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A laundry dryer, comprising: a storage portion being a cylindrical drum configured to store laundry to be dried; a drum driver configured to rotate the drum around its rotation axis; a first duct having a first outlet which opens at a rear side of the storage portion; a second duct having a second outlet which opens at a front side of the storage portion, the second outlet having a narrower cross-sectional area, through which air passes, than the first outlet; characterized by: a duct switcher configured to selectively switch between the first and second ducts (9, 11); a blower configured to blow dry air so that a larger volume of the dry air is blown from the first outlet into the storage portion under selection of the first duct than the second duct and the dry air is blown at higher pressure and higher velocity from the second outlet into the storage portion under selection of the second duct than the first duct; and a controller configured to control the duct switcher so that the first or second duct (9, 11) is selectively switched during a drying process. a storage portion being a cylindrical drum configured to store laundry to be dried; a drum driver configured to rotate the drum around its rotation axis; a first duct having a first outlet which opens at a rear side of the storage portion; a second duct having a second outlet which opens at a front side of the storage portion, the second outlet having a narrower cross-sectional area, through which air passes, than the first outlet; characterized by: a duct switcher configured to selectively switch between the first and second ducts (9, 11); a blower configured to blow dry air so that a larger volume of the dry air is blown from the first outlet into the storage portion under selection of the first duct than the second duct and the dry air is blown at higher pressure and higher velocity from the second outlet into the storage portion under selection of the second duct than the first duct; and a controller configured to control the duct switcher so that the first or second duct (9, 11) is selectively switched during a drying process. a duct switcher configured to selectively switch between the first and second ducts (9, 11); a blower configured to blow dry air so that a larger volume of the dry air is blown from the first outlet into the storage portion under selection of the first duct than the second duct and the dry air is blown at higher pressure and higher velocity from the second outlet into the storage portion under selection of the second duct than the first duct; and a controller configured to control the duct switcher so that the first or second duct (9, 11) is selectively switched during a drying process.
A method, performed at a portable electronic device, of providing an update to contact information of a user of the portable electronic device, the method comprising: categorising contacts into a plurality of notification groups; selecting, by a user, contact information of the user that is to be sent to each contact in a notification group when a change to that contact information is determined; determining that the contact information has changed; determining at least one notification group for which an update is to be provided based on the contact information that has changed, and based on the contact information selected to be sent to each contact in a notification group; retrieving contact data from contact data records of the at least one notification group, the contact data records stored at the portable electronic device; and generating and sending updates from the portable electronic device based on the contact data of the contact data records. categorising contacts into a plurality of notification groups; selecting, by a user, contact information of the user that is to be sent to each contact in a notification group when a change to that contact information is determined; determining that the contact information has changed; determining at least one notification group for which an update is to be provided based on the contact information that has changed, and based on the contact information selected to be sent to each contact in a notification group; retrieving contact data from contact data records of the at least one notification group, the contact data records stored at the portable electronic device; and generating and sending updates from the portable electronic device based on the contact data of the contact data records.
A modularly structured unit made up of a flow resistance element which is built up of a multitude of parallel ducts, and an orifice plate adjacent thereto for use in the main flow duct of a thermal mass flow rate measuring or control device, the flow resistance element being adapted to be combined with various orifice plates that differ in their opening diameters, characterized in that the orifice plate is arranged immediately upstream or downstream of the flow resistance element in the flow direction and is adjacent to the flow resistance element, the orifice plate being in the shape of a disk which has an opening, and the disk covering a certain number of the parallel ducts and exposing a certain number of the parallel ducts.
A multi-link hinge, in particular for refrigerator doors, with a fastening element which can be secured to a furniture body and is connected to a pivotable door bearing via a plurality of levers (3, 4, 5, 10) connected to one another in a scissor-like manner, the door bearing being pre-tensioned into a closed position via a spring, wherein a linear damper is provided that dampens a closing movement of the door bearing, wherein the damper is effective only over a portion of the pivot range of the door bearing and the damper comprises a housing and a piston rod being displaceable relative to the housing, characterized in that the damper is held pivotably on one side and is held at an oblong hole on the other side.
