A roll-to-roll sintering system for wide inorganic tape material may include a spool on which is wound a continuous tape material comprising a green tape material and a backing layer, a take-up reel, and a heating station including at least one furnace. The heating station is configured to receive an unwound length of the continuous tape. The heating station further includes a first curved section such that the continuous tape material is bent through a radius of curvature of 0.01 m to 13,000 m, and at least two rollers defining the first curved section over which the continuous tape material is bent. The heating station is controlled to provide at least a portion of the heating station with an air free atmosphere, that being at least one of vacuum, hydrogen, or helium.

An aircraft data collection system comprising a set of removable data collection units and a computer system. The set of removable data collection units is loadable into a compartment in a commercial aircraft. The computer system is configured to control operation of the set of removable data collection units to collect data during a flight of the commercial aircraft on a flight path. A third party can use a smart phone or other electronic device to control the data collection unit during a commercial aircraft flight. The third party is different from the airline operating the commercial aircraft.

A self-luminous display device includes an anti-reflective film-attached transparent substrate including a transparent substrate and an anti-reflective film on the transparent substrate. The anti-reflective film has a light absorption ability and has a laminated structure in which at least two dielectric layers having different refractive indices are laminated.

A display device includes a light-emitting substrate, a counter substrate, multiple color conversion layers and, a patterned distributed Bragg reflector. The counter substrate is disposed opposite to the light-emitting substrate, and has multiple sub-pixel regions. Each of the sub-pixel regions has a sub-pixel width. The color conversion layers are disposed between the light-emitting substrate and the counter substrate. The patterned distributed Bragg reflector is disposed on one side of the color conversion layers, and has multiple openings. Each of the openings has an opening width greater than or equal to 1 m and less than the sub-pixel width.

Light-emitting diode (LED) packages and more particularly a light collector for light mixing in LED packages to improve the far field emission pattern (FFP) of the LED packages are disclosed. The LED package can include one or more LED chips with different wavelength ranges, and the light collector placed over the LED chips can have a reflective surface, save for a reduced aperture through which the light from the LED chips can be emitted after mixing in the light collector. The LED package can also include a lens to further improve the FFP. In an embodiment, the light collector can include diffuser material to facilitate the mixing of the light within the light collector. The LED package with the light collector mixes multiple emission point sources into a single point source, or reduced-area source, that considerably improves the FFP of multi-colored LED chips of the LED package.

The invention concerns a suborbital space traffic control system that comprises: a radar system configured to monitor a predetermined suborbital region and detect and track objects in the predetermined suborbital region. The objects include vehicles and space debris; and a suborbital space traffic monitoring system configured to: receive, from the radar system, tracking data related to the objects detected and tracked by the radar system; monitor, on the basis of the tracking data, trajectories of the objects in the predetermined suborbital region using one or more predetermined machine-learning techniques to detect potentially hazardous situations for the vehicles in the predetermined suborbital region; and, if it detects a potentially hazardous situation for one or more given vehicles, transmit corresponding alarm messages to the given vehicle(s).

Methods, devices, and systems for air traffic control (ATC) flight management are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport information associated with an airport, generate, using the airport information, an ATC flight management analysis that includes an airport map showing locations of aircraft at the airport and a card panel including a number of flight cards, where each respective one of the number of flight cards corresponds to a different respective one of the aircraft at the airport, and a user interface to display the ATC flight management analysis in a single integrated display.

A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes determining whether the UAV is within a first flight restriction zone or a second flight restriction zone and effecting a restriction on the UAV in accordance with a result of the determination, including prohibiting the UAV from flying in response to determining that the UAV is within the first flight restriction zone, or controlling the UAV to fly below a flight ceiling in response to determining that the UAV is within the second flight restriction zone.

A system for autonomously determining optimal paths without collision through a travel volume for a swarm of vehicles is disclosed. The system determines a travel path for the swarm leader vehicle using a minimal cost path derived from various measures of environmental cost for avoiding objects in traveling from leader location to target location. The system also determines, for each empty neighbor location of each follower vehicle, relational costs for follower vehicle travel relative to leader vehicle travel. The various measures of relational cost seek to maintain a prescribed positional relationship between each follower vehicle and the leader vehicle given the leader vehicle travel path. Based on various measures of environmental and relational cost, the system determines the best travel path for the each follower vehicle relative to the leader vehicle.

An information manager may include processing circuitry configured to receive dynamic aircraft information associated with operation of an in-flight aircraft, receive a message from a communication device on the in-flight aircraft for transmission to a ground based content server via a wireless communication network capable of communicating with in-flight assets, and generate an aviation cookie for communication to the content server along with the message. The aviation cookie may be generated based on the dynamic aircraft information and may enable the content server to generate content based at least in part on the dynamic aircraft information.