mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A liquid delivery method of first inserting a pipette tip into a liquid injection portion of a detection chip including: a microchannel; the liquid injection portion connected to one end of the microchannel for injecting a liquid; and a reservoir connected to the other end of the microchannel for temporarily storing the liquid, the insertion being performed to achieve a hermetically sealed state of the liquid injection portion, by inserting the pipette tip in a liquid injection portion covering sheet that enables the liquid injection portion to be in a hermetically sealed state by coming into close contact with an outer periphery of the pipette tip when the pipette tip is inserted then injecting and aspirating the liquid by the pipette tip to reciprocatingly deliver the liquid into the microchannel, the method comprising executing, in this order, steps of: inserting the pipette tip into the liquid injection portion up to a position at which an end of the pipette tip comes below a liquid level when the liquid is injected into the liquid injection portion; injecting the liquid from the pipette tip into the liquid injection portion; generating a negative pressure in the liquid injection portion to raise the level of the liquid in the liquid injection portion; by raising the pipette tip in the axial direction to generate the negative pressure in the liquid injection portion and thereby to increase a distance from the end of the pipette tip to the level of the liquid; and performing either aspiration of the liquid in the liquid injection portion by the pipette tip, or injection of the liquid into the liquid injection portion by the pipette tip and aspiration of the liquid inside the liquid injection portion. inserting the pipette tip into the liquid injection portion up to a position at which an end of the pipette tip comes below a liquid level when the liquid is injected into the liquid injection portion; injecting the liquid from the pipette tip into the liquid injection portion; generating a negative pressure in the liquid injection portion to raise the level of the liquid in the liquid injection portion; by raising the pipette tip in the axial direction to generate the negative pressure in the liquid injection portion and thereby to increase a distance from the end of the pipette tip to the level of the liquid; and performing either aspiration of the liquid in the liquid injection portion by the pipette tip, or injection of the liquid into the liquid injection portion by the pipette tip and aspiration of the liquid inside the liquid injection portion.
A method of testing or screening the ability of a skin care product in preventing, minimizing, ameliorating or protecting against UV exposure, UV damage, skin aging or photoaging, the method comprising the steps of; (a) applying the skin care product to a test sample, the test sample comprising skin or a skin equivalent; (b) exposing the test sample to ultraviolet radiation; (c) detecting in the test sample the presence of a mitochondrial fusion transcript associated with UV exposure, wherein the mitochondrial fusion transcript comprises the nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 39; and (d) comparing the result of the detection step with a reference value. (a) applying the skin care product to a test sample, the test sample comprising skin or a skin equivalent; (b) exposing the test sample to ultraviolet radiation; (c) detecting in the test sample the presence of a mitochondrial fusion transcript associated with UV exposure, wherein the mitochondrial fusion transcript comprises the nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 39; and (d) comparing the result of the detection step with a reference value.
A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: generating a text representation of captured audio data using an automatic speech recognition engine, wherein generating the text representation of the captured audio data comprises: generating a word lattice corresponding to the captured audio data, wherein the word lattice is an acyclic graph representing candidate recognitions of the captured audio data; determining a location of a carrier phrase in the word lattice, the carrier phrase being a sequence of anchor words and/or placeholder non-terminal tokens representing a location of a hypothesized named entity; determining, based on the location of the carrier phrase in the word lattice, an augmentation location in the word lattice; selecting, from a set of candidate contextually relevant named entities, a contextually relevant named entity to insert at the augmentation location of the word lattice, wherein the contextually relevant named entity is an additional candidate recognition of a portion of the captured audio data; augmenting the word lattice by inserting the selected contextually relevant named entity at the augmentation location; and processing the augmented word lattice to determine the text representation of the captured audio data. generating a word lattice corresponding to the captured audio data, wherein the word lattice is an acyclic graph representing candidate recognitions of the captured audio data; determining a location of a carrier phrase in the word lattice, the carrier phrase being a sequence of anchor words and/or placeholder non-terminal tokens representing a location of a hypothesized named entity; determining, based on the location of the carrier phrase in the word lattice, an augmentation location in the word lattice; selecting, from a set of candidate contextually relevant named entities, a contextually relevant named entity to insert at the augmentation location of the word lattice, wherein the contextually relevant named entity is an additional candidate recognition of a portion of the captured audio data; augmenting the word lattice by inserting the selected contextually relevant named entity at the augmentation location; and processing the augmented word lattice to determine the text representation of the captured audio data.
Housing for a domestic appliance, such as a tumble dryer, which in its basic form comprises a base module, side walls and, a rear wall and a front wall, the front wall of the domestic appliance being constructed in a modular manner in order to construct a frameless housing, the air guide for the process air stream being fastened to the rear face of the front wall so that the front wall and air guide form a front module that can be positioned on the base module in a self-retaining manner and without tools for preassembly, the front module being designed so as to be able to be positioned or mounted on the base module in the lower region by means of the front wall, locking to the base module taking place when positioned, such that the lock at the front consists of at least one catch hook that is integrally formed on the air guide and engages in a catch opening provided on the base module, characterised in that the lock at the front consists of two parallel resilient bars and and in that the lock on the module side consists of at least one rectangular opening that is arranged on the base module and has sloping surfaces and integrally formed on the perpendicular edge regions.
