Abstract: This disclosure relates to ingress-tolerant input devices comprising sliders. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an ingress-tolerant switch assembly for operating an electronic device in an ingress-protected manner. The switch assembly is at least partially disposed on an outer surface of an enclosure of the electronic device and generally includes a spring, a magnet coupled to the spring, and a slider coupled to the magnet. A spring force of the spring is overcome by a user moving the slider relative to the enclosure such that the slider moves the magnet into proximity of the magnetic sensor to cause the magnetic sensor to generate a sensor signal for performing a function of the electronic device.

Abstract: A magnetic type keyswitch includes an actuating member and a switch unit. The actuating member is movable in response to a pressing force. The switch unit includes a circuit board, a Hall sensor electrically connected to the circuit board, and a magnet spaced apart from the Hall sensor by a fixed distance. When the pressing force is not applied, the magnet enables the Hall sensor to output a first voltage, and when the pressing force is applied, the actuating member moves relative to the magnet and the Hall sensor in response to the pressing force, so that the Hall sensor outputs a second voltage different from the first voltage, and the magnetic type keyswitch generates a triggering signal.

Abstract: A system for mitigating thermal runaway in a battery-powered electric vehicle (EV). The system includes a gas sensor configured to measure a level of at least one type of gas in a vicinity of a battery of the EV, a thermal event detector configured to determine, based on the measured level of the at least one type of gas, that the battery is experiencing out-gassing, and a communications interface configured to transmit an alert to a fleet management system regarding the out-gassing of the battery. The fleet management system alters an assignment of the EV in response to the out-gassing of the battery.

Abstract: A light adjusting structure is disposed between a light source in a device and a light exiting surface of the device. The light adjusting structure includes at least one visible light absorbing pattern defining a plurality of light-transmitting regions, and a ratio of a thickness of the at least one visible light absorbing pattern to a width of one of the light-transmitting regions is greater than or equal to 0.5, and a vertical projection of the at least one visible light absorbing pattern presents a checkerboard pattern or a mesh pattern.

Abstract: A key structure includes a supporting frame, a keycap, a stabilizer bar and two flexible hooks. The supporting frame includes at least one supporting hook. The keycap is located over the supporting frame. The keycap includes two connecting parts. The stabilizer bar includes a transverse bar part and two branch bar parts. The transverse bar part is locked in the at least one supporting hook of the supporting frame. The two flexible hooks are arranged between the keycap and the stabilizer bar. Each of the two flexible hooks includes a coupling terminal and a hook part. Each of the two connecting parts of the keycap is detachably connected with the coupling terminal of the corresponding flexible hook. Each of the two branch bar parts of the stabilizer bar is locked in the hook part of the corresponding flexible hook.

Abstract: An interlocking arrangement for switching devices for blocking the operation of the switching device when a feeder door is open, including a feeder assembly with an interlock and a racking screw interlock assembly. The feeder assembly includes a switching device mounted on a feeder base plate of the feeder assembly and mechanically connected with an interlock slider by a locking clutch cable. The racking screw interlock assembly is mounted to the feeder channel by an interlock base plate, the racking screw interlock assembly including an interlock base plate to accommodate the locking clutch cable. The interlock slider is slidably mounted on the baseplate by a plurality of step screws and slots provided on the base plate.

Abstract: A circuit interrupter movable among ON, OFF, and TRIP positions includes a housing, a latch situated on the housing, a number of mechanisms situated on the housing, each mechanism of the number of mechanisms including a contact arm that is movable with respect to the housing, a set of separable contacts including a stationary contact and further including a movable contact situated on the contact arm, a handle, a pin, a first spring that extends between the contact arm and the handle in at least one of the OFF position and the ON position, a second spring that extends between the handle and the pin, and the pin being movable among a position engaged with the latch in at least one of the ON position and the OFF position and another position engaged with the handle in the TRIP position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recognizing an object are provided, including extracting a feature from an input image and generating a feature map in a neural network. In parallel with the generating of the feature map, a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to an object of interest is extracted from the input image, and a number of object candidate regions used to detect the object of interest is determined based on a size of the ROI. The object of interest is recognized from the ROI based on the number of object candidate regions in the neural network.

Abstract: A floor selection operation panel for elevating equipment may include a panel including an opening, an electric compartment room disposed at a rear side of the panel, and a floor selection button disposed inside the electric compartment. The floor selection button may include a button body including a first body and a second body selectively exposed to the outside through the opening, a rotation shaft for rotating the button body, a printed circuit board disposed at a rear side of the button body, the printed circuit board including a switch and a germicidal lamp irradiating light toward the button body, and an elastic member disposed between the rotation shaft and the first body and between the rotation shaft and the second body.

Abstract: A motor vehicle control device, comprising an outer housing part, a control unit including a control surface and a printed circuit board which is carried by a circuit board carrier that is at least partly accommodated and floatingly mounted in the outer housing part.

Abstract: A remote control device having capacitive touch controls may be configured to enter a sleep state (or mode). For example, the remote control device may be configured to enter the sleep state upon expiration of an interval of time since a most recent button press. The remote control may be configured to awaken from the sleep state when one or more portions of a housing of the remote control are deflected, for example, when a user grasps the remote control to actuate one or more of the capacitive touch controls. For example, the remote control device may include a switch. The switch may include a carbon structure that may be configured to contact an open circuit pad on a circuit board to close the corresponding circuit when the housing is deflected and awaken the remote control device from the sleep state.

