All The Claims

1. A mirror, comprising:
a thin metal body having a curved specular surface;
a polymer layer on the specular surface;
a reflective metal layer on the polymer layer; and
a thin glass layer on the metal layer.
2. The mirror of claim 1, wherein the thin metal body is formed from an aluminum alloy.
3. The mirror of claim 1, wherein the thin metal body is formed from a sheet of an aluminum alloy or other metals such as magnesium, titanium or stainless steel.
4. The mirror of claim 1, wherein the curved specular surface is a concave surface.
5. The mirror of claim 4, wherein the concave surface is a substantially parabolic surface.
6. The mirror of claim 4, wherein the curved specular surface is a convex surface.
7. The mirror of claim 6, wherein the convex surface is a generally hyperbolic surface.
8. A mirror, comprising:
a metal body formed to be convex on one side and concave on an opposing side, the body having a specular surface on at least one side;
a polymer layer on the specular surface;
a reflective metal layer on the polymer layer; and
a thin glass layer on the metal layer.
9. The mirror of claim 8, wherein the body is formed from sheet aluminum alloy or other suitable metals such as magnesium, titanium or stainless steel.
10. The mirror of claim 9, wherein the sheet aluminum alloy comprises an age-hardenable aluminum alloy.
11. The mirror of claim 8, wherein the specular surface is disposed on the concave side of the body.
12. The mirror of claim 11, wherein the specular surface is a parabolic surface.
13. The mirror of claim 8, wherein the specular surface is disposed on the convex side of the body.
14. The mirror of claim 13, wherein the specular surface is a hyperbolic surface.
15. The mirror of claim 14, wherein the hyperbolic surface is configured to reflect and focus energy received by the hyperbolic surface onto an annular focus area.
16. A method of forming a mirror having a convex specular surface configured to focus light energy onto an annular area, comprising:
providing a hyperbolic curve formed symmetrically about an axis and having a concave side, a convex side, an imaginary focus point on the concave side and a real focus point on the convex side;
tilting the axis and the hyperbolic curve about the imaginary focus point, so that, when tilted, the axis is angularly displaced from its original position by an acute angle and the hyperbolic curve is tilted from its original position;
rotating the portion of the tilted hyperbolic curve that extends from the original axis to the tilted axis and beyond the tilted axis, about the original axis, so that the rotated portion of the tilted hyperbolic curve forms a surface of revolution about the original axis; and
providing the convex specular surface of the mirror with the shape of the surface of revolution so that the specular surface will have an annular focus.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein providing the convex specular surface comprises applying a polymer to the convex specular surface.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein providing the convex specular surface comprises depositing a metal reflective layer on the convex specular surface.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein providing the convex specular surface comprises depositing a glass protective layer on the convex specular surface.
20. A method of forming a concave mirror, comprising:
elevating a temperature of a sheet material to a predetermined temperature;
providing a die having a predetermined concave shape;
positioning the sheet material on the die; and
applying a gas at an elevated pressure to a side of the sheet opposite the concave shape to impress the sheet material into conformity with the predetermined concave shape.

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 battery overheating protection device used in an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a main unit configured to implement basic functions of the electronic device and a battery unit configured to supply power to the main unit, the battery overheating protection device comprising:
a temperature monitoring unit configured to store a predetermined temperature value, measure a temperature value of the battery unit, and output a signal when the detected temperature value is greater than the predetermined temperature value, the temperature monitoring unit comprising at least one thermistor thermally connected to the battery unit;
a switch unit connected between the main unit and the battery unit; and
a processing unit configured to receive the signal and open the switch unit when receiving the signal, thereby the battery unit is disconnected from the main unit.
2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one thermistor is a negative temperature coefficient thermistor.
3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one thermistor comprises a plurality of thermistor cells connected in parallel, a thermal-sensitive resin and a housing, and the plurality of thermistor cells are packed by the thermal-sensitive resin, and the housing houses the thermal-sensitive resin.
