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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| 7909180 | Load balancing robust computer frame A load balancing method and incorporated assembly is provided for a computer frame having side walls. The assembly comprises a mid-plane plate having top and bottom sides and capable of being secured to the frames inside side walls. The mid-plane plate also has mean... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7848109 | Assembly and method for ruggedizing computer racks and/or electronic cage assemblies A method and incorporated assembly for enhancing structural rigidity of a computer rack used for housing electronic components is provided. In one embodiment, the assembly comprises a casing made of a lighter weight material and having protrusions. The protrusions a... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7874862 | Connector actuation mechanism A mechanism for electrically connecting a first electronic component to a second electronic component includes an actuating member disposed in the first electronic component including a first connector half and an actuation screw having a head and a threaded end. Th... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7837352 | Light source for illuminating an electronics rack to facilitate servicing thereof An apparatus is provided for facilitating servicing of an electronics rack. The apparatus includes a light source, which includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes. The plurality of light-emitting diodes are secured to the electronics rack or a floor tile dispose... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7766684 | Connector actuation mechanism A mechanism for electrically connecting a first electronic component to a second electronic component. The mechanism includes an actuating member disposed in the first electronic component including a first connector half and an actuation screw having a head and a t... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7762718 | Condensation detector utilizing a wet bulb and dry bulb temperature differential Apparatus, systems and methods for coordinated detecting condensation utilizing a wet bulb and dry bulb temperature differential are disclosed. According to exemplary embodiments, a condensation detector may include; a first temperature sensor which generates a firs... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7745898 | Multichip package, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same Disclosed herein is a multichip package comprising an optoelectronics assembly; a socket that houses the optoelectronics assembly; the socket being in electrical communication with the optoelectronics assembly; a plate having a first surface and a second surface; th... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7741821 | Start-up circuit and method for high voltage power distribution circuit A start-up circuit for a high voltage power distribution circuit includes a transistor, a current source which generates ramped current, an operational amplifier which is connected between the current source and the transistor and controls the transistor, a capacito... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7533173 | Policy driven automation - specifying equivalent resources An autonomic computing system and method store a set of resource equivalencies in memory, select at least one resource equivalency from the set of resource equivalencies, and use the selected at least one resource equivalency for operating the selected resource as r... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7505963 | Method and system for efficiently saving and retrieving values of a large number of resource variables using a small repository Reducing memory and/or storage requirements of a repository in a resource variable value save and retrieve operation implemented in computer hardware and/or software is accomplished by minimizing the number of repository entries saved by creating and saving reposito... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502790 | Multi-column multi-data type internationalized sort extension for web applications A method for implementing a front-end user sort request includes receiving a list request, decomposing the list request and creating a sort entry object using a list of column values initially retrieved from a data storage medium. A sort routine is performed on at l... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499970 | Method and system for supervisor partitioning of client resources A method for supervisor partitioning of client resources in a communications environment includes receiving, at a client node, an allocated set of resources over a communications network, and partitioning the allocated set of resources among one or more applications... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499920 | Multi-column multi-data type internationalized sort extension method for web applications A method for implementing a web-based, front-end user request includes receiving a list request from a front-end user, and receiving user characteristics associated with the list request. Data corresponding to the list request is retrieved from a data storage medium... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493433 | System, method and storage medium for providing an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) slave with read/write access to random access memory A method for data access via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) protocol. The method includes receiving an I2C read command at an I2C slave device, where the I2C read command is from an I2C master device. The method also includes reading stored data from a storage de... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490154 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment. The system includes a first resource management host in communication with a clien... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7459112 | Method of fabrication for a thermal spreader using thermal conduits A thermal spreading device disposable between electronic circuitry and a heat sink includes a substrate having parallel first and second faces and conduits extending through the substrate between the faces. The substrate material has a first thermal conductivity val... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7437447 | Method and system for authenticating a requestor without providing a key A method for authenticating a requesting entity in a communications environment. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes determining a client identification of a client node associated with the requesting entity, and determining whether the requesting entity... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409592 | System for facilitating coverage feedback testcase generation reproducibility An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a system for facilitating coverage feedback testcase generation reproducibility. The system comprises a domain definition input file for defining a coverage domain element and an internal coverage domain data store... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7363303 | Multi-column multi-data type internationalized sort extension method for web applications A method for implementing a front-end user sort request includes receiving a list request, decomposing the list request and creating a sort entry object using a list of column values initially retrieved from a data storage medium. A sort routine is performed on at l... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356562 | Dynamic generator for fast-client static proxy from service interface definition document Providing APIs for dynamically generating fast client-side proxies given any type of service interface specification/definition document, such as IDL, WSDL or JMX MBean descriptors, so as to provide fast communication with distributed clients as well as dynamically ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356525 | Multi-column multi-data type internationalized sort extension method for web applications A method for implementing a web-based, front-end user request includes receiving a list request from a front-end user, and receiving user characteristics associated with the list request. Data corresponding to the list request is retrieved from a data storage medium... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349966 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment. The system comprises: a first resource management host in communication with a cli... | 03/25/2008 |
| 6272660 | Screening for errors in data transmission systems The likelihood of significant errors in a decoded sequence is determined based on at least one criterion that is both extrinsic and intrinsic to the decoded sequence. In particular, this determination is preferably made by comparing a signal corresponding... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6061676 | Effecting constraint magic rewriting on a query with the multiset version of the relational algebric theta-semijoin operator An equivalence rule having the multiset version of the relational algebraic theta-semijoin operator is used in effectuating Constraint Magic rewriting on a computer programming language query having non-equality, as well as equality, predicates. In partic... | 05/09/2000 |
