mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Method for the production of benzene, wherein a first feedstock mixture is formed which contains alkylated aromatics and hydrogen, and wherein the alkylated aromatics contained in the first feedstock mixture are partially reacted with the hydrogen contained in the first feedstock mixture to give the benzene through hydrodealkylation, to obtain a first product mixture, wherein the first product mixture contains the benzene, the unreacted alkylated aromatics, alkanes with one to three carbon atoms formed in the reaction of the alkylated aromatics to the benzene, and the unreacted hydrogen, and wherein at least part of the alkanes with one to three carbon atoms and of the hydrogen are separated off to obtain a light-gas fraction from the first product mixture, characterized in that the hydrogen contained in the first feedstock mixture is provided at least in part using a cryogenic separation, to which at least part of a second product mixture is supplied, wherein the second product mixture is formed at least in part through steam cracking of a second feedstock mixture, and in that the light-gas fraction is also supplied at least in part to the cryogenic separation, wherein the second product mixture or the part thereof supplied to the cryogenic separation and the light-gas fraction or the part thereof supplied to the cryogenic separation are subjected to an acid gas removal and subsequently to the cryogenic separation.
A driving apparatus comprising: a movable body for reciprocating in a first direction and a rotatable crankshaft: an XY separate crank mechanism provided between the moveable body and the crankshaft to mutually convert reciprocating motion of the movable body and rotational motion of the crankshaft, the XY separate crank mechanism comprising: a support member; a crank connecting member and a connecting member characterized in that the support member formed in an L-shape, comprising a first support portion extending in the first direction and a second support portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from the first support portion, wherein only the first support portion is supported and guided to freely reciprocate in the first direction by a first slider extending in the first direction; the crank connection member comprising an end portion, only the end portion of the crank connection member being mounted on the second support portion of the support member to freely reciprocate in the second direction by a second slider extending in the second direction and a crank pin of the crankshaft being rotatably engaged with the crank connecting member, and the connecting member connecting the moveable body and the second support portion of the support member and configured to reciprocate in the first direction together with the moveable body and the support member, wherein the support member, the crank connecting member, and the connecting member are provided movably in a reference plane containing a movement axis of the movable body. a support member; a crank connecting member and a connecting member characterized in that the support member formed in an L-shape, comprising a first support portion extending in the first direction and a second support portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from the first support portion, wherein only the first support portion is supported and guided to freely reciprocate in the first direction by a first slider extending in the first direction; the crank connection member comprising an end portion, only the end portion of the crank connection member being mounted on the second support portion of the support member to freely reciprocate in the second direction by a second slider extending in the second direction and a crank pin of the crankshaft being rotatably engaged with the crank connecting member, and the connecting member connecting the moveable body and the second support portion of the support member and configured to reciprocate in the first direction together with the moveable body and the support member, wherein the support member, the crank connecting member, and the connecting member are provided movably in a reference plane containing a movement axis of the movable body.
A method for operating a steam oven for an aircraft used for heating in-flight meals, comprising: a control operation part; a centrifugal fan; an oven heater disposed at an outer periphery of the centrifugal fan; a cook chamber; and a plurality of casseroles disposed in the cook chamber, wherein water dropped from a water supply nozzle is evaporated by the oven heater, thereby generating steam; a circulating steam flow is generated in the cook chamber by the centrifugal fan while being rotated forward unidirectionally; each food on the casseroles is heated for a predetermined cooking time under the control of the control operation part; characterized in that the control operation part provides an instruction for rotating the centrifugal fan in the reverse direction only for a certain time immediately before termination of the predetermined cooking time, to change the steam circulating flow generated in the cook chamber in order to uniformly heat each food on the casseroles. a control operation part; a centrifugal fan; an oven heater disposed at an outer periphery of the centrifugal fan; a cook chamber; and a plurality of casseroles disposed in the cook chamber, wherein water dropped from a water supply nozzle is evaporated by the oven heater, thereby generating steam; a circulating steam flow is generated in the cook chamber by the centrifugal fan while being rotated forward unidirectionally; each food on the casseroles is heated for a predetermined cooking time under the control of the control operation part; characterized in that the control operation part provides an instruction for rotating the centrifugal fan in the reverse direction only for a certain time immediately before termination of the predetermined cooking time, to change the steam circulating flow generated in the cook chamber in order to uniformly heat each food on the casseroles.
