Author: claimsbot

1. A method of facilitating access to electronics components within an electronics enclosure, the method comprising:
providing a component support assembly comprising a rotatable base support, and a component connector assembly associated with the rotatable base support for operatively coupling to multiple electronics components, wherein the rotatable base support is sized to reside within the electronics enclosure and support multiple operational electronics components thereon;
disposing multiple electronics components on the rotatable base support in operative position by coupling the multiple electronics components to the component connector assembly; and
wherein rotation of the rotatable base support facilitates access to the multiple electronics components during operation of the multiple electronics components, and wherein the component connector assembly allows for rotation of the rotatable base support with the multiple electronics components operatively supported thereon.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing at least one flexible cable connecting the component connector assembly to an electronics interface of the electronics enclosure, wherein the providing of the at least one flexible cable comprises providing the at least one flexible cable with sufficient length and flexibility to allow for rotation of the rotatable base support at least 90\xb0.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising providing an access opening within an access surface of the electronics enclosure, wherein the access opening allows access therethrough to the multiple electronics components supported by the rotatable base support via selective rotation of the rotatable base support.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the disposing comprises placing the multiple electronics components in a planar array on the rotatable base support.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the disposing comprises disposing at least some electronics components of the multiple electronics components vertically in operative position on the rotatable base support and coupled to the component connector assembly.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the rotatable base support comprises a first rotatable base support, and wherein the method further comprises providing at least one additional rotatable base support rotatably coupled to the first rotatable base support to rotate relative to the first rotatable base support and turn with rotation of the first rotatable base support, and wherein the at least one additional rotatable base support operatively supports at least one electronics component thereon of the multiple electronics components and facilitates access to the at least one electronics component disposed thereon.

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 touch display device, comprising:
a timing controller to generate a sync signal for controlling timing of a touch sensor driving period and a display driving period in each of a plurality of frames, the touch sensor driving period and the display driving period alternating with each other;
a display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels having a common electrode segmented into a plurality of touch sensors, the plurality of display pixels to display pixel data in response to data voltages during the display driving period;
a touch sensor driving circuit to supply a touch sensor driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors during the touch sensor driving period and to detect if a touch occurred based on a change in charge on the touch sensors;
a plurality of positive polarity output buffers to output positive polarity data voltages to the display pixels during the display driving period;
a plurality of negative polarity output buffers to output negative polarity data voltages to the display pixels during the display driving period;
a first set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to respective odd signal lines and to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to respective even signal lines during a first phase of the display driving period;
a second set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to respective even signal lines during a second phase of the display driving period;
a third set of switches to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to respective odd signal lines during the second phase of the display driving period;
a fourth set of switches to couple the signals lines to each other during a charge share period between the first phase of the display driving period and the second phase of the display driving period, and to couple the signals lines to each other during the touch sensor driving period; and
a fifth switch to couple the signal lines to an oscillating input voltage during the touch sensor driving period, the oscillating input voltage having an approximately same phase as the touch sensor driving signal.
2. The touch display device of claim 1, wherein for a given odd signal line, a first one of the first set of switches couples the given odd signal line to one of the positive polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period, and one of the third set of switches couples the given odd signal line to one of the negative polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
3. The touch display device of claim 2, wherein for a given even signal line, a second one of the first set of switches couples the given even signal line to the one of the negative polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period, one of the second set of switches couples the given even signal line to the one of the positive polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
4. A touch display device, comprising:
a timing controller to generate a sync signal for controlling timing of a touch sensor driving period and a display driving period in each of a plurality of frames, the touch sensor driving period and the display driving period alternating with each other, the display driving period comprising a first phase to drive odd signal lines according to a first polarity and to drive even signal lines according to a second polarity, a second phase to drive the odd signal lines according to the second polarity and to drive the even signal lines according to the first polarity, and a charge share period between the first phase and the second phase;
a display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels having a common electrode segmented into a plurality of touch sensors, the plurality of display pixels to display pixel data in response to data voltages during the display driving period;
a touch sensor driving circuit to supply a touch sensor driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors during the touch sensor driving period and to detect if a touch occurred based on a change in charge on the touch sensors;
a set of charge sharing switches to couple the odd and even signal lines together during the charge share period and to couple the odd and even signal lines together during the touch sensor driving period; and
a timing switch to couple the odd and even signal lines to receive an oscillating signal during the touch period and to decouple the odd and even signal lines from the oscillating signal during the display driving period.
5. The touch display device of claim 4, further comprising:
a plurality of positive polarity output buffers to output data voltages having the first polarity;
a plurality of negative polarity output buffers to output data voltages having the second polarity;
a first set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to the odd signal lines and to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to the even signal lines during the first phase of the display driving period; and
a second set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to the even signal lines during the second phase of the display driving period.
6. The touch display device of claim 5, further comprising:
a third set of switches to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to the odd signal lines during the second phase of the display driving period.
