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An apparatus for aligning one or more materials in order to construct an article, the apparatus comprising: a solid plate having a face, a back, and an array of holes, each hole in the array of holes extending from the back of the solid plate to the face of the solid plate; an array of pins aligned with the array of holes, wherein each pin of the array of pins, when in an extended position, extends at least partially beyond the face of the solid plate, and when in a retracted position, retracts behind the face of the solid plate; a programmable actuator system that individually actuates the each pin of the array of pins, wherein individually actuating the each pin comprises at least one of extending and retracting the each pin; and a computing system interfaced with the programmable actuator system, the computing system operable to cause the programmable actuator system to independently actuate the each pin of the array of pins. a solid plate having a face, a back, and an array of holes, each hole in the array of holes extending from the back of the solid plate to the face of the solid plate; an array of pins aligned with the array of holes, wherein each pin of the array of pins, when in an extended position, extends at least partially beyond the face of the solid plate, and when in a retracted position, retracts behind the face of the solid plate; a programmable actuator system that individually actuates the each pin of the array of pins, wherein individually actuating the each pin comprises at least one of extending and retracting the each pin; and a computing system interfaced with the programmable actuator system, the computing system operable to cause the programmable actuator system to independently actuate the each pin of the array of pins.
An intervertebral implant for implantation in a treated area of an intervertebral space between vertebral bodies of a spine, wherein said implant comprises: a spacer portion having, an inferior and superior surface, wherein the inferior and superior surfaces each have a contact area capable of engaging with anatomy in the treated area, and the inferior and superior surfaces define a through-hole having an inner surface extending through the spacer portion; screw holes extending from a side portion to the inferior and superior surfaces of the spacer portion; a plate portion rigidly coupled to the spacer portion through a coupling means, wherein the plate portion contains screws holes for receiving screws (36, 37); and a screw back out prevention mechanism adapted on the plate portion and preventing the back out of screws (36, 37) from the screw holes wherein at least one ridge is configured on a portion of the inner surface of the spacer wherein the spacer portion comprises a plurality of protrusions in the superior and inferior aspects of the spacer body to help prevent migration of the implant characterized in that the plate portion is provided with knife like edges which are designed to engage the vertebral body and provide additional torsional stability to that of the screws (36, 37). a spacer portion having, an inferior and superior surface, wherein the inferior and superior surfaces each have a contact area capable of engaging with anatomy in the treated area, and the inferior and superior surfaces define a through-hole having an inner surface extending through the spacer portion; screw holes extending from a side portion to the inferior and superior surfaces of the spacer portion; a plate portion rigidly coupled to the spacer portion through a coupling means, wherein the plate portion contains screws holes for receiving screws (36, 37); and a screw back out prevention mechanism adapted on the plate portion and preventing the back out of screws (36, 37) from the screw holes wherein at least one ridge is configured on a portion of the inner surface of the spacer wherein the spacer portion comprises a plurality of protrusions in the superior and inferior aspects of the spacer body to help prevent migration of the implant characterized in that the plate portion is provided with knife like edges which are designed to engage the vertebral body and provide additional torsional stability to that of the screws (36, 37).
A process for estimation of a reference posture of a subject for the purposes of taking measurements for determination of parameters for the manufacture of a vision correction device, comprising the following steps, for a plurality of arrivals of the head on a target reference posture from at least one deviated posture: - during each arrival on the target reference posture, measuring the real reference posture, to obtain several sets of data of real reference posture, and storing said sets of data, - by means of a digital processing unit, processing said sets of data of real reference posture to obtain an optimal reference posture. - during each arrival on the target reference posture, measuring the real reference posture, to obtain several sets of data of real reference posture, and storing said sets of data, - by means of a digital processing unit, processing said sets of data of real reference posture to obtain an optimal reference posture.
A roof luggage rack for a vehicle, comprising: a luggage rack body defining a mounting hole; a fastener fixing the luggage rack body on the vehicle roof; and a mounting cover engaged in the mounting hole to seal the luggage rack body; the luggage rack body comprises a base body and a cover body attached on the base body; it is characterized in that the cover body comprises a top wall, a bottom wall and two opposite side walls connecting with the top and bottom walls (122,124), the mounting hole is defined in one of the side walls. a luggage rack body defining a mounting hole; a fastener fixing the luggage rack body on the vehicle roof; and a mounting cover engaged in the mounting hole to seal the luggage rack body; the luggage rack body comprises a base body and a cover body attached on the base body; it is characterized in that the cover body comprises a top wall, a bottom wall and two opposite side walls connecting with the top and bottom walls (122,124), the mounting hole is defined in one of the side walls.
