Abstract: A maintenance device for coupling to electrical circuitry of an electric vehicle for testing the low voltage battery system of the electric vehicle includes electrical connectors to configured to couple to terminals of a low voltage battery of the low voltage battery system of the vehicle and electrically couple to a DC-to-DC convertor of the vehicle which is used to charge the low voltage battery. Measurement circuitry couples to the electrical connectors. A controller coupled to the measurement circuitry is configured to measure a parameter of the low voltage battery and a parameter of the DC-to-DC convertor and responsively determine a condition of the low voltage battery and the DC-to-DC convertor.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a method in which an assembly is formed to have voids within a stack, and to have slits adjacent the voids. Peripheral boundaries of the voids have proximal regions near the slits and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. A material is deposited within the voids under conditions which cause the material to form to a greater thickness along the distal regions than along the proximal regions. Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The second levels include conductive material. Panel structures extend through the stack. The conductive material within the second levels has outer edges with proximal regions near the panel structures and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. Interface material is along the outer edges of the conductive material and has a different composition along the proximal regions than along the distal regions.

Abstract: A radome system includes an access panel having an upper end including an upper latch and a lower end including a lower latch. The radome system further includes a frame system including a first mounting frame positioned adjacent the upper end of the access panel and a second mounting frame positioned adjacent the lower end of the access panel. The upper end of the access panel is hindgedly connected to the first mounting frame and the lower end of the access panel is hingedly connected to the second mounting frame for hingedly connecting the access panel to the frame system. The first mounting frame includes an upper latch receiver for removably securing the upper end of the access panel to the first mounting frame, and the second mounting frame includes a lower latch receiver for removably securing the lower end of the access panel to the second mounting frame.

Abstract: Techniques for specifying and implementing a software application targeted for execution on a multiprocessor array (MPA). The MPA may include a plurality of processing elements, supporting memory, and a high bandwidth interconnection network (IN), communicatively coupling the plurality of processing elements and supporting memory. In some embodiments, software code may specify one or more cell definitions that include: program instructions executable to perform a function and one or more language constructs. The software code may further instantiate first, second, and third cell instances, each of which is an instantiation of one of the one or more cell definitions, where the instantiation includes configuration of the one or more language constructs such that: the first and second cell instances communicate via respective communication ports and the first and second cell instances are included in the third cell instance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shoe sole comprising a rubber matrix material comprising a butadiene rubber; and carbon nanoparticles comprising functionalised carbon nanoparticles, wherein, the carbon nanoparticles consist of graphene particles and/or carbon nanotubes. The present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing the shoe sole.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and compositions thereof which are useful as inhibitors of plasma kallikrein and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.

Abstract: Facilitating web page spectroscopy in a communications network is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise receiving first data that describes a first communication packet flow and second data that describes a second communication packet flow. The operations can also comprise training a model based on the first data and the second data, as a result of which the model is trained to detect respective behaviors represented by the first data and the second. Further, the operations can comprise extracting a common parameter from third data that describes a third communication packet flow and fourth data that describes a fourth communication packet flow based on the model.

Abstract: Disulfide-crosslinked non-isocyanate polythiourethane networks, methods of making the disulfide crosslinked non-isocyanate polythiourethane networks, and methods of reprocessing the disulfide crosslinked non-isocyanate polythiourethane networks are provided. The polymer backbone chains of the non-isocyanate polythiourethane networks include two or more thionourethane groups and inter-chain disulfide crosslinks and are branched at thionourethane linkages. The reprocessable disulfide crosslinked non-isocyanate polythiourethanes can be formed from renewable, biobased starting materials.

Abstract: Connectors and methods for contactless transfer of fluid between containers are disclosed. According to an aspect, a connector includes a body that defines a first end, a second end, and a passageway that extends between the first end and the second end, wherein the first end and second end are configured to attach to a first container and a second container, respectively. The passageway provides a pathway between the first and second containers when the first and second containers are attached to the first and second ends, respectively. Further, the connector includes an opener configured to engage and open the first container for release of a fluid from within the first container through the passageway and into the second container when the first and second containers are attached to the first and second ends, respectively.

