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A turbine section (190, 191) for a gas turbine engine comprising: a tangential on board injector ("TOBI"); a first stage rotor blade in fluid communication with the TOBI; and a first cavity located between a first disk and a second disk, wherein the first cavity is in fluid communication with the TOBI; and further comprising a segmented seal in contact with the first disk and the second disk, the segmented seal comprising: a first radial span; a second radial span; a first axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span; a second axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span, wherein the first radial span, the second radial span, the first axial span, and the second axial span form a torque box; and an axial seal span with a plurality of knife edges configured to engage an abradable annular seal. a tangential on board injector ("TOBI"); a first stage rotor blade in fluid communication with the TOBI; and a first cavity located between a first disk and a second disk, wherein the first cavity is in fluid communication with the TOBI; and further comprising a segmented seal in contact with the first disk and the second disk, the segmented seal comprising: a first radial span; a second radial span; a first axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span; a second axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span, wherein the first radial span, the second radial span, the first axial span, and the second axial span form a torque box; and an axial seal span with a plurality of knife edges configured to engage an abradable annular seal. a first radial span; a second radial span; a first axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span; a second axial span that extends between the first radial span and the second radial span, wherein the first radial span, the second radial span, the first axial span, and the second axial span form a torque box; and an axial seal span with a plurality of knife edges configured to engage an abradable annular seal.
A method of gas carburizing an article, where at least a surface region of the article consists of an alloy with a chromium content of at least 10 wt%, the carburizing is carried out by means of a gas containing carbon, which gas is heated to a temperature below 550°C, wherein the gas is an unsaturated hydrocarbon gas which is diluted with H 2.
An alkoxy-functional organopolysiloxane resin and polymer comprising a reaction product of a reaction comprising: (i) an alkenyl-functional siloxane resin comprising R 3 SiO 1/2 units and SiO 4/2 units, wherein each R is independently a monovalent hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms with the proviso that at least one R is an alkenyl radical, wherein the molar ratio of the R 3 SiO 1/2 units to SiO 4/2 units has a value ranging from 0.5/1 to 1.5/1, (ii) an alkoxysilane-functional organosiloxane compound having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom at a molecular terminal; (iii) an endcapper according to the formula to the formula R 2 3 SiO-(R 2 2 SiO) s -SiR 2 2 H or R 2 3 SiO-(R 2 2 SiO) t -(HR 2 SiO)-SiR 2 3, or combinations thereof, wherein each R 2 is independently a hydrocarbon radical and wherein the subscripts s and t have respective values ranging from 0 to 10; and (iv) a polyorganosiloxane having an average, per molecule, of at least 2 aliphatically unsaturated organic groups; in the presence of a (v) hydrosilylation catalyst. (i) an alkenyl-functional siloxane resin comprising R 3 SiO 1/2 units and SiO 4/2 units, wherein each R is independently a monovalent hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms with the proviso that at least one R is an alkenyl radical, wherein the molar ratio of the R 3 SiO 1/2 units to SiO 4/2 units has a value ranging from 0.5/1 to 1.5/1, wherein each R is independently a monovalent hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms with the proviso that at least one R is an alkenyl radical, wherein the molar ratio of the R 3 SiO 1/2 units to SiO 4/2 units has a value ranging from 0.5/1 to 1.5/1, (ii) an alkoxysilane-functional organosiloxane compound having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom at a molecular terminal; (iii) an endcapper according to the formula to the formula R 2 3 SiO-(R 2 2 SiO) s -SiR 2 2 H or R 2 3 SiO-(R 2 2 SiO) t -(HR 2 SiO)-SiR 2 3, or combinations thereof, wherein each R 2 is independently a hydrocarbon radical and wherein the subscripts s and t have respective values ranging from 0 to 10; and (iv) a polyorganosiloxane having an average, per molecule, of at least 2 aliphatically unsaturated organic groups;
A target (10; 100) for use in an alignment system, the target comprising a first component (12; 112) having a magnetic or electromagnetic source and a second component (14; 114; 214; 314; 414) being attachable to the first component, the second component being a sacrificial component for securing the first component (12; 112) proximate an object for alignment, characterised in that the second component (14; 114; 214; 314; 414) comprises a region configured to securely hold the second component in a hole.
