Abstract: A landscape edging system forms landscape edging by connecting landscape edging units end-to-end and securing them to ground. The landscape edging system includes landscape edging units, a landscape edging end connector, and landscape spikes. The end connector has first and second legs that define lower spike receivers. The first and second landscape edging units define fitting recesses below upper spike receivers. The legs of the end connector are press-fit into the fitting recesses of adjacent landscape edging units to establish mortise-and-tenon connections between the end connector and the landscape edging units. This aligns the upper and lower spike receivers so that first and second landscape spikes can be driven through a first pair of aligned upper and lower spike receivers and a second pair of aligned upper and lower spike receivers, respectively, into the ground.

Abstract: The present invention, relates to oat-based dispersions, to food products containing said oat-based dispersions, and to processes for forming the aforementioned products, wherein the processes include reducing the particle size of oat raw material, preferably by at least one of high-pressure homogenisation, microfluidization and wet milling.

Abstract: A robot for servicing metal equipment in a hydrocarbon refinery includes a robot. The robot includes a body and a plurality of magnetic wheels operatively attached to the body. The plurality of magnetic wheels are operable to attached the robot to a metal surface of the metal equipment. The robot also includes a plurality of propellers coupled to the body of the robot.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-sensitive recording material, wherein the color layer contains at least one removable dye, more particularly a dye that can be removed in the waste paper cycle; to a process for decoloring a heat-sensitive recording material in order to obtain a fibrous material mixture, comprising the steps of providing a mixture of the heat-sensitive recording material and at least one other paper type, more particularly at least one waste paper type, and subsequently decoloring the mixture in a deinking process in order to obtain a fibrous material mixture; to a fibrous material mixture obtained by means of said process; to a process for producing a recycled paper comprising the fibrous material mixture by compressing and dewatering the fibrous material mixture; and to a recycled paper which can be obtained by means of said process.

Abstract: A security element with increased protection against forgery includes at least one first region with structures that reflect an image motif in different spatial regions, such that a moving image is produced for an observer when a light source is moved correspondingly and/or when the viewing angle is changed. When the light source is moved and/or the viewing angle is changed, a movement of the image motif occurs at the same time. Furthermore, an optical effect layer is provided which defines a second region. The optical effect layer is formed as a thin-layer element, wherein the structures are covered by the optical effect layer over their entire surface or partially.

Abstract: A vehicle door provided with a weatherstripping includes a sash. The sash includes a first member designed to extend along a roof of a vehicle body, and a second member designed to extend along a pillar of the vehicle body. The weatherstripping includes a first linear section designed to extend along the roof, a second linear section designed to extend along the pillar, and a corner section coupling the first linear section and the second linear section to each other. The first member is obtained through roll forming. The second member is obtained through press forming in such a manner as to include the corner. The second linear section and the corner section lie on the second member. The first linear section and the second linear section are each provided on a side near the corner section with a movement preventing member configured to prevent the weatherstripping from moving.

Abstract: The invention shows a gas generator comprising a pressure chamber (22) filled with compressed gas which is sealed against an environment of the gas generator (10) by a membrane (16), a solid propellant (30) received in the pressure chamber (22), and an igniter unit (14) adjacent to the pressure chamber (22). The solid propellant (30) is surrounded by a cage-type open fuel holder (32) receiving the same which protrudes into the pressure chamber (22) and is directly adjacent to the igniter unit (14). Accordingly, the pressure chamber (22) is free from solid propellant outside the fuel holder (32).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of electrochemical energy storage material preparation, and discloses an asphalt-based hollow activated carbon microsphere and a preparation method thereof, an electrode sheet, and a supercapacitor. The preparation method of the asphalt-based hollow activated carbon microsphere comprises the following steps of: (1) mixing an asphalt of low ash content with a solvent to obtain a mixed asphalt solution; (2) subjecting the mixed asphalt solution to spray pyrolysis in an inert atmosphere to obtain a hollow carbon microsphere; (3) mixing the hollow carbon microsphere with an activating agent, and activating to obtain activated carbon; (4) subjecting the activated carbon to acid pickling and water washing to remove impurities, and drying to obtain the hollow activated carbon microsphere. The method has the features of simple process steps, low preparation cost, being suitable for continuous production and the like.

Abstract: A method of making zeolite-Y particles may include dissolving a silica source material into a first solvent to form a first solution and dissolving an alumina source material into a second solvent to form a second solution. The method may also include combining the first solution with the second solution to form a combined mixture. The combined mixture may include a templating agent. The method may include aging the combined mixture for a time period of from 10 hours to 30 hours to form a zeolite precursor solution and heating the zeolite precursor solution at a temperature of from 50° C. to 70° C. to form an intermediate mixture. The method may include heating the intermediate mixture at a temperature of from 80° C. to 120° C. to form the zeolite-Y particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxide glass composition having a low dielectric constant and dielectric dissipation factor. The oxide glass composition according to the present invention can provide a glass material for PCBs, glass fibers and glass substrates having a low dielectric constant and dielectric dissipation factor properties. The oxide glass composition according to the present invention has a low softening temperature and excellent clarification characteristics, and thus can solve various problems of existing technologies.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed at a method and system for detecting at least one toxin in a sample using a microfluidic device. The sample is mixed with a reagent within a mixing module to generate a mixture solution. The mixture solution is then collected in a detection chamber and tested for its fluorescence. The reagent being used includes beads that have been functionalized with the toxin of interest and BSA molecules.

