Abstract: Provided is a visual target display device or a visual target presentation method which can test the cone-specific visual function more accurately in a device that displays a visual target, of a chromatic color, for testing the color-related visual function of a subject or a method of presenting the visual target. A visual target of a chromatic color and a background around the visual target are presented in such a way that the brightness of the background is a numerical value between a numerical value 10% less than the brightness of the visual target and a numerical value 10% greater than the brightness of the visual target and a combination of the color of the visual target and the color of the background is a combination of colors which are in a relationship of confusion colors in dichromatism.

Abstract: A rotor lamination for an electric machine includes a body having a first axial surface, a second axial surface, a central opening, and an outer annular edge defining a radius. A plurality of magnet receiving openings are formed in the body. Each of the plurality of magnet receiving openings includes a first magnet receiving portion and a second magnet receiving portion. A composite insert is mounted in the body. The composite insert extending along the radius across the magnet receiving opening physically separating the first magnet receiving portion from the second magnet receiving portion.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing unit, a position determiner that randomly determines a position where a first information code is to be set, a modifier that modifies print data for printing an image, the first information code, and a positional information code having recorded therein positional information at the time of printing that indicates the position determined by the position determiner so that the first information code is set at the position determined by the position determiner, an acquirer that acquires the position of the first information code on a print medium as positional information and acquires the positional information at the time of the printing from the positional information code, and a determiner that determines whether the printing result is a falsified matter based on comparison of the positional information after the printing with the positional information at the time of the printing.

Abstract: At least one beam of an optical wave is transmitted along a transmission angle toward a target location from a send aperture of a transmitter. A collected optical wave is received at receive apertures of two or more receivers. Each receiver comprises: a receive aperture arranged in proximity to at least one of the send aperture or a receive aperture of a different receiver, an optical phased array within the receive aperture, which receives at least a portion of a collected optical wave arriving at the receive aperture along a respective collection angle, and a detector that provides a signal based on the received portion of the collected optical wave. An estimated distance associated with the collected optical wave is determined based on a combination that includes a respective component corresponding to each of two or more of the signals provided from the detectors of the two or more receivers.

Abstract: An ammunition feeding device is disclosed. The ammunition feeding device comprises a body, a follower inside the body, a magazine spring contacting the follower, and a spring latch attached to the body, where the spring latch extends from a position inside the body to a position outside the body through an opening in the top of the body.

Abstract: There is provided a maintenance management system including a plurality of operation components that transmit and receive a message and autonomously operate and a message control device that controls the message transmitted and received among the operation components, the maintenance management system maintaining and managing a service. Each of the operation components executes a predetermined action when receiving a message addressed to the operation component and, when the execution of the action is successful, transmits, to a transmission source, a message to which a label allocated to the operation component is given. The message control device receives the message transmitted by the operation component, determines the operation component at the transmission destination from a label given to the transmission source of the message, and transmits the message to the operation component at the transmission destination.

Abstract: Various implementations of a current flattening circuit are disclosed, including those utilizing a feedback current regulator, a feedforward current regulator, and a constant current source.

Abstract: A hardware (e.g., a process and/or circuitry) and/or software-based controller for septic system grinder or chopper units monitors load to the unit. As the unit encounters debris, electrical and mechanical load on the unit increases. In some cases, a signal to stop the unit from grinding/chopping (including but not limited to a signal based a waste-water level) is received while the unit is under the increased load. The controller may override the stop signal and continue sending power to the unit to clear the unit from debris causing increased load. The override may cease when it is determined that the debris has been cleared, such as when it is determined that the increased mechanical and/or electrical load on the unit has decreased or returned to a target load, allowing the unit to stop. The unit may include self-configuration functionality, determining thresholds for signaling override, target load, etc.

