Abstract: A vehicle includes a bumper beam and a bumper fascia that covers the bumper beam. An energy absorption member includes a first laterally positioned leg including a mounting flange connected to the bumper beam and a second laterally positioned leg including a mounting flange connected to the bumper beam. The first and second laterally positioned legs are located at opposite sides of a forward facing surface and are spaced-apart from each other.

Abstract: A hood assembly is provided. The hood assembly includes an outer panel having an interior surface and a peripheral edge. The hood assembly further includes a frame mounted to the outer panel. The frame has a contoured section. The contoured section is spaced apart from the interior surface of the outer panel and adjacent a forward portion of the peripheral edge of the outer panel. The contoured section includes an opening disposed on the contoured section so as to facilitate a deformation of the outer panel from a top down load.

Abstract: A packaging tray for an automotive vehicle having a passenger compartment and a cargo area. The cargo area is separated from the passenger compartment by a structural support extending between a rear seat assembly and a rear windshield. The packaging tray includes a first component having interior and exterior surfaces and a second component. The second component includes a base portion and a plurality of standoff portions formed integrally as a one piece structure. An outer surface of the base portion conforms to a shape of the interior surface of the first component. The plurality of standoff portions extend outwardly from an inner surface of the base portion to contact the structural support. The plurality of standoff portions space the base portion apart from the structural support to reduce noise and vibrations from the cargo area entering the passenger compartment.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a B-pillar garnish mounted at a side pillar assembly of the vehicle. The B-pillar garnish includes an airbag jump bracket engaging feature including a hook-shaped engaging portion extending upwardly beyond an end of an outwardly turned flange portion of the airbag jump bracket. The hook-shaped engaging portion includes a stem portion and an enlarged head portion that overhangs the end of the outwardly turned flange portion of the airbag jump bracket that engages the outwardly turned flange portion during an airbag deployment event. The stem portion is located adjacent the end of the outwardly turned flange portion of the airbag jump bracket. The stem portion is arranged to engage the end of the outwardly turned flange portion of the airbag jump bracket to limit movement of an upper end portion of the B-pillar garnish into the occupant compartment of the vehicle.

Abstract: A platform mountable in a lower part of a die casting machine below the platens. The platform includes at least one pair of first and second coupled plates, the first plate affixed to an underlying base of the platform. The second plate is movable between first retracted positions overlaying the first plate to a second extended end-to-end co-planar position relative to the first plate to form an elongated co-planar platform surface. The base can support two pairs of coupled and longitudinally spaced first and second plates. An actuator coupled to each second plate for moving each second plate between the first retracted position and the second extended position.

Abstract: A method for the computer-aided generation of at least one part of an executable control program, particularly a measuring, control, regulating, and/or calibration program, for controlling a control system having at least one electronic processor unit is provided. The functionality of the control program is described at least partially in at least one graphical model and the graphical model is divided in hierarchical levels into submodels. A submodel can be divided nested into submodels of a lower hierarchical level, whereby values for options for the compiling of the graphical model to program code are preset and program code is generated from the model co-compiled to the executable control program. Values for options for the compiling of the graphical model to program code and to the executable control program can be preset thereby granularly with the automatic avoidance of conflicting presettings of values for these options.

Abstract: A polycarbonate resin composition is provided, which exhibits a high flame retardancy, a high impact resistance, and an excellent thermal stability. The polycarbonate resin composition is characterized by containing, per 100 mass parts of (A) a polycarbonate resin, 0.001 to 1 mass part of (B) a metal organosulfonate salt and 0.5 to 5 mass parts of (C) a core/shell graft copolymer that has an Si content of at least 300 ppm and that has a butadienic rubber component for the core, and per 100 mass parts of the core/shell graft copolymer (C), 0.1 to 3 mass parts of (D) a metal salt of an organophosphate ester.

Abstract: Heat transfer management apparatuses are disclosed. In one embodiment, a heat transfer management apparatus includes a composite lamina having an insulator substrate and a plurality of thermal conductor traces coupled to the insulator substrate, where the plurality of thermal conductor traces are arranged into a first enhanced thermal conduction region and a second enhanced thermal conduction region. The heat transfer management apparatus also includes a heat generating component mount coupled to the composite lamina and a temperature sensitive component mount coupled to the composite lamina and positioned distally from the heat generating component mount.

