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A cartridge for nucleic acid extraction, comprising: a chamber module comprising a pretreatment chamber and a plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161) for extracting nucleic acids from a sample, wherein the pretreatment chamber includes a chamber body having an internal space in which the sample is crushed and homogenization, cell disruption, and purification are performed, wherein the pretreatment chamber further includes a pretreatment component contained in the internal space of the chamber body and including at least one of a magnet block and cell disruption particles for crushing of the sample, the homogenization, and the cell disruption, and wherein the pretreatment chamber; further includes a cup filter installed at a lower portion of the internal space to filter a content of the chamber body to selectively pass a primarily purified liquid containing the nucleic acids flown out of disrupted cells; an air valve module installed on the chamber module to selectively apply an air pressure to each of the pretreatment chamber and the plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161), wherein the chamber module comprises a pump adapted to apply air pressure to the air valve module; and a valve module installed below the chamber module to open or close a path for moving a fluid between two chambers selected from the pretreatment chamber and the plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161). a chamber module comprising a pretreatment chamber and a plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161) for extracting nucleic acids from a sample, wherein the pretreatment chamber includes a chamber body having an internal space in which the sample is crushed and homogenization, cell disruption, and purification are performed, wherein the pretreatment chamber further includes a pretreatment component contained in the internal space of the chamber body and including at least one of a magnet block and cell disruption particles for crushing of the sample, the homogenization, and the cell disruption, and wherein the pretreatment chamber; further includes a cup filter installed at a lower portion of the internal space to filter a content of the chamber body to selectively pass a primarily purified liquid containing the nucleic acids flown out of disrupted cells; an air valve module installed on the chamber module to selectively apply an air pressure to each of the pretreatment chamber and the plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161), wherein the chamber module comprises a pump adapted to apply air pressure to the air valve module; and a valve module installed below the chamber module to open or close a path for moving a fluid between two chambers selected from the pretreatment chamber and the plurality of chambers (151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161).
An active medical device, in particular an implantable device for stimulation, resynchronisation and/or defribrillation, or a device for diagnosis purpose, including: - a sensor adapted to deliver an endocardial acceleration, EA, signal; - signal analysis means, adapted to extract from the EA signal a predetermined EA parameter and to memorize this EA parameter over the successive heart cycles; - means for determining a sleep period (n) of the patient; and - means (20, 22) for evaluating the patient's hemodynamic state, adapted to deliver an index of clinical state of the patient wearing the device as a function of the variations of the EA parameter over said patient's sleep period (n), characterized in that the evaluation means (20, 22) are means adapted to:. calculate an index of variability ( VPEA1 n) of said EA parameter over the sleep period (n),. calculate a ratio between said calculated index of variability and a reference value of index of variability ( VPEA1 1), and. deliver said ratio as a clinical state index; and in that the device further includes heart failure diagnosis means, adapted to deliver a patient's state aggravation alert signal in response to said ratio crossing a predetermined alert threshold. - a sensor adapted to deliver an endocardial acceleration, EA, signal; - signal analysis means, adapted to extract from the EA signal a predetermined EA parameter and to memorize this EA parameter over the successive heart cycles; - means for determining a sleep period (n) of the patient; and - means (20, 22) for evaluating the patient's hemodynamic state, adapted to deliver an index of clinical state of the patient wearing the device as a function of the variations of the EA parameter over said patient's sleep period (n), characterized in that the evaluation means (20, 22) are means adapted to:. calculate an index of variability ( VPEA1 n) of said EA parameter over the sleep period (n),. calculate a ratio between said calculated index of variability and a reference value of index of variability ( VPEA1 1), and. deliver said ratio as a clinical state index;. calculate an index of variability ( VPEA1 n) of said EA parameter over the sleep period (n),. calculate a ratio between said calculated index of variability and a reference value of index of variability ( VPEA1 1), and. deliver said ratio as a clinical state index;
A method for protecting a lifting member against an overload, the lifting member comprising a lifting drum on which a cable is wound, at the end of which a load is fixed, said lifting drum being mechanically connected to an electric motor capable of ensuring its rotation, the mechanical connection comprising a clutch or equivalent device, wherein said method comprises at least two distinct operating thresholds: ▪ a first threshold, the exceeding of which generates a freewheel operation of the lifting drum with respect to a kinematic chain coming from the electric motor; ▪ a second threshold, of a value greater than that corresponding to a nominal load of the lifting member, but of a value less than that of the first threshold, generating a braking of the rotation of the lifting drum and an attempt to progressively stop said rotation of the drum. ▪ a first threshold, the exceeding of which generates a freewheel operation of the lifting drum with respect to a kinematic chain coming from the electric motor; ▪ a second threshold, of a value greater than that corresponding to a nominal load of the lifting member, but of a value less than that of the first threshold, generating a braking of the rotation of the lifting drum and an attempt to progressively stop said rotation of the drum.
