Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a direct current (DC) two phase power conductor line, wherein the two phases are parallel and spaced apart. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the two phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases.

Abstract: A die ejecting apparatus includes an ejector body having a cylindrical shape, ejector pins provided inside the ejector body and configured to rise or fall, a hood coupled to an upper portion of the ejector body and made of a light-transmitting material in which through holes through which the ejector pins may pass are formed, and a reinforcement member disposed in a form of a mesh mounted on the hood and overlapping the through holes.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring circuit board includes steps: 1) preparing a metal supporting layer, a different-reflectance layer, an insulating base layer, and a wiring layer sequentially toward one side in a thickness direction, and 2) irradiating the circuit board with reflected light including light containing one wavelength in light between wavelengths 650 nm and 950 nm from one side in the thickness direction of the circuit board to inspect the wiring layer based on the reflected light at the circuit board. In 2), the outer shape of the wiring layer is inspected based on the contrast between first reflected light at one surface in the thickness direction of the wiring layer and second reflected light at one surface in the thickness direction of the different-reflectance layer. The difference between a reflectance R1 of the wiring layer and a reflectance R2 of the different-reflectance layer is 40% or more.

Abstract: A connector apparatus includes a first connector and a second connector. A housing defines a first channel and a second channel and a locking mechanism configured to secure one of the first and second connectors within the first channel or the second channel. The locking mechanism includes a disk with a rotational stop, and a latch arm pivotable between at least a latched position and an unlatched position. When the first connector is secured within the first channel by the disk and the second connector is inserted into the second channel, the second connector actuates the latch arm towards the unlatched position such that the disk is enabled to pivot and secure the second connector to the housing while simultaneously releasing the first connector from the housing.

Abstract: A method is provided that integrates an autonomous energy harvesting capacity in a mobile device in an aesthetically neutral manner. A unique set of structural features combine to implement a hidden energy harvesting system on a surface of the mobile device body structure or casing to provide electrical power to the mobile device, and/or to individually electrically-powered components in the mobile device. Color-matched, image-matched and/or texture-matched optical layers are formed over energy harvesting components, including photovoltaic energy collecting components. Optical layers are tuned to scatter selectable wavelengths of electromagnetic energy back in an incident direction while allowing remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic energy to pass through the layers to the energy collecting components below. The layers appear opaque when observed from a light incident side, while allowing at least 50%, and as much as 80+%, of the energy impinging on the energy or incident side to pass through the layer.

Abstract: A packaging substrate fabrication process is provided. A substrate plate including through-plate metal via structures is provided. At least one interconnect-level structure may be formed by performing a unit sequence of processing steps that includes: a metal seed deposition step; a first masking step; a first electroplating step that forms metal lines; a second masking step; a second electroplating step that forms metal via structures; a seed layer etch step; a dielectric material deposition step that forms a dielectric material layer; and a planarization step that removes portions of the dielectric material layer that are more distal from the substrate plate than distal horizontal surfaces of the metal via structures. Laser drilling processing steps are not necessary during manufacture of the packaging substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a plurality of working tables, a plurality of arm modules, and a rotator. The plurality of working tables are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and are configured to support a target board. The plurality of arm modules are arranged in the first direction and spaced apart from the plurality of working tables in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The rotator is connected to the plurality of arm modules and configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in the first direction.

Abstract: A component mounter includes a component supply device equipped with a bulk feeder for supplying multiple components in a bulk state to a supply region for the components, a camera configured to image the supply region, an image processing section configured to execute image processing for distinguishing a region of at least a part of the component from a region of a background in image data acquired through imaging by the camera based on brightness, and a state recognition section configured to recognize a supply state of the component based on at least one of an area and a shape of a component region occupied by at least the part of the component in the image data on which the image processing has been executed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved wedge connector removal tool for disconnecting a transmission line wedge tap connection and the methods of using such a tool. The tool may couple to a wedge connector around the transmission lines enabling a lineman's hands to be free from supporting the tool, and the wedge may be removed from the connection without the incorporation of powder charges.

Abstract: A method produces a battery arrangement which has a battery tray having a tray bottom and a battery received in the battery tray, wherein the battery lies on the battery tray at support points spanning a support plane and wherein, before the battery is inserted into the battery tray, a thermal compound is applied to the tray bottom and/or to the battery bottom in order to fill, at least in part, a gap between a battery bottom facing the tray bottom and the tray bottom. Before the thermal compound is applied, a distance between the tray bottom and the support plane is determined at least at first measurement points and the thermal compound is applied to the tray bottom and/or the battery bottom in a quantity which is dependent on the determined distances between the tray bottom and the support plane.

Abstract: A resin shaping device configured to cure a resin placed in a mold in a state in which the mold is pressed against a substrate, the resin shaping device comprising: a substrate holding unit configured to hold the substrate in an orientation such that a forming face for forming a resin part on the substrate faces vertically downward; a head configured to hold the mold from vertically below; a head drive unit configured to cause the head to face a position for formation of a resin part on the substrate, and then cause vertically upward movement of the head so that the head approaches the substrate holding unit and presses the mold from vertically below the substrate; and a resin curing unit configured to cure the resin placed in the mold in a state in which the mold is pressed against the substrate.

