Alphanumeric display means for computer-linked typewriter consoles
I claim: 1. A device for displaying alphanumeric light-emanating indicia at selected key buttons of a keyboard of a typewriter console forming an I/O link with a general-purpose digital computer, each... Read More
Inventors: Mueller, Thomas Delbert;, Assignee: Chevron Research Company (San Francisco, CA) |
Novel derivatives of arginine vasopressin antagonists
Compounds of the invention, or comparison compounds of the prior art, are derivatives of arginine vasopressin. Amino acids are in the L-form, unless otherwise indicated. Each symbol, except for that ... Read More
Inventors: Manning, Maurice; Sawyer, Wilbur H.;, Assignee: Medical College of Ohio (Toledo, OH); Trustees of Columbia University (New York, NY) |
Manipulator device for the transfer of laser light into an optical fiber
The invention differs from the above prior art in that the transferring manipulator device includes, a housing adapted to be located in the path of the laser beam and provided with an inlet opening fo... Read More
Inventors: Raagaard, Jacob; Nielsen, Claus J.;, Assignee: DantecElectronik, Medicinsk OG Videnskabeligt M.ang.leudstyr A/S (Skovlunde, DK) |
Electro-optical data bus
OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Reference should now be made to FIG. 1 of the drawings which is a schematic block diagram which shows a presently preferred embodiment of a hybrid multiplex data bus system ... Read More
Inventors: Drapala, Thaddeus R.; Zaman, Mohammad K.;, Assignee: Lockheed Corporation (Burbank, CA) |
Electrical and fiber optic connector assembly
An electrical and fiber optic connector assembly is needed to terminate the electrical conductors and fiber optic transmission members of such a cable so that the electrical conductors are electricall... Read More
Inventors: Bowen, Terry P.; Glover, Douglas W.; Hoover, Charles D.; Huber, John H.; Schaffer, Ronald R.;, Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Harrisburg, PA) |
Contact with exchangeable opto-electronic element
In accordance with this invention, there is provided an active special contact adapted for insertion into a hybrid contact insert of a connector, the active contact comprising a housing, first contact... Read More
Inventors: Wais, Thomas; Schrott, Werner G.;, Assignee: Amphenol Corporation (Wallingford, CT) |
Device for rapidly fixing a tubular element in an apparatus housing, and a terminal block for optical fibers including such a device
The present invention therefore provides a device for rapidly fixing a tubular element in an apparatus housing into which the tubular element penetrates via a fixed inlet duct which positions it in th... Read More
Inventors: Heng, Jean-Paul; Jusseau, Marcel; Humbert-Labeaumaz, Alain;, Assignee: CGEE Alsthom (FR) |
Fibre optic single mode rotary joint
The present invention provides a rotary joint for optical fibers without the need to convert to electrical signals. It is designed for use with singlemode fiber but can also be used with the less diff... Read More
Inventors: Snow, James W.; Smith, Graham A. J.; Channer, Geoffrey H.; Purdy, John W.;, Assignee: Focal Technologies Incorporated (Dartmouth, CA) |
Solderless connectors for semi-rigid coaxial cable
We claim: 1. A solderless connector for semi-rigid coaxial cable having an elongate annular outer conductor, a center conductor coaxial with said outer conductor and a di-electric material spacing the... Read More
Inventors: Saba, Robert A.; Ducharme, Roger R.; Harhen, Paul F.;, Assignee: M/A-COM Omni Spectra, Inc. (Waltham, MA) |
Bus optical fiber including low mode volume light source optimally aligned
What is claimed is: 1. A distribution optical fiber network, comprising: a multimode optical fiber; N side taps disposed serially on the fiber, N being an integer greater than 1; means for injecting a... Read More
Inventors: Zucker, Joseph; Levinson, Frank H.; Narciso, Ralh A.;, Assignee: Raychem Corp. (Menlo Park, CA) |
Distribution frame for optical cables
The present invention provides a distribution frame for optical cables, where each optical cable is constituted by a plurality of cores, and each core supports a plurality of optical fibers, said dist... Read More
Inventors: Nozick, Jacques E.;, Assignee: |
Fiber optic polarization controller
An object of this invention is to provide a fiber optic polarization controller which can rotate polarization direction endlessly so as to enable continuous follow-up of all the changes in polarizatio... Read More
Inventors: Matsumoto, Takao; Kano, Haruo;, Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Communication apparatus operative to switch dynamically between different communication configurations by indexing each set of configurables with a unique memory address
In accordance with the present invention, communication apparatus is operative to switch communication dynamically between itself and a selected one of a predetermined plurality of mating communicatio... Read More
Inventors: Lomp, Martin G.; Hardaker, Philip R.;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. () |
Universal host interface for data acquisition systems
In accordance with these and other objects, provided is a universal interface system for use with a data acquisition system including a data acquisition device for providing digital data signals indic... Read More
Inventors: Lieb, Robert; Buongervino, Nicholas; Mauro, Patrick; Rizzi, Michael; Oppenheim, Ellen; Boriotti, Joseph; May, Robert; Karcher, Sara; Biuso, Anthony; Poloniewicz, Paul R.; Brown, Daniel; Fama, Anthony; Stein, Robert; Chu, Cary; Catalano, Michael; Mulla, Al, Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Holtsville, NY) |
Method and system for extracting control information from packetized data received by a communications interface device
