Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an optional device, a casing, an image forming section and a sheet conveyor device. The optional device performs optional processing. The image forming section is located inside of the casing and forms an image on a sheet. The sheet conveyor device conveys, to the optional device, the sheet with an image formed thereon by the image forming section. The optional device and the casing are fixed to each other. The sheet conveyor device is fixed to the optional device and the casing.

Abstract: Devices are provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in a liquid-containing storage tank (e.g. water-storage tank). The devices include a first fluid flow path that is physically isolated from a second fluid flow path and a convection device for moving a first fluid along the first fluid flow path toward at a desired destination and for exhausting the first fluid at the desired destination at a desired velocity. Methods are also provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in liquid-containing storage tanks (e.g. water-storage tanks). The methods involve blowing a first fluid through a ventilation device into a liquid-containing storage device at a velocity sufficient to achieve a desired mass transfer rate of volatile chemicals from the liquid in the liquid-containing storage device to air in the headspace and flowing the contaminated air back through the ventilation device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for forming a semiconductor package. The method includes providing a first releasable chip carrier attached to a conductive layer. A circuit layer is formed on a surface of the conductive layer and a dielectric layer is applied over a surface of the circuit layer. A second releasable chip carrier is attached to a surface of the dielectric layer and the first releasable chip carrier is released from the conductive layer via facilitation of a first activating source. The circuitry of the circuit layer is operationally tested.

Abstract: A neck assembly for an anthropomorphic test device (ATD) includes a plurality of vertebra discs, a plurality of ligament joints each having a joint element disposed between the vertebra discs, and a torsion assembly coupled to one of the vertebra discs to allow rotation about an axis of the one of the vertebra discs to simulate torsion response of a human neck.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing an improved electromagnetic radiation sensing micromechanical device to be utilized in high pixel-density pixel sensor arrays. The device includes an improved design for improved and adjustable performance through simple geometric or fabrication means. Furthermore, the design of the device lends itself to simple micromechanical manufacturing procedures. Additionally, the manufacturing procedures include a method to enable high uniformity and high yield sensor arrays. Arrays of the device can be utilized as IR imaging detectors for use in applications such as human presence detection, nonvisual environment monitoring, security and safety, surveillance, energy monitoring, fire detection and people counting.

Abstract: A dual-mode turret system includes a turret base operable by a motor drive of the turret system, a cylindrical sleeve secured to the turret base, a mounting cylinder disposed in the cylindrical sleeve, and a frame secured to the mounting cylinder, wherein the frame is adapted to hold a weapon. The dual-mode turret system also includes a locking apparatus that when engaged prevents the mounting cylinder from rotating independently of the cylindrical sleeve, a controller, and an input device coupled to the controller. Rotation of the frame is manually adjustable when the locking apparatus is disengaged, and the rotation of the frame is adjusted by the controller in response to commands received from the input device when the locking apparatus is engaged.

Abstract: A packer comprising a mandrel having a radially directed port disposed therein and a passageway axially disposed therein and a packer element disposed around a portion of the mandrel. The packer further includes a housing disposed around a portion of the mandrel creating an annulus area between the mandrel and the housing, the housing is disposed adjacent to the packer element to squeeze the packer element and axially expand the annulus area when fluid flows through the radially directed port and into the annulus area above a fluid pressure threshold. The packer can be included in a downhole assembly having an upper packer and a lower packer. A method of using the packer includes placing the packer into a wellbore to seal one zone from another and pumping fluid into the packer to set the packer element against a casing in the wellbore. A method of using the assembly that incorporates the upper packer and the lower packer is also described.

Abstract: An interface assembly of a host system that connects a peripheral device to a USB Type-C interface has at least one supply line and at least one signaling line, wherein one from among a plurality of different power profiles can be selected by the peripheral device by applying different analog control signals to the signaling line, a signaling circuit connects to the signaling line on a side of the host system, the signaling circuit, on the basis of at least one digital control signal, produces a predetermined analog control signal assigned to the at least one digital control signal and outputs it to the peripheral device via the signaling line and the at least one digital control signal is provided via a GPIO port of a control module of a system component of the host system, and the GPIO port is controlled by a BIOS.

Abstract: Front-end architecture having split triplexers for carrier aggregation and MIMO support. In some embodiments, a multiplexing architecture can include an assembly of filters configured to support carrier aggregation with one or more antennas. The assembly of filters can include a first triplexer configured to support a low-band, a mid-band, and a first high-band. The assembly of filters can further include a second triplexer configured to support the low-band, the mid-band, and a second high-band. The multiplexing architecture can further include a switch assembly implemented between the assembly of filters and respective one or more nodes associated with the one or more antennas.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to determining a layout of a racetrack that forms part of an RF isolation structure of a packaged module and the resulting RF isolation structures. Locations of where the racetrack can be adjusted (for example, narrowed) and/or removed without significantly degrading the EMI performance of the RF isolation structure can be identified. In certain embodiments, a portion of the racetrack can be removed to create a break and/or a portion of the racetrack can be narrowed in a selected area.

