Author: claimsbot

1. A golf ball comprising a ball surface having a plurality of non-circular dimples thereon, wherein mutually neighboring dimples have contour lines therebetween which are arranged so as to be substantially parallel and are separated by an interval of 0.05 to 1.0 mm, land areas defined by the substantially parallel contour lines have an outer surface which forms the outermost peripheral face of the ball, and the non-circular dimples have a non-circular shape with inside angles that are curved, wherein a plurality of circular dimples is present on the ball surface.
2. The golf ball of claim 1, which has a dimple surface coverage, based on the surface area of the ball, of at least 75%.
3. The golf ball of claim 1, wherein a number of the plurality of circular dimples is adjusted to a ratio of at least 2% but not more than 50% of a total number of dimples.
4. The golf ball of claim 1, wherein at least four but not more than seven non-circular dimples are present around each of the plurality of circular dimples.
5. The golf ball of claim 1, wherein a volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples as a proportion of a total volume of the ball, expressed as the ratio of a cumulative volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples enclosed between an imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface and the dimple recesses to a volume of the imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface is set in a range of at least 1.1% but not more than 1.7%.
6. A golf ball comprising a ball surface having a plurality of non-circular dimples thereon, wherein mutually neighboring dimples have contour lines therebetween which are arranged so as to be substantially parallel and are separated by an interval of 0.05 to 1.0 mm, land areas defined by the substantially parallel contour lines have an outer surface which forms the outermost peripheral face of the ball, and the non-circular dimples have a non-circular shape with inside angles that are curved, wherein the non-circular dimples having a non-circular shape with curved inside angles have, in the smallest curved portions thereof, a radius of curvature in a range of 0.1 to 3.0 mm.
7. The golf ball of claim 6, wherein a plurality of circular dimples is present on the ball surface.
8. The golf ball of claim 6, which has a dimple surface coverage, based on the surface area of the ball, of at least 75%.
9. The golf ball of claim 6, wherein the dimples on the ball surface have a cumulative volume, obtained by summing the volumes of the individual dimples below a flat plane circumscribed by the edge of each dimple, of from 400 to 750 mm3.
10. The golf ball of claim 6, wherein a volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples as a proportion of a total volume of the ball, expressed as the ratio of a cumulative volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples enclosed between an imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface and the dimple recesses to a volume of the imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface is set in a range of at least 1.1% but not more than 1.7%.
11. A golf ball comprising a ball surface having a plurality of non-circular dimples thereon, wherein mutually neighboring dimples have contour lines therebetween which are arranged so as to be substantially parallel and are separated by an interval of 0.05 to 1.0 mm, land areas defined by the substantially parallel contour lines have an outer surface which forms the outermost peripheral face of the ball, and the non-circular dimples have a non-circular shape with inside angles that are curved, wherein the dimples on the ball surface have a cumulative volume, obtained by summing the volumes of the individual dimples below a flat plane circumscribed by the edge of each dimple, of from 400 to 750 mm3.
12. The golf ball of claim 11, wherein a plurality of circular dimples is present on the ball surface.
13. The golf ball of claim 11, wherein the non-circular dimples having a non-circular shape with curved inside angles have, in the smallest curved portions thereof, a radius of curvature in a range of 0.1 to 3.0 mm.
14. The golf ball of claim 11, which has a dimple surface coverage, based on the surface area of the ball, of at least 75%.
15. The golf ball of claim 11, wherein a volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples as a proportion of a total volume of the ball, expressed as a ratio of a cumulative volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples enclosed between an imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface and the dimple recesses to a volume of the imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface is set in a range of at least 1.1% but not more than 1.7%.
16. A golf ball comprising a ball surface having a plurality of non-circular dimples thereon, wherein mutually neighboring dimples have contour lines therebetween which are arranged so as to be substantially parallel and are separated by an interval of 0.05 to 1.0 mm, land areas defined by the substantially parallel contour lines have an outer surface which forms the outermost peripheral face of the ball, and the non-circular dimples have a non-circular shape with inside angles that are curved,
wherein a plurality of circular dimples is present on the ball surface,
wherein the non-circular dimples having a non-circular shape with curved inside angles have, in the smallest curved portions thereof, a radius of curvature in a range of 0.1 to 3.0 mm; and
wherein the dimples on the ball surface have a cumulative volume, obtained by summing the volumes of the individual dimples below a flat plane circumscribed by the edge of each dimple, of from 400 to 750 mm3.
17. The golf ball of claim 16, which has a dimple surface coverage, based on the surface area of the ball, of at least 75%.
18. The golf ball of claim 16, wherein a number of the plurality of circular dimples is adjusted to a ratio of at least 2% but not more than 50% of a total number of dimples.
