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A cerebral tissue catheter for measuring a flow of blood through a cerebral tissue of a patient, the catheter having a proximal end remaining outside of the patient and a distal end to be introduced into the patient, the catheter comprising a first flexible connection tube (2, 4), a stiff element comprising at least a first window and a second window and a guide channel (12, 12'), the guide channel (12, 12') extending from the proximal end to the distal end and the guide channel (12, 12') extending through the stiff element, the guide channel (12, 12') being capable of receiving a stiff wire, thereby enabling the stiff wire to be moved through the catheter, wherein a light emitter for emitting light into the body tissue and at least one light receiver for receiving light reflected in the body tissue and back to the catheter are arranged in the stiff element, wherein the light emitted from the light emitter is emitted through the second window into the body tissue and the light reflected in the body tissue is received by the at least one light receiver through the first window.
A method for selecting a communication protocol in a multi-protocol electronic toll collection system, the system including a reader having at least one multi-protocol RF transceiver, wherein the reader includes a processor configured to control operation of the at least one multi-protocol RF transceiver, wherein each transceiver is connected to a respective antenna configured to define a capture zone in a roadway, and wherein the system employs a fixed frame duration, the method comprising: transmitting a signal from the first transceiver over its respective antenna using a first communication protocol within a first portion of the fixed frame duration; detecting whether a response signal conforming to the first communication protocol is received by the first transceiver; if the response signal is not received within the first portion of the fixed frame duration, then transmitting a second signal from the first transceiver over its respective antenna using a second communication protocol within the remainder of the fixed frame duration; and if the response signal is received within the first portion of the fixed frame duration, foregoing use of the second communication protocol and conducting communication using the first communications protocol within the remainder of the fixed frame duration, wherein the first communication protocol has a first communication duration for communicating with transponders, wherein the second communication protocol has a second communication duration for communicating with transponders, and wherein the fixed frame duration is longer than the first communication duration, longer than the second communication duration, and shorter than the combined lengths of the first and second communication durations. transmitting a signal from the first transceiver over its respective antenna using a first communication protocol within a first portion of the fixed frame duration; detecting whether a response signal conforming to the first communication protocol is received by the first transceiver; if the response signal is not received within the first portion of the fixed frame duration, then transmitting a second signal from the first transceiver over its respective antenna using a second communication protocol within the remainder of the fixed frame duration; and if the response signal is received within the first portion of the fixed frame duration, foregoing use of the second communication protocol and conducting communication using the first communications protocol within the remainder of the fixed frame duration,
A method of making a suspension member with differential stiffness comprising: providing a blank of suspension material (16, 22), the suspension material (16, 22) being an engineered textile having monofilaments or multifilaments, the suspension material (16, 22) comprising a plurality of zones with different stiffness formed at least in part by varying the elastic modulus in different zones; engaging the blank of suspension material (16, 22) with a plurality of clamping elements along a side of the suspension material (16, 22), the plurality of clamping elements being connected to and independently movable relative to a frame in at least a first direction; and applying different tensions to the blank of suspension material (16, 22) with different clamping elements. providing a blank of suspension material (16, 22), the suspension material (16, 22) being an engineered textile having monofilaments or multifilaments, the suspension material (16, 22) comprising a plurality of zones with different stiffness formed at least in part by varying the elastic modulus in different zones; engaging the blank of suspension material (16, 22) with a plurality of clamping elements along a side of the suspension material (16, 22), the plurality of clamping elements being connected to and independently movable relative to a frame in at least a first direction; and applying different tensions to the blank of suspension material (16, 22) with different clamping elements.
A coextrusion film comprising a core layer made of thermoplastic elastomer and comprising a first outer layer and a second outer layer each formed from a polymer having a lower elasticity than the thermoplastic elastomer, wherein the outer layers each have a layer thickness of less than 15 μm and have cavities formed by foaming, characterized in that the density of the foamed outer layers is less than 0.800 g/cm 3 and that the outer layers each have more than 500 cavities per 1 cubic millimeter (mm 3)of volume.
