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A flow distribution system for a multi-phase fluid stream, the system comprising: an inlet pipe an inlet for receiving the multi-phase fluid stream from the inlet pipe; a plurality of outlets each for delivering a portion of the multi-phase fluid stream to a respective outlet pipe; a hollow housing forming an inner chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets, the housing having a central longitudinal axis, wherein the inner chamber has a first chamber portion arranged closer to the inlet than the plurality of outlets, and a second chamber portion adjacent to the plurality of outlets; a non-planar flow diverter positioned within the chamber so as to define a flow channel of varying cross-sectional area as measured in a plane orthogonal to the central longitudinal axis of the housing wherein the first chamber portion has a cross-sectional area within the flow channel that is less than a cross-sectional area of the second chamber portion within the flow channel, and where a cross-sectional area of the inlet and a section of the inlet pipe proximate the inlet is less than the cross-sectional area of the first chamber portion, wherein the multi-phase fluid stream is diverted through an angle of at least 45° to 135 ° as it travels from the inlet to the plurality of outlets, characterized in that the plurality of outlets are radially arranged around the perimeter or circumference of the housing. an inlet pipe an inlet for receiving the multi-phase fluid stream from the inlet pipe; a plurality of outlets each for delivering a portion of the multi-phase fluid stream to a respective outlet pipe; a hollow housing forming an inner chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets, the housing having a central longitudinal axis, wherein the inner chamber has a first chamber portion arranged closer to the inlet than the plurality of outlets, and a second chamber portion adjacent to the plurality of outlets; a non-planar flow diverter positioned within the chamber so as to define a flow channel of varying cross-sectional area as measured in a plane orthogonal to the central longitudinal axis of the housing wherein the first chamber portion has a cross-sectional area within the flow channel that is less than a cross-sectional area of the second chamber portion within the flow channel, and where a cross-sectional area of the inlet and a section of the inlet pipe proximate the inlet is less than the cross-sectional area of the first chamber portion, wherein the multi-phase fluid stream is diverted through an angle of at least 45° to 135 ° as it travels from the inlet to the plurality of outlets, characterized in that the plurality of outlets are radially arranged around the perimeter or circumference of the housing.
A gas turbine comprising a guide vane arrangement and a fixing ring having a radially outer rim, a radially inner rim (1 B) and a radial slot, which extends from the radially outer rim through to the radially inner rim and has a first flank having an at least substantially planar radially inner rim portion and an at least substantially planar undercut, on which the first flank recedes in the circumferential direction as it proceeds from the radially inner rim (1 B) to the radially outer rim, as well as a second flank, which lies opposite the first flank in the circumferential direction and is at least substantially planar and parallel to the undercut of the first flank, wherein the radially inner rim portion extends as far as the undercut, so that the radially inner rim portion and the undercut together form the entire first flank, which accordingly has a kink, and wherein the radially inner rim portion encloses an angle (α) of at least 50° with the radially inner rim, wherein the radially outer rim is arranged in a housing-side groove (3.1) and the radially inner rim is arranged outside the groove (3.1), so that the fixing ring fixes and supports the guide vane arrangement in the axial direction.
Packaging for sterilizing substances with steam, in the form of a bag made of a plastics material and having side edges and shaped by folding to constitute gussets (a) and (b) formed by symmetrical folds between two walls and, at least one of the walls being made of a material suitable for allowing steam to pass through it during a sterilization cycle, characterized in that said wall is constituted by a separate sheet fastened to the side edges of the gussets at the folds (b), and to one of the transverse edges of the other wall made of a plastics material so as to constitute a bottom, said sheet extending beyond one of the sides of the bag to constitute a graspable zone for enabling said sheet to be peeled off.
Month and leap year display mechanism for a timepiece, said mechanism comprising a leap year display integrated in a month display, said mechanism comprising a movement or being arranged to cooperate with a movement, which movement is arranged to drive, via a control mechanism comprised in said mechanism, a month display wheel set formed by a disc or a ring rotating about an axis of rotation and arranged underneath a cover plate or underneath a dial, wherein a month window contained within an angular sector of 90° about said axis of rotation is arranged to allow a user to see a quarter of said month display wheel set, the other three-quarters of said month display wheel set being concealed from the user, wherein said control mechanism is arranged to make said month display wheel set complete one revolution in four years, mechanism in which said month window is facing a month scale extending at a central angle of 90° with respect to said axis of rotation, said month display wheel set and comprises four equidistant indices, only one of which is visible at a time through said month window and permanently points to a mark corresponding to the current month on said month scale of said indices, one is a leap year index and the other three are ordinary year indices, said leap year index comprising a visible marking indicating to the user that it is a leap year.
