mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Insertion tube for firing sub-calibre ammunition bodies with a high-calibre weapon, which insertion tube can be inserted into the charge chamber of the weapon, with recesses which penetrate the tube wall of the insertion tube for compensating for pressure differences between the interior of the insertion tube and the charge chamber, wherein the recesses extend radially outwards from the inside of the tube wall, characterized in that the recesses extend at an acute angle (α) in relation to the axis of the insertion tube and at least partially into an end side of the tube wall.
An eye shield comprising: first and second lenses (24a, 24b) each having an inner and an outer surface, the inner surface of the first lens facing the inner surface of the second lens, the first and second lenses defining a first air cavity therebetween; a shroud extending along a perimeter of the first lens and extending outwardly from the outer surface of the first lens, the shroud and the outer surface of the first lens operable to cooperate with a wearer's face to define a second air cavity; a vent formed in one of the first lens or the second lens that allows air into the first air cavity; characterized by a plug positioned in the vent and extending into the first air cavity, the plug comprising a liquid impermeable and gas permeable material. first and second lenses (24a, 24b) each having an inner and an outer surface, the inner surface of the first lens facing the inner surface of the second lens, the first and second lenses defining a first air cavity therebetween; a shroud extending along a perimeter of the first lens and extending outwardly from the outer surface of the first lens, the shroud and the outer surface of the first lens operable to cooperate with a wearer's face to define a second air cavity; a vent formed in one of the first lens or the second lens that allows air into the first air cavity; characterized by a plug positioned in the vent and extending into the first air cavity, the plug comprising a liquid impermeable and gas permeable material.
A method for the production of water-absorbent resin particles comprising: polymerizing a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer using a water-soluble radical polymerization initiator, if necessary, in the presence of a crosslinking agent, to obtain water-absorbent resin particle precursors; adding a post-crosslinking agent to crosslink a surface layer of the particle precursors; adding amorphous silica particles in an amount of 0.01 to 2 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of water-absorbent resin particles; and adjusting the moisture content of the resulting water-absorbent resin particles to 12 to 20%; whereby the obtained water-absorbent resin particles have a retaining rate of particle diameter after a particle collision test of 90% or more. polymerizing a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer using a water-soluble radical polymerization initiator, if necessary, in the presence of a crosslinking agent, to obtain water-absorbent resin particle precursors; adding a post-crosslinking agent to crosslink a surface layer of the particle precursors; adding amorphous silica particles in an amount of 0.01 to 2 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of water-absorbent resin particles; and adjusting the moisture content of the resulting water-absorbent resin particles to 12 to 20%;
An apparatus for adaptively modulating signal in a MIMO system having a layered space-time architecture based detector, the apparatus comprising: a bit and power allocation information calculator for deciding an equivalent channel gain in a reverse order of Vertical-Bell laboratories Space Time (V-BLAST) based on MIMO channel information fed back from a receiver and determining the number of bits and transmission power to be transmitted to each transmitting antenna by using the equivalent channel gain, wherein the reverse order proceeds from an equivalent channel gain having the smallest value to an equivalent channel gain having the largest value, wherein the equivalent channel gain is an inverse of a norm of a nulling vector for a selected layer, and wherein the nulling vector is obtained from a pseudo-inverse of a channel matrix; and adaptive modulation means for modulating signal of each layer with corresponding modulation method based on the determined number of bits, controlling the transmitting power and transmitting the adaptively modulated signal through each transmitting antenna. a bit and power allocation information calculator for deciding an equivalent channel gain in a reverse order of Vertical-Bell laboratories Space Time (V-BLAST) based on MIMO channel information fed back from a receiver and determining the number of bits and transmission power to be transmitted to each transmitting antenna by using the equivalent channel gain, wherein the reverse order proceeds from an equivalent channel gain having the smallest value to an equivalent channel gain having the largest value, wherein the equivalent channel gain is an inverse of a norm of a nulling vector for a selected layer, and wherein the nulling vector is obtained from a pseudo-inverse of a channel matrix; and adaptive modulation means for modulating signal of each layer with corresponding modulation method based on the determined number of bits, controlling the transmitting power and transmitting the adaptively modulated signal through each transmitting antenna.
