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A windscreen wiper device of the "flat blade type" comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes at least one longitudinal groove, in which groove a longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, which windscreen wiper device comprises a connecting device for a oscillating arm comprising two longitudinal arm sections (11,12) connected to each other by means of a curved intermediate section, wherein said oscillating arm can be pivotally connected to said connecting device about a pivot axis, wherein said connecting device comprises a resilient tongue engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in said oscillating arm, characterized in that said resilient tongue comprises at least two, spaced-apart, downwardly extending protrusions (15,16), wherein a first protrusion of said protrusions is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a first type, and wherein a second protrusion of said protrusions (15,16) is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a second type, said oscillating arms of said first and said second types mutually differing in the distance between their respective longitudinal arm sections (11,12), wherein said resilient tongue comprises a step-like profile, comprising a first stop surface and a second stop surface for blocking a relative movement between said oscillating arms of said first and said second types, respectively, and said connecting device in a longitudinal direction of said oscillating arms pointing away from the intermediate curved section, and wherein said protrusions (15,16) extend downwardly from steps of said profile mutually differing in height.
A head-mounted display to be worn by a user, comprising: a housing; a component chamber defined in the housing; electronic components that generate heat, wherein the electronic components are located in the component chamber of the housing; a first fan for causing air to flow through the component chamber; and a flow control component that is operable to change an amount of the air that flows through the component chamber by movement between a closed position and an open position, wherein the flow control component is a controllable electromechanical device. a housing; a component chamber defined in the housing; electronic components that generate heat, wherein the electronic components are located in the component chamber of the housing; a first fan for causing air to flow through the component chamber; and a flow control component that is operable to change an amount of the air that flows through the component chamber by movement between a closed position and an open position, wherein the flow control component is a controllable electromechanical device.
Door reinforcement structure comprising a jacket sheet, shaped by being folded over upon itself to form a rear plate that covers the door opposite to a front panel of the door and extends to either side in order to envelop the door sides along the two uprights, thus describing a lateral profile forming a side surface along the edge of the door, followed at the front of the door by a backwards lip designed to cover the front panel over a short width, as well as a trough sheet which forms a transverse plate occupying an intermediate position in the thickness of the door, at the bottom of a cavity designed to lodge a filler panel inside the door behind the front panel, and which extends by folding into a lateral Z-section forming a transverse flat, extending outwards from the transverse plate, so that the trough sheet lies flat against the inside face of a cooperating flat part of said lateral section of the jacket sheet to which it is attached by flat welding, and in which said jacket sheet forms behind the trough sheet a receiving space for a second filler panel which extends transversely into a rear part of the jacket sheet where its side surface forms a U-shaped section extending outwards between the flat part on which the trough sheet is lying and the rear plate, whereby three lodging spaces are provided inside the jacket sheet, comprising a first lodging space for the front panel between the front lip of the jacket sheet and the transverse plate of the trough sheet, an intermediate lodging space for a filler panel extending over the same surface area in the receiving cavity of the trough sheet, and a third lodging space for another filler panel which extends over a wider surface area on the rear plate up to the side surface of the jacket sheet in the rear part of said jacket sheet.
Method for preparing mixtures consisting of bitumen, thermoplastic polymer and wax, wherein the polymer is in amounts in the range from 5 to 30% by weight with respect to the weight of the mixture made up of bitumen and polymer, and the wax is in amounts in the range from 4.7 to 16.7% by weight with respect to the weight of the total mixture, which consists of reacting a concentrated mixture, stable at storage, containing bitumen and thermoplastic polymer in the range of from 5 to 30% by weight, with a hydrocarbon wax containing a number of carbon atoms in the range from 40 to 100 and having a melting temperature in the range from 70°C to 120 °C, in weight ratio between mixture and wax in the range from 100:5 to 100:20, at a temperature in the range from 160 to 200°C and for a time ranging from 15 minutes to 7 hours, wherein said mixture A is obtained by reacting a bituminous product having a total asphaltenes, resins, saturates and aromatics content such to meet the requirement that the Ic value be in the range from 0.200 to 0.270 in the expression: Ic = C 7 + C 5 + S / A + R where: C7 = concentration of alsphaltenes precipitated with n-heptane, in % by weight; C5 = concentration of alsphaltenes precipitated with n-pentane, in % by weight; S = concentration of saturates, in % by weight; A = concentration of aromatics, in % by weight; R = concentration of resins, in % by weight, at a temperature ranging from 160°C to 200°C and for a time ranging from 15 minutes to 7 hours, from 15 to 120 minutes with a thermoplastic polymer, in weight ratio between bitumen and polymer ranging from 70:30 to 95:5, the thermoplastic polymer being a block copolymer between vinylbenzenes and conjugated dienes with radial structure, whose general formula is X(A-B) m where A represents a block obtained from monomers of the vinyl-aromatic type, B is a block obtained from diene monomers, X is a radical derived from a coupling agent and m varies from 3 to 5. C7 = concentration of alsphaltenes precipitated with n-heptane, in % by weight; C5 = concentration of alsphaltenes precipitated with n-pentane, in % by weight; S = concentration of saturates, in % by weight; A = concentration of aromatics, in % by weight; R = concentration of resins, in % by weight,
