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A state calculating apparatus for a chargeable and dischargeable battery, the state calculating apparatus comprising: a first measuring unit (10, 10C) that measures a current charged to and discharged from the battery; a second measuring unit (20, 20C) that measures a voltage of the battery during measurement of the current by the first measuring unit (10, 10C); a first processing unit that extracts a current component, the current component being a component in a prescribed frequency band, of the current measured by the first measuring unit (10, 10C); a second processing unit that extracts a voltage component, the voltage component being a component in the prescribed frequency band, of the voltage measured by the second measuring unit (20, 20C); and a calculating unit (50D, 50E, 50F, 50G) that calculates an impedance of the battery using the current component extracted by the first processing unit and the voltage component extracted by the second processing unit, characterized in that the first processing unit and the second processing unit change the prescribed frequency band, search a frequency band in which a phase difference between the current and the voltage of the battery has a local minimum, and set the searched frequency band as the prescribed frequency band. a first measuring unit (10, 10C) that measures a current charged to and discharged from the battery; a second measuring unit (20, 20C) that measures a voltage of the battery during measurement of the current by the first measuring unit (10, 10C); a first processing unit that extracts a current component, the current component being a component in a prescribed frequency band, of the current measured by the first measuring unit (10, 10C); a second processing unit that extracts a voltage component, the voltage component being a component in the prescribed frequency band, of the voltage measured by the second measuring unit (20, 20C); and a calculating unit (50D, 50E, 50F, 50G) that calculates an impedance of the battery using the current component extracted by the first processing unit and the voltage component extracted by the second processing unit, characterized in that the first processing unit and the second processing unit change the prescribed frequency band, search a frequency band in which a phase difference between the current and the voltage of the battery has a local minimum, and set the searched frequency band as the prescribed frequency band.
A thin-wall bonded self-lubricating plate, consisting of a surface self-lubricating layer, an intermediate bonding layer, and a metal backing, wherein the surface self-lubricating layer consists of polytetrafluoroethylene, ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and glass fiber powder, wherein a weight ratio of the polytetrafluoroethylene to the ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and the glass fiber powder in the surface self-lubricating layer is 65: 15: 20.
Method of space-saving storage of two champagne bottles, comprising the following successive steps: - laying two contiguous champagne bottles head to foot on a flat base, - making the bodies of the bottles parallel, - enclosing the bottles between two walls parallel to the bodies and perpendicular to the flat base, and - tightening said walls parallel to themselves, moving the bottles so that the axes of the bottles, which are parallel to each other and arranged in a plane parallel to the flat base, are inclined relative to said walls and come closer together in said plane in order to reduce the space occupied by the bottles when stored in this manner. - laying two contiguous champagne bottles head to foot on a flat base, - making the bodies of the bottles parallel, - enclosing the bottles between two walls parallel to the bodies and perpendicular to the flat base, and - tightening said walls parallel to themselves, moving the bottles so that the axes of the bottles, which are parallel to each other and arranged in a plane parallel to the flat base, are inclined relative to said walls and come closer together in said plane in order to reduce the space occupied by the bottles when stored in this manner.
A recombinant microorganism engineered for the production of 2,3-butanediol wherein said microorganism overexpresses the following enzymes involved in the conversion of pyruvate into 2,3-butanediol: a) a polypeptide catalysing the conversion of pyruvate into acetyl-CoA by overexpression of pflA and/or pflB genes encoding pyruvate formate lyase, b) a polypeptide catalysing the conversion of said acetyl-CoA into acetaldehyde by overexpression of mhpF gene encoding acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, c) a polypeptide catalysing the condensation of said acetaldehyde into acetoin by overexpression one gene chosen among PDC1, PDC5 and PDC6 encoding pyruvate decarboxylase, and d) a butanediol dehydrogenase catalysing the conversion of said acetoin into 2,3-butanediol. a) a polypeptide catalysing the conversion of pyruvate into acetyl-CoA by overexpression of pflA and/or pflB genes encoding pyruvate formate lyase, b) a polypeptide catalysing the conversion of said acetyl-CoA into acetaldehyde by overexpression of mhpF gene encoding acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, c) a polypeptide catalysing the condensation of said acetaldehyde into acetoin by overexpression one gene chosen among PDC1, PDC5 and PDC6 encoding pyruvate decarboxylase, and d) a butanediol dehydrogenase catalysing the conversion of said acetoin into 2,3-butanediol.
