Abstract: A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle that prevents door opening during a collision includes an operation member configured to operate to open a door; and a blocking lever engaged to the operation member and configured to limit the operating of the operation member during a collision of a vehicle, wherein the blocking lever includes an operation slot formed along a tracking path along which a linkage member operating the operation member and the blocking lever by linkage to each other is moved from a locking position to an unlocking position; and a blocking slot formed to branch off from the operation slot, wherein during the collision of the vehicle, the blocking lever is rotated or moved, and thus the linkage member is moved from the operation slot to the blocking slot, being blocked from reaching the unlocking position.

Abstract: An elevator system includes an elevator car, and a hoisting machine moving the elevator car in a hoistway. To simplify maintenance work of the hoisting machine, the elevator system includes an acceleration sensor connected to the hoisting machine, and a computing unit which is responsive to a signal provided by the acceleration sensor and which sends condition data based on a predetermined processing of the signal.

Abstract: A door opening and closing device for a vehicle includes a door for opening and closing a door opening formed in a vehicle body, a spindle mounted in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body and configured to rotate, and a door arm of which a first end portion thereof is rotatably connected to a first end portion of the door, and a second end portion may be configured to move and rotate according to a rotation of the spindle.

Abstract: A charging inlet includes a plurality of terminals; a housing accommodating the terminals therein; and a terminal holder integrated to the housing. Each of the terminals includes: a first connected portion having a solid cylindrical shape; a second connected portion; and a middle portion. A rubber component and a flange made of a resin is disposed on an outer circumference of the middle portion. The rubber component includes: a cylindrical portion; and a plurality of ribs on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, the ribs extending along an axial direction of the cylindrical portion. The housing has a press-fit hole in which the rubber component is press-fitted. The flange is clamped between the housing and the terminal holder outside the press-fit hole.

Abstract: The industrial sewing machine includes: a web server, based on a request from a web browser installed on an information terminal, providing the web browser with an operation screen simulating an operation panel, and receiving operation data generated by operating the operation screen; and a sewing machine control part, controlling a sewing machine operating part based on the operation data.

Abstract: An energy distribution system for an electric or hybrid vehicle includes battery connected to a vehicle propulsion system and to at least one auxiliary load; a power distribution control unit connected to the battery and configured to distribute power from the battery to the vehicle propulsion system and to the at least one auxiliary load. The power distribution control unit receives a request for power from the vehicle propulsion system; determines that the state of health of the battery is below a predetermined first state of health threshold value; and controls the energy distribution system to provide a power to the propulsion system lower than the requested power.

Abstract: A sewing system includes: a robot manipulator; a plurality of assemblies attached to and detached from the robot manipulator and each configured to perform predetermined work on cloth; a server stores process data indicating a relationship between a plurality of processes for manufacturing a sewn product from the cloth and the assembly used in each of the plurality of processes; and a control device configured to select an assembly to be mounted to the robot manipulator based on the process data.

Abstract: A method for operating a switching arrangement of an energy storage system of a vehicle includes identifying a battery pack to be disconnected from the power apparatus, the battery pack being one of a plurality of battery packs connected to the power apparatus, providing measured current of the identified battery pack, in response to that that the measured current of the identified battery pack is higher than a predetermined threshold value, reducing the current of the identified battery pack, and in response to that the measured current of the identified battery pack is lower than the predetermined threshold value, or in response to that a predetermined time period has lapsed since the step of reducing the current of the identified battery pack, opening the contactor associated with the identified battery pack to disconnect the battery pack from the power apparatus.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes: a sewing needle, holding an upper thread; an upper thread tension adjustment mechanism, adjusting a tension of the upper thread; a shuttle cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a feed mechanism, in which endless feed belts feeding a sewing object disposed at a sewing position along a first direction are disposed on two sides with respect to the sewing position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in which a belt drive part independently driving the feed belts on two sides with respect to the sewing position in the second direction is provided; and a control part, controlling the mechanism, so that, from beginning to end of sewing, a tension of the upper thread varies in an amount according to a difference between feed amounts of the feed belts.

Abstract: A method for operating a switching arrangement of an energy storage system including a common traction voltage bus and a plurality of parallelly arranged battery packs connectable to the common traction voltage bus is provdied. The switching arrangement comprising an associated contactor for each battery pack, the contactors being configured to connect the battery packs to and from the common traction voltage bus by closing and opening. The method comprises: identifying a non-connected battery pack to be connected to the common traction voltage bus, determining the voltage difference between the common traction voltage bus and the identified battery pack, adjusting the current of the common traction voltage bus to reduce the voltage difference between the common traction voltage bus and the identified battery pack, closing the contactor associated with the identified battery pack to connect the identified battery pack to the common traction voltage bus.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes: a sewing needle; a shuttle, cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a pressing member, pressing a sewing object disposed at a sewing position immediately below the sewing needle; a feed mechanism, in which endless feed belts feeding the sewing object disposed at the sewing position from the sewing position along a first direction are disposed on two sides with respect to the sewing position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in which a belt drive part is provided; a needle drive part, provided separately from the belt drive part, and moving the sewing needle in the first direction; and a control part, exerting control so that the belt drive part and the needle drive part operate independently.

Abstract: A full-flat rear seat is a collapsible full-flat rear seat including a seatback board mounted on a rear surface of a backrest of the rear seat of a vehicle and providing a flat support surface together with a luggage board of the vehicle in being selectively unfolded, when the rear seat rotates, and the seatback board includes: a center seatback board mounted on a rear surface of the rear seat of the vehicle; an upper seatback board provided at an upper side of the center seatback board and configured to move relative to the center seatback board; and a lower seatback board provided at a lower side of the center seatback board and hinged thereto and configured to hingedly rotate toward one surface of the center seatback board.

Abstract: A laundry appliance includes a cabinet having an access aperture positioned within a door-receiving recess to provide access to a processing space within the cabinet. A door is rotationally operable relative to the door-receiving recess to selectively enclose the processing space. The door has an inner-facing panel that defines a plurality of recesses. Hinges are fixedly attached to first and second recesses and to a planar surface of the door-receiving recess that surrounds the access aperture. A magnetic lock is fixedly attached to a third recess and is selectively and magnetically attached to the planar surface to define a closed position of the door panel. The plurality of recesses selectively and alternatively receive one of the hinges and the magnetic lock to define a swing direction of the door panel. The hinges are attached to and the magnetic lock selectively engages the planar surface.

Abstract: A separation and/or humidification element that employs fibrous hollow membrane tubes is provided, which may be used for water vapor transfer between different gas streams in a fuel cell application, such as to humidify the reaction gas. At least one and typically two composite end caps encapsulate ends of a bundle of the fibrous hollow membrane tubes. Each composite end cap comprises adhesive (e.g. epoxy) and a preform such as a plastic annular shroud.

Abstract: The invention relates to a decorative panel, comprising at least one substrate comprising an upper surface and a bottom surface and two pairs of opposing side edges, wherein the substrate comprises at least one core layer and at least one decorative layer and the panel comprising at least one coating layer, wherein the coating layer is provided upon the upper surface of the substrate, wherein both the upper surface of the substrate and the upper coating surface of the coating layer have a predetermined Shore D hardness.

Abstract: A processor may aggregate cache misses in a cache, the cache shared by a plurality of input/output (I/O) sources. The processor may aggregate cache occupancy in the cache by the plurality of VO sources. The processor may and identify, based on the aggregating, a first I/O source of the plurality of I/O sources as impacting the cache.

Abstract: The invention relates to a decorative panel, comprising at least one substrate comprising an upper surface and a bottom surface and two pairs of opposing side edges, wherein the substrate comprises at least one core layer and at least one decorative layer and the panel comprising at least one coating layer, wherein the coating layer is provided upon the upper surface of the substrate, wherein both the upper surface of the substrate and the upper coating surface of the coating layer have a predetermined Shore D hardness.

Abstract: A method and system for cleaning a surface using laser radiation is provided. In one example, a system for cleaning a surface using laser radiation includes a laser source configured to generate laser radiation, the laser source configured to emit laser radiation in a cleaning mode, the cleaning mode characterized as a modulated continuous wave (CW) mode having a duty cycle less than 110%, pulse-repetition frequency greater of at least 10 kilohertz (kHz), and a FWHM pulse duration in a range of 1 microsecond (?s) to 10 (milliseconds) ms inclusive, a housing configured as a handheld apparatus that directs the later radiation to the surface, and an optical fiber coupling the handheld apparatus to the laser source.

Abstract: Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a substrate having a glass core with a surface and a dielectric material on a portion of the surface of the core, the dielectric material including conductive pathways; a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) having an active surface, wherein the PIC is coupled to the surface of the core with the active surface facing away from the core; a processor integrated circuit (XPU) electrically coupled to the conductive pathways in the dielectric material and to the active surface of the PIC; a first optical component optically coupled to a lateral surface of the PIC and to the surface of the core; and a second optical component coupled to the core, wherein the second optical component is optically coupled to the PIC by an optical pathway through the first optical component and the core.

Abstract: A system and method of characterizing drops of printing material in a 3D printer is disclosed, which includes ejecting a drop from a nozzle of an ejector in the 3D printer, intersecting the drop with a beam while the drop is in-flight, and determining one or more physical characteristics of the drop. The system and method may include where the drop intersects the beam between the nozzle and a substrate of the 3D printer or the drop intersects the beam between the nozzle and a top surface of a part printed by the 3D printer. The beam is located between an emitter and a detector are each positioned external to one or more side walls of a 3D printer. A physical characteristic of the drop may include drop size, drop shape, or drop mass and comparison with a reference.