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An apparatus (103b, 208, 400) comprising: a current sense resistor (402a-402d) configured to receive a supply current for one or more devices (102b, 212); a current sense amplifier (404a-404d) configured to amplify a voltage across the current sense resistor; a comparator configured to compare the amplified voltage from the current sense amplifier to a reference voltage; an octal driver (408a-408d) configured to receive the supply current from the current sense resistor and to control one or more device outputs associated with the one or more devices; and an optocoupler (410a-410d) configured to receive an output from the comparator and, based on the output, control an output enable pin of the octal driver. a current sense resistor (402a-402d) configured to receive a supply current for one or more devices (102b, 212); a current sense amplifier (404a-404d) configured to amplify a voltage across the current sense resistor; a comparator configured to compare the amplified voltage from the current sense amplifier to a reference voltage; an octal driver (408a-408d) configured to receive the supply current from the current sense resistor and to control one or more device outputs associated with the one or more devices; and an optocoupler (410a-410d) configured to receive an output from the comparator and, based on the output, control an output enable pin of the octal driver.
A system for delivering sub-atmospheric pressure to a wound for the purpose of wound healing and hemostasis that includes: a) a device that delivers a vacuum pressure in the range of 0 to 33.3 kPa (0 to 250 mm Hg); b) a seal that is semipermeable that covers the wound; c) a tube connecting the device to the seal; and d) a hemostatic appliance comprising: (i) a support that promotes uniform distribution of pressure within the wound and (ii) a hemostatic agent attached to the support; wherein the hemostatic agent is composed of poly- N -acetylglucosamine with a mean fiber size of less than 10 microns. a) a device that delivers a vacuum pressure in the range of 0 to 33.3 kPa (0 to 250 mm Hg); b) a seal that is semipermeable that covers the wound; c) a tube connecting the device to the seal; and d) a hemostatic appliance comprising: (i) a support that promotes uniform distribution of pressure within the wound and (ii) a hemostatic agent attached to the support; (i) a support that promotes uniform distribution of pressure within the wound and (ii) a hemostatic agent attached to the support;
A method for optimizing a capacity of a communication channel in a communication system comprising at least a transmitter, a receiver, and said communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver, the transmitter using a finite set of symbols Ω = { ω 1,..., ω N} having respective positions on a constellation, to transmit a message including at least one symbol on said communication channel, the communication channel being characterized by a conditional probability distribution p Y || X ( y | x), where y is a signal received at the receiver while x is a signal transmitted by the transmitter, x comprising at least one symbol of the set Ω, characterized in that said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y || x) is obtained, for each possible transmitted signal x, by a mixture model using probability distributions represented by exponential functions, and an optimized input distribution p x ( x) is computed, based on parameters of said mixture model, to define optimized symbols positions and probabilities to be used at the transmitter for optimizing the capacity of the channel, and wherein said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y | x) obtained from said mixed model is decomposable into a basis of probability distributions exponential functions g ( y || x θ), where θ is a parameter set, such that: p Y | X y | x = ∑ j = 1 K w j g y | x; θ j where K is a predetermined parameter, the sets { θ j},{ w j} are parameters representing respectively a mean vector coordinates and covariance matrix parameters. the transmitter using a finite set of symbols Ω = { ω 1,..., ω N} having respective positions on a constellation, to transmit a message including at least one symbol on said communication channel, the communication channel being characterized by a conditional probability distribution p Y || X ( y | x), where y is a signal received at the receiver while x is a signal transmitted by the transmitter, x comprising at least one symbol of the set Ω, characterized in that said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y || x) is obtained, for each possible transmitted signal x, by a mixture model using probability distributions represented by exponential functions, and an optimized input distribution p x ( x) is computed, based on parameters of said mixture model, to define optimized symbols positions and probabilities to be used at the transmitter for optimizing the capacity of the channel, and wherein said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y | x) obtained from said mixed model is decomposable into a basis of probability distributions exponential functions g ( y || x θ), where θ is a parameter set, such that: p Y | X y | x = ∑ j = 1 K w j g y | x; θ j where K is a predetermined parameter, the sets { θ j},{ w j} are parameters representing respectively a mean vector coordinates and covariance matrix parameters.
