All The Claims

1. A braided hose reinforcement comprising:
a plurality of strips, each strip having a boundary wherein each boundary encloses a distinct matrix of polymer material in its entirety and elongated metal elements embedded in each respective matrix of polymer material;
wherein the strips comprise left and right turning strips;
wherein the left turning strips run above and under the right turning strips, and the right turning strips run above and under the left turning strips.
2. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein said left and right turning strips have a width ranging from 3 to 25 mm and a thickness ranging from 0.2 to 5 mm.
3. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein said elongated metal elements are steel wires, steel bundles or steel cords.
4. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 3, wherein said steel wires are round or flat steel wires.
5. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 3, wherein said elongated metal elements are steel wires with a tensile strength higher than 2150 Nmm2.
6. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein each respective matrix of polymer material comprises a number of elongated metal elements ranging between 2 and 10.
7. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein said polymer material is an elastomeric or thermoplastic material.
8. A hose, pipe or tube, comprising:
a braided reinforcement comprising:
a plurality of strips. each strip having a boundary wherein each boundary encloses a distinct matrix of polymer material in its entirety and elongated metal elements embedded in each respective matrix of polymer material;
wherein the strips comprise left and right turning strips;
wherein the left turning strips run above and under the right turning strips, and the right turning strips run above and under the left turning strips; wherein the hose, pipe or tube is configured to convey a high pressure fluid or gas.
9. A method of manufacturing a hose reinforcement, said method comprises the steps of
providing a number of strips, each of said strips comprising a number of elongated metal elements embedded in a matrix of a polymer material;
braiding said strips to form the reinforcement of claim 1.
10. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein the elongated metal elements are embedded in the matrix of polymer material such that the matrix of polymer material surrounds the elongated metal elements.
11. A hose, pipe or tube according to claim 8, further comprising an inner tube;
wherein the reinforcement is disposed on the exterior of the inner tube.
12. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of elongated metal elements are arranged within each distinct matrix so that the elongated metal elements lie in the same plane.
13. A reinforcement comprising:
a braided hose, wherein the braided hose includes:
a plurality of strips, each strip having a boundary wherein each boundary encloses a distinct matrix of polymer material in its entirety and a plurality of elongated metal elements embedded in each respective matrix of polymer material;
wherein the strips comprise left and right turning strips;

wherein the left turning strips run above and under the right turning strips, and the right turning strips run above and under the left turning strips.
14. A reinforcement according to claim 13, wherein the elongated metal elements at outer sides of the strips have a lower tensile strength than an elongated metal element in a central part of the strips.
15. A braided hose reinforcement according to claim 1, wherein the elongated metal elements at outer sides of the strips have a lower tensile strength than an elongated metal element in a central part of the strips.
16. A hose, pipe or tube according to claim 8, wherein the elongated metal elements at outer sides of the strips have a lower tensile strength than an elongated metal element in a central part of the strips.

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 computerized data storage system comprising:
a. A top tier storage apparatus; and
b. A second tier storage apparatus, connected to the top tier storage apparatus, the second tier storage apparatus comprising one or more hard disk drives operable to store data organized into one or more second tier logical volumes, wherein the top tier storage apparatus is operable to: map the one or more second tier logical volumes to one or more top tier logical volumes; create a map of a correspondence of the top tier logical volumes to the second tier logical volumes and power boundary information from the second tier storage apparatus; provide the top tier logical volumes to a host computer such that the second tier storage apparatus is transparent to the host computer and manage the second tier storage apparatus by instructing the second tier storage apparatus to spin-up or spin down one or more of the hard disk drives of the second tier storage apparatus corresponding to one or more logical data volumes.
2. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, further comprising a management computer operatively coupled to the top tier storage apparatus and the second tier storage apparatus and operable to monitor spin-down status of the top tier logical data volumes and second tier logical data volumes and to display the spin-down status to a user.
3. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, wherein the power boundary information comprises at least one logical volume and at least one hard disk drive corresponding to the logical volume.
4. The computerized data storage system of claim 3, wherein the power boundary information further comprises a spin-up command or spin-down command corresponding to the at least one logical volume, the spin-up command or spin-down command operable to spin-up or spin-down hard disk drives corresponding to the at least one logical volume.
5. The computerized data storage system of claim 3, wherein the power boundary information further comprises a suspend command or a resume command operable to suspend or resume operation of the second tier storage apparatus corresponding to the at least one logical volume.
6. The computerized data storage system of claim 5, wherein the operation of the corresponding second tier storage apparatus is suspended or resumed by deactivating or activating a corresponding automatic power switch in response to the suspend command or the resume command.
7. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, wherein the top tier storage apparatus comprises a central processing unit operable to execute a power boundary management information for gathering power boundary information from the second tier storage apparatus.
8. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, wherein the top tier storage apparatus comprises a central processing unit operable to execute a power management program operable to:
i. receive a spin-up or spin-down request and a target logical volume number;
ii. check the corresponding power boundary information;
iii. check whether the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus;
iv. if the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus issue a spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus based on the power boundary information; and
v. if the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus issue a suspend or resume request to the second tier storage apparatus based on the power boundary information.
9. The computerized data storage system of claim 8, wherein the spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus comprises an HDD spin-up or spin-down request for each HDD in the target logical volume.
10. The computerized data storage system of claim 8, wherein the spin-up or spin-down request is received from the host computer.
11. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, wherein the second tier storage apparatus comprises a central processing unit operable to execute a status reporting program operable to report spin-up or spin-down status of hard disk drives in the second tier storage apparatus.
12. The computerized data storage system of claim 1, wherein the top tier storage apparatus further comprises one or more hard disk drives operable to store data organized into one or more top tier logical volumes provided by the top tier storage apparatus.
13. A computerized data storage system comprising:
a. A second tier storage apparatus, the second tier storage apparatus comprising one or more hard disk drives operable to store data organized into one or more second tier logical volumes; and
b. A top tier storage apparatus coupled to the second tier storage apparatus and a host computer, the top tier storage apparatus operable to: map the one or more second tier logical volumes to one or more top tier logical volumes; store spin-down and spin-up status of the one or more second tier logical data volumes; receive a spin-up or spin-down request; and forward the received spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus and wherein the second tier storage apparatus is operable to check if all volumes in a parity group have \u201cspin-down\u201d status, in the case the all volumes in the parity group have the \u201cspin-down\u201d status, the second tier storage apparatus is operable to spin-down all HDDs in the parity group.
14. The computerized data storage system of claim 13, further comprising a second tier storage apparatus, wherein the second tier storage apparatuses each comprises a central processing unit operable to execute a status reporting program operable to report spin-up or spin-down status of hard disk drives in the second tier storage apparatuses to a spin-down monitoring program executed by the top tier storage apparatus, and wherein the spin-down monitoring program is operable to determine that a migration of a logical volume from a second tier storage apparatus to the second second tier storage apparatus would result in a power saving and cause the logical volume to be migrated.
15. The computerized data storage system of claim 13, further comprising a management computer operatively coupled to the top tier storage apparatus and the second tier storage apparatus and operable to monitor spin-down status of the top tier logical data volumes and second tier logical data volumes and to display the spin-down status to a user.
16. The computerized data storage system of claim 13, wherein the top tier storage apparatus is operable to suspend or resume operation of the second tier storage apparatus by deactivating or activating an automatic power switch.
17. A method performed in a computerized data storage system comprising a top tier storage apparatus and a second tier storage apparatus, connected to the top tier storage apparatus, the second tier storage apparatus comprising one or more hard disk drives operable to store data organized into one or more second tier logical data volumes, the method comprising:
a. mapping the one or more second tier logical volumes to one or more top tier logical volumes
b. creating a map of a correspondence of the top tier logical volumes to the second tier logical volumes and power boundary information from the second tier storage apparatus;
c. providing top tier logical volumes to a host computer such that the second tier storage apparatus is transparent to the host computer; and
d. managing the second tier storage apparatus by instructing the second tier storage apparatus to spin-up or spin down one or more of the hard disk drives of the second tier storage apparatus corresponding to one or more logical data volumes.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the power boundary information comprises at least one logical volume and at least one hard disk drive corresponding to the logical volume.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the power boundary information further comprises a spin-up command or spin-down command corresponding to the at least one logical volume, the spin-up command or spin-down command operable to spin-up or spin-down hard disk drives corresponding to the at least one logical volume.
20. The method of claim 18, wherein the power boundary information further comprises a suspend command or a resume command operable to suspend or resume operation of the second tier storage apparatus corresponding to the at least one logical volume.
21. The method of claim 17, further comprising:
i. receiving a spin-up or spin-down request and a target logical volume number;
ii. checking the corresponding power boundary information;
iii. checking whether the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus;
iv. if the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus issuing a spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus based on the power boundary information; and
v. if the target logical volume is provided by a second tier storage apparatus issuing a suspend or resume request to the second tier storage apparatus based on the power boundary information.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein the spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus comprises an HDD spin-up or spin-down request for each HDD in the target logical volume.
