mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Rod lens system for an endoscope, in which the rod lens system has an optical axis and at least one reversal stage (10, 11, 12), in order to project an intermediate image lying in a distal intermediate image plane into a proximal intermediate image plane, wherein each reversal stage (10- 12) has at least one rod lens (16 - 21) and projects an intermediate image into a next intermediate image plane, and wherein the rod lens system is formed as an asymmetrical rod lens system and at least one of the reversal stages (10 - 12) is formed as an asymmetrical reversal stage (10 - 12), wherein an asymmetrical formation means that a symmetry relative to no plane perpendicular to the optical axis is present in respect of materials, dimensions and curvature of boundary surfaces, wherein three reversal stages (10 - 12) arranged one behind the other are provided, characterized in that all reversal stages have a first rod lens of a first type, exactly two of the three reversal stages have a second rod lens of a second type and a third of the three reversal stages has a third rod lens of a third type, wherein the third reversal stage does not have a rod lens of the second type and only the third reversal stage has the third rod lens, wherein the rod lenses of the first, second and third type are different and rod lenses of the same type have the same materials, dimensions and curvature of boundary surfaces, and wherein two of the reverse stages (10, 11) are arranged symmetrically to one another relative to the intermediate image plane arranged between both reversal stages (10, 11) in respect of materials, dimensions and curvature of boundary surfaces.
A method of incorporating an active agent to an adhesive article for delivery of the active agent to a substrate, the adhesive article including an adhesive layer defining a substrate contacting surface adapted to adhere the adhesive article to the substrate, the method comprising: applying an active agent to the substrate contacting surface such that the active agent is disposed between the substrate and the adhesive layer when the adhesive article is adhered to the substrate, wherein the active agent comprises chlorhexidine gluconate; and wherein the active agent is applied to the substrate contacting surface of the adhesive using a liquid vehicle. applying an active agent to the substrate contacting surface such that the active agent is disposed between the substrate and the adhesive layer when the adhesive article is adhered to the substrate, wherein the active agent comprises chlorhexidine gluconate; and wherein the active agent is applied to the substrate contacting surface of the adhesive using a liquid vehicle.
Use of a stabilising composition for stabilising a polyol and/or a polyurethane foam, the stabilising composition comprising: a) a first phenolic antioxidant comprising a mixture of two or more phenolic compounds having the structure of formula: wherein R 1 is a linear or branched alkyl group having from 12 to 20 carbon atoms and R 1 is different in each phenolic compound; and b) one or more second phenolic antioxidants independently selected from: a mono-hydroxybenzene, wherein the hydroxy group directly attached to the benzene ring in the mono-hydroxybenzene is less sterically hindered by substituents at one or both of the ortho-positions, compared to the first phenolic antioxidant; a di-hydroxybenzene selected from 4-tert-butylcatechol and/or benzene-1,2-diol; and/or a tri-hydroxybenzene. a) a first phenolic antioxidant comprising a mixture of two or more phenolic compounds having the structure of formula: wherein R 1 is a linear or branched alkyl group having from 12 to 20 carbon atoms and R 1 is different in each phenolic compound; and b) one or more second phenolic antioxidants independently selected from: a mono-hydroxybenzene, wherein the hydroxy group directly attached to the benzene ring in the mono-hydroxybenzene is less sterically hindered by substituents at one or both of the ortho-positions, compared to the first phenolic antioxidant; a di-hydroxybenzene selected from 4-tert-butylcatechol and/or benzene-1,2-diol; and/or a tri-hydroxybenzene. a mono-hydroxybenzene, wherein the hydroxy group directly attached to the benzene ring in the mono-hydroxybenzene is less sterically hindered by substituents at one or both of the ortho-positions, compared to the first phenolic antioxidant; a di-hydroxybenzene selected from 4-tert-butylcatechol and/or benzene-1,2-diol; and/or a tri-hydroxybenzene.
An electronic display comprising a transparent substrate having a metal micropattern wherein at least a portion of the metal micropattern is contiguous and in electrical connection with circuitry of the electronic display and the metal micropattern comprises at least one graphic defined by a contrasting area adjacent the graphic wherein the metal micropattern of the graphic, the metal micropattern of the contrasting area, or a combination thereof comprise non-contiguous micropattern features that are not in electrical connection with the circuitry of the electronic display.
