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US 2073273 A Abstract available in Claims available in Description (OCR text may contain errors) Filed March 31 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 9, 1937. 1 WETSTElN 2,()73,273 MEAS FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES Filed March 5l, 1932 2 Sheets-SheefI 2 BY His ATTORNEY. Z Patented Mar. 9, ,1937 UNITED STATES- 2,073,213 MEANS Foa ranranmc BEvEnaGEs Jacob Wetstein, New York, N. Y.; Erna Korn and I Florence W. Winters executrices of said Jacob Wetstein, deceased Application Marchal, 1932ser1a1 No. 602,318. In Great-Britainimd Canada November 25, 1931 A 4 Claims. This invention relates to a method and means of preparing a liquid by the use of a combination member which contains a drink ingredient and `carbon dioxide; the said drink ingredient and 5 carbon dioxide being injected into the liquid to be prepared, and a simple means through the use of which, the top pressure produced, is released. The most important object of my invention is to provide a method and means whereby a drink can be prepared as needed by the individual.; This drink may be of any variety of avored sweetened, carbonated beverage. It may be a carbonated water. It may be a carbonated min- ,eral water of the desired medicinal value `by the l use of prepared salts. O ther and equally important objects of; my invention are the enmination of the use of bottles in which liquids of the type I may prepare. are usually dispensed or brought into the home tobe '20 subsequently thrown awayor returned for the dispensed with, only a single container being kept where the drink is to be actually prepared, at which place the water is obtained preparatory to making the beverage. My invention is'also clean and sanitary inthat` it prevents the spread of contamination that might result from the use of returned bottles which may not have been thoroughly cleansed. A still further object of my invention is to pro. vide, through thel use of my invention, a better result than could be obtained if flavor or syrup or other ingredient were added to an open tumbler ofcarbonated water inasmuch as the best result is obtained by injecting the davor and the gas into a closed container of liquid. With these and other objects in view, my invention comprises the construction, combination and arrangement of the various parts hereinafter described, and then particularly pointed out in .the appended claims. In the drawings:- Figure 1 is a view in elevation partly in section showing how 'my invention is employed, in the production of a carbonated liquid. 'Ihe gure shows howthe container and cap therefor would appear after the combination member containing the drink ingredient and carbon dioxide, hereinafter referred to as the reiill member, is positioned in the top of the container. Figure 2 is a view in sectional 'elevation of the top of the container similar to that illustrated in corrosive metal, preferably. 'Ihe receptacle is Figure 1, but showing the first position of the ingredient shell and the gas cartridge after the cap has been threaded down to force the shell of! the cartridge. Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure -2 showing 5 a still further movement of the cap which causes the piercing of the gas cartridge which is positionecl within the ingredient shell so that the gas is released and not only forces the contents of the shell out but injects the gas and the ingredi- 1o ent into the fluid to form the prepared liquid. Figure 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1 and illustrates the method for hold- Y ing the shell and cartridge kcombination in verand Figure 6 is a section taken on the line B-B of 20 Figure 1 illustrating the reiill holding member employed in the upper end of the receptacle. Figure 7 is an enlarged view in section of the top'of a receptacle in which is housed the reiill member, the receptacle being closed with a 25 cap in which is positioned `a further form of rell operating device, the view also showing different means for fastening the cap to the receptacle. Figure 8 is an enlarged section taken on the '30 line 8-8 of Figure 'l and illustrates the construction of the cap fastening means. Figure 9I is a section taken on the line 99 of Figure '7 and illustrates the method of suplvporting the cartridge within the refill or liquid 35 shell. Figure 10 is a section taken on the line Ill-I0 of Figure 7 and illustrates the construction of the bridge member upon which the reilll is supported, and Figure 11 is an enlarged section taken on the 40 line Ii-II 'of Figure 'l illustrating the construction of the plunger and its ventl passage. This application is a continuing application of Serial No. 498,095, flied November 25, 1930, 45 by Jacob Wetstein for `patent on Method and means for preparing a liquid and includes all oi' the subject matter of 'said application. Referring to the drawings in detail, 5 indicates a liquid receptacle of bottle shape of any 50 particular' contour desired and made from a nonprovided with an inwardly extending flange .l adi jacent its open end, which flange, ii.' desired, may be replaced by tongues or another suitable me- 55 between the lower edge of the cap and' the shoulder 9 of the receptacle. The upper end of the receptacle is internally threaded as at I2 to receive the threaded portion I5 of a cup Il; This cap is preferably made from the same material as the container 5 and may be knurled or; ribbed on its exterior surface to provide a con-- venient means for threading into or out of the receptacle. Instead of the screw threads employed in this particular instance, I may provide a quick locking means for positioning the cap in place which will serve the same purpose as the threaded mounting. The reilllmember which `constitutes th important part of my invention consists of the outer shell I5, the open end of which is constricted as at I6 and arranged to. be closed by the insertion therein of the gas cartridge I1. The upper end of the shell at I5 carries on its interior and at the said end, the piercing pin I5, which, as illustrated in