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A method for producing a preform of an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber, which has a hollow core that extends along a longitudinal axis of the fiber and a sheath region that surrounds the hollow core and comprises at least one anti-resonance element, at least comprising the method steps of: (a) providing a cladding tube having a cladding tube inner surface and a cladding tube outer surface, at least one anti-resonance element blank being arranged on the cladding tube inner surface, (b) providing an overlay tube having an overlay tube inner surface, the overlay tube having an inner diameter which is larger than an outer diameter of the cladding tube, (c) arranging the cladding tube inside the overlay tube such that the overlay tube inner surface surrounds the cladding tube outer surface, (d) collapsing the overlay tube onto the cladding tube such that the overlay tube inner surface connects to the cladding tube outer surface, characterized in that during the collapse in method step (d), a first negative pressure P1 is applied between the overlay tube inner surface and the cladding tube outer surface and a second negative pressure P2 is applied inside the cladding tube. (a) providing a cladding tube having a cladding tube inner surface and a cladding tube outer surface, at least one anti-resonance element blank being arranged on the cladding tube inner surface, (b) providing an overlay tube having an overlay tube inner surface, the overlay tube having an inner diameter which is larger than an outer diameter of the cladding tube, (c) arranging the cladding tube inside the overlay tube such that the overlay tube inner surface surrounds the cladding tube outer surface, (d) collapsing the overlay tube onto the cladding tube such that the overlay tube inner surface connects to the cladding tube outer surface,
A system for providing location-specific images to a mobile device for display, the mobile device comprising a processor, memory, and screen; the system comprising: a position identification system that determines the position of the mobile device; and a location-specific images database including images taken at locations, each image being associated with geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was taken; wherein the position of the mobile device is identified by the mobile device position identification system, and a location-specific image is selected from the images database based on the determined position of the mobile device and displayed on the screen of the mobile device and further characterised in that: the system comprises a shopping system that performs the steps comprising: receiving at the mobile device a shopping list, the shopping list comprising one or more items that a user of the mobile device wishes to purchase; for each of the items in the list, identifying one or more businesses that carry the item that is open for business at a time of identification and is within a specified distance of the current position of the mobile device; for each of the one or more identified businesses, determining its geographic coordinates and identifying its location-specific image; and generating a shopping list program comprising instructions for displaying on the screen of the mobile device an image of the one or more identified businesses based on the determined position of the mobile device, the at least one image including a ground-level view of an exterior of a building in which the at least one identified business resides. a position identification system that determines the position of the mobile device; and a location-specific images database including images taken at locations, each image being associated with geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was taken; receiving at the mobile device a shopping list, the shopping list comprising one or more items that a user of the mobile device wishes to purchase; for each of the items in the list, identifying one or more businesses that carry the item that is open for business at a time of identification and is within a specified distance of the current position of the mobile device; for each of the one or more identified businesses, determining its geographic coordinates and identifying its location-specific image; and generating a shopping list program comprising instructions for displaying on the screen of the mobile device an image of the one or more identified businesses based on the determined position of the mobile device, the at least one image including a ground-level view of an exterior of a building in which the at least one identified business resides.
A computer-implemented method for solution inference using neural networks in light detection and range, LiDAR, localization, the method comprising: constructing a cost volume (409 or 916) in a solution space for a predicted pose of an autonomous driving vehicle, ADV, wherein the cost volume (409 or 916) includes a plurality of sub volumes (813, 815,..., 817), each sub volume representing a matching cost between a keypoint from an online point cloud and a corresponding keypoint on a pre-built point cloud map; regularizing the cost volume (409 or 916) using a plurality of convention neural networks, CNNs, to refine the matching costs; and inferring, from the regularized cost volume (814 or 918), an optimal offset of the predicted pose, the optimal offset used to determining a location of the ADV. constructing a cost volume (409 or 916) in a solution space for a predicted pose of an autonomous driving vehicle, ADV, wherein the cost volume (409 or 916) includes a plurality of sub volumes (813, 815,..., 817), each sub volume representing a matching cost between a keypoint from an online point cloud and a corresponding keypoint on a pre-built point cloud map; regularizing the cost volume (409 or 916) using a plurality of convention neural networks, CNNs, to refine the matching costs; and inferring, from the regularized cost volume (814 or 918), an optimal offset of the predicted pose, the optimal offset used to determining a location of the ADV.
