Abstract: A method of manufacturing a surface emitting laser according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes the following two steps: (1) a step of forming a semiconductor stacked structure on a substrate, the semiconductor stacked structure including an active layer, a first DBR layer of a first electrical conduction type, and a second DBR layer of a second electrical conduction type, the first DBR layer and the second DBR layer sandwiching the active layer, the second electrical conduction type being different from the first electrical conduction type; and (2) a step of forming a mesa section at a portion on the second DBR layer side in the semiconductor stacked structure and then forming an annular diffusion region of the first electrical conduction type at an outer edge of the mesa section by impurity diffusion from a side surface of the mesa section, the mesa section including the second DBR layer, the mesa section not including the active layer.

Abstract: A system and method for user interface development and appliance data transmission is provided. The method includes generating, at a controller at an appliance, a core control module configured to perform operations corresponding to a first operating function at the appliance; obtaining, at a network computing device, a user input corresponding to a second operating function; building, at the network computing device, a user-specific control module comprising the second operating function; transmitting, to the controller at the appliance, the user-specific control module; and combining the user-specific control module to the core control module.

Abstract: An ice making assembly includes an ice mold and a pump assembly for urging an ice-building spray into the ice mold to form an ice billet. A controller operates the pump assembly to provide the ice-building spray at a first flow rate until the ice billet reaches a predetermined thickness and then operates the pump assembly to provide the ice-building spray at a second flow rate that is less than the first flow rate.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub positioned in the cabinet, a basket assembly mounted in the tub, a manifold mounted in the cabinet, and a dispenser box slidably mounted to the manifold. The dispenser box is configured to provide selective access to an interior of the dispenser box, and a powder detergent chamber is configured for receiving powder detergent. A drawer is slidably mounted to the dispenser box within the interior of the dispenser box. The drawer defines a liquid detergent chamber. Liquid detergent chamber nests within the powder detergent chamber in the interior of the dispenser box.

Abstract: A suturing device for minimally invasive surgery is disclosed. The suturing device has a head defining one or more ferrule holders and a tissue bite area. The device also has a first needle comprising a flywheel portion and one or more curved arms extending from the flywheel portion, each of the one or more curved arms comprising a ferrule engaging tip, wherein the first needle is pivotably coupled to the head. The suturing device further has a first actuator coupled to the first needle and configured to rotate it from a retracted position, where the ferrule engaging tip of each of the one or more curved arms starts away from the one or more ferrule holders, through the tissue bite area, and to an engaged position where the ferrule engaging tip of each of the one or more curved arms is operationally aligned with the one or more ferrule holders.

Abstract: A product index mechanism for a product inspection system includes a material strip driving wheel and an index structure driving wheel. The material strip driving wheel engages with a material strip carrying a plurality of products to be inspected by an inspection device of the product inspection system. The driving wheel drives the material strip to move. The index structure driving wheel rotates synchronously with the material strip driving wheel and includes a plurality of product index structures thereon. As a product on the material strip is moved by the material strip driving wheel to an inspection position of the inspection device, one product index structure on the index structure driving wheel is rotated to a trigger position corresponding to a trigger of the inspection system. Activation of the trigger transmits a trigger signal to the inspection device to inspect the product.

Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a sealed cooling system, and an ice cream unit. The door may include a door liner defining an icebox compartment. The door may include a chilled air supply opening and a chilled air return opening spaced apart from the chilled air supply opening. The ice cream unit may be disposed within the icebox compartment. The ice cream unit may include a freezing tank, a rotatable auger extending into the freezing tank, a tank jacket, and a unit duct or support base. The tank jacket may receive the freezing tank and define a cooling passage extending about the freezing tank from a jacket inlet to a jacket outlet. The jacket outlet may be open to the icebox compartment to exhaust air from the cooling passage to the icebox compartment.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for use in a positive electrode of a lithium-sulfur battery is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a) particles A having a first porous carbon material, at least part of which is crystalline, and catalyst particles deposited on the first porous carbon material; and b) particles B having a second porous carbon material, at least part of which is crystalline, and sulfur infiltrated into the second porous carbon material, wherein the particles A and the particles B have different morphologies.