4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein each thermistor cell comprises a thermistor body, two electrodes, and a base; the thermistor body is positioned on the base; and the two electrodes are attached to two sides of the thermistor body correspondingly.
5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the base is made from glass-ceramic material.
6. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the housing is made from organic polymer plastic.
7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch unit comprises a transistor.
8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one thermistor is thermally attached to a surface of the battery unit by a thermal adhesive.
9. An electronic device, comprising:
a main unit configured to implement basic functions of the electronic device;
a battery unit configured to supply power to the main unit; and
a battery overheating protection device, comprising:
a temperature monitoring unit configured to store a predetermined temperature value, measure a temperature value of the battery unit and output a signal when the detected temperature value is greater than the predetermined temperature value, the temperature monitoring unit comprising at least one thermistor thermally connected to the battery unit;
a switch unit connected between the main unit and the battery unit; and
a processing unit configured to receive the signal and open the switch unit when receiving the signal, thereby the battery unit is disconnected from the main unit.
10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the at least one thermistor is a negative temperature coefficient thermistor.
11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the at least one thermistor comprises a plurality of thermistor cells connected in parallel, a thermal-sensitive resin and a housing, and the plurality of thermistor cells are packed by the thermal-sensitive resin, and the housing houses the thermal-sensitive resin.
12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the thermistor cell comprises a thermistor body, two electrodes, and a base; the thermistor body is positioned on the base; and the two electrodes are attached to two respective sides of the thermistor body.
13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the battery unit comprises a plurality of batteries, the temperature monitoring unit comprises a plurality of thermistors, and each thermistor is thermally attached to a surface of each battery by a thermal adhesive.
14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the electronic device is a cellular phone.
15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the electronic device is a portable gaming device.

1. A transceiver system comprising:
a word aligner;
wherein the transceiver system has a word aligner latency uncertainty of zero.
2. The transceiver system of claim 1 further comprising:
a bit slipper coupled to the word aligner.
3. The transceiver system of claim 2, wherein the bit slipper slips bits in such a way so that total delay due to word alignment by the word aligner and bit slipping by the bit slipper is constant for all phases of a recovered clock.
4. The transceiver system of claim 3, wherein the bit slipper slips bits to compensate for bit shifting that was performed by the word aligner such that total delay due to bit shifting by the word aligner and bit slipping by the bit slipper is zero for all phases of a recovered clock.
5. The transceiver system of claim 2, wherein the transceiver system has a receiver to transmitter transfer latency uncertainty of zero.
6. The transceiver system of claim 2 further comprising:
a transmitter phase locked loop (PLL) including a first feedback path and a second feedback path.
7. The transceiver system of claim 6, wherein the transmitter PLL includes a multiplexer coupled to a phase frequency detector, wherein the multiplexer selects between a first clock signal from a first divider and a second clock signal from a second divider to provide to the phase frequency detector.
8. The transceiver system of claim 7, wherein the first feedback path includes the first divider and the second feedback path includes the second divider, further wherein the first divider is a transmitter divider.
9. The transceiver system of claim 8, wherein the phase frequency detector receives a reference clock signal that is a delayed version of a recovered clock signal.
10. The transceiver system of claim 2 further comprising:
a user logic coupled to the word aligner and the bit slipper.
11. The transceiver system of claim 10 further comprising:
a first IP block coupled to the word aligner and the user logic, wherein the first IP block converts words received from the word aligner to another format for processing by the user logic; and
a second IP block coupled to the user logic and the bit slipper, wherein the second IP block converts words output by the user logic to a format for processing by the bit slipper.
12. A programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 1.
13. A digital system comprising a programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 1.
14. A method of transceiving data, the method comprising:
aligning words to a desired word boundary;
wherein the transceiving has a word aligner latency uncertainty of zero.
15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:
slipping bits of the words, wherein total delay due to the aligning and the slipping is constant for all phases of a recovered clock.
16. The method of claim 14 further comprising:
slipping bits of the words to compensate for bit shifting by the aligning, wherein total delay due to the aligning and the slipping is zero for all phases of a recovered clock.
