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Robert C Kochem

Peter C Hayden

A folding sawhorse including a rigid planar center panel and a pair of hinged rigid planar end panels which can be folded flat against the rigid planar center panel when the sawhorse is not in use and swung into position and locked in place when the sawhorse is in use.

Folding sawhorse

A wiring concentrator (160) for Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networks employs only two PHY modules (182 and 184) for initialization of all attached stations (174, 176, 178, and 180). A bank of switches (204, 206, 208, and 210) initially switches one of the stations into full-duplex communication with one of the PHY modules (182), with which it performs the initialization process. The attached station (174, 176, 178, or 180) is then switched into a loop formed with the other PHY (184), in which loop the station remains in the active state that it reached as a result of the initialization process. The process is then repeated for each attached station. A separate PHY module thus is not required for every attached station.

Wiring concentrator for data networks

A wiring concentrator (160)for Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) networks employs only two PHY modules (182 and 184) for initialization of all attached stations (174, 176, 178, and 180). A bank of switches (204, 206, 208, and 210) initially switches one of the stations into full-duplex communication with one of the PHY modules (182), with which it performs the initialization process. The attached station (174, 176, 178, or 180) is then switched into a loop formed with the other PHY (184), in which loop the station remains in the active state that it reached as a result of the initialization process. The process is then repeated for each attached station. A separate PHY module thus is not required for every attached station.

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Robert C Kochem