International Business Machines Corporation

Mark Budman

James R Stack

Mark J Kuzawinski

Daniel Joseph Hunt

David Earl Riehm

John Ulrich Knickerbocker

Bruce John Chamberlin

Mario John Interrante

Li Li

Joseph M Mosley

Robert V Jenness

Lloyd H Massman

Anthony D Wutka

Steven F Arndt

Douglas M Saunders

An ocular prosthesis displays an iris and pupil image on a color liquid crystal array display device. A plurality of iris images are stored as data in a memory. Ambient light level is detected by a light sensor device. An image is selected based on light level and sent to the array display device.

Eye prosthesis

A compliant pin contact and assembly utilizing same in which the contact is comprised of two layers, each of a different material and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) than the other, to enable insertion within an opening in either a &ldquo;cold&rdquo; or &ldquo;hot&rdquo; state to thereby expand and positively engage the opening's walls, thereby securedly holding the pin in position. Representative materials include Invar and aluminum.

Zero insertion force compliant pin contact and assembly

An apparatus for the remote or local delivery of stored or real-time aroma sensory information to an end user of a multimedia device. The present invention includes an aroma converter for encoding aroma information into electrical signals, a delivery system for delivering the electrical signals, and a retrieval system for receiving and processing the electrical signals to control the aroma or combination of aromas emitted by one or more aroma release chambers.

Aroma sensory stimulation in multimedia

A coaxial connector having a conductive copper wire core plated with a layer of gold with the layer of gold surrounded by a dielectric layer, such as polyimide. The layer of polyimide is surrounded by a conductive shielding layer, such as copper, with a tin-plated layer surrounding it. Connection of the coaxial connector at one end to adjacent signal and ground pads is achieved by laser ablation to expose a section of gold sufficient to accommodate the terminal pad pitch and allow wire bonding to the signal pad. Connection of the conductive shielding layer to the ground pad is achieved by hot tip soldering. Connection at the opposite end of the coaxial connector uses the same process.

Coaxial connection apparatus and method of attachment

Aroma sensory stimulation in multimedia and method for using

A printed circuit board having a signal plane with increased channel width for enhanced wireability. The printed circuit board has a top plane having component lands arranged in a grid, wherein the component lands include a first grouping arranged in a first diagonal, and a second grouping arranged in a second diagonal where the second diagonal is parallel and adjacent to the first diagonal, a plurality of offset lands placed within the first diagonal between the component lands therein, and a plurality of electrical connectors electrically coupling component lands in the second diagonal to adjacent offset lands in the first diagonal.

Printed wiring board wireability enhancement

The present invention provides an adapter for utilizing a PCMCIA card in a desktop computer which has at least one card slot and one bay. The adapter includes a logic card configured to be inserted into the card slot of the computer. The logic card has logic thereon to convert PCMCIA bus architecture of the PCMCIA card to the bus architecture of the desktop computer in a bidirectional manner. There may be at least one PCMCIA card receiving slot on the logic card connected to the logic. A first set of external connectors on the logic card is connected to one end of a multi-conductor flexible cable. An outrigger card which includes at least one PCMCIA card is provided which is configured to be inserted into an externally accessible bay of the computer. A second set of connectors on the outrigger card is connected to the opposite end of the multi-conductor flexible cable. Conductors on the outrigger card connect the second set of connectors on the outrigger card to the PCMCIA card receiving slot(s) thereon. Capacitors are connected between at least some of the conductors and a plane maintained at a predetermined voltage on the outrigger card in order to reduce the distortion of the signals received from the flexible conductor at the outrigger card.

Method and apparatus for providing a remotely located outrigger card

A flexible cable assembly for coupling an electronic apparatus, having a port for receiving personal computer cards in accordance with the PCMCIA standard, to at least one peripheral device, said flex cable assembly comprises a personal computer card connector, in accordance with the PCMCIA standard, for connecting into a corresponding port in the electronic apparatus, and a flexible cable connected to the personal computer card connector. The personal computer card connector also comprises an interface to said at least one peripheral device. In accordance with a further aspect of the invention, the flex cable assembly can also couple a first electronic apparatus, to a second electronic apparatus, each having a port for receiving personal computer cards in accordance with the PCMCIA standard. This flex cable assembly comprises (1) a first PCMCIA card connector for connecting into a corresponding port in either the first or second electronic apparatus; (2) a second PCMCIA card connector for connecting into a corresponding port in either the first or second electronic apparatus; and (3) a flex cable coupled between the first and second personal computer card connectors.

All flex PCMCIA-format cable

A flex circuit, which is fabricated from metallization on thin film, is mounted between two opposite sides of frame to form an electronic card sized to fit as a replacement for a rigid epoxy glass card in a card carrier having a backplane. Appropriate placement of electrical components on the flex circuit and using a flex circuit longer than the spacing between the opposite sides of the frame to which the flex circuit is mounted, allows the use of taller parts on adjacent cards in the card carrier, since the flex circuit can be conformed to eliminate obstructions caused by insufficient spacing between cards.

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Vestal, NY, United States of America

Mark Budman