Author: claimsbot

1. A heat sink, comprising a rib section and a plurality of radiating fins spaced on a top face of the rib section; the radiating fins being perpendicularly protruded from the top face of the rib section and orthogonally extended across the rib section with a near middle bottom portion of each of the radiating fins in contact with the top face of the rib section, such that two lateral port ions of each of the spaced radiating fins are not in contact with the rib section but are outward projected from two opposite sides of the rib section to define two comb-shaped air paths at two outer sides of the rib section; whereby cold fluid or air flowing to a bottom side of the two lateral portions of the spaced radiating fins can upward pass through the comb-shaped air paths to carry away heat radiated from the heat sink.
2. The heat sink as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiating fins are correspondingly formed with at least one notch, so that the notches correspondingly formed on the radiating fins together form a channel extended in a direction perpendicular to the radiating fins and communicating with the comb-shaped air paths.
3. The heat sink as claimed in claim 2, wherein the at least one channel has a bottom that is located above a bottom of each of the radiating fins by a predetermined distance.
4. The heat sink as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rib section is formed at a bottom face with at least one guide channel and a recess, the guide channel and the recess intersecting and communicating with each other and the guide channel having at least one heat pipe received therein.
5. The heat sink as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rib section and the radiating fins are integrally formed.
6. The heat sink as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a bottom plate snugly fitted in the recess; the bottom plate having a contact face for contacting with at least one heat-producing element, and a groove formed on another face opposite to the contact face for receiving the heat pipe therein.
7. The heat sink as claimed in claim 6, wherein a heat-conducting bonding agent is applied between the heat pipe and the rib section and the bottom plate.

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 modal interval representation having improved computational utility, said modal interval representation comprising a binary quantifier and a set theoretical set-theoretical interval for select permutations of marks of a pair of marks of an IEEE standard 754 digital scale comprising combinations of real numbers, infinities, signed zeros, and pseudo-numbers, said select permutations of said marks comprising bounded, unbounded, pointwise and indefinite modal intervals.
2. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said unbounded modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires one mark of said marks of a pair of marks to comprise a token indicating an unbounded end point.
3. The modal interval representation of claim 2 wherein said unbounded modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires another mark of said marks of a pair of marks to comprise a token indicating an unbounded end point.
4. The modal interval representation of claim 3 wherein said token indicates a real number of unbounded signed magnitude.
5. The modal interval representation of claim 3 wherein said token is a signed infinity.
6. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said pointwise modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires marks of said pair of marks to comprise a single, unbounded real number in signed magnitude.
7. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said pointwise modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires marks of said pair of marks to comprise true mathematical zero.
8. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said pointwise modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires marks of said pair of marks to comprise signed zeros.
9. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said indefinite modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires at least one mark of said pair of marks to comprise a pseudo-number.
10. The modal interval representation of claim 1 wherein said indefinite modal interval permutation of said select permutations requires marks of said pair of marks to comprise pseudo-numbers.
11. A modal interval representation having improved computational utility, said modal interval representation comprising a binary quantifier and a set theoretical set-theoretical interval for a select pair of marks of a digital scale wherein at least one mark of said select pair of marks is a token indicating an unbounded end point.
12. The modal interval representation of claim 11 wherein only one mark of said select pair of marks is a token indicating an unbounded end point.
13. The modal interval representation of claim 12 wherein both marks of said select pair of marks are tokens indicating an unbounded end point.
14. The modal interval representation of claim 12 wherein both marks of said select pair of marks are signed tokens indicating an unbounded end point.
15. The modal interval representation of claim 14 wherein signs of said signed tokens are equivalent.
16. A computer executable interval computation method utilizing as inputs modal intervals comprised of a pair of a bit patterns associated with marks of a pair of marks of a digital scale, said method comprising:
a. representing bounded, unbounded, pointwise and indefinite modal intervals of said modal intervals within a computer system, the unbounded modal intervals characterized by a token representing an unbounded end point of at least a single mark of said pair of marks of a digital scale.
17. The method of claim 16 further comprising a step of tracking overflow conditions associated with a correctly rounded result of an arithmetic operation exceeding boundaries delimited by marks of said pair of marks of a digital scale.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein said tracking of the overflow conditions requires a token representing an unbounded end point of said representation of said unbounded modal intervals to be exactly convertible between digital scales of a variety of digital scales in furtherance of mixed digital scale computing.
19. A modal interval schema for a mapping of IEEE standard 754 digital scale to unbounded modal intervals, said schema comprising a representation for modal intervals comprised of two marks, each mark of said two marks selected from the group consisting of a real number, a signed infinity, a signed zero, or a pseudo number.
20. An improved interval computational methodology utilizing modal intervals wherein at least one mark of a pair of marks of an IEEE 754 digital scale comprises a token representing a single, unbounded real number in signed magnitude, said methodology comprising the step of substituting either a signed zero or a signed one for a NaN otherwise returned for arithmetic operations between marks representing end points of bounded and unbounded modal intervals, said arithmetic operations selected from the group consisting of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
21. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 20 wherein said token representing a single, unbounded real number in signed magnitude comprises an IEEE 754 mark negative infinity or positive infinity.
22. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 21 wherein a positive zero is substituted for invalid operations of IEEE addition.
23. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 22 wherein a positive zero is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for addition of marks representing unbounded modal interval end points comprised of infinities of opposite sign.
24. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 21 wherein a positive zero is substituted for invalid operations of IEEE subtraction.
25. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 24 wherein a positive zero is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for subtraction of marks representing unbounded modal interval end points comprised of equivalently signed infinities.
26. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 21 wherein a signed one is substituted for invalid operations of IEEE division.
27. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 26 wherein a positive one is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for division of marks representing unbounded modal interval end points comprised of equivalently signed infinities.
28. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 27 wherein a negative one is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for division of marks representing unbounded modal interval end points comprised of infinities of opposite sign.
29. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 21 wherein a signed zero is substituted for invalid operations of IEEE multiplication.
30. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 29 wherein a positive zero is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for multiplication of marks representing bounded and unbounded modal interval end points, respectively, comprised of an equivalently signed zero and infinity, or of marks representing unbounded and bounded modal interval end points, respectively, comprised of an equivalently signed infinity and zero.
31. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 29 wherein a negative zero is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for multiplication of marks representing bounded and unbounded modal interval end points, respectively, comprised of zero and infinity of opposite sign or of marks representing unbounded and bounded modal interval end points, respectively, comprised of an infinity and zero of opposite sign.
32. The modal interval representation of claim 2 wherein said token indicates a real number of unbounded signed magnitude.
33. The modal interval representation of claim 2 wherein said token is a signed infinity.
34. The modal interval representation of claim 11 wherein both marks of said select pair of marks are tokens indicating an unbounded end point.
35. The modal interval representation of claim 11 wherein both marks of said select pair of marks are signed tokens indicating an unbounded end point.
36. The modal interval representation of claim 35 wherein signs of said signed tokens are equivalent.
37. The method of claim 16 further comprising a step of tracking overflow conditions associated with a correctly rounded result of an arithmetic operation exceeding boundaries delimited by largest and smallest marks of marks of said pair of marks of a digital scale.
38. The method of claim 37 wherein said tracking of the overflow conditions requires a token representing an unbounded end point of said representation of said unbounded modal intervals to be exactly convertible between digital scales of a variety of digital scales in furtherance of mixed digital scale computing.
39. The improved interval computational methodology of claim 26 wherein a negative one is substituted for the NaN otherwise returned for division of marks representing unbounded modal interval end points comprised of infinities of opposite sign.
40. A computer executable interval computation method utilizing as inputs modal intervals comprised of a pair of a bit patterns associated with marks of a pair of marks of a digital scale, said method comprising:
a. representing bounded, unbounded, and pointwise modal intervals of said modal intervals within a computer system, the unbounded modal intervals characterized by a token representing an unbounded end point of at least a single mark of said pair of marks of a digital scale.

