Abstract: A semiconductor package includes at least one semiconductor element, an encapsulant, a first circuitry, a second circuitry and at least one first stud bump. The encapsulant covers at least a portion of the semiconductor element. The encapsulant has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first circuitry is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the encapsulant. The second circuitry is disposed adjacent to the second surface of the encapsulant. The first stud bump is disposed in the encapsulant, and electrically connects the first circuitry and the second circuitry. The first stud bump contacts the second circuitry directly.

Abstract: An emulator is described herein, wherein the emulator is configured to emulate a rotary energy generator. The rotary energy generator can be one of a wind turbine, a diesel engine, or a hydrokinetic generator. The emulator includes an electromechanical motor that is mechanically linked to a generator. A motor drive is electrically coupled to the electromechanical motor, and controls torque at a rotor of the electromechanical motor. Electromagnetic torque produced by the generator is estimated, and the motor drive is controlled based upon the estimated generator torque.

Abstract: A power electronics assembly that includes a first cooling chip fluidly coupled to a second cooling chip. The first cooling chip and the second cooling chip each include a cooling chip fluid inlet, a cooling chip fluid outlet, and one or more cooling chip fluid channels extending between and fluidly coupled to the cooling chip fluid inlet and the cooling chip fluid outlet. The power electronics assembly also includes a semiconductor device positioned between and thermally coupled to the first cooling chip and the second cooling chip and a thermo-electric generator positioned between and thermally coupled to the semiconductor device and one of the first cooling chip or the second cooling chip.

Abstract: A pressure medium supply device for a tire of a wheel unit, a wheel unit, and a valve arrangement for a rotationally fixed transition of a pressure medium supply device for a wheel unit are provided. The valve arrangement has a housing part through which a pressure medium can flow, a control piston, in particular an axially movable control piston which is received on the housing part, and a discharge element with an outlet for conducting the pressure medium. The housing part and the discharge element are received in a rotatable manner relative to each other. The control piston has a flow channel for the pressure medium, has a force application surface to which the pressure medium can be applied, and can be moved between a disengaged position and an engaged position. A pressure medium line can be established between the housing part and the discharge element in the engaged position.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for performing operations such as cleaning, inspection or data acquisition on an external surface of a hollow cylindrical tubular. Preferred embodiments include providing a fluid dispenser and an abrasion assembly on a buggy that travels up and down the length of the tubular as the tubular rotates. The fluid dispenser includes nozzles that dispense cleaning fluids onto the tubular's external surface. The abrasion assembly includes a swivel brush and a brush train providing different styles of abrasion cleaning of the tubular's external surface. Preferred embodiments include robotically monitoring abrader contact against the external surface of the tubular, and, in response, dynamically adjusting the distance between the external surface of the tubular and the abrasion assembly.

Abstract: A printer includes a medium transporter configured to feed out a medium in a rolled shape and transport the medium in a first direction; a head provided movably in a second direction and configured to eject droplets for image-forming downward along a vertical direction toward the medium which is transported; a receiver provided below a region of the medium facing the head along the vertical direction, and configured to receive the droplets ejected onto the medium from the head and having passed through the medium downward along the vertical direction; and a support member configured switchably arranged at a supporting position arranged between the medium and the receiver along the vertical direction and a retracted position that is retracted from the supporting position, and configured capable of supporting the medium in a state of being arranged at the supporting position.

Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes a first substrate, at least one first semiconductor element and a second substrate. The first semiconductor element is attached to the first substrate. The second substrate defines a cavity and includes a plurality of thermal vias. One end of each of the thermal vias is exposed in the cavity, and the first semiconductor element is disposed within the cavity and thermally connected to the thermal vias.

Abstract: There is provided a printing device that carries out printing with respect to a medium; the printing device including inkjet heads, which are ejection heads that eject an ink to the medium; and an infrared irradiating portion that irradiates an infrared light in which a wavelength is smaller than or equal to 3 ?m with respect to the ink on the medium; where the inkjet heads eject the ink containing a solvent that generates heat by absorbing the infrared light; and the infrared irradiating portion volatilizes and removes at least one part of the solvent in the ink by irradiating the infrared light with respect to the ink on the medium.

Abstract: A method for providing a real-time-capable simulation for control unit development, wherein the real-time-capable simulation simulates a control unit or an environment of a control unit or a combination of a control unit and an environment of the control unit. The real-time-capable simulation has a co-simulation of a real-time-capable sub-simulation and a non-real-time-capable sub-simulation that interacts with the real-time-capable sub-simulation, wherein the real-time-capable sub-simulation and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation are designed for communication of simulation data. The real-time-capable sub-simulation has a first simulation time corresponding to real time and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation has a virtual, second simulation time that is coupled to the first simulation time and that matches the first simulation time at the start of the real-time-capable simulation.