In light of the above-stated limitations, there is a need for a method and system that integrates zoom video port output from a PCI-interface device that permits integrating zoom video port output fro... Read More
Inventors: Baker, Richard T.;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Information processing system
OF EMBODIMENTS Several examples of preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained in details with reference to the drawings in the followings. FIG. 2 is a general overview of an inf... Read More
Inventors: Tabe, Tetsuya; Asai, Eiichi;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Apparatus and method for the handling of banded frame buffer overflows
OF THE DISCLOSURE Referring first to FIG. 1, a top level block diagram of a laser printer 10 is depicted. Laser printer 10 includes a print engine 12, an engine controller 14 associated with print en... Read More
Inventors: Sodek, Jr., Franklin L.; Howell, John R.;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Method and system for the extensibility of objects
In accordance with the present invention, a method and system are disclosed for an extensible object data structure for use by computing machines. The data structure resides in computer mass storage, ... Read More
Inventors: Turkowski, Kenneth E.;, Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) |
Information packet reception indicator for reducing the utilization of a host system processor unit
The present invention enables a reception related interrupt to be issued by a network peripheral at a time that reduces the utilization of a host system's processor unit and overlaps the reception of ... Read More
Inventors: Williams, Robert A.; Tsai, Din-I; Kuo, Jerry C.;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
12C bus expansion apparatus and method therefor
The aforementioned needs are addressed by the present invention. Accordingly, there is provided in a first form, an apparatus for inter-IC (I.sup.2 C) bus expansion. The apparatus includes an expansio... Read More
Inventors: Goodwin, Joel Gerard; Hartman, Steven Paul; Isensee, Scott Harlan; Tuten, Wally;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Optical transmission systems
What I claim as my invention is: 1. For use in an optical transmission system, an optical fibre connector comprising two separately formed bodies, one body of the connector having a bore for housing o... Read More
Inventors: Slaughter, Raymond Jeffrey;, Assignee: BICC Limited (London, EN) |
Method and apparatus for repairing fiber optic cable
Fiber optic cable is being used more and more in today's telecommunications systems. One of the many reasons for this is that optical fibers are small, when compared to insulated copper wire conductor... Read More
Inventors: Szentesi, Otto I.;, Assignee: Siecor Corporation (Hickory, NC) |
Protective device for overhead wires containing optical fiber units
What are claimed are: 1. Structure for connecting overhead earth wires containing an optical fiber unit, said optical fiber unit being disposed in the center of a bundle of conductors, said structure ... Read More
Inventors: Miyazaki, Hideaki; Yamano, Yoshikazu; Saito, Yasunori; Okano, Mikihiko; Nakano, Tsuneo;, Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (JP) |
Data processing system having interlinked slow and fast memory means
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a data processing system having a large capacity first read only memory having a first access time, and a second read only memory, faster an... Read More
Inventors: Brantingham, George L.; Someshwar, Ashok H.;, Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) |
Semiconductor memory having subarrays and partial word lines
I claim: 1. A semiconductor array memory comprising a plurality of selectable subarrays arranged on a chip having a common decoder, common read lines and common write lines, data input and output circ... Read More
Inventors: Wiedmann, Siegfried K.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Flat-cell read-only-memory integrated circuit
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention is described with reference to FIGS. 1-8. FIGS. 1-3 illustrate the flat-cell ROM layout and ba... Read More
Inventors: Yiu, Tom D. H.;, Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd. (Taiwan, CN) |
Variable sized FIFO memory and programmable trigger level therefor for use in a UART or the like
In accordance with the illustrated embodiments, the present invention provides a data available interrupt circuit with a variable threshold for reading data from a receiver FIFO, and a variable depth ... Read More
Inventors: Thomsen, Joseph A.; Long, Marty L.;, Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Apparatus for programmable circuit and signal switching
We claim: 1. A programmable interconnect device for routing signals between signal ports in response to data from an external controller, the device comprising: switch means having a plurality of said... Read More
Inventors: Hsieh, Wen-Jai; Horng, Chi-Song; Wong, Chun C. D.;, Assignee: I-Cube, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Semiconductor memory device having hierarchical bit line structure employing improved bit line precharging system
Accordingly, a first object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor memory device of a hierarchical bit line structure having a high read rate. Another object of the present invention i... Read More
Inventors: Tsukude, Masaki; Tsuruda, Takahiro;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Dram core refresh with reduced spike current
The present invention makes multibank refresh more practical by varying the current profile for the row sense and/or row precharge currents during a refresh operation, as compared to normal memory acc... Read More
Inventors: Tsern, Ely K.; Barth, Richard M.; Davis, Paul G.; Hampel, Craig E.;, Assignee: Rambus Inc. (Mountain View, CA) |
I/O Systems 
