Abstract: A device and method determines available regenerative braking energy in a route for a target vehicle. The device is in communication with a navigation unit and is configured to split the at least one route between a source and a destination into multiple segments followed by determining vehicular data of the target vehicle. The device determines available/recoverable regenerative braking energy in the at least one route for the target vehicle based on selective vehicular data of other vehicles similar to the target vehicle, which have travelled through the at least one route. The device is configured to dynamically predict the available regenerative braking energy originating from random longitudinal deceleration maneuvers for the chosen route from source location to the chosen destination location for any hybrid or electric vehicle. The device improves fuel efficiency and reduces emissions.

Abstract: A system and methods for a turbo-boost control system are disclosed for providing a driver of a vehicle with greater control over vehicle performance. The turbo-boost control system instructs an electronic control unit of the vehicle to increase the manifold pressure to a higher level before releasing the pressure through a waste gate so as to provide a greater power output of the engine. The turbo-boost control system includes a control module, a wiring harness, and a signal adjuster. The wiring harness couples the control module with a turbo inlet pressure sensor, a manifold absolute pressure sensor, and an electronic control unit of the vehicle. The control module sends signals to the electronic control unit based on input readings from the turbo inlet pressure sensor and the manifold absolute pressure sensor. The signal adjuster includes a rheostat that enables manual adjustment of the power output of the engine.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) air filter to remove airborne molecular contaminants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from air within building spaces. The air filter comprises a support frame having a shape and size suitable to orient the air filter within a HVAC system. A compound filter medium is retained within the support frame to remove the airborne molecular contaminants and VOCs from air flowing through the HVAC system. A portion of the first media layer is pleated and may comprise a combination of media layers configured to exhibit a relatively high filtration efficiency and a low air pressure drop across the filter medium. A second portion of the filter medium is coupled to the first portion and maintains a uniform distribution of the pleats with the first portion.

Abstract: A variable assembly PC member includes: a plurality of hollow PC modules, each of which has an upper flange and a lower flange spaced apart from each other, and a pair of webs connecting both ends of the upper flange and the lower flange to form a hollow therein; and connectors connecting the plurality of hollow PC modules with each other in the width direction.

Abstract: A calibration method for an x-ray computerized tomography system and a method of tomographic reconstruction are provided. The calibration method includes steps of measuring at least one point spread function (PSF) at each of a plurality of points, compressing each PSF, and in one or more storing operations, storing the compressed PSFs in a computer-accessible storage medium. The PSF measurements are made in a grid of calibration points in a field of view (FOV) of the system. In the measuring step, an absorber is positioned at each of the calibration points, and an x-ray projection is taken at least once at each of those absorber positions. In the method of tomographic image reconstruction, projection data from an x-ray tomographic projection system are input to an iterative image reconstruction algorithm.

Abstract: An electronic device package and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The electronic device package includes an electronic component including an active surface, a patterned conductive layer disposed on the active surface, an encapsulation layer disposed over the patterned conductive layer, and a buffer layer disposed between the patterned conductive layer and the encapsulation layer. The buffer layer is shaped and sized to alleviate a stress generated due to an interaction between the patterned conductive layer and the encapsulation layer.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a processor, first data from a first sensor and second data from a second sensor, on a vehicle, receiving, by the processor, third data from a sensor on a further vehicle, wherein the third data is not observable by the first sensor, interworking, by the processor, the first data, the second data, and the third data, and superimposing, by the processor, the interworked first data, second data, and third data on a display of the vehicle.

Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a first circuit structure, a second circuit structure having a surface facing the first circuit structure, and a first electronic component disposed over the first circuit structure and supporting the second circuit structure. The electronic device also includes a second electronic component disposed adjacent to the second circuit structure and having a top surface at an elevation higher than the surface of the second circuit structure with respect to the first circuit structure.

