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Ronald David Jesme

Andrew P Bonifas

Nicholas T Gabriel

Brock A Hable

Matthew J Blackford

Aaron K Nienaber

Joseph B Eckel

Steven T Awiszus

Eric C Lobner

Jia Hu

Jaewon Kim

Kiran S Kanukurthy

Michael G Wurm

Justin M Johnson

Thomas J Nelson

John P Baetzold

David H Redinger

Andrew John Ouderkirk

John Allen Wheatley

Guanglei Du

Ernesto M Rodriguez, Jr

Thomas J Brace

Dipankar Ghosh

Jennifer Frances Schumacher

Jens Weichold

Robert A Sainati

Craig R Schardt

Glenn E Casner

Ravi Palaniswamy

Robert M Jennings

Peter J Zarembo

Mark B O'Neill

Douglas B Gundel

Robert A Astle

Erin A McDowell

Negus B Adefris

Charles L Bruzzone

William J Kopecky

Tri Dinh Pham

John M Kruse

Michael E Hamerly

Brian D Goers

Bharat R Acharya

James D Carlson

Brian J Stankiewicz

Nicholas G Amell

Mohsen Salehi

Nathan J Anderson

Keith G Mattson

Edward D Goff

Christian Weinmann

Scott E Brigham

Jeffrey M Maki

Samad Javid

Stephen J Etzkorn

Golshan Golnari

Andrew Bonifas

Jonathan J Lepp

Jeffrey T Keacher

Gary E Gaides

Robert D Lorentz

Dylan T Cosgrove

Alexi J Young

Saber Taghvaeeyan

Anthony Michael Belka

Robin E Gorrell

Swagata R Banerjee

Alejandro Aldrin A Narag, Ii

Derek J Dehn

Stephen J Willett

Mark D Weigel

Shawn C Dodds

Orlin Bruce Knudson

Erik A Aho

Badri Veeraraghavan

Christopher R Yungers

Zheng Huang

Robert W Shannon

Margaret M Vogel-Martin

Bert T Chien

Richard L Rylander

Marc A Egeland

Andrew H Tilstra

Jaime A Martinez

Gautam Singh

Phillip E Tuma

Bret W Ludwig

John E Nelson

Terrence H Joyce

Nicholas Andrew Asendorf

Karl M Kropp

Andrew R Henry

Eric M Chinnock

Michael W Dolezal

Michael S Graff

Jay Arthur Esch

Don Vincent West

Zhiguo Wen

Paul J Northey

Jason L Aveldson

Techniques are described for monitoring and controlling fall protection equipment. For example, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to monitor the connection status of fall protection equipment, e.g., whether or not the fall protection equipment is connected to a support structure. The techniques described in the disclosure may determine whether the fall protection equipment is connected to a support structure based on changes in a resonant frequency of an electronic circuit of an inductive sensor within the fall protection equipment. The inductive sensor may be formed from sets of one or more coils, where a first set of one or more coils and a second set of one or more coils are wound in opposite directions.

Fall protection equipment having inductive sensor for connection status and control

A filtration system for a tank includes a filter housing, at least a portion of which is disposed in a tank and in fluidic communication with a dielectric fluid within the tank; at least one filtration element, disposed within the filter housing; and a fluid pump, at least a portion of which is disposed within the filter housing and immersed in the dielectric fluid, the fluid pump in fluidic communication with the at least one filtration element.

Filtration design for immersion cooling tank systems

In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) having at least one sensor configured to generate a stream of usage data; and an analytical stream processing component comprising: a communication component that receives the stream of usage data; a memory configured to store at least a portion of the stream of usage data and at least one model for detecting a safety event signature, wherein the at least one model is trained based as least in part on a set of usage data generated by one or more other articles of PPE of a same type as the article of PPE; and one or more computer processors configured to: detect the safety event signature in the stream of usage data based on processing the stream of usage data with the model, and generate an output in response to detecting the safety event signature.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) with analytical stream processing for safety event detection

Gradient permittivity films are described. In particular, gradient permittivity films that include a first continuous matrix of a first component having a first relative permittivity and a second component disposed within the continuous matrix having a second relative permittivity. The first permittivity is greater than the second permittivity for at least one wavelength between 20 GHz and 300 GHz. Such films may be useful in improving the signal to noise ratio for transmitting and receiving units behind a protective cover.

