Abstract: An archery bow is provided having a cam assembly including a first bowstring track and a second bowstring track laterally separated by a distance, and adapted to guide different portions of a bowstring. The bowstring tracks can be spaced from one another along an axis of rotation of the cam assembly so that the loads exerted by the bowstring portions are substantially balanced. Accordingly, the loads are inhibited from urging the cam to lean out of vertical alignment and/or twisting the limb. The cam assembly can include a power cable track which guides a cable centered on the axis of rotation, and which is within a central longitudinal limb plane. Large, dynamic loads exerted by the power cable through the cam assembly can be centered to inhibit cam lean and limb torque. A related method of inhibiting limb twist, and a split bowstring also are provided.

Abstract: In conventional non-destructive inspection devices using magnetism, the subject of inspection was limited to the surface layer of the test object as a result of the skin effect, and it was not possible to perform flaw detection inspection at the interior or reverse surface of thick-structured test objects. The effect of the surface effect was eliminated by imparting an external signal canceling the detection output of the test object surface layer from the detection output of a magnetic field resulting from eddy currents induced in the test object. As a result, it has become possible to extract the detection output of the test object interior that had been masked by the detection output of the test object surface layer, and it has become possible to perform thickness inspection and flaw detection of the reverse surface and interior or a test object.

Abstract: Provided are a container terminal and a control method thereof that enhance a cargo handling efficiency by reducing a movement of a yard crane to a minimum possible extent. A first transfer area 44 is provided outside one end portion of a storage lane 20, and a transfer stand 50 is provided to the first transfer area 44. The transfer stand 50 transfers a container k between a circulating transport vehicle 31 and a shuttle vehicle 32. The shuttle vehicle 32 transports the container k between the transfer stand 50 and a yard crane 13 or 14 provided to the storage lane 20 by moving back and forth in a field adjacent to the storage lane 20.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for a voltage regulator implemented as an integrated circuit (IC). The voltage regulator may include a power transistor configured to receive and convert an input voltage from a voltage source to an output voltage, and a feedback loop configured to regulate the output voltage in response to a change from a desired level. The feedback loop may include an error amplifier configured to determine and amplify a value difference between the output voltage and a reference output voltage, a voltage divider configured to generate voltage proportional to the output voltage such that a ratio is the value difference, and a first unity gain buffer configured to increase stability of the IC. In some examples, the feedback loop may include a second unity gain buffer and/or an overshoot suppressor circuit configured to reduce an output voltage fluctuation when a current consumed by the load is changed suddenly.

Abstract: A system, device, and methods of interactive automated driving are disclosed. One example method includes receiving a current value from one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle and determining a current vehicle state based on the current value. The method also includes generating a target vehicle state based on the current vehicle state and including a range of target values and generating a desired vehicle state. The desired vehicle state includes a desired value based on one or more driver inputs received at one or more vehicle interfaces. If the desired value falls inside the range of target values, the method also includes sending a command to one or more vehicle systems to change the vehicle state from the target vehicle state to the desired vehicle state.

Abstract: An electrolyte composition for a magnesium electrochemical cell includes a magnesium salt dissolved in an ionic liquid. The ionic liquid includes an organic cation and a first boron cluster anion. The magnesium salt has a magnesium cation and a second boron cluster anion. The magnesium electrochemical cell includes an anode that contains elemental magnesium when charged, a cathode suitable for magnesium insertion or deposition, and the aforementioned electrolyte composition that is in ionic communication with the anode, the cathode, or both.

Abstract: A liquid-fuel synthesizing method includes a synthesizing step of synthesizing liquid fuels by making a synthesis gas including a carbon monoxide gas and a hydrogen gas as the main components and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid react with each other in a reactor, and a synthesis gas supply step of supplying the synthesis gas to the reactor from a plurality of supply devices provided in the reactor so as to have different heights.

Abstract: A printing position and cutting position adjusting method includes: printing on a medium an origin point adjusting image having multiple checking blocks using an ink-jet head; cutting the medium using a cutting head along a contour of the origin point adjusting image; removing a part of the medium cut by the cutting head from the medium; and inputting an amount of misalignment between a position at which the image is printed on the medium and a position at which the medium is cut to a controller. The amount of misalignment is inputted as a correction value between the printing position and the cutting position. The printing of the origin point adjusting image or the cutting of the medium includes a check process of producing a position shift per a predetermined dimension by each checking block in a main scanning direction or a sub scanning direction of the ink-jet head.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rejecter for a product sorting system comprising at least two different co-located rejection means wherein each rejection means is independently activatable to deflect a product from a sorting stream.

