Abstract: A readout board for use in a micropattern gas detector comprises a plurality of detector pads arranged into a plurality of consecutive layers that are separated by dielectric spacer material. An electron cloud hitting the front side of the readout board will induce a charge on one of the detector pads of the uppermost layer. By capacitive coupling, the signal will propagate downwards through the consecutive layers until it reaches the bottom layer, from which the charges are read out and analyzed. The position of the impact can be determined by comparing the charges that have spread to neighboring readout pads. Since only the bottommost layer of the readout pads needs to be connected to readout electronics, incident particles can be localized at high precision despite the relatively large size of the readout pads in the bottom layer. The invention is effective both in a gas electron multiplier (GEM) and in a MicroMegas detector.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method for fabricating the amplification gap of an avalanche particle detector in which two parallel electrodes are spaced apart by dielectric spacer elements. A foil including a bulk layer made of dielectric material sandwiched by two mutually parallel metallic electrodes is provided, and holes are formed in one of the metallic layers by means of photolithography. The amplification gap is then formed in the bulk layer by means of carefully controlled etching of the bulk material through the holes formed in one of the metallic layers. The invention not only provides a simplified fabrication process, but also results in a detector with enhanced spatial and energy resolution.

Abstract: A electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a housing and a plurality of magnets fixed to an inner surface of said housing by a frame member. The magnets are embedded in the frame member. A plurality of first grooves are formed in an outside peripheral surface of the frame member, each of said first grooves extending axially from one axial surface of said frame member and having a axial length smaller than the axial height of said frame member. The housing has a plurality of first anchors formed on its inner surface, each of the first anchors engaging with a corresponding one of the first grooves.

Abstract: An electric motor has a housing, a rotor rotatably installed in the housing, n permanent magnets with the same polarity fixed at an inner surface of the housing. The rotor is a wound armature having a plurality of teeth extending in a radial direction. The housing includes n inner projecting parts, the permanent magnets and the inner projecting parts being alternately arranged in a circumferential direction about the rotor. The magnets generate 2n magnetic circuits via the housing and the rotor, n being an integer greater than one. The size of at least a portion of a first air gap formed between the permanent magnets and the rotor is greater than the size of at least a portion of a second air gap formed between the inner projecting parts and the rotor.

Abstract: A datacenter infrastructure comprising a plurality of datacenters is configured to provide services to users. Data (e.g., application data) provided to respective datacenters from a user is synchronized between different datacenters comprised within “a cloud” according to a multilevel synchronization scheme. Respective levels of the multilevel synchronization operate to transfer different priority (user) data between the plurality of datacenters, wherein respective priorities are determined based upon the importance of the data in providing a service. For example, data used to perform a service is synchronized by a synchronization component facilitating a higher level of synchronization between datacenters, while data not routinely used to perform a service is synchronized by a lower priority synchronization component.

Abstract: A motor for HVAC applications, has a stator; a motor housing forming a part of the stator; an end cap fixed to the motor housing, and a rotor rotatably mounted confronting the stator. The end cap has an opening formed by a ring-shaped collar, the collar being at least partly disposed inside the motor housing. A plurality of projections on an outer circumferential surface of the collar are received in a plurality of receiving cutouts in the motor housing. Two fingers formed at the opening of each receiving cutout are deformed to lock the received projection inside the respective receiving cutout. At least three of the projections being pressed against the axially inner end of the respective receiving cutout.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula are disclosed. The compounds are CCR1 antagonists which are useful for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Other embodiments are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes forming a lead frame including providing a tie bar plate, forming conductive columns on the tie bar plate, forming a dielectric layer on the conductive columns, applying a conductive shield layer on the dielectric layer, and exposing the conductive columns through the dielectric layer and the conductive shield layer; forming a base package substrate; mounting a base integrated circuit die on the base package substrate; mounting the tie bar plate, over the base integrated circuit die, conductively coupled to the base package substrate to form the conductive shield layer into an electro-magnetic interference shield; and removing the tie bar plate to expose the conductive columns from the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A test apparatus includes a circuit board. The circuit board includes a number of first golden fingers arranged on a first side of the circuit board, and a first test circuit. The first test circuit includes a first capacitor. A first terminal of the first capacitor is grounded. A second terminal of the first capacitor is electrically connected to a first pin of the first golden fingers. A first test pad is connected to the second terminal of the first capacitor. A second test pad is connected to a second pin of the first golden fingers. The second pin is grounded.