A method for treating the surface of a metallic substrate of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, including: furnishing a water-based mixture having a sol, having alkoxysilanes with a general chemical formula Si 4 and organoalkoxysilanes having the general chemical formula R"Si(OR') 3, in which R and R' are linear or branched short-chain hydrocarbon radicals with at least one hydroxyl group and R" is an organic group having a glycidoxy, mercapto, amino, methacryl, allyl, and/or vinyl group, applying the mixture to the surface of the metallic substrate, and at least regionally hardening the mixture, forming a sol-gel coating bonded to the metallic substrate. furnishing a water-based mixture having a sol, having alkoxysilanes with a general chemical formula Si 4 and organoalkoxysilanes having the general chemical formula R"Si(OR') 3, in which R and R' are linear or branched short-chain hydrocarbon radicals with at least one hydroxyl group and R" is an organic group having a glycidoxy, mercapto, amino, methacryl, allyl, and/or vinyl group, applying the mixture to the surface of the metallic substrate, and at least regionally hardening the mixture, forming a sol-gel coating bonded to the metallic substrate.
A microintroducer system, comprising: a microintroducer including an introducer sheath coupled to a handle, the handle and introducer sheath defining a channel therethrough; and an adapter comprising a receiver tube having a predetermined angled portion, the receiver tube defining a pathway from a proximal opening to the channel of the microintroducer, wherein the adapter includes a distal tube portion that extends along a longitudinal axis of the microintroducer system, and in communication with the channel, to the predetermined angled portion that smoothly curves at an angle to the distal tube portion into a proximal tube portion, wherein the adapter is splittable along a breach line extending along an entire length of the adapter. a microintroducer including an introducer sheath coupled to a handle, the handle and introducer sheath defining a channel therethrough; and an adapter comprising a receiver tube having a predetermined angled portion, the receiver tube defining a pathway from a proximal opening to the channel of the microintroducer, wherein the adapter includes a distal tube portion that extends along a longitudinal axis of the microintroducer system, and in communication with the channel, to the predetermined angled portion that smoothly curves at an angle to the distal tube portion into a proximal tube portion, wherein the adapter is splittable along a breach line extending along an entire length of the adapter.
A flow system for digital counting of one or more analyte types in a sample, the flow system comprising a support having a pattern of hydrophilic features in or on a hydrophobic substrate, the hydrophobic substrate being embedded in a flow compartment comprising at least one opening, the hydrophilic features supporting a plurality of liquid nano-to-attoliter droplets each having a maximum droplet volume, and the flow compartment supporting a gas phase seal reducing evaporation of each nano-to-attoliter droplet.
An externally applied composition, comprising the following Component and Component: is at least one member of the capsaicin family including at least one member of the capsaicin family selected from the group consisting of capsaicin ( -N-[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-8-methylnon-6-enamide), nonyl acid vanillylamide (N-vanillylnonanamide) and dihydrocapsiate; is at least one member selected from the group consisting of adenosine 2'-monophosphate, adenosine 3'-monophosphate, adenosine 5'-monophosphate, cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate (cAMP) and salts thereof, wherein the percentage of the weight of Component with respect to the total weight of the externally applied composition is 0.000001 wt% to 0.01 wt%. is at least one member of the capsaicin family including at least one member of the capsaicin family selected from the group consisting of capsaicin ( -N-[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-8-methylnon-6-enamide), nonyl acid vanillylamide (N-vanillylnonanamide) and dihydrocapsiate; is at least one member selected from the group consisting of adenosine 2'-monophosphate, adenosine 3'-monophosphate, adenosine 5'-monophosphate, cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate (cAMP) and salts thereof,
A method executed by an apparatus, comprising: identifying one or more transceivers (220a-220n) and a coexistence manager, CxM entity associated with the one or more transceivers; determining respective properties of the one or more transceivers; generating one or more configuration parameters to be utilized by the CxM entity, said generating comprises generating parameters relating to priorities of events executable by the one or more transceivers; and providing the one or more configuration parameters to the CxM entity in connection with management of events associated with the one or more transceivers at the CxM entity, wherein said management is based on notifications provided by the one or more transceivers (220a-220n) in a notification phase. identifying one or more transceivers (220a-220n) and a coexistence manager, CxM entity associated with the one or more transceivers; determining respective properties of the one or more transceivers; generating one or more configuration parameters to be utilized by the CxM entity, said generating comprises generating parameters relating to priorities of events executable by the one or more transceivers; and providing the one or more configuration parameters to the CxM entity in connection with management of events associated with the one or more transceivers at the CxM entity, wherein said management is based on notifications provided by the one or more transceivers (220a-220n) in a notification phase.
