Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. A holder for storing a wet article comprising:
a leak resistant exterior portion for preventing spillage;
a liquid absorbent interior portion with a central cavity for receiving the wet article and absorbing excess liquid from the wet article; and
a connector portion for connecting a top portion of the leak resistant exterior portion with a top portion of the liquid absorbent interior portion.
2. The article holder of claim 1, further comprising access means connected to a bottom portion of the liquid absorbent interior portion.
3. The article holder of claim 2, wherein the access means comprises a pull-tab connected to the bottom section of the liquid absorbent portion.
4. The article holder of claim 1, further comprising at least one adjustment strap for adjusting access to the central cavity.
5. The article holder of claim 1, wherein the liquid resistant exterior portion comprises plastic material.
6. The article holder of claim 1, wherein the liquid absorbent interior portion comprises terrycloth.
7. A wet umbrella holder comprising:
a water resistant pouch shaped hollow exterior portion;
a water absorbent pouch shaped hollow interior portion;
a connector portion for connecting a top portion of the exterior portion with a top portion of the interior portion, for defining a space between the exterior portion and the interior portion and for defining a central cavity within the interior portion;
wherein the connection portion connects the exterior portion with the interior portion; and
wherein the connector portion includes manipulation means.
8. The wet holder of claim 7, wherein the interior portion can be extended from the exterior portion.
9. The wet holder of claim 8, wherein the interior portion includes a pull-tab on a bottom section.

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 conduit for a condensate removal pump comprising:
a tubular member having a rim at a distal end thereof, wherein the rim is profiled such that only a portion of the rim lies in a plane which is located at the extreme distal end of the tubular member and which is perpendicular to the axis of the tubular member, and
a resilient membrane which extends across the interior of the tubular member, the membrane having at least one slit which is arranged to open to allow water to pass through the membrane when water is drawn through the conduit by a condensate removal pump.
2. A conduit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the rim has a castellated configuration.
3. A conduit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the membrane comprises a single slit.
4. A conduit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the membrane is located proximate the distal end of the tubular member.
5. A conduit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the membrane is supported by a support member and wherein the membrane is moveable with respect to the tubular member, the conduit further comprising a resilient member for controlling movement of the membrane.
6. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly comprising:
a tube having a proximal end which is arranged to be connected to the inlet of a condensate removal pump and a distal end which is arranged so that water may be drawn through the tube,
a self heating thermistor coupled to the tube, and
a relay means which is arranged to relay an operational parameter of the self heating thermistor indicative of the presence of water to the condensate removal pump,
wherein the combined sensor and suction tube assembly is sized to fit within a pipe having an inner diameter of no more than 20 mm.
7. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 which is sized to fit within a pipe having an inner diameter of no more than 17 mm.
8. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 which is sized to fit within a pipe having an inner diameter of no more than 14 mm.
9. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein the self heating thermistor is located proximate the distal end of the tube.
10. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a second self heating thermistor which is located between the self heating thermistor and the proximal end of the tube.
11. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a housing surrounding at least a portion of the tube and the self heating thermistor.
12. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein the proximal end of tube is arranged to be connected to the condensate removal pump by a hose.
13. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 wherein the distal end of the tube has a rim which is profiled in the axial direction of the tube such that only a portion of the rim lies in a plane which is perpendicular to the axis of the tube and which is located at the extreme distal end of the tube.
14. A combined sensor and suction tube assembly as claimed in claim 6 further comprising a resilient membrane which extends across the interior of the tube, the membrane having at least one slit which is arranged to open to allow water to pass through the membrane when water is drawn through the tube by a condensate removal pump.
15. (canceled)

1. A self-authenticating, quantum random bit generator comprising:
a transmission layer including,
an electromagnetic radiation source coupled to a waveguide branching into a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a third waveguide, the electromagnetic radiation source configured to generate pulses of electromagnetic radiation in a first polarization state;
two or more polarization rotators positioned and configured to rotate pulses transmitted in the second waveguide into a second polarization state and rotate pulses transmitted in the third waveguide into a third polarization state; and

