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Intangible Assets - Fair Value of Acquired Identifiable Intangible Assets and Related Estimated Useful Lives (Parenthetical) (Detail) - Honeywell Asset Purchase and License Agreement [Member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Oct. 27, 2018	Sep. 28, 2017
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Identifiable Intangible Assets		$ 27,243
TSA [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Identifiable Intangible Assets	$ 400

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Fair value portion of assets, excluding financial assets, that lack physical substance, having a limited useful life.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (a)
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