Author: claimsbot

1. An electric power-generating system configured to convert a source of energy to electricity by turning a rotor shaft with the source of energy, the system comprising:
a mounting plate coupled to a frame;
a drive gear coupled to the rotor shaft and configured to move when the rotor shaft moves; and
a plurality of motorgenerator devices mounted to the mounting plate, each motorgenerator device including an output shaft configured to rotatably couple with the drive gear;
wherein each motorgenerator device couples independently to the drive gear to provide a plurality of redundant power generating motorgenerator devices.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mounting plate comprises a first side and an opposing second side that is adjacent to a major surface of the drive gear, each output shaft extending from the second side of the mounting plate to rotatably couple with a peripheral edge of the drive gear.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mounting plate is substantially co-planar with the drive gear and the plurality of motorgenerator devices comprise paired motorgenerator devices that are spaced apart to include a first motorgenerator device mounted substantially parallel to the plane defined by the drive gear and having a first output shaft coupled to a first major surface of the drive gear and a second motorgenerator device mounted substantially parallel to the plane defined by the drive gear and having a second output shaft coupled to a second major surface of the drive gear.
4. The system of claim 3, wherein the paired motorgenerator devices are coupled radially relative to the drive gear and configured to move normal to the plane defined by the drive gear such that the output shafts remain engaged with the drive gear as the drive gear wobbles.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein each output shaft couples with the drive gear at an interface, the interface comprising a polymer.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein a periphery of the drive gear comprises a polymer lubricant of one of polyetheretherketone and polyimide.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the drive gear includes a plurality of teeth and each output shaft of each motorgenerator device includes shaft teeth configured to mesh with the teeth of the drive gear.
8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a mechanism configured to decouple an inactive motorgenerator device from the system.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein each motorgenerator device is a reversible motorgenerator device configured to power rotation of the drive gear.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein an output voltage for the system ranges from V to a product of N multiplied by V, wherein N is a number of motorgenerator devices mounted to the mounting plate and V is a voltage of each one of the motorgenerator devices.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of motorgenerator devices is mounted along a periphery of the mounting plate to have a linear density of about three motorgenerator devices per foot.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of motorgenerator devices comprises a plurality of motors.
13. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of motorgenerator devices comprises a plurality of generators.
14. An electric generator system comprising:
a frame;
a drive gear coupled to the frame; and
a plurality of generators each configured with an output shaft having a diameter that is less than a diameter of the drive gear and positioned to couple with the drive gear, wherein rotation of the drive gear caused by a source of energy rotates the output shafts of the generators and converts the source of energy to electricity.
15. The electric generator system of claim 14, wherein each of the plurality of generators is configured to generate electricity independent of an other of the plurality of generators.
16. The electric generator system of claim 14, wherein the drive gear is coupled to a rotor blade that configures the electric generator system as an airborne electric generator system.
17. The electric generator system of claim 14, wherein a diameter of the drive gear is at least 10 feet and the plurality of generators comprise opposing pairs of generators coupled radially around a periphery of the drive gear and configured to limit axial wobble movement of the drive.
18. An electric generator system comprising:
a frame;
a drive gear coupled to the frame; and
a plurality of motors each configured with an output shaft having a diameter that is less than a diameter of the drive gear and positioned to couple with the drive gear, wherein electricity generated by the motors is employed to rotate the output shafts, and the rotating output shafts rotate the drive gear.
19. The electric generator system of claim 18, wherein each of the plurality of motors is configured to generate power independent of an other of the plurality of motors.
20. The electric generator system of claim 18, wherein the rotating output shafts rotate the drive gear, and the rotating drive gear rotates a rotor coupled to the drive gear to enable the system to generate aerodynamic lift.

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. An device comprising:
a cooling vessel with an inside wall, an outside wall and a central axis, wherein the inside wall and the outside wall are coaxially aligned about the central axis;
a first magnetic coil wound in a first plane with a diameter greater than forty centimeters; and
a second magnetic coil wound in a second plane, wherein the first magnetic coil is disposed opposite the second magnetic coil with respect to the central axis and within the cooling vessel between the inside wall and the outside wall, wherein the central axis intersects the first plane at a point, and wherein the central axis intersects the second plane at the point.
2. The device of claim 1, further comprising:
a cylindrical crucible, wherein the inside wall of the cooling vessel is coaxially disposed around the cylindrical crucible.
3. The device of claim 1, further comprising:
a third magnetic coil wound in a third plane; and
a fourth magnetic coil wound in a fourth plane, wherein the third magnetic coil is disposed opposite the fourth magnetic coil with respect to the central axis and within the cooling vessel between the inside wall and the outside wall, wherein the central axis intersects the third plane at the point, and wherein the central axis intersects the fourth plane at the point.
