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An apparatus for separating a fluid mixture comprising: a vessel; a vortex generation zone having a tapered wall positioned within the vessel, the vortex generation zone having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end having a cross sectional area less than that of the lower end, the vortex generation zone constructed and arranged to direct the fluid mixture upward; a fluid inlet in a lower portion of the vortex generation zone, for introducing the fluid mixture into the lower portion of the vortex generation zone, the inlet extending into the vortex generation zone at an angle having a component tangential to an internal wall of the vortex generation zone at a point on the internal wall proximate to the fluid inlet, whereby the fluid mixture rises through the vortex generation zone as the cross sectional area of the vortex generation zone reduces; a fluid outlet fluidly connected to the vessel above the upper end of the vortex generation zone; and, a gas inlet extending into the vortex generation zone, characterized in that the gas inlet in the vortex generation zone is at an angle between zero to 45 degrees above a horizontal axis, or below the horizontal axis. a vessel; a vortex generation zone having a tapered wall positioned within the vessel, the vortex generation zone having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end having a cross sectional area less than that of the lower end, the vortex generation zone constructed and arranged to direct the fluid mixture upward; a fluid inlet in a lower portion of the vortex generation zone, for introducing the fluid mixture into the lower portion of the vortex generation zone, the inlet extending into the vortex generation zone at an angle having a component tangential to an internal wall of the vortex generation zone at a point on the internal wall proximate to the fluid inlet, whereby the fluid mixture rises through the vortex generation zone as the cross sectional area of the vortex generation zone reduces; a fluid outlet fluidly connected to the vessel above the upper end of the vortex generation zone; and, a gas inlet extending into the vortex generation zone, characterized in that the gas inlet in the vortex generation zone is at an angle between zero to 45 degrees above a horizontal axis, or below the horizontal axis.
A laminated piezoelectric element comprising: a stacked body comprising an active section in which piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated, and inactive sections which are each made of the piezoelectric layer and disposed at opposite ends of the active section in a stacking direction of the stacked body; and a cover layer disposed so as to surround a side face of the stacked body, the cover layer having a two-layer structure composed of an inner first layer and an outer second layer with an annular boundary at their interface when viewed in a section perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked body, a plurality of air gaps being present at the annular boundary, being scattered along the annular boundary in the cover layer located on a side of the inactive section and being dispersed in a circumferential direction. a stacked body comprising an active section in which piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated, and inactive sections which are each made of the piezoelectric layer and disposed at opposite ends of the active section in a stacking direction of the stacked body; and a cover layer disposed so as to surround a side face of the stacked body, the cover layer having a two-layer structure composed of an inner first layer and an outer second layer with an annular boundary at their interface when viewed in a section perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked body, a plurality of air gaps being present at the annular boundary, being scattered along the annular boundary in the cover layer located on a side of the inactive section and being dispersed in a circumferential direction.
A process for making a tablet comprising a pharmaceutically active agent wherein said tablet comprises both an immediate release region and a modified release region, said method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a tablet shape comprising a powder blend comprising a pharmaceutically active agent and a thermally-sensitive material; and (b) applying energy in different amounts to different regions of the tablet shape to form said tablet in a manner such that: (i) a first region of said tablet shape is exposed to said energy for a sufficient period of time to modify said thermally-sensitive material within said first region to form said modified release region of said tablet; and (ii) a second region of said tablet shape is not so exposed to said energy such that said second region forms said immediate release region of said tablet. (a) forming a tablet shape comprising a powder blend comprising a pharmaceutically active agent and a thermally-sensitive material; and (b) applying energy in different amounts to different regions of the tablet shape to form said tablet in a manner such that: (i) a first region of said tablet shape is exposed to said energy for a sufficient period of time to modify said thermally-sensitive material within said first region to form said modified release region of said tablet; and (ii) a second region of said tablet shape is not so exposed to said energy such that said second region forms said immediate release region of said tablet. (i) a first region of said tablet shape is exposed to said energy for a sufficient period of time to modify said thermally-sensitive material within said first region to form said modified release region of said tablet; and (ii) a second region of said tablet shape is not so exposed to said energy such that said second region forms said immediate release region of said tablet.
