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A buffer for a voltage-controlled oscillator, VCO, comprising: a first inverter stage having an input node configured to receive a first complementary signal of a differential pair; a second inverter stage having an input node configured to receive a second complementary signal of the differential pair; a biasing stage replicating the first inverter stage or the second inverter stage, wherein an output node of the biasing stage is connected with an input node of the biasing stage; a first impedance coupled between the input node of the first inverter stage and the input node of the biasing stage; and a second impedance coupled between the input node of the second inverter stage and the input node of the biasing stage. a first inverter stage having an input node configured to receive a first complementary signal of a differential pair; a second inverter stage having an input node configured to receive a second complementary signal of the differential pair; a biasing stage replicating the first inverter stage or the second inverter stage, wherein an output node of the biasing stage is connected with an input node of the biasing stage; a first impedance coupled between the input node of the first inverter stage and the input node of the biasing stage; and a second impedance coupled between the input node of the second inverter stage and the input node of the biasing stage.
A lower vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising: a side sill having a closed-cross section jointly formed by a side sill outer and a side sill inner which extend in a vehicle longitudinal direction; and a cross member joined to the side sill inner of the side sill at a position located on a rearward side, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, relative to a front end portion of the side sill and extending toward an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, from the side sill, and characterised in that the side sill inner comprises an upper face portion and a lower face portion which is downwardly away from the upper face portion, each of which comprises a bending portion, a slant face portion, and a vehicle-width-direction face portion which are respectively located at least in an area, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, between the front end portion of the side sill and the cross member, the bending portion being formed by each of the upper face portion and the lower face portion bent toward an inside of the side sill, the slant face portion being configured to extend from the bending portion toward the side sill outer in an oblique direction such that a width, in a vertical direction, of the side sill inner gradually increases, the vehicle-width-direction face portion being configured to extend in the vehicle width direction toward the inward side, in the vehicle width direction, from the bending portion. a side sill having a closed-cross section jointly formed by a side sill outer and a side sill inner which extend in a vehicle longitudinal direction; and a cross member joined to the side sill inner of the side sill at a position located on a rearward side, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, relative to a front end portion of the side sill and extending toward an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, from the side sill, and characterised in that the side sill inner comprises an upper face portion and a lower face portion which is downwardly away from the upper face portion, each of which comprises a bending portion, a slant face portion, and a vehicle-width-direction face portion which are respectively located at least in an area, in the vehicle longitudinal direction, between the front end portion of the side sill and the cross member, the bending portion being formed by each of the upper face portion and the lower face portion bent toward an inside of the side sill, the slant face portion being configured to extend from the bending portion toward the side sill outer in an oblique direction such that a width, in a vertical direction, of the side sill inner gradually increases, the vehicle-width-direction face portion being configured to extend in the vehicle width direction toward the inward side, in the vehicle width direction, from the bending portion.
Shredder having a cutting unit mounted at the top and a collecting container disposed underneath, substantially comprising the following features: - the cutting unit has a receiving slot for the material to be shredded in the top section of the housing; - the cutting unit has an outlet opening for the shredded material on a bottom face of its bottom section of its housing; - a cutting roller pair driven by an electric motor is disposed between the receiving slot and the outlet opening; - a thickness sensor for the material to be shredded is disposed between the top face of the housing of the cutting unit and the intake region of the cutting roller pair; - the thickness sensor extends into the receiving slot and - is mounted so as to be pivotable about a stationary longitudinal axis - which extends parallel with the receiving slot; characterised in that a gap - which is formed by an active part (10; 101) and a passive part (11; 111) of the thickness sensor (7; 71; 72) - remains substantially constant in the event of a possible pivoting movement of the active part (10; 101) and/or the passive part. - the cutting unit has a receiving slot for the material to be shredded in the top section of the housing; - the cutting unit has an outlet opening for the shredded material on a bottom face of its bottom section of its housing; - a cutting roller pair driven by an electric motor is disposed between the receiving slot and the outlet opening; - a thickness sensor for the material to be shredded is disposed between the top face of the housing of the cutting unit and the intake region of the cutting roller pair; - the thickness sensor extends into the receiving slot and - is mounted so as to be pivotable about a stationary longitudinal axis - which extends parallel with the receiving slot;
Fluid-circulation pump for a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle comprising a pump case defining an outlet or discharge conduit portion, said conduit portion comprising a device for automatically regulating the flow rate in said conduit portion crossed by a liquid flow, said device comprising a regulating member, mounted with a facility for limited pivoting or sliding in said portion, and an assembly for controlling the position of said regulating member, characterised in that said control assembly comprises a calibrated actuating component mounted with a facility for displacement in the conduit portion and exposed to the liquid flow by displaying a given exposed surface; a position control mechanism (6, 7; 6, 7") connecting the actuating component and the regulating member; and an elastic-action means urging the actuating component, directly or via the aforementioned mechanism (6, 7; 5, 7"), toward a position corresponding to a maximum open position of the regulating member, counter to the force generated by the pressure resulting from the liquid flow acting on said component, and wherein the actuating component is mounted in the conduit portion with a facility for sliding in the direction of the flow, the position control mechanism (6, 7) comprises a joint that transforms the translational movement of the actuating component into a rotational movement in the region of the rotatory regulating member.
