Abstract: An aqueous colored pigment-based ink that is capable of fluorescence, has a pigment colorant in an amount of 1-7 weight %; a non-polymeric fluorophore that when excited by fluorescence-exciting radiation having a peak of at least 200 nm and up to and including 400 nm, exhibits an emission peak of at least 400 nm and up to and including 750 nm, and which non-polymeric fluorophore is present in an amount of 0.1-2 weight %; and an aqueous medium comprising water. This aqueous colored pigment-based ink can be included in an ink set that also includes one or more aqueous colored pigment-based inks that are non-fluorescent. All of these inks can be applied for example using inkjet printing, onto non-UV fluorescent substrates to provide images that can be detected when excited as noted above, which images can be provided on articles such as security documents, currency, and lottery tickets.

Abstract: A transfer-printing method of UV-digital stacked-thickness printing, which comprising following steps of: ink jetting a UV-ink on a carrier with low-adhesive-strength to the carrier to output a color-ink-layer with a mirrored-pattern and fully curing the color-ink-layer through UV-light-irradiation; ink jetting on the color-ink-layer to output a transparent-ink-layer with the same mirrored-pattern processed with gray-scale or binary-conversion, the transparent-ink-layer is divided into a plurality of regions, an inkjet-head ink jets back and forth within one region for multiple times and after ink jets the last time, cures the region through UV-light-irradiation with a low-irradiation-intensity, then the inkjet head moves forward to next region and ink jets back and forth within that region for multiple times; and pressing and transferring the transparent-ink-layer on the carrier onto a workpiece.

Abstract: A security element for securities or security papers has at least one first region having first structures, which first structures reflect a first piece of information into different spatial regions, so that a movement image is created for a viewer with corresponding movement of a light source and/or a change in the viewing angle. When the light source and/or when the viewing angle is changed, a movement of the first piece of information is simultaneously created. The security element is thereby formed with at least one second region having second structures, which second structures reproduce a static and/or viewing angle-independent second piece of information. In addition, a process manufactures a security element.

Abstract: A three-dimensional display including a laminate sheet with first element cells with recorded personal identification information, and second element cells carrying an authentication medium with visible personal identification information, including a first region and a second region formed by arranging first element cells and second element cells which form respective phase shift structures; the first element cells and the second element cells arranged in an interleaved manner at a predetermined ratio to form respective three-dimensional structures; the first region and the second region are visible respectively from first and second sides of the laminate sheet; a first reconstructed image is produced on the first side of the laminate sheet due to the phase shift structure formed by the first element cells; and a second reconstructed image is produced on the second side of the laminate sheet due to the phase shift structure formed by the second element cells.

Abstract: A security document having a stack of layers including a matrix of coloured sub-pixels, an opaque layer with a white appearance above the matrix of coloured sub-pixels, the opaque layer with a white appearance having perforations facing sub-pixels of the matrix of coloured sub-pixels such that, when the device is observed from above, a coloured image appears.

Abstract: A system may include a folding apparatus configured to fold a card carrier for affixing a transaction card to the card carrier and a processor which can receive a first input from a user regarding a number of folds desired in the card carrier and a location of the folds on the card carrier, receive a second input regarding one or more directions of the folds to be made on the card carrier, and transmit a signal to a positioner motor configured to position the card carrier based on the first input and the second input such that the folding apparatus folds the card carrier according to the first input and the second input.

Abstract: A mechanical pencil includes a clamping claw for playing a coordination role in lead output. An abutting member is arranged in front of the clamping claw. The rear end, corresponding to the clamping claw, of the abutting member is provided with an abutting portion. The abutting portion includes a first through hole allowing a lead to move through. The abutting portion can be inserted into the clamping claw in a case where the clamping claw moves forward and simultaneously drives the clamping claw to open outwardly. The mechanical pencil has a better lead output effect.

Abstract: A method for producing a component involves producing a die using an additive production process. A design is embossed in a component material layer of the component by the die. The design is selected and/or created by a customer. This design selected and/or created by the customer is then submitted to an additive production process that produces the die, via a digital platform, which the customer accesses by a customer terminal or via a user program on the customer terminal. The die is then produced by the additive production device in the additive production process corresponding to the submitted design.

