Abstract: An apparatus and method for an inspection apparatus for inspecting a component. The inspection apparatus including a robotic arm. A micro-XRF instrument having an instrument head coupled to the robotic arm. A seat supporting the component within a scanning area during inspection; and a computer in communication with the robotic arm and the micro-XRF instrument.

Abstract: An example apparatus to balance and coordinate power and cooling includes memory; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to: determine a first service level objective based on a service level agreement and resource data; modify the first service level objective to generate a second service level objective based on the first service level objective and an ambient temperature prediction; determine a resource budget based on a resource usage prediction, the resource budget to identify available resources at a given time; and cause an allocation of cooling resources and power resources for a compute component based on the second service level objective and the resource budget.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for resource lifetime aware cooling schemes are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to manage a computing system includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine an effective age of a computing resource of the computing system, the computing resource associated with a degree of cooling thereof, determine a remaining life of the computing resource, compare the remaining life to a reliability threshold, and adjust at least one of a utilization or the degree of cooling of the computing resource in response to the remaining life not meeting the reliability threshold to adjust the remaining life to meet or exceed the reliability threshold.

Abstract: Autonomous unmanned vehicles (UVs) for responding to situations are described. Embodiments include UVs that launch upon detection of a situation, operate in the area of the situation, and collect and send information about the situation. The UVs may launch from a vehicle involved in the situation, a vehicle responding to the situation, or from a fixed station. In other embodiments, the UVs also provide communications relays to the situation and may facilitate access to the situation by responders. The UVs further may act as decoupled sensors for vehicles. In still other embodiments, the collected information may be used to recreate the situation as it happened.

Abstract: Autonomous unmanned vehicles (UVs) for responding to situations are described. Embodiments include UVs that launch upon detection of a situation, operate in the area of the situation, and collect and send information about the situation. The UVs may launch from a vehicle involved in the situation, a vehicle responding to the situation, or from a fixed station. In other embodiments, the UVs also provide communications relays to the situation and may facilitate access to the situation by responders. The UVs further may act as decoupled sensors for vehicles. In still other embodiments, the collected information may be used to recreate the situation as it happened.

Abstract: A stacked-plate heat exchanger may include a high-temperature (HT) coolant circuit, a low-temperature (NT) coolant circuit, heat exchanger plates stacked upon one another and through which two coolants and a medium to be cooled may flow, and an obstruction configured to force a deflection of one of the coolants in the low-temperature coolant circuit. The two coolants may have different temperature levels in the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits. The heat exchanger plates may include a partition wall separating the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits from each other. The high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits may include a central HT coolant inlet and a central NT coolant outlet, respectively, adjacent to the partition wall and together forming a teardrop shape separated by the partition wall. The HT coolant inlet may have a part-circle-like shape and the NT coolant outlet may have a triangular shape, each having one side formed by the partition wall.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, as well as a fiber coupling unit, for coupling optical fibers to optical waveguides that are integrated into a substrate. The coupling unit features a contact surface for contacting the surface of the substrate with the integrated waveguides, as well as trench structures for accommodating optical fibers. The end faces of inserted fibers and/or a raised structure on the edge of the contact surface form a coupling or stopping face for the end face of the substrate with the integrated waveguides. At least one opening is produced in the contact surface and designed for accommodating a mechanical connecting element in a form-fitting fashion or guiding a mechanical connecting element parallel to the contact surface and perpendicular to the coupling or stopping face in a form-fitting fashion. Alternatively, the contact surface may also be rigidly connected to a connecting element protruding from the contact surface.

