Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: Present embodiments provide various open coil spring assemblies which perform like an encased spring assembly. The embodiments have elastic lacings or connections which connect springs to springs or springs to lacings. Various spring embodiments are provided as well as various arrangements for the elastic lacings. All of these features improve compliance and stability while reducing motion transfer.

Abstract: An orthopedic device and method for correcting angular deformation of a bone structure having a growth plate. The device includes first and second hinge members connected together at a hinge joint. The device is adapted for mounting the orthopedic device to the bone structure with the pivot joint positioned over the growth plate. Alignment of the pivot joint with the growth plate promotes asymmetric growth of the growth plate to thereby correct the angular deformation.

Abstract: There is disclosed an operand queue for use in a floating point unit. The floating point unit comprises floating point processing units for executing floating point instructions that write operands to an external memory and for executing floating point instructions that read operands from the external memory. The floating point also comprises an operand queue for storing a plurality of operands associated with one or more operations being processed in the floating point unit. The operand queue stores a first operand being written to an external memory by a floating point write instruction executed by a first one of the plurality of floating point processing units and supplies the first operand to a floating point read instruction executed by a second one of the plurality of floating point processing units subsequent to the execution of the floating point write instruction.

Abstract: A system and method for securing an intramedullary rod in a medullary canal of a long bone is provided. The system includes an intramedullary rod and a screw assembly for receiving the rod. The screw assembly has a transverse receiving bore for receiving the intramedullary rod and a securing member movable toward the bore for securing the rod to the screw assembly. An alignment jig may also be provided for aligning the rod with the receiving bore during installation.

Abstract: An orthopedic device and method for correcting angular deformation of a bone structure having a growth plate. The device includes first and second hinge members connected together at a hinge joint. The device is adapted for mounting the orthopedic device to the bone structure with the pivot joint positioned over the growth plate. Alignment of the pivot joint with the growth plate promotes asymmetric growth of the growth plate to thereby correct the angular deformation.

Abstract: A floating point unit (FPU) for processing denormal numbers in floating point notation, a method of processing such numbers in an FPU and a computer system employing the FPU or the method. In one embodiment, the FPU includes: (1) a load unit that receives a denormal number having an exponent portion of a standard length from a source without the FPU and transforms the denormal number into a normalized number having an exponent portion of an expanded length greater than the standard length, (2) a floating point execution core, coupled to the load unit, that processes the normalized number at least once to yield a processed normalized number, the expanded length of the exponent portion allowing the processed normalized number to remain normal during processing thereof and (3) a store unit, coupled to the floating point execution core, that receives the processed normalized number and transforms the processed normalized number back into a denormal number having an exponent portion of the standard length.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multiplier circuit for use in a data processor. The multiplier circuit comprises a partial products generating circuit that receives a multiplicand value and a multiplier value and generates a group of partial products. The multiplier circuit also comprises a split array for adding the partial products. A first summation array comprises a first group of adders that sum the even partial products to produce an even summation value. A second summation array comprises a second group of adders that sum the odd partial products to produce an odd summation value. The even and odd summation values are then summed to produce the output of the multiplier.

Abstract: A floating point unit includes floating point processing units for executing floating point instructions that write operands to an external memory and for executing floating point instructions that read operands from the external memory. The floating point also includes an operand queue for storing a plurality of operands associated with one or more operations being processed in the floating point unit. The operand queue stores a first operand written by a floating point write instruction executed by a first one of the plurality of floating point processing units and supplies the first operand to a floating point read instruction executed by a second one of the plurality of floating point processing units when the first operand is committed or virtually committed.

Abstract: A floating point unit (FPU) for processing denormal numbers in floating point notation, a method of processing such numbers in an FPU and a computer system employing the FPU or the method. In one embodiment, the FPU includes: (1) a load unit that receives a denormal number having an exponent portion of a standard length from a source without the FPU and transforms the denormal number into a normalized number having an exponent portion of an expanded length greater than the standard length, (2) a floating point execution core, coupled to the load unit, that processes the normalized number at least once to yield a processed normalized number, the expanded length of the exponent portion allowing the processed normalized number to remain normal during processing thereof and (3) a store unit, coupled to the floating point execution core, that receives the processed normalized number and transforms the processed normalized number back into a denormal number having an exponent portion of the standard length.