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A locker system comprising: a server having a processor, a memory, and instructions executable by the process; a database to store data relating to the locker system, one or more users of the locker system, and information relating to one or more transfer items; at least one locker unit having at least one locker, a keypad, a door, a door locking mechanism, a camera within an interior of the least one locker and a scale within the at least one locker, and one or more controllers to run the keypad, the door, the door locking mechanism, interior camera, and interior scale and to transmit data to and from the server, an onboard computer, or both; wherein instructions executed by the server, the onboard computer, or both cause a method to be performed, the method comprising: in response to receiving a request from a first user to rent a locker to exchange the transfer item with a second user, assigning the at least one locker to the first user and transmitting a first access code to the first user; in response to detecting input of the first access code, unlocking the door to the at least one locker; in response to detecting a presence of the detected item, obtaining data from the interior camera, scale, or both and comparing the obtained data with data from the database to determine if the detected item is the same as the transfer item; and if the transfer item is determined to be the same item, deactivating the first access code.

A method and system for producing an insulated mailer and an insulated box having an insulative paper fiber pad substructure with a density of less than about 10 pounds per cubic foot. The insulative paper fiber pad has entangled reinforcement fibers. A method of forming an insulative paper fiber pad using recycling-compatible or water soluble adhesive and paper layers is provided.

Forming an ACM shaft by: forming a base of (i) a thrust shaft having a first section connecting with an ACM tie rod when installed; a second section connecting with an ACM motor rotor when installed; a third section forming a shaft joint that connects adjacent portions of the thrust shaft; or (ii) a compressor rotor shaft having a fourth section connecting with an ACM tie rod support when installed; and fifth section connecting with the ACM motor rotor when installed; forming the base includes: printing polymer surfaces having differing CTSs from polymers disposed against each other; forming a lower support section on the base by printing along the discrete sections a mixture of a third thermoplastic polymer and a catalyst formed with metal; and forming an upper support section on the shaft by depositing on the lower support section, along the discrete sections, via electrolysis deposition, a metallic coating.

A system for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle. The storage receptacle has an entrance opening for receiving the delivery item, a temporary storage area for temporarily maintaining the delivery item once deposited with the storage receptacle, and a retrieval door providing selective access to the temporary storage area. The system includes a backend server that maintains a management profile related to the storage receptacle, a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle, and a wireless accessory sensor node having at least one sensor that monitors for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The wireless accessory sensor node broadcasts an updated advertising signal. The bridge node transmits retrieved event information to the backend server at a reporting time, and the backend server initiates the dispatched logistics operation from comparing the retrieved event information to location information.

A method for manufacturing three-dimensional products with at least one inclined product portion made of a fiber-containing material using at least one forming tool and a forming tool are described. Vibrations are introduced via a device and this results in an improved compression of fiber-containing material in the region of inclined portions.

An enhanced multi-compartment connected logistics receptacle system includes a storage receptacle, a bridge node, and wireless accessory sensor node with a plurality of sensors. A first subset of the sensors is disposed relative to a first monitored receptacle compartment and a second subset of the sensors is disposed relative to a second monitored receptacle compartment. The plurality of sensors monitor for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The wireless accessory sensor node detects the storage receptacle's state change based upon sensor data and broadcasts a signal with a flag set indicating there is event information available for upload. The bridge node detects the flag set, retrieves the event information available for upload from the wireless accessory sensor node, and transmits the retrieved event information to a backend server to cause the backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to the storage receptacle.

A method of forming a housing for an ACM, having steps of: forming a base: a first section adjacent to a seal of an ACM compressor rotor when installed; a second section that is fixed to an ACM forward frame member when installed; a third section adjacent to a bearing and sleeve disposed around an ACM compressor rotor shaft when installed, forming the base includes: printing thermoplastic polymer surfaces from thermoplastic polymers that are disposed against each other, the thermoplastic polymer surface having differing CTEs; forming a lower support section on the base by printing, layer by layer, along the plurality of discrete sections of the base a mixture of a third thermoplastic polymer and a catalyst formed with metal; and forming an upper support section on the housing by depositing on the lower support section, along each of the discrete sections, via electrolysis deposition, a metallic coating.

