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Proposed is an automated telematics-based system (1) for score-driven operations associated with motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45) or transportation means of passengers or goods and based on a dynamic, telematics-based data aggregation, and method thereof, for automated risk-transfer related to complex peer-to-peer lending schemes, especially related to vehicles and car sharing schemes and sharing economy transportation schemes related to risks associated with damages to third parties. The telematics-based system (1) comprises telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) associated with the plurality of motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45), wherein the telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) comprise a wireless connection (42101-42108) to a central, expert-system-based circuit (11). The telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) are connected via interfaces (421, . . . , 425) to the sensors and/or measuring devices (401, . . . , 405) and/or an on-board diagnostic system (431, . . . , 435) and/or an in-car interactive device (441, . . . , 445), wherein the telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) capture usage-based (31) and/or user-based (32) and/or operational (33) telematics data (3) of the motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) and/or user (321, 322, 323). In response to an emitted shadow request (109) individualized risk-transfer profiles (114) based upon the dynamically generated variable scoring parameters (1011, . . . , 1013) are transmitted from a first risk-transfer systems (11) to the corresponding motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) and issued by means of a user unit (461, . . . , 465) of the motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) for selection by the driver of the motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45). In return of issuing an individualized risk-transfer profile (114) over said user unit (461, . . . , 465), payment-transfer parameters are transmitted from the first risk-transfer system (11) to the provider of the telematics-based system (1).

To provide an optical module capable of miniaturization, the optical module, to which an optical plug provided at one end of an optical transmission path is attached, so as to transmit and receive signal light via the optical transmission path for information communication, includes: a transparent substrate having light transmittance property with respect to a wavelength of used signal light; an optical socket, which is arranged on one surface side of the transparent substrate and to which the optical plug is attached; an optical element, which is arranged on the other surface side of the transparent substrate and emits the signal light to the one surface side of the transparent substrate according to a supplied electrical signal, or generates an electrical signal according to the intensity of the signal light supplied from the other surface of the transparent substrate; and a reflective portion, which is arranged on the other surface of the transparent substrate and changes a path of the signal light emitted from the optical element at substantially 90 degrees to guide it to the optical transmission path, or changes a path of the signal light emitted from the optical transmission path at substantially 90 degrees to guide it to the optical element.

Proposed is a mobile automotive car system, and method thereof, for a dynamic, telematics-based connection search engine and telematics data aggregator, wherein risk-transfer profiles are captured and categorized in a results list from a plurality of first risk-transfer systems based on dynamically generated driving score parameters by means of appropriately triggered automotive data. As a variant, during a predefined trial period, the automotive and driving behavior data can be collected, which are transmitted together with the generated driving score parameters to multiple automated first risk-transfer systems for quotation. The user is able to dynamically select the best-fitting first risk-transfer system for risk-transfer by means of the results list, which is provided and updated in real-time for display to and selection by a user of a mobile telecommunication apparatus by means of a mobile telematics application of the mobile telecommunications apparatus.

It is an object of the present invention to provide: a rubber stopper composition that is easy to mold and process, excellent in sealing properties and gas-barrier properties, low in propensity to elute into the contents, and satisfactory in needle penetration; and a medical rubber stopper made by using the same. The object of the present invention is attained by a composition made up in a predetermined way by dynamically cross-linking an isobutylene-based polymer in the presence of polyolefin with use of a hydrosilyl-group-containing compound and by further adding a softener to the isobutylene-based polymer thus cross-linked, the isobutylene-based polymer having an alkenyl group at a terminal thereof. To the composition of the present invention, a block copolymer consisting of a polymer block (a) composed mainly of an aromatic vinyl-based compound and a polymer block (b) composed mainly of isobutylene or a lubricant can be added.

There is provided a combustor comprising a fuel nozzle which is comprised of a rodlike body which has a fuel passage and which is located in an air passage; a plurality of hollow members which are connected to the fuel passage and which extend in radial directions from the rodlike body into the air passage; at least one injection port formed in each hollow member to inject a fuel from the fuel passage into the air passage; and a projection which extends from a farmost inner wall of each hollow member that is most distant from an axis of the rodlike body to the injection port that is most distant from the axis. A hole for leaking fuel that is connected to an air passage may be formed in a farmost inner wall of the hollow member that is more distant from an axis of a rodlike body than the injection port that is most distant from the axis, or may be formed to be adjacent to all the injection ports on an upstream or downstream side in the direction of the airflow. Thus, a vortex does not occur in the hollow column.

Surface-modified polymeric nanoparticles (NPs), compositions for making them, and their use in drug delivery are disclosed.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element, the capacitor element having an anode body with a dielectric coating film formed on a surface thereof and a solid electrolyte made of a conductive polymer. The method includes the steps of: forming the capacitor element having the anode body with the dielectric coating film formed on the surface thereof; preparing a polymerization liquid A containing one of a monomer as a precursor of the conductive polymer and an oxidant, and a silane compound; preparing a polymerization liquid B by adding the other of the monomer and the oxidant that is not contained in polymerization liquid A, to polymerization liquid A; and performing polymerization after impregnating the capacitor element with polymerization liquid B.