Abstract: The invention includes a method including the steps of obtaining a plurality of images, each of the images in the plurality having at least one corresponding region, generating a merged image, the merged image also having the corresponding region. The step of generating includes selecting an image source from the plurality of images to source image data for the corresponding region in the merged image by comparing attributes of the corresponding regions of the plurality of images to identify the image source having preferred attributes.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink transmission in a downlink resource of a first bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a first time division duplexing (TDD) pattern. The UE may transmit, to the base station based at least in part on the downlink transmission, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource of the first BWP or of a second BWP associated with a second TDD pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A system for digital communication of a flight maneuver. The system includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive at least a flight datum from an aircraft, generate a traffic rendition as a function of the at least a flight datum, identify a flight maneuver as a function of the traffic rendition and a traffic landscape, and transmit the flight maneuver to the aircraft. A method for digital communication of a flight maneuver is also provided.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition including a coloring material, a resin, and a solvent, in which the resin includes a resin having a structure represented by Formula (1); a film formed of the resin composition; an optical filter; a solid-state imaging element; and an image display device. In Formula (1), Z1 represents an (m+n)-valent linking group, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a single bond or a divalent linking group, A1 represents a group including a coloring material adsorption portion, P1 represents a polymer chain, n represents 1 to 20, m represents 1 to 20, and m+n represents 2 to 21, and in a case where m is 1, the polymer chain represented by P1 includes a repeating unit having an oxetane group, and in a case where m is 2 or more, at least one polymer chain of m pieces of polymer chains represented by P1 includes a repeating unit having an oxetane group.

Abstract: Identification and use of proteins fluorescently labeled and that undergo a change in fluorescence index upon binding bilirubin are described. Probes are disclosed which are labeled at a cysteine or lysine residue and also probes labeled at both cysteine and lysine with two different fluorophores. These probes are useful for determination of unbound bilirubin levels in a fluid sample.

Abstract: Provided is a service proposal support system including an arithmetic device and a storage device. The arithmetic device is configured to calculate, for each of the solutions that are proposable by the proposer, a matching degree between system elements required for each of the solutions and the current system elements of the customer, output, based on the matching degree, one or more candidates for the solution to be proposed to the customer, and output, for at least any one of the one or more candidates for the solution, when a lacking system element exists in the current system elements of the customer compared to system elements required for the at least any one of the one or more candidates for the solution, information indicating the lacking system element.

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing comparable items for a query item are provided. A query is constructed based upon a set of similarity characteristics and a set of difference characteristics specified for a query item. The query is executed to identify a set of query item results comprising comparable items having characteristics similar to the set of similarity characteristics and characteristics different from the set of difference characteristics. The set of query item results are provided as query results for the query.

Abstract: An improved bolt and bolt carrier with integral gas key having an extension nozzle threadedly secured and pinned to the gas key for use with a direct gas operated firearm is provided. The extension nozzle is designed to receive a portion of the host firearm's gas operating system. The firing pin retaining pin is oriented so as to expose its widest profile to the firing pin's annular flange, increasing its service life. The bolt has a plurality of lugs extending from its forward end. The extractor recess is constructed so that the face of the bolt is round and the adjacent lugs fully supported. The extractor engages approximately 17% more of a seated ammunition cartridge's rim as compared to the prior art AR15/M16 extractor. The result is an improved bolt and bolt carrier which provides for increased operational reliability.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) conditionally operating, at a first frequency, a first stage of an eye-tracking system processing pipeline that detects a region of interest and (ii) operating, at a second frequency that is substantially greater than the first frequency, a second stage of the eye-tracking system processing pipeline that predicts a gaze orientation based at least in part on the detected region of interest. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A packaging structure and a packaging method of edge couplers and a fiber array are provided. The packaging structure includes a silicon substrate, an edge coupler, and a fiber array. Multiple edge couplers are arranged in a main body portion of the silicon substrate, and an end of the edge coupler extends to a step groove of the silicon substrate. At least a part of the cover of the fiber array is accommodated in the step groove. Multiple fibers in the fiber array correspondingly pass through multiple lead channels of the cover and are then coupled with the edge couplers in the step groove. The edge couplers butt the fibers in the fiber array. The cover is moved until a part of the cover is accommodated in the step groove, so that the fibers can be aligned with the edge couplers in the step groove.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a placement section on which a subject is placed, an image capturing unit that is disposed above the placement section and captures an image of the subject, an irradiating unit that is disposed above the placement section and irradiates the subject with light, and a display unit that is disposed between the placement section and the image capturing unit and between the placement section and the irradiating unit, the display unit being located at a position outside an image capturing range of the image capturing unit and an irradiation range of the irradiating unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a forming method thereof. The forming method includes: providing a substrate; forming node contacts inside the substrate; forming landing pads on an upper surface of the substrate, where the landing pad is in contact with the node contact; forming a barrier layer on exposed surfaces of the landing pads and the node contacts; and after performing an electrical test on the semiconductor device on which the barrier layer is formed, removing the barrier layer on an upper surface of the landing pads.

