Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure provide a recording medium for heat-assisted-magnetic-recording (HAMR). The recording medium may include a substrate. The recording medium may further include a recording layer. The recording medium may also include a thermal control layer between the recording layer and the substrate. The thermal control layer may have a thermal conductivity that increases with increasing temperature.

Abstract: A polymer composite comprising quantum dots; said polymer composite comprising: (a) quantum dots; (b) polymerized units of a first compound having at least one readily polymerizable vinyl group, a molecular weight from 300 to 20,000 and at least one continuous acyclic hydrocarbyl chain of at least five carbon atoms; and (c) polymerized units of a second compound having at least one readily polymerizable vinyl group and a molecular weight from 100 to 750; wherein a readily polymerizable vinyl group is part of a (meth)acrylate ester group or is attached directly to an aromatic ring, and the molecular weight of the first compound minus the molecular weight of the second compound is at least 100.

Abstract: Carbonate samples are received from a wellbore formed in a geologic formation. An oxygen isotope ratio and carbon isotope ratio present within each of the carbonate samples are determined. A mineral composition of each of the carbonate samples is determined. A plot showing the determined oxygen isotope ratios versus a depth from where within the wellbore each of the carbonate samples was obtained is created. One or more negative oxygen isotope shifts are identified based on the plot. Natural carbonate cement levels within one or more of the plurality of carbonate samples that correspond to the one or more negative oxygen isotope shifts identified in the plot are determined. One or more production sweet spots are determined based on the identified negative oxygen isotope shifts and the determined natural carbonate cement levels.

Abstract: A core sample with carbonate veins is obtained from a well formed in the hydrocarbon reservoir. Formation water samples are obtained from the well. Mineralogy of carbonate in the carbonate veins is analyzed. An oxygen isotope ratio between oxygen isotopes in the formation water and an oxygen isotope ratio between oxygen isotopes in the carbonates are determined. A formation paleo-temperature value is determined based on the determined oxygen isotope ratio using a model that relates the formation paleo-temperature value and the oxygen isotope ratio.

Abstract: A flexible driver, a robot joint, a robot and an exoskeleton robot, the transmission mechanism including an active rotating member, a driven rotating member and a rope, which form a rope drive relationship; wherein, the rope is tightly wound around rotating surfaces of the active rotating member and the driven rotating member, and a rotational central axis of the active rotating member is perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the driven rotating member. An output end of the driving mechanism is connected to the active rotating member, to drive rotation of the active rotating member. The output mechanism includes a flexible driving part, and an output part which is used for connecting to an external actuator. The driven rotating member drives rotation of the output part through the flexible driving part. The flexible driver drives flexibly the actuator through a compact structure as well as reliable and high-efficient transmission.

Abstract: An assembly for a robot includes a servo comprising an output gear, a servo housing connected to the servo, a rotary support connected to the servo and the servo housing, the rotary support being configured to rotate as driven by the servo; and a stopper assembly arranged at the servo housing and the rotary support. The stopper assembly is used to limit the rotary support to be rotatable in a predetermined range.

Abstract: A winding structure of a joint of a robot includes a first servo, a second servo connected to the first servo, the second servo being rotatable with respect to the first servo, a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) configured to connect the first servo to the second servo; and a winding assembly connected to the first servo. The winding assembly is used to wind the FPCB thereon.

Abstract: A driving assembly for a joint of a robot includes a first driving source having a first output shaft; a second driving source; and a gear set including a first gear and second gear that are engaged with each other. The first gear is arranged around the first output shaft. An ankle assembly and a robot having the driving assembly are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.

Abstract: The invention discloses a keyboard switch including a base, a cover covering the base to form a cavity, an upper guide core disposed in the cavity and an upper guide core limiting mechanism including a lower guide core elastomer, a lower guide core, a middle guide core spring and a middle guide core sequentially disposed on the base. The upper guide core and the middle guide core are connected through an upper guide core spring. The keyboard switch of the invention provides accuracy of the press-conduction displacement, accurate positioning of the conduction course, and adjustability of the press force, such that the press force becomes more balanced, and the keyboard switch is conducted when the guide core is pressed downwards. Thus, the overall press stability of the keyboard switch is improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a test-strip storage vial, comprising a vial body, a storing chamber for storing test strips, a push button, and a top-lifted unit; wherein the push button is located at one end of the storing chamber; wherein a top-lifted unit is located at another end of the storing chamber; wherein the push button slides horizontal to remove test strips the storing chamber; wherein the top-lifted unit supports the test strips and lifts the test strips in a vertical direction; wherein the vial body further comprising an upper cover and lower vial body, wherein the lower vial body is detachably connected to the upper cover; wherein the push button is glidingly connected with the upper cover, wherein the top-lifted unit is located in the lower vial body; wherein a push button spring provides horizontal tensile force is disposed between the upper cover and the push button.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a magnetic medium may be provided. The magnetic medium may include a substrate. The substrate may include a servo layer over the substrate. The servo layer may include a cap layer having a first coercivity. The servo layer may also include a granular layer having a second coercivity greater than the first coercivity. The servo layer may also include an intervening layer between the cap layer and the granular layer.

