Abstract: Provided is a process for producing graphene oxide (GO) product including forming a reaction mixture including graphite-based precursor and an oxidizing effective amount of an oxygenation agent including a complex of hypofluorous acid (HOF) and an organic solvent (HOF?organic solvent) and mixing the reaction mixture for a time sufficient to cause oxidation of the graphite based precursor. Further provided are products including the GO obtainable by the process or graphene products obtainable therefrom, as well as articles of manufacture including the same.

Abstract: An improved method for separating hydrocarbons for separating feed LNG into product LNG and a liquid fraction enriched in C3+ components is provided.

Abstract: A skate truck assembly that engages a lower rear suspension arm during assembly may include a base comprising a track that extends linearly in a translation direction and an articulating truck assembly slidably coupled to the track, the articulating truck assembly being moveable along the track in the translation direction. The articulating truck assembly may include a track receiving carriage that slidingly receives the track and a suspension arm engagement structure having an elongated, longitudinal axis. The suspension arm engagement structure may be operatively connected to the track receiving carriage. The suspension arm engagement structure may rotate relative to the track receiving carriage along a first axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the suspension arm engagement structure.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle door assembly including a door handle assembly and a door latch assembly that includes a door latch device operatively connected to the door handle assembly using a latch release lever that moves along a travel path to place the door latch device in an unlatched configuration. A latch release blocking structure is located within an interior volume of the vehicle door assembly. The latch release blocking structure includes a first leg that is mounted to a support portion. An overhang portion is connected to the first leg. The overhang portion extends over at least a portion of the travel path of the latch release lever. A second leg extends from the overhang portion toward the support portion to a free end that is spaced from the mounting structure providing a gap along the travel path of the latch release lever.

Abstract: Through a network, an administrative server is connected with a terminal of an applicant and a terminal of a company which is a seeker. The administrative server comprises an applicant information database which stores applicant information including a registered address of the applicant, and a seeker information database which stores requirement information including a registered address of the company. The administrative server calculates a matching score of the both based on the applicant information and the requirement information, and make the terminal of the applicant display an image picture of distributed seekers 52 when it is requested by the applicant. The image picture of distributed seekers 52 includes a neighboring map showing around an address designated by the applicant. On the neighboring map, there is shown matching scores of the applicant and the companies, each matching score being indicated at the registered address of the each company.

Abstract: A substrate structure includes a dielectric layer, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer and at least one conductive pillar. The dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first circuit layer is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the dielectric layer. The second circuit layer is disposed adjacent to the second surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first circuit layer. The second circuit layer includes a plurality of pads and at least one trace disposed between two adjacent pads of the plurality of pads. The at least one conductive pillar is tapered toward the second circuit layer and disposed on one of the pads. A portion of the second surface of the dielectric layer is exposed from the second surface layer.

Abstract: An optical navigation system comprising a camera oriented to face towards a plurality of markers located at spaced apart locations from the camera, calculating means adapted to calculate an angle subtended between pairs of markers, the subtended angles being calculated by monitoring the pixel locations of the markers in a series of images captured by the camera, the optical navigation system additionally comprising means for creating a three-dimensional model whereby the location of the camera relative to the markers is determined by triangulating the subtended angles in the three-dimensional model.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Voigt line shape fitting method, including step 1: Calculate a Gauss line shape function and a Lorentz line shape function, and calculate a Voigt line shape function. Step 2: For determined line shape parameters to be fitted, calculate partial derivatives of the Voigt line shape function with respect to the parameters, convert a partial derivative of the Voigt line shape function with respect to a parameter into a partial derivative of the Gauss line shape function or the Lorentz line shape function with respect to the parameter. Step 3: Substitute the Voigt line shape function and the partial derivative of the Voigt line shape function with respect to the parameter to be fitted, into a least squares algorithm step, perform least squares fitting calculation, and determine whether to terminate the least squares fitting calculation or return to step 1 to perform next iterative calculation.

Abstract: Methods and systems for installation and alignment of a vehicle emblem on a body panel assembly include a tool including an outer handling side facing an operator and an inner alignment side facing the body panel assembly. The inner alignment side includes an inner facing surface and an emblem holding volume that is sized and shaped to receive the vehicle emblem therein, the inner alignment side further includes an alignment ridge extending outwardly therefrom that together with the inner facing surface defines a panel receiving volume. A first and second sensor assembly may include vehicle panel detectors respectively aligned with perpendicular first and second axes. The first sensor assembly and the second sensor assembly are arranged to concurrently provide an indication of alignment with the body panel assembly of the vehicle with a datum surface of the body panel assembly engaged by the alignment ridge in a predetermined orientation.

Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes an electronic device and a redistribution stack. The redistribution stack includes a dielectric layer disposed over an active surface of the electronic device and defining an opening exposing at least a portion of a contact pad of the electronic device. The redistribution stack also includes a redistribution layer disposed over the dielectric layer and including a trace. A first portion of the trace extends over the dielectric layer along a longitudinal direction adjacent to the opening, and a second portion of the trace is disposed in the opening and extends between the first portion of the trace and the exposed portion of the contact pad. The second portion of the trace has a maximum width along a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and the maximum width of the second portion of the trace is no greater than about 3 times of a width of the first portion of the trace.

