Abstract: Drilling rig operations may be monitored using a variety of sensors and/or other data sources. Erroneous, faulty, and/or missing data may be cleansed prior to using the data for modeling and/or monitoring drilling operations. Erroneous, faulty, and/or missing data may be identified by comparing received data to anticipated values based on historical operations, other physically related sensor readings, and known operating ranges. Cleansing may comprise replacing erroneous, faulty, and/or missing data with a modeled value or omitting a reading entirely.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.

Abstract: A sensor device for detecting transport parameters representative of those experienced by a sample during transportation is provided. The sample is stored in a container. The sensor device includes a housing with a configuration that generally matches the configuration of the container, a hardened substrate portion formed from a substrate material, and a sensor assembly comprising at least one sensor for detecting at least one transport parameter (e.g. acceleration, orientation, temperature, etc.). The sensor assembly is secured within the housing by the hardened substrate portion. Optionally, a weight of the device approximates a combined weight of the container and the sample stored therein. The weight of the sensor device can be adjusted. When the device is positioned proximate to the container during transportation, the at least one transport parameter detected by the at least one sensor is analogous to that at least one transport parameter experienced in the container.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to determination of a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a conduit, whilst compensating for conduit-borne interference. Transducers are used to emit ultrasonic signals into the fluid and receive the signal after propagating through a section of the conduit. Waves that have propagated through the fluid are detected and noise from pipe-borne interference is removed via signal processing.

Abstract: An egress entrance system (1) comprising a swing door member (10) having a door leaf (12), an initiate device (13) for initiating a panic opening, and an automatic door operator (30) is provided. The automatic door operator (30) has a motor (34) capable of causing movement of the door member (10), a controller (31) for controlling operation of the motor (34), and the automatic door operator (30) being operable in a testing mode (60) and an operational mode, wherein the controller (31) is configured, in the testing mode (60), to automatically determine at least one test parameter; and causing an action in response to the determined test parameter.

Abstract: In feature value extraction processing step, feature values are extracted from time-series vibroacoustic data in equipment in operation. In machine learning diagnosis step, accumulated are feature values corresponding to normal equipment-operation-state and general measurement data on equipment. Probability distribution model related to correlation between general measurement data and feature values corresponding to normal equipment-operation-state and constructed through machine learning is fed with general-measurement data and feature values extracted in feature value extraction processing step to calculate degree of anomaly based on probability distribution model.

Abstract: A printing device includes: an attachment portion to which a cassette accommodating a printing medium is detachably attachable; a conveying portion for conveying the printing medium; a printing portion for printing the printing medium; a cutter portion for cutting the printed printing medium; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: a conveying process to convey the printing medium from the printing portion to the cutter portion; a cutting process to cut the printed printing medium; an acquisition process to acquire the control information from the cassette; a determination process to determine a reverse conveyance amount of the printing medium based on the control information; and a reverse conveying process to convey a remaining non-printed portion of the printing medium from the cutter portion to the printing portion by the reverse conveyance amount determined in the determination process.

Abstract: A method for imaging a structure composed of at least one wave guide connected to a junction, the structure supporting elastic wave guided propagation modes, the method includes the following steps: for at least one operating frequency, acquiring a plurality of measurements of signals propagating in the structure by means of a plurality of pairs of non-colocalized elastic wave sensors, determining a plurality of propagation modes guided by the structure, correcting the measurements on the basis of ultrasound signals measured or simulated for the same structure in the absence of any defect, converting the measurement matrix M into a wave field scattering matrix U, determining, at each point of a sampling grid, a test vector F characteristic of the structure without any defect, applying a numerical inversion method to determine a vector H of modal components such that U.H=F at each point of a sampling grid, determining an image of the structure on the basis of the vector H.

Abstract: A media cartridge includes: a base including: a media chamber having a mouth, and a lower portion of a media outlet; first and second wings configured to support a media spool therebetween; and a cover connected between the first and second wings, and including: an upper portion of the media outlet, and a perimeter configured to engage the mouth of the media chamber, to suspend the first and second wings within the media chamber and place the upper portion of the media outlet adjacent to the lower portion of the media outlet.

Abstract: An imaging printing form having a base body with an elastomeric coating, in which the elastomeric coating carries an engraving pattern. The elastomeric coating has a hard rubber with a hardness of greater than 40 Shore D, and more particularly greater than 70 Shore D. The hard rubber is based on butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber (NBR), carboxyl group-containing nitrile rubber (XNBR), hydrogenated acrylonitrile butadiene Rubber (HNBR) or combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for detecting anomalies in a semiconductor processing system. According to certain embodiments, one or more external sensors are mounted to a sub-fab component, communicating with the processing system via a communication channel different than a communication channel utilized by the sub-fab component and providing extrinsic sensor data that the sub-fab component is not configured to provide. The extrinsic sensor data may be combined with sensor data from a processing tool of the system and/or intrinsic sensor data of the sub-fab component to form virtual sensor data. In the event the virtual data exceeds or falls below a threshold, an intervention or a maintenance signal is dispatched, and in certain embodiments, an intervention or maintenance action is taken by the system.

