Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for monitoring a peripheral device by data imported from the peripheral device. The peripheral data may comprise a script associated with monitoring or managing the peripheral device, or descriptive data describing a set of monitor values on the peripheral device.

Abstract: A food-heating apparatus includes a blower assembly, a heater housing, and a heating element. The heater housing may receive air from the blower assembly. The heating element may be disposed within the heater housing. The heater housing may a first flow path through which the air flows in a first direction outside of the heating element. The heating element may define a second flow path through which the air flows in a second direction inside of the heating element. The first flow path may receive the air from the blower assembly. The second flow path may receive the air from the first flow path.

Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for monitoring a peripheral device by data imported from the peripheral device. The peripheral data may comprise a script associated with monitoring or managing the peripheral device, or descriptive data describing a set of monitor values on the peripheral device.

Abstract: Trailing edge assemblies, couplers and methods for deploying a trailing edge flap of an aircraft wing are disclosed. An exemplary method disclosed herein comprises guiding an aft portion of the trailing edge flap (28) along an elongated track member (36C) as the trailing edge flap (28) moves toward the deployed position; guiding a forward portion of the trailing edge flap (28) along the elongated track member (36C) as the trailing edge flap (28) moves toward the deployed position; and accommodating transverse movement of the forward portion of the trailing edge flap (28) relative to the elongated track member (36C).

Abstract: Systems and methods for deploying adjacent trailing edge flaps that are part of different flap assemblies of different stiffnesses are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises: deploying a first flap of a first flap assembly having a first stiffness by a first deployment amount and deploying a second flap adjacent the first flap by a second deployment amount where the deployment amount of the first flap part of the flap assembly of lower stiffness is greater than the second deployment amount of the second flap part of the flap assembly of higher stiffness. The difference in deployment amounts may be adapted to improve continuity between the first flap and the second flap when the first and second flaps are deployed and subjected to an aerodynamic load.

Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for monitoring a peripheral device by data imported from the peripheral device. The peripheral data may comprise a script associated with monitoring or managing the peripheral device, or descriptive data describing a set of monitor values on the peripheral device.

Abstract: An automated food preparation system includes a seasoning-dispensing system, a sauce-dispensing system, and a conveyance system. The seasoning-dispensing system includes a plurality of vessels, a dispersion nozzle, and a conduit coupled to the dispersion nozzle. Each vessel contains one of a plurality of seasonings. The vessels are in selective communication with the conduit. The sauce-dispensing system includes a plurality of sauce reservoirs, a scanning head, and a plurality of tubes. Each sauce reservoirs contains one of a plurality of sauces. The scanning head includes openings each coupled with one of the sauce reservoirs via one of the tubes. The conveyance system transports a foodstuff between a seasoning position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the dispersion nozzle and a sauce position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the openings. The scanning head is movable to dispense one or more sauces onto the foodstuff.

Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for a management processor that reads a registration script from a peripheral device, and uses the script to act in proxy to register the peripheral device as a data provider on the management processor. Once a peripheral device is registered as a data provider on the management processor, the management processor can permit the peripheral device to host a management resource on the management processor. By accessing the hosted management resource through the management processor, a client can manage, monitor, or control the peripheral device.

Abstract: An automated food preparation system includes a seasoning-dispensing system, a sauce-dispensing system, and a conveyance system. The seasoning-dispensing system includes a plurality of vessels, a dispersion nozzle, and a conduit coupled to the dispersion nozzle. Each vessel contains one of a plurality of seasonings. The vessels are in selective communication with the conduit. The sauce-dispensing system includes a plurality of sauce reservoirs, a scanning head, and a plurality of tubes. Each sauce reservoirs contains one of a plurality of sauces. The scanning head includes openings each coupled with one of the sauce reservoirs via one of the tubes. The conveyance system transports a foodstuff between a seasoning position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the dispersion nozzle and a sauce position in which the foodstuff is disposed below the openings. The scanning head is movable to dispense one or more sauces onto the foodstuff.

Abstract: One variation of a method for slicing a type of whole bread buns includes: retracting a cutting block along a chute into a load position; dispensing a whole bread bun into the chute between the cutting block and a blade extending across the chute; advancing the cutting block along the chute toward the blade; detecting contact between the cutting block and the blade at a contact position; at a first time, advancing the cutting block into a pierce position offset from the contact position toward the blade by a pierce distance less than a common width of the type of whole bread buns; and, at a second time succeeding the first time by a pierce duration, advancing the cutting block from the pierce position into a slice position adjacent the blade to drive the whole bread bun fully through the blade.

