Marks & Clerk LLP

An MRI apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes a setting unit and a scanner. The setting unit is configured to set a pulse sequence including a plurality of sub pulse sequences to acquire a plurality of MR data each corresponding to a different one of a plurality of echo signals emitted from an object after applying a MT pulse and a RF pulse to the object, each of the plurality of sub pulse sequences corresponding to an Ultrashort Echo Time sequence. The scanner is configured to acquire the plurality of MR data based on the pulse sequence set by the setting unit. The MR data corresponding to an initial echo signal after the application of the RF pulse to the object among the plurality of echo signals in at least one of the plurality of sub pulse sequences is used for analyzing both bound water and free water in the object.

This disclosure describes techniques for managing multiple wireless networks providing overlapping coverage to user devices. In one example, this disclosure describes a computing system configured to collect network data associated with a first wireless network; collect network data associated with a second wireless network, wherein the first wireless network and the second wireless network have an overlapping coverage area, and wherein the first wireless network and the second wireless network are different wireless network types; identify, based on the network data associated with the first wireless network, a user device that is attached to the first wireless network and is in the overlapping coverage area, wherein the user device is also capable of attaching to the second wireless network; and predict, based on both the network data associated with the first wireless network and the network data associated with the second wireless network, a network condition impacting the user device.

Techniques are disclosed for a network management system (NMS) that computes a channel score based on a normalized metric for a channel and assigns a channel to an access point (AP) based on the channel score). In one example, the NMS obtains data associated with at least one channel of a plurality of channels in a frequency band at a site, where the data includes a set of metrics. The NMS computes a normalized metric for each metrics of the set of metrics with respect to a threshold value representative of degraded performance of the at least one channel. The NMS computes a channel score based on a product of the normalized metrics. The NMS assigns a channel to at least one AP based on the channel score for the channel.

A membrane electrode assembly includes an anode having an anode catalyst layer, a cathode having a cathode catalyst layer, and an electrolyte membrane provided between the anode and the cathode. An ion exchange equivalent weight of the electrolyte membrane is equal to or higher than an ion exchange equivalent weight of the cathode catalyst layer. An ion exchange equivalent weight of the anode catalyst layer is higher than the ion exchange equivalent weight of the cathode catalyst layer and is equal to or higher than the ion exchange equivalent weight of the electrolyte membrane.

A membrane electrode assembly includes: an anode; a cathode; and an electrolyte membrane provided between the anode and cathode. The anode includes: a porous and conductive anode conductive transport layer; and an anode catalyst layer provided between the anode conductive transport layer and the electrolyte membrane. The anode catalyst layer includes first sheet layers and first gap layers, each first sheet layer and each first gap layer being alternately stacked. The cathode includes a porous and conductive cathode conductive transport layer, and a cathode catalyst layer provided between the cathode conductive transport layer and the electrolyte membrane. The cathode catalyst layer includes second sheet layers and second gap layers, each second sheet layer and each second gap layer being alternately stacked. A porosity of the cathode conductive transport layer is higher than a porosity of the anode conductive transport layer.

A semiconductor memory device may include: a substrate; a plurality of semiconductor patterns extending in a first horizontal direction on the substrate, the plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction; a first contact connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns, the first contact extending through the plurality of semiconductor patterns in the vertical direction; a bit line on the first contact in the vertical direction, the bit line extending in a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction; a word line surrounding the plurality of semiconductor patterns, the word line extending in the first horizontal direction; and a second contact spaced apart from the first contact in the first horizontal direction, the second contact extending through the plurality of semiconductor patterns in the vertical direction, wherein the second contact includes a metal, and the first contact includes a main layer including doped polysilicon.

The present disclosure, methods, and devices for efficiently writing data to a storage device are disclosed. The method may include receiving, from a host device, one or more commands to write data in the NAND flash memory region of the storage device, wherein each command having a data block and a write request to write the data block in a page of the NAND flash memory region; performing a set of operations of a predefined routine, based on the one or more commands; preventing transmission of a first completion indication of the set of operations to the host device; receiving data blocks associated with each command, the data blocks being associated with a subsequent set of operations of the predefined routine; and performing the subsequent set of operations of the predefined routine, based on receiving the data blocks for writing the data to the NAND flash memory region.

An electronic device including a display module, a case including a first case and a second case, and a hinge portion between the first case and the second case and defining biaxial rotation axes, the hinge portion includes a frame between the first case and the second case, a first rotor between the first case and the frame, a first link coupled to one side of the first rotor, and including first protrusions on one side thereof, a second rotor on the second case and the frame, a second link coupled to one side of the second rotor and including second protrusions on one side thereof, and a plurality of connecting gears engaged with the first protrusions and the second protrusions, the number of the first protrusions and the number of the second protrusions may be different from each other.

An apparatus and method for predicting a life of a battery provided in an electric vehicle are described. A battery life prediction method includes generating, by a processor, field data through event-based profiling based on one or more detection results of voltage, current, and temperature collected from a battery; calculating, by the processor, a state of health (SOH) of the battery using the field data; extracting, by the processor, as log data, battery performance indicator data corresponding to an operating state of the battery from the field data; transmitting the log data to a server and collecting a life prediction value of the battery generated by the server based on the log data; and determining status related to the life of the battery based on comparing the SOH of the battery with the life prediction value of the battery; and performing an action with respect to the battery based on determining the status.

A computing system comprising storage media and processing circuitry may perform the techniques. The processing circuitry may aggregate a plurality of performance metrics for a plurality of network entities of a network system into a metric indicative of a health of the plurality of network entities. The processing circuitry may, based at least in part on a determination that the aggregated metric indicative of the health of the plurality of network entities does not satisfy a threshold, identify one or more network entities of the plurality of network entities for which the corresponding performance metrics of the plurality of performance metrics contributed to the aggregated metric not satisfying the threshold. The processing circuitry may output a cause of fault associated with the identified one or more network entities.