A method (200, 300, 400, 500) comprising: (a) feeding a feedstock into a submerged combustion melter apparatus, the SCM apparatus comprising a floor, a roof, and a sidewall structure connecting the floor and the roof, the floor and sidewall structure defining an internal space containing a flowing or non-flowing molten mass of foamed glass comprising molten glass and bubbles entrained therein, the molten mass having glass foam comprising glass foam bubbles on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass; (b) routing at least a portion of the molten mass from the SCM apparatus to a downstream apparatus, the molten mass derived at least primarily from the feedstock; (c) observing stability of the glass foam in the downstream apparatus; and (d) adjusting alkali oxide percentage of alkali oxide fed to the SCM apparatus based on the observation to positively or negatively affect the foam stability, wherein the adjustment of alkali oxide content introduced into the SCM apparatus is either mixed with the feedstock composition, or is introduced separately from the feedstock, and wherein the alkali oxide is selected from the group consisting of alkali metal oxides and alkaline earth metal oxides, or mixtures thereof, wherein the alkali metal oxides are selected from the group consisting of M 2 O (oxides), M 2 O 2 (peroxides), and MO 2 (superoxides), where M is Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the alkaline earth metal oxides are selected from the group consisting of MO (oxides) and MO 2 (peroxides), wherein M is Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, or mixtures thereof. (a) feeding a feedstock into a submerged combustion melter apparatus, the SCM apparatus comprising a floor, a roof, and a sidewall structure connecting the floor and the roof, the floor and sidewall structure defining an internal space containing a flowing or non-flowing molten mass of foamed glass comprising molten glass and bubbles entrained therein, the molten mass having glass foam comprising glass foam bubbles on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass; (b) routing at least a portion of the molten mass from the SCM apparatus to a downstream apparatus, the molten mass derived at least primarily from the feedstock; (c) observing stability of the glass foam in the downstream apparatus; and (d) adjusting alkali oxide percentage of alkali oxide fed to the SCM apparatus based on the observation to positively or negatively affect the foam stability, wherein the adjustment of alkali oxide content introduced into the SCM apparatus is either mixed with the feedstock composition, or is introduced separately from the feedstock, and wherein the alkali oxide is selected from the group consisting of alkali metal oxides and alkaline earth metal oxides, or mixtures thereof, wherein the alkali metal oxides are selected from the group consisting of M 2 O (oxides), M 2 O 2 (peroxides), and MO 2 (superoxides), where M is Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the alkaline earth metal oxides are selected from the group consisting of MO (oxides) and MO 2 (peroxides), wherein M is Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, or mixtures thereof.
A method for controlling a fundamental frequency, f, of a power supply grid operatively connected to a wind turbine facility, the method comprising the steps of - dynamically determining a stiffness, K G, and an inertia, M G, coefficient of the power supply grid operatively connected to the wind turbine facility, wherein the stiffness coefficient, K G, is determined by changing a provided active power level by a predetermined amount, ΔP, and measuring a frequency change, Δf, in response thereto, and wherein the inertia coefficient, M G, is determined by changing a provided active power level by a predetermined amount, ΔP, and measuring a frequency change rate, Δf/Δt, in response thereto, - applying said dynamically determined stiffness, K G, and inertia, M G, coefficients in a frequency controller of the wind turbine facility, and - controlling the fundamental frequency, f, of power supply grid by changing an amount of injected active power, P. - dynamically determining a stiffness, K G, and an inertia, M G, coefficient of the power supply grid operatively connected to the wind turbine facility, wherein the stiffness coefficient, K G, is determined by changing a provided active power level by a predetermined amount, ΔP, and measuring a frequency change, Δf, in response thereto, and wherein the inertia coefficient, M G, is determined by changing a provided active power level by a predetermined amount, ΔP, and measuring a frequency change rate, Δf/Δt, in response thereto, - applying said dynamically determined stiffness, K G, and inertia, M G, coefficients in a frequency controller of the wind turbine facility, and - controlling the fundamental frequency, f, of power supply grid by changing an amount of injected active power, P.
Lid, in particular for storage compartments in vehicles, comprising a lid body which is pivotable about a pivot axis between an open position and a closed position in order to open up and close an opening of a component, a resilient drive element which acts upon the lid body in one direction, preferably the open position, a brake (14; 20; 30) for braking the pivoting movement of the cover body, wherein the brake operates at least in two stages with a different braking power and/or different braking time, wherein the brake comprises a liquid damper, characterized in that, in order to form a first and second braking stage, the liquid damper comprises two separate damper chambers (37, 38) in a common housing in which a first rotor and a second rotor are accommodated, said rotors being held so as to be rotatable about the pivot axis relative to the housing and each having a driver via which the rotational direction a connection with the lid body or alternatively with the component is realized in an interlocking manner, and in that the rotors (32, 33) each have a damper portion which is arranged in the associated first damper chamber and second damper chamber, wherein the first braking stage already acts at an earlier point of the pivoting movement of the lid body than the second braking stage because of a lower idling speed in comparison to the second braking stage, and in which the first braking stage and the second braking stage are at least temporarily combined.
