Abstract: The present invention provides a light source apparatus and method for integrating diffused light with high efficiency using a collimating including an axicon lens, collimating it, tuning the wavelength of desired light, and passing it.

Abstract: A wiper blade connector for connecting a wiper blade to a wiper arm, has: an adaptor secured to an end of the wiper arm; a base secured to the wiper blade; a locking member operatively mounted to one of the adaptor and the base and movable relative to the one of the adaptor and the base between a locked position and an unlocked position, the adaptor secured to the base via the locking member in the locked position, the adaptor detachable from the base in the unlocked position; a user-engageable member operatively connected to the locking member, the user-engageable member movable to move the locking member from the locked position to the unlocked position to detach the adaptor from the base.

Abstract: A resonance conversion device and a universal serial bus circuit are provided. The resonance conversion device includes an input filter circuit, a full-bridge LLC converter circuit, a transformer circuit, a rectifier filter circuit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether an indication voltage of a voltage command is less than or equal to a threshold value and to perform the following steps: in response to the indication voltage being less than or equal to the threshold value, controlling the full-bridge LLC converter circuit into a half-bridge operation mode, and regulating the DC output voltage by performing half-bridge burst mode control on the full-bridge LLC converter circuit based on the DC output voltage; and in response to the indication voltage being greater than the threshold value, regulating the DC output voltage by performing full-bridge burst mode control on the full-bridge LLC converter circuit based on the DC output voltage.

Abstract: A spinning-drawing-winding device for industrial polylactic-acid fiber includes a double-surface oiling mechanism, a filament shearing-suctioning device, a pre-interlacer and a splitting filament roller disposed in sequence according to a production process; a drawing-winding device cooperates with a spinning device, a tow passing from the spinning device through the double-surface oiling mechanism, the filament shearing-suctioning device, and the pre-interlacer in sequence until the tow is conveyed to the splitting filament roller; the drawing-winding device and the spinning device are configured as a parallel configuration, so that the tow between the spinning device and the splitting filament roller are arranged in a vertical direction and is tangential to the splitting filament roller, and therefore the tow is without deflection, thereby avoiding damaging the tow due to a friction caused by a higher deflection.

Abstract: Provided is a method of compressing an occupancy map of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud, and more specifically, a method of compressing an occupancy map of a point cloud in which an occupancy map image of a point cloud existing in a 3D space is compressed based on a compression quality or a patch-by-patch inspection method of the occupancy map image so that compression distortion is minimized when reconstructing the compressed occupancy map image so as to remarkably improve the quality of a reconstructed occupancy map image.

Abstract: Methods and computer systems for storing a query plan in a cache are provided. The method can include: determining a use frequency of the query plan; determining a target storage layer for storing the query plan based on the determined use frequency, wherein the cache includes at least two storage layers and each of the storage layers is associated with a compression level of query plans; processing the query plan according to the compression level of the target storage layer; and storing the processed query plan in the target storage layer.

Abstract: A support unit provided in an apparatus for treating a substrate using plasma includes a dielectric plate on which the substrate is placed, an electrode plate disposed under the dielectric plate, a power supply rod that applies power to the electrode plate, and a flange that has a shape surrounding the power supply rod and that is spaced apart from the power supply rod.

Abstract: Systems, devices, computer-implemented methods, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for performing multilayered generation and processing of computer instructions are provided. For example, a computing device may receive a request with instructions in a first computer language, parse the instructions in the first computer language, analyze the instructions in the first computer language in view of information describing structure of a first application, generate instructions in a second computer language different from the first computer language where the instructions in the second computer language are generated based on the instructions in the first computer language and the information describing structure of the first application, obtain a result from a second application where the result comprises information based on the instructions in the second computing language, and provide the result in response to the request comprising the instructions in the first computer language.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-strength and high-plasticity casting high-entropy alloy (HEA), having a general formula of AlaCobCrcTidFeeNifCug, where 6.0<a?8.0, 18.0<b?23.0, 7.5?c<12.5, 2.0<d?8.5, 15.5<e?20.0, 28.0<f?37.0, 0.2<g?10.0, and a+b+c+d+e+f+g=100. The casting HEA can be prepared in one step and has excellent mechanical properties. The various metal raw materials are environmental-friendly and suitable for large-scale industrial production.