Figure 5, is provided with the slots or ilutes 20 which permit escape of the gas vfrom the cartridge I1 when the end of said cartridge is pierced 'by the pin. The pin I5 is secured to the inner wall of the shell in any suitable manner. The cartridge I1 employed for holding the carbon dioxide gas is made of non-corrosive metal, the walls of which are sufciently thick to withstand a high pressure and the rounded lower end 2l of the cartridge extends slightly beyond the end of the shell and is .arranged to rest on the bridge l of the support ring 1. The inner end of the cartridge is reduced in diameter and provided with a blunt end 22 which has secured thereto in any manner, the guide ferrule 23, the purpose of which is to locate the piercing pin II and permit quick assemblage of the cartridge I1 withthe shell I5 in manufacture.. The cap I4 at the center thereof and on its inner top surface has a compressible washer 24 which, aswell as the top Il, is provided with a central bore 25 constituting a vent opening for the release of the top pressure to be described. The shell I5 containing the gas. cartridge is sold to the consumer in the form illustrated in Figure 1, it being presumedthatthe consumer has a receptacle of the type illustrated for the particular employment of the renll member and the reillls constituting the shell I5 and the cartridge I1 in the assembled relation illustrated in Figure 1, are operated upon by the action of the cap to form the prepared liquid. The shell I5 may contain any sweetened or unsweetened avoring uid or concentrate for.,the production of a beverage. It may contain 'a salt solution for the production of a mineral water having` certain desired medicinal properties. The ca'r` 70 tridge I1 will be filled with carbon dioxide which,v when released, will force the ingredient. out of. the shell I5 and itself pass'into the water to form a carbonated fluid. - The best results are obtained in preparing the 75 liquid in a closed container of the type illus- Wise highly objectionable. and the washer II. trated and the arrangement of the parts and operatioh o1 my device notv only promotes the proper making of the fiuid but is suiiiciently simple in construction so tliat the housewife can prepare a carbonated beverage in a few minutes,- that will excel in quality beverages prepared by mixing carbonated water and flavoring matter in an open receptacle. As a first step in the operation of the device, the reilll member which constitutes the flavor or ingredientholding shell I5 and the gas cartridge I1 are positioned as illustrated in Figure 1 and the cap I4 is threaded thereover until, as shown f in Figure 2, thewasher I I is engaged by the lower peripheral edge of the cap to seal the recepta-- cle at the point after which the washer 24 comes into contact with the top of the shell I5 and the latter is forced downwardly until the edge of'the opening I5--A of the shell I5 is moved away from the wall of the cartridge I1 to provide an opening to permit ilow of the avoring liquid or ingredient contained in the shell I5. At the same time that the gasket 25 comes into contact with the outer, upper surface of the shell I5, the vent 25 is-sealed, thus maintaining a closed'receptacle and one which is air` and liquid-tight. Further screwing of the cap' I4 downwardly to the position indicated in Figure 3, further com-` presses the washer II and causes the washer 2,4 1 to move the shell I5 downwardly until the piercing pin I5 carried in the inside thereof, pierces the upper end ofthe gas cartridge I1 with the result that the gas is released and forces the flavor or ingredient out of Jthe shell I5 into the liquid 25 which is to be prepared. After the pin I5 has'pierced the cartridge, the lower edge o! the shell rests on the bridge 8. When the gas has been released, it will, in addition to carbonating the liquid 25 and removing the contents of the shell I5, produce a top pressure. Should the cap be removed at this time, the carbonated beverage would foam up and the prepared fluid would boil over the top of the receptacle which makes it highly important to guard against, because it ruins the drink and `is other- In order to prevent this, a feature-of my invention contemplates the use of the vent 25 and the relation of the washer It will be noted that when the cap I4 was threaded down, washer II was first engaged by the lower peripheral edge of the cap. thus providing a cap seal, after which the washer 2l engaged the upper end of the shell I5 to seal the opening 25. 'A reverse movement of the cap or an unthreading movement thereof, will, therefore, first release or disengage the washer 2l from the upper surface of the shell I5 withifthe result that the 'small vent 25 .wlll be open and passage oi the top pressure gas may exude through the vent 25 without causing foaming or boiling of the liquid contents of the container 5. When the cap is removed the reil member may be thrown away and the contents of the receptacle 5 can then be poured out. In the modified form of my invention, the receptacle, indicated by the numeral 5, is provided with an annular ledge 20 upon which is positioned a bridge 5I constituting a support for the refill unit and also a guide when the same is positioned inthe receptacle. This bridge 5I consists of the depending arms 22, the upper ends of which are turned over as at 35 to rest on the ledge III while the depending portions 52 at their central meeting point are provided with an upstanding cartridge rest' 3|, upon which is supported the cartridge cup 2 l-A which is force fitted over the curved end 2l-B of the gas cartridge I1-A. The lower end of the shell l5--A is provided with an inwardly flanged opening, the ange |5--C of 5 which frictionally holds the cup 2I-A therein so that the closed end of the cup is flush with the outer surface of the shell |5-A, which holds the liquldto be forced by the gas when it is released from the cartridge into the liquid to be prepared. 