Abstract: A long-service-life PWS cable with replaceable sleeve and shielding gas. It consists of wire strands, wrapping tape covering the wire strands, and a sheath arranged outside the wire strands, and is characterized in that the sheath is covered with an outer protective sleeve and shielding gas is filled between the wires in the wire strands. The wire strands of the present invention is completely under protection in a shielding gas environment which effectively avoids the corrosion of the wire strands; the protective sleeve outside the sheath of the PWS cable is a replaceable segmented and fragmented sleeve structure, which is convenient to be replaced and installed, substantially prolonging the service life of the PWS cable system with great promotional value achieved.

Abstract: This disclosure discusses systems, methods, and techniques for producing and utilizing a capability region of one or more monitored equipment. To do so, an intelligent electronic device (IED) may access a data set of one or more known performance characteristics of the monitored equipment. The known performance characteristics are based on, or dependent of, one or more variables. The IED may also access a constraint library with geometric primitives. Then, the IED may analyze the data set and may produce the capability region using the geometric primitive. The IED may compare an operating point of the monitored equipment to the capability region of the monitored equipment. Based on the comparison, the IED may implement a control action.

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: Systems and methods for computing device authentication can involve template matching with an authentication filter. Authentication filters can be generated by using an authentication model to determine or generate templates for authenticated classes. For example, simulated signal data sets can be input into the authentication model until an authenticated class classification is output. The successful simulated signal data set may then be used to generate or update an authentication filter that uses the template for template matching authentication classification.

Abstract: A vehicle including a floor surface and a seat. The floor surface has a floor striker. The seat is movable between a seated state and a stowed state. The seat includes a seat cushion frame, a sear back, and a seat latch. The seat cushion frame has a seat striker. The seat back is rotatably coupled to the seat cushion frame. In the seated positon, the seat latch engaged with the floor striker. In the stowed state, the seat latch engages with the seat striker.

Abstract: The present invention provides topologies of phase-controlled IGBT bridge type and GTO bridge type Fault Current Limiter (FCL), which allow the precise limitation of fault currents to the desired values and can keep these values constant despite variations (dynamic behavior) of the fault currents. According to an embodiment of the invention, the topologies enable to use a phase control approach for optimal firing angles calculation. This control approach can be used in the proposed FCL topologies and other controlled bridge topologies such as SCRs bridge, GTO bridge, and IGBT/IGCT/Mosfet bridge topologies.

Abstract: A method for user interaction in a CAE/CAD system comprises displaying to a user a graphical user interface (2) with a model display region (3) and a control region (5) for controlling operation of the CAE/CAD system, and an accept button (9). The accept button (9) can be in an active state, signifying that the CAE/CAD system is ready to perform operations defined by user input when the accept button (9) is clicked. When the accept button (9) is in the active state, the CAE/CAD system graphically indicates to the user an extended apply region (11) which, when a clicking operation takes place inside it, will cause the CAE/CAD system to perform the same operations as when the accept button (9) is clicked.

Abstract: A system and method for adjusting the intensity of light provided to an analog needle are disclosed herein. The system and method adjust the intensity of light provided to the analog needle based on an operating state of an engine of a vehicle.

Abstract: A fuel cell assembly includes an CCM layer with a sub-gasket frame around it to provide gas manifolds and sealant. A flow path is integrated on the sub-gasket in vicinity of the inlet and outlet manifolds that provides a passage for the gases to/from the active area. The flow path provides a rigid path without deforming or clogging the passage.

Abstract: A method for dewatering a coal mine goaf by crossing a neighboring goaf is applicable to a scenario including a first goaf, a second goaf, and a third goaf located sequentially at one side of a roadway. A directional hole mechanism is provided between the roadway and the second goaf as well as between the roadway and the third goaf. The directional hole mechanism passes through a coal seam floor at a bottom of the goaf and is communicated to the second goaf and the third goaf. The directional hole includes a first directional hole and a second directional hole. The first directional hole is communicated to the second goaf, the second directional hole is communicated to the third goaf, and the first directional hole is provided with a casing structure.