Measuring system designed to determine and/or to monitor the flow of a measured medium through a measuring tube with at least a control/evaluation unit, which determines the volume flow and/or mass flow of the measured medium flowing through the measuring tube on the basis of ultrasonic measuring signals or on the basis of measured data, which are derived from the ultrasonic measuring signals, and with a sensor housing, said sensor housing comprising a first ultrasonic sensor and at least a second ultrasonic sensor, wherein at least the first ultrasonic sensor is accommodated in a movable manner in the sensor housing, said measuring system further comprising a sensor holder, wherein said sensor holder can be fixed on the measuring tube and said sensor holder has a fixing mechanism for the detachable fixing of the sensor housing on the sensor holder, wherein the sensor housing together with the ultrasonic sensors (5, 6) forms a unit which can be fixed on the sensor holder and can be detached from the sensor holder, characterized in that the first ultrasonic sensor and the second ultrasonic sensor are spring mounted and can therefore be pressed onto the measuring tube by a definable force, wherein the fixing mechanism has a spring plate, which is an integral part of the sensor holder or which can be connected to the sensor holder, as well as a clamping bracket, wherein said clamping bracket is pivot-mounted on the sensor housing and has an eccentric recess, wherein when the eccentric recess engages in the spring plate, a force can be applied in the direction of the measuring tube when the clamping bracket is moved onto the sensor housing.
Bone anchor for triangular iliosacral osteosynthesis, comprising an ilium screw having a first longitudinal direction and an iliosacral screw having a second longitudinal direction, wherein the ilium screw, in a thread-free portion, has a preferably elongated-hole-like through-opening transversely to the first longitudinal direction, wherein the iliosacral screw has such a smaller outer diameter in relation to the ilium screw that the iliosacral screw can be guided through said through-opening and can be screwed proceeding from the ilium into the sacrum, through the ilium screw, wherein the ilium screw has a distal threaded portion having a distal core diameter and a nominal distal diameter of the thread and a proximal threaded portion having a proximal core diameter and a proximal nominal diameter of the thread, and wherein the thread-free portion is arranged between the distal and the proximal thread portion, wherein the proximal nominal diameter is greater than an outer diameter of the thread-free portion and the outer diameter of the thread-free portion is greater than the distal nominal diameter, and wherein a sleeve element having a shape complementary to the shape of the through-opening and made of a polymer material is inserted into the through-opening and is then held in the through-opening frictionally and additionally in a form-fitting manner relative to at least one direction, wherein the inner dimension of the sleeve element orthogonally to the first longitudinal direction is smaller than a nominal diameter of a thread of the iliosacral screw.
A method of decoding implemented by a video decoder, comprising: determining, by the video decoder, whether a resolution of a current picture being decoded is the same as the resolution of reference pictures identified by a reference picture list associated with the current picture; enabling, by the video decoder, decoder-side motion vector refinement, DMVR, for a current block of the current picture when the resolution of the current picture is determined to be the same as the resolution of each of the reference pictures; disabling, by the video decoder, the DMVR for the current block of the current picture when the resolution of the current picture is determined to be different than the resolution of either of the reference pictures; and decoding, by the video decoder, the current block. determining, by the video decoder, whether a resolution of a current picture being decoded is the same as the resolution of reference pictures identified by a reference picture list associated with the current picture; enabling, by the video decoder, decoder-side motion vector refinement, DMVR, for a current block of the current picture when the resolution of the current picture is determined to be the same as the resolution of each of the reference pictures; disabling, by the video decoder, the DMVR for the current block of the current picture when the resolution of the current picture is determined to be different than the resolution of either of the reference pictures; and decoding, by the video decoder, the current block.
An ink container (26, 60) including a collapsible liquid storing container having a longitudinal direction in forward and backward directions, filled with an ink and provided with a spout discharging the ink at a back end side of the collapsible liquid storing container in the forward and backward directions; and a container case having a longitudinal direction in the forward and backward directions, containing the collapsible liquid storing container and fixing a back end of the collapsible liquid storing container at a back end side of the container case in the forward and backward directions, wherein the collapsible liquid storing container is configured to contract and to lengthen in the forward and backward directions of the collapsible liquid storing container in accordance with reduction in the ink from a state where the ink is filled inside, characterized in that the container case includes a first housing part housing the collapsible liquid storing container in an ink filled state, and a second housing part having a height less than the first housing part in upward and downward directions orthogonal to the forward and backward directions and housing a lengthened amount of the collapsible liquid storing container depending on the reduction in the ink at a front end side from the first housing part in the container case in the forward and backward directions.
