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A laser scanning module employs a scan mirror and magnet rotor subassembly supported by a stator structure using a pair of elastomeric wheel hinges. The scan mirror and magnet rotor subassembly includes: a scan mirror and magnet rotor subassembly having a rotor frame having a pair of rotor support posts aligned along a scan axis passing through the rotor frame; a scan mirror mounted on the rotor frame; and a permanent magnet mounted on the rotor frame. The elastomeric wheel hinge includes a central portion having an aperture for passage and fixed attachment of one rotor support post, a plurality of elastomeric spoke portions extending from the central portion and radially extending from the central aperture to a circumferential rim portion connected to the outer end portion of each spoke portion so as to form the elastomeric wheel hinge.

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for managing text-based services on mobile devices during the operation of a vehicle. Proactive service-controls use a time of day and location based services to determine that a mobile device is in a moving vehicle. Reactive position-awareness techniques use near-field communication (NFC) to determine that the mobile device is being operated by a user in a driver's seat of the vehicle. Upon satisfying both these determinations, specific text-based services such as messaging, browsing, etc. can be disabled by either the mobile device itself or by a network entity. The present invention can also be extended to managing other mobile device's usages in vehicles, including phone calls, online gaming, etc.

A portable electronic device having a) a folded substrate carrying components of the device, and b) another, separate component having a fixed outer contour, and c) a housing for enclosing said folded substrate and said separate component, said housing having an inner contour, wherein said folded substrate is folded from a planar substrate along a folding line, said folded substrate exhibiting outer edges comprising a folded edge following said folding line. A method of manufacturing a folded substrate. An object of the present application is to facilitate miniaturization of a portable electronic device, such as a hearing aid. A problem is solved in that the folded substrate is shaped to provide that at least one of said outer edges follow(s) the fixed outer contour of the separate component and/or the inner contour of said housing.

A tire having a tread composed of two non-conductive layers, each layer containing a circumferential insert of conductive mix, the inserts having a wider interface at the interface of the two layers. An apparatus for extruding a layer, provided with a conductive insert, including a main extruder for extruding a non-vulcanized, non-conductive layer, and a micro-extruder having an extrusion head, provided at its end with a nozzle, for extruding a conductive insert in the layer.

In order to provide a rotary electric machine with a reduced size and improved weldability, the stator of a rotary electric machine has a segment coil formed by bending rectangular conductors, and a stator core having slots in which the segment coil is inserted. As for the weld parts formed at the tips of the lead parts of the segment coil which protrude from the end face of the stator core and are twisted together, at least one of the weld beads aligned in the radial direction of the stator is an oblong body that is long in the radial direction of the stator core, and the angle formed by the longitudinal direction of the oblong body and the axial direction of the stator core is less than 90 degrees in a core cross section that includes the central axis of the stator core.

An apparatus is described for calibrating at least one sensor within a gas detector (22), which detector has a gas inlet in fluid communication with the or each sensor, the apparatus comprising a housing (10) that contains: a) a surface (24) for abutting against the detector (22); b) a holder (14) for holding the gas detector (22) with respect to the housing (10) in such a manner that a region of the detector containing the gas inlet abuts against the surface (24) of the housing to form a sealed gas interface between the surface (24) and the detector (22); c) a connector for connecting a source of pressurised calibration gas (12) to the apparatus, d) a conduit (32) for delivering a calibration gas from the connector (34) to the interface between the detector and the apparatus housing, e) electrical connections (40) within the holder for forming electrical connections between the apparatus and a detector held within the holder, and e) a flow controller (34, 36) within the conduit for providing calibration gas at a predetermined level to the interface, the flow controller including an electrically-operated valve (36) being controllable for initiating and terminating the flow of calibration gas through the conduit (32) by means of signals received from the detector via the electrical connections (40). The whole calibration is controlled by he detector and not the calibration apparatus.

In a method for assisted parking of a vehicle in a parking space with the aid of a parking-assistance device which guides the vehicle along parking trajectory, the vehicle is guided along a first segment of the parking trajectory up to an intermediate point which is determined in such a way that it is possible to pull the vehicle into either a parallel or a diagonal parking space, and it is identified whether the parking space is a parallel or a diagonal parking space. The vehicle is guided along a second segment of the parking trajectory which is selected depending upon whether the parking space is a parallel or a diagonal parking space.

A dynamic and refreshable three-dimensional tactile display uses stimulus sensitive hydrogel blocks as pixels to create a touch surface with elevations from a two-dimensional optical image or from stored data. The movable three-dimensional tactiles are powerful in teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) materials to visually impaired and blind students.

A telephoto lens system includes a positive first lens group, a positive second lens group, a diaphragm, a negative third lens group constituting a focusing lens group, and a positive fourth lens group.

The first lens group includes a positive first lens element, a positive second lens element, and a negative third lens element. The second lens group includes a negative or a positive fourth lens element and a positive or negative fifth lens element which are cemented to each other. The third lens group includes a positive or negative sixth lens element and a negative or positive seventh lens element which are cemented to each other. The fourth lens group includes one positive eighth lens element. Upon focusing on an object at infinity to an object at a closer distance, the third lens group is moved toward the image. The telephoto lens system satisfies the following conditions:

1.4<f/f1<1.8   (1)

2.4<f/f12<3.0   (2)

−5.5<f/f3<−3.5   (3)

• • wherein f: a focal length of the telephoto lens system; f1: the focal length of the first lens group; f12: the combined focal length of the first lens group and the second lens groups; and f3: a focal length of the third lens group.

An illumination assembly includes a first diode row having first and second multi-chip LED units, and a second diode row having third and fourth multi-chip LED units. The first through fourth multi-chip LED units each includes red, green, and blue LEDs. Light of the red, green, and blue LEDs of the first through fourth multi-chip LED units has a respective primary emission direction (PED). The PEDs of same colored ones of the LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units are oriented along one direction. The PEDs of the remaining two LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units are oriented in opposite directions from each other. The PEDs of the LEDs of the third and fourth multi-chip LED units are oriented in opposite directions as compared to those of the LEDs of the first and second multi-chip LED units, respectively.

A method of automated identification of specific sounds in a noise environment, comprising the steps of: a) continuously recording the noise environment, b) forming a spectral image of the sound recorded in a time/frequency coordinate system, c) analyzing time-sliding windows of the spectral image, d) selecting a family of filters, each of which defines a frequency band and an energy band, e) applying each of the filters to each of the sliding windows, and identifying connected components or formants, which are window fragments formed of neighboring points of close frequencies and powers, f) calculating descriptors of each formant, and g) calculating a distance between two formants by comparing the descriptors of the first formant with those of the second formant.

A gamma radiation breast imaging apparatus, comprising an object positioning device, defining an imaging space and having as an intended insertion direction of the breast to be imaged, and a gamma camera positioned to image a volume in said imaging space. The gamma camera comprises a collimator with a first plurality of focused pinholes, the individual fields of view of the first pinholes defining a common central field of view having a geometrical centre. The apparatus also has a gamma sensitive detector to receive images from the collimator. The first pinholes are provided non-symmetrically with respect to a first plane through said geometrical centre that is perpendicular to the collimator and parallel to said intended insertion direction. Hereby, more angular information about the scanned volume can be obtained for the same detector size, in particular when combined with a similar opposite camera.

The present invention discloses a container sorting system capable of increased sorting efficiency. The present invention discloses a device in which the distance is shortened between detection and ejection of containers being sorted by reflective infrared radiation, transmission infrared radiation, or both. The present invention also includes a method of operating such device.