Abstract: In a decorative sheet according to the present invention, a design layer has a light passing area in which light passing through a transparent sheet is caused to pass through by a plurality of micro holes. Each of the plurality of micro holes includes a first slit and a second slit on which ink or a deposition film is not put. In each of the micro holes, the first slit and the second slit cross each other. Thus, visibility of a secondary object displayed by passing light is improved, while a reduction in quality of a primary object displayed mainly when light is not caused to pass through is prevented.

Abstract: A multi-piece wheel frame includes a rim and a disc. The rim includes a barrel, and an outer rim portion protruding outwardly from the barrel. The outer rim portion forms an inclined surface, and a ring edge surface connected to an outer edge of the inclined surface and cooperating with the inclined surface to form an obtuse angle. The disc is fixed to the rim, and includes a disc core, a plurality of spoke portions extending radially outwardly from the disc core, and a reinforced ring portion connected to the spoke portions and fixed to the outer rim portion. The reinforced ring portion abuts against at least one of the inclined surface and the ring edge surface.

Abstract: It is possible to maintain high-speed durability while having a function of eliminating static electricity of a vehicle. An airless tire 1 includes a tread portion 2, an inner circumferential portion 3 which comes into contact with a wheel 5 having conductivity, and a spoke portion 4 which connects the tread portion 2 and the inner circumferential portion 3. The tread portion 2 includes a first portion 2A having conductivity, and a second portion 2B in contact with the first portion 2A. The second portion 2B, the spoke portion 4, and the inner circumferential portion 3 are formed from a resin or elastomer. The resin or elastomer contains an antistatic agent. The antistatic agent is a polymer-based antistatic agent or surfactant-based antistatic agent. The antistatic agent is blended in an amount of 0.5 to 20% by mass per 100% by mass of a base component of the resin or elastomer.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a lower ring having a first diameter and an upper ring having a second diameter greater than the first diameter. The upper ring is substantially coaxial with the lower ring. Support structure connects the lower ring to the upper ring. A circumferential tread is attached to the upper ring. The circumferential tread includes a tread layer and a tread band. The tread band includes a filament assembly that includes a plurality of individual filaments having a non-circular cross section. The filaments are configured and arranged such that the filaments have a packing density of at least 92% within the filament assembly.

Abstract: Reinforcements for the annular band of a non-pneumatic tire. Different configurations and material arrangements are described. Exemplary embodiments of a non-pneumatic tire that can incorporate such annular band are also described.

Abstract: A radial tire (1) for a heavy-duty vehicle, in which the reinforcing elements of each hooping layer (331, 332, 333), forming an angle at most equal to 5° with the circumferential direction, and the reinforcing elements of the transverse reinforcer layers (321, 322, 323), forming an angle of between 10° and 45° with the circumferential direction, are extensible and therefore such that, in their rubberized state extracted from a polymer matrix, their structural elongation As is at least equal to 0.5%, their total elongation at break At is at least equal to 3% and their tensile Young's modulus E is at most equal to 150 GPa.

Abstract: A radial tire (1) for a heavy-duty vehicle, with at least two working layers (321, 322, 323, 324) in which the reinforcing elements form an angle at least equal to 10° and at most equal to 45° with the circumferential direction. The metal reinforcers of all of the crown layers of the crown reinforcement are extensible and therefore have, in their rubberized state extracted from a polymer matrix, a structural elongation As at least equal to 0.5%, a total elongation at break At at least equal to 3% and a tensile Young's modulus E at most equal to 150 GPa. The narrower of the two working layers has an axial width at least equal to 60% of the width of the tread and the wider of the two working layers has an axial width at least equal to 70% of the width of the tread.