a system control configured to generate a sequence of bits based on polarization basis states of the pulses transmitted in the first waveguide, and tomographically authenticate randomness of the sequence of bits based on polarization basis states of the pulses transmitted in the second and third waveguides.
2. The generator of claim 1 further comprises an attenuator operably coupled to the first waveguide and configured to reduce the energy of the pulses transmitted in the first waveguide to at most a single photon.
3. The generator of claim 1 further comprises a first polarizing beamsplitter coupled to the first waveguide, a second polarizing beamsplitter coupled to the second waveguide, and a third polarizing beamspitter coupled to the third waveguide.
4. The generator of claim 3 wherein the first, second, and third polarizing beamsplitters split each pulse into two polarization basis states.
5. The generator of claim 1 wherein the electromagnetic radiation source further comprises one of:
a diode laser; and
a light-emitting diode coupled to a waveguide polarizer and a polarization rotator.
6. The generator of claim 1 wherein each polarization rotator further comprise one of:
two or more polarization rotators;
a half-wave plate; and
a quarter-wave plate.
7. The generator of claim 1 wherein the system control further comprises:
a pair of avalanche photodiodes configured to detect photons transmitted in the first waveguide;
a first pair of p-i-n photodetectors configured to detect pulses transmitted in the second waveguide; and
a second pair of p-i-n photodetectors configured to detect pulses transmitted in the third waveguide.
8. The generator of claim 1 wherein the system control further comprises detectors configured to detect polarization basis states of the pulses transmitting in the first, second, and third waveguides.
9. The generator of claim 1 wherein the waveguides further comprise one of
ridge waveguides;
waveguides in a photonic crystal; and
optical fibers.
10. The generator of claim 1 wherein the transmission layer further comprises one of:
silicon oxynitride; and
an optical polymer.
11. An optoelectronic chip including the self-authenticating quantum random bit generator of claim 1 embedded within a layer of the optoelectronic chip.
12. A method for generating a sequence of random bits, the method comprising:
generating a sequence of electromagnetic radiation pulses, each pulse in a first polarization state;
splitting each pulse into a first pulse, a second pulse, and a third pulse, all three pulses in the same first polarization state;
rotating each second pulse into a second polarization state and each third pulse into a third polarization state using polarization rotators;
generating a sequence of bits based on detecting one of two polarization basis states of the first pulse; and
based on the polarization states of the second and third pulses, performing tomographic analysis in order to authenticate the randomness of the sequence of bits.
13. The method of claim 12 further comprising attenuating the first pulse intensity into a single photon.
14. The method of claim 12 further comprising splitting the first pulse into two polarization basis states, the second pulse into two polarization basis states, and the third pulse into two polarization basis states.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein splitting the pulses into two polarization basis states further comprises transmitting each pulse through a polarizing beamsplitter.
16. The method of claim 12 wherein rotating each second pulse into a second polarization state and each third pulse into a third polarization state further comprises transmitting each second pulse through one or more polarizing beamsplitters and transmitting each third pulse through one or more polarizing beamsplitters.
17. The method of claim 12 wherein generating a sequence of bits further comprises assigning a bit \u201c1\u201d to detecting one of the two polarization basis states of the first pulse and assigning a bit \u201c0\u201d to detecting the other of the two polarization basis states of the first pulse.
18. The method of claim 12 wherein performing tomographic analysis further comprises constructing the minimum entropy:
H
Min

\u2061

(
\u03c1
^

S

)
\u2261

–
log
2

(
max

x
\u2208
\u03c1
^

S
\u2062

Pr
\u2061

(
x
)
)
where
{circumflex over (\u03c1)}S is the density matrix for an ensemble of states |104 i=ci|H+di|V as a function of Stokes parameters;
Pr (x) is the probability of a event x; and
max

x
\u2208
X
\u2062

Pr
\u2061

(
x
)
means the maximum probability Pr (x) over every event x in X.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein the density matrix further comprises:
\u03c1
^

S

=
1
2

\u2062
\u2211

i
=
0

3

\u2062
S
i
S
0
\u2062

\u03c3
i
=
1
2

\u2061
1
+

S
3
S
1

–

iS
2
S
1

+

iS
2
1
–

S
3
where
(S0, S1, S2, S3) are Stokes parameters;
the Stokes parameter S0 is normalized to \u201c1\u201d; and
\u03c31, \u03c32, and \u03c33 are the Pauli matrices.
20. The method of claim 18 wherein performing tomographic analysis further comprises constructing a Toeplitz matrix Tm\xd7n based on the minimum entropy Hmin({circumflex over (\u03c1)}S), where m is the number of random bits, n is the number of raw bits, and m<n.

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 electronic control system for a vehicle comprising:
a sensor that provides information relating to a steering angle of a vehicle wheel;
wherein the electronic control system uses the information provided by the sensor to determine that the measured speed that the steering angle is changing exceeds a threshold speed.