Author: claimsbot

1. A litter box assembly comprising:
a housing having a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, an upper edge of said housing defining an upper opening extending into said housing, a covering being hingedly attached to an upper edge of said buck wall, said covering being selectively positioned in an open position or in a closed position, said housing having a height generally between 14 inches and 18 inches, said housing having a length generally between 24 inches and 28 inches, said housing having a width generally between 18 inches and 22 inches, said covering being substantially transparent, each of said first and second side walls having an aperture extending therethrough, each of said apertures being generally centrally disposed, each of said apertures having a generally oblong shape;
a partition wall being mounted within said housing and extending from said front wall toward said back wall, a first portion of said housing being defined between said partition wall and said first side wall, a second portion of said housing being defined between said partition wall and said second side wall, said partition wall having a free edge directed toward said back wall, said partition wall extending between 9 inches and 11 inches away from said front wall, said partition wall being spaced between 7 inches and 8 inches from said first side wall, said partition wall having a height generally equal to 8 inches;
said front wall having a front opening extending therethrough said front opening extending into said first portion, said front opening having a bottom edge spaced from said bottom wall, said front opening generally extending from said partition wall to said first side wall, said front opening having a height generally between 9 inches and 12 inches, said front opening having an arcuate upper edge;
an air filter being positioned in said covering, said air filter being positioned over said second portion when said covering is in said closed position;
a cushioning material being mounted on and extending along said free edge of said partition wall;
a mat being removably positioned in said first portion and substantially covering said bottom wall of said first portion, said mat having a top side having a plurality of bristles extending upwardly therefrom; and
a litter pan being removably positioned in said second portion.
2. A litter box assembly comprising:
a housing having a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, an upper edge of said housing defining an upper opening extending into said housing, a covering being hingedly attached to an upper edge of said back wall, said covering being selectively positioned in an open position or in a closed position, each of said first and second side walls having an aperture extending therethrough, each of said apertures being generally centrally disposed, each of said apertures having a generally oblong shape;
a partition wall being mounted within said housing and extending from said front wall toward said back wall, a first portion of said housing being defined between said partition wall and said first side wall, a second portion of said housing being defined between said partition wall and said second side wall, said partition wall having a free edge directed toward said back wall;
said front wall having a front opening extending therethrough, said front opening extending into said first portion, said front opening having a bottom edge spaced from said bottom wall, said front opening generally extending from said partition wall to said first side wall;
an air filter being positioned in said covering, said air filter being positioned over said second portion when said covering is in said closed position;
a cushioning material being mounted on and extending along, said free edge of said partition wall;
a mat being removably positioned in said first portion and substantially covering said bottom wall of said first portion, said mat having a top side having a plurality of bristles extending upwardly therefrom; and
a litter pan being removably positioned in said second portion.

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 reflective display, comprising:
a reflective liquid crystal display panel including a reflective plate on a back side, and controlling transmission of light being incident from a viewing side and then being reflected on the reflective plate toward the viewing side in each pixel so as to display;
a light guide plate including a prismatic surface with a plurality of prisms formed thereon and a planar surface as front and back main surfaces of the light guide plate, and a side surface where light from a light source is supplied, the plurality of prisms being formed with a different pitch from an alignment pitch of the each pixel, the prismatic surface having a pseudo-planar portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 0.5 degrees to approximately 3.5 degrees with the planar surface and being gradually raised with increasing distance from the side surface and a slanted portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 40 degrees to approximately 60 degrees with the planar surface so as to reflect the light supplied from the side surface toward the planar surface and being gradually descended with increasing distance from the side surface, and the light guide plate being disposed so that the planar surface faces the viewing side of the liquid crystal display panel;
a linear polarizing plate and a 4 plate disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal display panel; and
an antireflective film disposed on the planar surface of the light guide plate so as to inhibit light reflection on the planar surface.
2. A reflective display according to claim 1, wherein
the antireflective film is made of a laminate including a plurality of optical functional films with different refractive index of light.
