Abstract: A method for determining an offset of an angular position encoder is associated with a rotor of an electric machine, wherein a reference offset of a reference angular position encoder of a reference electric machine is known at a reference rotational speed and a reference current with a reference phase angle and a reference absolute value. The method includes the steps of applying a current having the reference absolute value; setting a phase angle of the current to achieve the reference rotational speed; comparing the phase angle with the reference phase angle and the reference offset; and determining the offset on the basis of this comparison.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for ground traffic aircraft management are described herein. One device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport information associated with an airport, generate, using the airport information, a map of the airport, display an intersection on the map of the airport, receive a selection of the intersection, and display flight information of each of a plurality of aircraft passing through the intersection within a particular period of time and the map of the airport in a single integrated display responsive to receiving the selection of the intersection.

Abstract: An improved backsheet used in the construction of solar panels is disclosed. A method of manufacturing the backsheet and solar panel comprising the backsheet, including coextrusion processes are also disclosed. Additionally, a photovoltaic solar panel module comprising the backsheet is disclosed. The backsheet may comprise an exterior layer, a middle layer, and an interior layer. The exterior layer, middle layer, and interior layer may be adjoined, adhered, or affixed via a co-extrusion process, thereby eliminating the need for the use of adhesives for bonding the layers of the backsheet together. There is also disclosed a backsheet which may comprise an exterior layer, an intermediate exterior layer, a middle layer, an intermediate interior layer, and an interior layer.

Abstract: A door unlocking and/or door opening mechanism may have an actuating device that may have at least one actuating element, a housing, and at least one detection unit. The detection unit may have a sensor, a trigger element and an evaluation unit. The detection unit may be arranged in the housing. The actuating element may be arranged for an actuation outside the housing and in a region that is accessible from the outside. The trigger element may be arranged at a distance from the sensor in a locked state of the door unlocking and/or door opening mechanism. When the actuating element is actuated in the direction of the housing, to the actuating element deforms the trigger element. The sensor detects a change in the distance between the trigger element and the sensor.

Abstract: A head-mounted, near-eye display device includes a central display and a peripheral display. The central display creates a central image of a first resolution in a central eyebox. The peripheral display creates a peripheral image of a second resolution, lower than the first resolution, in a peripheral eyebox, different than the central eyebox.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlling a trajectory of a borehole being drilled into the earth are provided. The apparatus includes a drilling system including a drill tubular, a disintegrating device, and a steering system coupled to the drill tubular configured to steer the drilling system, the drilling system configured to drill the borehole by receiving control outputs from at least one control unit for controlling parameters of the drilling system, the at least one control unit configured to provide the control outputs to the steering system, the at least one control unit being configured to provide a depth-based control output.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a porcine parvovirus and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus vaccine for protecting a subject, preferably swine, against diseases associated with porcine parvovirus and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. The present invention further relates to methods of producing immunogenic compositions as well as such immunogenic compositions exhibiting reduced virucidal activity.

Abstract: A method for producing unsaturated macrocyclic monoketones comprising the following steps: (a) preparing macrocyclic dienes with a ring size of at least 9 carbon atoms; (b) contacting the starting materials from step (a) with (b1) a palladium(II) salt and/or a palladium(II) complex; and (b2) an oxidant; and (b3) a solvent; and optionally (b4) a ligand; and optionally (b5) a co-catalyst; and optionally (b6) an acid.

Abstract: An on-board vehicle system and method for camera or sensor-based parking spot detection and identification is provided. This system and method utilizes a standard front (or side or rear) camera or sensor image to detect and identify one or more parking spots at a distance via vector or like representation using a deep neural network trained with data annotated using an annotation tool, without first transforming the standard camera or sensor image(s) to a bird's-eye-view (BEV) or the like. The system and method can be incorporated in a driver-assist (DA) or autonomous driving (AD) system.

