Abstract: In various embodiments, apparatuses and methods are disclosed that may be able to implement a multi-layer, three dimensional routing between a decoupling component and an input port for a SoC or MCM. A three dimensional (3D) structure may provide a defined current return path from the decoupling component to the input port. The current return path may be constrained by design to provide an equal and opposite electromagnetic flux to the input port thereby reducing series inductance between the input port and the decoupling component.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and method for fill level monitoring in which the height of contents in a container (10) is monitored. The apparatus comprises an ultrasound reciever (30) and signal processing means (50-56) adapted to receive signals from the receiver, the arrangement being such that the signal processing means (50-56) identifies a first signal (32), in use, which is representative of a wavefront (26) transmitted through the contents of the container (10) independently of the height of the contents in the container (10), and a second signal (34) that is representative of a wavefront (24) that is reflected from the interface (22) between the surface of the contents in the container (10) and the environment above the contents, and in which the signal processing means (50-56) uses the difference in travel time for the two wavefronts (24, 26) to provide a measurement of the level of the contents in the container (10).

Abstract: A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation at least one of which utilizes a backboard structure having a plurality of rotatable goal barriers in the form of radially extending simulated hands rotatably driven between the goal and the player.

Abstract: A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation at least one of which utilizes a vertical backboard having a pair of spaced apart parallel goals mounted on one side rotating about a horizontal axis perpendicular thereto and passing through a backboard between the goals.

Abstract: A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation at least one of which utilizes a backboard having a vertical goal mounted on a rotating horizontal shaft which shaft is perpendicular to the backboard and a motor to rotate the shaft so as to present the goal in a periodically recurring normal basketball position for passage of the ball therethrough.

Abstract: A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation at least one of which utilizes a pair of backboards mounted back to back with each mounting a goal at a different height and rotatable about a vertical axis between the backboards.

Abstract: A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation achieved by differences from court-to-court in goal constructions, required shooting stance, goal motions, play barriers, size of ball, and the like.