The use of an oil a) having a dielectric constant of at least 4.0 in a cosmetic composition to increase after application of the composition to the human skin the evaporation rate of water and/or sweat from the skin;
Method for manufacturing a food packaging with a container, which method comprises the steps of: - Deforming a first film, thus forming a bottom, at least one side wall, and a flange protruding outward on an upper edge of the side wall; - Providing a second film comprising a first zone(33A, 34A); - Placing the second film on the first film or vice versa in a manner such that the first zone (33A, 34A) of the second film overlaps with the flange in a contact area; - Connecting the first film and the second film characterized in that: - the second film is provided with a recess and - the first film and the second film are connected by means of thermoforming, wherein the contact area and an overlapping part of the flange are fused into an edge piece, wherein an upper side of the edge piece is provided with a welding surface to which a sealing film can be attached. - Deforming a first film, thus forming a bottom, at least one side wall, and a flange protruding outward on an upper edge of the side wall; - Providing a second film comprising a first zone(33A, 34A); - Placing the second film on the first film or vice versa in a manner such that the first zone (33A, 34A) of the second film overlaps with the flange in a contact area; - Connecting the first film and the second film - the second film is provided with a recess and - the first film and the second film are connected by means of thermoforming,
An energy storage apparatus for a vehicle comprising an energy storage device having a negative electrode including a negative active material which contains: a first active material made of a carbon material; and a second active material having a higher oxidation potential than the carbon material and having a higher discharge capacity per volume than the carbon material, wherein in performing discharging of the energy storage device, a main discharge reaction occurs in the first active material during a normal time, and the main discharge reaction occurs in the second active material during an emergency time so that an amount of electricity reserved as a spare electricity is taken out, wherein the emergency time is the time when the discharge reaction of the first active material is finished after the use of the normal time, and additional discharging becomes necessary, and wherein a ratio of D50 particle size of the first active material / D50 particle size of the second active material is 4 or more, and said D50 particle size is a value obtained by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution measurement. in performing discharging of the energy storage device, a main discharge reaction occurs in the first active material during a normal time, and the main discharge reaction occurs in the second active material during an emergency time so that an amount of electricity reserved as a spare electricity is taken out, wherein the emergency time is the time when the discharge reaction of the first active material is finished after the use of the normal time, and additional discharging becomes necessary, and wherein a ratio of D50 particle size of the first active material / D50 particle size of the second active material is 4 or more, and said D50 particle size is a value obtained by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution measurement.
A use of a mixture comprising or, alternatively, consisting of (i) an ethoxylated castor oil containing from 8 to 200 ethyleneoxy groups, or (ii) an ethoxylated castor oil containing from 8 to 200 ethyleneoxy groups and polyethylene glycol esters of fatty acids obtained from soybean oil, in association with at least one vegetable olein selected from the group consisting of an oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, a triglyceride of oleic acid and palm oil or mixtures thereof in a process for preparing an animal feed containing nutritive substances in liquid, powder or granular form. (i) an ethoxylated castor oil containing from 8 to 200 ethyleneoxy groups, or (ii) an ethoxylated castor oil containing from 8 to 200 ethyleneoxy groups and polyethylene glycol esters of fatty acids obtained from soybean oil,
An optical system comprising: (a) a light-guide optical element, LOE, having a pair of parallel major external surfaces (102, 104); and (b) a plurality of mutually-parallel reflector surfaces (106a, 106b, 106c) within said LOE, said reflector surfaces (106a, 106b, 106c) being obliquely angled relative to said major external surfaces (102, 104), wherein the optical system is characterized in that at least one of said reflector surfaces (106b, 106c) is configured to have high reflectivity for angles of incidence above 60 degrees to the normal and partial reflectivity for angles of incidence less than 35 degrees to the normal, wherein said high reflectivity is in excess of 95% for angles of incidence above 60 degrees and said partial reflectivity is no more than 50%. (a) a light-guide optical element, LOE, having a pair of parallel major external surfaces (102, 104); and (b) a plurality of mutually-parallel reflector surfaces (106a, 106b, 106c) within said LOE, said reflector surfaces (106a, 106b, 106c) being obliquely angled relative to said major external surfaces (102, 104),
A separator spline for use in a telecommunications cable, characterized in that the spline comprises: first and second elongate dividing strips and having a substantially H shaped cross section and arranged side by side, offset or staggered relative to one another; wherein the spline twists helicoidally along its length.
