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A fluorescence observation apparatus, comprising: a lighting section adapted to include a light source that emits illumination light and excitation light; a fluorescence imaging section adapted to pick up fluorescence generated on a subject and to acquire a fluorescence image; a returned light imaging section adapted to pick up returned light returned from the subject and to acquire a returned light image; a preprocessing section adapted to multiply at least either the fluorescence image or the returned light image by a coefficient in which a distance dependency of fluorescence intensity and a distance dependency of returned light intensity, which are acquired in advance with respect to a standard sample, come to be in a relation directly proportional to each other and to generate a fluorescence image for correction and a returned light image for correction; and a fluorescence image correction section adapted to divide the fluorescence image for correction, which was generated by the preprocessing section, by the returned light image for correction. a lighting section adapted to include a light source that emits illumination light and excitation light; a fluorescence imaging section adapted to pick up fluorescence generated on a subject and to acquire a fluorescence image; a returned light imaging section adapted to pick up returned light returned from the subject and to acquire a returned light image; a preprocessing section adapted to multiply at least either the fluorescence image or the returned light image by a coefficient in which a distance dependency of fluorescence intensity and a distance dependency of returned light intensity, which are acquired in advance with respect to a standard sample, come to be in a relation directly proportional to each other and to generate a fluorescence image for correction and a returned light image for correction; and a fluorescence image correction section adapted to divide the fluorescence image for correction, which was generated by the preprocessing section, by the returned light image for correction.
Lamp, in particular for operation in sockets for fluorescent lamps, characterised in that a contact section is provided for insertion into a socket base comprising two contact pins (B1, B2) and one centring device arranged in the centre between the two contact pins (B1, B2) for centring the lamp in the socket, and in that the centring device can be rotated about a main axis of the lamp to actuate a switch or a protective device.
An occluder for a defect adapted to be introduced into the body through the vasculature, the occluder having a central tube and a proximal side and distal side that cooperate to close the defect, at least one of the proximal and distal sides of the occluder including slits (31, 41) axially formed in the tube to form struts, wherein adjacent slits (31, 41) are aligned and the struts are configured to rotate in an orthogonal plane relative to the axis of the occluder to form loops when the axial length of the tube is shortened, wherein each loop is formed from a single strut extending from the central tube to the proximal or the distal end of the occluder, characterised in that; the proximal side of each loop is radially offset with respect to the distal side of the loop, such that twisted loops are formed and each loop overlaps with an adjacent loop.
A laser-assisted topical treatment system for treating an infected nail, the treatment system comprising: a laser; and a treatment agent that comprises a vehicle and a drug; wherein the laser is configured to output a beam that penetrates the infected nail and creates a plurality of channels therethrough; an enclosure arrangement to enclose the infected nail; and wherein the treatment agent is applied to a surface of the infected nail and flows into the plurality of channels, and wherein the enclosure is connected to a pressure source that is configured to provide alternative positive and negative pressure to the infected nail to promote distribution of the treatment agent in the plurality of channels. a laser; and a treatment agent that comprises a vehicle and a drug; wherein the laser is configured to output a beam that penetrates the infected nail and creates a plurality of channels therethrough; an enclosure arrangement to enclose the infected nail; and wherein the treatment agent is applied to a surface of the infected nail and flows into the plurality of channels, and wherein the enclosure is connected to a pressure source that is configured to provide alternative positive and negative pressure to the infected nail to promote distribution of the treatment agent in the plurality of channels.
