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Peter J Schneider

Matthew H Frey

Gilles J Benoit

Rolf Weiler

Brian E Brooks

Aaron K Nienaber

Jon A Kirschhoffer

Nicholas A Johnson

Glenn E Casner

Maureen Ann Kavanagh

Steven P Floeder

Frederick J Arsenault

Himanshu Nayar

Jonathan B Arthur

Peter O Olson

Tyler W Olson

Uwe Zeibig

Brett R Hemes

Victor Ho

Thomas J Strey

Jens Eichler

Christopher M Brown

Nathan J Herbst

Mark W Orlando

Patrick G Zimmerman

Timothy J Clemens

Uwe Hendrich

Lori A Sjolund

Joseph A Dunbar

Jeffrey P Adolf

Andreas Backes

Matthew T Johnson

Sebastian Goris

Gregory P Moriarty

Miaoding Dai

Carter C Hughes

Cory D Sauer

Jacob P Podkaminer

Sarah M Mullins

Zachary M Schaeffer

Scott L Barnett

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing a process of manufacturing a product. In one aspect, the method comprises repeatedly performing the following: i) selecting a configuration of input settings for manufacturing a product, based on a causal model that measures causal relationships between input settings and a measure of a quality of the product; ii) determining the measure of the quality of the product manufactured using the configuration of input settings; and iii) adjusting, based on the measure of the quality of the product manufactured using the configuration of input settings, the causal model.

Manufacturing a product using causal models

The present disclosure provides a thermally conductive article including a pad having first and second opposed major surfaces and a thickness therebetween. The thickness is formed of entangled thermally conductive fibers and at least a portion of the entangled thermally conductive fibers have at least one terminal end at the first opposed major surface, the opposed second major surface, or both. The pad is at least partially impregnated with a polymer. Another thermally conductive article is provided including a) a pad having first and second opposed major surfaces and a thickness therebetween; b) a first thermally conductive skin layer; and c) a second thermally conductive skin layer. The thickness of the pad is formed of aligned thermally conductive fibers, and at least a portion of the thermally conductive fibers have a terminal end at the first opposed major surface and the opposed second major surface. The first and second thermally conductive skin layers each include a polymeric matrix at least partially embedded in the terminal end of at least a portion of the thermally conductive fibers at the first and second major surfaces of the pad, respectively. Methods of making the thermally conductive articles are also provided.

Thermally conductive articles including entangled or aligned fibers, methods of making same, and battery modules

The present invention relates to a piston for a hydraulic pressure chamber, especially a piston bore of a spot-type disc brake, wherein the piston is configured as a bowl-shaped hollow cylinder that is open on one side and made from a metal blank of a constant wall thickness in a forming operation. The piston has a bottom to which hydraulic pressure is applicable and a piston wall which, at its open end, passes over into a rim that has a circular abutment surface. Especially in view of conventional cast pistons, an object of the present invention is related to providing a piston which permits being manufactured by means of a simple forming operation, which can be configured as light as possible and with low expenditure in material, without limiting the stress capacity of the piston. This object is achieved in that the piston includes at least one portion with a fold shaping, where the thickness of the piston wall or of the bottom is increased compared to the thickness of the remaining piston wall or of the bottom and corresponds to several times the wall thickness of the metal blank. As a result, the piston is favorably reinforced only in areas of high stress.

Piston for a hydraulic pressure chamber

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Neuss, Germany

Peter J Schneider