A spinal implant (14; 214), comprising: a distal portion (58; 258) configured for penetrating tissue; and a proximal portion (60; 260), including a socket defining recesses each including a drive surface (68; 268), a guide surface (70; 270) and a retention surface (72; 272), the surfaces being disposed from the proximal portion (60; 260) to the distal portion (58; 258) in a serial configuration of drive surface (68; 268), guide surface (70; 270) and retention surface (72; 272), wherein the drive surface (68; 268) is configured to engage with a drive surface (34; 234) of a surgical instrument (12; 212) thereby defining a drive interface (38; 138; 238), the guide surface (70; 270) defines a cavity (90; 290) disposed between the drive surface (68; 268) and the retention surface (72; 272), the cavity (90; 290) including a cone shaped cross section configured to align and direct the surgical instrument (12; 212) into engagement with the retention surface (72; 272), and the retention surface (72; 272) is engageable with a surface (44; 244) of an extension of the surgical instrument (12; 212) to define a retention interface (46; 246) by defining a cavity (80; 280) tapering from proximal portion (60; 260) towards distal portion (58; 258) and configured for disposal of the extension of the surgical instrument (12; 212). a distal portion (58; 258) configured for penetrating tissue; and a proximal portion (60; 260), including a socket defining recesses each including a drive surface (68; 268), a guide surface (70; 270) and a retention surface (72; 272), the surfaces being disposed from the proximal portion (60; 260) to the distal portion (58; 258) in a serial configuration of drive surface (68; 268), guide surface (70; 270) and retention surface (72; 272), wherein a socket defining recesses each including a drive surface (68; 268), a guide surface (70; 270) and a retention surface (72; 272), the surfaces being disposed from the proximal portion (60; 260) to the distal portion (58; 258) in a serial configuration of drive surface (68; 268), guide surface (70; 270) and retention surface (72; 272), wherein the drive surface (68; 268) is configured to engage with a drive surface (34; 234) of a surgical instrument (12; 212) thereby defining a drive interface (38; 138; 238), the guide surface (70; 270) defines a cavity (90; 290) disposed between the drive surface (68; 268) and the retention surface (72; 272), the cavity (90; 290) including a cone shaped cross section configured to align and direct the surgical instrument (12; 212) into engagement with the retention surface (72; 272), and the retention surface (72; 272) is engageable with a surface (44; 244) of an extension of the surgical instrument (12; 212) to define a retention interface (46; 246) by defining a cavity (80; 280) tapering from proximal portion (60; 260) towards distal portion (58; 258) and configured for disposal of the extension of the surgical instrument (12; 212).
A switched converter for driving LEDs or for supplying a further LED converter stage comprising - a switch, - a control unit for controlling the switch, - a sensing path with a shunt resistor unit for sensing a voltage drop at the shunt resistor unit representing the current through the switch in the closed state of the switch, and - a feedback path for feeding back a voltage signal to the control unit that represents the voltage drop at the shunt resistor unit of the sensing path, wherein the control unit is configured to use the voltage signal, which is fed back on the feedback path, to control the clocking of the switch, characterized in that the switched converter further comprises for at least one phase of a mains voltage different mains connection terminals for connecting with said phase to supply mains power to the switched converter and either a voltage scaling unit in the feedback path for scaling the voltage signal, which is fed back on the feedback path, by at least two different scaling factors depending on to which mains connection terminal the phase is connected, or a voltage scaling unit in the sensing path for scaling the voltage drop at the shunt resistor unit by at least two different scaling factors depending on to which mains connection terminal the phase is connected. - a switch, - a control unit for controlling the switch, - a sensing path with a shunt resistor unit for sensing a voltage drop at the shunt resistor unit representing the current through the switch in the closed state of the switch, and - a feedback path for feeding back a voltage signal to the control unit that represents the voltage drop at the shunt resistor unit of the sensing path,
A digital waste gate valve arrangement in an internal combustion piston engine having at least one turbocharger with a compressor part and a turbine part, and which digital waste gate arrangement comprises a flow control unit having more than two individually controllable on-off valve units, and which arrangement comprises pneumatic actuator system arranged to control each on-off valve unit individually, characterized in that the arrangement comprises at least one control gas inlet port in connection with the pneumatic actuator system, which control gas inlet port is arranged in connection with a downstream side of a compressor part of the turbocharger via a control gas passage (22,22') and that the control gas for operating the flow control unit is arranged available for the pneumatic actuator system through said control gas passage (22,22'), and that the pneumatic actuator system comprises piston actuators (102.1-102.N) arranged to control each on-off valve unit individually, and a control system (104.1-104.N) arranged for each piston actuator (102.1-102.N), and that each control system (104.1-104.N) is provided with at least two control ports (120,122) and an inlet port for each piston actuator (102.N), and the control system (104.N) is arranged for setting selectable flow connections between the at least one inlet port and the control ports (120,122), which control ports (120.122) are connected with opposite sides of the piston of the piston actuator (102.1-102.N).
