Abstract: Systems and methods for simulating a circuit board design include receiving a printed circuit board design comprising an electronic component and a dielectric board, generating a first finite element model of the dielectric board independent of the electronic component, and generating a second finite element model for the electronic component. The method further includes combining the first finite element model with the second finite element model to obtain a final finite element model for the printed circuit board design.

Abstract: A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a plan view map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include a tag annotation. A tag identification system may identify tags within a predetermined range of the current position and the control system may execute an action based on an identified tag whose tag information comprises a telepresence robot action modifier. The telepresence robot may rotate an upper portion independent from a lower portion. A remote terminal may allow an operator to control the telepresence robot using any combination of control methods, including by selecting a destination in a live video feed, by selecting a destination on a plan view map, or by using a joystick or other peripheral device.

Abstract: A game server provides game data of a location-based game to a plurality of client devices based on a first set of one or more game designs. First activity data associated with the location-based game is received from the plurality of client devices based on the first set of one or more game designs. The game server determines whether the first activity data from the plurality of client devices meets a predetermined starting condition associated with a local virtual event. The local virtual event is started for the plurality of client devices in response to determining that the first activity data meets the predetermined starting condition. The game server provides game data based on the local virtual event to the plurality of client devices. The virtual event has a second game design that is different from the first set of one or more game designs.

Abstract: A surgical portal or portal system can include a portal assembly and a base plate assembly. The portal assembly can include a portal head and a portal stem disposed on a distal end of the portal head. The base plate assembly can include a depth stop disposed on a force dissipating plate. The depth of a working portal can be adjusted.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.

Abstract: A thin-film inductor device includes a substrate made of an electrically insulating material, a first coil unit, a second coil unit, and an inductance-enhancing structure. The first coil unit includes a first upper coil, a first lower coil, and two first electrodes electrically connected to the first upper and lower coils, respectively. The second coil includes a second upper coil, a second lower coil, and two second electrodes electrically connected to the second upper and lower coils, respectively. The first and second upper/lower coils are disposed spacedly and arranged by bifilar winding. The inductance-enhancing structure encapsulates the substrate, the first coil unit, and the second coil unit such that two terminal parts of each of the first electrodes and the second electrodes are exposed for external electrical connection.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a miniature resistor includes the steps of: providing a foil sheet; forming intersecting rows of slits to define a patterned foil sheet having a matrix array of resistor blanks that are interconnected at intersections of the intersecting rows; forming a resin film on a bottom surface of the patterned foil sheet; forming a plurality of protruding blocks on each resistor blanks; forming an encapsulating layer on atop surface of each resistor blanks without covering outer surfaces of the protruding blocks; performing a die cutting process to obtain individual resistor blanks; and forming two external electrodes respectively on the protruding blocks and on two side surfaces of the individual resistor blanks to obtain the miniature resistor.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.

Abstract: A chip resistor includes a main body having opposite first and second surfaces and a peripheral surface connected between the first and second surfaces, and first and second electrode units oppositely and separately disposed on the peripheral surface. The main body includes a resistance layer having opposite top and bottom surfaces, a metallic heat dissipation layer disposed on the top surface of the resistance layer, a metallic heat conductive layer disposed on the bottom surface of the resistance layer, and an insulating unit interposed between the resistance layer and the metallic heat dissipation layer, and between the resistance layer and the metallic heat conductive layer.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer inductance component includes forming through holes to define coil forming regions on an insulating sheet, forming conductive blocks in the through holes and first coil pattern layers at the coil forming regions, forming a guiding block on the first coil pattern layer, removing predetermined parts of the insulating sheet, forming a first magnetic layer partially exposing the guiding block, forming second coil pattern layers connected with the first coil pattern layers, forming inner pads connected to the second coil pattern layers, forming a second magnetic layer partially exposing the inner pads, forming outer pads on the inner pads, cutting along a periphery of each coil forming region, and encapsulating each cut individual component.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus; and a controller configured to: select either one of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility as a facility to be recommended to a user, according to an arrival time slot in which the user is to arrive at a destination; refer to, when selecting a food-serving facility, first profile data indicating preference of the user for food to select at least one of a plurality of food-serving facility candidates; refer to, when selecting an accommodation facility, second profile data indicating preference of the user for accommodation services to select at least one of a plurality of accommodation facility candidates; and transmit, regardless of which of a food-serving facility and an accommodation facility has been selected, facility data indicating a selected candidate, to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.