A sanitary fitting having at least a first actuator element, in particular for adjusting the temperature and/or volume of mixed water, and having at least a second actuator element for adjusting the volume of hot water, wherein for adjusting the volume of hot water, a valve element, in particular a solenoid valve, is arranged in the hot water flow path, which valve element can be activated electrically by the second actuator element, and wherein a sensor element, which is connected to the hot water valve element via a signal line, is assigned to the second actuator element, wherein the sensor element furthermore generates a control signal for activating the hot water valve element when the second actuator element is actuated, and wherein the second actuator element can be turned to and from a rest position, in which the hot water valve element is closed, and a hot water position, in which the hot water valve element is open, and wherein the second actuator element can be turned from the rest position to the hot water position in the course of a setting movement (S 1), building up a reset force (F R) so that the second actuator element, when released, can automatically be reset to the rest position.
An agricultural harvester header comprising a first reel and a second reel adjacent the first reel, characterized by: a variable speed reel drive is between the first and second reels and operatively connected to at least one of the first reel for rotatably driving the first reel and the second reel for rotatably driving the second reel.
An image processing device comprising: an information acquisition section configured to acquire an image including a plurality of pixels; a barcode merge section characterized by an extraction unit configured to extract line data of a line along a barcode reading direction in a barcode region on the image; an average luminance level calculation unit configured to calculate a moving average level Yn_ave of luminance level Yn for each of an n-th pixel in the line; and a luminance level change unit configured to compare a difference between the luminance level Yn of each of the n-th pixel in the line corresponding to the line data and the moving average level Yn_ave and a minimum detectable difference, 2 x Ymin, in luminance level between a high luminance part and an adjacent low luminance part of the barcode with which barcode reading can be performed, and to change the luminance level of each of the n-th pixel corresponding to the high luminance part of the barcode to Yn_ave + Ymin only in a case where Yn - Yn ave ≥ Ymin is not satisfied and change the luminance level of each of the n-th pixel corresponding to the low luminance part of the barcode to Yn_ave - Ymin only in a case where Yn_ave - Yn ≥ Ymin is not satisfied. an information acquisition section configured to acquire an image including a plurality of pixels; a barcode merge section characterized by an extraction unit configured to extract line data of a line along a barcode reading direction in a barcode region on the image; an average luminance level calculation unit configured to calculate a moving average level Yn_ave of luminance level Yn for each of an n-th pixel in the line; and a luminance level change unit configured to compare a difference between the luminance level Yn of each of the n-th pixel in the line corresponding to the line data and the moving average level Yn_ave and a minimum detectable difference, 2 x Ymin, in luminance level between a high luminance part and an adjacent low luminance part of the barcode with which barcode reading can be performed, and to change the luminance level of each of the n-th pixel corresponding to the high luminance part of the barcode to Yn_ave + Ymin only in a case where Yn - Yn ave ≥ Ymin is not satisfied and change the luminance level of each of the n-th pixel corresponding to the low luminance part of the barcode to Yn_ave - Ymin only in a case where Yn_ave - Yn ≥ Ymin is not satisfied.
