Abstract: A spray nozzle and fan spray system is provided to aid in the cooling and extinguishing of electric vehicle fires. The spray nozzle is configured to be positioned underneath the vehicle, where water is evenly distributed along the underside of the vehicle through a plurality of holes disposed through the side and upper surfaces of the spray nozzle. Simultaneously a fan nozzle may be configured to spray fluid over the top of the vehicle and provides a heat barrier. A method of extinguishing an electrical vehicle fire is also provided that improves the safety of bystanders and fire fighters.

Abstract: A method is provided for decompressing wide word data compressed in parallel. The method includes creating an instance of memory structure for a wide word in the wide word data, where the instance of memory structure is an inverse of a compression dictionary for the wide word; retrieving multiple compressed codes iteratively from a gap-free compressed output stream of the wide word data using the instance of memory structure, where each compressed code includes at least one character code and a reverse-pointer, and where at least one compressed code includes a multi-symbol string having a multiple character codes; forming an intermediate decompressed output stream by iteratively following the reverse-pointers for the multiple compressed codes, respectively; and forming decompressed output stream by reversing an order of the character codes in the multi-symbol string of the at least one compressed code.

Abstract: An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device, includes an outer body; an induction coil arranged inward of the outer body; a heating compartment defined inward of the induction coil and arranged to receive, in use, a body comprising a vaporisable substance and an induction heatable susceptor; wherein the separation between the outer body and the induction coil defines an air vent arranged to allow air flow around the induction coil and to the heating compartment.

Abstract: A heating system is provided for an inhaler device, such as an e-cigarette or a personal vaporizer device, for generating an aerosol or a vapour from a liquid to be heated. The system comprises: at least one supply channel for conveying a liquid to be heated from a supply reservoir under capillary action or surface tension forces within the at least one channel; and heating means arranged at an outlet of the at least one supply channel and configured to heat the substance as it emerges from the outlet of the at least one channel. The heating means preferably comprises at least one heating element which extends across a width or an outlet opening of the supply channel and is typically confined to the outlet of the supply channel.

Abstract: A sound-absorbing article (e.g., a tufted sound-absorbing article) can comprise a backing having a thickness and a plurality of face fibers associated with the backing. Optionally, the face fibers can comprise a plurality of tufts extending through the backing. The backing can define a plurality of perforations that fully extend through the thickness of the backing and are provided in a pattern to determine an acoustic property of the sound-absorbing article. Within at least a portion of the backing, sequential perforations within the pattern of the plurality of perforations can be spaced center-to-center by between 5 mm and 100 mm.

Abstract: A drinking vessel includes a fluid reservoir for containing a first fluid, a first tube extending from the fluid reservoir to an outlet at a distal end of the first tube and configured to carry the first fluid to the outlet responsive to the user drinking from the drinking vessel, a mixing chamber positioned along the first tube between the fluid reservoir and the outlet, one or more pumps fluidly coupled with the mixing chamber and configured to dispense one or more additives into the mixing chamber to be mixed with the first fluid, an airflow sensor configured to detect that the user is drinking from the drinking vessel, and a controller configured to activate at least one of the one or more pumps according to a selected dosing profile responsive to detecting that the user is drinking from the vessel.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for coupled host and memory dies are described. A controller of a memory system may facilitate data rearrangement within a block-addressable memory device based on metadata associated with prefetching data to a byte-addressable memory device or to a host system. For example, the controller may utilize the metadata and various access commands to rearrange associated data within the block-addressable memory device such that the data is written to a singular superblock of the block-addressable memory device. In some examples, one or more counters may be utilized by the controller to determine whether to rearrange the data within the block-addressable memory device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for inter-tier metadata storage are described. A controller associated with a memory system may manage metadata storage across tiers of memory within the memory system or across memory systems. The controller may transfer metadata between tiers of memory based on whether an access count associated with the metadata satisfies a threshold. For example, the controller may transfer metadata from a first tier of memory to a second tier of memory if the access count satisfies a threshold count. The controller may transfer the metadata from the second tier of memory to the first tier of memory if the access count fails to satisfy the threshold count.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a plate that can couple with a non-conductive header of a battery pack. The plate can form a conductive path between the header and the battery pack.

Abstract: An access counter associated with a segment of a memory device is maintained. The segment comprises a plurality of lines. A first count of the plurality of lines is identified. A subset of the plurality of lines of the segment is monitored. A second count of the subset of the plurality of lines is identified. An access notification for a first line of the subset of the plurality of lines is received. A first value of the access counter is changed by a second value. The second value is weighted based on the first count and the second count. Based on the first value of the access counter, a memory management scheme is implemented.