'I'his shell 5-A may be provided with a guide ring 35 positioned in any suitable manner therein so that the central ring 36 thereof holds the cartridge l1-A in upright position so that the piercing pin IS--A in the shell |5-A will properly pierce the cartridge. This cup 2|-A also serves as a guide in properly supporting the cartridge when it is pierced to release the gas. The receptacle 5 in'which the liquid 26 to be prepared is held, is closed at its upper end through the medium of a cap 36 flanged at its lower end as at 31 to fit over a gasket 38 positioned on a ledge 39 at the upper end of the receptacle 5. In order to quickly place or remove the cap 36, I have provided the same with headed pins 40 at the opposite sides thereof, or at any desired points onvthe periphery thereof which are arranged to be engaged by the yoke link 4I whichis pivoted as at 42 in a latching hasp arm 43 pivoted in turn as at 44, to an extension or ear of a plate 45 which is secured in any suitable manner adjacent the upper end of the receptacle 5. The pivot point 44 of the hasp arm 43 being above the pivot point 1 42 of the link 4|, will cause, when the Ahasp arm is drawn down in the position indicated in outline in Figure '7, and in the direction indicated by the arrow in said figure, a tightening of the cap against the gasket 38 a'nd the hasp will act as a latch and will prevent accidental removal or loosening of the cap 36 when once the fastening device has been secured, as illustrated. In order to release the cover, it is simply necessary to raise the hasp arm 43 until the centers 42 and 44 are out ofalignrnent at which time the hasp arm is continued in its raising movement until the link 4| can be removed over the headed pin through the medium of its -enlarged cut-out portion 41, provided for this purpose. The means of releasing the top pressure after the formation of the drink, as indicated in Fig- I4 and in order to minimize the effort required, I have, as shown in Figure 7, provided the cap 36 with a sleeve 46 inl which is threaded as at 41, a plunger shaft 48, the upper end of which is formed to provide a handle 49 and the plunger shaft itself is provided with a hollow bore 50 constituting a vent. The plunger passes through the sleeve 46 and through a packing gland 5| which prevents leakage through the sleeve 46. The plunger at its lower end and inside the cap 36 is provided with a plunger plate 5I-A the under side of which is Acovered by a yieldable seating gasket 52, the 65 vent 50 passing through the gasket and the plunger plate. It is evident that, as illustrated in Figure 7, a downward movement of the plunger 48 by threading will bring the gasketl52 into contact with the upper surface of the shell l5-A and further movement downwardly of the plunger will force the shell off the cartridge cup 2 l-A until the flange |5C of the shell is free of the cup 2l-A and the liquid content of the shell i5-A can escape. At this time further down- Ward movement of the plunger will cause the pin ure 1, contemplates the unthreading of the cap I9A to pierce the gas cartridge to release the gas and form the drink as hereinbefore described. To release the top pressure however, it is simply necessary to unscrew the plunger so that. it moves upwardly through the sleeve 46 a sufflcient distance to permit separation of the gasket 52` from the outer, upper surface of the shell I5-A, at which time the gas will escape through the vent and the cover or cap 36 may then be quickly removed without boiling over of the contents of the receptacle 5 which would be the case'were the top pressure to be suddenly released. lIt is evident, therefore, that I have provided a method and means whereby a carbonated liquid can be prepared either in beverage formor for other uses and liquid can be prepared at the time that it is to be used so that it will be absolutely fresh and will have' a high content of carbon dioxide which imparts to the prepared liquid, life and sparkle, and prevents it from quickly becoming flat. Another feature of my invention is that the combination of the flavor container and the gas container sold in a unit, known as a refill, makes possible, the selling of these reillls in convenient quantities which can be stored in a small space, or may be kept indefinitely in an unchilled atmosphere and when used with cold water of a suit- The flavor shell l5 may contain any kind oi.l flavor desired for a beverage, and as before mentioned,P any kind of salt solution that willproduce I a mineral water having predetermined medicinal value. It is evident also that my invention provides 'for the ideal method of making a carbonated beverage in that it injects the syrup and the gas into the liquid to be prepared in a closed container. Further, the iiavoring or ingredient is prevented from deteriorating by reason of the airtight contact between the shell |5and the gas cartridge I1 and the metal employed in the construction of all of the parts may be such that corrosion or contamination is prevented. Other advantages present in my invention are y simplicity of construction, manufacture at low cost, a high degree'of efficiency in use, and complete elimination of the possibility of the bursting of the container due to gas pressure. My invention is not to be restricted to the precise details of construction shown since various changes and modifications may be made therein with-out departing from thescope of the invention or sacrificing the advantages derived from its use. What I claim is:- 1. As an article of manufacture, a drink ingredient shell and a gas cartridge Awithin the shell, said cartridge constituting a closure for the shell and said shell and cartridge being relatively movable to provide an opening in the shell. 2. As an article of manufacture, a drink ingredient shell, a gas cartridge movably'positione'd within the shell, one end of said cartridge'con! stituting a closure for the shell, and means for piercing said cartridge upon a relative move- 4 afnam cartridge'to discharge the contents of said shell, and a guide associated with the cartridge. 4. As an article of manufacture, a drink ingredient shell. a gas cartridge within the shell, a cup end on said cartridge constituting a closure for said shell, and said shell and cartridge being relatively movable to force the cup end out of said shell and provide an opening in the latter. - JACOB WETS'I'EIN. Referenced by
