Abstract: A submersible pump includes a housing having first and second compartments. A first flow passage is between the first and second compartments. A drive unit includes a drive shaft connected to a drive end of a pump shaft to drive rotation of the pump shaft, and an electric rotates the drive shaft about the axial direction. The electric motor is arranged inside the first compartment and a hydraulic unit is arranged inside the second compartment, The pump is a seal-less pump without a mechanical seal at the pump shaft and the drive shaft. A dosing unit receives environmental fluid, and a dosing unit provides a dosing fluid from the environmental fluid. The dosing unit is for dosing a presettable amount of the dosing fluid into the first compartment and through a first flow passage into the second compartment.

Abstract: A system for object processing is disclosed. The system includes a framework of processes that enable reliable deployment of artificial intelligence-based policies in a warehouse setting to improve the speed, reliability, and accuracy of the system. The system harnesses a vast number of picks to provide data points to machine learning techniques. These machine learning techniques use the data to refine or reinforce in-use policies to optimize the speed and successful transfer of objects within the system. For example, objects in the system are identified at a supply location, a predetermined set of information regarding object is retrieved and combined with a set of object information and processing parameters determined by the system. The combined information is then used to determine routing of the object according to an initial policy. This policy is then observed, altered, tested, and re-implemented in an altered form.

Abstract: A processing system for processing objects is disclosed that includes a plurality of receiving stations for receiving a plurality of objects, each object being associated with prerecorded data, and a plurality of processing stations, each of which is in communication with at least one processing station. Each processing station includes perception means for perceiving data regarding an identity of any of an object or a bin of objects, and capture means for capturing characteristic data regarding an object to provide captured data. Each processing station further includes comparison means for comparing the captured data with the prerecorded data to provide comparison data, and a plurality of distribution stations, each of which is in communication with at least one processing station for receiving objects from the at least one processing station responsive to the comparison data.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for data inversion techniques are described to enable a memory device to transmit or receive a multi-symbol signal that includes more than two (2) physical levels. Some portions of some multi-symbol signals may be inverted. A transmitting device may determine to invert one or more data symbols based on one or more parameters. A receiving device may determine that one or more data symbols are inverted and may re-invert the one or more data symbols (e.g., to an original value). When receiving or transmitting a multi-symbol signal, a device may invert or re-invert a data symbol by changing a value of one bit of the data symbol. Additionally or alternatively, a device may invert or re-invert a data symbol of a multi-symbol signal by inverting a physical level of the signal across an axis located between or associated with one or more physical levels.

Abstract: A support component for a chair is disclosed that includes a rigid base element, a support structure and a flexible cover. The support structure is mounted on the base element such that there is a space between the base element and the support structure when the support structure is without load. The cover is mounted directly on the support structure so that the cover rests on the support structure.

Abstract: An architecture for assessing and identifying fraudulent contact with client contact systems, such as IVR, includes threshold and machine learning scoring and filtering of calls based on these criteria. The criteria may include behavioral, situational and reputational scoring.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for delivering fluid from a syringe to a subject using a pumping device of a flow control apparatus. The method includes locating the flow control apparatus on a horizontal support surface. Providing the syringe with a volume of fluid including a total amount of preferred nutrient and an amount of non-preferred nutrient liquid. Mounting the syringe relative to the flow control apparatus whereby the syringe is oriented in a generally vertical orientation such that an outlet of the syringe faces upward. Initiating operation of the pumping device to draw the fluid from the syringe for a duration of time to preferentially deliver at least a portion of the total amount of preferred nutrient in the fluid to the subject.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a copolymer obtained by free radical polymerization, said copolymer comprising, based on the total weight of monomers: from 0.01 to 10 wt. % of a) at least one co-polymerizable photoinitiator having an ethylenically unsaturated group and a moiety that is decomposable under photo-irradiation to form a radical; from 0.01 to 10 wt. % of b) at least one epoxy (meth)acrylate monomer having at least one (meth)acrylate group and at least one epoxide group; and, from 80 to 99.98 wt. % of c) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which does not bear an epoxide group or a moiety decomposable under photo-irradiation to form a radical. The present application is further directed to a material which is crosslinkable under photoirradiation, said material comprising: a copolymer as defined above; and, at least one ionic photoacid generator (PAG).

Abstract: A ground milling machine comprising a machine frame, a driver's cab, a drive motor, movement means driven by the drive motor and a milling unit for milling up ground material, wherein the driver's cab has a protection roof and a front window device through which an operator located in the driver's cab can look forward in a forward direction of the ground milling machine.