Abstract: A tire 2 includes a tread 4. The tread 4 includes a plurality of blocks 18. The plurality of blocks 18 include a plurality of center blocks 28 located on an equator plane. The plurality of center blocks 28 include a main center block 28m having, in a land surface 20 thereof, a center of gravity CG of the land surface 20. At the center of gravity CG of the land surface 20 of the main center block 28m, an axial length a of the main center block 28m is not less than twice a circumferential length b thereof. The main center block 28m has a hardness of not greater than 70. The main center block 28m has a 300% modulus of not less than 8.5 MPa.

Abstract: A heavy duty tire can have a tread portion that includes a plurality of circumferential grooves that zigzag, a plurality of lateral grooves connecting between zigzag vertexes of the circumferential grooves, and a plurality of hexagonal blocks formed by the circumferential grooves and the lateral grooves. A groove depth of the circumferential groove can be 21 mm or more. Each of the hexagonal blocks can include a three-dimensional sipe extending across the hexagonal block. The lateral groove can include a raised portion formed by raising a groove bottom of the lateral groove to connect between the hexagonal blocks adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire can include a pair of sidewall portions, where an outer surface of the sidewall portion can include a marking portion. The marking portion can include a first region forming a mark, a second region that is a background portion of the mark, and a fringing portion that demarcates the first region from the second region and fringes the contour of the mark. The first region can be formed as a smooth surface. The second region can be a projection-recess region where a plurality of micro projections are arranged. The fringing portion can be a rib projecting from the first region.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire includes a bead portion and a rim flange provided outside the bead portion. The rim flange is made of a rubber resistant to ozone and fatigue and a hardness reinforcing rubber portion is interposed between the rim flange and the bead portion. The pneumatic tire of the present invention avoids a change in the physical properties of the flange rubber, ozone cracks caused by ozone present in the air, and fatigue cracks caused by frequent flexion and extension to achieve improved handling stability and straight ahead ability.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions, a carcass, and an inner liner layer. The carcass includes a plurality of carcass cords and a topping rubber layer. The inner liner layer includes a butyl rubber layer and an adhesive rubber layer. An electronic module is disposed between the carcass and the adhesive rubber layer. The electronic module includes an electronic component and a cover rubber. The cover rubber includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The electronic component is covered between the inner layer and the outer layer of the cover rubber.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a tire having a tread comprising two shoulder portions and a center portion axially between the two shoulder portions, wherein at least one of the shoulder portions comprises a first rubber composition and the center portion comprises a second rubber composition different from said first rubber composition. The first rubber composition has a shear storage modulus which is at least 10% lower than the shear storage modulus of the second rubber composition, and the second rubber composition has a glass transition temperature which is at least 5% higher than the glass transition temperature of the first rubber composition.

Abstract: A single antenna tire pressure detection system and a method for operating the same includes a detection end and a receiving end. The detection end detects the tire pressure through tire pressure detectors to obtain tire condition information. The tire pressure detectors provides two types of signal output modes which are radio frequency (RF) signals and short-distance RF signals. These signals are transmitted not only to the original in-vehicle tire pressure receiving device but also displayed on the in-car entertainment system and the user's mobile device, showing tire condition information.

Abstract: A trailer coupler includes a lock contained within a channel in a coupler body. A pin extends from the lock. The pin extends through an aperture in an end of the channel and through an aperture in a latch handle when the lock is locked. In such configuration, the pin prevents pivoting the latch handle to an open (unlocked) position. Unlocking the lock allows the lock to be moved at least partially out of the channel, which removes the pin from the aperture in the handle, allowing the handle to pivot to an open (unlocked) position.

Abstract: A drawbar for an agricultural implement, in particular for an agricultural baler, includes a drawbar support and a coupling means. The coupling means is connected to the drawbar support. The drawbar support is configured in such a way that the coupling means can be brought by the drawbar support into two different positions relative to the drawbar support.

Abstract: A technique provides an amphibious, submersible vehicle, which includes an electric drive and is capable of operating both on land and in water. The vehicle includes a water-tight compartment that houses batteries and a set of electric motors for propelling the vehicle using tracks on land and on a subsea floor. The vehicle is further capable of propelling itself through water, using the tracks and/or a set of thrusters powered by the batteries.