Hand-held device for the portioned dispensing of sprayable substances, in particular inhalation medicaments, having a housing and a cartridge which can be displaced into a dispensing position relative to the housing by the application of pressure, the housing having a mouthpiece, wherein further the cartridge is initially displaceable into a dispensing readiness position and, with the cartridge in the dispensing readiness position, a dispensing spraying process can be triggered by suction, wherein further the displacement of the cartridge into the dispensing readiness position can be carried out by tensioning a spring supported on the housing and acting on the cartridge, wherein the spring acting on the cartridge is enabled to but is prevented from doing so by a counterforce, which counterforce can be rendered inoperative by the user as a result of negative pressure being applied by the mouthpiece of the hand-held device, the negative pressure moving a valve flap which cancels a mechanical block on the displacement of the cartridge from the dispensing-readiness position into the dispensing position, characterized in that the valve flap is arranged in the direction of movement (r) of the cartridge from the rest position into the spray position below a first air-permeable housing base of the housing and that the housing base separates a space accommodating the valve flap from the mouthpiece.
A sanitary napkin for external use comprising a total surface which is provided with a useful surface adapted to absorb the biological fluid, characterized in that it comprises a nano silver treated layer (5, 8), an anionic strip and an absorbent polymeric band, said sanitary napkin having a length between 140 mm and 380 mm, said anionic strip having a stable concentration of negative ions per cubic centimeters between 4100 and 8000, over an area between 3% and 34% of the total surface, and between 7% and 34% of the useful surface.
A polymer-based device comprising: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an active polymer layer disposed on and in contact with the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on and in contact with the active polymer layer, wherein the first and the second electrodes are organic electrodes comprising a doped electroconductive organic polymer, characterised in that the active polymer layer comprises the electroconductive organic polymer of the first and the second electrodes, and the first and the second electrodes have a conductivity at least three orders of magnitude higher than the conductivity of the active polymer layer. a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an active polymer layer disposed on and in contact with the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on and in contact with the active polymer layer, wherein the first and the second electrodes are organic electrodes comprising a doped electroconductive organic polymer, characterised in that the active polymer layer comprises the electroconductive organic polymer of the first and the second electrodes, and the first and the second electrodes have a conductivity at least three orders of magnitude higher than the conductivity of the active polymer layer.
A method for wireless communication by a user equipment, UE, comprising: receiving signaling indicating partial band settings for a plurality of bandwidth parts within a system bandwidth, wherein each bandwidth part includes a set of physical resource blocks, PRBs; receiving partial band channel state information, CSI, reference signal, CSI-RS, settings for one or more partial bands within a system bandwidth for channel state information CSI-related processing, wherein each partial band includes a set of PRBs, and has respective partial band CSI-RS settings; receiving, channel state information, CSI, subband settings for the UE to use for CSI reporting; receiving partial band CSI reference signals, CSI-RS, from the at least one BS; transmitting CSI-reporting to the at least one BS, in accordance with the partial band CSI-RS settings and the CSI subband settings; and communicating with at least one base station, BS, in accordance with the partial band settings. receiving signaling indicating partial band settings for a plurality of bandwidth parts within a system bandwidth, wherein each bandwidth part includes a set of physical resource blocks, PRBs; receiving partial band channel state information, CSI, reference signal, CSI-RS, settings for one or more partial bands within a system bandwidth for channel state information CSI-related processing, wherein each partial band includes a set of PRBs, and has respective partial band CSI-RS settings; receiving, channel state information, CSI, subband settings for the UE to use for CSI reporting; receiving partial band CSI reference signals, CSI-RS, from the at least one BS; transmitting CSI-reporting to the at least one BS, in accordance with the partial band CSI-RS settings and the CSI subband settings; and communicating with at least one base station, BS, in accordance with the partial band settings.