Abstract: An elastomeric composition is disclosed. The elastomeric composition includes, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr): about 70 to about 90 phr of polybutadiene having a cis-1,4 linkage content of at least 95%; about 5 to 20 phr of a processing oil; about 5 to about 20 of sunflower oil; about 50 to about 75 phr of a filler; a curative agent; an antioxidant; and about 5 to about 30 phr of a propylene-ethylene-diene terpolymer containing from about 0.2 wt % to about 20 wt % ethylidene norbornene and/or vinyl norbornene and about 10 wt % to about 30 wt % of ethylene and/or C4-C20 ?-olefins derived units.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a pH-responsive nano-gel plugging material, and a preparation method therefor and the use thereof. The pH-responsive nano-gel plugging material comprises the following raw materials in parts by mass: 50-70 parts of water, 2-3 parts of an emulsifier, 25-35 parts of an acrylic terpolymer, 10-15 parts of a polyalcohol compound, and 10-20 parts of a vinyl pyridine compound. The pH-responsive nano-gel plugging material can be applied to the plugging of Ordovician carbonate rock fractures and micro-karst cave strata, and can automatically identify Ordovician carbonate rock fractures and micro-karst cave leaking layers and realize effective blocking thereof.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving locating favorable entrances. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about a parking facility entrance from at least one vehicle sensor, processing the sensor data into characteristics about the parking facility entrance, storing the characteristics about the parking facility entrance in a map that includes a location of the parking facility entrance, and providing a recommendation for a parking facility based, at least in part, on the map.

Abstract: A fluid flow control device comprising an insert body having a first portion with a first permeability and second portion with a second permeability that is different from the first permeability. The insert body can be shaped for sealing insertion into a fluid flow structure for fluid flow therethrough. The first portion and the second portion can be arranged in the insert body to cause uniform fluid flow velocity of fluid in the fluid flow structure at an exit of the insert body when the fluid passes through the first portion and the second portion when the insert body is placed inside the fluid flow structure.

Abstract: To provide a fractionating device capable of stably fractionating powders such as cement raw materials by a simple configuration. A fractionating device 1 for fractionating some of a powder (cement raw material) R falling in a chute (main body) 2, wherein the fractionating device is equipped with a screw conveyor 5 which passes through the chute, a part of a casing 5a opening inside the chute, and receives part of the powder from an opening (inlet) 5b, and a collision separation member (collision separation rod) 4 which is provided above the screw conveyor in the chute and collides with an object when an object of a predetermined size or larger falls, and prevents the object from falling directly onto the screw conveyor.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for modularizing a system. Parallel power systems having electronically isolated high voltage systems facilitate modulization. A control system is provided that optimizes the distribution of a power demand and/or a torque request so as to keep the efficiency, durability, drivability and/or safety of the system within an optimum range. In some cases, the distribution of power is uneven, so as to extend the battery life, while in other cases, the power draw on battery systems are kept equal and constant so as to properly manage the state of charge of the parallel power systems. In still other cases, the chosen power distribution keeps the power demand and/or torque request between minimum and maximum levels/capacity, and the power distribution avoids on/off of an individual power system.

Abstract: Acetabular implant and method for its manufacture, wherein the implant has a bone side with a contact surface to be fixed against the bone of the hip socket. A plastically deformable zone with an open porous structure connects to the contact surface, the zone being formed by a three-dimensional structure composed of strut elements with opposite ends, wherein these strut elements are connected at their ends in nodes. The zone is made of a material having an elongation at break of at least 15%.

Abstract: A system for use with a randomly dispersed chiral organic solution. The system includes: an infrared laser that outputs a light beam having a wavelength in an IR spectrum; a stage that holds the randomly dispersed chiral organic solution, the stage being arranged to receive the light beam from the infrared laser, the stage including a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) resonating cavity structure configured to generate chiral signals in a linear IR regime, the stage being configured to generate a second harmonic optical signal from the light beam, the second harmonic optical signal being in an ultraviolet (UV) spectrum, the stage being configured to output the second harmonic optical signal; a UV detector that can receive the second harmonic optical signal from the stage; and an analyzer being configured to determine a chiroptical signature for the randomly dispersed chiral organic solution based on the received second harmonic optical signal.