Abstract: A method for detecting orientation of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes moving, in response to a gravitational force, a mobile metallic piece in an evolution zone of a housing. The housing is formed in an interconnect region of the integrated circuit. The housing includes walls defining the evolution zone. The walls are formed within multiple metallization levels of the interconnect region. The walls include a floor wall and a ceiling wall. At least one of the floor wall and ceiling wall incorporate a pointed element directing its pointed region towards the mobile metallic piece. The pointed element delimits an open crater in a concave part of a projection. The method further includes creating an electrical signal by movement of the mobile metallic piece at a plurality of electrically conducting elements positioned at boundary points of the evolution zone and detecting the electrical signal by a detector.

Abstract: Provided is a concentration monitoring system which allows continuous concentration monitoring of a processing tank. The concentration monitoring system is provided with a first cycle in which a sample of a processing liquid to which a chemical has been added is taken from a processing tank in which the processing liquid is stored and supplied to a concentration meter which measures the concentration of the chemical, a second cycle in which a chemical solution having a known concentration of the chemical is supplied to the concentration meter, and a control device which controls the first cycle to evaluate the concentration of the chemical in the processing tank on the basis of the concentration of the sample measured by the concentration meter and controls the second cycle to evaluate the precision of the concentration meter on the basis of the concentration of the chemical solution measured by the concentration meter.

Abstract: Target monitoring and alert systems for identifying and tracking targets within radar data. Raw frame data is filtered to remove data relating to reflections from static objects. Moving targets are identified in the filtered data and their location is tracked over time generating target data. Neural networks may process the target data, calculate a fall likelihood score and generate a fall-alert if this is above an alert-threshold. A person identification module may extract the position and motion characteristics of each target from the data and generate a probabilistic identification of the target with a person.

Abstract: Provided is a downhole material test sub assembly, a well system including the same, and a method for using the same. The downhole material test sub assembly, in one aspect, includes a flange for coupling to a mandrel, and one or more retainer assemblies coupled to the flange, the one or more retainer assemblies configured to accept a test specimen for running within a wellbore on the mandrel. The downhole material test sub assembly, according to another aspect, includes a mandrel and one or more grooves or pockets located in an outer surface of the mandrel, the one or more grooves or pockets configured to accept a test specimen for running within a wellbore on the mandrel.

Abstract: A device suitable for measuring or quantifying the permeation or diffusion of one or more substances through a membrane, said device including a housing at least part of which is configured to form a first chamber or cell capable of holding a fluid or liquid in use, and a membrane support means to hold or locate at least one membrane in use adjacent to said first chamber or cell, wherein the first chamber or cell includes one or more windows or orifices through which ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS) and/or infrared (IR) electromagnetic radiation can pass.

Abstract: To provide an odor sensor capable of using an additive that was not capable of being adopted in an odor sensor including a polymer film, an odor measurement system using the odor sensor, and a method for producing the odor sensor, an odor sensor comprises a plurality of sensor elements, the sensor element including a substance absorption film adsorbing an odor substance; and a detection unit detecting adsorption of the odor substance with respect to the substance absorption film, wherein the substance absorption film is a porous fine particle film that contains fine particles containing a compound having silicon and oxygen as a skeleton, and a surface modifier for modifying surfaces of the fine particles, and in at least a part of the plurality of sensor elements, compositions of the fine particles and/or the surface modifier are different from each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying infiltration of a viscous medium (18) into an electronic assembly (10) for a vehicle, the electronic assembly (10) comprising at least one housing (40), a printed circuit board (15) and a connection region (45), the housing (40) providing an almost tight enclosure for the electronic assembly (10) and a redundancy being provided in respect of a processing and/or forwarding of electrical signals by means of the printed circuit board (15) in the electronic assembly (10), the redundancy providing at least a first transmission path (1) and a second transmission path (2) operatively parallel thereto, each transmission path (1; 2) consisting of at least one first electrical conductor (11; 21) and a second electrical conductor (12; 22), the electrical conductors (11, 12; 21, 22) each being electrically insulated from one another, and the first transmission path (1) and the second transmission path (2) forwarding the same electrical signal (U), the second transmission

Abstract: The present invention provides an induction type oil debris signal monitoring and identification system, which comprises an induction type oil debris sensor, used to detect small electromagnetic changes in the oil and output a monitoring signal after processing through a signal processing circuit; a bubble and debris classification and identification network module, used to analyze whether an abnormal amplitude signal in the monitoring signal contains bubbles or not so as to prevent the bubbles from being c as debris, and a two-level debris signal analysis network module, used to analyze the monitoring signal and determine the size and the quantity of debris.

Abstract: A method for reducing blasting vibration of tunneling includes the steps of: dividing the cutting holes into several groups according to different cutting methods; conducting layout and test blasting on one group of cutting holes; testing blasting parameters for the layout and test blasting; calculating an interval t; conducting layout and test blasting on at least two groups of cutting holes again; testing blasting parameters for the layout and test blasting of each group for the second time; taking the minimum interval t of each group as the interval for formal blasting of the remaining groups of cutting holes. The use of the characteristics of the wave in the invention can superpose the peaks and troughs of the vibration wave, and further cancel out mutually; reduce the peaks of the blasting vibration and fill the troughs of the blasting vibration.

