Author: claimsbot

I claim:

1. Pliers for crimping work pieces, comprising:
a pliers head;
a first pivot jaw being arranged in the region of said pliers head;
a second pivot jaw being arranged in the region of said pliers head;
a common joint pivotally connecting said first and second pivot jaw;
a first die being arranged at said first pivot jaw;
a second die being arranged at said second pivot jaw, said first and second die together forming a crimping die;
a first handle being operatively connected to said first pivot jaw and including an end portion facing away from said pliers head, said first handle being divided into at least a first portion and a second portion;
a second handle being operatively connected to said second pivot jaw and including an end portion facing away from said pliers head, said first handle and said second handle being designed and arranged to be movable with respect to one another and to be operable to crimp the work piece in a few crimping steps, said second portion of said first handle being coupled to said first portion of said first handle in a plurality of different angle positions each corresponding to one crimping step in a way that said end portions of said first handle and said end portion of said second handle may be held and operated by the fingers of one hand in each angle position of each crimping step;
a locking mechanism being designed and arranged to attain a defined closed position of said first die and said second die; and
a toggle lever drive including a plurality of supporting joints and a pressure lever operatively connecting said first handle and said second handle, said pressure lever being supported by said plurality of supporting joints.
2. The pliers of claim 1, wherein said locking mechanism is operatively arranged between said first handle and said second pivot jaw.
3. The pliers of claim 1, wherein said first portion and said second portion are designed and arranged to be automatically adjusted to reach the different angle positions between the crimping steps.
4. The pliers of claim 1, wherein said first portion and said second portion are designed and arranged to be manually adjustable to reach the different angle positions between the crimping steps.
5. The pliers of claim 3, further comprising a joint and an elongated hole connection connecting said first portion and said second portion to alternately reach two different angle positions.
6. The pliers of claim 4, further comprising a joint and an elongated hole connection connecting said first portion and said second portion to alternately reach two different angle positions.
7. The pliers of claim 5, further comprising:
a locking pin being movably arranged in said second portion of said first handle;
a spring being arranged in said second portion of said first handle and being designed and arranged to subject said locking pin to a pushing force; and
a stop being arranged at said first portion of said first handle and being designed and arranged to cooperate with said locking pin.
8. The pliers of claim 6, further comprising:
a locking pin being movably arranged in said second portion of said first handle;
a spring being arranged in said second portion of said first handle and being designed and arranged to subject said locking pin to a pushing force; and a stop being arranged at said first portion of said first handle and being designed and arranged to cooperate with said locking pin.
9. The pliers of claim 3, further comprising a first elongated hole connection and a second elongated hole connection, said two elongated hole connections alternately connecting said first portion and said second portion of said first handle in two different angle positions, said two elongated hole connections being designed and arranged to allow for a limited movement of said first portion and of said second portion of said first handle with respect to one another in their direction of main extension, and wherein said second elongated hole connection is designed and arranged to allow for a limited movement of said first portion and of said second portion of said first handle in a direction transverse to their direction of main extension.
10. The pliers of claim 4, further comprising a first elongated hole connection and a second elongated hole connection, said two elongated hole connections alternately connecting said first portion and said second portion of said first handle in two different angle positions, said two elongated hole connections being designed and arranged to allow for a limited movement of said first portion and of said second portion of said first handle with respect to one another in their direction of main extension, and wherein said second elongated hole connection is designed and arranged to allow for a limited movement of said first portion and of said second portion of said first handle in a direction transverse to their direction of main extension.
11. The pliers of claim 3, wherein said first portion and said second portion of said first handle are designed and arranged to be put together in two different angle positions.
12. The pliers of claim 4, wherein said first portion and said second portion of said first handle are designed and arranged to be put together in two different angle positions.
13. The pliers of claim 2, wherein said pressure lever is connected to said portion of said first handle facing said pliers head.
14. The pliers of claim 13, wherein said locking mechanism includes a tooth segment being fixedly connected to said portion of said first handle facing said pliers head to be commonly rotated therewith and a locking jack being supported on said pressure lever.