Abstract: A method for mass-manufacturing of a miniature resistor includes the steps of: providing a foil sheet; forming intersecting rows of slits to define a patterned foil sheet having a matrix array of resistor blanks that are interconnected at intersections of the intersecting rows; forming first and second photoresist films on the patterned foil sheet; forming holes in the first photoresist film; forming protruding blocks to fill the holes; removing the first and second photoresist films; encapsulating the patterned foil sheet and the protruding blocks without covering outer surfaces of the protruding blocks; performing a cutting process to obtain individual resistor blanks; and forming two external electrodes respectively on the protruding blocks and on two side surfaces of the individual resistor blank to obtain the miniature resistor.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a miniature resistor includes the steps of: providing a foil sheet; forming intersecting rows of slits to define a patterned foil sheet having a matrix array of resistor blanks that are interconnected at intersections of the intersecting rows; forming a resin film on a bottom surface of the patterned foil sheet; forming a plurality of protruding blocks on each resistor blanks; forming an encapsulating layer on atop surface of each resistor blanks without covering outer surfaces of the protruding blocks; performing a die cutting process to obtain individual resistor blanks; and forming two external electrodes respectively on the protruding blocks and on two side surfaces of the individual resistor blanks to obtain the miniature resistor.

Abstract: A thin-film inductor device includes a substrate made of an electrically insulating material, a first coil unit, a second coil unit, and an inductance-enhancing structure. The first coil unit includes a first upper coil, a first lower coil, and two first electrodes electrically connected to the first upper and lower coils, respectively. The second coil includes a second upper coil, a second lower coil, and two second electrodes electrically connected to the second upper and lower coils, respectively. The first and second upper/lower coils are disposed spacedly and arranged by bifilar winding. The inductance-enhancing structure encapsulates the substrate, the first coil unit, and the second coil unit such that two terminal parts of each of the first electrodes and the second electrodes are exposed for external electrical connection.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to libraries, kits, methods, applications and screens used in functional genomics that focus on gene function in a cell and that may use vector systems and other aspects related to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas systems and components thereof. The present invention also relates to rules for making potent single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) for use in CRISPR-Cas systems. Provided are genomic libraries and genome wide libraries, kits, methods of knocking out in parallel every gene in the genome, methods of selecting individual cell knock outs that survive under a selective pressure, methods of identifying the genetic basis of one or more medical symptoms exhibited by a patient, and methods for designing a genome-scale sgRNA library.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin-film inductor includes the steps of a) forming a separation film on a base plate, b) forming a first magnetic layer on the separation film, c) forming, on the first magnetic layer, a coil unit and an electrically insulating member enclosing the coil unit, d) forming a second magnetic layer on the first magnetic layer to cover the coil unit and the electrically insulating member and fill a space defined by the coil unit, e) removing peripheral portions of the first and second magnetic layers until a part of the separation film is exposed to obtain a semi-product, f) forming a cover insulating layer on the exposed separation film and the semi-product such that two contact regions of the coil unit are exposed, and g) removing the base plate. A thin-film inductor made by the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A thin-film inductor includes an electrically conductive structure, an inductance-enhancing structure and two terminal electrodes. The electrically conductive structure has a coil pattern, and includes an insulating base plate having via extending therethrough, upper and lower coils formed on two opposite surfaces of the insulating base plate, and a conducting member disposed in and fills the via to electrically connect the upper and lower coils. The inductance-enhancing structure covers the electrically conductive structure and fills a space defined by the electrically conductive structure to expose an electrode contact region of the lower coil. The terminal electrodes are disposed on the electrode contact region.

Abstract: A method for making a thin-film inductor includes the steps of: a) forming an array of coil units from an electrically conductive substrate, b) introducing a magnetic material into mold cavities of a mold unit, c) disposing each of the coil units on the magnetic material in a respective one of the mold cavities, d) introducing additional magnetic material into the mold cavities to completely cover the coil units, e) molding the magnetic material and the coil units in the mold unit to form semi-products, and f) forming, on each of the semi-products, two terminal electrodes and electrically connecting the terminal electrodes to the coil unit so as to obtain the thin-film inductors.