Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for multi-use wireless charging. An example multi-use wireless charging apparatus may comprise: (1) a body configured to be used for one or more purposes other than wireless charging; and (2) one or more coil repeater assemblies attached to the body. The one or more coil repeater assemblies may be configured to increase inductive flux linkage between an active power supply located proximate the body and receiving inductive coils of one or more devices placed proximate the body.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods provide for predicting a remaining useful life of apparatus utilizing quantum sensors. A layer of functionalized quantum silicon carbide material of a quantum sensor embedded within a device is excited via a light source of the quantum sensor, where the layer of functionalized quantum silicon carbide material has color centers. The excitation of the layer of functionalized quantum silicon carbide material is sensed via a photodetector of the quantum sensor. One or more of a magnetic field, a temperature, or a strain field effect of the device is measured based on the sensed excitation of the layer of functionalized quantum silicon carbide material. A remaining useful life of the device is predicted based on one or more of the measured magnetic field, the measured temperature, or the measured strain field effect.

Abstract: A system for use with a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes: a quantum material magnetometer configured to measure a magnetic field in an area and to output an area signal based on the magnetic field in the area; and an augmented positioning system configured output a parking instruction signal based on the area signal.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is drawn to a sensor including: a light source configured to generate input light having an input wavelength ?i; an optical waveguide; an array of a plurality of quantum material chiplets; and an imaging array, wherein the optical waveguide is configured to transmit the input light to the array of the plurality of quantum material chiplets, wherein each quantum material chiplet is configured to absorb a portion of the input light from the optical waveguide and to emit a respective emission light having a respective emission wavelength ?re in response to the absorption of the portion of the input light and based on a respective parameter value at each quantum material chiplet, and wherein the imaging array is configured to detect each respective emission light and output a detection signal based on the respective parameter value at each quantum material chiplet.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrated power electronics (IPEs) embedded printed circuit board (PCB) assembly may include providing a dielectric panel having a first plurality of openings configured to receive power devices and a second plurality of openings configured to receive thermal slugs. The method may include inserting power devices into the first plurality of openings and thermal slugs into the second plurality of openings. The method may include securing a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) structure to the dielectric panel having the inserted power devices and thermal slugs. The method may include securing a cold plate panel to the dielectric panel opposite the multi-later PCB structure to form an integrated power electronics fabrication panel.

Abstract: An immersion cooling assembly for controlling the temperature of electronic devices in a vehicle includes a tank and a liquid coolant disposed in the tank. The immersion cooling assembly includes a first electronic device disposed in the tank and at least partially submerged in the liquid coolant. The immersion cooling assembly includes a second electronic device disposed in the tank and at least partially submerged in the liquid coolant, the second electronic device spaced from first electronic device along a lateral direction. The immersion cooling assembly includes a perforated baffle disposed in the tank between the first electronic device and the second electronic device along the lateral direction and at least partially submerged in the liquid coolant.

Abstract: Embodiments herein are direct to a method for fabricating a substrate with graphite embedded for customized heat spreading that includes bonding a plurality of graphite members having a planar orientation into a single-layer plate arrangement, the plurality of graphite members are arranged such that one of the plurality of graphite members has a high thermal conductivity in a lateral direction and a low thermal conductivity in a longitudinal direction and at least two of the plurality of graphite members each have a high thermal conductivity in the longitudinal direction and a low thermal conductivity in the lateral direction, bonding the single layer plate arrangement into a recess, and positioning a cover member in a closed state to enclose the single layer plate arrangement.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for displaying an image of an obstructed blind spot on a pillar of a vehicle. The system includes an internal camera and an external camera. The system also includes a projector configured to beam light in the form of an image onto the pillar, and an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to determine, from the internal camera, the position of a head or an eye of a driver, cause adjustment of the external camera to capture images of an area of a blind spot of the driver, receive, from the external camera, images depicting the area of the blind spot, apply a transformation of the plurality of images to generate a transformed image of the blind spot, and control the projector to emit light in the form of the transformed image towards the pillar to display the transformed image onto the pillar.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a self-adaptive thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a first body, a second body, and a third body. The second body has a first layer and a second layer formed from a Weyl semimetal and a third layer sandwiched between the first layer and the second layer. The third layer is formed from a vanadium dioxide film. The second body is spaced apart from the first body. The third body is spaced apart from the second body. The second body is a modulator configured to transition between a metallic phase and an insulating phase dependent on a temperature to regulate a heat from the first body to the third body through the second body in a self-adaptive manner dependent on the temperature.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for cooling electronic devices. The system includes a capillary cooler assembly comprising a housing, a plurality of feeding tubes within the housing, a wick within the housing, and one or more vapor outlets, a fluid feed line fluidly coupled to the plurality of feeding tubes, a fluid bypass line fluidly coupled to the fluid feed line, a fluid bypass valve fluidly coupled to the fluid feed line and the fluid bypass line, wherein the fluid bypass valve is selectively operable between at least two positions that control a flow of cooling fluid through the fluid bypass line, a vapor line fluidly coupled to the one or more vapor outlets, a condenser fluidly coupled to the fluid bypass line, the vapor line, and the fluid feed line, and a pump fluidly coupled to the condenser and the fluid feed line.

Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a cooler assembly. The cooler assembly includes a cold plate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, a base wick fluidly coupled to the first surface, a heat-generating device, and a fluid wicking structure. The heat-generating device coupled to the second surface of the cold plate. The fluid wicking structure includes a plurality of mesh layers. Each one of the plurality of mesh layers are spaced apart from one another. Each of the plurality of mesh layers have a portion in fluid communication with the base wick. The manifold, the plurality of mesh layers and the base wick are configured to direct a liquid coolant to the first surface of the cold plate in an equidistant wicking delivery path to the cold plate.

Abstract: A system and method for phase-change cooling and thermal management includes electrically coupling an evaporation apparatus to an external circuit, wherein the evaporation apparatus includes a top planar layer including a top electrode, a bottom planar layer including a bottom electrode, and an evaporation layer between the top planar layer and the bottom planar layer, thermally coupling the evaporation apparatus to a heat source, and monitoring, using the external circuit, an operation status of the evaporation apparatus. The evaporation layer includes a carbon structure. The carbon structure is electrically coupled to the top electrode and the bottom electrode. Water is vaporized at a surface of the carbon structure.

Abstract: A vehicle biometric system includes a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, the non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium including one or more instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain benchmark biometric data from a first data source; obtain in-vehicle biometric data from a second data source; transmit the benchmark biometric data from the first data source and the in-vehicle biometric data from the second source to a neural network; update a model based on training data by processing the benchmark biometric data and the in-vehicle biometric data; transmit the updated model; ascertain at least one of an occupant condition and an emotional state of an occupant based on the updated model; and control one or more vehicle action events based on ascertaining at least one of the occupant condition and the emotional state of the occupant.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and composite patch includes attaching at least a portion of 2D-material flakes to at least a portion of ferromagnetic materials to form heterostructures. The heterostructures may be dispersed in a solvent at a first temperature. The solvent and the heterostructures may be integrated into a polymer matrix composite patch. At a second temperature below Tc, at least the portion of the 2D-material flakes may be adjusted within the composite patch. A polymer matrix of the polymer matrix composite patch may be cured to fix the alignment of at least the portion of the 2D-material flakes in the composite patch at a third temperature below Tc, wherein the composite patch, once cured, operates at fourth temperatures above Tc.

Abstract: Adaptive display technology includes issuing one or more commands to perform a first adjustment to an output of a display to enhance visibility for a viewer of the display based on a determination that the viewer is wearing sunglasses, where the first adjustment includes adjusting one or more of a polarization of the display output, or a color of the display output based on a color of lenses in the sunglasses or a selection by the viewer, determining, after the first adjustment is performed, a second adjustment to the output of the display to further enhance visibility for the viewer, wherein the second adjustment includes adjusting one or more of a brightness of the display output or a contrast of the display output, and issuing one or more commands to perform the second adjustment to the output of the display based on viewer feedback in relation to the second adjustment.

Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a cooler assembly. The cooler assembly includes a base plate, a macro-channel plate, and an insert plate. The base plate has a first surface opposite second surface. The macro-channel plate has a corrugated portion defined by a plurality of alternating ridges and valleys extending in a first direction. Each of the plurality of alternating ridges have an elongated slot fluidly coupling the macro-channel plate to the base plate. The insert plate has an inner surface and opposite outer surface. The inner surface abutting the plurality of alternating ridges. The insert plate has a plurality of alternating raised channel portions and recesses. Each of the plurality of recesses has an elongated passage fluidly coupling the insert plate to the macro-channel plate. Each of the plurality of alternating raised channel portions and recesses extending in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for cooling electronic devices. The system comprises a pump, a distribution manifold fluidly coupled to the pump, one or more capillary coolers fluidly coupled to the distribution manifold, one or more electronic devices coupled to the one or more capillary coolers, a vapor line fluidly coupled to the one or more capillary coolers, and a condenser comprising an inlet and an outlet, wherein the inlet is fluidly coupled to the vapor line and the outlet is fluidly coupled to the pump.

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for an electrical coil, for wireless charging. For example, a mobile device case of the presently disclosed technology may comprise a coil repeater assembly attached to an interior surface of a case body of the mobile device case such that, when the mobile device case is attached to a mobile device, an inductive coil of the coil repeater assembly is located proximate to a wireless charging coil in the mobile device. The coil repeater assembly may comprise: (1) the inductive coil comprising turns of a trace bundle; and (2) the trace bundle comprising traces formed from trace segments electrically interconnected by interlayer connectors, a respective trace comprising electrically interconnected trace segments across multiple layers, wherein density of the traces varies across a length of the inductive coil.

Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a cooler assembly. The cooler assembly includes a cold plate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, a base wick fluidly coupled to the first surface, a heat-generating device, and a fluid wicking structure. The heat-generating device coupled to the second surface of the cold plate. The fluid wicking structure includes a plurality of mesh layers. Each one of the plurality of mesh layers are spaced apart from one another. Each of the plurality of mesh layers have a portion in fluid communication with the base wick. The manifold, the plurality of mesh layers and the base wick are configured to direct a liquid coolant to the first surface of the cold plate in an equidistant wicking delivery path to the cold plate.

Abstract: A fuel cell that includes an air fuel cell bipolar plate and a hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plate respectively having a Turing-pattern microstructure configuration. The spatial arrangement of the air fuel cell bipolar plate and the hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plate is such that the air layer of the air fuel cell bipolar plate and the hydrogen layer of the hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plate are opposed to each other to define a microstructure configuration for a coolant layer.