An IEEE 802.11 wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, configured to indicate a channel preference for uplink multi-user, MU, data transmission, the WTRU comprising: a receiver configured to receive, from an access point, AP, a polling frame sent to a group of WTRUs; a processor configured to generate compressed channel feedback for at least one sub-channel; a transmitter configured to transmit an MU frame including a channel preference element to the AP in response to the received polling frame, the channel preference element including the generated compressed channel feedback; and the receiver configured to receive a channel or group assignment, from the AP, for uplink MU data transmission, based on the channel preference element; wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the MU frame simultaneously with another MU frame transmitted to the AP by another WTRU of the group of WTRUs. a receiver configured to receive, from an access point, AP, a polling frame sent to a group of WTRUs; a processor configured to generate compressed channel feedback for at least one sub-channel; a transmitter configured to transmit an MU frame including a channel preference element to the AP in response to the received polling frame, the channel preference element including the generated compressed channel feedback; and the receiver configured to receive a channel or group assignment, from the AP, for uplink MU data transmission, based on the channel preference element; wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the MU frame simultaneously with another MU frame transmitted to the AP by another WTRU of the group of WTRUs.
An adjunct loading system comprising: an end effector comprising first and second jaws configured to clamp tissue therebetween, the first jaw having a cartridge body or cartridge comprising a plurality of staple cavities configured to seat staples therein, the second jaw having an anvil comprising a plurality of staple forming cavities, wherein a tissue-facing surface of the first and second jaws comprises an attachment feature, wherein the attachment feature comprises a roughness pattern formed by making grooves in a pattern on the surface of the jaw; an adjunct loading member; at least one adjunct material (106, 206) configured to be transferred from the adjunct loading member to a jaw of the first and second jaws of the end effector; a polymer layer (112, 212) disposed on a jaw-facing surface of the adjunct material; a supporting member configured to releasably retain the adjunct material; and an adhesive depot having an adhesive configured to transition from a non-flowable state to a flowable state upon the application of heat, when the adjunct material is released from the adjunct loading member and transferred to the jaw, to retain the adjunct material on the jaw, wherein the adhesive depot comprises at least one protrusion (114, 214) formed on the polymer layer and comprising the adhesive, wherein the at least one protrusion is formed at a location on the polymer layer corresponding to a location of the attachment feature formed on the jaw, the adhesive being configured to be disposed on the attachment feature. an adjunct loading member; at least one adjunct material (106, 206) configured to be transferred from the adjunct loading member to a jaw of the first and second jaws of the end effector; a polymer layer (112, 212) disposed on a jaw-facing surface of the adjunct material; a supporting member configured to releasably retain the adjunct material; and an adhesive depot having an adhesive configured to transition from a non-flowable state to a flowable state upon the application of heat, when the adjunct material is released from the adjunct loading member and transferred to the jaw, to retain the adjunct material on the jaw, wherein the adhesive depot comprises at least one protrusion (114, 214) formed on the polymer layer and comprising the adhesive, wherein the at least one protrusion is formed at a location on the polymer layer corresponding to a location of the attachment feature formed on the jaw, the adhesive being configured to be disposed on the attachment feature.
Dynamic seal for sealing at least one channel and/or space with respect to an environment, said channel or space extending in a stationary component and a component rotating about an axis of rotation and conducting a fluid; 1.1 having a seal ring and a mating ring which are supported in a sealing manner against one another in the direction of the axis of rotation or perpendicularly or at an angle thereto and of which one is designed as a ring held in a stationary manner and the other as a ring rotating with the rotating component, and 1.2 the ring held in a stationary manner is mounted in a stationary housing which is supported in the circumferential direction about the axis of rotation via a torque support; wherein 1.3 the torque support has an arm which can be bent elastically in the peripheral direction by means of a torque acting on the torque support and via which the torque is supported; characterized in that 1.4 the arm is assigned at least one Hall sensor which detects the position of a region of the arm that can be displaced in the peripheral direction by the bending; wherein the displaceable region of the arm is provided with at least one permanent magnet, the position of which is detected by the Hall sensor which is located opposite the permanent magnet in the direction of the axis of rotation. 1.1 having a seal ring and a mating ring which are supported in a sealing manner against one another in the direction of the axis of rotation or perpendicularly or at an angle thereto and of which one is designed as a ring held in a stationary manner and the other as a ring rotating with the rotating component, and 1.2 the ring held in a stationary manner is mounted in a stationary housing which is supported in the circumferential direction about the axis of rotation via a torque support; wherein 1.3 the torque support has an arm which can be bent elastically in the peripheral direction by means of a torque acting on the torque support and via which the torque is supported; characterized in that 1.4 the arm is assigned at least one Hall sensor which detects the position of a region of the arm that can be displaced in the peripheral direction by the bending; wherein the displaceable region of the arm is provided with at least one permanent magnet, the position of which is detected by the Hall sensor which is located opposite the permanent magnet in the direction of the axis of rotation.