Abstract: Articles and methods involving protective membranes for electrochemical cells are generally provided. In some embodiments, a composite protective layer comprising particles and a polymeric binder may be disposed on an electroactive material. The particles may be reactive with lithium, may capable of intercalating lithium, and/or may comprise intercalated lithium. In some embodiments, the electroactive material may be in the form of a first electroactive layer, and a second electroactive layer may be disposed on the composite protective layer. Certain embodiments relate to activating a composite protective layer by intercalating lithium into particles within the layer and/or by reacting the particles with lithium metal.

Abstract: A high strength cold rolled steel strip or sheet has a steel composition comprising (in wt. %) 0.15-0.25 C, 0.3-0.5 Si, 2.0-3.0 Mn, 0.5-1.0 Al, 0.005-0.5 Cr, a thermal stability ?>0, where ?=68?500×C+4×Mn+60×Al?22×Si, the content of C, Mn, Si, Al in weight %, and a mechanical stability (kp) 5-35, mechanical properties fulfilling the following condition: tensile strength (Rm)?980 MPa, and optionally at least one of the following conditions: yield strength (Rp0.2)?400 MPa, yield ratio (Rp0.2/Rm)?0.65, Total Elongation (A25)?10%; and a microstructure comprising: Retained austenite (RA)?8%. A method manufacturing the steel strip or sheet and an automotive structural part comprising the steel sheet also are provided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method of producing different bio-based and coated textile composite materials. These bio-based textile composite materials may be used for products in various industries such as, footwear, automotive and accessories. In the system and method described herein, coatings are applied to a backing comprised of regenerated cellulosic materials, with the coatings and the backing further treated to produce a bio-based textile composition.

Abstract: A pressing device for pressing meat products, in particular frozen and/or partly frozen meat products, preferably fresh meat products and/or bacon, comprises a pressing chamber which extends along a longitudinal axis and into which a product to be pressed can be inserted, wherein the pressing chamber comprises at least one counter-element and at least one contact element, which is movable in the direction of the counter-element, that cooperate such that the product inserted into the pressing chamber can be compressed between the at least one counter-element and the at least one contact element; and wherein the pressing device comprises at least one servomotor that is configured to move the at least one contact element.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for bit and signal level mapping are described to enable a memory device to transmit or receive a multi-symbol signal that includes more than two (2) physical levels. Some cyclic redundancy check (CRC) calculations generate one or more bits of CRC output per symbol of an associated signal and the output is transmitted via a multi-symbol signal by converting one or more CRC output bit to a physical level of the signal. The conversion, or mapping, process is performed such that the physical levels of the signal avoid a transition between a highest physical level and lowest physical level. For example, a modulation scheme or mapping process is configured to map different values of CRC output bits to different physical levels, where the different physical levels are separated by one other physical level associated with the signal or the modulation scheme.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a shaft, a first bearing, and a nut. The nut has a thread, which is screwed onto a threaded region formed on the shaft, and a bearing seat formed on the shaft adjoins the threaded region. The inner ring of the first bearing contacts the bearing seat, and the nut contacts the inner ring of the first bearing. The inner ring of the first bearing is arranged spaced apart from the threaded region of the shaft. A runout region of a thread cut into the threaded region of the shaft is arranged in a subsection of the bearing seat adjoining the threaded region.

Abstract: In a method of pressing and processing meat products, in particular frozen and/or partly frozen meat products, preferably fresh meat products and/or bacon, the products are inserted into a pressing chamber of a pressing device and are pressed in the pressing chamber by at least one displaceable contact element, with the contact element being moved by means of a servomotor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium, comprising a sensor unit for registering a value for the process variable, a time registration unit for registering at least one duration of operation and a calculating unit, which is embodied at least based on the duration of operation registered by the time registration unit and based on at least one influencing variable influencing the duration of operation to make at least one statement with reference to condition of at least one component of the apparatus. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for operating an apparatus of the invention.

Abstract: A brake controller of a machine can be configured to determine brake power associated with braking operations, such as operations to slow the machine or maintain a speed of the machine. The brake controller can allocate the brake power among systems such as a battery system, a resistive grid, auxiliary systems, a mechanical brake system, and/or other systems, based on a defined priority order of the systems. For example, the brake controller can prioritize using a regenerative brake system to charge a battery system during a braking operation up to a currently-available capacity of the battery system, and allocating any remaining brake power to a lower-priority system. The mechanical brake system can be the lowest-priority system, such that use of the mechanical brake system can be avoided unless an amount of brake power exceeds capacities of higher-priority systems to consume the brake power.