Horticultural and/or agricultural greenhouse (1, 100, 200) for cultivating crops therein, comprising: multiple rows of support columns connected by transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) for forming a roof support construction, each of the transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) having a frame length; a substantially horizontal fabric screen for at least partially darkening and/or thermally shielding the greenhouse (1, 100, 200), wherein the fabric screen is suspended between adjacent transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) and divides the greenhouse (1, 100, 200) in a cultivating space below the fabric screen and a roof space above the fabric screen; and a ventilation system (30, 130, 230) with a ventilation device (50, 150, 250) for displacing air within the cultivation space and/or between the roof space and the cultivation space, characterized in that, the ventilation system (30, 130, 230) further comprises a ventilation device adapter having a longitudinal axis and configured for receiving the ventilation device (50, 150, 250) and for being secured to one or more of the transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) wherein the ventilation device adapter comprises a base beam (31, 131, 231) extending substantially over the frame length of the respective transverse frame (6-10, 106-107, 206) or between two adjacent transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206), wherein the base beam (31, 131, 231) is provided with at least one passage (35, 135, 235) and the ventilation device (50, 150, 250) is in air communication with the at least one passage (35, 135, 235). multiple rows of support columns connected by transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) for forming a roof support construction, each of the transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) having a frame length; a substantially horizontal fabric screen for at least partially darkening and/or thermally shielding the greenhouse (1, 100, 200), wherein the fabric screen is suspended between adjacent transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) and divides the greenhouse (1, 100, 200) in a cultivating space below the fabric screen and a roof space above the fabric screen; and a ventilation system (30, 130, 230) with a ventilation device (50, 150, 250) for displacing air within the cultivation space and/or between the roof space and the cultivation space, characterized in that, the ventilation system (30, 130, 230) further comprises a ventilation device adapter having a longitudinal axis and configured for receiving the ventilation device (50, 150, 250) and for being secured to one or more of the transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206) wherein the ventilation device adapter comprises a base beam (31, 131, 231) extending substantially over the frame length of the respective transverse frame (6-10, 106-107, 206) or between two adjacent transverse frames (6-10, 106-107, 206), wherein the base beam (31, 131, 231) is provided with at least one passage (35, 135, 235) and the ventilation device (50, 150, 250) is in air communication with the at least one passage (35, 135, 235).
An information processing apparatus comprising: feature extraction means configured to extract feature points from a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints by extracting feature points for each of the plurality of images; image quality evaluation means configured to, for each of the plurality of images, each of which including a plurality of regions, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, the image quality evaluation means evaluating a resolution per length unit or area unit of the object for each region based on internal parameters, including image resolution, of a camera used to capture the plurality of images, and using the evaluated resolution as the predetermined index, and wherein, for each of the plurality of regions in each of the plurality of images, the image quality evaluation means evaluates whether the image quality based on the predetermined index satisfies the allowable conditions for inspection works of the object; and image stitching means configured to stitch at least a part of images included in the plurality of images and having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points extracted by the extraction means, the image stitching means stitching regions included in the plurality of images and having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to the positional relation based on the extracted feature points. feature extraction means configured to extract feature points from a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints by extracting feature points for each of the plurality of images; image quality evaluation means configured to, for each of the plurality of images, each of which including a plurality of regions, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, the image quality evaluation means evaluating a resolution per length unit or area unit of the object for each region based on internal parameters, including image resolution, of a camera used to capture the plurality of images, and using the evaluated resolution as the predetermined index, and wherein, for each of the plurality of regions in each of the plurality of images, the image quality evaluation means evaluates whether the image quality based on the predetermined index satisfies the allowable conditions for inspection works of the object; and image stitching means configured to stitch at least a part of images included in the plurality of images and having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points extracted by the extraction means, the image stitching means stitching regions included in the plurality of images and having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to the positional relation based on the extracted feature points.
