Abstract: An arrangement for cooling an electronic assembly includes a circuit board, an enclosure member and at least one electromechanical actuator. The circuit board has a first surface, a second surface, and at least a first heat-generating element secured to the first surface. The circuit board further comprises at least one aperture extending between the first surface and the second surface. The enclosure member is secured to the circuit board so as to form a fluid tight barrier of a compartment defined at least in part by the enclosure member. The compartment includes a first subcompartment defined at least in part by the first surface and the enclosure member and a second subcompartment defined at least in part by the second surface and the enclosure member. The at least one electromechanical actuator is secured within the fluid type barrier and is operable to generate a flow movement in the direction of the at least one aperture when liquid is disposed in the fluid tight barrier.

Abstract: An interface apparatus and method between a computer and an input peripheral are disclosed for activity sensing in the vicinity of the computer and signal activation indicative thereof to the computer so that the computer will not activate its normal security procedures, such as a password protected screen saver mode for example, during times of input peripheral inactivity so long as user presence is sensed. When a user leaves the vicinity of the computer, normal operation of a computer's resident security will control computer function. The apparatus when embodied in hardware includes a detector or sensor that detects the presence of the user, a controller receiving output signals from the detector and monitoring input peripheral activity, and host computer/input peripheral routing circuitry.

Abstract: Control data is communicated utilizing a multi-frame format that consists of individual frames each having a number of rows and columns. As each row is received from a transmitting unit, the data and position of the row within a frame is verified by use of a checksum and is immediately utilized by the receiving unit. This reduces the amount of storage that must be provided by the receiving unit for the reception of control information to that of a single row. In addition to verifying the row identification, the identity of each frame within the multi-frame is also verified before an individual row is utilized. In a first embodiment, the operation of generating the checksum is seeded with the current row number. In a second embodiment, the operation of generating the checksum is seeded with the result of an Exclusive OR operation of the current row number and frame number.

Abstract: An arrangement for cooling an electronic assembly includes a circuit board and an enclosure member. The circuit board has a first surface, a second surface, and at least a first electronic component or other heat-generating element secured to the first surface. The enclosure member is secured to said circuit board so as to form a fluid tight barrier of a compartment defined at least in part by said enclosure member. Such compartment includes a first subcompartment defined at least in part by said first surface and said enclosure member and a second subcompartment defined at least in part by said second surface and said enclosure member. The circuit board further includes at least one aperture extending between the first surface and the second surface such that the first subcompartment is in fluid communication with the second subcompartment.

Abstract: An arrangement for electromagnetically shielding a circuit carrying substrate includes first and second shielding members and a plurality of elastically deformable shielding connectors. The first shielding member has first and second dimensions exceeding first and second dimensions defined by the circuit and is disposed on a first side of the circuit. The second shielding member also has first and second dimensions exceeding first and second dimensions defined by the circuit and is disposed on a second side of the circuit. The first and second shielding members define at least one slot therebetween. Each of the plurality of shielding connectors is both plastically deformable and electrically conductive, and furthermore extends between the first shielding member and the second shielding member. The plurality of shielding connectors are disposed within and throughout said slot and spaced apart by a distance that is less than one-fourth the wavelength of an effective operating frequency of the circuit.

Abstract: An arrangement for enclosing a fluid includes a circuit board and an enclosure member. The circuit board includes an electronic component secured thereto. The enclosure member is secured to the circuit board such that the enclosure member and the circuit board cooperate so as to create a fluid tight barrier of a compartment defined by the circuit board and the enclosure member.

Abstract: An arrangement for cooling an electronic assembly includes a circuit board having a primary circuit board portion and a secondary circuit board portion integrally secured to the primary circuit board portion. The arrangement also includes an enclosure member secured to the circuit board so as to create a fluid tight barrier of a compartment defined at least in part by the enclosure member. The arrangement further includes a first electronic component secured to the primary circuit board portion such that the first electronic component is located within the compartment. The arrangement also includes a second electronic component secured to the secondary circuit board portion such that the second electronic component is located outside of the compartment. The arrangement also includes a liquid disposed within the compartment such that the liquid is in a heat exchange relationship with the first electronic component.

Abstract: The present system for redirecting a light beam makes use of a transparent pressure vessel that is filled with a compressible fluid, whose refractive index changes as a function of the pressure applied to the compressible fluid to redirect the path of a light beam that is transmitted through the transparent pressure vessel. An incident beam of coherent monochromatic light is applied to a transparent segment of a wall of the transparent pressure vessel, where this incident light beam is refracted by the compressible fluid contained in the transparent pressure vessel. The refracted light beam traverses the transparent pressure vessel and exits the transparent pressure vessel at a point along the opposite wall of the transparent pressure vessel as determined by the refractive index of the compressible fluid, which is determined by the pressure of the compressible fluid. The pressure of the compressible fluid is controlled by using a pump that is fluidically connected to the transparent pressure vessel.

Abstract: The present noninvasive load and pressure sensing system makes use of a transparent pressure vessel that is filled with a compressible fluid, whose refractive index changes as a function of the pressure applied to the compressible fluid to redirect the path of a light beam that is transmitted through the transparent pressure vessel. An incident beam of coherent monochromatic light is applied to a transparent segment of a wall of the transparent pressure vessel, where this incident light beam is refracted by the compressible fluid contained in the transparent pressure vessel. The refracted light beam traverses the transparent pressure vessel and exits the transparent pressure vessel at a point along the opposite wall of the transparent pressure vessel as determined by the refractive index of the compressible fluid, which is determined by the pressure of the compressible fluid.

Abstract: An asynchronous, fiber optic, ring network includes a number of nodes where data enters and exits the network. Each of these nodes has its own clock to provide timing needed by equipment at that node. So that synchronous data can be transmitted between predetermined nodes, a master node provides timing information which may be used at any node to synchronize its clock. Timing information comprises the propagation delay around the ring (ring latency) as measured by the master node. This measure of propagation delay is transmitted by the master node as an information packet available at all nodes. Synchronization of any other node with the master requires that the other node perform its own measurement of propagation delay, compare its measurement with that of the master node, and make adjustments to its own clock that tend to decrease the difference between these measurements.

Abstract: A broadband ISDN communication system (10) comprises a plurality of bit-serial synchronous time-division multiplexed ring networks (15) interconnected by a circuit switch (11). In each network, terminal equipment (14) is interfaced to a fiber-optic ring bus (12) by add/drop multiplexers (13). Single time slots (201) on the ring function as independently-assignable channels. Each time slot carries one bit at an 8 Kbps rate. Ring bandwidth is 45 Mbps. The circuit switch is a time-division multiplexed time-space switch. The time stage (301) comprises a plurality of time slot interchangers (TSI 303), one for each switch output port (306). Each TSI unit is connected to all switch input ports (305) and through the space stage to its corresponding output port. The space stage (302) is a time-multiplexed space stage. The switch is fully non-blocking and has broadcast capability. System bandwidth is dynamically allocated to users in single time slot (8 Kbps) increments, under control of a network manager (16).

Abstract: The subject wideband switching network provides inexpensive point-to-point wideband communication connections. Wideband source and destination terminal equipment are either connected to modems which encode the analog signals used by the wideband source terminal equipment into digital signals for transmission through the wideband switching network and decode the received digital signals into analog signals used by the wideband destination terminal equipment; or are directly connected to the wideband switching network if source and destination terminal equipment transmit and receive digital signals. The modems are connected to the wideband switching network by optical fibers. The wideband switching network is a point-to-point space division switch that is comprised of a matrix of high frequency semiconductor crosspoints.