23. The method of claim 21, wherein the spin-up or spin-down request is received from the host computer.
24. The method of claim 17, further comprising executing a status reporting program to report spin-up or spin-down status of hard disk drives in the second tier storage apparatus.
25. A method performed in a computerized data storage system comprising a second tier storage apparatus comprising one or more hard disk drives operable to store data organized into one or more second tier logical data volumes and a top tier storage apparatus coupled to a host computer and the second tier storage apparatus, the top tier storage apparatus operable to map the one or more second tier logical volumes to one or more top tier logical volumes, the method comprising:
a. storing, at the top tier storage apparatus, a spin-down and spin-up status of the one or more second tier logical data volumes;
b. receiving, at the top tier storage apparatus, a spin-up or spin-down request from the host computer;
c. forwarding the received spin-up or spin-down request to the second tier storage apparatus; and
d. checking, at the second tier storage apparatus, if all volumes in a parity group have \u201cspin-down\u201d status and in the case the all volumes in the parity group have the \u201cspin-down\u201d status, spinning-down all HDDs in the parity group.

1. A built-in flash pop-out mechanism of a camera, comprising:
a shaft member linearly movable along a first axis;
an arm member where one end is pivotally fixed at a tip end of the shaft member about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis;
a flash support member that is pivotally fixed at the other end of the arm member about a third axis that is parallel to the second axis;
a first biasing member biasing the shaft member along the first axis;
a second biasing member biasing the arm member about the second axis against the shaft member;
a third biasing member biasing the flash support member about the third axis against the arm member; and
the built-in flash being extended from a camera body with coplanar motions that pop out the built-in flash to increase its distance from an optical axis of a lens, the motions comprising a translation of the shaft member along the first axis by the first biasing member, a rotation of the arm member about the second axis by the second biasing member and a rotation of the flash support member about the third axis by the third biasing member.
2. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the flash support member is translated along the first axis to increase its distance from the optical axis and rotated to further distance the flash support member from the optical axis.
3. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the third axis is positioned closer to the interior of the camera body than the second axis with respect to the first axis when the built-in flash is in a popped out position.
4. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the biasing forces of the first, second and third biasing members are selected so that the flash support member and the arm member are rotated about the third and second axes before the shaft member is moved toward the inside of the camera body along the first axis, when the flash support member is depressed in a direction along the first axis toward the camera body from a popped out position.
5. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the flash support member is moved in a plane parallel to an imaging surface of an imaging device.
6. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the arm member is disposed behind the flash support member.
7. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the arm member can be retracted inside a flash cover.
8. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the shaft member is disposed proximate to an edge of the camera body.
9. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the directions of the rotational biasing forces about the second and third axes are opposite to each other.
10. The built-in flash pop-out mechanism as in claim 1, wherein a lateral axis of a flash body provided on the flash support member is parallel to a horizontal edge of an imaging device.
11. A camera comprising:
a pop-out mechanism for extending a built-in flash; the pop-out mechanism comprising:
a shaft member linearly movable along a first axis;
an arm member where one end is pivotally fixed at a tip end of the shaft member about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis;
a flash support member that is pivotally fixed at the other end of the arm member about a third axis that is parallel to the second axis;
a first biasing member biasing the shaft member along the first axis;
a second biasing member biasing the arm member about the second axis against the shaft member;
a third biasing member biasing the flash support member about the third axis against the arm member; and
the built-in flash being extended from a camera body with coplanar motions that pop out the built-in flash to increase its distance from an optical axis of a lens, the motions comprising a translation of the shaft member along the first axis by the first biasing member, a rotation of the arm member about the second axis by the second biasing member and a rotation of the flash support member about the third axis by the third biasing member.
12. A camera comprising:
a built-in flash mechanism comprising:
a shaft member linearly movable along a first axis;
an arm member where one end is pivotally fixed at a tip end of the shaft member about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis;
a flash support member that is pivotally fixed at the other end of the arm member about a third axis that is parallel to the second axis; and
the built-in flash being movable between a retracted position and a popped out position, the shaft member, the arm member, the flash support member and each of the axes being moved coplanarly when they in the process of being retracted or popped out.

