Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7110414 | Cross-point switch for a fiber channel arbitrated loop A hub for a fiber channel arbitrated loop is disclosed. The hub comprises a switching device including a matrix of switches connected by a plurality of signal lines, each signal line being electrically connected to at least one switch. The hub is operable to selecti... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6993610 | Data storage system having two disk drive controllers each having transmit and receive path connected in common to single port of disk drive via buffer or multiplexer A data storage apparatus arranged to provide redundancy in a storage enclosure containing multiple Serial ATA disk drives is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least one disk drive of a kind having a single port for the input and output of serial data and at leas... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983363 | Reset facility for redundant processor using a fiber channel loop A processor resetting apparatus comprises a fibre channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) interface arranged to receive a frame over the FC-AL containing an indicator of a reset command for a server comprising one of a redundant pair of servers and including a processor ass... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6961767 | Fibre channel diagnostics in a storage enclosure A fiber channel analyzer for analyzing the operation of a fiber channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) to which a plurality of devices are connectable is disclosed. The analyzer is adapted to be housed in an enclosure which, in use, houses at least one of the fiber channel... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6883106 | System for communicating a signal to a device indicating an output supply level being provided to a backplane from a power supply unit A power supply unit controller for a rack enclosure in which a plurality of devices communicate via a backplane is disclosed. The controller reads at least one signal indicative of an output supply level being provided to the backplane by a power supply unit associa... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6832324 | Method for providing a device communicating to a backplane the current status of an associated power supply unit connected to the backplane A power supply unit controller for a rack enclosure in which a plurality of devices communicate via a backplane is disclosed. The controller reads signal(s) indicative of output supply level(s) being provided to the backplane by a power supply unit associated the th... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826714 | Data gathering device for a rack enclosure A data gathering device for a rack enclosure which is, in use, cooperable with at least one SES processor, each processor being incorporated in a respective plug-in card. The data gathering device comprises at least one port adapted to communicate with a respective ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6419528 | Field replaceable unit A field replaceable unit comprises a housing having a front and a rear and is configured for sliding insertion into and out of a rack from its rear. The unit includes a connector for, in use, completing an electrical circuit from a backplane of the rack t... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6061244 | Carrier for an electronic device A carrier for an electronic device such as a disk drive comprises a hollow casing for accomodating the electronic device. The casing is configured for sliding insertion into and out of a rack having a back plane with at least one lamp which in use indicat... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6050658 | Carrier for an electronic device A carrier for an electronic device comprises a hollow casing (14) for accomodating the electronic device, which casing is configured for sliding insertion into and out of a rack. A latch (46) at the rear of the casing releasably retains the casing in the ... | 04/18/2000 |
