Abstract: Systems and vehicles that provide speech recognition system status notifications are described herein. Systems described herein include one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and machine readable instructions. In some embodiments described herein, when executed by the one or more processors, the machine readable instructions cause the speech recognition system to transform the acoustic vibrations received by a microphone into a speech input signal, determine to remotely process the speech input signal with a remote computing system, and provide a remote processing notification. In some embodiments described herein, when executed by the one or more processors, the machine readable instructions cause the speech recognition system to output an audible sequence with a speaker and provide a barge-in availability notification on a display.

Abstract: A safety system for a well having a cable deployed electronic submersible pump includes a barrier valve having a control line for opening and closing the valve, a first flapper safety valve assembly, and a second flapper safety valve assembly. The second flapper safety valve allows the cable for the pump to pass through the second flapper safety valve when the valve is in a closed position. An integral flapper safety valve assembly incorporates the first and second flapper safety valves.

Abstract: A process for converting light paraffins to a high octane gasoline composition is disclosed. The process involves: (1) oxidation of iso-paraffins to alkyl hydroperoxides and alcohol; (2) conversion of the alkyl hydroperoxides and alcohol to dialkyl peroxides; and (3) radical coupling of iso-paraffins using the dialkyl peroxides as radical initiators, thereby forming gasoline-range molecules. Fractionation of the gasoline-range molecules can then be used to isolate high octane gasoline fractions having a road octane number [(RON+MON)/2] greater than 110.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the manufacture of the first layer of a back contact layer for thin-layer solar cells in superstrate configuration. In the prior art, this layer is deposited as a compound, for example as a layer of Sb2Te3. In accordance with the invention, however, a tellurium-rich surface layer of the cadmium telluride layer is produced, on which a first material is deposited which is capable of forming an electrically conductive second material with tellurium and of producing the second material by reaction of the first material and tellurium in the surface layer. The second material forms the first layer of the back contact layer.

Abstract: An instrument panel assembly having structure designed to restrict the motion of a panel member of the instrument panel assembly in certain situations, such as airbag deployment is disclosed. A panel member is secured to the instrument panel main body. A primary alignment post extends from the back surface of the panel member and includes a retention notch. The retention notch catches on a first edge of a first aperture of the instrument panel and restricts the motion of the panel member when a force of the second type is applied.

Abstract: Cyclonic separation devices and fluid stream separating apparatuses incorporating cyclonic separation devices are described. A cyclonic separation device may include an exterior housing having an exterior cylindrical portion and an exterior conical portion extending from the exterior cylindrical portion and an interior housing having an interior cylindrical portion and an interior conical portion extending from the interior cylindrical portion. The interior housing is positioned relative to the exterior housing to form a circulating chamber. The cyclonic separation device also includes a fluid inlet coupled to the exterior housing, where the fluid inlet positioned to inject a fluid stream into the circulating chamber at an orientation generally tangential to the cylindrical portions of the exterior housing and the interior housing. The cyclonic separation device further includes a low-density outlet coupled to at least one of the exterior conical portion or the interior conical portion.

Abstract: Systems for altering vehicle functions are provided. A system for altering a vehicle function includes one or more processors, one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules. When executed by the one or more processors, the machine readable instructions may cause the system to determine a presence of a roof mounted article on a vehicle and disable at least one movable roof member function in response to the determination. In some embodiments, in response to determining that the vehicle is proximate a structure and determining the presence of the vehicle mounted article on the vehicle, the system may generate a notification pertaining to the vehicle mounted article. In some embodiments, the system may provide navigation assistance based on the determination that the vehicle mounted article is present on the vehicle.

Abstract: The method of producing a colored powder of a polymeric material includes the steps of selecting a feedstock of said polymeric material, pulverizing said polymeric material in a pulverizer to produce a powder, moving the powder directly from the pulverizer to a mixer; spraying a liquid formulation including a colorant into the powder within the mixer, and mixing the liquid formulation and powder.

Abstract: An adapter assembly for testing an engine includes an adapter plate including an engagement face, an engagement assembly positioned at least partially within the adapter plate, where at least a portion of the engagement assembly extends outward from the adapter plate in an axial direction, the engagement assembly including a through member extending in the axial direction through the engagement assembly, a mandrel assembly positioned at least partially within the adapter plate and extending in the axial direction, and an expandable claw assembly engaged with the mandrel assembly, where the expandable claw assembly is repositionable between an engaged position, in which the expandable claw assembly has an engaged diameter, and a disengaged position, in which the expandable claw assembly has a disengaged diameter that is less than the engaged diameter.

Abstract: A method for controlling well bore pressure based on model prediction control theory and systems theory, includes: detecting a well bottom pressure, a stand pipe pressure, a casing pressure, an injection flow rate and an outlet flow rate during the drilling operation process and determining the presence of overflow or leakage; if there is no overflow or leakage, then fine-adjusting the wellhead casing pressure according to the slight fluctuations of the well bottom pressure, the stand pipe pressure or the casing pressure; if there is overflow or leakage, simulating and calculating the overflow or leakage position and starting time of the overflow or leakage, predicting the variation over a future time period of the well bore pressure in the well drilling process, and utilizing an optimization algorithm to calculate the control parameter under a minimum of an actual well bottom pressure difference during the future period.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a bumper beam and a bumper fascia that covers the bumper beam. An energy absorption member includes a first laterally positioned leg including a mounting flange connected to the bumper beam and a second laterally positioned leg including a mounting flange connected to the bumper beam. The first and second laterally positioned legs are located at opposite sides of a forward facing surface and are spaced-apart from each other.

