Author: claimsbot

1. An integrated blade cooler for electronic components comprising a blower, an electric drive and a heatsink, wherein:
(i) said blower comprising a radial impeller and a casing with an inlet and an outlet;
(ii) said radial impeller comprising blades, a backplate disk and an axis of rotation;
(iii) said electric drive comprising a magnetic rotor and a stator made as a part of said casing and located perpendicularly to said axis of rotation;
(iv) at least part of said blades being magnetized in the direction parallel to said axis of rotation and serving as said magnetic rotor;
(v) said heatsink comprising heat-exchanging means and a base providing thermal contact with said electronic component and said heat exchanging means;
(vi) said heat-exchanging means being clothed in a cover plate with an outflow opening;
(vii) said outflow opening being coincided with said inlet, thus cooling gas flows through said heat-exchanging means, said inlet, said radial impeller, and said outlet in a series way.
2. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stator being made as a printed circuit board.
3. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least part of said cover plate being made as a part of said casing so that said outflow opening serves as said inlet.
4. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radial impeller further comprising a shroud made from the magnet-conducting material that contacts with said blades.
5. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said backplate disk being magnetized.
6. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radial impeller further comprising a magnetic shroud.
7. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said radial impeller being made as a drum type impeller.
8. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stator being located on the side of said blower opposite to said heatsink.
9. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stator being made as a part of said cover plate.
10. The cooler as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a magnetic insulation between said stator and said heatsink.
11. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an additional stator being made as part of said casing and located perpendicularly to said axis of rotation, said additional stator and said stator being located on the opposite sides of said blower.
12. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said casing further comprising an additional outlet located opposite to said outlet.
13. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein a side part of said casing being made as at least three elements like pillars.
14. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said heat-exchanging means being pins orand fins.
15. The cooler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said heatsink comprising a recess on the side of said outflow opening, and said blower being located in said recess.
16. The cooler as claimed in claim 15, wherein the depth of said recess is so that the side of said casing opposite to said heatsink being located in about the same level as said cover plate of said heatsink.
17. The cooler as claimed in claim 15, wherein said recess with said blower being located at the central part of said heatsink.

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 bus bar of an EPS motor, the bus bar comprising:
an insulator made of insulation material and configured to form a body of the bus bar for supplying an electric power with at least three or more different polarities to a coil wound on a stator of the motor, the insulator being coupled to an upper side of the stator;
a first terminal having a plurality of first coil terminal connectors protrusively formed to a circumferential direction at a first height of a periphery of the insulator;
a second terminal having a plurality of second coil terminal connectors protrusively formed at the periphery of the insulator to a circumferential direction at a second height higher than the first height; and
a fixing unit interposed between the first and second terminals in the insulator to fix an arrangement position of the first and second terminals arranged inside the insulator;
wherein the first terminal includes a ring-shaped first body arranged inside the insulator and formed by bending a plate material of a predetermined thickness and connecting both distal ends of the plate material, and wherein the plurality of first coil terminal connectors is bent at both distal ends by being extended from the first body;
wherein the second terminal includes ring-shaped second to fourth bodies in the form of a partial round bent section, wherein both distal ends of each of the ring-shaped second to fourth bodies are mutually distanced inside the insulator such that each of the ring-shaped second to fourth bodies is opened, and wherein the plurality of second coil terminal connectors is bent at a distal end by being extended from the second to fourth bodies; and
wherein the first and second coil terminal connectors are alternately formed so as not to face each other.
2. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein the insulator takes a ring shape with a hollow hole formed at a center, wherein an inner diameter of the insulator corresponds to a diameter of a rotor coupled to a center of the stator, and wherein an outer diameter of the insulator corresponds to an external diameter of the stator.
3. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein the first terminal is arranged at a position higher than a floor surface of the insulator and the second terminal is arranged at a position lower than an upper surface of the insulator.
4. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein distal ends of the first and second coil terminal connectors are spaced apart from the periphery of the insulator, each at a same distance.
5. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein the insulator is injection molded of resin material along with the first and second terminals.
6. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein the fixing unit includes a plurality of pin holes formed at the insulator, wherein the pin holes are formed by a plurality of pins provided at a mold injection-molding the insulator to fix an inner position of the insulator of the first to fourth bodies.
7. The bus bar of claim 6, wherein the pin holes are formed by passing through the upper surface and the lower surface of the insulator.
8. The bus bar of claim 1, wherein the second body is applied with an electric power of first polarity, the third body is applied with an electric power of second polarity, and each diameter of the second to fourth bodies is differently formed.
9. The bus bar of claim 8, wherein a diameter of the third body is the largest while a diameter of the first body is the smallest.
10. The bus bar of claim 8, wherein the first body is bent at least thrice to form the first coil terminal connector, and the second and third bodies are bent at least twice to form the second coil terminal connector.
11. An EPS motor, comprising:
a stator wound with a coil;
a rotor installed at a space centrally formed at the stator, and rotating inside a space by an electrical interaction between a plurality of magnets and the coil of the stator; and
a bus bar coupled to an upper side of the stator, and supplying an electric power having at least three or more mutually different polarities to the coil wound on the stator,
wherein the bus bar comprises:
an insulator made of insulation material and configured to form a body of the bus bar for supplying an electric power with at least three or more different polarities to the coil wound on the stator, the insulator being coupled to an upper side of the stator;
a first terminal having a plurality of first coil terminal connectors protrusively formed to a circumferential direction at a first height of a periphery of the insulator;
a second terminal having a plurality of second coil terminal connectors protrusively formed at the periphery of the insulator to a circumferential direction at a second height higher than the first height; and
a fixing unit interposed between the first and second terminals in the insulator to fix an arrangement position of the first and second terminals arranged inside the insulator;

wherein the first terminal includes a ring-shaped first body arranged inside the insulator and formed by bending a plate material of a predetermined thickness and connecting both distal ends of the plate material, and wherein the plurality of first coil terminal connectors is bent at both distal ends by being extended from the first body;
wherein the second terminal includes ring-shaped second to fourth bodies in the form of a partial round bent section, wherein both distal ends of each of the ring-shaped second to fourth bodies are mutually distanced inside the insulator such that each of the ring-shaped second to fourth bodies is opened, and wherein the plurality of second coil terminal connectors is bent at a distal end by being extended from the second to fourth bodies; and
wherein the first and second coil terminal connectors are alternately formed so as not to face each other.
12. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein the insulator takes a ring shape with a hollow hole formed at a center, wherein an inner diameter of the insulator corresponds to a diameter of a rotor coupled to a center of the stator, and wherein an outer diameter of the insulator corresponds to an external diameter of the stator.
13. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein the first terminal is arranged at a position higher than a floor surface of the insulator and the second terminal is arranged at a position lower than an upper surface of the insulator.
14. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein distal ends of the first and second coil terminal connectors are spaced apart from the periphery of the insulator, each at a same distance.
15. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein the insulator is injection molded of resin material along with the first and second terminals.
16. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein the fixing unit includes a plurality of pin holes formed at the insulator, wherein the pin holes are formed by a plurality of pins provided at a mold injection-molding the insulator to fix an inner position of the insulator of the first to fourth bodies.
17. The EPS motor of claim 16, wherein the pin holes are formed by passing through the upper surface and the lower surface of the insulator.
18. The EPS motor of claim 11, wherein the second body is applied with an electric power of first polarity, the third body is applied with an electric power of second polarity, and each diameter of the second to fourth bodies is differently formed.
19. The EPS motor of claim 16, wherein a diameter of the third body is the largest, while a diameter of the first body is the smallest.
20. The EPS motor of claim 16, wherein the first body is bent at least thrice to form the first coil terminal connector, and the second and third bodies are bent at least twice to form the second coil terminal connector.

