Abstract: A method and apparatus for mounting optical components is described. The apparatus is suitable for mounting multiple optical components and comprises a baseplate having opposing first and second surfaces. Recesses or apertures are formed within the baseplate and are located upon the first or second surfaces so as to define thermally activated optic mounting areas. Pillars are then located within the thermally activated optic mounting areas and these provide a means for attaching the optical component to the baseplate. The employment of the recesses or apertures act to significantly reduce the thermal conduction throughout the baseplate. As a result preferential heating can be provided to the one or more thermally activated optic mounting areas while maintaining the baseplate with a desired mechanical strength. The optical mounting apparatus exhibits a high thermal stability thus making the apparatus ideally suited for use within commercial optical system.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a sports training aid that may be useful in performing training exercises for improving, modifying or maintaining the swing, stroke or strike of an athlete or sportsperson, for sports such as tennis, table tennis, badminton, baseball, hockey, and fencing or other martial arts, and in particular golf, involving a club, bat, racquet or the like. The sports training aid includes a handle member and a spacing member that are configured to define a desired hand position relative to the torso of the athlete or sportsperson, and to maintain a desired relationship between the torso and hand position during the training exercise. The sports training aid may be adjustable to set the hand position relative to the torso differently for different exercises. The sports training aid may be modular and provide different training members attachable to the handle member, to facilitate practising different sporting actions, or different parts or variations of the same sporting action.

Abstract: A method for providing an object message about an object, recognized in surroundings of a road user, in a communication network for communicating with other road users. The road user includes a sensor system for detecting the surroundings and an evaluation unit for evaluating sensor data generated by the sensor system and transferring object messages via the communication network. The method includes: receiving sensor data, generated by the sensor system, in the evaluation unit; recognizing at least one object in the surroundings of the road user based on the sensor data, a movement parameter and a further object parameter being ascertained; calculating an object transfer priority; determining, based on the object transfer priority, whether the recognized object is to be included in an object message; and, if so, generating the object message including the recognized object, and sending the object message via the wireless communication network.

Abstract: A fuel cell device of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The fuel cell device includes a fuel cell, a supply air path leading to the fuel cell for a cathode supply air flow, and an exhaust air path leading away from the fuel cell for a cathode exhaust air flow. The supply air path and the exhaust air path are routed through a humidifier that humidifies the supply air and dehumidifies the exhaust air. The exhaust air path is further routed through a water separator that removes water from the exhaust air to provide evaporation water. A heat exchanger for cooling the fuel cell is provided that has an evaporative cooler for cooling the heat exchanger. The evaporative cooler is assigned to the water separator in fluidic communication and is supplied with evaporation water by the water separator.

Abstract: The invention provides a sensor system and methods for detecting the presence of water in an insulating material surrounding plant equipment and/or pipe work. The sensor system comprises a plurality of sensors located in and spatially distributed over the insulating material, each sensor being operable to provide a sensor output indicative of the presence of water in an insulating material. The system also comprises at least one reference sensor operable to provide a reference sensor output indicative of the presence of water in an ambient environment in the vicinity of the plurality of sensors. In addition, the system comprises a processor configured to receive the sensor outputs from the plurality of sensors and the reference sensor output. The processor is configured to correlate the sensor outputs from the plurality of sensors and the reference sensor output to provide a correlation data output for use in evaluating a corrosion condition.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods of construction and use to produce linear, rotational or counter-rotational motion, acceleration, and actuation by the use of moveable ferromagnetic, electromagnetic, conductive, or permanent magnetic objects. The moveable objects are oriented to produce or to be acted upon by asymmetric electromagnetic field distributions, thereby resulting in motion of the magnetic objects. Further, exemplary embodiments and applications are described herein.

Abstract: A device for monitoring an eye position of a user's eye in a virtual retinal display. The device includes a laser projector unit generating a collimated scanned infrared laser beam, and an optical system optically guiding the scanned infrared laser beam to the user's eye. The optical system includes an optical element for the scanned infrared laser beam to pass through, or diverting the scanned infrared laser beam. The optical element forms a region in which the collimation of the infrared laser beam is maintained, to generate a bright pupil effect and/or a retina speckle pattern. The optical element forms a second region in which the infrared laser beam is focused on an iris of the user's eye, a center of the user's eye, or a cornea of the user's eye, to generate a glint.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and X are as defined herein are inhibitors of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and are useful for the treatment or prevention respiratory diseases and conditions, skin conditions and ocular conditions.