A compressor comprising: a casing having a discharge portion at one side, through which a refrigerant is discharged; a driving motor coupled to the case; a rotary shaft rotatably coupled to the driving motor; a main frame coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the case and provided to be passed by the rotary shaft; a fixed scroll including a fixed end plate portion coupled to the casing, a fixed wrap protruded from the fixed end plate portion, and a discharge hole passing through the fixed end plate portion to allow the refrigerant to be discharged; and an orbiting scroll including an orbiting end plate portion received in the main frame and an orbiting wrap protruded to be engaged with the fixed wrap in the orbiting end plate portion, characterized in that the fixed end plate portion of the fixed scroll is provided to be passed by the rotary shaft, and wherein the discharge hole is spaced apart from the rotary shaft; the orbiting scroll is coupled to the rotary shaft to allow the rotary shaft to pass therethrough; the orbiting wrap includes a center portion configured to open or close at least a portion of the discharge hole when the orbiting end plate portion performs an orbiting movement by means of the rotary shaft, and an auxiliary discharge path formed in the center portion of the orbiting wrap to guide the refrigerant to the discharge hole. a casing having a discharge portion at one side, through which a refrigerant is discharged; a driving motor coupled to the case; a rotary shaft rotatably coupled to the driving motor; a main frame coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the case and provided to be passed by the rotary shaft; a fixed scroll including a fixed end plate portion coupled to the casing, a fixed wrap protruded from the fixed end plate portion, and a discharge hole passing through the fixed end plate portion to allow the refrigerant to be discharged; and an orbiting scroll including an orbiting end plate portion received in the main frame and an orbiting wrap protruded to be engaged with the fixed wrap in the orbiting end plate portion, characterized in that the fixed end plate portion of the fixed scroll is provided to be passed by the rotary shaft, and wherein the discharge hole is spaced apart from the rotary shaft; the orbiting scroll is coupled to the rotary shaft to allow the rotary shaft to pass therethrough; the orbiting wrap includes a center portion configured to open or close at least a portion of the discharge hole when the orbiting end plate portion performs an orbiting movement by means of the rotary shaft, and an auxiliary discharge path formed in the center portion of the orbiting wrap to guide the refrigerant to the discharge hole.
A microwave oven comprising a mode stirrer apparatus for stirring microwave radiation from at least one microwave radiation source, the mode stirrer apparatus comprising: a stirring member having a body that substantially reflects microwave radiation, the stirring member having a perimeter and central axis around which the stirring member can rotate; and a plurality of microwave-transmissive regions formed in the body and within the perimeter, wherein the microwave-transmissive regions are configured to substantially transmit the microwave radiation, characterized in that, when the microwave radiation has a wavelength λ, the microwave-transmissive regions each have a maximum dimension d in the range 0.025λ ≤ d ≤ 0.5λ, wherein a number of the plurality of microwave-transmissive regions is between 10 and 1000. a stirring member having a body that substantially reflects microwave radiation, the stirring member having a perimeter and central axis around which the stirring member can rotate; and a plurality of microwave-transmissive regions formed in the body and within the perimeter, wherein the microwave-transmissive regions are configured to substantially transmit the microwave radiation, characterized in that, when the microwave radiation has a wavelength λ, the microwave-transmissive regions each have a maximum dimension d in the range 0.025λ ≤ d ≤ 0.5λ, wherein a number of the plurality of microwave-transmissive regions is between 10 and 1000.
An electric household appliance comprising a casing; a revolving laundry drum, which houses laundry for drying, and is mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis inside said casing; hot-air generating means for circulating a stream of hot air inside the laundry drum; electric drive means for rotating said laundry drum about said longitudinal axis; electric heating means for dissipating in the form of heat a given electric power to heat the air supply to the laundry drum to a given temperature (t); electronic control means, which control said electric drive means to rotate said laundry drum in a first rotation direction or a second rotation direction opposite said first rotation direction, and control said electric heating means to regulate the electric power dissipated in heat by the electric heating means, so that the temperature (t) of the air heated by said electric heating means assumes a first value when said laundry drum rotates in said first rotation direction, or a second value (t 2), lower than the first value, when the laundry drum rotates in said second rotation direction, characterized in that the electronic control means control said electric drive means to rotate said laundry drum in said first rotation direction at a predetermined first rotation speed, or in said second rotation direction, opposite said first rotation direction, at a predetermined second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed.