1. A method of uniformly coating strands comprising fibres, with a reactive plastics coating composition, comprising the step of applying individual coating constituents directly onto the fibers using a fluidized bed, wherein:
(a) said reactive plastics coating composition is a thermosetting molding composition in the form of a resincuring agentaccelerator system, wherein said resin, said curing agent and said accelerator components are included as individual coating constituents; and
(b) said individual coating constituents are mixed within said fluidized bed during coating with a mixing means selected from the group consisting of mechanical means, ultrasound and electromagnetic waves.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said strands comprise a material selected from the group consisting of synthetic inorganic fibres, plastic fibres and natural fibres.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said strands comprise a member selected from the group consisting of glass fibres, carbon fibres, aramide fibres, and cellulose fibres.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said fibres comprise filaments having a thickness from about 5 \u03bcm to about 20 \u03bcm and a weight of about 100 tex to about 4800 tex.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein a particle size distribution of said coating constituents comprises a range of about 30 \u03bcm to about 250 \u03bcm.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein a particle size distribution of said coating constituents comprises a range of about 50 \u03bcm to about 250 \u03bcm.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said individual coating constituents are charged electrostatically in said fluidized bed.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of adding at least one additional coating of said plastics coating composition to said fibre strands by (a) conducting an aftercoating operation using said fluidized bed and (b) drying said fibre strands in a continuous infrared oven.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein (i) said coating step is carried out in a sintering bath comprising a trough, an inlet for said coating constituents, a fluid bottom, deflection bars for fanning out and tauteing said fibres, and a mixing device for thorough mixing of said coating constituents, wherein (ii) after leaving said sintering bath, said coating is fixed by heating in an infrared heater; and optionally (iii) applying a second coating to said fibres using a second fluidized bed (iv) leading said fibres through a continuous infrared oven or a conditioning section consisting of a cooling device and optionally a heating device, and (v) cooling said fibres, which are optionally wound up or granulated.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said mixing means is a mechanical means comprising one or more rotors or one or more stirrers, said one or more rotors or said one or more stirrers being supported vertically at a center of each of said rotors or said stirrers and rotating horizontally about said center.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein said one or more rotors is a perforated disk rotating horizontally about a center of said rotor.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein said thermosetting molding composition further comprises an inorganic filler material, and optionally comprises further additives.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein said inorganic filler material is present in a concentration of at least 14.5% by weight of said thermosetting coating composition.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein said individual coating constituents comprise an additive selected from the group consisting of lubricants, fillers, pigments, primers, stabilizers and inhibitors.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein said filler material comprises a member selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, titanium oxide and dolomite.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein said filler material comprises aluminum hydroxide.

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 decorative lighting device, comprising:
a front panel having a specific design and provided at a predetermined position with a window;
a windmill mounted behind said front panel to align with said window; and
a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted on said front panel to produce light.
2. The decorative lighting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a supporting pike connected to a lower rear part of said front panel for supporting and fixing said decorative lighting device.
3. The decorative lighting device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a rear plate, said rear plate being located in alignment with said window on said front panel.
4. The decorative lighting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said windmill is fixed to a front side of said rear plate at a position corresponding to said window on said front panel.