Abstract: Novel microwave devices capable of monitoring pest activity or moisture content in grain. A planar active microwave resonator with a regenerative element is placed in proximity to the grain to be tested, for example by immersion within in a bulk grain store to monitor moisture levels or pest activity therein, mounting within a sample container to monitor moisture levels or pest activity in a smaller volume of grain sampled from a grain store or shipment, or exposure to individual sample kernels for detecting internal pests therein.

Abstract: In some examples, a device includes a power structure and a sensing structure that is electrically isolated from the power structure. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether the sensing structure includes a prognostic health indicator, wherein the prognostic health indicator is indicative of a health of the power structure.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor module includes an axially polarized back-bias magnet having a body that radially extends from a magnet center axis and a bore extending along the magnet center axis. The magnet generates a radial bias magnetic in-plane field about a magnetization axis in a sensor plane. The magnetic field has a magnetic flux density of substantially zero along the extension of the magnetization axis and at a perimeter of a zero-field closed loop located in the sensor plane. The magnetic sensor module includes a shim polepiece mechanically coupled to an end of the axially polarized back-bias magnet. The shim polepiece includes a second bore centered on a polepiece center axis that is aligned with the magnet center axis. The second bore extends through the shim polepiece along the polepiece center axis and is congruent with the first bore.

Abstract: A method of determining moisture content in an emulsified asphalt-aggregate system is disclosed. The method includes: placing a first electrode in an emulsified asphalt-aggregate system (Mixture) at a first depth, placing a second electrode in the Mixture at a second depth, applying an alternating current (AC) signal between the first electrode and the second electrode, measuring impedance, determining the frequency which yields the minimum measured impedance, recording the minimum measured impedance, repeating the above steps at a predetermined time interval until the recorded minimum impedance is about 10 times of the first recorded minimum impedance, and alerting a user that the Mixture has sufficiently cured.

Abstract: A tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor device is disclosed that includes one or more TMR resistors. The TMR sensor device comprises a first TMR resistor comprising a first TMR film, a second TMR resistor comprising a second TMR film different than the first TMR film, a third TMR resistor comprising the second TMR film, and a fourth TMR resistor comprising the first TMR film. The first and fourth TMR resistors are disposed in a first plane while the second and third TMR resistors are disposed in a second plane different than the first plane. The first TMR film comprises a synthetic anti-ferromagnetic pinned layer having a magnetization direction of a reference layer orthogonal to a magnetization direction a free layer. The second TMR film comprises a double synthetic anti-ferromagnetic pinned layer having a magnetization direction of a reference layer orthogonal to a magnetization direction of a free layer.

Abstract: An example test system includes power amplifier circuitry to force voltage or current to a test channel and one or more processing devices configured to control the power amplifier circuitry to comply with a compliance curve. The compliance curve relates output of the voltage to output of the current. According to the compliance curve, maximum current output increases as an absolute value of the voltage output increases.

Abstract: A controller acquires a size of a recess included in an actual topography within a work range. The controller determines whether the size of the recess is larger than a predetermined recess threshold. When the size of the recess is larger than the predetermined recess threshold, the controller determines a first area and a second area divided at a position of the recess in the work range. The controller determines a first target design topography indicative of a target trajectory of a work implement for the first area. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the first target design topography.

Abstract: A semiconductor element encompasses a first external electrode on an upper surface side of a semiconductor chip, a second external electrode, spaced apart from the first external electrode, provided in parallel with the first external electrode; and a protective film covering the first and second external electrodes, having first and second windows to expose portions of upper surfaces of the first and second external electrodes, respectively. Planar patterns of the first and second windows are in two-fold rotational symmetry with respect to a center point of an area including the first and second external electrodes and to be asymmetric with respect to a center line between the first and second external electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication device including: a circuit unit; and an antenna which is connected to the circuit unit and which transmits and receives signals to and from a transceiver in a non-contact manner. The wireless communication device transmits different signals to the transceiver, depending on the presence or absence of contact between at least a part of the circuit unit and moisture.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor element for a potentiometric sensor including a substrate, and a potentiometric sensor layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate includes at least one region electrically conductively connected to the sensor layer, and wherein at least the region of the substrate electrically conductively connected to the sensor layer is a mixed-conducting ceramic.

Abstract: A periodic sensor signal representing a varying rotation angle detected by a rotation angle sensor is compared to a number of thresholds to detect threshold crossings of the periodic sensor signal. An output signal including a pulse pattern at the time of a threshold crossing may be generated only if the direction of rotation has not changed since an immediately preceding threshold crossing. A number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation may be counted and an update of the offset register is performed only if the number of consecutive threshold crossings which take place without a change in the direction of rotation is equal to or higher less than the number of thresholds.