Abstract: An optical waveguide system and an augmented reality device are disclosed and have advantages of reducing the light leakage rate and improving the light energy efficiency. The optical waveguide system comprises an optical waveguide, the optical waveguide comprises a first side face and a second side face opposite each other; the first side face is provided with a grating; the second side face is provided with a light-leakage prevention element configured to reduce light emitted from the second side face. The light-leakage prevention element may reflect, diffract or absorb light incident to the light-leakage prevention element. Therefore, light emitted from the second side face of the optical waveguide (1) can be reduced, that is, a light leakage phenomenon is reduced; and the light can also be reflected to the grating by reflection or diffraction, thereby improving the utilization rate of light energy, that is, improving the light efficiency.

Abstract: A system includes an imaging system, a spatial filter, and a detector. The system is configured to receive a plurality of diffraction orders. The spatial filter is configured to block one or more undesired diffraction orders of the plurality of diffraction orders and to pass one or more desired diffraction orders of the plurality of diffraction orders. The spatial filter includes one or more obscurations having an angular dependent radius that varies azimuthally. The detector is configured to receive and measure an intensity of the one or more desired diffraction orders. The spatial filter is motorized.

Abstract: In a charging roll, at least one groove extending in a direction within ±46° relative to a circumferential direction is regularly formed in an axial direction on an outer peripheral surface of an elastic body layer. The groove has a width of 4 to 30 ?m and a depth of 2 to 12 ?m. A planar part being a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the elastic body layer other than the groove has a width of 4 to 30 ?m. A specific relationship is present between an angle of the direction in which the groove extends relative to the circumferential direction and a ratio of the width of the groove to the width of the planar part. The surface layer includes a binder polymer and roughness forming particles. The roughness forming particles are respectively arranged on the planar part and the groove.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum being rotatable in a rotational direction about a rotational axis. The cartridge also includes a coupling operatively connected to the photosensitive drum The coupling includes a first projecting surface that extends in a direction away from the photosensitive, a second projecting surface that is downstream of the first projecting surface in the rotational direction, the second projecting surface extending in a direction that is away from the photosensitive drum, an inclined portion at least a part of which extends about the rotational axis and in the rotational direction between a position upstream of the first projecting surface in the rotational direction to a position adjacent to the first projecting surface, and a third projecting surface projecting outwardly in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a motor housing. The electronic device including at least one heat generating element may include a printed board assembly on which the heat generating element is disposed; a battery; a battery support frame configured to support the battery therein; and a motor disposed between the printed board assembly and the battery support frame. The motor may include a motor housing including a first surface configured to directly or indirectly contact the printed board assembly and to receive a heat of the heat generating element from the printed board assembly, and a second surface configured to directly or indirectly contact the battery support frame and to transfer a heat of the heat generating element to the battery support frame.

Abstract: A computing unit for ascertaining the viewing vector of a user of smart glasses. The computing unit receives first image data recorded using a first sensor unit at a first time interval and generates a respective image of an eye of the user based on the recorded first image data. The computing unit ascertains first rotational speed data of the user's eye which is recorded using a second sensor unit at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval. The computing unit ascertains a first viewing vector information of the user of the smart glasses based on the generated image of the eye and ascertains at least one second viewing vector information of the eye based on the received first rotational speed data of the eye. The computing unit ascertains the viewing vector of the eye based on the ascertained first and/or second viewing vector information.

Abstract: A method is provided. The method is for detecting and automatically filling user interface (UI) elements of a page that are not visible on a screen. The method is executed by an interface engine implemented as a computer program within a computing environment. The method includes analyzing document object model (DOM) of the page to extract DOM text of relevant UI elements of the UI elements. The method includes performing computer vision (CV) analysis to determine types the relevant UI elements and extrapolating target UI elements of an invisible region of the page from the relevant UI elements.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device provides for transitioning between simulated lighting effects. In some examples, the electronic device applies a simulated lighting effect to an image. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for applying a filter to an image. In some examples, the electronic device provides for a reduced filter interface. In some examples, the electronic device provides a visual aid displayed in a viewfinder.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information exchange method. In the information exchange method, an electronic device is configured to display a first interface in a first display region of a display. After obtaining recommendation information, the electronic device may reduce the first display region, and display the recommendation information in a second display region. Subsequently, when detecting a first gesture operation of a user, the electronic device may open, in response to the first gesture operation, an interface corresponding to the recommendation information. According to the information exchange method, the user can conveniently view the recommendation information and directly open, based on the first gesture operation, the interface corresponding to the recommendation information.