Abstract: A packaging member includes a first partition plate and a second partition plate. The first partition plate has a first slit. The second partition plate has a second slit. The second slit is inserted into the first slit. The first slit includes a one-side cut surface and an other-side cut surface. The one-side cut surface has an engagement protrusion protruding toward the other-side cut surface. The second partition plate has an engagement hole. With the second partition plate inserted in the first slit, the engagement protrusion is inserted into the engagement hole to thereby couple the first partition plate and the second partition plate to each other.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for making assignments to different speech-to-text engines based on previous transcription scores. An exemplary system can train a model by receiving a first digital audio recording, randomly assigning speech-to-text engines to transcribe the first digital audio recording, and scoring the resulting transcriptions and scoring the engines based on their performances. The system can then generate a model for selecting a speech-to-text engine from within the speech-to-text engines. When a second digital audio recording is received, the system can assign, by executing the model, at least one selected speech-to-text engine from the speech-to-text engines to transcribe the second digital audio recording.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting a detective battery cell among a plurality of battery cells that form a battery. The system includes: a cell monitoring IC that measures a cell voltage of each of the battery cells, and a main control circuit that detects a charge battery cell of which a cell voltage first reaches a charge final voltage, detects a discharge battery cell of which a cell voltage first reaches a discharge final voltage among the plurality of battery cells, and when the number of charge cycles and the number of discharge cycles satisfies a first reference count, detects a battery cell for which the sum of times the battery cell is the charge battery cell and times the battery cell is the discharge battery cell meets or exceeds second count as the defective battery cell.

Abstract: A product packaging tape winding device includes a moving bracket, a rotating shaft which is rotatably mounted on the moving bracket, and two groups of reels. The rotating shaft has two shaft parts extending from both sides of the moving bracket. The two groups of reels are installed on respective ones of the two shaft parts of the rotating shaft to rotate with the rotating shaft. The device is adapted such that when one group of reels has been fully wound with the product packaging tape, the moving bracket is moved to move the one group of reels from a working position to a standby position and move the other group of reels from the standby position to the working position, so as to continue winding the product packaging tape with the other group of reels.

Abstract: A railroad tank car cleaning system that does not require a human to enter the tank car is disclosed herein. The system may include a cannon assembly secured to a tank of a railroad tank car at an opening of a manway hatch of the tank. The cannon assembly may include an adapter configured to seal the opening of the manway hatch and a hydraulic cannon configured to extend within an interior of the tank. The system may further comprise a controller configured to automatically control movement and operation of the hydraulic cannon during cleaning according to one or more cleaning profiles specifying a pre-programmed duration and/or pattern of movement. The cleaning profiles used for a given tank may be selected by a user or automatically determined based on knowledge of the tank.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present application provides a processing method including a collecting step and a cutting step. The collecting step involves collecting a lithium ion battery including: an electrode body; a battery case housing the electrode body; and an electrode terminal connected to the electrode body and partially exposed to outside of the battery case. The cutting step involves cutting a connection between the electrode terminal and the electrode body of the collected lithium ion battery by using a water jet cutter. The processing method includes no lithium ion battery discharging step between the collecting step and the cutting step.

Abstract: A battery module includes a first battery cell assembly in which battery cells are stacked in the thickness direction of the battery cell, a second battery cell assembly in which each battery cell is stacked in a row in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell in the same number as the number of battery cells stacked in the first battery cell assembly, and a module case accommodating the first and second battery cell assembly. The battery cells of the first battery cell assembly are electrically connected to each other, and the battery cells of the second battery cell assembly are electrically connected to each other, but the battery cells are not electrically connected to each other between the first and second battery cell assemblies. Additionally, a battery pack includes the battery module.

Abstract: A sheet discharge device includes a discharge portion, a sheet stacking tray, a pair of alignment members and a pair of width regulation members, a shift portion, and a control portion. The pair of alignment members include an arm portion formed of a rigid body, and an alignment portion formed of a flat-shaped elastic material and fixed to a swingable end of the arm portion. In the sorting processing, when stacking a sheet at a first position, the control portion causes a first alignment member to ride on a top surface of the sheet and a first side edge of a second alignment member to make contact with the sheet, and, when stacking the sheet at a second position, causes the second alignment member to ride on the top surface of the sheet and the first side edge of the first alignment member to make contact with the sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a negative electrode including: a current collector; a negative electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, including a silicon-based active material and a conductive material, and containing no binder polymer; and a coating layer disposed on the surface of the negative electrode active material layer and in at least a part of the inside of the pores of the negative electrode active material layer, and containing a coating layer polymer forming a chemical bond with silicon (Si) of the silicon-based active material, wherein the content of the coating layer polymer is 0.3-2 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the negative electrode active material layer, and the coating layer polymer is a mixture of polyacrylic acid with polyvinyl alcohol.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a AAG from computer-readable memory, generating from logical network ontology data, asset inventory data, and asset communication data, a logical topology of the enterprise network as a computer-readable data structure, defining, at least partially by executing community detection over the logical topology, a sub-set of groups within the enterprise network, each group representing a process of a plurality of process, each process being at least partially executed by one or more assets within the enterprise network, processing the AAG based on the sub-set of groups and data from one or more contextual data sources to provide the process aware AAG, the process aware AAG defining a mapping between an infrastructure-layer of the enterprise network and a process-layer of the enterprise network, and executing one or more remedial actions in the enterprise network in response to analytics executed on the process aware AAG.