Abstract: A tape cassette that includes a housing having a front wall and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing, and a pressing portion and a first non-pressing portion on the front wall. The pressing portion and the first non-pressing portion are positioned to oppose tape type detecting switches of the label printer when the cassette is in the label printer. The pressing portion is configured to change a state of an opposing one of the tape type detecting switches, and the first non-pressing portion is configured to avoid changing a state of an opposing one of the tape type detecting switches. The first non-pressing portion is a planar area of the front wall extending in a tape width direction from a top surface of the housing to a bottom surface of the housing.

Abstract: Described herein are novel printer adapters and systems and methods thereof that include techniques and structures for converting a desktop or compact printer configured to print onto rolls of media into a desktop or compact printer configured to print onto fanfolds of media. In other words, described herein are novel printer adapters and systems and methods thereof for converting a roll printer to a fanfold printer.

Abstract: A frequency domain feedforward compensation method based on a power exponential method for a seismic simulation shaking table is provided. According to the method, a frequency domain amplitude transfer function of a system is identified, the frequency domain amplitude transfer function is modified by adjusting the power and limiting an amplitude, then an inverse frequency domain amplitude transfer function is obtained, an amplitude and a phase of a driving acceleration signal are computed, finally a time domain driving acceleration signal is obtained by using the Euler's formula for computation in a complex domain and conducting inverse Fourier transform, the shaking table is driven again to collect an acceleration signal output by a table top, whether the acceleration signal meets a shaking table test waveform use requirement is determined, a test is finished under the condition that the acceleration signal meets the shaking table test waveform use requirement.

Abstract: A system and method to detect and quantify integration errors in a transit time ultrasonic flow meter uses dissimilar integration methods or schemes employed simultaneously. In a preferred embodiment, a number of chordal paths are arranged in a single meter body such that at least two dissimilar chordal integration schemes can be used to determine the flow rate. At least one of the chordal paths is common to both integration schemes. The total number of chordal paths needed in any chordal measurement plane is less than the sum of the chordal paths used in each of the integration schemes (as is the sum of the planes), thereby reducing hardware requirements.

Abstract: A twin pneumatic hammer is provided. The twin pneumatic hammer includes a first hammer head connected to a first pneumatic cylinder mounted on a first caliper arm, and a second hammer head connected to a second pneumatic cylinder mounted on a second caliper arm. The second hammer head is positioned opposite to the first hammer head. The first and second caliper arms are slidably coupled to a sliding track of a caliper base such that a distance between the first and second caliper arms may be adjusted. A plurality of tubing connects the first and the second pneumatic cylinders to a source of compressed air. An air controller is connected to the source of compressed air and performs a simultaneous impact stroke of the first and second hammer heads by controlling the release of compressed air into the plurality of tubing.

Abstract: A drum support assembly (30, 32) for a printing machine is presented. It comprises a drum support body (30a, 32a) having a bearing interface (30b, 32b) for a drum, a lower guide (34) supporting the drum support body (30a, 32a) at a lower end thereof, and an upper guide (36) supporting the drum support body (30a, 32a) at an upper end thereof. Additionally, a pre-tensioning unit (50) is provided pre-tensioning the drum support body (30a, 32a) against the lower guide (34) and/or the upper guide (36). Furthermore, a printing machine is described, comprising a drum and a drum support assembly (30, 32) as described above.

Abstract: An inspection device for use in a fluid container having at least an opening includes a housing sized to fit through the opening. The housing has at least two fluid flow channels extending therethrough, each having an inlet and an outlet, and a pump maintained in the housing within each fluid flow channel. The pumps are selectively controlled to maneuver the housing within the fluid container. The inspection device continues with a method of in-situ inspection of a container having at least one opening to receive a fluid, that includes up-loading a virtual model of the container into a computer, inserting the device into the container, generating a position signal by the device and receiving the position signal on a computer. A virtual image of the device in the virtual model of the container is generated to determine an actual position of the device within the container.

Abstract: A method includes: accessing a first selection of a first test variable; based on the selection, photocuring a first test build by varying a value of the first test variable over a first set of test regions; accessing a first set of measurements of the first test build; calculating a target range of the first test variable based on the first set of measurements; accessing a second selection of a second test variable; based on the second selection, photocuring a second test build by varying a value of the second test variable over a second set of test regions while maintaining a target value of the first test variable within the target range of the first test variable; accessing a second set of measurements of the second test build; and calculating a second target range of the second test variable based on the second set of measurements.

Abstract: A printer having a housing with a printing chamber, a printing device, a holding device for an exchangeable magazine for holding an object to be printed on, a control and evaluation unit, a memory, and at least one optical sensor in the housing for detection of an identification located on a magazine inserted into the receiving device. The control and evaluation unit is able to compare the identification on the inserted magazine which has been detected by the at least one optical sensor to an identification stored in the memory for a magazine which is allowable for the print object to be printed upon, and for outputting an error message when the comparison establishes a difference between the detected identification and the stored identification.