1. A wild fire fighting water bucket \u201cRim Opening Device\u201d, which being mechanical, collapsible, symmetrical and polygonal in form and shape, is circumferentially disposed around and affixed inside the rim of the pliable, collapsible aerial wild fire fighting water bucket, which is dimensional as such to be suspended from a helicopter, and to be filled by dipping into an open body of water, the \u201cRim Opening Device\u201d cooperating with the pliable side walls of the wild fire fighting water bucket to automatically open both concentrically when under tension from a helicopter and to automatically hold and lock open same, and to selectively accommodate manual collapse of both the Rim Opening Device and the pliable, collapsible wild fire fighting water bucket, the Rim Opening Device comprising:
(a) a plurality of interconnected mechanical wishbone apparatuses comprising;
(i) interconnected, adjustable, mechanical swing arms,
(ii) fixed end connectors,
(iii) fixed end rotatable fasteners,
(iv) free end connectors,
(v) free end rotatable fasteners,
(vi) fixed end of mechanical wishbones,
(vii) free end of mechanical wishbones,
(viii) a mechanical wishbone restrainer,
all of which functionally cooperate with the pliable side walls of the collapsible wild fire water bucket to open, hold open or close same,
(b) an angle of inclination which converts lifting tension to horizontal, concentric development of the Rim Opening Device,
(c) a connector swing arm tract which guides the Rim Opening Device’s concentric development,
(d) a Rim Opening Device integrated weight differential system comprising;
(i) a means for variably adjust the tipping weight to achieve rapid tipping and submersion of the wild fire fighting water bucket,
(ii) a means for variably regulate the wild fire fighting water buckets in flight aerodynamics,
(iii) a specific gravity weight differential system to achieve rapid tipping and submersion of the wild fire fighting water bucket,
(e) vertically arranged, interconnected structural components of a collapsed Rim Opening Device, ie, the Mechanical Swing Arms, Fixed End Connectors, and the Free End Connectors embody design content and capacity to progressively transition perpendicularly therefrom into a defined horizontally arranged closed plane, symmetrical and polygonal in form and shape, having a centrally open orifice providing unrestricted access into the interior of the wild fire fighting water bucket.
2. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mechanical wishbones have both a fixed end of mechanical wishbone and a free end of mechanical wishbone which co-operate with mechanical swing arms rotatably affixed to both fixed end connectors and free end connectors and the pliable side walls to concentrically open the wild firefighting water bucket.
3. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of the fixed end connectors locate the fixed end of mechanical wishbones adjacent the wild fire fighting water buckets rim, the fixed end connectors comprising;
(a) connector swing arm tracts for receiving the mechanical swing arms,
(b) An angle of inclination,
(c) a means for rotationally connecting the mechanical swing arms,
(d) a fixed end overcenter stop to co-operate with and eliminate overcentering the mechanical swing arms above the horizontal plane,
(e) a lifting cord passageway,
(f) a means to restrain the mechanical swing arms within the swing arm tract,
(g) a means to interconnect the fixed end connectors with the mechanical swing arms,
(h) a means to connect the fixed end connectors adjacent the rim of the bucket,
(i) a means to connect the free end of mechanical wishbones to the first flexible tension links,
all of which cooperatively guide the mechanical swing arm travel and the concentric development of the interconnected mechanical wishbones and the Rim Opening Device to open and close the wild fire fighting water bucket.
4. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fixed end connectors are located adjacent the bucket rim, the mechanical Rim Opening Device is aerodynamically dimensioned; leeward, therein, which co-operates with forward movement of the bucket during flight to produce a clear directional airflow above the bucket, not deflecting airflow therein.
5. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 4, wherein the deployed Rim Opening Device co-operates aerodynamically with its dimensioned configuration within the centrally open top of the bucket to substantially reduce water loss during flight.
6. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 2, wherein the free end of mechanical wishbone is defined by rotatably interconnecting the mechanical swing arms in pairs to the free end connectors, the free end connectors comprising;
(a) connector swing arm tracts for receiving the mechanical swing arms,
(b) an angle of inclination,
(c) a means for rotationally connecting the mechanical swing arms,
(d) a free end overcenter stop to cooperate with and eliminate overcentering the mechanical swing arms above the horizontal plane,
(e) a lifting cord passageway and a means to secure the lifting cord,
(f) a means to connect the mechanical swing arms in pairs, all of which co-operatively guide the mechanical swing arm travel and the concentric development of the interconnected mechanical wishbones and the Rim Opening Device to open and close the wild fire fighting water bucket.
7. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein each mechanical wishbone has two mechanical swing arms, each comprising;
(a) are dimensioned as such to be received in connector swing arm tracts,
(b) are dimensioned as such to receive slideable, adjustable trimming weights to adjust the aerodynamics of the wild fire fighting bucket,
(c) are dimensioned as such to be rotatably connected to the fixed end connector, becoming the fixed end of mechanical wishbone,
(d) are dimensioned as such to have the opposite end of the mechanical swing arm rotatably connected to the free end connector, becoming the free end of mechanical wishbone,
(e) are dimensioned as such to be adjustable to length by means of mechanical swing arm adjusters, both left hand threaded and right hand threaded, which apply tension to the wild fire water bucket rim,
all of which functionally co-operate with the pliable side wall to open the wild fire water bucket and adjust same for operational efficiency.
8. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 7, wherein the length of the mechanical wishbone arms of the Rim Opening Device are adjustable.
9. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 8, wherein the length of the mechanical swing arms adjustably co-operate with other structural members of the opening device, and the body of the bucket to circumferential tension the bucket rim.
10. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, comprises a plurality of mechanical wishbones, being interconnected and dimensioned around the inside bucket rim, each of the mechanical wishbones comprising two mechanical swing arms rotatably connected to co-operate with the pliable side wall to open and close the bucket.
11. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 10, wherein the plurality of mechanical wishbones each comprising a pair of mechanical swing arms, each having a fixed end of mechanical wishbone, and a free end of mechanical wishbone, each of the mechanical swing arm comprising; a fixed end connector, a mechanical swing arm, a free end connector and a means to rotationally connect said mechanical swing arms, all of which co-operate with the pliable side wall to open and close the bucket.
12. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 10, wherein a plurality of the mechanical wishbones each comprises a pair of the mechanical swing arms which co-operate with the pliable side wall to open and close the bucket, the fixed end connectors comprising a means to rotatably connect the fixed ends of the mechanical swing arms adjacent the bucket rim.
13. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 6, wherein the plurality of the mechanical wishbones each comprises a pair of mechanical swing arms which co-operate with the pliable side wall to open and close the bucket, the free end connectors have a means to rotatably connect the free ends of the mechanical swing arms in pairs.
14. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, whereas the fixed end connectors and the free end connectors have similar angles of inclination, size and shape, the free end connector is installed upside down and rotated 180 degrees as to the fixed end connector to facilitate upward and concentric development of the Rim Opening Device.
15. A Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ballasting means to achieve a fast tipping action and submersion while filling is accomplished by an integrated weight differential on opposite sides of the Rim Opening Device; the deployed plurality of interconnected mechanical wishbones, the fixed end connectors, the swing arms and the free end connectors have a higher specific gravity quotient or are heavier on one side of the Rim Opening Device than on the other creating the ballasted weight differential system which promotes fast tipping and submersion.
16. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 15, wherein the tipping weight differential is dimensioned over about a 180 degree arc located adjacent the rim to achieve a torquing, quick tipping action and fast submersion during filling.
17. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 15, wherein the perimeter of the pliable rim is circumferentially and structurally supported by the weighted, deployed open, Rim Opening Device which co-operates with the tipping action to knife the leading edge underwater, facilitating rapid submersion and filling.
18. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 15, wherein the ballasting means to achieve rapid submersion during filling is structurally integral to the bucket’s mechanical Rim Opening Device.
19. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 15, wherein the ballasting means to achieve a quick tipping action is arranged circumferentially and horizontally adjoined in union with, conterminous with, and contiguous with the buckets uppermost extremity, its rim, to maximize the ballasts Metacentric Height, thereby densely concentrating the gravitational tipping moment at the buckets upper rim.
20. A, Rim Opening Device, claimed in claim 15, wherein the Metacentric Height of the ballast is consistent with the buckets maximum gravitational tipping moment.
21. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the deployed Rim Opening Device opens concentrically to define a structurally unrestricted centrally open round mouth which co-operates with the bucket body to receive general cargo.
22. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 15, wherein centers of the circumferentially arranged tipping weights are in a vertically aligned plane when the bucket has been tipped horizontally, maximizing the downwardly force, to c-operate with the circumferentially tensioned rim of the bucket, to achieve quick submersion and filling.
23. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the deployed Rim Opening Device opens up concentrically to define a structurally unrestricted centrally open, essentially round mouth to co-operate with the bucket body to receive emergency evacuees, a flip down, pliable, emergency extractor jump seat and a seat belt harness co-operating to secure the evacuees for extraction from harms way.
24. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Rim Opening Device has a lifting cord attached to the free end connector, when tension is applied there to, the mechanical wishbones transitions from a closed vertical plane to a horizontal plane concentrically in co-operation with the pliable side wall to open the bucket.
25. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first flexible tension links, a plurality of suspension lines co-operates with the Rim Opening Device lifting cords to lift the Rim Opening Device into the deployed horizontal position while not placing bucket weight on the Rim Opening Device or its lifting cords.
26. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the fixed end and the free end connectors have an angle of inclination which produces a concentric outward development of the Rim Opening Device when tension is applied to the lifting cords.
27. A, Rim Opening Device, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Rim Opening Device lifting cords have a means to hold open the bucket against the weighted wishbone arms which could collapse the bucket unexpectedly, when tension on the first flexible tension links is released.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An apparatus comprising:
a controller to determine whether a processor is to enter an inactive state of operation, and to cause a set of one or more execution units to execute a sequence of one or more micro-operations subsequent to the determination and prior to entering said inactive state, wherein the sequence is to cause one or more logic elements of the set of execution units to be placed in a first operating state to reduce power leakage in the one or more logic elements, the one or more logic elements having at least one low leakage transistor assigned thereto based at least in part on a comparison of a power leakage of the corresponding logic element when an initial parking sequence is applied to the logic element to a threshold and evaluation of a controllability level of the initial parking sequence.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said set of execution units comprises a plurality of logic elements, said sequence comprises a sequence of micro-operations resulting in a parking operating state of one or more of said plurality of logic elements.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said sequence comprises a sequence of micro-operations resulting in the parking operating state of at least half of said logic elements.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the plurality of low leakage transistors are assigned to one or more of said logic elements based on a power leakage level of said logic elements at said parking operating state.
5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein subsequent to causing said set of execution units to execute said sequence, said controller is able to generate a clear signal to clear one or more control operations being executed by said set of execution units.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a clock to provide a clock signal to said set of execution units, and subsequent to entering said inactive state, to assert a control signal to cause the one or more logic elements of said set of execution units to maintain the first operating state.
7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein when in said first operating state, inputs of said one or more logic elements have a predetermined value.
8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said clock is able to de-assert said control signal prior to exiting said inactive state.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sequence is to cause inputs to a selector element of a first logic element to a common state and wherein an output of the selector element is at a level close to a power rail.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more logic elements is modified in accordance with the assigned at least one low leakage transistor.
11. A system comprising:
a processor including a controller to determine whether said processor is to enter an inactive state of operation, and to cause a set of one or more execution units to execute a sequence of one or more micro-operations subsequent to the determination and prior to entering said inactive state, wherein one or more logic elements of the set of execution units have at least one low leakage transistor assigned thereto based at least in part on a comparison of a power leakage of the corresponding logic element when an initial parking sequence is applied to the logic element to a threshold and evaluation of a controllability level of the initial parking sequence; and
a memory to store data to be processed by said processor.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein said sequence comprises a sequence of micro-operations resulting in a parking operating state of the one or more logic elements.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein said sequence comprises a sequence of micro-operations resulting in the parking operating state of at least half of said logic elements.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of low leakage transistors are assigned to one or more of said logic elements based on a power leakage level of said logic elements at said parking operating state.
15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein subsequent to causing said set of execution units to execute said sequence, said controller is able to generate a clear signal to clear one or more control operations being executed by said set of execution units.
16. The system of claim 11, comprising a clock to provide a clock signal to said set of execution units, and subsequent to entering said inactive state, to assert a control signal causing one or more logic elements of said set of execution units to maintain a first operating state.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein when in said first operating state, inputs of said one or more logic elements have a predetermined value.
18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said clock is able to de-assert said control signal prior to exiting said inactive state.
19. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more logic elements is modified in accordance with the assigned at least one low leakage transistor.
20. A method comprising:
determining an initial parking sequence to be applied to at least one logic element of an execution unit;
evaluating a controllability level of the initial parking sequence;
determining a power leakage of the at least one logic element when at a parking state corresponding to the initial parking sequence;
assigning at least one low leakage transistor to the at least one logic element based at least in part on the power leakage at the parking state;
determining the power leakage of the at least one logic element after assignment of the at least one low leakage transistor; and
modifying the at least one logic element in accordance with the assigned at least one low leakage transistor.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising assigning the at least one low leakage transistor based at least in part on a timing efficiency of the at least one logic element.
22. The method of claim 20, wherein evaluating the controllability level includes:
determining signal probability values corresponding to a plurality of logic elements of the execution unit; and
determining the controllability level based on the signal probability values.
23. The method of claim 22, further comprising determining if the controllability level exceeds a threshold and if so, determining the power leakage, otherwise re-defining the initial parking sequence to a second parking sequence.
24. The method of claim 20, further comprising assigning the at least one low leakage transistor to a first logic element having a highest power leakage at the parking state if the first logic element is in a critical timing path.
25. The method of claim 24, further comprising assigning at least one other low leakage transistor to a path having a timing margin below a timing insertion limit if a speed degradation is allowed.