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A left atrial appendage closure device, comprising: an anchor portion having a first disc segment and a second disc segment that are connected in spaced-apart manner by a first connector; a sealing portion; and a second connector that connects the anchor portion and the sealing portion; wherein the first disc segment is adapted to be positioned outside the LAA and in the pericardial sac after deployment of the closure device, and the second disc segment is positioned between the first disc segment and the sealing portion inside the LAA, wherein the two disc segments (30, 32) are sized and configured to sandwich the LAA wall tissue therebetween and the disc segments (30,32) have a variable cross-sectional area and thickness so as to conform to the LAA wall. an anchor portion having a first disc segment and a second disc segment that are connected in spaced-apart manner by a first connector; a sealing portion; and a second connector that connects the anchor portion and the sealing portion; wherein the first disc segment is adapted to be positioned outside the LAA and in the pericardial sac after deployment of the closure device, and the second disc segment is positioned between the first disc segment and the sealing portion inside the LAA, wherein the two disc segments (30, 32) are sized and configured to sandwich the LAA wall tissue therebetween and the disc segments (30,32) have a variable cross-sectional area and thickness so as to conform to the LAA wall.
An apparatus for measuring intraocular pressure, which comprises a functional part with a tubular probe base, a probe contactable with a surface of an eye to derive an intraocular pressure in the eye from variations in a velocity of the probe, the probe being inside the tubular probe base, and the probe having a tip for impacting the surface of the eye and being partly of magnetic material, an induction coil for giving the probe a specific velocity, means for measuring the variations in a velocity of the probe, means for processing and displaying the measurement data and for controlling operations, means for holding the probe inside the tubular probe base, and means for releasing the probe for the measurement, wherein the means for holding the probe is a magnetic circuit, which is located behind the rear part of the probe base in the opposite end of the apparatus than the tip of the probe, and the means for releasing the probe is a magnetic coil. a tubular probe base, a probe contactable with a surface of an eye to derive an intraocular pressure in the eye from variations in a velocity of the probe, the probe being inside the tubular probe base, and the probe having a tip for impacting the surface of the eye and being partly of magnetic material, an induction coil for giving the probe a specific velocity, means for measuring the variations in a velocity of the probe, means for processing and displaying the measurement data and for controlling operations, means for holding the probe inside the tubular probe base, and means for releasing the probe for the measurement, wherein the means for holding the probe is a magnetic circuit, which is located behind the rear part of the probe base in the opposite end of the apparatus than the tip of the probe, and the means for releasing the probe is a magnetic coil.
A method for acquiring information of a target polypeptide, comprising: acquiring a diffusion time of a fluorescently labelled target polypeptide and a diffusion time of each of a plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy or fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy, and acquiring information on size of the fluorescently labelled target polypeptide from the diffusion time of the fluorescently labelled target polypeptide with reference to the diffusion times of the plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides, wherein information on size of each of the plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides is known, and the sizes of the plurality of reference polypeptides are different from each other. acquiring a diffusion time of a fluorescently labelled target polypeptide and a diffusion time of each of a plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy or fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy, and acquiring information on size of the fluorescently labelled target polypeptide from the diffusion time of the fluorescently labelled target polypeptide with reference to the diffusion times of the plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides, wherein information on size of each of the plurality of fluorescently labelled reference polypeptides is known, and the sizes of the plurality of reference polypeptides are different from each other.
A capsule for making beverages, containing a powdered food substance which allows a beverage to be made by passing hot water through it, the capsule comprising: a cup-shaped containment body in turn comprising a tubular lateral wall extending between a first edge and a second edge and a bottom portion fixed to the first edge and extending transversally to a central axis of the tubular lateral wall, the containment body forming inside it a containment chamber which contains the powdered food substance; and a closing element fixed to the second edge for closing the containment body; characterised in that the bottom portion comprises a bowl-shaped first sheet made of a first material having a resistance to piercing and tearing which is less than that of a second material constituting the tubular lateral wall. a cup-shaped containment body in turn comprising a tubular lateral wall extending between a first edge and a second edge and a bottom portion fixed to the first edge and extending transversally to a central axis of the tubular lateral wall, the containment body forming inside it a containment chamber which contains the powdered food substance; and a closing element fixed to the second edge for closing the containment body;
A device for cutting a flexible material of plastic type, laminated between two substrates and overhanging the edges of the substrates, comprising cutting means, characterized in that it additionally comprises pulling means suitable for pulling on the overhanging portion of the flexible material and arranged upstream of the cutting means.
