Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (10) of an electric drive having a stator (29) and a rotor for an electric axle module of an electrically driven vehicle, comprising a cooling duct (56) through which a cooling medium flows. The cooling duct (56) is formed by a first duct geometry (16) on an inner side (13) of a sleeve-shaped extension (11) of the housing (10) and by a second duct geometry (24) configured on a casing (54) of a sleeve (28).

Abstract: One example method provided herein comprises: receiving an input image from a client device, the input image comprising a view of one or move products, wherein the input image comprises a plurality of pixels; generating, using a trained machine learning model, a bounding box for each of the one or more products, respectively, each bounding box comprising a subset of the plurality of pixels, wherein each bounding box indicates a particular product of the one or more products; generating a segmentation M mask for the pixels within each of the bounding boxes; generating, using each segmentation mask, an isolated image of each product indicated by one of the bounding boxes, wherein each isolated image comprises substantially only a set of pixels representing the indicated product; generating, using each isolated image of each product, a classification of each of the one or more products; and displaying information related to the generated classifications.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for analyzing an input image that includes a view of fecal matter. One example method includes: receiving an input image from a client device; determining that the input image comprises a view of fecal matter excreted by an animal; processing at least a portion of the input image comprising the view of the fecal matter using one or more machine learning models to generate a classification of the fecal matter or a health assessment of the animal; generating a recommendation for the animal based on the classification of the fecal matter or the health assessment of the animal; and displaying information related to the recommendation for the animal to a user. Some embodiments involve outputting confidence scores associated with one or more of the other outputs. Some embodiments implement Client-Server architecture and follow a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes generating a functional subgraph of a network from a structural graph of the network. The structural graph comprises a set of vertices and structural connections between the vertices. Generating the functional subgraph includes identifying a directed functional edge of the functional subgraph based on presence of structural connection and directional communication of information across the same structural connection.

Abstract: Resistive and capacitive force sensor including an element having first and second electrodes, wherein the element is configured such that, when an external force is applied, intrinsic capacitance of the electrodes and intrinsic resistance between the electrodes change as a function of a magnitude of the external force; a first unit connected to the electrodes and configured to determine an intrinsic electrical capacitance C(t) of the second electrode; a second unit connected to the electrodes and configured to determine an electrical resistance R(t) between the electrodes; an evaluation unit configured to determine magnitude |F(t)| of force F(t) applied externally to the element as a function of a mean value of the determined intrinsic capacitance C(t) in a time interval and as a function of a mean value of the determined resistance R(t) in the time interval; and an output unit configured to output the determined magnitude |F(t)| of force F(t).

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes generating a functional subgraph of a network from a structural graph of the network. The structural graph comprises a set of vertices and structural connections between the vertices. Generating the functional subgraph includes identifying a directed functional edge of the functional subgraph based on presence of structural connection and directional communication of information across the same structural connection.

Abstract: A gripper jaw to grip an object, the jaw having a gripping surface with a recess therein, the jaw including: a tactile sensor with a sensor surface and a sensor thickness integrated in the recess in a z-direction, wherein the sensor includes: a base arranged lowermost in the recess, a sensor array arranged on the base with a plurality of taxels being sensitive elements arranged over an area of the base, the taxels configured to detect externally applied forces along the z-direction, wherein each taxel is reversibly deformable, and an elastic layer arranged above and overlapping the array, the layer acting as a mechanical low-pass filter and, in an unloaded state, having a layer thickness, wherein an outwardly facing surface of the layer forms a partial area of the sensor surface, wherein the sensor integrated in the recess projects with the sensor surface beyond the gripping surface in the z-direction.

Abstract: A sensor device with a combined sensor to detect a force applied to the sensor by an object made of a material, a position of the force, and a capacitive coupling of the sensor with the object, including: a database to provide relationships Zn of a capacitive coupling CSEN-OBJ-MATn of the sensor with an object OBJ made of a material MATn for a number N of materials MATn, the relationships depending on a force Fext,OBJ of the object OBJ applied to the sensor, wherein n=1, 2, . . . , N and N?1; a detection unit to determine force Fext(t), position POSFext (t), and capacitive coupling CSEN-OBJ(t) from sensor data of the sensor; an evaluation unit to determine a material MAT* of the object OBJ applying the force Fext(t) to the sensor based on the relationships Zn, wherein MAT* ? MATn; and an output unit to output the material MAT*.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (10) of an electric drive having a stator (29) and a rotor for an electric axle module of an electrically driven vehicle, comprising a cooling duct (56) through which a cooling medium flows. The cooling duct (56) is formed by a first duct geometry (16) on an inner side (13) of a sleeve-shaped extension (11) of the housing (10) and by a second duct geometry (24) configured on a casing (54) of a sleeve (28).

