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Piezoelectric actuator having a multiplicity of ceramic layers (2A - 2Q) and a multiplicity of electrode layers (3A - 3Q) arranged between the ceramic layers (2A - 2Q), wherein an active region and at least one transition region are provided, and wherein a piezoelectric coefficient of a ceramic material of at least one ceramic layer (2M - 2P) in the transition region is lower than the piezoelectric coefficient of a ceramic material of the ceramic layers (2A - 2J) in the active region, characterized in that the piezoelectric coefficient is a d 33 coefficient, and the ceramic material of the ceramic layers (2M - 2P) in the transition region and the ceramic material of the ceramic layers (2A - 2J) in the active region have a different composition, wherein the different composition of the ceramic material of the ceramic layers (2M - 2P) in the transition region and/or of the ceramic material of the ceramic layers (2A - 2J) in the active region is prescribed by doping layers which adjoin the ceramic material and/or are introduced into the ceramic material, wherein all of the ceramic layers (2A - 2P) have the same thickness.
A single cell-culture chamber comprising a dried vitrigel membrane covering and secured to one open end surface of a tubular frame, wherein the dried vitrigel membrane is secured to the open end surface of the frame: with a urethane-based adhesive; or with double-sided tape; or by heat welding. with a urethane-based adhesive; or with double-sided tape; or by heat welding.
Kingpin device for a semitrailer steering system, comprising a kingpin at the upper end of which an assembly plate is constructed and at the lower end of which a termination collar is constructed, wherein the kingpin has a hole which extends from the assembly plate as far as the termination collar and in which there is arranged a shaft whose upper shaft end extends at least as far as the assembly plate and whose lower shaft end extends out of the termination collar, wherein there engages at the lower shaft end in a rotationally secure manner a connection rod which in a state radially spaced apart from the kingpin carries a pivot flag, characterised in that there is provided at least one resilient element which engages with the first portion thereof on the upper shaft end and which always orientates the pivot flag in the unloaded state into a predetermined starting position.
A core layer for an information carrying card, comprising: a thermoplastic layer defining at least one cavity therein; an inlay layer comprising a sheet of metal or metal containing material, at least one portion of the inlayer layer disposed inside the at least one cavity of the thermoplastic layer; and a crosslinked polymer composition disposed over the thermoplastic layer and contacting the inlayer layer. a thermoplastic layer defining at least one cavity therein; an inlay layer comprising a sheet of metal or metal containing material, at least one portion of the inlayer layer disposed inside the at least one cavity of the thermoplastic layer; and a crosslinked polymer composition disposed over the thermoplastic layer and contacting the inlayer layer.
A method of repairing a workpiece, the method comprising: positioning a first masking fixture on a first end of the workpiece and positioning a second masking fixture on a second end of the workpiece prior to directing the pressurized fluid jet, directing a pressurized fluid jet comprising an abrasive media entrained in the pressurized fluid jet against an exterior surface of the workpiece; and directing a purge flow through the workpiece while directing the pressurized fluid jet against the exterior surface, characterized in that the method further comprises fastening together the first masking fixture and the second masking fixture about the workpiece using a plurality of fasteners (120, 220) extending from a rigid cover (104, 204) included in each masking fixture (100, 200) prior to directing the pressurized fluid jet. positioning a first masking fixture on a first end of the workpiece and positioning a second masking fixture on a second end of the workpiece prior to directing the pressurized fluid jet, directing a pressurized fluid jet comprising an abrasive media entrained in the pressurized fluid jet against an exterior surface of the workpiece; and directing a purge flow through the workpiece while directing the pressurized fluid jet against the exterior surface, characterized in that the method further comprises fastening together the first masking fixture and the second masking fixture about the workpiece using a plurality of fasteners (120, 220) extending from a rigid cover (104, 204) included in each masking fixture (100, 200) prior to directing the pressurized fluid jet.