A method of forming a rotor for an ACM, having steps of forming a base having: a first section adjacent to an ACM diffuser shroud when installed; a second section forming a seal disposed against an ACM aft frame member when installed; a third section connected to an ACM compressor rotor shaft when installed; a fourth section connected to an ACM tie rod when installed; a fifth section between the second and fourth sections, forming the base includes: printing thermoplastic polymer surfaces from thermoplastic polymers disposed against each other, the thermoplastic polymer surfaces having different CTEs; forming a lower support section on the base by printing along the discrete sections a mixture of a third thermoplastic polymer and a catalyst formed with metal; and forming an upper support section on the rotor by depositing on the lower support section along the discrete sections, via electrolysis deposition, a metallic coating.

A method for manufacturing an electric vehicle battery case includes: preparing a frame configured to define a through space inside and a flat plate made of resin; superposing and disposing the flat plate on the frame; and applying pressure to the flat plate from an opposite side from the frame to press the flat plate against the frame to cause the flat plate to swell in the through space, thereby deforming the flat plate into a tray having a bathtub shape including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall provided at a peripheral edge of the bottom wall and configured to define an opening portion, and joining by press-fitting the tray to the frame.

The invention discloses an electromagnetic heating and heat preservation system for a wind power blade girder plate pultrusion die, and relates to the technical field of thermal field regulation and control, comprising the following steps: activating an electromagnetic coil array to generate an alternating magnetic field, synchronously starting a heat preservation layer device, and triggering a gradient heating mode when the temperature of the die reaches a preset threshold value; a mold temperature field is monitored in real time, the power of an electromagnetic coil and parameters of a heat preservation layer are dynamically adjusted, a target temperature gradient is established, an electromagnetic heating device and a mechanical traction device are linked in the pultrusion process, and heat dissipation control is triggered according to the material flowing state; and after heat dissipation control is completed, the main power source is cut off, the mode is switched to the waste heat recovery mode, mold waste heat is guided into the energy storage device, and the cooling rate is controlled. According to the method, accurate mode switching of electromagnetic heating from uniform temperature rise to gradient heating is achieved through cooperation of magnetic field activation and a gradient triggering mechanism, and the temperature gradient establishment speed and the morphological stability are effectively improved in cooperation with power regulation and control partition differentiation power instruction and thermal insulation layer parameter dynamic matching.

Provided are polymeric furniture structure elements and their reinforcement. The reinforced furniture element includes a furniture element configured with a first face and a spaced apart second face and one or more reinforcing members extending between the first face and the second face, a plurality of throughgoing stud receiving bores extending through the one or more reinforcing members between the first face and the second face; the first face being configured with a reinforcing element bearing surface, and the second face is configured with a stud bearing surface; and a reinforcing element that is configured with a first face bearing surface, and a plurality of studs extending from first face bearing surface that are disposed in register with locations of at least some of the stud receiving bores, and a free end of the studs is configurable with a bearing head for tight bearing over the stud bearing surface.

In order to simplify the manufacture of an insert part, which has two web structures, each of which forms a plurality of webs, it is proposed that the insert part is manufactured by a molding process in such a way that the two web structures touch each other in respective contact surfaces, but nevertheless remain separated from each other by a mold parting plane. This has the technical advantage that the respective outer contour of the webs of the respective web structure can be defined exclusively with a respective mold part without an offset of the respective other mold part having a negative effect on the shaping of the webs.

A repulpable insulated container assembly having a container formed of paper such as corrugated cardboard or varying paper materials and defining an interior; and a repulpable insert placed within the interior of the container and formed of a first paper layer; and a paper fiber pad coupled to the first paper layer.

A centrally managed system for tuning a plurality of enhanced node-based logistics receptacles includes a backend server, a first enhanced node-based logistics receptacles, and a second node-based logistics receptacles. The backend server transmits a first setup message to a first bridge node, transmits a second setup message to a second bridge node, receives retrieved first event information from the first bridge node and retrieved second event information from the second bridge node, compares the retrieved first event information with a management profile and compares the retrieved second event information with the management profile, revises the management profile based upon the comparison of the retrieved first event information with the management profile and the comparison of the retrieved second event information with the management profile, and transmits an adjustment message that is based upon the revised management profile to the first bridge node.

An enhanced node-based connected logistics receptacle system includes a storage receptacle, a bridge node, and wireless accessory sensor node with at least one sensor monitoring for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The system's wireless accessory sensor node detects the storage receptacle's state change based upon sensor data, records timestamped information reflecting the detected change, and broadcasts a signal with a flag set indicating there is event information available for upload. The system's bridge node is operative to detect the flag set, retrieve the event information available for upload from the wireless accessory sensor node, and transmit a message related to the retrieved event information to a backend server to cause the backend server to initiate the dispatched logistics operation related to the storage receptacle.

