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A sound-isolating earphone (1, 2) used with a sound-emitting portion thereof inserted in an entrance of an external auditory canal, the sound-isolating earphone (1, 2) comprising: at least two electroacoustic transducers; and sound leading pipes having different path lengths, the sound leading pipes being associated with the respective electroacoustic transducers; wherein sound waves generated by the at least two electroacoustic transducers at the same phase and passed through the respective sound leading pipes are combined at the entrance of the external auditory canal, and the sound pressure of a frequency component of which half the wavelength equals a difference between path lengths of the at least two sound leading pipes is suppressed. at least two electroacoustic transducers; and sound leading pipes having different path lengths, the sound leading pipes being associated with the respective electroacoustic transducers; wherein sound waves generated by the at least two electroacoustic transducers at the same phase and passed through the respective sound leading pipes are combined at the entrance of the external auditory canal, and the sound pressure of a frequency component of which half the wavelength equals a difference between path lengths of the at least two sound leading pipes is suppressed.
A pipe of the type comprising a base body, having a central axis (X-X) and forming a cylindrical shaft, the shaft having an inner shaft surface, an outer shaft surface, a first axial end and a second axial end, the second axial end of the shaft forming a front shaft surface, the pipe comprising - a cement mortar coating disposed on the inner shaft surface and having a radial coating thickness, - a first annular barrier disposed at the first axial end of the shaft and adapted to oppose axial flow of the cement mortar in a non-solid state, and - a bell end and a spigot end, the bell end being defined by a bell part of the base body which comprises an inner bell surface, the base body comprising a support body made of metal or of an alloy, characterized in that the pipe comprises a bell coating, extending over the inner bell surface, and in that the bell coating is connected to the first barrier in that the first barrier has an annular inner surface that has an inner diameter that is the same or substantially the same as the diameter of the inner surface of cement mortar. a base body, having a central axis (X-X) and forming a cylindrical shaft, the shaft having an inner shaft surface, an outer shaft surface, a first axial end and a second axial end, the second axial end of the shaft forming a front shaft surface, the pipe comprising - a cement mortar coating disposed on the inner shaft surface and having a radial coating thickness, - a first annular barrier disposed at the first axial end of the shaft and adapted to oppose axial flow of the cement mortar in a non-solid state, and - a bell end and a spigot end, - a cement mortar coating disposed on the inner shaft surface and having a radial coating thickness, - a first annular barrier disposed at the first axial end of the shaft and adapted to oppose axial flow of the cement mortar in a non-solid state, and - a bell end and a spigot end, the bell end being defined by a bell part of the base body which comprises an inner bell surface, the base body comprising a support body made of metal or of an alloy, characterized in that the pipe comprises a bell coating, extending over the inner bell surface, and in that the bell coating is connected to the first barrier in that the first barrier has an annular inner surface that has an inner diameter that is the same or substantially the same as the diameter of the inner surface of cement mortar.
A gas sensor comprising: a sensor element; and a contact member having an insertion port in which said sensor element is inserted and retained to obtain an electric connection with said sensor element, wherein said contact member is provided with a plurality of sensor element retaining members each of which is a bended and punched thin single plate of a conductive metal respectively having a plurality of abutting parts abutting on said sensor element, characterized in that at least a part of said plurality of abutting parts is a first abutting part which has a leading end part formed as a linear shape or a point-like shape, and said leading end part of said first abutting part is a free end part which applies an elastic force to said sensor element while having point contact or line contact with said sensor element. a sensor element; and a contact member having an insertion port in which said sensor element is inserted and retained to obtain an electric connection with said sensor element, wherein said contact member is provided with a plurality of sensor element retaining members each of which is a bended and punched thin single plate of a conductive metal respectively having a plurality of abutting parts abutting on said sensor element, characterized in that at least a part of said plurality of abutting parts is a first abutting part which has a leading end part formed as a linear shape or a point-like shape, and said leading end part of said first abutting part is a free end part which applies an elastic force to said sensor element while having point contact or line contact with said sensor element.
A video signal decoding method of performing arithmetic decoding of orthogonal transform coefficients of a coded video signal in partition units, using a state transition diagram in which each of a plurality of state numbers is associated with a probability of a respective less probable symbol and/or a probability of a respective more probable symbol, and wherein a variation of probabilities is stepped, whereby at least two of the state numbers are associated with a same probability, the signal decoding method comprising: deriving an initial state number based on a quantization step value and configuration information included in a header of a partition unit of the coded video signal, wherein the configuration information is a fixed-length code or a variable-length code respectively assigned to each of the at least two of the state numbers associated with the same probability; and arithmetic decoding of the orthogonal transform coefficients of the coded video signal using the probability of the respective less probable symbol associated with the derived initial state number in the transition diagram as an initial value of the probability of the respective less probable symbol in the arithmetic decoding of the orthogonal transform coefficients in the partition unit. deriving an initial state number based on a quantization step value and configuration information included in a header of a partition unit of the coded video signal, wherein the configuration information is a fixed-length code or a variable-length code respectively assigned to each of the at least two of the state numbers associated with the same probability; and arithmetic decoding of the orthogonal transform coefficients of the coded video signal using the probability of the respective less probable symbol associated with the derived initial state number in the transition diagram as an initial value of the probability of the respective less probable symbol in the arithmetic decoding of the orthogonal transform coefficients in the partition unit.
