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A method of treating alkaline water, the method including the following steps i) providing a first container for receiving alkaline water; ii) providing a second container for receiving alkaline water from the first container; iii) providing a pH sensor for sensing the pH of water in the second container; iv) providing a store of neutralising agent and a pH controller for controlling the feeding of a neutralising agent; v) receiving alkaline water in the first container; vi) feeding alkaline water from the first container to the second container; and vii) feeding neutralising agent from the store of neutralising agent into the second container under the control of the pH controller to reduce the pH of the alkaline water fed to the second container from the first container; characterised in that a neutralisation unit is provided including the store of neutralising agent and the pH controller, and in that the first and second containers (1, 2) and the neutralisation unit are arranged, after transport, as separate portable units; and wherein the neutralisation unit is arranged to rest partly or wholly inside the first container during transport; and/or one of the first and second containers (1, 2) is arranged to rest partly or wholly inside the other during transport. i) providing a first container for receiving alkaline water; ii) providing a second container for receiving alkaline water from the first container; iii) providing a pH sensor for sensing the pH of water in the second container; iv) providing a store of neutralising agent and a pH controller for controlling the feeding of a neutralising agent; v) receiving alkaline water in the first container; vi) feeding alkaline water from the first container to the second container; and vii) feeding neutralising agent from the store of neutralising agent into the second container under the control of the pH controller to reduce the pH of the alkaline water fed to the second container from the first container;
An indoor unit of a cassette type air conditioner, the indoor unit comprising a cabinet on which a heat exchanger and a blower are mounted, the cabinet being installable in a ceiling in an indoor space, a panel defining a bottom surface of the cabinet, the bottom surface facing the indoor space, a suction hole opened at a center of the panel to suck indoor air, a discharge hole opened in the panel outside the suction hole to discharge conditioned air, the discharge hole having an oblong shape, a vane having an oblong shape corresponding to that of the discharge hole, the vane selectively opening or closing the discharge hole to guide discharge air, Characterized in that: a vane driving assembly is disposed on an inner surface of the panel, the vane driving assembly being coupled to the opposite ends of the vane to rotate the vane around its longitudinal axis, and the opposite ends of the discharge hole and of the vane have shapes in which two rounded curves cross each other, and the vane driving assembly comprises: a case defining an exterior thereof; and a stopper is formed by a part of a top surface of the case being inclined or rounded, wherein the stopper provides a stop to the vane defining a rotational end position to prevent an end of the vane from interfering therewith until the vane has reached its rotational end position, wherein, in the fully open position of the vane, the surface of the stopper abuts against the vane, and wherein along the vane and the stopper provide a guide for the discharge air towards the discharge hole. a vane driving assembly is disposed on an inner surface of the panel, the vane driving assembly being coupled to the opposite ends of the vane to rotate the vane around its longitudinal axis, and the opposite ends of the discharge hole and of the vane have shapes in which two rounded curves cross each other, and the vane driving assembly comprises: a case defining an exterior thereof; and a stopper is formed by a part of a top surface of the case being inclined or rounded, wherein the stopper provides a stop to the vane defining a rotational end position to prevent an end of the vane from interfering therewith until the vane has reached its rotational end position, wherein, in the fully open position of the vane, the surface of the stopper abuts against the vane, and wherein along the vane and the stopper provide a guide for the discharge air towards the discharge hole. a case defining an exterior thereof; and a stopper is formed by a part of a top surface of the case being inclined or rounded, wherein the stopper provides a stop to the vane defining a rotational end position to prevent an end of the vane from interfering therewith until the vane has reached its rotational end position, wherein, in the fully open position of the vane, the surface of the stopper abuts against the vane, and wherein along the vane and the stopper provide a guide for the discharge air towards the discharge hole.
