48 results about "RAM drive" patented technology

A programmable logic block provides an improved output delay by bypassing the memory array and multiplexer structure when programmed to function as a random access memory (RAM) and a new value is written to the RAM. A programmable logic block includes memory cells, a multiplexer structure, a memory element, a bypass select multiplexer, and a control circuit. The memory cells implement a RAM driven by a write data input signal and a write enable signal. Each memory cell drives an input terminal of the multiplexer structure. Under the control of the write enable signal, a bypass select multiplexer selects either the write data input signal (in RAM mode) or the output terminal of the multiplexer structure (in another mode), and passes the selected signal to a memory element. Thus, when in RAM mode, write data is simultaneously written to a specified location in the RAM and to the memory element.

The apparatus disclosed herein, in various aspects, includes a digital asset, and an amulet that comprises an encrypted self-validating string. The amulet may be external to the digital asset. The apparatus may include a manager that cooperates securely with the digital asset and cooperates securely with the amulet to control access to the digital asset as specified by the amulet. In some aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through shared memory in process space. In other aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through a RAM drive in memory, the RAM drive at least partially hidden from an operating system of the computer. In yet other aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through a virtual machine accessible only by said apparatus. The amulet, the manager, and the digital asset are either operably receivable by a computer or are operably received by the computer, in various aspects. Related methods and compositions of matter are also disclosed.This Abstract is presented to meet requirements of 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b) only. This Abstract is not intended to identify key elements of the apparatus, methods, and compositions of matter disclosed herein or to delineate the scope of this disclosure.

A portable RAM drive comprising data stored on a non-volatile memory and transferable to a volatile memory when the portable RAM drive is coupled to a computer system. When the portable RAM drive is plugged into the computer system, the data from the non-volatile memory may be transferred to the volatile memory for faster access by the computer. If the portable RAM drive is unplugged from the computer, an internal power source may power the portable RAM drive long enough to transfer the data from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, the portable RAM drive may use a restraining device or an indicator light to indicate to the user that the portable RAM drive should not be unplugged from the computer because the data has not yet been transferred from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory.

A ram driving device for a press machine having: a ram; a horizontal drive axle (33) rotatably provided horizontally in a frame (3) of the press machine; a motion converting mechanism (35, 63, 83) associated with the horizontal drive axle, for converting a rotational motion of the horizontal drive axle into up-and-down motion of the ram (29); and a plurality of servomotors (43, 47) linked with the horizontal drive axle, for rotating the horizontal drive axle in synchronism with each other, to drive the ram up and down. The motion converting mechanism is a connecting rod (35); and a link mechanism (63) driven by a ball screw (61) and a nut member (77); and an eccentric ring cam (33) and a cam follower (91). Since the ram can be driven by a plurality of the servomotors synchronously, the device can generate a large press power of various moving stroke and various moving speed freely, without increasing the maintenance cost thereof.

A multiple punch and multiple die assembly has a workpiece protector comprising a punch lifter that is operatively associated with each punch for supporting each of the punches in an inactive position as an active punch is moved by the ram to the active, i.e. operating position to thereby eliminate scoring or marking of the sheet material or other workpiece that is being punched. To eliminate the need for hand tools and hand assembly or disassembly, a manually moveable retainer on the punch assembly is provided that can be moved by hand between a punch-releasing and punch-retaining position for holding the punches within the multi-punch assembly during operation. To prevent stress fractures that formerly occurred in die carriers, support of each die is distributed between two different die components thereby reducing impact stress on the carrier as the ram drives the punch through the workpiece.

In general, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses for securely storing computer system data. Embodiments of the invention encrypt and decrypt SATA data transparently to software layers. That makes it unnecessary to make any software modifications to the file system, device drivers, operating system, or application. Encryption key management is performed either remotely on a centralized Remote Management System or locally. Embodiments of the invention implement background disk backups using snapshots. Additional security features that are included in embodiments of the invention include virus scanning, a virtual / network drive, a RAM drive and a port selector that provides prioritized and / or background access to SATA mass storage to a secure subsystem.

