Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a flexible carrier, an electronic component disposed over the flexible carrier, and a first flexible connection element configured to connect the flexible carrier and the electronic component. The first flexible connection element is configured to extend along a deformation direction of the electronic device. An interconnection structure is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods are provided for a filtered cap air filter configured to be coupled with an air intake system of an internal combustion engine. The filtered cap air filter comprises a filter medium that is retained between a base and a filtered cap. The filter medium and the filtered cap are fabricated to remove contaminants and particulate matter from an intake airstream. In some embodiments, the filter medium and filtered cap may be configured to be treated with a filter oil composition to enhance air cleaning properties of the filter media. Wire supports may be incorporated into the filter medium and filtered cap to provide additional strength and durability to the filtered cap air filter. The base includes a flange and an opening that form an airtight connection between the filtered cap air filter and an air intake duct of the air intake system.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing and controlling solar panel arrays are provided. The solar panel array may include one or more articulating joints that may provide variability in the arrangement of solar panels, which may allow the solar panel array to be distributed over varying types of underlying surfaces. The articulating joints may allow orientations of solar panels to be different relative to one another. The articulating joints may convey rotational force across the joints, so that a rotational force used to drive a first solar panel may also be conveyed across the joint and used to drive a second solar panel. The controls system may include row-specific semi-autonomous, or autonomous, controllers as well as controllers to interface with multiple rows. The controllers may include sensors to measure system power generation and basic operations aspects of the solar field to directly measure, or infer, module shading within the solar field.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an air filter configured to be mounted onto air inlets of turbochargers and superchargers. The air filter a proximal base including an inlet receiver configured to receive an air inlet, a clamp to secure the air inlet within the inlet receiver, and a first opening aligned with a screw mechanism of the clamp. A filter medium fastened to the proximal base is configured to remove particulate matter and other contaminates from an incoming air stream. A distal end cap fastened to the filter medium comprises a second opening aligned with the first opening. A conduit within an interior cavity of the air filter is disposed between the first opening and the second opening, facilitating tightening and loosening the clamp by extending an appropriate tool through the interior cavity so as to engage the screw mechanism of the clamp.

Abstract: A pleat counter and methods are provided to accurately count the number of pleats in a corrugated sheet of material to be used for the production of air filters. The pleat counter comprises a pleat detector mounted underneath a mounting board for counting the pleats. The mounting board is configured to position the pleat detector adjacent to the corrugated sheet of filter material. The pleat detector includes one or more sensors configured to detect the presence of individual pleats comprising the corrugated sheet. The pleat counter includes an interface configured to enable coupling the pleat counter with a data processing system. The data processing system may comprise any of a desktop, a tablet, a server, a mobile phone, a media player, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a personal communicator, a network router or hub, a wireless access point (AP) or repeater, a set-top box, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A gas shield generator positionable over open parisons in a Blow/Fill/Seal machine prior to container forming, filling and sealing minimizes likelihood of particulate contamination of open parisons while the open parisons are transported to a parison blowing and filling station.

Abstract: There is provided a method of estimating flowrate in a pipeline based on acoustic behaviour of the pipe. First acoustic data is measured from the pipeline. A flowrate of the fluid in the pipeline is then estimated. The estimation is based on the first acoustic data and based on a correlation established between second acoustic data and corresponding flowrate data from an experimental pipeline. The correlation is established by a machine learning process (which may include the use of an artificial neural network, such as an autoencoder). The second acoustic data and corresponding flowrate data are used as inputs to the machine learning process.

Abstract: An electronic device package includes a substrate, a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die and an encapsulant. The substrate includes a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate defines a cavity recessed from the first surface. The first semiconductor die is disposed in the cavity. The second semiconductor die is disposed over and electrically connected to the first semiconductor die. The encapsulant is disposed in the cavity of the substrate. The encapsulant encapsulates a first sidewall of the first semiconductor die, and exposes a second sidewall of the first semiconductor die.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a hydraulic elevator system involves setting a baseline slowdown distance based on initial tuning, establishing a target leveling time in 0.1-second intervals, monitoring elevator operations to capture high speed, transition distance, leveling speed, leveling distance data, and adjusting the reference slowdown distance to align actual leveling times with the target time. A logarithmic averaging method is employed to calculate the reference slowdown distance, ensuring consistent elevator performance by smoothing out data variations.

