Abstract: A method for controlling a touchless lavatory is disclosed herein. The method includes forming one or more groups of sensors from a plurality of sensors, determining that a trigger event is detected from the first sensor, and identifying a first group of sensors of the one or more groups of sensors to which the first sensor belongs. The method further includes requesting an ambient light measurement from each of the plurality of sensor. The method further includes computing an average ambient light value based on the ambient light measurement, comparing the ambient light measurement of the first sensor to the average ambient light value of all the sensors, determining that the ambient light measurement of the first sensor is less than the average ambient light value of all the sensors, and determining that the first sensor trigger event is valid.

Abstract: A method for driving an electro-optic display, the display having at least one display pixel coupled to a storage capacitor, the method include applying a waveform sequence to the at least one display pixel and connecting the storage capacitor to a first bias voltage, and maintaining a last frame voltage level on the display pixel after the completion of the applied waveform.

Abstract: A portable insert for an aircraft removable from an aircraft galley, the portable insert comprising an energy storage; a receiving portion configured to receive a food and/or beverage; and a heater, wherein the energy storage is configured to supply power to the heater to heat the food and/or beverage when the galley insert has been removed from the aircraft galley.

Abstract: A door assembly for an aircraft galley is provided. The door assembly comprises a support frame and a door, wherein the support frame comprises a first engagement feature and a second engagement feature. When the door is in a closed position, the first engagement feature is configured to engage the door at a first engagement point and the second engagement feature is configured to engage the door at a second engagement point. The door comprises an internal structure, wherein the internal structure comprises a structural component that extends across the door between the first and second engagement points, such that the first engagement feature, the second engagement feature and the structural component provide kick retention when the door is in the closed position.

Abstract: An aircraft galley for an aircraft, the aircraft galley comprising: a storage compartment accessible through an opening; and a door movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position the door covers the opening, wherein in the open position the door provides a work surface.

Abstract: A modular case for an air ionizer is disclosed herein. The modular case includes a top compartment having a first opening, the top compartment configured to house a first circuit board, a removable compartment configured to house a second circuit board, the removable compartment physically and electrically isolating the second circuit board from the first circuit board, a front compartment having a second opening, the front compartment coupled to and disposed below the top compartment, the front compartment configured to receive and house the removable compartment, a top lid configured to cover the first opening, and a front lid configured to cover the second opening.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically adjusting settings and positions of fully adjustable seats are disclosed herein. The method including receiving, by a processor, data from at least one sensor that is operatively coupled to the processor, the data including a representation of a size and a shape of a passenger, identifying, by the processor, at least one of the size or the shape of the passenger based on the data, determining, by the processor, at least one determined seat position for the adjustable seat based at least in part on one of the size or the shape of the passenger, and sending, by the processor, instructions to the adjustable seat to adjust the adjustable seat to a first determined seat position.

Abstract: A latching mechanism for an aircraft galley, the aircraft galley comprising a door and a frame, the latching mechanism comprising: a latch bolt movable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the latch bolt is receivable by a latch striker to latch the aircraft galley door when the door is closed and the latch bolt is in the extended position; an actuator configured to move the latch bolt from the extended position to the retracted position; and a handle, wherein the handle is movable from a closed position to an open position to cause the actuator to move the latch bolt from the extended position to the retracted position, wherein the handle is configured to be pushed to move from the closed position to the open position.

Abstract: A system and method for remote control of a passenger control unit (PCU) via a mobile communications device includes a wireless controller and receiver installed between the PCU and a PCU control module connected to actuators for seats and other peripheral devices. The wireless controller includes a set of contacts mapped to a matrix of switches within the PCU. The wireless receiver receives a contact signal from a user device configured for execution of a graphical interface of virtual contacts mapped to the set of contacts. When the user engages a virtual contact, the contact signal indicates the engaged virtual contact and the wireless controller engages the corresponding contact. The PCU control module detects the engaged contact as an engagement of the corresponding PCU switch and signals the appropriate seat or peripheral device actuator. Seats and peripheral devices may be simultaneously controlled via the physical PCU or via mobile device.

Abstract: A method of monitoring aircraft including removing a conical collector through a cabin exhaust valve of the aircraft wherein ambient cabin air has been driven from the cabin over a reagent fluid within the conical collector in order to collect a representative sample of the cabin air within the reagent fluid.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for detecting an antimicrobial surface coating on a substrate including the steps of applying an anionic agent to a surface of the substrate, allowing the anionic agent to bond to antimicrobial surface coating present on the substrate, removing unbonded anionic agent, subjecting the surface of the substrate to a predetermined process to effect a change in the bonded anionic agent, observing the change, and verifying, based on the observed change, the presence of antimicrobial surface coating on the substrate. Further disclosed are antimicrobial surface coating solutions, methods for their application, and methods for reactivated antimicrobial surface coatings.

Abstract: The disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting, monitoring, and/or treating obstructive sleep apnea, as well as other conditions, using vital sign and/or biometric data collected and/or imputed from one or more photoplethysmography sensors in conjunction with vital sign and/or biometric data from one or more additional sensors such as activity, body position, ECG, HR, or SpO2 levels, e.g., as feedback to control therapy and/or to titrate therapy on a periodic basis.

Abstract: A carriage slider and rail assembly is disclosed. The assembly may include a linear rail including one or more surfaces that define a channel. The assembly may include a carriage slider sub-assembly. The sub-assembly may include a slider configured to be axially displaceable within the channel of the linear rail. The sub-assembly may include one or more overload protection lobes including a first overload protection lobe positioned adjacent to a first end of the slider and a second overload protection lobe positioned adjacent to a second end of the slider. The sub-assembly may include one or more friction reducing portions. The overload protection lobes may make contact with the channel of the linear rail when an abuse load is applied to provide overload protection. The overload protection lobes may be configured to not make contact with the channel of the linear rail when an abuse load is not applied.

Abstract: A color display, including an electrophoretic medium, wherein the display includes a processor configured to transform image source colors, which are typically standard RGB values, to electrophoretic display device colors, for example ACeP device colors, for displaying the image in the best possible colors on the color display. The processor uses a look up table that depends upon eight primary colors that are produced by the electrophoretic medium.

Abstract: A transistor backplane structure includes multiple pixel structures and a wire distribution layer. Each of the pixel structures includes a substrate, a transistor disposed on the substrate, and a first insulation layer disposed on the transistor. Multiple conductive vias are disposed in the first insulation layer. The wire distribution layer is disposed on the pixel structures. The stretchable electrode layer at a side of the wire distribution layer away from the pixel structure is connected to a contact of the transistor of the pixel structure through a conductive via in the first insulation layer of the pixel structure to form a pixel electrode.

Abstract: A conventional head-mounted display (HMDs) can display a virtual image at a fixed focus (e.g., infinite focus). If the user looks at an object that appears closer than the virtual image, then accommodation by the user's eyes will cause the virtual image to appear blurry. The HMDs disclosed herein include a dynamic electro-active focusing element that changes the focus of the virtual image to account for accommodation by the user. This dynamic electro-active focusing element may include a curved layer of electro-active material, such as nematic or bi-stable (e.g., cholesteric) liquid crystal, disposed between a static concave mirror and a convex surface on a beam splitter or other optical element. Changing the refractive index of the electro-active material causes the focus of the dynamic electro-active focusing element, making it possible to shift the virtual image's focus in as the user's eyes change focus.