mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A fluid circulation device comprising at least one fluid circulation tube, a first coupling sealingly coupled to a first end of the tube and a second coupling sealingly coupled to a second end of the tube in such a way as to allow the circulation of fluid between said two couplings (10a, 10b) via the tube, the device further comprising separate electronic means, and the tube comprising at least one conductor track extending along an outer surface of the tube, with said track being suitable for transmitting at least one signal and arranged in such a way as to engage with the abovementioned electronic means, characterized in that at least one of the electronic means comprises at least one electronic card (5, 5') including a hole (5.1) arranged in such a way that the fluid circulation tube goes through the electronic card (5, 5').
A radiation shield, comprising: a shield wall surrounding a hollow region capable of accommodating therein atoms for an optical lattice clock, characterised in that the shield wall has, provided therein, at least two apertures communicating with outside for allowing the atoms to be transported therethrough, wherein a geometrical shape of an inner wall surface of the shield wall is configured such that a difference between blackbody radiation shifts found under two conditions does not exceed a predetermined value at each position of the atoms, the BBR shifts being caused in clock transition of the atoms by the radiation emitted by the inner wall surface, incoming radiation leaking in from the outside through the apertures, and a reflection component of the emitted radiation and incoming radiation at the inner wall surface, the two conditions being a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits mirror reflection and a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits diffuse reflection, the less dependence of inner wall surface characteristics in the two conditions over a long range of position, the each position being where clock transition operation is carried out in the optical lattice clock, the inner wall surface facing the hollow region. a shield wall surrounding a hollow region capable of accommodating therein atoms for an optical lattice clock, characterised in that the shield wall has, provided therein, at least two apertures communicating with outside for allowing the atoms to be transported therethrough, wherein a geometrical shape of an inner wall surface of the shield wall is configured such that a difference between blackbody radiation shifts found under two conditions does not exceed a predetermined value at each position of the atoms, the BBR shifts being caused in clock transition of the atoms by the radiation emitted by the inner wall surface, incoming radiation leaking in from the outside through the apertures, and a reflection component of the emitted radiation and incoming radiation at the inner wall surface, the two conditions being a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits mirror reflection and a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits diffuse reflection, the less dependence of inner wall surface characteristics in the two conditions over a long range of position, the each position being where clock transition operation is carried out in the optical lattice clock, the inner wall surface facing the hollow region.
An apparatus for a communications system, comprising an optical data receiver to receive a channel-impaired data stream encoded via a low-density parity-check, LDPC, code, the optical data receiver including a digital LDPC decoder comprising: a pre-processor connected to receive a first sequence of log-likelihood-ratio, LLR, values representing measurements of the channel-impaired data stream, the pre-processor being configured to flip nonzero sign bits of the LLR values of the first sequence to transform the first sequence into a corresponding second LLR sequence; and an electronic decoder connected to perform iterative LDPC decoding of the second LLR sequence in response to a set of bias information corresponding to the sign-bit flips, the set of bias information being applied in the electronic decoder to change a corresponding set of parity-check conditions of the LDPC code. a pre-processor connected to receive a first sequence of log-likelihood-ratio, LLR, values representing measurements of the channel-impaired data stream, the pre-processor being configured to flip nonzero sign bits of the LLR values of the first sequence to transform the first sequence into a corresponding second LLR sequence; and an electronic decoder connected to perform iterative LDPC decoding of the second LLR sequence in response to a set of bias information corresponding to the sign-bit flips, the set of bias information being applied in the electronic decoder to change a corresponding set of parity-check conditions of the LDPC code.