A feed apparatus for feeding mineral material, comprising: a first frame; a feed box fixed to the first frame and having walls for the mineral material to be loaded to the apparatus; and a feed device which is joined to the first frame so that the material to be loaded to the feed box ends up onto a transport surface of transport means of the feed device; the transport surface and a bottom edge of the wall of the feed box forming a gap therebetween; characterized by the feed apparatus comprising distance adjustment means to move the transport surface of the feed device and the bottom edge of the wall of the feed box relative to each other; the feed device comprising a second frame fixed by the distance adjustment means to an adjustable distance (d1, d2) from the first frame; the distance adjustment means comprising a lever having a first pivot point which is pivoted to the first or a second frame (1; 9) and a second pivot point of the lever located at a third distance from the first pivot point and pivoted to a corresponding second or first frame (9; 1) acting as an adjustment pair; and the distance adjustment means comprising a screw or a wedge which is, when operated, arranged to move the lever. a first frame; a feed box fixed to the first frame and having walls for the mineral material to be loaded to the apparatus; and a feed device which is joined to the first frame so that the material to be loaded to the feed box ends up onto a transport surface of transport means of the feed device; the transport surface and a bottom edge of the wall of the feed box forming a gap therebetween; characterized by the feed apparatus comprising distance adjustment means to move the transport surface of the feed device and the bottom edge of the wall of the feed box relative to each other; the feed device comprising a second frame fixed by the distance adjustment means to an adjustable distance (d1, d2) from the first frame; the distance adjustment means comprising a lever having a first pivot point which is pivoted to the first or a second frame (1; 9) and a second pivot point of the lever located at a third distance from the first pivot point and pivoted to a corresponding second or first frame (9; 1) acting as an adjustment pair; and the distance adjustment means comprising a screw or a wedge which is, when operated, arranged to move the lever.
A voice synthesis method, comprising: a variable setting step of generating a relative pitch transition based on synthesis-purpose music track data and at least one singing characteristic data, wherein the synthesis-purpose music track data designate respective notes of a first music track to be subjected to voice synthesis in time series, wherein the at least one singing characteristic data define a model expressing a time series of a relative pitch, wherein the relative pitch is a difference between a first pitch and a second pitch, wherein the first pitch is generated from music track data for designating respective notes of a second music track in time series and continuously fluctuates on a time axis, wherein the second pitch is a pitch of a reference voice that is obtained by singing the second music track, and wherein the second pitch is processed by interpolation processing for a voiceless section from which no pitch is detected; and a voice synthesis step of generating a voice signal based on the synthesis-purpose music track data, phonetic piece group indicating respective phonemes, and the relative pitch transition, characterized in that the at least one singing characteristics data comprises a first singing characteristics data including a first decision tree T1[n] and a second singing characteristics data including a second decision tree T2[n], the variable setting step mixes the first singing characteristics data and the second singing characteristics data, the variable setting step generates the relative pitch transition corresponding to the synthesis-purpose music track data and the mixed singing characteristics data based on the model, and the first decision tree (T1[n]) and the second decision tree (T2[n]) differ in at least one of size, structure, and classification. a variable setting step of generating a relative pitch transition based on synthesis-purpose music track data and at least one singing characteristic data, wherein the synthesis-purpose music track data designate respective notes of a first music track to be subjected to voice synthesis in time series, wherein the at least one singing characteristic data define a model expressing a time series of a relative pitch, wherein the relative pitch is a difference between a first pitch and a second pitch,
