Abstract: Embodiments include a reactor and feed distribution assembly. The reactor and feed distribution assembly can include a reactor vessel, a gaseous feed conduit, a catalyst feed conduit, a catalyst feed conduit housing, and a catalyst backflow diverter.

Abstract: A glove compartment box energy having a tear seam on an inner wall is provided. The glove compartment box is mounted in an instrument panel of a vehicle. The tear seam is configured to allow a rearward moving structure from within the instrument panel such as a portion of the vehicle HVAC system to rupture the tear seam and enter an interior volume of the glove compartment box. The glove compartment box further has a frangible portion disposed on the inner wall. The frangible portion extends towards an interior of the instrument panel to concentrate stress on the tear seam. The tear seam and frangible portion prevent the rearward moving structure from displacing the glove compartment box rearward into a passenger compartment.

Abstract: A sound dampening system having at least two acoustic deflection pads separated by a distance and an actuator operable to alter the distance in response to a stimulus is disclosed. In some embodiments, the actuator is a shape memory alloy wire. The system is capable of alternating between a compact mode and a superior sound blocking mode. A door of an automotive vehicle incorporating such a system and a method of fabricating such a system is also disclosed.

Abstract: A deduplication system and method involves interaction between a software-based system that manages the overall background deduplication process and a hardware-based system that includes a hardware-based filesystem manager and a hash generator. A filesystem checkpoint mechanism is leveraged to manage the background deduplication process and also to reduce processing complexity with respect to identifying chunks that are candidates for deduplication and processing such chunks.

Abstract: A system, device, and methods for autonomous navigation using geographic feature-based localization. An example method includes identifying one or more geographic features based on information received from one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle as the vehicle traverses a route and associating one of a horizontal space and a vertical space with each of the one or more geographic features. The example method further includes comparing the one or more geographic features to a geographic feature map and generating a localized vehicle position based on the comparison between the one or more geographic features and the geographic feature map. Comparing the one or more geographic features to the geographic feature map can include applying weights to the one or more geographic features based in part on the space association for each of the one or more geographic features.

Abstract: A stannate luminescent material, having the general molecular formula of Ln2?xEuxSn2O7@SnO2@My, wherein Ln is selected from one of Gd, Y and La; M is selected from at least one of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd and Cu metallic nanoparticles; 0<x<1.5; y is the ratio between the molar mass of M and the sum of the molar mass of Sn in Ln2?xEuxSn2O7 and the molar mass of Sn in SnO2@My, 0<y?1×10?2; and @ represents coating; the stannate luminescent material uses M. as a core, SnO2 as an inner shell, and Ln2?xEuxSn2O7 as an outer shell. The stannate luminescent material is formed into a core-shell structure through the coating of at least one of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd and Cu metallic nanoparticles. The metallic nanoparticles improve the internal quantum efficiency of the luminescent material, thus enabling the stannate luminescent material to have a relatively high luminous intensity.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for an air box with an integrated air filter to communicate air flow from an exterior of the air filter to an air intake of an automobile engine. The air filter comprises a filter material that surrounds at least a portion of an interior cavity of the air filter. An end cap is affixed to a distal end of the filter material, and a wire support extends along at least a portion of the exterior surface of the filter material. The air box comprises a housing portion and a mount portion. The housing portion is configured to direct air drawn through the filter material into the interior cavity of the air filter and then into the air intake of the automobile engine. The mount portion is configured to support the air box and the air filter once installed within an automobile engine bay.

Abstract: A computing device and methods for operating a driver interface for a vehicle combination meter are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, from a driver, an indication of an icon selection. The icon can represent the vehicle combination meter. The method further includes sending, for display in the driver interface and in response to the indication selecting the icon for the vehicle combination meter, vehicle status information associated with a first vehicle system. The first vehicle system can be associated with off-road operation of a vehicle. The method further includes receiving, from the driver, an indication requesting navigation within the driver interface to additional vehicle status information and sending, for display in the driver interface and in response to the indication requesting navigation within the driver interface, vehicle status information associated with a second vehicle system. The second vehicle system can be associated with off-road operation of the vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a safety device that maintains a weapon inside a holster in a locked state without requiring the gun to be removed from the holster beforehand. In the embodiments, a single safety device can be used on a variety of holsters to lock the gun inside the holster, without requiring removal of the gun from the holster, therefore preventing children or other unauthorized individuals from accessing the gun and the gun's trigger.