A method involving wireless station-to-station communications in which each of a plurality of stations shares a wireless communications channel, the method comprising: in communications circuitry specific to a station participating in the station-to-station communications, collecting information wirelessly respectively from transmissions associated with a legacy communication protocol and from transmissions associated with another communication protocol; dynamically discerning a current communication environment of the station that characterizes a dynamic relationship of the collected information using the legacy communication protocol relative to the collected information using the other communication protocol, wherein the dynamic relationship changes as different stations that communicate using different ones of the protocols enter or leave the environment; and wirelessly transmitting (216, 218, 219, 220) communications from the communications circuitry over the wireless communications channel using the legacy communication protocol and using the other communication protocol, by allocating usage of the channel through transmissions of data via the legacy communication protocol or the other communication protocol, based on the dynamic relationship. in communications circuitry specific to a station participating in the station-to-station communications, collecting information wirelessly respectively from transmissions associated with a legacy communication protocol and from transmissions associated with another communication protocol; dynamically discerning a current communication environment of the station that characterizes a dynamic relationship of the collected information using the legacy communication protocol relative to the collected information using the other communication protocol, wherein the dynamic relationship changes as different stations that communicate using different ones of the protocols enter or leave the environment; and wirelessly transmitting (216, 218, 219, 220) communications from the communications circuitry over the wireless communications channel using the legacy communication protocol and using the other communication protocol, by allocating usage of the channel through transmissions of data via the legacy communication protocol or the other communication protocol, based on the dynamic relationship.
A chemical sensor comprising: support section; a gas injection hole through which a gas containing an analyte is injected; a sample collection section in which the analyte contained in the gas injected through the gas injection hole is collected; a sample delivery section through which the analyte collected in the sample collection section is delivered; a sample reaction section including a reactant that causes a predetermined reaction with the analyte delivered through the sample delivery section; and a detection section in which the analyte reacted with the reactant in the sample reaction section is detected; wherein the sample collection section has a Peltier element that liquefies water vapor contained in the gas injected through the gas injection hole, and wherein the sample reaction section comprises a heating section in which the analyte is heated, and a temperature measurement section in which the temperature of the analyte is measured, and wherein the heating section and the temperature measurement section are formed on a lower surface of an upper substrate that constitutes a protective member, the protective member being disposed over a main surface of the support section so as to cover the sample collection section, the sample delivery section, the sample reaction section, and the detection section. support section; a gas injection hole through which a gas containing an analyte is injected; a sample collection section in which the analyte contained in the gas injected through the gas injection hole is collected; a sample delivery section through which the analyte collected in the sample collection section is delivered; a sample reaction section including a reactant that causes a predetermined reaction with the analyte delivered through the sample delivery section; and a detection section in which the analyte reacted with the reactant in the sample reaction section is detected; wherein the sample collection section has a Peltier element that liquefies water vapor contained in the gas injected through the gas injection hole, and wherein the sample reaction section comprises a heating section in which the analyte is heated, and a temperature measurement section in which the temperature of the analyte is measured, and wherein the heating section and the temperature measurement section are formed on a lower surface of an upper substrate that constitutes a protective member, the protective member being disposed over a main surface of the support section so as to cover the sample collection section, the sample delivery section, the sample reaction section, and the detection section.
A diverter valve for fluid circulation circuits, comprising a valve body having two or more ports for the fluid inflow and/or outflow, a pin slidingly mounted inside said body and one or more shutters each combined with said pin and comprising a deformable element, wherein a first and a second fixed element (11, 12) are combined with a first and a second end portion (4, 5) of the valve body, in that each of said one or more shutters is combined with said pin so that to be able to slide with respect to it and in that said first fixed element interacts with one of said one or more shutters, causing the compression of the deformable element of each of said one or more shutters, following the sliding of the pin in a first direction (Dl), making it expand radially such as to define a fluid seal with the valve body in a first position, and following the sliding of the pin in a second direction, opposite said first direction, said second fixed element interacts with one of said one or more shutters, causing the compression of the deformable element of each of said one or more shutters, making it expand radially such as to define a fluid seal with the valve body in a second position, characterized in that at least two shutters are combined with the pin and wherein each shutter is kept in a predefined position by first and second abutment portions of the pin (6b, 6c) and by at least one spacing element arranged between two adjacent shutters, to be combined with the intermediate part of the pin, so that to be arranged between a respective couple of shutters and sized so that not to be able to be inserted in a pass through hole of the shutter.