Assembly forming an access ramp for persons with reduced mobility, designed to be fitted to the rear of a motor vehicle, comprising a panel mounted on a frame, via the intermediary of connection means formed so as to hold the panel in at least three use configurations, among which the panel forms an essentially horizontal floor at the upper part of the frame in a first configuration, the panel is raised essentially vertically to the rear of the frame in a second configuration, and the panel is deployed to the rear of the frame, inclined so as to form an access ramp, in a third configuration, the connection means being moreover formed so as to guide the panel in its successive displacement between the first, the second and the third configuration, the frame having the general shape of a box provided with a bottom, side walls and a front wall, the box being open at the top and having dimensions that correspond essentially to those of the panel such that the latter closes the top of the box in the first configuration, the connection means of the panel comprising an end plate that is articulated to a rear edge of the box between a raised position closing the box and a deployed position corresponding to the third configuration of the panel forming the access ramp, characterized in that the connection means comprise rails with front rollers allowing the front portion of the panel to slide with respect to the side walls of the frame along a direction that is inclined with respect to the horizontal, such that the front portion of the panel lowers as it progresses backwards, the connection means moreover comprising rails with rear rollers allowing the side edges of the panel to slide with respect to the side edges of the end plate, the front rollers being lower than the rear rollers when the end plate is in the raised position and the panel is in the second configuration, and in that the assembly comprises first locking means (13, 115, 116) that are able to secure the front edge of the panel and the base of the end plate when the panel is arranged in the second and the third configuration, or between these configurations, these first locking means (13, 115, 116) being manually releasable.
An air extraction/insufflation shutter (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) constituting a smoke ejection installation, the air extraction/insufflation shutter (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) comprising a frame delimiting at least a first window provided with a grid including fins, characterized in that the air extraction/insufflation shutter (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) comprises at least one sealing profile of the first window arranged between two fins to generate a determined pressure drop in order to obtain a selected air flow passing through the first window, the sealing profile comprising a blade and a member for fixing the blade on the grid.
A supramolecular polymer blend comprising a thermoplastic elastomer functionalized with at least one bis-urea moiety and a functional component which is functionalized with at least one bis-urea moiety which is present in an amount of 0.5-40 wt% based on the total mass of the polymer blend and wherein the functional component is selected from a group consisting of polyalkylene glycol, betaine, polysaccharide, zwitterion, polyol or taurine and derivatives thereof.
IC motor exhaust gas treatment unit, comprising a housing equipped with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, for the entrance and the evacuation of the exhaust gases, respectively, a filter unit and a catalyser unit being hosted within said housing, a transfer duct for transferring the exhaust gas from said filter unit to said catalyser unit being provided between said units, said transfer duct being "U" shaped and having defined therein a first rectilinear longitudinal section equipped, at its beginning, with means for introducing a mixture of reducing substance, a second transversal connection section and a third rectilinear section parallel to the first section, characterised in that said housing is closed at its opposite ends by respective end plates (13a, 13b) and is internally partitioned into four compartments (19a, 19b, 19c, 19d) by means of transversal parallel cross walls (13c, 13d, 13e) and said transfer duct begins at the expansion chamber defined downstream the filter unit in correspondence of the fourth compartment and ends at the expansion chamber defined upstream the catalyser unit in correspondence of the third compartment, in that said third section axially opens in the third compartment, where a corresponding expansion chamber is defined and wherein the gas leaves the transfer duct and expands and in that said first section extends over the whole length of the housing and said second section extends over the whole width of said housing, thus allowing an optimum dispersion of the reducing mixture into the exhaust gas stream flowing within said duct, while keeping the size of the whole treatment unit compact.
A method for classifying left turns of a vehicle, comprising: receiving, by a processor of a mobile device, a sensor signal from a sensor residing in the mobile device while the vehicle is moving, where the signal is indicative of angular speed of the vehicle; identifying, by the processor, one or more bumps in the sensor signal; classifying, by the processor, a left turn made by the vehicle as being a protected left turn based on number of bumps identified in the sensor signal, wherein the left turn is classified as protected left turn in response to identifying one bump in the sensor signal and as unprotected left turn in response to identifying two bumps in the sensor signal; and storing the resulting classifications in a database. receiving, by a processor of a mobile device, a sensor signal from a sensor residing in the mobile device while the vehicle is moving, where the signal is indicative of angular speed of the vehicle; identifying, by the processor, one or more bumps in the sensor signal; classifying, by the processor, a left turn made by the vehicle as being a protected left turn based on number of bumps identified in the sensor signal, wherein the left turn is classified as protected left turn in response to identifying one bump in the sensor signal and as unprotected left turn in response to identifying two bumps in the sensor signal; and storing the resulting classifications in a database.