A Coryneform microorganism in which the gene encoding the septum formation initiator protein of SEQ ID NO: 1 is inactivated and which has an improved ability to produce L-lysine compared to the mother strain in which the septum formation initiator protein is not inactivated, wherein the septum formation initiator protein is a filamentous temperature sensitive B (FtsB) protein.
A refrigeration system comprising: - a pulse tube; - a surge volume unit including a surface volume wall defining a surge volume therein; - an inertance tube in fluid communication with the surge volume through an outlet of the inertance tube and in fluid communication with an outlet of the pulse tube through an inlet of the inertance tube; wherein at least part of the inertance tube comprises a channel formed in the surge volume wall having a non-circular cross section; characterised in that said channel has a flat bottom surface, the cross section increasing along a length of the channel from the inlet of the inertance tube to the outlet of the inertance tube by increasing the width of the flat bottom surface. - a pulse tube; - a surge volume unit including a surface volume wall defining a surge volume therein; - an inertance tube in fluid communication with the surge volume through an outlet of the inertance tube and in fluid communication with an outlet of the pulse tube through an inlet of the inertance tube;
An abnormality diagnostic device for an oil jet control valve of an internal combustion engine, the abnormality diagnostic device comprising: an oil pump that is driven by rotation of an internal combustion engine; an oil jet that injects oil toward a piston of the internal combustion engine; an oil jet gallery that sends oil from the oil pump to the oil jet; a control valve that is disposed at the oil jet gallery and controls flow of oil to the oil jet; an oil pressure sensor that is provided upstream of the control valve in the oil jet gallery; and a control unit that controls opening and closing of the control valve, wherein the control unit performs abnormality diagnosis control for determining an abnormality in the control valve, in a case where the internal combustion engine is in a fuel-cut operation state and a predetermined condition is satisfied, and in the abnormality diagnosis control, the control unit sets the control valve to an opened state, and sets the control valve to a closed state after a predetermined period of time elapses in which oil pressure of the oil jet gallery is stabilized, and determines that there is the abnormality in the control valve when a difference between oil pressure of the oil jet gallery at a time when the control valve is opened and oil pressure of the oil jet gallery at time when the control valve is closed after the predetermined period of time elapses is smaller than a predetermined difference. an oil pump that is driven by rotation of an internal combustion engine; an oil jet that injects oil toward a piston of the internal combustion engine; an oil jet gallery that sends oil from the oil pump to the oil jet; a control valve that is disposed at the oil jet gallery and controls flow of oil to the oil jet; an oil pressure sensor that is provided upstream of the control valve in the oil jet gallery; and a control unit that controls opening and closing of the control valve, wherein the control unit performs abnormality diagnosis control for determining an abnormality in the control valve, in a case where the internal combustion engine is in a fuel-cut operation state and a predetermined condition is satisfied, and in the abnormality diagnosis control, the control unit sets the control valve to an opened state, and sets the control valve to a closed state after a predetermined period of time elapses in which oil pressure of the oil jet gallery is stabilized, and determines that there is the abnormality in the control valve when a difference between oil pressure of the oil jet gallery at a time when the control valve is opened and oil pressure of the oil jet gallery at time when the control valve is closed after the predetermined period of time elapses is smaller than a predetermined difference.
Method for containing a slab during continuous casting, which provides to cast a slab along a casting axis, said slab having a predefined width, wherein the method provides a containment of the slab with a plurality of rolls (11, 12), said rolls (11, 12) being disposed in pairs facing to each other, and defining a passage along the casting axis for the cast slab, wherein the plurality of rolls (11, 12) comprises electromagnetic rolls provided with an electromagnetic stirrer which stirs the liquid contained in the slab, and containing rolls configured to exert only a containing action on said slab during continuous casting, characterized in that, during casting, the electromagnetic rolls have a length less than the width of the slab so that the slab protrudes with respect to at least one end of said electromagnetic rolls, with at least one protruding portion, wherein said containing rolls have a length substantially equal to said width of the slab.