A method comprising: receiving a SIP INVITE message for an Emergency Services 'ES' call session, said SIP INVITE message including an Accept header being free of an indication of acceptance of a body having a content type; and providing a SIP 380 message based on said SIP INVITE message, said SIP 380 message including a message body and indicating an alternative service for the ES call session. receiving a SIP INVITE message for an Emergency Services 'ES' call session, said SIP INVITE message including an Accept header being free of an indication of acceptance of a body having a content type; and providing a SIP 380 message based on said SIP INVITE message, said SIP 380 message including a message body and indicating an alternative service for the ES call session.
Method for etching a layer for removal on a substrate (sub), in particular on a silicon substrate, wherein the layer for removal is a Si 1-x Ge x layer (4; 6) already present on the substrate (sub) or deposited on the substrate (sub) and this Si 1-x Ge x layer (4; 6) is removed at least in regions during gas-phase etching with the aid of an etching gas, wherein before the removal a silicon layer (5; 7) is grown onto the Si 1-x Ge x layer (4; 6) and structured in such a way that it exhibits Si regions with interjacent trenches and subsequently, to uncover these Si regions, the Si 1-x Ge x layer (4; 6) is removed as a sacrificial layer below the Si regions to be uncovered, wherein the gas-phase etching proceeds through the trenches.
Method for determining by means of numeric geoposition data which specify the current geoposition of a vehicle, and digital maps which contain area polygons which in each case represent a geographic area on the earth, in the vehicle in which of the various areas the vehicle is currently located, wherein a boundary precheck is performed, wherein candidate area polygons are selected which are located in the vicinity of the current vehicle position; and the selected candidate area polygons are successively subjected to a PIP test in order to determine whether the current vehicle position is located in one of the corresponding areas; characterized in that the candidate area polygons selected by means of the boundary precheck are subdivided into smaller part-polygons by superimposing parallel strips, in that by means of a binary search, a strip is determined into which the current vehicle position falls and in that only the part-polygons corresponding to the strip determined are subjected to the PIP tests; and in that an initial variable which specifies whether the vehicle is currently located in an area and possibly in which of the areas the vehicle is currently located is supplied to at least one driver assistance system of the vehicle.
A glass sheet comprising: a top surface and a bottom surface; a first ion-exchanged glass region adjacent to the top surface of the glass sheet; a second ion-exchanged glass region adjacent to the bottom surface of the glass sheet; a core glass region intermediate the first and second ion-exchanged glass regions; light scattering features (a) dispersed within the glass sheet and (b) dispersed on the top surface of the glass sheet; and an angled end face inclined to the top surface and extended across a thickness of at least one of the glass regions; wherein the light scattering features are arranged to scatter light outside of the glass sheet, through the top surface of the glass sheet, to illuminate the glass sheet. a top surface and a bottom surface; a first ion-exchanged glass region adjacent to the top surface of the glass sheet; a second ion-exchanged glass region adjacent to the bottom surface of the glass sheet; a core glass region intermediate the first and second ion-exchanged glass regions; light scattering features (a) dispersed within the glass sheet and (b) dispersed on the top surface of the glass sheet; and an angled end face inclined to the top surface and extended across a thickness of at least one of the glass regions; wherein the light scattering features are arranged to scatter light outside of the glass sheet, through the top surface of the glass sheet, to illuminate the glass sheet.
A selective ACKR3 modulating peptide comprising amino acid sequence FGGX 1 MRRX 2 (SEQ ID NO: 1), wherein X 1 is F or W; X 2 is K, V or F; and the peptide has a length of at most 15 amino acids.
A sheet of material having a coverable area, a foldable portion and first and second linear perforations, wherein the sheet of material can be folded at the first linear perforation such that a first portion of the foldable portion covers the coverable area and a second portion of the foldable portion is adhered to a bonding area adjacent to the coverable area, wherein the first and second linear perforations delimit a detachable section of the foldable portion which can be removed after the foldable portion has been adhered to the bonding area, characterised in that a set of anti-tamper perforations is provided in one or both of the second portion of the foldable portion and the bonding area.