A user equipment comprising: a receiver and a processor operable to receive a radio resource control, RRC, signal including uplink sounding reference signal, UL SRS, configuration information; and the receiver and the processor further operable to receive a semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, message to initiate transmission of UL SRSs; and the processor and a transmitter operable to transmit UL SRSs in a time and frequency pattern based on the UL SRS configuration information and the SPS message. a receiver and a processor operable to receive a radio resource control, RRC, signal including uplink sounding reference signal, UL SRS, configuration information; and the receiver and the processor further operable to receive a semi-persistent scheduling, SPS, message to initiate transmission of UL SRSs; and the processor and a transmitter operable to transmit UL SRSs in a time and frequency pattern based on the UL SRS configuration information and the SPS message.
A paste composition for forming a solar cell electrode, comprising a conductive powder, an organic vehicle and a glass frit, wherein the glass frit comprises 0.1 wt% of PbO, 60 wt% of Bi 2 O 3, 15 wt% of TeO 2 and 15 wt% of WO 3, 8.9 wt% of SiO 2, 1 wt% of Li 2 O and the mass ratio of TeO 2 to WOs being 1:1; or the glass frit comprises 7 wt% of PbO, 50 wt% of Bi 2 O 3, 14 wt% of TeO 2 and 8 wt% of WO 3, 10 wt% of ZnO, 10 wt% of SiO 2, 1 wt% of Li 2 O and the mass ratio of TeO 2 to WOs being 1.75:1; the average particle diameter D 50 of the glass frit being 0.1-10 μm.
Heat guard for cooking appliances with a support element and a metal sheet fastened to this support element, wherein the support element is designed in a "U" shape, so that it has a groove between metal strips which are parallel to one another, said groove being built for receiving one of the longitudinal edges of the metal sheet, wherein the support element has at least one associated lug which forms a protrusion which points downward from the upper metal strip and the metal sheet has at least one protrusion, which is attached to its longitudinal edge, wherein the protrusion attached to the longitudinal edge is upwardly arched from the metal sheet and forms a counter piece to the lug of the support element and in this way the said lug rests against a surface of the counter piece and ensures that the metal sheet is fastened to the support element in a stable manner, and wherein the support element has a mounting area attached at both ends, which offers the option of mounting the said support element between lateral strips (4, 5) of the cooking appliance so that a door of the cooking appliance can lean against the other longitudinal edge of the metal sheet and the door can thus be kept in a half open position.
A method (100, 300) implemented in a communication network associated with a mobile device, the method comprising: receiving (102, 312) a download request and network visibility data from the mobile device, wherein the network visibility data relates to one or more networks, and wherein the network visibility data refers to one or more of: received signal strength; network type; network ID; and handoff calculation data; determining (104, 314) that the download request is better handled by a target network than the communication network, based at least in part on the network visibility data; initiating (106, 316) a handoff request with the target network; placing a restriction on one or more resources of the target network available to process the download request from the mobile device, wherein the restriction includes one or more of a limit on duration of time available to process the download request, a limit on a size of file that may be downloaded, a limit on a data rate available to process the download request, or a limit on services available on the target network that may be accessed; and maintaining (108, 320) a service priority for the mobile device with the communication network while the mobile device is in communication with the target network, wherein the handoff request comprises a pre-reversed handoff request including a first portion designating a forward handoff from the communication network to the target network, and a second portion designating a reverse handoff from the target network to the communication network. receiving (102, 312) a download request and network visibility data from the mobile device, wherein the network visibility data relates to one or more networks, and wherein the network visibility data refers to one or more of: received signal strength; network type; network ID; and handoff calculation data; determining (104, 314) that the download request is better handled by a target network than the communication network, based at least in part on the network visibility data; initiating (106, 316) a handoff request with the target network; placing a restriction on one or more resources of the target network available to process the download request from the mobile device, wherein the restriction includes one or more of a limit on duration of time available to process the download request, a limit on a size of file that may be downloaded, a limit on a data rate available to process the download request, or a limit on services available on the target network that may be accessed; and maintaining (108, 320) a service priority for the mobile device with the communication network while the mobile device is in communication with the target network, wherein the handoff request comprises a pre-reversed handoff request including a first portion designating a forward handoff from the communication network to the target network, and a second portion designating a reverse handoff from the target network to the communication network.