An apparatus for coating lenses comprising a coating line which includes a lens-measuring portion for measuring the shape of a starting lens, a primer-coating portion for applying a primer solution onto the starting lens, to prepare a first intermediate product lens having an undried primer coating, a photochromic-coating portion for applying a photochromic coating solution onto a second intermediate product lens obtained by drying said first intermediate product lens through a drying portion to prepare a third intermediate product lens having an uncured photochromic coating, and a UV irradiation portion for irradiating the third intermediate product lens with UV to cure the uncured photochromic coating to thereby prepare a product lens; and carrier means (62, 67) for carrying the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) to each of the portions in said coating line; wherein, means for supporting the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) in at least any one of said lens-measuring portion, primer-coating portion, photochromic-coating portion or UV irradiation portion, is a support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) for supporting the central bottom surface portion of the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) by air suction means; said carrier means (62, 67) is provided with an adsorbing portion (64a, 69a) for supporting the central bottom surface portion of the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) by the air suction means, and characterized in that said support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) is surrounded by a temporary lens-placing portion (58d; 81d; 115; 88d; 74) for supporting the bottom surface of the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) other than the regions of the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) that are supported by said support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) and by said adsorbing portion (64a, 69a); and the lens is temporary-placed on said temporary lens-placing portion (58d; 81d; 115; 88d; 74) at the time of receiving or handing over the lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) between said support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) and said adsorbing portion (64a, 69a), and at least any one of said temporary lens-placing portion (58d; 81d; 115; 88d; 74), support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) or adsorbing portion (64a, 69a) is moved up and down so that said lenses (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e) is supported by said support shaft (57a; 78; 97a; 85) or by said adsorbing portion (64a, 69a).
A falling film evaporator, comprising: an evaporator housing; a plurality of evaporator tubes through which a volume of thermal energy transfer medium is flowed; and a separator and distributor assembly for a falling film evaporator, comprising: a separator housing defining a separation volume; a refrigerant inlet configured to admit a liquid and vapor refrigerant flow into the separation volume; one or more refrigerant gutters extending along a lengthwise axis of the housing, the refrigerant gutter having a gutter inlet at a bottom of the separation volume, the one or more refrigerant gutters configured to receive separated liquid refrigerant from the separation volume; and one or more sparge channels in fluid communication with the refrigerant gutters, the sparge channel including one or more sparge openings at a top of the sparge channel vertically below the gutter inlet, the one or more sparge openings configured to flow liquid refrigerant therefrom; wherein the falling film evaporator further comprises a distribution manifold disposed below the sparge channel and in fluid communication therewith; and the one or more sparge openings are disposed laterally inboard of lateral sides of the separation volume. an evaporator housing; a plurality of evaporator tubes through which a volume of thermal energy transfer medium is flowed; and a separator and distributor assembly for a falling film evaporator, comprising: a separator housing defining a separation volume; a refrigerant inlet configured to admit a liquid and vapor refrigerant flow into the separation volume; one or more refrigerant gutters extending along a lengthwise axis of the housing, the refrigerant gutter having a gutter inlet at a bottom of the separation volume, the one or more refrigerant gutters configured to receive separated liquid refrigerant from the separation volume; and one or more sparge channels in fluid communication with the refrigerant gutters, the sparge channel including one or more sparge openings at a top of the sparge channel vertically below the gutter inlet, the one or more sparge openings configured to flow liquid refrigerant therefrom; wherein a separator housing defining a separation volume; a refrigerant inlet configured to admit a liquid and vapor refrigerant flow into the separation volume; one or more refrigerant gutters extending along a lengthwise axis of the housing, the refrigerant gutter having a gutter inlet at a bottom of the separation volume, the one or more refrigerant gutters configured to receive separated liquid refrigerant from the separation volume; and one or more sparge channels in fluid communication with the refrigerant gutters, the sparge channel including one or more sparge openings at a top of the sparge channel vertically below the gutter inlet, the one or more sparge openings configured to flow liquid refrigerant therefrom; wherein the falling film evaporator further comprises a distribution manifold disposed below the sparge channel and in fluid communication therewith; and the one or more sparge openings are disposed laterally inboard of lateral sides of the separation volume.
