Abstract: The golf aid disclosed herein includes a shell of rigid construction that engages the portion of the arm including distal posterior portions of a forearm, posterior portions of a wrist, and a back of a hand proximal to knuckles while leaving a palm and a thumb exposed. The shell is configured to control a wrist throughout a golf stroke by maintaining the wrist in a neutral position to prevent flexion and extension of the wrist during a golf stoke. Related methods of use of the golf aid may include wrapping a material about a portion of an arm and allowing the material wrapped about the portion of the arm to transform into the rigid state while gripping a golf club and maintaining the distal portions of the forearm, the wrist, the hand, and the golf club in alignment. The methods may include the step of maintaining the wrist in a neutral position thereby preventing flexion and extension of the wrist by engaging the shell with the arm while performing a golf stroke.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for constructing a flange on a pipe using an additive manufacturing process, such as directed energy deposition, powder bed fusion, friction-stir, or diode laser cladding. The flange can be constructed on a pipe comprising an oxide dispersion strengthen or nickel-based alloys, in particular a precipitation strengthened nickel-based alloy, such that the pipe maintains its inherent mechanical and metallurgical properties, including hardness, tensile strength, yield strength, fracture toughness, creep strength, fatigue, which would otherwise be reduced based upon typical welding of a flange to the end of the pipe. The flange can be constructed around the exterior of a pipe at the end of the pipe to allow use of the flange in connecting the pipe via bolting to other piping components, such as another pipe with a corresponding flange, a valve flange, a pump flange, or any other type of flange.

Abstract: A transmission line installation system includes a transmission line conveying apparatus that operates to install a transmission line within a conduit by advancing the transmission line through the conduit. The transmission line conveying apparatus includes a plurality of components. The components include local controllers. Communication with the local controllers of the components synchronizes operation of the components during the installation of a transmission line.

Abstract: Surgical systems and methods involving a reamer tool and a surgical robotic arm. The reamer tool has a shaft, a tool engagement surface coupled to the shaft, and a reamer head attached to the shaft. The surgical robotic arm supports a guide that can receive the reamer tool. The guide has a pair of arms, each arm extending to an arm end and the arm ends being spaced apart from one another to provide an opening between the arm ends. A channel is formed between the arms. The guide enables a portion of the shaft to move through the opening between the arm ends such that the shaft portion can enter and exit the channel. The arms define a guide engagement surface that is arc-shaped and that enables contact with the tool engagement surface to facilitate alignment of the reamer tool and the guide.

Abstract: A heated seat for an aircraft includes a heating element disposed on a cushioning material and overlayed by an upholstery. The heating element includes a flexible base and a plurality of thin and flexible heating coils that conform to the seat shape such that no cushioning material is applied between the heating element and the upholstery. By providing direct contact between the heating element and the upholstery, smaller heating elements requiring less electrical power may be used to sufficiently heat the seat compared with traditional heating elements.

Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.

Abstract: A modular omni-directional sensor array (MOSA) enclosure is provided for visual surveillance. The MOSA enclosure is disposable on an elevated position and includes a lower equipment module and an upper optical module. The equipment module contains electrical power and control electronics and is disposed on the elevated position from underneath. The optical module contains a plurality of cameras viewing radially outward. The optical module is disposed onto the equipment module from above.

Abstract: A fence bracket for installing a horizontal fence, and a method of using the same that decreases the expense and time of installing two different types of horizontal fencing configurations. The fence bracket directly connects to a post to define a fence member slot oriented in a direction shared by a surface of the post to which the fence bracket is directly connected.

Abstract: A seat release system and device, the system including an interface assembly that provides actuation signaling, an actuation device that communicatively provides mechanical motion in response to the actuation signaling, a cable connected to the actuation device, and a recline release cylinder having a gas release button and a release lever at a first end, and having a cylinder piston arm in the recline release cylinder at a second end. The release lever is attached to a second end of the cable where the cable moves the release lever in response to the mechanical motion of the actuation device. The gas release button vents the recline release cylinder to atmosphere in response to being depressed as a result of the cable moving the release lever. The cylinder piston arm may move in the recline release cylinder in response to the gas release button being depressed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for target recognition with complex range profile. The SAR system comprising a memory, a recurrent neural network (RNN), a multi-layer linear network in signal communication the RNN, and a machine-readable medium on the memory. The machine-readable medium is configured to store instructions that, when executed by the RNN, cause the SAR system to perform various operations. The various operation comprise: receiving raw SAR data associated with observed views of a scene, wherein the raw SAR data comprises information captured via the SAR system; radio frequency (RF) preprocessing the received raw SAR data to produce a processed raw SAR data; converting the processed raw SAR data to a complex SAR range profile data; processing the complex SAR range profile data with the RNN having RNN states; and mapping the RNN states to a target class with the multi-layer linear network.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is one or more subtilisin variant useful for cleaning applications and in methods of cleaning. One embodiment is directed to one or more subtilisin variant, including one or more Bacillus sp. subtilisin polypeptide variant, and one or more cleaning composition comprising one or more such variant.