The invention relates to a temperature-variable indexable micro-nano indention testing device and belongs to the field of precise instruments. The device comprises a workbench indexing base, a high-and-low-temperature working cavity and an indenter driving / feeding mechanism, the high-and-low-temperature working cavity is mounted on an L-shaped mounting plate of the workbench indexing base, and theindenter driving / feeding mechanism is mounted on an equipment base of the workbench indexing base. The workbench indexing base is mainly used for indexing a workbench and supporting the whole device,the high-and-low-temperature working cavity can provide an environment atmosphere with temperature continuously changing for the process of test piece measuring and can isolate outside interference,and the indenter driving / feeding mechanism is mainly used for feeding an indenter in the vertical direction and acquiring measurement data through a pressure sensor and a displacement sensor. the device has the advantages that the device is accurate in measurement result, wide in measurement range and compact in structure, and the technical field of mechanical performance testing of materials anddevelopment of equipment for mechanical performance testing of the materials are promoted greatly.

A system and method for executing software modules on a computer, the method comprising: executing (S4) a bootloader (15, 16), at least partly (16) in the computer (101); and upon execution of the bootloader: accessing (S5) requirements as to an initial set (IS) of software modules (SMn); and hardware specifications of the computer; determining (S6) within said initial set, one or more candidate sets (CS1, CS2) of software modules that are compatible (S6a) with said hardware specifications and can (S6b) be stored as a RAM disk; and storing (S9) the software modules of a final set (FS) on a RAM disk (121), the final set (FS) being one of the one or more candidate sets, and instructing to execute the software modules stored on the RAM disk, wherein each of the initial set and the final set of software modules comprises application components and operating system image components, and preferably further comprises hardware component drivers.

The low-speed diesel engine frame guide plate cutter-receiving machining method utilizes planar-type miller numerically-controlled machine tool and adopts the following steps: (1). inverting machine frame, using ram of planar-type miller to drive cutterhead of guide plate attachment to implement rough machining and semi-finishing of lower half-portion of said guide plate surface from top to bottom; (2). when finishing, using said cutterhead to finish the guide plate to middle part, and when the stroke of the ram yet has Lmm, the ram progressively outward diclines to compensate hmm; (3) restoring the machine frame to normal state; (4) the ram drive guide plate attachment to complete rest rough machine and semi-finishing from top to bottom.

A ram driving method including the steps of fixing one end of a large-diameter piston rod (5R) integral with a large-diameter piston (5P) reciprocably included in a large-diameter cylinder (5) attached integrally to a ram (3) to a fixing unit (9), connecting one end of a small-diameter piston rod (7R) integral with a small-diameter piston (7P) reciprocably included in a small-diameter cylinder (7) integral with the large-diameter cylinder to a moving member (17) moved by a motor driving, integrally moving the small-diameter cylinder and the small-diameter piston and communicating a first compartment (5A) and a second compartment (5B) of the large-diameter cylinder divided by the large-diameter piston with each other, moving the ram integrally with the small-diameter piston rod moved by the moving member, and communicating the small-diameter cylinder with the large-diameter cylinder, thereby moving the large-diameter cylinder with a strong force by a working fluid supplied from the small-diameter cylinder.

Assemblies and methods for processing a workpiece in a ram-driven press employ an active tool contained by a housing that is interchangeable with a passive forming tool assembly in a mounting assembly of the press. The active tool includes a microprocessor and a functional head coupled to the microprocessor. Some assemblies including the active tool include a switch for activating the functional head; the switch may be mounted to the housing such that, when the housing is mounted in the mounting assembly of the press, the switch is triggered by movement of the housing in response to the ram stroke of the press.

An actuator for a redraw sleeve that operates independently of the ram drive mechanism is provided. The actuator utilizes an eccentric journal coupled to a drive shaft of a servomotor. The servomotor is structured to provide its output shaft with a variable rotation speed so as to accommodate the need for the redraw sleeve to be in selected locations at specific times. Further, the redraw sleeve includes a collapsing redraw cylinder to allow the redraw sleeve to dwell in a forward position.

A ram driving method including the steps of fixing one end of a large-diameter piston rod integral with a large-diameter piston reciprocably included in a large-diameter cylinder attached integrally to a ram to a fixing unit, connecting one end of a small-diameter piston rod integral with a small-diameter piston reciprocably included in a small-diameter cylinder integral with the large-diameter cylinder to a moving member moved by a motor driving, integrally moving the small-diameter cylinder and the small-diameter piston and communicating a first compartment and a second compartment of the large-diameter cylinder divided by the large-diameter piston with each other, moving the ram integrally with the small-diameter piston rod moved by the moving member, and communicating the small-diameter cylinder with the large-diameter cylinder, thereby moving the large-diameter cylinder with a strong force by a working fluid supplied from the small-diameter cylinder.

Multi-drive optical disk apparatus and a method and a label for easily confirming the respective performance characteristics for the different kinds of optical disks are provided. The respective performances, such as a data transfer rate are indicated by multiple-fold speed forms, respectively. The performance indication label is affixed on one surface of the optical disk drive. The performance indication label is constructed by arranging an indication for a data reading performance from a CD-ROM disk and a DVD-ROM disk, an indication for a data writing performance to a CD-RW disk, a DVD-RAM disk, a DVD-RW disk, a DVD-R disk, and a CD-R disk, and an indication for a data writing and reading performances to and from a DVD-RAM disk in a hypothetical circle.

The invention is a multi-mode hammering machine that operates in a rigid mode, a flexible power hammer mode and a machine press mode to contour, shape and form sheet metal products. In all three modes, a ram is linearly stroked toward and away from a fixed die by a common ram drive assembly that includes a lever drive assembly and a reciprocating lever. The lever drive assembly moves in a rigid non-flexing manner. The reciprocating lever includes a rigid mode and a flexible mode. A conversion pin is used to engage one and simultaneously disengage the other. The lever drive assembly includes a control link that interfaces with a stroke adjustment mechanism. The gap adjustment mechanism is located at the fulcrum of the reciprocating lever. Both stroke length and gap are adjusted independently during the operation while the ram is cycling.

A hammer drill including a cylinder; a piston and a ram mounted within the cylinder; a drive mechanism for converting rotation of a motor into reciprocating movement of the piston; a ram driven by the piston via an air spring; at least two air entry points formed through the wall of the cylinder in different axial positions along the length of the cylinder, each of which are capable of replenishing the air spring; the ram striking a tool in a tool holder; wherein there is further provided a selector mechanism which selectively opens and close the air entry points; characterized in that the selector mechanism opens only one air entry point at any one time during normal use, the selector mechanism closing all other air entry points, each of the air entry point capable of replenishing the air spring during normal use when opened by the selector mechanism.

The present invention relates to the technical field of cloud computing, and in particular to a method for improving reading speed of a virtual machine temporary file. The method provided by the invention comprises: firstly, setting a virtual machine memory cache, wherein the size of the memory cache is 512 M; then calling a virtual machine AGENT, calling a RAM drive interface, and partitioning 512 M off a virtual machine memory and virtualizing the 512 M into a memory disk E; then, entering the memory disk E, and creating a folder TEMP; and finally, calling a command CMD, and pointing a system temporary file directory to E:\TEMP. The method provided by the present invention is not limited by physical machine IO, and memory resources are fully utilized; and reading speed of a virtual machine system temporary file is increased, wherein memory reading speed is 20 times faster than hard disk reading speed, so that data access speed can be fast and effectively increased by using a memory to virtualize a hard disk. The method provided by the present invention can be used in a situation in which the reading speed of the virtual machine temporary file needs to be increased.

A system and method for reducing in boot time in an electronic device (10) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a command to power off the electronic device is received. An amount of information stored in at least one of the plurality of memory banks of RAM (60) containing data is calculated. A determination is made as to whether the RAM has sufficient storage space to store compacted data and also form a RAM disk in a portion of the RAM, wherein the step of determining is based at least in part on the amount of information calculated. A RAM disk is initiated in an available memory bank of RAM. The RAM is compacted and a hibernate command is executed wherein the RAM disk is a target for storing the compacted RAM. Power is maintained to memory banks that form the RAM disk and the processor (42) of the portable communication device is set to a power collapse mode.

A portable computing device, in which an internal non-volatile memory drive that is used to boot to a functional device GUI is automatically swapped with a temporary RAM drive if the internal non-volatile memory drive is found to be corrupted. The non-volatile memory is typically Flash memory, but the principle of the present invention can be applied to any kind of non-volatile memory that could become corrupted. Default configuration files may be automatically copied to the RAM drive. These may, for example, allow at least emergency voice calls to be made.

The disk system of the present invention decreases defects of a volume restriction and a volatile characteristic of a RAM disk using a memory control signal of a host. The preset invention provides a disk system including a central control unit generating a memory control signal corresponding to a RAM memory and an external instruction and controlling the RAM memory, and wherein the RAM memory including a RAM disk constituted by RAMs and storing a system program and data; and a control signal processing unit converting the memory control signal into first and second memory control signals based on access information included in the memory control signal and controlling the RAM disk to access to the system program and the data by the second memory control signal.