A surface treating head (1,40) comprising: a first body (5,42) defining an inner aperture; a support body (4,44) defining an outer aperture, the outer aperture surrounding the inner aperture (11,43), and the support body (4,44) being moveable relative to the first body (5,42) to allow for relative movement between the inner (11,43) and outer apertures in a substantially vertical direction; and a bellow seal (20,50) provided between the first body (5,42) and the support body (4,44) that maintains a substantially airtight seal between the first body (5,42) and support body (4,44) irrespective of their relative positions and movements, characterised in that when the first body (5,42) and support body (4,44) are in a first relative position the outer aperture is above the inner aperture (11,43) in a vertical direction, and when the first body (5,42) and support body (4,44) are in a second relative position, the outer aperture is below the inner aperture (11,43) in a vertical direction, and wherein the surface treating head (1,40) comprises a biasing means for biasing one or more of the first body (5,42) and support body (4,44) into a biased position that is one of the first or second relative positions. a first body (5,42) defining an inner aperture; a support body (4,44) defining an outer aperture, the outer aperture surrounding the inner aperture (11,43), and the support body (4,44) being moveable relative to the first body (5,42) to allow for relative movement between the inner (11,43) and outer apertures in a substantially vertical direction; and
Lighting device comprising: - a first light source in the form of at least one OLED or at least one QLED for generating a first light, - a second light source in the form of at least one OLED or at least one QLED for generating a second light, - a first light deflection element with an entry surface for inputting the first light and an exit surface for outputting the first light, - a second light deflection element with an entry surface for inputting the second light and an exit surface for outputting the second light, wherein the exit surface of the first light-deflection element and the exit surface of the second light-deflection element are separated only by a gap which is at most as wide as one-tenth, preferably one-hundredth, in particular one five-hundredth of its length ( l), wherein the first light deflection element is rectangular, characterized in that the first light source has an outwardly-reflecting layer on a side facing the second light deflection element. - a first light source in the form of at least one OLED or at least one QLED for generating a first light, - a second light source in the form of at least one OLED or at least one QLED for generating a second light, - a first light deflection element with an entry surface for inputting the first light and an exit surface for outputting the first light, - a second light deflection element with an entry surface for inputting the second light and an exit surface for outputting the second light,
A method for reducing electricity demand during times of peak demand, the method comprising: receiving demand response information for a demand response event, the demand response information including a desired load reduction, a start time and a duration; receiving historical information and behavioral information for a customer, the historical information regarding the customer's response to prior requests to participate in demand response events; determining for the customer a compliance probability for the demand response event based on the demand response information, the historical information, the behavioral information, and a ratio of a current occupancy to an average occupancy, the current occupancy comprising a number of persons present or expected to be present at a customer site at a particular time, the average occupancy comprising the average number of persons present at the customer site over a selected period of time; selecting, based on the determined compliance probability for the demand response event satisfying a predetermined threshold, the customer for participation in the demand response event: and requesting, via a request sent to the selected customer, participation by the selected customer in the demand response event. receiving demand response information for a demand response event, the demand response information including a desired load reduction, a start time and a duration; receiving historical information and behavioral information for a customer, the historical information regarding the customer's response to prior requests to participate in demand response events; determining for the customer a compliance probability for the demand response event based on the demand response information, the historical information, the behavioral information, and a ratio of a current occupancy to an average occupancy, the current occupancy comprising a number of persons present or expected to be present at a customer site at a particular time, the average occupancy comprising the average number of persons present at the customer site over a selected period of time; selecting, based on the determined compliance probability for the demand response event satisfying a predetermined threshold, the customer for participation in the demand response event: and requesting, via a request sent to the selected customer, participation by the selected customer in the demand response event.
A method for controlling an automation system, comprising: rendering, by a processor, an image (16, 22, 40) from a three-dimensional scene representing at least part of the automation system on the basis of position data and viewing direction data, displaying the image (16, 22, 40) on a display unit, wherein the automation system comprises a plurality of components (2, 4, 18, 20), wherein a tree structure is stored in a data memory in which nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) are assigned to the components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the automation system, characterized in that a focus component is determined, wherein the focus component describes a component which currently is the focus of the user, and from the scene only those components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the part of the automation system are loaded into the processor for rendering whose assigned nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) in the tree structure have only a predetermined maximum distance from the node (28, 30, 32, 34) assigned to the focus component. rendering, by a processor, an image (16, 22, 40) from a three-dimensional scene representing at least part of the automation system on the basis of position data and viewing direction data, displaying the image (16, 22, 40) on a display unit, wherein the automation system comprises a plurality of components (2, 4, 18, 20), wherein a tree structure is stored in a data memory in which nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) are assigned to the components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the automation system, characterized in that a focus component is determined, wherein the focus component describes a component which currently is the focus of the user, and from the scene only those components (2, 4, 18, 20) of the part of the automation system are loaded into the processor for rendering whose assigned nodes (28, 30, 32, 34) in the tree structure have only a predetermined maximum distance from the node (28, 30, 32, 34) assigned to the focus component.