17. The method of claim 15 further comprising:
selecting between a first clock signal from a first divider in a first feedback path of a transmitter phase locked loop (PLL) and a second clock signal from a second divider in a second feedback path of the transmitter PLL to provide to a phase frequency detector of the transmitter PLL; and
providing to the phase frequency detector a reference clock signal that is a delayed version of a recovered clock signal.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:
using a decoding intellectual property (IP) block to convert words received from a word aligner to another format for processing by a user logic; and
using an encoding IP block to convert words output by the user logic to a format for processing by the bit slipper.
19. A transceiver system comprising:
a receiver including a deserializer that converts serial data to parallel data, wherein the receiver further provides a recovered clock signal;
a word aligner coupled to the receiver, wherein the word aligner aligns parallel words in the parallel data to a desired word boundary;
a user logic coupled to the word aligner;
a bit slipper coupled to the user logic and the word aligner, wherein the bit slipper receives information regarding word alignment from the word aligner, further wherein the bit slipper slips bits in such a way so that total delay due to word alignment by the word aligner and bit slipping by the bit slipper is constant for all phases of a recovered clock; and
a transmitter coupled to the bit slipper, wherein the transmitter comprises:
a serializer that converts the parallel data to serial data; and
a transmitter phase locked loop (PLL) including a first feedback path having a first divider, a second feedback path having a second divider, a phase frequency detector, and a multiplexer coupled to the first feedback path, the second feedback path, and the phase frequency detector, wherein the first divider is a transmitter divider, the phase frequency detector receives a reference clock signal that is a delayed version of the recovered clock signal, and the multiplexer selects between a first clock signal from the first divider and a second clock signal from the second divider to provide to the phase frequency detector;

wherein the transceiver system has a word aligner latency uncertainty of zero and a receiver to transmitter transfer latency uncertainty of zero.
20. The transceiver system of claim 19, wherein the bit slipper includes a first plurality of registers, a second plurality of registers coupled to the first plurality of registers, and a plurality of multiplexers coupled to the first and second plurality of registers, wherein each multiplexer of the plurality of multiplexers is coupled to one or more registers of the first plurality of registers, one or more registers of the second plurality of registers, or one or more registers of both the first and second plurality of registers.
21. The transceiver system of claim 19 further comprising:
a first IP block coupled to the word aligner and the user logic, wherein the first IP block converts words received from the word aligner to another format for processing by the user logic; and
a second IP block coupled to the user logic and the bit slipper, wherein the second IP block converts words output by the user logic to a format for processing by the bit slipper.
22. A programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 19.
23. A digital system comprising a programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 19.
24. A transceiver system comprising:
a transmitter comprising:
a phase locked loop (PLL) including a first divider and a phase frequency detector, wherein the first divider feeds a first parallel clock signal to the phase frequency detector and a register of the transmitter.
25. The transceiver system of claim 24, wherein the transceiver system has a receiver to transmitter transfer latency uncertainty of zero.
26. The transceiver system of claim 25, wherein the PLL includes a first feedback path, a second feedback path, and a multiplexer coupled to the first and second feedback paths and the phase frequency detector, wherein the multiplexer selects between the first parallel clock signal from the first divider and a second clock signal from a second divider to provide to the phase frequency detector.
27. The transceiver system of claim 26, wherein the first feedback path includes the first divider and the second feedback path includes the second divider, further wherein the first divider is a transmitter divider.
28. The transceiver system of claim 27, wherein the phase frequency detector receives a reference clock signal that is a delayed version of a recovered clock signal.
29. The transceiver system of claim 28 further comprising:
a bit slipper that receives information regarding word alignment from a word aligner.
30. The transceiver system of claim 29 further comprising:
an IP block coupled to the bit slipper, wherein the IP block converts words to a format for processing by the bit slipper.
31. A programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 24.
32. A digital system comprising a programmable logic device including the transceiver system of claim 24.
33. A method of transceiving data, the method comprising:
providing a first parallel clock signal from a first divider of a transmitter phase locked loop (PLL) to a phase frequency detector of the transmitter PLL and a register of a transmitter that includes the transmitter PLL.
