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A system and method for enhancing distribution logistics and surveillance ranges with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and at least one dock in a dock network. The UAV remains in communication with the dock for enhancing distribution logistics of at least one package and increasing the range of surveillance for the unmanned aerial vehicle. From the dock, the UAV delivers the package to a destination point, obtains the package from a pick up point, recharges the unmanned aerial vehicle throughout the network of docks, and increases the range of distribution and surveillance. A logistics software controls the delivery and surveillance. A wireless communication device enables communication between the UAV and the dock. Light indicators indicate status of the package and the operational status of the UAV. A camera captures an image of the package in the dock. A motion detector detects the UAV for regulating access for loading / unloading and docking.

A golf club includes a golf club shaft and a golf club head connected to the golf club shaft. The golf club head includes a body having a forward surface and a striking member connected to the forward surface of the body. The striking member includes predetermined properties to deflect inwardly during initial contact with a golf ball and recover outwardly as the golf ball moves away substantially synchronized with compression and expansion of the golf ball. In some embodiments, the golf club head may include a spacer or neck connecting opposing medial portions of the body and the striking member. In other embodiments, the striking member may include a first layer and a second underlying layer disposed over the body.

A platoon travel system organizes and performs a platoon travel of plural vehicles along a preset travel route. The system has a grouping unit that divides the plural vehicles into a top group and a tail end group based on projection area information of the vehicles, and groups vehicles with a projection area in a first range to the top group and vehicles with a projection area in a second range to the tail end group, which is less than the first range. A final position determination unit determines a position of each of the plural vehicles in the vehicle groups based on the depart point information, positions the top group vehicles in an ascending order of depart point distances, and positions the tail end group vehicles in a descending order of depart point distances, thereby preventing deterioration of whole platoon energy consumption.

A platoon travel system organizes a platoon having plural platoon vehicles traveling in two vehicle groups, in which a preset inter-vehicle distance is reserved between each of the platoon vehicles. When a new vehicle joins in the platoon, the platoon travel system adjusts the inter-vehicle distance by decelerating, among all platoon vehicles, deceleration target vehicles that are the platoon vehicles behind a join position in the platoon, which are included in a latter one of the two vehicle groups.

An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle is provided. The system comprises an exhaust passage for transporting exhaust gases from the engine; an injector coupled to a wall of the exhaust passage, said injector including an injection axis that is angled relative to a longitudinal axis of a mixing region of the exhaust passage; and a first mixing device arranged within the exhaust passage downstream of the injector within the mixing region, said first mixing device including a plurality of flaps, wherein said plurality of flaps are inclined relative to the longitudinal axis; a second mixing device arranged within the exhaust passage downstream of the first mixing device; wherein the injection axis of the injector intersects the first mixing device.

Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of processing a semiconductor substrate. The method may include providing the semiconductor substrate in a processing region. Additionally, the method may include flowing gas through a cavity defined by a powered electrode. The method may further include applying a negative voltage to the powered electrode. Also, the method may include striking a hollow cathode discharge in the cavity to form hollow cathode discharge effluents from the gas. The hollow cathode discharge effluents may then be flowed to the processing region through a plurality of apertures defined by electrically grounded electrode. The method may then include reacting the hollow cathode discharge effluents with the semiconductor substrate in the processing region.

A vehicle air-conditioning system includes: an HVAC unit that blows air whose temperature has been adjusted by a refrigerant evaporator and a second refrigerant condenser; a heat pump cycle in which a refrigerant compressor, a refrigerant circuit changeover section, a first refrigerant condenser, a first expansion valve, and the refrigerant evaporator are sequentially connected, in which a second expansion valve and a refrigerant / coolant heat exchanger are connected in parallel with the first expansion valve and the refrigerant evaporator, and in which the second refrigerant condenser is connected in parallel with the first refrigerant condenser; and a coolant cycle in which a coolant circulating pump, a ventilation-exhaust-heat recovery unit, a motor / battery, an electric heater, and the refrigerant / coolant heat exchanger are sequentially connected, and in which the ventilation-exhaust-heat recovery unit, the motor / battery, and the electric heater can be selectively used as a heat source.

An electrically-driven mobile body which can be given a boosting charge with electric power supplied by a single power supply apparatus together with other electrically-driven mobile bodies having different charging conditions and which can cool a charging system thereof without any coolant from the outside, as well as a boosting charge method for an electrically-driven mobile body for the same purpose.An electrically-driven mobile body (50) which includes a power storing means (85) storing DC power supplied by an external power supply apparatus (10) and is driven with DC power stored in the power storing means (85), includes: a charge controlling means (80) for controlling DC power supplied by the power supply apparatus (10) in such a way that the DC power has a voltage and an electric current suitable for giving the power storing means (85) a boosting charge; and a cooling means (60) for cooling a charging system of the power storing means (85) forcedly with DC power supplied by the power supply apparatus (10).

