Abstract: The embodiments provide a system and method for filtering out smoke and/or toxic gases/fumes from air in a building. The system integrates various smart devices with an HVAC system along with a controlling software application that can change the state of the smart devices, thereby controlling the types and quantities of air moving through the HVAC system at any time. In particular, the system can adjust the openings of one or more smart registers to control how much air passes in and out of the HVAC system over a given period of time. The system can also adjust the opening of a smart intake vent to control how much fresh (outside) air passes into the system over a given period of time. The system can also adjust the opening of a smart furnace valve that is disposed within the furnace.

Abstract: A transistor structure that includes multiple heterojunction layer sets, each generating a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), such that the transistor structure has a stack of 2DEGs that may be used to conduct between source and drain. A terminal is provided proximate an uppermost 2DEG to control whether the uppermost 2DEG is continuous between a source contact and a source plug. A source plug connects the uppermost 2DEG with the next 2DEG, and a drain plug also connects the uppermost 2DEG with the next 2DEG. Thus, the gate terminal may control the flow of current in sub-surface 2DEGs between the source and drain.

Abstract: A process for the preparing glycols from a lignocellulosic solid biomass involves contacting the biomass with an organic solvent comprising a low boiling point alcohol and a pre-treatment acid at a temperature in a range from 80 to 220° C. and a pressure in a range from 1 to 50 bara. The resulting mixture, having >20 wt. % water, is separated into a pre-treated solid residue comprising cellulose and a liquid stream comprising dissolved lignin and hemicellulose. The pre-treated solid residue is subjected to a hydrogenolysis reaction, generating a glycols stream, a lights stream, comprising a first portion of organic solvent, and a heavies stream. At least of part of the liquid stream is separated to produce a second portion of organic solvent and a solid residue of lignin and hemicellulose. At least part of the first and second portion of organic solvent is recycled to the contacting step.

Abstract: An EV charger has an AC port, a variable voltage DC power supply connected to the AC port and comprising a controller having an input to receive charging parameters, a charge cable connector connectable to a battery, an interface connectable to the connectors and to the input of the DC power supply wherein the interface performs either translating a battery management system voltage command regarding charging parameters of the battery received via the charge cable connector into the input for the variable voltage DC power supply, or generating the input for the variable voltage DC power supply defining the charging parameters for the battery from measured information about the battery.

Abstract: Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA) to exclude the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. An implant is delivered via transcatheter delivery into the LAA. The implant includes a conformable structure comprising a foam body and internal support. The support includes anchors that penetrate the foam body and anchor the implant to the walls of the LAA. The implant provides compliance such that it conforms to the native configuration of the LAA.

Abstract: A blade includes a root to be mounted in a slot of plural slots which opens out at an outer periphery of a rotor disk of a movable wheel of a low-pressure turbine of an aeronautical propulsion system, the rotor disk being centered on a longitudinal axis and the slots being circumferentially distributed about the longitudinal axis, the rotor disk further including blades circumferentially distributed at the outer periphery of the rotor disk, each blade being mounted in a corresponding slot, the root including a first platform which has a radially outer surface, a shroud having a second platform which has a radially inner surface, and an airfoil extending from the root to the shroud, the airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The shroud is formed of a material and has a defined difficulty.

Abstract: A sun gear for a mechanical gearbox of an aircraft turbomachine, the sun gear having an annular shape around an axis and including an internal annular part having at its internal periphery coupling grooves, an external annular part having at its external periphery at least one meshing tooth, the external part extending around the internal part, and an annular veil connecting the internal and external parts. At least one of the internal and external parts can include two independent rings, each having grooves or teeth, and the veil can have two annular branches connected respectively to the two rings.

Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, including a fixed structure equipped with at least one cascade as well as a radially inner delimiting wall of a secondary vein, and a movable structure including at least one reverser cowling, the cascade being arranged, in the forward direct thrust position, in a housing of the reverser cowling, and, in the retracted thrust reversal position, the wall reveals a passage opening of the secondary vein towards the cascade, the thrust reverser also including at least one sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of the secondary flow. A hook is provided for securing the membrane to a rear cascade support frame, and to the radially inner delimiting wall of the secondary vein.

Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, including at least one sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of the secondary flow towards a set of cascades when the movable structure of the reverser is in the retracted thrust reversal position, the reverser also including a first flexible hook connecting a first end of the membrane to the fixed structure of the reverser, a second hook connecting a second end of the membrane to the fixed structure or to the movable structure, the second hook being fixed to the radially inner delimiting wall of the secondary vein, or guided by an internal guide fixed to the same radially inner delimiting wall.

Abstract: Communication and charging assemblies for medical devices are disclosed herein. A communication and charging assembly in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a support element, with a communication antenna and a charging coil coupled to the support element. The charging coil can include wire loops having a plurality of wires and the support element can include a mounting surface shaped to match the charging coil and the communication antenna. In one embodiment, the communication and charging assembly are mounted in a header of an implantable signal generator.

Abstract: The present invention describes a Solid-Liquid-Solid hydrometallurgical process, optimized and independent of redox potential, to increase the solubilization of metals from ores and/or concentrates with a granulometry of less than 40 mm, by means of an initial stage called “Activation”; a second stage called “Dry autocatalytic transformation”; a third stage called “Washing and re-wetting”; and where the stages of dry autocatalytic transformation and washing and re-wetting, can be repeated in an alternating and repeated way.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing data streams from a surgical procedure using multiple interconnected data structures to generate and/or continuously update an electronic output. Each surgical data structure is used to determine a current node associated with a characteristic of a surgical procedure and present relevant metadata associated with the surgical procedure. Each surgical data structure includes at least one node interconnected to one or more nodes of another data structure. The interconnected nodes between one or more data structures includes relational metadata associated with the surgical procedure.

Abstract: A scraper device for a disc of an agricultural machine includes: a first outer scraper element having a first scraper portion resting against the outer surface of the first disc and a first coupling portion coupled to a chassis; a first inner scraper element having a second scraper portion resting against the inner surface of the first disc and a second coupling portion coupled to the first coupling portion, the first inner scraper element swivel-mounted with respect to the first outer scraper element around a second rotation axis; and a resetting device connected to the second coupling portion causing a rotational movement of the first inner scraper element along the second rotation axis pressing the second scraper portion against the inner surface of the first disc and causing rotational movement of the first outer scraper element along the first rotation axis pressing the first scraper portion against the first disc.

Abstract: A holding device for holding and supporting at least one medical instrument, more specifically a surgical handpiece. The holding device includes a central feedline, at least one line portion of which is connected to the end portion of a central feedline. At least one surgical handpiece can be coupled to the line portion. The holding device also includes a connector portion formed on another end portion of the central feedline. The connector portion can be coupled to a preliminary cleaning unit, more specifically a water/compressed air gun, and a cleaning unit, more specifically a filter unit connected to a rinsing line.