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End effectors with redundant closing mechanisms, and related tools and methods are disclosed. The disclosed end effectors may be particularly beneficial when used for minimally invasive surgery. An example surgical tool comprises an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a tool body disposed at the distal end of the shaft, a jaw movable relative to the tool body between a clamped configuration and an open configuration, a first actuation mechanism coupled with the jaw and operable to vary the position of the jaw relative to the tool body between the clamped configuration and the open configuration, and a second actuation mechanism coupled with the jaw. The second actuation mechanism has a first configuration where the jaw is held in the clamped configuration and a second configuration where the position of the jaw relative to the tool body is unconstrained by the second actuation mechanism.

The present invention discloses an inertial sensor comprising a planar mechanical resonator with embedded sensing and actuation for substantially in-plane vibration and having a central rigid support for the resonator. At least one excitation or torquer electrode is disposed within an interior of the resonator to excite in-plane vibration of the resonator and at least one sensing or pickoff electrode is disposed within the interior of the resonator for sensing the motion of the excited resonator. In one embodiment, the planar resonator includes a plurality of slots in an annular pattern; in another embodiment, the planar mechanical resonator comprises four masses; each embodiment having a simple degenerate pair of in-plane vibration modes.

The present invention discloses an inertial sensor having an integral resonator. A typical sensor comprises a planar mechanical resonator for sensing motion of the inertial sensor and a case for housing the resonator. The resonator and a wall of the case are defined through an etching process. A typical method of producing the resonator includes etching a baseplate, bonding a wafer to the etched baseplate, through etching the wafer to form a planar mechanical resonator and the wall of the case and bonding an end cap wafer to the wall to complete the case.

A single crystal synthetic CVD diamond material comprising: a growth sector; and a plurality of point defects of one or more type within the growth sector, wherein at least one type of point defect is preferentially aligned within the growth sector, wherein at least 60% of said at least one type of point defect shows said preferential alignment, and wherein the at least one type of point defect is a negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy defect (NV−).

Metal face inductive proximity sensors and methods are presented for sensing the presence or absence of a target object in a target sensing area in which a coil system is operated to generate a magnetic field extending outward from the sensing face at a frequency in a range that maximizes a relative target effect for the sensing face area, material, and thickness, and a target material from which the target object is made to allow the protective advantages of metal sensing face materials while enhancing sensing distance by optimizing the ratio of the target energy loss to the energy loss in the metal face.

The invention provides a method and related apparatus to link and / or pattern self-assembled first objects to a second object. Each of the first object (e.g., a nanoparticle) can be embedded in a mobile binder (i.e., a stabilizer). The invention applies energy to the first object and stabilizer, links this first object to the second object, and provides a controlled linkage of the first object with respect to the second object. Applying this procedure to many such objects results in a larger areal arrangement of these linked objects. An appropriate solvent may be used to remove non-linked objects, yielding a patterned array. Thermal annealing can be applied to control the physical and chemical properties of the array.

In sensing a group of cells in a multi-state nonvolatile memory, multiple sensing cycles relative to different demarcation threshold levels are needed to resolve all possible multiple memory states. Each sensing cycle has a sensing pass. It may also include a pre-sensing pass or sub-cycle to identify the cells whose threshold voltages are below the demarcation threshold level currently being sensed relative to. These are higher current cells which can be turned off to achieve power-saving and reduced source bias errors. The cells are turned off by having their associated bit lines locked out to ground. A repeat sensing pass will then produced more accurate results. Circuitry and methods are provided to selectively enable or disable bit-line lockouts and pre-sensing in order to improving performance while ensuring the sensing operation does not consume more than a maximum current level.

A disclosed touch sensor integrated display device includes a display panel; and a data drive circuit configured to set a gate-source voltage to turn on a driving TFT in the display panel by applying a data voltage for touch sensing to a gate node of the driving TFT through a data line and a reference voltage to a source node of the driving TFT through a sensing line, during a reset period based on a scan control signal and a sensing control signal, and to output a sensing value by sensing a change in a source-drain current of the driving TFT caused by touch input, during a sensing period subsequent to the reset period.