A data center or telecom environment, comprising: - a first external AC power bus powered by a first AC grid and a second external AC power bus powered by a second AC grid; - a plurality of string -linked server units providing computing resources, each server unit having a first AC input connection to the first external AC power bus and a second AC input connection to the second external AC power bus, said first external AC power bus and said second external AC power bus connecting each of the server units linked in the string, - at least one uninterruptible power supply unit, in short UPS unit, acting as a power backup satellite connected to the first external AC power bus and at least one UPS unit acting as a power backup satellite connected to the second external AC power bus, each of the power backup satellites (11, 12) being capable to provide operating power to the computing resources of each of the server units linked in the string, and - an internal or inter-satellites power bus not directly powered by the first and second AC grids (8, 9), for powering the said power backup satellites (11, 12), so that the value of power supplied to said power backup satellites (11, 12) can vary from a satellite (11, 12) to another one, characterised in that the data center or telecom environment comprises smart control means capable of identifying the occurrence of a local power peak demand at a particular server unit and of commanding at least one power backup satellite (11, 12) having power reserve to share at least part of its power reserve with this local server unit via the internal power bus, while keeping stable the voltage on the internal power bus. - a first external AC power bus powered by a first AC grid and a second external AC power bus powered by a second AC grid; - a plurality of string -linked server units providing computing resources, each server unit having a first AC input connection to the first external AC power bus and a second AC input connection to the second external AC power bus, said first external AC power bus and said second external AC power bus connecting each of the server units linked in the string, - at least one uninterruptible power supply unit, in short UPS unit, acting as a power backup satellite connected to the first external AC power bus and at least one UPS unit acting as a power backup satellite connected to the second external AC power bus, each of the power backup satellites (11, 12) being capable to provide operating power to the computing resources of each of the server units linked in the string, and - an internal or inter-satellites power bus not directly powered by the first and second AC grids (8, 9), for powering the said power backup satellites (11, 12), so that the value of power supplied to said power backup satellites (11, 12) can vary from a satellite (11, 12) to another one,
A network comprising a first base station, BS, (102, 104), a second BS (102, 104), a first distributed unit, DU, and a central unit, CU, for handling a secondary node, SN, configuration for a communication device, wherein a first SN configuration includes at least one of a physical layer configuration, a medium access control, MAC, configuration, a radio link control, RLC, configuration, a special cell configuration and a secondary cell configuration, and a second SN configuration includes at least one of a random access configuration, a physical layer configuration, a MAC configuration, a RLC configuration, a special cell configuration and a secondary cell configuration, the network comprising: the first BS (102, 104) communicating with the communication device according to a master node, MN, configuration, and the second BS (102, 104) communicating with the communication device according to a first SN configuration; the first BS (102, 104) transmitting a SN Addition Request message to the CU to perform a SN change from the second BS (102, 104) to the CU, wherein the first SN Addition Request message comprises the first SN configuration; the CU transmitting a user equipment, UE, Context Setup Request message comprising the first SN configuration to the first DU; the CU receiving a UE Context Setup Response message responding to the UE Context Setup Request message from the first DU, wherein the UE Context Setup Response message comprises a first full configuration indicator and a second SN configuration; the CU transmitting a SN Addition Request Acknowledge message comprising the second SN configuration and a second full configuration indicator, to the first BS in response to the SN Addition Request message; and the first BS (102, 104) transmitting a RRC message to the communication device, wherein the RRC message comprises the second SN configuration and a third full configuration indicator. the first BS (102, 104) communicating with the communication device according to a master node, MN, configuration, and the second BS (102, 104) communicating with the communication device according to a first SN configuration; the first BS (102, 104) transmitting a SN Addition Request message to the CU to perform a SN change from the second BS (102, 104) to the CU, wherein the first SN Addition Request message comprises the first SN configuration; the CU transmitting a user equipment, UE, Context Setup Request message comprising the first SN configuration to the first DU; the CU receiving a UE Context Setup Response message responding to the UE Context Setup Request message from the first DU, wherein the UE Context Setup Response message comprises a first full configuration indicator and a second SN configuration; the CU transmitting a SN Addition Request Acknowledge message comprising the second SN configuration and a second full configuration indicator, to the first BS in response to the SN Addition Request message; and the first BS (102, 104) transmitting a RRC message to the communication device, wherein the RRC message comprises the second SN configuration and a third full configuration indicator.
A method comprising: providing a conductive member disposed on a portion of a surface of chemically-strengthened glass, wherein the conductive member comprises silver; disposing a layer comprising a curable polysilazane onto at least a portion of the conductive member and at least a portion of the surface of the chemically-strengthened glass adjacent to the conductive member; and curing the curable polysilazane. providing a conductive member disposed on a portion of a surface of chemically-strengthened glass, wherein the conductive member comprises silver; disposing a layer comprising a curable polysilazane onto at least a portion of the conductive member and at least a portion of the surface of the chemically-strengthened glass adjacent to the conductive member; and curing the curable polysilazane.