A biosensor (102, 300, 400) for base calling, comprising: a sampling device, the sampling device including a sample surface having an array of pixel areas (306', 308', 310', 312', 314', 1106') that can each hold more than one cluster during a base calling cycle, and a solid-state imager having an array of sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106), each sensor (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) configured to generate pixel signals in each base calling cycle, each pixel signal representing light gathered in one base calling cycle from one or more clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) in a corresponding pixel area (306', 308', 310', 312', 314', 1106') of the sample surface; and a signal processor (104, 130, 138) configured for connection to the sampling device and, when connected to the sampling device, configured to receive and process the pixel signals from the sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) for base calling in a base calling cycle, and to use the pixel signals from fewer sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) than a number of clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) base called in the base calling cycle, characterized in that the signal processor (104, 130, 138) is configured to use and process the pixel signals from the fewer sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) including at least one pixel signal representing light simultaneously gathered from at least two clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) in the corresponding pixel area (1106', 306'). a sampling device, the sampling device including a sample surface having an array of pixel areas (306', 308', 310', 312', 314', 1106') that can each hold more than one cluster during a base calling cycle, and a solid-state imager having an array of sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106), each sensor (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) configured to generate pixel signals in each base calling cycle, each pixel signal representing light gathered in one base calling cycle from one or more clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) in a corresponding pixel area (306', 308', 310', 312', 314', 1106') of the sample surface; and a signal processor (104, 130, 138) configured for connection to the sampling device and, when connected to the sampling device, configured to receive and process the pixel signals from the sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) for base calling in a base calling cycle, and to use the pixel signals from fewer sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) than a number of clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) base called in the base calling cycle, characterized in that the signal processor (104, 130, 138) is configured to use and process the pixel signals from the fewer sensors (306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 1106) including at least one pixel signal representing light simultaneously gathered from at least two clusters (1102A, 1104A, 306A-B) in the corresponding pixel area (1106', 306').
A thermoelectric device for heating or cooling, comprising an elongated panel, formed of an electrically insulating material, and a plurality of thermoelectric elements comprising n-type and p-type thermoelectric elements, wherein the n-type and p-type thermoelectric elements are alternatingly interconnected with one another in series by conductors, wherein the thermoelectric elements run substantially parallel to or at an acute angle relative to a long dimension of the panel, characterized in that the conductors are compacted in transverse dimension when located inside of the insulating material and are expanded in transverse dimension when located outside of the insulating material, wherein the conductors are arranged to extend from the opposite outside surfaces of the panel, so as to effect to heating or cooling of the respective outside surfaces.
An X-ray inspection apparatus having an X-ray emitting section and an X-ray detecting section and configured to emit an X-ray beam at an article from the X-ray emitting section, to detect an X-ray that has passed through the article with the X-ray detecting section, and to determine whether the article is defective based on a result of a comparison between a strength of the X-ray detected by the X-ray detecting section and a hypothetical reference value, the X-ray inspection apparatus comprising: a storage device configured to store a plurality of detection data related to strengths of the X-rays acquired by the X-ray detecting section during inspection of a plurality of articles; characterized by a setting device configured to set the hypothetical reference value that is different from an actual reference value that is a currently set threshold value used during the inspection of the articles when acquiring the plurality of said stored detection data; a determining device configured to determine whether a contaminant exists inside each of the articles based on a result of a comparison between the hypothetical reference value and each of the detection data stored in the storage device; a calculating device configured to calculate a hypothetical contaminant existence rate as a ratio of a number of the articles in which the determining device has determined that a contaminant exists with respect to a total number of the articles; and a display control device configured to control a display section to indicate the hypothetical contaminant existence rate. a storage device configured to store a plurality of detection data related to strengths of the X-rays acquired by the X-ray detecting section during inspection of a plurality of articles; characterized by a setting device configured to set the hypothetical reference value that is different from an actual reference value that is a currently set threshold value used during the inspection of the articles when acquiring the plurality of said stored detection data; a determining device configured to determine whether a contaminant exists inside each of the articles based on a result of a comparison between the hypothetical reference value and each of the detection data stored in the storage device; a calculating device configured to calculate a hypothetical contaminant existence rate as a ratio of a number of the articles in which the determining device has determined that a contaminant exists with respect to a total number of the articles; and a display control device configured to control a display section to indicate the hypothetical contaminant existence rate.