Abstract: In various aspects, systems and methods are provided for operating a molten carbonate fuel cell, such as a fuel cell assembly, with increased production of syngas while also reducing or minimizing the amount of CO2 exiting the fuel cell in the cathode exhaust stream. This can allow for improved efficiency of syngas production while also generating electrical power.

Abstract: A tool includes a handle that defines an axis, a stabilizer mounted along a length of the handle and a hook mounted to the handle, the hook angled with respect to the handle.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for a breather vent configured to be mounted onto a crankcase breather inlet of an internal combustion engine, such that particulate matter and contaminates are removed from an airstream entering into an interior of the crankcase. The breather vent comprises a base including a fitting receiver configured to retain a breather end of an adaptive fitting. An inlet end of the adaptive fitting is configured to be coupled with the crankcase breather inlet of the engine. A filter medium is fastened to the base and configured to remove the particulate matter and contaminates from the incoming airstream. The filter medium circumferentially surrounds the interior cavity and forms an exterior perimeter of a portion of the cavity. A cap is affixed to the filter medium, such that the filter medium is retained between the base and the cap.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to low cycle fatigue testing are described. For example, some embodiments may contain a control box, two fitting connections, a pressure gauge, a plurality of clamps, a plurality of hydraulic cylinders, a plurality of control cables, and a strain gauge, for testing the low cycle fatigue properties of a testing specimen, for example, a steel tube umbilical.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computer-aided generation of an executable control program for controlling a control system with an electronic computing unit, wherein the functionality of the control program is at least partially described in a graphical model, and the graphical model includes at least one sub-model with at least one sub-functionality, wherein the graphical model is first translated into model code in a high-level programming language, and the model code is subsequently compiled into the control program that is executable on the control system. Manageability of sub-model functions of sub-models within a graphical model is improved by the means that the sub-model is translated into a sub-model code function in the high-level programming language, that the model is translated into comprehensive model code in the high-level programming language, and that the sub-model code function is called from the comprehensive model code by a pointer to the sub-model code function.

Abstract: The present disclosure is in the area of track alignment machines that maintain, adjust, or measure railroad track alignment. In particular, the present disclosure is directed toward reference systems and their use, including receivers, projectors, and combinations of projectors and receivers used to measure track position.

Abstract: A synthesis gas production apparatus (reformer) to be used for a synthesis gas production step in a GTL (gas-to-liquid) process is prevented from being contaminated by metal components. A method of suppressing metal contamination of a synthesis gas production apparatus operating for a GTL process that includes a synthesis gas production step of producing synthesis gas by causing natural gas and gas containing steam and/or carbon dioxide to react with each other for reforming in a synthesis gas production apparatus in which, at the time of separating and collecting a carbon dioxide contained in the synthesis gas produced in the synthesis gas production step and recycling the separated and collected carbon dioxide as source gas for the reforming reaction in the synthesis gas production step, a nickel concentration in the recycled carbon dioxide is not higher than 0.05 ppmv.

Abstract: A system for providing power over Ethernet emergency lighting is disclosed. The system includes a rechargeable battery pack that is charged without interfering with data signals present on a power over Ethernet link that provides normal lighting. The system includes a power loss monitor for monitoring the presence of normal lighting power present on a power over Ethernet link without interference.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the manufacture of a partially transparent thin-layer solar module in which the opaque layers (primarily the semiconductor layer and the back contact layer) comprise defined surface regions which lack the material of these layers. These surface regions which are free of material may be produced by not coating them during manufacture or by retroactively removing them from the surface regions.

Abstract: Devices configured to direct heat flow are disclosed, as well as methods of forming thereof. A device may include a self-assembling heat flow object. The self-assembling heat flow object may include a material having one or more self-assembling properties that cause the material to react to an environmental stimulus and one or more thermal pathways. An application of the environmental stimulus causes the self-assembling heat flow object to deploy and arrange the one or more thermal pathways for directing thermal energy to one or more locations.

Abstract: The provided is a process for separating by absorption the pyrolysis gas from preparation of lower carbon olefins, wherein a primary absorbent and a secondary absorbent are introduced into the demethanizer to separate by absorption the feedstock of the demethanizer through countercurrent contact therewith at a moderate temperature and pressure, thereby to obtain a top fraction primarily comprising hydrogen and methane and a bottom fraction primarily comprising the absorbents and C2+ fraction, wherein the primary absorbent essentially is a mixed Cn or Cn+ fraction, the secondary absorbent essentially is a Cn? alkane fraction or mixed Cn? or Cn?+ fraction, and wherein n and n? are independently 3, 4 or 5 with the proviso when the secondary absorbent is a mixed fraction, n? is not 3.