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Issue 6 • Date Jun 1996
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A programmable FIR digital filter using CSD coefficients
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 869 - 874
Cited by: Papers (20) | Patents (2)An area-efficient programmable FIR digital filter using canonic signed-digit (CSD) coefficients was implemented that uses a switchable unit-delay to allocate the desired number of nonzero CSD coefficient digits to each filter tap. The prototype chip can allocate up to 16 pairs of nonzero CSD coefficient digits for a linear-phase filter, thus realizing filters with 32 linear-phase taps operating at 180 MHz with two nonzero CSD digits per filter tap. Additional nonzero CSD digits can be allocated to filter taps at the penalty of a reduced filter length and a reduced data-rate. The chip was implemented with 16-bit I/O in a die size of 5.9 mm by 3.4 mm using 1.0-μm CMOS technology View full abstract»
A 2×2 analog memory implemented with a special layout injector
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 856 - 859
Cited by: Papers (3)Using floating gate MOSFETs, we have designed a 2×2 analog memory, which is expandable to any size array. The reduced programming voltage due to the innovative floating gate MOSFETs enables us to construct the analog memory with a standard double poly n-well process. In addition, a novel programming algorithm is presented. This method will contribute not only to a reduced total programming time, but also to a prolonged lifetime of the memory. The high voltage program/erase pulses are arranged to minimize the disturbance of nonselected cells. The resolution of a memory cell has been found to be 10 mV over a range of 1.25 V to 2 V which is equivalent to the information content of 6 digital cells View full abstract»
A 1.2 GFLOPS neural network chip for high-speed neural network servers
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 860 - 864
Cited by: Papers (3)This paper describes a digital neural network chip for high-speed neural network servers. The chip employs single-instruction multiple-data stream (SIMD) architecture consisting of 12 floating-point processing units, a control unit, and a nonlinear function unit. At a 50 MHz clock frequency, the chip achieves a peak speed performance of 1.2 GFLOPS using 24-bit floating-point representation. Two schemes of expanding the network size enable neural tasks requiring over 1 million synapses to be executed. The average speed performances of typical neural network models are also discussed View full abstract»
A 64-bit carry look ahead adder using pass transistor BiCMOS gates
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 810 - 818
Cited by: Papers (11) | Patents (2)This paper describes a 64-bit two-stage carry look ahead adder utilizing pass transistor BiCMOS gate. The new pass transistor BiCMOS gate has a smaller intrinsic delay time than conventional BiCMOS gates. Furthermore, this gate has a rail-to-rail output voltage. Therefore the next gate does not have a large degradation of its driving capability. The exclusive OR and NOR gate using the pass transistor BiCMOS gate shows a speed advantage over CMOS gates under a wide variance in load capacitance. The pass transistor BiCMOS gates were applied to full adders, carry path circuits, and carry select circuits. In consequence, a 64-bit two-stage carry look ahead adder was fabricated using a 0.5 μm BiCMOS process with single polysilicon and double-metal interconnections. A critical path delay time of 3.5 ns was observed at a supply voltage of 3.3 V. This is 25% better than the result of the adder circuit using CMOS technology. Even at the supply voltage of 2.0 V, this adder is faster than the CMOS adder View full abstract»
A swing restored pass-transistor logic-based multiply and accumulate circuit for multimedia applications
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 804 - 809
Cited by: Papers (21) | Patents (6)Swing restored pass-transistor logic (SRPL), a high-speed, low-power logic circuit technique for VLSI applications, is described. By the use of a pass-transistor network to perform logic evaluation and a latch-type swing restoring circuit to drive gate outputs, this technique renders highly competitive circuit performance. An SRPL based multiply and accumulate circuit for multimedia applications is implemented in double metal 0.4 μm CMOS technology View full abstract»
A theoretical design basis for minimizing CMOS fixed taper buffer area
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 865 - 868
Cited by: Papers (3)This paper develops a theoretical basis for the minimization of chip area required for fixed taper buffer design. It modifies the well-known procedure for minimizing delay time in such circuits to derive a minimum number of required stages. Rather than minimize delay time, the procedure realizes a specified buffer delay time using a stage-area scale factor that minimizes the total area of the buffer. Since an integer number of tapered stages must be used while the calculations lead to noninteger results, the effects of roundoff errors are included View full abstract»
A full bit prefetch DRAM sensing circuit
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 767 - 772
Cited by: Papers (3) | Patents (7)A DRAM sensing circuit that achieves both a fast RAS access time and a high-bandwidth burst operation is proposed. For the data burst capability of synchronous DRAM's, 256-bit-long data I/O lines are divided into eight segments. A small local latch is provided for each segment of 32 bit-line pairs to prefetch eight data out of the 256 sense amplifiers. A local buffer is connected to eight local latches through selection switches. Burst read operations, up to eight bits, are done by activating selection switches and the local buffer serially. Besides this prefetch capability, the segmented data I/O line results in very small capacitance, only 0.09 pF. The sensing scheme uses nMOS bit switches and a full Vdd precharge voltage for bit and segmented data I/O lines. Then, after sense amplifiers are turned on, only low-going bit lines are connected to the segmented data I/O lines without any voltage disturbance because of the small capacitance. The proposed circuit, therefore, realizes a high-speed RAS access, which is 16 ns faster than a conventional DRAM. A circuit layout design based on a 0.5-μm design rule shows no area impact View full abstract»
