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Basf Corporation

University of Miami

University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.

Virtual Visual Devices, LLC

Google Inc.

Tsinghua University

Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Tianjin University

Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Jd.com American Technologies Corporation

Pohang University of Science and Technology Foundation

Wei Ping Li

Gongshin Qi

Chang H Kim

Steven Jeffrey Schmieg

Ming Yang

Se Hyuck Oh

David Brian Brown

Kevin L Perry

Xingcheng Xiao

Paul M Najt

Kushal Narayanaswamy

David J Cleary

Mark William Verbrugge

Shouxian Ren

Lei Wang

Ryan J Day

Feng Gao

Thompson M Sloane

Calvin K Koch

Gerry A Hagen

Rui Rong Yuan

Peter C Dowling

Yasuhiro Maeda

Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar

Yanzhang He

Michelle H Wiebenga

Fudong Liu

John T Johnson

Yuntao Gu

David R Monroe

Yogesh Mehta

James Donald Smith

Kevin A Dahlberg

Jin D Kim

Madhusudan Raghavan

Tara N Sainath

Bo Li

Michael P Balogh

Yu Zhang

Rahul Mital

David A Brown

Jianwen Li

John A Hodan

Jeffrey J Ronning

Michael B Viola

Ryan Curtis Sekol

Azeem Sarwar

John Anthony Cafeo

Kanury Kanishka Rao

Thomas A Yersak

Orgun A Guralp

Ran Yehoshua Gazit

Richard Kotek

Xiangju Meng

Gary W Shore

Ian C McGraw

Anil Bika

Ling Yeh

Jong H Lee

Ke Hu

Robert N Armstrong

Shaohua Xie

Pirouz Daftarian

Thomas James Oetjens

Richard J Blint

Norman Dale Brinkman

Xiaolai Zheng

Paolo Serafini

Jae Seung Lee

Victor L Perez

Bing Wu

Chunlei Liu

Ian Mcgraw

Philip J Rosenfeld

Angel Kaifer

Liangliang Cao

David Qiu

Anton Bakhtin

Deepti Bhatia

Lars Y Hessman

Qiujia Li

Vance Paul Lemmon

Ravi S Desai

Fengshou Xiao

Winson Ng

Meiqing Shen

Jin Guo

Jum S Jang

Qi Song

Congmin Min

John A George

Karen Wortham

Michelle E Leblanc

Jerry A Hagen

Bonnie Beth Blomberg

Xinquan Wang

Xiaoyu Jiang

Nora Blanca Caberoy

Weiwen Wang

A vehicle includes an electric motor and a battery operable to provide electrical power to the electric motor. The battery system includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack. The first battery pack has a relatively high power density, and the second battery pack has a relatively high energy density. An electronic controller determines a remaining driving range of the first battery pack, and a remaining driving range of the second battery pack. The vehicle has a human-machine interface (HMI) operatively connected to the electronic controller and configured to indicate the remaining driving range of the first battery pack and the remaining driving range of the second battery pack. The controller executes a method of monitoring the battery system.

Vehicle with hybrid battery pack and human-machine interface and method of monitoring

Methods of making negative electrode materials for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions are provided. A surface of the electrode material formed of silicon, silicon-containing alloys, tin-containing alloys, or combinations thereof is treated with an oxidant at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100&#xb0; C. to form a continuous intermediate layer comprising oxides. The method also includes pyrolyzing a carbon-containing precursor over the continuous intermediate layer at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 600&#xb0; C. to form a continuous carbon coating thereon. The intermediate layer oxides may be transformed to carbides. The continuous carbon coating comprises both graphitic carbon and amorphous carbon and may be a multilayered coating, where the inner layer predominantly includes amorphous carbon and the outer layer predominantly includes graphitic carbon.

Methods for controlling formation of multilayer carbon coatings on silicon-containing electroactive materials for lithium-ion batteries

A three-way catalyst for reduced palladium loading is provided. The catalyst includes an inert substrate and a palladium catalyst material coating the substrate. The palladium catalyst material includes a support material formed from one of 10% CeO/AlO, 20% CeO&#x2014;AlO(20CeAlOy), 30% CeO&#x2014;AlO(30CeAlOy), AlO, and MOx-AlO, wherein M is one of copper, iron, manganese, titanium, zirconium, magnesium, strontium, and barium. The palladium catalyst material includes a layer of CeOmaterial disposed upon the support material, wherein the layer of CeOmaterial is dispersed on a surface of the support material. The palladium catalyst material includes an active component including a layer of praseodymium oxide particles dispersed across the surface of the layer of CeOmaterial and a layer of palladium particles disposed upon and dispersed across the surface of the layer of CeOmaterial at locations each corresponding to a respective location of each of the praseodymium particles.

