Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for positionally stabilizing snowsport equipment such as snowboards while in use on snow or ice. The apparatus includes a position establishing unit having an interface and a guide situated in an angular relation to one another and a tether connectable between the establishing unit and either the equipment or an article associated with the user.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for positionally stabilizing snowsport equipment such as snowboards while in use on snow or ice. The apparatus includes a position establishing unit having an interface and a guide situated in an angular relation to one another and a tether connectable between the establishing unit and either the equipment or an article associated with the user.

Abstract: A snowboard system and methods are disclosed adapted for board stabilization while a user attaches the snowboard binding and boot from a standing position. The system includes an anchoring stake, a retainer and retractable cord, and an anchoring line, or loop. A safety retainer line from the stake may also be provided.

Abstract: A snowboard system and methods are disclosed adapted for board stabilization while a user attaches the snowboard binding and boot from a standing position. The system includes an anchoring stake, a retainer and retractable cord, and an anchoring line, or loop. A safety retainer line from the stake may also be provided.

Abstract: Feeding container venting apparatus and methods are disclosed. A vent structure is mounted through an opening formed in a feeding container adjacent to its fill port and includes a pliable protrusion extending from an inner diameter of an annular rim. The protrusion has a hollow interior, a ported end at the rim and a distal end having a slit thereat allowing communication with the hollow interior. The pliable protrusion is pressed through the container opening to reside interior of the container adjacent to the container fill port with the rim abutting the exterior of the container. A spacer is located at the rim with a portion spaced axially from the inner diameter of the rim to prevent inadvertent blockage of air flow to the hollow interior of the protrusion, and a membrane extends partially across the inner diameter of the rim to inhibit fluid leakage from the hollow interior of the protrusion. A cutting tool for retrofitting feeding containers is also disclosed.

Abstract: Processes for diagnosing boundary scan observed data produced pursuant to boundary scan testing of interconnected circuit devices having three-state bidirectional scan cells. A first set of observed data is produced by controlling each device individually to drive the I/O pins of the device pursuant to a set of test patterns and to scan out observed values, while the three-state bidirectional scan cells of the other devices that are in the high impedance state. The observed values for each device are diagnosed by a process that analyzes the observed data and refers to a pin connection list to isolate as to the pins of each device stuck-at faults, shorted pin faults, open faults between pins, and hardwire faults. A second set of observed data is produced by controlling each device in turn to be a driving device for driving its I/O pins to a first logical state, while the remaining devices are controlled to have their scan cells in the high impedance state and to scan out the signals observed on their I/O pins.