The invention provides an industrial pulverized coal boiler burning device used for spraying ammonia in the center of a burner, and relates to the technical field of industrial pulverized coal boilers. The problems that according to an existing horizontal industrial pulverized coal boiler, the NOx emission amount is high, the NOx emission reduction cost is high, the burnout condition of pulverized coal is poor, the adjusting capacity for load change is poor, the boiler thermal efficiency is low, and slagging is severe are solved. The burning device comprises a primary air pipe, a direct flow secondary air pipe, a rotational flow inner secondary air pipe, a rotational flow outer secondary air pipe, a mixer, an amino reducing agent conveying pipe, a concentrated pulverized coal conveying pipe, a hearth and a two-stage over-fire air system. The primary air pipe, the direct flow secondary air pipe, the rotational flow inner secondary air pipe and the rotational flow outer secondary air pipe are sequentially arranged from inside to outside. The amino reducing agent conveying pipe and the concentrated pulverized coal conveying pipe are connected with the inlet end of the mixer. The outlet end of the mixer is connected with the inlet end of the primary air pipe. The two-stage over-fire air system is arranged on the wall of the hearth. The burning device is used for an industrial pulverized coal boiler.

A vibrationproof device which is a liquid sealed vibrationproof device includes a tubular first mounting member (3) that is connected to either one of a vibration generating portion and a vibration receiving portion, a second mounting member (4) that is connected to other one, an elastic body (5) that elastically connects the first mounting member (3) and the second mounting member (4), and a partition member (8) that partitions a liquid chamber (7) of the inside of the first mounting member (3) into a main liquid chamber (7A) of an upper side having the elastic body as a portion of a wall surface and an auxiliary liquid chamber (7B) of a lower side, and a restricting passage (80) which communicates with the main liquid chamber (7A) and the auxiliary liquid chamber (7B). In addition, a first liquid (L1) is contained as a main liquid and a second liquid (L2) which is insoluble in the first liquid (L1) is contained as an added liquid in the sealed liquid (L), and the vapor pressure of the second liquid (L2) is higher than the vapor pressure of a main component of the first liquid (L1) in the same temperature and a specific gravity of the second liquid (L2) is lighter than a specific gravity of the first liquid (L1).

A foldable display device according to the present disclosure includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area, a touch panel disposed on the display panel and including a bridge electrode, a plurality of insulating layers, a first touch electrode, and a second touch electrode. The device includes a plurality of crack stoppers disposed in the non-display area of the touch panel and configured by patterning the insulating layers and an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer fills a space between the plurality of crack stoppers from which the insulating layers are removed, and is disposed between the display panel and the touch panel. Accordingly, crack occurrence may be suppressed even if a folding/unfolding operation of the foldable display device is repeated. Thus, crack occurrence in the foldable display device may be improved and at the same time, folding characteristics may increase.

A personal and wearable device includes a strap, which is worn by the user, and a remote controller, which is held by a guardian or a teacher. The strap includes a built-in heart rate monitor, a built-in accelerometer and a built-in vibration motor, wherein the heart rate monitor and accelerometer are used to determine the current state of the child in real time. The accelerometer is used to monitor any sudden or repeated actions of the arms or limbs of the user in order to determine whether the user is undergoing an outburst based off the magnitude of the measured acceleration in the arm; and the vibration motor may generate vibrations, which are adjustable in strength via the remote controller. The device is compact in size and convenient to carry, and thus provides a realistic solution for the integration of autistic persons into mainstream schools, etc.

The object of the present invention is to provide a polyorganosiloxane that has a specific structure and is superior to curability and a curable composition which is high in workability during curing, which leads to a cured product excellent in ultraviolet-ray transparency and heat resistance, and further wherein toughness thereof and occurrence of a crack by cyclic heat-cool are improved. The present polyorganosiloxane is one obtained by conducting hydrolysis and condensation of a silicon-containing organic compound represented by the general formula (1) below in the presence of an organic polyol compound having two or more hydroxyl groups and has an oxetanyl group.

A communication system includes a satellite and a ground station. The satellite is configured to preferentially receive signals from each of a plurality of sub-regions within a region of communication of the satellite. The ground station is configured to determine a location of the ground station, determine in which of the sub-regions that the ground station resides based on the location, and transmit a signal to the satellite during a time-interval assigned to the sub-region. The ground stations time-multiplex the transmission of signals from various ground stations to the satellite based on which sub-region of the larger region (e.g. the continental United States or CONUS) that the ground station resides. The time multiplexing is such that ground stations in one region are not transmitting signals to the satellite during the same time interval as ground stations in adjacent sub-regions.