15. The pliers of claim 1, wherein the work piece is chosen from a group consisting of fittings, tubes and cable lugs.

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 reflector for fluorescent lights comprised of an elongated channel member which is generally U-shaped in cross-sectional configuration and having an inner surface which has light-reflecting qualities:
(a) said channel member being further comprised of an elongated centrally-disposed flat reflector panel located at the base of said U-shaped member and extending longitudinally of said member and having spaced opposite parallel side edges;
(b) a pair of additional flat, elongated reflector panels each adjacent and connected to one of said opposite side edges of said centrally disposed reflector panel and extending outwardly and downwardly thereof at an angle of approximately 22-32;
(c) a second pair of flat elongated reflector panels, each having opposite parallel sides one of which is adjacent and connected to one side of one of said first mentioned pair of reflector panels and extending outwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of approximately 22-32 to the plane of said flat elongated panel to which it is so attached;
(d) a third pair of flat elongated reflector panels, each having opposite parallel sides one of which is adjacent and connected to the other side of one of said second pair of flat elongated reflector panels and extending outwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of approximately 22-32;
(e) a fourth pair of flat elongated reflector panels each having opposite parallel sides adjacent and connected to one side of one of said third pair panel sides and extending outwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of approximately 13-20;
(f) each of said reflector panels having a light-reflecting surface facing outwardly and downwardly from said U-shaped member; and
(g) means for mounting a fluorescent lamp within the confines of said U-shaped member.
2. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein each of said first, second and third pair of said panels extends at an angle of about 22 to at least one of its adjacent panels.
3. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein each of said first and second pairs of reflector panels extends at an angle of about 22 to each of its adjacent panels.
4. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein each of said first, second, and third pairs of reflector panels extends at an angle of about 22 relative to at least one of their adjacent panels.
5. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein said base located reflector panel is about one inch in width.
6. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein said panels comprising said first, second and third pair of panels are of substantially equal width.
7. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein said panels of said first, second and third pairs of panels are of substantially equal width and said base panel is wider than the panels of each.
8. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein said panels of said first, second and third pairs of panels are of substantially equal width and are each lesser in width than said panels of said fourth pair.
9. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said fourth pair of reflector panels terminates at its extreme outer end in an angulated hanger element extending along its length.
10. The reflector member defined in claim 1, wherein each of said fourth pair of reflector panels terminates at its extreme outer end in an angulated, hanger element extending along substantially its entire length.
11. The reflector member defined in claim 10, wherein each of said hanger elements extends outwardly relative to the remainder of said channel member.
12. The reflector member defined in claim 9 and a plurality of additional reflector members of the same construction as described in claim 1 associated therewith in side by side relationship, said reflectors being interconnected by said hanger elements to constitute a bank of individual reflectors.
13. The reflector member defined in claim 1, and (h) a 55 watt fluorescent lamp mounted within said lamp mounting means; and (i) ballast means electrically connected to said lamp in illuminating relation while providing about 41 watts of electrical power to said lamp.
14. The reflector member defined in claim 13, wherein said ballast means includes a magnetic ballast component therein.
15. The reflector member defined in claim 13, wherein said ballast means includes a transformer electrically connected therewithin.
16. The reflector member defined in claim 13, and (h) a plurality of 55 watt fluorescent lamps mounted within said, lamp mounting means; and (i) ballast means electrically connected to said lamps in illuminating relation.
17. The reflector member defined in claim 16, wherein said ballast means includes a magnetic ballast component electrically connected therein.
18. The reflector member defined in claim 16, wherein said ballast means includes an electrical transformer as an essential element thereof.
19. The combination of:
(a) a reflector for fluorescent lights comprised of an elongated channel member which is of generally inverted U-shape in cross-sectional configuration and has an inner surface which has light-reflecting qualities, said channel member being further comprised of:
(1) a plurality of adjacent, elongated and interconnected flat reflector panels facing downwardly and cooperatively defining generally said U-shaped configuration by extending at an angle to each other of approximately 22-32; and
(2) each of said reflector panels having a light-reflecting surface facing outwardly and downwardly from said inverted U-shaped member;

(b) means for mounting a 55 watt fluorescent lamp within the confines of said inverted U-shaped channel member; and
(c) a hybrid magnetic-electronic ballast electrically connected to said lamp to uniformly provide same with about 41 watts of electric power to illuminate same while running cooler and to cause said lamp to run for a longer life-term while providing more uniform light.
20. The combination defined in claim 19, wherein the magnetic aspect of said ballast is provided by a transformer.
21. The combination defined in claim 19, wherein at least some of said reflector panels extend relative to each other at an angle of about 22.
