Abstract: A test fixture facilitates non-destructive testing of a protective mask. The test fixture includes a mock facial structure, a clamping form that makes a seal around at least part of the facial structure, and can employ the retaining straps of the protective mask to a make a seal around at least part of the facial structure. In use, the protective mask is tested in situ on the facial structure. In some examples, the clamping form has a negative contour of the mock facial structure or of the outer surface of a protective mask that is to be tested. The testing can include repetitive testing of the fit, structural components (e.g., ultrasonic welds and straps), and the degradation of materials as a function of donning/doffing or environmental factors (e.g., temperature and humidity).

Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a number of interposers mounted to the carrier, wherein the number of interposers may be arranged in an irregular pattern.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to EMM-41 materials, methods for making it, and processes for its use. This disclosure also relates to the structure directing agents used in the methods for making the EMM-41 material as well as the synthesis method used to prepare such structure directing agents.

Abstract: An archery bow assembly is provided including an open sided spacer which is mountable to an axle on an archery bow and removable therefrom without removing the axle entirely or partially from a limb of the archery bow. The spacer can mount on the axle adjacent a cam rotatable on the axle, and can include an outer perimeter and an axle aperture. A recess can extend inward from the outer perimeter to the axle aperture so that the axle aperture and recess form a continuous opening. The spacer can be of a C-shape or E-shape. A cup spacer having an outer rim can capture the open sided spacer to secure it to the axle, yet still allow removal from the axle without removing the axle from the limb arms adjacent the cam. Related methods also are provided.

Abstract: Power electronics systems including power electronics device assemblies having cold plates are described. A cold plate includes an S-cell having a body with a graphite or graphite-composite material. The body defines a power device recess. The S-cell is disposed within a cavity of the cold plate. The cold plate further includes a bond material bonding the S-cell to a base wall of the cavity.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and sensory chip for use as a quantum magnetometer. A silicon-based material may be coated with a first metal material and a second metal material to create a substrate. A multi-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) may be transferred onto the substrate. A protective film may be coated on a layer of the multi-layer h-BN. The layer of the multi-layer h-BN may be irradiated for defect generation in the layer of the multi-layer h-BN. An active region of the substrate may be etched. Resist of the substrate may be removed. Contact pads may be created for the substrate. A layer of the first metal material and the second metal material may be coated on the substrate. Additional resist of the substrate may be removed. The substrate may be cut into a plurality of smaller substrates, wherein each smaller substrate of the plurality of smaller substrates includes a h-BN based quantum magnetometer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a processing apparatus that forms protrusions and recesses on a substrate surface by ablation processing using a laser beam.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and sensor chip for use as a quantum magnetometer. An array of nano-pillars may be fabricated. A 2D-material may be transferred on top of the array of nano-pillars. The array of nano-pillars and the 2D-material may be combined with a sensor chip, wherein the array of nano-pillars and the 2D-material may be combined with the sensor chip at a constriction region of the sensor chip.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and bipolar plate structure for a fuel cell stack inside a polymer-electrolyte-membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack. The bipolar plate structure may be created, wherein creating the bipolar plate structure may include forming a z-shaped pattern for a plurality of hydrogen flow channels. Creating the bipolar plate structure may include forming a z-shaped pattern for a plurality of air flow channels. Creating the bipolar plate structure may include forming an x-shaped crossing pattern for a plurality of coolant flow channels.

Abstract: An element for a counter-rotating twin screw processor is disclosed. The element has an axial bore for mounting on a screw shaft of the processor. The element or a portion of the element comprises a continuous self-wiping flight helically formed thereon. Further, the element comprises one or more lobes with a lobe profile that is defined in a radial plane of the element and is provided by a functionally continuous curve obtained by combining a first curve to a second curve. The second curve is a mirror-image of the first curve about a radial axis passing through a central axis of the element and one of two extreme points of the first curve. The first curve is represented by a mathematical expression.

Abstract: A sealing assembly for forward and reverse differential pressure, the sealing assembly including a housing having a first bore portion joined by a housing surface to a second bore portion, a shaft relatively movable with respect to the housing, an annular seal carrier located radially outward of and encircling at least a portion of the shaft. The seal carrier has an annular neck transitioning to an outwardly extending wall and having an axial extension adjoining the outwardly extending wall. The annular neck extends through the first bore portion and the axial extension and wall is positioned within the second bore portion. A dynamic seal is located between and has sealing contact with the axial extension and the shaft and partitions a lubricant fluid from an environment fluid. The dynamic seal has a lubricant fluid side exposed to the lubricant fluid and an environment fluid side exposed to the environment fluid. An end cap having an inner axial extension with an end face is secured to the housing.