Dispenser for dispensing a two-ply adhesive tape, wherein - a first storage unit from which a first double-sided adhesive tape that on one side is covered with a liner is capable of being drawn off is provided on the dispenser; and - a second storage unit from which a second adhesive tape is capable of being drawn off is provided on the dispenser; and - a connection installation by means of which the first adhesive tape and the second adhesive tape are capable of being interconnected to form a two-ply adhesive tape is provided; and - an application installation by means of which the two-ply adhesive tape as a composite is capable of being applied to a substrate is provided; and characterized in that - a drawing-off installation by means of which a liner (16, 17) is capable of being drawn off from the two-ply adhesive tape prior to the two-ply adhesive tape being applied to the substrate is provided; - wherein the second adhesive tape on one side is covered with a liner; - wherein the first adhesive tape and the second adhesive tape by way of free sides are capable of being connected in the connection installation. - a first storage unit from which a first double-sided adhesive tape that on one side is covered with a liner is capable of being drawn off is provided on the dispenser; and - a second storage unit from which a second adhesive tape is capable of being drawn off is provided on the dispenser; and - a connection installation by means of which the first adhesive tape and the second adhesive tape are capable of being interconnected to form a two-ply adhesive tape is provided; and - an application installation by means of which the two-ply adhesive tape as a composite is capable of being applied to a substrate is provided; and characterized in that - a drawing-off installation by means of which a liner (16, 17) is capable of being drawn off from the two-ply adhesive tape prior to the two-ply adhesive tape being applied to the substrate is provided; - wherein the second adhesive tape on one side is covered with a liner; - wherein the first adhesive tape and the second adhesive tape by way of free sides are capable of being connected in the connection installation.
The composite lighting column with a louver fitting, whose main structural element is the body in the shape of a pipe and which is mainly made of a composite of polyester and glass resin, usually chemically bonded as well as glass fibers, characterized in that the composite contains a luminophore, which constitutes from 2% up to 8% of the column structure mass and its body is covered with an external coating made of gelcoat and is in a colorless or colored version, or with a fully or partially printed coating, however, to the gelcoat mixture made of composites, a luminophore is added, which constitutes from 2% to 8% of column structure mass, whereas, in the most advantageous version, the composite mass contains at least 3% of a filler with flare effects, while in an advantageous version, powders with filler grain size of 10 - 40 micrometers are used as luminescent materials.
Apparatus for separating and forced conveying of disc-shaped articles, in particular coins, comprising a separating apparatus having a guide element which has a guide surface located in a slanting plane, delimits a collecting container by way of its lower region and has a removal surface adjoining the guide surface in its upper region, a carry-along disc which can be driven in a direction of rotation about a drive axis running at right angles to the plane, is arranged parallel to the guide surface and has a ring of receiving holes, which are designed in the form of through-passages through the carry-along disc, wherein, as seen in a removal direction, the removal surface becomes increasingly spaced apart from the carry-along disc, a rail which has a transfer portion and a processing portion and which upper side forms a rolling surface for the articles, wherein, in the region of the transfer portion, that periphery of the rolling surface which is directed away from the removal surface is located at least more or less in the plane defined by the guide surface and, in the region of the removal surface, the width of the rolling surface increases continuously in the removal direction, and a conveying apparatus having a traction mechanism which is provided with pushers, of which the movement path runs through the transfer portion, wherein the carry-along disc is intended to receive articles into receiving holes as it rotates in the collecting container and to convey the received articles along the guide surface separately to the removal surface, where the articles roll onto the rolling surface in the removal direction, the pushers come into abutment with the articles in the transfer portion and push said articles in the removal direction into the processing portion for further processing, characterized in that the transfer portion has a depression, of which the upwardly sloping part of the rolling surface leads to the processing portion and slows down the articles rolling on it.