Abstract: A hair styling appliance is described that includes an airflow unit for generating an airflow, a heating unit for heating the airflow, and a control unit for controlling the airflow unit and the heating unit. The control unit receives user data relating to at least one of a desired style, a hair type and a previous styling by the appliance. The control unit controls the airflow unit and the heating unit in a sequence of modes to style the hair of a user, the airflow unit having a different flow rate and/or the heating unit having a different heat setting in different modes. The control unit uses the user data to define the sequence of modes.

Abstract: A smart trailer system coupled to a trailer of a vehicle includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of the trailer, a sensor interface board electrically coupled to the sensor and configured to retrieve the measured parameter, and a master controller communicatively coupled to the sensor interface board via a data bus.

Abstract: A hair styling appliance is described that includes an airflow unit for generating an airflow, a heating unit for heating the airflow, and a control unit for controlling the airflow unit and the heating unit. The control unit controls the airflow unit and the heating unit in a predefined sequence of modes that includes a first mode, a second mode and a third mode. The airflow unit has a different flow rate and/or the heating unit has a different heat setting in each of the modes, and the control unit determines when to transition between modes of the predefined sequence.

Abstract: A method for generating an activation signal for a warning display of a user of smart glasses. First surroundings sensor signals from the rear and/or lateral surroundings of the user of the smart glasses are received using a processing unit. At least one object in the rear and/or lateral surroundings of the user of the smart glasses is detected as a function of the received first surroundings sensor signals. Second surroundings sensor signals are received as a function of the detected object. First and second motion signals of the user are received. A first movement trajectory of the detected object and a second movement trajectory of the smart glasses user are ascertained. A likelihood of a collision of the user of the smart glasses with the detected object is ascertained as a function of the ascertained first and second movement trajectories.

Abstract: A modular wearable optics device including: at least one wearable support element; one or more active optical elements adapted in use to display an image to a user; one of a plurality of bridging elements selected to position or orientate the one or more active optical elements in a predetermined location based on one or more anthropometric characteristics of the user.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a trailer wheel lighting system comprising: a light enclosure configured to secure to a side panel of a trailer; a lighting apparatus housed in the light enclosure operative such that light emanating from the lighting apparatus is directed in a vertically downward direction to illuminate an area proximate to a wheel of the trailer; and a relay system operative to route electricity from a trailer marker light system and a trailer turn signal system to the lighting apparatus, the relay system comprising: a relay socket configured to receive a plurality of wires, an electromechanical relay secured to the relay socket, the electromechanical relay comprising a time delay actuator.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining a viewing direction of an eye. A laser beam emitted by a laser source is passed over at least two scanning points on the eye, using a reflection element and a deflecting element. A self-mixing effect of the scanning laser beam reflected by the eye into the laser source is used, in order to determine, for the at least two scanning points, the optical path length from the laser source to the at least two scanning points on the surface of the eye and/or a reflectivity of the eye at the at least two scanning points.

Abstract: A method for a user activity recognition for data glasses. The data glasses include at least one integrated sensor unit. An activity of a user of the data glasses is recognized, via an evaluation of data that are detected by the integrated sensor unit, in at least one user activity recognition step carried out by a classifying unit. It is provided that when the user activity recognition step is carried out, the classifying unit takes into account information that has been ascertained in a (preferably) user-specific training step chronologically preceding the user activity recognition step, by training the classifying unit.

Abstract: An information handling system receives a request to switch a processor to a first frequency, and determines a coefficient to be used as a bias against the first frequency. The system also applies the coefficient to the first frequency resulting in a second frequency, and switches the processor to the second frequency.

Abstract: An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. Machine learning techniques can be employed determine whether a CI has been changed (e.g., added, updated, or removed) in the IT network. For example, a software code or a log message associated with a CI can be analyzed to determine whether the CI is a newly added or updated within the IT network.

Abstract: An optical arrangement of data smartglasses includes a first laser device configured to emit a projection light beam, a second laser device configured to emit a measuring light beam, a first scanner, a second scanner, and a beam combiner configured to bundle the projection light beam and the measuring light beam into a common light beam, wherein the first scanner is configured to deflect the projection light beam emitted by the first laser device in a first axis, and wherein the second scanner is configured to deflect the common light beam focused by the beam combiner in a second axis.