Abstract: A phone bracket configured to support two controllers and a smartphone. The phone bracket includes two controller supporting bodies and a mounting body. The two controller supporting bodies are configured to support the two controllers, respectively. The mounting body has two first side surfaces and two second side surfaces. The two first side surfaces face away from each other. The two second side surfaces face away from each other and are located between the two first side surfaces. A distance between the two first side surfaces is shorter than a distance between the two second side surfaces. The two controller supporting bodies are respectively and selectively disposed on the two first side surfaces or the two second side surfaces of the mounting body so as to adjust a distance between the two controller supporting bodies and to allow the phone bracket to selectively support the smartphone.

Abstract: An earphone including a first earbud and a microphone device. The first earbud includes a housing and a motherboard at least partially disposed in the housing. The housing has a restricting surface. The restricting surface surrounds at least a part of the motherboard. The microphone device includes a shell, a circuit board, a connector and a restricting component. The circuit board is disposed in the shell. The connector protrudes from the circuit board and electrically connects the circuit board to the motherboard. The restricting component protrudes from the shell and rests on the restricting surface of the housing to restrict a movement of the shell and the housing.

Abstract: A shoe includes a sole and an upper which together enable a user to put on the shoe quickly and easily. The upper includes a heel support member that is fixedly attached to and extending upwardly from a rear portion of the sole, and a toe box fixedly attached to and extending upwardly from a front portion to form a toe receiving recess. A middle flap is fixedly attached to and extending upwardly from a first side edge of the sole and extending to a terminal edge, the middle flap pivoting between an open position wherein the shoe is adapted to receive the user's foot, and a closed position wherein the middle flap is closed over the user's foot. The shoe further includes a fastener for fastening the terminal edge of the middle flap to a second side edge of the sole.

Abstract: An interlocking fastening device includes two solid interlocking forms that can be quickly and easily locked when placed together. The two forms are held together by tension forces and resist these same tension forces to create a locking mechanism. Each interlocking form is made up of rigid three-dimensional wave formations that taper upwardly at an acute angle from a guide plate. When bringing the two rigid interlocking forms together they self-align to provide a rigid, strong, low-profile, thin, low-wear, locking, mechanism.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for mitigating excessive exhaust pressures in an engine. In one example, a method may include adjusting an intake throttle responsive to exhaust pressure upstream of an exhaust turbine being higher than a threshold without reducing boost level. In this way, boost pressures may be maintained while reducing exhaust pressures.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for mitigating excessive exhaust pressures in an engine. In one example, a method may include adjusting an intake throttle responsive to exhaust pressure upstream of an exhaust turbine being higher than a threshold without reducing boost level. In this way, boost pressures may be maintained while reducing exhaust pressures.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: According to one aspect, a system for intraoperatively providing anatomical guidance in a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes: a first light source configured to emit a beam of visible light; second light source configured to emit a beam of near-infrared light; a handheld probe optically coupled to the second light source; a second imaging device configured to detect visible light; a third imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a first predetermined wavelength; a fourth imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a second predetermined wavelength; a display for displaying at least one visual representation of data; and, a controller programmed to generate at least one real-time integrated visual representation of an area of interest and to display the real-time visual representation on the display for guidance during the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and compositions for screening primary hybridoma cultures to generate monoclonal antibodies that are useful in a variety of methods, including for in situ cellular imaging by immunocytochemical assays or in vivo applications, for example. Embodiments of the methods concern the use of automated high-throughput immunofluorescence (for example) to identify subcellular in vivo patterns that are expected based on the antigen or that may be unforeseen.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: According to one aspect, a system for intraoperatively providing anatomical guidance in a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes: a first light source configured to emit a beam of visible light; second light source configured to emit a beam of near-infrared light; a handheld probe optically coupled to the second light source; a second imaging device configured to detect visible light; a third imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a first predetermined wavelength; a fourth imaging device configured to detect near-infrared light having a second predetermined wavelength; a display for displaying at least one visual representation of data; and, a controller programmed to generate at least one real-time integrated visual representation of an area of interest and to display the real-time visual representation on the display for guidance during the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlling an engine in response to a pre-ignition event. A pre-ignition threshold and a pre-ignition mitigating action are adjusted based on a rate of change of cylinder aircharge. As a result, pre-ignition events occurring during transient engine operating conditions are detected and addressed different from pre-ignition events occurring during steady-state engine operating conditions.

Abstract: A method for performing multi-level color based communication includes the steps of creating a plurality of individual color patterns, associating each of the plurality of individual color patterns with a known language character, and composing a message containing one or more of the individual color patterns.