Abstract: A power coupler for transferring rotary power from a rotary power device to a load device includes a shear thickening fluid (STF) and a chamber that contains the STF. The power coupler further includes a drive shaft housed radially within a drive side section of the chamber and protruding outward from an end of the chamber for coupling to the rotary power device. The power coupler further includes a load shaft housed radially within a load side section of the chamber and protruding outward from another end of the chamber for coupling to the load device. The power coupler further includes a drive turbine housed radially within the drive side section and coupled to the drive shaft. The power coupler further includes a load turbine housed radially within the load side section at a fixed operational distance from the drive turbine and coupled to the load shaft.

Abstract: A head unit system for controlling motion of an object includes a secondary object sensor, shear thickening fluid (STF), and a chamber configured to contain a portion of the STF. The chamber further includes a front channel and a back channel. The head unit system further includes a piston housed at least partially radially within the piston compartment and separating the back channel and the front channel. The piston includes a first piston bypass and a second piston bypasses to control flow of the STF between opposite sides of the piston. The chamber further includes a set of fluid manipulation emitters to control the flow of the STF to cause selection of one of a variety of shear rates for the STF within the chamber.

Abstract: Certain embodiments reduce the risks of traditionally programmed algorithms such as syntax errors, unclear logic, and the need for a non-trader programmer to develop the algorithm as specified by a trader by reducing or eliminating the writing of programming code by a user. Certain embodiments provide a design canvas area and blocks for designing an algorithm. Certain embodiments provide for grouping blocks placed in the design canvas area. Certain embodiments provide for virtualized group blocks enabling dynamic instantiation of portions of an algorithm to handle particular discrete events. Certain embodiments provide for operation of some or all portions of an algorithm when a connection between a client device and an algorithm server is broken.

Abstract: Packaging methods include inserting an article into a virtual pouch defined by folding and tacking a first sheet of textile material. The first sheet is then folded about the article such that the first sheet encompasses the article. A second sheet of a textile material is then folded about the first sheet into a configuration such that the second sheet entirely envelops and encloses the first sheet and the textile article. The second folded sheet is then secured in the enveloping configuration. Alternatively, the article is wrapped in and encompassed by a first sheet of textile material by folding and the resulting package is then enclosed within a virtual pouch created in a second sheet of textile material. The resulting outer sheet enclosing the inner sheet with the textile article is then secured in its enclosing configuration with a strap. The packaging materials can be cleaned and decontaminated for reuse.

Abstract: A method includes introducing one or more waste plastic feedstocks in neat form to a fluid catalyst cracking unit, and processing the one or more waste plastic feedstocks in neat form in the presence of a catalyst under fluidized catalytic cracking conditions.

Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly provided to the frame assembly and including a seal-forming structure structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector provided to the frame assembly and operatively connected to an air delivery tube for supplying the air at positive pressure along an air flow path. The cushion assembly is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the air delivery connector. The air delivery connector is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the cushion assembly.

Abstract: A method for execution by a computing entity includes interpreting a fluid flow response from fluid flow sensors to produce a piston position of a piston associated with a head unit device. The head unit device includes a chamber filled with a shear thickening fluid (STF). The method further includes determining a door position based on the piston position. The method further includes determining parameters for wireless signals based on the door position. The method further includes facilitating utilization of the parameters for the wireless signals to promote successful communication of status and/or control of the door via the wireless signals.

Abstract: The invention relates to an indane compound according to Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, L, n and p are as defined herein. The compounds are useful for treating antibacterial infection either as stand-alone antibiotics, or in combination with further antibiotics.

Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, engaging an interventional device of a catheter system with clot material in a blood vessel and withdrawing the interventional device and the portion of the clot material through a guide catheter. In some embodiments, the catheter system can include an attachment/valve member coupled to a proximal portion of the guide catheter, and the method can include unsealing the attachment/valve member to facilitate withdrawing the interventional device through the attachment/valve member without significant retention of clot material within the attachment/valve member. The method can further include resealing and aspirating the guide catheter before advancing another interventional device to the clot material to again engage and remove clot material from the blood vessel.

Abstract: A sealed speaker enclosure for a bass speaker that is hand-insertable and removable from a hard-side motorcycle saddlebag. The body of the enclosure complements the interior space of the saddlebag making sealing contact with the interior walls of the saddlebag. The bass speaker faces the motorcycle side of the saddlebag within the shock absorber tower indentation overlapping and opening. A speaker grill overlays the opening in the shock absorber tower indentation of the saddlebag.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to an image capture device and one or more processors. The image capture device can capture one or more images. The one or more processors can determine that a parameter, such as gain or exposure, of the one or more images satisfies a threshold and cause the image capture device to reduce a frame rate of detecting the one or more images responsive to the parameter satisfying the threshold.

Abstract: A furnace may include a furnace muffle that can accommodate relatively larger workpieces than other furnaces. The furnace muffle may include a cover that includes one or more sets of plates. The plates may be configured to prevent sag during extended runtimes while still enabling the furnace to reach a temperature (e.g., a temperature between 1590° C. and 1650° C.) for sintering a workpiece. In some examples, the cover may include a first set of plates of a first material (e.g., a first alumina refractory material) and a second set of plates of a second material (e.g., a second alumina refractory material). The second material may have greater thermal conductivity than the first material. Accordingly, plates of the second set may be located in higher temperature zones of the furnace to enable efficient heat transfer from heater elements through the furnace muffle to a contact plate where a workpiece is heated.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to new crystalline tebipenem pivoxil salt forms, including a crystalline tebipenem pivoxil ethane sulfonate salt form (Form A), a crystalline tebipenem pivoxil ketoglutarate salt form (Form A), tebipenem pivoxil maleate salt forms (Form A and Form B), a tebipenem pivoxil malate salt form (Form A), a tebipenem pivoxil methane sulfonate salt form (Form B), a tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide salt form (Form B), and a tebipenem pivoxil edisylate salt form (Form A). The disclosure also includes a composition, comprising a crystalline tebipenem pivoxil salt and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and further includes a method for treating an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection, comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a crystalline tebipenem pivoxil salt.

Abstract: A dispenser head for in-line mixing and dispensing of beverages, which may be carbonated or nitrogenated. The dispenser head comprising a pump, a dilution mechanism, an additive mechanism, and outlet nozzle and optionally a regulation system. In use, the pump can pump concentrate liquid for the liquid product from a concentrate source to the dilution mechanism; the dilution mechanism can receive diluent liquid suitable for the liquid product from a diluent source, operable to mix the diluent liquid and the concentrate liquid and provide diluted concentrate liquid; and the additive mechanism can receive additive fluid for the liquid product from an additive source, to combine the diluted concentrate liquid and the additive fluid.

Abstract: There may be provided a module for use in a video decoder, configured to: receive a base decoded video signal from a base decoding layer; receive one or more layers of correction data; and, combine the correction data with the base decoded video signal to modify the base decoded video signal such that, when one or more layers of positive residual data are combined with the modified base decoded video signal to generate enhanced video data, the enhanced data corresponds to a combination of the base decoded video signal with one or more layers of residual data from the enhancement decoding layer, wherein the positive residual data comprises only values greater than or equal to zero and is based on one or more layers of residual data from an enhancement decoding layer, the one or more layers of residual data being generated based on a comparison of data derived from a decoded video signal and data derived from an original input video signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for adaptive regeneration systems for electric vehicles. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining, by an adaptive regeneration system, that an electric vehicle is decelerating, determining an output voltage of a power source at the electric vehicle, determining that a voltage potential of a battery system at the electric vehicle is greater than the output voltage, and causing the voltage potential of the battery system to be modified to a value equal to or less than the output voltage.

Abstract: A system for storing geometry data for use by a graphics processor when rendering a frame that represents a view of a scene using a ray tracing process. The system comprises a processing circuit that is configured to prepare a ray tracing acceleration data structure for use when rendering a frame that represents a view of a scene using a ray tracing process. Graphics primitives for an end point of the ray tracing acceleration data structure is sorted into groups of contiguous graphics primitives, and fewer instances of vertex data is stored for a graphics primitive that is shared by at least two graphics primitives of the group of contiguous graphics primitives than the number of graphics primitives in the group of contiguous graphics primitives that share the vertex.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data visualization in the metaverse with portability to multiple metaverse channels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for data visualization in the metaverse with portability to multiple metaverse channels may include: (1) ingesting, by a data rendering computer program, data from a plurality of data sources, each data source associated with an entity; (2) categorizing, by the data rendering computer program, the ingested data into a plurality of categories, wherein each category of data comprises data from a subset of two or more of the plurality of the data sources; and (3) streaming, by the data rendering computer program, one of the categories of data to an immersive input/output device associated with a user over one of a plurality of metaverse channels, wherein the category of data is consumed by the immersive input/output device.

Abstract: Compounds, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds are disclosed, wherein the compounds have the structure of Formula Ia, as defined in the specification. In an embodiment, a pharmaceutical composition can be in a liquid dosage form and can comprise a therapeutically effective amount of the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an adjuvant and a therapeutic agent. In another embodiment, a method of adjuvant treating a disorder or condition can comprising administering the pharmaceutical composition to a patient.