A container roll out warehousing system for carrying or storing cargo, comprising: at least two inter-connectable modular platforms, wherein each platform includes: a substantially planar top surface for receiving cargo; at least one roller unit at a first lateral end of the platform; a pair of open fork lift pockets transverse to a central longitudinal axis of the platform; two pair of fork lift pocket plates at a second lateral end of the platform opposite to the first lateral end, to locate a pair of lifting tines of a fork lift device under the platform; and a corner casting at each corner of the first and second lateral ends of the platform; characterised in that the container roll out warehousing system comprises further a plurality of removable corner posts, and wherein the container roll out warehousing system is operable so that two or more of said platforms are releasably inter-connectable such that the central longitudinal axes of the two or more platforms are collinear; and also releasably inter-connectable such that the two or more platforms are vertically stackable in a spaced apart relationship using the plurality of removable corner posts releasably fastenable to the corner castings of the two or more platforms to vertically space apart the said two or more platforms. at least two inter-connectable modular platforms, wherein each platform includes: a substantially planar top surface for receiving cargo; at least one roller unit at a first lateral end of the platform; a pair of open fork lift pockets transverse to a central longitudinal axis of the platform; two pair of fork lift pocket plates at a second lateral end of the platform opposite to the first lateral end, to locate a pair of lifting tines of a fork lift device under the platform; and a corner casting at each corner of the first and second lateral ends of the platform; characterised in that the container roll out warehousing system comprises further a plurality of removable corner posts, and a substantially planar top surface for receiving cargo; at least one roller unit at a first lateral end of the platform; a pair of open fork lift pockets transverse to a central longitudinal axis of the platform; two pair of fork lift pocket plates at a second lateral end of the platform opposite to the first lateral end, to locate a pair of lifting tines of a fork lift device under the platform; and a corner casting at each corner of the first and second lateral ends of the platform; characterised in that the container roll out warehousing system comprises further a plurality of removable corner posts, and wherein the container roll out warehousing system is operable so that two or more of said platforms are releasably inter-connectable such that the central longitudinal axes of the two or more platforms are collinear; and also releasably inter-connectable such that the two or more platforms are vertically stackable in a spaced apart relationship using the plurality of removable corner posts releasably fastenable to the corner castings of the two or more platforms to vertically space apart the said two or more platforms.
Apparatus for making objects (200; 300), in particular containers, by forming a first web of thermoformable material and a second web of thermoformable material, arranged facing one another and welded together in defined welding zones (212; 312) so as to define preforms (210; 310) of said objects (200; 300), comprising a forming station (22; 122; 222) provided with forming means (40, 50; 140, 150; 240, 250) for forming said objects (200; 300) by injecting a forming fluid inside said preforms (210; 310), said forming station (22; 122; 222) comprising cutting means (80, 90; 180, 190; 280, 290) associated with said forming means (40, 50; 140, 150; 240, 250) and arranged for cutting said first web and said second web at said welding zones (212; 312) so as to separate said objects (200; 300), said forming means comprising first forming mould means (40; 140; 240) and second forming mould means (50; 150; 250), said first forming mould means (40; 140; 240) and said second forming mould means (50; 150; 250) being movable along a movement direction and cooperating together to form said objects (200; 300) and subsequently cut said webs (111, 112), said apparatus further comprising preheating means (35, 36) associated with said forming means (140, 150) for heating said first web and said second web, characterised in that said preheating means comprises heating elements (35, 36) that are slidably housed in seat means (145, 146) of said first forming mould means.
A method for communicating with a remote device, the method comprising: using a computer processor and a network interface: discovering a set of supported application-layer communications protocols of the remote device; selecting (2020, 3000) one of the set of supported application-layer communications protocols as a selected application-layer communications protocol for a message received from a source application, based upon a characteristic of a computer network used to communicate with the remote device and a communication characteristic of the source application of the message, wherein this selecting (2020, 3000) comprises: detecting the characteristic of the computer network; determining the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting rows of a database matching the characteristic of the computer network and the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting the application-layer communications protocol corresponding to a selected row that has a lowest transmission time; constructing the message according to the selected application-layer communications protocol; transmitting the message to the remote device over the computer network using the selected application-layer communications protocol and the network interface; and updating the database based upon a communication parameter of the transmitted message. discovering a set of supported application-layer communications protocols of the remote device; selecting (2020, 3000) one of the set of supported application-layer communications protocols as a selected application-layer communications protocol for a message received from a source application, based upon a characteristic of a computer network used to communicate with the remote device and a communication characteristic of the source application of the message, wherein this selecting (2020, 3000) comprises: detecting the characteristic of the computer network; determining the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting rows of a database matching the characteristic of the computer network and the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting the application-layer communications protocol corresponding to a selected row that has a lowest transmission time; detecting the characteristic of the computer network; determining the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting rows of a database matching the characteristic of the computer network and the communication characteristic of the source application; and selecting the application-layer communications protocol corresponding to a selected row that has a lowest transmission time; constructing the message according to the selected application-layer communications protocol; transmitting the message to the remote device over the computer network using the selected application-layer communications protocol and the network interface; and updating the database based upon a communication parameter of the transmitted message.