Abstract: A high aspect ratio vacuum air sampling assembly is disclosed including a first canister module. The canister module includes a high aspect ratio conduit having an aspect ratio of at least 30:1, an inlet disposed at an inlet end of the conduit, and an outlet with an outlet valve disposed at an outlet end of the conduit. The outlet is in fluid communication with the inlet through an internal volume of the conduit. An air sampling train is attached to and in fluid communication with the inlet, and includes an inlet valve, a precision orifice, and a flow controller. The inlet valve and the outlet valve are configured to isolate the internal volume of the conduit from fluid communication with an external environment when the inlet valve and the outlet valve are closed. The assembly may further include a second canister module or more in sequence.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for calibrating a medical instrument are discussed herein. For example, a first instrument can be configured to access an anatomical site via a first access path and a second instrument can be configured to access the anatomical site via a second access path. The second instrument can include an imaging component configured to provide image data representative of the anatomical site and the first instrument. A difference can be identified between a first coordinate frame associated with the first instrument and a second coordinate frame associated with the second instrument. A control frame of reference associated with the first instrument can be updated based at least in part on the difference.

Abstract: Calibration components having a turbomachine component form factor and methods of fabricating the calibration components using an additive manufacturing system are provided. A calibration component includes a main body and one or more representative quality indicators. The one or more representative quality indicators are disposed within the main body of the calibration component. The representative quality indicators include a cavity that has a material disposed within the cavity.

Abstract: A pressure regulated fluidics system of a flow cytometer includes a sheath tank holding sheath fluid; a degasser coupled to the sheath tank by a first sheath line; a manifold assembly coupled to the degasser by a second sheath line; a first valve coupled to the second sheath line; a pressure regulator coupled to the sheath tank; and a transducer coupled to and between the pressure regulator and the first valve. The transducer senses measured pressure and converts it into a voltage. The pressure regulator applies regulated pressure to the sheath fluid to maintain a total flow rate of fluids through the flow cytometer based on the voltage. The degasser pulls gas molecules out of the sheath fluid.

Abstract: A method for inferring energy content of a flow fluid in a gaseous state is disclosed. The method is carried out by a computer system (200) having a processor (210) and memory (220), the memory (220) having an inference module (204), the method comprising inferring, by the inference module (204), the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state from an inferential relationship between the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state with at least one measurement taken of the flow fluid in the liquid state.

Abstract: A liquid chromatograph includes: a liquid meter that measures a liquid amount of a mobile phase stored in one or more mobile phase containers; and a notification unit that notifies an operator of the liquid amount of the mobile phase in each of the one or more mobile phase containers measured by the liquid meter. According to such a liquid chromatograph, when the operator replenishes the mobile phase to the mobile phase container, it is not necessary to visually measure the liquid amount of the mobile phase or manually input the value to the control device, so that it is possible to reduce the workload of the operator regarding the liquid amount management of the mobile phase.

Abstract: A strain measuring device (100) is a strain measuring device (100) for measuring strain on an FEP (10), and includes a viscous body (101) that has a lower rigidity than the FEP (10) and covers an uneven surface of the FEP (10), and a strain gauge (102) that is attached to a portion of a surface of the viscous body (101).

Abstract: A gas leak detection system that combines sensor units having an array of sensors that detect natural gas and the volatile organic compounds and variable atmospheric conditions that confound existing gas leak detection methods, a specially designed sensor housing that limits the variability of those atmospheric conditions, and a machine learning-enabled process that uses the wide array of sensor data to differentiate between natural gas leaks and other confounding factors. Multiple low-cost sensor units can be used to monitor gas concentrations at multiple locations across a site (e.g., a well pad or other oil or natural gas facility), enabling the gas leak detection system to model gas leak emission rates in two- or three-dimensional space to reveal the most likely origin of the gas leak.

Abstract: A surgical device includes a power source and a motor coupled to the power source. The device also includes a drive shaft having a proximal drive shaft having a proximal end portion coupled to the motor and a distal end portion, a proximal index gear coupled to the distal end portion of the proximal drive shaft, a distal drive shaft having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, a distal index gear coupled to the proximal end portion of the distal drive shaft, a spring member biasedly coupling the proximal index gear and the distal index gear. The device also includes a force measurement sensor configured to measure rotation of the proximal index gear and the distal index gear. The device further includes a controller coupled to the force measurement sensor and configured to determine a force applied to the drive shaft based on a difference between rotation of the proximal index gear and the distal index gear.

Abstract: An observation signal generation device includes a local signal generator, a first mixer which mixes an RF signal to be observed with the local signal and outputs a first IF signal, a second mixer which mixes the RF signal and the local signal and outputs a second IF signal, an first IF filter which includes a first intermediate frequency obtained by subtracting a frequency of the local signal from a first frequency of the RF signal in a passband, includes a second intermediate frequency obtained by subtracting a frequency of the RF signal from the frequency of the local signal in an attenuation band, and filters the first IF signal to generate a first observation signal, and an second IF filter includes the first intermediate frequency in the attenuation band and the second intermediate frequency in the passband, and filters the second IF signal to generate a second observation signal.

Abstract: A method to ascertain a quality of a product formed by a subtractive manufacturing device from a workpiece includes: determining a deflection/test force relation for a deflection of the device; measuring an actually exerted machining force applied by the device to the workpiece; automatically determining a machining force reference for the actually exerted machining force; automatically evaluating whether the actually exerted machining force deviates from the machining force reference. If an actually exerted machining force deviates from the machining force reference, then the method uses the deflection/test force relation to automatically determine for the actually exerted machining force, at least one correction deflection of the device and automatically creating at least one corrected drive control signal to fully or partially reduce the correction deflection.