Abstract: Systems and apparatus related to an automated footwear platform including an actuator assembly for controlling a footwear lacing apparatus are discussed. In an example, an actuator assembly can include an actuator frame with a plurality of integrated actuators. The actuator frame is adapted to interconnect elements of the actuator assembly, the actuator frame including a width, a length, and a thickness where the width and length form an exterior surface and an interior surface separated by the thickness. The plurality of actuators are integrated into the actuator frame, each actuator of the plurality of actuators including an actuator head extending from the exterior surface and a button interface extending from the backside of the actuator head through the interior surface.

Abstract: Methods and systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communication are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, from a first vehicle via a network, a request for communicating with another vehicle; receiving, via the network, a first position signal from the first vehicle; determining a position of the first vehicle based on the first position signal; determining a target vehicle of the request, based on the request and the position of the first vehicle; transmitting, via the network, the request to the target vehicle; determining whether the target vehicle drives according to the request; and adding an amount of credit to an account associated with the target vehicle when it is determined that the target vehicle drives according to the request.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for maintaining the desired synchronous and asynchronous A and B auxiliary electrical circuits, respectively, by use of connector block halves, one connector block half being connected to wiring out for auxiliary circuitry and being secured to the movable circuit breaker and the other auxiliary connector block half also being connecting to wiring out for auxiliary circuitry and secured to the relatively stationary wall or surface of the cubicle, where the connector block halves have some portion of its contacts of the “make before break” type so that the A and B auxiliary circuits operate as intended when the connector halves are connected and the A and B auxiliary circuits still reflect the proper condition, synchronous or asynchronous, of the A and B circuits, respectively, even when the auxiliary connector block halves are physically and/or electrically separated from one another.

Abstract: A three-dimensional information processing method includes: obtaining, via a communication channel, map data that includes first three-dimensional position information; generating second three-dimensional position information from information detected by a sensor; judging whether one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information is abnormal by performing, on one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information, a process of judging whether an abnormality is present; determining a coping operation to cope with the abnormality when one of the first three-dimensional position information and the second three-dimensional position information is judged to be abnormal; and executing a control that is required to perform the coping operation.

Abstract: A capacitive button interface assembly (100) and a method for assembling the same, comprising a housing member (202), an electrode board (204) coupled to the housing member (202), one or more resilient members (212) positioned between the housing member (202) and the electrode board (204), one or more alignment members (216) coupled to the electrode board (204), operable to align the electrode board (204) with respect to the housing member (202), and a cover (804) coupled to the housing member (202) to apply a force on the electrode board (204).

Abstract: A backlight keyboard includes a first language keyswitch set having adjacent first and second keyswitches, a first backlight module disposed under the first language keyswitch set, and a masking sheet. The masking sheet is suitable for the backlight keyboard and a second backlight keyboard including a second backlight module and a second language keyswitch set. The first and second keyswitches on the backlight keyboard coincide with a third keyswitch in the second language keyswitch set on the second backlight keyboard. The masking sheet has a first light-exit region layout corresponding to the first, second, and third keyswitches for allowing light to be incident to symbols on the first, second, and third keyswitches. In other words, the masking sheet of the present invention can be applied to different backlight keyboards having different language keyswitch sets.

Abstract: An Enhanced Energy Reducing Maintenance Setting (EERMS) device is disclosed. The EERMS device includes an EERMS switch having a normal/OFF mode and a maintenance/ON mode, a IED protection relay operatively connected to the EERMS switch and configured to activate maintenance mode by receiving an IED input when the EERMS switch is switched to maintenance/ON mode, a key-solenoid lock device configured to trap a key of an EERMS panel, wherein the key-solenoid lock cylinder is energized to release the trapped key by closing of IED output NO dry auxiliary contacts, and a circuit breaker panel door comprising a circuit breaker lock cylinder mechanism interlocked with the EERMS switch. The circuit breaker lock cylinder mechanism receives and subsequently re-traps the key released by the key-solenoid lock cylinder from the EERMS panel. The circuit breaker lock cylinder mechanism is interlocked with the EERMS switch by being operatively connected to the key-solenoid lock device.

Abstract: A sensor and an electronic device are provided. The sensor includes a setting part and a seal ring in an annular shape. The setting part changes a setting of a sensor main body. The seal ring is provided to surround a shaft of the setting part and seals a gap between the shaft and a housing. The seal ring has a curved surface part and a pair of end parts. The curved surface part is curved convexly in a cross-sectional view. The pair of end parts have a shape different from the curved surface part and extend in an axial direction of the seal ring, on two sides of the curved surface part in the axial direction of the seal ring.

Abstract: A motor device includes a shell, a motor body and a connection terminal. The motor body is supported on the shell and includes a power supply terminals a support and a lead wire. The power supply terminal penetrates a through hole of the support in a first direction and is pressed into a pressing portion of the connection terminal. The lead wire extends from the power supply terminal in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, or extends in a direction inclined with respect to the first direction toward a side approaching the connection terminal. A first protrusion restricting movement of the power supply terminal in the first direction toward a side opposite to the connection terminal is provided at a position on the shell facing the power supply terminal in the first direction.