor is operative to axially reciprocate the counterbalance mass. A method is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus and method which utilize electrical discharge machining equipment and techniques to prepare an electrically conductive surface for thermal spray coating or for other purposes. The apparatus includes one or more electrodes, with each electrode having a working face, defining a plane. The one or more electrodes are mounted on the leading end of a shaft and can form part of an electrode assembly. The shaft is at least moveable axially by a shaft actuating mechanism and, in some applications, may also rotate the shaft. Each electrode is moveable by a gap setting mechanism in response to and in a direction different than the axial movement of the shaft to form a voltage gap between each working face and the surface being prepared. A supply of dielectric fluid is disposable in the voltage gap. An electrical discharge circuit conducts an electric current through the dielectric fluid in the gap to produce a gap voltage. The shaft actuating mechanism is controlled by a gap voltage control system.

Abstract: Flash dried granules of calcium-xanthomonas gum complex.

Abstract: Disclosed is a digital computer memory system which coordinates between plural memories such that information recall from memories having different inherent access times results in a flow of only relevant data to the processor; this is accomplished in, for instance, a dual memory system, by synchronizing the operation of the memories such that the normal clock pulse of the computer strobes the output register of the faster (i.e., "normal") memory but a delayed clock pulse strobes the output register of the slower memory. Thus, because of the delayed strobe, the latter, as well as the former, has time to complete an access requested by the processor, and, consequently, transfer to the processor of incorrect or meaningless information is avoided.