A method of performing an electromagnetic measurement of an earth formation, the method comprising: disposing a downhole tool in a borehole in an earth formation, the downhole tool including an electrically conductive component, at least one electromagnetic transmitter located at a location along the tool, a first receiver located a first distance from the location, and a second receiver located at a second distance from the location; exciting the electromagnetic transmitter using a step function; measuring transient signals at each of the first and second receivers (34, 36); characterized in that, the method further comprises: calculating a time derivative of each of the measured transient signals; and combining the time derivatives of the transient signals to generate a combined transient signal, and estimating a resistivity of the formation based on the combined transient signal, wherein estimating is performed as a part of a downhole operation. disposing a downhole tool in a borehole in an earth formation, the downhole tool including an electrically conductive component, at least one electromagnetic transmitter located at a location along the tool, a first receiver located a first distance from the location, and a second receiver located at a second distance from the location; exciting the electromagnetic transmitter using a step function; measuring transient signals at each of the first and second receivers (34, 36); characterized in that, the method further comprises: calculating a time derivative of each of the measured transient signals; and combining the time derivatives of the transient signals to generate a combined transient signal, and estimating a resistivity of the formation based on the combined transient signal, wherein estimating is performed as a part of a downhole operation. calculating a time derivative of each of the measured transient signals; and combining the time derivatives of the transient signals to generate a combined transient signal, and estimating a resistivity of the formation based on the combined transient signal, wherein estimating is performed as a part of a downhole operation.
A nerve contact device comprising a material comprising a hydrophilic ionically conducting polymer positioned between and in direct contact with two electronically conducting polymers (ECPs).
A device for pressurizing fuel tanks of a rocket engine, the device comprising a first heat exchanger (74, 90) suitable for vaporizing a first propellant coming from a first tank prior to being reintroduced into the first tank, and a second heat exchanger suitable for vaporizing a second propellant coming from a second tank prior to being reintroduced into the second tank, the device being characterized in that the first and second heat exchangers (74, 90) co-operate respectively with first and second gas generators (60, 84) suitable for being fed with a mixture of propellants in order to produce combustion, and in that the second gas generator is suitable for being fed at least in part by the exhaust from the first gas generator.
Tyre-changing machine comprising: a basic structure that can rest on the ground, a retaining and rotation unit mounted on an upper part of the structure and adapted to retain and set the rim of a wheel in rotation around an axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z), a holding column associated with the retaining and rotation unit and intended to support a tool for mounting/disassembling a tyre onto/from the rim of the wheel, said tool comprising a hooked end which can rotate passively around an axis of rotation (X-X) orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z), characterized in that the axis of rotation of the tool (X-X) is incident to the axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z) and/or in that the tool comprises a flattened end overhanging in the diametrically opposite direction to the direction of extension of the hooked end. a basic structure that can rest on the ground, a retaining and rotation unit mounted on an upper part of the structure and adapted to retain and set the rim of a wheel in rotation around an axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z), a holding column associated with the retaining and rotation unit and intended to support a tool for mounting/disassembling a tyre onto/from the rim of the wheel, said tool comprising a hooked end which can rotate passively around an axis of rotation (X-X) orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z), characterized in that the axis of rotation of the tool (X-X) is incident to the axis of rotation of the wheel (Z-Z) and/or in that the tool comprises a flattened end overhanging in the diametrically opposite direction to the direction of extension of the hooked end.
An injection unit for diecasting machines comprising - a collection chamber for melted aluminium or the alloys thereof, copper or the alloys thereof, - a first piston and a second piston which are received inside the collection chamber and which can be moved along a longitudinal axis of the collection chamber, - the first and second pistons (10, 20) being arranged in such a manner that the respective travel paths are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the collection chamber so as to be able to move from an extended configuration, in which the distance between the first and second pistons (10, 20) is at a maximum and the melted material is drawn by reduced pressure inside the collection chamber, to a drawn-together configuration, in which the distance between the first and second pistons (10, 20) is at a minimum and the melted material is discharged from the collection chamber and compressed inside a mould which is connected fluid-dynamically to the collection chamber, characterized in that - a first and a second pressure reduction system (41, 42) which are connected substantially upstream and downstream of the collection chamber and the first and second pressure reduction systems (41, 42) being fluid-dynamically connected to the collection chamber by means of a second and third valve (41b, 42b), - the second and third valves (41b, 42b) being adapted to selectively controlling the pressure reduction level of the collection chamber which is between 40 mbar and 70 mbar inside the collection chamber. - a collection chamber for melted aluminium or the alloys thereof, copper or the alloys thereof, - a first piston and a second piston which are received inside the collection chamber and which can be moved along a longitudinal axis of the collection chamber, - the first and second pistons (10, 20) being arranged in such a manner that the respective travel paths are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the collection chamber so as to be able to move from an extended configuration, in which the distance between the first and second pistons (10, 20) is at a maximum and the melted material is drawn by reduced pressure inside the collection chamber, to a drawn-together configuration, in which the distance between the first and second pistons (10, 20) is at a minimum and the melted material is discharged from the collection chamber and compressed inside a mould which is connected fluid-dynamically to the collection chamber, characterized in that - a first and a second pressure reduction system (41, 42) which are connected substantially upstream and downstream of the collection chamber and the first and second pressure reduction systems (41, 42) being fluid-dynamically connected to the collection chamber by means of a second and third valve (41b, 42b), - the second and third valves (41b, 42b) being adapted to selectively controlling the pressure reduction level of the collection chamber which is between 40 mbar and 70 mbar inside the collection chamber.