Abstract: The present invention detects, determines, and mitigates signal-path processing errors. An extracted and inverted reference signal is compared to the carrier signal produced by various functional components to determine the error introduced to that signal by functional components. After the signal has been processed by various signal-processing components, the signal can once again be compared to the inverted reference signal so that a signal-path processing bias can be determined. Using that determination, a signal modification can be initiated to substantially reduce or eliminate all signal-path processing error.

Abstract: A carbon fiber composite including: carbon fiber; and silicon carbide coated on the surface of the carbon fiber, and a production method of the same are provided. The carbon fiber composite may reduce weight, implement an outstanding heat-dissipating efficiency by using high thermal conductivity, and be used in various ways in electronic products and the like where heat-dissipating characteristics are required.

Abstract: The method and apparatus segment parts from a main target image, represent each part as a vertex in a spanning tree, use a detector to generate a confidence map of a location of each part in a succeeding video frame and apply scale change to detector sliding windows centered about each pixel in the part location image. In the succeeding video frame, the target location is sampled and a tracking probability is generated for each part bounding box, with the tracking probability having the maximum value being selected as the location of the target in the succeeding video frame.

Abstract: A locator pin according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes an elongated body that extends from a base along an axis, the elongated body deflectable off the axis relative to the base.

Abstract: A wing includes a dual channel wing with an outboard channel that extends spanwise from an inboard channel.

Abstract: The process “Washing contaminated soils” solves the problem of cleansing and remediating soils and sediments and their fine fractions contaminated with toxic metals, using washing solution with chelating agents. The chelating agent forms water-soluble complexes with metals and thus facilitates metal removal from soils and sediments into the washing solution. In addition to toxic metals, the process according to the invention enables removal of organic pollutants from soils and sediments by using washing solution amended with surfactants, detergents or organic solvents in addition to chelating agents. The process according to the invention provides for simultaneous separation of the soil and sediment solid phase and used washing solution in a chamber filter press, and effective rinsing of the solid phase to remove all residual mobilized contaminants.

Abstract: A distributed system includes a plurality of nodes connected over a network. Each node has a unique node identifier which identifies the node in the distributed system. Tasks are launched from any node in the distributed system and include one or more node identifiers. If a node receives a task including its node identifier, the node executes the task. Each node may store each task in a log. If a node fails, after recovering from the failure, the node queries the distributed system for tasks which were not received and tasks which were not completed due to the failure.

Abstract: Synthesis process of dasatinib is disclosed, which includes the step of reacting the compound of formula I with that of formula II to obtain the compound of formula III. Also disclosed is the compound of formula III which is used as an intermediate for synthesizing dasatinib. The substituents of R1, R2, R3 or R4 in formulae I, II or III are defined as in the description.

Abstract: A computer-based method/system of dynamic category object recognition for estimating pose and/or positioning of target objects and target object's parts. The method/system may recognize a target object and the target object's parts. The method/system may segment and extract data corresponding to the target object and the target object's parts, and estimate the pose and positioning of the target object and the target object's parts using a plurality of stored object models. The dynamic method/system may supplement or modify the parameters of the plurality of stored object models and/or store learned object models. The learned object models assist in recognizing and estimating pose and/or positioning of newly encountered objects more accurately and with fewer processing steps. The method and system may include a processor, a sensor, an external device, a communications unit, and a database.

Abstract: This invention relates to low sulfur marine/bunker fuel compositions and methods of making same. Contrary to conventional marine/bunker fuel compositions/methods, the inventive lower sulfur compositions/methods focus on use of mostly uncracked components, such as (cat feed) hydrotreated gasoils, and/or can also have reduced contents of residual components.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an illuminated capacitive switch button assembly for use in an automotive vehicle dashboard assembly. The assembly further comprising a substrate, a printed circuit board (PCB) having at least one capacitive switch mounted to the printed circuit board, a light guide having at least one reflector disposed between the substrate and the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board and the substrate disposed at a predetermined distance from one another and a light source disposed on the edge of the light guide.