Abstract: Antenna arrays with multiple feeds and varying pitch are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a radio frequency (RF) module includes a module substrate, a semiconductor die attached to the module substrate, and an antenna array attached to the module substrate. The semiconductor die includes a plurality of power amplifiers configured to amplify a corresponding plurality of RF signals to generate a plurality of amplified RF signals. The antenna array is configured to receive the plurality of amplified RF signals from the plurality of power amplifiers, and includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged with a varying pitch. Each of the plurality of antenna elements includes two or more signal feeds.

Abstract: Power amplifier systems with non-linear antenna impedance for load compensation are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of power amplification in a mobile device is provided. The method includes generating a radio frequency input signal using a transceiver, amplifying the radio frequency input signal to generate a radio frequency output signal using a power amplifier, and transmitting the radio frequency output signal using an antenna, including compensating the power amplifier for a change in output load in response to a change in signal power using a non-linear impedance versus output power characteristic of the antenna.

Abstract: A scanning laser having a wavelength compatible with a coating binder so as to cure it as the laser scans and irradiates the coating on a moving web. A system and method for curing flakes by providing a scanning laser which scans across a moving coated substrate in a magnetic field allows images to be formed as magnetically aligned flakes are cured into a fixed position. The images have regions of cured aligned flakes. The scanning laser cures the magnetically aligned flakes within it region it irradiates. Alternatively an array of lasers can be used wherein individual lasers can be switched on and off to fix irradiated coating as a moving web is moved at a high speed.

Abstract: A processor determines a cause of an image defect based on a test image that is obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output from an image forming device. The processor generates an extraction image by extracting, from the test image, a noise point that is a type of image defect. Furthermore, the processor determines a cause of the noise point by using at least one of, in the extraction image: an edge strength of the noise point; a degree of flatness of the noise point; and a pixel value distribution of a transverse pixel sequence that is a pixel sequence traversing the noise point.

Abstract: Antenna arrays with separate resonances and termination networks for multiple millimeter wave frequency bands are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an antenna array includes a first antenna element that receives the first radio frequency transmit signal at an input. The first antenna element has a first resonant mode and a second resonant mode. The antenna array further includes a first termination network connected to the input of the first antenna element and a second termination network connected to the input of the first antenna element.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to methods of manufacturing bulk acoustic wave components. Such methods include plasma dicing to singulate individual bulk acoustic wave components. A buffer layer can be formed over a substrate of bulk acoustic wave components such that streets are exposed.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a stirring conveyance member, a pair of shaft supports, and a pair of bearings. The stirring conveyance member includes a rotary shaft and a stirring vane. The shaft supports are coupled to both ends of the rotary shaft in an axial direction. The bearings rotatably support the shaft supports. The rotary shaft has a first through hole penetrating through the rotary shaft over an entire region thereof in the axial direction. The shaft supports are inserted from both the ends of the rotary shaft in the axial direction into the first through hole, and each of the shaft supports has a second through hole penetrating through the each of the shaft supports over an entire region thereof in the axial direction so as to communicate with the first through hole.

Abstract: A locking mechanism (50) is a locking mechanism of a toner container which is replaceable in a state where an opening/closing cover (60) supported by a housing (10) is opened, and the locking mechanism (50) includes a lock member (43) provided in the housing (50) and restricting a detachment of the toner container; an operating lever (63) turnably supported by the opening/closing cover (60) and operating the lock member (43); and a spring member (66) provided in the opening/closing cover (60) and supporting the operating lever (63) elastically, wherein the lock member (43) is turnable between an unlock posture and a lock posture, and the operating lever (63) operates the lock member (43) from the unlock posture to the lock posture according to a movement of the opening/closing cover (60) to a closing direction.

Abstract: In a herein disclosed lithium ion secondary battery, a positive electrode active material includes a lithium-transition metal complex oxide, containing Li, Ni, and Mn and being formed in a layered structure, and includes a covering part, a lithium-transition metal complex oxide has a Ni containing rate being equal to or more than 75 mol % with respect to the total of metal elements other than the Li and is a secondary particle consisted by a primary particle being aggregated, and the covering part contains a tungsten compound and/or a phosphorus compound. A negative electrode active material contains a carbon material and a Si containing material, and a containing ratio of a Si element in the negative electrode active material is equal to or more than 5 mass % and not more than 10 mass % when a total amount of the negative electrode active material is treated as 100 mass %.

Abstract: A positive electrode comprises a positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium-transition metal complex oxide having a layered structure in which a Ni containing rate with respect to metal elements other than Li containing Li, Ni, and Mn is equal to or more than 75 mol %. The lithium-transition metal complex oxide is a secondary particle in which primary particles whose aspect ratios are equal to or more than 1.9 are aggregated. A negative electrode comprises a negative electrode active material layer that contains a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material contains a carbon material and a Si containing material, and a Si element containing ratio is equal to or more than 5 mass % and not more than 10 mass % when a total amount of the negative electrode active material is treated as 100 mass %.

