Author: claimsbot

1. A method of making a composite laminate comprising:
providing at least a first composite ply and a second composite ply, each composite ply comprising a plurality of longitudinally oriented fibers in a thermoplastic matrix;
disposing the second composite ply on the first composite ply and in transverse relation to the first composite ply;
providing a reinforcement ply to only a selected, localized portion of the second composite ply to provide localized reinforcement of the second composite ply; and
bonding the first composite ply and the second composite ply together.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the fibers in the first composite ply comprise one or more of a different material than the fibers in the second composite ply and a different grade of material from the fibers in the second composite ply.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the fibers in the first composite ply are disposed at about 90\xb0 relative to the fibers in the second composite ply.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the composite laminate is configured to be a ballistic panel.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of longitudinally oriented fibers in the thermoplastic matrix of each of the first composite ply and the second composite ply are encapsulated in the thermoplastic matrix material.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the composite laminate is in the form of a tape.
7. A composite laminate comprising:
a plurality of composite plies including at least a first composite ply and a second composite ply, each composite ply comprising a plurality of longitudinally oriented fibers in a thermoplastic matrix, and the matrix substantially excludes a thermosetting material, and the fibers of the first composite ply comprise one or more of a different material than the fibers in the second composite ply;
wherein the plurality of composite plies are bonded together to form a planar sheet and wherein the first composite ply is disposed with the fibers therein oriented in transverse relation to the fibers in the second composite ply; and
a reinforcement ply provided to only a selected, localized portion of the planar sheet to provide localized reinforcement of the planar sheet.
8. The composite laminate of claim 7 wherein the fibers in the first composite ply are disposed at about 90\xb0 relative to the fibers in the second composite ply.
9. The composite laminate of claim 8 wherein the composite laminate is configured to be a ballistic panel.
10. The composite laminate of claim 1 wherein the plurality of longitudinally oriented fibers in the thermoplastic matrix of each of the first composite ply and the second composite ply are encapsulated in the thermoplastic matrix material.
11. The composite laminate of claim 1 wherein the composite laminate is in the form of a tape.

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 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop interconnect system comprising:
a first port in a plurality of ports,
a second port in the plurality of ports,
said first and second ports including port logic to monitor Open (OPN) arbitrated loop primitives, and adapted to connect to devices supporting a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop protocol,
a crossbar switch coupled to the plurality of ports,
a route determination apparatus including a routing table comprised of Arbitrated Loop Physical Addresses (ALPAs) and their associated ports, the route determination apparatus separate from the plurality of ports and directly coupled to each of the plurality of ports and the crossbar switch through separate signaling paths, the route determination apparatus configured for routing based on primitives by programming the crossbar switch to establish direct paths between the first and second ports in the crossbar switch according to received OPN arbitrated loop primitives, the direct paths excluding all other ports,
wherein the crossbar switch is configured as a primitive switch that creates the direct paths between the first and second ports based on the OPN arbitrated loop primitives, and
wherein priority for each port is independent of the ALPAs.
2. A system for interconnecting Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop devices comprising:
a first Arbitrated Loop containing one or more Fibre Channel arbitrated ioop devices,
a second Arbitrated Loop device,
a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop interconnect system, the interconnect system including:
a first port in a plurality of ports, the first port containing port logic coupled to the first Arbitrated Loop,
a second port in the plurality of ports, the second port containing port logic coupled to the second Arbitrated Loop,
the first and second ports adapted to connect to devices supporting a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop protocol,
route determination apparatus separate from the plurality of ports and directly coupled to each of the plurality of ports through separate signaling paths and configured for routing based on primitives by selecting a direct route between the first and second ports based on received Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop primitives from the ports, the direct route excluding all other ports, and including a routing table containing Arbitrated Loop Physical Addresses (ALPAs) and their associated ports, and
a crossbar switch directly coupled to the first and second ports and to the route detennination apparatus through separate signaling paths, the crossbar switch configured as a primitive switch for switching frames between ports under control of the route determination apparatus,

wherein Fibre Channel frames are transferred between a device on the first Arbitrated Loop and the second Arbitrated Loop device, and
wherein priority for each port is independent of the ALPAs.
3. The interconnect system of claim 2 wherein the Arbitrated Loop primitives that cause the crossbar switch to create paths between ports includes one or more of the following: Arbitrate (ARB), Open (OPN) and Close (CLS).
4. The interconnect system of claim 2 including a Receiver Ready (R_RDY) counter to count R_RDY’s sent by an originating Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop device before the Open (OPN) response is received by the originating Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Device.
5. The interconnect system of claim 2 wherein the second Arbitrated Loop device is on the first port.
6. The interconnect system of claim 2 wherein the second Arbitrated Loop device is on the second port.

