Abstract: A desk assembly with a frame, a seat, and a desk. The frame is configured to support the desk assembly on a horizontal surface and has guide rails extending between a first end and a second end of the frame. The seat is securely attached to the first end of the frame and has an adjustable position. The desk has a desk platform and legs that are movably coupled to the guide rails. The desk is vertically adjustable between a standing position where the desk platform is positioned at a first height and a sitting position where the desk platform is positioned at a second height lower than the first height. While in use, the frame is configured to remain stationary with respect to the horizontal surface and the desk is moveable along the guide rails between the first end and the second end of the frame.

Abstract: Optical films are described. In particular, optical films including a reflective polarizer portion and an infrared portion, with no adhesive between these two portions, are described. These optical films may be particularly suitable for combiner applications, including automotive heads up display applications with demanding ambient environments.

Abstract: An optical system includes an extended illumination source configured to emit light from an extended emission surface thereof toward a display panel. The emitted light includes substantially distinct blue, green and red emission spectra having respective blue, green and red peaks at respective blue, green and red peak wavelengths, and corresponding blue, green and red full widths at half maxima (FWHMs). The blue FWHM extends from a smaller blue wavelength to a longer blue wavelength. The optical system further includes reflective polarizer disposed on the emission surface of the extended illumination source. The reflective polarizer includes a plurality of first polymeric layers. The optical system also includes an optical filter disposed between the reflective polarizer and the emission surface of the extended illumination source.

Abstract: A method, computing system and memory containing program instructions executable by a processor to cause a computing system to cause multiple routable components, such as electrical circuits, within a routing diagram to be highlighted in response to selection of a connectable component in the diagram. The diagram is received in response to a request that includes a vehicle identifier including at least model year and manufacturer identifiers, and a textual search criterion, and then displayed on a display. Displaying the diagram includes showing representations of the connectable component and the multiple routable components on the display. The representations of the connectable component and the multiple routable components are selectable via a graphical user interface. In response to receiving a selection of the representation of the connectable component shown on the display, the diagram is displayed on the display with the representations of the multiple routable components highlighted.

Abstract: A method for secure software supply chain delivery includes storing a vendor secret on a computing device while the computing device is at a manufacturer and querying, by a vendor cloud provisioner, the manufacturer for a serial number and a computing device secret. The method includes binding the computing device secret and the serial number and correlating a customer and provisioning instructions of the customer with the serial number of the computing device. The method includes receiving, from the computing device located where the computing device is to be provisioned, a request for the provisioning instructions, exchanging credentials between the computing device and the vendor cloud provisioner using the computing device secret and the vendor secret, and transmitting the provisioning instructions to the computing device in response a successful exchange of credentials between the computing device and the vendor cloud provisioner and/or receiving the serial number from the computing device.

Abstract: An endodontic instrument of this disclosure has a diamond-shaped cross section forming two cutting edges spiraled about its working length. Beginning around 2 mm from the tip end, the cutting edges begin to merge with the central core of the instrument and form radial lands. There is no sharp transition angle of the cutting edges as they transition into the tip end.

Abstract: A heads-up display includes a windshield with a standardized wedge profile and an embedded reflective polarizer and a display. The reflective polarizer is disposed between, and spaced apart from, opposing outermost first and second major glass surfaces of the windshield. The heads-up display forms a virtual image for viewing by the eye of a passenger. An image emitted by the display may include a first image ray emitted from a predetermined region of the display and incident on the outermost first major glass surface of the windshield at an angle of incidence greater than about 60 degrees, with at least 90% of the incident first emitted image ray polarized in a plane of incidence of the first emitted image ray.

Abstract: A service processor, computer program product and method include various operations. The operations include receiving a stream of serial data directed to be output through a virtual serial port of the service processor, wherein the stream of serial data identifies a plurality of parameters and a value for each parameter. The operations further include maintaining a virtual terminal state based on the serial data stream in the absence of an active connection of a client computer to the virtual serial port, wherein the virtual terminal state includes a most-recently received value for each parameter, and storing and updating the virtual terminal state in a screen buffer. Still further, the operations include outputting the virtual terminal state stored in the screen buffer through the virtual serial port to a client computer in response to detecting that the client computer has formed a new connection to the virtual serial port.

Abstract: A method includes a node detecting that a service event has occurred within the node, wherein the node is located within an air-gapped computing system that includes a plurality of nodes, and wherein there is no wired communication connection between any device within the air-gapped computing system and any device outside the air-gapped computing system. The method further includes a wireless transceiver located within the air-gapped computing system transmitting a service report in a short-range wireless communication signal that extends beyond the air-gapped computing system, wherein the service report identifies the service event detected by the node. Still further, the method includes a relay device located outside the air-gapped computing system receiving the short-range wireless communication signal that includes the service report, and the relay device forwarding the service report to a destination node located outside the air-gapped computing system.

Abstract: A chair base with a platform, at least one support, at least one void, and at least one bowl. The platform has a flat top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a plurality of sides bordering the top surface. Each side may extend downward past the bottom surface and inward toward a center of the platform. The support extends up from the top surface of the platform and is configured to support a seat of the chair above the platform. The void extends through the platform and the bowl is sized and shaped to sit within the void. The bowl has a lip configured to engage with a rim of the void and restrict the bowl from entirely passing through the platform. The bowl may be removable from the void. The platform may be mounted on at least three wheels to mobilize the chair base.

Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a net health visit demand of potential patients located in one or more geographic areas include one or more electronic databases that store electronic information associated with the potential patients, health care service providers, and general health visit recommendations for the potential patients. A computing device in communication with the database includes a control circuit configured to calculate an estimated total number of health care visits recommended for the potential patients located in a geographic area within a window of time, and to calculate an estimated total number of health care visits that the health care service providers located in the geographic area can accommodate within the window of time. Based on correlating these numbers, the control circuit generates an output indicating whether the health care visit capacity of health care service providers in the selected geographic area is suggested to be increased or reduced.

Abstract: An assembly includes a lamp housing defining an interior cavity and at least one light component positioned within the interior cavity. At least one first turbulation feature is associated with the lamp housing and at least one second turbulation feature is associated with the at least one light component. The at least one first turbulation feature and the at least one second turbulation feature cooperate with each other to increase turbulent air flow within the interior cavity.

Abstract: An optical film includes a plurality of first layers disposed on a plurality of polymeric second layers. Each of at least 30% of the first layers includes at least 30% by weight of an inorganic material. For a substantially normally incident light, a blue wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to about 480 nm, a green wavelength range extending from about 490 nm to about 560 nm, and a red wavelength range extending from about 590 nm to about 670 nm, the optical film and the plurality of second layers have respective average optical reflectances Rof(b) 10 and R2(b) in the blue wavelength range, Rof(g) and R2(g) in the green wavelength range, and Rof(r) and R2(r) in the red wavelength range, where 0?Rof(b)?R2(b)?25%; Rof(g)?R2(g)>30%; and each of Rof(r) and R2(r) is greater than about 60% and |Rof(r)?R2(r)| is less than about 20%.

Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising an articulatable end effector and an articulation control system is disclosed. The articulation control system comprises actuators that, when actuated, cause the end effector to articulate in predetermined directions. When the end effector is rotated downwardly, the articulation control system flips, or switches, the response to the inputs from the actuators.

Abstract: A rolling luggage bag includes a cover fixedly coupled to a base, the base including a first side opposite a second side and a bottom face extending there between, wherein the cover comprises a plurality of panels, arranged in a direction away from the base, wherein the plurality of panels defines an interior chamber, a first wheel and a second wheel coupled to the base, the first and second wheels configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and separated by a first distance along the axis of rotation, at least a portion of each of the first and second wheels projecting from the first side and from the bottom face, and a third wheel and a fourth wheel coupled to the bottom face, the third and fourth wheels configured to independently swivel about a respective swivel axis and separated by a second distance extending between the swivel axes. When the rolling luggage is in an upright position, the first, second, third, and fourth wheels all contact a surface the luggage bag stands on.

Abstract: A height adjustment mechanism for a chair with a housing and an adjustment lever. The housing is fixed to the base of the chair and is slidably coupled to a post supporting the chair seat. The height of the seat above the base of the chair is dependent on a position of the post with respect to the housing. The adjustment lever is positioned within the housing and has two plates joined by a spring configured to bias the two plates in opposite directions. A free end of the adjustment lever is movable between a locked position and an active position. When in the locked position, the height of the seat is fixed. When in the active position, the height of the seat is adjustable.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to vertical heterojunction bipolar transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a sub-collector region; a collector region above the sub-collector region; an intrinsic base above the collector region; an emitter above the intrinsic base region; and an extrinsic base on the intrinsic base and adjacent to the emitter, wherein the collector region includes an undercut profile comprising lower inwardly tapered sidewalls and upper inwardly tapered sidewalls which extend to a narrow section between the sub-collector region and the base region.

Abstract: An endodontic instrument of this disclosure has less torque strength but greater flexibility and enlarged chip space compared to the prior art. In embodiments. only two flutes are spiraled about the instrument's length L to form two non-landed cutting edges between D2 and D16, the cutting edges merging to form a land at about D1. The tip end is rounded. The helical angle ? increases from the handle end toward the tip end, a number of spirals per unit length being at least two times greater toward the tip end than toward the handle end, a cross-section of the length L consisting of two convex portions intersecting at each cutting edge or a wave-shape having one concave portion and one convex portion intersecting at each cutting edge, the cross-section occupying less total area than would a same size endodontic instrument having a triangular cross-section and providing greater chip space.

Abstract: An IC structure that includes a trench isolation (TI) in a substrate having three portions of different dielectric materials. The portions may also have different widths. The TI may include a lower portion including a first dielectric material and having a first width, a middle portion including the first dielectric material and an outer second dielectric material, and an upper portion including a third dielectric material and having a second width greater than the first width. The first, second and third dielectric materials are different.

Abstract: A display system includes a light source emitting blue light including blue wavelength, and UV light including UV wavelength. A first multilayer optical film (MOF) is disposed between a display panel and a second MOF. Light conversion films receive and convert emitted blue light to green and red lights. At incident angles of less than 10 degrees, the first MOF transmits greater than 50% of light for the blue wavelength and reflects greater than 60% for green and red peak wavelengths. The second MOF transmits greater than 50% for blue, green and red peak wavelengths, and reflects greater than about 60% for the UV wavelength. At oblique incident angles, the first MOF reflects greater than 50% for the blue, green and red peak wavelengths, and the second MOF transmits greater than 50% for the blue, green and red peak wavelengths, and transmits greater than 60% for the UV wavelength.