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A process for making composite bearings with low friction surfaces and metal backings in which the metal backing is used to draw low friction material into the shape of the bearing surface. Heat is used to aid bonding of the low friction material to the backing.
1. A process for making a low friction bearing having a metal backing and a nonflat fabric bearing surface, said process comprising the steps of:
placing in overlapping relationship a low friction fabric having a generally flattened condition and a metal backing having a nonflat surface;
using the metal backing as a punch or die and urging said nonflat surface of said metal backing and said low friction fabric together with sufficient force to adhere said fabric to said backing across their mutually engaged surfaces and to form said fabric into a nonflat low friction bearing surface.
2. The invention of claim 1, wherein said nonflat surface of said metal backing is convex and said urging step comprises using said backing as a punch to draw said low friction fabric into the shape of the bearing.
3. The invention of claim 1, wherein said nonflat surface of said metal backing is concave and said urging step comprises using said backing as a die and urging a punch against said fabric to draw said fabric against said concave backing.
4. The invention of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein said substantially unshaped low friction fabric is in the form of a flat sheet immediately prior to said urging step.
5. The invention of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the fabric includes a thermoset or thermoplastic bonding resin, and said step forming the low friction bearing further comprises heating said low friction fabric sufficiently to soften and fuse the resin.
This invention relates to making bearings with low friction surfaces and metal backing members.
Bearings are well known which comprise rigid support members to which low friction materials defining the bearing surface are attached. Bearing surfaces are often made from various compositions, including thermoplastic resins, especially Teflon (trademark of DuPont for polytetrafluoroethylene). The following U.S. patents teach various plastic bearing compositions.
______________________________________Inventor U.S. Pat. No.______________________________________White 3,037,893______________________________________Dodson & White 3,455,864Ikeda & Kawakita 3,779,918Cairns & Walton 3,781,205Cairns 3,879,301Nienart, Sanders & Jeges 3,908,038Ikeda & Ishikawa 3,985,661Cairns 3,994,814______________________________________
Bearings with such surfaces often have metal backings to provide strength, rigidity, and shape. A continuing problem has been to find a way to form the bearing and to simply yet satisfactorily fasten the low friction surface material to the metal backing. Such low friction materials have been molded, sintered, glued, sewn, and clipped on to bearing backings. Sometimes low friction material is knit or woven into a fabric and then attached to backing elements. U.S. Pat. No. 3,464,845 to Osborn and Gobran, U.S. Pat. No. 3,037,893 to White and U.S. Pat. No. Re. 24,765 to White are examples of the use of low friction fabric.
A disadvantage of prior art processes for making low friction bearings, other than simple flat bearings, is the frequent need for specialized and complex methods such as molding and sintering for bonding low friction materials to backings and for forming the bearings.
Another disadvantage of the prior art processes for making low friction bearings is that, when relatively simple methods are used, the resulting bearing often has a seam on the bearing face. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,848,306, to Morse, discloses a method for making a cylindrical bearing in which a flat layer of plastic and a layer of perforated metal are bonded together to form a single sheet, which is then bent and swaged into a cylindrical tube. The resulting bearing has a seam. Other examples of bearings with seamed surfaces are U.S. Pat. No. 3,881,791 to Hentschel, U.S. Pat. No. 3,252,346 to Prior, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,033,623 to Thomson.
Another shortcoming of the prior art is the time required by the use of separate, sequential steps for bonding low friction material to metal backings and for forming the bearing backings into the final configuration of the bearing.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a bearing made according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a punching apparatus prior to drawing the bearing according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a punching apparatus after having drawn the bearing according to the invention.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a punching apparatus wherein a die forms part of the workpiece in a process according to the invention, and
FIG. 5 is an isometric view of the workpiece.
It is an object of this invention to provide an improved method for making low friction bearings.
It is also an object of this invention to provide a method for bonding low friction material to a metal backing to make a low friction bearing.
It is another object of this invention to provide a simple and efficient method for making low friction bearings.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide a method for making low friction bearings which utilizes conventional manufacturing apparatus.
It is another object of this invention to provide a method for making low friction bearings without seams.
Other objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains from the description to follow and from the appended claims.
The foregoing objects are achieved according to the preferred embodiment of the invention by using a process for making bearings with metal backing members, in which the metal backing is used in the drawing of a sheet of low friction fabric into the desired shape. The fabric can advantageously be provided with a heat responsive bonding material in which case the composite structure is heated to aid in bonding the low friction fabric to the metal backing. The drawing operation can be done on a conventional punch press adapted to use the metal backing members as a forming tool. The bonding can alternatively be accomplished on a conventional punch press provided with a hot die. Since the bearings are formed as an internal unit by drawing, there are no seams on the bearing surface.
