Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fingerprint identification module with a backlight, including at least one light source connected to a circuit board and at least one transparent area defined in a panel; meanwhile, an adhesive layer between the fingerprint identification chip and the panel is thickened; with the adhesive layer being the main light guide medium, light emitting from the light source emits out from the transparent area in the panel through transmitting the adhesive layer; and the light source can be arranged outside a packaging material or packed inside the packaging material with a bare die. The fingerprint identification module of the present disclosure is capable of realizing the backlight function of the fingerprint identification module in a limited space as well as lightening the transparent pattern formed in the transparent area of the panel.

Abstract: A pyrogenicity test assay and method of pyrogen testing that allows for rapid and ultrahigh sensitivity testing of parenteral pharmaceuticals or medical devices that contact blood or cerebrospinal fluid by employing a Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL) assay utilizing a photonic-crystal biosensor. The photonic-crystal biosensor is capable of determining the presence of endotoxins in a test sample by monitoring shifts in the resonant wavelength of an open microcavity affected by the changes in the refractive index of the analyte solutions used.

Abstract: Various examples are provided for photoacoustic image reconstruction and processing utilizing a backprojection approach. In one example, among others, a method for producing an image with a photoacoustic imaging system includes scanning an object with a plurality of light beams, detecting a plurality of acoustic signals produced by the light beams, and generating a reconstructed image from the plurality of acoustic signals by filtered backprojection (FBP) that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, a system includes a plurality of acoustic detector units and a processing unit. The acoustic detector units can receive an acoustic wave and convert it to time dependent electrical signals. The processing unit can reconstruct an image of the subject from the time-dependent electrical signals by FBP that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program that can cause a processing unit to reconstruct an image.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals fastened to the insulating housing, and a shielding element surrounding the insulating housing. The insulating housing has at least one docking surface. Each of the plurality of the conductive terminals has an extending portion. A surface of the extending portion of each of the plurality of the conductive terminals forms an insulation layer. The shielding element has a base body. At least one portion of a front surface of the base body protrudes frontward to form at least one sealing board attached to a rear of the at least one docking surface. The insulation layer of the extending portion of each of the plurality of the conductive terminals is exposed to the at least one docking surface, and is adjacent to and projects beyond a front surface of the at least one sealing board.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a temperature sensor includes an optical waveguide having a distal tip and a thermochromic sensing element mounted to the distal tip of the optical waveguide, wherein light transmitted through the optical waveguide to the distal tip is reflected back from the thermochromic sensing element and wherein the reflected light provides an indication of a local temperature at a location of the thermochromic sensing element.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for carpooling.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for carpooling. The systems may perform the methods to obtain a first transaction request associated with a first transportation service of a first service receiver at a first time point; obtain a second transaction request associated with a second transportation service of a second service receiver at a second time point; obtain service provider information of a service provider; determine an assignment strategy associated with combining the first transportation service and the second transportation service into a third transportation service according to at least one of the first transaction request, the second transaction request, or the service provider information; and send the assignment strategy to at least one of the first service receiver, the second service receiver or the service provider.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method of allocating orders. The system may include a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a processor. The non-transitory computer may store an executable module. The processor may execute the executable module stored in the computer readable storage medium. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium may include a receiving unit (231) and an order allocation unit (361). The receiving unit (231) may receive order information and user information. The user information may include location information and/or time information. The order allocation unit (361) may allocate an order based on the location information and/or the time information. The method may include receiving order information and user information, wherein the order information and the user information may include location information and/or time information, and allocating an order based on the location information and/or the time information.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals fastened to the insulating housing, a clamping element and two pairs of reinforcing blocks. A middle of a front surface of the insulating housing is recessed inward to form an insertion space. Two opposite sides of the insulating housing define two clamping grooves. The clamping element has a fixing board fastened to the insulating housing. Two opposite sides of the fixing board are bent frontward to form two clamping arms. Tail ends of the two clamping arms are connected with two clamping portions. The two pairs of reinforcing blocks are fastened in top walls and bottom walls of the two clamping grooves, respectively.

Abstract: A waterproof connector includes an insulating housing, a terminal assembly, a cover, a clamping part and a filler. The insulating housing has an inserting chamber, a mounting slot, a plurality of terminal grooves, an installing slot and a pair of clamping slots. The terminal assembly includes a plurality of terminals and a mounting lump molded outside the terminals. The mounting lump is mounted in the mounting slot of the insulating housing. The terminals are mounted in the terminal grooves of the insulating housing. The cover attaches on the bottom face of the insulating housing and the mounting lump. The clamping part is fixed in the installing slot of the insulating housing and tails of the clamping part project inward into the inserting chamber of the insulating housing. The filler is integratedly filled in the installing slot of the insulating housing. The waterproof connector greatly improves the waterproof effect.