Collection bin in an in-line product inspection system, wherein the inspection system comprises a supporting structure, a transport conveyor, an inspection device, an ejection device, and one or more of said collection bins, wherein the transport conveyor serves to continuously transport articles along a transport path through the inspection device, wherein the inspection device serves to inspect the articles while they are in motion and to select individual articles according to given inspection criteria, wherein the ejection device is arranged at the transport path downstream of the inspection device and serves to eject the selected articles from the transport conveyor, and wherein said collection bin is arranged laterally adjacent to the transport conveyor and positioned to receive the ejected articles, with a rear side of the collection bin facing towards, and a front side facing away from, the transport conveyor, and the collection bin is configured as an enclosed compartment divided into a top part and a bottom part, wherein the top part is solidly attached to the supporting structure and comprises a chute with an entry opening of the chute facing towards the transport conveyor and with a downward-sloped slide surface leading to a bottom opening of the chute, wherein the bottom part, which comprises an open-top receptacle that serves to collect the ejected articles, and characterized in that the open-top receptacle is constrained to the supporting structure with limited, guided mobility between a closed position where the open top of the receptacle lines up with the bottom opening of the chute, and with an open position where the bottom part is moved out from underneath the bottom opening of the chute, so that the collected articles can be taken out of the receptacle, and further characterized in that the collection bin comprises a closure gate which is hinged to the bottom part along a hinge axis at a rim section of the top opening, wherein said rim section is located on a trailing side of said movement from the closed to the open position, and wherein the closure gate is designed to be overlaid on, or interlaid with, the sloped slide surface of the chute when the bottom part is in the closed position, and to slip out of the sloped slide surface into a position to block the bottom opening of the chute when the bottom part is in the open position.
A computer-implemented method for transforming encoded video information using a video decoder, the method comprising: determining a motion vector predictor having a dominant polarity and a motion vector predictor having a non-dominant polarity for a motion vector of a current block or macroblock of a current interlaced forward-predicted field being decoded, wherein the determining is based at least in part on reference field polarity for a previous motion vector of each of one or more neighboring blocks or macroblocks in the current field, and wherein the field that is referenced by the majority of the motion vectors of the neighboring blocks or macroblocks is the dominant reference field and the other reference field is the non-dominant reference field, and one motion vector predictor is from the dominant reference field and the other motion vector predictor is from the non-dominant reference field, and the polarity of the dominant reference field is the dominant polarity, and the polarity of the non-dominant reference field is the non-dominant polarity; receiving, in a bitstream, polarity selection information; selecting between the dominant polarity motion vector predictor and the non-dominant polarity motion vector predictor based at least in part on the polarity selection information; receiving, in the bitstream, motion vector differential information; and reconstructing a motion vector from the selected motion vector predictor and the motion vector differential information. determining a motion vector predictor having a dominant polarity and a motion vector predictor having a non-dominant polarity for a motion vector of a current block or macroblock of a current interlaced forward-predicted field being decoded, wherein the determining is based at least in part on reference field polarity for a previous motion vector of each of one or more neighboring blocks or macroblocks in the current field, and wherein the field that is referenced by the majority of the motion vectors of the neighboring blocks or macroblocks is the dominant reference field and the other reference field is the non-dominant reference field, and one motion vector predictor is from the dominant reference field and the other motion vector predictor is from the non-dominant reference field, and the polarity of the dominant reference field is the dominant polarity, and the polarity of the non-dominant reference field is the non-dominant polarity; receiving, in a bitstream, polarity selection information; selecting between the dominant polarity motion vector predictor and the non-dominant polarity motion vector predictor based at least in part on the polarity selection information; receiving, in the bitstream, motion vector differential information; and reconstructing a motion vector from the selected motion vector predictor and the motion vector differential information.
