Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to various features of a battery subassembly, such as a battery module. The battery subassembly may be implemented in an electric vehicle or in a building. In one or more implementations, the battery subassembly may include a battery cell having a peripheral rim having a first width and forming a terminal for the battery cell; and at least one weld configured to couple the peripheral rim to a connector, in which the at least one weld has a second width that is larger than the first width.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for performing electrical equipment inspection includes a rod, a probe attached to an end of the rod, an infrared imaging sensor disposed on the probe, at least one visible light source disposed on the probe, and a visible light imaging sensor disposed on the probe. Infrared imaging data acquired by the infrared imaging sensor are transmitted to a proximal portion of the rod, and visible light imaging data acquired by the visible light imaging sensor are transmitted to the proximal portion of the rod. The at least one visible light source may comprise a green light source, and the visible light imaging data is in this case green light imaging data. The infrared image or video is used to detect thermal hot spots, and the green light image or video is used to detect metal whiskers or the like.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, and sensing elements and at least one light-emitting element that are located at a side of the substrate. The sensing elements include at least one first sensing element each configured to recognize fingerprint, and further comprises at least one second sensing element and/or at least one third sensing element. The at least one second sensing element each is configured to detect color temperature of ambient light. The at least one third sensing element each is configured to monitor a lifetime of one of the at least one light-emitting element.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence, and discloses a data encoding method, a data decoding method, and data processing apparatuses. Both the data encoding method and the data decoding method relate to an invertible flow-based model. The invertible flow-based model includes a target invertible flow layer, a model parameter of the target invertible flow layer is used to constrain an auxiliary variable generated in an inverse transform processing process, an operation corresponding to the target invertible flow layer includes a multiplication operation and a division operation that are determined based on the model parameter, and the auxiliary variable is an increment of a product of the multiplication operation or a remainder generated through the division operation.

Abstract: A low temperature sinterable copper nanoparticle or nanowire, comprising gold, zinc, nickel, tin, or aluminum as an alloying metal, and a capping agent. The nanoparticles or nanowires may be deposited on porous or fibrous substrates, the capping agent desorbed, and sintered at low temperature to form conductive traces or sensing elements. The nanoparticles or nanowires may be deposited by aerosol jet, inkjet or dispenser printers, for example.

Abstract: A novel imidazothiazole compound as an Autotaxin inhibitor, a pharmaceutical composition including the compound, and a use thereof in a treatment of a disease with a pathological feature of Autotaxin overexpression in a mammal is provided, wherein the compound has a structure of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, stereoisomer, tautomer, nitrogen oxide, metabolite, prodrug, or mixture thereof; wherein each of R1a, R1c, R2, R3, R6, Cy, Y, Z, and t is defined as described in the present disclosure.

Abstract: A data encoding method includes obtaining to-be-encoded data; processing the to-be-encoded data by using a volume preserving flow model to obtain a hidden variable output, where the volume preserving flow model includes a target volume preserving flow layer, an operation corresponding to the target volume preserving flow layer is an invertible operation that meets a volume preserving flow constraint, the target volume preserving flow layer is used to perform a multiplication operation on a preset coefficient and first data input to the target volume preserving flow layer, and the preset coefficient is not 1; and encoding the hidden variable output to obtain encoded data.

Abstract: Provided are novel heteroaromatic compound as an Autotaxin inhibitor, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a use thereof in a treatment of a disease with a pathological feature of Autotaxin overexpression in a mammal, wherein the compound is according to formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, stereoisomer, tautomer, nitrogen oxide, metabolite, prodrug, or mixture thereof; wherein each of R1, Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, W, Y, Z, and Cy is defined in the present disclosure.

Abstract: Nanoparticle-fibrous membrane composites are provided as tunable interfacial scaffolds for flexible chemical sensors and biosensors by assembling gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in a fibrous membrane. The gold nanoparticles are functionalized with organic, polymeric and/or biological molecules. The fibrous membranes may include different filter papers, with one example featuring a multilayered fibrous membrane consisting of a cellulose nanofiber (CN) top layer, an electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous midlayer (or alternate material), and a non-woven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibrous support layer, with the nanoparticles provided on the fibrous membranes through interparticle molecular/polymeric linkages and nanoparticle-nanofibrous interactions. Molecular linkers may be employed to tune hydrogen bonding and electrostatic and/or hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions to provide sensor specificity to gases or liquids. The sensors act as chemiresistor-type sensors.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for evaluating an operation of a distribution network based on data capture and Spark. The method includes: acquiring a packet from a terminal, and mirroring the packet through a mirroring port of a switch to acquire a mirror packet of the packet; analyzing the mirror packet, acquiring a 101/104 protocol packet, and storing the 101/104 protocol packet into an HDFS; acquiring the 101/104 protocol packet from the HDFS, parsing the 101/104 protocol packet on a Spark platform to acquire a parameter in the 101/104 protocol packet, and analyzing and processing the parameter to obtain a key indicator for evaluating the operation of the distribution network; and displaying the key indicator through a web page.