For use in a wireless communication network, a method for an evolved Node B, eNB, to use a synchronization signal as a demodulation reference signal for channel estimation, the method comprising: determining whether there is a resource element collision between the demodulation reference signal and the synchronization signal; in accordance with a determination that there is a resource element collision between the two signals: using the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal in a Physical Resource Block, PRB, pair containing the synchronization signal and, before transmitting the synchronization signal to a User Equipment, UE, generating an information element, the information element defining a signal format relationship between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; wherein the information element includes at least one of a Physical Cell Identification, PCID, indicative of an eNB corresponding to the synchronization signal and a power offset between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; and transmitting the information element to the UE; and transmitting the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal to the UE. determining whether there is a resource element collision between the demodulation reference signal and the synchronization signal; in accordance with a determination that there is a resource element collision between the two signals: using the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal in a Physical Resource Block, PRB, pair containing the synchronization signal and, before transmitting the synchronization signal to a User Equipment, UE, generating an information element, the information element defining a signal format relationship between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; wherein the information element includes at least one of a Physical Cell Identification, PCID, indicative of an eNB corresponding to the synchronization signal and a power offset between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; and transmitting the information element to the UE; and transmitting the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal to the UE. using the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal in a Physical Resource Block, PRB, pair containing the synchronization signal and, before transmitting the synchronization signal to a User Equipment, UE, generating an information element, the information element defining a signal format relationship between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; wherein the information element includes at least one of a Physical Cell Identification, PCID, indicative of an eNB corresponding to the synchronization signal and a power offset between the synchronization signal and the demodulation reference signal; and transmitting the information element to the UE; and transmitting the synchronization signal as the demodulation reference signal to the UE.
A container, comprising: an upper grinding section, a lower grinding section, a collection section, an electronics housing, a storage container section, and a container holder; the upper and lower grinding sections are mated together and are configured to grind and pulverize a target material; the collection section is disposed beneath the lower grinding section and collects material falling through holes in the lower grinding section; the electronics housing includes a display, microcontroller, and a power source; and the storage container section is disposed beneath the electronics housing and is retained by the container holder; wherein the storage container section and the container holder are removably attached to each other. an upper grinding section, a lower grinding section, a collection section, an electronics housing, a storage container section, and a container holder; the upper and lower grinding sections are mated together and are configured to grind and pulverize a target material; the collection section is disposed beneath the lower grinding section and collects material falling through holes in the lower grinding section; the electronics housing includes a display, microcontroller, and a power source; and the storage container section is disposed beneath the electronics housing and is retained by the container holder; wherein the storage container section and the container holder are removably attached to each other.
An aircraft assembly comprising a plurality of structural components and an electrically conductive bonding network, wherein at least one of the structural components is formed of material of low electrical conductivity, and the bonding network includes at least one substantially planar strip (13, 13', 13", 13"', 13"") of highly electrically conductive material attached to at least the one structural component, wherein a portion of the strip is formed as a substantially omega-shaped loop extending out of the plane of the strip.
A method for processing a subroutine return-with-test [p.5 I.25] instruction in a pipelined microprocessor, the method comprising: fetching, in an instruction fetch stage [p.5, I.25-27], a subroutine return-with-test instruction directing a return from a subroutine; obtaining (88; 106), in an instruction decode stage [p.5, I. 27-30], a return address by reading the return address from a return address register; keeping the return-with-test instruction in the instruction decode stage for an additional cycle and reading, during the additional cycle in the instruction decode stage, a return value from a return value register; setting, in an execution stage, status flags to indicate a result of a comparison of the return value with zero, said setting of status flags being performed in parallel to writing, in a memory stage, the return address past the data memory; and writing, in a write-back stage, the return address to a program counter and flushing the pipeline (66, 68, 70, 74, 78). fetching, in an instruction fetch stage [p.5, I.25-27], a subroutine return-with-test instruction directing a return from a subroutine; obtaining (88; 106), in an instruction decode stage [p.5, I. 27-30], a return address by reading the return address from a return address register; keeping the return-with-test instruction in the instruction decode stage for an additional cycle and reading, during the additional cycle in the instruction decode stage, a return value from a return value register; setting, in an execution stage, status flags to indicate a result of a comparison of the return value with zero, said setting of status flags being performed in parallel to writing, in a memory stage, the return address past the data memory; and writing, in a write-back stage, the return address to a program counter and flushing the pipeline (66, 68, 70, 74, 78).
A cycle press, in particular a short-cycle press, for the manufacture and/or lamination of sheet-form materials, in particular wood based boards, with a press stand, with a plurality of press frames arrayed in the longitudinal direction of the press, and with an upper press plate and a lower press plate, wherein the upper press plate or the lower press plate is acted upon by press cylinders, which are supported on the press frames, wherein the press rams are attached to the press frames with frame bolts engaging in recesses of the press frames, characterised in that the frame bolts and the recesses in the press frames are aligned with one another such that the frame bolts can be removed between the two press frames concerned.