Abstract: A stacked-plate heat exchanger may include a high-temperature (HT) coolant circuit, a low-temperature (NT) coolant circuit, heat exchanger plates stacked upon one another and through which two coolants and a medium to be cooled may flow, and an obstruction configured to force a deflection of one of the coolants in the low-temperature coolant circuit. The two coolants may have different temperature levels in the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits. The heat exchanger plates may include a partition wall separating the high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits from each other. The high-temperature and low-temperature coolant circuits may include a central HT coolant inlet and a central NT coolant outlet, respectively, adjacent to the partition wall and together forming a teardrop shape separated by the partition wall. The HT coolant inlet may have a part-circle-like shape and the NT coolant outlet may have a triangular shape, each having one side formed by the partition wall.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler may include an outer housing and an inner housing having a heat exchanger insert arranged therein. The heat exchanger insert may include a plurality of pipes around which exhaust gas flows transversely in the inner housing and through at least some of which a coolant of a first cooling circuit flows. At least a portion of the outer housing may be cooled by a second cooling circuit. The second cooling circuit may be separate from the first cooling circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, as well as a fiber coupling unit, for coupling optical fibers to optical waveguides that are integrated into a substrate. The coupling unit features a contact surface for contacting the surface of the substrate with the integrated waveguides, as well as trench structures for accommodating optical fibers. The end faces of inserted fibers and/or a raised structure on the edge of the contact surface form a coupling or stopping face for the end face of the substrate with the integrated waveguides. At least one opening is produced in the contact surface and designed for accommodating a mechanical connecting element in a form-fitting fashion or guiding a mechanical connecting element parallel to the contact surface and perpendicular to the coupling or stopping face in a form-fitting fashion. Alternatively, the contact surface may also be rigidly connected to a connecting element protruding from the contact surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade having a first member with a first joining surface and a second member with a second joining surface. The method includes applying at least one resin barrier to one or both of the joining surfaces, and subsequently locating the first and the second members adjacent each other so that they are joined by the at least one resin barrier. Hereby at least one cavity is formed between the first and second joining surfaces, which cavity is delimited by the at least one resin barrier. Subsequently resin is filled into the at least one cavity, and the resin is cured. The first member may be a blade shell, and the second member may be a blade spar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a carrier system for micro-optical and/or other functional elements of microtechnology, including a base plate and one or more retaining elements for the functional elements that are secured on the base plate. The suggested carrier system is characterized by the fact that the retaining elements are constructed partly or entirely from multiple thin, stacked plates that have a plate thickness of less than 1 mm. In this way, retaining elements for example made from glass or glass ceramic may be created extremely precisely in practically any geometrical shape.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a surface for reducing ice adhesion surface which includes providing a surface of a cured material and impacting the surface of the cured material with a pressurized jet of a fluid material to plastically deform the cured material to enable the surface to reduce ice adhesion strength on the surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of repairing a fiber composite solid member having a locally deteriorated surface area, such as having cracks or creases. The solid member may e.g. be a mold for the manufacturing of wind turbine blades or such blades. The method comprises machining a surface section comprising the locally deteriorated surface area in order to obtain a recess having a predefined depth and circumferential shape, placing a repair patch having a predefined thickness and circumferential shape matching the recess in the recess, and fastening the repair patch to the solid member by use of a binder material. At least some of the elastic and thermal properties of the repair patch and the binder material are so that after fastening, the repair patch and the binder material in combination have elastic and thermal properties which are substantially the same as the corresponding properties of the surface section before machining.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler may include an outer housing and an inner housing having a heat exchanger insert arranged therein. The heat exchanger insert may include a plurality of pipes around which exhaust gas flows transversely in the inner housing and through at least some of which a coolant of a first cooling circuit flows. At least a portion of the outer housing may be cooled by a second cooling circuit. The second cooling circuit may be separate from the first cooling circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade 1 having a first member 2 with a first joining surface and a second member 3 with a second joining surface. The method comprises applying at least one resin barrier 4,4a to one or both of the joining surfaces, and subsequently locating the first and the second members 2,3 adjacent each other so that they are joined by the at least one resin barrier 4,4a. Hereby at least one cavity is formed between the first and second joining surfaces, which cavity is delimited by the at least one resin barrier 4,4a. Subsequently resin 5 is filled into the at least one cavity, and the resin 5 is cured. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the first member 2 is a blade shell, and the second member is a blade spar 3. The invention further relates to a wind turbine blade 1 manufactured by such a method and to a wind turbine comprising such a wind turbine blade 1.

Abstract: A method of balancing an electronically driven air blower unit comprising a radial blower with a high-speed electronically commutated d.c. motor which drives the blower and which is of external rotor design, utilizing a balancing device into which the completely mounted air blower unit (1) can be inserted, without housing lid, and with which electrical contact (101, 102, 103; 201, 202, 203) can be made. The balancing device is provided with a control device for the motor (3, 4, 5) of the air blower unit and with a device (9) for bridging the motor electronics (10) of the air blower unit (1) itself. In order to drive the part to balanced of the air blower unit, its electromechanical transducer (3, 4, 5) is used, which for this purpose is actuated by the control device provided in the balancing device. The balancing process is essentially carried out in two compensation planes which are spaced axially from one another and are parallel with one another.