Abstract: A connector for a flat flexible cable includes a housing portion and a plurality of terminals. The housing portion has a retention section and a crimping section. The retention section has a plurality of terminal receiving passageways. The plurality of terminals each have a contact portion held in one of the plurality of terminal receiving passageways and a crimping portion exposed in the crimping section. A plurality of conductors exposed in a window extending through an insulation material of the flat flexible cable are each crimped in the crimping portion of one of the plurality of terminals.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a method in which an assembly is formed to have voids within a stack, and to have slits adjacent the voids. Peripheral boundaries of the voids have proximal regions near the slits and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. A material is deposited within the voids under conditions which cause the material to form to a greater thickness along the distal regions than along the proximal regions. Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The second levels include conductive material. Panel structures extend through the stack. The conductive material within the second levels has outer edges with proximal regions near the panel structures and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. Interface material is along the outer edges of the conductive material and has a different composition along the proximal regions than along the distal regions.

Abstract: An implantable blood pump system is disclosed herein. The implantable blood pump system includes an implantable blood pump, a controller coupled to the blood pump, a connector receptacle, and a connector insert. The connector receptacle can include a plurality of contacts, and a following surface. The connector insert can be received within the connector receptacle to couple a plurality of insert contacts with the plurality of contacts of the connector receptacle. The connector insert can include walls defining a follower receptacle that can receive a portion of the following surface when the connector insert is in a desired alignment with respect to the connector receptacle, and a cam surface that can engage with the following surface to bias the connector insert to the desired alignment with respect to the connector receptacle when the connector insert is inserted into the connector receptacle.

Abstract: A one-way valve includes an upstream portion, a movable element, a downstream portion, a bias and flow paths. The upstream portion includes an inlet and a first engaging portion about the inlet. The movable element includes a second engaging portion (engageable with the first engaging portion to impede reverse flow), openings and first bias-contacting portions. The downstream portion includes an outlet and second bias-contacting portions. The bias acts between the first bias-contacting portions and the second bias-contacting portions to urge the movable element against the valve seat and surrounds an interior open to the outlet. The flow paths are via the openings and from outside of the first engaging portion and to the interior, and passing inboard of an upstream end of the bias.

Abstract: A bleach catalyst suitable for use in automatic dishwashing comprising a mixed metal oxide.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for preparing an ultrafiltered whey protein hydrolysate comprising tolerogenic peptides wherein an emulsifier and/or a chaotropic agent is added before ultrafiltration. The invention further concerns the product obtainable by the process.

Abstract: A building management system (BMS) gateway comprises a BMS router and a water heater hub configured to be communicatively coupled to a plurality of water heaters. The BMS router facilitates communication of status and control data between a BMS and the water heaters connected to the water heater hub. Connecting multiple water heaters to a single BMS gateway provides simplified installation and networking requirements. For installations with more water heaters than are able to be coupled to the water heater hub, additional BMS gateways may be installed. Local controls for water heaters managed by the BMS are typically disabled or overwritten by the BMS to prevent changes to settings. A local BMS user interface (UI) is configured to connect with the BMS gateway(s) and facilitate secure access, display, and/or adjustment of water heater status and control data for the plurality of water heaters connected to the BMS gateway(s).

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and compositions thereof which are useful as inhibitors of plasma kallikrein and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.

Abstract: A crossbar clamp actuator of a crossbar-to-vehicle coupler may include a horizontally traveling wedge block having a ramped, downward-facing first slide surface, and a wedge follower having a second slide surface in frictional contact with the first slide surface of the traveling wedge block. Substantially horizontal repositioning of the traveling wedge block may cause the ramped first slide surface to urge the wedge follower downward, thereby actuating a crossbar clamp.

Abstract: An air-boom spreader has a hopper for containing particulate material, a metering device having a plurality of sluices, a plurality of outlets transversely spaced-apart on a boom in a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel of the spreader, and a plurality of air lines connecting the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets for conveying the particulate material in an air stream from the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets. The spreader has more than twice as many outlets as sluices, and the plurality of outlets has an innermost outlet, an outermost outlet and at least three other outlets between the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet whereby each of the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet are supplied with half as much of the particulate material as each of the at least three other outlets.