Abstract: Described herein are swappable battery modules comprising immersion-thermally controlled prismatic battery cells and methods of operating thereof. A method comprises positioning a swappable battery module on a battery dock comprising dock fluidic ports and sliding the swappable battery module to the dock fluidic ports until these dock's ports are fluidically coupled with the module's fluidic ports. Specifically, the dock comprises an enclosure and a module support rail slidably coupling the swappable battery module and the enclosure. The module support rail comprises a rail base, a first slider, a second slider, and a lever-based unit, interconnecting the rail base and both sliders. The rail base is fixed to the enclosure, while the second slider is detachably coupled to the module. The two sliders move at different speeds or at the same speed relative to the dock base depending on the proximity of the first end plate to the dock base.

Abstract: A hybrid module is configured for arrangement in a torque path upstream from a transmission and downstream from an internal combustion engine. The hybrid module includes a hybrid drive unit including an electric motor including a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor carrier carrying magnets. The hybrid module also includes a torque converter including a clutch assembly formed by a front cover, a friction material and a piston. The piston is operable to selectively force the friction material into the front cover. The hybrid module also includes a connector non-rotatably fixing the rotor to the torque converter. The connector is formed as a single piece with the front cover and being received in the rotor carrier such that no portion of the connector protrudes from the front cover toward the piston.

Abstract: An impact power tool includes a housing, a motor, a controller, an impact mechanism configured to be driven by the motor, and an output spindle configured to receive rotational impacts from the impact mechanism to rotate the output spindle. The controller is configured to detect a first impact of the rotational impacts or to detect when the motor speed drops below a speed threshold value. The controller is configured to control the motor to have a first non-zero target rotational speed using closed loop control for a predetermined time period after the first impact is detected or when the motor speed dropping below the speed threshold value is detected. The controller is configured to control the motor to have a second non-zero target rotational speed using the closed loop control after the predetermined time period. The first non-zero target rotational speed is less than the second non-zero target rotational speed.

Abstract: A fluid sample collection unit may include a pod configured to receive a plurality of assay pads and a metering stack. The metering stack defines a channel extending longitudinally between an inlet end and dispensing portions. In some instances, the dispensing portions are movable relative to the assay pads, but a support feature within the pod vertically spaces apart the dispensing portions from the assay pads when less than a threshold vertical pressure is applied. In one instance, the pod defines a collection volume, a dispensing volume, and a passage portion, the passage portion connecting the collection and dispensing volumes. The metering stack is at least partially received within the pod, with the inlet end being positioned at the collection volume, the dispensing portions positioned within the dispensing volume above the assay pads, and an air gap being formed within the passage portion around the metering stack.

Abstract: A method for chemical mechanical polishing includes bringing a substrate into contact with a polishing pad, causing relative motion between the substrate and polishing pad, dispensing a polishing liquid onto the polishing pad, holding the substrate in a lateral position with a retaining ring secured to a carrier head, and rotating the carrier head about an axis of rotation. The retaining ring has a plurality of channels extending from an inner diameter surface of the retaining ring to an outer diameter surface of the retaining ring such that rotation cause the polishing liquid to be preferentially expelled from a region below an outer edge of the substrate through the plurality of channels.

Abstract: In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a product identification and tracking interface system includes an interface unit. The interface unit includes an input/output configured and adapted to be coupled to at least one of a tracking system or an identification system, a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor disposed in communication with said memory. The processor upon execution of the instructions is configured to receive a trigger command from a tracking system, send a read command to an identification system, receive a respective identifier from the identification system, package the respective identifier into a packaged identifier in a format readable by the tracking system, and send the packaged identifier to the tracking system.

Abstract: One embodiment is a control system for a vehicle comprising a plurality of wheels, the control system comprising a master control unit (MCU); a plurality of traction systems corresponding to the wheels; and a plurality of rolling radius offset values stored in a memory device of the MCU and each corresponding to one of the wheels. The MCU determines for each wheel a command speed based on the rolling radius offset value for the wheel in combination with a tire diameter of the wheel, a steered angle of the vehicle, a traction pedal command, and vehicle geometry information, and provides the determined command speed for the wheel to the corresponding traction system, which controls a speed of the wheel based on the determined command speed received from the MCU.

Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes an instrument cart having a setup arm assembly and a control drive assembly coupled to the setup arm assembly. The control drive assembly includes a chassis assembly, a first drive unit and a second drive unit mounted to the chassis assembly, and a leadscrew assembly. Each drive unit is positioned to translate relative to the chassis assembly between a retracted position and an advanced position. The first drive unit couples to a first surgical instrument and the second drive unit couples to a second surgical instrument. The leadscrew assembly is mounted to the chassis assembly and includes a first leadscrew operably associated with the first drive unit and a second leadscrew operably associated with the second drive unit. The first leadscrew rotates to cause the first drive unit to translate relative to the chassis assembly. The second leadscrew rotates to cause the second drive unit to translate relative to the chassis assembly.

Abstract: A transcranial implant is used to deliver photodynamic therapy. The transcranial implant may include a frame to be coupled to a skull of a patient, a light source coupled to the frame, and a controller coupled to the frame and in communication with the light source. The controller controls the light source to deliver light to a resection margin-containing region within the patient.