A GHz MOS adaptive pipeline technique using MOS current-mode logic
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 784 - 791
Cited by: Papers (39) | Patents (23)This paper describes an adaptive pipeline (APL) technique, which is a new pipeline scheme capable of compensating for device-parameter deviations and for operating-environment variations. This technique can also compensate for clock skew and eliminate excessive power dissipation in current-mode logic (CML) circuits. The APL technique is here applied to a 0.4-μm MOS 1.6-V 1-GHz 64-bit double-stage pipeline adder, and this paper shows that the adder can operate accurately on condition that the clock has 20% skew. The APL technique uses MOS current-mode logic (MCML) circuits, whose propagation delay time can be varied by the control ports. MCML circuits can operate with lower signal voltage swing and higher operating frequency at lower supply voltage than CMOS circuits can. This paper also shows that MCML circuits are suitable for a low-noise variable delay circuit. Measurement results show that jitter of MCML circuits is about 65% that of CMOS circuits View full abstract»
An 8.8-ns 54×54-bit multiplier with high speed redundant binary architecture
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 773 - 783
Cited by: Papers (49) | Patents (1)A high speed redundant binary (RB) architecture, which is optimized for the fast CMOS parallel multiplier, is developed. This architecture enables one to convert a pair of partial products in normal binary (NB) form to one RE number with no additional circuit. We improved the RB adder (RBA) circuit so that it can make a fast addition of the RB partial products. We also simplified the converter circuit that converts the final RE number into the corresponding NE number. The carry propagation path of the converter circuit is carried out with only multiplexer circuits. A 54×54-bit multiplier is designed with this architecture. It is fabricated by 0.5 μm CMOS with triple level metal technology. The active area size is 3.0×3.08 mm2 and the number of transistors is 78,800. This is the smallest number for all 54×54-bit multipliers ever reported. Under the condition of 3.3 V supply voltage, the chip achieves 8.8 ns multiplication time. The power dissipation of 540 mW is estimated for the operating frequency of 100 MHz. These are, so far, the fastest speed and the lowest power for 54×54-bit multipliers with 0.5-μm CMOS View full abstract»
A 1.3-ns 32-word×32-bit three-port BiCMOS register file
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 758 - 766
Cited by: Papers (6)This paper describes a CMOS multiport static memory cell with which it is possible to use current-switching bipolar peripheral circuits to maintain small voltage swings throughout the read access path while retaining the high density of CMOS memory arrays. An experimental 32-word×32 bit three-port register file has been designed and implemented using this cell. The register file was fabricated in a 0.6-μm BiCMOS technology and operates from a single -3.3-V power supply with ECL-compatible I/O circuits. Under nominal operating conditions at 20°C, the measured pin-to-pin access time is 1.3 ns. The minimum write enable pulse width required is less than 1 ns, and the power dissipation, excluding the output buffers, is 650 mW at a clock rate of 100 MHz View full abstract»
Large bandwidth BiCMOS operational amplifiers for SC video applications
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 828 - 834
Cited by: Papers (5)A single-ended and a fully differential broadband BiCMOS operational amplifier for switched-capacitor video applications are presented. The amplifiers feature a folded cascode gain stage with a current source as output load. For the single-ended amplifier the current mirroring is accomplished with a modified bipolar Wilson current mirror at the output of the differential pair. Symbolic expressions for the transfer functions for both amplifiers are derived. The amplifiers are integrated in an analog 1 μm BiCMOS process with an active die area of 0.72 mm2 and 0.96 mm2 for the single-ended and the fully differential amplifier, respectively. For both amplifiers a DC-gain of 68 dB and a unity gain frequency greater than 250 MHz was measured for a power supply voltage of 5 V View full abstract»
A tunable pulse-shaping filter for use in a nuclear spectrometer system
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 850 - 855A pulse-shaping filter for use in a nuclear spectrometer system is described. The filter is designed using tunable gm blocks in order to allow for an adjustable peaking time. Fully differential structures are employed to achieve sufficient pulse height linearity View full abstract»
A GaAs MMIC chip-set for mobile communications using on-chip ferroelectric capacitors
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 835 - 840
Cited by: Papers (1) | Patents (1)A GaAs MMIC chip-set applicable for various mobile communication systems has been developed. The chip-set consists of (1) low-noise amplifier (LNA) with diversity switching capability and (2) integrated mixer with an amplifier for local oscillator signal. The notable feature of these ICs is the dramatic reduction of pin counts and the improvement of high frequency characteristics due to on-chip ferroelectric bypass capacitors of barium strontium titanium (εr=300). These ICs can be mounted in a small mini-mold package with 6-pin counts View full abstract»
Top-down pass-transistor logic design
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 792 - 803