A bag loading nozzle to confine a flow of material from upstream feed for downstream discharge into a bag having a spouted entrance, the nozzle comprising an interior wall presenting an inlet and an outlet, located intermediate of the inlet and outlet and about the interior wall is a shape retaining tube and through which the material is to pass from the feed into the bag, at least one actuable fluid inflatable collar at least substantially about the shape retaining tube, which when actuated to its inflated form(s) will effect at least a substantial sealing with a fitted suitable bag from within its spouted entrance, and which when deactuated or otherwise deflated, allows the release of the bag from the collar characterized in that a sleeve region extends downstream of the outlet of the shape retaining tube, the extended part of the sleeve region including a shape retaining ring located about the outlet of the sleeve region.
Apparatus comprising: a submersible pump having an impeller housing housing an impeller and a motor, the impeller housing configured to contain an air/water mixture, wherein a slit is cut at the highest point of the impeller housing for trapped air to leave the impeller housing once the pump has been submerged; and a control circuit configured for implementing an anti-air-lock on/off start-up cycle to cycle the pump on and off for a predetermined number of cycles at start up, so that the trapped air will float to the top and be expelled out the slit when the pump is cycled off. a submersible pump having an impeller housing housing an impeller and a motor, the impeller housing configured to contain an air/water mixture, wherein a slit is cut at the highest point of the impeller housing for trapped air to leave the impeller housing once the pump has been submerged; and a control circuit configured for implementing an anti-air-lock on/off start-up cycle to cycle the pump on and off for a predetermined number of cycles at start up, so that the trapped air will float to the top and be expelled out the slit when the pump is cycled off.
A method performed at a small cell controller of a wireless cellular communications network, the method comprising: receiving, from an User Equipment, UE, measurement reports of first signal strength data for a wireless backhaul between a mobile relay and a base station; receiving, from the UE, measurement reports of second signal strength data for a signal between the user equipment and the mobile relay; receiving, from the UE, measurement reports of third signal strength data for a signal between the UE and the base station; determining a cell parameter for a user equipment in communication with the mobile relay and the base station using the first, second and third signal strength data; evaluating the cell parameter in order to configure cell reselection or handover service for the UE; adjusting the cell parameter to steer the UE from the mobile relay to the base station when a signal between the UE and the mobile relay is stronger than a signal between the UE and the base station and a backhaul signal between the mobile relay and the base station is less than the signal between the UE and the base station; wherein the cell parameter is at least one of a cell selection parameter and a handover parameter; and transferring the service for the UE from the mobile relay to the base station based on the adjusted cell parameter. receiving, from an User Equipment, UE, measurement reports of first signal strength data for a wireless backhaul between a mobile relay and a base station; receiving, from the UE, measurement reports of second signal strength data for a signal between the user equipment and the mobile relay; receiving, from the UE, measurement reports of third signal strength data for a signal between the UE and the base station; determining a cell parameter for a user equipment in communication with the mobile relay and the base station using the first, second and third signal strength data; evaluating the cell parameter in order to configure cell reselection or handover service for the UE; adjusting the cell parameter to steer the UE from the mobile relay to the base station when a signal between the UE and the mobile relay is stronger than a signal between the UE and the base station and a backhaul signal between the mobile relay and the base station is less than the signal between the UE and the base station; wherein the cell parameter is at least one of a cell selection parameter and a handover parameter; and transferring the service for the UE from the mobile relay to the base station based on the adjusted cell parameter.
Use of a silicone rubber mixture with, incorporated by mixing therein, at least one flame-retardant filler, which has uniform distribution within the silicone rubber mixture and the quantitative proportion of which is from 40 to 140 phr, for the production of multilayer fabric webs comprising at least one embedded reinforcement layer which has, on one or both sides, a layer (3, 4) composed of the flame-retardant silicone rubber mixture.
Non-therapeutic use, as antimicrobial material, of semicrystalline nano- and/or microfibrillated cellulose to which silver nanoparticles are attached, said silver nanoparticles being present in a weight amount strictly greater than 1% and strictly less than 20% relative to the total weight of said cellulose, said material being obtaining by means of a process comprising at least one step of microwave irradiation of an aqueous dispersion of semicrystalline nano- and/or microfibrillated cellulose supplemented with at least one silver salt, in the presence of a reducing agent.