4. The device of claim 3, wherein an xy plane is perpendicular to the central axis, wherein the first plane intersects the xy plane at a first intersect line, wherein the third plane intersects the xy plane at a second intersect line, and wherein the first intersect line intersects the second intersect line at an angle greater than 135 degrees.
5. The device of claim 3, wherein the first magnetic coil has a first middle point, the second magnetic coil has a second middle point, the third magnetic coil has a third middle point and the fourth magnetic coil has a fourth middle point, wherein a first mid line passes through the first middle point, the central axis and the second middle point, wherein a second mid line passes through the third middle point, the central axis and the fourth middle point, and wherein the first mid line intersects the second mid line at the central axis.
6. The device of claim 5, wherein an xy plane passes through the first middle point, the second middle point, the third middle point and the fourth middle point, wherein the first plane intersects the xy plane at a first intersect line, wherein the third plane intersects the xy plane at a second intersect line, and wherein the first intersect line intersects the second intersect line at an angle greater than 135 degrees.
7. An device comprising:
a cylindrical crucible;
a cooling vessel with an inside wall, an outside wall and a central axis, wherein the inside wall of the cooling vessel is coaxially disposed around the cylindrical crucible;
a first magnetic coil looping in a first plane; and
a second magnetic coil looping in a second plane, wherein the first magnetic coil is disposed opposite the second magnetic coil with respect to the central axis and within the cooling vessel between the inside wall and the outside wall, and wherein the first plane intersects the central axis at a first angle with a range between 5 and 15 degrees.
8. The device of claim 7, wherein the second plane intersects the central axis at a second angle, and wherein the first angle equals the second angle.
9. The device of claim 7, wherein the central axis intersects the first plane at a point, and wherein the central axis intersects the second plane at the point.
10. The device of claim 7, wherein the first magnetic coil has a diameter of at least forty centimeters.
11. The device of claim 7, wherein the first plane intersects the central axis below the cylindrical crucible, wherein the second plane intersects the central axis below the cylindrical crucible at a second angle, and wherein the first angle equals the second angle.
12. The device of claim 7, wherein the first plane intersects the central axis above the cylindrical crucible, wherein the second plane intersects the central axis above the cylindrical crucible at a second angle, and wherein the first angle equals the second angle.
13. The device of claim 7, wherein an upper surface of molten semiconductor material is present in the cylindrical crucible, wherein the first magnetic coil has a diameter that equals a diameter of the second magnetic coil, and wherein the cylindrical crucible is located such that the upper surface of the molten semiconductor material is between 20% and 30% of the diameter of the first magnetic coil lower than the highest point of the first magnetic coil.
14. The device of claim 7, further comprising:
a third magnetic coil looping in a third plane; and
a fourth magnetic coil looping in a fourth plane, wherein the third magnetic coil is disposed opposite the fourth magnetic coil with respect to the central axis and within the cooling vessel between the inside wall and the outside wall, and wherein each of the first plane, the second plane, the third plane and the fourth plane intersects the central axis at the same point.
15. The device of claim 14, wherein an xy plane is perpendicular to the central axis, wherein the first plane intersects the xy plane at a first intersect line, wherein the third plane intersects the xy plane at a second intersect line, and wherein the first intersect line intersects the second intersect line at an angle greater than 135 degrees.
16. A method comprising:
pulling a single crystal of semiconductor material from molten semiconductor material in a cylindrical crucible, wherein a cooling vessel has an inside wall, an outside wall and a central axis, and wherein the inside wall of the cooling vessel is coaxially disposed around the cylindrical crucible; and
generating a magnetic field through the molten semiconductor material so as to suppress convection flows within the molten semiconductor material, wherein the magnetic field is generated using a first magnetic coil wound in a first plane and a second magnetic coil wound in a second plane, wherein the first magnetic coil is disposed opposite the second magnetic coil with respect to the central axis and within the cooling vessel between the inside wall and the outside wall, and wherein the first plane intersects the central axis at a first angle with a range between 5 and 15 degrees.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first magnetic coil has a first middle point, wherein the second magnetic coil has a second middle point, wherein a mid line passes through the first middle point, the central axis and the second middle point, and wherein the mid line passes through the molten semiconductor material.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the first magnetic coil has a first middle point, wherein the second magnetic coil has a second middle point, wherein a mid line passes through the first middle point, the central axis and the second middle point, and wherein the mid line passes above an upper surface of the molten semiconductor material.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the first magnetic coil has a diameter that equals a diameter of the second magnetic coil, wherein an optimal field line passes through a first point on the first plane that is between 20% and 30% of the diameter lower than the highest point of the first magnetic coil, and wherein the optimal field line passes through a second point on the second plane that is between 20% and 30% of the diameter lower than the highest point of the second magnetic coil, further comprising:
maintaining the cylindrical crucible at a height such that the optimal field line passes approximately through an upper surface of the molten semiconductor material.