An apparatus and a method for controlling driving of a hybrid electric vehicle on a slope are disclosed. With the apparatus and the method, the hybrid electric vehicle travels on the slope in one mode selected from an engine-motor combined driving mode, an engine driving mode, and a motor driving mode according to an SOC of the battery and a degree of the slope. Accordingly, when traveling on the slope, a driving mode can be determined according to the degree of the slope and the SOC of the battery, thereby previously preventing motor torque from being abruptly increased while traveling on the slope. As a result, a travel distance of the electric motor can be increased, and the start of the internal combustion engine is minimized, thereby enhancing the fuel efficiency by reducing the fuel consumption.

A golf club head with a shell structure constituting with a body part and a hitting surface (face) incorporates, a groove is formed in the body part near the interface with the hitting surface. Several additional ripples are formed in the inner surface of the face plate. The groove in the body part and ripples of the inner surface of the face plate contributed as a powerful shock absorber but also preventing breakage of the head as well as strong repulsive mechanism improving flying distances.

An elongated medical clip applying device having a handle grip assembly on a proximal end thereof and an elongated channel with a pair of squeezable jaws on a distal end thereof. A push rod arrangement is included having a distal end and a proximal end. The push rod arrangement is utilized for advancing a plurality of clips in a sequential manner between the jaws. The push rod includes a multiplier extender arrangement to increase the distance of travel of the distal end of the push rod arrangement a multiple of the distance of travel of the proximal or input end of the push rod arrangement.

The invention discloses a lane adjusting method for urban artery turning traffic. The method is used for relieving tidal flow in urban roads and mainly comprises the number of variable lanes in need of direction changing and a lane turning function determining method after lane adjustment. The method comprises that variable-direction traffic setting conditions of urban arteries are given, the number of variable lanes and the lane turning functions after lane adjustment are determined by combining control of tidal intersection signals, and intersection delay values are calculated and compared to obtain the lane adjusting method for urban artery turning traffic. According to the lane adjusting method, the intersection signal control and the variable-direction traffic technology are combined, so that the tidal traffic jam is relieved, the delay is reduced, and the utilization rate of existing road resources is improved effectively.

An angular velocity sensor has two masses which are laterally disposed in an X-Y plane and indirectly connected to a frame. The two masses are linked together by a linkage such that they necessarily move in opposite directions along Z. Angular velocity of the sensor about the Y axis can be sensed by driving the two masses into Z-directed antiphase oscillation and measuring the angular oscillation amplitude thereby imparted to the frame. In a preferred embodiment, the angular velocity sensor is fabricated from a bulk MEMS gyroscope wafer, a cap wafer and a reference wafer. In a further preferred embodiment, this assembly of wafers provides a hermetic barrier between the masses and an ambient environment.

A platoon travel system organizes and performs a platoon travel of plural vehicles along a preset travel route. The system has a grouping unit that divides the plural vehicles into a top group and a tail end group based on projection area information of the vehicles, and groups vehicles with a projection area in a first range to the top group and vehicles with a projection area in a second range to the tail end group, which is less than the first range. A final position determination unit determines a position of each of the plural vehicles in the vehicle groups based on the depart point information, positions the top group vehicles in an ascending order of depart point distances, and positions the tail end group vehicles in a descending order of depart point distances, thereby preventing deterioration of whole platoon energy consumption.

An energy dissipating helmet, such as a football, baseball, hockey, construction, combat, bicycle, or motorcycle helmet, including a structural component adapted to receive an anticipatory impact having energy, and a stress-activated active material element, such as a Austenitic shape memory alloy wire, mesh, layer, or spring, communicatively coupled to the component, and activatable by the impact, so as to dissipate at least a portion of the energy.

During vehicle travelling with the motor travel priority mode where the vehicle is driven to travel prioritizing the motor travel after system startup, when the accumulated charge ratio of the batteries becomes less than the threshold value, which is set so that the accumulated charge ratio reaches the threshold value for shifting to the hybrid travel priority mode in the case that the vehicle is driven in the motor travel for the required time to warm up the catalyst, in the state that the temperature of the catalyst for purifying the engine exhaust is less than the threshold value which is predetermined as a lower limit temperature to activate the catalyst, the engine is started up and brought to the appropriate operation state to the catalyst warm-up and the vehicle is driven with the motor travel priority mode.

A heat pump system for a vehicle may include a cooling apparatus that supplies and circulates coolant to a motor and an electrical equipment through a cooling line, wherein the cooling apparatus includes a radiator, a cooling fan that ventilates wind to the radiator, and a water pump connected to the cooling line, and an air conditioner apparatus connected through a refrigerant line, wherein the air conditioner apparatus includes a water-cooled condenser connected to the cooling line to change a temperature of the coolant using a waste heat that has occurred in the motor and the electrical equipment according to each mode of the vehicle and that is connected to the refrigerant line to enable an injected refrigerant in the refrigerant line to exchange a heat with the coolant at the inside thereof, and an air-cooled condenser connected in series to the water-cooled condenser through the refrigerant line.