A process for producing one or more xylenes, comprising: passing a first stream comprising xylenes and C9 aromatic at a first ratio of methyl- to phenyl- groups to one side of a split shell fractionation column including a vertical baffle separating the one side from another side; passing a second stream comprising xylenes and C9 aromatic compounds at a second lower ratio of methyl- to phenyl- groups than the first ratio to the other side of the split shell fractionation column; wherein at least a portion of the second stream comprises at least a portion of a reformate stream; separating a common overhead stream from the split shell fractionation column comprising xylenes; separating a first bottoms stream from the one side of the split shell fractionation column; and separating a second bottoms stream from the other side of the split shell fractionation column; the process further comprising passing the first bottoms stream as a feed to a transalkylation zone; the process further comprising recovering at least a portion of the second bottoms stream as a gasoline component. passing a first stream comprising xylenes and C9 aromatic at a first ratio of methyl- to phenyl- groups to one side of a split shell fractionation column including a vertical baffle separating the one side from another side; passing a second stream comprising xylenes and C9 aromatic compounds at a second lower ratio of methyl- to phenyl- groups than the first ratio to the other side of the split shell fractionation column; wherein at least a portion of the second stream comprises at least a portion of a reformate stream; separating a common overhead stream from the split shell fractionation column comprising xylenes; separating a first bottoms stream from the one side of the split shell fractionation column; and separating a second bottoms stream from the other side of the split shell fractionation column; the process further comprising passing the first bottoms stream as a feed to a transalkylation zone; the process further comprising recovering at least a portion of the second bottoms stream as a gasoline component.
An air cap arrangement for a spray gun, comprising an air cap, an air cap ring and a retaining ring (7, 7'), in which the air cap has a circumferential outer surface extending longitudinally, and the air cap ring has a circumferential inner surface extending longitudinally, the air cap ring comprises a groove configured to extend on the circumferential inner surface of the air cap ring; the air cap also comprises a groove configured to extend on the circumferential outer surface of the air cap, and the retaining ring (7, 7') is arranged in the groove of the air cap ring and the groove of the air cap to limit the axial movement of the air cap within the air cap ring, the air cap ring further comprising a protrusion configured to protrude radially from the circumferential inner surface of the air cap ring, the groove of the air cap ring being further configured to extend circumferentially and to be located closer to the front end of the air cap ring than the protrusion; characterized in that the air cap further comprises a step configured to protrude radially from the circumferential outer surface of the air cap, the groove of the air cap is configured to extend circumferentially and to be located closer to the front end of the air cap than the step, and wherein the front surface of the step can contact against the rear surface of the protrusion.
Method for obtaining plant material and planting miscanthus, wherein at least one rhizome of the miscanthus plant is introduced into a cultivated area and at least one miscanthus plant sprouts from the at least one rhizome, wherein, in order to introduce the at least one rhizome (2, 3) into the cultivated area, a shaped body that comprises the at least one rhizome (2, 3) and also soil that surrounds the at least one rhizome (2, 3) is planted in the cultivated area, characterised in that, in order to obtain uniformly-shaped shaped bodies, at least two longitudinal cuts that are oriented essentially parallel to one another are made at a predetermined minimum depth in the soil that surrounds the rhizome (2, 3), that a plurality of transverse cuts that are essentially parallel to one another are made at a predetermined minimum depth into the soil that is surrounding the rhizome (2, 3), wherein the longitudinal cuts and the transverse cuts cross one another, and that a base cut is made in order to loosen the shaped body, wherein an underside of the shaped body is provided by means of the base cut and said underside lies opposite an upper side of the shaped body, said upper side being formed by means of an upper surface of the soil.
