Abstract: An example configuration device can include a connection cable to be coupled to a port of a device positioned within a device package, wherein the connection cable is to provide electrical power to the device positioned within the device package and provide communication between the configuration device and the device positioned within the device package, and a computing device comprising instructions to: activate the device positioned within the device package through the connection cable, format the device positioned within the device package through the connection cable, and deactivate the device positioned within the device package through the connection cable.

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory storing a firmware and a processor. The processor may receive a request to modify the firmware, in which the request may be associated with a first credential. The processor may also determine, based on the first credential, whether modification of the firmware is authorized and based on a determination that modification of the firmware is authorized, display a set of defined functionalities for the firmware that are authorized to be modified. The processor may further receive a modification to a functionality in the set of defined functionalities that are authorized to be modified and may apply the received modification to the functionality.

Abstract: In an example, a virtual build volume comprising a representation of at least a part of an object to be generated in additive manufacturing is segmented into a plurality of nested segments comprising a core segment, an inner peripheral segment and an outer peripheral segment. Additive manufacturing control instructions may be generated for the nested segments. The control instructions for the core segment may provide a first region of the object corresponding to the core segment and having a first color. The control instructions for the outer peripheral segment may provide a second color for a second region of the object corresponding to the outer peripheral segment. The control instructions for the inner peripheral segment may provide a third color for a third region of the object corresponding to the inner peripheral segment, wherein a color of the third region is determined so as to at least partially visually mask the first region.

Abstract: A portable information handling system couples a display film to a housing with a minimal bezel by forming a slot in a corner of the display film having rounded portions on opposing sides of the slot that conform to a rounded shape of the housing perimeter support for the display film. In an embodiment having a dual housing display configuration, the display film folds over a hinge and has a slot formed in each corner with a hinge indent aligned at the hinge coupling location to accept a hinge end cover.

Abstract: A stress sensor includes: a substrate, having a face and a recess, open to the face; and a sensor chip of semiconductor material, housed in the recess and bonded to the substrate, the sensor chip being provided with a plurality of sensing components of piezoresistive material. The substrate has a thickness which is less by at least one order of magnitude with respect to a main dimension of the face. Further, the sensor chip has a thickness which is less by at least one order of magnitude with respect to the thickness of the substrate, and a Young's module of the substrate and a Young's module of the sensor chip are of the same order of magnitude.

Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a biometric sensor, a motion sensor, and a housing. The biometric sensor is to collect biometric data. The motion sensor is to detect movement of a finger of a user that is translated into motion or a control input in a virtual reality (VR) application. The housing is to enclose the biometric sensor and the motion sensor. The housing includes a mechanical coupling to attach to the finger of the user.

Abstract: A stereolithography machine includes: a tank with a bottom; a supporting unit associated with moving means configured to move it according to a direction of movement which is orthogonal to the bottom; a modelling plate having a modelling surface facing the bottom in order to support a three-dimensional object; a coupling unit suited to removably connect the modelling plate to the supporting unit and comprising a housing and a spherical body revolvingly arranged in the housing; releasable clamping means suited to be operated in such a way as to press the housing and the spherical body against each other so as to make them integral with each other and to make the modelling plate integral with the supporting unit.

Abstract: A device to supply printing material to a printing material container of a printing apparatus includes a container including a plunger and to contain the printing material, a portal couplable to a refill port to the printing material container. The portal includes a discharge port through which the printing material is transferrable from the container, and a connector to receive power to move the plunger, to cause a transfer of the printing material contained in the container to the printing material container through the discharge port.

Abstract: An example image forming apparatus includes a main body including a cover, a location determining member coupled to the main body to settle a toner cartridge in an image forming location, a sliding member slidably coupled to the main body to move the toner cartridge between a first location outside the main body and a second location inside the main body, and a holder connected with the cover to move the toner cartridge located in the second location to a third location contacting the location determining member according to a movement of the cover.

Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first low voltage control block, a second low voltage control block, a primitive level shifter coupled to the first low voltage control block, a plurality of nozzle level shifters coupled to the primitive level shifter and a second low voltage control block, and a high side switch (HSS) control coupled to each one of the plurality of nozzle level shifters and the second low voltage control block. The plurality of nozzle level shifters are communicatively coupled to each other. The primitive shifter is to enable a selected nozzle level shifter to fire a respective HSS control circuit of the selected nozzle level shifter and to direct a tail current from the selected nozzle level shifter.

Abstract: This electronic notch filter is able to receive an input signal and deliver a filtered signal having an amplitude, at a cut-off frequency, that is attenuated with respect to that of the input signal. It comprises a module for integrating the input signal during several successive time windows, each time window starting at a respective initial time instant and having a duration substantially equal to the inverse of the cut-off frequency, the initial temporal time instants of at least two distinct windows being separated by a temporal shift of a value greater than or equal to a predefined reference duration, each integration of the input signal during a respective temporal window resulting in a respective intermediate signal; and a module for summing the intermediate signals coming from the integration module; the filtered signal depending on the sum of said intermediate signals.