Cited by: Papers (87) | Patents (29)The pass-transistor based cell library and synthesis tool are constructed, for the first time, to clarify the potential of top-down pass-transistor logic. The entire scheme is called LEAP (Lean Integration with Pass-Transistors). The feature of a pass-transistor based cell is its multiplexer function and the open-drain structure. This cell has the flexibility of transistor level circuit design and compatibility with conventional cell based design. An extremely simple cell library with only seven cells combined with a synthesis tool called "circuit inventor" is compared with the conventional CMOS library that has over 60 cells combined with the state-of-the-art logic synthesis. The results show that the area, delay, and power dissipation are improved by LEAP and that the value-cost ratio is improved by a factor of three. This demonstrates that LEAP has the potential to achieve a quantum leap in value of LSI's while reducing the cost. Key issues which have to be cleared before pass transistor logic is used as the generic logic scheme replacing CMOS are also discussed View full abstract»
Performance of CMOS differential circuits
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 841 - 846
Cited by: Papers (39) | Patents (1)Differential CMOS logic family has potential advantages over the standard static CMOS logic family implemented using NAND/NOR logic. These circuits tend to be faster and require fewer transistors. In this paper, various static and dynamic circuit techniques from the differential logic family are evaluated using application circuits like adders and multipliers. Circuits with self-timed characteristics are also considered. Evaluations are performed in terms of area, number of transistors, and propagation delay. Results indicate that in general, dynamic differential circuit techniques are faster than their conventional static counterparts. Further improvement in circuit performance can be achieved by choosing an appropriate differential structure to match logic structure being implemented. Second, even though the circuit techniques such as differential split-level perform better, they may not be widely accepted mainly because of the increase in circuit complexity and cost. Lastly, the self-timed dynamic differential circuit techniques yield considerable improvement in speed without having the problems of charge distribution or race conditions typically associated with the conventional single-ended domino circuit technique View full abstract»
Capacitor-free level-sensitive active pull-down ECL circuit with self-adjusting driving capability
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 819 - 827
Cited by: Papers (3) | Patents (1)This paper introduces a new self-adjusting active pull-down scheme for ECL circuit. The circuit offers self-terminating dynamic pull-down action by sensing the output level rather than using traditional load-dependent capacitive coupling. No capacitor or large resistor is required, and therefore it adds no process complexity and no area penalty. Implemented in an ECL gate array in a 1.2 μm double-poly self aligned bipolar technology, the circuit offers 300-ps delay at a power consumption of 1 mW/gate under FO=1 and CL=0.55 pF loading condition. This is a 4.4 times speed improvement over the conventional ECL circuit. Furthermore, the circuit consumes only 0.25 mW for a gate speed of 700 ps/gate, which is a 1/7.8 power reduction compared with the conventional ECL circuit. The circuit requires a regulated reference voltage, which is also studied View full abstract»
A feedforward technique with frequency-dependent current mirrors for a low-voltage wideband amplifier
Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 847 - 849
Cited by: Papers (4) | Patents (1)A feedforward technique using frequency-dependent current mirrors for a low-voltage wideband amplifier is presented. In the conventional single-stage wideband amplifiers, the folded cascode structure is used. However, the common-gate transistor requires an additional VDS sat and reduces the available output voltage range. In this study the cascode structure is avoided; instead, a frequency-dependent current mirror, whose input impedance becomes higher for a higher frequency, is used to form the feedforward path from the input of the current mirror with a feedforward capacitor. This technique is effective to improve a 100 MHz-1 GHz frequency characteristic of the amplifier. The amplifier has been fabricated using the standard 0.8 μm CMOS process. The phase margin is improved from 46-66° without sacrificing the unity gain frequency of 133 MHz compared with the amplifier without this technique. The amplifier operates at 2.5 V power supply voltage and consumes 12 mW View full abstract»
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International price discovery in the presence of market microstructure effects
This paper addresses and resolves the problems caused by microstructure effects when measuring the relative importance of home and U.S. market in the price discovery process of internationally cross listed stocks. In order to avoid large bounds for information shares, previous studies applying the Cholesky decomposition within the Hasbrouck (1995) framework had to rely on high frequency data. However, this entails a potential bias of estimated information shares induced by microstructure effects. We propose a modified approach that relies on distributional assumptions and yields unique and unbiased information shares. Our results indicate that the role of the U.S. market in the price discovery process of Canadian interlisted stocks has been severely underestimated to date. Moreover, we find that rather than stock specific factors, market design determines information shares.
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Many Besset/Bessette's in North America descend from this Jean and Anne. Very little is known about the French origins of Jean Besset, although through his marriage contract, one single detail has come to us. He was from the town of Cahors, today the head town of the arrondissement of the department lot, in the Midi-Pyrenees, in Guyenne.