A method of in-well fluid level detection around a submersible pump deployed in a well, comprising using an optical fiber distributed acoustic sensor to measure the propagation of acoustic waves within fluid in the vicinity of the submersible pump to determine the location of a fluid interface within the well with respect to the submersible pump, wherein the acoustic waves are generated by the submersible pump when in operation.
A sterilizing apparatus for sterilizing post-consumer absorbent sanitary products, comprising: - a container rotatable about a longitudinal axis, having a closed first end and a second end provided with a loading/unloading opening closed by a removable door, wherein the container has a hollow wall including an inner wall, an outer wall, and a hollow space, which extends from said first end to said second end, - a rotary joint located at said first end of the container and having a steam inlet chamber and a condensate discharge chamber, connected to respective portions of said hollow space through respective pipes (52, 54), - at least one hollow helical blade, which extends between said first end and said second end of the container and protrudes inwardly from said inner wall of the container, wherein said hollow helical blade has a helical cavity having an inlet in fluid communication with said steam inlet chamber at said first end of the container, an outlet in fluid communication with said hollow space at said second end of the container, and is closed between said inlet and said outlet, wherein a portion of said hollow space comprised between the outlet of one of said pipes and the inlet opening of the helical cavity is closed by septa, so that said inlet opening communicates directly with the steam inlet chamber of the rotating connector via a portion of said hollow space and by means of one of said pipes, wherein the condensate discharge chamber of said rotary joint is in fluid communication with said hollow space in said first end of the container, so that the steam coming from said steam inlet chamber flows into said helical cavity from said first end towards said second end and, subsequently, flows into said hollow space from said second end toward said first end. - a container rotatable about a longitudinal axis, having a closed first end and a second end provided with a loading/unloading opening closed by a removable door, wherein the container has a hollow wall including an inner wall, an outer wall, and a hollow space, which extends from said first end to said second end, - a rotary joint located at said first end of the container and having a steam inlet chamber and a condensate discharge chamber, connected to respective portions of said hollow space through respective pipes (52, 54), - at least one hollow helical blade, which extends between said first end and said second end of the container and protrudes inwardly from said inner wall of the container, wherein said hollow helical blade has a helical cavity having an inlet in fluid communication with said steam inlet chamber at said first end of the container, an outlet in fluid communication with said hollow space at said second end of the container, and is closed between said inlet and said outlet, wherein a portion of said hollow space comprised between the outlet of one of said pipes and the inlet opening of the helical cavity is closed by septa, so that said inlet opening communicates directly with the steam inlet chamber of the rotating connector via a portion of said hollow space and by means of one of said pipes,
LED light projector, in particular for cinema illumination, comprising a luminous source, a Fresnel or planar-convex lens having an optical axis, a mirror including a three-dimensional surface starting from a plane that is perpendicular to said optical axis and whereon said source is placed, the projector being characterised in that said three-dimensional surface is obtained by starting from a starting parabola having a vertex, a focus, a curvature and an axis coinciding with said optical axis, and by: - rotating the axis of said starting parabola by an angle α < 45° with respect to focus, obtaining a rotated parabola; - defining a new optical axis passing through the vertex of the rotated parabola and parallel to the axis of the starting parabola; - taking a sector of an angle β ≤ 90° of the rotated parabola profile starting from an axis passing through said focus and perpendicular to said new optical axis, and proceeding towards the vertex of the rotated parabola; - rotating said sector by an angle γ around said new optical axis. - rotating the axis of said starting parabola by an angle α < 45° with respect to focus, obtaining a rotated parabola; - defining a new optical axis passing through the vertex of the rotated parabola and parallel to the axis of the starting parabola; - taking a sector of an angle β ≤ 90° of the rotated parabola profile starting from an axis passing through said focus and perpendicular to said new optical axis, and proceeding towards the vertex of the rotated parabola; - rotating said sector by an angle γ around said new optical axis.
