Abstract: The disclosure provides a slot electrode stack including an electrically insulative separator folded into an accordion shape and having a plurality of first slots on one side and a plurality of second slots on an opposite side, a plurality of cathodes located in the plurality of first slots, and a plurality of anodes located in the plurality of second slots. The disclosure further provides a slot electrode cell including such a slot electrode stack and a slot electrode battery including at least one such slot electrode cell. The disclosure further provides a method of forming a slot electrode stack.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a bipolar lithium ion cathode including two different cathode active materials located in two different cathode layers, a bipolar lithium ion cell including such a cathode, a battery including such a cell, a battery module or pack including such a battery and a method of forming a bipolar lithium ion cathode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an uncycled lithium ion cathode including a lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cathode active material, a lithium manganese nickel iron phosphate (LMNFP) cathode active material, a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material, a lithium iron cobalt phosphate (LFCP) cathode active material, a lithium iron manganese cobalt phosphate (LFMCP) cathode active material, or any combinations thereof, and a manganese iron phosphate (MFP) cathode active material, a manganese nickel iron phosphate (MNFP) cathode active material, an iron phosphate (FP) cathode active material, an iron cobalt phosphate (FCP) cathode active material, an iron cobalt manganese phosphate (FMCP) cathode active material, or any combinations thereof. The present disclosure further provides a lithium ion cell including such a cathode, a battery including such a cell, a battery pack including such a battery and a method of forming an electrode stack in such a battery.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high capacity lithium ion anode including an anode active material-containing layer having an electrolyte-facing side and a current collector-facing side. The anode active material-containing layer contains a graphite anode active material, a silicon or silicon compound active material, and a lithium reservoir. The anode also contains a current collector. The present disclosure further provides a high capacity lithium ion cell including such an anode, a battery including such a cell, a vehicle battery including such a battery and a method of forming a high capacity lithium ion anode.

Abstract: Stents useable for treating venous stenosis are disclosed. In embodiments, a stent is configured to be auxetic, expanding axially as it is expanded radially, to prevent the imposition of tension on portions of a blood vessel adjacent to the stented portion of the blood vessel, and thereby prevent a narrowing of the adjacent portions and improving luminal gain. The stent may include one or more cross members that are deformable axially, to allow the axial length of the stent to be adjusted while maintaining a constant diameter, and further to allow the stent to be curved to conform to vessel curvature.

Abstract: Embodiments include a delivery device for an auxetic device. The delivery device is comprised of an outer constraining device and a longitudinal controlling device disposed concentrically within the outer constraining device and offset to form a chamber for receiving the auxetic device. A mechanism coupled to the outer constraining device and the longitudinal controlling device allows the chamber size to adjust longitudinally as the auxetic device is deployed. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A reusable cooking truss system for poultry. The truss system has a limited number of teeth so as to not puncture or interfere with the cooking process while also still being able to secure varying sizes of birds. The straps which are used may also come in varying sizes for the different parts of the poultry.

Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.

Abstract: A string instrument has a body and a neck. The body has a top plate joined to a bottom plate forming an interior volume therebetween. The neck is attached to the body and extends outwardly therefrom. A tailpiece is joined to the body. A first soundpost is located within the interior volume of the body and joins the top plate with the bottom plate. A second soundpost is also located within the interior volume and also joins the top plate with the bottom plate.

Abstract: Stents useable for treating venous stenosis are disclosed. In embodiments, a stent is configured to be auxetic, expanding axially as it is expanded radially, to prevent the imposition of tension on portions of a blood vessel adjacent to the stented portion of the blood vessel, and thereby prevent a narrowing of the adjacent portions and improving luminal gain. The stent may include one or more cross members that are deformable axially, to allow the axial length of the stent to be adjusted while maintaining a constant diameter, and further to allow the stent to be curved to conform to vessel curvature.

Abstract: A string instrument has a body and a neck. The body has a top plate joined to a bottom plate forming an interior volume therebetween. The neck is attached to the body and extends outwardly therefrom. A tailpiece is joined to the body. A first soundpost is located within the interior volume of the body and joins the top plate with the bottom plate. A second soundpost is also located within the interior volume and also joins the top plate with the bottom plate.

Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.

Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.

Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes system and methods for inferring energy usage at multiple levels of granularity. One embodiment describes an industrial automation system including a first industrial automation component, a first sensor coupled to the first industrial automation component, in which the first sensor measures a first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component, a second industrial automation component that couples to the first industrial automation component, and an industrial control system that infers energy usage by the first industrial automation component and the second industrial automation component based at least in part on the first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component.

Abstract: Discrete resource tracking systems (and corresponding methodologies) that collect, tag and store resource consumption and usage values associated with industrial environment processes are provided. The specification can track water, air, gas, electricity, or steam consumption and usage view of a discrete (or batch) processes. Emissions and/or effluents associated with processes and sub-processes can also be collected, tagged and stored as desired. These stored resource consumption and usage and/or emissions and/or effluents data elements can be used for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, simulation, planning, forecasting, valuating, optimizing, etc.

Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.

Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate sustainability monitoring and indicia thereof for a product over the course of the entire lifecycle of the product. In particular, the architecture can acquire a status update associated with a state of the product. Based upon the state, the architecture can determine an impact of that state to a sustainability score associated with the product.