A powder container comprising: a cylindrical container body (32Y2) to contain a powder such as toner, having an opening (32Y2c) in one end thereof, to convey the powder contained in the container body (32Y2) to the opening (32Y2c) with a rotation of the container body (32Y2), and having a container-body projection (32Y2z) provided on a front portion of an outer circumferential surface of the container body (32Y2); and a cylindrical holder (32Y1), into which the end of the container body (32Y2) having the opening (32Y2c) is inserted, to hold the container body (32Y2) rotatably, having a powder outlet (32Y1a) through which the powder is discharged from the holder (32Y1) and a holder projection (32Y1z) provided on an inner circumferential surface thereof at a position facing the front portion of the container body, wherein the container-body projection (32Y2z) repetitively contacts and separates from the holder projection (32Y1z) with the rotation of the container body (32Y2) to vibrate the container body (32Y2) and the holder (32Y1), characterized in that the container body (32Y2-α) comprises multiple container-body projections (32Y2z); and the multiple container-body projections (32Y2z) are arranged in a circumferential direction of the container body (32Y2-α), and the multiple container-body projections (32Y2z) are provided on the front portion of the outer circumferential surface of the container body (32Y2- α). a cylindrical container body (32Y2) to contain a powder such as toner, having an opening (32Y2c) in one end thereof, to convey the powder contained in the container body (32Y2) to the opening (32Y2c) with a rotation of the container body (32Y2), and having a container-body projection (32Y2z) provided on a front portion of an outer circumferential surface of the container body (32Y2); and a cylindrical holder (32Y1), into which the end of the container body (32Y2) having the opening (32Y2c) is inserted, to hold the container body (32Y2) rotatably, having a powder outlet (32Y1a) through which the powder is discharged from the holder (32Y1) and a holder projection (32Y1z) provided on an inner circumferential surface thereof at a position facing the front portion of the container body, wherein the container-body projection (32Y2z) repetitively contacts and separates from the holder projection (32Y1z) with the rotation of the container body (32Y2) to vibrate the container body (32Y2) and the holder (32Y1), characterized in that the container body (32Y2-α) comprises multiple container-body projections (32Y2z); and the multiple container-body projections (32Y2z) are arranged in a circumferential direction of the container body (32Y2-α), and the multiple container-body projections (32Y2z) are provided on the front portion of the outer circumferential surface of the container body (32Y2- α).
Method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine, in which a remelting treatment is carried out at least in some regions, in particular in the region of a combustion chamber recess, characterised in that the depth thereof is changed in the peripheral direction.
A method for recovering recyclable materials from waste products, which waste products have organic impurities, wherein the waste products are subjected to thermal processing in a thermal processing device, during which thermal processing, the organic impurities are at least largely pyrolyzed and/or burnt, wherein, in a charging region, the waste products are charged into a reaction chamber and the recyclable materials and potentially pyrolysis and/or combustion residues are discharged out of the reaction chamber in a discharge region characterized in that a hot exhaust gas from at least one thermal production process or material treatment process (7, 32) of a coordinated process plant is introduced into the thermal processing device for thermally processing the waste products, wherein, during the thermal processing a maximum temperature is selected in a reaction chamber of the thermal processing device such that the recyclable materials to be recovered during the thermal processing are present in a solid state.
Authentication method of embossed natural leather wherein said natural leather is embossed by a) applying a protective top-coat on natural leather and b) forming in said protective top-coat an artificial skin texture, formed with a Dirichlet tessellation-step or a Voronoi diagram-step and having an embedded identification code, by pressing against said protective top-coat an embossing element (120, 400) comprising a relief having a plurality of lower located segments and higher up elements; and wherein the authentication method comprises a decoding step comprising a step of determining said embedded identification code by determining mutual locations of embossed formation (7, 8, 10) by said lower located segments and/or higher up elements in said protective top-coat and converting with a selected cryptographic key said determined mutual locations to a plurality of characters for authenticating the embossed natural leather. wherein said natural leather is embossed by a) applying a protective top-coat on natural leather and b) forming in said protective top-coat an artificial skin texture, formed with a Dirichlet tessellation-step or a Voronoi diagram-step and having an embedded identification code, by pressing against said protective top-coat an embossing element (120, 400) comprising a relief having a plurality of lower located segments and higher up elements; and a) applying a protective top-coat on natural leather and b) forming in said protective top-coat an artificial skin texture, formed with a Dirichlet tessellation-step or a Voronoi diagram-step and having an embedded identification code, by pressing against said protective top-coat an embossing element (120, 400) comprising a relief having a plurality of lower located segments and higher up elements; and wherein the authentication method comprises a decoding step comprising a step of determining said embedded identification code by determining mutual locations of embossed formation (7, 8, 10) by said lower located segments and/or higher up elements in said protective top-coat and converting with a selected cryptographic key said determined mutual locations to a plurality of characters for authenticating the embossed natural leather.
A torque-limiting device having two torque transfer bodies (1, 2), whereof at least one is displaceable during a relative rotation about an axis in the direction of said axis with respect to the other torque transfer body (2, 1) against the restoring force of a spring element clamped with pretensioning between a bearing and an abutment along a shaft extending in the axis, wherein the pretensioning of the spring element is set irreversibly by the axial position of the abutment during the production of the torque-limiting device, characterised in that the abutment can be connected to the shaft during assembly in such a way that the axial position of the abutment can be predetermined by applying a predetermined external force to the spring element before the abutment is fastened to the shaft.