A method for distributing gas for oxy-fuel combustion on a circulating fluidized bed, wherein the gas is provided by three stages into a furnace of the circulating fluidized bed, the method comprising: blowing in a first-stage gas containing oxygen and recycled flue gas from the bottom of the furnace; blowing a second-stage gas containing recycled flue gas, or recycled flue gas and oxygen, into a transition zone between a dense-phase zone and a dilute-phase zone of the furnace; and blowing in a third-stage gas containing oxygen from a side wall of the furnace; wherein a volume ratio of the oxygen in the first-stage gas is in a range of 25-35%, and a volume ratio of the oxygen in the second-stage gas is N, where 0<N≤35%; and wherein the first-stage gas is in a range of 65-75% of total gas flow in the furnace; the second-stage gas is in a range of 5-10% of the total gas flow in the furnace; and the third-stage gas is in a range of 20-30% of the total gas flow in the furnace. blowing in a first-stage gas containing oxygen and recycled flue gas from the bottom of the furnace; blowing a second-stage gas containing recycled flue gas, or recycled flue gas and oxygen, into a transition zone between a dense-phase zone and a dilute-phase zone of the furnace; and blowing in a third-stage gas containing oxygen from a side wall of the furnace;
A virtual-machine based application-services-provision system comprising, computational facilities within an application-services provider center that execute an enterprise-management program for managing virtual-machine servers and virtual machines executed by the virtual-machine servers; a virtual-machine server at a remote client site that executes the virtual machines that, in turn, execute applications; and communications link between the application-services-provider center and the remote client site, wherein the enterprise management program executing on the computational facilities within an application-services-provider center manages the virtual-machine server and the virtual machines executed by the virtual-machine server at the remote client site, and wherein the communications link between the application-services-provider center and the remote client site is used for exchange of management information rather than for receiving and transmitting application-program data.
A method of heating at least one selected portion of an object, comprising the steps of projecting an energy beam onto a surface of the object so as to produce a primary spot on the surface, and repetitively scanning the beam in two dimensions in accordance with a scanning pattern (11A, 11B) so as to establish an effective spot (12A, 12B) on the surface, the effective spot having a two-dimensional energy distribution, and displacing the effective spot (12A, 12B) along a track on the surface of the object to progressively heat a selected portion of the object; wherein the selected portion has a first width at a first position along the track, and a second width at a second position along the track, the first width being larger than the second width; wherein the beam is scanned in accordance with the scanning pattern (11A, 11B) so that the scanning pattern is repeated by the beam with a first frequency in correspondence with the first position along the track, and with a second frequency in correspondence with the second position along the track, and wherein both of the first frequency and the second frequency are larger than 10 Hz, wherein the effective spot has a length (L1, L2) in the direction parallel with the track that is smaller in correspondence with the first position than in correspondence with the second position. projecting an energy beam onto a surface of the object so as to produce a primary spot on the surface, and repetitively scanning the beam in two dimensions in accordance with a scanning pattern (11A, 11B) so as to establish an effective spot (12A, 12B) on the surface, the effective spot having a two-dimensional energy distribution, and displacing the effective spot (12A, 12B) along a track on the surface of the object to progressively heat a selected portion of the object; wherein the selected portion has a first width at a first position along the track, and a second width at a second position along the track, the first width being larger than the second width; wherein the beam is scanned in accordance with the scanning pattern (11A, 11B) so that the scanning pattern is repeated by the beam with a first frequency in correspondence with the first position along the track, and with a second frequency in correspondence with the second position along the track, and wherein both of the first frequency and the second frequency are larger than 10 Hz, wherein the effective spot has a length (L1, L2) in the direction parallel with the track that is smaller in correspondence with the first position than in correspondence with the second position.
A furniture drive for driving a movable furniture part comprising an electric motor, an actuator reciprocatable between two end positions to apply force to the furniture part to be driven, and a transmission connected between the electric motor and the actuator, wherein a freewheel coupling and/or an overload safety device is or are connected between the gear coupled to the electric motor and the electric motor, characterised in that the transmission has at least one transmission stage in the form of an eccentric transmission with two mutually meshing gears, and one of the two gears (7, 8) is fixedly connected or coupled to the actuator and the other gear (7, 8) is coupled to the electric motor so that the eccentric transmission has two end positions corresponding to the end positions of the actuator and the transmission ratio continuously decreases upon a rotation of the gears (7, 8) starting from a first of the two end positions towards the other end position and is at a minimum value at the other end position.