20. An device comprising:
a crucible adapted to hold a molten semiconductor material;
a cooling vessel with a central axis, wherein the cooling vessel is coaxially disposed around the crucible; and
means for generating a magnetic field centered on the central axis that is not symmetrical above and below any xy plane that is perpendicular to the central axis, wherein the magnetic field is at least 0.03 Tesla at some point along the central axis.
21. The device of claim 20, wherein the means includes a first coil looping in a first plane and a second coil looping in a second plane, wherein the first coil is disposed opposite the second coil with respect to the central axis, and wherein the first plane intersects the central axis at an angle with a range between 5 and 15 degrees.
22. The device of claim 20, wherein the means includes a first coil looping in a first plane and a second coil looping in a second plane, an xy plane is perpendicular to the central axis and intersects the crucible, wherein the first plane intersects the xy plane at a first intersect line, wherein the second plane intersects the xy plane at a second intersect line, and wherein the first intersect line intersects the second intersect line at an angle greater than 135 degrees.

1. A computer program product for executing a modify runtime instrumentation controls (MRIC) instruction, the MRIC instruction executable in either a supervisor state or a lesser-privileged state, the MRIC instruction for setting only a subset of run-time-instrumentation controls, wherein all of said run-time-instrumentation controls are loadable by a privileged load run-time-instrumentation controls (LRIC) instruction, the computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
fetching the MRIC instruction, the MRIC instruction including an address of a run-time-instrumentation control block (RICCB);
fetching, by a processor, the RICCB, the RICCB including a plurality of values for modifying said subset of run-time-instrumentation controls of the processor, the plurality of values of the RICCB comprising:
a runtime instrumentation program buffer current address (RCA) of a runtime instrumentation program buffer (RIB) location, the RIB for holding runtime instrumentation information of events recognized by the processor during program execution; and
one or more of:
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data sampling;
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data collection;
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data reporting into a program buffer;
a control to manage detection of instruction-cache misses;
a control to manage detection of data-cache misses;
a control to manage a size of a reporting group;
a control to manage a current address within an output program buffer at which a next reporting group is stored;
controls to manage data collection of data on call-type, return-type, and transfer-type branches; and
controls to manage data collection of branches that are correctly or incorrectly predicted as taken or not taken;
loading the plurality of values into the run-time-instrumentation controls; and
using the loaded plurality of values to provide run-time-instrumentation event information to the RIB.
2. The computer program product according to claim 1, further comprising:
deriving a model dependent limited value for at least one of the plurality of values of the RICCB; and
loading the model dependent limited value as an updated value into the run-time-instrumentation controls.
3. The computer program product according to claim 2, wherein based on one of the plurality of values of the RICCB being the control to manage a size of a reporting group, the method further comprises:
loading the model dependent limited value;
based on a K field of the run-time-instrumentation controls having a first value, setting a current address to a value of an origin address of the RICCB; and
based on the K field of the run-time-instrumentation controls having a second value, setting the current address to a value of a specified RICCB current address value.
4. The computer program product according to claim 1, further comprising causing an exception, based on any one or more of:
determining that the address in the MRIC instruction does not align with a double word boundary; and
determining that the RICCB cannot be fetched from the address included in the MRIC instruction.
5. The computer program product according to claim 1, further comprising:
determining that one or more values in the RICCB are valid, wherein the determining further comprises any one of:
determining that a run-time-instrumentation S bit indicates that execution of the MRIC instruction from the lesser-privileged state is not permitted;
determining that the run-time-instrumentation controls are not valid; and
determining that run-time-instrumentation is not enabled.
6. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein the MRIC instruction is defined for a first computer architecture, and the fetching and parsing is executed by a second processor of an alternate computer architecture, the fetching and parsing by the second processor comprising:
identifying a software routine for emulating execution of the MRIC instruction on the first computer architecture; and
executing the MRIC instruction with the software routine.
7. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein no values in the run-time-instrumentation controls are updated if an error is encountered.
8. A computer system for executing a modifying run-time-instrumentation controls (MRIC) instruction from either a supervisor state or a lesser-privileged state, the MRIC instruction for setting only a subset of run-time-instrumentation controls, wherein all of said run-time-instrumentation controls are loadable by a privileged load run-time-instrumentation controls (LRIC) instruction comprising:
a computer processor comprising a run-time-instrumentation module, the run-time-instrumentation module configured to perform a method comprising:
fetching the MRIC instruction, the MRIC instruction including an address of a run-time-instrumentation control block (RICCB);
fetching the RICCB, the RICCB including a plurality of values for modifying said subset of run-time-instrumentation controls of the computer processor, the plurality of values of the RICCB comprising:
a runtime instrumentation program buffer current address (RCA) of a runtime instrumentation program buffer (RIB) location, the RIB for holding runtime instrumentation information of events recognized by the computer processor during program execution; and
one or more of:
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data sampling;
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data collection;
a control to manage details of run-time-instrumentation data reporting into a program buffer;
a control to manage detection of instruction-cache misses;
a control to manage detection of data-cache misses;
a control to manage a size of a reporting group;
a control to manage a current address within an output program buffer at which a next reporting group is stored;
controls to manage data collection of data on call-type, return-type, and transfer-type branches; and
controls to manage data collection of branches that are correctly or incorrectly predicted as taken or not taken;
loading the plurality of values into the run-time-instrumentation controls; and
using the loaded plurality of values to provide run-time-instrumentation event information to the RIB.