Abstract: In some aspects, a first plug-in module that is installed on a server receives an instruction to install a particular database on a first target server that is near (e.g., less than a threshold number of hops from or having less than a threshold latency communicating with) the server. The first plug-in module creates a first persistent authentication session between the server and the first target server and initiates a first installation of a first database on the first target server using the first persistent authentication session. Concurrently with the first installation, a second plug-in module that is installed on a second server initiates a second installation of a second database on a second target server using a second persistent authentication session. The second target server is near the second server.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lighting component which may comprise a light emitting diode (LED) or laser diode (LD) for generating at least one of blue light or ultraviolet light. A fluoride phosphor matrix may be included, which may be consolidated into a phosphor ceramic structure including at least one of a transparent fluoride ceramic structure or a translucent fluoride ceramic structure, and positioned adjacent to the LED or LD. The phosphor ceramic structure generates at least one of red or orange light when irradiated by the light emitted from the LED or LD. The phosphor ceramic structure exhibits reduced thermal quenching relative to a fluoride particulate structure irradiated by the LED or LD.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of production printing. The industrial printing system performs production printing and includes a plurality of site servers. A plurality of site servers performs distributed processing of print jobs. Each site server has a storage unit, a processing determination unit, and a processing management unit. The storage unit stores a capacity table showing the capacity that can be processed in the print process and the post-processing process. The processing determination unit determines other site servers that can process jobs from a plurality of site servers based on the capacity table stored in the storage unit. The processing management unit sets a schedule for processing jobs by other site servers determined to be processable by the processing determination unit and sends jobs to other site servers to request processing according to the schedule settings.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and tools for customizing shower panels to accommodate a variety of shapes and sizes of shower bases, where such methods and tools reduce installation steps. One exemplary method includes steps of using tools to trim a back shower panel, a first side shower panel, and a second side shower panel to conform to the contours of the top edges of a shower base. An exemplary assembly of tools used to perform described methods includes a plurality of contour gauge tools and a drain center groove. Each contour gauge tool includes a contoured edge, a slot formed through the contour gauge tool, and indicia formed on a surface of the contour gauge tool. The drain center tool includes a first groove, second groove intersecting the first groove and perpendicular to the first groove, and a tab extending upward of the top surface of the drain center tool.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to an object recognition method for time-of-flight camera data, including: recognizing a real object based on a pretrained algorithm, wherein the pretrained algorithm is trained based on time-of-flight training data, wherein the time-of-flight training data are generated based on a combination of real time-of-flight data being indicative of a background, and simulated time-of-flight data generated by applying a mask on synthetic overlay image data representing a simulated object, thereby generating a masked simulated object, the mask being generated based on the synthetic overlay image data.

Abstract: A battery diagnosis device for a battery including a parallel connection structure of unit cells includes a processor and memory having programmed thereon instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause the processor to collect charge/discharge data including a voltage time series indicating a time-dependent change of a voltage across the battery and a current time series indicating a time-dependent change of a charge/discharge current flowing through the battery; determine an estimated capacity value indicating a full charge capacity of the battery based on the charge/discharge data; and diagnose an abnormality in the parallel connection structure by monitoring a time-dependent change of the estimated capacity value.

Abstract: An antenna assembly for use with a wireless communication wearable device. The antenna assembly includes a circuit board with components extending from a surface thereof. The antenna assembly has a first radiator antenna and a second radiator antenna which extends about the perimeter of the first antenna. A first slot is provided between the first radiator antenna and the second radiator antenna. The first slot separates the first radiator antenna from the second radiator antenna.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes four photosensitive members, a first optical scanning unit, a second optical scanning unit, a first detection unit, a second detection unit and a control unit. The first optical scanning unit draws a first reference image and a first opposite image. The second optical scanning unit draws a second reference image and draws a second opposite image. The first detection unit detects the internal temperature of at least one of the first optical scanning unit and the second optical scanning unit. The second detection unit detects an apparatus internal temperature within an apparatus main body. The control unit corrects positions of the drawing of the first opposite image, the drawing of the second reference image and the drawing of the second opposite image based on the amount of change in the internal temperature and the amount of change in the apparatus internal temperature.

Abstract: A pouch type secondary battery includes a pouch type battery case including an electrode assembly housing portion and a sealing portion. An electrode assembly is housed in the housing portion, and an insulation coating layer is laminated on the sealing portion. The insulation coating layer includes a binder and heat-dissipating particles having a thermal conductivity of 0.2 W/(mk) or more.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery. The secondary battery may include an electrode assembly including a plurality of positive electrode plates with each plate having a positive electrode tab, a plurality of negative electrode plates with each plate having a negative electrode tab, and a plurality of separators with each separator interposed between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, and a tab welding portion comprising welded overlapping positive electrode tabs and welded overlapping negative electrode tabs. A length of the tab welding portion in an extension direction of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab may be constant or different across a thickness direction of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprising lithium transition metal oxide particles having a core-shell structure which includes a core portion and a shell portion disposed on a surface of the core portion. Wherein, the average crystallite size of the core portion is smaller than an average crystallite size of the shell portion and an amount of nickel among total transition metals included in the core portion and the shell portion is 80 atm % or more. A positive electrode active material, which suppresses decomposition of an electrolyte solution and occurrence of micro cracks of the positive electrode active material during charge and discharge by forming an average crystallite size of a core portion of the high-nickel positive electrode active material smaller than an average crystallite size of a shell portion, and a method of preparing the same.

Abstract: Provided are particles convertible to a lithium transition metal composite oxide that can reduce an initial resistance of a lithium ion secondary battery. The particles disclosed here are particles convertible to a lithium transition metal composite oxide by firing. Each of the particles includes lithium and a transition metal element. The particles have an average particle size of 2.0 ?m or more. In the case of obtaining a reflected electron image of the particles with a scanning electron microscope, a domain observed as a brightest region in the particles has a maximum diameter less than 1 ?m.