Abstract: A docking mechanism incorporates a melted metal drop ejecting device within a subtractive manufacturing system to form a metal hybrid manufacturing system. The docking mechanism includes connectors for coupling a supply of melted metal and electrical controls to the melted metal drop ejecting device for operation of the device.

Abstract: A metal hybrid additive manufacturing apparatus includes a melted metal drop ejecting device and at least one other tool that are operated to form metal objects on a platform. An object heater is configured to direct heat toward the metal object being formed on the platform. The object heater can be a radiation heater, a convection heater, an infrared heater, an induction heater, and a focused energy source. The focused energy source can be integrated with the melted metal drop ejecting device.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for extracting lithium from brine, and an application. The method includes performing extraction on the brine through a continuous ion exchange process, where according to the continuous ion exchange process, in an adsorption section, adsorption is performed on the brine with an aluminum-based lithium adsorbent; in a water-pushing-material section, a resin column is washed with a solution; in a desorption section, desorption is performed with pure water, and a desorption solution is collected in segments; and in a material-pushing-water section, a solution in a resin column is replaced by spent brine.

Abstract: A metal hybrid manufacturing apparatus includes a melted metal drop ejecting device and a metal deposition device. The melted metal drop ejecting device is operated to form perimeters of layers in a metal object being formed by the system. The metal deposition device is operated to fill interior portions of the layers.

Abstract: A method for fabricating minimal fin length includes the steps of first forming a fin-shaped structure extending along a first direction on a substrate, forming a first single-diffusion break (SDB) trench and a second SDB trench extending along a second direction to divide the fin-shaped structure into a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, and then performing a fin-cut process to remove the first portion and the third portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and at least one contact plug. The substrate has an epi-layer. The contact plug is formed on the epi-layer and includes a silicide cap disposed on the epi-layer; a conductive pillar disposed on the silicide cap such that the conductive pillar electrically connects to the epi-layer via the silicide cap; and a hybrid liner. The hybrid liner surrounds the conductive pillar and includes a lower portion abutting the silicide cap and having a nitride material and an upper portion abutting the conductive pillar and having an oxidized nitride material. Due to the hybrid liner, a semiconductor structure with increased capacitance and decreased resistivity can be obtained.

Abstract: A method for forming a two-color coating layer includes steps of: a) conducting a coating process by applying a coating layer on a workpiece having a stepped surface, so that the coating layer having a first color is formed on the stepped surface, the stepped surface having a lower region, an upper region, and a middle shoulder region; b) forming an ink layer that has a second color and that covers the coating layer; c) soft baking the ink layer; d) exposing to light a first area of the ink layer so that the first area undergoes a crosslinking reaction; e) developing the ink layer so that a second area of the ink layer is removed; and f) hard baking the ink layer, wherein the stepped surface has the second color formed on the lower and middle shoulder regions, and the first color formed on the upper region.

Abstract: A method and device for accessing data in a host memory are provided. The method includes: in response to writing first data corresponding to a first Remote Dictionary Server (Redis) instance of a plurality of Redis instances into the host memory, determining whether a remaining host memory capacity for the first Redis instance is sufficient to store the first data, wherein the remaining host memory capacity is based on a difference between maximum capacity of the host memory that is capable of being used by the first Redis and capacity of the host memory that has been used by the first Redis instance; and in response to determining that that the remaining host memory capacity is not sufficient to store the first data, evicting second data of the first Redis instance from the host memory to a Computing Express Link (CXL) device and storing the first data in the host memory.

Abstract: The present application discloses a test tube rotating mechanism and a production-line sample conveying system. The test tube rotating mechanism includes: a first rolling structure and a second rolling structure, where the first rolling structure and the second rolling structure are distributed along the conveying direction of a conveying track, each of the outer side surfaces of the first rolling structure and the second rolling structure has a tangent point with the peripheral wall of any test tube holder on the conveying track to limit the movement of the test tube holder, and the rolling of the first rolling structure and the second rolling structure relative to the test tube holder cause the test tube holder to rotate; and a transmission structure, where the transmission structure drives the first rolling structure and the second rolling structure to move away from and approach the conveying track.

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for managing environment change. The exemplary embodiments may include determining a plurality of change and risk models for a plurality of computing environments, generating a plurality of association rules based on the plurality of change and risk models, and generating a joint association rule by combining at least two of the plurality of association rules, wherein the joint association rule indicates, from the three dimensions, an association relationship between changes and risk events over at least a part of the time series.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, including: an acrylic copolymer and a crosslinking agent. The acrylic copolymer is a reaction product of a mixture of the following monomers: a first alkyl (meth)acrylate, an alkyl group in the first alkyl (meth)acrylate having at least 6 carbon atoms; a second alkyl (meth)acrylate, an alkyl group in the second alkyl (meth)acrylate having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and a vinyl carboxylic acid, the weight ratio of the vinyl carboxylic acid to the mixture being 4% to 5%. The crosslinking agent is an organometallic chelating agent. The weight ratio of the organometallic chelating agent to the mixture is 0.05% to 0.25%. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition does not contain an effective amount of a tackifier. The present invention further provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive solution, a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, and a method for preparing the same.