Abstract: A tactile sensor element including: a substrate of non-conductive material; an electrode layer ES1 applied onto an upper face of the substrate layer; an electrode layer ES2 applied onto the upper face of the substrate layer, the electrode layers consisting of conductive material, arranged on the upper face in a spaced manner, and having respective shapes such that sub-regions of electrode layer ES1 and sub-regions of electrode layer ES2 alternate in a region on the upper face along a direction R0; a spacer layer applied onto the substrate layer with the applied electrode layers, the spacer layer consisting of spaced sections running in a direction R1 and consisting of a substantially non-conductive material or a perforated grating made of this material with grating axes running parallel to the upper face, in the region; and a measurement layer applied onto the spacer layer and consisting of conductive, elastic, and stretchable material.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes generating a functional subgraph of a network from a structural graph of the network. The structural graph comprises a set of vertices and structural connections between the vertices. Generating the functional subgraph includes identifying a directed functional edge of the functional subgraph based on presence of structural connection and directional communication of information across the same structural connection.

Abstract: A system produces devices that include a semiconductor part and a non-semiconductor part. A front end is configured to receive a semiconductor part and to process the semiconductor part. A back end is configured to receive the processed semiconductor part and to assemble the processed semiconductor part and a non-semiconductor part into a device. A transfer device is configured to automatically handle the semiconductor part in the front end and to automatically transfer the processed semiconductor part to the back end.

Abstract: A method for producing a reaction product comprising an ester-functional silane, the method comprising: i) reacting a composition comprising: a) a haloorganosilane, b) a metal salt of a carboxy-functional compound, c) a phase transfer catalyst comprising a bicyclic amidine, an iminium compound, or a mixture thereof, provided that the iminium compound is not an acyclic guanidinium compound or pyridinium compound, and d) a co-catalyst, provided that the co-catalyst is optional when the phase transfer catalyst comprises the iminium compound.

Abstract: This invention relates to hydrolysable silanes useful in the modification of elastomers, and as coupling agents for diene elastomer compositions containing a filler. In particular the invention relates to novel hydrolysable silanes containing a tertiary amine group and an ether or thioether linkage.

Abstract: This invention relates to hydrolysable silanes useful in the modification of elastomers, and as coupling agents for diene elastomer compositions containing a filler. In particular the invention relates to novel hydrolysable silanes containing an aziridine ring herein named (Az).

Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of a carbon based filler with a hydrolysable silane to modify the surface of the filler. It also relates to a carbon based filler modified by treatment with a hydrolysable silane, and to polymer compositions containing such a modified carbon based filler.

Abstract: A method for producing a reaction product comprising an ester-functional silane, the method comprising: i) reacting a composition comprising: a) a haloorganosilane, b) a metal salt of a carboxy-functional compound, c) a phase transfer catalyst comprising a bicyclic amidine, an iminium compound, or a mixture thereof, provided that the iminium compound is not an acyclic guanidinium compound or pyridinium compound, and d) a co-catalyst, provided that the co-catalyst is optional when the phase transfer catalyst comprises the iminium compound.

Abstract: This invention relates to hydrolysable silanes useful in the modification of elastomers, and as coupling agents for diene elastomer compositions containing a filler. In particular the invention relates to novel hydrolysable silanes containing a piperazine ring and an ether or thioether linkage.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for modifying a polymeric material having a carbon backbone containing carbon-to-carbon unsaturation by reaction with a hydrolysable silane. The polymeric material can for example be a diene elastomer, and the invention relates to a composition comprising a diene elastomer, a hydrolysable silane and a curing agent for the diene elastomer, and also to the use of a hydrolysable silane as a coupling agent for a diene elastomer composition containing a filler.

Abstract: This invention relates to hydrolysable silanes useful in the modification of elastomers, and as coupling agents for diene elastomer compositions containing a filler. In particular the invention relates to novel hydrolysable silanes containing an aziridine ring herein named (Az).