A method implemented by computer, of non-destructive testing of an aeronautical component, comprising a preliminary step of obtaining by digital tomography a volume wherein there is a representation of said aeronautical component, the volume being defined by voxels (Vx), and characterized in that it comprises a righting processing comprising the following steps: - Processing of the tomographic representation, said processing consisting of extracting from said volume the voxels relating to the component only - Generation of a median surface of the component inside the tomographic volume from said extracted volume relating to the component, said median surface dividing the component into two parts, - Determination of a field of vectors normal to said median surface, - Flattening of said median surface to form a flattened median surface (SMa) in a plane, - Reconstruction of a righted volume (Vr) containing the component (10, 10') righted around the flattened median surface (SMa), said reconstruction being performed by mapping between voxels (Vx') of the righted volume (Vr) along directions orthogonal to the flattened median surface (SMa) and voxels (Vx) of the volume along the normal vector of the median surface associated with these respective orthogonal directions, the process also comprising a step for displaying the data of the righted volume and an analysis step by an operator of the righted volume thus displayed to identify the anomalies of the component. - Processing of the tomographic representation, said processing consisting of extracting from said volume the voxels relating to the component only - Generation of a median surface of the component inside the tomographic volume from said extracted volume relating to the component, said median surface dividing the component into two parts, - Determination of a field of vectors normal to said median surface, - Flattening of said median surface to form a flattened median surface (SMa) in a plane, - Reconstruction of a righted volume (Vr) containing the component (10, 10') righted around the flattened median surface (SMa), said reconstruction being performed by mapping between voxels (Vx') of the righted volume (Vr) along directions orthogonal to the flattened median surface (SMa) and voxels (Vx) of the volume along the normal vector of the median surface associated with these respective orthogonal directions,
A balloon catheter comprising: a flexible sheath which has at least one lumen; and a cylindrical balloon which is fixed to an outer peripheral surface of said sheath and can be inflated with a fluid supplied from said lumen; wherein said sheath has a basic outer diameter and a large diameter portion (7; 23) whose outer diameter is greater than the basic outer diameter, axially opposite ends of said large diameter portion (7; 23) are respectively formed in a tapered shape of gradually decreasing diameter, axially opposed ends of the balloon are fixed to portions of the sheath which have the basic outer diameter and which are disposed adjacent to the large diameter portion (7; 23), and said balloon has a maximum inner diameter greater than said basic outer diameter and approximately equal to the outer diameter of the large diameter portion (7; 23) when deflated, and, in its deflated state, is in close contact with both, the outer peripheral surface of said large diameter portion (7; 23) and the portions of the sheath which have the basic outer diameter and which are disposed adjacent to the large diameter portion (7; 23). a flexible sheath which has at least one lumen; and a cylindrical balloon which is fixed to an outer peripheral surface of said sheath and can be inflated with a fluid supplied from said lumen; wherein said sheath has a basic outer diameter and a large diameter portion (7; 23) whose outer diameter is greater than the basic outer diameter, axially opposite ends of said large diameter portion (7; 23) are respectively formed in a tapered shape of gradually decreasing diameter, axially opposed ends of the balloon are fixed to portions of the sheath which have the basic outer diameter and which are disposed adjacent to the large diameter portion (7; 23), and said balloon has a maximum inner diameter greater than said basic outer diameter and approximately equal to the outer diameter of the large diameter portion (7; 23) when deflated, and, in its deflated state, is in close contact with both, the outer peripheral surface of said large diameter portion (7; 23) and the portions of the sheath which have the basic outer diameter and which are disposed adjacent to the large diameter portion (7; 23).
A suspension device for balancing a weight, especially a suspension device allowing a patient or a limb of a patient to be at least partially supported in a predetermined direction, comprising a casing (101, 205), a direction guide for the supportive movement, a lever for pivotal connection between the direction guide and the casing (101, 205) around a first axis and at least one spring assembly (80, 80') connecting the lever with the casing (101, 205), wherein the lever comprises a second pivotal axis in a distance from the connection between the first pivotal axis and the attachment of the direction guide, wherein the at least one spring assembly (80, 80') is pivotally attached between that second pivotal axis and a fourth pivotal axis connected with the casing (101, 205), characterized in that the at least one spring assembly (80, 80') is a zero-length spring assembly.
