1. A vehicle wheel, comprising:
a peripheral wheel rim;
a central hub with a central axle and an outer flange;
a plurality of spokes extending between said rim and said hub with a first portion connected to said rim and a second portion opposed to said first portion and connected to said hub and a span portion between said rim and said hub;
a bracing element including at least a portion of at least one of said rim and hub;
a connecting element connected to said bracing element;
wherein said spoke is a generally slender element with a longitudinal axis, a longitudinal external surface, and a tensile axis of applied tensile load along said span portion;
wherein said connecting element includes an external surface and an internal cavity with an internal surface adjacent said spoke;
wherein said connecting element is joined to said spoke by means of a crimped joinder wherein said external surface is pressed inwardly to plastically deform said connecting element such that said internal surface is displaced toward said spoke; and
wherein said crimped joinder supports said tensile load through an engagement interface.
2. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said crimped joinder supports said tensile load through an engagement interface between said connecting element and said spoke.
3. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke supports tensile load in tension.
4. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke supports tensile load in compression.
5. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element serves as a coupling to join two portions of said spoke and wherein said two portions of said spoke are directly engaged to each other and wherein said crimped joinder serves to maintain said direct engagement of said two portions of said spoke.
6. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element serves as a coupling to join two portions of said spoke and wherein said two portions of said spoke are joined to each other by means of said connecting element.
7. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element serves as a termination for said spoke.
8. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke comprises a single span.
9. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke is a duplex spoke, including two structural spans and a common portion therebetween and wherein said crimped joinder is at said common portion.
10. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said crimped joinder serves to shrink said internal cavity of said connecting element to engage with said spoke at said engagement interface.
11. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said engagement interface includes a longitudinal engagement between said connecting element and said spoke, wherein the longitudinal length of said longitudinal engagement is greater than the cross sectional thickness of said spoke.
12. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said internal surface of said cavity grips said external surface of said spoke at said engagement interface.
13. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said engagement interface includes a frictional engagement.
14. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said internal cavity of said connecting element includes a configured internal surface and wherein said external surface of said spoke is deformed to conform to said configured internal surface at said engagement interface.
15. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 14, wherein said internal surface of said internal cavity has greater hardness than said external surface of said spoke.
16. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said external surface of said spoke includes a configured external surface and wherein said internal cavity of said connecting element is deformed to conform to said configured external surface at said engagement interface.
17. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 16, wherein said external surface of said spoke has greater hardness than said internal surface of said internal cavity.
18. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said engagement interface includes a mechanical overlie engagement to limit relative movement between said spoke and said connecting element along said longitudinal axis.
19. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element includes a first configured surface and wherein said spoke includes a second configured surface and wherein said crimped joinder serves to reduce clearance between said first configured surface and said second configured surface. (FIG. 26)
20. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said internal cavity of said connecting element and said external surface of said spoke includes a configured surface at said engagement interface, with said configured surface comprising at least one of a helical threaded surface, a transition surface, a knurled surface, a ribbed surface, a warped surface and an indented surface.
21. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element includes non-circular geometry to facilitate the manipulation of said connecting element about said longitudinal axis.
22. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said crimped joinder serves to collapse said connecting element to create pinched folds.
23. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element continuously surrounds a cross section of said spoke.
24. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element includes a discontinuity such that said connecting element discontinuously surrounds a cross section of said spoke.
25. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said external surface is pressed in a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis to create said crimped joinder.
26. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said external surface is pressed in a direction parallel to said longitudinal axis to create said crimped joinder.
27. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, including an intermediate joining element, wherein said crimped joinder serves to join said spoke is to said intermediate joining element and to join said intermediate joining element to said connecting element.
28. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein a multiplicity of said spokes are joined to a single one of said connecting element by means of said crimped joinder.
29. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 28, wherein said connecting element includes a multiplicity of said internal cavities and wherein each of said multiplicity of said spokes are joined to a corresponding one of said internal cavities by means of said crimped joinder.
30. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said crimped joinder serves to join a multiplicity of said spokes to a single one of said internal cavity.
31. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element is integral with said bracing element.
32. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said internal cavity is a blind cavity of limited depth.
33. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said internal cavity is a through cavity that extends through the connector.
34. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element includes an engagement surface and wherein said connecting element is engaged to said bracing element at said engagement surface to limit relative movement between said connecting element and said bracing element along said longitudinal axis.
35. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 34, wherein said connecting element includes a helical thread with a threaded engagement, wherein said helical thread comprises said engagement surface.
36. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 34, wherein said engagement surface includes a direct overlie engagement between said connecting element and said bracing element.
37. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 34, including an intermediate connecting element, wherein said connecting element is connected to said intermediate connecting element and said intermediate connecting element is connected to said bracing element.
38. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 37, wherein said connection between said connecting element and said intermediate connecting element includes a threaded engagement.
39. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 37, wherein said connection between said bracing element and said intermediate connecting element includes a threaded engagement.
40. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 37, wherein said intermediate connecting element is connected to said bracing element by means of an overlie engagement.
41. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke includes high strength fibers.
42. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 41, wherein the majority of said high strength fibers are aligned generally parallel to said longitudinal axis.
43. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 41, wherein said high strength fibers are encapsulated in a matrix, wherein said matrix is at least one of a thermoplastic polymer resin and a thermoset polymer resin matrix.
44. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke has polymer external surface at said engagement interface.
45. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said spoke has steel external surface at said engagement interface.
46. A tensile connector assembly according to claim 1, wherein said connecting element is comprised of a metallic material consisting primarily of aluminum andor magnesium.
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 comprising:
monitoring, at a performance monitor unit (PMU), write requests to a transmit portion and a receive portion of a buffer;
adjusting, at a buffer manager, a size of the transmit portion and a size of the receive portion of the buffer based on a comparison of a threshold value, corresponding to one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, with a number of buffer full events, corresponding to a different one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, determined at the PMU, wherein the number of buffer full events corresponds to buffer full events of one of the transmit portion or the receive portion; and
determining the threshold value by multiplying a value of the buffer full events by a factor.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the sizes of the transmit and the receive portions comprises generating a buffer configuration signal.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the sizes of the transmit and the receive portions is performed by maintaining a same size of the buffer.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating one of a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion or a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion for each occurrence of the buffer full events.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising resetting a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion if the transmit portion size and the receive portion size are adjusted.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the sizes of the transmit and receive portions of the buffer is performed as long as the size of the transmit and receive portions are above a minimum size.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising resetting a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion if the transmit portion size and the receive portion size are at a minimum size.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting the sizes of the transmit and the receive portions comprises one of:
reducing the size of the transmit portion by a first number of entries and increasing the size of the receive portion by the first number of entries; or
increasing the size of the transmit portion by a second number of entries and increasing the size of the receive portion by the second number of entries.
9. An apparatus comprising:
logic circuitry to monitor write requests to a transmit portion and a receive portion of a buffer; and
a buffer manager to adjust a size of the transmit portion and a size of the receive portion of the buffer based on a comparison of a threshold value, corresponding to one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, with a number of buffer full events, corresponding to a different one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, wherein the buffer manager is coupled to receive a signal from the logic circuitry indicating the threshold value is exceeded, wherein the number of buffer full events corresponds to buffer full events of one of the transmit portion or the receive portion and wherein the threshold value is to be determined by multiplying a value of the buffer full events by a factor.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion.
11. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising one or more hardware registers to each store one or more of a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion.
12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the transmit and receive portions of the buffer are contiguous.
13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the buffer comprises a first-in, first-out buffer.
14. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising one or more processor cores to access data stored in the buffer.
15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more processor cores are on a same integrated circuit die.
16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more processor cores are processor cores of a symmetrical multiprocessor or an asymmetrical multiprocessor.
17. A storage device comprising instructions that when executed on a processor configure the processor to perform operations comprising:
monitoring, at a PMU, write requests to a transmit portion and a receive portion of a buffer;
adjusting, at a buffer manager, a size of the transmit portion and a size of the receive portion of the buffer based on a comparison of a threshold value, corresponding to one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, with a number of buffer full events, corresponding to a different one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, determined at the PMU, wherein the number of buffer full events corresponds to buffer full events of one of the transmit portion or the receive portion; and
determining the threshold value by multiplying a value of the buffer full events by a factor.
18. The storage device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise resetting a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion if the transmit portion size and the receive portion size are adjusted.
19. A traffic management device comprising:
a switch fabric; and
an apparatus, coupled to the switch fabric, to store data communicated via the switch fabric, the apparatus comprising:
logic to monitor write requests to a transmit portion and a receive portion of a buffer; and
a buffer manager to adjust a size of the transmit portion and a size of the receive portion of the buffer based on a comparison of a threshold value, corresponding to one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, to a number of buffer full events, corresponding to a different one of the transmit portion or the receive portion, wherein the buffer manager is coupled to receive a signal from the logic indicating the threshold value is exceeded, wherein the number of buffer full events corresponds to buffer full events of one of the transmit portion or the receive portion and wherein the threshold value is to be determined by multiplying a value of the buffer full events by a factor.
20. The traffic management device of claim 19, wherein the switch fabric conforms to one or more of common switch interface (CSIX), advanced switching interconnect (ASI), Hyperlransport, Infiniband, peripheral component interconnect (PCI), Ethernet, Packet-Over-SONET (synchronous optical network), or Universal Test and Operations PHY (physical) Interface for ATM (UTOPIA).
21. The traffic management device of claim 19, further comprising a transmit full counter corresponding to the transmit portion and a receive full counter corresponding to the receive portion.