7. The touch display device of claim 6, wherein for a given odd signal line, a first one of the first set of switches couples the given odd signal line to a first one of the positive polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period, and one of the third set of switches couples the given odd signal line to one of the negative polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
8. The touch display device of claim 7, wherein for a given even signal line, a second one of the first set of switches couples the given even signal line to the one of the negative polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period, and one of the second set of switches couples the given even signal line to the one of the positive polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
9. The touch display device of claim 4, wherein the oscillating signal has an approximately same phase as the touch sensor driving signal during the touch sensor driving period.
10. A method for operating a touch display device, the method comprising:
generating, by a timing controller, a sync signal for controlling timing of a touch sensor driving period and a display driving period in each of a plurality of frames, the touch sensor driving period and the display driving period alternating with each other, the display driving period comprising a first phase, a second phase, and a charge share period between the first and second phases;
driving odd signal lines of a display panel according to a first polarity and even signal lines according to a second polarity during the first phase of the display driving period;
driving the odd signal lines of the display panel according to the second polarity and the even signal lines according to the first polarity during the second phase of the display driving period;
displaying, by the display panel, pixel data in response to data voltages driven onto the odd and even signal lines during the display driving period, the display panel comprising a plurality of display pixels having a common electrode segmented into a plurality of touch sensors;
controlling a set of charge sharing switches to couple the odd and even signal lines together during the charge share period to distribute charge between the odd signal lines and the even signal lines, and to couple the odd and even signal lines together during the touch sensor driving period;
supplying, by a touch sensor driving circuit, a touch sensor driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors during the touch sensor driving period;
detecting, by the touch sensor driving circuit, if a touch occurred during the touch sensor driving period based on a change in charge on the touch sensors; and
controlling a timing switch to couple the odd and even signal lines to receive a oscillating signal during the touch sensor driving period and to decouple the odd and even signal lines from the oscillating signal during the display driving period.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:
outputting data voltages having the first polarity from a plurality of positive polarity output buffers;
outputting data voltages having the second polarity from a plurality of negative polarity output buffers;
controlling a first set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to the odd signal lines and to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to the even signal lines during the first phase of the display driving period; and
controlling a second set of switches to couple the plurality of positive polarity output buffers to the even signal lines during the second phase of the display driving period.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
controlling a third set of switches to couple the plurality of negative polarity output buffers to the odd signal lines during the second phase of the display driving period.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:
controlling a first one of the first set of switches to couple a given odd signal line to one of the positive polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period; and
controlling one of the third set of switches to couple the given odd signal line to one of the negative polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
controlling a second one of the first set of switches to couple a given even signal line to the one of the negative polarity output buffers during the first phase of the display driving period;
controlling one of the second set of switches to couple the given even signal line to the one of the positive polarity output buffers during the second phase of the display driving period.
15. The method of claim 10, wherein the oscillating has an approximately same phase as the touch sensor driving signal.

1. In a shelter structure comprising:
connecting joints, each having three arms orthogonal to each other, two of the arms being horizontal when a third is vertical,
hollow horizontal bars having ends which fit over the horizontal arms of said joints,
hollow vertical uprights having ends which fit over the vertical arms of said joints, and
rectangular panels forming a floor, walls and a ceiling of said shelter structure, the improvement wherein:
each of said arms has a rectangular cross-section,
each of said horizontal bars has an open profile having an external vertical wall and an internal vertical wall, the external vertical wall being extended to form an external vertical shoulder (20) and a horizontal internal flange (22) extending from the vertical shoulder for engaging one of the horizontal arms (12) of the joints (11), the internal vertical wall terminating at a horizontal shelf (21) for supporting the panels forming the floor or the ceiling, and wherein
each of the vertical uprights longitudinally has two vertical shoulders (23) extending therefrom which, when the upright is installed on the joint, are aligned with the vertical shoulders (20) of the horizontal bars (13) so as to define a rectangular support frame, and
the panels (16) forming the walls of the structure rest against an inner surface of said external vertical shoulders of the horizontal bars and the vertical shoulders of the vertical bars.
2. The shelter structure according to claim 1, wherein
each of said horizontal bars has,
an end portion of the external vertical wall bent once internally backwards to define said vertical shoulder and a second time horizontally inwards to form said internal flange, and
an end portion of the internal vertical wall is further bent horizontally outward to define said shelf.
3. The shelter structure according to claim 1, wherein
each of said vertical uprights has two vertical orthogonal walls, and
an end portion of each of said walls is further bent once internally backwards for defining said vertical support shoulder and a second time parallel to the other of said walls to form an at least partially closed cavity of said upright.
4. The shelter structure according to claim 1, wherein at least one horizontal arm of each joint has an end portion of reduced section, so as to define an axial abutment shoulder for the ends of said bars.
5. The shelter structure according to claim 1, wherein the bars and the uprights are secured to the joints by cross screws that connect the end portions of said bars and uprights to the respective arms of the joints.
6. The shelter structure according to claim 1, wherein each joint has, coaxially to the vertical arm, a threaded hole for receiving a screw for connecting the joint alternatively to a foot for supporting the structure on the ground or a ring for lifting and carrying the shelter.
