Abstract: A particle monitoring device includes a camera sensor for imaging particles, a set of light sources, and an optical component. A first light source provides light of a first color component. A second light source provides light of a second color component. The optical component receives light of the first color component in a first direction from the first light source, and redirects the light of the first color component in an output direction towards the particles to illuminate the particles using light of the first color component. The optical component receives light of a second color component in a second direction, different from the first direction, from the second light source, and redirects the light of the second color component in the output direction towards the particles to illuminate the particles using light of the second color component.

Abstract: In a particular embodiment, optical communications in a battery pack is disclosed that includes generating, by a module monitoring system of a battery management system, sensor data; encoding, by the module monitoring system, the sensor data into an optical signal; sending, by the module monitoring system, to a data aggregator, the sensor data as the optical signal; and decoding, by the data aggregator, the optical signal into the sensor data.

Abstract: Assigning resources for transmitting signals to a user equipment includes receiving, at a first node having a first coverage area, an indication of an overlapping coverage area from a second node when the second node is a non-terrestrial node having a second coverage area that overlaps with the first coverage area. Request for resources are received from a user equipment in the first coverage area, and resources assignments to the user equipment are determined based on the first message and the received request. The resource assignments include a first resource assignment for communication with the first node and a second resource assignment for communication with the second node. The resource assignments are transmitted in a second message to the user equipment, which then communicates with the first node using the first resource assignment and to communication with the second node using the second resource assignment.

Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.

Abstract: Techniques to facilitate feature licensing of industrial devices employed in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a security certificate for an industrial device is provisioned based on a first private key associated with the industrial device, wherein the first private key is securely stored in a hardware root of trust within the industrial device. A device information package for the industrial device is generated based on the security certificate, wherein the device information package is encrypted with a first public key paired with the first private key and signed by a certificate authority using a second private key. The device information package is provided to the industrial device, wherein the industrial device is configured to validate the device information package using a second public key paired with the second private key and decrypt the device information package with the first private key.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a read operation circuit, a semiconductor memory, and a read operation method. The read operation circuit includes: a DBI encoder configured to read read data from a memory bank, and determine whether to invert the read data according to the number of bits of high data in the read data to output global bus data for transmission through a global bus and DBI data for transmission through a DBI signal line, a DBI port being configured to receive the DBI data; a parallel-to-serial conversion circuit configured to perform parallel-to-serial conversion on the global bus data to generate output data of the DQ port; a data buffer module connected to the memory bank through the global bus; and a precharge module connected to a precharge signal line and configured to set an initial state of the global bus to Low.

Abstract: A system actuates a force mechanism to control a force applied to items on a shelf. An amount of force to be applied to items on a shelf can depend upon context data associated with a user. The user context data may be based on an analysis of sensor data, such as image data or proximity data. Once user context data has been determined, configuration data can be generated and transmitted to the force mechanism to apply the designated amount of force to the items on the shelf. One way to apply the designated amount of force to the items on the shelf is to lift one end of the shelf upwards to create an angle between the shelf and a horizontal surface, using a height adjustment mechanism and a hinge. The variation in the angle produces different levels of force on the items.

Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging method and a packaging structure for a cascode power electronic device, in which a hetero-multiple chip scale package is used to replace the traditional die bonding and wire bonding packaging method. The cascode power electronic device can reduce the inductance resistance and thermal resistance of the connecting wires and reduce the size of the package; and increase the switching frequency of power density. The chip scale package of the present invention uses more than one gallium nitride semiconductor die, more than one diode, and more than one metal oxide semiconductor transistor. The package structure can use TO-220, quad flat package or other shapes and sizes; the encapsulation process of the traditional epoxy molding compounds can be used in low-power applications; and the encapsulation process of ceramic material can be used in high-power applications.

Abstract: A radiation detector module includes a frame, a module circuit board connected to the frame, detector units that each include radiation sensors disposed above the frame and electrically connected to the module circuit board, and an optically and infrared radiation opaque, X-ray transparent, electrically insulating detector shield covering a top surface and at least one side surface of the radiation sensors.

