Abstract: A powertrain mount is connectable between a vehicle's powertrain component and body structure. The powertrain mount includes a moveable core and a housing for the moveable core. The housing supports the moveable core for movement relative to the housing, in one or more open degrees of freedom, to one or more floating poses where the moveable core is rigidly mechanically decoupled from the housing in the open degrees of freedom. A magnetic field generation system includes one or more housing-side magnetic devices at the housing and one or more moveable-core-side magnetic devices at the moveable core. The housing-side magnetic devices and the moveable-core-side magnetic devices are configured to collectively generate mutually balanced magnetic fields between the housing and the moveable core in the open degrees of freedom that retentively locate the moveable core in one or more floating poses.

Abstract: Vehicle operational data can be acquired in response to receiving a vehicle occupant voice command. A voice input can be received from a vehicle occupant while a vehicle is in operation. The received voice input can be analyzed to determine whether a vehicle diagnostic command is included in the voice input. In response to determining that a vehicle diagnostic command is included in the received voice input, one or more vehicle sensors can be caused to acquire vehicle operational data based on the vehicle diagnostic command. The vehicle operational data can be presented to a user, such as a driver, a passenger, or a review entity.

Abstract: An integrated inductor assembly includes a magnetic core including a center leg in parallel with a first outer leg and a second outer leg on either side of the center leg. A first set of windings of a first inductor are wrapped around the center leg, the first outer leg of the magnetic core, and the second outer leg of the magnetic core. A second set of windings of a second inductor are also wrapped around the center leg, the first outer leg, and the second outer leg of the magnetic core. The first set of windings and the second set of windings include center windings wrapped around the center leg of the magnetic core, first outer windings wrapped around the first outer leg of the magnetic core, and second outer windings wrapped around the second outer leg of the magnetic core.

Abstract: A vehicle axle assembly is provided having a hub which is mounted on a cylindrical axle body by way of a ball bearing so as to be rotatable about a central longitudinal axis, wherein the ball bearing has an inner race connected to the axle body and has an outer race connected to the hub. The vehicle axle assembly includes an axially inner shaft sealing ring and an axially outer shaft sealing ring which are sealingly arranged between the two races and which delimit a ring-shaped chamber between the two races a first pressure medium line which extends through the inner race or one of the two shaft sealing rings and which opens into the ring-shaped chamber; and a second pressure medium line which extends from the ring-shaped chamber through the outer race and which is configured to be connected to a wheel fastened on the hub.

Abstract: A powering apparatus has a diesel engine, a low pressure hydraulic tube containing lower pressure hydraulic fluid, a high pressure hydraulic tube containing higher pressure hydraulic fluid, a first hydraulic pump driven by the diesel engine to send hydraulic fluid from the low pressure hydraulic tube to the high pressure hydraulic tube to adjust the pressure difference within a certain range, an exhaust gas recirculating apparatus including a first hydraulic motor driven by the pressure difference and a compressor driven by the first hydraulic motor to compress a portion of exhaust gas and to supply the exhaust gas to an intake air tube, and an exhaust heat collecting apparatus including a turbine rotated by a refrigerant heated by the exhaust gas and a second hydraulic pump driven by the turbine to send hydraulic fluid from the low pressure hydraulic tube to the high pressure hydraulic tube.

Abstract: A flexible pier comprising a pier body, wherein the pier body comprises a waveform steel tube and concrete filled in the waveform steel tube. The waveform steel tube includes a wave segment. The wave direction of the wave segment is in along the axial direction of the pier body. The waveform steel tube and the concrete support each other. The waveform steel tube may improve the compressive strength of the concrete. Therefore, the section of the pier can become smaller while keeping the same compression bearing capacity, which not only increases the flexibility of the pier, but also reduces the amount of the consumed materials.

Abstract: Provided is a method and device for providing feedback for constant acceleration in a vehicle, which includes sampling velocity data at sample rate during an increase in a velocity rate over time to produce a plurality of sampled velocity data. An acceleration parameter is generated based on a difference of the sampled velocity data over a respective time interval. A determination is made as to whether the acceleration parameter indicates a constant acceleration. When the acceleration parameter does indicate a constant acceleration, a near real-time feedback signal is produced and announced to advise of the constant acceleration.

Abstract: An aerosolized HVAC/R system solvent for decontaminating HVAC/R components and line sets The solvent contains 25-90 wt % propellant, and 10-75 wt % solvent mixture which is about 60-95 wt % trans-1,2, dichloroethylene, about 5-20 wt % n-propanol, and an inerting constituent providing a weight percent ratio of the inerting constituent to n-propanol of less than 1.5. The solvent is packaged in a container that is connected to the HVAC/R components or line sets to be decontaminated for supplying the solvent mixture under pressure to the HVAC/R components or line sets.

Abstract: A support structure that supports a console housing of a console assembly is provided. The support structure is secured to a floor of a vehicle. The support structure includes a pair of side walls and a platform wall. Each side wall has an upper edge, an opposite lower edge, an interior surface, and an opposite exterior surface. The platform wall traverses the interior surfaces of the pair of side walls between the upper edge and the lower edge of each of the pair of side walls. The console housing is mounted to the platform wall between and below the upper edges of the pair of side walls.