Method for producing a component, wherein the component has a multiplicity of cell foils, which are stacked on top of one another, for storing electrical energy and at least one contact sheet; wherein the cell foils form a foil stack in an attachment portion and the foil stack is connected to the contact sheet by at least one weld seam for electrical contacting of the cell foils via the contact sheet, wherein the method for producing the at least one weld seam comprises at least the following steps: a) providing the cell foils and arranging the foil stack with a stack height; b) providing the contact sheet; c) compacting at least the foil stack by way of a compaction device; d) arranging the foil stack and the contact sheet relative to one another in a connecting position; e) generating a negative pressure at least in a connecting region of the foil stack and of the contact sheet by way of a negative-pressure device; f) connecting the foil stack to the contact sheet in the connecting region by way of the at least one weld seam generated by a laser welding method in the presence of the negative pressure; characterized in that the compacting at least of the foil stack is effected by applying a pressure which is superimposed with an ultrasonic excitation. a) providing the cell foils and arranging the foil stack with a stack height; b) providing the contact sheet; c) compacting at least the foil stack by way of a compaction device; d) arranging the foil stack and the contact sheet relative to one another in a connecting position; e) generating a negative pressure at least in a connecting region of the foil stack and of the contact sheet by way of a negative-pressure device; f) connecting the foil stack to the contact sheet in the connecting region by way of the at least one weld seam generated by a laser welding method in the presence of the negative pressure;
A system comprising: means for allocating a plurality of compute clusters (122-126, 408) on an execution platform as part of a virtual warehouse for accessing and performing queries against one or more databases in one or more cloud storage resources located on a storage platform separate from the execution platform, wherein the plurality of compute clusters is allocated separately from the one or more cloud storage resources and each of the plurality of compute clusters comprises one or more execution nodes comprising a cache memory to cache data stored on the storage platform; means for determining a current workload of the plurality of compute clusters based at least in part on a comparison of a runtime computed degree of concurrency on each of the plurality of compute clusters and a targeted degree of concurrency inputted by a customer; and means for dynamically adding compute clusters to or removing compute clusters from the virtual warehouse based at least in part on whether one or more currently allocated compute clusters can process one or more of a query and the current workload while meeting a performance metric, the performance metric comprising a maximum query response time and wherein the means for adding or removing the compute clusters dynamically scales up and down a number of compute clusters without increasing or decreasing the one or more cloud storage resources. means for allocating a plurality of compute clusters (122-126, 408) on an execution platform as part of a virtual warehouse for accessing and performing queries against one or more databases in one or more cloud storage resources located on a storage platform separate from the execution platform, wherein the plurality of compute clusters is allocated separately from the one or more cloud storage resources and each of the plurality of compute clusters comprises one or more execution nodes comprising a cache memory to cache data stored on the storage platform; means for determining a current workload of the plurality of compute clusters based at least in part on a comparison of a runtime computed degree of concurrency on each of the plurality of compute clusters and a targeted degree of concurrency inputted by a customer; and means for dynamically adding compute clusters to or removing compute clusters from the virtual warehouse based at least in part on whether one or more currently allocated compute clusters can process one or more of a query and the current workload while meeting a performance metric, the performance metric comprising a maximum query response time and wherein the means for adding or removing the compute clusters dynamically scales up and down a number of compute clusters without increasing or decreasing the one or more cloud storage resources.
An apparatus comprising: a processor to communicate with an access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN), to exchange signaling with a Secure User Plane Location Platform, for positioning of a station, to receive location information from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to obtain measurements for at least one access point in the WLAN based on the location information received from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to send the measurements to the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to obtain a location estimate for the station from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, and to determine location of the station based on the location estimate, wherein the signaling is exchanged via the access point; and a memory coupled to the processor. a processor to communicate with an access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN), to exchange signaling with a Secure User Plane Location Platform, for positioning of a station, to receive location information from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to obtain measurements for at least one access point in the WLAN based on the location information received from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to send the measurements to the Secure User Plane Location Platform, to obtain a location estimate for the station from the Secure User Plane Location Platform, and to determine location of the station based on the location estimate, wherein the signaling is exchanged via the access point; and a memory coupled to the processor.
Modular, self-reconfigurable robot system with several individual modules connected to each other, each having a tetrahedral frame with frame joints as nodal point and with length-adjustable frame beams adjoining these nodal point, and with a plurality of detachable connections of a plurality of cooperating connecting elements on the respective individual modules, which connections are provided between the adjoining f frame beams of the respective individual modules, characterized in that at least one individual module has at least one alignment device which cooperates with at least two connecting elements for their parallel longitudinal alignment, which connection elements are each mounted rotatably on a frame beams of subsequent frame beams on a common joint nodal point.