Hydraulic system for use on board of an agricultural machine (1, 2), wherein the hydraulic system comprises - at least one hydraulic fluid source, - a plurality of connecting devices (6.1, 6.2, 6.3), - at least one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3), - a control unit (7, 12), and - a detection device (15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20), wherein for every connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) of the plurality a fluid connection between this connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) and the or at least one fluid source can be established and wherein the or every hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) is connectable and disconnectable with several connecting devices (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) of the plurality, one device per time, wherein - establishing a fluid connection between a connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) and the or one fluid source and - connecting the or one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) with this connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) establishes a fluid connection between - the fluid source and - this hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3), and wherein the control unit (7, 12) is arranged to automatically identify that connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) which is in fact connected with the hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) by evaluating signals received from the detection device (15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20), characterized in that the control unit (7, 12) is arranged - to subsequently select every connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) of the plurality and - to establish a fluid connection between the or at least one fluid source and the selected connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3), wherein the detection device (15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20) is arranged - to detect whether or not the or one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) is supplied with fluid and - to generate a fluid supply detection signal in case of detecting fluid supply, and wherein the control unit (7, 12) is arranged to identify as the connected connection device that connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) which is selected when the or at least one fluid supply detection signal is received from the detection device (15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20). - at least one hydraulic fluid source, - a plurality of connecting devices (6.1, 6.2, 6.3), - at least one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3), - a control unit (7, 12), and - a detection device (15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20), - establishing a fluid connection between a connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) and the or one fluid source and - connecting the or one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) with this connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) - the fluid source and - this hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3), and - to subsequently select every connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3) of the plurality and - to establish a fluid connection between the or at least one fluid source and the selected connecting device (6.1, 6.2, 6.3), - to detect whether or not the or one hydraulic line (10.1, 10.2, 10.3) is supplied with fluid and - to generate a fluid supply detection signal in case of detecting fluid supply, and
A hot runner nozzle for injection molds comprising a nozzle pipe in which a passage channel for the passage of a plastic melt is formed, wherein the passage channel extends along a center axis from a rear side channel inlet side up to a front side nozzle tip and opens in at least one outlet channel in the nozzle tip through which the plastic melt can be driven, wherein a contact collar for a sealing contact with the injection mold is provided, and wherein at least the contact collar, the nozzle tip, and/or the nozzle pipe are manufactured by means of a generative production process as a single part base member, wherein a thermal barrier groove having at least one undercut and at least partially running around the nozzle tip is introduced between the contact collar and the nozzle tip, characterized in that a sensor mount into which a temperature measuring sensor can be inserted is introduced in the base member in the region of the nozzle tip and/or below the tapering nozzle tip in the region of the thermal barrier groove, with the sensor mount interrupting the peripheral thermal barrier groove since the sensor mount projects into the region of the thermal barrier groove and the thermal barrier groove consequently does not surround the nozzle tip over the full periphery, but rather so that the thermal barrier groove is interrupted in the region of the sensor mount. wherein a thermal barrier groove having at least one undercut and at least partially running around the nozzle tip is introduced between the contact collar and the nozzle tip, characterized in that a sensor mount into which a temperature measuring sensor can be inserted is introduced in the base member in the region of the nozzle tip and/or below the tapering nozzle tip in the region of the thermal barrier groove, with the sensor mount interrupting the peripheral thermal barrier groove since the sensor mount projects into the region of the thermal barrier groove and the thermal barrier groove consequently does not surround the nozzle tip over the full periphery, but rather so that the thermal barrier groove is interrupted in the region of the sensor mount.
