Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to sensor apparatuses utilizing a one-piece thermal isolated fitting (TIF) tube and methods of assembling the same. In a particular embodiment, a sensor apparatus includes a one-piece thermal isolated fitting (TIF) tube that includes a cylindrical shaped body portion and a flange at one end of the TIF tube. In this example embodiment, the flange has a top surface that is facing away from the cylindrical shaped body portion and an underside surface that is facing towards the cylindrical shaped body portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing of a field device, comprising: a housing body having a housing wall, a lid, which is applied at an opening of the housing wall, wherein the lid includes an annular body and a pane, wherein the pane has two opposite faces and an edge connecting the faces, characterized in that the edge has a groove running around the pane, wherein the annular body has an inner groove, wherein the groove of the annular body surrounds the groove of the pane, wherein the groove of the annular body and the groove of the pane form a first corridor, wherein the first corridor is filled out with a sealing compound and/or wherein a cable or a plurality of spheres is present in the first corridor.

Abstract: A mounting unit for an electronic terminal has a mounting body with a support surface for the electronic terminal and at least one contact surface for at least one-sided contact with a support element. Further, the mounting unit has at least one fastening element for attaching the mounting unit to the support element, wherein the support surface has an angle of inclination to the at least one contact surface, wherein an electronic terminal is rotatably arranged about an axis of rotation on the support surface, and wherein at least one pivotable locking element is provided by means of which the electronic terminal is lockable into its position. Furthermore, an electronic terminal with such a mounting unit is disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor ball and a home appliance system having the same. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a sensor ball including a case having at least some curved surfaces, a first board disposed within the case and on which a processor is disposed, and a second board electrically connected to the first board and on which a plurality of sensors are disposed, in which some of the plurality of sensors are disposed on an outer surface of the case or one end of the second board, and the other of the plurality of sensors protrudes from the outer surface of the case or one end of the second board. Accordingly, it is possible to stably sense information from various home appliances using the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: A network including sensor points that form the node points of the network and elongated connecting elements that form the edges of the network, wherein the connecting elements each have an extensible substrate on which there is at least one conductor that runs from one end region of the connecting element in the longitudinal direction thereof to a second end region of the connecting element. The conductor consists of a non-extensible material and the conductor has a sinuous or zigzag progression on the extensible substrate, such that the individual sections of the conductor run transverse to the longitudinal direction of the respective connecting element.

Abstract: A device including a substrate; a first layer resting on the substrate, the first layer including a first portion and a second portion mobile with respect to each other; and a ring-shaped optical resonator defined in a second layer. The resonator includes a first portion fixed to a first anchor pad connected to the first portion of the first layer and a second portion fixed to a second anchor pad connected to the second portion of the first layer.

Abstract: A combined six-dimensional force sensor based on thin-film sputtering technology includes a force transmission table, a cross beam, a base, a top cover, a bottom cover and strain gauges. Strain gauges are sputtered on the elastomer structure to form six sets of Wheatstone bridges. The measurement method of the six-dimensional force sensor is that: an input force/moment of a certain dimension acts on the elastomer structure including the force transmission table and the cross beam through the top cover, the cross beam is deformed and resistance values of strain gauges at corresponding positions change, and output voltages of corresponding bridges change.

Abstract: Disclosed are an underground engineering rock mass shear simulation test device, a test method and a test machine. The test method includes: setting different test conditions by a controller to perform cyclic shear test at high temperature, fracture shear seepage test, granite uniaxial compression test at high temperature and granite fracture shear test under constant normal stiffness boundary conditions at room temperature. The electric heating wire assembly, the fan assembly and the environmental box are combined to flexibly and uniformly heat the samples placed in the upper shear box and the lower shear box. In terms of shear-seepage test, this scheme proposes a second sample placing mechanism that realizes sealing through sealing capsule and sealing capsule pressing plate. It realizes stable sealing and facilitates monitoring and debugging of seepage parameters.

Abstract: There is a method for measuring a deviation amount of a measuring device, comprising: transferring, by using a transfer device, the measuring device to a position in an area specified by transfer position data; acquiring measurement values using four or more sensor electrodes of the measuring device; identifying two or more sensor electrodes among the four or more sensor electrodes, the two or more sensor electrodes outputting, as the measurement values, capacitances that satisfy a reliability standard; and calculating the deviation amount based on the measurement values of the identified two or more sensor electrodes.

Abstract: A sample measuring device reduces the frequency with which a user introduces a measurement aid into the sample measuring device is provided. A sample measuring method measures a sample using a container containing a measurement aid which is a solid. The sample measuring method includes loading a predetermined number of measurement aids into a container from a storage chamber in which a plurality of measurement aids are movably stored in a cartridge attached to a sample measuring device, dispensing the sample into the container, and measuring the sample in the container into which the measurement aid has been loaded.

