Abstract: An embodiment charging device includes a power factor correction (PFC) circuit including first, second and third inductors and first, second and third switch legs connected to the first, second and third inductors, respectively, a relay network configured to control connection between the first, second and third inductors and first, second and third input terminals according to a phase of a power grid connected to the first, second and third input terminals, wherein the relay network includes a first relay connected between a neutral point and the third inductor, and a capacitor having a first end connected to the neutral point with respect to the first, second and third input terminals and a second end connected to ground, wherein the first end of the capacitor is positioned closer to the neutral point than the first relay.

Abstract: A shoe sole includes a sole body including a midsole and a shock absorber. The shock absorber is disposed adjacent to the midsole in a direction intersecting a thickness direction of the sole body. The midsole includes a first opposing surface that is opposed to the shock absorber and inclined with respect to the thickness direction, and the shock absorber includes a shock absorbing portion having a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall in which an outer shape is defined by a pair of parallel curved surfaces and a plate-shaped fixing wall including a second opposing surface opposed to the first opposing surface. The fixing wall is inclined with respect to the thickness direction such that the second opposing surface is parallel to the first opposing surface. The shock absorber is fixed to the midsole by bonding the first opposing surface and the second opposing surface through an adhesive layer.

Abstract: An operable panel for an appliance includes a metallic outer wrapper having a perimetrical wrapper edge that partially defines a perimetrical breaker channel, an inner liner and a plurality of corner brackets disposed proximate the perimetrical wrapper edge. Each corner bracket cooperates with the perimetrical wrapper edge to fully define the perimetrical breaker channel. A trim breaker is adhered to the metallic outer wrapper and the corner brackets at the perimetrical breaker channel and having a liner channel that receives a portion of the inner liner. The trim breaker extends between the inner liner and the outer wrapper. An insulation material is disposed within an insulating cavity defined between the inner liner and the outer wrapper.

Abstract: A cargo handling system is disclosed. A method for storing and restraining cargo is disclosed. The method includes positioning a unit load device at a parked location on a conveyance surface and in contact with a drive roller, deploying a restraint to engage the unit load device, and verifying engagement of the restraint with the unit load device by activating the drive roller and detecting movement of the unit load device with respect to the conveyance surface.

Abstract: An electric work machine includes magnets appropriately fixed to a rotor core. The electric work machine includes a stator including a stator core, an insulator fixed to the stator core, and a coil attached to the insulator, a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis and including a rotor core, a magnet fixed to the rotor core, and a rotor cup supporting the rotor core and including a core support surface supporting an end face of the rotor core in a first axial direction along the rotation axis and a magnet support surface supporting at least a part of an end face of the magnet in the first axial direction, and an output unit drivable by the rotor.

Abstract: A welded structure including a base material made of duplex stainless steel and a welded portion formed by welding the base materials to each other, wherein the base material has a predetermined chemical composition, a volume fraction of a ferrite phase in a metallographic structure of a weld metal of the welded portion is 45 to 75%, a ratio of a hardness of the weld metal to a hardness of the base material is 0.80 to 1.20, and an amount of precipitates formed in the ferrite phase of the weld metal is less than 10% in area fraction.

Abstract: A door hinge apparatus of a vehicle may include a slide unit including a slide body and a main slider where the slide body is provided on one side of a vehicle body corresponding to an end portion of a door in the vehicle and the main slider is movable in a width direction of the vehicle with respect to the slide body, and a door hinge bracket engaged with the end portion of the door and operably coupled to the main slider.

Abstract: An aqueous oxidizing compositions comprising one or more amino acids and hydrogen peroxide are described. The aqueous oxidizing compositions reduce hair damage during chemical services. The effect of hair damage reduction was found to be further improved when polycarboxylic acids were added to bleaching powder, oxidative dyeing, and permanent waving compositions.

Abstract: A store management system includes: a first setting unit that sets a first priority indicating a degree of priority about a display, for a plurality of display items relating to a store; a second setting unit that sets a second priority that is different from the first priority, on the basis of a captured image of the store; a sorting unit that rearranges the plurality of display items on the basis of the first priority and the second priority; and a display unit that displays the plurality of display items, in order of rearrangement performed by the sorting unit. According to such a store management system, it is possible to appropriately display a plurality of information about the store.

Abstract: Source and drain contacts that provide improved contact resistance and contact interface stability for transistors employing silicon and germanium source and drain materials, related transistor structures, integrated circuits, systems, and methods of fabrication are disclosed. Such source and drain contacts include a contact layer of co-deposited titanium and silicon on the silicon and germanium source and drain. The disclosed source and drain contacts improve transistor performance including switching speed and reliability.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that identifies first graphics data that is associated with spatially proximate positions. The technology identifies second graphics data that is associated with spatially proximate positions, and interleaves the first and the second graphics data across a plurality of storage tiles.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing signals to a device may include one or more radiofrequency signal generators, and electrically-small transmission line, which couples signals from the one or more RF signal generators to the fabrication chamber. The apparatus may additionally include a reactive circuit to transform impedance of the electrically-small transmission line from a region of relatively high impedance-sensitivity to region of relatively low impedance-sensitivity.

Abstract: Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate including a first conductive pathway electrically coupled to a power source; a mold material on the package substrate including a first microelectronic component embedded in the mold material, a second microelectronic component embedded in the mold material, and a TMV, between the first and second microelectronic components, the TMV electrically coupled to the first conductive pathway; a redistribution layer (RDL) on the mold material including a second conductive pathway electrically coupled to the TMV; and a third microelectronic component on the RDL and electrically coupled to the second conductive pathway, wherein the second conductive pathway electrically couples the TMV, the first microelectronic component, and the third microelectronic component.

Abstract: A medical image processing device acquires an endoscopic image obtained by imaging a subject with an endoscope, detects a gravity direction in the endoscopic image on the basis of the endoscopic image, generates a gravity direction indication indicating the gravity direction, and displays the gravity direction indication on a display. An endoscope system includes the medical image processing device and the endoscope.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to provision of platform sealing secrets using a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with Trusted Computing Based (TCB) Recoverability are described. In an embodiment, decode circuitry decodes an instruction to determine data to be cryptographically protected and a challenge for a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) circuitry. Execution circuitry executes the decoded instruction to cryptographically protect the data in accordance with a key, wherein the PUF circuitry is to generate the key in response to the challenge. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of performing transmission between a base station and a terminal device according to a frame structure over an unlicensed spectrum in a wireless network that supports communications over both a licensed spectrum and the unlicensed spectrum. The method comprises signaling information indicating the frame structure and performing transmission between the base station and the terminal device on an unlicensed carrier in the unlicensed spectrum according to the frame structure. There is also provided the corresponding apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a scissors-type medical treatment tool capable of not only local tissue fixation in an incision/cutting part but also heating on side surfaces of electrodes of a forceps/tweezers type. It has been found out that a tissue part in which tissue is nipped between blades and a tissue part which is brought into abutment against side surfaces of the blades can be heated simultaneously or sequentially by optimizing arrangement of microwave application electrodes and microwave receiver electrodes in a blade pair (in particular, by causing coagulation to be performed evenly on the left and right of the blades), and the present invention has therefore been achieved.

Abstract: A control device includes: a power source configured to supply a predetermined power-supply voltage to an imaging element; a voltage detector configured to detect an output voltage value of the power-supply voltage supplied by the power source; and a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to supply an adjusted voltage value from the power source to the imaging element based on a voltage value of the power-supply voltage detected in the imaging element and on the output voltage value detected by the voltage detector, calculate a delay time from timing when the voltage value of the power-supply voltage is detected in the imaging element until timing when the power source supplies the adjusted voltage value to the imaging element, and control supply timing when the power source supplies the adjusted voltage value based on the delay time.

Abstract: A method for controlling corrected target hydraulic brake force to be generated by estimating friction coefficient variation depending on a bushing degree of a brake friction material and a season change, may include: determining a hydraulic brake torque required for hydraulic braking according to a driver's request brake torque; converting the hydraulic brake torque into a brake hydraulic pressure by use of a torque factor which is a friction capability of a brake friction material in the hydraulic brake torque; and determining a correction amount of the torque factor according to a season and a bushing degree of the brake friction material, which influences a friction coefficient which is an element of the torque factor.