A sun care cosmetic for use in a method of protecting the skin from UV rays having a step of removing a support body of a thin film, subsequently a step of pasting a base material film on the skin, and subsequently a step of applying a sun care cosmetic on the base material film, wherein the thin film consists of a base material film of the thickness of 10 to 500 nm and a support body, wherein a film of hyaluronic acid, acetylated hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronate is supported on the base material film.
An image processing system particularly for use with diagnostic images, comprises at least one image processing unit, which receives digital images acquired by one or more imaging apparatus and which provides output images, said image processing system further comprising a remote service unit, having an interface to be accessed by remote users, who connect to said remote service unit by remote communication means for the transmission of one or more of the digital images to said at least one image processing unit, characterized in that - an image processing program is loaded or stored in a memory of the at least one image processing unit and automatically executed thereby for processing said acquired digital images, and - said at least one image processing unit further comprises an automatic image recognition subunit configured to: - identify an imaged organ or a portion thereof, or an imaged anatomic region or a portion thereof when processing said acquired digital images, and - address said acquired digital images to one or more processing algorithms of said image processing program, said processing algorithms being designed to process images of the imaged organ or the portion thereof, or the imaged anatomic region or the portion thereof as recognized by the automatic image recognition subunit, the image processing system further comprises a subsystem for updating a database that is used for training the image processing algorithms, said subsystem retrieving from a catalog of processed cases, the cases that the clients authorized for inclusion in a training database updating program. - an image processing program is loaded or stored in a memory of the at least one image processing unit and automatically executed thereby for processing said acquired digital images, and - said at least one image processing unit further comprises an automatic image recognition subunit configured to: - identify an imaged organ or a portion thereof, or an imaged anatomic region or a portion thereof when processing said acquired digital images, and - address said acquired digital images to one or more processing algorithms of said image processing program, said processing algorithms being designed to process images of the imaged organ or the portion thereof, or the imaged anatomic region or the portion thereof as recognized by the automatic image recognition subunit,
Docking system for docking an object onto a transport system (1, 11) designed for moving the object, having first connecting means which are designed for connecting the docking system to the object to be moved, and second connecting means which are designed for connecting the docking system to the transport system (1, 11), wherein the docking system contains an adjusting mechanism (24; 4, 41, 51, 52) via which it is possible to adjust the docking system, in the state in which it is connected to the transport system (1, 11) via the second connecting means, in terms of whether it is moveable or not relative to the transport system (1, 11), characterized in that the adjusting mechanism (24; 4, 41, 51, 52) contains a slide, which is moveable back and forth along guide elements, and a plurality of rollers (51, 52), and in that the slide is arranged such that it can come into contact with the rollers.