Abstract: Disclosed are downhole probes in which electrical interconnections between different modules are achieved without wiring harnesses. Modules may be coupled to one another and/or to bulkheads in the probe my couplings that provide substantially rigid couplings. The couplings may be configured to connect together only in one orientation. Electrical connectors may be fixed relative to components of the couplings so that the electrical connectors are automatically aligned for connection by the couplings.

Abstract: A method for gasifying biomass using a gasifier, the gasifier including a furnace body and a fuel pretreatment system. The method includes 1) crushing and sieving a biomass fuel to yield particle size-qualified fuel particles, 2) exciting working gas to yield plasma, and spraying the plasma into the gasifier, 3) spraying the particle size-qualified fuel particles into the gasifier via nozzles, synchronously spraying an oxidizer via an oxygen/vapor inlet into the gasifier, and 4) monitoring the temperature and components of the syngas, regulating an oxygen flow rate, a vapor flow rate, and microwave power to maintain the process parameters within a preset range and to control a temperature of the syngas to be between 900 and 1200° C., collecting the syngas from the syngas outlet at the top of the furnace body, and discharging liquid slag from the slag outlet.

Abstract: Test measurements on a utility power device by a switch matrix apparatus and a common voltage source as separate devices is performed. Through the switch matrix apparatus, the common voltage source selectively sends a first high voltage signal via a first lead to a first terminal of the utility power device, measures a first corresponding signal returned via a second lead of the switch matrix apparatus from a second terminal of the utility power device. While the first lead and the second lead of the switch matrix apparatus remain electrically coupled to the first and the second terminal of the utility power device, a second high voltage signal is selectively sent via the second lead to the second terminal of the utility power device, and a second corresponding signal returned from the first terminal of the utility power device via the first lead of the switch matrix apparatus is measured.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a direct current (DC) voltage control method. The present invention further discloses an apparatus for implementing the method. With the present invention, DC voltage oscillation of a system, which is caused when a DC voltage primary control station stops running, may be reduced.

Abstract: A fluid pressure pulse generator for a downhole telemetry tool comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a stator body and a plurality of radially extending stator projections spaced around the stator body, whereby adjacently spaced stator projections define stator flow channels extending therebetween. The rotor comprises a rotor body and a plurality of radially extending rotor projections spaced around the rotor body. The rotor projections are axially adjacent to the stator projections and the rotor is rotatable relative to the stator such that the rotor projections move in and out of fluid communication with the stator flow channels to create fluid pressure pulses in fluid flowing through the stator flow channels. The rotor projections may be positioned downhole of the stator projections and include a self-correction mechanism to move the rotor to an open flow position where the rotor projections are out of fluid communication with the stator flow channels if the telemetry tool fails.

Abstract: Provided is a process for producing hydrogen gas in a separate stream from syngas. An assembly for producing hydrogen gas in a separate stream from syngas and a method of producing hydrogen are also provided.

Abstract: Methods are provided for synthesis of substantially pure phase ZSM-48 crystals having a fiber or needle morphology based on synthesis mixtures containing non-sodium alkali metal ions, where the structure directing agent in the synthesis mixture can be a diquaternary alkylammonium salt with a 6-carbon atom chain between the ammonium ions (diquat-6). The methods described herein can be used to make ZSM-48 crystals having a fiber and/or needle crystal morphology from a synthesis mixture containing a diquat-6 structure directing agent. The desired morphology can be achieved in part by reducing, minimizing, and/or eliminating the presence of sodium ions in the synthesis mixture.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an optimized purge gas flow in a semi-conductor inspection metrology or lithography apparatus, comprising receiving a permissible contaminant mole fraction, a contaminant outgassing flow rate associated with a contaminant, a contaminant mass diffusivity, an outgassing surface length, a pressure, a temperature, a channel height, and a molecular weight of a purge gas, calculating a flow factor based on the permissible contaminant mole fraction, the contaminant outgassing flow rate, the channel height, and the outgassing surface length, comparing the flow factor to a predefined maximum flow factor value, calculating a minimum purge gas velocity and a purge gas mass flow rate from the flow factor, the contaminant mass diffusivity, the pressure, the temperature, and the molecular weight of the purge gas, and introducing the purge gas into the semi-conductor inspection metrology or lithography apparatus with the minimum purge gas velocity and the purge gas flow rate.

Abstract: The present invention provides an elastic fiber dry spinning mechanism and a maintenance control method for a spinning assembly. The elastic fiber dry spinning mechanism includes: a spinning assembly (1) including a temperature control portion (13) and a spinneret portion (14), which are detachably overlapped with each other; and a rotary movement control portion used for driving the spinning assembly to ascend and descend, translate and rotate around a translation direction so as to change the orientation of the spinning assembly into an orientation facilitating the maintenance of the spinneret portion. By adoption of the spinning mechanism and the maintenance control method therefore, online replacement and other maintenance of the spinneret portion are convenient and quick, and the efficiency is high.

Abstract: A vehicle sliding door assembly includes a rail that extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction, a hard stop spaced apart from the rail in a vehicle vertical direction, a slide assembly including a follower member that is slidably engaged with the rail, and a closing member pivotally coupled to the follower member, where the closing member is repositionable between an open position, in which the closing member is spaced apart from the hard stop in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and a closed position, in which the closing member contacts the hard stop.