22. A lighting installation for providing a relatively uniform source of light for more adequately lighting both vertical and horizontal mediums of a defined area below said installation, at a lesser expense, said installation comprising:
(a) a plurality of banks of fluorescent lamp reflectors mounted in an elevated position above said defined area in horizontally spaced relation to each other at about twenty (20) foot center-to-center positions, and at heights of about thirty (30) feet;
(b) each of said banks of reflectors being comprised of a plurality of downwardly-facing elongated channel members, each of which is generally U-shaped in cross-sectional configuration and having an inner surface which has light-reflecting capacities and being further comprised of a plurality of adjacent elongated, centrally-disposed interconnected flat reflector panels facing downwardly and at an angle to each other;
(c) a major portion of said reflector panels being positioned adjacent the base of its U-shaped member and facing downwardly while extending at an angle of 22-32 toward each adjacent panel;
(d) a fluorescent lamp mounted within each of said U-shaped members, each of said lamps having a single 55 watt filament; and
(e) ballast means electrically connected to each of said banks of reflectors and providing a uniform supply of electricity of about 41 watts to each of said lamps, to cause said lamps to burn uniformly.
23. The lighting installation defined in claim 22, and a transformer incorporated electrically within said ballast means and causing each of said lamps, to burn cooler and more uniformly.
24. The lighting installation defined in claim 22, wherein at least a majority of said banks of reflectors is comprised of five (5) of said reflectors, with at least one of said lamps being disposed within each of said reflectors.

1. A method in a color display system for displaying first and second color component image fields, wherein the second color component image field is subsequent to the first color component image field in time, the method comprising:
establishing a first color component image on a multiple pixel display, each pixel of the display being set to at least one of first and second transmission states, wherein the setting of the pixels is to present the first color component image field on the display;
examining a second color component image field to be presented on the display;
determining which pixels of the display in presenting the second color component image field are to have transmission states that are relatively close, the relatively close pixels having a relative transmissivity substantially equal to or within 20 percent of their respective transmission states in the first color component image field; and
establishing a second color image on the multiple pixel display by resetting the transmission states of a plurality of the pixels of the multiple pixel display without resetting the transmission state of at least some of the pixels that are to have the relatively close transmission states relative to their states in displaying the first color component image field.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the possible transmission states of the pixels are an on-transmission state and an off-transmission state.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the possible transmission states are a plurality of values representing the relative transmission levels for the pixels.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the color display system is a buffered panel color display system including one or more buffers, and wherein the one or more buffers are operable to store values representing the transmission states of the pixels for the first and second color component image fields.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the color display system includes at least two panels, wherein
a first panel is a fixed color panel; and
a second panel is a sequential color panel configured to sequentially alternate between two or more colors.
6. A method according to claim 1, wherein
the color display system includes a multiple panel color display; and
the first and the second color component image fields are displayed on at least one panel of the multiple panel color display system.
7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying an inter-field image between the display of the first color component image field and the second color component image field, wherein the inter-field image is configured to relatively maintain the transmission state of the at least some pixels that are to have the relatively close transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the pixels in the inter-field image that are to be relatively maintained are given transmission states in the inter-field image of approximately between their transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
9. A method according to claim 1, further comprising changing the transmission state of the plurality of pixels that are being reset concurrently with the transition of the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field is performed together with the color transitions of a light source imposed by a color wheel.
11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field is performed together with the color transitions of a light source imposed by a color switch.
12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the color switch is selected from the group consisting of a one-bit color switch and a crossed \u03c0-cell color switch.
13. A color display system comprising:
a display having a plurality of pixels;
one or more buffers, at least a first of the one or more buffers being coupled to the display, the one or more buffers operable to store values representing the transmission states of the pixels for one or more display fields corresponding to the pixels;
a control circuit coupled to the one or more buffers, the control circuit operable to:
establish pixel data for a first color component image field in a first of the one or more buffers;
establish the pixel data for the first color component image field on the display, each pixel of the display being set to at least one of first and second transmission states, thereby setting the pixels of the display to correspond to the pixel data for the first color component image field;
establish pixel data for a second color component image field in a second of the one or more buffers;
compare the pixel data for the second color component image field to the pixel data for the first color component image field; and
establish the second color component image field on the display without resetting the transmission state of at least some of the pixels that have transmission states that have a relative transmissivity substantially equal to or within 20 percent of their respective transmission states in the first color component image field.
14. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the possible transmission states of the pixels are an on-transmission state and an off-transmission state.
15. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the possible transmission states are a plurality of values representing the relative transmission levels for the pixels.
16. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is a sequential color display system.
17. A color display system according to claim 16, wherein the color display system includes at least two panels, wherein
a first panel is a fixed color panel; and
a second panel is a sequential color panel configured to sequentially alternate between two or more colors.
18. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein
the color display system is a multiple panel color display system; and
the color display system is further configured to display the first and the second color component image fields on at least one panel of the multiple panels.
19. A color display system according to claim 18, wherein the color display system is further configured to establish the second color component image field without transitioning the transmission state of the at least some of the pixels of the second color component image field that have transmission states that are relatively close to those pixels’ transmission states in the first color component image field.
20. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is further configured to display an inter-field image during transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field, wherein the inter-field image is configured to relatively maintain the transmission state of the at least some pixels that are to have relatively close transmission states in the first and second color component image fields.
21. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the color display system is further configured to change the transmission state of those pixels that are not to have the same transmission state in the second color component image field as in the first color component image field concurrently with the transition of the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
22. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display operates by modulating a light source, and further comprising a color wheel coupled to the display, wherein the color wheel is configured to perform the transition of the light source for the display from the a first color component to a second color component in a synchronized manner with the display transition from the first color component image field to the second color component image field.
23. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display operates by modulating a light source, and further comprising a color switch coupled to the display, wherein the color switch is configured to perform the transition of the light source for the display from a first color component to a second color component in a synchronized manner with the display transition from the first color component image field to the second component color image field.
24. A color display system according to claim 23, wherein the color switch is a one-bit color switch.
25. A color display system according to claim 23, wherein the color switch is a crossed \u03c0-cell color switch.
26. A color display system according to claim 13, wherein the display is an active-matrix display panel.

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 method of accessing an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page from a sequential multimodal device that lacks the ability to directly render said Web page;
segmenting said Web page into a plurality of fragments, each fragment consisting of a single interface category, wherein said interface category is selected from the group consisting of a graphical user interface category and a voice category; and
conveying at least one of said fragments to provide the requesting sequential multimodal device with information from said Web page.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said conveyed fragment belongs to the graphical user interface category, the method further comprising
converting an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language markup specified in said Web page into a markup language that said requesting sequential multimodal device is capable of rendering.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said conveyed fragment belongs to the graphical user interface category, said conveying step further comprising the step of conveying the fragment to the requesting sequential multimodal device across a data connection.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the conveyed fragment belongs to the voice category, said conveying step further comprising the step of said conveying said fragment to a voice server.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of:
conveying content derived from the voice fragment from said voice server to said requesting sequential multimodal device across a voice connection.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of determining a capability of the requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said segmenting step segments the Web page according to said capability so that no fragment exceeds said capability.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:
receiving a specification for a particular interface category, wherein the fragment conveyed in said conveying step belongs to the specified interface category.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
determining an order in which said fragments are to be conveyed to said requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said conveying step conveys said fragments in accordance with said order.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
recording at least one link that correlates at least one fragment belonging to said graphical user interface category to at least one fragment belonging to said voice category; and
determining a plurality of fragments to convey to said requesting sequential multimodal device, wherein said fragments belong to different interface categories, and wherein said determination is based at least in part upon said recorded links.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one fragment of said conveying step includes a fragment belonging to said graphical user interface category and a corresponding fragment belonging to said voice category.
11. A method for accessing content of multimodal Web pages comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for a multimodal markup Web page from a sequential multimodal device incapable of directly rendering said multimodal markup page;
generating a voice-only markup page from said multimodal markup Web page;
generating a graphical user interface markup page from said multimodal markup Web page, wherein said graphical user interface markup page does not include voice-enabled markup;
segmenting said voice-only markup page into a plurality of voice fragments;
segmenting said graphical user interface markup page into a plurality of graphical user interface fragments;
correlating said voice fragments to graphical user interface fragments based upon content of the fragments; and
providing content of said Web page to said sequential multimodal device using said fragments, wherein said sequential multimodal device is configured to selectively switch between a voice mode that renders at least one voice fragment and a graphical user interface mode that renders at least one graphical user interface fragment.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein said multimodal markup is an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice markup.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein said voice fragment is written in a Voice Extensible Markup Language.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein said graphical user interface fragment is written in a Wireless Markup Language.