Abstract: According to the invention there is a method of applying a catalyst layer to a surface, the method comprising the steps of: providing a donor substrate having opposing first and second surfaces and providing a catalyst ink disposed as a layer on the second surface, wherein the catalyst ink comprises a catalyst and a solvent; providing an acceptor substrate, wherein the second surface of the donor substrate faces towards the acceptor substrate; and irradiating the catalyst ink with laser radiation at a wavelength which is absorbed by the catalyst ink so as to transfer the catalyst ink from the donor substrate to the acceptor substrate.

Abstract: Described are techniques for electrical grid origination determination using Power Line Disturbance (PLD) characteristics. The techniques include detecting a first PLD in a first voltage feed of a first power unit at a first time. The techniques further include comparing the first PLD to other PLDs aggregated from multiple power units. The techniques further include determining that the first voltage feed of the first power unit originates from a same source as a second power unit based on a similarity between the first PLD and a second PLD of the second power unit satisfying a similarity threshold and occurring within a same timeframe proximate to the first time. The techniques further include recording that the first power unit and the second power unit receive power from a same source.

Abstract: A swivel mount assembly for securing a device to a support element is presented. The assembly includes arm, ball portions, and collar. The arm has an exterior surface. Each ball portion includes a center portion with outer and inner surfaces bounded by sides disposed between ends and a flange portion extending outwardly from each side. The collar includes faces separately disposed within an aperture with a socket along each face. Each socket includes a surface extending into the collar at the face. The arm is disposed between the ball portions. The inner surface of each ball portion engages the arm. The outer surface of each ball portion engages one socket. The arm is swivelable with respect to the collar. The flange portions of one ball portion are moveable with respect to the flange portions of other ball portion. The flange portions limit rotation of the ball portion within the socket.

Abstract: A representative marksmanship training device includes: a support frame having an outer periphery and an aperture, the aperture at least partially defining a void; a first sub-target, spaced from the aperture, disposed within the void and supported by the support frame; and a first plurality of connectors, each of the first plurality of connectors spanning the void between the support frame and the first sub-target; wherein the first plurality of connectors is configured to separate the first sub-target from the support frame based on discontinuity of each of the first plurality of connectors between the support frame and the first sub-target.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including a debris collector having a base, a longitudinal axis extending perpendicular to the base, and a plurality of housing segments coupled to the base. A lid is coupled to the debris collector and a suction source is configured to generate an airflow to draw fluid and debris into the debris collector. The vacuum cleaner further includes an exhaust passageway downstream from the suction source for discharging the airflow from the debris collector. The debris collector is moveable between a collapsed position and an extended position along a longitudinal axis, thereby changing a distance between the base and the lid. At least one of the plurality of housing segments nest within a remainder of the plurality of housing segments when the debris collector is in the collapsed position.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of flexible antennas, such as flexible planar inverted “F” antenna (PIFAs), inverted flexible PIFAs, flexible elevated notch antennas, flexible freestanding PIFAs, antenna systems including the same, etc. In exemplary embodiments, an inverted flexible PIFA includes a bottom-side radiating element and is configured for an inverted mount to a mounting surface whereby a radiation pattern of the bottom-side radiating element is directed outwardly away from the mounting surface.

Abstract: Various aspects of the techniques are directed to a turbine engine comprising a core section, a fan, and an electrical generator. The core section comprises at least one compressor and at least one turbine that both rotate about a longitudinal axis of the turbine engine, wherein the at least one turbine drives at least one spool, and an oil sump positioned to collect oil used to lubricate rotational elements for one or more of the at least one compressor and the at least one turbine. The fan rotated by the at least one spool. The electrical generator integrated into the core section and positioned outside of the oil sump, wherein the electrical generator comprises a rotor rotated via the at least one spool about the longitudinal axis, and a stator configured to electromagnetically interact with the rotor to generate power.

Abstract: Disclosed and described herein is a cartridge assembly with a fluidic device and harness and method of use.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to optimize resources of a medical device system, including to analyze physiologic information of a patient occurring over specific time periods relative to a prior heart failure event, to adjust, in response to a detected or received trigger event, a baseline value for the patient from a long-term baseline value to one of a shorter-term baseline value or a static value indicative of a baseline value at a prior time relative to the detected or received trigger event, to determine a readmission score for the patient based on the analyzed physiologic information, and to provide a control signal to control a mode or operation of the medical device system based on the readmission score to optimize resources of the medical device system.

Abstract: Methods and systems for using a software gateway to improve enterprise user privacy for network communication data are described. A server executing the software gateway may receive a request for network communication data via several described pathways, including a software client on the client device, a proxy auto-configuration module, and a reverse proxy server. The software gateway may receive the network communication data, which is then forwarded to a proxy server, where the proxy server executes software modules included within the network communication data to generate expanded network data. The software gateway server may then filter the expanded network data by applying a set of content identification rules. Each content identification rule may specify data that is not passed to the client device. Only the portion of the executed network data allowed by the set of content identification rules may then be transmitted back to the software client.

Abstract: A wood or engineered wood structural panel, such as, but not limited to, OSB (“oriented strand board”) or plywood, that is both fire-resistant and water resistant. The panel is factory-coated with a product that provides fire resistance. The treatment gives it a Fire-Resistant (FR) performance (for use in a one- or two-hour rated assembly). The panel also is overlaid or coated in a factory setting with a weather/water resistive barrier (WRB). The structural panel thus combines a fire-resistant structural sheathing and WRB product in one integrated panel produced at a factory prior for installation at a job site.