Abstract: A management processor includes a peripheral identifier to identify a peripheral device installed in a computing device. The management processor also includes a code retriever to receive management code from the peripheral device. The management processor also includes a code executor to execute the management code to provide, at the management processor, a management application programming interface (API) accessible by a remote client to manage the peripheral device, the remote client being external to the management processor.

Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for a management processor that reads a registration script from a peripheral device, and uses the script to act in proxy to register the peripheral device as a data provider on the management processor. Once a peripheral device is registered as a data provider on the management processor, the management processor can permit the peripheral device to host a management resource on the management processor. By accessing the hosted management resource through the management processor, a client can manage, monitor, or control the peripheral device.

Abstract: Various examples described herein provide for monitoring a peripheral device by data imported from the peripheral device. The peripheral data may comprise a script associated with monitoring or managing the peripheral device, or descriptive data describing a set of monitor values on the peripheral device.

Abstract: A system includes a vessel configured to contain a substance therein having a top end and a bottom end with a center-of-gravity for the vessel disposed between the top end and the bottom end, a frame connected to the vessel, a cable link connected to the frame configured to connect a cable thereto, and a cable support connected to the vessel or the frame. The cable support disposed above the center-of-gravity of the vessel with respect to the top end and the bottom end of the vessel. As the vessel moves from a first position to a second position, the cable engages the cable support such that a lifting force is translated from the cable and through the cable support to have the cable move the vessel through the cable support, the cable support attached to the frame or the vessel with the cable support disposed above the center-of-gravity.

Abstract: A system includes a vessel configured to contain a substance therein having a top end and a bottom end with a center-of-gravity for the vessel disposed between the top end and the bottom end, a frame connected to the vessel, a cable link connected to the frame configured to connect a cable thereto, and a cable support connected to the vessel or the frame. The cable support disposed above the center-of-gravity of the vessel with respect to the top end and the bottom end of the vessel. As the vessel moves from a first position to a second position, the cable engages the cable support such that a lifting force is translated from the cable and through the cable support to have the cable move the vessel through the cable support, the cable support attached to the frame or the vessel with the cable support disposed above the center-of-gravity.

Abstract: A hair styling apparatus that may include a body portion; a handle portion that may extend away from the body portion; and a camera unit that may be coupled to the body portion, the camera unit may include a camera unit body portion; a lens that may be coupled to the camera unit body portion; and a transmitter that may be coupled within the camera unit body portion, wherein the transmitter may be operatively coupled to the lens.

Abstract: The invention is based on the discovery that certain biarsenical molecules react with specified target sequences, thereby providing a facile means for labeling polypeptides containing the target sequence. The invention is useful in creating stable mammalian cell lines expressing a certain tetracysteine tagged polypeptides, thereby overcoming toxicity associated with native tetracysteine. In addition, the invention allows for orthogonal labeling of polypeptides, thereby allowing for the observation of protein-protein interactions and conformational changes in proteins, for example.

Abstract: A patient support including a traction device for powered movement of the patient support. The traction device includes a storage position and a use position.

Abstract: A method of controlling a distillation column having control valves to control both reflux and the vapor rate within the column. In accordance with the present invention, a temperature sensed in a top section of the column is magnified and utilized within the model predictive controller so that control is more aggressive as temperatures increase beyond a threshold temperature. Additionally, in the distillation column, or in fact in any other system in which two or more manipulated variables control two or more common controlled variables, special modeling techniques are utilized to make controller tuning easier to accomplish. In such modeling techniques, each manipulated variable is assumed to be able to have an effect on a controlled variable by a single step response model and other step response models are utilized so that the other manipulated variable(s) that also would have an effect on the same controlled variable are taken into account by the controller as feed forward variables.

Abstract: An awning assembly is provided with a lock mechanism for maintaining the awning assembly in a desired position relative to a wall, or other suitable structure. The awning assembly includes support arms, a fabric roller tube that holds the awning fabric and a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism can include a pivot bracket located between the roller tube and the support arm, a disk gear provided on the end of the roller tube axle, a weather shield provided around at least a portion of the roller tube, a pivot rod selectably engageable with both the pivot bracket and the weather shield, a disk gear catch mounted on the weather shield and adapted to be selectably engaged with the disk gear, and a torsion spring mounted on the weather shield and adapted to bias the disk gear catch into engagement with the disk gear.