Motor assembly for an electric bicycle, comprising: a containment case; a pedal shaft, rotatable with respect to the case and arranged to bear at the two opposed ends as many bicycle pedal cranks; a drive shaft, rotatable with respect to the case and arranged to integrally bear at least one bicycle front sprocket; a main electric motor comprising a stator integral with the case and a rotor coupled through a transmission to said drive shaft; said drive shaft being shaped as a sleeve coaxial and overlapped to said pedal shaft; said pedal shaft being kinematically connected in rotation to said drive shaft by means of an interposed freewheel which makes the pedal shaft integral with the drive shaft in a rotation direction corresponding to the bicycle forward motion; said drive shaft comprising: a first portion, arranged to support the front sprocket and at which a most downstream member of said transmission is fixed; a third portion, at which the freewheel is positioned; and a second portion acting as a torsiometer which connects the first portion and the third portion; wherein the first portion, the second portion and the third portion of the drive shaft are made in a single piece; characterised by that at least one strain gauge is placed on said second portion and wherein on the drive shaft, at said third portion, a backing ring nut of the freewheel is applied.
An atomization device with an atomization chamber (1, 2; 1') for receiving a liquid and at least one nebulizer (3, 4; 3') for atomizing the liquid into drops of liquid as well as an exit port for discharging the vapor or mist of liquid thus generated from the atomization chamber (1, 2; 1'), wherein the vapor or mist of liquid ascending from the liquid is moved towards the exit port via a pressure device and wherein at least one device for deflecting the vapor or mist of liquid (5; 5') is provided, which is arranged in the area above the liquid surface, an acceleration prism being formed in the area of the exit port that projects above the liquid level and is arranged so that a cross-sectional narrowing of the atomization chamber (1, 2; 1') is formed and said at least one device for deflecting the vapor or mist of liquid being formed by a turbulence screen arranged above the liquid level in the interior of the atomization chambers (1, 2), characterized in that the turbulence screen has a horizontal wall section and a wall section connected thereto and inclined towards the liquid surface.
A detergent composition comprising pigment granules comprising from 10 to 95% by mass of a water-insoluble pigment, and at least two compounds selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, and polyvinyl pyrrolidone, wherein the component comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol and a polyvinyl alcohol derivative which have a viscosity of not less than 15 mPa•s as measured with respect to a 4% aqueous solution thereof at 20°C using a B-type viscometer, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinyl pyrrolidone which have a viscosity of less than 15 mPa•s as measured with respect to a 4% aqueous solution thereof at 20°C, and wherein the polyvinyl alcohol derivative is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an anion-modified polyvinyl alcohol derivative and a cation-modified polyvinyl alcohol derivative, and wherein the anion-modified polyvinyl alcohol derivative is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol, an undecylenic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol and a sulfonic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol and wherein the cation-modified polyvinyl alcohol derivative is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an ammonium-modified polyvinyl alcohol, a sulfonium-modified polyvinyl alcohol and an amino group-modified polyvinyl alcohol. from 10 to 95% by mass of a water-insoluble pigment, and at least two compounds selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, and polyvinyl pyrrolidone,
Control unit (3, 28, 20) for a power steering system, with a steering angle sensor, wherein the steering angle sensor has an input for a rotor position signal of an electric motor (5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12) of the power steering system and is designed to determine a steering angle of a steering wheel, connected to the power steering system, as a function of the rotor position signal, wherein the steering angle sensor is designed to determine the steering angle continuously in the case of an operating mode (72, 76), and to determine said steering angle at predetermined time intervals in a standby mode, wherein the control unit (3, 28, 20) has an output for connecting to the electric motor (5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12) of the power steering system and an input for receiving the rotor position signal, wherein the control unit (3, 28, 20) is designed to energize a stator of the electric motor in order to generate a magnetic rotating field as a function of the rotor position signal, characterized in that the control unit (3, 28, 20) has a voltage transformer which is designed to raise the supply voltage for operating the steering angle sensor in the operating mode, in comparison with the standby mode.