1. A method for enforcing a security policy at an interface to a network switch of a dynamically programmable computer network, the method comprising, with a computing system coupled to the network:
receiving a packet disposition directive from the network, the packet disposition directive comprising a candidate flow rule that may be implemented by the network switch to control the flow of communications across the network;
determining whether the candidate flow rule conflicts with one or more flow rules in a set of currently active flow rules, wherein the currently active flow rules currently control the flow of communications across the network; and
in response to determining that the candidate flow rule does not conflict with any of the currently active flow rules, adding the candidate flow rule to the set of currently active flow rules.
2. The method of claim 1, comprising comparing the candidate flow rule to each of the flow rules in the set of currently active flow rules before the candidate flow rule is communicated to the network switch.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the candidate flow rule and each of the currently active flow rules comprises an action that determines how communications to which the rule applies are disposed of by the network switch, and the method comprises, for each of the currently active flow rules: comparing the action specified by the candidate flow rule to the action specified by the currently active flow rule, and if the action specified by the candidate flow rule is the same as the action specified by the currently active flow rule, determining that the candidate flow rule does not conflict with the currently active flow rule.
4. The method of claim 1, comprising determining whether the candidate flow rule comprises a set action, wherein the set action modifies communications to which it applies.
5. The method of claim 4, comprising, in response to determining that the candidate flow rule comprises a set action, expanding the candidate flow rule to include the modifications permitted by the set action.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the currently active flow rules has a priority, and the method comprises comparing the expanded candidate flow rule to the currently active flow rules in order of decreasing priority.
7. The method of claim 6, comprising determining that the candidate flow rule conflicts with the set of currently active flow rules if the expanded candidate flow rule conflicts with any of the currently active flow rules.
8. A security mediation service to enforce a security policy at an interface to a network switch of a dynamically programmable computer network, the security mediation service embodied in a computing system coupled to the network, the security mediation service comprising:
a flow rule state manager to manage data relating to a set of currently active flow rules, wherein the currently active flow rules currently control the flow of communications across the network; and
a conflict analyzer to determine whether a candidate flow rule conflicts with any of the currently active flow rules, and add the candidate flow rule to the set of currently active flow rules if the candidate flow rule does not conflict with any of the currently active flow rules.
9. The security mediation service of claim 8, wherein the candidate flow rule and each of the currently active flow rules comprise an action that determines how a communication is to be disposed of by the network switch if the rule applies to the communication, and wherein the conflict analyzer compares the action specified by the candidate flow rule to the action specified by each of the currently active flow rules.
10. The security mediation service of claim 8, wherein the candidate flow rule and each of the currently active flow rules comprise a plurality of match fields each including a value that determines whether the candidate flow rule applies to a communication, and wherein the conflict analyzer compares the match fields of the candidate flow rule to the corresponding match fields of each of the currently active flow rules.
11. The security mediation service of claim 10, wherein if the candidate flow rule permits another value to be substituted for the value of a match field of the candidate flow rule, the conflict analyzer expands the candidate flow rule to include the value and the other value that may be substituted for the value of the match field, and compares the expanded candidate flow rule to each of the currently active flow rules.
12. The security mediation service of claim 11, wherein, for each of the currently active flow rules, the conflict analyzer expands the currently active flow rule to include any values that may be substituted for the values of the match fields of the currently active flow rule, and compares the expanded candidate flow rule to each of the expanded currently active flow rules.
13. The security mediation service of claim 12, wherein the security mediation service updates the set of currently active flow rules to include the expanded candidate flow rule if the expanded candidate flow rule does not conflict with any of the expanded currently active flow rules.
14. The security mediation service of claim 8, wherein the security mediation service communicates the candidate flow rule to the network switch if the candidate flow rule does not conflict with any of the currently active flow rules.
15. The security mediation service of claim 8, comprising:
a source authenticator to authenticate a source of the candidate flow rule, wherein the source comprises one of a network administrator and a software application; and
a conflict analyzer to determine whether to implement the candidate flow rule at the network switch based on a role associated with the source of the candidate flow rule.
16. A network controller embodied in one or more machine accessible storage media and configured to interface with software applications and with the network switch, the network controller comprising the security mediation service of claim 8.
