Abstract: A shock-absorber has a cylindrical body having an inner and an outer cylindrical tubes enclosing a reservoir chamber containing oil, and a rod. A piston divides the internal volume of the inner cylindrical tube into a rebound chamber and a compression chamber. The cylindrical body has an intermediate cylindrical tube enclosing with the inner cylindrical tube an intermediate chamber. A first electronically-controlled valve is arranged inside the inner cylindrical tube, so as to be drivingly connected to the rod, and hydraulically connected to the rebound chamber and to the compression chamber to adjust, during rebound phase, flow of the damping fluid from the rebound chamber to the compression chamber.

Abstract: A damping force generating mechanism includes: a flow passage formation part that forms a flow passage through which a liquid flows; and a valve that is configured to control a flow of the liquid in the flow passage. The flow passage formation part includes a first seat part that is provided radially outward of a flow passage port of the flow passage, protrudes from the flow passage port and contacts the valve, a second seat part that is provided radially outward of the first seat part, protrudes from the flow passage port and contacts the valve, and a circulation part having an orifice that allows the liquid to flow from the flow passage port toward the second seat part in a state in which the valve is in contact with the first seat part.

Abstract: A SPIM-microscope (Selective Plane Imaging Microscope) having a y-direction illumination light source and a z-direction detection light camera. An x-scanner generates a sequential light sheet by scanning the illumination light beam in the x-direction. The SPIM-microscope has an illumination optics having a zoom optics provided in a beam path of the illumination light beam, the zoom optics being adapted to change the focal length of the illumination light beam and adapted to detect a larger area of the object by sequentially detecting sequences of images along the y-direction that have an increased resolution along the z-direction. An image processing unit combines these sequences of images by image stitching into one large overall image.

Abstract: A damper assembly includes a damper with a pressure tube and a piston slidably disposed within the pressure tube. A first working chamber is defined on one side of the piston and a second working chamber is defined on an opposite side of the piston such that a volume of the second working chamber decreases during a compression stroke of the piston and the volume of the second working chamber increases during a rebound stroke of the piston. A bellow accumulator assembly is included and in fluid communication with the second working chamber. The bellow accumulator assembly includes a housing, a bellow accumulator disposed within the housing, a pressurized gas chamber defined between the housing and the bellow accumulator and an accumulator chamber defined between the bellow accumulator and the second working chamber.

Abstract: A hydromount for mounting a motor vehicle unit is disclosed. The hydromount includes a supporting spring supporting a mount core and surrounding a working chamber, and a compensation chamber separated from the working chamber by a dividing wall and delimited by a compensation diaphragm. In embodiments, the compensation chamber and the working chamber are filled with a liquid and are connected by a damping duct incorporated into the dividing wall. In an embodiment, the dividing wall has two dividing plates between which a diaphragm is accommodated in a manner capable of oscillating. In an embodiment, the diaphragm and the dividing wall delimit an air chamber connected to the environment via an opening in the dividing wall, and the opening can be unblocked and closed by a switchable non-return device having a pressure-actuatable non-return valve with an opening pressure set to or having an oscillation amplitude of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A lattice structure and system for absorbing energy, damping vibration, and reducing shock. The lattice structure comprises a plurality of unit cells, each unit cell comprising a plurality of rib elements with at least a portion of the rib elements including a solid bendable hinge portion for converting energy into linear motion along a longitudinal axis of the respective rib element.

Abstract: A vibration damping component, comprising a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor; The hydraulic oil cylinder comprises an oil storage cylinder and a working cylinder, wherein the working cylinder is internally provided with a first piston piece and is divided into an expansion cavity and a contraction cavity by means of the first piston piece; the expansion connects the oil storage cylinder by means of a first one-way oil discharge; the contraction connects the oil storage cylinder by means of a second one-way oil discharge; the oil storage cylinder is provided thereon with an oil outlet hole; an input end of the hydraulic motor is connected to the oil outlet hole; and an output end of the hydraulic motor is in communication respectively with the expansion by means of a first one-way oil return pipe and with the contraction by means of a second one-way oil return pipe.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to sense brake pad wear are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory device and at least one processor to execute instructions to, in response to an anti-lock braking system event, determine a volume of brake fluid in a brake piston chamber based on a flow rate of the brake fluid and a pressure within the brake piston chamber, and determine at least one of a thickness of a brake pad or a wear of the brake pad based on the volume of the brake fluid in the brake piston chamber and a volume of the brake piston chamber.