19. The golf ball of claim 16, wherein at least four but not more than seven non-circular dimples are present around each of the plurality of circular dimples.
20. The golf ball of claim 16, wherein a volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples as a proportion of a total volume of the ball, expressed as the ratio of a cumulative volume of the plurality of non-circular dimples enclosed between an imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface and the dimple recesses to a volume of the imaginary sphere were the ball to have no dimples on its surface is set in a range of at least 1.1% but not more than 1.7%.

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 sputter deposition system for depositing at least one layer on a substrate, comprising:
a) a deposition chamber having an azimuthal axis;
b) a rotatable member associated with the deposition chamber and including a plurality of magnetrons provided thereon, each of the plurality of magnetrons including a corresponding one of a plurality of sputtering targets, the rotatable member configured to position each of the magnetrons to direct sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to a deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber;
c) a transport mechanism in the deposition chamber, the transport mechanism having an arm rotatable about the azimuthal axis; and
d) a substrate holder attached to the arm of the transport mechanism at a first radius from the azimuthal axis, the substrate holder supporting the substrate as the arm rotates the substrate holder to intersect the deposition zone for depositing sputtered material on the substrate.
2. The deposition system of claim 1 wherein the substrate holder is configured to rotate about a central rotation axis for rotating the substrate as the arm moves the substrate through the deposition zone.
3. The deposition system of claim 1 further comprising:
a processor in communication with the transport mechanism, wherein the processor instructs the transport mechanism to rotate the arm about the azimuthal axis through the deposition zone at first and second angular velocities to provide a substantially uniform thickness of the sputtered material on the substrate.
4. The deposition system of claim 1 further comprising:
a second transport mechanism having an arm that rotates about the azimuthal axis to transport a second substrate through the deposition zone; and
a second substrate holder attached to the arm of the second transport mechanism at a second radius from the azimuthal axis for supporting the second substrate.
5. The deposition system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the sputtering targets comprises at least two materials.
6. The deposition system of claim 1 wherein the rotatable member includes a second rotatable member, each member of the second rotatable member including a plurality of magnetrons provided thereon, each of the plurality of magnetrons of the second rotatable member including a corresponding one of a plurality of sputtering targets, the second rotatable member configured to position each of the magnetrons to direct sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to a second deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber.
7. The deposition system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of magnetrons includes six magnetrons.
8. The deposition system of claim 1 further comprising:
a processor in communication with the rotatable member, wherein the processor instructs the rotatable member to rotate the sputtering target of each of the plurality of magnetrons to align with the deposition zone for depositing sputtered material on the substrate.
9. The deposition system of claim 1 further comprising:
a processor in communication with the transport mechanism, wherein the processor instructs the transport mechanism to transport the substrate through the deposition zone.
10. The deposition system of claim 1 further comprising:
a chimney situated within the deposition chamber and being in association with the rotatable member for confining and directing sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to the deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber.
11. A sputter deposition system for depositing at least one layer on a substrate, comprising:
a) a deposition chamber having an azimuthal axis;
b) a rotatable member associated with the deposition chamber and including a plurality of magnetrons provided thereon, each of the plurality of magnetrons including a corresponding one of a plurality of sputtering targets, the rotatable member configured to position each of the magnetrons to direct sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to a deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber;
c) a transport mechanism in the deposition chamber, the transport mechanism having an arm rotatable about the azimuthal axis;
d) a substrate holder attached to the arm of the transport mechanism at a first radius from the azimuthal axis, the substrate holder supporting the substrate as the arm rotates the substrate holder to intersect the deposition zone for depositing sputtered material on the substrate, the substrate holder further configured to rotate about a central rotation axis for rotating the substrate as the arm moves the substrate through the deposition zone; and
e) a processor in communication with the transport mechanism, wherein the processor instructs the transport mechanism to rotate the arm about the azimuthal axis through the deposition zone at first and second angular velocities to provide a substantially uniform thickness of the sputtered material on the substrate.
12. The deposition system of claim 11 further comprising:
a second transport mechanism having an arm that rotates about the azimuthal axis to transport a second substrate through the deposition zone; and
a second substrate holder attached to the arm of the second transport mechanism at a second radius from the azimuthal axis for supporting the second substrate.
13. The deposition system of claim 11 wherein at least one of the sputtering targets comprises at least two materials.
14. The deposition system of claim 11 wherein the rotatable member includes a second rotatable member, each member of the second rotatable member including a plurality of magnetrons provided thereon, each of the plurality of magnetrons of the second rotatable member including a corresponding one of a plurality of sputtering targets, the second rotatable member configured to position each of the magnetrons to direct sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to a second deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber.
