Abstract: According to one implementation an assembly is provided that includes a first and second optical fibers and a body that has respective first and second lumens in which at least a portion of the length of the first and second optical fiber reside. The first optical fiber is an end emitting fiber that is configured to end emit bacterial disinfecting light to disinfect at least a first portion of the body, and the second optical fiber is a radial emitting fiber that is configured to radially emit bacterial disinfecting light to disinfect at least a second portion of the body.

Abstract: Polymer blends comprising at least one olefin block copolymer such as poly(ethylene-b-ethylene/propylene-b-ethylene), and at least one propylene-based elastomer such as a propylene-ethylene random copolymer, such blends useful in elastic hygiene articles. The blends have improved permanent set compared to the propylene-based elastomer alone.

Abstract: A high density capacitor comprises a housing having a cavity, and a plurality of capacitors forming at least one capacitor bank disposed in the housing cavity. A native cooling fluid is disposed in the cavity, and a heat exchanger is coupled to the housing. A pump is configured to circulate the native cooling fluid from the cavity, through the heat exchanger, through the spacings along an outer surface of each of the capacitors to cool the capacitors using forced convection. The heat exchanger is configured to communicate a secondary fluid through the heat exchanger and draw heat from the native cooling fluid flowing through the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have a plenum having a plurality of openings configured to dispense the native cooling fluid from the heat exchanger proximate the at least one capacitor bank.

Abstract: An assembly for detecting a substance on an outer surface of a shaft. According to one implementation the assembly includes an elongate shaft having an outer surface and a radially emitting fiber spirally disposed inside the elongate shaft. A plurality of through holes are located between the radially emitting fiber and the outer surface with the through holes being longitudinally spaced-apart from one another. A laser under the control of a controller is optically coupled with the radially emitting fiber. The controller is configured to cause the laser to deliver pulsed light with a pulsed width into the radially emitting fiber. The longitudinal distance between adjacent through holes are such that the pulse width is shorter than a time for the light to travel between the adjacent through holes.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process to using an aminopyridinate scandium or yttrium metal (typically scandium) catalyst compound to produce ethylene conjugated diene copolymers, preferably ethylene isoprene copolymers having: 1) from 75 to 90 mol % ethylene; 2) from 10 to 25 mol % isoprene; 3) a Tg of 0° C. or less; 4) 1,4 isomer present at 60 wt % or less; 5) 3,4 and 1,2 present at 40% or more; 6) Mn of 250,000 g/mol or less; and 7) optionally, a Tm of 100° C. or less.

Abstract: According to one implementation an assembly is provided that includes a polymeric body having a working lumen and an external profile. The polymeric body is secured to a clamp that is transitional between an open position and a closed position. In the closed position the clamp applies a force on the polymeric body to cause a full or partial closure of the working lumen. The clamp includes a wall having a through opening that has an internal profile that is substantially similar to the external profile of the polymeric body. At least a portion of the polymeric body resides in the through opening so that the polymeric body is prevented from rotating in the clamp.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method to stabilize a poly(arylene ether) comprising combining a neat or diluted poly(arylene ether) with a vinyl or vinylidene-terminated polyolefin at a temperature of at least 80° C. to form heated reaction components; combining a Br?nsted acid or Lewis acid with the heated reaction components; and isolating a polyolefin-poly(arylene ether) copolymer composition.

Abstract: A network controller and a method for automatically define forwarding rules to configure a computer networking device, The network controller (100) is connected to a sub-network (A) of a communication network and comprises: a controller manager (101) that receives a request for a given service, defines forwarding rules related to said service and installs the defined forwarding rules into a computer networking device (120a) in order to configure it for said given service; a deciding module (102) configured to communicate with the controller manager (101) and configured to interact with a DNS server (150) to receive a determined resolution for a DNS request of said request for said given service, and with a database (300) to retrieve information supplementary for the DNS request, in order to assist the controller manager (101) in performing the defining of the forwarding rules; and a plurality of interfaces (SA, SB, SD) for allowing the communication between the different elements.

Abstract: The method comprising, in a network based on a chain of individual Service Functions, SFs, that are composed to implement Network Services, NSs: assigning, at an ingress node of a network architecture, to at least one data packet received by said ingress node from the network, a unique cryptographic tag; processing said assigned unique cryptographic tag using a cryptographic function specific to each Service Function, SF; and verifying, at a given point of the network architecture, said processed unique cryptographic tag by applying a cryptographic verification function composed by the inverse functions of the cryptographic functions associated to the SFs traversed by the at least one data packet.

Abstract: A threaded adjustable-height insert may be installed in a bore of a sandwich panel, such that the insert may be configured to transfer a load to the sandwich panel. The threaded adjustable-height insert may include a first insert part and a second insert part that may be selectively operatively positioned with respect to each other. The overall height of the threaded adjustable-height insert may be adjusted by longitudinally sliding the second insert part with respect to the first insert part and rotating the second insert part with respect to the first insert part. Presently disclosed threaded adjustable-height inserts may be configured for flush installation in a sandwich panel. Methods of installing such threaded adjustable-height inserts and adjusting the height of the same are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for preparing a polyethylene composition comprising contacting ethylene with a first salan catalyst precursor and an activator to form branched vinyl/vinylidene-terminated high density polyethylene having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 5,000 g/mole; and contacting the branched vinyl/vinylidene-terminated high density polyethylene with ethylene and a second metallocene catalyst precursor and an activator to form a comb-block HDPE. The polyethylene composition comprises a polyethylene backbone, and one or more branched high density polyethylene combs pendant to the backbone, the combs having an Mn of at least 5,000 g/mole, where the polyethylene has a branching index (g?) of less than 0.9.