Abstract: A PMUT device includes a membrane element extending perpendicularly to a first direction and configured to generate and receive ultrasonic waves by oscillating about an equilibrium position. At least two piezoelectric elements are included, with each one located over the membrane element along the first direction and configured to cause the membrane element to oscillate when electric signals are applied to the piezoelectric element, and generate electric signals in response to oscillations of the membrane element. The membrane element has a lobed shape along a plane perpendicular to the first direction, with the lobed shape including at least two lobes. The membrane element includes for each piezoelectric member a corresponding membrane portion including a corresponding lobe, with each piezoelectric member being located over its corresponding membrane portion.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and processes for rapid installation of numerous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are described. For at least one embodiment, a system for installing multiple Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices may include a multi-device hub communicatively coupled to each of multiple IoT devices. One or more gateways are coupled to the multi-device hub. One or more IoT servers are coupled to at least one of the one or more gateways. The multi-device hub is configured to facilitate a bulk installation of the multiple IoT devices by executing non-transient computer instructions for registering and activating each of the IoT devices with use with one or more IoT servers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a binding agent for printing a 3D green body object. The binding agent includes from about 0.3 wt % to about 3 wt % adhesion promoter including an aromatic maleic anhydride-containing copolymer, from about 2 wt % to about 20 wt % a (meth)acrylic latex binder, from about 10 wt % to about 40 wt % solvent package including from about 3 wt % to about 40 wt % of a coalescing solvent, and from about 40 wt % to about 88 wt % water. The weight percentage ranges are based on total content of the binding agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a binding agent for printing a 3D green body object. The binding agent includes from about 0.3 wt % to about 3 wt % multi-functional carboxylic acid having a weight average molecular weight range from about 100 MW to about 1,000 MW, from about 2 wt % to about 20 wt % a (meth)acrylic latex binder, from about 10 wt % to about 40 wt % solvent package including from about 3 wt % to about 40 wt % of a coalescing solvent, and from about 40 wt % to about 88 wt % water. The weight percentage ranges are based on total content of the binding agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a microfluidic device including a microfluidic substrate and dry reagent-containing particles. The microfluidic substrate includes an ingress microfluidic channel that fluidly feeds an egress microfluidic channel through a microfluidic-retaining region that includes a microfluidic discontinuity feature, a particle-retaining chemical coating, or a combination thereof. The dry reagent-containing particles include a reagent that is releasable from the dry reagent-containing particles when exposed to a release fluid. The dry reagent-containing particles are retained within the microfluidic substrate at the microfluidic discontinuity feature or particle-retaining chemical coating in position to release the reagent into the egress microfluidic channel upon flow of release fluid from the ingress microfluidic channel through the microfluidic-retaining region.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a scanner to read three-dimensional (3D) print information from a storage element to be embedded in a 3D printed object. The system also includes a controller. The controller 1) instructs an additive manufacturing device to form the 3D printed object based on the 3D print information stored in the storage element and 2) embeds the storage element into the 3D printed object.

Abstract: An example system includes a first camera to capture a first image of a first facial body part and a second camera to capture a second image of a second facial body part. The example system further includes a transformation engine to transform respective scales of the first image and the second image to a scale of full facial images. The example system further includes a local location engine to: identify first facial landmarks and second facial landmarks in respective transformed versions of the first image and the second image, the first facial landmarks and the second facial landmarks used to determine that an action has occurred.

Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to service correlation across hybrid cloud architecture to support container hybridization. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an overlay network can instantiate a message bus between a first cloud network and a second cloud network. The overlay network can receive, via the message bus, a request from the second cloud network for a container image stored in a containerized application asset repository of the first cloud network. The overlay network can retrieve, via the message bus, the container image from the containerized application asset repository. The overlay network can provide, via the message bus, the container image to the second cloud network for creating a container based upon the container image.

Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated control loop grading and data labeling (“ACLGDL”). An ACLGDL system analyzes results of an execution, by a control loop system, of a control loop. The ACLGDL system can grade the results. The ACLGDL system also can instruct, based at least in part upon the grade of the results of the execution, the control loop system to collect additional data. The ACLGDL system can label the additional data for use by an output system. The ACLGDL system can establish plurality of policies including a grading-analysis policy, a grading-results policy, a labeling-collection policy, a labeling policy, a publishing policy, and a notification policy. The ACLGDL system can publish the data labeled in accordance with the labeling policy based, at least in part, upon the publishing policy. The ACLGDL system can notify the output system based, at least in part, upon the notification policy.