15. The deposition system of claim 11 wherein the plurality of magnetrons includes six magnetrons.
16. The deposition system of claim 11 further comprising:
a chimney situated within the deposition chamber and being in association with the rotatable member for confining and directing sputtered material from the corresponding one of the sputtering targets to the deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber.
17. A method of sputter depositing at least one layer onto a substrate, the method comprising:
a) rotating a rotatable member supporting a plurality of magnetrons to select a sputtering target of a first magnetron;
b) directing material from the sputtering target of the first magnetron to a deposition zone defined in a deposition chamber; and
c) rotating a substrate about an azimuthal axis through the deposition zone.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
rotating the substrate about a central rotation axis perpendicular to the substrate surface as the substrate is transported through the deposition zone.
19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
rotating the substrate about the azimuthal axis through the deposition zone at first and second angular velocities to provide a substantially uniform thickness of the material on the substrate.
20. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
rotating a second substrate about the azimuthal axis through the deposition zone.
21. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
rotating the rotatable member supporting the plurality of magnetrons to select a sputtering target of a second magnetron,
directing material from the sputtering target of the second magnetron to the deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber, and
rotating the substrate about the azimuthal axis through the deposition zone.
22. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
rotating a second rotatable member supporting a plurality of magnetrons to select a sputtering target of a first magnetron,
directing a first material from the sputtering target of the first magnetron of the second rotatable member to a second deposition zone defined in the deposition chamber; and
rotating the substrate about the azimuthal axis through the second deposition zone.

1. A method for controlling swaying and swinging of a spreader in a crane and the load attached thereto, the crane comprising:
a trolley,
hoist gears provided with hoist drums placed in the trolley,
hoisting ropes arranged on the hoist drums, on which the spreader is suspended from the trolley and which are directed back to the trolley through sheaves arranged on the spreader,
the swaying and swinging being controlled by control equipment comprising:
four auxiliary gears provided with rope drums and including motors and motor control equipment placed in the trolley,
auxiliary ropes arranged on the rope drums of the auxiliary gears,
sheaves for the auxiliary ropes placed in the spreader, through which sheaves the auxiliary ropes passing obliquely from the rope drums of the auxiliary gears are directed to spaces arranged in the hoist drums for the auxiliary ropes,
said method comprising;
controlling forces exerted on the spreader by each auxiliary rope driven by a corresponding auxiliary gear based on torque instructions;
determining said torque instructions by means of control logic which receives force data of the corresponding auxiliary rope and rotating speed data of the corresponding auxiliary gear,
said control logic providing and maintaining the desired rope forces, controlling the rotation and the resistance of the swinging of the spreader using said motor in the corresponding auxiliary gear;
forming said torque instruction in each corresponding auxiliary gear as sum of a static and a dynamic term;
calculating the static torque instruction based on a reference value of the rope force in the auxiliary gear, a measuring data of the rope force and the rotating speed of the auxiliary gear; and
a dynamic feed forward torque instruction Tdyn, calc, based on a change occurring in the calculated rotating speed of each auxiliary gear.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising calculating the dynamic feedforward term Tdyn, calc based on the following formula:
Tdyn, calc=b\xd7J\xd7ddt(ncalc), where

b=a scale factor of units
J=an inertia mass parameter of the auxiliary gear, and
ddt(ncalc)=the change in the calculated speed of the auxiliary gear (the desired speed change).
3. A method as claimed in claim 1 calculating the rope force of each auxiliary rope by subtracting the dynamic torque required for accelerating the flywheel mass from the motor torque calculated by the motor control equipment, leaving the static torque representing the rope force.
4. A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising calculating the rope force, Frope, in accordance with the following formula:
Frope=k\xd7(Tact\u2212b\xd7J\xd7ddt(nact)), where

b=a scale factor of units
nact=the measured rotating speed of the auxiliary gear, or ddt (nact)=the measured acceleration of the auxiliary gear,
J=an inertia mass parameter of the auxiliary gear
K=a constant conversion factor
Tact=the implemented torque data of the auxiliary gear.

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 computer-implemented method for managing communication in a radio network, comprising:
obtaining, at a gateway computing device, a request to establish data communications with a mobile device over the radio network, wherein the request is transmitted from the mobile device to the gateway computing device via the radio network, wherein the request identifies an addressing protocol specification for the data communications over the radio network, and wherein the gateway computing device and the mobile device correspond to different physical computing devices interconnected via the radio network;
in response to the communication request, dynamically determining, at the gateway computing device, addressing protocol preferences for data communications with the mobile device, the addressing protocol preferences specified in at least one of an Internet Protocol version four addressing protocol and an Internet Protocol version six addressing protocol; and
transmitting, from the gateway computing device to the mobile device, an acceptance of the communication request, independent of the requested addressing protocol specification, to form a data communication channel, the acceptance of the response including the addressing protocol preferences, wherein the mobile device initiates communication via the formed data communication channel in accordance with the addressing protocol preferences.
2. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the communication request includes identification information corresponding to at least one of the mobile device and a user of the mobile device.
3. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining addressing protocol preferences includes:
maintaining a table defining various addressing protocol preferences mapped to one or more mobile device attributes;
determining at least one mobile device attribute associated with the communication request; and
selecting addressing protocol preferences from the table based on the at least one mobile device attribute.
4. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 3, wherein the one or more mobile device attributes includes mobile device type information, mobile device roaming status, mobile device roaming plan, supported operating system, software application information or use description.
5. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein transmitting the acceptance of the response to the communication request includes transmitting addressing protocol preferences including at least two addressing protocols.
6. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the addressing protocol preferences include at least one primary addressing protocol and at least one secondary addressing protocol.
7. A computer-implemented method for managing communication in a communication network, comprising:
transmitting a request to establish communications via the communication network, wherein communications via the communication network can utilize two or more available communication protocols and wherein the request to establish communications does not include a specification of a communication protocol from the two or more available communication protocols;
obtaining an acceptance of the request to establish data communication, the acceptance of the communication request including an ordered preference of at least one communication protocol selected by a receiving gateway computing device, the at least one communication protocol dynamically specified in the two or more available communication protocols and wherein the acceptance is independent of an addressing protocol specification;
processing the ordered preference of the at least one communication protocol to select a communication protocol; and
causing communications via the communication network in accordance with the selected communication protocol.
causing communications via the communication network in accordance with the selected second communication protocol.
8. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 7, wherein transmitting the request to establish communications includes transmitting one or more device attributes utilized, at least in part, to select the ordered preference of at least one communication protocol.
9. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 7, wherein the communication network corresponds to a visited network and wherein transmitting the request to establish communications includes transmitting the request to establish communication to the visited network.
10. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 7, wherein the ordered preference includes the specification of at least two communication protocols.
11. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 10, wherein the ordered preference includes a designation of a primary communication protocol and a designation of a secondary communication protocol.
12. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 7, wherein processing the ordered preference of the at least one communication protocol to select a communication protocol includes if a single communication protocol is specified in the ordered preference, selecting the single specified single communication protocol.
13. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 12, wherein processing the ordered preference of the at least one communication protocol to select a communication protocol includes if two or more communication protocols are specified in the ordered preference, selecting a first communication protocol specified in the ordered preference; and causing communications via the communication network in accordance with the selected first communication protocol.
14. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13, wherein processing the ordered preference of the at least one communication protocol to select a communication protocol includes if two or more communication protocols are specified in the ordered preference, selecting a second communication protocol specified in the ordered preference if communication is not achieved via the first communication protocol specified in the ordered preference; and
causing communications via the communication network in accordance with the selected second communication protocol.
15. A computer-implemented method for managing communications via a communications network, comprising:
obtaining, at a gateway computing device, a request to establish communications with a mobile device over the communications network, wherein the request is transmitted from the mobile device to the gateway computing device via the communications network, wherein the request excludes a specification of a communication protocol utilized in communications over the communication network, and wherein the gateway computing device and the mobile device correspond to different physical computing devices interconnected via the communications network;
determining, by the gateway computing device, an ordered preference of addressing protocols specified in at least two applicable addressing protocols, wherein determining the ordered preference of addressing protocols include determining the ordered preference based, at least in part, on attributes associated with the request; and
transmitting, by the gateway computing device, a confirmation of the communication request, the confirmation including the ordered preference of addressing protocols.
16. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 15, wherein the request to establish communications via the communication network includes identification information corresponding to at least one of a mobile device or a user of the mobile device.
17. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 15, wherein determining the preference of addressing protocols includes:
maintaining a table defining various addressing protocol preferences mapped to one or more mobile device attributes;
determining at least one mobile device attribute associated with the communication request, wherein the mobile device attributes are selected from mobile device type information, mobile device roaming status, mobile device roaming plan, supported operating system, software application information, or use description; and
selecting the ordered preference of communication protocols from the table based on the at least one mobile device attribute.
18. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 15, wherein determining the preference of communication protocols includes:
determining at least one mobile device attribute associated with the communication request; and
dynamically selecting the ordered preference of communication protocols from a table based on the at least one mobile device attribute, wherein the table defines various addressing protocol preferences mapped to one or more mobile device attributes.
19. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 15, wherein transmitting the confirmation of the communication request includes transmitting an ordered preference of communication protocols including the specification of two or more communication protocols.
20. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 19, wherein the specification of the two or more protocols includes the specification of at least one primary and at least one secondary communication protocol.