Abstract: A bearing protector includes a static component fixed relative to a housing, in which a stationary sealing face profile is retained and a rotational component for fixing relative to a shaft with the static and rotational components held axially relative to each other. The rotational component has an annular sealing face profile energized by way of one or more magnetic elements retained within the static component to generate a positive sealing face contact between the stationary sealing face and rotational sealing face profiles. The magnets elements are held within recesses in the static component and extend radially inwards of the recesses.

Abstract: A box type duct with circumferential obtuse angle connection. Unit plates respectively located on the upper, lower and two side surfaces are spliced in the circumferential direction to form a unit pipe section, and the unit pipe sections are spliced in the axial direction to form a box type duct; wherein the unit plate is an arc-shaped corrugated plate arched to the outside of the box type duct, and the adjacent unit plates form an obtuse angle of circumferential connection. The cross section of the duct is in an approximately rectangular box shape, so the utilization ratio of clearance of the duct is high; the unit plate adopts an arc-shaped structure, and by utilizing the pipe-soil joint stressing principle, the strength and bearing capacity of the overall structure are maximized; and the box type duct adopts flat flange or angle steel flange connection in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A real-time analysis system for operation of working ship based on ship attitude measurement includes: a central processing unit (10); a position monitoring unit (20) for detecting and providing position-attitude information and heading information of the working ship at a predetermined time, and the position-attitude information and heading information of the working ship at a predetermined time is provided to the central processing unit (10); a manual data input unit (30) connected to the central processing unit (10) and capable of providing the pipeline model data to the central processing unit (10) in a manual input method; and a display unit (40) connected to the central processing unit (10) which displays the dynamic response data of the pipeline according to the processed data provided by the central processing unit (10).

Abstract: Provided are activated carbon, a method for treating activated carbon, an ammonia synthesis catalyst, and a method for producing ammonia synthesis catalyst such that catalytic activity can be improved over the prior art. Activated carbon is activated by being subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 800 to 1100° C. for 10 to 50 hours in an inert gas into which oxygen is mixed in a concentration of 0.05 to 900 ppm, and the activated carbon is used to improve the catalytic activity of an ammonia synthesis catalyst.

Abstract: A system includes energy modules that output power to an energy management bus based on load demands. An energy module includes energy cells enclosed within a module housing that provide power to the energy management bus and a driving system attached to the module housing that transports the energy module. The energy module includes a local controller that controls power output from the energy cells to the energy management bus, engages a self-driving mode in response to receiving a disconnection signal from a central controller, and controls movement of the energy module in the self-driving mode to a predetermined location via the driving system. The central controller receives a current module status from the energy modules and controls a configuration of the energy modules providing power to the energy management bus based on the current module status.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for determining whether an event has occurred from dynamic strain measurements involve determining, using a processor, at least one event parameter from a signal representing the dynamic strain measurements, and then having the processor use the at least one event parameter to determine whether the event has occurred. The at least one event parameter is any one or more of a measure of magnitude of the signal, frequency centroid of the signal, filtered baseline of the signal, harmonic power of the signal, and time-integrated spectrum flux of the signal.

Abstract: A system and method for sample analysis using sub-atmospheric pressure (sub-AP) laser ionization. The sub-AP ion source includes a holder with a sample containing analyte molecules, a pulsed laser beam configured to generate ionized species from the sample, an ion extractor adjacent to the holder configured to extract analyte ions from the ionized species by an extraction electric field Es near the sample, an ion funnel structure composed of orifice electrodes located along an ion funnel pathway direction z. The ion funnel structure has an entrance and an exit, the exit being the electrode with the smallest aperture in the structure. This structure is configured for accepting the analyte ions from the ion extractor at the entrance and dragging them toward the exit using an axial electric field Ez along the direction z. The extraction electric field Es is at least partly electrically shielded from the axial electric field Ez.

Abstract: A method for generating a technical system model executable on a test unit, wherein the test unit and the executable model are designed for real-time-capable testing of a control unit connected to the test unit, and wherein the executable model is constructed from a plurality of executable submodels communicating with each other, wherein each executable submodel has a separate address space and/or is executed on a separate processor or separate processor core when a test of a control unit connected to the test unit is being run.

Abstract: A locomotive regenerative electric energy feedback system with an ice melting function, comprising two regenerative electric energy feedback devices (1). A direct-current side positive electrode of the regenerative electric energy feedback device (1) is connected to a positive electrode bus of a subway traction network, wherein the positive electrode bus is connected to an uplink contact network and a downlink contact network respectively via a first switching switch (4) and a second switching switch (5). A direct-current side negative electrode of the regenerative electric energy feedback device (1) is connected to the downlink contact network or the uplink contact network via a third switching switch (2), and the direct-current side negative electrode is connected to a negative electrode bus of the subway traction network via a fourth switching switch (3). Further disclosed is a control method corresponding to the system.