Hazard warning system comprising a central station, to which subscribers (A1, A2; B1, B2) are connected via a two-wire line, which subscribers receive from the central station, via the two-wire line operated as a field bus, both a supply voltage (U V) and communication messages in the form of pulse trains impressed on the supply voltage as voltage modulation, and each subscriber comprises a constant current circuit (TR4, TR2) connected to the two-wire line, by means of which circuit a storage capacitor is charged, to which storage capacitor a voltage regulator is connected in order to generate an internal operating voltage (U B), the constant current circuit being connected upstream of a voltage transformer (R1, TR1, ZD2) which is configured to reduce the supply voltage (U V) to an internal feed voltage (U S) that is smaller than the supply voltage (U V) at least by a voltage swing of pulses of the communication messages on the two-wire line, characterised in that the constant current circuit (TR4, TR2) has a control input connected to an RC element (R6, C2; R7, C3), which element is configured to delay an increase in the current (charging current) produced by the constant current circuit when the supply voltage (U V) is switched on.
A forming device that expands a metal pipe material to form a metal pipe, the device comprising: a die that has an upper die and a lower die, at least one of which is movable, and that form the metal pipe; an electrode (17, 18) that energizes the metal pipe material to heat the metal pipe material; a gas supply part that supplies a gas into the heated metal pipe material to expand the metal pipe material; characterized by a die movement suppressing part that suppresses the movement of the die by an electromagnetic force at least when the energization to the metal pipe material is performed by the electrode (17, 18), wherein the die movement suppressing part is provided with a fixing part that mechanically fixes the lower die at least when the energization to the metal pipe material is performed by the electrode (17, 18). a die that has an upper die and a lower die, at least one of which is movable, and that form the metal pipe; an electrode (17, 18) that energizes the metal pipe material to heat the metal pipe material; a gas supply part that supplies a gas into the heated metal pipe material to expand the metal pipe material; characterized by a die movement suppressing part that suppresses the movement of the die by an electromagnetic force at least when the energization to the metal pipe material is performed by the electrode (17, 18), wherein the die movement suppressing part is provided with a fixing part that mechanically fixes the lower die at least when the energization to the metal pipe material is performed by the electrode (17, 18).
A system for communicating in a network, the system comprising: means for transmitting, from a first device to a second device, a request for link metric information about at least one communication path between the second device and a third device, wherein the request identifies the third device as a neighbor of the second device and wherein the request identifies a plurality of communication paths between the second device and the third device; and means for receiving a response message from the second device in response to the request, the response message including the link metric information. means for transmitting, from a first device to a second device, a request for link metric information about at least one communication path between the second device and a third device, wherein the request identifies the third device as a neighbor of the second device and wherein the request identifies a plurality of communication paths between the second device and the third device; and means for receiving a response message from the second device in response to the request, the response message including the link metric information.
A method of manufacture of gypsum board having fiber face sheets, comprising the steps of: providing a first gypsum slurry having a first consistency continuously passing through a first gypsum slurry transport receptacle; depositing a predetermined amount of said first gypsum slurry onto at least a first continuous fiber face sheet; transporting said first continuous fiber sheet through a gypsum application station; providing a second gypsum slurry having a second consistency and depositing said second gypsum slurry onto said first fiber sheet and causing said second gypsum slurry to be essentially evenly distributed over an upwardly facing top surface of said first fiber sheet; and characterised by homogeneously mixing a hydrophobic additive into said first slurry, prior to the steps of depositing the gypsum slurries; wherein the step of homogeneously mixing a hydrophobic additive into the first gypsum slurry is performed via a fluid feed in fluid communication with said first gypsum slurry transport receptacle. providing a first gypsum slurry having a first consistency continuously passing through a first gypsum slurry transport receptacle; depositing a predetermined amount of said first gypsum slurry onto at least a first continuous fiber face sheet; transporting said first continuous fiber sheet through a gypsum application station; providing a second gypsum slurry having a second consistency and depositing said second gypsum slurry onto said first fiber sheet and causing said second gypsum slurry to be essentially evenly distributed over an upwardly facing top surface of said first fiber sheet; and characterised by homogeneously mixing a hydrophobic additive into said first slurry, prior to the steps of depositing the gypsum slurries; wherein the step of homogeneously mixing a hydrophobic additive into the first gypsum slurry is performed via a fluid feed in fluid communication with said first gypsum slurry transport receptacle.