Abstract: A document conveyance device includes a supply tray, a discharge tray, a conveyance part, a discharge part, and a lifting and lowering part. The lifting and lowering part lifts the supply tray and the discharge part according to a feeding of the document. When the feeding of the document to the document conveyance path is completed and then the supply tray is lifted, in a small number of documents discharge state where the height of the documents stacked on the discharge tray is less than the specified value, the lifting and lowering part positions the supply tray at a taking out position depart upward from the specified value by a predetermined space.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for storage of information and to an information storage medium with increased storage density by multi-bit coding.

Abstract: A surgical guide includes a base and a drill guide coupled to the base. The drill guide includes a drill guide body defining a drill bore for receiving a drill bit and extending through the drill guide, the drill guide being configured to translate relative the base to adjust a drill guide angle defined by the drill bore and the base, the drill guide further being configured to transition between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the drill guide angle is fixed in the locked state and the drill guide angle is adjustable in the unlocked state.

Abstract: Methods for providing MRI-derived strain measurements are described. Some methods include calculating a first set of strain measurements for each of a plurality of different segments of a heart over an entire single cardiac cycle from obtained MRI image data. Then, for each segment of the plurality of different segments, electronically identifying a peak train value and associated time point of the cardiac cycle in the first set of strain measurements; and electronically adjusting the first set of strain measurements at each time point of the cardiac cycle using the identified peak strain value as a reference peak strain value to thereby provide strain measurements that are adjusted relative to a defined time during the cardiac cycle irrespective of when signal acquisition of the obtained MRI image data was initiated during the cardiac cycle. Risk scores, contouring review, contraction pattern on a 3-D cardiac model are also disclosed.

Abstract: A trailer moveable by a cab includes: a first section including a cavity and a second section at least partially positioned within the cavity, where the second section is longitudinally movable relative to the first section, such that a length of the trailer is variable. The second section includes a cart including at least one wheel configured to roll along a floor of the cavity and a height-variable member co-acting with the at least one wheel. The second section is configured to move longitudinally relative to the first section by the cart rolling along the floor of the cavity. A towing system and a method for adjusting a length of a trailer moveable by a cab are also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid leakage detection device includes a first absorption layer, a second absorption layer, and a pair of terminals. The first absorption layer absorbs liquid. The second absorption layer is stacked on the first absorption layer, and absorbs the liquid. The pair of terminals are in contact only with the second absorption layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a container body, and an electrostatic capacitance sensor. The container body contains a liquid and is placed on a ground surface which is a part of the housing. The electrostatic capacitance sensor detects a change in capacitance between a side surface of the container body and the ground surface to determine a change in quantity of the liquid in the container body. The top surface of the container body is a part of the housing. The top surface and the ground surface are in electrically conductive state, a distance between the top surface and the electrostatic capacitance sensor is longer than a distance between the ground surface and the electrostatic capacitance sensor, or the top surface and the ground surface are electrically insulated, or the top surface is opened.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for creating a universal schema with default fields that support sensor formats of different devices. In one example, the universal schema supports substantial equivalents between data fields in different sensor formats. Further, a sensor format may be configured to support inheritance and aggregation of sensor formats in prior devices. Accordingly, the mapping of sensor formats that supports inheritance and aggregation in the universal schema may provide several advantages such as capturing a mapping of substantive equivalents between the fields in different sensor formats.

Abstract: A coupling design for an anthropomorphic test device includes mounting a base member to an anatomical component. The base member has opposing inner and outer surfaces and a peripheral edge connecting the base inner and outer surfaces with the base inner surface defining a first cavity. At least one base connector is coupled to the base inner surface and is at least partially disposed within the first cavity. The anatomical component has opposing inner and outer surfaces and a peripheral edge connecting the component inner and outer surfaces with the component inner surface defining a second cavity. At least one component connector is coupled to the anatomical component. The mounting is such that the component connector engages the base connector and the component and base peripheral edges abut and wherein the base and component outer surfaces align to define a smooth transition between the base and component outer surfaces.

Abstract: In a solid-state image sensor that detects an address event, the detection sensitivity for the address event is controlled to an appropriate value. The solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array unit and a control unit. In the solid-state image sensor, multiple pixel circuits are arranged in the pixel array unit, each detecting a change in luminance of incident light occurring outside a predetermined dead band as the address event. The control unit controls the width of the dead band according to the number of times the address event is detected in the pixel array unit within a fixed unit cycle.