Abstract: Power modules and power module arrays are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power module includes a module support, a high temperature module, and a module cap. The module support includes a frame member, a heat spreader, a first electrically conductive rail, and a second electrically conductive rail. The high temperature module includes a module substrate, a semiconductor device thermally and/or electrically coupled to a semiconductor surface of the module substrate, a first external connector, and a second external connector. The first and second electrically conductive rails are disposed within a through-hole of the first and second external connectors, respectively. The module cap includes a body portion, a plurality of posts, a first opening, and a second opening. The plurality of posts presses against at least the first external connector, the second external connector, and the module substrate such that the high temperature module is thermally coupled to the heat spreader.

Abstract: A system and method for fused deposition modelling that deposits using a nozzle a material on a substrate at a first predetermined temperature, moves, using processing circuitry, the nozzle and an ultrasonic hammer at a predetermined speed in a predetermined pattern to create an object, and hammers the deposited material using the ultrasonic hammer to compress the deposited material, wherein the deposited material is at a second predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A method for determining the power consumption of a programmable logic device, in which at least one configuration parameter is determined in accordance with a predefined configuration and at least one device parameter is determined in accordance with the programmable logic device. The predefined configuration is designed such that the programmable logic device exchanges data with a computing unit through at least one interface pin and receives data from at least one signal source and/or sends it to at least one signal receiver through at least one interface pin. At least one data characteristic of the data exchanged between the computing unit and the programmable logic device as well as at least one signal characteristic of the data received from the at least one signal source and/or sent to the at least one signal receiver are determined.

Abstract: A method for controlling a valve actuator, a valve actuator control device and a valve actuator assembly. The method includes the steps of providing a valve actuator control device, connecting the control device to a valve actuator with a signal transmitting wire, and supplying operating power to the valve actuator from the control device. The method further includes a step of transmitting control signals from the control device to the valve actuator via the signal transmitting wire in order to control the actuator. Hereby, configuration, control and maintenance of valve actuators are facilitated.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises an engine compartment and a hood extending over the engine compartment. An engine is situated within the engine and a pin extends from a top side of the engine toward an interior surface of the hood. An engine cover extends between the top side of the engine and the interior surface of the hood. The engine cover includes an engine cover connection and a grommet coupled to the engine cover connection. The grommet has an entrance, a stop, and an internal cavity 143 extending through the grommet from the entrance toward the stop. The internal cavity 143 is divided into a passive cavity portion and an active cavity portion. The pin rests within the passive cavity portion without passing into the active cavity portion under normal operating conditions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing lithium carbonate, that can shorten the time required in the production of lithium carbonate and has excellent maintenance property and production efficiency without forming fixed matters that require complicated procedures to remove in a reaction apparatus.

Abstract: The method and system for control of oxygen concentration in the coolant of a reactor plant including a reactor, coolant in the reactor, gas system, mass-exchange apparatus, disperser and an oxygen sensor in the coolant have been disclosed. The method includes the following steps implemented by the system: estimation of the oxygen concentration; comparison of the oxygen concentration with the permissible value; if the oxygen concentration is reduced, comparison of the reduction value and\or rate with the corresponding threshold value; if the reduction value and\or rate of oxygen concentration is below the threshold value, activation of the mass-exchange apparatus; if the reduction value and/or rate of oxygen concentration is above the corresponding threshold value, supply of oxygen-containing gas from the gas system to the near-coolant space and/or activation of the disperser.

Abstract: A WD sidewall coring tool includes: an outer cylinder set (34); a retrieving mechanism (35); a drilling sealer mechanism (36); a power mechanism (37); and a coring mechanism (38); wherein the outer cylinder set (34) includes a stabilizer (1), a limiting connector (22), and a turning connector (23) connected in sequence; wherein the retrieving mechanism (35) includes a retrieving cylinder (39), a retrieving head set (40), and a steel rope (33); wherein the drilling sealer mechanism (36) includes a connecting rod (28), a universal joint (24), a plug sleeve (29), and a sealing plug (30); wherein the power mechanism (37) includes a flat thrust bearing (17), a screw stator (18), a screw rotor (19), a limiting piston (20), and a first spring (21); wherein the coring mechanism (38) includes a coring cylinder (25), a core grabber (26), and a coring bit (27).

Abstract: An electrostatic application apparatus 100 comprises a tubular electrode 1 forming a first flow path F1 whose inner surface is formed of an electrically conductive wall; a counter electrode 20 placed to block an extension of an axis line of the first flow path F1; a power source 30 applying a voltage between the tubular electrode 1 and the counter electrode 20, and a liquid supply unit 40 supplying a liquid to the first flow path F1. If an axial length of the first flow path F1 is L1 and an inside diameter of the first flow path F1 is D1, then L1/D1 is 35 or more, the inside diameter D1 of the first flow path is 0.5 to 2.0 mm, and the length L1 of the first flow path is 20 to 100 mm.