Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a base, a cover body pivotally mounted at the base, a pivot spring provided at a pivot connection member between the base and the cover body, and an attraction assembly including a first attraction member provided at the base and a second attraction member provided at the cover body. The first attraction member and the second attraction member are configured to attract each other to lock the cover body to the base.

Abstract: Automatic application of software patches to software associated with container images based upon image relationships in a dependency tree. The computing device determines whether software associated with a base container image requires software patches. The computing device accesses dependency trees maintaining image relationships between the base container image and dependent container images. The computing device determines based upon the accessed one or more dependency trees whether the base container image has dependent container images derived from the base container image. The computing device applies software patches to the software associated with the base container image. The computing device rebuilds the base container image with the applied software patches. The computing device then rebuilds the dependent container images dependent upon the rebuilt base container image.

Abstract: A silicon-based anode material, a preparation method thereof and a lithium ion battery are provided. The preparation method of the silicon-based anode material includes: passing a silicon substrate material through a vapor deposition gas to coat the surface of the silicon substrate material with a carbon deposition layer, the vapor deposition gas includes a first carbon source gas and a second carbon source gas, the volume percentage of the first carbon source gas and the second carbon source gas in the vapor deposition gas increases or decreases at different reaction stages for forming the carbon deposition layer. The side of the carbon deposited layer close to the silicon base material is more or less dense than the other side of the carbon deposited layer. The coating layer on the surface of the silicon-based anode material has a continuously changing junction, thereby greatly improving the cycling stability of the material.

Abstract: The invention provides an over-current protection system. The over-current protection system includes a sensing device, a comparator, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The sensing device is adapted to sense a current flowing to an electrical device. The comparator is adapted to compare a signal received from the sensing device and a reference signal to generate any one of a high signal and a low signal, wherein the output of the comparator is connected to a control device. The first transistor is connected to the output signal of the comparator to control the first transistor, wherein the first transistor is in a conductive state when the output signal of the comparator is a high signal. The second transistor is connected to and controlled by the first transistor, wherein the second transistor is in a conductive state when the first transistor is in the conductive state.

Abstract: A controller for an AC-DC converter including a rectifier circuit that converts AC input voltage into DC output voltage uses control logic to control the rectifier circuit according to two or more operating modes. Each operating mode determines a gain of the rectifier circuit. The controller selects an operating mode from the two or more operating modes based on at least one of an AC input voltage value and a required DC output voltage value. The AC-DC converter provides a wide range of DC output voltage with power factor correction. The controller may be used with AC-DC converter topologies such as boost converter, isolated boost converter, PWM converter, LLC resonant converter, and LCC resonant converter.

Abstract: A cyber-physical integrated restoration method and system for distribution systems based on emergency mobile communications are provided. After extreme natural disasters which cause serious damage to distribution systems, damages of distribution systems are evaluated through system feedback data. When ground communication base stations are unavailable due to the damages, the method can make full use of existing wireless emergency communication resources to provide emergency communication services, and quickly restore the power supply through distribution automation functions with supports of the backup battery of automatic terminal devices, so as to effectively improve the resilience of distribution systems.

Abstract: A system and method are described to efficiently allocate memory space with low latency overhead by allocating blocks of non-volatile memory on a storage device according to a tree data structure comprising a plurality of counter sets, each counter set including one or a plurality of counters indicating numbers of unallocated blocks of memory space within the non-volatile memory.

Abstract: Disclosed a crop yield prediction method and system based on low-altitude remote sensing information from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Obtaining a plurality of images taken by the UAV; stitching the plurality of images to obtain a stitched image; performing spectral calibration on the stitched image to obtain the reflectivity of each pixel in the stitched image; using a threshold segmentation method to segment the stitched image, to obtain a target area for crop yield prediction; using a Pearson correlation analysis method to analyze a correlation between the reflectivity of each band and the growth status and yield of the crop to obtain feature bands; constructing yield prediction factors based on the feature bands; and determining a predicted crop yield value of the target area for crop yield prediction based on the yield prediction factors and a crop planting area of the target area for crop yield prediction.

Abstract: Aerodynamic aquatic weed removal and decontamination devices and decontamination methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, the aerodynamic aquatic weed removal and decontamination device includes a boat body and a shore-based device for remotely controlling the boat body. The boat body includes a power unit, a weed removal and decontamination unit, a positioning system, an environment perception system, and a shipborne controller. The power unit includes an engine, a propeller connected to the engine, and a rudder servo motor configured to control a heading of the boat body. The weed removal and decontamination unit includes a mesh conveyor. The positioning system includes a positioner configured to obtain real-time location information and heading information of the boat body. The environment perception system includes a wind sensor and a visual sensor. The shipborne controller is configured to control a navigation state of the boat body.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for predicting fracture height during fracturing stimulation in multi-layer formation, comprising specific steps of: (1) acquiring basic parameters; (2) calculating a displacement discontinuity quantity of an artificial fracture; (3) calculating induced stress generated by the fracture; (4) calculating stress intensity factors at a fracture tip without considering a fracture tip plasticity; (5) calculating sizes of a plastic zone; (6) calculating stress intensity factors at the fracture tip considering the plastic zone; and (7) judging a relationship between the stress intensity factors and a fracture toughness. The present invention is suitable for multiple stratums, and the influences of parameters of tip plasticity, induced stress, crustal stress, and rock mechanics are considered so that a calculation result is more accurate and calculation efficiency is higher.