Railing element, in particular for a fence, comprising bars that are spaced apart and connected to at least two rails (12a, 12b) at the top and bottom respectively, the ends of the rails (12a, 12b) being attached to posts, at least part of the bars of the railing element each comprising, on either side of their portion located between the two rails (12a, 12b), at least one slot extending along the longitudinal axis of the bar, each longitudinal slot of said bar cooperating with at least one panel (14, 14') for filling the space between said bar and an adjacent bar, characterised in that at least part of the bars each comprise, on either side of their portion extending between the two rails (12a, 12b), a plurality of longitudinal slots distributed over the length of said portion of said bar, each longitudinal slot of said bar cooperating with a tongue borne by a panel for filling the space between said bar and an adjacent bar.
A mascot retraction mechanism comprising a track, a support for supporting a mascot, the support being mounted for movement along the track between a mascot deployed position and a mascot stowed position, and a drive mechanism arranged to drive the support along the track, the drive mechanism comprising a carriage which is also mounted for movement along the track, characterised in that the mascot retraction mechanism further comprises a biasing element arranged to resiliently bias the support towards one end of the track.
A method for adjusting a flow of a drilling fluid, comprising: circulating a drilling fluid in a tubular to a wellbore drill bit that comprises a nozzle (212; 300; 350: 380) positioned in a drilling fluid pathway of the drill bit; circulating the drilling fluid through the drilling fluid pathway and through the nozzle; characterised in that the method further comprises: adding a drilling fluid additive to the drilling fluid; circulating the drilling fluid and the drilling fluid additive through the drilling fluid pathway and through the nozzle; and removing, with the drilling fluid additive, at least a portion of the nozzle that comprises a removable material. circulating a drilling fluid in a tubular to a wellbore drill bit that comprises a nozzle (212; 300; 350: 380) positioned in a drilling fluid pathway of the drill bit; circulating the drilling fluid through the drilling fluid pathway and through the nozzle; characterised in that the method further comprises: adding a drilling fluid additive to the drilling fluid; circulating the drilling fluid and the drilling fluid additive through the drilling fluid pathway and through the nozzle; and removing, with the drilling fluid additive, at least a portion of the nozzle that comprises a removable material. adding a drilling fluid additive to the drilling fluid; circulating the drilling fluid and the drilling fluid additive through the drilling fluid pathway and through the nozzle; and removing, with the drilling fluid additive, at least a portion of the nozzle that comprises a removable material.
Method for monitoring the tyre pressure of a vehicle by means of a tyre pressure monitoring device, which comprises a pressure sensor for measuring the tyre pressure, an acceleration sensor and a transmitter for wireless trans-mission of tyre pressure data, and a central evaluation unit of the vehicle, which comprises a receiver, wherein when the vehicle is parked, the tyre pressure is regularly measured by the pressure sensor of the tyre pressure monitoring device, and when the vehicle is parked, pressure data are sent by the tyre pressure monitoring device at preset time intervals, characterised in that the receiver is actuated at matching preset intervals to receive the pressure data. a central evaluation unit of the vehicle, which comprises a receiver, wherein when the vehicle is parked, the tyre pressure is regularly measured by the pressure sensor of the tyre pressure monitoring device, and when the vehicle is parked, pressure data are sent by the tyre pressure monitoring device at preset time intervals, characterised in that the receiver is actuated at matching preset intervals to receive the pressure data.
Method for driving a motor vehicle at least partially autonomously, wherein the motor vehicle and/or the surroundings thereof are detected by at least one sensor device (2, 18, 19) and the movement information controlling the movement of the motor vehicle is determined by a calculation device which is on the outside of the motor vehicle and transmits to the motor vehicle, wherein the movement information is determined in accordance with at least one item of information relating to the manoeuvring capacity of the motor vehicle and/or the detection capability of the sensor device (2, 18, 19), characterised in that information relating to the manoeuvring capacity of the motor vehicle is used, which describes a safety distance from objects in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, and/or in that information relating to the detection capability of the sensor device (2, 18, 19) is used, which describes a safety distance from objects in the surroundings of the motor vehicle and/or sensor technology used by the sensor device (2, 18, 19) and/or the spatial arrangement or the position on the motor vehicle side of at least one sensor (3, 4) of the sensor device (2, 18, 19).