A vapor-phase type heating method of supplying, to a heating furnace, vapor formed in a vapor tank by heating a heat transfer liquid, and heating a heating target object by using latent heat of vaporization of the supplied vapor, the method comprising: collecting, in the vapor tank, the heat transfer liquid obtained from the vapor which has come into contact with the heating target object, has cooled to liquefy, and has fallen down as droplets from a surface of the heating target object to a lower portion of the heating furnace, after the heating target object is heated with heated gas including the vapor by applying latent heat of vaporization of the vapor to the heating target object through phase change in the heating furnace; resupplying, to the heating furnace, heated gas to which the vapor has been supplied and which has been formed by supplying the vapor from the vapor tank to heated gas obtained after heating the heating target object discharged from the heating furnace to a circulation pathway; and heating the heating target object, which is disposed in the heating furnace, at a predetermined rate of temperature rise in a state of an even distribution of the vapor of the heat transfer liquid by maintaining the vapor of the heat transfer liquid in a predetermined amount in the heating furnace by the collection and the supply. collecting, in the vapor tank, the heat transfer liquid obtained from the vapor which has come into contact with the heating target object, has cooled to liquefy, and has fallen down as droplets from a surface of the heating target object to a lower portion of the heating furnace, after the heating target object is heated with heated gas including the vapor by applying latent heat of vaporization of the vapor to the heating target object through phase change in the heating furnace; resupplying, to the heating furnace, heated gas to which the vapor has been supplied and which has been formed by supplying the vapor from the vapor tank to heated gas obtained after heating the heating target object discharged from the heating furnace to a circulation pathway; and heating the heating target object, which is disposed in the heating furnace, at a predetermined rate of temperature rise in a state of an even distribution of the vapor of the heat transfer liquid by maintaining the vapor of the heat transfer liquid in a predetermined amount in the heating furnace by the collection and the supply.
A method performed by a system, comprising: receiving a hardware description file (135, 510) specifying a plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) and a plurality of hardware resources available within a heterogeneous System-on-Chip, SoC,, wherein the plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) are configured to execute program code and are available for use by a design for the heterogeneous SoC, and wherein the plurality of hardware resources are available for use by embedded applications; creating a plurality of domains (602, 604, 606, 660) for the heterogeneous SoC, by including in each domain a processor from the plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) and assigning different hardware resources selected from the plurality of hardware resources to each of the different domains that are created; assigning an operating system to each domain; generating a platform comprising configuration data that, when loaded onto the heterogeneous SoC, implements the plurality of domains within the heterogeneous SoC and implements logical separation between the plurality of domains, using the platform to build the embedded applications for different domains of the plurality of domains within the heterogeneous SoC, wherein the platform includes a plurality of files for the plurality of domains for use by a software development environment, wherein the plurality of files includes a linker script for each of the domains. receiving a hardware description file (135, 510) specifying a plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) and a plurality of hardware resources available within a heterogeneous System-on-Chip, SoC,, wherein the plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) are configured to execute program code and are available for use by a design for the heterogeneous SoC, and wherein the plurality of hardware resources are available for use by embedded applications; creating a plurality of domains (602, 604, 606, 660) for the heterogeneous SoC, by including in each domain a processor from the plurality of processors (206, 208, 210) and assigning different hardware resources selected from the plurality of hardware resources to each of the different domains that are created; assigning an operating system to each domain; generating a platform comprising configuration data that, when loaded onto the heterogeneous SoC, implements the plurality of domains within the heterogeneous SoC and implements logical separation between the plurality of domains, using the platform to build the embedded applications for different domains of the plurality of domains within the heterogeneous SoC, wherein the platform includes a plurality of files for the plurality of domains for use by a software development environment, wherein the plurality of files includes a linker script for each of the domains.
A control system of an internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust purification catalyst which is provided in an exhaust passage (9, 19, 21, 22, 23) of an internal combustion engine and which is configured to store oxygen, a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor which is provided at a downstream side, in the direction of flow of exhaust, from said exhaust purification catalyst in said exhaust passage, and an engine control device which controls the internal combustion engine in accordance with the output of said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor, wherein said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is configured so that an applied voltage, in which an output current becomes zero, changes in accordance with the exhaust air-fuel ratio and so that when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, if increasing the applied voltage at said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor, the output current increases along with that, and when said downstream air-fuel ratio sensor detects the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas, the applied voltage at said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is fixed to a constant voltage, and said constant voltage is the voltage in which the output current becomes zero when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is a predetermined air-fuel ratio which is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. wherein said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is configured so that an applied voltage, in which an output current becomes zero, changes in accordance with the exhaust air-fuel ratio and so that when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, if increasing the applied voltage at said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor, the output current increases along with that, and when said downstream air-fuel ratio sensor detects the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas, the applied voltage at said downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is fixed to a constant voltage, and said constant voltage is the voltage in which the output current becomes zero when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is a predetermined air-fuel ratio which is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.