A receiver for receiving a signal from a transmitter, the signal conforming to a protocol such that the signal comprises a synchronising portion and a data portion, each portion comprising pulses located in respective time slots, the time offsets between successive time slots being defined by the protocol, the receiver comprising: a replica pulse generator configured to generate first and second replica series of pulses, each pulse offset from the next by a time e, and each series being offset from the next by a time f, where f is not an integer multiple of e; a mixer configured to mix the replica series with the received signal and output the mixed signal to a detector; the detector configured to detect a first pulse and a second pulse of the synchronising portion by detecting if the first pulse is input to the mixer coincident with a pulse of the first replica series and if the second pulse is input to the mixer coincident with a pulse of the second replica series; a comparison module configured to compare a phase shift relative to the receiver clock, which coincides with the first pulse and a phase shift relative to the receiver clock, which coincides with the second pulse to determine the drift between the transmitter clock and the receiver clock; a determination module configured to determine expected times of arrival of the time slots of the data portion using the determined drift, the time offsets defined by the protocol and a time-of-arrival of at least one pulse of the synchronising portion; and a data reader configured to read data conveyed in the data portion at the expected times of arrival. a replica pulse generator configured to generate first and second replica series of pulses, each pulse offset from the next by a time e, and each series being offset from the next by a time f, where f is not an integer multiple of e; a mixer configured to mix the replica series with the received signal and output the mixed signal to a detector; the detector configured to detect a first pulse and a second pulse of the synchronising portion by detecting if the first pulse is input to the mixer coincident with a pulse of the first replica series and if the second pulse is input to the mixer coincident with a pulse of the second replica series; a comparison module configured to compare a phase shift relative to the receiver clock, which coincides with the first pulse and a phase shift relative to the receiver clock, which coincides with the second pulse to determine the drift between the transmitter clock and the receiver clock; a determination module configured to determine expected times of arrival of the time slots of the data portion using the determined drift, the time offsets defined by the protocol and a time-of-arrival of at least one pulse of the synchronising portion; and a data reader configured to read data conveyed in the data portion at the expected times of arrival.
A suction hood selected from the group comprising a vertical hood, a ceiling hood or a cooktop provided with an incorporated downdraft hood, the suction hood comprising: - an electric motor; - a fan which is mechanically connected with said electric motor to channel a gas flow along a predefined path, the gases being generated by a food item being cooked, - a plurality of transducers for detecting physical properties present in said gas flow, each transducer being configured to generate a signal corresponding to a physical quantity, said plurality of sensors being selected at least from the group comprising VOC and PM sensors; - a PCB whereon at least a part of said plurality of sensors is arranged, said PCB is supported by a frame which is positioned in the predefined path along which gases are channelled; characterized in that the suction hood comprises: - a processing unit in signal communication with said plurality of sensors to process each signal generated by each transducer; - a memory in signal communication with said processing unit; - a program residing in said memory, said program being configured to determine a cooking degree of a food item based on a time correlation between the various signals processed by the processing unit; - a display unit in signal communication with said processing unit to display said cooking degree. - an electric motor; - a fan which is mechanically connected with said electric motor to channel a gas flow along a predefined path, the gases being generated by a food item being cooked, - a plurality of transducers for detecting physical properties present in said gas flow, each transducer being configured to generate a signal corresponding to a physical quantity, said plurality of sensors being selected at least from the group comprising VOC and PM sensors; - a PCB whereon at least a part of said plurality of sensors is arranged, said PCB is supported by a frame which is positioned in the predefined path along which gases are channelled; - a processing unit in signal communication with said plurality of sensors to process each signal generated by each transducer; - a memory in signal communication with said processing unit; - a program residing in said memory, said program being configured to determine a cooking degree of a food item based on a time correlation between the various signals processed by the processing unit; - a display unit in signal communication with said processing unit to display said cooking degree.