17. A network virtualization layer embodied in one or more machine accessible storage media and configured to interface with software applications and with the network switch, the network virtualization layer comprising the security mediation service of claim 8.
18. A method for enforcing a security policy at an interface to a network switch of a dynamically programmable computer network, the method comprising, with a computing system coupled to the network:
receiving a candidate flow rule from the network, wherein the candidate flow rule may be implemented by the network switch to control the flow of communications across the network, and the candidate flow rule comprises match criteria having values that determine whether the candidate flow rule applies to a communication;
determining whether the candidate flow rule permits other values to be substituted for any of the values of the match criteria; and
deriving an expanded candidate flow rule from the candidate flow rule, wherein the expanded candidate flow rule includes the values of the match criteria and the other values.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the match criteria comprises a plurality of match fields, and the expanding comprises, for each of the match fields, deriving an alias set comprising the value of the match field and the other values that may be substituted for the value of the match field.
20. The method of claim 18, comprising:
determining whether the expanded candidate flow rule conflicts with a set of currently active flow rules, wherein the set of currently active flow rules currently controls the flow of communications across the network; and
in response to determining that the expanded candidate flow rule does not conflict with any of the currently active flow rules, adding the expanded candidate flow rule to the set of currently active flow rules.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein each of the currently active flow rules is associated with a role, and the method comprises comparing the candidate flow rule to the set of currently active flow rules in a priority order based on the roles assigned to the currently active flow rules.
22. The method of claim 20, comprising, for each of the match fields, determining whether the alias set intersects with a corresponding match field of each of the currently active flow rules.
23. The method of claim 20, wherein each of the currently active flow rules comprises match criteria having values that determine whether the currently active flow rule applies to a communication, and the method comprises expanding each of the currently active flow rules to include the values of the match criteria and any values that may be substituted for the values of the match criteria.
24. The method of claim 23, comprising comparing the expanded candidate flow rule to each of the expanded currently active flow rules.
25. The method of claim 23, wherein the match criteria of each of the currently active flow rules comprises a plurality of match fields, and the expanding comprises, for each of the match fields of each of the currently active flow rules, deriving an alias set comprising the value of the match field of the currently active flow rule and the other values that may be substituted for the value of the match field of the currently active flow rule.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein the match fields of the candidate flow rules and the match fields of each of the currently active flow rules comprise a source field and a destination field, and the method comprises determining whether the alias set of the source field of the candidate flow rule intersects with the alias set of the source field of any of the currently active flow rules and determining whether the alias set of the destination field of the candidate flow rule intersects with the alias set of the destination field of any of the currently active flow rules.
27. The method of claim 26, comprising updating the alias sets of each of the currently active flow rules if the expanded candidate flow rule is added to the set of currently active flow rules.
28. A method for enforcing a security policy for a dynamically programmable network, the method comprising, on the network:
maintaining a set of currently active packet disposition directives, wherein the set of currently active packet disposition directives changes over time, and the currently active packet disposition directives are implemented at network switches to control one or more of the behavior and the configuration of the network switches at a current point in time;
receiving, from a source of packet disposition directives, a candidate packet disposition directive that is not part of the set of currently active packet disposition directives;
determining whether the candidate packet disposition directive violates the security policy; and
in response to determining that the candidate packet disposition directive does not violate the current security policy, implementing the packet disposition directive at the network switches.
29. The method of claim 28, comprising determining a role associated with the source of the candidate packet disposition directive to determine whether the candidate packet disposition directive violates the security policy, wherein the role comprises one of a network administrator and a software application.
30. The method of claim 28, comprising determining a capability associated with the source of the candidate packet disposition directive to determine whether the candidate packet disposition directive violates the security policy, wherein the capability indicates whether the source can change the behavior andor configuration of the network switches.
31. The method of claim 28, comprising determining whether the candidate packet disposition directive conflicts with any of the currently active packet disposition directives to determine whether the candidate disposition directive violates the security policy.

