Abstract: This application is directed to an electronic device powered by one or more rechargeable battery cells. The electronic device includes a first negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor proximate to the battery cells, and an open capacitor coupled in parallel with the NTC thermistor. The open capacitor has an open area and two electrodes that are at least partially exposed via the open area and electrically isolated. The electronic device further includes a control circuit coupled to the NTC thermistor and the open capacitor. The control circuit is configured to detect a voltage drop across the NTC thermistor and the open capacitor if conductive liquid enters the open area of the capacitor and electrically connects the two electrodes that are at least partially exposed via the open area.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin interior, a steering wheel assembly comprising a steering column, a steering wheel and an actuator configured to move the steering handle amongst a plurality of positions, and at least one sensor for sensing a user proximate to the vehicle and generating sensed data based on the sensed user. The vehicle also includes a controller determining one or more characteristics of the user from the sensed data and controlling the actuator to actuate the steering wheel to one of the plurality of positions based on the determined one or more characteristics of the user.

Abstract: A multilayer coating for a substrate having flame retardant capability, the multilayer coating includes two or more carrier or polymer layers. At least one carrier or polymer layer of the two or more carrier or polymer layers comprises at least one halogenated material and at least one other carrier or polymer layer of the two or more carrier or polymer layers comprises at least one synergist and at least one dispersant. The at least one halogenated material comprises a fluoropolymer or a chlorofluoropolymer, or a combination thereof. The at least one synergist comprises an oxide of antimony. The at least one synergist is present in an amount from about 1% to about 8% by weight of the at least one other carrier or polymer layer. The at least one carrier or polymer layer includes the at least one halogenated material is a top layer.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for directing a field-of-view of a first sensor positioned on an autonomous vehicle. In one example, at least one processor selects a goal location on at least one travel way in an environment of the autonomous vehicle. The selecting of the goal location is based at least in part on map data describing at least one travel way in an environment of the autonomous vehicle and pose data describing a position of the autonomous vehicle in the environment. The at least one processor determines a field-of-view position to direct the first sensor towards the goal location based at least in part on the sensor position data. The at least one processor sends a field-of-view command to the first sensor. The field-of-view command modifies the field-of-view of the first sensor based on the field-of-view position.

Abstract: A light-weight reciprocating element is disclosed. The reciprocating element may include a body defining a cavity, the body having a closed distal end and an open proximal end opposite the closed distal end, wherein the body is configured to apply a pressure to a working fluid. The cavity extends from the open proximal end towards the closed distal end. The reciprocating element may include an insert disposed in the cavity, the insert is configured to prevent debris from accumulating within the cavity.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a resistor head, a resistor body, and a sense terminal. The resistor head is constructed using a first material. The resistor body is coupled to the resistor head and is constructed using a second material having a higher resistivity than the first material. The sense terminal has a first section and a second section and is decoupled from the resistor head, in which the second section of the sense terminal is coupled between the first section of the sense terminal and the resistor body, with an end portion of the second section of the sense terminal coupled to the resistor body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are tissue marking devices and methods that enables marking a target tissue more than 24 hours prior to surgery. The tissue marking device includes a hook assembly having a compressed configuration and a deployed configuration and a handle assembly for positioning the hook assembly in a targeted tissue. The hook assembly may include a hook body comprising at least two hooks and a thread connected to the hook body. The handle assembly may include a handle body, a needle having a lumen, and a stylet having a lumen.

Abstract: A patient transport system is provided. The patient transport system includes a patient transport apparatus, which includes a seat section and a back section for supporting the patient, and a patient containment system. The patient containment system includes a lower strap, an upper strap having a front end coupled to the lower strap and a back end, and a coupling system to facilitate releasable attachment of the patient containment system to the patient transport apparatus. The coupling system includes a latch coupled to the back end of the upper strap, a coupling bracket configured for removable attachment to the back section of the patient transport apparatus, and a keeper operatively attached to the coupling bracket and configured to removably receive the latch to retain the upper strap together with the latch relative to the coupling bracket.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula where R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R4c, R5, R6, X, Y, and Z are as described herein, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using these compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for treating patients for cancer.

Abstract: A digital security system can store data associated with entities in resolver trees. If the digital security system determines that two resolver trees are likely representing the same entity, the digital security system can use a merge operation to merge the resolver trees into a single resolver tree that represents the entity. The single resolver tree can include a merge node indicating a merge identifier of the merge operation. Nodes containing information merged into the resolver tree from another resolver tree during the merge operation can be tagged with the corresponding merge identifier. Accordingly, if the merge operation is to be undone, for instance if subsequent information indicates that the entries are likely separate entities, the resolver tree can be unmerged and the nodes tagged with the merge identifier can be restored to a separate resolver tree.

Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.

Abstract: A perimeter breach warning device includes a main body forming a firing bore therethrough, a holding protrusion at the first firing bore end, a firing pin assembly within and extending out from the firing bore, a primer within the firing bore at the second firing bore end, a safety nozzle, and a trip pin configured to be inserted into the trip pin bore of the shaft such that the spring of the firing pin assembly is compressed, wherein the spring is configured to decompress in response to removal of the trip pin, thereby causing the firing pin assembly to move within the firing bore towards the second firing bore end until the firing pin strikes the primer causing a primer explosion and the external shaft protrusion interfaces with the internal firing bore protrusion causing the firing pin assembly to stop moving towards the second firing bore end.

Abstract: An example outdoor mounted device includes a first battery configured to operate at a low temperature range that at least includes negative 20 Celsius; a second battery configured to operate at a high temperature range; a temperature sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, based on data received from the temperature sensors, a current temperature; responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the low temperature range, cause one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the first battery; and responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the high temperature range, cause the one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the second battery.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for directing a field-of-view of a first sensor positioned on an autonomous vehicle. In one example, at least one processor selects a goal location on at least one travel way in an environment of the autonomous vehicle. The selecting of the goal location is based at least in part on map data describing at least one travel way in an environment of the autonomous vehicle and pose data describing a position of the autonomous vehicle in the environment. The at least one processor determines a field-of-view position to direct the first sensor towards the goal location based at least in part on the sensor position data. The at least one processor sends a field-of-view command to the first sensor. The field-of-view command modifies the field-of-view of the first sensor based on the field-of-view position.

Abstract: A beverage chiller includes a body having a frustoconical shape. The beverage chiller includes a cavity formed within the body. The cavity has a cylindrical shape. The cavity is slanted at a first angle relative to a base of the body. The beverage chiller includes a window formed in a sidewall of the body. The window exposes an interior space of the cavity.

Abstract: In general, the invention relates to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments of the invention includes identifying a hardware resource requirement in a composition request for a composed information handling system, wherein the hardware resource requirement specifies a hardware resource with data transformation functionality (DTF), identifying a hardware resource that does not have the DTF, connecting the hardware resource to a DTF container, wherein the DTF container implements the DTF and emulates the hardware resource with DTF, and initiating composition of the composed information handling system using the DTF container, wherein the DTF container satisfies the hardware resource requirement.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and compositions for wellbore cementing are provided. A method may comprise: analyzing an industrial byproduct and one or more additional components to generate data about physical and/or chemical properties of the industrial byproduct; determining a concentration of the byproduct and the one or more additional components based on the data to provide a settable composition having a twenty-four destructive compressive strength at 100° F. to 200° F. of about 50 psi or greater.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hair drying and/or styling device and in particular to a hair drying device which can optionally be used to style hair. The invention may be configured as a unitary or stand-alone device or it may be configured as an attachment for another device such as a hair dryer. The hair drying and/or styling device has an air inlet, a body with an air flow space in communication with the air inlet, and an outlet plate with a large number of openings which are in communication with the air flow space. The outlet plate is concave and defines a volume which is surrounded by the outlet plate. A chosen section of hair can be inserted into the volume for drying and/or styling. The outlet plate is rotatable relative to the body, the rotatable outlet plate facilitating styling of the section of hair.

Abstract: Fuel systems of gas turbine engines of aircraft, and associated methods are provided. The fuel systems and methods can permit reverse purging of one or more fuel manifolds of a gas turbine engine to prevent coking in some modes of operation. A fuel system includes first and second fuel manifolds fluidly connectable to a combustor of the gas turbine engine. A valve is operatively disposed between the second fuel manifold and a fuel supply line for controlling fuel supply to the second fuel manifold. A reservoir includes a movable piston disposed therein and dividing the reservoir into a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber is fluidly connectable to the fuel supply line or to a fuel purge line via the valve. The second chamber is in fluid communication with the second fuel manifold to receive residual fuel from the second fuel manifold.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Baptisia plant of hybrid origin that is named ‘Last Dance’ and is characterized by its narrowly upright plant habit with foliage lacking on the lower half of the stems, its dense foliage (especially towards the tips of the shoots), its flowers that emerge white in color and turn to creamy yellow in color, and its late flowering period (commences and ends late).