A method for obtaining phytosterols and/or tocopherols from residues of a distillation of esters of vegetable oils, preferably from distillation residues from a transesterification of vegetable oils, in particular from the vegetable oil-based fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) production for the biodiesel field of application, characterized by a two-stage alkaline transesterification with an intermediate separation of the glycerin phase, wherein - in a first step of alkaline transesterification, a transformation of partial glycerides contained in the distillation residues is performed; - from the reaction mixture immediately resulting from the first step of alkaline transesterification, the glycerin phase is separated; and - in a second step of alkaline transesterification, a transformation of sterol esters contained in the reaction mixture is performed. - in a first step of alkaline transesterification, a transformation of partial glycerides contained in the distillation residues is performed; - from the reaction mixture immediately resulting from the first step of alkaline transesterification, the glycerin phase is separated; and - in a second step of alkaline transesterification, a transformation of sterol esters contained in the reaction mixture is performed.
Method for manufacturing a titanium-based alloy, not containing nickel, with superelastic properties for biomedical application, of the type including the successive phases of: - preparation by vacuum melting of the various constituent metals of the alloy sought, to produce an ingot; - first quenching; - mechanical forming at ambient temperature, such as by rolling, wire drawing, machining, or equivalent; - solution heat treatment in the beta phase beyond the beta transus consisting of a temperature rise to a sought second temperature, holding at this temperature for a certain time; - second quenching; characterised in that said heat treatment phase is carried out in a gaseous atmosphere, and also represents a so-called nitriding phase, carrying out a surface treatment by reaction with said gas, so as to form homogeneously on the surface, a layer of nitride, carbonitride, oxynitride, and in that the alloy is in the beta phase metastable at the ambient temperature after quenching. - preparation by vacuum melting of the various constituent metals of the alloy sought, to produce an ingot; - first quenching; - mechanical forming at ambient temperature, such as by rolling, wire drawing, machining, or equivalent; - solution heat treatment in the beta phase beyond the beta transus consisting of a temperature rise to a sought second temperature, holding at this temperature for a certain time; - second quenching;
A clamping-roller freewheel for an adjustment device in a motor vehicle, in particular in a motor vehicle seat, the clamping-roller freewheel comprising: - a housing or a bearing ring which have a cylindrical lateral surface that defines an axis, - at least one roller, - an output shaft that is central to the axis, - a clamping contour which is located on the side of the roller opposite from the cylindrical lateral surface and is rotationally connected to the output shaft via the housing or the bearing ring, wherein the clamping contour is a double clamping contour, wherein the at least one roller is allocated to the double clamping contour and the double clamping contour has a left and a right clamping area, wherein a clamping action arises due to the cooperation of the at least one roller with the left or right clamping area, depending on the direction of rotation, and the cylindrical lateral surface, characterized in that the clamping-roller freewheel comprises at least one pair of rollers with two rollers, wherein one roller, respectively, of the pair of rollers is directly clamped in one direction of rotation, the other roller, given the same direction of rotation, is just about not clamped, which is either caused by the direct contact of both rollers with each other or is caused by a spacer element located between the rollers of the roller pair. - a housing or a bearing ring which have a cylindrical lateral surface that defines an axis, - at least one roller, - an output shaft that is central to the axis, - a clamping contour which is located on the side of the roller opposite from the cylindrical lateral surface and is rotationally connected to the output shaft via the housing or the bearing ring, wherein the clamping contour is a double clamping contour, wherein the at least one roller is allocated to the double clamping contour and the double clamping contour has a left and a right clamping area, wherein a clamping action arises due to the cooperation of the at least one roller with the left or right clamping area, depending on the direction of rotation, and the cylindrical lateral surface,