Abstract: Methods and systems for securely rendering a security feature with image data to be printed, can involve providing within the image data, data relating to a group of spots, and within the image data, mixing spots of two or more spot sizes among the group of spots to embed information within a stochastic or frequency modulation halftone image. In an embodiment, operations may be implemented for rendering a part of the image with a first spot among the group of spots and a remaining portion of the image with a second spot among the group of spots, wherein the second spot is smaller in size than the first spot.

Abstract: A manned mower includes a traveling wheel set; a vehicle frame; a support portion used for supporting an operator; a traveling electric motor used for driving the traveling wheel set; and a power supply assembly used for supplying power to at least the traveling electric motor and including at least one detachable battery pack. The vehicle frame includes a left bracket portion and a right bracket portion for supporting the power supply assembly, the power supply assembly is disposed between the left bracket portion and the right bracket portion, and a maximum inner width W1 of the left bracket portion and the right bracket portion in a left and right direction is less than or equal to 700 mm, and total energy of a single row of the power supply assembly along the left and right direction is greater than or equal to 8 kW·h.

Abstract: A printing system and method of inspecting drop ejection in a printing system is disclosed. The method includes capturing an image of each of a plurality of drops of a print material after ejection from an ejector of a printing system, creating a temporally averaged image from each image of the plurality of drops of print material, and classifying one of the plurality of drops of print material based on the temporally averaged image that was created. The use of a pretrained convolutional neural network for classifying one of the plurality of drops and comparing the temporally averaged image to another temporally averaged image to classify one of the plurality of drops may be employed. The printing system also includes a camera with a high-speed shutter where the shutter is synchronized to an ejector pulse, and a video analytic framework coupled to the ejector and the camera configured to generate a jetting result for each of the one or more drops of liquid print material.

Abstract: An approach is provided in which a method, system, and program product analyze, while training a machine learning model, a set of first data transformation operators in a first data preparation pipeline that generates a plurality of constructed features from a set of training data. The method, system, and program product create a plurality of second data preparation pipelines from the first data preparation pipeline, wherein the set of first data transformation operators are converted to a set of second data transformation operators and each assigned to one of the plurality of second data preparation pipelines. The method, system, and program product deploy the plurality of second data preparation pipelines to a runtime system.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include one or more transistor structures that include a plurality of source/drain regions and a gate structure between the source/drain regions. The semiconductor device may further include one or more dielectric layers between a source/drain contact structure and a gate structure of the one or more of the transistor structures. The one or more dielectric layers may be manufactured using on oxidation treatment process to tune the dielectric constant of the one or more dielectric layers. The dielectric constant of the one or more dielectric layers may be tuned to reduce the parasitic capacitance between the source/drain contact structure and the gate structure (which are conductive structures). In particular, the dielectric constant of the one or more spacer dielectric may be tuned using the oxidation treatment process to lower the as-deposited dielectric constant of the one or more dielectric layers.

Abstract: Disclosed are an iron-based catalyst and its application catalytic diene polymerization. The iron-based catalyst provided by the present application includes iron-containing organic compounds, alkyl aluminum compounds and isocyanide-containing organic compounds, and the molar ratio between the iron element of the iron-containing organic compounds, the alkyl aluminum compounds and the isocyanide-containing organic compounds is 1:(5˜100):(0.5˜100). The iron-based catalyst system of the present application can initiate polymerization of diene with high activity at high temperature by using isocyanide-containing organic compounds as an electron donor and alkyl aluminum compounds as a co-catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of adjusting the molecular weight of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene prepared using an iron-based catalyst. In the present application, when an iron-based catalyst catalyzes the polymerization of butadiene to prepare syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene, alpha-olefins are added as a molecular weight regulator, and a chain transfer effect is achieved through competitive adsorption. At the same time, since alpha-olefins are stable to iron-based catalysts, cannot be initiated to polymerize, and are easy to separate from butadiene, they have a significant effect on molecular weight regulation and do not have a significant effect on activity, making it possible to prepare syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene thermoplastic elastomers with number average molecular weights ranging from 3,000-250,000. The syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene rubber prepared by the present application has better processability.

Abstract: A robot system for servicing a semiconductor tool includes a cart frame. An arm support frame is fixed to the cart frame and is coupled to a robot arm. An arm frame is connected by hinges to the arm support frame at a first end and to a fixture connect interface at a second end. The fixture connect interface connects to a docking fixture of the semiconductor tool. An arm locking mechanism is attached to the arm support frame for locking the arm frame, when rotated, to an extended position or a folded position. The fixture connect interface connects the cart frame to the semiconductor tool, when the arm frame is locked in the extended position.

Abstract: The nozzles of a MHD liquid metal ejector/printhead can be clogged by contaminants in the liquid metal. Typically, these contaminants are in the form of small particles of aggregates of particles, such as metal oxides, that are insoluble in the liquid metal. Possible cleaning methods include mechanically removing the clogging material, such as by using a physical device to dislodge the clogging material and remove it; chemically removing the clogging material, such as by using selected chemicals/flux to chemically react with the clogging material; using ultrasound to break/remove the clogging material; and providing reversed and/or oscillating flow of material through the nozzle.