Abstract: A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes an n-type epitaxial layer provided on a SiC substrate, a front surface electrode provided on the epitaxial layer, and a p-type electric field relieving region provided in the upper layer of the epitaxial layer in a terminal region. On the epitaxial layer, a first protective film composed of an interlayer insulating film and a protective oxide film that covers at least a part of the electric field relieving region is provided. A second protective film composed of a polyimide protective film is provided via a silicon nitride film so as to cover the outer end portion of the surface electrode, the first protective film, and at least a part of the epitaxial layer. The silicon nitride film protrudes from the second protective film at both an inner side end portion and an outer side end portion.

Abstract: A method of arranging an overhead sectional door (SD) in a doorframe (10; 20) that defines a door opening, the overhead sectional door (SD) comprising a plurality of door panel sections (100; 200; 300; 400; 500). The method disclosed herein involves: a) fitting a first door panel section (100) in the doorframe (10; 20), b) fitting a second door panel section (200) in the doorframe (10; 20), and c) actuating an electric motor (M) to cause the first door panel section (100) to push the section door panel section (200) a distance in an upward direction.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for preparing 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol(CHDM), more specifically to a method for preparing 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol having a high rate of trans isomers without an isomerization reaction step.

Abstract: A mud turbine apparatus includes a rotor including an inner ring configured to be positioned around a drill pipe, an outer ring that is positioned around and spaced apart from the inner ring, a plurality of magnets coupled to the outer ring, and a plurality of blades coupled to and extending between the inner ring and the outer ring. The apparatus also includes a stator including a housing configured to fit into an annulus between the drill pipe and a surrounding tubular, and to receive the outer ring at least partially therein, and a plurality of coils that communicate with the magnets, such that in a first mode of operation, the rotor rotates to assist fluid flow therethrough and decrease drilling fluid pressure in the annulus, and in a second mode of operation, the rotation of the rotor impedes fluid flow therethrough and increases drilling fluid pressure in the annulus.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04240664 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04240664, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04240664, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04240664, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04240664. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04240664. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04240664, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04240664 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: A coating device includes a roll that conveys a material to be coated or onto which a coating material is applied, and a coater used to apply a coating material onto the material to be coated or onto the roll. At least a portion of the roll to be in contact with a material to be coated or at least a portion of the roll onto which a coating material is applied is formed of a low expansion material that has a linear expansion coefficient in the range from 0 [1/K] to 6.0×10?6 [1/K] inclusive.

Abstract: This wire rope inspection device is provided with an urging unit for urging a detection unit in a direction to approach a wire rope by an elastic force to an inspection position at which the detection unit is arranged at a time of an inspection operation for inspecting the wire rope and a drive unit for moving the detection unit in a direction away from the wire rope to a normal operation position at which the detection unit is arranged at a time of a normal operation.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a flocculated material, product and method for making the product are provided including providing a methanotrophic material having an amount of 2.68% Total Suspended Solids (TSS); treating the methanotrophic material with phosphoric acid; providing a lime solution in an amount of 0.0212 M; combining the treated methanotrophic material with the lime to increase a pH of the solution and to precipitate calcium phosphate; generating a flocculated material by flocculating the combined lime and treated methanotrophic material. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A silicon carbide single crystal wafer and a preparation method therefor, a silicon carbide crystal and a preparation method therefor, and a semiconductor device. The surface of the silicon carbide single crystal wafer is such that an included angle between a normal direction and a c direction is 0-8 degrees, and aggregated dislocations on the silicon carbide single crystal wafer are less than 300/cm2; the aggregated dislocation is a dislocation aggregated condition in which the distance between the geometric centers of any two corrosion pits in the corrosion pits obtained after corrosion of melted KOH is less than 80 microns. Even if the dislocation density is relatively high, the aggregated dislocation density is relatively small, thereby increasing the yield of a silicon carbide-based devices.

Abstract: A method for accessing a wireless channel by a device (112, 113) that intends to transmit data, wherein access to channel is controlled by a wireless channel controller (111), the method comprising: registering the device (112, 113) at the wireless channel controller (111) as an authorized device; synchronizing (201) a timer of the device (112, 113) indicating time windows; determining (202) a designated time window during which the device (112, 113) can transmit data; performing (203) a clear channel assessment procedure during the preceding time window such that the clear channel assessment ends at the end of the time window preceding the designated time window; and beginning transmission (204) of data at the beginning of the designated time window.

Abstract: An identifier associated with one or more assets is obtained in response to a reader component reading a tag associated with one or more assets as the one or more assets traverse a conveyor apparatus. At least partially in response to the obtaining of the identifier, a storage unit of a plurality of storage units is caused to automatically rotate to a loading location to receive the one or more assets.

