The Black Hole......

[Jim the Oldbie]

I was just thinking how weird it is that "I've had all my shots!" has become a humorous icebreaker when making a new acquaintance these days. I use it regularly, and it always gets a chuckle. Whistling past the graveyard in 2021.

 

[Darry]

Thank you very much John for accepting to answer me.
Regards
Darry

 

[nezbleu]

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[chris719]

See above .

 

[hhoyt]

I was just thinking how weird it is that "I've had all my shots!" has become a humorous icebreaker when making a new acquaintance these days. I use it regularly, and it always gets a chuckle. Whistling past the graveyard in 2021.

+1
Howie

 

[john curl]

Hi everybody! Anyone attend the AES spring convention going on now? How about you, Zung?

 

[hhoyt]

Hi John,

I had several talks tagged to watch, but ended up working unexpectedly...I have to take the work when it happens...I'll catch the replay videos.

Take care!
Howie

 

[Zung]

Nope, my membership has not been in good standing for 40+ years
Anything worthy of interest?

 

[john curl]

Not really, Zung. You did not miss much. I doubt that very many 'design engineers' actually participated in this session. More audio users, etc.

 

[Zung]

That's why my membership has not been in good standing.

 

[Darry]

It should be the common mode point where the common mode servo connects to correct the common mode offset. It is not the complete schematic.

John,

On your schematic published post 7113, wouldn't it be better to connect the 4 resistors of the Common Mode Servo to the sources of the Mosfets rather than to the gates ?

Darry

 

[1audio]

I just encountered this patent : https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/57/ed/34/08f7cac5144852/US10031536.pdf on a Shunyata technology that seems to claim "storage of slow electrons" to speedup power transfer. can anyone explain this in a way that is consistent with known rules of electronics? I'm rather annoyed because a pretty clear patent I was pushing got kicked back over aspects far more peripheral than this "invention". The first claim is on a capacitor with "no" dielectric. it must be some new physics I missed.

 

[indra1]

In the old tongue, Nyata means real and Sunyata means state of voidness, unreal. So there. Don't worry about it, you are facing different requirement since you are applying a patent for real product.

 

[1audio]

Thanks very much for the clarity.

Given that insight I think I'll start working on imaginary products that only operate on the imaginary plane. I think I should call them j? I could then apply for imaginary patents also.

 

[indra1]

Right, no sense to compare down to earth engineered products to hogwash.

 

[sawyers]

This is typical Shunyata. A mystical product "The principle of operation requires further study...".

But the patent examiner thought it met the requirements of being new, having an inventive step, and having enough information for someone "skilled in the art" to make one. So the patent was granted.

Strangely you do not need to say *how* an invention actually works in a patent.

 

[chris719]

USPTO seems to be understaffed and underfunded. Not surprising that a lot of garbage gets through. In that patent, he claims to have invented a new fundamental circuit component...

 

[Chris Hornbeck]

Second Law violations are the alchemist's special sauce.


All good fortune,
Chris

 

[1audio]

It's also undefendable written that way. Not to mention that all the high volume surge products have essentially that construction. They use brass strips to connect the connection sockets together. Essentially what was disclosed.

But patents give credibility even where not warranted.

 

[Chris Hornbeck]

Ideas are not currently valued. Advantage, edge, influence, marketability - America seems to be taking the Chinese path (or vice versa) and I pity the fool (world, that we're leaving to our children). Bigger than politics; can't even be fixed.


All good fortune to our children,
Chris