34. The method of claim 33, wherein the transceiving has a receiver to transmitter transfer latency uncertainty of zero.
35. The method of claim 34 further comprising:
selecting between the first parallel clock signal from the first divider of the transmitter PLL and a second parallel clock signal from a second divider of the transmitter PLL to provide to the phase frequency detector of the transmitter PLL; and
providing the phase frequency detector a reference clock signal that is a delayed version of a recovered clock signal;
wherein the first divider is on a first feedback path of the transmitter PLL and the second divider is on a second feedback path of the transmitter PLL.
36. The method of claim 35 further comprising:
using an intellectual property (IP) block to convert words to a format for processing by a bit slipper.
37. The method of claim 35 further comprising:
aligning words to a desired word boundary;
wherein the method has a word aligner latency uncertainty of zero.
38. The method of claim 37 further comprising:
slipping bits of the words, wherein total delay due to the aligning and the slipping is constant for all phases of the recovered clock signal.

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 fluid storage and dispensing apparatus, comprising a fluid storage and dispensing vessel with an interior volume in which is disposed an array of articles of pyrolyzed polyvinylidene chloride carbon monolith adsorbent, wherein the articles of pyrolyzed polyvinylidene chloride carbon monolith adsorbent occupies from 75% to 95% of the interior volume, and the adsorbent has (i) a bulk density of from 0.80 to 2.0 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent, (ii) a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 400 g arsine per liter of adsorbent, and (iii) porosity, at least 80% of which is constituted by pores with diameter<2 nm, and at least 60% of which is constituted by pores having size in a range of from 0.3 to 0.72 nm.
2. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent has a bulk density of from 0.9 to 2.0 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
3. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent has a bulk density of from 1 to 1.3 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
4. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent has a bulk density of from 1.05 to 1.25 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
5. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent has a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 450 g arsine per liter of adsorbent.
6. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent has a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 500 g arsine per liter of adsorbent.
7. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least 70% of the porosity of the adsorbent is constituted by pores having size in a range of from 0.3 to 0.72 nm.
8. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the adsorbent is doped with a doping agent to suppress decomposition of sorbate fluid.
9. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the array of articles of pyrolyzed polyvinylidene chloride carbon monolith adsorbent comprises a vertically stacked array of disc-shaped articles of pyrolyzed polyvinylidene chloride carbon monolith adsorbent.
10. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 1, comprising a sorbate fluid sorptively retained on the adsorbent.
11. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sorbate fluid comprises a hydride fluid, halide fluid or organometallic compound fluid.
12. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sorbate fluid comprises one of arsine, phosphine, diborane, boron trifluoride, germane, hydrogen selenide and hydrogen telluride.
13. The fluid storage and dispensing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the sorbate fluid comprises an organometallic compound fluid of a metal selected from the group consisting of barium, strontium, gallium, indium, tungsten, antimony, silver, gold, palladium, gadolinium, and aluminum.
14. A pyrolyzed polyvinylidene chloride carbon monolith adsorbent having (i) a bulk density of from 0.80 to 2.0 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent, (ii) a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 400 g arsine per liter of adsorbent, and (iii) porosity, at least 80% of which is constituted by pores with diameter<2 nm, and at least 60% of which is constituted by pores having size in a range of from 0.3 to 0.72 nm.
15. The adsorbent of claim 14, having a bulk density of from 0.9 to 2.0 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
16. The adsorbent of claim 14, having a bulk density of from 1 to 1.3 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
17. The adsorbent of claim 14, having a bulk density of from 1.05 to 1.25 g per cubic centimeter of adsorbent.
18. The adsorbent of claim 14, having a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 450 g arsine per liter of adsorbent.
19. The adsorbent of claim 14, having a fill density measured for arsine gas at 25\xb0 C. and pressure of 650 torr that is greater than 500 g arsine per liter of adsorbent.
20. The adsorbent of claim 14, at least 70% of the porosity of which is constituted by pores having size in a range of from 0.3 to 0.72 nm.