Abstract: In an information processing system including an information processing server and a multifunction machine, the information processing server transmits print instruction information instructing printing of teaching material content and an answerer ID to the multifunction machine. Upon receiving the print instruction information, the multifunction machine generates teaching material content printed material, reads a print surface of answered teaching material content printed material, and transmits read data corresponding to a read image. The information processing server acquires the answerer ID from the received read data and performs processing for providing the read image for a terminal device of a person concerned having a predetermined relationship with an answerer having the acquired answerer ID.

Abstract: An example embodiment includes a playback device comprising a wireless communications interface including a wireless (e.g., a radio frequency (RF) antenna), a capacitive sensor comprising an electrode that is coupled to the RF antenna, one or more processors, and a data storage having stored therein instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the playback device to perform operations. The operations include operating the playback device in a first power state, detecting that an object is in proximity to the capacitive sensor, and in response to detecting the object, adjusting operation of the playback device from the first power state to a second power state.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus capable of preventing lowering of position matching accuracy. Control points are positioned in a lattice form on a scanned image of a print product, for performing position matching between the scanned image and a reference image registered in advance. An approximate line of a column and an approximate line of a row intersecting the approximate line of the column are calculated based on two or more control points positioned in the same column and the same row as one control point. One control point determined to be corrected is corrected based on the respective approximate lines of the column and the row. The print product is inspected by comparing a position-matched scanned image generated based on the control points including position-corrected control points and position-updated control points, and the reference image.

Abstract: A solar tracker system comprising a plurality of on sun trackers and a plurality of off sun tracker. Each tracker is selectively adjusted to achieve a desired power output of the solar power plant system in an example.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and an information processing method.

Abstract: A throttle point for a vibration damper, comprising a damper valve carrier with a circumferential annular groove, in which an annular valve body with a variable diameter is arranged. The annular valve body forms, with a guiding face for flowing damping medium, a throttle point, a throttle cross section of which decreases in the case of an increasing flow velocity of the damping medium within the throttle point. The circumferential annular groove forming a pressure chamber which is filled with damping medium. A radially outwardly directed actuating force acts on the valve body, wherein the pressure chamber is a constituent part of a hydraulic system which has a connector to at least one working space of the vibration damper and the hydraulic connection of which to the pressure chamber can be set.

Abstract: An illumination device comprises one or more emitter modules having improved thermal and electrical characteristics. According to one embodiment, each emitter module comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured for producing illumination for the illumination device, one or more photodetectors configured for detecting the illumination produced by the plurality of LEDs, a substrate upon which the plurality of LEDs and the one or more photodetectors are mounted, wherein the substrate is configured to provide a relatively high thermal impedance in the lateral direction, and a relatively low thermal impedance in the vertical direction, and a primary optics structure coupled to the substrate for encapsulating the plurality of LEDs and the one or more photodetectors within the primary optics structure.

Abstract: An emergency brake device for a rail vehicle includes a compressed-air-brake system, wherein a braking process can be initiated by lowering the air pressure in a main air conduit and which includes an exclusively electric connection to a passenger emergency brake.

Abstract: A management device is configured to perform collecting a plurality of print logs respectively generated by a plurality of printers. Each of the plurality of print logs contains print amount information and first category information indicating a category of the print amount information, The management device is further configured to identify a category represented by the first category information by referring to a first database, extracting the print amount information from the plurality of print logs collected in the collecting, and generate output data based on the print amount information to output the same.

Abstract: A pipe bracket for a brake distributor valve for a vehicle includes a pipe bracket body including a main portion mounting face to receive the main portion of the distributor valve, a main-line portion mounting face to receive the main-line portion of the distributor valve, and an attachment face configured to secure the pipe bracket to a vehicle. The main portion mounting face defines a signal port in fluid communication with the signal passageway of the main portion. The main-line portion mounting face defines a signal port in fluid communication with the signal passageway of the main-line portion.

Abstract: A communication device may: comprise an output unit configured to output first information obtained by using a first public key in a memory in a case where a predetermined instruction is inputted to the communication device; after the first information has been outputted, receive an authentication request in which the first public key is used from a terminal device; send an authentication response to the terminal device; establish a wireless connection between the communication device and an external device; and in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the first information has been outputted, create a second public key different from the first public key and store the second public key in the memory. In a case where the predetermined instruction is inputted to the communication device again, the output unit may be configured to output second information obtained by using the second public key in the memory.

Abstract: An ABS pressure control valve assembly for controlling the fluid pressure in a pressure-medium-operated brake system of a vehicle having brake slip control, by which the brake pressure in pressure-medium-operated brake actuators is adaptively adjusted for a locking tendency of individual wheels of the vehicle. Two membranes of two membrane valves are clamped between two housing parts and an intermediate plate. Also described are a pressure-medium-operated brake system of a vehicle with brake-slip control, including at least one such ABS pressure control valve assembly, and to a method for producing such an ABS pressure control valve assembly.