A method of manufacturing a dry-laid fuel cell precursor substrate, the method comprising: a. dispensing carbon fibers having a length of between 3 and 12 millimeters from a first hopper into a mixing chamber of a double-hopper, bladed-roller scattering machine; b. simultaneously with the depositing of the carbon fibers into the mixing chamber, depositing a thermoset resin powder from a second hopper of the double-hopper, bladed-roller scattering machine into the mixing chamber, and mixing the carbon fibers and thermoset resin powder together; c. then, flowing an adequate amount of the mixture onto a moving support belt of a double belt press apparatus to form a layer of the mixture on the moving support belt; d. then, compressing the mixture between the moving support belt and a moving compression belt of the double belt press apparatus to a predetermined thickness while simultaneously heating the mixture and passing the compressed, heated mixture between the belts (62, 66) for an adequate residence time within the double belt press apparatus to first melt and then cure the thermoset resin; e. then, passing the cured mixture as the precursor substrate for a fuel cell out of the double belt press apparatus. a. dispensing carbon fibers having a length of between 3 and 12 millimeters from a first hopper into a mixing chamber of a double-hopper, bladed-roller scattering machine; b. simultaneously with the depositing of the carbon fibers into the mixing chamber, depositing a thermoset resin powder from a second hopper of the double-hopper, bladed-roller scattering machine into the mixing chamber, and mixing the carbon fibers and thermoset resin powder together; c. then, flowing an adequate amount of the mixture onto a moving support belt of a double belt press apparatus to form a layer of the mixture on the moving support belt; d. then, compressing the mixture between the moving support belt and a moving compression belt of the double belt press apparatus to a predetermined thickness while simultaneously heating the mixture and passing the compressed, heated mixture between the belts (62, 66) for an adequate residence time within the double belt press apparatus to first melt and then cure the thermoset resin; e. then, passing the cured mixture as the precursor substrate for a fuel cell out of the double belt press apparatus.
An intraocular lens for implantation in a capsular bag of an eye, comprising: an adjustable optic having an optic stiffness and an optic refractive index; and a haptic having a haptic stiffness and a haptic refractive index for coupling the adjustable optic to the capsular bag; wherein the haptic stiffness is greater than the optic stiffness; and wherein the haptic refractive index is essentially equal to the optic refractive index; and wherein a portion of the haptic protrudes into the edge of the adjustable optic. an adjustable optic having an optic stiffness and an optic refractive index; and a haptic having a haptic stiffness and a haptic refractive index for coupling the adjustable optic to the capsular bag; wherein the haptic stiffness is greater than the optic stiffness; and wherein the haptic refractive index is essentially equal to the optic refractive index; and wherein a portion of the haptic protrudes into the edge of the adjustable optic.
A bioactive material coating method comprising: - flowing a coating solution, produced as a bioactive material being dissolved in a mixed solvent, inside a permeable structure having a lumen, wherein the bioactive material is a paclitaxel; and - coating the bioactive material only on an inner surface of the structure, wherein the mixed solvent is made mixing two or more solvents having different features, wherein one of the solvents is a non-polar solvent and another one of the solvents is a polar solvent and wherein the polar solvent is water and the non-polar solvent is acetone, wherein the ratio of acetone to water is 9:1, 8:2 or 7:3, wherein the coating is performed to form a concentration of the bioactive material across a thickness of the structure that decreases from the inner surface of the structure to an outer surface of the structure, wherein the structure is a thin film of extended polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) having fine pores. - flowing a coating solution, produced as a bioactive material being dissolved in a mixed solvent, inside a permeable structure having a lumen, wherein the bioactive material is a paclitaxel; and - coating the bioactive material only on an inner surface of the structure,
Temperature control system for influencing a temperature in at least one room (2, 3) of a building, the temperature control system comprising at least two heat exchangers, each heat exchanger having a control valve, a supply port and a return port, the ports being connected to a fluid supply system (7, 8) supplying a heat carrying fluid, a sensor arrangement (12-19; 23-25) detecting at least one physical characteristic of the heat carrying fluid at each heat exchanger and at least an additional physical characteristic of the system, the system further comprising processing means receiving data from the sensor arrangement (12-19, 23-25), wherein the processing means comprise diagnostic means detecting a kind of a malfunction of the temperature control system, characterized in that the processing means detect a malfunction of the supply of the heat carrying fluid when at least one of the following conditions are fulfilled: a) a difference between an inlet temperature and an outlet temperature is smaller than a predetermined value and a difference between the room temperature and a desired room temperature is larger than a predetermined value, b) control valves are open and inlet temperature is smaller than an expected temperature, c) a difference between an inlet temperature and an average room temperature is smaller than a predetermined value. a) a difference between an inlet temperature and an outlet temperature is smaller than a predetermined value and a difference between the room temperature and a desired room temperature is larger than a predetermined value, b) control valves are open and inlet temperature is smaller than an expected temperature, c) a difference between an inlet temperature and an average room temperature is smaller than a predetermined value.