Abstract: A data processing method includes performing a conditional logical process and an image difference calculation by a vector calculating unit in an intelligence processing unit (IPU) according to sensing data generated by a time-of-flight ranging device to generate depth data, and performing a filter process by a multiply-accumulate calculation unit in the IPU according to the depth data to generate output data.

Abstract: A solar tracker system comprising a plurality of on sun trackers and a plurality of off sun tracker. Each tracker is selectively adjusted to achieve a desired power output of the solar power plant system in an example.

Abstract: Systems, devices, computer-implemented methods, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for performing multilayered generation and processing of computer instructions are provided. For example, a computing device may receive a request with instructions in a first computer language, parse the instructions in the first computer language, analyze the instructions in the first computer language in view of information describing structure of a first application, generate instructions in a second computer language different from the first computer language where the instructions in the second computer language are generated based on the instructions in the first computer language and the information describing structure of the first application, obtain a result from a second application where the result comprises information based on the instructions in the second computing language, and provide the result in response to the request comprising the instructions in the first computer language.

Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly comprises a centrifugal pump assembly, a seal section and an electric motor comprising a drive shaft having a bore concentric with a longitudinal axis of the drive shaft. A fluid mover disposed within and coupled to the bore of the drive shaft is configured for urging lubricating oil upward in the bore. The fluid mover includes at least one helical flighting open in the middle. The electric motor may also have a bearing coupled to the drive shaft and a bushing that is retained by a housing or by stator structure of the electric motor. The bushing defining at least one fluid flow channel extending from an upper edge of the bushing to a lower edge of the bushing and a middle portion of the fluid flow channel open to the inside surface of the bushing.

Abstract: A verification method of an allelopathic inhibition mechanism based on ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference is disclosed. By taking ecological stoichiometric characteristics and growth characteristics of Phalaris arundinacea under an equilibrium state as a control, a relative coefficient of variation (RCv) is used to characterize an interference intensity of different intensities of allelopathic stress on ecological stoichiometric equilibrium of the P. arundinacea and an inhibitory intensity of different intensities of allelopathic stress on growth of the P. arundinacea. Then, through correlation analysis among parameters including the intensity of the allelopathic stress, the ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference, and growth inhibition, a method is provided to verify whether a new mechanism of allelopathic inhibition based on the ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference exists.

Abstract: A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.

Abstract: A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.

Abstract: A solar tracker system comprising a plurality of on sun trackers and a plurality of off sun tracker. Each tracker is selectively adjusted to achieve a desired power output of the solar power plant system in an example.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention enable an ADV to dynamically adjust its behaviors to emulate behaviors of a vehicle operated by a human driver when the ADV encounters an obstacle. A dynamic cost function can be used to collect real-time values of a set of parameters, and use the real-time values to constantly adjust a preferred safety distance where the ADV can be stopped ahead of the obstacle. An method includes determining a first distance to the obstacle in response to detecting an obstacle ahead of the ADV; and for each of a number of iterations, collecting a real-time value for each of a set of parameters, determining an offset to the first distance using the real-time value for each of the set of parameters, calculating a second distance based on the first distance and the offset, and controlling the ADV in view of the second distance using an expected value of each of the set of parameters, such that the ADV can stop at a point having the second distance to the obstacle.

Abstract: A foldable device includes a flexible display including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion; and a body including a first support portion which supports the first portion of the flexible display, a second support portion which supports the second portion of the flexible display, and a third support portion which supports the third portion of the flexible display. The third support portion includes a first rotation axis which connects the first support portion to the third support portion, and a second rotation axis which connects the second support portion to the third support portion.

Abstract: In a job management environment comprising a plurality of job systems and a scheduler for scheduling a job submitted to the job management environment to a job system for running, a processor, in a first job system, intercepts, from outside of a first container in the first job system, a first job from being sent to the scheduler. A processor, in the first job system, determines whether the first job is submitted from a container in the first job system. In response to a first determination that the first job is submitted from a container in the first job system, a processor, in the first job system, determines contexts of the first job, the contexts of the first job including a context related to the first container. A processor, in the first job system, sends the first job together with the contexts of the first job to the scheduler.