Jean Besset came to New France with the Carignan Regiment in 1665. The first official mention of Jean Besset in Canadian history was in the spring of 1688. On May 20, Msgr de Laval appeared at Fort Chambly to meet the soldiers and to speak to them. He administered the sacrament of confirmation to 66 people, all men, including Jean Besset.
Jean Besset spent the winter of 1668 and 1669 guarding army property at Fort Saint-Louis. Fort Saint-Louis was used primarily as a warehouse for supplies and munitions. After the breakup of the Carignan Regiment, Jean Besset took to farming land, and on October 14, 1673: received title to his land, in Chambly, undoubtedly already under cultivation.
On July 29, 1674 Jean bought a concession from Francois Prudhomme, consisting of 80 arpents of land in Sault St-Louis. The land bordered on one side by Pierre Godin dit Chatillon, and on the other side by Jean Roy dit LaPensee, all of it in the district of the island of Montreal. He bought this at the price of 80 silver livres.
Jean Besset was buried at Chambly, in the parish of St-Joseph on January 7, 1707, in the presence of the Recollet missionary Pierre Dublaron. Anne died 26 years later on July 4, 1733 at the age of 84 years.
Children of JEAN BESSETTE and ANNE SEIGNEUR are:
i. MARIE BESSETTE, b. Bef. 1669, France; d. May 18, 1714, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada.
ii. JACQUELINE BESSETTE, b. February 15, 1671, Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.
iii. JEAN BESSETTE, b. December 27, 1672, Boucherville, Quebec, Canada; d. May 08, 1751, Pointe-Olivier (St. Mathias), Quebec, Canada.
iv. SIMON BESSETTE, b. January 13, 1676, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
v. MARIE ANNE BESSETTE, b. Bef. 1679, Quebec, Canada; d. August 24, 1741, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
vi. MARIE MARGUERITE BESSETTE, b. Bef. 1681, Quebec, Canada; d. July 08, 1760; m. JACQUES POISSANT DIT LASALINE, Bef. July 20, 1700.
vii. PIERRE BESSETTE, b. July 09, 1682, Contrecoeur, Quebec, Canada; d. November 16, 1687, Sorel, Quebec, Canada.
viii. FRANCOIS BESSETTE, b. July 26, 1685, Contrecoeur, Quebec, Canada; d. June 03, 1764, Chambly, Quebec, Canada.
ix. THERESE CHARLOTTE BESSETTE, b. February 01, 1690, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; d. April 03, 1707, Chambly, Quebec, Canada.
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Well, I could sort of just tell you that Kingdom Hearts 2 is basically an improvement and refinement of KH1 in just about 99% of what it does, but that would be short and boring, wouldn't it? Not to mention that it wouldn't really tell you anything. So instead I'll be longwindedly boring, and talk about the improvements in detail. I think such a comparison makes sense, since after all, it is a real sequel to Kingdom Hearts 1, and you should be familiar with that game plotwise if you plan to play this. It can get really confusing otherwise.
But before we get to the improvements, I'll have to mention the main frame from the first game, which is pretty much the same as it was. Your three heroes Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy will travel in a fairly linear manner between worlds mostly known from Disney's animated movies (and loosely re-acting the plots from the movies as well, in most cases), meeting a hell of a lot of both Disney and Square characters along the way, and of course getting a lot of challenges, mostly in the form of combat. Apart from that, all I will reveal about the overall plot is that you really need to have played the first game to get the most out of it; and even so, many things in the main plot can be rather confusing for a good while. But it is also at times more epic in scope (it's more than just Sora's own struggle this time around), although I wish this could have been a bit more often, because those are definitely the best parts.
Now, the core combat gameplay - which is what you will mainly be doing when you're in control - is as following. You walk around and fight monsters in real-time by controlling the hero Sora, who wields a magic sword that looks like a giant key (hence the name Keyblade). At the beginning, all you can do is pretty much a three-strike combo, by continously pressing X. You also have two companions (usually Donald and Goofy) whom you cannot control directly, and whose main job is to draw some enemy fire and to heal you when your HP is low (because if you lose all your health, it's Game Over. If they lose their health, they're just incapable of doing anything for a while). Now, in KH1, it didn't proceed much beyond that, but here, things are different.
First of all, the Triangle button has been given the task of "reaction button". Taking a clue from Zelda: Wind Waker, when the enemy is about to do a specific move, you press Triangle and thus counterattacks said enemy. And this is the really cool part:
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of them has a different reaction counter (with its own name), which means that you're looking forward to meet every new enemy (which there are in fact a good deal of) just to see what cool new trick you'll be using against them. And not all of them are strictly counters either, some of them are stuff you will be able to as an ending to your combo, which of course hurts a lot extra. Some of them can even hurt more than one enemy.
This alone makes the combat system so much better than KH1, especially against certain of the bosses, whom sometimes a well-triggered reaction can lead to some seriously awesome-looking smackdown. For that matter, the bosses are in general several notches up in variety from how you dealt with them in the first game. They are all still possible to beat, but if you think that even Proud (Expert) mode will be the cakewalk it was in the first game, you might be surprised...