Abstract: Described herein are compositions for treating dermatological conditions, such as skin conditions, as well as neuropathological conditions and disorders, particularly those requiring relief from pain and physical discomfort. The compositions as described may be topically or transdermally administered. In some aspects, the compositions and products comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable amount of at least one analgesic component and a cannabis component and are useful to relieve acute or chronic pain, inflammation, and the like, following application.

Abstract: An injection assembly for a die-casting machine includes an injection piston for which a desired speed (Vset) is defined during a metal injection step. The piston is moved by an injection delivery valve and an injection drain valve, controlled in opening according to a tuning speed (Vreg). A system of auto-tuning of the opening of the valves is provided. The tuning speed (Vreg) is determined according to the difference between the desired speed (Vset) for the piston and an effective speed (Veff) of the piston, detected for the previous die-casting cycle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for continuous production of partly crystalline polycondensate pellet material, comprising the steps of forming a polycondensate melt into pellet material; separating the liquid cooling medium from the pellet material in a first treatment space, wherein the pellets after exit from the first treatment space exhibit a temperature TGR, and crystallizing the pellet material in a second treatment space, wherein in the second treatment space fluidized bed conditions exist, and in the second treatment space the pellets are heated by supply of energy from the exterior by means of a process gas.

Abstract: A diffraction measurement target that has at least a first sub-target and at least a second sub-target, and wherein (1) the first and second sub-targets each include a pair of periodic structures and the first sub-target has a different design than the second sub-target, the different design including the first sub-target periodic structures having a different pitch, feature width, space width, and/or segmentation than the second sub-target periodic structure or (2) the first and second sub-targets respectively include a first and second periodic structure in a first layer, and a third periodic structure is located at least partly underneath the first periodic structure in a second layer under the first layer and there being no periodic structure underneath the second periodic structure in the second layer, and a fourth periodic structure is located at least partly underneath the second periodic structure in a third layer under the second layer.

Abstract: A magnetic system for a medical implant system is described. A planar implant receiver coil is configured to lie underneath and parallel to overlying skin of an implanted patient for transcutaneous communication of an implant communications signal. A planar ring-shaped attachment magnet also is configured to lie underneath and parallel to the overlying skin and radially surrounds the receiver coil. The attachment magnet is characterized by a magnetic field configured to avoid creating torque on the attachment magnet in the presence of an external magnetic field.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable provided with at least two separate power conductors and at least one earth conductor. Systems and methods are also provided for charging an electrical energy storage on basis of such a cable assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a composition for stabilizing fish meal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a finger-moldable composition capable of forming a free-standing coating and suitable for application to, for example, human lips. The composition includes a thermoplastic block copolymer that includes styrenated blocks. It further includes a sufficient amount of cosmetic oil to allow a human user to mold the composition readily with the user's fingers and form a free-standing film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence, comprising or coding for a coding region, encoding at least one peptide or protein comprising a pathogenic antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, at least one histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal. Furthermore the present invention provides the use of the nucleic acid for increasing the expression of said encoded peptide or protein. It also discloses its use for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition, especially a vaccine, e.g. for use in the treatment of infectious diseases. The present invention further describes a method for increasing the expression of a peptide or protein comprising a pathogenic antigen or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof, using the nucleic acid comprising or coding for a histone stem-loop and a poly(A) sequence or a polyadenylation signal.

Abstract: A system (90) for imaging microscopic samples comprises a light source (31) for exciting fluorescence from at least one sample, a photosensor (40) configured to detect light deflected by a beam splitter (20) from an optical excitation path directed to the sample and output an electrical signal of optical flux to the sample, a camera (30) configured to receive and form an image of fluorescence light emitted from the sample, and a controller (134) comprising an integrator (122) configured to integrate the electrical signal from the photodetector and a comparator configured to compare the integrated output to a predetermined threshold, wherein the controller is configured to control an exposure time of the camera such that each sample receives substantially the same total optical flux of incident light during a duration of camera exposure which is terminated when a predetermined threshold representative of the total optical flux is met.

Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio streams transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, performing, via a neural network model, continuous speech separation for one or more of the received audio signals having overlapped speech, and providing the separated speech on a fixed number of separate output audio channels.