7. The shelter structure according to claim 1, further comprising L-shaped vertical bars for connecting two adjacent vertical panels acting as walls to one another.
8. The shelter structure according to claim 1, further comprising at least one \u03a9-shaped horizontal bar resting on the shelves of two opposite horizontal bars for supporting two adjacent horizontal panels acting as floor.

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 communications system for mobile radio telephony comprising mobile devices, comprising modules which can be inserted into the mobile devices, with at least one subscriber territory being fixed inside the total territory covered by the communications system, within which subscriber territory communication takes place from andor to the mobile devices under special conditions, and comprising means by which it can be determined whether the mobile device is located inside the subscriber territory,
characterized in that
the means are arranged on the module or in a determination unit which can be accessed by means of remote polling.
2. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the module is the subscriber identification module (SIM).
3. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein location areas in which one or more radio cells are located are arranged in the total territory covered by the communications system.
4. A communications system in accordance with claim 3, wherein location areas andor the radio cells have identity data characterizing them.
5. A communications system in accordance with claim 4, wherein the identity data include identifiers and coordinates.
6. A communications system in accordance with claim 4, wherein means are provided in the communications system by means of which the identity data of the location areas andor of the radio cells can be transmitted to the mobile devices.
7. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein an interface is provided in the mobile devices by means of which the identity data can be transmitted to the module.
8. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein means are provided in the module andor in the determination unit of the communications system by means of which the identity data of the location area or radio cell in which the mobile device is located can be compared with data characterizing the subscriber territory.
9. A communications system in accordance with claim 8, wherein the data characterizing the subscriber territory include identifiers and coordinates of the locations areas andor radio cells located in the subscriber territory.
10. A communications system in accordance with claim 8, wherein the data characterizing the subscriber territory are stored in the module andor in the determination unit.
11. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the means by which it can be determined whether the mobile device is located inside the subscriber territory are designed such that it can be determined by them whether the coordinates of a location area or of a radio cell of the communications system are disposed in a region which is fixed by a location and the radius of a circle surrounding the location as a center.
12. A communications system in accordance with claim 11, wherein the coordinates of the location and the radius are stored in the module or in the determination unit.
13. A communications system in accordance with claim 11, wherein the identifiers of the location areas andor of the radio cells are designated such that they are in an unambiguous relationship with the coordinates of the location area andor of the radio cell so that the coordinates can be determined from the identifiers.
14. A communications system in accordance with claim 13, wherein means are provided in the module or in the determination unit by which the coordinates can be determined on the basis of the identifiers.
15. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the module andorthe determination unit has means by which it can be determined whether the identifier of a location area andor of a radio cell coincides with a predetermined identifier of the location area andor of the radio cell of the subscriber territory.
16. A communications system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the predetermined identifier is stored in the module or in the determination unit.
17. A communications system in accordance with claim 16, wherein the identifiers stored in the module or in the determination unit are at least partly stored in a form reducing the storage requirements.
18. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the determination unit has a transmitter and receiver unit, with the transmitter unit serving the reception of a poll of the association with a subscriber territory and the transmitter unit serving the transmission of the result of the examination whether the mobile device is located in a subscriber territory.
19. A communications system in accordance with claim 1, wherein an interface is provided between the mobile device and the module via which the information whether the mobile device is located in a subscriber territory can be transmitted from the module to the mobile device in the form of a control signal.
20. A method of operating a communications system for mobile radio telephony comprising mobile devices and comprising modules which can be inserted into the mobile devices, with at least one subscriber territory being fixed inside the total territory covered by the communications system inside which subscriber territory communication takes place from andor to the mobile devices under special conditions, and with a determination taking place whether the mobile device is located in the subscriber territory,
characterized in that
the determination takes place by means of the module or by means of a determination unit which is accessed by means of remote polling.
21. (canceled)
22. A method in accordance with claim 20, wherein the examination whether the coordinates of a location area andor of a radio cell are disposed in a region which is fixed by a location and the radius of a circle surrounding the location as a center takes place by means of the module andor of the determination unit.
23. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein an examination whether the identifier of a location area or of a radio cell coincides with a predetermined identifier of a location area or of a radio cell takes place by means of the module andor of the determination unit.
24. A method in accordance with claim 22, wherein the examination in accordance with claim 23 takes place prior to the examination in accordance with claim 22.
25. A method in accordance with claim 20, wherein the location and the radius of the region in accordance with claim 22 andorthe predetermined identifiers in accordance with claim 23 are stored in the module andor in the determination unit.
26. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the predetermined identifiers are at least partly stored in a manner reducing the memory requirements in the module andor in the determination unit.
27. (canceled)
28. A method in accordance with claim 20, wherein the identifier of the location area andor of the radio cell andor their coordinates are forwarded by a transmitter and receiver station to the mobile device and from this to the module.
29. A method in accordance with claim 28, wherein the data forwarded from the mobile device to the module are transmitted from this to the determination unit; and in that the determination unit\u2014after an examination whether the mobile device is located in a subscriber territory\u2014forwards the result to the mobile device and the latter to the module.