Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for characterizing and quantifying composite laminate structures. The embodiments take a composite laminate of unknown ply stack composition and sequence and determine various information about the individual plies, such as ply stack, orientation, microstructure, and type. The embodiments can distinguish between weave types that may exhibit similar planar stiffness behaviors, but would produce different failure mechanisms. Individual ply information may then be used to derive the laminate bulk properties from externally provided constitutive properties of the fiber and matrix, including extensional stiffness, bending-extension coupling stiffness, bending stiffness, and the like. The laminate bulk properties may then be used to generate a probabilistic failure envelope for the composite laminate. In some embodiments, ply stack type and sequence may also be determined for a curved composite laminate using the disclosed embodiments by adding a rotational stage.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining passenger information of one or more passenger traveling within a transportation network; and providing one or more output based on a processing of the passenger information.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein pertains to a system and method for profiling performance of an embedded computation instruction set (CIS), the method including receiving a profiling component to a computational storage device (CSD), the profiling component being configured to measure one or more execution parameters of a computational instruction set (CIS), executing the CIS at a program slot in a computational storage processor of the CSD, monitoring the execution of the CIS to generate a log of the execution parameters of the CIS, and communicating the log to a host in response to receiving a get-log page command.

Abstract: A data storage device includes a stack of data storage disks mounted on a spindle, a first arm and a second arm. The stack comprises a first plurality of upper disks and second plurality of lower disks. The first arm is movably attached to an actuator shaft, the first arm having a first head end that supports a first head, the first arm configured to move along a first portion of the actuator shaft to enable the first head to interact with data storage surfaces of the first plurality of upper disks. The second arm has a second head end that supports a second head, the second arm attached to and configured to move along a second portion of the actuator shaft, independently of the first arm, to enable the second head to interact with data storage surfaces of the second plurality of lower disks.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011141. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011141, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011141 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011141.

Abstract: A multi-layer body armor plate includes a strike plate; a mesh layer positioned over the strike plate, the mesh layer having a number of open cells; and an outer skin layer positioned over the mesh layer so as to encapsulate the open cells of the mesh layer between the strike plate and the outer skin layer. The open cells of the mesh layer may entrap air or may be filled with expandable, buoyant foam.

Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for controlling flow through a recirculation tube of an evaporative emissions system. The methods and systems may adjust flow through the recirculation tube by controlling an amount of time an evaporative emissions system valve is held open and held closed during refilling of a fuel tank.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011067. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011067, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011067 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011067.

Abstract: A hands-free charging system includes a power source and a charging unit electrically connected to the power source. The charging unit includes an energy-storage device and a robotic coupler connectable to a charge port of a vehicle. The charging unit is configured to charge the vehicle with the power source, and the energy-storage device is configured to independently power the robotic coupler irrespective of an energization state of the power source. A controller is programmed to, in response to the power source becoming de-energized during a vehicle charging session, retract the robotic coupler from the charge port using power from the energy-storage device.

Abstract: An artificial-reality device for audio playback is provided. The artificial-reality device includes: (i) a head-mounted display including at least one lens, and (ii) one or more transducers, coupled to the head-mounted display. The transducers are configured to generate signals that vibrate the at least one lens of the head-mounted display. The at least one lens generates acoustic waves that correspond to media presented by the head-mounted display when vibrated by the one or more transducers. In some embodiments, the head-mounted display further includes a frame, and at least one transducer of the one or more transducers is coupled to the frame of the head-mounted display. In some embodiments, at least one transducer of the one or more transducers is coupled to the at least one lens of the head-mounted display.

Abstract: A system includes a mobile device that requests a control file, defining a plurality of available vehicle controls. The mobile device also receives the control set file and populate a mobile device interface based on the available vehicle controls. The mobile device then receives selection of one of the vehicle controls via the mobile device interface. The mobile device then configures a vehicle function call, defined in accordance with the vehicle-control in the control file and transmits the configured vehicle function call to a vehicle.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011129. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011129, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011129 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011129.

