Contoured surgical table
To achieve the foregoing and other objects and in accordance with the purposes of the present invention, the surgical table of the present invention may comprise a chair for receiving a patient, means... Read More
Inventors: Fischer, William B.;, Assignee: |
Planar broadband FET balun
The preceding and other shortcomings of the prior art are addressed and overcome by the present invention that provides circuitry suitable for monolithic implementation, which in a first aspect is a b... Read More
Inventors: Wen, Cheng P.; Yau, Wing;, Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company (Los Angeles, CA) |
Device for generating strobe pulses with a desired timing
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a timing generator which permits the generation of strobe pulses to be delayed for a desired number of cycles of the timing signal. The ti... Read More
Inventors: Watanabe, Naoyoshi;, Assignee: Advantest Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Multifunctional card having a static protection
It is an object of the present invention to provide a multifunctional card which provide effective static protection and can be easily manufactured at a low cost. In order to achieve the above objects... Read More
Inventors: Kiku, Yutaro;, Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE) |
Computer I/O expansion board securing apparatus and method
OF THE INVENTION In General FIGS. 1-10, in general, disclose bracket assembly 110 for securing at least first and second, generally flat, rectangular I/O expansion boards 60, 90, FIG. 8, in seated el... Read More
Inventors: Hoppal, John Pete;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Interface optimized computer system architecture
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a computer system architecture that substantially obviates one or more of the problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art. An obj... Read More
Inventors: Crane, Jr., Stanford W.; Krishnapura, Lakshminarasimha; Fuoco, Daniel; Lee, Roy K.; Link, Kevin J.; Behar, Moises; Dutta, Arindum; Cross, William;, Assignee: The Panda Project (Boca Raton, FL) |
Radial type of parallel system bus structure with printed, twisted conductor lines
One object of the present invention is to provide an improved parallel system bus structure which permits inter-board signal path to be equal and as short as possible, regardless of the number of CPU ... Read More
Inventors: Takashima, Tokuhei;, Assignee: Graphico Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Impedance stepping for increasing the operating speed of computer backplane busses
The present invention is a computer interconnection backplane configuration which can operate at significantly higher frequencies than presently possible. This invention provides a systematic method o... Read More
Inventors: Barber, V. Alan;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Integrated circuit chip to substrate interconnection
According to the invention, a method and apparatus is disclosed for forming a flip chip interconnection between an integrated circuit chip and a substrate. A direct metal-to-metal bond is made between... Read More
Inventors: Marrs, Robert C.;, Assignee: Amkor Technology, Inc. (Chandler, AZ) |
Apparatus for cooling electronics components
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT FIG. 1 is an isomeric view of apparatus 10 according to the invention. Its ultimate purpose is to hold a number of "books" 11 containing electronics components on circuit ca... Read More
Inventors: Corfits, William D.; Holahan, Maurice F.; Martino, Susan J.; Motschman, David R.; Thorpe, James R.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Processor retention apparatus
The present invention pertains to a circuit board retention assembly that can house one or more circuit boards mounted to a connector. In a first embodiment, the present invention pertains to a proces... Read More
Inventors: Bertolami, Gwen M.; Pham, Hoa;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
DC power supply device with printed-circuit board having ground pattern
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a DC power supply device of a relatively small size which is capable of suppressing ripples, spike voltages, and undesirable radiations in... Read More
Inventors: Nakabayashi, Toshiya; Nakayoshi, Hirokazu; Hashimoto, Kazuo;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (JP) |
Interior bond pad arrangements for alleviating thermal stresses
OF THE INVENTION According to the invention, it is posited that if an array of bond pads on a semiconductor die is tightly (closely) grouped (arranged or clustered), then the amount of differential t... Read More
Inventors: Rostoker, Michael D.; Pasch, Nicholas F.; Zelayeta, Joe;, Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation (Milpitas, CA) |
Faraday cage for a printed circuit card
It is therefore an object of the invention to isolate noise sensitive signals from an electrically noisy environment. This object and other objects, features and advantages of the invention are accomp... Read More
Inventors: Muyshondt, Jorge E.; Parker, Gary A.; Wilkie, Bruce J.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Electrical ground plane apparatus
The present invention comprises an electrical ground plane apparatus for a circuit board having an analog section and a digital section. The analog section has distributed thereon analog circuitry, an... Read More
Inventors: Tang, Engne;, Assignee: Vimak Corporation (Woburn, MA) |
Dual pattern microprocessor package footprint