A multi-material three dimensional printer, comprising in combination: a build plate; a major axis transport mechanism attached to a frame of the printer and a minor axis transport mechanism, said minor axis transport mechanism engaged with said major axis transport mechanism; the multi-material three dimensional printer being characterized by further comprising in the combination: a first powder dispenser of a plurality of powder dispensers (110, 111, 112) arranged in a magazine system engageable with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the first powder dispenser over at least portions of said build plate along a major axis to place a first powder layer above said build plate; a binder jet print head engaged with said minor axis transport mechanism to traverse the binder jet print head over at least portions of said build plate along a minor axis or a binder jet print head which is as wide as said minor axis transport mechanism to place binder and bind the first powder together in locations where the binder is placed; a first powder remover engaged with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the first powder remover over at least portions of said build plate along a major axis to remove unbound first powder in the first powder layer; a second powder dispenser of the plurality of powder dispensers (110, 111, 112) engaged with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the second powder dispenser over at least portions of said build plate along said major axis to place a second powder layer above said build plate, the second powder different from the first powder. a build plate; a major axis transport mechanism attached to a frame of the printer and a minor axis transport mechanism, said minor axis transport mechanism engaged with said major axis transport mechanism; the multi-material three dimensional printer being characterized by further comprising in the combination: a first powder dispenser of a plurality of powder dispensers (110, 111, 112) arranged in a magazine system engageable with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the first powder dispenser over at least portions of said build plate along a major axis to place a first powder layer above said build plate; a binder jet print head engaged with said minor axis transport mechanism to traverse the binder jet print head over at least portions of said build plate along a minor axis or a binder jet print head which is as wide as said minor axis transport mechanism to place binder and bind the first powder together in locations where the binder is placed; a first powder remover engaged with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the first powder remover over at least portions of said build plate along a major axis to remove unbound first powder in the first powder layer; a second powder dispenser of the plurality of powder dispensers (110, 111, 112) engaged with said major axis transport mechanism to traverse the second powder dispenser over at least portions of said build plate along said major axis to place a second powder layer above said build plate, the second powder different from the first powder.
A windshield wiper control system, comprising: a movable element configured to move in a first direction and an opposing second direction; one or more actuation devices configured to provide a first force to the movable element causing the movable element to move in the first direction; a rotatable cam configured to provide a second force to the movable element to cause the movable element to move in the opposing second direction when the rotatable cam contacts a stationary surface as the rotatable cam rotates about a cam axis; and a wiper mechanism: (i) coupled to the movable element and configured to move in the first and second directions (105, 106); and (ii) coupled to the rotatable cam and configured to pivot about a wiper mechanism pivot axis in an arc motion responsive to the rotation of the rotatable cam, wherein the wiper mechanism is further configured to be coupled to one or more windshield wipers to cause the one or more windshield wipers to move across a surface of a windshield in a more linear motion than the arc motion of the wiper mechanism. a movable element configured to move in a first direction and an opposing second direction; one or more actuation devices configured to provide a first force to the movable element causing the movable element to move in the first direction; a rotatable cam configured to provide a second force to the movable element to cause the movable element to move in the opposing second direction when the rotatable cam contacts a stationary surface as the rotatable cam rotates about a cam axis; and a wiper mechanism: (i) coupled to the movable element and configured to move in the first and second directions (105, 106); and (ii) coupled to the rotatable cam and configured to pivot about a wiper mechanism pivot axis in an arc motion responsive to the rotation of the rotatable cam, wherein the wiper mechanism is further configured to be coupled to one or more windshield wipers to cause the one or more windshield wipers to move across a surface of a windshield in a more linear motion than the arc motion of the wiper mechanism.
Method for predictively operating a motor vehicle on the basis of a predictive driving function, a cost function characteristic of the predictive driving function, and a digital map containing map attributes, having the following steps of: extracting map attributes within a prediction horizon around an instantaneous position of the motor vehicle; determining the cost function characteristic of the predictive driving function; determining possible routes within the prediction horizon by means of a navigation algorithm, characterized by determining a maximum or a minimum of the cost function of the possible routes in order to obtain a most unfavourable cost function; and calculating the predictive driving function on the basis of the most unfavourable cost function or on the basis of the map attributes of the most unfavourable cost function. extracting map attributes within a prediction horizon around an instantaneous position of the motor vehicle; determining the cost function characteristic of the predictive driving function; determining possible routes within the prediction horizon by means of a navigation algorithm, characterized by determining a maximum or a minimum of the cost function of the possible routes in order to obtain a most unfavourable cost function; and calculating the predictive driving function on the basis of the most unfavourable cost function or on the basis of the map attributes of the most unfavourable cost function.
A delivery system for a leadless active implantable medical device, comprising: a delivery catheter; a torque shaft (228, 428, 452, 514, 708, 728, 748) disposed within the delivery catheter; a docking cap (416, 442, 504, 702, 722, 742) having a distal end for engaging an attachment mechanism of the leadless active implantable medical device, the docking cap (416, 442, 504, 702, 722, 742) securing the leadless active implantable medical device in translation and rotation; and a torque limiting component (204, 226, 424, 706, 726, 746, 800) coupled to a distal end of the torque shaft and a proximal end of the docking cap. a delivery catheter; a torque shaft (228, 428, 452, 514, 708, 728, 748) disposed within the delivery catheter; a docking cap (416, 442, 504, 702, 722, 742) having a distal end for engaging an attachment mechanism of the leadless active implantable medical device, the docking cap (416, 442, 504, 702, 722, 742) securing the leadless active implantable medical device in translation and rotation; and a torque limiting component (204, 226, 424, 706, 726, 746, 800) coupled to a distal end of the torque shaft and a proximal end of the docking cap.