A method for laser welding a first metal part to a second metal part, which method comprises: • placing the first metal part on the second metal part, • providing a laser arranged to emit a laser beam in the form of laser pulses that have pulse widths in the range 1ns to 1000ns, • providing a scanner for scanning the laser beam with respect to a metal surface of the first metal part, • providing an objective lens for focusing the laser pulses onto the metal surface, • providing a controller that is adapted to control the scanner such that it moves the laser beam with respect to the metal surface, • causing the laser to emit the laser pulses, • focusing the laser pulses that have the pulse widths in the range 1ns to 1000ns with a spot size and a pulse fluence that cause the formation of a plurality of melt pools in the first metal part and heat stakes in the second metal part, wherein each heat stake extends from a different one of the melt pools and has a distal end, • adapting the controller to space the focussed spots apart by a distance that is small enough to cause the melt pools to overlap and that is large enough to ensure the distal end of the heat stakes are distinct and separate from each other in at least one direction, and • wherein the first metal part has a reflectivity greater than 80% at a wavelength emitted by the laser. • placing the first metal part on the second metal part, • providing a laser arranged to emit a laser beam in the form of laser pulses that have pulse widths in the range 1ns to 1000ns, • providing a scanner for scanning the laser beam with respect to a metal surface of the first metal part, • providing an objective lens for focusing the laser pulses onto the metal surface, • providing a controller that is adapted to control the scanner such that it moves the laser beam with respect to the metal surface, • causing the laser to emit the laser pulses, • focusing the laser pulses that have the pulse widths in the range 1ns to 1000ns with a spot size and a pulse fluence that cause the formation of a plurality of melt pools in the first metal part and heat stakes in the second metal part, wherein each heat stake extends from a different one of the melt pools and has a distal end, • adapting the controller to space the focussed spots apart by a distance that is small enough to cause the melt pools to overlap and that is large enough to ensure the distal end of the heat stakes are distinct and separate from each other in at least one direction, and • wherein the first metal part has a reflectivity greater than 80% at a wavelength emitted by the laser.
An apparatus for cleaning of a gas by centrifugal separation of liquid and possible solid particles contained therein, comprising: a housing; a gas inlet in the housing for uncleaned gas; a rotor rotatably supported in the housing and having a plurality of adjacent surface elements for catching liquid particles in a gaseous flow through the rotor during the rotation thereof and throwing these out towards an inner wall of the housing; an outlet for discharging the gas that has passed through and been cleaned in the rotor; and an outlet in a bottom part of the housing for discharging the liquid collected on and flowing downwardly from the inner wall of the housing, characterized in that the liquid outlet is formed by a well in a lower part of the housing, in the bottom of which a tubular outlet conduit for the separated liquid ends, wherein the well, at least in its upper part, has a substantially larger cross-sectional area than that of the outlet conduit and such a height that it during normal operation of the apparatus forms a durable liquid trap with a substantially constant liquid level thereby preventing air from flowing into the housing through the outlet conduit due to a sub pressure prevailing in the housing. a housing; a gas inlet in the housing for uncleaned gas; a rotor rotatably supported in the housing and having a plurality of adjacent surface elements for catching liquid particles in a gaseous flow through the rotor during the rotation thereof and throwing these out towards an inner wall of the housing; an outlet for discharging the gas that has passed through and been cleaned in the rotor; and an outlet in a bottom part of the housing for discharging the liquid collected on and flowing downwardly from the inner wall of the housing, characterized in that the liquid outlet is formed by a well in a lower part of the housing, in the bottom of which a tubular outlet conduit for the separated liquid ends, wherein the well, at least in its upper part, has a substantially larger cross-sectional area than that of the outlet conduit and such a height that it during normal operation of the apparatus forms a durable liquid trap with a substantially constant liquid level thereby preventing air from flowing into the housing through the outlet conduit due to a sub pressure prevailing in the housing.
Method for remotely controlling at least a first function of a safety device of a vehicle, wherein a remote control device comprises a first radio unit, whereby a connection to a mobile radio network is operable, whereby the following steps are carried out: a) determination of the position of the vehicle b) determination of the position of the remote control device c) determination of an actual distance between the position of the vehicle and the remote control device d) comparison of the actual distance with at least one defined target distance, the first function being activated if the actual distance is less than or equal to the target distance, where the following step is performed as the first function: e) contactless authentication of the remote control device, characterized in that the steps b), c), d) and e) are carried out cyclically as a function of a situation-dependent state parameter of the remote control device. wherein a remote control device comprises a first radio unit, whereby a connection to a mobile radio network is operable, whereby the following steps are carried out: a) determination of the position of the vehicle b) determination of the position of the remote control device c) determination of an actual distance between the position of the vehicle and the remote control device d) comparison of the actual distance with at least one defined target distance, the first function being activated if the actual distance is less than or equal to the target distance, a) determination of the position of the vehicle b) determination of the position of the remote control device c) determination of an actual distance between the position of the vehicle and the remote control device d) comparison of the actual distance with at least one defined target distance, the first function being activated if the actual distance is less than or equal to the target distance, where the following step is performed as the first function: e) contactless authentication of the remote control device, characterized in that the steps b), c), d) and e) are carried out cyclically as a function of a situation-dependent state parameter of the remote control device.