Abstract: Projectile guiding assemblies, caps and methods of delivering power for testing and optionally data over spring-mounted fin(s) of the guiding assembly are provided. The guiding assemblies are configured to have continuous electrically conductive path(s) from the fin(s), through the respective spring(s) on which the fin(s) are mounted, and into the electronics module, which may receive power for testing and guiding data from external source(s) over the electrically conductive path(s). In the testing state, cap mechanically secures the fin(s) to contact(s) thereupon to assure continuous power and data transfer, sparing surface area that was previously dedicated to power and data transfer and simplifying these processes, especially under field conditions.

Abstract: A protective hood adapter device for mounting on a machine tool, in particular a hand-held machine tool, is disclosed. The protective hood adapter device includes at least one attachment part for attaching to a protective hood of the machine tool. The protective hood adapter device further includes at least one fastening part which is mounted on the attachment part so as to be movable in at least one movement plane. The fastening part is provided to clamp the attachment part on the protective hood by way of a force oriented at least substantially perpendicularly to the movement plane.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a main circuit board, a first-type antenna ground-coupled to the main circuit board, and a second-type antenna ground-coupled to the main circuit board. The first-type antenna has a ground structure. The second-type antenna is spaced apart from the first-type antenna and an operating bandwidth of the second-type antenna is greater than an operating bandwidth of the first-type antenna.

Abstract: A cam mechanism bridging a split through a mounting section of a split blade housing of a power operated rotary knife for moving the split blade housing between the first, blade supporting position and the second blade changing position. The cam mechanism includes a cam plate including an opening and a cam member supported for rotation by the cam plate. The cam member includes first and second surfaces spaced apart by a side wall, the cam member first surface including first and second cam pins extending from the first surface. The cam member second surface includes a boss extending from the second surface. The boss of the cam member being received in the cam plate opening. The side wall of the cam member is symmetric with respect to a diagonal plane intersecting the first and second cam pins and extending substantially parallel to the cam member axis of rotation.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an EML with a filter layer disposed between an active region of the EML and a substrate of the EML to absorb a portion of unmodulated light energy, and preferably the unmodulated light energy caused by transverse electric (TE) substrate mode. The filter layer preferably comprises a material with an energy band gap (Eg) that is less than the energy band gap of the predetermined channel wavelength to absorb unmodulated laser light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a colorant for a heat transfer fluid, and a composition comprising same.

Abstract: An assembly for a brake booster, for example, an electromechanical brake booster, comprises a motor output shaft of an electric motor, a transmission input shaft of a transmission which can be coupled to the electric motor, and a coupling element for power-transmitting coupling of the motor output shaft to the transmission input shaft. The coupling element has internal toothing which can be operatively connected or is operatively connected to the motor output shaft and to the transmission input shaft, as well as a brake booster with an assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and computer program code for object manufacturing (e.g. 3D printing), to align an object scan obtained from a manufactured object manufactured according to an object data file with an object representation obtained from the object data file. The manufactured object has been manufactured on a manufacturing bed of a 3D manufacturing apparatus according to the object data file. The manufactured object comprises a manufacturing parameter identifier in a region of interest defined in the object data file, the manufacturing parameter identifier indicating a manufacturing parameter of the manufactured object. The manufacturing parameter identifier in the region of interest of the aligned object scan may be computationally read.

Abstract: A connection unit includes: a body having peripheral edges; magnets, at least one of which being disposed on each side of the peripheral edges of the body; and electrode terminals, at least three of which being disposed on the each side of the peripheral edges of the body. An outer surface of the body has a curved surface. The electrode terminals are disposed along the curved surface or the surface having the polygonal cross section of the outer surface. The electrode terminals disposed on the peripheral edges of the body have either: one positive electrode terminal and two negative electrode terminals, or one negative electrode terminal and two positive electrode terminals.

Abstract: The disclosure is the only product of its kind that provides users with a nonrestrictive yet effective body shapewear that lifts the breast and buttock, and smooths curves for a flattering look. The disclosure is uniquely designed with a skin friendly material that minimizes rashes or irritation during long term wear and is strategically crafted with a buttock lift connecting strap that depicts a fuller, rounder appearance of the buttocks to achieve an hourglass figure. The disclosure includes an elastic torso comprising a right and a left reinforced side panels, a front reinforced panel, a front and a back panel and a left and a right straps; a right and a left reinforced buttocks panels adjacent the back panel; a sliding crotch panel adjoining the front and the back panels, wherein the sliding crotch panel allows bowel and urinary access and spans a crotch area there between.