Device having a form punch for riveting a first part to a second part, in particular a mating partner, wherein the first part is able to be assigned a heated connecting element which serves for connecting the first part to the second part, and having a barrel in which the form punch is movably mounted, and wherein an internal diameter of the barrel corresponds to a diameter of the connecting element deformed by the form punch, characterized in that the form punch is connected to a pneumatic unit by way of which the form punch is able to be impinged with a controllable and variable, in particular continuous, pressure, wherein the pressure is preferably variable as a function of a temperature of the connecting element, and wherein a duration of the impingement of the connecting element with pressure is preferably adjustable or variable by way of the pneumatic unit.
A composition comprising a block copolymer associated with a polynucleotide, the block copolymer comprising a first, a second and a third compositionally distinct blocks, the first block being a hydrophilic polymer block, the second block being located between the first and third blocks and associated with the polynucleotide, the third block being a hydrophobic polymer block comprising anionic repeat units, the anionic repeat units having a population of anions as substituents thereof that varies in number in a pH dependant manner, the population being greater at pH 7.4 than at pH 5, wherein at least 90% of the repeat units of the first, second and third blocks are not the residues of amino acids linked by a peptidic bond.
Device for forming an opening in a mobile safety barrier, which opening is intended to be accommodated between a first and a second mobile safety barrier element (2, 4) of which the length is standardised and of which the structure is identical, in a safety barrier which is constructed from a plurality of standardised and identical mobile safety barrier elements (2, 4) of this kind and is intended for controlling motor vehicle traffic, which device at least comprises a first wall element, which can be coupled to the first mobile safety barrier element, and a second wall element, which can be coupled to the second safety barrier element, the first and the second wall element (8, 10) being detachably interconnected so as to form a closed wall portion and it being possible to separate said wall elements from one another so as to form the opening, the weight of the first and the second wall element (8, 10) being in each case less than or equal to one half of the weight of a standardised mobile safety barrier element (2, 4), and/or the length of the first and the second wall element (8, 10) being in each case less than or equal to one half of the length of a standardised safety barrier element (2, 4), characterised in that at least one, or exactly one, further wall element is designed as an expansion element, which expansion element comprises a first and a second substantially vertical profile element (24, 26), at least one first and one second substantially horizontally oriented profile element (28, 30) being arranged on the first vertical profile element, and a third and a fourth substantially horizontally oriented profile element (36, 38) being arranged on the second vertical profile element, the first and the fourth horizontal profile element (28, 38) and the second and the third horizontal profile element (30, 36) interacting with one another in each case such that a distance between the first and the second vertical profile element (24, 26) can be adjusted.
A system for telephone call completion a secure web server configured to receive a Uniform Resource Locator, URL, over a computer network for effecting a telephone call between a first telephonic device and a second telephonic device, wherein the URL comprises a "from" telephone number of the first telephonic device and a "to" telephone number of the second telephonic device; and a call control server configured to receive contact information comprising information relating to a call that may be completed from the secure web server and, in response to the information, to initiate an initial call from the call control server to the first telephonic device using a Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, INVITE method and, in response to an answer of the initial call, to use a SIP REFER method to terminate the initial call and initiate a telephone call between the first telephonic device and the second telephonic device. a secure web server configured to receive a Uniform Resource Locator, URL, over a computer network for effecting a telephone call between a first telephonic device and a second telephonic device, wherein the URL comprises a "from" telephone number of the first telephonic device and a "to" telephone number of the second telephonic device; and a call control server configured to receive contact information comprising information relating to a call that may be completed from the secure web server and, in response to the information, to initiate an initial call from the call control server to the first telephonic device using a Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, INVITE method and, in response to an answer of the initial call, to use a SIP REFER method to terminate the initial call and initiate a telephone call between the first telephonic device and the second telephonic device.
