Abstract: A system for obtaining downhole azimuthal imaging information includes a pressure housing. The system also includes a source arranged within the pressure housing, the source including a directable electron beam. The system further includes an anode positioned proximate the source, within the pressure housing, the anode having a tapered face adapted to interact with the directable electron beam and direct an x-ray beam away from the anode. The system also includes a detector arranged proximate the anode, the anode being between the source and the detector, wherein the detector receives scattered x-rays, from the x-ray beam, the received scattered x-rays corresponding to imaging information to determine one or more properties of a wellbore.

Abstract: A coaxial cable-connector assembly includes a coaxial cable and a coaxial connector. The coaxial cable includes a central conductor, an outer conductor, a dielectric layer interposed between the central conductor and the outer conductor, and a jacket overlying the outer conductor. The coaxial connector includes: a central conductor extension configured to mate with a mating connector at one end and mated with the central conductor of the coaxial cable at a second opposite end; an outer conductor extension configured to mate with the mating connector at one end attached via a solder joint to the outer conductor of the coaxial cable at a second opposite end; and a dielectric spacer positioned between and separating the central conductor extension and the outer conductor extension, the dielectric spacer further positioned adjacent the solder joint to inhibit solder flow away from the solder joint.

Abstract: A system may provide supplemental content to a viewer of a content item through use of an embedded identifier indicating an address of associated supplemental content identifying data. The supplemental content identifying data may identify one or more supplemental content items associated with the content item and available to the viewer. An address or other identifier in the supplemental content identifying data may be used to retrieve at least a portion of the available supplemental content items, and a display may be generated combining the content item with the supplemental content. In some embodiments, the identifier may be securely provided to a client and may be authenticated as part of retrieving supplemental content associated with the content item. The identifier may comprise a trusted token or security token used to authenticate the supplemental content identifying data associated with the content item.

Abstract: A covering assembly for a traction battery includes, among other things, a busbar cover that covers a busbar of a battery array, and a terminal cover connected to the busbar cover and moveable back and forth between a closed position and an open position. The terminal cover and cover at least one terminal of the battery array when in the closed position.

Abstract: A lighting engine, system, and method of fabrication are described. The system includes a chassis with a ridge extending from a bottom that defines inner and outer cavities. A flexible printed circuit (FPC) is disposed in contact with a wall of the inner and outer cavities and on the ridge top and is connected to wiring retained within bosses in the outer cavity. LEDs are mounted on the FPC to emit light toward a center of the cavity. A light guide disposed has an edge that opposes the LEDs and receives light emitted by the LEDs. The FPC has a polyimide insulator coupled with a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), a copper layer on the polyimide insulator, and a high-reflectivity white coverlay on the copper layer. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A storage system includes at least two independent storage engines interconnected by a fabric, each storage engine having two compute nodes. A shared global memory is implemented using cache slots of each of the compute nodes. Memory access operations to the slots of shared global memory are managed by a fabric adapter to guarantee that the operations are atomic. To enable local cache operations to be managed independent of the fabric adapter, a cache metadata data structure includes a global flag bit for each cache slot, that is used to designate the cache slot as globally available or temporarily reserved for local IO processing. The cache metadata data structure also includes a mutex (Peterson lock) for each cache slot to enforce a mutual exclusion concurrency control policy on the cache slot between the two compute nodes of the storage engine when the cache slot is used for local IO processing.

Abstract: The present application relates to systems and methods for transporting biological samples, including a transport medium configured to protect bacterial viability and optimize sample quality, for enhanced diagnostic accuracy. The disclosed systems and methods can include a transport media, a collection tube including a screen and sampling brush, and a transport case. The disclosed systems and methods allow samples to be frozen and thawed while preserving cellular wall integrity during transport or storage, and furthermore can preserve the survival of the bacterial sample, enabling more accurate detection of an infectious agent.

Abstract: Detector module designs for radiographic include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.

