Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe handling system that includes an inboard bore plug assembly and an outboard bore plug assembly, which facilitate plugging a pipe bore in a flexible pipe. The inboard bore plug assembly includes a first inflatable plug having a first inflatable bladder that defines a first fluid cavity and a first inflation port opening and a first inflation fluid port secured within the first inflation port opening. The outboard bore plug assembly includes a second inflatable plug having a second inflatable bladder that defines a second fluid cavity, a second inflation port opening, and a bore port opening, a second inflation fluid port secured within the second inflation port opening, and a bore fluid port secured in the bore port opening to enable the pipe bore in the flexible pipe to be pressurized to an elevated fluid pressure.

Abstract: A system for tethering a subsea blowout preventer (BOP) or well head is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system comprises an interface associable with the BOP, and more than one anchors disposed about the BOP. Each anchor is configured to carry or support a tensioning system arranged in operable association with a respective tether. Each tether is arranged so as to link a respective anchor with a respective operable means associated with the BOP. Furthermore, each of the respective operable means are configured in operable association with the interface such that tension in the tethers can be adjustable either individually or together as a group of two or more tethers, by way of the interface.

Abstract: A method includes receiving temperature measurements from multiple temperature sensors in a power supply system that includes multiple coils arranged in a series downstream of a turbine, each coil configured to receive thermal energy from an air stream exhausted from the turbine as the air stream moves toward a data center, each coil associated with at least one fluid loop. The method also includes using a first subset of the temperature measurements to determine a blended fluid mix from a primary fluid path and a heated fluid reservoir in order to obtain a predetermined leaving fluid temperature at a first coil of the multiple coils. The method further includes controlling a position of one or more valves associated with the primary fluid path and the heated fluid reservoir to achieve the determined blended fluid mix.

Abstract: A system includes a turbine configured to exhaust an air stream. The system also includes a first coil configured to transfer thermal energy to the air stream when the air stream passes by or through the first coil, wherein the first coil is downstream of the turbine. The system also includes a second coil configured to transfer thermal energy to the air stream when the air stream passes by or through the second coil, wherein the second coil is downstream of the first coil. The system also includes a third coil configured to transfer thermal energy to the air stream when the air stream passes by or through the third coil, wherein the third coil is downstream of the second coil. The air stream is configured to cool one or more electronic components of a data center that is downstream of the third coil.

Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an actuator to control a component of the finisher apparatus to perform a finishing operation on a print medium. A sensor is provided to sense the print medium in a print-medium path in the finisher apparatus. A processor is coupled to the actuator and the sensor. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to actuate the actuator to eject the print medium from the print-medium path in response to a signal from the sensor indicative of a jam of the print medium in the finisher apparatus.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a cast-in-place concrete slab load transfer apparatus and method of manufacturing same. In various embodiments, the concrete slab load transfer apparatus includes a plurality of load transfer dowels each having a top surface and a bottom surface, a basket supporting the load transfer dowels, and a plurality of welds including a plurality of breakable welds connecting the bottom surfaces of the load transfer dowels to the basket.

Abstract: A wakeboat has a hull, the hull forming a wake when moving forward in the water, with a left quiet region and a right quiet region in the wake. The hull may exhibit rotation around one or more of its roll, pitch, and yaw axes which affects the quiet regions in the wake. A gyroscope supported in the hull may be used to rotate the hull around one or more axes. Such rotation may be used to create a surf left and/or surf right configuration, and measured via one or more sensors. Other systems and methods are also provided.

Abstract: A system includes at least one storage tank configured to store at least one of first compressed air or liquid air. The system also includes a power supply system comprising a turbine, a generator, and a flywheel. The power supply system is configured to receive second compressed air from the at least one storage tank, wherein the second compressed air comprises either the first compressed air or the liquid air which has been heated into a gaseous state; spin the turbine and the flywheel using the second compressed air, wherein the spinning of the turbine generates electrical energy at the generator; provide the electrical energy to a data center for powering electronic devices of the data center; and provide at least a portion of the second compressed air exhausted by the turbine to the data center for cooling the electronic devices of the data center.

Abstract: A data processing system with a dataset multiplexer that enables applications to be written to specify access to datasets as operations on logical datasets. During execution of an application by the data processing system, operations that access a dataset are implemented by accessing an entry in a dataset catalog for the logical dataset. That entry includes information to access the physical data source storing the logical dataset, including conversion of data from the format of the physical data source to the format of the logical dataset. An entry in the catalog may be created based on registration of a data source with the dataset multiplexer and may be updated automatically based on changes in storage of the dataset. This maintenance of the catalog may be partially or totally automated such that the system automatically adjusts to any changes in storage of the dataset without need for modification of any application.

Abstract: In some examples, a gimbaled monoclamp can include a housing including a first opening, a second opening, and a pivot point, a clamp disposed at least partially in the housing and including a first pad and a second pad to extend through the first opening and the second opening, respectively, and a pin extending through an opening in the clamp into the pivot point to couple the clamp to the housing in a gimbaled manner.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for valve body apparatus for use with fluid valves. An example fluid valve apparatus includes a valve body including a housing positioned on an exterior surface of the valve body, a calibration set screw disposed in the housing via a recessed aperture, and a cover coupled to the housing to seal the calibration set screw from external access.

Abstract: A system includes a metering device to receive first electrical energy from a power source and provide at least a portion of the first electrical energy to a data center during a first time period. The system also includes an electrical-to-mechanical energy conversion device to convert air to a compressed or liquified state using at least the portion of the first electrical energy. The system also includes a storage container to receive the air and store the air in the compressed or liquified state. The system also includes a mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion device to: receive the air from the storage container in a gaseous, compressed state; generate second electrical energy for powering the data center; and exhaust cooled air for providing to the data center to cool the electronic devices.

Abstract: A handheld printing device includes a printing mechanism and a light source. The printing mechanism prints a swath of print material onto a print medium as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium. The light source projects onto the print medium a light box. The light box has top and bottom edges corresponding to the swath and indicating where the printing mechanism will print the swath as the handheld printing device is moved across the print medium.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to print media stacks. In some examples, a device may include a sheet channel to guide a sheet of print media within the sheet channel above and separated in a vertical direction from a stack of printed media when the sheet of print media exits a print path of a printer. The device may include a plurality of clamps to control alignment of the sheet of print media on the stack of printed media when the sheet channel moves outboard from the sheet of print media to allow the sheet of print media to fall onto the stack of printed media, wherein the plurality of clamps sequentially pin the sheet of print media to the stack of printed media from a middle portion of the sheet of print media outward.

Abstract: A smart driveline disconnect assembly having a torque coupling assembly, an actuator, at least one sensor and a controller is provided. The torque coupling assembly is configured to selectively couple torque between a transmission and a final drive assembly. The actuator is configured to activate the torque coupling assembly. The at least one sensor is used to generate sensor information. The controller is configured to control the actuator based at least in part on the sensor information. The controller is further configured to determine at least a thermal energy level associated with the torque coupling assembly based on the sensor information and at least in part control the actuator based on the determined estimated thermal energy level.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a multilayer structure for a printed wiring board (PWB). The multilayer structure may include a plurality of insulating layers interleaved with a plurality of conductive layers comprising at least one inner conductive layer. The multilayer structure may also include one or more stub-less plated through-holes through the plurality of insulating layers and the plurality of conductive layers. The multilayer structure may include at least one secondary material layer formed on the at least one inner conductive layer. The secondary material layer defines a void that creates a discontinuity in the plated through-hole to achieve segmented metallization of the plated through-hole. The disclosure also provides a method of forming the multilayer structure.

Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a robust and secure cloud-based platform for data processing and management are described. In an example, a method for improving the configurability and compliance of a cloud-computing environment comprising a plurality of zones includes receiving, at a configuration engine, a plurality of parameters and a plurality of security rules for each of the plurality of zones, creating, based on the plurality of parameters, a virtual network and one or more subnets for each of the plurality of zones, and updating, based on the plurality of security rules, one or more routing tables assigned to the one or more subnets to ensure traffic to and from a zone of the plurality of zones passes through a corresponding firewall of the zone.

Abstract: In one example, a media puller device can include a snowplow device coupled to a first end of a hinge, a leading end of the media puller device coupled to a second end of the hinge, and a tension device coupled between the snowplow device and the media puller device.

Abstract: A finisher apparatus includes an accumulator to register a print medium of a print job in preparation for a finishing operation, memory to store an attribute of the print job, and a processor coupled to the accumulator and the memory. The processor is to execute instructions. The instructions are to control the accumulator based on the attribute of the print job.

Abstract: A biodegradable polymer composition, according to the present invention, comprises polyhydroxybutyrate and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) blended with thermoplastic starch, one or more compatibilizers selected from the group consisting of dihexyl sodium sulfosuccinate and maleic anhydride, and one or more additives selected from the group consisting of micro-crystalline cellulose and cellulose. Methods of producing a biodegradable polymer use processed cannabis waste as a carbon source.