Three-way catalyst with reduced palladium loading and method of making the three-way catalyst

A layered catalyst structure for purifying an exhaust gas stream includes a catalyst support and a palladium catalyst layer including an atomic dispersion of palladium ions electrostatically adsorbed onto an exterior surface of the catalyst support. The catalyst support includes an alumina substrate, a first ceria layer disposed on and extending substantially continuously over the alumina substrate, and a second colloidal ceria layer formed directly on the first ceria layer over the alumina substrate. The palladium catalyst layer is formed on the exterior surface of the catalyst support by applying a palladium-containing precursor solution to the exterior surface of the catalyst support and then heating the catalyst support and the palladium-containing precursor solution. The palladium-containing precursor solution includes a positively charged palladium complex in an aqueous medium and has a pH greater than a point of zero charge of the second colloidal ceria layer.

Layered catalyst structures and methods of making the same

A method includes receiving a speech recognition result, and using a confidence estimation module (CEM), for each sub-word unit in a sequence of hypothesized sub-word units for the speech recognition result: obtaining a respective confidence embedding that represents a set of confidence features; generating, using a first attention mechanism, a confidence feature vector; generating, using a second attention mechanism, an acoustic context vector; and generating, as output from an output layer of the CEM, a respective confidence output score for each corresponding sub-word unit based on the confidence feature vector and the acoustic feature vector received as input by the output layer of the CEM. For each of the one or more words formed by the sequence of hypothesized sub-word units, the method also includes determining a respective word-level confidence score for the word. The method also includes determining an utterance-level confidence score by aggregating the word-level confidence scores.

Learning word-level confidence for subword end-to-end automatic speech recognition

A method and system for intelligent guided shopping. The system includes a computing device. The computing device has a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to provide inference models based on user search data. Each of the inference models includes nodes and edges between the nodes. Each of the edges pointing from a first node to a second node is characterized with a probability value. The probability value represents a probability of searching a second keyword corresponding to the second node after searching a first keyword corresponding to the first node.

System and method for intelligent guided shopping

Bimetallic three-way catalyst devices include a support body, one or more Rh bulk deposits disposed on the support body, and a plurality of Pt atomic clusters disposed on the surface of each of the Rh bulk deposits. Substantially no Pt is deposited on the support body. At least 85% by weight of the Pt atomic clusters comprise up to 10 atoms and the maximum Pt atomic cluster size is 200 Pt atoms. The combined loading of Rh and Pt can be less than 1.5% by weight relative to the weight of the support body. The molar ratio of Rh in a bulk Rh deposit to Pt disposed on the surface of that deposit is at least 5:1.

Bi-metallic three-way catalyst materials and appurtenant devices and systems

Antibodies specific for secretogranin III (Scg3) are disclosed. Methods of using the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same in the treatment of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, neovascular age-related macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, and cancer, are also disclosed.

Anti-secretogranin III (SCG3) antibodies and uses thereof

Methods for preparing catalytic systems include passivating a gamma-phase alumina support body to yield a theta-phase alumina support body and applying catalytic metal to passivated theta-phase alumina support body. Passivating can include heating, optionally in the presence of steam. The gamma-phase alumina can be lanthanum-doped gamma-phase alumina and can be about 0.1-55 wt. % lanthanum. The catalytic metal can include rhodium, copper, or nickel. The catalytic metal can be rhodium or nickel, and the catalytic metal can be applied to the passivated theta-phase alumina support body at a loading of about 0.1-10 wt. %. The catalytic metal can be copper, and the catalytic metal can be applied to the passivated theta-phase alumina support body at a loading of about 0.1-30 wt. %. The gamma-phase alumina support body can be at least about 90 wt. % gamma-phase alumina. The passivated theta-phase alumina support body can be at least about 80 wt. % theta-phase alumina.