Abstract: Methods and systems for an all-optical wafer acceptance test may include an optical transceiver on a chip, the optical transceiver comprising first, second, and third grating couplers, an interferometer comprising first and second phase modulators, a splitter, and a plurality of photodiodes. A first input optical signal may be received in the chip via the first grating coupler, where the first input optical signal may be coupled to the interferometer. An output optical signal may be coupled out of the chip via the second grating coupler for a first measurement of the interferometer. A second input optical signal may be coupled to a third grating coupler and a portion of the second input optical signal may be communicated to each of the plurality of photodiodes via the splitter. A voltage may be generated using the photodiodes based on the second input signal that may bias the first phase modulator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system, method, and apparatus for harvesting follicular units from an epidermis. The disclosed apparatus includes a hollow tubular structure having a central axis and a trumpet bell structure that is attached to an end of the hollow tubular structure. The trumpet bell structure terminates at a flat annular face that is substantially in a plane perpendicular to the central axis. The flat annular face has a sharp outer edge, and an inner surface of the trumpet bell structure inward from the flat annular face is smoothly varying.

Abstract: A garbage bag holder can be used in place of a traditional garbage can. The garbage bag holder can have a foldable design that facilitates its transport and enables it to be easily deployed in virtually any location. At the same time, the foldable design provides a reinforced structure that allows the garbage bag holder to support a substantial amount of weight.

Abstract: A locomotive control system includes a controller configured to control communication between or among plural locomotive devices that control movement of a locomotive via a network that communicatively couples the vehicle devices. The controller also is configured to control the communication using a data distribution service (DDS) and with the network operating as a time sensitive network (TSN). The controller is configured to direct a first set of the locomotive devices to communicate using time sensitive communications, a different, second set of the locomotive devices to communicate using best effort communications, and a different, third set of the locomotive devices to communicate using rate constrained communications.

Abstract: A flaring tool for flaring an end of a tube includes a locking mechanism having a collar and a collet with two or more collet pieces. As the collet is moved relative to the collar from a non-locking position toward a locking position, the collar engages outer surfaces of the collet pieces and causes the collet pieces to move from a non-clamping position toward a clamping position. As the collet pieces are urged radially inward, they each pivot about a respective pivot axis. As the collet moves further toward the locking position and the collet pieces move further toward the clamping position, the pivot axis of each of the collet pieces radially moves relative to the collet body and the collar. A flaring mechanism moves a flaring mandrel towards the end of the tube when the collet is clamped, whereby the mandrel engages and flares the end of the tube.

Abstract: A device for securing aircraft wiring, monitoring the aircraft wiring, and detecting degradation of the aircraft wiring includes a first clamp body and a sensing device. The first clamp body has a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a concave portion extending semi-annularly between the first end and the second end, a first exterior surface, and a second exterior surface opposite the first exterior surface, the concave portion configured to at least partially define a wire-receiving space. The sensing device is adjacent the wire receiving space and is configured to sense a characteristic of the aircraft wiring indicative of integrity of the aircraft wiring. A wireless module can be configured to communicate data from the sensing device to a receiver. An electronics housing can support the sensing device and/or other electronics, and can releasably mate and fasten to the first clamp body.

Abstract: An electrical terminal fitting includes a body and a covering. The body is formed from a first material and includes a connection section and a contacting section with the contacting section having a flexible contact beam and an opposing stationary beam for receiving a male pin of a mating terminal. The covering is formed from a second material having a higher tensile strength than the first material and is secured to the body. The covering includes a stiffening beam and a support beam that are spaced apart from the flexible contact beam that provide increased normal force to the flexible contact beam upon engagement of the flexible contact beam with the stiffening beam.

Abstract: One general aspect includes a system to receive a virtual key at a vehicle, the system includes a memory configured to include a plurality of executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to establish a dummy short-range wireless communications (SRWC) connection with a mobile computing device; establish a standard SRWC connection with the mobile computing device; receive the virtual key from the mobile computing device through the standard SRWC connection; and where the dummy SRWC connection is configured to cause the mobile computing device to cease attempting to establish one or more additional SRWC connections.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a novel apparatus and methods for providing a flow of cooling air to one or more turbine nozzles or turbine blade outer air seals. The flow of cooling air is provided by an external source and regulated in order to improve turbine nozzle and air seal cooling efficiency and component life.

Abstract: A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable guest-host liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for identification of table partitions in documents using neural networks. A method of the disclosure includes obtaining a plurality of symbol sequences of a document having at least one table, determining a plurality of vectors representative of symbol sequences having at least one alphanumeric character or a table graphics element, processing the plurality of vectors using a first neural network to obtain a plurality of recalculated vectors, determining an association between a first recalculated vector and a second recalculated vector, wherein the first recalculated vector is representative of an alphanumeric sequence and the second recalculated vector is associated with a table partition, and determining, based on the association between the first recalculated vector and the second recalculated vector, an association between the alphanumeric sequence and the table partition.