Abstract: An air disinfection device includes: a housing including an inlet port and a disinfection chamber that has a shape of a frustum; and a disinfection head disposed in the inlet port and including a fan for taking air into the housing, a filter for filtering the air; and a light source for generating disinfection light that forms a light frustum and disinfects the air in the disinfection chamber. The air disinfection device further includes a power source that provides electrical power for the disinfection head. The light source is arranged so that the light frustum is coaxial with the chamber frustum, and the light and chamber frusta diverge along the same direction. The lateral surface of the light frustum can coincide with the inner lateral surface of the disinfection chamber and the entire portion of a space defined by the disinfection chamber is located within the light frustum.

Abstract: A storage system has a first storage and a second storage. The first storage has a first plurality of blades with first computing resources, first RAM resources and first solid-state storage resources. The second storage has second plurality of blades with second computing resources, second RAM resources and second solid-state storage resources. The first computing resources and the second computing resources cooperate to determine on which blades of the first and second pluralities of blades, and in which storage of the first and second storage, to perform compute processes and memory controller processes, using which of the first and second computing resources.

Abstract: A storage system determines a size of a portion of data to be written as a RAID stripe across storage devices. The storage system determines aspects of the RAID stripe. Aspects of the RAID stripe include a data segment size for shards of the RAID stripe, a type of RAID, a width of the RAID stripe, a level of redundancy of the RAID stripe, and a selection of members of the storage devices. All of the determining for the aspects of the RAID stripe are on a dynamic basis and based at least on the size of the portion of data. The storage system writes the portion of data according to the determined aspects of the RAID stripe across the selected members of the storage devices.

Abstract: A fluid conduit disinfector includes a conduit with a fluid disinfection channel defined by inner side surface of the conduit, wherein the inner side surface of the conduit is reflective with a germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) light reflectance R of 50%-99%; a GUV light source for emitting GUV light into the fluid disinfection channel; a fan for forcing a fluid to be disinfected to flow through the fluid disinfection channel, and a filter for filtering particles from the fluid. The fluid disinfection channel may include a first section, a second section and a third section, wherein the first section has a cylindrical shape with a first diameter, the third section has a cylindrical shape with a third diameter larger than the first diameter, the second section has a truncated conical shape and is positioned between the first section and the third section.

Abstract: A system for testing intelligent vehicles, including a test bench, a hardware-in-the-loop sub-system, a software-in-the-loop sub-system, a target-in-the-loop sub-system and a test management platform. The test bench is configured to simulate the resistance of the actual road according to the road resistance parameters, and simulate the posture of the actual road according to the road posture parameters.

Abstract: A light emitting device with on-chip optical power readout includes a light emitting mesa and a light detecting mesa formed adjacent to each other on the same substrate of a chip, and a portion of the light emitted from the light emitting mesa is transmitted to the light detecting mesa at least through the substrate. The light emitting mesa and the light detecting mesa have exactly the same epitaxial structure and can be electrically isolated from each other by an insulation layer, or an airgap formed therebetween, or by ion implantation. The light emitting mesa and the light detecting mesa can also share an n-type structure and a common n-electrode while having their own p-electrode, respectively.

Abstract: A light emitting diode includes an n-type structure, a p-type structure, and an active-region sandwiched between the n-type structure and the p-type structure; a p-contact layer formed on the p-type structure; and a p-ohmic contact of a thickness in the range of 0.2-100 nm formed on the p-contact layer, wherein the p-ohmic contact comprises one or more layer of metal oxide.

Abstract: A photodetector includes an UV transparent n-type structure, an UV transparent p-type structure, and a photon absorbing region sandwiched between the n-type structure and the p-type structure; a p-contact layer formed on the p-type structure; and a p-ohmic contact of a thickness in the range of 0.2-100 nm formed on the p-contact layer, wherein the p-ohmic contact comprises one or more layer of metal oxide.

Abstract: A control method includes collecting a biometric image through a sensing area of a biometric recognition sensor provided at a control button of an electronic apparatus, in response to a press operation of a user on the control button; determining whether the biometric image meets a condition; in response to determining that the biometric image meets the condition, allowing the control button to be moved from a first position to a second position; and in response to determining that the biometric image does not meet the condition, prohibiting the control button from being moved from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: The presently disclosed technology includes a friction stir welding apparatus comprising a frame, a moving platform and a parallel mechanism composed of three branch mechanisms, wherein a first branch mechanism comprises a first sliding pair, a first revolute pair, a telescopic rod and a first spherical pair connected in sequence. A second branch mechanism and a third branch mechanism both comprise a third sliding pair, a second revolute pair, a third linkage and a second spherical pair connected in sequence. The friction stir welding apparatus has high stiffness, low inertia, high dynamic performance and high accuracy, which can achieve precision welding with high requirements on processing quality and accuracy for jointing annular seams of large-scale rocket fuel storage tank barrels in the aviation field, for example. The presently disclosed technology also includes a corresponding friction stir welding system.