An electric machine, comprising an electric motor, a working element realizing a working movement, when the motor is activated, and at least one gear arrangement functionally located between the motor and the working element for transmitting a rotational movement and torque from the motor to the working element in order to realize the working movement, wherein the electric motor has a stator with electrical windings and a rotor with permanent magnets mounted thereon, wherein the at least one gear arrangement is embodied as a magnetic gear arrangement using magnetic fields to transmit the rotational movement and torque from the motor to the working element without mechanical contact, the magnetic gear arrangement having three principle components (51, 52, 54), all three of which may rotate relative to each other about a rotational axis, the three components (51, 52, 54) comprising a first component generating a first magnetic field with a first number (n_input) of magnetic pole pairs, a second component generating a second magnetic field with a second number (n_output) of pole pairs, characterized in that the three components (51, 52, 54) comprise a third component having a third number (n_pp) of ferromagnetic pole pieces, the third component (50, 51) acting as a passive part of a magnetic circuit between the first and second components (52, 54), that the rotor of the motor extends in an axial direction beyond the stator of the motor, wherein the first number (n_input) of magnetic pole pairs is provided on the extended part of the rotor in order to make the extended part of the rotor together with the first number (n_input) of magnetic pole pairs form the first rotating component of the magnetic gear arrangement.
An implantable device for providing a biologically active agent to a subject in need thereof, the device comprising a microvessel construct in contact with a biocompatible, semi-permeable pouch, the pouch encapsulating a cell or cells capable of producing the biologically active agent, wherein the microvessel construct comprises isolated microvessel fragments at a time prior to implantation.
A fuel cell system comprising: a reformer configured to reform raw fuel to generate reformed gas; a solid-oxide fuel cell configured to generate electric power by a reaction between the reformed gas and air; a fuel collecting portion provided adjacent to the solid-oxide fuel cell, the reformed gas remaining after the reaction of the solid-oxide fuel cell being collected at the fuel collecting portion; an airflow-through portion formed along an outer periphery of the fuel collecting portion; a combustor configured to mix the reformed gas discharged from a fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion with the air flowing through the air flow-through portion, to combust the reformed gas; and a covering body provided so as to block flow of the air in a direction from the air flow-through portion toward the combustor along the reformer, wherein: the reformer reforms the raw fuel using combustion heat of the combustor; and the covering body supplies the air toward the fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion. a reformer configured to reform raw fuel to generate reformed gas; a solid-oxide fuel cell configured to generate electric power by a reaction between the reformed gas and air; a fuel collecting portion provided adjacent to the solid-oxide fuel cell, the reformed gas remaining after the reaction of the solid-oxide fuel cell being collected at the fuel collecting portion; an airflow-through portion formed along an outer periphery of the fuel collecting portion; a combustor configured to mix the reformed gas discharged from a fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion with the air flowing through the air flow-through portion, to combust the reformed gas; and a covering body provided so as to block flow of the air in a direction from the air flow-through portion toward the combustor along the reformer, wherein: the reformer reforms the raw fuel using combustion heat of the combustor; and the covering body supplies the air toward the fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion. the reformer reforms the raw fuel using combustion heat of the combustor; and the covering body supplies the air toward the fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion.
A handheld firearm with an adjustable shoulder brace that is seated in a firearm chassis using a pair of rods, slidingly mounted in a guide, wherein the current position of the shoulder brace is lockable by a locking mechanism that comprises a transversal locking element, seated vertically adjustably under the pair of rods wherein both the opposite ends of the locking element are guided in opposite corresponding vertical grooves formed in the firearm chassis and the locking element is biased by a spring towards the rods where at the bottom side of each of the rods, at least two spaced apart pairs of corresponding recesses are produced for snapping of the locking element and the locking element can be manually pushed out of the recesses by means of a control button, whereby the locking element is attached to a carrier wherein the carrier is seated in the firearm chassis in a swinging way about an axis that is arranged in a hole in the firearm chassis between the rods, whereby the control button is seated in a vertically sliding way in a holder of the trigger mechanism and in the breech housing wherein a transversal pin that bears on the carrier from above passes through the control button and the control button acts on the carrier against the direction of action of the spring.
Device for the introduction of hoses, pipes, or cables into a space, which device comprises a frame and an elastic diaphragm, which diaphragm has at least one lead-through notch for leading through the hose, pipe, or cable, as well as is supported by the frame, which is arranged for the fixation of the diaphragm in covering relationship to an opening through a wall or the like delimiting said space, the device further comprising a holder in which the hose, pipe, or cable is fixable, which holder is introduced into the frame and fixed in the frame by means of lock members acting between the frame and the holder to form united parts, and the united parts are collectively fixable in the opening by means of lock members (33', 34', 35') arranged on the frame or on the holder, and characterized by the holder being openable for the lateral introduction of the hose, pipe or cable through a slot into the wall of the holder.
