Abstract: The modular battery pack designs disclosed herein are intended to effectively provide for thermal management of a battery pack, while allowing for a modular design of the battery pack to achieve varied voltage, capacity, and power density requirements, and further meeting varied geometric space requirements on the battery pack. The presently disclosed designs may be particularly useful in high-energy applications (e.g., electric vehicles) with specific packaging requirements. The modular battery pack designs are capable of being scaled up or down and adapted to a variety of packaging constraints.

Abstract: A social media platform is provided. The social media platform, Phaction, implements digital activism, social action, societal understanding and social issue conversation. Powered by information and data from various sources, such as Clarintel, Inc., and user generated content and internal research approaches, Phaction provides the user with an environment built on cloud-based products that redefine social action. Phaction allows clients to access tools that enhance social action approaches both individually and in groups, to track, manage, and organize all social impact, capital, and philanthropic opportunities, and engage in social action, empathy building, and truth sharing, and keep up with the rising demand for social action involvement, societal understanding, and social justice advocacy.

Abstract: Technology is provided for a cylinder with a carbon scraper for use in an opposed piston engine. The cylinder includes a cylinder body having first and second piston bores extending along a central axis for reciprocation of corresponding first and second pistons therein. A chamber bore is located between the first and second piston bores and first and second annular grooves are located on opposite ends of the chamber bore. The chamber bore extends between and is inclusive of a top-dead-center position of a top land of each of the first and second pistons. The first and second piston bores have a piston diameter and the chamber bore has a chamber diameter smaller than the piston diameter. For example, the chamber diameter can be between about 0.004 and about 0.020 inches smaller than the piston diameter.

Abstract: Technology is provided for a cylinder with a carbon scraper for use in an opposed piston engine. The cylinder includes a cylinder body having first and second piston bores extending along a central axis for reciprocation of corresponding first and second pistons therein. A chamber bore is located between the first and second piston bores and first and second annular grooves are located on opposite ends of the chamber bore. The chamber bore extends between and is inclusive of a top-dead-center position of a top land of each of the first and second pistons. The first and second piston bores have a piston diameter and the chamber bore has a chamber diameter smaller than the piston diameter. For example, the chamber diameter can be between about 0.004 and about 0.020 inches smaller than the piston diameter.