Abstract: A flat-shaped tobacco article configured to operate with an aerosol generating device and extending along an article axis between a mouth end and an abutting end includes a mouthpiece portion adjacent to the mouth end and a tobacco portion adjacent to the abutting end, the tobacco portion including a substrate layer extending along the article axis and forming two opposite sides, a wrapper forming an internal surface and arranged around the substrate layer so that its internal surface is in contact with one side of the substrate layer and forms a gap with the other side of the substrate layer, the gap being adapted to receive a heating blade of the aerosol generating device.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods related to a deep learning accelerator and memory are described. For example, the accelerator can have processing units to perform at least matrix computations of an artificial neural network via execution of instructions. The processing units have a local memory store operands of the instructions. The accelerator can access a random access memory via a system buffer, or without going through the system buffer. A fetch instruction can request an item, available at a memory address in the random access memory, to be loaded into the local memory at a local address. The fetch instruction can include a hint for the caching of the item in the system buffer. During execution of the instruction, the hint can be used to determine whether to load the item through the system buffer or to bypass the system buffer in loading the item.

Abstract: A vaporizer unit for a personal vaporizer device, especially an electronic smoking article, includes a housing which encloses a reservoir for storing a liquid to be vaporized; a heating element configured and arranged for heating the liquid to be vaporized to generate a vapour to be inhaled; and a liquid delivery element which is configured to convey the liquid from the reservoir to the heating element for vaporization. The liquid delivery element includes at least a first side configured to be in contact with or to form a wall of the reservoir and a second side in contact with the heating element fluidly connected with the first side and wherein the heating element includes an electrically conductive cover or coating applied to the second side of the liquid delivery element. A personal vaporizer device includes the vaporizer unit.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for access heatmap generation at a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may maintain a register for tracking access operation occurrence, for which access operations of an address of the memory device may be mapped to multiple fields of the register. In some cases, in response to a first access operation performed on a first address of the memory device, the memory device may increment a first field and a second field of the register and, in response to a second access operation performed on a second address of the memory device, the memory device may increment the first field and a third field of the register. In some examples, the memory device may maintain a second register having a set of fields that each indicate a respective address for which an access occurrence satisfies a threshold.

Abstract: A flat-shaped tobacco article configured to operate with an aerosol generating device and extending along an article axis between a mouth end and an abutting end includes a mouthpiece portion adjacent to the mouth end and a tobacco portion adjacent to the abutting end, the tobacco portion including a substrate layer forming two opposite sides, and a wrapper forming an internal surface and arranged around the substrate layer so as its internal surface forms a first gap with one of the sides of the substrate layer and a second gap with the other side of the substrate layer, each of the first gap and the second gap being adapted to receive a heating blade of the aerosol generating device.

Abstract: An aerosol generating article includes aerosol generating material having first and second regions and an inductively heatable susceptor in the first region. The first region can be located upstream of the second region or downstream of the second region relative to an aerosol flow direction within the article. A method for manufacturing an aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system are also described.

Abstract: A machine-based learning system for predicting the presence of lesions indicative of axial spondyloarthritis in medical imaging data includes an image processor for receiving and processing one or more MRI image data set containing pelvic region and sacroiliac joint of a subject, and dividing said MRI image data set into a set of 3D voxels. The system also includes a voxel classifier for calculating for each of said the voxels one or more class probabilities of such voxel to contain a lesion of a particular type or being a non-lesion. The system also includes a lesion probability map generator for receiving the data produced by the voxel classifier and producing a probability intensity map for each of lesion types, in which one or more areas classified as lesion are highlighted; and an image display for displaying the output of the lesion probability map generator.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an enclosure for a battery pack. The enclosure may include one or more casted portions, such as a casted front member and a casted rear member. The casted portions may provide benefits including reducing a number of seal paths on the enclosure, facilitating serviceability of various electrical components from a bottom of the battery pack, reducing a number of parts of the enclosure, facilitating efficient battery pack assembly, facilitating connector placement for ergonomics and/or damage protection, facilitating placement of vents, providing casted in lid, lung, and/or skid plate attachments, and/or improving strike reinforcement features.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aerosol-delivery component comprising a vaporiser in fluid communication with a reservoir for storing a liquid aerosol precursor and an air flow path extending from an inlet of the component to an outlet of the component. The vaporiser comprises a tubular ceramic wick defining a vaporiser portion of the air flow path through the vaporiser. The vaporiser further comprises a heating element within the vaporiser portion of the air flow path wherein the heating element comprises a sheet of absorbent, electrically-conductive material.

Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed, including receiving, by a memory controller of a memory device, a memory request from a host device; collecting packet trace data from the memory request; including the packet trace data in a log stored in a memory array of the memory device; and returning the log to the host device.