The invention discloses a frequency drift compensation-based phase sensitive optical time domain reflectometer and a measuring method thereof. According to the system, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with fixed arm length difference is formed and a laser frequency drift detection module is formed by introducing time delay optical fiber and connecting optical fiber with specific optical path difference on the basis of the traditional phi-OTDR. The frequency drift of the layer is obtained according to the signal intensity of the MZI in the system and the phase position of a phi-OTDR sensingsystem is compensated through a phase compensation algorithm, so that the influence on the sensing property of the phi-OTDR by the frequency drift of the laser is eliminated. The influence on the sensing property by the frequency drift of the laser is eliminated by constructing a novel phi-OTDR system, the influence of noise can be reduced by processing methods such as phase compensation, and theaccuracy of quantitatively measuring a vibration event by the system is improved.

The invention relates to an MXene@CS@PDMS three-dimensional porous composite material and a preparation method and application thereof. A high-sensitivity and high-reliability piezoresistive sensor isprepared by using the material. Since the cube sugar micro-pore granularity is proper and the structure is loose, the prepared PDMS has a three-dimensional sponge-like porous structure by using the cube sugar as a template and has the high flexibility and deformability. With introduction of the MXen@CS@PDMS system, an MXene nanosheet is attached to the PDMS surface tightly after successful loading of the MXene, so that a reliable three-dimensional conductive material is formed. Moreover, reaction parameters in the process of preparing the sensor are optimized to obtain the MXene@CS@PDMS composite three-dimensional structure with good stress and strain is obtained.

The invention is to provide a vibratory double-axially sensing micro-gyroscope, which includes a base, on center of which a supporting hub is arranged, and plural suspending arms are extended outwardly with equal altitude and in radial direction from the supporting hub and, at the outside end of the suspending arm, a platform is formed, and a capacitance sensing electrode or a static-electricity driving electrode is plated respectively at each side of the platform top, below which a static-electricity driving electrode or a capacitance sensing electrode is arranged; take a preferred embodiment of the present invention for example, if the capacitance sensing electrode is arranged at top of the platform and the static-electricity driving electrode is arranged below the platform, then the suspending arm and the platform will vibrate vertically by the attraction of the static-electricity when applying driving voltage, and the vibratory phase difference between two adjacent suspending arms and the platform is 180 degrees; when the gyroscope is rotated horizontally, the suspending arm and the platform will generate horizontal displacement caused by Coriolis force and, by measuring the change of capacitance value, the magnitude of the angular velocity of vibration is obtained; since its structure has symmetrical property, so it has sensing ability in both X or Y axes and, because it has superior stability and is able to resist environment noise and vibration, its sensing capability is enhanced and, since its machining method is simple, so it is adapted for mass production for having lower manufacturing cost.

The invention provides a double-microring resonator optical biochemical sensing chip based on the vernier effect and aims to solve the detection problem of some biochemistry matters. The double-microring resonator optical biochemical sensing chip mainly comprises an input straight waveguide, an output straight waveguide and two microring resonators, wherein the first microring resonator comprises an annular waveguide and is coupled with the input straight waveguide and the output straight waveguide; the second microring resonator is positioned on the inner side of the annular waveguide of the first microring resonator and has a free spectral range different from that of the first microring resonator, and the two microring resonators are connected in an optical coupling manner. Through the above scheme adopted by the optical biochemical sensing chip, the second optical resonator is positioned on the inner side of the first optical resonator and connected with the first optical resonator in a lateral coupling manner to form the vernier effect and detect the influence on an optical signal from external substances. Under the condition of meeting the same sensing performance, the size of the optical biochemical sensing chip is greatly reduced, and miniaturization of the optical biochemical sensor and the on-chip sensing system are favorably realized.