3. A reflective display according to claim 2, wherein
as the optical functional films, at least one selected from the group consisting of a Nb2O5 film, a Ta2O5 film and a TiO2 film is used as a high refractive index film, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a SiO2 film and a MgF2 film is used as a low refractive index film, and the antireflective film is made of a laminate including a combination of the high refractive index film and the low refractive index film.
4. A reflective display, comprising:
a reflective liquid crystal display panel including a reflective plate on a back side, and controlling transmission of light being incident from a viewing side and then being reflected on the reflective plate toward the viewing side in each pixel so as to display;
a light guide plate made of a synthetic resin including a prismatic surface with a plurality of prisms formed thereon and a planar surface as front and back main surfaces of the light guide plate, and a side surface where light from a light source is supplied, the plurality of prisms being formed with a different pitch from an alignment pitch of the each pixel, the prismatic surface having a pseudo-planar portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 0.5 degrees to approximately 3.5 degrees with the planar surface and being gradually raised with increasing distance from the side surface and a slanted portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 40 degrees to approximately 60 degrees with the planar surface so as to reflect the light supplied from the side surface toward the planar surface and being gradually descended with increasing distance from the side surface, and the light guide plate being disposed so that the planar surface faces the viewing side of the liquid crystal display panel;
a linear polarizing plate and a X14 plate disposed between the light guide plate and the liquid crystal display panel;
an antireflective film disposed on the planar surface of the light guide plate so as to inhibit light reflection on the planar surface; and
an adhesive layer disposed between the antireflective film and the planar surface of the light guide plate to adhere the antireflective film to a surface of the light guide plate.
5. A reflective display according to claim 4, wherein
the adhesive layer is made of Si.
6. A reflective display according to claim 5, wherein
the adhesive layer is made of a Si thin film with a thickness ranging from 1 nm to 10 nm.
7. A reflective display according to claim 4, wherein
as the optical functional films, at least one selected from the group consisting of a Nb2O5 film, a Ta2O5 film and a TiO2 film is used as a high refractive index film, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a SiO2 film and a MgF2 film is used as a low refractive index film, and the antireflective film is made of a laminate including a combination of the high refractive index film and the low refractive index film.
8. A light guide,
the light guide being disposed on a viewing side of a reflective liquid crystal display panel including a reflective plate on a back side, and controlling transmission of light being incident from a viewing side and being reflected on the reflective plate toward the viewing side in each pixel so as to display, and
the light guide plate including a prismatic surface with a plurality of prisms formed thereon and a planar surface as front and back main surfaces of the light guide plate, and a side surface where light from a light source is supplied, the light guide plate being made of a synthetic resin, the plurality of prisms being formed with a different pitch from an alignment pitch of the each pixel, the prismatic surface having a pseudo-planar portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 0.5 degrees to approximately 3.5 degrees with the planar surface and being gradually raised with increasing distance from the side surface and a slanted portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 40 degrees to approximately 60 degrees with the planar surface so as to reflect the light supplied from the side surface toward the planar surface and being gradually descended with increasing distance from the side surface,
the light guide plate comprising:
an adhesive layer made of Si with a thickness ranging from 1 nm to 10 nm on the planar surface; and
an antireflective film made of a laminate including a combination of a high refractive index film using at least one selected from a Nb2O5 film, a Ta2O5 film and a TiO2 film and a low refractive index film using at least one selected from the group consisting of a SiO2 film and a MgF2 film on a surface of the adhesive layer.