Abstract: An amphibious vehicle having a frame that includes a plurality of floatable members. Mounted to the frame is one or more power sources. Also mounted to the frame and connected to the power source are a plurality of propellers with each of the plurality of propellers having a thrust vector configured to be adjusted to provide agitation and propulsion. In addition, mounted to the frame are a plurality of ground engaging devices and one or more pumps.

Abstract: A suspension assembly includes a first linkage rod coupled between an axle housing and a first frame rail, and a second linkage rod coupled between the axle housing and a second frame rail. The first linkage rod is arranged at an angle relative to a central longitudinal axis so that as the first linkage rod extends from the axle housing toward the first frame rail, the first linkage rod angles laterally outwardly and away from the central longitudinal axis. The second linkage rod is arranged at an angle relative to the central longitudinal axis so that as the second linkage rod extends from the axle housing toward the second frame rail, the second linkage rod angles laterally outwardly and away from the central longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A suspension includes a knuckle to which a wheel of a vehicle is fastened, a steering drive portion connected to the knuckle, a lower arm positioned at a lower end portion of the steering drive portion and including a first end portion connected to the knuckle and a second end portion connected to a vehicle body frame, a connecting link including a first end portion connected to an upper end portion of the steering drive portion, an upper arm connected to a second end portion of the connecting link, a damper connecting the upper arm and the vehicle body frame, and a push rod including a first end portion connected to the upper arm and a second end portion connected to the lower arm.

Abstract: A method of on-demand energy delivery to an active suspension system is disclosed. The suspension system includes an actuator body, a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, a plurality of sensors, an energy storage facility, and a controller. The method includes disposing an active suspension system in a vehicle between a wheel mount and a vehicle body, detecting a wheel event requiring control of the active suspension; and sourcing energy from the energy storage facility and delivering it to the electric motor in response to the wheel event.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are related to suspension systems including dampers and suspension actuators and related methods of control for mitigating the effects of potholes and other road surface discontinuities.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot and an adjustment method for a suspension system of a robot. The robot includes a robot body, a detection system, and a controller. The robot body includes a mobile chassis. The mobile chassis includes a suspension system. The detection system and the suspension system are electrically connected to the controller. The detection system is configured to detect operating information of the robot body. The controller is configured to control the suspension system to adjust a suspension hardness of the suspension system based on the operating information. The operating information includes at least one of ground information during operation of the robot body and pose information of the robot body.

Abstract: A suspension system configured to exhibit low variance in vehicle ride frequency over a large range of vehicle loads. The suspension system includes a strut having a cylinder and a piston configured to reciprocate in the cylinder. The suspension system also includes a vessel coupled to the strut, and a valve in an interior chamber of the vessel. The valve divides the interior chamber into a first liquid volume and a second liquid volume. The suspension system also includes a hydraulic accumulator having a volume and a liquid volume. The suspension system further includes a compressible liquid in the cylinder, the first liquid volume in the vessel, and the second liquid volume in the vessel, and a spring element in the volume of the hydraulic accumulator.

Abstract: A rear suspension structure includes left and right trailing arms, left and right hub carriers, and a lateral beam. Each hub carrier includes a front arm portion extending in a direction inward in the vehicle width direction and frontward of an axis of the rear wheels, and a rear arm portion extending rearward of the front arm portion. Each trailing arm has a rear end portion coupled to the hub carrier or the lateral beam via a first coupling portion that is a bushing. The lateral beam includes a left beam extending inward in the vehicle width direction from the rear arm portion disposed on a left side of the vehicle, a right beam extending inward in the vehicle width direction from the rear arm portion disposed on a right side of the vehicle, and left and right second coupling portions displaceably coupling the left beam and the right beam.

Abstract: A sway bar system is described. The sway bar system includes a sway bar having a first end and a second end. An electronically controlled connector to provide a remotely controllable physical connection and disconnection capability between a first location on a vehicle and the first end of the sway bar; and the second end of the sway bar coupled to a second location on the vehicle.