9. The system according to claim 8, further comprising:
deriving a model dependent limited value for at least one of the plurality of values of the RICCB; and
loading the model dependent limited value as an updated value into the run-time-instrumentation controls.
10. The system according to claim 9, wherein based on one of the plurality of values of the RICCB being the control to manage a size of a reporting group, the method further comprises:
loading the model dependent limited value;
based on a K field of the run-time-instrumentation controls having a first value, setting a current address to a value of an origin address of the RICCB; and
based on the K field of the run-time-instrumentation controls having a second value, setting the current address to a value of a specified RICCB current address value.
11. The system according to claim 8, further comprising causing an exception, based on any one or more of:
determining that the address in the MRIC instruction does not align with a double word boundary; and
determining that the RICCB cannot be fetched from the address included in the MRIC instruction.
12. The system according to claim 8, further comprising:
determining that one or more values in the RICCB are valid, wherein the determining further comprises any one of:
determining that a run-time-instrumentation S bit indicates that execution of the MRIC instruction from the lesser-privileged state is not permitted;
determining that the run-time-instrumentation controls are not valid; and
determining that run-time-instrumentation is not enabled.
13. The system according to claim 8, wherein the MRIC instruction is defined for a first computer architecture, and the fetching and parsing is executed by a second processor of an alternate computer architecture, the fetching and parsing by the second processor comprising:
identifying a software routine for emulating execution of the MRIC instruction on the first computer architecture; and
executing the MRIC instruction with the software routine.
14. The system according to claim 8, wherein no values in the run-time-instrumentation controls are updated if an error is encountered.

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

I claim:

1, A data analysis system for analyzing data sets, comprising:
a database for storing data;
analysis processing means for analyzing a relation among data elements based on a number of occurrences, in stored data, of a first data element, and a number of simultaneous occurrences, in the stored data, of the first data element and a second data element; and
output means for outputting results provided by the analysis processing means.
2, The data analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the analysis processing means groups data elements based on the number of simultaneous occurrences.
3, The data analysis system according to claim 2, wherein the analysis processing means groups the first data element and the second data element into the same group, when a ratio of the number of simultaneous occurrences to the number of occurrences of the first data element is greater than a predetermined value.
4, The data analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the output means represents dependencies among the data elements as a tree figure.
5, Apparatus for data analysis, comprising:
analysis processing means for specifying pairs of keywords based on frequencies that keywords occur in a set of keywords of data stored in a database, and grouping the set of keywords into groups of keywords based on the specified pairs of keywords; and
output means for outputting results provided by the analysis processing means.
6, The apparatus for data analysis according to claim 5, wherein the analysis processing means calculates a number of data samples that include both keywords of the pair of keywords, and groups both keywords into the same group if the calculated number of data samples that include both keywords meets a predetermined threshold.
7, The data analysis apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the analysis processing means defines the group to which one of the two keywords belongs, based on the group to which the other of the two keywords belongs, when the predetermined threshold is not met.
8, The data analysis apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the output means displays results provided by the analysis processing means in the form of a figure.
9, A display terminal comprising:
an interface for requesting analysis of data;
accepting means for accepting analysis results giving a relation based on a number of occurrences of two data elements of a plurality of data elements; and
output means for displaying the relation as a figure, based on the analysis results.
10, The display terminal according to claim 9, wherein the output means displays subordinate relations of the data as a tree figure.
11, The display terminal according to claim 9, wherein the output means represents each data element in the form of a figure having a size based on the number of occurrences of the data element, and wherein the distance between two figures is based on the relation of two represented data elements.
12, A data analysis method, comprising the steps of:
calculating dependence ratios of a plurality of data elements to be analyzed;
grouping the data elements according to the dependence ratios; and
outputting the grouped data elements.
13, The data analysis method according to claim 12, wherein the step of grouping includes the step of grouping a first data element and a second data element in the same group, if a ratio of the number of simultaneous occurrences of the first data element and the second data element to the number of occurrences of the first data element is greater than a predetermined value.
14, The data analysis method according to claim 13, wherein the step of grouping includes the step of specifying a subordinate relation between the first data element and the second data element, based on the ratio of the number of simultaneous occurrences to the number of occurrences of the first data element.