A method of producing a low-density thermally conductive material made of thermally expanded graphite that does not contain acid admixtures corrosive to metal, and whose water extract is characterized by neutral or basic pH values, characterized in that said method comprises the following stages: obtaining hydrolyzed graphite nitrate particles by chemical or electrochemical interaction of natural graphite with nitric acid and subsequent hydrolysis by washing with water; obtaining thermally expanded graphite particles by heating said hydrolyzed graphite nitrate particles washed with water at a specific heat equal to or exceeding 4.7 KJ/g but not exceeding 12 KJ/g in an atmosphere of liquid or gaseous fuel combustion products in the air with an air-fuel equivalence ratio λ of from 0.8 to 1.1 in terms of fuel; subsequently compacting the aforesaid thermally expanded graphite to an apparent density of from 0.03 to 0.1 g/cm 3. obtaining hydrolyzed graphite nitrate particles by chemical or electrochemical interaction of natural graphite with nitric acid and subsequent hydrolysis by washing with water; obtaining thermally expanded graphite particles by heating said hydrolyzed graphite nitrate particles washed with water at a specific heat equal to or exceeding 4.7 KJ/g but not exceeding 12 KJ/g in an atmosphere of liquid or gaseous fuel combustion products in the air with an air-fuel equivalence ratio λ of from 0.8 to 1.1 in terms of fuel; subsequently compacting the aforesaid thermally expanded graphite to an apparent density of from 0.03 to 0.1 g/cm 3.
A method for wireless communications, comprising: identifying a set of available channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, patterns defining resources for use in transmitting CSI-RS in a subframe from multiple antenna ports; identifying a subset of the set of available CSI-RS patterns based on a transmission configuration; selecting one of the CSI-RS patterns from the subset; transmitting CSI-RS in the subframe according to the selected CSI-RS pattern; the method being characterized in that the transmission configuration either involves transmission to a relay base station or transmission of a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network, MBSFN, subframe, or the transmission configuration determines whether or not a particular antenna port is used to transmit a user equipment reference signal, UE RS, in the subframe, wherein, if a UE RS is transmitted on specific resource elements, REs, in an OFDM symbol, the subset of the set of available CSI-RS patterns comprises patterns that use REs other than UE RS REs on symbols containing the UE-RS. identifying a set of available channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, patterns defining resources for use in transmitting CSI-RS in a subframe from multiple antenna ports; identifying a subset of the set of available CSI-RS patterns based on a transmission configuration; selecting one of the CSI-RS patterns from the subset; transmitting CSI-RS in the subframe according to the selected CSI-RS pattern; the method being characterized in that the transmission configuration either involves transmission to a relay base station or transmission of a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network, MBSFN, subframe, or the transmission configuration determines whether or not a particular antenna port is used to transmit a user equipment reference signal, UE RS, in the subframe, wherein, if a UE RS is transmitted on specific resource elements, REs, in an OFDM symbol, the subset of the set of available CSI-RS patterns comprises patterns that use REs other than UE RS REs on symbols containing the UE-RS.
A method for lubricating a mechanical device, wherein the mechanical device is a hydraulic system or turbine, the method comprising supplying the mechanical device with a lubricating composition comprising: (a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; (b) 0.1 wt. % to 1.5wt. % of a zinc containing dispersant having a N-substituted long chain alkenyl succinimide, wherein the N-substituted long chain alkenyl succinimide is a polyisobutylene succinimide with number average molecular weight of the polyisobutylene substituent in the range 350 to 5000; (c) 0.2 to 1 wt %. of a zinc di-hydrocarbyl-substituted dithiophosphate, wherein at least one hydrocarbyl group is 2-ethylhexyl; and (d) optionally one or more additives comprising a detergent, an antioxidant, a corrosion inhibitor, a carboxylic acid or anhydride, or mixtures thereof. (a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; (b) 0.1 wt. % to 1.5wt. % of a zinc containing dispersant having a N-substituted long chain alkenyl succinimide, wherein the N-substituted long chain alkenyl succinimide is a polyisobutylene succinimide with number average molecular weight of the polyisobutylene substituent in the range 350 to 5000; (c) 0.2 to 1 wt %. of a zinc di-hydrocarbyl-substituted dithiophosphate, wherein at least one hydrocarbyl group is 2-ethylhexyl; and (d) optionally one or more additives comprising a detergent, an antioxidant, a corrosion inhibitor, a carboxylic acid or anhydride, or mixtures thereof.