This invention relates to the making of bearings comprising low friction surfaces attached to metal backing members. The use of low friction fabric treated with bonding resins to make bearing surfaces is well known. Such bearings often have metal backing members to give shape, strength, and rigidity to the bearing. By the process disclosed herein bearings are made by using the metal backing member itself as a punch or die used in the drawing of low friction fabric into the desired shape. Preferably, the low friction fabric is treated with resin only on the side which contacts the metal backing, and the fabric is heated to aid bonding of the fabric and metal. The process is such that the bearing can be made on a conventional punch press with only a few modifications. While only one particular bearing configuration is discussed herein, it should be understood that a variety of configurations can be made by the process according to the invention. A related process for making bearings by stamping them from sheets of metal and low friction fabric is disclosed in this inventor's application Ser. No. 132,268 for a Stamped Low Friction Bearing and Process And Apparatus For Making Same. The making of molded bearings from a composite of low friction and bondable material is disclosed in this inventor's application Ser. No. 132,267 for a Low Friction Moldable Bearing and Composition.
The low friction fabric preferably comprises fluorinated hydrocarbons such as fluorinated polyethylene derivatives, for example polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), or any other material which has the desirable low friction characteristics, such as polychlorotrifluoroethylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, and the like. Preferably, the low friction material is Teflon (trademark of DuPont for PTFE material). The low friction fabric can be made entirely of low friction material, or it can include bondable materials. By bondable is meant the ability to bond to itself and to other substances. Such bondable materials are useful because of the well known difficulty of bonding Telfon. Bondable materials include Dacron (trademark of DuPont for polyester fiber), cotton, acrylic, methacrylic, nylon, Nomex (trademark for DuPont for polyamide fiber), and the like. Glass fibers are not generally preferred because glass fiber is normally too abrasive. The addition of bondable material adds strength and wear resistance as well as bondability to the fabric, but it does increase friction of the fabric. The preferred mixture of bondable material and low friction material, and even the use of no bondable material, depends on the characteristics desired in the bearing.
The low friction fabric may be either woven or knit. The composition of the low friction fabric may be varied in a number of ways. For example, it may consist of threads of entirely low friction material. Or the low friction fabric may contain a mixture of kinds of threads, each kind of thread consisting of low friction material or bondable material. Or the low friction fabric may have threads that include both low friction material and bondable material. Some or all of the threads of the low friction fabric may be made up of bondable low friction yarn. Such yarn includes both filaments of low friction material and filaments of bondable material. The bondable low friction yarn is made by twisting the various kinds of filaments together into a single thread which, therefore, has both low friction properties and the capability of being bonded together and to the metal backing. Similar advantages can be obtained by braiding together filaments of both low friction material and bondable material to form a bondable low friction braided thread.
In its preferred form, low friction fabric is treated with a bonding resin which allows the fabric to bond to itself, making a more uniform fabric, and also to bond to the metal backing. Bonding resins may be applied to the low friction fabric by immersion, spraying, painting, or the like. In its most preferred form the resin is applied to only one side of the fabric, such as by using rollers to apply the resin. As explained below, having resin on only one side of the fabric facilitates high volume processing.
The resin can be a cured thermosetting resin. Such resins can be urea formaldehyde, urethane, melamine-formaldehyde, and the like. The preferred resin is phenol-formaldehyde. After the fabric is treated with the resin, it is cured to the resin's B-stage; that is, the solvent is driven out and the resin alone remains in an essentially non-tacky yet incompletely cured condition. In other words, in the B-stage the resin is in a solidified yet thermoplastic state with substantially all the solvent removed. A process for impregnating thread or yarn before knitting or weaving is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,947,611 issued to the present inventor, herein incorporated by reference. However, it is preferable to apply the resin after the fabric is woven, so that the resin may be applied to only one side of the fabric.
A thermoplastic resin may also be employed, provided the temperature at which the resin has a tendency to flow is substantially higher than the operating temperature of the resulting low friction bearing. In the case of this class of resins, if impregnation is carried out with the resin in a solvent solution, the solvent should be removed before use.
If the bearing is to be subjected to high temperature, it may be desirable to employ an appropriate high temperature resin. Such resins are discussed in Machine Design, May 15, 1969 issue, pages 174-178 which is herein incorporated by reference. Such resins or adhesives are epoxies, epoxy phenolic, amideimides, polyimides, polybenzimidazole, polycaroranesiloxane, and the like. A preferred high temperature resin in Pyralin (trademark of DuPont for a polyimide).