Process for the preparation of condensed iron phosphate of the general formula Fe (n+2) (P n O 3n+1) 3 · xH 2 O, where n ≥ 2 and x ≤ 9, in which a) an aqueous solution comprising Fe 2+ ions is prepared by introducing iron, iron or mixed iron(II,III) compounds selected from hydroxides, oxides, oxide hydroxides, oxide hydrates, carbonates and hydroxide carbonates, together with elemental iron, into an aqueous medium comprising phosphoric acid, Fe 2+ ions being dissolved and Fe 3+ being reacted with elemental Fe (in a comproportionation reaction) to give dissolved Fe 2+, b) solids present, if appropriate, are separated off from the phosphoric acid aqueous Fe 2+ solution, c) an oxidizing agent is added to the phosphoric acid aqueous Fe 2+ solution in order to oxidize iron in the solution, the oxidation conditions being chosen such that no iron phosphates are precipitated, by keeping the temperature of the reaction solution during the addition of the oxidizing agent in the range of from 10 °C to ≤ 60 °C by cooling the reaction solution and/or by adjusting the rate of addition of the oxidizing agent, d) after conclusion of the oxidation reaction polyphosphates are added to the resulting aqueous Fe 3+ solution in the form of polyphosphoric acid or its salts as solids or as an aqueous solution, condensed iron phosphate being precipitated as a solid, e) the condensed iron phosphate which has precipitated is separated off from the reaction solution. a) an aqueous solution comprising Fe 2+ ions is prepared by introducing iron, iron or mixed iron(II,III) compounds selected from hydroxides, oxides, oxide hydroxides, oxide hydrates, carbonates and hydroxide carbonates, together with elemental iron, into an aqueous medium comprising phosphoric acid, Fe 2+ ions being dissolved and Fe 3+ being reacted with elemental Fe (in a comproportionation reaction) to give dissolved Fe 2+, b) solids present, if appropriate, are separated off from the phosphoric acid aqueous Fe 2+ solution, c) an oxidizing agent is added to the phosphoric acid aqueous Fe 2+ solution in order to oxidize iron in the solution, the oxidation conditions being chosen such that no iron phosphates are precipitated, by keeping the temperature of the reaction solution during the addition of the oxidizing agent in the range of from 10 °C to ≤ 60 °C by cooling the reaction solution and/or by adjusting the rate of addition of the oxidizing agent, d) after conclusion of the oxidation reaction polyphosphates are added to the resulting aqueous Fe 3+ solution in the form of polyphosphoric acid or its salts as solids or as an aqueous solution, condensed iron phosphate being precipitated as a solid, e) the condensed iron phosphate which has precipitated is separated off from the reaction solution.
A Long Term Evolution, LTE, system comprising: a Limited Capability Terminal Equipment, LCTE, configured, upon initiating a physical random access channel, PRACH, random access operation, to select a PRACH preamble from a predetermined subset of PRACH preambles, said subset of PRACH preambles (406, 407) being strictly contained within and strictly smaller in size than a set of Group A or Group B contention-based PRACH preambles (306, 307) defined for the LTE wireless communication system, the selected PRACH preamble included in wireless transmission of a PRACH preamble message; and an evolved Node B, eNB, configured, in response to receipt of the PRACH preamble belonging to said subset of PRACH preambles (406, 407), to schedule transmission of an associated random access response, RAR, on a restricted set of physical resource blocks, PRBs, wherein the restricted set of PRBs is identified by a function commonly known to both the eNB and the LCTE or the eNB is configured to communicate the restricted set of PRBs to the LCTE via a System Information Block, SIB, characterised by the eNB being further configured to monitor one or more indicators of system performance indicative of a usage distribution of the set of all PRACH preambles and to adjust a size of the predetermined subset of PRACH preambles based on said one or more indicators of system performance and to facilitate an increased evenness in said usage distribution. a Limited Capability Terminal Equipment, LCTE, configured, upon initiating a physical random access channel, PRACH, random access operation, to select a PRACH preamble from a predetermined subset of PRACH preambles, said subset of PRACH preambles (406, 407) being strictly contained within and strictly smaller in size than a set of Group A or Group B contention-based PRACH preambles (306, 307) defined for the LTE wireless communication system, the selected PRACH preamble included in wireless transmission of a PRACH preamble message; and an evolved Node B, eNB, configured, in response to receipt of the PRACH preamble belonging to said subset of PRACH preambles (406, 407), to schedule transmission of an associated random access response, RAR, on a restricted set of physical resource blocks, PRBs, wherein the restricted set of PRBs is identified by a function commonly known to both the eNB and the LCTE or the eNB is configured to communicate the restricted set of PRBs to the LCTE via a System Information Block, SIB, characterised by the eNB being further configured to monitor one or more indicators of system performance indicative of a usage distribution of the set of all PRACH preambles and to adjust a size of the predetermined subset of PRACH preambles based on said one or more indicators of system performance and to facilitate an increased evenness in said usage distribution.