Abstract: Controllers and methods for controlling a resonant power converter output voltage include operating the power converter according to a control period comprising an on cycle operation mode for a duration T_on that produces a first voltage Vo1 and an off cycle operation mode for a duration T_off that produces a second voltage Vo2. Vo1 is produced using a first switching frequency for a first selected number of switching cycles corresponding to the on time T_on. The converter output voltage or the converter input and output voltages may be sensed and used to determine the switching frequency during the on cycle operation mode and the duration of the off cycle operation mode. The final output voltage of the power converter is regulated to a selected value based on a ration of (T_on):(T_on+T_off). The controllers and methods may be used with power converters in power delivery devices to accept wide input voltage ranges compatible with devices such as cell phones, tablet computers, and notebook computers.

Abstract: A system and method for high-throughput testing and module integration of rotationally variant optical lens systems is provided. In some examples, the system may be a metrology system that includes a light source to generate optical illumination. The metrology system may also include a null element. The null element may generate, using the optical illumination from the light source, a prescribed wavefront corresponding to a unit under test (UUT). In addition, the metrology system may further include a null element fixture to position the null element with respect to the unit under test (UUT).

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods accessing a storage device of a host machine. The method can include: receiving, via a first guest flash translation layer (FTL) instance, a first request for accessing the storage device from a first virtual machine running on a host machine, wherein the first request comprises a first physical address of the storage device; transmitting, via the first FTL instance, the first request to a host FTL driver; converting, via the host FTL driver, the first request into a first hardware command; transmitting, via the host FTL driver, the first hardware command to the storage device; and executing, via the solid state drive, the first hardware command.

Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area includes a structured light generator, an imaging device, and a controller. The structured light generator illuminates the local area with a structured light pattern. The structured light generator includes a programmable diffractive optical element (PDOE) that generates diffracted scanning beams using optical beams. The PDOE functions as a dynamic diffraction grating that dynamically adjusts diffraction of the optical beams to generate the diffracted scanning beams of different patterns. The diffracted scanning beams are projected as the structured light pattern into the local area, wherein the structured light pattern is dynamically adjustable based on the PDOE. The imaging device captures image(s) of at least a portion of the structured light pattern reflected from object(s) in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the object(s) based on the captured image(s).

Abstract: A surface cleaning device includes a nozzle and an odor dial assembly. The nozzle includes a nozzle housing and a dirty air passageway. The odor dial assembly include a fragrance member and a dial body configured to be removably coupled to the nozzle housing. The dial body at least partially defines a fragrance cavity configured to at least partially receive the fragrance member and a fragrance passageway extending therethrough. The odor dial assembly is configured to transition between a plurality of user-selectable positions to adjust an amount of fragrance particles released by the fragrance member into the dirty air passageway.

Abstract: A surface cleaning device includes a nozzle and an odor dial assembly. The nozzle includes a nozzle housing and a dirty air passageway. The odor dial assembly include a fragrance member and a dial body configured to be removably coupled to the nozzle housing. The dial body at least partially defines a fragrance cavity configured to at least partially receive the fragrance member and a fragrance passageway extending therethrough. The odor dial assembly is configured to transition between a plurality of user-selectable positions to adjust an amount of fragrance particles released by the fragrance member into the dirty air passageway.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a network key processing system, including user equipment, a security anchor network element, and an access and mobility management network element, where the security anchor network element is configured to: obtain a first key parameter from a slice selection network element, where the first key parameter includes identifier information of N network slices; generate N slice-dedicated keys based on the first key parameter; and send the N slice-dedicated keys to the corresponding N network slices respectively; the access and mobility management network element is configured to: obtain the first key parameter, and send the first key parameter to the user equipment; and the user equipment is configured to: generate the N slice-dedicated keys for the N network slices based on the first key parameter, and access the N network slices based on the generated N slice-dedicated keys.

Abstract: According to examples, a system for designing optical components to provide passive athermalization and aberration correction is described. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to select one or more optical elements to be included in the optical component based on the received design specifications, select one or more optical element configurations based on the selected one or more optical elements and implement an optimization function to optimize the selected one or more optical element configurations. The processor, when executing the instructions, may then determine if the one or more optical element configurations meet one or more initial specifications, enable one or more adjustment(s) to the one or more optical element configurations and determine if an optical element configuration meet one or more additional specifications.