A dressing assembly for use with a reduced pressure treatment system, the dressing assembly comprising: a shaped dressing bolster having a first surface and a second, inward-facing surface; an oblique extremity forming a portion of the shaped dressing bolster; an over-drape (62, 862, 962) disposed over the first surface of the shaped dressing bolster; and an inner layer (853, 953) having a first surface (855, 955) and a second, inward facing surface (857, 957) and wherein the first surface (855, 857) of the inner layer (853, 953) is coupled, at least in part to a portion of the second, inward- facing surface of the shaped dressing bolster, the inner layer having a treatment-area aperture (859, 959); wherein the shaped dressing bolster is formed from a medical bolster material, the shaped dressing bolster for placing on a patient's epidermis; wherein the medical bolster material has a density greater than 20 kg/m3; and wherein the shaped dressing bolster further comprises a plurality of flexibility notches formed on the first surface of the shaped dressing bolster. a shaped dressing bolster having a first surface and a second, inward-facing surface; an oblique extremity forming a portion of the shaped dressing bolster; an over-drape (62, 862, 962) disposed over the first surface of the shaped dressing bolster; and an inner layer (853, 953) having a first surface (855, 955) and a second, inward facing surface (857, 957) and wherein the first surface (855, 857) of the inner layer (853, 953) is coupled, at least in part to a portion of the second, inward- facing surface of the shaped dressing bolster, the inner layer having a treatment-area aperture (859, 959); wherein the shaped dressing bolster is formed from a medical bolster material, the shaped dressing bolster for placing on a patient's epidermis; wherein the medical bolster material has a density greater than 20 kg/m3; and wherein the shaped dressing bolster further comprises a plurality of flexibility notches formed on the first surface of the shaped dressing bolster.
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: performing a first heat treatment on an oxide semiconductor film at a temperature higher than or equal to 500 °C and lower than or equal to 850 °C in a reduced-pressure atmosphere, an inert gas atmosphere of nitrogen, a rare gas, an oxygen gas atmosphere, or an ultra dry air atmosphere; adding oxygen into the oxide semiconductor film after the first heat treatment by an ion implantation method or an ion doping method; and performing a second heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film at a temperature higher than or equal to 550° C and lower than or equal to 750° C in a reduced-pressure atmosphere, an inert gas atmosphere of nitrogen, a rare gas, an oxygen gas atmosphere, or an ultra dry air atmosphere after adding oxygen into the oxide semiconductor film. performing a first heat treatment on an oxide semiconductor film at a temperature higher than or equal to 500 °C and lower than or equal to 850 °C in a reduced-pressure atmosphere, an inert gas atmosphere of nitrogen, a rare gas, an oxygen gas atmosphere, or an ultra dry air atmosphere; adding oxygen into the oxide semiconductor film after the first heat treatment by an ion implantation method or an ion doping method; and performing a second heat treatment on the oxide semiconductor film at a temperature higher than or equal to 550° C and lower than or equal to 750° C in a reduced-pressure atmosphere, an inert gas atmosphere of nitrogen, a rare gas, an oxygen gas atmosphere, or an ultra dry air atmosphere after adding oxygen into the oxide semiconductor film.
Trifocal artificial ophthalmic lens, which contains an anterior side optical surface, a posterior side optical surface and an optical axis, at least one of the anterior side optical surface and the posterior side optical surface contains an optics having three useful focal points and having an at least partially diffractive profile, characterised by that the three useful focal points correspond to focal points (31, 32) belonging to the 0 th and 1 st diffraction orders of the diffractive profile, and to a focal point belonging to an enhanced diffractive subsidiary maximum between the focal points (31, 32) belonging to the 0 th and the 1 st diffraction orders.
A method of fractionating a hemicellulose sugar mixture characterized by a monosaccharides to total dissolved sugars ratio of > 0.50 weight/weight, comprising: (i) fractionating the hemicellulose sugar mixture with a sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence; wherein the sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence comprises: passing a feed stream into an adsorbent, thereby flushing a first raffinate stream from the adsorbent; flushing a second raffinate stream from the adsorbent with a desorbent stream; and recycling the desorbent stream back to the adsorbent; and (ii) recovering a product stream from the sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence, wherein the product stream is extracted in both and, and wherein the product stream is a xylose-enriched stream and each raffinate stream is a xylose-removed hemicellulose sugar mixture. (i) fractionating the hemicellulose sugar mixture with a sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence; wherein the sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence comprises: passing a feed stream into an adsorbent, thereby flushing a first raffinate stream from the adsorbent; flushing a second raffinate stream from the adsorbent with a desorbent stream; and recycling the desorbent stream back to the adsorbent; and passing a feed stream into an adsorbent, thereby flushing a first raffinate stream from the adsorbent; flushing a second raffinate stream from the adsorbent with a desorbent stream; and recycling the desorbent stream back to the adsorbent; and (ii) recovering a product stream from the sequential simulated moving bed chromatography sequence, wherein the product stream is extracted in both and, and wherein the product stream is a xylose-enriched stream and each raffinate stream is a xylose-removed hemicellulose sugar mixture.