Sterilising apparatus comprising: - an autoclave for sterilisation or disinfection, in particular for medical-dental use comprising a sterilisation chamber, an inner tank for water, inside said autoclave for sterilisation and heating means of water, - an outer tank external to said autoclave for sterilisation, said outer tank comprises a purification filter suitable to purify water contained therein by mere passage of said water through filtering layers, - wherein said outer tank is divided into a high potential portion (1 a) and a low potential portion (1 b), said portions being in mutual fluidic through connection through said filter, - wherein said purification filter comprises a plurality of filter layers comprising distribution layers suitable to slow down and better distribute the water along the entire area of said filtering layers and active layers suitable to perform a purifying function of said water, - said sterilising apparatus comprises connection means between said outer tank and said autoclave for sterilisation, - wherein said autoclave for sterilisation comprises expulsion means of the exhausted water from said autoclave for sterilisation, and means of connecting said outer tank to said expulsion means for the purification of the exhausted water in said outer tank and recycling. - an autoclave for sterilisation or disinfection, in particular for medical-dental use comprising a sterilisation chamber, an inner tank for water, inside said autoclave for sterilisation and heating means of water, - an outer tank external to said autoclave for sterilisation, said outer tank comprises a purification filter suitable to purify water contained therein by mere passage of said water through filtering layers, - wherein said outer tank is divided into a high potential portion (1 a) and a low potential portion (1 b), said portions being in mutual fluidic through connection through said filter, - wherein said purification filter comprises a plurality of filter layers comprising distribution layers suitable to slow down and better distribute the water along the entire area of said filtering layers and active layers suitable to perform a purifying function of said water, - said sterilising apparatus comprises connection means between said outer tank and said autoclave for sterilisation, - wherein said autoclave for sterilisation comprises expulsion means of the exhausted water from said autoclave for sterilisation, and means of connecting said outer tank to said expulsion means for the purification of the exhausted water in said outer tank and recycling.
A tensioning device for a cable anchor which includes an outer member having a first end, a second end and a threaded passage which extends through the member between the first end and the second end, and an inner member which is sized to fit within, and which threadedly engages with, the threaded passage of the outer member, and which is adapted to fixedly attach to the anchor; characterised in that the inner member is adapted, at a proximal end, to engage with a stationary shaft of a torqueing apparatus to prevent the inner member from rotating.
A method for wireless communication by a user equipment, UE, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station via at least one of semi-static Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling or Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, dynamic signaling, information regarding a tone mapping pattern for an uplink control channel, wherein said information includes information on at least one of pilot density, or pilot location in the frequency domain; determining, based on the tone mapping pattern, resources assigned for transmitting the uplink control channel, wherein the tone mapping pattern comprises a plurality of tones in the frequency domain and no more than one symbol or no more than a portion of a symbol in the time domain; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink control channel using the assigned resources of the tone mapping pattern. receiving, from a base station via at least one of semi-static Radio Resource Control, RRC, signaling or Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, dynamic signaling, information regarding a tone mapping pattern for an uplink control channel, wherein said information includes information on at least one of pilot density, or pilot location in the frequency domain; determining, based on the tone mapping pattern, resources assigned for transmitting the uplink control channel, wherein the tone mapping pattern comprises a plurality of tones in the frequency domain and no more than one symbol or no more than a portion of a symbol in the time domain; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink control channel using the assigned resources of the tone mapping pattern.
Use of a composition comprising the following components and as a hair conditioning agent: a compound represented by a general formula R 1 O- n / m -R 2 where R 1 O- n / m -R 2 describes a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ether wherein the PO and EO units are block-polymerized or random-polymerized, R 1 represents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, an average addition mole number "n" represents a number of 1.5 to 3.0, an average addition mole number "m" represents a number of 0 to 1.0, and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and: a surfactant other than the component, wherein a content of R 1 OH, where R 1 represents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, is 80 ppm or less based on the composition. a compound represented by a general formula R 1 O- n / m -R 2 where R 1 O- n / m -R 2 describes a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ether wherein the PO and EO units are block-polymerized or random-polymerized, R 1 represents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, an average addition mole number "n" represents a number of 1.5 to 3.0, an average addition mole number "m" represents a number of 0 to 1.0, and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and where R 1 O- n / m -R 2 describes a polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene alkyl ether wherein the PO and EO units are block-polymerized or random-polymerized, R 1 represents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, an average addition mole number "n" represents a number of 1.5 to 3.0, an average addition mole number "m" represents a number of 0 to 1.0, and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and: a surfactant other than the component, wherein a content of R 1 OH, where R 1 represents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, is 80 ppm or less based on the composition.