Drive arrangement for motorized actuation of a functional element in a motor vehicle, having at least one drive, the drive having a drive motor and a spindle-spindle nut gear connected downstream of the drive motor for producing linear drive movements, the spindle-spindle nut gear having a spindle with an outside thread and a spindle nut with an inside thread, the linear drive movements being a motion of the spindle nut parallel to a spindle axis. the spindle-spindle nut gear has at least one telescoping sleeve with an inside thread and an outside thread. The at least one telescoping sleeve, spindle and spindle nut are arranged in a telescoping manner being screwed into one another with each outside thread forming a thread pairing with an respective inside thread. An alternative spindle-spindle nut gear has the outside thread and form a ball groove thread pairing with a variable thread pitch.

A platoon travel system organizes a platoon having plural platoon vehicles traveling in two vehicle groups, in which a preset inter-vehicle distance is reserved between each of the platoon vehicles. When a new vehicle joins in the platoon, the platoon travel system adjusts the inter-vehicle distance by decelerating, among all platoon vehicles, deceleration target vehicles that are the platoon vehicles behind a join position in the platoon, which are included in a latter one of the two vehicle groups.

A tricycle is driven by an electric motor supplied by batteries recharged by solar panels. Electric braking is used. The batteries and a battery charger are enclosed in a thermally insulated compartment and the batteries are kept warm in cold weather by the heat produced by the battery charger and by electric braking. The solar panels are mounted on the roof of the passenger cabin and / or on the insulated compartment and are oriented towards the sun by a stepper motor.

A battery cooling system for a vehicle, to warm up or cool down a battery installed in the vehicle by selectively using a refrigerant and a coolant according to a mode of the vehicle may include a heat exchanger, connected with a refrigerant line of a heat pump system through first and second connection lines, connected with a cooling line of a cooling system for an electric device through a battery cooling line, and configured to selectively eat-exchange between the coolant and refrigerant introduced into the heat exchanger, two first valves disposed in the battery cooling line with the heat exchanger disposed therebetween, and selectively connecting the cooling line and the battery cooling line, a first branch line connected with the refrigerant line through a second valve, and a second branch line selectively connecting the refrigerant line and the second connection line through a third valve and a fourth valve.

Disclosed is a battery cooling structure for an electric vehicle which can cool a plurality of batteries mounted in the electric vehicle by forming a cooling channel around the batteries and blowing air therethrough. In the battery cooling structure for an electric vehicle disclosed herein, a first battery pack is disposed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, between a first-row of seats in the vehicle, a first battery housing is provided which is configured to allow through the first battery housing from the interior of the vehicle and is formed in the longitudinal direction to accommodate the first battery pack, and a first fan is disposed in the first housing to force the air in the vehicle into the first battery housing to be discharged to a trunk after cooling the first battery pack.

A vehicle includes a charging unit for externally charging a power storage unit with electric power received from an external power supply, and an electric power generation unit capable of generating electric power from drive force received from an engine. The power storage unit is configured to be internally chargeable with electric power received from the electric power generation unit. The vehicle travels in selected one of EV priority mode restricting internal charging of the power storage unit and HV priority mode controlling internal charging such that a state of charge of the power storage unit is kept within a predetermined range. When a predetermined operating condition is satisfied while the vehicle is traveling, a control apparatus generates an operation request to the engine. The control apparatus changes the operating condition of the engine depending on whether the mode is EV priority mode or HV priority mode.

A hybrid energy storage system suitable for use in a vehicle having an electrified drivetrain includes a first energy storage module and a second energy storage module that is different than the first energy storage module. The first energy storage module may have a cell configuration, a cell chemistry, a cell number, a controller or another characteristic different than a like characteristic of the second energy storage module.

An energy charging / discharging control apparatus of a regenerative braking apparatus of an electric vehicle and a method thereof are provided to improve electrical energy storage efficiency between a battery and a super capacitor, thereby increasing driving distance of the electric vehicle. Constitution A battery(110) is connected to both ends of an inverter(170). An auxiliary charging part(120) is connected to one or more super capacitors in series. A bidirectional converter(130) is connected between the battery and the auxiliary charging part. A current detector detects a charging / discharging current flowing between the battery and the bidirectional converter. A speed detector detects the speed of an electric vehicle.

An adjustable hitch assembly is mounted on a towing vehicle and is adapted to move the hitch transversely, horizontally and vertically with respect to the towing vehicle. A first traveler is provided in a horizontally disposed C-shaped channel and is selectively movable along the channel with a rotataly driven threaded rod. A vertical C-shaped channel is mounted to the first traveler. A second traveler is provided in the vertical channel and is selectively movable along the vertical channel with a threaded rod extending longitudinally in the vertical channel. A hitch is mounted to the vertical channel traveler and is adapted for connecting to a trailer.