A vehicle control device comprising; a speed limit acquisition means configured to acquire a speed limit set for a road on a traveling route of an own-vehicle, a vehicle speed acquisition means (32, 40) configured to acquire vehicle speed which is running speed of said own-vehicle, and a vehicle speed control means configured to set an upper speed limit (Vmax) based on said speed limit and control said vehicle speed so that said vehicle speed does not become said upper speed limit or higher, wherein: said vehicle speed control means is configured to decrease said vehicle speed so that said vehicle speed approaches the next speed limit (Lnext) by gradually decreasing said upper speed limit (Vmax) toward said next speed limit (Lnext) from a time point when it is judged that a position of said own-vehicle (Pnow) is at a predetermined position (Ps) in front of a transition point (Pt) which is a point where said next speed limit (Lnext) starts to be applied, in a case where a specified condition that said next speed limit (Lnext) is lower than the present speed limit (Lnow) is satisfied, said present speed limit (Lnow) is a speed limit set for a road on which said own-vehicle is running at the present time point, and said next speed limit (Lnext) is the following speed limit set for a road on said traveling route, the vehicle control device being characterized in that said vehicle speed control means is configured to: compute the longest deceleration distance (Smax) which is a distance required for decreasing said vehicle speed at the present time point (Vnow) to said next speed limit (Lnext) lower than said present speed limit (Lnow) at the minimum deceleration (Gmin) included in a predetermined acceptable deceleration range (Gmin-Gmax), judge that said position of said own-vehicle is not said predetermined position (Ps), when a pre-transition distance (Dnow) which is a distance from said position of said own-vehicle (Pnow) to said transition point (Pt) is longer than said longest deceleration distance (Smax), and judge that said position of said own-vehicle is said predetermined position (Ps), when said pre-transition distance (Dnow) is said longest deceleration distance (Smax) or less. compute the longest deceleration distance (Smax) which is a distance required for decreasing said vehicle speed at the present time point (Vnow) to said next speed limit (Lnext) lower than said present speed limit (Lnow) at the minimum deceleration (Gmin) included in a predetermined acceptable deceleration range (Gmin-Gmax), judge that said position of said own-vehicle is not said predetermined position (Ps), when a pre-transition distance (Dnow) which is a distance from said position of said own-vehicle (Pnow) to said transition point (Pt) is longer than said longest deceleration distance (Smax), and judge that said position of said own-vehicle is said predetermined position (Ps), when said pre-transition distance (Dnow) is said longest deceleration distance (Smax) or less.
Method for operating an automatic transmission apparatus having a parking lock device, wherein the parking lock device has a hydraulic apparatus with a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic piston which is arranged therein and can be secured in at least two positions by means of a locking apparatus, and an emergency unlocking apparatus, wherein the hydraulic piston is operatively connected to a switching shaft of the parking lock device, and a pressure can be set in the hydraulic cylinder by means of a hydraulic valve, and wherein the switching shaft can be moved within an operating position range by means of the hydraulic apparatus, wherein, within the operating position range, there is a first position in which the switching shaft is arranged in such a way that the parking lock device is deactivated, and there is a second position in which the parking lock device is activated, characterised in that, when the emergency unlocking apparatus is actuated, the switching shaft is moved into a position which lies outside the operating position range, and in that an operating state of the emergency unlocking apparatus is checked, wherein an actuated emergency unlocking apparatus is detected if, over a specific time period, a position sensor determines a position of the switching shaft which lies outside the operating position range and/or if a distance travelled by the switching shaft and detected by means of the position sensor exceeds a limit value.