Abstract: Load-bearing apparatus/systems for location in the vicinity of energized power lines are provided. The apparatus includes a base member. The base member has an upper layer and a backing surface layer. An uppermost surface of the upper layer is adapted to support on it at least power line workers and/or related stringing equipment. At least the uppermost surface of the upper layer is adapted to be electrically conductive. Methods for forming the apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: A pedicle screw tulip head extender. The extender can include an upper body portion joined to a lower body portion. The upper body portion can have two opposing arms extending upwardly from a curved lower surface to define a substantially U-shaped interior channel having a first channel axis, the curved lower surface defining an access opening extending through the upper body portion in a direction generally perpendicular to the first channel axis. The lower body portion can extend downwardly as a protrusion from the upper body portion and can be joined to the upper body portion and can have first and second sides, the first and second sides being substantially planar and parallel and separated by an interior portion, the first and second sides defining a protrusion height and a protrusion width. A screw can be disposed in the interior portion and have external threads defining a thread diameter greater than the protrusion width.

Abstract: A device and method for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside a housing. The consumable can be in the form of a compressed powder. A first end of the housing can be capped with an end cap and a second end of the housing can have a mouthpiece. The housing containing the consumable and the susceptor can be placed inside a case with an inductive heating element configured to heat the susceptor. Heating the susceptor results in the consumable being released as an aerosol for inhalation.

Abstract: A device for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside an encasement having a plurality of holes with an induction heating element wrapped around the consumable-containing package to heat the susceptor using a magnetic field generated by the induction heating element. Combustion of the consumable-containing package can be minimized by limiting air inside the consumable-containing package by coating the encasement material that melts at high temperatures. The coating may also include a flavoring. Efficiency of the device can be enhanced with a self-resonant oscillator, moving coils, multi-prong susceptors, sensors, heat dissipation, air flow control, alignment mechanisms, and the like.

Abstract: A self-storage facility with a first set of load bearing modular units (LBMUs) aligned along a same first horizontal plane. The first set has a plurality of rows of LBMUs and each LBMU in each row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs is positioned in a side-to-side relationship with another LBMU in a corresponding row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs. Furth, each LBMU in each row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs is positioned in at least one end-to-end relationship with another LBMU in an adjacent row of a plurality of rows of LBMUs. The facility also includes a first passageway through both sidewalls and transverse to a major axis of each LBMU in a majority of the LBMUs in a first row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs, and a second passageway through both sidewalls and transverse to a major axis of each LBMU in a majority of the LBMUs in a second row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a spacecraft includes an electronics housing having a sun-facing side. The spacecraft further includes a peel-and-stick thermal control material coupled to the sun-facing side of the electronics housing. The peel-and-stick thermal control material includes a non-metallic optical interface coating, a carrier film, and an adhesive.

Abstract: A pipe may include an inner thermoplastic pipe, an outer layer of a fiber reinforced laminate, and a bond material. The bond material may be disposed between the inner thermoplastic pipe and the outer layer of fiber reinforced laminate. The bond material may be partially embedded within the inner thermoplastic pipe. At least one of the inner thermoplastic pipe or the bond material may include an induction heating compatible material (IHCM).

Abstract: The invention is a system that prevents the opening of a door into a room or other area by an intruder. The system includes an aperture positioned in flooring, the aperture located adjacent to a first side edge and bottom edge of a closed door. The system also includes a block comprising an internal passageway with about the same dimensions as the aperture. The system further includes an elongated pin comprising a first end and a second end, wherein the pin is configured to pass through the block internal passageway and into the aperture. The block is held in position over the aperture when the pin passes through the block internal passageway and into the aperture. When the block is held in position, the closed door is prevented from opening.