Abstract: An atactic polypropylene comb-block polyolefin comprising two blocks including a polyolefin backbone and atactic polypropylene combs pendant to the backbone having a weight average molecular weight of at least 8000 g/mole and a crystallinity of less than 20%, where the atactic polypropylene comb-block polyolefin has comb number of at least 2. The atactic polypropylene comb-block polyolefin is made by contacting at a temperature within a range from 20 to 70° C. propylene with a first metallocene precursor to form vinyl-terminated atactic polypropylene to form vinyl-terminated atactic polypropylene, then contacting at a temperature within a range from 40 to 150° C. the vinyl-terminated atactic polypropylene with ethylene, propylene, or both and a second metallocene precursor to form the backbone.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process to using an aminopyridinate scandium or yttrium metal (typically scandium) catalyst compound to produce ethylene conjugated diene copolymers, preferably ethylene isoprene copolymers having: 1) from 75 to 90 mol % ethylene; 2) from 10 to 25 mol % isoprene; 3) a Tg of 0° C. or less; 4) 1,4 isomer present at 60 wt % or less; 5) 3,4 and 1,2 present at 40% or more; 6) Mn of 250,000 g/mol or less; and 7) optionally, a Tm of 100° C. or less.

Abstract: A network controller and a method for automatically define forwarding rules to configure a computer networking device, The network controller (100) is connected to a sub-network (A) of a communication network and comprises: a controller manager (101) that receives a request for a given service, defines forwarding rules related to said service and installs the defined forwarding rules into a computer networking device (120a) in order to configure it for said given service; a deciding module (102) configured to communicate with the controller manager (101) and configured to interact with a DNS server (150) to receive a determined resolution for a DNS request of said request for said given service, and with a database (300) to retrieve information supplementary for the DNS request, in order to assist the controller manager (101) in performing the defining of the forwarding rules; and a plurality of interfaces (SA, SB, SD) for allowing the communication between the different elements.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method to stabilize a poly(arylene ether) comprising combining a neat or diluted poly(arylene ether) with a vinyl or vinylidene-terminated polyolefin at a temperature of at least 80° C. to form heated reaction components; combining a Br?nsted acid or Lewis acid with the heated reaction components; and isolating a polyolefin-poly(arylene ether) copolymer composition.

Abstract: This invention relates to the reaction product(s) of a polyalkylhydrosiloxane and a vinyl terminated macromonomer (VTM).

Abstract: A high density capacitor comprises a housing having a cavity, and a plurality of capacitors forming at least one capacitor bank disposed in the housing cavity. A native cooling fluid is disposed in the cavity, and a heat exchanger is coupled to the housing. A pump is configured to circulate the native cooling fluid from the cavity, through the heat exchanger, through the spacings along an outer surface of each of the capacitors to cool the capacitors using forced convection. The heat exchanger is configured to communicate a secondary fluid through the heat exchanger and draw heat from the native cooling fluid flowing through the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have a plenum having a plurality of openings configured to dispense the native cooling fluid from the heat exchanger proximate the at least one capacitor bank.

Abstract: The method comprising receiving, an ALTO server at a network layer, a request from an ALTO client at an application layer to obtain network cost for a connection; computing, the cost information concerning PIDs stored in the ALTO server and adapting, by a request controller, the computed cost information to an ALTO information further sending it to the ALTO server and the latter to said ALTO client; receiving, by a provisioning server, a request from a provisioning client to compute a path for setting up a connection between said PIDs and transmitting said request to a provisioning controller; mapping, the provisioning controller, said received request from the provisioning server into network addresses and computing said path according to said network addresses; and comparing, a network cost of the computed path with a cost information previously stored by the request controller in a request database.

Abstract: A thermoplastic material, and in particular a jacket for an electrical cable, and more particularly a jacket for a THHN electrical cable, includes a polyamide base material, a silicon elastomer and an ethylene polymer modified with an unsaturated aliphatic diacid anhydride. The silicon elastomer does not migrate through the jacket. The jacket has a lower coefficient of friction than a cable with a jacket that does not have a silicon elastomer incorporated therein, and the resulting cable requires less force to install than a cable without a lubricant incorporated therein. The cable also has improved flame resistance and elongation-to-break properties. Methods for making these thermoplastic materials are also described.

Abstract: A method and system of landing site designation in an autonomous delivery network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a landing server marks a geo-spatial location as an autonomous delivery location upon receiving a designation data communicated through a network by a recipient user. The designation data indicates the geo-spatial location as the autonomous delivery location based on at least one of a current geospatial location of a mobile device of the recipient user and a map view marking created by the recipient user through a computing device. The autonomous delivery location is associated with the recipient user and a navigation data is communicated through the network to an autonomous vehicle, directing the autonomous vehicle to the autonomous delivery location of the recipient user when a payload is requested by any one of the recipient user and a sending user to be physically delivered to the autonomous delivery location.