Abstract: A thermal device includes an inflatable non-perforated blanket, a conduit structure, and a recirculating assembly. The inflatable non-perforated blanket is configured to transport warm air internally. The conduit structure is configured to provide conduit to transport the warm air externally to the inflatable non-perforated blanket. The recirculating assembly is configured to inflate the inflatable non-perforated blanket with the warm air and: (1) to cause the warm air to flow from the first port to the second port in a first direction, and (2) to recirculate the warm air through the conduit structure to flow from the second port to the first port in the first direction. The inflatable non-perforated blanket includes first and second sheets. The first sheet faces ambient air and has a first thermal conductivity. The second sheet faces the subject body and has a second thermal conductivity higher than the first thermal conductivity.

Abstract: In an embodiment a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast information in a computer from a first group of users. The method also includes integrating the forecast information into a database and corresponding OLAP cube accessible by the computer. The method further includes receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information in the computer from a second group of users. The method also includes receiving changes of the forecast information in the computer from a second group of users The method further includes integrating comments and changes into the database and OLAP cube. Moreover, the method includes providing a display of the comments and the changes to the first group of users in an interface to the computer.

Abstract: A latching magazine including a latch member and a safety closure that engages the latch member and blocks movement of the latch member. An air gun including a barrel block with a cruciform shaped projectile hopper that includes a top recess that is narrower than a projectile diameter and a top recess and a bottom recess that is wider than the projectile diameter. An assembly for use with an air gun that includes a housing that contains a plurality of double-stacked projectiles, a storage portion that is wider than at least one and a half projectile diameters, a follower with a first surface and a head that includes a second surface that is orientated at an obtuse angle relative to the first surface with both surfaces engaging projectiles in the storage portion.

Abstract: A sorter includes a plurality of sheet output trays, a first actuator, a transferring mechanism, a control device, and a plurality of tray full detection mechanisms. The first actuator travels along the plurality of sheet output trays to guide a sheet onto any one of the plurality of sheet output trays. The transferring mechanism transfers the first actuator. The control device controls an operation of the transferring mechanism. The plurality of tray full detection mechanisms are provided one for each of the plurality of sheet output trays. Each of the plurality of tray full detection mechanisms includes a second actuator and a tray full detection sensor. The control device identifies an actual location of the first actuator based on a change of a detection signal produced by a change in attitude of the second actuator due to transfer of the first actuator and output from the tray full detection sensor.

Abstract: A spacer frame assembly and method of manufacturing that includes a substantially linear channel comprising two lateral walls connected by a base wall, the channel having first and second ends that when assembled, includes at least three sides and corresponding corners between each of the sides; the linear channel further includes a nose portion of the first end and a receiving portion of the second end having a channel for receiving the nose portion; and the nose portion comprising a first undulation in the first end and the receiving portion comprising a second undulation in the second end. The first and second undulations nest when the ends are in an assembled position.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a method for making an acoustic wave resonator with hyperbolic mode suppression. The acoustic wave resonator can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode, a temperature compensation layer, and a mass loading strip. The mass loading strip can be a conductive strip. The mass loading strip can overlap edge portions of fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode. A layer of the mass loading strip can have a density that is at least as high as a density of a material of the interdigital transducer electrode. The material of the interdigital transducer can impact acoustic properties of the acoustic wave resonator.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a system can include a first arbiter device connected to a first network, the first arbiter device communicating with a first communication interval, a second arbiter device connected to a second network, the second arbiter device communicating with a second communication interval synchronized with the first communication interval; and a wireless network architecture that desynchronizes the first communication interval and the second communication interval.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for configuration-driven application deployments. An example method can include obtaining a platform-agnostic application configuration including a plurality of application components that can be interpreted by a plurality of system-specific application platforms to dynamically render different applications; based on the platform-agnostic application configuration, generating, by a computing device using a system-specific application platform, an application including a platform-specific interpretation of the platform-agnostic application configuration; and executing the application at the computing device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for x-ray image data monitoring and signaling for patient safety. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes integrating energy associated with a received x-ray pulse at an array of pixels. The method also includes multiplexing a readout of the integrated energy from the array of pixels, as analog signals, into channels, and performing analog to digital conversion of the analog signals of the channels into digital signals. The method further includes generating an error indicator in response to determining that a calculated mean of the digital signals is either greater than an upper threshold value associated with saturation or less than a lower threshold value associated with underexposure. The method further includes transmitting the error indicator over a Universal Serial Bus, to an imaging system, to terminate transmission of further x-ray pulses.