An actuator device with an expansion unit having a magnetically active shape memory alloy material, which from an starting position executes an expansion movement along a direction of expansion as a reaction to an application of current to a coil device, and interacts with restoring means, which exert a restoring force, opposed to the direction of expansion, onto the expansion unit, characterised in that the restoring means have permanent magnetic means, which engage with, or are located on, a section of the expansion unit, such that the permanent magnetically generated restoring force alters with an increasing expansion stroke in the direction of expansion, wherein the permanent magnetic means (16, 34, 40, 52, 54) are formed and/or equipped such that with no application of current to the coil device a contraction of the expansion unit can take place along the expansion stroke into the starting position.
A method performed by an enhanced Node B, eNB, of operating multi-band and multi-cell communication, the method comprising: transmitting a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel for narrow-band User Equipments, UEs, through a first band narrower than a system band, the first band being located in a center band of the system band, the narrow-band UEs configured to support a bandwidth narrower than a system bandwidth of the system band of the eNB; establishing a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection with a first narrow-band UE, which is one of said narrow-band UEs, through the first band, transmitting, to the first narrow-band UE and through the RRC connection, information on a second band and information on a position of a first subframe where a control channel is transmitted; and transmitting the control channel for scheduling a data channel for the first narrow-band UE through the second band equal to or wider than the first band, the second band not overlapping the first band within the system band, wherein the first band is equal to a band where a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel of a host cell using the entire system band are transmitted. transmitting a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel for narrow-band User Equipments, UEs, through a first band narrower than a system band, the first band being located in a center band of the system band, the narrow-band UEs configured to support a bandwidth narrower than a system bandwidth of the system band of the eNB; establishing a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection with a first narrow-band UE, which is one of said narrow-band UEs, through the first band, transmitting, to the first narrow-band UE and through the RRC connection, information on a second band and information on a position of a first subframe where a control channel is transmitted; and transmitting the control channel for scheduling a data channel for the first narrow-band UE through the second band equal to or wider than the first band, the second band not overlapping the first band within the system band, wherein the first band is equal to a band where a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel of a host cell using the entire system band are transmitted.
Passenger seat of a transport vehicle, in particular a railway vehicle, comprising a seat extending in a plane, called the horizontal plane, a backrest and at least one side armrest (20, 30) intended to forming at least one horizontal support surface for an arm of a passenger seated on said seat and leaning against said backrest of said passenger seat, characterized in that at least one side armrest (20, 30) is mounted on said seat so as to be able to move from a first position, called the comfort-arm position, in which said armrest (20, 30) has a first maximum horizontal support surface for receiving an arm of a passenger, to at least a second position, called the comfort-seated position, in which said armrest has a second non-zero minimum horizontal support surface, for receiving a passenger's arm, distinct of said first horizontal bearing surface.
A method for controlling an aircraft propeller, the method comprising: obtaining a measurement of a speed (N P) of the propeller; comparing the propeller speed (N P) to a speed threshold (N P Thresh); in response to determining that the propeller speed (N P) exceeds the speed threshold (N P Thresh), outputting a valve control signal for opening a two-position solenoid valve coupled to the propeller, the two-position solenoid valve configured for controlling fluid flow to and from the propeller to control a blade angle of the propeller; computing a rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot); comparing the rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot) to a rate of change threshold, the rate of change threshold computed based on a previous rate of change of the propeller speed recorded upon a last opening of the two-position solenoid valve; and in response to determining that the rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot) is below the rate of change threshold, outputting the valve control signal for closing the two-position solenoid valve. obtaining a measurement of a speed (N P) of the propeller; comparing the propeller speed (N P) to a speed threshold (N P Thresh); in response to determining that the propeller speed (N P) exceeds the speed threshold (N P Thresh), outputting a valve control signal for opening a two-position solenoid valve coupled to the propeller, the two-position solenoid valve configured for controlling fluid flow to and from the propeller to control a blade angle of the propeller; computing a rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot); comparing the rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot) to a rate of change threshold, the rate of change threshold computed based on a previous rate of change of the propeller speed recorded upon a last opening of the two-position solenoid valve; and in response to determining that the rate of change of the propeller speed (N Pdot) is below the rate of change threshold, outputting the valve control signal for closing the two-position solenoid valve.