A lens driving device, comprising: a cover member; a bobbin disposed in the cover member; a coil disposed on the bobbin; a driving magnet disposed between the coil the cover member, an elastic member coupled to the bobbin; a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin; a circuit board disposed on the cover member; and a sensor disposed on the circuit board and facing the sensing magnet, wherein the cover member comprises a first lateral plate, a second lateral plate overlapped with the first lateral plate in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction, a third lateral plate a fourth lateral plate overlapped with the third lateral plate in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction and the first direction, wherein the driving magnet is fixed to the cover member, wherein the elastic member comprises two lower elastic members coupled to a lower portion of the bobbin and spaced apart from each other, each of the two lower elastic members is soldered directly to the circuit board, the driving magnet comprises a first driving magnet disposed on the first lateral plate of the cover member and a second driving magnet disposed on the second lateral plate of the cover member, the sensing magnet is disposed at a position corresponding to the third lateral plate of the cover member, characterised in that the sensing magnet is not overlapped with the third lateral plate of the cover member in the second direction and the third lateral plate of the cover member comprises a window overlapped with the sensing magnet in the second direction. a cover member; a bobbin disposed in the cover member; a coil disposed on the bobbin; a driving magnet disposed between the coil the cover member, an elastic member coupled to the bobbin; a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin; a circuit board disposed on the cover member; and a sensor disposed on the circuit board and facing the sensing magnet, wherein the cover member comprises a first lateral plate, a second lateral plate overlapped with the first lateral plate in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction, a third lateral plate a fourth lateral plate overlapped with the third lateral plate in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction and the first direction, wherein the driving magnet is fixed to the cover member, wherein the elastic member comprises two lower elastic members coupled to a lower portion of the bobbin and spaced apart from each other, each of the two lower elastic members is soldered directly to the circuit board, the driving magnet comprises a first driving magnet disposed on the first lateral plate of the cover member and a second driving magnet disposed on the second lateral plate of the cover member, the sensing magnet is disposed at a position corresponding to the third lateral plate of the cover member, characterised in that the sensing magnet is not overlapped with the third lateral plate of the cover member in the second direction and the third lateral plate of the cover member comprises a window overlapped with the sensing magnet in the second direction.
A composition comprising a ribonuclease and, optionally, one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for use in prophylactically treating a subject from contracting a sexually-transmitted viral infection, wherein said composition is applied topically, and wherein the ribonuclease is a member of the ribonuclease A superfamily.
A genome-edited human hematopoietic stem cell lacking the expression of a lineage-specific cell-surface antigen, wherein: (i) the lineage-specific cell-surface antigen is CD33, and (ii) the whole or a portion of an endogenous gene encoding the lineage-specific cell-surface antigen is deleted using genome editing, wherein the cell is obtained or obtainable by a method for inhibiting CD33 in human hematopoietic stem cells comprising the use of a CRISPR/Cas system_comprising a guide RNA sequence and a Cas endonuclease, wherein the guide RNA sequence hybridizes to the nucleotide sequence encoding the CD33 antigen. (i) the lineage-specific cell-surface antigen is CD33, and (ii) the whole or a portion of an endogenous gene encoding the lineage-specific cell-surface antigen is deleted using genome editing,
A method for controlling the motion of a fluid jet cutting head of a fluid jet cutting system comprising a fluid jet cutting head drive and a control unit configured to operate the motion of the fluid jet cutting head from a predetermined inclination angle value and from fluid pressure data and/or abrasive medium data and/or fluid jet cutting head data and/or fluid jet cutting focusing tube data and/or sand granular size and/or surface finish requirement data and/or geometric entity data and/or workpiece material quality data and/or workpiece thickness, wherein the predetermined inclination angle value is determined by a value defined by the actual taper angle and/or actual trail back angle, the method comprises the steps of: - measuring an angular displacement value for determining said predetermined inclination angle value; - feeding data regarding the predetermined inclination angle value to the control unit; - cutting the workpiece in accordance with said predetermined inclination angle value and said data and/or workpiece thickness; the method characterised by - cutting a calibration portion having the same material property as the workpiece to be cut; and - automatically adapting the speed of the fluid jet cutting head by means of the control unit in accordance with the predetermined inclination angle value. - measuring an angular displacement value for determining said predetermined inclination angle value; - feeding data regarding the predetermined inclination angle value to the control unit; - cutting the workpiece in accordance with said predetermined inclination angle value and said data and/or workpiece thickness; the method characterised by - cutting a calibration portion having the same material property as the workpiece to be cut; and - automatically adapting the speed of the fluid jet cutting head by means of the control unit in accordance with the predetermined inclination angle value.