Abstract: Circuit boards and computer-implemented methods for designing circuit boards are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of designing a circuit board having an insulator substrate includes determining, by a computer, a plurality of thermal conductor traces that is arranged to direct heat flux generated by a heat generating component away from a temperature sensitive component, and determining a plurality of electrical connection traces based on an input schematic. At least a portion of the plurality of electrical connection traces incorporate at least a portion of the plurality of thermal conductor traces to define a conductive trace pattern that electrically connects pins of two or more components located on the substrate. The conductive trace pattern includes the plurality of thermal conductor traces and the plurality of electrical connection traces. Disruption of the plurality of thermal conductor traces is avoided while determining the plurality of electrical connection traces.

Abstract: Disclosed are polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fiber separation membranes and a preparation method thereof, and more particularly, to polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fiber separation membranes, which may be usefully used not only for water treatment, but also in the sewage treatment field, such as domestic waste water, industrial wastewater, or the like because the polyvinylidene fluoride hollow fiber separation membranes possess excellent pure water permeability and chemical resistance such as alkali resistance, etc.

Abstract: A liquid material discharge device (20) has a nozzle member (35) provided with a discharge opening (33) through which a liquid material is discharged, a switching valve (51) in communication with the nozzle member, and a discharge controller. The discharge device further includes a pressurization section (60) having a pressurization passage (62) through which the liquid material under pressurization is supplied to the switching valve, and a negative pressure section (70) including a shunt passage (72) where a pressure can be set to be relatively lower than that in the pressurization passage. The switching valve is changed over between a first position at which the discharge opening communicates with the pressurization passage and the discharge opening is cut off from the shunt passage, and a second position where the discharge opening is communicated with the shunt passage and the discharge opening is cut off from the pressurization passage.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to flow rate testing are described. For example, some embodiments may contain a hydraulic power unit, a flow meter, a pressure gauge, an accelerometer, a reservoir containing testing fluid, two fitting connections, and hoses for interconnecting the components in a closed loop, for testing flow rate through a tube and pinpointing the obstruction location inside the tube.

Abstract: A composition including an ionic liquid alkylammonium salt (e.g., tetraalkylammonium cation and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate anion), or an ionic liquid imidazolium salt (e.g., 1,3-dialkylimidazolium cation and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate anion), that have a structure sufficient to exhibit at least partial solubility in one or more Group I-V base stocks. The disclosure also relates to a lubricating oil base stock and lubricating oil containing the composition, a multifunctional functional fluid containing the composition, and a method for improving solubility of an ionic liquid in a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil including a lubricating oil base stock as a major component, and an ionic liquid alkylammonium salt cobase stock, or an ionic liquid imidazolium salt cobase stock, as a minor component.

Abstract: A lithium-air electrochemical cell is provided. The battery comprises: an anode compartment; a cathode compartment; and a lithium ion conductive membrane separating the anode compartment from the cathode compartment. The anode compartment comprises an anode having lithium or a lithium alloy as active metal and a lithium ion electrolyte, while the cathode compartment comprises an air electrode and an ionic liquid capable of supporting the reduction of oxygen. A lithium ion concentration in the cathode compartment is such that the lithium ion concentration is greatest at the lithium ion selective membrane and lowest at the cathode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a military stretcher system. The system includes a military hand-carried stretcher. An adaptor is provided for adapting the stretcher to fasten to a military transportation stretcher holder, typically used on vessels and in vehicles and in aircraft. Advantageously, the adaptor may adapt the stretcher to fasten to the holder (e.g. a racking system) conventionally used to hold a known NATO type stretcher.

Abstract: A plant graft production line for automatically grafting a rootstock and a scion is disclosed. The plant graft production line comprises (a) a closed-loop conveyor; (b) at least one grafting assembly arranged for transporting along said conveyor; a stationary cutting mechanism for cutting exposed rootstock surface; (c) a stationary cutting mechanism for cutting exposed scion surface; (d) a stationary clipping mechanism for clipping superimposed rootstock and scion together. The rootstock holder is arranged as an at least three point grip. The holder comprises a supporting member having a rounded top arranged to support the rootstock and clamping elements.

Abstract: Provided is a biomass pyrolysis apparatus comprising: a combustion furnace that produces a heat quantity by causing a stable property fuel to combust; a pyrolysis gasification furnace that produces a torrefied material, and a pyrolysis gas by pyrolyzing woody biomass by a heat quantity produced by the combustion furnace; and a pyrolysis gas introduction passage that introduces the pyrolysis gas from the pyrolysis gasification furnace into a boiler, into which the torrefied material is introduced.

Abstract: To reduce the attainable actuation times of an electrically actuated friction brake and simultaneously keep the friction brake inexpensive, a second transmission element (8) with an elevation curve (17) is proposed in which a coupling element (15) is provided on a first transmission element (5), and on the coupling element (15) there is arranged a follower element (14) which follows the elevation curve (17) under the action of the electric actuator (12) for the actuation of the first transmission element (5).