A toy building element having an integrally injection molded body comprising at least two adjacent tubular connector sockets and two mutually equidistant connecting flanges extending from diametrically opposite sides of one of the two adjacent tubular connector sockets and to diametrically opposite sides of the other one of the two adjacent tubular connector sockets so that a first channel is formed between them. The first channel extends between the two parallel surfaces and a first stiffening wall is arranged in the first channel. The first stiffening wall divides the first channel into a first channel part close to one of the two parallel surfaces and a second channel part close to the other of the two parallel surfaces. At least a section of the first stiffening wall is closer to one of the two parallel surfaces than it is to the other one of the two parallel surfaces.

To provide a seat pad capable of appropriately integrally molding a flow path lid and a duct with a pad body while suppressing leakage of a foaming raw material and to provide a mold for the seat pad.SOLUTION: The seat pad includes a pad body having a recessed ventilation passage 14, a planar duct 30 forming an inner peripheral wall of the ventilation passage 14, and a planar flow passage lid 20 covering the ventilation passage 14. The duct 30 and the flow passage lid 20 are molded in a predetermined shape in advance, and are foam-molded integrally with the pad main body. The flow passage lid 20 is set on a back surface side forming surface 5a in an overlapped state, and has a lid bending part 24 bent to the sheet surface side so as to form a recess capable of receiving a bank part 5b projecting from the back surface side forming surface 5a in its peripheral edge part 23. The duct 30 has a seat surface part 34 extending along a region deviated from the ventilation passage 14. The seat surface part 34 is applied to the projecting tip of the lid bent part 24 so as to form a first gap S1 into which the foaming material flows to the flow passage lid 20.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 12

Method for manufacturing a hollow stator blade with internal stiffeners. A method for manufacturing a turbomachine stator blade, the method comprising: - the production of a fibrous blank (100) of an aerodynamically profiled structure by three-dimensional weaving of yarns, said blank comprising two skins (110, 111), an internal housing (104a) located between the skins, one or more first fibrous stiffeners (140) extending into the internal housing and one or more second fibrous stiffeners (150, 160) extending into the internal housing, the first and second fibrous stiffeners delimiting between them cavities (112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117) in the internal housing (104a), - the insertion of soluble cores (171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176) in the cavities of the internal housing,- the injection of a resin into the fibrous preform and the transformation of the resin into a matrix so as to obtain an intermediate stator blade part made of composite material having an internal volume between two skins and comprising stiffeners each in contact with the inner face of the skins, at least some stiffeners having one or more circulation channels, - the dissolution of the cores present in the cavities. Figure for the abbreviation: Fig. 4.

An enhanced connected logistics receptacle system that selectively retrieves and reports event information to a backend server to initiate a dispatched logistics operation related to a delivery item. The system includes a storage receptacle for receiving the delivery item, a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle, and a wireless accessory sensor node coupled to a plurality of sensors. The wireless accessory sensor node is operative to detect a change in state of the storage receptacle based upon sensor data, record timestamped information reflecting the detected change in state, and broadcast an updated advertising signal having a data available flag set within the updated advertising signal. The bridge node processor is operative to detect the data available flag, selectively retrieve event information from the wireless accessory sensor node, and transmit the retrieved event information to the backend server to cause the backend server to initiate the dispatched logistics operation.

Aeronautical part (10) comprising a body (11) made of composite material having a portion that is at least partially impregnated with a thermoplastic impregnation material (30) and a protective element (34, 44) comprising a thermoplastic construction material that is overmolded onto the portion. Method for manufacturing such a part. Figure for the abstract: Figure 10

The invention provides a mold injection control method and device for electric toothbrush plastic molding, and relates to the technical field of plastic injection molding.The method comprises the steps that geometric data of an electric toothbrush and physical performance data of a plastic part are obtained, and an electric toothbrush mold model is initialized; initializing particle swarm parameters, performing material flow path optimization, and performing iteration to obtain an optimized mold model; injection molding simulation is conducted, and mold injection molding performance influence parameters are obtained; constructing an injection molding control strategy library, and performing matching retrieval to obtain a matched injection molding control strategy; selecting interval division is conducted, and a mold injection molding control strategy parameter interval is obtained; constructing a fitness function; global optimization is carried out, target mold injection control strategy parameters are determined, and mold injection control over electric toothbrush plastic forming is carried out. The technical problems that in the prior art, injection molding parameter optimization is always started after mold manufacturing is completed, and control parameters are adjusted through trial and error, so that cost is high, and efficiency is low are solved.