Abstract: Nanoparticle-fibrous membrane composites are provided as tunable interfacial scaffolds for flexible chemical sensors and biosensors by assembling gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in a fibrous membrane. The gold nanoparticles are functionalized with organic, polymeric and/or biological molecules. The fibrous membranes may include different filter papers, with one example featuring a multilayered fibrous membrane consisting of a cellulose nanofiber (CN) top layer, an electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous midlayer (or alternate material), and a nonwoven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibrous support layer, with the nanoparticles provided on the fibrous membranes through interparticle molecular/polymeric linkages and nanoparticle-nanofibrous interactions. Molecular linkers may be employed to tune hydrogen bonding and electrostatic and/or hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions to provide sensor specificity to gases or liquids. The sensors act as chemiresistor-type sensors.

Abstract: Provided are novel heteroaromatic compound as an Autotaxin inhibitor, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and a use thereof in a treatment of a disease with a pathological feature of Autotaxin overexpression in a mammal, wherein the compound is according to formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, stereoisomer, tautomer, nitrogen oxide, metabolite, prodrug, or mixture thereof; wherein each of R1, Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, W, Y, Z, and Cy is defined in the present disclosure.

Abstract: A low temperature sinterable copper nanoparticle or nanowire, comprising gold, zinc, nickel, tin, or aluminum as an alloying metal, and a capping agent. The nanoparticles or nanowires may be deposited on porous or fibrous substrates, the capping agent desorbed, and sintered at low temperature to form conductive traces or sensing elements. The nanoparticles or nanowires may be deposited by aerosol jet, inkjet or dispenser printers, for example.

Abstract: An electrolyte system for an electrochemical cell having an electrode comprising a chalcogen-containing electroactive material is provided, along with methods of making the electrolyte system. The electrolyte system includes one or more lithium salts dissolved in one or more solvents. The salts have a concentration in the electrolyte of greater than or equal to about 2M to less than or equal to about 5M. The electrochemical cell including the electrolyte system has a minimum potential greater than or equal to about 0.8 V to less than or equal to about 1.8 V and a maximum charge potential of greater than or equal to about 2.5 V to less than or equal to about 3 V.

Abstract: Provided are a closed-loop system and a method for testing an intelligent alarm application of an integrated monitoring system. The system includes: a host computer and a slave computer, where the host computer and the slave computer perform downloading files and command interactions through an internal protocol, the host computer includes a visual signal configuration module, a scheduling protocol analysis and simulation module and an evaluation module, and the slave computer includes an intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) server simulation module.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for evaluating an operation of a distribution network based on data capture and Spark. The method includes: acquiring a packet from a terminal, and mirroring the packet through a mirroring port of a switch to acquire a mirror packet of the packet; analyzing the mirror packet, acquiring a 101/104 protocol packet, and storing the 101/104 protocol packet into an HDFS; acquiring the 101/104 protocol packet from the HDFS, parsing the 101/104 protocol packet on a Spark platform to acquire a parameter in the 101/104 protocol packet, and analyzing and processing the parameter to obtain a key indicator for evaluating the operation of the distribution network; and displaying the key indicator through a web page.

Abstract: Provided are 1,3-dimethoxypropane (DMP)-containing battery electrolytes, and lithium ion batteries utilizing the same. The batteries comprise an electrolyte including DMP, a lithium anode disposed within the electrolyte, and a cathode disposed within the electrolyte. The cathode can comprise a lithium metal oxide or a chalcogen material. The lithium metal oxide can be LiNixCoyMnzO2 or lithium iron phosphate. The chalcogen material can include sulfur and/or selenium. The electrolyte can include one or more co-solvents including tetrahydrofuran, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran and 1,3-dioxolane. The electrolyte can include one or more lithium salts, including LiClO4, LiAlCl4, LiI, LiBr, LiSCN, LiBF4, LiB(C6H5)4LiAsF6, LiCF3SO3, LiN(CF3SO2)2, and LiPF6.

Abstract: The present application relates generally to Volt-VAR optimization for power distribution systems having advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Distributed energy resources (DER) such as photovoltaic arrays are becoming prevalent in distribution systems. These DER systems inject power into the distribution system which can cause unfavorable changes, such as a rise in voltage across the feeder lines of the distribution system. Existing control proposals suffer from a number of shortcomings, drawbacks and disadvantages. In some instances, traditional controllers for distribution systems with DER systems may require information related to the arrangement of the distribution system which is unknown and cannot be provided by the advanced metering infrastructure. There remains a significant need for the apparatuses, methods, systems and techniques disclosed herein.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying faulted segment(s) in a multiphase power network may include receiving a current measurement that was measured during a fault, obtaining a set of equivalent sequence impedances for the segments, building a set of sequence bus impedance matrices, selecting a segment, calculating coefficients for the segment based on the set of equivalent sequence impedances for the segment and the sequence bus impedance matrices, calculating an estimated per unit fault distance for the segment based at least partially on the current measurement and the coefficients, identifying the segment as a potentially faulted segment if the estimated fault distance for the segment is between about zero and about one, and repeating for each of the segments the calculating coefficients, calculating an estimated per unit fault distance, and identifying as a potentially faulted segment if the estimated fault distance for the segment is between about zero and about one.

Abstract: A highly accurate fault location method for series-compensated double-circuit transmission lines having series compensation devices and metal oxide varistors (SC&MOV) at first and second terminal ends is provided. Synchronized or unsynchronized current phasors and local voltage phasors are used as input to the fault location method. The voltages and currents at the fault point are formulated as a function of the unknown fault location. Boundary conditions for the particular IED-determined fault type are used to derive the fault location formulas.