9. A method of manufacturing a light guide plate,
the light guide plate being disposed on a viewing side of a reflective liquid crystal display, panel including a reflective plate on a back side and controlling transmission of light being incident from a viewing side and being reflected on the reflective plate toward the viewing side in each pixel so as to display,
the method comprising the steps of:
forming an adhesive layer made of Si with a thickness ranging from 1 nm to 10 nm on a planar surface of the light guide plate made of a synthetic resin through vaccum evaporation or sputtering, wherein the light guide plate includes a prismatic surface with a plurality of prisms formed thereon and the planar surface as front and back main surfaces of the light guide plate, and a side surface where light from a light source is supplied, the plurality of prisms are formed with a different pitch from an alignment pitch of the each pixel, the prismatic surface has a pseudo-planar portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 0.5 degrees to approximately 3.5 degrees with the planar surface and being gradually raised with increasing distance from the side surface and a slanted portion forming an angle ranging from approximately 40 degrees to approximately 60 degrees with the planar surface so as to reflect the light supplied from the side surface toward the planar surface and being gradually descended with increasing distance from the side surface; and
forming an antireflective film made of a laminate including a combination of a high refractive index film using at least one selected from a Nb2O5 film, a Ta2O5 film and a TiO2 film and a low refractive index film using at least one selected from the group consisting of a SiO2 film and a MgF2 film on a surface of the adhesive layer so as to inhibit light reflection on the planar surface of the light guide plate.

1. An optical transceiver system that uses digital signal processing to process a data stream sent through a fiber optical channel to modify an optical receiver of the optical transceiver system capabilities both to achieve the a predetermined end-to-end bit error rate while to altering power dissipation in the optical receiver to that sufficient to meet said end-to-end bit error rate, the optical transceiver system comprising: an optical transmitter; and the optical receiver, the optical receiver comprising digital logic; and a controller in electrical communication with the optical receiver, wherein the controller controls either, the bypassing of portions of the digital logic, or at least reduction of one of the value of power to, parameters of or clock to portions of the digital logic, so as to reduce power dissipation in the optical receiver while meeting the end-to-end bit error rate,
wherein a portion of the digital logic is an adaptive equalizer module and the adaptive equalizer module can simultaneously perform both polarization mode dispersion equalization and chromatic dispersion compensation and wherein the chromatic dispersion compensation function is reduced so as to save power when the chromatic dispersion compensation is small enough such that it can be compensated by the PMD block alone.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the adaptive equalizer module includes sub-modules, wherein the sub-modules are repeatedly monitored for their level of use, and wherein the state of the sub-modules are dynamically changed so as to minimize power consumption.
3. An optical transceiver system that uses digital signal processing to process a data stream sent through a fiber optical channel to modify an optical receiver of the optical transceiver system capabilities both to achieve the a predetermined end-to-end bit error rate while to altering power dissipation in the optical receiver to that sufficient to meet said end-to-end bit error rate, the optical transceiver system comprising: an optical transmitter; and the optical receiver, the optical receiver comprising digital logic; and a controller in electrical communication with the optical receiver, wherein the controller controls either, the bypassing of portions of the digital logic, or at least reduction of one of the value of power to, parameters of or clock to portions of the digital logic, so as to reduce power dissipation in the optical receiver while meeting the end-to-end bit error rate,
wherein the digital logic further includes an analog to digital converter and the power utilization is reduced by reducing at least one of the sampling rate and the sampling precision of the analog to digital converter.
4. An optical transceiver system that uses digital signal processing to process a data stream sent through a fiber optical channel to modify an optical receiver of the optical transceiver system capabilities both to achieve the a predetermined end-to-end bit error rate while to altering power dissipation in the optical receiver to that sufficient to meet said end-to-end bit error rate, the optical transceiver system comprising: an optical transmitter; and the optical receiver, the optical receiver comprising digital logic; and a controller in electrical communication with the optical receiver, wherein the controller controls either, the bypassing of portions of the digital logic, or at least reduction of one of the value of power to, parameters of or clock to portions of the digital logic, so as to reduce power dissipation in the optical receiver while meeting the end-to-end bit error rate,
wherein the controller controls in response a measurement of at least one channel parameter,
wherein the measured parameter is bulk dispersion and
wherein if a compensation of the bulk dispersion is required that is at a predetermined level so as to be compensated by the polarization mode dispersion equalization, the bulk dispersion compensation module is bypassed.