A modular grill and smoker apparatus having a heating source location, a first chamber defined by at least one first chamber wall and an airflow corridor defined by at least one exterior wall and coupled with the first chamber, the apparatus comprising: a lower side inlet vent (304a, 306a) coupled with the airflow corridor; an upper outlet vent (308, 310) coupled with the airflow corridor, wherein, during operation of the apparatus, the first chamber is operable to cook food by retaining heat generated in the heating source location and wherein, during operation of the apparatus, the airflow corridor is defined such that air located exterior to the airflow corridor is drawn into the apparatus via the lower side inlet vent (304a, 306a) and air is emitted from the apparatus via the upper outlet vent (308, 310); a first transparent or semi-transparent panel releasably coupled to the at least one first chamber wall; and a second transparent or semi-transparent panel releasably coupled to the at least one second chamber wall. a lower side inlet vent (304a, 306a) coupled with the airflow corridor; an upper outlet vent (308, 310) coupled with the airflow corridor, wherein, during operation of the apparatus, the first chamber is operable to cook food by retaining heat generated in the heating source location and wherein, during operation of the apparatus, the airflow corridor is defined such that air located exterior to the airflow corridor is drawn into the apparatus via the lower side inlet vent (304a, 306a) and air is emitted from the apparatus via the upper outlet vent (308, 310); a first transparent or semi-transparent panel releasably coupled to the at least one first chamber wall; and a second transparent or semi-transparent panel releasably coupled to the at least one second chamber wall.
A luminophore composition comprising amorphous aluminoborate powders, the composition being obtainable by: - preparing an aluminoborate resin by a wet chemical route based on precursor solutions comprising less than 100 ppm of monovalent and divalent cations; - drying the resin to obtain a solid; - grinding the solid to obtain a powder; - pyrolyzing, in the absence of oxygen, the powder at a pyrolysis temperature lower than the crystallization temperature of the composition; and - calcinating, in the presence of oxygen, the powder so pyrolyzed at a calcination temperature lower than the crystallization temperature of the composition, wherein the aluminoborate has the following composition: x M 2 O 3 + yAl 2 O 3 + z B 2 O 3 wherein M is a trivalent metal, 0≤x≤0.25, 0.1≤y≤0.7, 0.3≤z≤0.9, and x + y + z = 1. - preparing an aluminoborate resin by a wet chemical route based on precursor solutions comprising less than 100 ppm of monovalent and divalent cations; - drying the resin to obtain a solid; - grinding the solid to obtain a powder; - pyrolyzing, in the absence of oxygen, the powder at a pyrolysis temperature lower than the crystallization temperature of the composition; and - calcinating, in the presence of oxygen, the powder so pyrolyzed at a calcination temperature lower than the crystallization temperature of the composition, wherein the aluminoborate has the following composition: x M 2 O 3 + yAl 2 O 3 + z B 2 O 3 wherein M is a trivalent metal, 0≤x≤0.25, 0.1≤y≤0.7, 0.3≤z≤0.9, and x + y + z = 1. x M 2 O 3 + yAl 2 O 3 + z B 2 O 3 wherein M is a trivalent metal, 0≤x≤0.25, 0.1≤y≤0.7, 0.3≤z≤0.9, and x + y + z = 1.
A compound according to formula, or a salt thereof: wherein R 1 is C 1-10 alkyl, C 2-10 alkenyl or C 2-10 alkynyl; R 2 is H, C 1-10 alkyl or benzyl; and R 3 is bromo or iodo. R 1 is C 1-10 alkyl, C 2-10 alkenyl or C 2-10 alkynyl; R 2 is H, C 1-10 alkyl or benzyl; and R 3 is bromo or iodo.
Submarine with a weapon ejection device (10, 12, 14, 16), wherein the weapon ejection device (10, 12, 14, 16) is designed for ejecting a weapon, wherein the weapon is selected from the group comprising a torpedo, mine, decoy and missile, characterized in that the weapon ejection device (10, 12, 14, 16) comprises at least one endless conveyor element and at least one first deflecting element and at least one second deflecting element, wherein the at least one first deflecting element and the at least one second deflecting element serve for deflecting the at least one endless conveyor element, wherein the at least one endless conveyor element comprises at least one first weapon-entraining element, wherein a weapon can be ejected by a partial revolution of the at least one endless conveyor element by the at least one first weapon-entraining element.