1. A process for manufacturing of polymeric trim parts by making use of physical blowing agents comprising the steps of, melting polymer material in a plasticizing cylinder, supplying the blowing agent to a pressure chamber of a statical mixing device, loading said pressure chamber which is circumferentially enclosing a unitary hollow cylinder having a porous cylinder wall with the blowing agent and pressing it through the porous hollow cylinder wall, whereby the polymer melt flowing past the porous hollow cylinder wall is charged with blowing agent such that the polymer melt is revolved repeatedly by protrusions extending interiorly of the hollow cylinder at least partially into the polymer melt, and transporting a mixture of blowing agent and polymer melt to a mold whereby the polymer melt undergoes a foaming process due to the expansion of the blowing agent dissolved in the polymer melt or after having entered the mold.
2. A device for the manufacture of foamed plastic trim pads by an injection molding method using a blowing agent comprising:
a statical mixing element for thoroughly mixing the blowing agent with a polymer melt from a plasticizing cylinder of an injection molding machine to form a melt mixture, the plasticizing cylinder located upstream of the statical mixing unit, the statical mixing element comprising a unitary hollow cylinder having a porous cylinder wall which is circumferentially surrounded by a pressure chamber; wherein the porous hollow cylinder wall is charged with a blowing agent over an entire surface of the porous cylinder wall via the pressure chamber for supplying the blowing agent to the melt inside the hollow cylinder, wherein interiorly of the hollow cylinder protrusions extend at least partially into the polymer melt to realize thorough circulation of the melt mixture.
3. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that the statical mixing element is mounted between the plasticizing cylinder and a nozzle of the injection molding machine.
4. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that a porous contact surface on the cylinder is a sintered metal.
5. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that the blowing agent is supplied by a conventional pressurized bottle a pressure vessel or a mass flow controlled dosing plant.
6. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that the statical mixing device is heatable.
7. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that, the supply of blowing agent is realized by an electrically driven valve.
8. The device according to claim 2, characterized in that the statical mixing element can be adapted to a variable diameter andor length.
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 system for scalable graphics processing, comprising:
a host system including a host processor, a host display, and a host graphics processor coupled to the host display;
a graphics processing system including a first graphics processing device, a second graphics processing device, and a switch, wherein the switch is separately coupled to the first graphics processing device and the second graphics processing device and configurable to simultaneously broadcast graphics data to the first graphics processing device and the second graphics processing device;
a first connection configured to directly couple the host graphics processor to the first graphics processing device for the transmission of pixel data; and
a bridge device coupled between the host processor and the host graphics processor and coupled to the switch within the graphics processing system to provide a second connection for the transmission of graphics data to the first graphics processing device.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second graphics processing device is coupled to the first graphics processing device for transmitting pixel data from the second graphics processing device to the first graphics processing device.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the first graphics processing device is configured to combine pixel data received from the second graphics processing device with pixel data processed by the first graphics processing device to produce combined pixel data.
4. The system of claim 2, further comprising a third graphics processing device included in the graphics processing system, wherein the second graphics processing device is configured to combine pixel data received from the third graphics processing device with graphics data processed by the second graphics processing device to produce combined pixel data and is further configured to transmit the combined pixel data to the first graphics processing device.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the host graphics processor is configured to convert the combined pixel data for display on the host display.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the host system is a portable computing device.
7. The system of claim 1, where in the first connection is configured to transmit synchronization signals generated by the host graphics processor for controlling the host display.
8. A method of processing graphics data for a host display, comprising:
receiving the graphics data and graphics program instructions through a first connection provided by a bridge device that is coupled to a switch, wherein the bridge device is coupled between a host processor and a host graphics processor and the switch is configurable to simultaneously broadcast the graphics data and graphics program instructions to each graphics processing device of a plurality of graphics processing devices;
processing the graphics data within the plurality of graphics processing devices, wherein each one of the plurality of graphics processing devices processes a portion of the graphics data to produce a portion of an image and each one of the plurality of graphics processing devices is coupled to the switch;
successively combining each portion of the image to produce combined portions of the image; and
outputting the combined portions of the image to the host graphics processor coupled to the host display.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the host graphics processor is configured to produce an additional portion of the image and to combine the combined portions of the image with the additional portion to produce the image.
10. The method of claim 8, further comprising the steps of:
scaling the combined portions of the image to produce the image for output to the host display; and
displaying the image on the host display.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein each portion of the image is successively combined within a different one of the plurality of graphics processing devices to produce the combined portions of the image.
12. The method of claim 8, wherein each portion of the image is successively combined within one of the plurality of graphics processing devices that is configured as a local master graphics device to produce the combined portions of the image.
13. The method of claim 8, wherein the steps of combining and outputting are controlled using synchronization signals received from the host graphics processor.
14. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics processing system is enclosed within a chassis that includes a power supply and one or more connectors for the first connection and the second connection.
15. The system of claim 1, wherein the pixel data transmitted from the second graphics processing system device to the first graphics processing device includes data for multi-samples within each pixel.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first graphics processing device performs multi-sample filtering to produce the combined pixel data.
17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a main memory that is coupled to the bridge and configured to store the graphics data to be processed.
18. The method of claim 8, wherein each portion of the image includes data for multi-samples for each pixel in the image.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of successively combining each portion of the image includes performing multi-sample filtering to produce the combined portions of the image.