An air source or water sourced packaged self-contained heat pump unit comprises indoor and outdoor sections. Heat exchangers present in these sections transfer heat between the indoor building space and the outdoor ambient. The heat exchangers are connected to form a closed loop and a compressor present in the loop pressurizes the refrigerant. A refrigerant charge control system present controls the charge of refrigerant in the main refrigerant system during heating and cooling modes. A hot-gas heat exchanger is added to the indoor section of the unit downstream of the indoor heat exchanger with respect to the airflow. Valves are used to bypass the flow of refrigerant from the compressor to the hot-gas heat exchanger during regular heating and cooling modes. In the hot-gas reheat mode, the compressed refrigerant is first directed to the hot gas heat exchanger which reheats the air to decrease the relative humidity. The charge control system is active during the hot gas reheat cycle to control the charge of refrigerant in the system.

A process produces 1,4-butanediol by purifying 1,4-butanediol originated from a fermentation broth, by which process 1,4-butanediol having properties suited as a material of producing a polyester is obtained, which 1,4-butanediol enables to reduce by-production of tetrahydrofuran during the esterification reaction and to reduce the delay in polymerization. The process of producing 1,4-butanediol includes adding an alkaline substance other than an ammonia or an amine to an aqueous 1,4-butanediol-containing solution originated from a fermentation broth; distilling the resulting mixture; and recovering a 1,4-butanediol-containing solution from the vapor flow.

A nonvolatile memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate comprising alternating, parallel active regions and isolation regions; first and second selection lines intersecting the active regions and the isolation regions; first junctions formed in the active regions between the first and second selection lines; spacers formed on sidewalls of the first and second selection lines; second junctions deeper than the first junctions formed in the first junctions, respectively; contact plugs coupled to one side of the respective second junctions; and dummy plugs coupled second sides of the respective second junctions.

A laser 3D printing method for metal workpiece and system thereof, and the method comprises the following steps: step one, performing 3D sintering to metal powder by using a continuous laser or a pulse laser; step two, performing laser-induced shock wave impact to a 3D sintered component by using a short pulse width laser; step three, polishing the 3D sintered component obtained after the step two by using a continuous laser or a pulse laser. When the workpiece to be printed comprises powders of various materials, select a laser wavelength, pulse energy and pulse width according to an optical characteristic of the powder of each material, use the three steps to realize a printing of functionally graded materials. Compared with the prior art, the laser 3D printing system for metal workpiece could improve the occurrence of holes, over-burning and spheroidization phenomenon, thereby increasing the density of the metal workpiece.

A system and a method, the method including assigning a payment parameter to each variable risk transfer segment of a top-down table and accumulating payment parameters to a total payment sum, capturing payment transfer parameters from a first payment-transfer device to a second payment-transfer device, and when the total payment sum at the second payment-transfer device has been triggered, transferring the risk exposure of a first insurance system associated with the variable risk transfer segments of the top-down table to a second insurance system.

A method of inspecting a degree of air bubbles which are mixed into an ultraviolet curable resin for an optical fiber having viscosity of 1.2 Pa·s to 6.2 Pa·s at a temperature of 25±5° C., is performed in such a manner that the ultraviolet curable resin for an optical fiber which is an inspecting target is put into a sealed apparatus, then the inside of the sealed apparatus is decompressed to be a predetermined pressure, and then the sealed apparatus is left to stand as it is for a predetermined time. If a ratio of the volume expansion of the ultraviolet curable resin for an optical fiber is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the ultraviolet curable resin for an optical fiber is recognized as an accepted product.

Provided is a speaker including: a frame; a magnetic circuit unit coupled to the frame and configured to generate a magnetic force; a voice coil provided in the frame and configured to vibrate according to the magnetic force; a diaphragm configured to vibrate and produce sound in response to the vibration of the voice coil; and an edge unit that connects the diaphragm and the frame, wherein the edge unit includes a first edge provided between the diaphragm and the frame and configured to control vibration of the diaphragm; and a second edge provided under the first edge in an axial direction of the speaker.

An image forming apparatus includes a locking mechanism that locks an opening/closing door to an engagement position, the locking mechanism having a engaged member and an urging member that urges the engaged member; and an engagement member that is provided on the door and engages the engaged member; wherein an urging force acting on the engaged member from the urging member is converted from a first urging force to press out the engagement member to a second urging force to draw the engagement member into the engagement position when the door is closed; wherein the engagement member has a contacted region and the engaged member has a contact region that comes in contact with the contacted region; and wherein the contacted region elastically deforms when the contact region comes in contact with the contacted region.

Proposed is an adaptive, layered, automated risk-transfer system and method thereof, with a self-optimizing, increased leveraged capacity and enhanced drop-down cover structure with a plurality of adjustable risk-transfer layers. If a triggered risk-event is assignable to either of the top risk-transfer layer or the bottom risk-transfer layer of the drop-down cover structure, a shared exhaustion factor is generated based on the assigned risk-transfer layer and based on a cover of the loss associated with the triggered risk event. The shared exhaustion factor is applied mutually to both layers by the system eroding both layers by the same exhaustion factor. The top layer and the bottom layer are reinstatable by a corresponding generated normalized reinstatement parameter values normalized over both layers and based on a thus provided shared limit and the erosion of the top layer and the bottom layer.