Abstract: This disclosure relates to semi-solid electrodes which are pre-formed prior to inclusion in lithium ion batteries, lithium ion batteries which incorporate the semi-solid electrodes and methods of making the semi-solid electrodes. An electrochemical cell includes a semi-solid anode formed of anode active material injected with an electrolyte and a first electrolyte additive, the semi-solid anode having a first SEI layer; and a semi-solid cathode formed of a cathode active material injected with an additional electrolyte and a second electrolyte additive, the semi-solid cathode having a second SEI layer, wherein the first electrolyte additive and the second solid electrolyte additive are different.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for logical-to-physical (L2P) address translation. A method may comprise receiving a request for a first logical data address (LDA), and calculating a first translation data unit (TDU) index for a first TDU. The first TDU may contain a L2P entry for the first LDA. The method may further comprise searching a cache of lookup directory entries of recently accessed TDUs using the first TDU index, determining that there is a cache miss, generating and storing an outstanding request for the lookup directory entry for the first TDU in a miss buffer, retrieving the lookup directory entry for the first TDU from an in-memory lookup directory, determining that the lookup directory entry for the first TDU is not valid, reserve a TDU space for the first TDU in a memory and generating a load request for the first TDU.

Abstract: A method for data processing, comprising updating intermediate storage information according to data to be processed and address information of the data to be processed in a first storage space, until the intermediate storage information has reached a preset size; and performing, in the first storage space, an operation corresponding to the data to be processed using the intermediate storage information, when the intermediate storage information reaches the preset size. By the above method, the computing cost for performing an operation corresponding to the data to be processed in the first storage space can be reduced, the efficiency in performing the corresponding operation can be improved, and with intermediate storage information adapted to the first storage spaces of different sizes, the number of operations on the first storage spaces can be reduced.

Abstract: A wafer level ultrasonic chip module includes a substrate, a composite layer and a base material. The substrate has a through slot passing through an upper surface and a lower surface of the substrate. The composite layer includes an ultrasonic body and a protective layer. A lower surface of the ultrasonic body is exposed from the through slot. The protective layer covers the ultrasonic body and a partial upper surface of the substrate. The composite layer has a groove passing through an upper surface and a lower surface of the protective layer, and communicating with the through slot. The ultrasonic body corresponds to the through slot. The base material covers the through slot, such that a space is formed among the through slot, the lower surface of the ultrasonic body and an upper surface of the base material.

Abstract: User Equipments (UEs) may be assigned a set of aggregated component carriers for downlink carrier aggregation and/or carrier selection. Some UEs may be incapable of transmitting uplink signals over all component carriers in their assigned set of aggregated component carriers. In such scenarios, a UE may need to perform SRS switching in order to transmit SRS symbols over all of the component carriers. Embodiments of this disclosure provide various techniques for facilitating SRS switching. For example, a radio resource control (RRC) message may be used to signal a periodic SRS configuration parameter. As another example, a downlink control indication (DCI) message may be used to signal an aperiodic SRS configuration parameter. Many other examples are also provided.

Abstract: Communications in a wireless network for carrier Selection and switching are provided. A terminal in the wireless network is simultaneously receiving data on at most m carriers. A base station in the wireless network sends an activation command associated with more than m carriers to the terminal. The terminal activates the more than m carriers. Then the base station selects a first subset from the activated carriers, and sends a first monitoring command associated with the first subset via a first physical-layer signaling to the terminal. When load and/or interference situations are changed, the base station selects a second subset from the activated carriers, and sends a second monitoring command associated with the second subset via a second physical-layer signaling to the terminal, wherein the first subset is different from the second subset.

Abstract: A that includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a first base station, on a first carrier, a synchronization sequence (SS) and performing a radio resource management (RRM) measurement in accordance with the SS. The method also includes performing cell selection and mobility support in accordance with the RRM measurement, when the UE is in idle mode and generating an RRM measurement report in accordance with the RRM measurement and transmitting, by the UE to the first base station on the first carrier, the RRM measurement report, when the UE is in connected mode.

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving at least one of a configuration of a first group of one or more downlink (DL) signals, a configuration of a second group of one or more open-loop power control (PC) parameters, a configuration of a third group of one or more closed-loop PC parameters, or a configuration of a fourth group of one or more loop states, receiving a configuration of a PC setting, wherein the PC setting is associated with at least one of a subset of the first group, a subset of the second group, a subset of the third group, or a subset of the fourth group, selecting a transmit power level in accordance with the PC setting and a pathloss, wherein the pathloss is determined in accordance with a DL reference signal (SS) and a synchronization signal (SS).

Abstract: An embodiment method, by a user equipment (UE), includes performing a channel measurement (CM) on a first subset of a set of non-zero-power (NZP) CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resources and an interference measurement (IM) on at least a second subset of the set of NZP CSI-RS resources. The second subset includes one or more NZP CSI-RS ports. The IM is performed according to assumptions: each NZP CSI-RS port in the second subset corresponds to an interference transmission layer, the IM being in accordance with a set of energy per resource element ratios each associated with one NZP CSI-RS resource in the second subset; and other interference not associated with the interference transmission layers is on the first and second subsets. The method includes generating a channel state information (CSI) report based on the CM and IM and transmitting the CSI report to a network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a case having a thermal barrier layer for a single cell. The composite case comprises a substrate and a double-layer structure coating on the substrate, wherein the double-layer structure coating includes an inner layer containing an aerogel material which has a ultra-low thermal conductivity, and an outer layer containing a barrier material which may prevent an electrolyte solvent from permeating into the inner layer. According to the present invention, the composite case can preserve cases in a prismatic or pouch cell from melting when cell goes to thermal runaway.