Method for producing a superconducting vanadium silicide V 3 Si on a silicon layer, this method comprising: - a stage of treatment of a face of the silicon layer in order to prepare it for a deposition of vanadium silicide, then - the deposition of a vanadium silicide layer on the prepared face of the silicon layer in order to obtain a stack of a vanadium silicide layer directly deposited on the silicon layer, then - an annealing of the stack which increases the critical temperature of the vanadium silicide deposited, characterized in that the treatment stage comprises an operation of incorporation of argon atoms in the silicon layer through the face of this silicon layer. - a stage of treatment of a face of the silicon layer in order to prepare it for a deposition of vanadium silicide, then - the deposition of a vanadium silicide layer on the prepared face of the silicon layer in order to obtain a stack of a vanadium silicide layer directly deposited on the silicon layer, then - an annealing of the stack which increases the critical temperature of the vanadium silicide deposited,
An electrical steel sheet provided with an insulating coating, the electrical steel sheet provided with an insulating coating comprising: an electrical steel sheet; and an insulating coating disposed on the electrical steel sheet, wherein the insulating coating includes Zr and Fe, wherein the content of Zr in the insulating coating is 0.05 to 1.50 g/m 2 in terms of ZrO 2, and wherein the compositional ratio between Zr and Fe is such that the molar ratio of Fe to Zr, that is, the ratio of the amount (moles) of Fe included in the insulating coating to the amount (moles) of Zr included in the insulating coating, is 0.10 to 2.00. an electrical steel sheet; and an insulating coating disposed on the electrical steel sheet, wherein the insulating coating includes Zr and Fe, wherein the content of Zr in the insulating coating is 0.05 to 1.50 g/m 2 in terms of ZrO 2, and wherein the compositional ratio between Zr and Fe is such that the molar ratio of Fe to Zr, that is, the ratio of the amount (moles) of Fe included in the insulating coating to the amount (moles) of Zr included in the insulating coating, is 0.10 to 2.00.
A U-bend with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and with a connecting portion through which the inlet opening is connected to the outlet opening and which comprises a descending forward segment that is connected to the inlet opening through a forward passage, and an ascending rearward segment that is connected to the outlet opening through a rearward passage, and a connecting passage connecting the forward segment to the rearward segment and being situated below the forward passage and the rearward passage, characterised in that it has a filling opening that opens into an upper region of the connecting portion.
A conjugate of formula A-X-B, wherein: - A is a peptide tag molecule of known molecular weight, - X is a linker that is cleaved during sample desorption/ionization, and - B is an antibody that binds specifically to said target molecule, wherein said conjugate is of formula: and wherein said peptide tag molecule has a m/z ratio inferior to 5000 in MALDI mass spectrometry. - A is a peptide tag molecule of known molecular weight, - X is a linker that is cleaved during sample desorption/ionization, and - B is an antibody that binds specifically to said target molecule,
Electric motor for driving a motor vehicle component, having a rotor having a commutator against which a brush bears in a contact-making manner, and having a plastic injection-moulded leadframe for forming a current path which is embossed into an electrical insulation, said current path being connected to the brush, wherein the current path which guides the motor current (I M) is interrupted to form two current path ends (11a, 11b) which are spaced apart from one another and the interruption point is bridged by a contact spring as a thermal release, characterised in that - the contact spring consists of two spring arms (13a, 13b), each having a fixing end (14a, 14b) and a spring free end (15a, 15b), wherein the fixing ends (14a, 14b) of the spring arms (13a, 13b) are each connected to a current path end (11a, 11b) and the spring free ends (15a, 15b) are in contact with one other via a solder connection under spring preload, and - the fixing ends (14a, 14b) of the contact spring have fixing lugs (21a, 21b) which are spaced apart from one another and are guided into corresponding openings (22a, 22b) of the respective current path end (11a, 11b) to produce a snap connection. - the contact spring consists of two spring arms (13a, 13b), each having a fixing end (14a, 14b) and a spring free end (15a, 15b), wherein the fixing ends (14a, 14b) of the spring arms (13a, 13b) are each connected to a current path end (11a, 11b) and the spring free ends (15a, 15b) are in contact with one other via a solder connection under spring preload, and - the fixing ends (14a, 14b) of the contact spring have fixing lugs (21a, 21b) which are spaced apart from one another and are guided into corresponding openings (22a, 22b) of the respective current path end (11a, 11b) to produce a snap connection.