In a broad aspect, the present invention is directed to a dual footprint for use on a PC board which enables the PC board to receive one of two distinct microprocessor packages, while consuming a mini... Read More
Inventors: Silva, David J.;, Assignee: AST Research, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
Method of and apparatus for generating tone reproduction curve for converting color signals
It is a general object of the present invention to provide a method of and an apparatus for generating a tone reproduction curve for converting color signals in a manner to allow the operator to estab... Read More
Inventors: Morikawa, Seiichiro;, Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa, JP) |
Pulsar desk top system that will produce 500 watts of heat
The present invention is a computer chassis assembly that can adequately cool an electronic system which generates 450 watts of heat, without emitting cooling fan noise above 5 Bels of sound power. Th... Read More
Inventors: Hileman, Vince; Furuta, Steven J.; Kitlas, Kenneth; Gross, Kenneth; Vu, Quyen; Winick, Lee; Mitty, Nagaraj P.; Willis, Clifford B.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
Fixing device for fan of computer
In order to solve the aforesaid problem, the present invention provides a device for fixing heat dissipation fan of a computer. The fixing device for fan of computer uses only a screw to fast fix the ... Read More
Inventors: Kuang, Yen;, Assignee: Inventec Corporation (Taipei, TW) |
Iced tea brewer with portable server
What is claimed is: 1. A beverage maker and server combination comprising, a beverage maker having a server support platform with a front end and a rear end, an upstanding trunk at the rear end of sai... Read More
Inventors: Anson, James H.;, Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic Corporation (Springfield, IL) |
Method and apparatus for automatically routing around faults within an interconnect system
The present invention overcomes the disadvantages found in the prior art by providing a method for automatically detecting faults within a computer architecture and then rerouting data around the faul... Read More
Inventors: Mackenthun, Donald W.;, Assignee: Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell, PA) |
Configurable reuse delay criterion for storage volumes
OF THE INVENTION Referring more particularly to the drawing, like numerals denote like features and structural elements in the various figures. The invention will be described as embodied in a data p... Read More
Inventors: Cannon, David Maxwell;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System and method for maintaining a minimum quality of service during read operations on disk arrays
The present invention comprises a disk array system and method which maintains a minimum data delivery requirement or minimum quality of service during varying conditions. As discussed above, certain ... Read More
Inventors: Jones, Craig; Patterson, Tony;, Assignee: Dell USA, L.P. (Round Rock, TX) |
SCSI-coupled module for monitoring and controlling SCSI-coupled raid bank and bank environment
The invention helps to attain the above-mentioned objectives by providing a SCSI-coupled module for monitoring and for controlling a SCSI-coupled cluster of devices such as a SCSI-coupled RAID bank. A... Read More
Inventors: Carbonneau, Guy A.; Wu, Bernie; Jones, Tim;, Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA) |
Method and system for managing bad areas in flash memory
In accordance with this invention, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a system for managing bad areas in flash memory such that information is reliably stored in the flash memory that does not ... Read More
Inventors: Garvin, P. Keith; Stanard, H. Duane;, Assignee: Datalight, Inc. (Bothell, WA) |
System for interleaving memory modules and banks
A first aspect of the invention resides in memory configuring using what can be termed "horizontal stacking" of the modules comprising the memory system. Horizontal stacking is an interleaving scheme ... Read More
Inventors: Mayo, David T.; Hartwell, David W.; Collins, Hansel A.;, Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) |
Processor system having address allocation and address lock capability adapted for a memory comprised of synchronous DRAMs
In the reference 2, two address allocation schemes are evaluated by use of a model computer system in which any one of the processors may access any one of the memory banks through an interconnecting ... Read More
Inventors: Sakakibara, Tadayuki; Tanaka, Teruo; Tamaki, Yoshiko;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for transporting messages between processors in a multiple processor system
A method and apparatus for transporting messages between processors in a multiple processor system. The present method and apparatus enables the communication of messages between processors in an asym... Read More
Inventors: Futral, William T.; Garbus, Elliot; Davis, Barry;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Modular electronic packaging for computer servers
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT FIGS. 1A-1C are the front, side and bottom views of an electronic module assembly 10 according to the present invention. The module assembly 10 comprises a module head 11 ... Read More
Inventors: Hsu, Winston;, Assignee: |
Storage disk module and storage disk device having a plurality of storage disk modules
An object of the present invention is to provide a storage disk module, which has an arrangement, which makes it possible to cool the inside thereof effectively and to easily replace the structural el... Read More
Inventors: Uno, Hirosi; Hakamatani, Takao;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
I/O Systems 