Abstract: A process for producing syngas that uses the syngas product from a partial oxidation reactor to provide all necessary heating duties, which eliminates the need for a fired heater. Soot is removed from the syngas using a dry filter to avoid a wet scrubber quenching the syngas stream and wasting the high-quality heat. Without the flue gas stream leaving a fired heater, all of the carbon dioxide produced by the reforming process is concentrated in the high-pressure syngas stream, allowing essentially complete carbon dioxide capture.

Abstract: Disclosed herein include systems, devices, and methods for identifying recombinant variants (e.g., gene conversion variants) of genes such as GBA gene and CYP21A2 gene, the copy numbers of recombinant variants, and gene variant status (e.g., carrier, compound heterozygous, or homozygous).

Abstract: The field of biological fungicides includes a broad range of antifungal activity coming from plant extracts from the order of Brassicales or molecules revealing similar chemical structure. A new usage of a combination of sulfonyl and sulfinyl containing aliphatic glucosinolate derivatives, their by-products and synthetic analogues are efficient antifungal compounds with broad spectrum of activity.

Abstract: A thermally stabilized fastener system and method is disclosed. The disclosed system/method integrates a fastener (FAS) incorporating a faster retention head (FRH), fastener retention body (FRB), and fastener retention tip (FRT) to couple a mechanical member stack (MMS) in a thermally stabilized fashion using a fastener retention receiver (FRR). The MMS includes a temperature compensating member (TCM), a first retention member (FRM), and an optional second retention member (SRM). The TCM is constructed using a tailored thermal expansion coefficient (TTC) that permits the TCM to compensate for the thermal expansion characteristics of the FAS, FRM, and SRM such that the force applied by the FRH and FRR portions of the FAS to the MMS is tailored to a specific temperature force profile (TFP) over changes in MMS/FAS temperature. The TCM may be selected with a TTC to achieve a uniform TFP over changes in MMS/FAS temperature.

Abstract: An automated door system may include a first antenna, a second antenna, and a first door control module. The first antenna may be configured to be mounted to a first side of a powered door, the second antenna may be configured to be mounted to a second side of the powered door opposite the first side, and the first door control module may comprise a processor and may be configured to be mounted in a fixed position relative to the powered door. The processor may be configured to communicate with a memory having instructions stored thereon cause the automated door system to perform various operations including wirelessly connecting, by the processor, the first door control module to a second a second door control module via at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna and performing at least one actuation of the powered door.

Abstract: A system includes an air manifold, a fuel manifold, and a plurality of fuel injectors. At least one of the fuel injectors includes a heat exchanger portion for supplying compressed, cooled air form the heat exchanger portion to the air manifold. An air valve is operatively connected to an outlet of the air manifold for controlling release of air from the air manifold. A controller is operatively connected to the air valve, wherein the controller includes machine readable instructions configured to control the air valve to regulate flow of air through the air valve based on fuel temperatures in the fuel channel. The machine readable instructions can be configured to cause the controller to flow air through the air valve in a heat exchange mode if a fuel temperature in the fuel injectors is below a predetermined fuel temperature.

Abstract: A phosphor plate includes a plate-like composite including a base material and an ?-type sialon phosphor present in the base material, in which, in an X-ray diffraction analysis pattern using a Cu-K? ray, in a case in which peak intensity corresponding to the ?-type sialon phosphor having a diffraction angle 2 ? in a range of 30.2° or more and 30.4° or less is defined as I? and peak intensity of a peak having a diffraction angle 2 ? in a range of 26.6° or more and 26.8° or less is defined as I?, I?, and I? satisfy 0<I?/I??10.

Abstract: A crank spindle set-up for a vehicle. The set-up includes a crank spindle for receiving a force/torque from pedaling using crank arms attached to ends of the crank spindle; an output shaft for receiving a force and/or a torque from the crank spindle; a mechanical coupling having a tap between the ends of the crank spindle, for transmitting force/torque from the crank spindle to the output shaft; a first magnetic region on/in the output shaft for generating and outputting a first magnetic field that is a function of the state of mechanical stress of the output shaft; a second magnetic region on/in the crank spindle at an axial distance from the tap, for generating and outputting a second magnetic field that is a function of the state of mechanical stress of the crank spindle; and a sensor set-up for detecting a magnetic field outputted by the crank spindle set-up.

Abstract: A system including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture.