A programmable controller having a word processor for word processing operations and a bit processor for bit processing operations. The bit processor has a first flag register and a second flag register which permit the comparison of the results of word processing operations with the results of the preceding bit processing operations to be simplified.

A size of a tile of memory is determined, where a tile is a segment of the memory having a dimension that is less than a pitch of the memory. Data is then stored in the tile. To access the data, a graphics processor obtains an indication (from a configuration register) that the memory is tiled, and accesses the data stored in the tile before accessing other segments of the memory.

A stored energy system is provided for delivering AC electrical power to a load. This system includes a single housing containing within a battery bank for storing DC power, and an inverter for receiving either DC power or AC power and converting DC power to AC power. The stored electrical system includes five circuit breakers mounted on the outside surface of the housing. Twist lock plugs are connected to each of the circuit breakers for removably connecting input power sources and output loads...

A stored gas inflator is formed by a pressure vessel including a gas port, a small chamber facing the gas port, and a main chamber situated adjacent to the small chamber and having a capacity larger than that of the small chamber. A high pressure gas is filled in the small chamber and the main chamber. A first partition closes the gas port, and a second partition separates the small chamber and the main chamber so that a burst pressure of the second partition is set to be lower than a stored gas...

A lens locator positions a pair of lenses. The lens locator has a plurality of buckles and a connector which is made a of titanium-nickel alloy. The buckle has a hook extending from one end of the buckle and a generally U-shaped groove defined by the buckle. The U-shaped groove receives a lens of the sunglasses while folded and the U-shaped groove receives a lens of regular glasses while the sunglasses are in.

A greenhouse over an agricultural bed or the like comprising a rotating structure. At least one window in said structure lies within a generally parabolic trough surface. The window can both transmit and reflect solar energy. A heat collector is positioned along the parabolic focus of the window. Solar energy is transmitted through the window to provide instantaneous heating of greenhouse and solar energy is stored after it is gathered at the collector for heating the greenhouse when direct sola...

A chilling chamber (10) connected to a water reservoir (12) or to a pipe (29) within which water flows has a thermally conductive probe (16) which is connected to the cold side of a thermoelectric device (18), the hot side being connected to a heat sink (20). A tube (30) is coiled about the probe and has one end (28) connected with the water in the storage reservoir or pipe and another end (32) connected to a faucet (34). Water as a heat transfer medium (36) is stored within the chilling chamber...

A vertically storable dock leveler apparatus includes a generally planar ramp member mounted on a frame by a hinge connection which includes spaced apart hinge plates secured to the frame, each having hinge pin receiving bores formed therein. An elongated cylindrical hinge pin is secured to the ramp and extends through the receiving bores of the hinge plates. The ramp is provided with elongated clearance slots formed therein providing clearance for the hinge plates when the ramp is assembled to ...

Address information is optically stored in the form of Fraunhofer holograms n successive frames of a film. During search, while any part of the Fraunhofer hologram of a rapidly moving frame is in the readout coherent light beam, the reconstructed image of the address of that frame remains stationary and superimposed over the matrix of light sensing elements employed to read the stored addresses.

A stored data modifier modifies data starting at any arbitrary address on a storage medium that should output a data word with a multi-byte width. A masked ROM outputs a 2.sup.N -byte data word starting at an address specified as a multiple of 2.sup.N by an address signal. A correspondence detector determines whether or not correspondence is found between a correction address and one of a number 2.sup.N of addresses starting at, or preceding, the address specified by the address signal. If the c...