Abstract: A component mounter includes a camera configured to image the supply region, an image processing section configured to execute image processing on image data acquired by imaging of the camera to recognize an accommodation state of the component for each of the multiple cavities and acquire accommodation information in which the accommodation state of the component is associated with a unique address for each of the multiple cavities, and an operation control section configured to execute a collection operation of the component accommodated in the cavity based on the accommodation information.

Abstract: A correction amount calculation device includes a selection section and a correction amount calculation section. The selection section is configured to select a target component in which a movement amount of the component on a board before and after being conveyed to a reflow furnace is equal to or less than a predetermined allowable value. The correction amount calculation section is configured to calculate a correction amount, which is used in a mounting process of a board product to be produced later, regarding a positional deviation amount of the mounting position of the target component selected by the selection section with respect to a target mounting position.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dry electrode for an energy storage device are disclosed. The system includes a first dry electrode material delivery system configured to deliver a dry electrode material, a first calendering roll, a second calendering roll, and a controller. The second calendering roll is configured to form a first nip between the first calendering roll and the second calendering roll. The first nip is configured to receive the dry electrode material from the first dry electrode material delivery system, and form a dry electrode film from the dry electrode material. The controller is configured to control a rotational velocity of the second calendering roll to be greater than a rotational velocity of the first calendering roll.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible cable jumper structure including a cover layer, a first metal layer stacked on the cover layer and having a circuit pattern formed thereon, a first dielectric layer stacked on the first metal layer, a first adhesive layer applied on the first dielectric layer, a second metal layer stacked on the first dielectric layer to which the first adhesive layer is applied and having a circuit pattern formed thereon, a heat resistant layer stacked on the second metal layer, and a terminal layer formed in one region of the heat resistant layer and electrically connected to the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and a flexible cable jumper device coupled to one side of the flexible cable jumper structure and including an RF connector including a plug having an electrode electrically connected to the terminal layer, and the flexible cable jumper device of the present invention has heat resistance and low loss characteristics by using a heat resistant material and a low

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery includes (a) laminating an insulating layer on a part of at least one surface of at least one first collector, (b) laminating at least one power-generating element in which an electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a counter-electrode active material layer are laminated in this order and the at least one first collector on which the insulating layer is laminated such that the electrode active material layer covers the insulating layer, (c) cutting, in a laminating direction at a position where the insulating layer is divided, the at least one first collector on which the at least one power-generating element are laminated, and (d), before or after cutting the at least one power-generating element in the cutting (c), laminating a second collector on a surface of the at least one power-generating element that is opposite to the at least one first collector.

Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method of final assembly of a light projector module, including the steps of: providing a base plate, a light source on the base plate, and a micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) scanning assembly, wherein the base plate has, between the light source and the MEMS scanning assembly, a mounting surface accessible at one side of the base plate; positioning a set of one or more lenses on the mounting surface and adjusting the position of the one or more lenses of the set while the light source is emitting and at least one light beam projected by the light projector module is monitored in a display area; and mounting the one or more lenses of the set in the adjusted position fixedly on the base plate.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing an excretion monitoring system is provided that comprises: providing, on a liquid-impervious material roll, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) tags in an arrangement each of the plurality of RF tags is configured to respond to a signal at a different frequency; repeating, along length of the liquid-impervious material roll and throughout the entire length of the liquid-impervious material roll, the providing the plurality of RF tags; cutting in a manner nondeterministic to the RF tags the liquid-impervious material roll into sections of a predetermined length such that there contains approximately the plurality of RF tags in each section; and constituting the excretion monitoring system by using one of the sections. Contact of a RF tag with an excreted fluid modifies a response by that RF tag to a signal at the corresponding frequency.

Abstract: Strain gages in accordance with the present disclosure are sculpted from a device layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator wafer using deep reactive ion etching, yielding very good control over the electrical properties and physical dimensions of the strain gages. In some embodiments, groups of fully fabricated strain gages are physically connected to handling frames via sprues, which eases handling, enables automated assembly, and facilitates tracing of individual gages from the beginning of fabrication through final packaging. In some embodiments, sprues are configured to mitigate accidental separation of the gages from their frames while simultaneously easing their removal in response to specific forces applied by a handling tool.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly machine includes a pin support mechanism having first and second pin support forks. The first pin support fork includes a first connecting bar and first tines defining first gaps configured to receive connecting pins of contacts. The second pin support fork includes a second connecting bar and second tines defining second gaps configured to receive the connecting pins of the contacts. The first pin support fork is shifted in a first lateral direction to load the first tines against the connecting pins and the second pin support fork is shifted in a second lateral direction opposite the first lateral direction to load the second tines against the connecting pins. The first tines and the second tines cooperate to hold the connecting pins relative to each other for loading a pin organizer of the electrical connector onto ends of the connecting pins.