Abstract: A network device implements a repetition scheme to generate a repetition-encoded FEC codeword for a FEC codeword. The repetition-encoded FEC codeword includes a set of bit sequences concatenated together. The set of bit sequences corresponds to a set of OFDM symbols. In some embodiments, each bit sequence is formed by M replicas of the FEC codeword and an offset is applied to shift the bit sequence where the offset is different for each bit sequence. In one embodiment, a right cyclic shift is used to offset the bits in each symbol. Each shifted bit sequence is allocated into subcarriers of an OFDM symbol over a frequency range indicative of an operating frequency band of a domain to form the respective OFDM symbol. The set of OFDM symbols is transformed into a time domain signal for transmission.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for the quick and efficient transfer of large amounts of data to mobile devices from enterprise asset management software residing on a primary server, via an intermediary server in a seamless and streamlined fashion, making the downloaded data available accessible by users of the mobile devices ahead of time, anywhere and at any time in an offline (disconnected) or online (Internet connected) mode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a shaft and a rotor core. A plurality of flux barriers are formed at the rotor core. The flux barrier has a plurality of bridges, and one or more barrier regions. When a width of the bridge of a first flux barrier is defined as wa, a width of the bridge of a second flux barrier is defined as wb, a value obtained by dividing a radius of a smallest circle that is tangent to a central line of the first flux barrier by an outer radius of the rotor core is defined as a, and a value obtained by dividing a radius of a smallest circle that is tangent to a central line of the second flux barrier by the outer radius of the rotor core is defined as b, and when f(x)=(1?x{circumflex over (?)}2){circumflex over (?)}(3/2) and g(x)=(1?x{circumflex over (?)}3), a relationship of f(b)/f(a)?wb/wa?g(b)/g(a) is satisfied.

Abstract: A power amplifier module that includes a power amplifier and a controller is presented herein. The power amplifier module may include a set of transistor stages and a plurality of bias circuits. At least one transistor stage from the set of transistor stages may be in electrical communication with a first bias circuit and a second bias circuit from the plurality of bias circuits. The first bias circuit can be configured to apply a first bias voltage to the at least one transistor stage and the second bias circuit can be configured to apply a second bias voltage to the at least one transistor stage. The controller may be configured to activate one of the first bias circuit and the second bias circuit.

Abstract: An obstacle detection system for a work vehicle includes a controller having a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to receive a first signal indicative of a position of an obstacle relative to the work vehicle, to determine whether the position of the obstacle corresponds to a position of a movable object coupled to the work vehicle, and to output a second signal indicative of detection of the obstacle in response to determining that the position of the obstacle does not correspond to the position of the movable object.

Abstract: A heat exchanger that includes a membrane of graphene oxide is disclosed, as is a heat exchange system employing such a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger permits the use of water from non-traditional sources, such as waste water, brackish and sea water, in a cooling loop. Clean water and sensible heat permeate through the membrane, simultaneously cooling and purifying water in the cooling loop.

Abstract: A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item.

Abstract: A pair of side plate portions of a duct unit are formed to continue from an upstream plate portion to a downstream plate portion. A partition wall portion partitions a space between the pair of side plate portions into branch flow paths and the other area. A plurality of flow-out openings formed in the downstream plate portion are smaller, in area and width in a first direction, than flow-in openings formed in the upstream plate portion. The pair of side plate portions are formed to extend along edges of the flow-in openings and edges of the flow-out openings. The edges of each of the flow-in openings and the flow-out openings are opposite to each other in the first direction. An interval between the pair of side plate portions in the first direction becomes gradually narrower from upstream to downstream.

Abstract: A linear compressor and methods of operation, for example, to detect polarity for the linear compressor are provided herein. The method may include supplying an initial time varying voltage to the motor of the linear compressor at an assumed polarity; estimating a first acceleration of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor is at a bottom dead center position; estimating a second acceleration of the motor of the linear compressor when the motor is at a top dead center position; comparing the first acceleration to the second acceleration; and determining whether the assumed polarity is correct based on the comparison.

Abstract: A hierarchical domain includes egress routers, an ingress router, set gateway routers, and subdomain gateway routers. The ingress router receives a multicast packet in a flow associated with the egress routers. The ingress router is in a first set of egress routers in a first subdomain of the hierarchical domain. The set gateway routers provide gateways to second sets of the plurality of egress routers in the first subdomain. The subdomain gateway routers provide gateways to second subdomains that includes sets of the plurality of egress routers. The ingress router generates a first copy of the multicast packet for transmission to the first set of egress routers based on a first bitstring, a second copy of the multicast packet for transmission to the set gateway routers based on a second bitstring, and a third copy of the multicast packet to the subdomain gateway routers based on a third bitstring.