The bonding resin, whether a thermosetting or thermoplastic resin, may be characterized as being in a "solidified yet thermoplastic" state; that is, it has the property of softening and fusing when heated, and of hardening again when cooled. This is intended to characterize a thermosetting resin which has been cured, as well as a true thermoplastic resin which may be softened by heating.
The metal backing member can be made by casting, molding, cold forming, or any other method which gives a metal piece in the desired configuration. A preferred method is cold drawing with subsequent heat treatment. Another preferred but more expensive method is sintering. The metal backing member has an outside surface conforming to the desired shape of the low friction surface of the bearing. Typically, the backing member has a hollow interior. The inside configuration depends on the desired application of the bearing. For example, FIG. 1 illustrates a hemispherical bearing with a metal backing member 5 and low friction surface 3. The inner configuration of the bearing and backing member has a cylindrical hole 1 extending through the bearing.
FIGS. 2 and 3 show the drawing of the low friction fabric 9. In FIG. 2, the fabric is run over a die 13 which has an inner face or cavity 15 corresponding to the desired shape of the outer surface of the bearing. A spring loaded hold down ring 16 clamps the fabric around the edge of cavity 15. The metal backing 5 is removably mounted on a punch shaft 11. One means of mounting backing 5 on the punch shaft is by means of mounting pins. FIG. 1 shows notches 7 in the metal backing which receive pins on the punch shaft to support and align the metal backing on the punch shaft. In order to secure the bearing fabric 9 to the backing member 5, the punch 11 with the backing material is urged against the fabric with sufficient force against die 13 to tightly drive the fabric against the backing member. This operation assures the accurate formation of the bearing and the proper adhesion of the fabric against the backing member. FIG. 3 shows the bearing after it is formed by having the metal backing draw the low friction fabric into the die. (The fabric is depicted in an undeformed manner for clarity; in reality it would be pressed against the backing member.)
In the embodiment of FIGS. 1-3, a component 5 of the die punch constitutes part of the final bearing. Alternatively the die can form a part of the bearing. Accordingly, there is illustrated in FIG. 4 apparatus drawing fabric 9 into a die 18 which serves as the metal backing for a concave bearing. Fabric 9 is drawn across a hemispherical cavity 17 of a cylindrical die 18, spring loaded hold down ring assembly 10 clamps the fabric across the cavity, and a die punch 21 is driven by a punch shaft 23 against the fabric to form and adhere the fabric to the concave face of the cavity of die 18. After die punch 21 is removed and hold down ring assembly 19 is raised, and following a fabric trimming step, a fabric bearing composed of die or backing 18 with a fabric bearing surface 25 bonded to the concave face as shown in FIG. 5.
It should be noted that the fabric is substantially unshaped prior to the step of urging the fabric and the metal backing together. By substantially unshaped it is meant that the fabric is not yet in the configuration or shape desired for the final bearing surface, i.e., the fabric is in a generally flattened condition. Preferably, the fabric is flat when fed over the metal backing, although other configurations are possible. In any event, the shaping of the fabric into the desired bearing surface is accomplished as the fabric and the metal surface are urged together to form the bearing.
As the fabric in the foregoing embodiments has been coated with a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin, the low friction fabric is next heated to facilitate bonding. This can be done by using a hot die in the drawing process, or by heating the composite structure as a separate operation. If the "hot die" procedure is employed, die 13 or 18 itself is heated by appropriate electrical elements or the like known in the art to elevate the temperature of the bonding material adjacent the die. Alternatively, the punch 5 or 21 itself could be heated to in turn heat the backing member. As heat is applied, the bonding resin softens, and it coalesces to form a continuous matrix about and through the bondable low friction fabric. In the case of a thermosetting resin, heat and pressure required for final curing cause the resin to first soften and coalesce into a continuous matrix, and as the polymerization proceeds, the resin assumes its normal solidified cross-linked character. In the case of a thermoplastic resin, heat and pressure will effect a softening coalescence of the threads to a continuous matrix, which upon cooling solidifies and effects the bonding of the threads to each other. During this process the bonding resin also bonds the fabric to the metal backing.
The low friction fabric is preferably treated with resin on only one side. This treated side is the side which contacts the metal backing. It is unnecessary to have resin on the other side; indeed, when a great many bearings are being made there is a tendency for resin to build up in the dies if resin is put on both sides of the fabric. The presence of resin on the bearing side of the fabric can increase the coefficient of friction of the bearing, wherefore it should be avoided.
Final finishing of the bearing may include trimming or wiping of the bearing to remove excess material, additional heat treatment, and the like.
The preferred embodiments as described herein fulfill the objects of the invention. A low friction bearing with a metal backing is made by using the metal backing member as a punch or die in the drawing of low friction fabric into the desired shape of the bearing surface and heating it to aid bonding. The operations can be carried out on conventional equipment adapted to the invention. The resulting bearing has a low friction surface without seams.
The invention has been described with particular reference to the preferred embodiments, but it will be understood that variations and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains.
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A charge pump can be used with a bus-powered device connected to a bus. The charge pump is formed of a power connection from the bus carrying a DC power signal constrained to not exceed a given current limit and a given voltage limit, a DC-to-DC step-down voltage converter, a capacitor, and a DC-to-DC step-up voltage converter. The step-down converter has an input connected to the power connection and produces an intermediate signal having a voltage the same or less than the voltage of the power signal. The capacitor is connected to the output of the step-down converter. The step-up converter has an input connected to the output of the step-down converter and to the capacitor, and produces a final output signal having a voltage greater than the given voltage limit. The output of the step-up converter is connected to and provides DC power to the device.
1. A method of using a powered bi-directional serial bus to convey, from an origin to a destination remotely located from the origin, a source amount of electrical power for conditioning at the destination to operate at a high repetition rate an illumination source of a camera capturing a series of images of a scene, and to convey, from the destination to the origin, image data representing the series of captured images of the scene, comprising:
conveying on the serial bus from the origin to the remotely located destination a source amount of electrical power set at or below an overall electrical power capacity limit of the serial bus;
providing a camera comprising an illumination source and an imager, the illumination source oriented to illuminate a scene and the imager oriented to capture images of the scene;
conditioning the source amount of electrical power received at the destination to generate for application to the illumination source spaced-apart peak electrical power pulses that produce high intensity lighting pulses occurring at highly repetitive times of exposure and that define an average power, the peak electrical power pulses exceeding and the average power remaining below the overall electrical power capacity limit of the serial bus;
causing the imager during the highly repetitive times of exposure to capture images of the scene; and
in response to the capture of images, conveying on the serial bus for delivery, from the destination to the origin, data representing the captured images of the scene,
thereby to achieve, with use of a limited electrical power capacity serial bus, supply of electrical power for high intensity camera lighting along with capture and transfer of image data.
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This is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/176,802, filed Jul. 6, 2005.
� 2005 Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. 37 CFR � 1.71(d).
The field of this disclosure relates generally but not exclusively to electronic signal bus interfaces, and more particularly, to provision of power via a bus.
Machine vision is useful in many applications, including reading indicia on semiconductor wafers during semiconductor manufacturing processes, as discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,870,949. In machine vision, there are many different types of cameras available. Camera systems include a device for image capture (like a CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensor), a conversion from analog to digital pixel data (either located inside the sensor or not) and a method for transferring the data to a processing unit. In many cameras, including those with integrated lighting, they have separate data buses from the power source. This is seen with many serial protocols because the camera unit requires a separate power connection from a power supply, typically 12 to 24 volts (V).
Development of new powered bus architectures allows for the transfer of power along with the serial data. In this, the complexity of the remote device is lower due to the lack of additional power cables and connectors. However, the voltage level and the amount of current supported is mostly inadequate for lighting applications in machine vision.
Some serial bus standards have higher voltage and current ratings, like the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 1394 standard, which offers significantly more power and voltage than other standards like USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0. In the USB standard, the voltage offered is 5 V at 500 milliamps (mA). In comparison, IEEE 1394 offers 1.5 amps (A) at 12 V.
Machine vision cameras with integrated lighting require a large source of energy at a high voltage and high repetition rate to source the integrated lights at a particular repetition or frame rate. Presently available powered serial bus architectures, which allow for low cost and high performance data transfer, do not provide the voltage or current needed to source the lighting in the integrated camera unit.
The traditional methods of charging light circuits at a higher potential are to simply raise the bus voltage to the desired potential with a "boost" element, and then connect a bank of charge storage elements to the output of the "boost" element, as shown in
The simple boost conversion circuit 100 in
Xenon flash charging circuits, which are common in disposable cameras, have the problem that a tiny amount of charge raised to a very high potential will significantly degrade the lifetime of the lighting elements, as this will produce intolerable thermal spikes.
According to one aspect, the invention is a charge pump for use with a bus-powered device connected to a bus. The charge pump comprises a power connection, a DC-to-DC step-down voltage converter, a capacitor, and a DC-to-DC step-up voltage converter. The power connection is from the bus for receipt of a DC power signal constrained to not exceed a given current limit and a given voltage limit. The DC-to-DC step-down voltage converter has an input and an output. The input is connected to the power connection. The step-down voltage converter produces at its output an intermediate signal having a voltage less than the voltage of the power signal. The capacitor is connected to the output of the step-down voltage converter. The DC-to-DC step-up voltage converter has an input and an output. The input of the step-up voltage converter is connected to the output of the step-down voltage converter and to the capacitor. The step-up voltage converter produces at its output a final output signal having a voltage greater than the given voltage limit. The output of the step-up voltage converter is connected to the bus-powered device and provides DC power to the device in the form of the final output signal.
According to another aspect, the invention is a method comprising receiving a power signal from a bus, storing charge from the power signal, converting the power signal to a higher voltage, thereby resulting in a boost signal, and providing the boost signal to a device connected to the bus for powering the device.
According to yet another embodiment, the invention is a bus-powered integrated camera connected to a bus. The camera comprises an imager connected to the bus and oriented to capture an image of an object to be imaged during an exposure time, an illumination source oriented to supply light on the object to be imaged during the exposure time, and a charge pump connected between the bus and the illumination source. The charge pump is substantially as described above.
Additional aspects and advantages will be apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
With reference to the above-listed drawings, this section describes particular embodiments and their detailed construction and operation. As one skilled in the art will appreciate in light of this disclosure, certain embodiments are capable of achieving certain advantages over the known prior art, including some or all of the following: (1) the ability to utilize a bus-powered approach for machine vision applications; (2) advantageous size, cost, and component lifetimes; and (3) more efficient illumination from a powered bus. These and other advantages of various embodiments will be apparent upon reading the remainder of this section.
In the case where the circuit 200 is used to provide power for strobe illumination whose power requirements are 200 mA at a voltage of 9-12 V for a period of 100 ms, then the capacitor C1 should have a fairly large capacitance value. In particular, if the boost regulator 400 draws 1 A of current, then total current draw from the capacitor is 1.2 A. Further, in (typical) cases where the boost regulator 500 does not operate well with extreme levels of voltage droop in its input signal, it is desirable to limit the input droop to a predetermined value, such as 100 mV. In this situation, the required capacitance can be computed as follows:
The basic architecture of the circuit 200 is especially well suited for use in the case in which bus 202 is a USB bus. The power line of a USB bus is set to 5 V and can provide up to 500 mA of current. However, the large-capacitance capacitors that are typically required for the capacitor C1 cannot tolerate voltages that large. Typical "supercap" capacitors at the time of this writing can handle no more than a maximum of about 2.3 V. The buck regulator 300 is therefore used to step-down the bus voltage to a level suitable for application across the capacitor C1. Moreover, the 200 mA current limit of the buck regulator 300 prevents any excessive current draw on the USB bus. With a managed light pulse repetition rate, the charge that is taken during a light pulse can be restored into the capacitor C1 at a moderate rate of 200 mA, which will not impose any undue draw on the USB bus.
The buck regulator 300 can also provide other features to facilitate charge storage including current limiting and protection from over-voltage to protect a charge storage device such as the capacitor C1. In other implementations, depending upon the specifications of the input signal and the requirements of the charge storage device, the buck regulator 300 can be an equivalent-voltage device (i.e., its output voltage approximately equals its input voltage), or it can be eliminated from the system all together.
The boost regulator 400 is connected to the intermediate node 220 and functions to boost the voltage across the capacitor C1 from a lower voltage to a higher voltage at the output node 230. As shown in
The values of the components of the boost regulator 400 can be chosen to satisfy given operational requirements, including those of the charge storage device connected to the intermediate node 220 and those of the device to be powered at the output node 230. For the case in which the buck regulator 300 has the values detailed above and in which the device to be powered requires 200 mA of pulsed output current at approximately 11 V, then the following analysis guides the selection of component values for the boost regulator 300.
The duty cycle of the switching boost regulator 400 at light loads is defined roughly by the ratio of output to input voltages, with considerations for the voltage drop (approximately 0.5 V) across the Schottky diode D3, as follows:
The average inductor current is proportional to the duty cycle, as follows:
At low input voltages, parasitic resistive elements in the circuit can significantly affect circuit operation. In particular, the maximum current that can be moved through the inductor when the switch is closed is IL(LIMIT)=VIN/RS. If the equivalent series resistance of the supercap is 0.3 Ω, the DC resistance of the inductor is 0.009 Ω, and the "on" resistance of the switch RDS=0.09 Ω, then RS can be estimated conservatively as 0.4 Ω. Then the maximum inductor short-circuit current is IL(LIMIT)=2 V/0.4 Ω=5 A. The peak inductor current can be calculated as
The charge stored on the capacitor C1, when fully charged, is given by
In 330 ms (the minimum inactive period), the circuit 200 can recover 0.2*0.33 mC=66 mC of charge. This allows for a positive charge cycle that has a design margin for allowing the capacitor C1 to have room to fully charge under maximum conditions.
According to the prior analysis, the capacitor C1 when fully charged contains 10.1 Coulombs. If the circuit 200 consumes just 40 mC, that is just 0.4% of the total charge. Since Q=C*V, and C remains constant, as Q diminishes by 0.4%, so does V, for a droop of approximately 7 mV. This is within the specifications of the circuit for maximum voltage droop.
The circuit 200 was implemented and tested supplying power to an integrated light system and camera from a USB bus.
Thus, the circuit 200 is a charge boost system that can increase a bus power voltage from a nominal 5 volts (in the case of USB) to a higher voltage, with support for substantial current. In cases where the power is supplied for the purpose of illumination, this increase in voltage allows for more LEDs to be placed in series (also called "strings") to better utilize the current for illumination. Because there is a higher potential on the string, more LEDs can be placed, allowing a given amount of charge to do more work, and reducing losses caused by thermal dissipation. In a preferred application, a set of 24 LEDs is fired simultaneously. The set of LEDs is arranged in one or more rings around the camera to illuminate a semiconductor wafer during the camera's exposure time for machine vision. The ring(s) has six strings, each with four LEDs per string. Each string draws approximately 33 mA, so the total current draw for the ring is approximately 200 mA.
The circuit 200 effectively uses a remote energy storage device to store energy required to fire remote lights. Since the exposure time of a camera is small, typically tens of milliseconds, the amount of time required by the lights to be on is on the same order of magnitude. To increase the output of the lights, one wants the current of the system to be as high as possible for the exposure time of the camera. In the circuit 200, the average current draw is low and is kept under the overall current limit of the powered serial bus (in the case of USB is 500 mA), but the peak current draw for the exposure time of the camera is high. The use of an energy storage device also requires charging of the system between strobes and implementing a system that allows for high peak currents and a high enough frame rate for the application while staying within the limits of the bus power specification.
Those skilled in the art will therefore appreciate, in light of the teachings set forth herein, that the circuit 200 is well suited for powering an integrated machine vision camera with integrated lights driven by the USB 2.0 powered serial bus. This technique can be extended to other powered bus architectures including IEEE 1394 in applications where the needs of more current and energy are required. Also note that the power can be supplied by a computer in which the bus host is located or by another device, such as a powered hub.
The terms and descriptions used above are set forth by way of illustration only and are not meant as limitations. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many variations can be made to the details of the above-described embodiments without departing from the underlying principles of the invention. The scope of the invention should therefore be determined only by the following claims—and their equivalents—in which all terms are to be understood in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated.
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The bill allowing gay marriage in Illinois 2013 (aka The Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act) just now passed in the Illinois senate with a vote of 34-21!
Today, Valentine's Day 2013, history was made in our state as we move one more step in our journey for equality.
Watching the live broadcast brought both tears of joy and massive headaches listening to the individuals that we chose to represent us in Springfield, IL. It astounded me to hear some of the opponents speak of how this bill will change our school systems, confuse our children, and cause businesses to fail. They spoke of our children having difficulty in school because "we are changing the definition of marriage which will result in children becoming lost and confused due to the new meaning". Honestly, I think the only people who are confused are the ones who believe that to be true.
However, my heart was overjoyed listening to senators with intelligence speak of the sky NOT falling, that this bill continues the legacy of our state being progressive (due to the work of historic residents such as Jane Addams, Lincoln, etc.), and that this bill is simply based on respect for all individuals.
I laughed out loud when the idea of the church being the crux of society's moral fiber was questioned due to continued reports of child molestation, the lack of support for gay Catholics in Uganda potentially put to death for their sexuality, and how this bill should not pass because it offends the church's traditional ways.
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Hi all, I'm new here and I've been reading a lot of posts about vivacity/san fran 2. I have recently rooted my vivacity using http://ics-t-mobile....vacity.html?m=1 but I struggling to free up system memory as I only have 1%. I'm using Link2sd - which I'm also trying to get my head round. I also have problems with button lights intermittently working and general sluggishness. Running CM9. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Hi score, I've replied to your message in a different thread. Best create your own topic next time as to not post In multiple threads.
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Hi, I ran CM9 IceCreamSandwich for quite a long while, when I first rooted my T-Mob Vivacity. Battery life was poor, barely a day and I'm not a heavy user. I was blaming the fact that my house has a very poor phone signal on ANY channel. It improved a lot when I switched off the 3G. After I got fed up of the camera issue and some "unexpected events", I went back to Gingerbread by loading Fish n Chips 7. Battery life was improved, I can now get 24 hours+ with quite a bit of use.
YMMV of course, not everyone gets the same response to battery or facilities. For instance, my front camera on FnC is upside down (to me, not tried it to others). I believe this doesn't always happen for everyone. The big thing for me is that tethering works flawlessly in Fish n Chips, and I use that a lot for my wife's iPad. I can't switch off the 3G in that though, although it seems to manage that, and the wifi, itself.
P.S. @SCORE! With CM9 you have the option to use whatever storage management tool you wish, while FnC seems to have A2SD built in. I used INT2EXT+ with CM9 and never ran out of space at all. If you've loaded Link2SD in FnC maybe that is in conflict with its own A2SD and that's causing your problems?
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Thanks @dodgetimmy. Just wondering btw if Deep Sleep Battery Saver is better than Juice Defender (IYO)? I got juice defender but haven't used my device for long enough to see how well it's working but it seems to be working(ish)!
@dwl99 At some point I will be trying FnC 7, you say the battery life is dreadful, but what about the other pros? After all you did ay you were sticking with it? (I know this is an old thread btw )
@momist Thanks, for answering AGES ago!! I have only ever used 2 ICS roms since rooting my phone last summer, so I haven't used Link2SD in FnC. I had to read reems and reems to get to know what I'm doing & found it extremely tedious at times due to my lack of knowledge, but I'm back on the horse again. Anyway, the reason I chose Link2SD was because I couldn't get A2SD working and was just trying anything really.
Lastly to all of you lovely people, What is your personal method of back ups, flashing roms, re-downloading apps, testing rom etc etc? Reason being is because it's taken me ages to download all the apps again, now I dunno if I wanna keep the rom cos certain things don't work & it just seems like a giant pain for me to flash a new rom & go through that whole process again?
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Lastly to all of you lovely people, What is your personal method of back ups, flashing roms, re-downloading apps, testing rom etc etc? Reason being is because it's taken me ages to download all the apps again, now I dunno if I wanna keep the rom cos certain things don't work & it just seems like a giant pain for me to flash a new rom & go through that whole process again?
I'd forgotten I was monitoring this forum! I'm not using this ROM anymore, and I gave up with Titanium backup and the like. Now I've settled on one ROM and set up the apps I want, I'm hoping not to have to go through that again until I replace the phone. :-)
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Posted 18 March 2014 - 10:28 PM
Any views on this? My ZTE Blade died after years of loyal service and I just bought a cheap replacement, off fleabay to tied me over, the OSF2. Once I've rooted, and installed clockwork recovery, would I be able to restore the clockwork image backup last saved on my OSF SD card? Or is that a bad idea? The aim being to restore the new phone to how the last phone was configured.
Alternatively I'll choose some ROM for the OSF2 and could restore OSF programs, messages and data using Titanium Backup. Again assuming that will be compatible.
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Thanks. Yes I started afresh. I put on Swedish Snow Crescent RLS7 but it's got a few bugs (camera, bluetooth. More or less fixed the former but the latter fix didn't work- replacing the stock radio for the radio app in the rom). Going to search for the latest stable rom although the first page of this thread suggest there are still bugs with this rom...
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Posted 29 March 2014 - 10:16 PM
So, it seems I am still monitoring this thread . Just had an email to say someone posted (rikerone). I've been happily using the rom by iharrybao for several months now, and have no complaints. Stable, quick, fully functioning including cameras, and reasonable battery life.
I'm now considering a better phone later this year (maybe my birthday in October?).
I think I'll stop monitoring this thread now. Goodbye all.
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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:02 AM
Hi guys,
I use this rom with great pleasure, but there is one issue I am having problem with. When I tap at Mobile Data on/off power widget button, almost always nothing happens. Even when button shows it is on, there is no internet connection. I have to turn on Airplane mode, turn it off and then Mobile Data turns on. Wireless button works OK.
Is this known problem and is there a solution for it?
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Thankyou man.
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I know this isn't of much help and rather dumb but, can anyone help me with building this ROM as I never did it so I don't have much experience, the reason behind building it again is that I have a hardware decoding fix but we need to rebuild the ROM in order for it to work, thus any help or brief tutorial is welcome. Thank you!