A process for the preparation of an aqueous slurry comprising a plurality of polyisobutylene particles suspended therein, the process comprising at least the steps of: A) contacting an organic medium comprising i) polyisobutylene and ii) an organic diluent with an aqueous medium comprising at least one LCST compound having a cloud point of 0 to 100°C, preferably 5 to 100°C, more preferably 15 to 80°C and even more preferably 20 to 70°C, wherein said LCST compound is a compound which is soluble in a liquid medium at a lower temperature but precipitates from the liquid medium above the lower critical solution temperature, and B) removing at least partially the organic diluent to obtain the aqueous slurry comprising the polyisobutylene particles. A) contacting an organic medium comprising i) polyisobutylene and ii) an organic diluent with an aqueous medium comprising at least one LCST compound having a cloud point of 0 to 100°C, preferably 5 to 100°C, more preferably 15 to 80°C and even more preferably 20 to 70°C, wherein said LCST compound is a compound which is soluble in a liquid medium at a lower temperature but precipitates from the liquid medium above the lower critical solution temperature, and i) polyisobutylene and ii) an organic diluent B) removing at least partially the organic diluent to obtain the aqueous slurry comprising the polyisobutylene particles.
An operating method for a wirelessly communicating electronic device, the electronic device comprising: - an electronic control circuit comprising a radiofrequency transmitter configured to transmit a radiofrequency message according to a communication protocol and - a rechargeable electrical power storage means configured to supply electricity to the electronic device, characterized in that the operating method is implemented by the electronic control circuit and comprises the following steps: a) acquisition, by the electronic control circuit of the electronic device, of a radiofrequency frame representative of at least one data item intended to be transmitted by the radiofrequency transmitter in a radiofrequency message; b) determination, by the control circuit, of the amount of power available in the power storage means; c) determination, by the control circuit, of the length of the radiofrequency message to be transmitted, the radiofrequency message comprising at least the acquired radiofrequency frame; d) determination of transmission parameters of the radiofrequency transmitter, the determination being carried out by the control circuit according to the determined values for the length of the message and the amount of power available in the power storage means; e) transmission of the radiofrequency message by the radiofrequency transmitter, using the determined transmission parameters. - an electronic control circuit comprising a radiofrequency transmitter configured to transmit a radiofrequency message according to a communication protocol and - a rechargeable electrical power storage means configured to supply electricity to the electronic device, a) acquisition, by the electronic control circuit of the electronic device, of a radiofrequency frame representative of at least one data item intended to be transmitted by the radiofrequency transmitter in a radiofrequency message; b) determination, by the control circuit, of the amount of power available in the power storage means; c) determination, by the control circuit, of the length of the radiofrequency message to be transmitted, the radiofrequency message comprising at least the acquired radiofrequency frame; d) determination of transmission parameters of the radiofrequency transmitter, the determination being carried out by the control circuit according to the determined values for the length of the message and the amount of power available in the power storage means; e) transmission of the radiofrequency message by the radiofrequency transmitter, using the determined transmission parameters.
A composition comprising RNAi molecules targeted to a human GST-π, RNAi molecules targeted to a human p21 encoded by CDKN1A gene, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Mobile crane, in particular a crawler crane, comprising an undercarriage having a traveling gear, a superstructure supported on the undercarriage in a manner rotatable about a vertical axis, a boom connected in an articulated manner to the superstructure pivotable about a horizontal axis, an A frame connected in an articulated manner to the superstructure pivotable about a horizontal axis and connected to the boom by means of a guying means, and a retraction mechanism by means of which the A frame is pivotable, wherein the A frame is separable and comprises a pole connected in an articulated manner to the superstructure and a folding pole releasably connected to the pole, wherein the folding pole and the superstructure each comprise fastening means (18, 19) by means of which the folding pole can be releasably mounted on the superstructure and the folding pole is connected to the pole pivotable about an axis that is in particular horizontal and is latchable thereto, wherein the fastening means (18, 19) of the folding pole and superstructure can be joined together by pivoting the folding pole about the axis, characterized in that the folding pole can be removed from the pole and can be detachably mounted on the superstructure.
Motor vehicle door latch containing a locking mechanism (1, 2), essentially comprising a catch and a pawl, in which in its insertion section, the catch contains a noise-reducing coating at least in the area of a surface in contact with the locking bolt and in which the coating is a prefabricated insertion part, characterized in that the coating is made of thermoplastic plastic, that at least one fixing bar of the coating enters the catch and that the coating contains two fixing bars being arranged opposite a stop area for the locking bolt.