Premix burner with a swirl generator, consisting of cone shells (4a-4d) having a cone half-angle (α) and a mixing portion downstream of the swirl generator which opens into an interior of a burner chamber, and with ducts for the supply of compressed combustion air to the swirl generator, and with a high-pressure nozzle for atomisation of liquid fuel with at least one fuel duct for supplying fuel to an interior (20, 32) of the high-pressure nozzle, wherein the high-pressure nozzle comprises at least two outlet channels (22, 34, 34') which lead from the interior (20, 32) of the high-pressure nozzle to the interior of the swirl generator and are arranged decentrally relative to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle and are oriented such that spray cones emerging from the outlet channels (22, 34, 34') are directed at the wake of the individual cone shells, characterised in that the outlet channels (22, 34, 34') are configured such that the emerging spray cones each have a longitudinal axis which runs at an angle (β) to the longitudinal axis of the swirl generator which is smaller than the cone half-angle (α) of the swirl generator.
A cleaning pad for treating smooth surfaces in particular, wherein the cleaning pad comprises an elastically deformable core and a cleaning cover surrounding the core, a container being introduced into the interior of the core, the container having a supply part and a neck into which a spray head is built, there being an opening in the cleaning pad above the side of the container facing the neck, at least part of the neck being disposed above the opening. characterized in that the supply part can be passed through the opening, the cross-sectional area of the opening being at least equal to the cross-sectional area of the supply part.
Dial for a timepiece, the dial comprising: - A flat ring made of opaque material, having an external diameter and an internal diameter, the ring having an upper surface and a lower surface, - A central disc made of opaque material having a diameter which is less than the internal diameter of the ring, the central disc being positioned concentrically with respect to the ring and essentially coplanar with the ring, such that an annular area is created between the disc and the ring, the central disc having an upper surface and a lower surface respectively oriented like the upper surface and the lower surface of the flat ring, - A part made of transparent material which covers the annular area and which is fixed to the central disc and to the ring, in order to join the ring and the central disc to each other, while creating an annular aperture between the disc and the ring, characterized in that the transparent part covers at least one portion of the upper or lower surface of the central disc, and in that the transparent part is fixed to the central disc by bonding the transparent part to said surface portion. - A flat ring made of opaque material, having an external diameter and an internal diameter, the ring having an upper surface and a lower surface, - A central disc made of opaque material having a diameter which is less than the internal diameter of the ring, the central disc being positioned concentrically with respect to the ring and essentially coplanar with the ring, such that an annular area is created between the disc and the ring, the central disc having an upper surface and a lower surface respectively oriented like the upper surface and the lower surface of the flat ring, - A part made of transparent material which covers the annular area and which is fixed to the central disc and to the ring, in order to join the ring and the central disc to each other, while creating an annular aperture between the disc and the ring, characterized in that the transparent part covers at least one portion of the upper or lower surface of the central disc, and in that the transparent part is fixed to the central disc by bonding the transparent part to said surface portion.
A container with a drip-proof spout, comprising: a container for holding a flowable content, said container having a spout for pouring the content out of said container; a cap provided adjacent to said spout, said cap being pivotable about a pivoting axis between a closed position in which said cap prevents content from being poured from said spout, and an open position in which the content can be poured from said container out of said spout; and a guiding device provided on an inner face of said cap, said guiding device being configured for guiding residual content on said cap into said spout when said cap is in its open position, characterised in that: said guiding device includes an extension having a free end, the extension being located in a region of the guiding device closest to the pivoting axis, wherein said free end comprises a curved lip for concentrating the content directed from said inner face into said spout. a container for holding a flowable content, said container having a spout for pouring the content out of said container; a cap provided adjacent to said spout, said cap being pivotable about a pivoting axis between a closed position in which said cap prevents content from being poured from said spout, and an open position in which the content can be poured from said container out of said spout; and a guiding device provided on an inner face of said cap, said guiding device being configured for guiding residual content on said cap into said spout when said cap is in its open position, characterised in that: said guiding device includes an extension having a free end, the extension being located in a region of the guiding device closest to the pivoting axis, wherein said free end comprises a curved lip for concentrating the content directed from said inner face into said spout. said guiding device includes an extension having a free end, the extension being located in a region of the guiding device closest to the pivoting axis, wherein said free end comprises a curved lip for concentrating the content directed from said inner face into said spout.