Methods for preparing catalytic systems

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting utterances of a key phrase in an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving, by a key phrase spotting system, an audio signal encoding one or more utterances; while continuing to receive the audio signal, generating, by the key phrase spotting system, an attention output using an attention mechanism that is configured to compute the attention output based on a series of encodings generated by an encoder comprising one or more neural network layers; generating, by the key phrase spotting system and using attention output, output that indicates whether the audio signal likely encodes the key phrase; and providing, by the key phrase spotting system, the output that indicates whether the audio signal likely encodes the key phrase.

Key phrase spotting

A three-way catalyst device (TWC) includes a first catalytic brick (FCB) and a second catalytic brick (SCB) downstream from the FCB. The FCB has a first washcoat applied to a first support body including ceramic and/or metal oxide particles, Pd particles, and Rh particles, and has at most 35 g/ftPd and at most 7.5 g/ftRh. The SCB has a second washcoat applied to a second support body including ceramic and/or metal oxide particles, Pt particles, and Rh particles, and has a Pt loading of at most 35 g/ftPt and a Rh loading of at most 7.0 g/ftRh. The FCB can have 25 g/ftto 35 g/ftPd and 5.5 g/ftto 7.5 g/ftRh and the SCB can have 25 g/ftto 35 g/ftPt and 5.0 g/ftto 7.0 g/ftRh. The TWC can receive exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine powering a vehicle.

Three-way catalyst materials and appurtenant devices and systems

A vehicle including a hybrid battery pack includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack. The first battery pack has a higher energy density than the second battery pack. The second battery pack has a higher power density than the first battery pack. A power inverter module is connected between the hybrid battery pack and a motor generator unit (MGU) that is connected to a powertrain of the vehicle. The power inverter module is configured to regulate power flow between the hybrid battery pack and the MGU. A battery management module is configured to: control switching of the power inverter module; selectively charge and discharge at least one of the first battery pack and the second battery pack; and selectively charge the first battery pack with power from the second battery pack.

Energy sharing system and method for a vehicle

A nitrogen oxides (NO) and hydrocarbon (HC) storage catalyst for treating an exhaust gas flow is provided. The NOand HC storage catalyst includes (a) a zeolite, (b) noble metal atoms, and (c) a metal oxide, a non-metal oxide, or a combination thereof. One or more of the noble metal atoms is present in a complex with the metal oxide, the non-metal oxide or a combination thereof. The complex is dispersed within a cage of the zeolite. Methods of preparing the NOand HC storage catalyst and methods of using the NOand HC storage catalyst for treating an exhaust gas stream flowing from a vehicle internal combustion engine during a period following a cold-start of the engine are also provided.

Nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbon storage catalyst and methods of using the same

The present disclosure provides a method for operating a three-way catalyst system at high temperatures. The method includes passing a high-temperature exhaust stream exiting an engine over a thermally stable three-way catalyst system including a metal oxide support; two or more catalytically active metals disposed on the support; and a porous metal oxide coating disposed on one or more exposed surfaces of the support. At least one of the catalytically active metals may be platinum (Pt). The method further includes reducing an amount of the nitrogen oxides (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and non-methane hydrocarbons (HCs) in an effluent stream exiting the thermally stable three-way catalyst system so that the effluent stream has a combined amount of nitrogen oxides (NO) and non-methane hydrocarbons (HCs) of less than or equal to about 30 mg/mile and less than or equal to about 0.5 g/mile of carbon monoxide (CO).

Platinum-containing catalyst systems

Methods for preparing a catalyst system, include providing a catalytic substrate comprising a catalyst support having a surface with a plurality of metal catalytic nanoparticles bound thereto and physically mixing and/or electrostatically combining the catalytic substrate with a plurality of oxide coating nanoparticles to provide a coating of oxide coating nanoparticles on the surface of the catalytic nanoparticles. The metal catalytic nanoparticles can be one or more of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, rhenium, copper, silver, and gold. Physically combining can include combining via ball milling, blending, acoustic mixing, or theta composition, and the oxide coating nanoparticles can include one or more oxides of aluminum, cerium, zirconium, titanium, silicon, magnesium, zinc, barium, lanthanum, iron, strontium, and calcium. The catalyst support can include one or more oxides of aluminum, cerium, zirconium, titanium, silicon, magnesium, zinc, barium, iron, strontium, and calcium.

Methods for preparing catalyst systems

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