Abstract: A memory device includes a first wafer including a first bonding pad disposed on a first surface; a second wafer, including a second bonding pad disposed on a second surface of the second wafer, the second surface of the second wafer bonded on the first surface of the first wafer; and a first test pattern. The first test pattern includes a pair of first test pads disposed on the first surface and electrically coupled to each other; a pair of second test pads disposed on the second surface of the second wafer and respectively coupled to the pair of first test pads, when no misalignment failure between the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad occurs; and a pair of third test pads disposed on a third surface of the second wafer, which is opposite to the second surface, and respectively coupled to the pair of second test pads.

Abstract: A tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor device is disclosed that includes one or more TMR sensors. The TMR sensor device comprises a first resistor comprising a first TMR film, a second resistor comprising a second TMR film different than the first TMR film, a third resistor comprising the second TMR film, and a fourth resistor comprising the first TMR film. The first TMR film comprises a reference layer having a first magnetization direction anti-parallel to a second magnetization direction of a pinned layer. The second TMR film comprises a reference layer having a first magnetization direction parallel to a second magnetization direction of a first pinned layer, and a second pinned layer having a third magnetization direction anti-parallel to the first magnetization direction of the reference layer and the second magnetization direction of the first pinned layer.

Abstract: A method for determining a speed between a measurement-sensor, including at least one coil and a ferromagnetic-transmitter-element (FEM), including: changing the inductance of the coil and the voltage induced therein, in a vehicle using an inductive-speed-sensor having at least the coil and FEM; recording the inductance-change of the coil, and determining the speed based on the changed-inductance; in which the inductance-change is recorded and the speed is determined based on the changed-inductance only until the determined-speed has reached a speed-limit-value (SLV) starting from lower-speeds, in which a voltage-change induced in the coil is recorded and the speed is determined based on the changed-voltage when the determined-speed has exceeded the SLV starting from lower-speeds, and in which an inductance-change is recorded and the speed is determined based on the changed-inductance when the determined-speed has reached/dropped below the SLV starting from higher-speeds.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a functional circuit comprising one or more circuit components configured to perform a function based on one or more first input signals; at least one failure-prediction circuit for use in predicting failure of the functional circuit, the failure-prediction circuit comprising a replica of the functional circuit in terms of constituent circuit components; wherein the failure-prediction circuit is configured to be more susceptible to failure than said functional circuit, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide a prediction of failure of the functional circuit based on a determination of failure of the failure-prediction circuit.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive device includes a magnetoresistor disposed over a substrate, a stress release structure covering a side surface of the magnetoresistor, an electrical connection structure disposed over the magnetoresistor, and a passivation layer disposed over the electrical connection structure and the stress release structure.

Abstract: A wire rope inspection device (100) includes a controller 21 configured or programmed to detect a state of a wire rope (W) based on a difference at substantially a same position between a first detection signal acquired by a differential coil (10) in a first measurement and a second detection signal acquired by the differential coil in a second measurement after the first measurement.

Abstract: A method for automatic calibration of a camshaft sensor for a motor vehicle engine. The sensor includes a processing module configured to generate, from a raw signal indicative of the variations in a magnetic field which are caused by a rotation of a target and measured by a primary cell, an output signal indicative of the moments at which teeth of the target pass past the primary cell. The sensor further includes two secondary measurement cells. The calibration method therefore makes it possible to determine two different switching thresholds for each tooth from a differential signal indicative of a difference in magnetic field measurement by the secondary cells. Also disclosed are a camshaft sensor implementing such a method, and a motor vehicle including such a sensor.

Abstract: A process for quantifying the moisture in a blanket of fibers includes the emission of an incident electromagnetic wave towards the blanket, by at least one emitter; the receiving of the electromagnetic wave transmitted through the blanket, by at least one receiver; the identification of a variation of at least one parameter of the transmitted wave relative to the incident wave; the determination of a representative value of moisture in the blanket of fibers, as a function of the variation and of the effective volume of blanket that has actually interacted with the incident wave.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to electrically confined ballistic devices, circuits, and networks. One such device includes a heterostructure that has a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a two-dimensional electrode gas (2DEG) layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The device further includes an input electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer and an output electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer. A first confinement electrode is positioned on the heterostructure. The first confinement electrode, in use, generates first space charge regions which at least partially define a boundary of the ballistic device within the 2DEG layer between the input electrode and the output electrode in response to a first voltage.