Apparatus comprising: a microfabricated fluidic structure with a channel defined therein within which objects travel, the objects being capable of emanating photons as the objects travel within the channel; and along the channel, a first sensing component that obtains first information about objects traveling within a portion of the channel; the first sensing component including a respective set of cells of a photosensor array, the set of cells photosensing photons within a first range of photon energies that emanate from objects traveling within the respective portion of the channel, the set including a subset of two or more cells each of which photosenses photons in a respective subrange of the first range of photon energies, the subranges of at least two cells in the subset being different from each other; a second sensing component in series with the first sensing component along the channel, the second sensing component being configured to obtain second information that is different from the first information in order to characterize the objects traveling within the channel, the apparatus characterized by the second sensing component including a respective set of cells of a photosensor array included in a respective integrated circuit, the set of cells photosensing photons within a second range of photon energies that emanate from objects traveling within the respective portion of the channel; the first and second ranges of photon energies being different from each other, wherein the respective set of cells of the second sensing component includes a subset of two or more cells each of which photosenses photons in a respective subrange of the second range of photon energies, the subranges of at least two cells in the subset being different from each other; and the apparatus being configured to combine the obtained information for each object to provide spectral information for each object, and to provide control signals to a fluidic device (30,32) in the channel based on the spectral information. a microfabricated fluidic structure with a channel defined therein within which objects travel, the objects being capable of emanating photons as the objects travel within the channel; and along the channel, a first sensing component that obtains first information about objects traveling within a portion of the channel; the first sensing component including a respective set of cells of a photosensor array, the set of cells photosensing photons within a first range of photon energies that emanate from objects traveling within the respective portion of the channel, the set including a subset of two or more cells each of which photosenses photons in a respective subrange of the first range of photon energies, the subranges of at least two cells in the subset being different from each other; a second sensing component in series with the first sensing component along the channel, the second sensing component being configured to obtain second information that is different from the first information in order to characterize the objects traveling within the channel,
A method of preparing plant derived proteins, or protein suprastructure, comprising: a. obtaining a plant or plant matter comprising apoplast-localized proteins, or suprastructure proteins; wherein the plant matter consist of entire plants, plant leaves, stems, fruit, roots or a combination thereof; b. producing a protoplast/spheroplast fraction and an apoplast fraction by treating the plant or plant matter with a cell wall degrading multi-component enzyme mixture consisting of cellulase, or a cell wall degrading multi-component enzyme mixture comprising one or more than one cellulase and a pectinase, wherein the ratio of cellulase to pectinase is from 1:1 to 1:0.25; and, c. recovering the apoplast fraction, the apoplast fraction comprising the plant-derived proteins, or suprastructure proteins, wherein the protein suprastructures have a molecular weight from 75 to 1500 kDa. a. obtaining a plant or plant matter comprising apoplast-localized proteins, or suprastructure proteins; wherein the plant matter consist of entire plants, plant leaves, stems, fruit, roots or a combination thereof; b. producing a protoplast/spheroplast fraction and an apoplast fraction by treating the plant or plant matter with a cell wall degrading multi-component enzyme mixture consisting of cellulase, or a cell wall degrading multi-component enzyme mixture comprising one or more than one cellulase and a pectinase, wherein the ratio of cellulase to pectinase is from 1:1 to 1:0.25; and, c. recovering the apoplast fraction, the apoplast fraction comprising the plant-derived proteins, or suprastructure proteins, wherein the protein suprastructures have a molecular weight from 75 to 1500 kDa.
A tape checking apparatus comprising: a running path for guiding a run of an endless tape, said running path including a rotatable driving roller; a slide base arranged for moving toward and away from the driving roller; a roller train disposed in said slide base, said roller train forming a part of said running path and applying tensile force to the endless tape; and a length-measuring device and a thickness-measuring device (44, 45) interposed in said running path for measuring length and thickness of the endless tape, respectively, characterized in that said thickness-measuring device (44, 45) includes a pinch roller for pressing the endless tape against a circumferential surface of the driving roller, and is adapted to measure the thickness of the endless tape pinched and passing between the pinch roller and the driving roller. a running path for guiding a run of an endless tape, said running path including a rotatable driving roller; a slide base arranged for moving toward and away from the driving roller; a roller train disposed in said slide base, said roller train forming a part of said running path and applying tensile force to the endless tape; and a length-measuring device and a thickness-measuring device (44, 45) interposed in said running path for measuring length and thickness of the endless tape, respectively, characterized in that said thickness-measuring device (44, 45) includes a pinch roller for pressing the endless tape against a circumferential surface of the driving roller, and is adapted to measure the thickness of the endless tape pinched and passing between the pinch roller and the driving roller.