Abstract: A wave power station for conversion and storage of energy from waves in an ocean or a sea includes a wave energy absorbing unit including a first floating body connected to a vertically hanging counterweight via a drive line and a drive wheel, a power generating unit including at least one power generation unit for conversion of wave energy, connected to a drive shaft, and a power accumulating unit including at least one power accumulator for storage of generated wave power. The power generating unit and the power accumulating unit are arranged in a second floating body firmly anchored under the first floating body to the ocean bed or sea bed. The drive line is connected to the at least one power generation unit via the drive wheel, and a coupling and transmission unit arranged on the drive shaft for driving of the at least one power generation unit via the up and down movements of the drive line in time with the wave movements.

Abstract: A method for enhancing a depth image of a scene, comprises calculating an enhanced depth image by blending a first filtered depth image with a second filtered depth image or with the original depth image. The blending is achieved by application of a blending map, which defines, for each pixel, a contribution to the enhanced depth image of the corresponding pixel of the first filtered depth image and of the corresponding pixel of either the second filtered depth image or the original depth image. For pixels in the depth image containing no depth value or an invalid depth value, the blending map defines a zero contribution of the corresponding pixel of the second filtered depth image and a 100% contribution of the corresponding pixel of the first filtered image.

Abstract: Detector module designs for radiographic imaging include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.

Abstract: A substrate structure includes a dielectric layer, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer and at least one conductive pillar. The dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first circuit layer is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the dielectric layer. The second circuit layer is disposed adjacent to the second surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first circuit layer. The second circuit layer includes a plurality of pads and at least one trace disposed between two adjacent pads of the plurality of pads. The at least one conductive pillar is tapered toward the second circuit layer and disposed on one of the pads. A portion of the second surface of the dielectric layer is exposed from the second surface layer.

Abstract: Handles for use in exercise apparatus and in lifting apparatus are provided.

Abstract: A method of tracing a position of a pipeline using a mapping probe includes: inserting and moving the mapping probe in a pipeline; receiving and keeping acceleration information and angular information in real time in a memory; estimating Euler angle (roll and pitch); estimating Euler angle (roll, pitch, and yaw); estimating a system modeling; estimating and applying covariance of system noise and covariance of measured noise; estimating three-dimensional position information modeling; receiving and keeping movement distance information of the mapping probe from an encoder in a memory; estimating and keeping in real time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe in the memory; receiving the accumulated real-time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe; mapping the accumulated real-time three-dimensional position information of the mapping probe to geographic information; and displaying the accumulated position information of the mapping probe mapped to the geographic info

Abstract: A Lidar system configured to have a wide field of view. The LIDAR system includes a substrate. The substrate is planar. An array of electronic laser scan transceiver chips are mounted to the substrate. An lenslet array is spaced apart from the array of electronic laser scans transceivers so as to increase the field of the array of electronic laser scan transceiver chips. A plurality of baffles extend between the array of electronic laser scan transceiver chips and the lenslet array so as to separate the electronic laser scan transceiver chips and the lenslets from each other. The baffles provide structural support for the lenslet array and are further configured to absorb scatter from the laser beams transmitted and received by respective electronic laser scan transceiver chips. Accordingly, the Lidar system increases the field of view of the individual electronic scan transceivers without complicating the manufacturing process relative to Lidar systems with convex substrates.

Abstract: An embedded component package structure includes a substrate. A first conductive component extends from a first surface of the substrate to a second surface of the substrate, a first conductive layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and a second conductive layer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and is electrically connected to the first conductive layer by the first conductive component. A die is disposed in a through hole in the substrate. A back surface of the die is exposed from the second surface of the substrate. A first dielectric layer covers an active surface of the die and the first surface of the substrate. A third conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the die by a second conductive component. A first metal layer is disposed directly on the back surface of the die.

Abstract: An adaptive vehicle control system that includes processors, memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the adaptive vehicle control system to determine an autonomous operation profile of a target vehicle positioned in a vehicle operating environment, wherein the vehicle operating environment includes a roadway having one or more lanes, determine an autonomous operation profile of one of more neighboring vehicles positioned within the vehicle operating environment, compare the autonomous operation profile of at least one of the one or more neighboring vehicles with the autonomous operation profile of the target vehicle, and alter a condition of the target vehicle such that the autonomous operation profile of the target vehicle matches an autonomous operation profile of an individual neighboring vehicle of the one or more neighboring vehicles positioned in the same lane as the target vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a baitcast reel spool that provides a rotational braking force against a spool using a braking magnet to prevent backlash of the spool in casting, more particularly, to a baitcast reel spool having a replaceable plate, of which the plate that is attracted by a braking magnet can be easily, firmly, and safely attached to a side of the spool and can be easily detached so that a user can tune the reel by replacing the plate in accordance with his/her taste and necessity.