Abstract: A leg structure includes: a pair of first-stage leg servos connected to the waist structure, each of the first-stage leg servos including a first output shaft; second-stage leg servos corresponding to and arranged opposite to the first-stage leg servos, the second-stage leg servos including second output shafts perpendicular to the first output shaft; a pair of connecting assemblies each used for mounting one of the first-stage leg servos and one of the second-stage leg servos, the connecting assemblies each including a connecting member for mounting one end of the first output shaft and one end of the second output shaft, a first end cover fixed to the connecting member and used for mounting the other end of the first output shaft, and a second end cover fixed to the connecting member and used for mounting the other end of the second output shaft.

Abstract: A foot structure for contacting the ground and connecting to a leg structure of a humanoid robot, includes: a foot assembly for contacting the ground; a first servo mounted on the foot assembly and including a first output shaft; a connecting assembly rotatably connected to the foot assembly and to constitute an ankle portion; and a second servo mounted on the connecting assembly and connected with the leg structure, the second servo including a second output shaft perpendicular to the first output shaft; the connecting assembly being arranged perpendicularly to the foot assembly and including a first connecting structure used to mount the first output shaft and rotatably connected to the foot assembly, and a second connecting structure connected to the first connecting structure and used to mount the second output shaft.

Abstract: A leg structure includes: a pair of first-stage leg servos connected to the waist structure, each of the first-stage leg servos including a first output shaft; second-stage leg servos corresponding to and arranged opposite to the first-stage leg servos, the second-stage leg servos including second output shafts perpendicular to the first output shaft; a pair of connecting assemblies each used for mounting one of the first-stage leg servos and one of the second-stage leg servos, the connecting assemblies each including a connecting member for mounting one end of the first output shaft and one end of the second output shaft, a first end cover fixed to the connecting member and used for mounting the other end of the first output shaft, and a second end cover fixed to the connecting member and used for mounting the other end of the second output shaft.

Abstract: Particulate LMFP cathode materials having high manganese contents and small amounts of dopant metals are disclosed. These cathode materials are made by milling a mixture of precursor materials in a wet or dry milling process. Preferably, off-stoichiometric amounts of starting materials are used to make the cathode materials. Unlike other high manganese LMFP materials, these cathode materials provide high specific capacities, very good cycle life and high energies even at high discharge rates.

Abstract: An improved method of making a cathode for use in a lithium ion battery is comprised of mixing a lithium metal oxide and lithium metal phosphate in a solvent, where both of these are comprised of primary particles that have been agglomerated into secondary particles of particular size and mixing is insufficient to break up the particles of the lithium metal phosphate, coating the mixture of step (A) on to a metal foil and removing the solvent to form the cathode. The lithium metal oxide is also desirably not broken either. The cathode may be one that has lithium metal oxide and a particular lithium metal phosphate wherein the majority of the metal is Mn.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.

Abstract: A fan assembly includes a first fan including a first frame, a second fan including a second frame, the first frame of the first fan has a first jointing surface, and the second frame of the second fan has a second jointing surface. A first concave structure and a first flange are formed along two ends of a first direction of the first jointing surface of the first fan, and a first concave structure and a first flange are formed along two ends of a first direction of the second jointing surface of the second fan respectively. The first flange of the first fan moves relatively to the second jointing surface of the second fan, and is embedded in the first concave structure of the second fan.

Abstract: A heat dissipation fan includes a base plate, a frame formed on a side of the base plate, a stator received sin the frame, and a rotor below the stator and connected with the stator. The heat dissipation fan also has an air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet. The air inlet is communicated with the first air outlet and the second air outlet. An angle is defined between each of the first air outlet and the second air outlet.