1. A computing system adapted for use with an optical disk drive, said computing system comprising:
a motherboard adapted to be coupled electrically to the optical disk drive; and
a control key coupled electrically to said motherboard and operable so as to provide a control signal to said motherboard, said motherboard being adapted to control disk loading and disk unloading operations of the optical disk drive in accordance with the control signal provided by said control key.
2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein said motherboard includes a Southbridge chipset and a basic inputoutput system (BIOS), the control signal being provided to said Southbridge chipset,
in response to the control signal, said Southbridge chipset requesting said BIOS to issue sequential load and unload commands that are to be provided to the optical disk drive, thereby enabling the optical disk drive to perform the disk loading operation when the optical disk drive is in a disk unloading state, and to perform the disk unloading operation when the optical disk drive is in a disk loading state.
3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein said motherboard includes a Southbridge chipset and a basic inputoutput system (BIOS), said BIOS being provided with a flag register for indicating whether the optical disk drive is in a disk loading state or a disk unloading state, the control signal being provided to said Southbridge chipset,
in response to the control signal, said Southbridge chipset enabling said BIOS to update content of said flag register and to issue one of a load command, that is to be provided to the optical disk drive so as to enable the optical disk drive to perform the disk loading operation, and an unload command, that is to be provided to the optical disk drive so as to enable the optical disk drive to perform the disk unloading operation, in accordance with the content of said flag register.
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. A method of forming a unitary fabric element for use in an engineered thermal fabric article having a multiplicity of predetermined discrete regions of contrasting insulative capacity positioned about the article in an arrangement having correlation to insulative requirements of corresponding regions of a user’s body, the unitary fabric element defining at least two predetermined, discrete regions of contrasting insulative capacity,
said method comprising the steps of:
designing a pattern of the predetermined, discrete regions;
combining yarn andor fibers in a continuous web according to the pattern of predetermined, discrete regions, comprising the steps of, in one or more first discrete regions of the fabric element, forming loop yarn to a first pile height, the one or more first discrete regions corresponding to one or more regions of the user’s body having first insulative requirements, and in one or more other discrete regions of said fabric element, forming loop yarn to a second pile height different from and relatively greater than the first pile height, the one or more other discrete regions corresponding to one or more regions of the user’s body having other insulative requirements different from and relatively greater than the first insulative requirements;
incorporating a smart yarn andor smart fiber into the web,
finishing one or both surfaces of the continuous web to form the predetermined, discrete regions into discrete regions of contrasting pile heights; and
removing the unitary fabric element from the continuous web according to the pattern of predetermined, discrete regions.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the incorporating step includes incorporating smart yarn andor smart fibers into the web in predetermined, discrete regions that correspond to the regions in which the loop yarn is formed to the first pile height.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the incorporating step includes incorporating the smart yarn andor smart fibers into the web in predetermined, discrete regions that correspond to the regions in which the loop yarn is formed to the second pile height.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the incorporating step includes utilizing the smart yarn andor smart fibers as stitch yarns in the regions in which the loop yarn is formed to the second pile height.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the incorporating step includes combining the smart yarn andor smart fibers into the web as floating yarns in the regions in which the loop yarn is formed to the first pile height.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the smart yarn andor smart fiber comprises a ceramic.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the smart yarn andor smart fiber comprises a synthetic material embedded with ceramic particles.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the smart yarn andor smart fiber comprises a phase change material.
9. The method of claim 7 wherein the ceramic particles comprise zirconium carbide.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the smart yarn andor smart fiber comprises a biomimetric material.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the designing of a pattern of the predetermined, discrete regions comprises designing of the pattern for use in an engineered thermal fabric garment.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the unitary fabric element comprises a silhouette for an engineered thermal fabric garment and the method comprises the further steps of:
forming a complementary unitary fabric element with a complementary pattern of predetermined, discrete regions, the complementary unitary fabric element comprising a complementary silhouette for the engineered fabric element; and
joining together the unitary fabric element and the complementary unitary fabric element to form the engineered thermal fabric garment.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the designing of a pattern of the predetermined, discrete regions comprises designing of the pattern for use in an engineered thermal fabric home textile article.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the designing of a pattern of the predetermined, discrete regions comprises designing of the pattern for use in an engineered thermal fabric home textile article in the form of an article selected from the group consisting of: blanket, upholstery cover, mattress cover, mattress ticking, and viscoelastic mattress ticking.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the combining yarn andor fibers in a continuous web comprises combining yarn andor fibers by tubular circular knitting, reverse plaiting, warp knitting or weaving.
16. The method of claim 1, comprising the steps of combining the yarn andor fibers by regular plaiting and finishing one surface of the continuous web to form a single face fleece.
17. The method of claim 1, comprising combining the yarn andor fibers by reverse plaiting and finishing both surfaces of the continuous web to form a double face fleece.
18. The method of claim 1, comprising the further step of incorporating the unitary fabric element in a unitary fabric laminate.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the incorporating the unitary fabric element in a unitary fabric laminate comprises the step of laminating the unitary fabric element with a controlled air permeability element.
20. The method of claim 1, wherein the combining step includes selecting the yarn andor fibers from the group consisting of: regenerate yarn andor fibers, polyester yarn andor fibers, nylon yarn andor fibers, acrylic yarn andor fibers, polypropylene yarn andor fibers, continuous filament flat or textured or spun yarn made of synthetic staple fibers, flame retardant yarn andor fibers, cotton yarn andor fibers, and wool yarn andor fibers.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the regenerate yarn andor fibers is selected from the group consisting of: rayon yarn andor fibers.
22. The method of claim 1, wherein the forming loop yarn to the first pile height comprises forming loop yarn with no pile.
23. The method of claim 1, wherein the forming loop yarn to the first pile height comprises forming loop yarn to a low pile height using a combination of low pile using low sinker andor shrinkable yarn and no pile.
24. The method of claim 11 wherein the one or more first discrete regions and the one or more other discrete regions correspond to one or more regions of the wearer’s body selected from the group consisting of: spinal cord area, spine, back area, upper back area, lower back area, neck area, back of knee areas, front of chest area, breast area, abdominal area, armpit areas, arm areas, front of elbow areas, sacrum dimple areas, groin area, thigh areas, and shin areas.