An apparatus comprising: an antenna array; a Sensor Feedback Control section which includes a Movement and/or Orientation Sensors module configured to determine at least one of movement and orientation of the apparatus using sensor data collected from one or more sensors, and a 3D Antenna Calibration Matrices module configured to receive information on at least one of the movement and orientation of the apparatus from the Movement and/or Orientation Sensors module, and use this information to determine corresponding antenna calibration vectors; a Direction of Arrival Estimation module configured to receive the antenna calibration vectors from the 3D Antenna Calibration Matrices module, configure the antenna array using the antenna calibration vectors, receive a locator signal from a device located remote to the apparatus, determine a direction of arrival of the locator signal using the configured antenna array to allow the location of the device relative to the apparatus to be determined, and determine a quality level of the locator signal defining the reliability of the direction of arrival; and a Controller for a Tracking Application configured to receive the direction of arrival and quality level from the Direction of Arrival Estimation module, and generate a signal which indicates the quality level to a user of the apparatus via a user interface. an antenna array; a Sensor Feedback Control section which includes a Movement and/or Orientation Sensors module configured to determine at least one of movement and orientation of the apparatus using sensor data collected from one or more sensors, and a 3D Antenna Calibration Matrices module configured to receive information on at least one of the movement and orientation of the apparatus from the Movement and/or Orientation Sensors module, and use this information to determine corresponding antenna calibration vectors; a Direction of Arrival Estimation module configured to receive the antenna calibration vectors from the 3D Antenna Calibration Matrices module, configure the antenna array using the antenna calibration vectors, receive a locator signal from a device located remote to the apparatus, determine a direction of arrival of the locator signal using the configured antenna array to allow the location of the device relative to the apparatus to be determined, and determine a quality level of the locator signal defining the reliability of the direction of arrival; and a Controller for a Tracking Application configured to receive the direction of arrival and quality level from the Direction of Arrival Estimation module, and generate a signal which indicates the quality level to a user of the apparatus via a user interface.
A wearable protection device comprising: a modular frame with at least two shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C); hinge means for hinging said shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C) therebetween at corresponding hinging points and around respective rotation axes, each of said hinge means comprising a pivot element and a disc element; wherein the pivot element and the disc element are permanently coupled by riveting of the pivot element and the pivot element is flush with the disc element after riveting; and wherein said pivot element comprises a base portion designed to be secured to one of said at least two shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C); characterized in that said pivot element comprises an abutting portion interposed between the base portion and a first portion of the pivot element, said abutting portion having an annular ledge for the abutment of an end of a respective axial projection of the disc element. a modular frame with at least two shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C); hinge means for hinging said shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C) therebetween at corresponding hinging points and around respective rotation axes, each of said hinge means comprising a pivot element and a disc element; wherein the pivot element and the disc element are permanently coupled by riveting of the pivot element and the pivot element is flush with the disc element after riveting; and wherein said pivot element comprises a base portion designed to be secured to one of said at least two shaped members (4A, 4B, 4C); characterized in that said pivot element comprises an abutting portion interposed between the base portion and a first portion of the pivot element, said abutting portion having an annular ledge for the abutment of an end of a respective axial projection of the disc element.
Wind power station comprising: - a wind turbine capable of being driven by wind power, - a generator capable of being driven by the wind turbine and designed for converting kinetic energy of the wind turbine into an electrical alternating current, - a frequency converter electrically connected to the generator, the frequency converter being constituted to be connected to an electricity grid and being designed to convert the electrical alternating current generated by the generator for feeding into the electricity grid, wherein the frequency converter comprises a generator converter connected to the generator, an intermediate circuit connected to the generator converter and a grid converter connected to the intermediate circuit for connecting to the electricity grid, wherein the generator converter and the grid converter comprise in each case at least one semiconductor switch and a least one diode element connected in anti-parallel fashion to the at least one semiconductor switch, and - a control device for controlling the frequency converter, characterized in that the control device is designed to operate the generator converter depending on the wind power driving the wind turbine - by pulsed switching of the at least one semiconductor switch (410, 414) in a first operating mode, or - by shifting the at least one semiconductor switch (410, 414) into a locked state in a second operating mode being different from the first operating mode, wherein the generator converter is operated as diode rectifier. - a wind turbine capable of being driven by wind power, - a generator capable of being driven by the wind turbine and designed for converting kinetic energy of the wind turbine into an electrical alternating current, - a frequency converter electrically connected to the generator, the frequency converter being constituted to be connected to an electricity grid and being designed to convert the electrical alternating current generated by the generator for feeding into the electricity grid, wherein the frequency converter comprises a generator converter connected to the generator, an intermediate circuit connected to the generator converter and a grid converter connected to the intermediate circuit for connecting to the electricity grid, wherein the generator converter and the grid converter comprise in each case at least one semiconductor switch and a least one diode element connected in anti-parallel fashion to the at least one semiconductor switch, and - a control device for controlling the frequency converter, - by pulsed switching of the at least one semiconductor switch (410, 414) in a first operating mode, or - by shifting the at least one semiconductor switch (410, 414) into a locked state in a second operating mode being different from the first operating mode, wherein the generator converter is operated as diode rectifier.