General Electric Company

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Theodore R Haller

Russell E Tompkins

Robert J Wojnarowski

Gerald Burt Kliman

Herbert S Cole

Marshall Gordon Jones

Renato Guida

Kenneth B Welles, Ii

Robert P Alley

Yung S Liu

Leslie R Borland

A system which monitors the functioning of safety and signal light circuits on a trailer and verify the lights are operating properly. The system connects into the signal and safety light circuits of the trailer and includes a unit which can be positioned within view of an operator of the vehicle towing the trailer. The unit has an appropriate visual display which warns the operator if one of the safety or signal light circuits have ailed. The visual display can be light emitting diodes which provide an appropriate visual signal. The unit can also include an audio signaling device to warn of a failure in the signal and safety light circuit.

Trailer light monitor

Mispositioning of chips in a high density interconnect structure is compensated for by including a layer having alignment conductor in the high density interconnect structure without requiring adaptation of the signal conductor metallization levels of the high density interconnect structure. One level, two levels or more of alignment conductor may be employed. The alignment levels of the high density interconnect structure are preferably a ground plane, and if two layers of alignment conductors are provided, a power plane.

Adaptive lithography in a high density interconnect structure whose

A computerized router is provided with local protection regions in which the orientation of conductors in a given conductor layer is restricted to a particular orientation without affecting the allowable orientations of conductors in that layer in other portions of the routing area. Such local protection regions may apply to one or more signal conductor layers. This capability may be provided for a router which does not have it by the addition of artificial features to the components to be connected by the router. These features may be obstructions or conductors to be used in routing signal paths. Obstructions are sized and positioned to restrict conductors in the local protection regions to the desired orientation.

Locally orientation specific routing system

The fluorescent characteristics of a polymer material are modified by the addition of a fluorescent dye which is fluorescent in response to light in a particular portion of the spectrum to render it fluorescent in response to light in that particular portion of the spectrum.

Enhanced fluorescence polymers and interconnect structures using them

A rapid method of cutting thin amorphous metal sheet material is to use a focused heat source such as a laser beam or electron beam to heat local regions of the material above the crystallization temperature and form brittle crystalline lines along which the material fractures when it is mechanically deformed as by passage through a set of rollers. The material is not melted and does not form burrs. A higher packing factor is possible for motor and transformer laminations.

Cutting amorphous metal by crystallization with a laser or electron beam

An electric machine with a laminated stator or rotor core made of magnetic amorphous metal ribbon takes advantage of the increased lamination area due to the inherent thinness of the material to utilize the laminations as the plates of a capacitor for starting, running, and/or power factor correction. Two amorphous metal ribbons with alternate insulating layers are wound two-in-hand either helically or spirally to fabricate the cores and more than one amorphous metal core, can be provided and connected as additional capacitors. The preferred embodiment is a single phase permanent split-capacitor motor with integral capacitor.

Amorphous metal electric motor with integral capacitor

The magnetic core of a lamp ballast is bifilar wound from inherently thin amorphous metal strip and utilizes the laminations of the magnetic circuit as the plates of a capacitor. The outer yoke of the core encases the coils and is edge-wound from amorphous metal ribbon alternated with insulation to also be the power factor capacitor. The inner core is accordion-pleated or spirally wound and is electrically connected to be the starting capacitor. Cutaways in the inner core cause saturation and shape the lamp current waveform.

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Theodore R Haller