Abstract: An electric vehicle having a heat exchanger formed in an aerodynamic airfoil shape comprising one or more body panels disposed along an outer surface of the vehicle having one or more fluidic chambers or micro-channels. The heat exchanger is adapted to provide effective and highly efficient heat transfer, and also to provide substantially reduced or negligible contribution to the aerodynamic drag. The heat exchanger includes a supplemental heat exchange system wherein at least a portion of the heat exchange capacity is provided by an inner heat exchange surface of the heat exchanger exposed to an interstitial space within the vehicle. Airflow is forced, via a fan for example, from an aerodynamically-efficient inlet, over the inner heat exchange surface, and exhausted through an aerodynamically-efficient outlet, thereby providing a supplemental heat exchange system including substantially reduced or negligible contribution to the aerodynamic drag.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes devices, systems, and methods for managing vehicle functions according to power demand by vehicle subsystems. Example methods include receiving available power data indicating available vehicle battery power, the vehicle having vehicle subsystems. Methods include receiving demand data indicating a battery power demand by the vehicle subsystems that perform vehicle functions. Methods include receiving modification data associated with modifying the vehicle functions. Methods include determining, at a first time, based on the demand data and the available power data, that the power demand exceeds the available power. Methods include selecting, in response to that determining, target vehicle functions among the vehicle functions. Methods include selecting, based at least in part on the modification data, modifications for the target vehicle functions. Methods include initiating the modifications to the target vehicle functions.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for recreational vehicles comprises a refrigeration circuit for circulating a refrigerant fluid, said refrigeration circuit including: a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, in heat exchange with a room of the recreational vehicle to be air-conditioned, a compressor, and a leakage detection system, including: a refrigerant fluid sensor, configured to detect a control parameter representative of a physical condition of the refrigerant fluid at the outlet of the evaporator or at the inlet of the condenser; a control unit, connected to the refrigerant fluid sensor, and to the compressor.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an estimator and a control processor. The estimator is configured to perform estimation of an emotion that an occupant has had since before boarding the vehicle. The control processor is configured to make a comprehensive evaluation of a result of the estimation performed by the estimator to determine the emotion, and perform control of an operation mode of an in-vehicle device based on the emotion.

Abstract: Thermal conditioning system including a refrigerant circuit successively including: a compression device; a first two-fluid heat exchanger arranged on a first loop of a heat transfer liquid circuit; a second two-fluid heat exchanger arranged on a second heat transfer liquid loop; a first expansion device; a third two-fluid heat exchanger arranged on a third heat transfer liquid loop. The first loop has a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with a first air flow. The second loop has a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with a second air flow. The third loop has a third heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with the first air flow. The first loop includes a fourth heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with the second air flow.

Abstract: A rear air-conditioning controller can execute limitation on the volume of air to a rear side of a vehicle cabin when a first condition is satisfied. The first condition is a condition where a grille shutter upper or a grille shutter lower is stuck in an open state and a defroster function is in an on state.

Abstract: A heat pump system includes a cooling apparatus in which a coolant is circulated, a compressor to compress a refrigerant, a condenser connected to the compressor through a refrigerant line and configured to condense the refrigerant by heat-exchanging with the refrigerant and the coolant, an evaporator connected to the condenser through the refrigerant line and configured to evaporate the refrigerant by heat-exchanging with the refrigerant and the coolant, a gas injection device provided in the refrigerant line between the condenser and the evaporator and configured to selectively expand and flow the refrigerant and selectively supply some of the refrigerant to the compressor, a refrigerant connection line including a first end connected to the refrigerant line and a second end connected to the gas injection device between the compressor and the evaporator, and a chiller in the refrigerant connection line for adjusting a temperature of the coolant by heat-exchange.

Abstract: A refrigerant fluid circuit for a heat treatment system, including a main branch starting at a first convergence point and terminating at a first divergence point and including at least one accumulator, a compression device and a first heat exchanger, the refrigerant fluid circuit including a first branch and a second branch, both starting at the first divergence point and terminating at the first convergence point, the first branch including a second heat exchanger, the second branch including a third heat exchanger. The refrigerant fluid circuit includes a bypass branch which starts at a second divergence point situated on the second branch, downstream of the third heat exchanger, and which terminates at a second convergence point situated on the main branch, downstream of the at least one accumulator and upstream of the compression device.