Abstract: The present invention is a hot runner which is easier and less expensive to manufacture and which has increased capacity. The hot runner is particularly well suited for use with multi-cavity molds. The improved hot runner includes a substantially flat main body having a main melt inlet formed in a center of the main body and a plurality of drops formed in the main body. A plurality of linear distribution channels is formed in the main body with each linear distribution channel intersecting a plurality of drops. The hot runner further includes a plurality of melt channels formed in the main body and communicating with the main melt inlet and the linear distribution channels.

Abstract: An electric motor comprises a stator and a rotor received in the stator. The stator comprises a shell. The shape of a cross section of the shell perpendicular to the rotor axis is a polygon. The shell comprises a plurality of side walls and arcuate connection portions connecting neighboring side walls. The stator comprises 2n magnets disposed in the arcuate connection portions. The magnets form 2m magnetic poles, where m, n are unequal positive integers. Optionally, m is equal to half or twice n. The permanent magnets of the motor are located in the inner angle of polygon shell. Thus the diameter of rotor can be the greater, and the power density of motor can be increased in the same volume.

Abstract: A wireless communication method and apparatus for detecting and decoding enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) indicator channel (E-HICH) transmissions are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives E-HICH transmissions and detects an H-ARQ indicator transmitted via the E-HICH by performing a binary hypothesis test. The WTRU then generates an acknowledgement (ACK) message or a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message based on the detected H-ARQ indicator. A reliability test may be further performed to improve performance, whereby the binary hypothesis test may be performed only if the reliability test is passed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for processing test cases for applications to be tested. The method includes evaluating two applications to be tested; obtaining test cases for the two applications to be tested and determining resources and execution times needed by the test cases for the two applications to be tested. According to the compatibility relationship between the two applications to be tested, and the resources and execution times needed by the test cases for the two applications to be tested, the test cases for the two applications to be tested are clustered to a virtual machine instance to test the test cases for the two applications to be tested on the virtual machine instance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding channel quality indicator (CQI) and precoding control information (PCI) bits are disclosed. Each of the input bits, such as CQI bits and/or PCI bits, has a particular significance. The input bits are encoded with a linear block coding. The input bits are provided with an unequal error protection based on the significance of each input bit. The input bits may be duplicated based on the significance of each input bit and equal protection coding may be performed. A generator matrix for the encoding may be generated by elementary operation of conventional basis sequences to provide more protection to a most significant bit (MSB).

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for sequencing long nucleic acid fragments.

Abstract: A trim circuit for a power supply controller includes: a control circuit; at least a capacitance type programmable circuit connection; and a switching circuit, under control of the control circuit, the switching circuit selectively coupling the capacitance type programmable circuit connection to anyone of an operation voltage and a programming voltage, for determining a programming state of the capacitance type programmable circuit connection.

Abstract: A method for forming a carbon nanotube composite includes the following steps. A substrate having a surface is provided. A carbon nanotube structure is disposed on the surface of the substrate. The carbon nanotube structure includes a number of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes define a number of micro gaps. The substrate and the carbon nanotube structure are disposed in an environment filled with electromagnetic waves such that the surface of the substrate is melted and is permeated into the micro gaps.

Abstract: A two mode power-split electric hybrid system and a method of control said hybrid system. The hybrid system is comprised of an engine, a transmission, an energy storage device and a control system for effecting said control method. Said transmission is a reconfigurable power split system, comprising a power-splitting device and an output power path selecting device. The power splitting device includes a compound planetary gear system and two electric machines which form a local series electric hybrid system. Said transmission regulates the output power state of said hybrid system by controlling power flow within said local series hybrid system. The hybrid system provides at least two operating mode, an output power split mode and a compound power split mode. Said control system includes multiple controllers and control modules.

Abstract: A biocompatible inorganic porous material having a three-dimensional coexistent network of interconnected macro-pores and nanopores produced by the steps of mixing an organic water-soluble polymer (e.g., polyethylene oxide or a block copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide), an alkoxysilane, and an inorganic water-soluble calcium salt in an aqueous acid solution, such that a sol-gel process of hydrolysis and polycondensation is initiated and thereby producing a gel; drying the gel to remove solvent by evaporation; and heating the gel to remove the polymer by thermal decomposition, thereby forming an inorganic porous material, which may be suitable for use as a bone tissue scaffold.