Abstract: An electronic device having a substrate with a metal structure, a mono-layer coating of a selected silane composition on a surface of the metal structure, and an organic layer on the mono-layer coating, wherein the mono-layer coating improves the interfacial adhesion strength between the metal surface and the organic material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a buckling-restrained brace out-of-plane stability design method considering a bidirectional seismic action.

Abstract: A coated tool of the present invention includes a substrate and a hard coating on the substrate. The hard coating is a nitride or a carbonitride containing 65 atom % or more and 90 atom % or less of Al and 10 atom % or more and 35 atom % or less of Cr with respect to a total amount of metal elements including metalloid elements, and containing 0.50 atom % or less of argon (Ar), and has a face-centered cubic lattice structure. The hard coating shows a maximum intensity Ia in an ? angle range of 80° to 90° in an X-ray intensity distribution on an ?-axis in a positive pole figure of a (111) plane of the face-centered cubic lattice structure, and an intensity in an ? angle range of 0° to 70° is 35% or less of the maximum intensity Ia.

Abstract: A floor vent assembly with slots for airflow having a structure and interaction between an air vent and a slider with an actuator extending through the air vent to permit manual sliding of the slider in the floor vent assembly to selectively open/restrict the air vent for airflow. The floor vent assembly may also have an internal structural plate with corresponding slots. The user simply manually moves the actuator and thus the slider within the floor vent assembly where respective slots align or are offset to allow or restrict the flow of air through the floor vent assembly.

Abstract: Grease compositions may be made from an oil basestock. For example, a grease composition may include: an oil basestock having: a kinematic viscosity (ASTM D445, 40° C.) of from 320 cSt to 520 cSt, a kinematic viscosity (ASTM D445, 100° C.) of from 22 cSt to 36 cSt, a viscosity index (ASTM D2270) of from 80 to 119, a pour point (ASTM D97) of ?6° C. or less, and a saturate content (ASTM D7419) of 90 wt % or greater; and from 0.5 wt % to 15 wt % of a thickener, by total weight of the grease composition.

Abstract: A method for in-vitro production of a cohesive cartilage construct includes the following steps: a) propagating chondrogenic cells derived from a subject to allow formation of one or more cartilage micro constructs; b) putting a plurality of the cartilage micro constructs in motion to facilitate contact between the cartilage micro constructs and thereby allow formation of one or more fused cartilage micro constructs; and c) subjecting one or more of the fused cartilage micro constructs to mechanical stimulation in a hypoxic environment to allow formation of a cohesive cartilage construct.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 3D printer inputs including filaments comprising separated layers or sections. These inputs particularly including filaments may be prepared by coextrusion, microlayer coextrusion or multicomponent/fractal coextrusion. These inputs and specifically filaments enable layering or combining different materials simultaneously through one or more nozzles during the so-called 3D printing process. These techniques facilitate smaller layer sizes (milli, micro, and nano) different layer configurations as well as the potential to incorporate materials that would otherwise not be usable in standard 3D printer methods.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving driving data of a first vehicle, receiving driving data of a second vehicle driving in a different lane than the first vehicle, determining that the first vehicle and the second vehicle will collide via execution of a machine learning model on the driving data of the first and second vehicles, and displaying a warning on a user interface associated with one or more of the first and second vehicles.

Abstract: A semiconductor package structure and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a carrier and a component. The carrier includes a first part and a second part separated from the first part. The component is disposed under the first part and electrically connected to the second part. The first part is configured to be electrically connected to a device disposed over the first part.

Abstract: A bipolar plate-porous transport layer (PTL) assembly for a polymer-electrolyte-membrane water electrolyzer includes a flat metallic bipolar plate and a metal foam PTL adjacent to and in direct contact with the flat metallic bipolar plate. The metal foam PTL includes flow channels defined by flow channels walls with flow channel surfaces. The flow channel walls and flow channel surfaces have an average porosity generally equal to an average porosity of an interior of the metal foam PTL.