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 plasma flood gun for use in an ion implantation system, the plasma flood gun comprising:
a plasma chamber having an exit aperture;
a gas source capable of supplying a gaseous substance to the plasma chamber;
a single-turn radio-frequency (RF) coil disposed within the plasma chamber, wherein a bent portion of the RF coil is located outside the plasma chamber;
a power source coupled to the RF coil for inductively coupling radio frequency electrical power into the plasma chamber via the RF coil to excite the gaseous substance to generate a plasma; and
a pair of magnets aligned with, and disposed on opposite sides of, the exit aperture, the pair of magnets each having the same pole configuration, wherein the exit aperture has a width sufficient to allow charged particles of the plasma to flow therethrough.
2. The plasma flood gun according to claim 1, wherein a portion of an inner surface of the plasma chamber comprises one or more materials selected from a group consisting of graphite and silicon carbide.
3. The plasma flood gun according to claim 1, wherein the RF coil has an encasement to protect the RF coil from exposure to the plasma.
4. The plasma flood gun according to claim 3, wherein the encasement comprises a quartz material.
5. The plasma flood gun according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of magnets disposed about the plasma chamber.
6. The plasma flood gun according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of magnets are arranged in an alternating pole arrangement to produce one or more magnetic dipoles within the plasma chamber to confine the plasma within the plasma chamber.
7. The plasma flood gun of claim 1, wherein the pair of magnets are of unequal strength to provide an unbalanced cusp field about the exit aperture.
8. The plasma flood gun of claim 1, wherein the pair of magnets are of equal strength.
9. The plasma flood gun of claim 1, wherein the pair of magnets are of equal strength and positioned an unequal distance about the exit aperture.
10. The plasma flood gun of claim 1, wherein a first of the pair of magnets has an N pole configuration and a second of the pair of magnets has an N pole configuration.
11. The plasma flood gun of claim 1, wherein a first of the pair of magnets has an S pole configuration and a second of the pair of magnets has an S pole configuration.
12. A method for providing a plasma flood gun in an ion implantation system, the method comprising:
providing a plasma chamber having an exit aperture, wherein an entire inner surface of the plasma chamber is free of metal or metal compound;
supplying at least one gaseous substance to the plasma chamber;
generating a plasma by coupling radio frequency (RF) power into the plasma chamber via a single-turn coil disposed within the plasma chamber to excite the at least one gaseous substance; and
causing at least a portion of charged particles from the plasma to exit the plasma chamber via the exit aperture, wherein a pair of magnets are provided on opposite sides of the exit aperture and wherein the pair of magnets each have a same pole configuration.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising maintaining the plasma away from the inner surface of the plasma chamber using a plurality of magnets.
14. The method of claim 12, further comprising adjusting plasma density and uniformity using a plurality of magnets arranged in a multi-pole configuration.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein the pair of magnets are of unequal strength to provide an unbalanced cusp field about the exit aperture.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein the pair of magnets are of equal strength.
17. The method of claim 12, wherein the pair of magnets are of equal strength and positioned an unequal distance about the exit aperture.
18. The method of claim 12, wherein at least one of an arrangement, polarity and strength of the pair of magnets is selected to bend high energy electrons into a Larmor radius away from an exiting trajectory.
19. The method of claim 12, wherein a portion of the inner surface of the plasma chamber comprises one or more materials selected from a group consisting of graphite and silicon carbide.
20. The method of claim 12, wherein the single-turn coil has an encasement to protect the coil from exposure to the plasma.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the encasement comprises a quartz material.
22. A plasma flood gun for use in an ion implantation system, the plasma flood gun comprising:
a plasma chamber having an exit aperture;
a gas source capable of supplying a gaseous substance to the plasma chamber;
a single-turn radio-frequency (RF) coil disposed within the plasma chamber;
a power source coupled to the RF coil for inductively coupling radio frequency electrical power into the plasma chamber via the RF coil to excite the gaseous substance to generate a plasma; and
a pair of magnets aligned with, and disposed on opposite sides of the exit aperture, the pair of magnets each having the same pole configuration;
wherein the exit aperture has a width sufficient to allow charged particles of the plasma to flow therethrough.
23. The plasma flood gun of claim 22, wherein a bent portion of the RF coil is located outside the plasma chamber.