Abstract: Systems for an integrated exhaust manifold cylinder head are provided. In one example, an exhaust manifold for a vehicle includes a plurality of exhaust runners coupling a plurality of cylinder exhaust gas outlet ports to an exhaust exit port, the plurality of exhaust runners forming at least a first exhaust passage and a second exhaust passage at the exhaust exit port; an upper cooling jacket positioned vertically above the first exhaust passage; a lower cooling jacket positioned vertically below the second exhaust passage; and a central cooling jacket positioned vertically below the first exhaust passage and vertically above the second passage.

Abstract: Various embodiments set forth high-resolution liquid crystal displays and components thereof. In some embodiments, light emitted by a high-resolution green color liquid crystal display is combined, via a combiner, with light emitted by at least one lower-resolution red and blue color liquid crystal display. The red and blue color display(s) may include a single display or two displays positioned on opposing sides of the combiner. The combiner may be a dichroic or polarization-based combiner. Combined light from the green color display and the red and blue color display(s) is passed through collimating optics, such as a pancake lens or a Fresnel lens, toward a viewer's eye.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query from a user from a client system associated with the user, accessing a knowledge graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, wherein each node corresponds to an entity and each edge corresponds to a relationship between the entities corresponding to the connected nodes, determining one or more initial entities associated with the query based on the query, selecting one or more candidate nodes by a conversational reasoning model from the knowledge graph corresponding to one or more candidate entities, respectively, wherein each candidate node is selected based on the nodes corresponding to the initial entities, dialog states associated with the query, and a context associated with the query, generating a response based on the initial entities and the candidate entities, and sending instructions for presenting the response to the client system in response to the query.

Abstract: A vehicle has an internal combustion engine, an accessory, and a system having first and second belts extending between a drive assembly rotatably connected to a crankshaft of the engine and a driven assembly rotatably connected to a driveshaft of the accessory. One of the drive and driven assemblies comprises a mechanism with a shaft supporting first and second pulleys, with the first and second pulleys associated with the first and second belts, respectively. The first pulley is selectively engaged with the shaft in response to an engine speed being below a threshold value, and the second pulley is selectively engaged with the shaft in response to the engine speed being above the threshold value.

Abstract: Load balancing technology is used to distribute tasks requested of a data storage network across the connected storage nodes within the data storage network. Conventional load balancing technology is not proactive. Storage nodes within a data storage network may have different performance characteristics and/or current loads created by various demands on the storage nodes and connected servers. The proactive load balancers and corresponding load balancer agents disclosed herein are used to detect these variations in performance characteristics and/or current loads in the storage nodes and connected servers to inform decisions made by the proactive load balancer in distributing incoming access requests across the storage nodes and connected servers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a graft material including a self-healing polymer layer and to implantable medical devices including such a graft material. The invention also relates to methods of using and manufacturing such graft materials and devices. In one embodiment, the implantable medical device is a stent graft.

Abstract: A powered rough-in assembly is disclosed. The powered rough-in assembly includes a mounting frame that is annular, having an inner perimeter sized and shaped to receive a speaker module, and an outer perimeter having a polygonal shape with a plurality of edges. The powered rough-in assembly also includes a wiring block coupled to a first edge of the mounting frame. The wiring block includes two spring-type terminals and two wires, each terminal communicatively coupled to a first end of a different wire of the two wires. The plurality of edges includes at least one edge that is a flange having a plurality of countersunk holes. The plurality of edges also includes at least two edges releasably coupled to metal wings.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a seat back frame that has a composite body. The composite body includes a first side member and a second side member positioned on opposite sides of the composite body. The first and second side members include a recliner assembly at a lower end of each member. Each recliner assembly includes a first bracket, a second bracket, and a recliner sub-assembly. Each recliner assembly is welded or otherwise coupled to an extension that extends away from the recliner assembly along a respective side of the composite body. The extension may be stamped steel having a first end that is closer to the recliner assembly and a second end that is spaced from the recliner assembly. The first end of the extension has a width that is greater than a width of the second end.