Abstract: A relay dehumidifier for a vehicle includes a relay housing, a valve, and a valve processor. The relay housing houses a mechanical relay body, and communicates individually with each of a negative pressure source and an evaporator. The valve is disposed at a first communication pipe. The first communication pipe communicates the negative pressure source and the relay housing with each other. The valve processor is configured to control an opening and closing operation of the valve. The valve processor is configured to close the valve in a normal state, and open the valve when: the negative pressure source generates a negative pressure; and a humidity of an outlet of the evaporator is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A vehicle window and a vehicle are provided. The vehicle window includes a first light-transmitting plate, a second plate, and an injection-mold connector. The second plate spaced apart from the first light-transmitting plate to define a gap. The second plate defines a mounting hole. The mounting hole is configured to accommodate a vehicle-mounted antenna. The injection-molded connector is disposed in the gap, and fixedly connected between the first light-transmitting plate and the second plate.

Abstract: A method of producing metal component-attached vehicle window glass includes disposing a metal component on a main surface of window glass via an adhesive, locally heating the metal component, and transferring heat from the metal component to the adhesive to heat and cure the adhesive.

Abstract: The vehicle comprises a shading device arranged inside the driving cab. The shading device comprises a main curtain and a first side curtain, which are separate from each other but carried by common shaft, rotatable relative to a chassis, and which are each kinematically linked to the shaft. The vehicle further comprises a camera monitoring system capturing images outside the driving cab, and a first display screen arranged inside the driving cab, positioned on first one of the two lateral sides of the windshield, and vertically aligned with first side curtain but offset from main curtain. The shading device is configured to change between a first configuration, in which the main curtain and the first side curtain are entirely disposed higher than top of the first display screen, and a second configuration, in which a portion of the main curtain is disposed lower than top of the first display screen.

Abstract: A frame-channel-integrated door of a metal-plastic composite material in which a frame channel provided between an external panel and an internal panel is integrally joined to a panel made of plastic material, includes a first panel made of plastic material and positioned on one of an external surface and an internal surface of a vehicle door, a second panel made of metal material and positioned on another one of the external surface and the internal surface of the vehicle door, and a frame channel attached to an internal surface of the first panel, wherein the frame channel is coupled to the outside of a glass run, and the second panel is joined to the outside of the frame channel.

Abstract: A rigidity-improved vehicle panel door includes an external panel positioned, toward the outside of a vehicle, in a door of the vehicle, an internal panel, an external edge portion of the internal panel being joined to the external panel, and the internal panel being positioned, toward the interior of the vehicle, in the door, and a rigid structure in which a plurality of support members disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle are coupled to a plurality of reinforcement members to form the shape of a quadrangle, the plurality of reinforcement members being provided on a front end portion of the door and a rear end portion of the door.

Abstract: A door beam includes an outer flange, an inner flange, and a pair of webs connecting the outer flange and the inner flange. The outer flange, the inner flange, and the pair of webs define a closed cross-sectional portion. The outer flange includes an outer central portion constituting the closed cross-sectional portion, and outer protruding portions protruding outward from the closed cross-sectional portion. The inner flange is formed with an attachment press working portion having been subjected to press working so as to serve as an attachment portion with respect to the inner panel at both end portions in the longitudinal direction. The outer protruding portion is formed with a mastic press working portion having been subjected to press working so as to serve as an attachment portion with respect to the outer panel.

Abstract: A rigidity-improved vehicle panel door includes an external panel positioned, toward the outside of a vehicle, in a door of the vehicle, an internal panel, an external edge portion of the internal panel being joined to the external panel and the internal panel being positioned, toward the interior of the vehicle, in the door of the vehicle, support members disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, reinforcement members coupled to a front end portion and a front end portion, respectively, of the door, joint members superposed and coupled to the reinforcement members, respectively and coupled to the support members to surround external surfaces of the support members.