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Kathryn A. Row75, United Zion resident, Red Hat member
Kathryn A. Row, 75, of Lititz, passed away Monday, Sept. 5, 2011 at United Zion Nursing Home after a brave fight with lung cancer.
Born in Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of the late Herbert and Katherine (Volmer) Reardon. Kathryn was the wife of the late Dr. Harry G. Resh, who died in 2002, and later the late Richard J. Row, who died in 2010.
Kathryn worked alongside her first husband for many years running his practice. After his retirement, she established her own business, Kreative Appliqués, which she enjoyed for 12 years. She was a member of Lititz Church of the Brethren, Red Hat Society and Sweet Adeline's. She enjoyed oil painting, traveling and wintering in Arizona.
Kathryn is survived by three children: Harry R. "Rick," husband of Judy Resh, of Manheim; Susan, wife of Michael Bingeman, of Lititz; and Linda Raines, of Lancaster; eight grandchildren; and a brother-in-law: Jim, husband of Carol Row, of Lititz.
She was preceded in death by a brother: Richard Reardon.
A memorial service will be held on Oct. 1 at Lititz Church of the Brethren, 300 W. Orange St., Lititz, at 11:30 a.m. Interment will be private at Old Zion Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to United Zion Retirement Community Caring Fund, 722 Furnace Hills Pike, Lititz, PA 17543.
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UPDATED: The David Fincher-directed thriller, starring Ben Affleck, will make its world premiere with the opening night gala screening Sept. 26.
David Fincher's film version of Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck, will make its world premiere as the opening night gala screening at this year's New York Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The film features Rosamund Pike as a woman who mysteriously vanishes, with her husband (Affleck) suspected of killing her, and is based on Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel. Flynn wrote the screenplay for the movie, which Reese Witherspoon's Pacific Standard is producing alongside New Regency. 20th Century Fox is set to release the movie Oct. 3.
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"Gone Girl is so many things at once: sharp as a razor about many aspects of American life that have been untouched by movies, very tough and just as funny, brilliantly acted, and 100% entertaining — a wild ride from start to finish," New York Film Festival director and selection committee chair Kent Jones said in a press release officially announcing the news on Thursday. "In short, a great American movie based on a literary phenomenon, directed by one of the best filmmakers alive. I'm so proud to have the world premiere of this film as our opening night."
Gone Girl also stars Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry.
The festival also announced that its opening night after-party would return to Tavern on the Green, the famous Central Park restaurant that served as the site of the festival's opening night after-parties until the eatery closed in 2009. Tavern on the Green was reopened in May.
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Last year's opening-night screening at the festival was Captain Phillips, which went on to earn six Oscar nods, including a best picture nomination. Last year's festival also featured screenings of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in its centerpiece spot and Her as the closing night film. In addition, screenings of future Oscar contenders 12 Years a Slave and Nebraska also took place at the festival.
The festival is seen as an important stop in awards season. Fincher's The Social Network opened the festival in 2010.
The 52nd annual New York Film Festival runs Sept. 26-Oct. 12. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Sunday, Sept. 7, but members of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which puts on the festival, have access to an exclusive pre-sale period, beginning July 31.
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Brookings Institution judges congressional Web sites to be 'suboptimal'
Although a few congressional Web sites are exemplary, many are "suboptimal," and Congress needs to do more work to improve Web sites and share best practices for Web 2.0 technologies, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution think tank.
Brookings has been reviewing congressional Web sites for quality since 2006. In its most recent review with the Congressional Management Foundation in April, it gave the Platinum Mouse Award top honors for Web site excellence to the House Science & Technology Committee, the House Republican Conference, and the individual sites of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Despite those superior examples, and despite the fact that many lawmakers say their sites are important communication tools, the quality of many of those sites is "suboptimal," according to the Brookings authors Kevin Esterline, David Laser and Michael Nablo in the "Improving Congressional Web Sites" report, dated this August.
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Among members of Congress, "Web site design often appears to be at most a secondary priority, best practice standards do not appear to drive existing design practices, and there appears to be few attempts to learn about best practices within the institution, either top-down from the leadership or in a decentralized way through social networks," the report states.
As a result, Congress "seems to be stuck in a suboptimal equilibrium with respect to communication technology," according to the report.
The authors blamed the inconsistent quality on the lack of any institutional mechanism to educate incoming lawmakers and to evaluate congressional efforts and drive improvements.
"Overall, it appears that there is no established mechanism within the institution driving new technology adoption," the study said. "Congress as an institution fails to harness any collective process for adopting Web technology innovations or for learning about and using best practices."
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