Abstract: A monolithic multi-chip-collective light emitting diode includes: an n-type structure, a p-type structure, and an active-region sandwiched between the n-type structure and the p-type structure; a plurality of monolithically integrated mini chips, wherein each of the mini chips comprises a mini n-contact formed on the n-type structure which is exposed by an opening in the p-type structure and the active-region, a mini p-ohmic contact formed on the p-type structure, and a mini light emitting area defined by the mini p-ohmic contact; an n-bridge metal electrically connecting the mini n-contact of each of the mini chips to an n-bonding pad, wherein the n-bridge metal is formed on the p-type structure and on sidewall of the opening in the p-type structure and the active-region.

Abstract: A control method includes determining a first control signal of a first control unit, determining a second control signal of a second control unit, and controlling a light effect of the illumination device according to a control rule, the first control signal, and the second control signal. The first control signal is used to control an illumination device to generate a first light effect. The second control signal is used to control the illumination device to generate a second light effect.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a Service Deployment Infrastructure (SDI) request engine is disclosed. The SDI request engine can perform tracking, management and provisioning of services subscribed to by users of a computer infrastructure system. The SDI request engine can be deployed to process large volumes of provisioning requests and deliver time critical applications for customers. The SDI request engine can translate each request into a list of tasks of various sizes based on the requirement and configuration of the request, and store each task in a queue. In certain embodiments, the SDI request engine may evaluate a dynamic weight associated with each task to prioritize the processing of tasks, which may improve the overall throughput of request processing.

Abstract: Locking structure includes a first connector, a second connector, a locking member, a sliding member, and a holding member. The first connector includes a first cavity and a first protrusion in the first cavity. The second connector includes a second cavity and a second protrusion in the second cavity. The locking member is slidably received in the second cavity and extends into the first cavity. A peripheral wall of the locking member defines a fastening groove. The sliding member extends into the second cavity and abuts the locking member to drive the locking member to move toward the first protrusion and the second protrusion so that two opposite side walls of the fastening groove press against opposite sides of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The sliding member defines a latching slot. The holding member includes a latching member for latching in or disengaging from the latching slot.

Abstract: A smoke detector comprising a body, having a detection chamber therein; a first transmitting tube and a second transmitting tube, arranged in the body and configured to be capable of transmitting a first ray of light and a second ray of light into the detection chamber, respectively; a receiving tube, where the first ray of light and the second ray of light can be incident after refraction and/or scattering, and which generates outputs according to the intensity of incident light; and a control device, coupled with the receiving tube to receive a first output generated by the first ray of light on the receiving tube and a second output generated by the second ray of light on the receiving tube, and configured to determine whether there is a fire based on a difference or ratio between the first output and the second output, or the combination thereof.

Abstract: A superconductor tape and method for fabricating same are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a superconductor tape including a substrate and a buffer stack. In one embodiment, the buffer stack includes: an Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition (IBAD) template layer above the substrate; a homo-epitaxial film of MgO or TiN above the IBAD template layer; an epitaxial film of silver above the homo-epitaxial film; and a homo-epitaxial film of LaMnO3 (LMO) above the silver epitaxial film. The superconductor tape also includes a superconductor film above the buffer stack. These and other embodiments achieve a LMO film with substantially improved texture, resulting in a superconductor structure having high critical current and significantly reduced power consumption and cost.

Abstract: Heterostructures containing one or more sheets of positive charge, or alternately stacked AlGaN barriers and AlGaN wells with specified thickness are provided. Also provided are multiple quantum well structures and p-type contacts. The heterostructures, the multiple quantum well structures and the p-type contacts can be used in light emitting devices and photodetectors.

Abstract: A method of operating a storage system, and related storage system, are provided. The storage system establishes resiliency groups, each having a defined level of redundancy of resources of the storage system. The resiliency groups include at least one compute resources resiliency group and at least one storage resources resiliency group. The storage system supports capability of configurations that have multiples of each of the resiliency groups. Blades of the storage system perform distributed data and metadata storage across modular storage devices, in accordance with the resiliency groups.

Abstract: An input device includes a position acquisition device, a force sensor, and a processing unit. The position acquisition device is configured to obtain position information of at least one touch point. The force sensor is configured to obtain input mechanical information of a pressing force that is applied to the at least one touch point. The processing unit is configured to determine input information based at least on the position information of the least one touch point and the mechanical information of the pressing force. The position acquisition device and the force sensor are stacked on a cover of an electronic device.