Circuits and techniques to, during a lower power state, power down combinational logic and to maintain power to storage elements associated with the combinational logic. By powering down the combinational logic gates, leakage current may be reduced and state, or other, values to be used for subsequent operations may be maintained in the storage elements.

A bed includes a main frame unit which rests on a floor and a mattress/box spring elevator unit that is movably connected to the main frame unit by a plurality of links so the mattress/box spring elevator unit can be moved relative to the main frame unit. The mattress/box spring elevator unit includes a first subframe unit connected to the main frame unit by springs and by the links, and a second subframe unit connected to the first subframe unit by a turntable so the second subframe unit can be...

An interlayer dielectric may be exposed to a gas cluster ion beam to densify an upper layer of the interlayer dielectric. As a result, the upper layer of the interlayer dielectric may be densified without separate deposition steps and without the need for etch stops that may adversely affect the capacitance of the overall structure.

A relatively displacing apparatus including a movable member and a stationary member which has a coating layer disposed adjacent to the movable member, formed by flame spray coating and including at least one selected from the group consisting of hexagonal system boron nitride and ceric oxide. Since the coating layer is easily machined with the movable member, the coating layer comes to have a surface generated by machining with the movable member and the clearance between the movable member and...

A seal for sealing the clearance between a shaft and two close annular surfaces through which the shaft passes is in the form of a ring-like body having a central portion and two lip portions extending therefrom and hingedly movable thereto and which when the seal is mounted upon the shaft is placed in a deformed condition and in sealing engagement around the shaft. The body is of such cross-sectional shape that when stretched from an undeformed condition to a deformed condition about the shaft,...

An assembly comprising an inner and an outer cylindrical members, the inner member being displaceable within the outer member and provided with an annular recess, a locking ring being housed in the recess to allow displacement of the inner member in a first direction but locking the members relative one another upon attempt to displace the inner member in a second direction.

An assembly comprising an inner and an outer cylindrical members, the inner member being displaceable within the outer member and provided with an annular recess, a locking ring being housed in the recess to allow displacement of the inner member in a first direction but locking the members relative one another upon attempt to displace the inner member in a second direction.

The external seal is mounted on a housing about a rotary shaft projecting through an opening in the housing. The seal is a resilient, flexible member having a generally tubular body portion with an annular lip extending radially outwardly from one end of the body portion and a flange extending radially outwardly from the other end of the body portion. The lip extends into a sealing chamber formed by the outside of the housing and a replaceable sealing member which has an inside surface spaced fr...

A seal for two relatively rotatable parts of the type wherein a rotary shaft projects through a bearing housing wall that is disposed transversely to the shaft comprising an annular sealing member consisting of a resilient ring having a tubular body portion and an integral annular thin flexible lip projecting from one end thereof. The annular lip is defined at its inner end adjacent the body portion by an annular separation and has an outer wall constituted by an inwardly directed surface of rev...

An apparatus for stacking and packing relatively flat articles. The articles are advanced to an operating station where they are gathered into stacks in superposed relationship. Thereupon each stack is turned so as to stand on edge and is, while being guided at its opposite major surfaces, inserted edgewise into a receptacle.