A circuit in an analog-to-digital converter, comprising: a coarse ADC (502; 600) receiving an input signal coupled with a digital to analog converter generating an output signal that is subtracted from the input signal (501 and fed to a residue amplifier, wherein the coarse ADC (502; 600) and the DAC have the same conversion bit width n, where n is an integer; an amplifier configured to receive an output of a backend ADC coupled with the residue amplifier; a harmonic distortion correction circuit coupled to the amplifier and configured to correct distortion components due to the residue amplifier present in a digital signal from the backend ADC, wherein an HDC output is coupled to a first input of an adder, a second input of the adder being coupled to an output of the coarse ADC (502; 600), wherein the HDC circuit is configured to receive one or more randomized voltage sequences for estimating amplifier errors; and a DAC noise cancellation circuit having an output coupled to a third input of the adder, wherein the DNC circuit is configured to correct distortion components due to the DAC present in the digital signal from the backend ADC; wherein the output of the adder is an ADC digital output and wherein the ADC digital output forms an input to the HDC and the DNC, wherein the coarse ADC (502; 600) is a flash ADC, comprises a dynamic element matching unit for providing threshold voltages and a sequence adder unit receiving said threshold voltages and said one or more randomized voltage sequences for varying the threshold voltages of the coarse ADC (502; 600). a coarse ADC (502; 600) receiving an input signal coupled with a digital to analog converter generating an output signal that is subtracted from the input signal (501 and fed to a residue amplifier, wherein the coarse ADC (502; 600) and the DAC have the same conversion bit width n, where n is an integer; an amplifier configured to receive an output of a backend ADC coupled with the residue amplifier; a harmonic distortion correction circuit coupled to the amplifier and configured to correct distortion components due to the residue amplifier present in a digital signal from the backend ADC, wherein an HDC output is coupled to a first input of an adder, a second input of the adder being coupled to an output of the coarse ADC (502; 600), wherein the HDC circuit is configured to receive one or more randomized voltage sequences for estimating amplifier errors; and a DAC noise cancellation circuit having an output coupled to a third input of the adder, wherein the DNC circuit is configured to correct distortion components due to the DAC present in the digital signal from the backend ADC; wherein the output of the adder is an ADC digital output and wherein the ADC digital output forms an input to the HDC and the DNC, wherein the coarse ADC (502; 600) is a flash ADC, comprises a dynamic element matching unit for providing threshold voltages and a sequence adder unit receiving said threshold voltages and said one or more randomized voltage sequences for varying the threshold voltages of the coarse ADC (502; 600).
A method for manufacturing an organic EL device, comprising: a vapor deposition step of forming an organic layer over a substrate moving relative to a nozzle by discharging a vaporized organic layer-forming material through the nozzle, wherein the vapor deposition step is performed so that a light emitting region formed of the organic layer and having a width A (mm) in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the substrate is moving is formed, and so that, while moving the substrate by unwinding the substrate having a strip shape wound up in roll form and winding up the unwound substrate, characterized in that W ≥ A + 2 × h, where W=5 to 100 mm, A=3 to 90 mm, h ≤ 5 mm, is satisfied, where a length of an opening of the nozzle in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the substrate is moving is denoted by W (mm), and a distance between the opening and the substrate is denoted by h (mm). a vapor deposition step of forming an organic layer over a substrate moving relative to a nozzle by discharging a vaporized organic layer-forming material through the nozzle, wherein the vapor deposition step is performed so that a light emitting region formed of the organic layer and having a width A (mm) in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the substrate is moving is formed, and so that, while moving the substrate by unwinding the substrate having a strip shape wound up in roll form and winding up the unwound substrate, characterized in that W ≥ A + 2 × h, where W=5 to 100 mm, A=3 to 90 mm, h ≤ 5 mm, is satisfied, where a length of an opening of the nozzle in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the substrate is moving is denoted by W (mm), and a distance between the opening and the substrate is denoted by h (mm).
A chest freezer comprising a foam insulated cabinet defining an inner cavity closable by a door, and in which said cavity communicates with the ambient by means of an air conduit embedded in the foam, wherein said air conduit is made of different pieces assembled together, wherein the air conduit comprises a first end fastened on a side wall of said cavity, said first end being in communication with the cavity, wherein such air conduit comprises a first portion arranged parallel to the side wall of the cavity and a second portion having a coil/serpentine shape placed between the bottom of the cavity and a zone of the chest freezer where a compressor is placed, said second portion being maintained at a proper distance from an inner liner defining such cavity by means of at least one spacer, the second portion being in a zone at a temperature so that humidity of the air flowing in the second portion of the air conduit can condense and be removed characterised in that said air conduit is of polymeric material and in that two spacers made of expanded polymeric material are provided with apertures in which ends of the flat second portion of the conduit are inserted.