Link or collet element for producing jewellery products or costume jewellery products, such as bracelets or necklaces, comprising: - a supporting body equipped, on at least one first side thereof, with a plurality of mounting elements and equipped with at least one through-hole adapted to contain therein a flexible joining wire; and - at least one engaging element placed on a second side of the supporting body, characterized in that said at least one engaging element is adapted to operatively engage, in succession: (a) at least one pin with which the supporting body of another link or collet element, identical to said link or collet element, is equipped, after having penetrated inside a central hole with which the supporting body of the other link or collet element is equipped; and (b) a fastening seat with which the supporting body of its own link or collet element is equipped, after said engaging element has been bent on itself, said engaging element being projecting from said supporting body and being shaped as a small rod adapted to be bent onto itself to form a half-ring, said pin allowing the link or collet element to rotate with respect to another link or collet element by sliding said engaging element around said pin of said another link or collet element, after said engaging element is passed around said pin of said another link or collet element and a free end of said engaging element is housed in said fastening seat of said another link or collet element, said supporting body being further equipped with a recess adapted to receive the engaging element of another link or collet element before its insertion in the hole. - a supporting body equipped, on at least one first side thereof, with a plurality of mounting elements and equipped with at least one through-hole adapted to contain therein a flexible joining wire; and - at least one engaging element placed on a second side of the supporting body,
Transparent roller shutter of the type consisting of an apron that can be rolled up around a horizontal shaft or drum placed above the said apron, consisting of a number of transparent horizontal slats articulated between each other by means of articulation devices, the opposite vertical edges of the said apron moving within lateral tracks or slides, characterised in that each of the said slats present with a transversal curved shape the concave side being turned towards the roller shaft or drum when the apron is rolled around the said shaft or drum, so that each slat of a plurality of the horizontal slats consists of two or more of the modules or shortened parts of blades (3A, 3B, 3C etc.) and assembled through nesting at each end.
A sensor system comprising: a flexible support substrate; a plurality of digital sensor devices carried by the flexible support substrate, each configured to generate digital sensor output data; a random access memory architecture carried by the flexible support substrate and coupled to the digital sensor devices; a controller carried by the flexible support substrate and operatively coupled to the RAM architecture to control reading and writing operations of the RAM architecture, wherein, during a data recording operation of the sensor system, the system is configured to synchronously write the digital sensor output data to the RAM architecture and each of the digital sensor devices is connected, electrically and physically, to the RAM architecture to facilitate the synchronous writing of the digital sensor output data, and wherein, during the data recording operation, the digital sensor output data as originally generated by the digital sensor devices is directly written from the digital sensor devices to the RAM architecture in an unaltered condition, with no intervening data processing; and a data interface coupled to the controller and configured to accommodate post-collection transfer of the digital sensor output data from the RAM architecture to an external computing device that is not carried by the flexible support substrate, for post-collection processing of the transferred digital sensor output data by the external computing device. a flexible support substrate; a plurality of digital sensor devices carried by the flexible support substrate, each configured to generate digital sensor output data; a random access memory architecture carried by the flexible support substrate and coupled to the digital sensor devices; a controller carried by the flexible support substrate and operatively coupled to the RAM architecture to control reading and writing operations of the RAM architecture, wherein, during a data recording operation of the sensor system, the system is configured to synchronously write the digital sensor output data to the RAM architecture and each of the digital sensor devices is connected, electrically and physically, to the RAM architecture to facilitate the synchronous writing of the digital sensor output data, and wherein, during the data recording operation, the digital sensor output data as originally generated by the digital sensor devices is directly written from the digital sensor devices to the RAM architecture in an unaltered condition, with no intervening data processing; and a data interface coupled to the controller and configured to accommodate post-collection transfer of the digital sensor output data from the RAM architecture to an external computing device that is not carried by the flexible support substrate, for post-collection processing of the transferred digital sensor output data by the external computing device.