A method of processing a medical image acquired (302, 1002, 1004) at an original resolution, comprising, for each of a plurality of selected voxels in the medical Image: a) providing a noise level as a function of position in the image; b) choosing (306, 308) a set of comparison voxels for said voxel; c) calculating (310,312,314,316, 318,320,322) a similarity measure between a neighborhood associated with said voxel and a neighborhood associated with each comparison voxel; d) finding a weighted average of the grey levels of the comparison voxels, the weight for each comparison voxel depending on the similarity measure for its neighborhood, normalized to a value that depends on said noise level at the position of said voxel, said noise level at the position of the comparison voxel, or both; e) changing (326, 328) the grey level of said voxel according to the weighted average of the grey levels of the comparison voxels, thereby removing noise from the medical image to obtain an initial denoised image; and f) adding noise to said initial denoised image by providing a specified magnitude and spatial distribution of noise and adding a portion of the removed noise to the initial denoised image to produce a denoised image with the specified magnitude and spatial distribution of noise. a) providing a noise level as a function of position in the image; b) choosing (306, 308) a set of comparison voxels for said voxel; c) calculating (310,312,314,316, 318,320,322) a similarity measure between a neighborhood associated with said voxel and a neighborhood associated with each comparison voxel; d) finding a weighted average of the grey levels of the comparison voxels, the weight for each comparison voxel depending on the similarity measure for its neighborhood, normalized to a value that depends on said noise level at the position of said voxel, said noise level at the position of the comparison voxel, or both; e) changing (326, 328) the grey level of said voxel according to the weighted average of the grey levels of the comparison voxels, thereby removing noise from the medical image to obtain an initial denoised image; and f) adding noise to said initial denoised image by providing a specified magnitude and spatial distribution of noise and adding a portion of the removed noise to the initial denoised image to produce a denoised image with the specified magnitude and spatial distribution of noise.
A system for tracking a position of an object, comprising: two or more field generators, which are arranged to generate respective magnetic fields in a vicinity of the object; a position sensor associated with the object, which is arranged to measure field strengths of the magnetic fields, wherein a measurement of at least one of the field strengths is subject to a distortion; and a processor, which is arranged to calculate first the location coordinates of the position sensor that are invariant to an angular orientation of the position sensor responsively to the measured field strengths, and to determine corrected location coordinates of the position sensor by applying to the location coordinates a coordinate correcting function so as to adjust a relative contribution of each of the measured field strengths to the corrected location coordinates responsively to the distortion in the measured field strengths, and wherein the processor is adapted to calculate, following the location calculation, the orientation coordinates of the position sensor. two or more field generators, which are arranged to generate respective magnetic fields in a vicinity of the object; a position sensor associated with the object, which is arranged to measure field strengths of the magnetic fields, wherein a measurement of at least one of the field strengths is subject to a distortion; and a processor, which is arranged to calculate first the location coordinates of the position sensor that are invariant to an angular orientation of the position sensor responsively to the measured field strengths, and to determine corrected location coordinates of the position sensor by applying to the location coordinates a coordinate correcting function so as to adjust a relative contribution of each of the measured field strengths to the corrected location coordinates responsively to the distortion in the measured field strengths, and wherein the processor is adapted to calculate, following the location calculation, the orientation coordinates of the position sensor.
Electronics module - comprising a carrier plate; - comprising at least one electronic component (3, 4) which is arranged on the carrier plate; and - comprising a moulded housing, characterized in that the moulded housing encases the carrier plate and the at least one electronic component (3, 4), - wherein the carrier plate has a recessed central region in which the electronic component (3, 4) is arranged, and - wherein that part of the moulded housing which surrounds the recessed central region is provided with a sealing device for sealing off with respect to a recess into which the electronics module can be inserted. - comprising a carrier plate; - comprising at least one electronic component (3, 4) which is arranged on the carrier plate; and - comprising a moulded housing, - wherein the carrier plate has a recessed central region in which the electronic component (3, 4) is arranged, and - wherein that part of the moulded housing which surrounds the recessed central region is provided with a sealing device for sealing off with respect to a recess into which the electronics module can be inserted.