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 device for reduced-pressure refining of a glass melt using a reduced-pressure apparatus in which the glass melt is fed to a refining bank via a riser and is discharged again from the refining bank via a downpipe so that a reduced pressure is generated by a glass flow in the refining bank, wherein said refining bank, said riser, andor said downpipe comprises at least one component, said at least one component is made from a refractory metal or a refractory metal alloy acting as glass-contact material, and said refractory metal or said refractory metal alloy contains at least one of said molybdenum, said tungsten, said tantalum, and said hafnium;
wherein said device comprises a protective gas reservoir and an automatic connection for connecting said protective gas reservoir to supply a protective gas to protect an inner side of said at least one component from oxidation in the event of a pressure rise or in the event of a falling glass melt column.
2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said automatic connection comprises an automatically operable valve that automatically opens in response to said pressure rise or in response to said falling glass melt column so that said protective gas is automatically supplied to protect said inner side of said at least one component.
3. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said at least one component consists of said refractory metal.
4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said at least one component comprises said tantalum or said hafnium.
5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a side of said at least one component remote from another side of the at least one component contacted by said glass melt is protected by purging with said protective gas or a forming gas.
6. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising glazing a side of said at least one component remote from the glass melt in order to protect said at least one component from oxidation.
7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one component is of a vacuum-tight design.
8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one component is mechanically stable with respect to pressure differences.
9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one component comprises individual pipe sections and said individual pipe sections are connected to one another by a flange connection or a screw connection.
10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said flange connection or said screw connection is made gas-tight by means of cutting edges.
11. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said individual pipe sections connected to one another are annealed at high temperatures, so that contact locations between the pipe sections are welded or sintered together.
12. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one component is located in a housing.
13. The device as claimed in claim 12, wherein said housing is gas-tight.
14. The device as claimed in claim 12, further comprising means for compensating for thermal expansion of said at least one component with respect to said housing.
15. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein said means for compensating for thermal expansion comprises a spring-assisted bellows and said housing comprises said spring-assisted bellows.
16. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising means for heating said at least one component.
17. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein said means for heating said at least one component comprises at least one radiation heater.
18. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein said at least one radiation heater is protected from oxidation by flushing said at least one radiation heater with said protective gas or a forming gas.
19. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein said at least one radiation heater is protected from oxidation by glazing.
20. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein said means for heating comprises means for inductive heating said at least one component.
21. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein said means for heating said at least one component comprises means for passing a high-frequency alternating current through said at least one component.
22. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein said means for heating said at least one component comprises means for providing a direct flow of current in said glass melt between a central stick electrode and said at least one component, wherein said at least one component acts as counter electrode.
23. A process for reduced-pressure refining of a glass melt in a reduced-pressure apparatus comprising a refining bank for the glass melt, a riser for supplying the glass melt to the refining bank, and a downpipe for discharge of the glass melt from the refining bank, wherein said refining bank, said riser, andor said downpipe comprises at least one component made from at least one refractory metal or a refractory metal alloy acting as glass-contact material, said at least one refractory metal is selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, and hafnium, and said refractory metal alloy contains at least one of said molybdenum, said tungsten, said tantalum, and said hafnium, so that said at least one component contacts the glass melt; said process comprising the steps of:
a) feeding a glass melt to be refined to the refining bank via the riser;
b) generating a reduced pressure in the refining bank by means of a glass flow in the refining bank; and
c) supplying a protective gas from a protective reservoir via an automatic connection to protect an inner side of the at least one component from oxidation when a pressure rise or a fall of a glass melt column occurs.
24. The process as defined in claim 23, wherein said refining bank includes said at least one component and said automatic connection comprises an automatically opening valve that opens to supply said refining bank with said protective gas in the event of said pressure rise or said fall of the glass melt column.
25. The process as defined in claim 23, wherein said protective gas comprises an inert gas or a reducing gas.
26. The process as defined in claim 23, wherein said at least one component consists of said refractory metal.
27. The process as defined in claim 23, further comprising heating said at least one component during said refining.
28. The process as defined in claim 27, further comprising compensating for thermal expansion of said at least one component during said heating.