Abstract: A bonded structure can include a first reconstituted element comprising a first element and having a first side comprising a first bonding surface and a second side opposite the first side. The first reconstituted element can comprise a first protective material disposed about a first sidewall surface of the first element. The bonded structure can comprise a second reconstituted element comprising a second element and having a first side comprising a second bonding surface and a second side opposite the first side. The first reconstituted element can comprise a second protective material disposed about a second sidewall surface of the second element. The second bonding surface of the first side of the second reconstituted element can be directly bonded to the first bonding surface of the first side of the first reconstituted element without an intervening adhesive along a bonding interface.

Abstract: The present invention consists of an improved system and method for timekeeping and billing in professional services firms such as those in the areas of law, accounting, architecture and engineering. In the present invention, systems and methods are developed for improved development and management of client budgets where expenditures are continually traced and electronic notices of progress may be automatically transmitted to the client or customer. In addition, security is enhanced by providing security by employee name, level or job title for sensitive client information. Volume discounts can be automatically applied across client name, phase, matter or activity. The client may be provided with an online account secure with an unique ID and password. The system can also handle multiple currencies, payment methods and languages. Clients may be provided with interim bills in real time, as work progresses.

Abstract: MEMS devices include fluid confinement structures on either a fixed part of a substrate and/or on a suspended element. The fluid confinement structures may be configured to confine a viscoelastic fluid in a limited part of a gap between one or more vertical sidewalls of both the fixed part of the substrate and either the suspended element or the drive beam or both the suspended element and drive beam such that one part of the gap is bridged by the fluid and another part of the gap is not, The structures may be configured to prevent flow of the fluid to other parts of the gap.

Abstract: A moving member of a machine can include a cold plate that serves as a primary structural member for the moving member. The cold plate can have one or more cooling channels formed within the cold plate. A plurality of armature windings can be fixed to the cold plate. One or more field windings can be fixed to the cold plate. A plurality of ferromagnetic cores can be fixed to the cold plate, each ferromagnetic core positioned within a loop of at least one of the plurality of armature windings. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: A method for on-demand, on-device compiling and use of programmable pipeline device profiles includes storing, on a network test or visibility device, programmable pipeline device source code and a plurality of different programmable pipeline device profile definitions containing parameters for implementing different programmable pipeline device profile variations. The method further include implementing, on the network test or visibility device, a compiler that receives the programmable pipeline device source code and one of the profile definitions as input and that produces as output a programmable pipeline device profile including compiled object code for configuring a programmable pipeline device to implement a network test or network visibility function.

Abstract: A system can receive, over one or more networks, location data from a computing device of a requesting user, where the location data indicates a current position of the requesting user. The system can repeatedly determine, based at least in part on location data corresponding to a directional heading of a proximate transport provider in relation to the current position of the requesting user, an optimal rendezvous location for the requesting user prior to the requesting user transmitting a service request to the network computer system. The system may then transmit, over the one or more networks, data corresponding to the optimal rendezvous location to the computing device of the requesting user.

Abstract: A bearing lubrication system includes a bearing assembly comprising a duplex bearing including an outer ring, an inner ring positioned radially inward from the outer ring, and two sets of circumferentially distributed rolling elements between the inner and outer rings. The bearing assembly further includes a housing radially surrounding the duplex bearing and including a lubricant flow passage in fluid communication with a source of lubricant. A flow orifice is located downstream of the lubricant flow passage for jetting the lubricant into the duplex bearing. The flow orifice has an axial location between the two sets of rolling elements.

Abstract: A first firestop device and a second firestop device, each comprising a housing. The housing of the first firestop device has a connection side with a plurality of connection elements and the housing of the second firestop device has a complementary side with a complementary element. The connection elements are each arranged at a different location on the connection side of the housing of the first firestop device, so that a position of the first firestop device relative to the second firestop device, when the connection side of the housing of the first firestop device is interlocked with the complementary side of the housing of the second firestop device, is selectable by selecting which of the connection elements of the first firestop device is connected to the complementary element of the second firestop device.

Abstract: A seal system may include a static housing, a carbon seal positioned in the static housing, a runner having a sealing surface aligned with the carbon seal, a number of electromagnets positioned in the static housing, and a controller circuitry. The controller circuitry may control a variable flow of electric current to control an electromagnetic field respectively generated by each of the electromagnets. The controller circuitry may variably apply the electromagnetic field to move at least one of the carbon seal or the runner and correspondingly adjust an applied force loading of an interface of the carbon seal and the sealing surface of the runner.