A method for depositing a binary nickel and tungsten alloy, comprising the steps of: a. providing a liquid comprising dissolved species of at least nickel and tungsten; b. providing a first electrode as a nominal cathode electrode and a second electrode as a nominal anode electrode in the liquid, coupled to a power supply configured to supply electrical potential having periods of positive polarity and negative polarity at different times; and c. driving the power supply with a non-constant electrical potential having positive polarity and negative polarity at different times, to deposit the binary nickel and tungsten alloy on the nominal cathode electrode, the Polarity Ratio, Q, being defined as Q = | ∫ I − t dt | | ∫ I + t dt | wherein I (-) is the negative polarity current and I ( ') is the positive polarity current wherein the negative polarity current is the anodic current and the positive polarity current is the cathodic current, further where said step of driving the power supply comprises driving the power supply to establish said Polarity Ratio, wherein the average grain size of the alloy is nanocrystalline and the Polarity Ratio is greater than 0 and less than 1 when depositing the alloy characterised in that: the polarity ratio is selected with reference to a constitutive relation that relates the specified electrodeposited grain size to a corresponding polarity ratio. a. providing a liquid comprising dissolved species of at least nickel and tungsten; b. providing a first electrode as a nominal cathode electrode and a second electrode as a nominal anode electrode in the liquid, coupled to a power supply configured to supply electrical potential having periods of positive polarity and negative polarity at different times; and c. driving the power supply with a non-constant electrical potential having positive polarity and negative polarity at different times, to deposit the binary nickel and tungsten alloy on the nominal cathode electrode, the polarity ratio is selected with reference to a constitutive relation that relates the specified electrodeposited grain size to a corresponding polarity ratio.
A membrane comprising an organic-inorganic hybrid silica film on an organic polymer support selected from polyacrylonitrile, polysulphones, polyethersulphones, poly-etherketones, polyimides, polyetherimide, polyethylene-terephthalate, polyamides, polyamide-imides and cellulose esters, wherein the silica comprises organic bridging groups bound to two or more silicon atoms, wherein the silica comprises at least 1 of said organic bridging groups per 10 silicon atoms.
An integrated circuit comprising: a finned field-effect transistor, finFET, comprising: a fin; a channel region; a fin trench isolation, FTI, region extending into the fin, wherein the FTI region is adjacent to a gate stack, wherein the gate stack is above the channel region; and source and drain, S/D, regions adjacent to the channel region, wherein the FTI region extends into the fin to a level that is even with, above, or below the base of the S/D regions; and wherein the gate stack comprises a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material; a first material (172, 272) in at least a portion of the FTI region, wherein the first material (172, 272) is adjacent to one of the S/D regions, wherein the S/D region that is adjacent to the first material (172, 272) is between the first material (172, 272) and the channel region, and characterised in that: the first material (172, 272) has a linear coefficient of thermal expansion, CTE, value that is greater than 5 ppm/°C or less than 0 ppm/°C at 20°C a fin; a channel region; a fin trench isolation, FTI, region extending into the fin, wherein the FTI region is adjacent to a gate stack, wherein the gate stack is above the channel region; and source and drain, S/D, regions adjacent to the channel region, wherein the FTI region extends into the fin to a level that is even with, above, or below the base of the S/D regions; and wherein the gate stack comprises a gate dielectric material and a gate electrode material; a first material (172, 272) in at least a portion of the FTI region, wherein the first material (172, 272) is adjacent to one of the S/D regions, wherein the S/D region that is adjacent to the first material (172, 272) is between the first material (172, 272) and the channel region, and characterised in that: the first material (172, 272) has a linear coefficient of thermal expansion, CTE, value that is greater than 5 ppm/°C or less than 0 ppm/°C at 20°C wherein the first material (172, 272) is adjacent to one of the S/D regions, wherein the S/D region that is adjacent to the first material (172, 272) is between the first material (172, 272) and the channel region, and characterised in that: the first material (172, 272) has a linear coefficient of thermal expansion, CTE, value that is greater than 5 ppm/°C or less than 0 ppm/°C at 20°C