An ytterbium-doped optical fiber comprising a core containing at least ytterbium, aluminum and phosphorous and a clad surrounding the core, wherein a ratio of a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core to a molar concentration of ytterbium oxide with respect to ytterbium in the core is higher than or equal to 10 and lower than or equal to 30, and wherein a relative refractive index difference between the core and the clad is higher than or equal to 0.05% and lower than or equal to 0.30%, and wherein the molar concentration of ytterbium oxide is α, a molar concentration of aluminum oxide with respect to aluminum in the core is β, and the molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus is γ, wherein a diameter of the core is 20 to 30 μm, the diameter of the core defined as having a relative refractive index difference of 1/e of the maximum relative refractive index difference of the core, and wherein when β = γ, then 0.05 ≤ α×0.5 ≤ 0.30, when β > γ then α, β, and γ satisfy an equation of 0.05 ≤ β − γ × 0.19 + α × 0.5 ≤ 0.30, and when β < γ then α, β, and γ satisfy an equation of 0.05 ≤ γ − β × 0.04 + α × 0.5 ≤ 0.30. wherein a ratio of a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core to a molar concentration of ytterbium oxide with respect to ytterbium in the core is higher than or equal to 10 and lower than or equal to 30, and wherein a relative refractive index difference between the core and the clad is higher than or equal to 0.05% and lower than or equal to 0.30%, and wherein the molar concentration of ytterbium oxide is α, a molar concentration of aluminum oxide with respect to aluminum in the core is β, and the molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus is γ, wherein a diameter of the core is 20 to 30 μm, the diameter of the core defined as having a relative refractive index difference of 1/e of the maximum relative refractive index difference of the core, and wherein when β = γ, then 0.05 ≤ α×0.5 ≤ 0.30, when β > γ then α, β, and γ satisfy an equation of 0.05 ≤ β − γ × 0.19 + α × 0.5 ≤ 0.30, and when β < γ then α, β, and γ satisfy an equation of 0.05 ≤ γ − β × 0.04 + α × 0.5 ≤ 0.30.
Positioning system with at least one positioning slide which may be variably traversed and positioned relative to a slide carrier of the positioning system to execute a positioning movement in a positioning plane defined by a Cartesian x-y coordinate system, wherein the slide carrier has at least one y-drive-gear drivable by drive means of the positioning system to a driving rotary movement around a rotation axis parallel to the x-axis of the coordinate system and at least one x-drive-gear drivable by drive means to a driving rotary movement around a rotation axis parallel to the y-axis of the coordinate system, wherein each y-drive-gear and each x-drive-gear has on its outer periphery a drive toothing and wherein the positioning slide has an output toothing structure with which, during the positioning movement, it is in simultaneous toothing engagement with the drive toothings of at least one x-drive-gear and at least one y-drive-gear, and may be driven by rotation of the relevant x-drive-gear to a positioning movement in the x-axis direction of the x-y coordinate system and by rotation of the relevant y-drive-gear to a positioning movement in the y-axis direction of the x-y coordinate system, wherein the output toothing structure of the positioning slide has a multiplicity of driven teeth distributed at points in a plane parallel to the positioning plane and placed in a two-dimensional tooth matrix at the intersection points of x-grid-lines and y-grid-lines, at right-angles to one another, of an imaginary cross grid, wherein at least several of the driven teeth of the tooth matrix are able, during the positioning movement of the positioning slide, to enter into toothing engagement with both the at least one x-drive-gear and also the at least one y-drive-gear, characterised in that the slide carrier is equipped with at least one drive gear pair consisting of an x-drive-gear and a y-drive-gear, wherein these two drive gears (13a, 13b) are arranged parallel to the positioning plane in an L-shaped configuration, wherein one axial end section of the x-drive-gear is placed adjacent to an axial end section of the y-drive-gear.
A data transmission method, applied to a system that is based on Internet communications, wherein the system comprises a terminal device, a server, and an awareness node, and the method comprises: receiving, by the server, an application access request sent by the terminal device; obtaining, by the server according to the application access request, encrypted service data and application information corresponding to the encrypted service data, wherein the encrypted service data is in ciphertext form, and wherein the application information is in plaintext form and is used to represent service information of the service data; providing, by the server, the application information and the encrypted service data for the awareness node; identifying, by the awareness node, the service information of the encrypted service data by using the application information; and forwarding, by the awareness node, the encrypted service data, or the encrypted service data and the application information. receiving, by the server, an application access request sent by the terminal device; obtaining, by the server according to the application access request, encrypted service data and application information corresponding to the encrypted service data, wherein the encrypted service data is in ciphertext form, and wherein the application information is in plaintext form and is used to represent service information of the service data; providing, by the server, the application information and the encrypted service data for the awareness node; identifying, by the awareness node, the service information of the encrypted service data by using the application information; and forwarding, by the awareness node, the encrypted service data, or the encrypted service data and the application information.