Abstract: A medicament for use in treating hypertension. The medicament is a glycoprotein, a mixture of polysaccharide and protein, a polypeptide or a protein.

Abstract: A system includes a heat sink module and a driving circuit module. The heat sink module includes stepped through-holes that each includes a cylindrical upper and lower portions connected by a ring-shaped surface. The bottom surface of the heat sink module includes grooves that respectively pass through the lower portions of respective sequences of the stepped through-holes. The driving circuit module includes conductive connectors and electrical driving surfaces that are disposed external to the heat sink module. Each conductive connector lies within a respective groove in the bottom surface of the heat sink module. The conductive connectors include internal connectors that each link at least two stepped through-holes in a respective sequence of stepped through-holes passed by a respective groove, and include external connectors that each link at least one stepped through-hole in the respective sequence of stepped through-holes to the electrical driving surfaces.

Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by the access node, to a user equipment (UE) served by the access node, configuration information of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource with a set of SRS ports, and transmitting, by the access node, to the UE, an indication of a subset of the set of SRS ports of the SRS resource.

Abstract: The invention provides a lithium ion battery, including an anode, a cathode and an electrolytic solution including imide anion based lithium salt and LiPO2F2. The cathode includes a cathode active material particle and a carbon conductive additive forming an island-bridge structure on the surface of the cathode active material particle. The carbon conductive additive includes graphenes partially covered with the surface of the cathode active material particle to form an island structure, carbon blacks attached on the surface of the graphene and carbon nanotubes connecting between graphenes as a bridge structure.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a new lithium ion battery system that can have both high energy density and fast chargeable capability. The invention provides a lithium ion battery, comprising an anode comprising an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, the anode active material layer having a mass load higher than 60 g/m2, a cathode comprising a cathode active material layer on a cathode current collector, the cathode active material layer having a mass load higher than 100 g/m2, and an electrolytic solution comprising an imide anion based lithium salt and LiPO2F2, wherein at least one of the anode and cathode active material layers comprises a spacer composed of a hard carbon.

Abstract: A system and a method for synchronization and link acquisition in cellular wireless systems with directional antennas are disclosed. In an embodiment a method on includes determining, by the UE, a subset of the antennas for communication, using, by the UE, the subset of the antennas to perform a measurement on at least one reference signal from a network controller, reporting, by the UE, channel state information (CSI) based on the measurement on the at least one reference signal and using, by the UE, the subset of the antennas to perform the communication with the network controller.

Abstract: A composite thermal barrier material (100) has a sandwich structure, and comprises an inner layer (110) consisting of an aerogel material which has ultra-low thermal conductivity; and two flame retardant layers (120) which comprising a flame retardant resin matrix (130), wherein the inner layer (110) is sandwiched by the two flame retardant layers (120), and the flame retardant layer (120) also contains an expandable graphite (140), a high temperature decomposable material (150) and a phase change material (160) as functional fillers dispersed in the flame retardant resin matrix (130). The composite thermal barrier material (100) has excellent thermal insulation property, and may stop the thermal propagation when one cell has thermal runaway.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal insulation composition and a preparation method and application. The thermal insulation composition is composed of aerogel material and organic resin; the composite mass ratio of the aerogel material to the organic resin is 5 wt %:95 wt % to 50 wt %:50 wt %; the porosity of the aerogel material is greater than 95%, the pore diameter of the aerogel material is less than or equal to 100 nm, the particle size of each particle of aerogel material is 5 nm to 20 nm, and the organic resin is filled in the pores of the aerogel material. The thermal insulation module component prepared from the thermal insulation composition has mechanical strength and thermal conductivity at room temperature, and if the battery goes into thermal runaway, the material becomes a heat-insulating material, blocking the heat transfer between battery cells, greatly improving the safety performance of the battery.

Abstract: A fiber-optic sensor matt detects movements of a person on the matt that cause microbending of a fiber-optic cable that is arranged into a symmetric pair of radial ring groups within the matt. There are no cross-over points or overlapping of the fiber-optic cable within the symmetric pair of radial ring groups that could cause fiber wear and noisy readings. Microbending of the fiber-optic cable pressed into a mesh modulates the light intensity received, which is analyzed to extract both respiration and heart BallistoCardioGram (BCG) waveforms by convolution with Daubechies dB5 wavelet and scaling functions. The reconstructed level-4 detail waveform is output as the extracted BCG, while the reconstructed level-6 approximation waveform is output as the extracted respiration waveform. Respiration and heart rates and variations can be generated from the extracted waveforms. An integrated Fast Wavelet Transform (FWT) using dB5 wavelet thus generates both respiration rate and heart rate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to multilayer composite materials with anisotropic thermal conductivity for high safety pack design. According to the present invention, the multilayer composite material has a sandwich structure, and comprises: an inner layer consisting of an aerogel material which has ultra-low thermal conductivity; and two thermal conduction layers which contain graphene based nano carbon and possess high thermal conductivity, wherein the inner layer is sandwiched by the two thermal conduction layers. When used as a spacer between two neighbor cell, the multi-layer composite material can help to achieve uniform thermal distribution, stop the thermal propagation and act as a spacer to accommodate the volumetric change during charge and discharge.