Gradient permittivity film

According to one embodiment, a method can comprise: providing a tool that has a first portion that comprises a first material and a second portion that comprises a second material, wherein the second material differs from the first material and the tool is subject to a magnetic field, and wherein the first material and the second material are provided such that the magnetic field is relatively stronger at and adjacent the first portion relative to the magnetic field at and adjacent the second portion; positioning a surface adjacent to the tool so as to be subject to the magnetic field; and disposing magnetizable abrasive particles on the surface, wherein the magnetizable abrasive particles are attracted to an area on the surface adjacent the first portion where the magnetic field is relatively stronger so as to provide for at least one of a desired orientation, placement and alignment of a majority of the magnetizable abrasive particles on the surface.

Magnetically assisted disposition of magnetizable abrasive particles

According to one embodiment, a method of making an abrasive layer on a backing is disclosed. The method can comprise: providing a distribution tool having a dispensing surface with cavities, providing a backing having a first major surface, supplying magnetizable abrasive particles to the dispensing surface such that at least one of the magnetizable abrasive particles is disposed in a respective one of the cavities, applying a magnetic field to retain the magnetizable abrasive particles disposed in the cavities, aligning the backing with the dispensing surface with the first major surface facing the dispensing surface, transferring the magnetizable abrasive particles from the cavities to the backing, sequent to or simultaneous with transferring the abrasive particles, removing or changing a magnetic field so the magnetic field no longer retains the magnetizable abrasive particles in the cavities.

Use of magnetics with magnetizable abrasive particles, methods, apparatuses and systems using magnetics to make abrasive articles

Techniques are described for monitoring and controlling fall protection equipment. For example, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to monitor the connection status of fall protection equipment, e.g., whether or not the fall protection equipment is connected to a support structure. The techniques of this disclosure may also be used to control the operation of the fall protection equipment based on the connection status.

Fall protection equipment connection status and control

A method of applying magnetizable particles onto an adherent web includes several steps. Step a) provides a magnetizable particle coating apparatus comprising a downward sloping dispensing surface at least partially disposed within an applied magnetic field. Step b) disposes an adherent web between upper and lower magnetic members and beneath the downward sloping dispensing surface, wherein the web comprises a backing having a curable binder precursor layer disposed on a major surface thereof. Step c) disposes magnetizable particles onto at least a portion of the downward sloping dispensing surface within the applied magnetic field, and subsequently disposed onto the curable binder precursor layer while the adherent web is advanced from an upweb position to a downweb position. Step d) at least partially cures the curable binder precursor layer to fix the orientations of the magnetizable particles.

Method of making a coated abrasive article

An ultrasonic coupling device. The ultrasonic coupling device includes a foam having an aperture; a hydrogel wherein the hydrogel has a water content of at least 10 wt %, wherein at least part of the hydrogel locates in the aperture of the foam; and a near field communication device.

Ultrasonic coupling device

A magnetic shielding film includes opposing first and second major surfaces and a plurality of particles dispersed therebetween, each particle having a magnetic permeability, a thickness H along a thickness direction of the particle, and a longest dimension L along a length direction of the particle orthogonal to the thickness direction, L/H greater than or equal to 2, the particles defining a plurality of voids therebetween, the length directions of at least 60% of the particles oriented within 5.5 degrees of a same orientation direction.

Orientation of magnetic fillers to optimize film properties

Systems and methods of path-based mapping and routing are provided. Translation information and absolute information of mobile objects in environments are determined based on a fusion of sensing data from a radar and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) including a gyroscope and an accelerometer, from which path-based maps and optimal routes can be generated.

Methods and systems for path-based mapping and routing

A method of making an optical film for control of light includes positioning a first mixture on a substrate, wherein the first mixture includes a first plurality of magnetizable particles dispersed in a first resin, assembling the first plurality of magnetizable particles into a desired structure for the control of the light by rotating modulation of at least a first magnetic field relative to the first plurality of magnetizable particles, and vitrifying the first resin while the first plurality of magnetizable particles are in the desired structure.

Magnetizable particles forming light controlling structures and methods of making such structures

An ultrasonic coupling device. The ultrasonic coupling device includes a hydrogel wherein the hydrogel has a water content of at least 10 wt %; and a near field communication device.

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Plymouth, MN, United States of America

Ronald David Jesme