Abstract: A card connector includes a first housing, terminals and a second housing. The first housing has a base portion, a front surface of the base portion forms a protruded portion, a rear surface of the base portion forms an extending portion. A front surface of the protruded portion forms an inserting chamber extended to the extending portion. The rear surface of the base portion defines a fixing cavity located below the extending portion. Terminal grooves are defined in a top wall of the fixing cavity and a bottom surface of the extending portion and communicates with the inserting chamber and the fixing cavity. The terminals include first terminals and second terminals integratedly molded in the second housing. The second housing with the first terminals and the second terminals are fixed in the fixing cavity. The first terminals and the second terminals pass through the terminal grooves and extending into the inserting chamber.

Abstract: A water-proof connector includes a housing, a plurality of terminals and a waterproof component. The housing has a base portion, a center of a top face of the base portion defines a cavity, a bottom of the cavity defines a plurality of terminal grooves extending frontward and rearward and penetrating a rear face of the base portion. The plurality of terminals are assembled in the terminal grooves of the housing. The waterproof component includes an insulation cover board, a sealing element. The insulation cover board is assembled in the cavity, the sealing element is secondary molded in a rear end of the cavity of the housing and on a rear end of the insulation cover board.

Abstract: A card connector for receiving an electrical card therein includes an insulating housing, a plurality of electrical contacts, a plastic sheet, a shielding shell and a heat activated film. The insulating housing has a bottom wall, a rear wall and two side walls which together form an inserting chamber. The electrical contacts are fixed in the bottom wall of the insulating housing. The plastic sheet is pasted on a bottom of the insulating housing. The shielding shell covers on the insulating housing. The heat activated film is welded between the shielding shell and the rear wall and the side walls of the insulating housing.

Abstract: A socket connector includes an insulating housing defining an inserting chamber in the front thereof and a receiving groove in the back face thereof, a plurality of conductive terminals disposed in the insulating housing, and a latch. Two sides of the receiving groove further extend forward to form two inserting grooves of which each front end is communicated with the inserting chamber. The latch has a first base plate positioned in the receiving groove. Two opposite side edges of the first base plate are bent and extend forward to form two first clamping portions inserted in the inserting grooves with front ends thereof projecting into the inserting chamber. Two opposite outer sides of the first clamping portions protrude outward to form a pair of bumps located in the rear of the first clamping portions and resisting against outmost two inner sidewalls of the inserting grooves.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heavy-release force release film having surface microviscosity and a preparation method thereof A release layer of the release film comprises: by mass, 10 to 25 parts of vinyl silicone oil, 0.5 to 5 parts of a cross-linking agent, 15 to 40 parts of silicon resin, 25 to 60 parts of a pressure-sensitive adhesive, 1 to 6 parts of a curing agent, and 30 to 60 parts of a diluent. The preparation method comprises: removing water, static electricity, dust and foreign matters on a surface of a substrate; uniformly stirring vinyl silicone oil, the cross-linking agent, the pressure-sensitive adhesive, silicon resin and the diluent according to the above mass part ratio; adding the curing agent into the mixture and stirring; coating the release agent on a processed surface of the substrate, drying and carrying out rolling-up.

Abstract: An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing which has a base body defining a holding cavity in a bottom thereof and an inserting body defining an inserting chamber, a plurality of electrical terminals disposed in the base body, a fixing member fastened in the holding cavity of the insulating housing to cover and hold the electrical terminals in the base body, and a sealing tape covering under the fixing member and adhered outside the insulating housing and the fixing member to seal up splicing gaps between sidewalls of the holding cavity and peripheral edges of the fixing member. So the audio jack connector can effectively prevent the water vapor and dust passing through the inserting chamber onto a printed circuit board of an electronic product where the audio jack connector is used.

Abstract: Various examples are provided for photoacoustic image reconstruction and processing utilizing a backprojection approach. In one example, among others, a method for producing an image with a photoacoustic imaging system includes scanning an object with a plurality of light beams, detecting a plurality of acoustic signals produced by the light beams, and generating a reconstructed image from the plurality of acoustic signals by filtered backprojection (FBP) that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, a system includes a plurality of acoustic detector units and a processing unit. The acoustic detector units can receive an acoustic wave and convert it to time dependent electrical signals. The processing unit can reconstruct an image of the subject from the time-dependent electrical signals by FBP that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program that can cause a processing unit to reconstruct an image.

Abstract: An endscopic imaging device is described that achieves longitudinal axis (z-axis) scanning into a tissue or sample, using a piezoelectric microactuator. In some configurations, additional lateral (xy-plane) scanning is also achieved, to allow for the creation of full three-dimensional imaging, ex vivo or in vivo. The techniques may be used to image and diagnosis allergic rhinitis and eosinophilic esophagitis in tissue.

Abstract: An endoscopic imaging device is described that achieves longitudinal axis (z-axis) scanning into a tissue or sample, using a piezoelectric microactuator. In some configurations, additional lateral (xy-plane) scanning is also achieved, to allow for the creation of full three-dimensional imaging, ex vivo or in vivo. The techniques may be used to image and diagnosis allergic rhinitis and eosinophilic esophagitis in tissue.