In conventional ram-driven presses, the downward stroke of the ram into a tool causes acceleration of the tool, thereby facilitating an operation on a workpiece by the tip of the tool. While the ram stroke is found to impart sufficient dynamic energy to the tool to facilitate the necessitated operation by the tool tip, there are other more efficient, and in turn, more effective, means and methods of actuating the tool tip, with such means and methods being facilitated from energy derived from the tool's acceleration or from energy from other external sources.

A hammer drill including a cylinder; a piston and a ram mounted within the cylinder; a drive mechanism for converting rotation of a motor into reciprocating movement of the piston; a ram driven by the piston via an air spring; at least two air entry points formed through the wall of the cylinder in different axial positions along the length of the cylinder, each of which are capable of replenishing the air spring; the ram striking a tool in a tool holder; wherein there is further provided a selector mechanism which selectively opens and close the air entry points; characterized in that the selector mechanism opens only one air entry point at any one time during normal use, the selector mechanism closing all other air entry points, each of the air entry point capable of replenishing the air spring during normal use when opened by the selector mechanism.

Precise motion of the ram of a fastener press is controlled by high torque and low torque motors for high speed / low force and high force pressing of the ram by the ram, respectively. The high torque motor means drive passes through a bidirectional overrunning clutch. The clutch is controlled by the relative motion of the two separate motor drive speeds of which are regulated by a controller. The clutching motion is therefore controlled only by the relative speed of its drive versus driven components. This provides an extremely smooth and responsive transition between high speed / low force and low speed / high force operation of the ram so that the pressing cycle can be as fast and efficient as possible.

A ring mill apparatus and method utilizes at least one hydraulic or other direct drive motor to drive a roller in contact with a ring that is to be expanded by the ring mill. The motor may be two opposed radial piston hydraulic motors, to drive an upper king roller, which contacts the outside of the ring, which is inserted between the upper king roller and a lower mandrel roller, which contacts the inside of the ring. The lower mandrel roller is urged upwards against the ring by a ram driven carriage. Two hydraulic or other direct drive motors can be provided in-line with, and directly connected to, the king roller.

The invention is a heat treatment vacuum furnace material transferring device consisting of a ram, a ram seat, a sliding plate and a driving device. The ram is sliding connected to the upside of the ram seat, the sliding plate is sliding connected to the upside of the ram, the ram seat is equipped with a ram driving mechanism inside, one end of the ram driving mechanism is transmission jointed to the driving device by a transmission shaft, while the other end is jointed to the ram; each of two ends of the ram is equipped with a ram chain wheel, a sliding plate driving chain is equipped between the two ram chain wheels, the upper end of the sliding plate driving chain is connected to the sliding plate, the lower end of the sliding plate driving chain is connected to the ram seat; the ram seat is equipped on the support. The invention has several advantages, including simple structure, material friction avoidance, enough rigidity, small volume, motion flexibility, stability, reliable operation and low fault rate.

The apparatus disclosed herein, in various aspects, includes a digital asset, and an amulet that comprises an encrypted self-validating string. The amulet may be external to the digital asset. The apparatus may include a manager that cooperates securely with the digital asset and cooperates securely with the amulet to control access to the digital asset as specified by the amulet. In some aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through shared memory in process space. In other aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through a RAM drive in memory, the RAM drive at least partially hidden from an operating system of the computer. In yet other aspects, the manager cooperates with the digital asset and with the amulet, at least in part, through a virtual machine accessible only by said apparatus. The amulet, the manager, and the digital asset are either operably receivable by a computer or are operably received by the computer, in various aspects. Related methods and compositions of matter are also disclosed.This Abstract is presented to meet requirements of 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b) only. This Abstract is not intended to identify key elements of the apparatus, methods, and compositions of matter disclosed herein or to delineate the scope of this disclosure.

Assemblies and methods for processing a workpiece in a ram-driven press employ an active tool contained by a housing that is interchangeable with a passive forming tool assembly in a mounting assembly of the press. The active tool includes a microprocessor and a functional head coupled to the microprocessor. Some assemblies including the active tool include a switch for activating the functional head; the switch may be mounted to the housing such that, when the housing is mounted in the mounting assembly of the press, the switch is triggered by movement of the housing in response to the ram stroke of the press.