1. An illumination device comprising:
a substrate including a fluorescent layer, and capable of rotating around a predetermined rotary shaft;
a light source, the light source intermittently emitting an excitation light to excite the fluorescent layer;
a rotational period determination device adapted to control the rotation of the substrate so that, when the substrate is rotating, a first area of the fluorescent layer is irradiated with the excitation light in one round, and at least a part of the first area is not irradiated with the excitation light in another round; and
an electric motor adapted to rotate the substrate.
2. The illumination device according to claim 1, wherein
the rotational period determination device controls the rotation of the substrate so that, when the substrate is rotating, an area of the fluorescent layer irradiated with the excitation light in the one round and an area of the fluorescent layer irradiated with the excitation light in the another round does not overlap each other.
3. The illumination device according to claim 1, wherein
the rotational period determination device controls the rotation of the substrate so that, when the substrate is rotating, an area of the fluorescent layer that is not irradiated with the excitation light in the one round and an area of the fluorescent layer that is not irradiated with the excitation light in the another round does not overlap each other.
4. The illumination device according to claim 1, wherein
assuming that the fluorescent layer is divided into a plurality of segments along a rotational direction of the substrate, a cumulative light intensity of the excitation light incident on a first segment out of the plurality of segments per unit time is equal to a cumulative light intensity of the excitation light incident on a second segment out of the plurality of segments different from the first segment per unit time.
5. The illumination device according to claim 4, wherein
the rotational period determination device controls the rotation of the substrate so that the rotation of the substrate is asynchronous with emission of the excitation light.
6. The illumination device according to claim 1, wherein
the another round is a round following the one round.
7. The illumination device according to claim 4, wherein
the another round is a round following the one round.
8. The illumination device according to claim 4, wherein
the cumulative light intensity of the excitation light irradiated per unit time is equal between all of the segments.
9. The illumination device according to claim 1, further comprising:
an emission timing generation device adapted to generate an emission timing signal for controlling an emission timing of the light source, the emission timing signal having a period synchronous with a frame period,
wherein the rotational period determination device determines a rotational period, which is a non-integral multiple of a period of the emission timing signal, as a rotational period of the substrate.
10. The illumination device according to claim 9, wherein
the rotational period determination device determines the rotational period which is a quotient of the period of the emission timing signal and a non-integral number.
11. The illumination device according to claim 9, further comprising:
a light detection section adapted to detect fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent layer;
a light source drive section adapted to make the light source emit light at the period of the emission timing signal; and
a light source output level adjustment section,
wherein the light source output level adjustment section generates an emission level correction signal in accordance with a detection result of the light detection section, and
the light source drive section corrects an output level of the excitation light emitted from the light source in accordance with the emission level correction signal.
12. The illumination device according to claim 11, wherein
the rotational period determination device determines the rotational period which is a quotient of the period of the emission timing signal and a non-integral number.
13. The illumination device according to claim 9, wherein
assuming that a duty ratio of a light-emitting period of the light source is \u03b4 (0<\u03b4<1), the rotational period determination device determines a period, which is (1+\u03b4) times of the period of the emission timing signal, as the rotational period of the substrate.
14. The illumination device according to claim 13, wherein
the duty ratio \u03b4 is smaller than or equal to 0.5.
15. A projector comprising:
a substrate including a fluorescent layer, and capable of rotating around a predetermined rotary shaft;
a light source, the light source intermittently emitting an excitation light to excite the fluorescent layer;
a rotational period determination device adapted to control the rotation of the substrate so that, when the substrate is rotating, a first area of the fluorescent layer is irradiated with the excitation light in one round, and at least a part of the first area is not irradiated with the excitation light in another round;
an electric motor adapted to rotate the substrate;
a light modulation element adapted to modulate fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent layer with an image signal; and
a projection optical system adapted to project the fluorescence modulated by the light modulation element.
16. The projector according to claim 15, wherein
assuming that the fluorescent layer is divided into a plurality of segments along a rotational direction of the substrate, a cumulative light intensity of the excitation light incident on a first segment out of the plurality of segments per unit time is equal to a cumulative light intensity of the excitation light incident on a second segment out of the plurality of segments different from the first segment per unit time.
17. The projector according to claim 15, further comprising:
an emission timing generation device adapted to generate an emission timing signal for controlling an emission timing of the light source, the emission timing signal having a period synchronous with a frame period;
a light detection section adapted to detect fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent layer;
a light source drive section adapted to make the light source emit light at the period of the emission timing signal; and
a light source output level adjustment section,
wherein the rotational period determination device determines a rotational period, which is a non-integral multiple of a period of the emission timing signal, as a rotational period of the substrate,
the light source output level adjustment section generates an emission level correction signal in accordance with a detection result of the light detection section, and
the light source drive section corrects an output level of the excitation light emitted from the light source in accordance with the emission level correction signal.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A cooling system for a hot plate, comprising:
a hot plate having a plurality of internal pipelines, wherein each pipeline has an inlet and an outlet, the inlet is suitable for a cooling fluid to enter and the outlet is suitable for the cooling fluid to exhaust.
2. The cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid is a gas.
3. The cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid is a liquid.
4. The cooling system of claim 1, wherein the cooling fluid is a mixture of gas and liquid.
5. The cooling system of claim 2, wherein the cooling gas is selected from a group consisting of air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and inert gas.
6. The cooling system of claim 3, wherein the cooling liquid is selected from a group consisting of water, cold medium or hot medium.
7. The cooling system of claim 4, wherein the mixture of gas and liquid is selected from a group consisting of air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, inert gas, water, cold medium and hot medium.
8. A cooling system for a hot plate, comprising:
a hot plate having a plurality of internal pipelines, wherein the pipelines have a common inlet and a common outlet, the common inlet is suitable for a cooling fluid to enter and the common outlet is suitable for the cooling fluid to exhaust.
9. The cooling system of claim 8, wherein the cooling fluid is a gas.
10. The cooling system of claim 8, wherein the cooling fluid is a liquid.
11. The cooling system of claim 8, wherein the cooling fluid is a mixture of gas and liquid.
12. The cooling system of claim 9, wherein the cooling gas is selected from a group consisting of air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and inert gas.
13. The cooling system of claim 10, wherein the cooling liquid is selected from a group consisting of water, cold medium or hot medium.
14. The cooling system of claim 11, wherein the mixture of gas and liquid is selected from a group consisting of air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, inert gas, water, cold medium and hot medium.