Abstract: A protective hood has a longitudinal axis and a hood wall, which has an open first end and a closed second end and forms a hood chamber. The hood chamber is designed to receive an electronics housing of a field device along the longitudinal axis via the open first end. The protective hood has at least one fastening apparatus, which is designed to be brought into mechanical contact with the electronics housing. Without an application of force, the protective hood has a first shape in which the fastening apparatus is at a first distance from the longitudinal axis, characterized in that the protective hood can be elastically deformed, by an application of force, into a second shape in which the fastening apparatus is at a second distance from the longitudinal axis, the second distance being greater than the first distance.

Abstract: A container for determining the quantity of CO2 absorbed and/or expelled by a sample of matter over time, including: a bottom compartment designed to receive a sample of matter, a top compartment receiving element for trapping CO2, positioned in line with and communicating with the bottom compartment, and having an exhaust opening enabling gas to escape from the top compartment after it passes through the receiving element for trapping CO2, a separation element, disposed between the bottom compartment and the top compartment, configured to enable gas to pass from the bottom compartment to the top compartment.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology relate to systems and methods to determine fill levels in a fuel extraction and storage environment. In some examples, a system comprises a thermal imaging device, a machine learning interface, and a machine learning engine. The thermal imaging device generates a thermal image that depicts fuel storage equipment. The machine learning interface generates feature vectors based on the thermal image that depicts the fuel storage equipment and feeds the feature vectors to a machine learning engine. The machine learning engine ingests the feature vectors, generates a machine learning output that indicates a fill level for the fuel storage equipment based on the feature vectors, and transfers the machine learning output.

Abstract: To provide a gas sensor with fast response and high sensitivity to oxygen gas. Disclosed is a gas sensor 100 including: a substrate 10; a first pad electrode 12A and a second pad electrode 12B; a nanowire 14 made of a specific metal; and an oxide layer 16 made of a high-resistance semiconductor that is an oxide of a metal different from a metal constituting the nanowire 14. The first pad electrode 12A and the second pad electrode 12B are formed on or above the substrate 10. The nanowire 14 connects the first pad electrode 12A and the second pad electrode 12B and is formed on or above the substrate 10. The oxide layer 16 is formed in contact with the nanowire 14. This contact between the nanowire 14 and the oxide layer 16 provides fast response and high sensitivity to oxygen gas.

Abstract: Electrochemical reactivity is driven by the composition and structure of electrode surfaces. Monitoring surface chemistry in operando is thus crucial to understanding the behavior of electrodes yet is often inaccessible either due to resource limitations or to technical challenges in replicating realistic reaction environments. The invention presents a color impedance spectroscopy (CIS)-based technique to access operando surface measurements for mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs). The CIS technique tunes the depth of charge carriers' movement within an electrode material by modulating the frequency of an applied AC electrochemical signal and monitors these changes spectroscopically. The results enable surface sensitivity in conventional bulk spectroscopies and provide new opportunities to characterize the operational behavior of MIEC electrodes.

Abstract: A fluid flow simulation device may include a heating chamber configured to heat a conductive fluid with one or more electrodes. The fluid flow simulation device may also include a heat exchanger positioned over the heating chamber and a downcomer coupled between an outlet of the heat exchanger and a bottom of the heating chamber.

Abstract: A clamping sleeve mounts a rotation sensor in a receiving opening which is provided in a receiving device and which has a longitudinal axis parallel to an intended mounting direction. The clamping sleeve is designed to be inserted at least partially into the receiving opening in the direction of the longitudinal axis and to be held therein by frictional engagement. The clamping sleeve is further designed corresponding to the rotation sensor to be mounted, such that, upon insertion of the rotation sensor into the clamping sleeve, a form-fit engagement between the rotation sensor and the clamping sleeve can be established.

Abstract: A device for inspecting a die coater including a first die, a second die, and a shim formed between the first die and the second die, includes a rail formed to be fixed long on one surface of the first die in a longitudinal direction of the die coater, and at least one sensor assembly configured to move along the rail and inspect a lip or the shim of the die coater, wherein the sensor assembly includes a movable part moving along the rail in the longitudinal direction of the die coater, and a sensor module connected to the movable part, and configured to move in a thickness direction of the die coater and inspect the lip or the shim.

Abstract: Methods and systems for testing a material quality executed by a computer numerically controlled machine include a carrier plate coupled to a first tool holder of the computer numerically controlled machine, the carrier plate including a first test specimen formed of an additive manufacturing material, a testing tool coupled to a second tool holder of the computer numerically controlled machine, the testing tool including a specimen interface, and engaging the first test specimen with the specimen interface of the testing tool. Relative movement between the first and second tool holders causes the testing tool to execute a first test toolpath relative to the first test specimen, during which is obtained a first set of test data indicative of mechanical properties of the first test specimen.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a watertight cap for an angle sensor cover. The watertight cap installed on a cover installed on an upper end of an angle sensor housing includes a lower portion having a tapered shape toward a lower side, an intermediate portion extending upwardly from the lower portion, a cap portion having a larger diameter than a diameter of the intermediate portion, and an upper portion protruding upwardly from an upper surface of the cap portion.