Abstract: A storage system includes a storage surface for storing a container thereon. The storage surface defines a storage surface ridge. The storage surface ridge defines a cavity. The storage surface further defines a storage surface valley. The storage surface ridge and the storage surface valley interlock with a bottom surface of the container. The storage system also includes a temperature-regulating medium housed in the cavity. The temperature-regulating medium regulates a temperature of one or more contents of the container when the container is stored on the storage surface.

Abstract: A method for a deployable power running board of a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving sensor data from the vehicle, the sensor data indicating a distance between the power running board and an object, an approaching angle of the object approaching the power running board, and/or a vehicle position status, calculating a distance and/or speed of deployment or retraction of the power running board based on the sensor data, and deploying or retracting the power running board based on the calculated distance and/or speed of deployment or retraction.

Abstract: Provided is a printing device including a printing mechanism that performs printing on a long medium and a cutting mechanism that cuts the medium after printing in a width direction of the medium orthogonal to a transport direction of the medium, the printing device capable of performing printing on the medium by the printing mechanism and transporting the medium toward the cutting mechanism even during the cutting of the medium by the cutting mechanism. A printing device (1) includes a tension applying mechanism (10) having a tension bar (9) that comes into contact with a medium (2) after printing to apply tension to the medium (2). The tension bar (9) is disposed between a printing mechanism (3) and a cutting mechanism (7) in the transport direction of the medium (2).

Abstract: A method for repairing an electronic substrate by removing a bad electronic component from a pad on the electronic substrate uses steps of: providing a control pad image; providing an image of the pad with which the bad electronic component is bonded; comparing the image of the pad with which the bad electronic component is bonded with the control pad image to determine a difference between the said images; generating a positioning directive based on the difference, and following the positioning directive to position the bad electronic component; and applying an energy beam onto the positioned bad electronic component to deconstruct a bonding between the positioned bad electronic component and the pad. A method for making an LED display is also provided.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and sensor chip for use as a quantum magnetometer. A sensor chip may be fabricated, wherein the sensor chip may include an adhesion layer, a conduction layer, a signal line, a ground line, and a constriction region. The signal line may be shorted with the ground line in the constriction region.

Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided for use with a semi-autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A dynamic monitoring method for a rebound rate of wet spraying shotcrete includes converting a set of laser points obtained from scanning to a rock wall scanning surface relative coordinate system to form an initial geometric model of the rock face, calculating the initial rock wall volume, coarse spraying and fine spraying the shotcrete and performing the three-dimensional modeling calculations, and calculating the coarse spray rebound rate and the fine spray rebound rate, thereby solving the problem that at present, the estimated idealized data does not match the actual usage data, not only it is insufficient in quantification, but also the dynamic rebound rate of the wet spraying process is not understood, in which the rebound rate is inaccurately estimated, making it difficult to guide the adjustment of the shotcrete formula and the adjustment of the spray posture and speed, and thus the goal of process optimization cannot be achieved.

Abstract: A tool holder for a gun-shaped power tool includes a base including a first slot and a second slot extending parallel to the first slot, a first support member adjustably securable along the first slot and along a first side of the base, and a second support member adjustably securable along the second slot and along the first side of the base. A tool bit and/or a barrel of the tool may be supported by surfaces of the support members when the tool is stored in the tool holder, so that a grip of the tool is readily accessible by a user. The power tool holder provides a structure for ergonomically positioning and storing a gun-shaped power tool, improving the ease and speed of access of the tool during assembly operations.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing carbonate esters, and a catalytic structure for producing carbonate esters, whereby solid catalyst powder formation and detachment are suppressed and superior carbonate ester reaction efficiency is yielded when a catalytic structure constituted by a sufficient quantity of a cerium-oxide-containing solid catalyst supported on a substrate is used. The method for producing carbonate esters includes reacting a monohydric alcohol and carbon dioxide in the presence of a catalytic structure and a hydrating agent. The catalytic structure includes a substrate and a catalytic layer that is formed on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate and contains a solid catalyst and an inorganic binder. The solid catalyst contains cerium oxide. The supported quantity of the solid catalyst is 15 g/m2 to 200 g/m2, inclusive. The inorganic binder contains silica and/or alumina.