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 for High Power User Equipment (HPUE) power class adaptation for coverage extension in Long Term Evolution (LTE), the method comprising:
setting, by the HPUE, a variable maximum transmit power to an artificially low predefined level that is below a maximum capability of the HPUE;
transmitting, by the HPUE, at an operating transmit power at or below the variable maximum transmit power as a function of wireless conditions detected by the HPUE, and reporting, by the HPUE to a serving evolved node B (eNB), a first power headroom as a function of the variable maximum transmit power;
responsive to determining by the HPUE, as a function of wireless conditions detected by the HPUE, that an increase in HPUE wireless transmit range is required, raising, by the HPUE, the variable maximum transmit power towards or to the maximum capability of the HPUE;
transmitting, by the HPUE, at an operating transmit power at or below the raised variable maximum transmit power as a function of the detected wireless conditions and reporting, by the HPUE to the serving eNB, a second power headroom as a function of the raised variable maximum transmit power.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the wireless conditions comprises detecting a wireless block error rate, a wireless transmission power headroom report, a wireless modulation and coding scheme allocation, and a wireless resource block allocation.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining that an increase in wireless transmit range is required is based on a minimal wireless modulation and coding scheme, minimal wireless resource block allocation, and a wireless block error rate operating point.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the maximum capability of the HPUE is 31 dBm corresponding to power class 1; and
wherein the artificially low predefined level is 23 dBm.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
performing the raising the variable maximum transmit power in incremental steps.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
lowering the variable maximum transmit power in incremental steps to the artificially low predefined level responsive to determining that the increase in HPUE wireless transmit range is no longer required.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein raising the variable maximum transmit power comprises raising the variable maximum transmit power to the maximum capability of the HPUE.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining wireless conditions by the HPUE based in part on scheduling data received from the eNB; and
raising the variable maximum transmit power without assistance from the eNB, thereby operating within existing 3rd Generation Partnership Project LTE systems.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
further limiting the variable maximum transmit power based on power class capabilities of other UEs within a proximity of the HPUE.
10. A High Power User Equipment (HPUE) using power class adaptation for coverage extension in Long Term Evolution (LTE), the HPUE comprising:
a radio configured to operate in a plurality of power classes;
a processor communicatively coupled to the radio; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
set a variable maximum transmit power of the radio to an artificially low predefined level that is below a maximum capability of the radio;
transmitting, via the radio, at an operating transmit power at or below the variable maximum transmit power as a function of wireless conditions detected by the HPUE, and reporting, by the HPUE to a serving evolved node B (eNB), a first power headroom as a function of the variable maximum transmit power;
responsive to determining, as a function of wireless conditions detected via the radio, that an increase in wireless transmit range of the radio is required, raise the variable maximum transmit power towards or to the maximum capability of the radio; and
transmit, via the radio, at an operating transmit power at or below the raised variable maximum transmit power as a function of detected wireless conditions and reporting, to the serving eNB, a second power headroom as a function of the raised maximum transmit power.
11. The HPUE of claim 10, wherein the wireless conditions comprise detecting a wireless block error rate, a wireless transmission power headroom report, a wireless modulation and coding scheme allocation, and a wireless resource block allocation.
12. The HPUE of claim 10, wherein the determining that an increase in wireless transmit range is required is based on a minimal wireless modulation and coding scheme, minimal wireless resource block allocation, and a wireless block error rate operating point.
13. The HPUE of claim 10, wherein the maximum capability of the radio is 31 dBm corresponding to power class 1; and
wherein the artificially low predefined level is 23 dBm.
14. The HPUE of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
perform the raising the variable maximum transmit power in incremental steps.
15. The HPUE of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
lower the variable maximum transmit power in the incremental steps to the artificially low predefined level responsive to determining radio transmit range extension is not needed.
16. The HPUE of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
determine wireless conditions via the radio based in part on scheduling data received from the eNB; and
raise the variable maximum transmit power of the radio without assistance from the eNB, thereby operating within existing 3rd Generation Partnership Project LTE systems.
17. A Long Term Evolution (LTE) system for High Power User Equipment (HPUE) using power class adaptation for coverage extension, the system comprising:
an Evolved Node B (eNB); and
an HPUE communicatively coupled to the eNB;
wherein the HPUE is configured to:
set a variable maximum transmit power to an artificially low predefined level that is below a maximum capability of the HPUE;
transmit, at an operating transmit power at or below the variable maximum transmit power as a function of wireless conditions detected by the HPUE, and report, by the HPUE to the eNB, a first power headroom as a function of the variable maximum transmit power;
responsive to determining, as a function of wireless conditions detected by the HPUE and with signaling information from the eNB, that an increase in wireless transmit range of the HPUE is required, raise the variable maximum transmit power towards or to the maximum capability of the HPUE; and
transmit at an operating transmit power at or below the raised variable maximum transmit power as a function of detected wireless conditions and report, to the serving eNB, a second power headroom as a function of the raised maximum transmit power.