And that's not all. Because not only do you have the reaction button, and not only do you eventually learn a hell of a lot of ability moves that improves the basic fighting more than it did in KH1, but you now also have Limits, improved Summons (which even have their own limits), and Drives. Limits is basically that you act with one of your companions to unleash some serious damage (there's at least one limit for each playable character). They usually take the form of a series of small, controllable attacks, and ending in one big attack with a bit longer animation (but never so long as to get boring) Summons can actually be useful this time around, though it's still possible to beat the game without them. And as for Drives... Well, the gist is that you lose the help of either Donald, Goofy, or both, but in return, you turn into a real killer. How about wielding two Keyblades at once, letting a rain of swordblows down on your enemy? Or maybe turn your Keyblade into a gun and effortlessly glide around on the ground while shooting your enemies to smithereens from a relatively safer distance?
And if you want to, you can even make it so that the reaction button will act a shortcut to either of those three options when you're closing up on the enemy. Oh, and speaking of shortcuts, when you press and hold down L1, not only can you customise the face buttons to do some magic (like you could in KH1), but also to spend items, so that you won't have to do that cumbersome item selection thingie which can be hard to pull off in the midst of battle frenzy.
you can set it so that as soon as one battle is over, you'll automatically pull the item you just used in said battle and in the "battle slot", meaning you'll never have to go to menu each time you had to spend a Potion because you got hit a bit too often from the big bad monster. Small but important detail there.
There are dozens of other small details omitted from my descriptions, but the point is this: The combat system works much better this time. Yes, it can still get a bit repetitive when you're doing all that leveling up (did I mention that summons and Drives have separate levels? At least they actually level up a bit differently, though not much), but at least there is some actual variety around. Especially the boss battles (I've said that before, haven't I?)
Another move which they pretty much took directly from Zelda: Wind Waker is the improved camera. You can make it stay directly behind you and change view as your character does, or it can stay at a put angle and altitude, which can both easily be adjusted with the right-hand stick. The only (small) downside to this is that since the right-hand stick is now used for the camera, it can be more difficult at times to use any sort of battle command that doesn't have a shortcut, especially in the kind of battle where you constantly have to move around. But that seldom happens, so most of the time, I consider this a good trade-off.
Outside of battle, the triangle button keeps doing its job as the reaction button, meaning that you use it to talk to people, open treasure chests and push levers and such. As soon as you get used to it, you'll realise that this works better than having the main command on the menu in the lower-left corner change into "talk", "Open", etc, because you never know when you might need to attack something.
The second most noticable improvement is how you move between worlds. The gummi ship is back, but with several changes. First of all, as long as you have access to a world, you can move the gummiship freely around, and it's much easier and faster to choose your landing point. And then, there are the parts when you have to open up new paths...
Instead of the miserable shooter-wannabe that looked like the original Starfox for the SNES, we are now treated to an actually nice rail-shooter with compelling enviroments, that can hold its own. Not only is it much more fun to simply open up new paths this way around, but you can also afterwards engage in up to three different missions around the course you opened; which will allow you to earn plenty of new stuff (especially new weapons) to add to your gummi ship. These missions are 100% optional, but whenever I needed a bit of rest from the main game progress, this was what I ended up doing. If you don't find at least "Ancient Highway" and "Ruined Highway" somewhat exciting, you probably don't like rail shooters at all.
The gummiship editor is not improved in any significant manner, still being initially confusing, and with a hopeless "guide" that just gives you a headache to read through. But once you finally get the hang of it, it's not that hard, but it seems to be a bit too complicated considering it's not important to the main game as such. However, as long as you only use the gummi ship for opening pathways, this won't matter much, because it's easy to just acquire ready-built ships that will at least be adequate for the opening of paths. Of course, if you really want to succeed in the missions, you still have to learn to build a ship from scratch, because you will need serious firepower for some of them...
Graphically, it looks very much like the first game, which works just fine. There are improvements here as well, but they are mure subtle, at least at first. Some worlds are rather dull, while others are quite the sight. As for the music, it's high-quality all the way through, always fitting for the worlds; and the song in the opening and ending is strangely fascinating, and about as good as I think j-pop can ever be. And with Disney pulling out from their large pool of voice acting talents, as well as hiring up some top-notch actors like Cristopher Lee, there's a bigger chance you'll cringe from some of the silly material the script-writers gave them, rather than their performances.
So, if you enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 1, there is a 99% chance that you'll enjoy this even more. They made most of the boring stuff good, and most of the good stuff better. There are some surprises hanging around, and I haven't even mentioned all the small and silly minigames scattered around (not that many of them are particularly good, but there are many of them). The pacing can still at times be a bit slow, the different world plots seems to be a bit detrimental to the main one (which is the best one), there seems to be more moral lessons happening than in the first game (bo-ring), things can be a bit too confusing, and the worlds can still feel a bit empty and devoid of people... But it's nevertheless a very solid experience overall, and my B+ is close to approaching A-.
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