A method of forming a monocoque paddle may include forming a first half shell via an first mold, forming a second half shell via a second mold, placing a bladder between the first half shell and the second half shell between the first mold and the second mold, and applying energy to the first half shell and the second half shell via the bladder, the first mold, and the second mold.

An internally reinforced thermoplastic container has a body manufactured using rotational molding. Prior to molding, attachment elements are releasably attached to the interior surface of parts of a mold, and an initially separate tension member is connected between the attachment elements. The mold is closed and a body of the container molded such that the attachment elements are integrated into the walls of the body. After molding, the attachment elements are released from the mold. The attachment elements and the tension member define a tension structure to resist outward bulging of the container walls. The tension member may be tensioned prior to or after molding of the container body. The attachment elements may take the form of eyelets having a base incorporated into the wall of the container body. The method enables the formation of a hollow thermoplastic container with integrally formed internal reinforcement.

A kit for creating a miniature replica of a food or beverage item, the kit including a base object that forms a base of the miniature replica of the food or beverage item, the base object comprising a miniature replica of a component of the food or beverage item, a resin container storing a resin configured to be applied to the base object and to adhere to the base object, the resin container comprising a miniature replica of a container associated with the food or beverage item, and one or more ingredient objects configured to be at least partially embedded in the resin, the one or more ingredient objects comprising miniature replicas of one or more ingredients associated with the food or beverage item, the base object and the resin comprising complementary properties that enable the ultraviolet light to penetrate the resin and thereby cure the resin.

Provided is a flame retardant and latent hardener composition including a blend of 30-100% (by weight based on total solids) of diammonium hydrogen phosphate, and dihydrogen phosphate, 0-50% (by weight based on total solids) of monoammonium. The flame-retardant / hardener composition is prepared as a solid blend or a liquid composition, the liquid composition being an aqueous composition including a liquid aqueous solution of the contents ranging from 25% w / w to 80% w / w. Methods for making flame retarded fiber boards using the composition as flame retarder and a hardener for the resin used in the production of the boards are also provided.

The invention discloses an efficient cooling extrusion molding process for cable production, which belongs to the technical field of cable production and comprises an extrusion molding machine, a machine head mounted at the output end of the extrusion molding machine and a cooling water tank positioned at the discharge end of the machine head. The spiral blades are arranged at the two ends of the cooling water tank, the flow direction of water is changed, cooling is more uniform when a cable enters and is discharged, meanwhile, the rotatable net barrel is arranged at the middle section of the cooling water tank, flow guide plates are evenly arranged on the inner wall of the net barrel, thrust can be applied to the flow guide plates when a water source passes through the inner portion of the net barrel, and the cooling effect is improved. In addition, rectangular frame plates are evenly installed on the outer wall of the net cylinder, leakage holes are formed in the rectangular frame plates, in the rotating process of the net cylinder, a water source can be raised, the contact area with air can be increased, and the cooling effect is improved. And therefore, the water source in the middle section is effectively cooled, and the cooling rate in the using process is increased.

A pickleball ball is provided for increasing durability, improving performance, and / or reducing the loudness and / or frequency of sound generated when said ball strikes a paddle. The ball being a hollow ball comprised of a spherical shell defining a hollow cavity. The ball is made of a graphene-infused polymer material and the shell defines a plurality of holes distributed around the surface of the ball.

A kit for creating a miniature replica including a base object that forms a base of the miniature replica of a food or beverage item, the base object comprising a miniature replica of a component of the food or beverage item, a resin container storing a resin configured to be applied to the base object and to adhere to the base object, the resin container comprising a miniature replica of a container associated with the food or beverage item, and ingredient objects configured to be at least partially embedded in the resin, the ingredient objects comprising miniature replicas of ingredients associated with the food or beverage item, the base object being configured to permit ultraviolet light to pass through the base object to the resin to thereby solidify the resin and affix the resin to the base object and the ingredient objects at least partially within the resin.