Abstract: A gas shield positionable over open parisons in a Blow/Fill/Seal machine prior to container forming, filling and sealing minimizes likelihood of particulate contamination of open parisons while the open parisons are transported to a container forming, filling and sealing station.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods are provided for a pass-through dongle for accessing and interacting with vehicle performance and status data. The dongle includes a first connector for plugging into an OBD-II connector of a vehicle. A wireless connection may be established between the dongle and a mobile device that provides access to and interactivity with the vehicle performance and status data. A second connector comprising the dongle is configured to receive an auxiliary device that is configured to access vehicle status data by way of the OBD-II connection. The dongle simultaneously establishes the wireless connection with the mobile device and provides the auxiliary device with access to the vehicle performance and status data. In some embodiments, the dongle is configured to operate in conjunction with a vehicle diagnostic communication system that includes a vehicle performance system whereby the vehicle performance and status data may be interactively accessed.

Abstract: A combined mass airflow sensor and hydrocarbon trap is provided for absorbing evaporative hydrocarbon emissions from an air intake duct of an internal combustion engine. The combined mass airflow sensor and hydrocarbon trap comprises a duct that supports a hydrocarbon absorbing sheet in an unfolded configuration within a housing. The duct communicates an airstream from an air filter to the air intake duct during operation of the internal combustion engine. An opening in the housing receives a mass airflow sensor into the duct, such that the mass airflow sensor is disposed within the airstream. Guide vanes extending across the duct reduce air turbulence within the airstream passing by the mass airflow sensor. Ports disposed along the duct allow the evaporative hydrocarbon emissions to be drawn into the interior and arrested by the hydrocarbon absorbing sheet when the internal combustion engine is not operating.

Abstract: A novel emissions control watercraft (STAXcraft) solving a long-felt but unsolved need regarding disadvantages associated with prior-art emissions servicing watercraft, the disadvantages selected from the group, but not limited to, the use of tugboats, securing or mooring servicing watercraft to a serviced vessel, additional expenses and time-delays and inefficiencies of land-based approaches, increased toxic emissions, increased greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, danger from falling cargo, tanker safety, alongside mooring in narrow channels preventing other OGV's to pass safely, and cargo tank emissions.

Abstract: An electronic package includes a pad, a dielectric layer, a bump, and a conductive element. The dielectric layer encapsulates the pad and includes an opening exposing the pad. The bump is disposed over the pad. The conductive element is disposed in the opening between the pad and the bump. The conductive element is configured to mitigate a shrinkage of an electrical path between the pad and the bump occupied by an expansion of the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A method of for mixing gases is described. The gases may include a first and a second gas wherein a gas mixing system accepts the gases and operates in a plurality of modes of operation to produce a discharge gas including a mixture thereof, and the second gas may be supplied without the first gas, and the first gas may be supplied without the second gas. The gas mixing system may be integrated with a gas processing system to produce a biogas-related product. The gas mixing system may be a compressor, a jet compressor, an ejector, an eductor, venturi jet pump, eductor-jet pump, and/or a thermocompressor, that uses a first stream of high-pressure gas to entrain a relatively lower pressure second gas, mixes the two, and discharges a third gas mixture that is of a sufficiently elevated pressure to be supplied to other areas of a production facility.

Abstract: A package structure is provided. The package structure includes an amplifier and a filter structure. The amplifier has an active surface. The filter structure is disposed over the amplifier, and communicates with the amplifier through a first signal path substantially vertical to the active surface of the amplifier.

Abstract: Modeling performance of solar trackers at a solar site in order to accurately predict performance while subject to the limitations of available processing resources. Certain aspects of this invention include transposition modeling each individual bay of a solar site with terrain-adaptive backtracking schedules that prevent interrow shading. Further aspects include simplifying the bay composition of the solar site and/or the backtracking schedule, such as by averaging or otherwise choosing a representative angle amongst a plurality of angles, in order to simplify the modeling performance while still obtaining an accurate result.

Abstract: A semiconductor substrate and a package structure including the same are provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface includes a filtering region. The second surface is opposite to the first surface and includes an amplifying region.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems that include structural supports and louvers, and may also include dampers, actuators and wiring in pre-assembled modules that may be transported to a building site, tilted up into place, and installed. Embodiments of the present invention also provide methods and apparatus for providing pre-assembled modular structural louvered systems which include integrated vertical and horizontal structural supports, allowing for the elimination of some vertical and horizontal wall structures in a building by relying on the structural support provided in the modular louvered systems, thereby making more space available in the building for louvers and airflow.