Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1995-06-01
1997-11-11
Harvey, Jack B.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
361695, H05K 720
Patent
active
056870795
ABSTRACT:
A computer has an AC power outlet, preferably a standard AC outlet, into which periperhal devices, such as video monitors, can be plugged. It can turn this outlet on and off under program control, preferably by writing an outlet control signal to an I/O port which controls the outlet. A activity monitor, preferably in software, generates outlet control signals when one or more of the computer's peripheral devices have been inactive for more than a predetermined time. In some embodiments, the activity monitor turn off different parts of the computer in response to different types of inactivity. Preferably the computer can turn off the AC outlet without turning off the computer as a whole, and preferably it turns off the AC power outlet when the computer is turned off. Normally the AC outlet and its switching circuitry are part of the computer's power supply. The invention also includes a computer which has one or more electrically powered fans and an I/O port to which its can write to produce different fan speed control signals. A control device varies the fan's speed in response to the different control signals generated by the port. In one embodiment, the computer stores a value in non-volatile memory, such as in a register on its CPU, indicating which fans speed control signal should be generated when the computer is turned on. Preferably the fan-speed-control device also includes a device for measuring air temperature and for controlling fan speed as a function of that temperature, as well as of the fan speed control signal. In some embodiments two fans are so controlled, with the fans being operated at different speeds to prevent audible beating between them.
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-A Declaration of Robert M. Bauer Pursuant To 37 Cfr 1.56 And 1.97, dated Jul. 24, 1995 describing certain technology related to the present invention.
Bauer Robert M.
Webber Thomas P.
Harvey Jack B.
Pancholi Jigar
Porter Edward W.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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