An apparatus for pumping well fluid from a well, comprising: an electrical submersible pump assembly having a motor and a pump, the motor having a motor shaft that drives a pump shaft of the pump; a thrust bearing unit between the motor and the pump, the thrust bearing unit having a thrust bearing shaft that rotates a thrust runner in sliding engagement with a non-rotating thrust bearing base; a pump shaft coupling that couples the thrust bearing shaft with the pump shaft; a motor shaft coupling that couples the thrust bearing shaft with the motor shaft; and characterized by: at least one of the couplings having a one-way clutch that allows forward direction rotation of the thrust bearing shaft and prevents reverse direction rotation. an electrical submersible pump assembly having a motor and a pump, the motor having a motor shaft that drives a pump shaft of the pump; a thrust bearing unit between the motor and the pump, the thrust bearing unit having a thrust bearing shaft that rotates a thrust runner in sliding engagement with a non-rotating thrust bearing base; a pump shaft coupling that couples the thrust bearing shaft with the pump shaft; a motor shaft coupling that couples the thrust bearing shaft with the motor shaft; and characterized by: at least one of the couplings having a one-way clutch that allows forward direction rotation of the thrust bearing shaft and prevents reverse direction rotation.
Use of a gasoline fuel composition for reducing the occurrence of Low Speed Pre-Ignition (LSPI) in a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, wherein the gasoline fuel composition comprises a gasoline base fuel and has a PM Index of 1.4 or less, wherein the PM Index of the gasoline fuel composition can be calculated using Equation below: PM Index = ∑ i = 1 n I 443 K = ∑ i = 1 n DBE i + 1 V. P 443 K i × Wt i wherein in Equation, a number, or i, is assigned to each gasoline component in the gasoline composition, DBE i is the double bond equivalent value of component i, V.P i is the vapour pressure of component i at 443K, and Wt i is weight fraction of component i in the gasoline composition.
A method for decoding a scalable video codec, SVC, video signal using interlayer prediction, the method comprising: setting motion information of an intra-mode field macroblock to motion information of an inter-mode field macroblock, the intra-mode field macroblock and the inter-mode field macroblock being two vertically adjacent field macroblocks of a macroblock adaptive frame field, MBAFF, base layer; and deriving motion information of a pair of frame macroblocks for use in interlayer motion prediction of two vertically adjacent frame macroblocks of a current layer based on the two vertically adjacent field macroblocks of the MBAFF base layer, wherein the MBAFF base layer and the current layer have a same spatial resolution, and the motion information is information about macroblock partition modes, motion vectors and reference indices. setting motion information of an intra-mode field macroblock to motion information of an inter-mode field macroblock, the intra-mode field macroblock and the inter-mode field macroblock being two vertically adjacent field macroblocks of a macroblock adaptive frame field, MBAFF, base layer; and deriving motion information of a pair of frame macroblocks for use in interlayer motion prediction of two vertically adjacent frame macroblocks of a current layer based on the two vertically adjacent field macroblocks of the MBAFF base layer, wherein the MBAFF base layer and the current layer have a same spatial resolution, and the motion information is information about macroblock partition modes, motion vectors and reference indices.
A computer implemented method of processing write requests in a distributed system comprising a plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326) each storing a replica of the same data and engaging in replication to maintain data consistency among each of the replicas stored on the plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326), the method comprising: receiving at a first server a write request with data to be written to a replica stored on the first server, wherein the first server is one of a plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326); determining whether the data in the write request is subject to a global data rule; the method characterised by: transmitting an approval request to a central server (320, 322, 324, 326) to approve the acceptance of the write request, wherein the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) is another one of the plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326) and has global knowledge, wherein the global knowledge is updated knowledge of information on all of the replicas; receiving a message from the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) indicating whether the approval request has been approved; in response to the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) approving the approval request, the first server accepting the write request and writing the data to the replica stored on the first server; and in response to the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) not approving the approval request, the first server denying the write request; the method further comprising storing a policy at the first server (310, 312, 314, 316) for deciding whether to accept or deny a write request if a central server (320, 322, 324, 326) is unavailable for receiving an approval request. receiving at a first server a write request with data to be written to a replica stored on the first server, wherein the first server is one of a plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326); determining whether the data in the write request is subject to a global data rule; the method characterised by: transmitting an approval request to a central server (320, 322, 324, 326) to approve the acceptance of the write request, wherein the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) is another one of the plurality of servers (310, 312, 314, 316, 320, 322, 324, 326) and has global knowledge, wherein the global knowledge is updated knowledge of information on all of the replicas; receiving a message from the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) indicating whether the approval request has been approved; in response to the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) approving the approval request, the first server accepting the write request and writing the data to the replica stored on the first server; and in response to the central server (320, 322, 324, 326) not approving the approval request, the first server denying the write request; the method further comprising storing a policy at the first server (310, 312, 314, 316) for deciding whether to accept or deny a write request if a central server (320, 322, 324, 326) is unavailable for receiving an approval request.
A method for preparing gel substances, wherein the method comprises: - providing a premixture on a batch production line, the premixture containing at least water, glycerol and surfactants, and - admixing additives (10, 13) with the premixture, the additives (10, 13) comprising at least fragrances, on a filling line downstream of the batch production line. - providing a premixture on a batch production line, the premixture containing at least water, glycerol and surfactants, and - admixing additives (10, 13) with the premixture, the additives (10, 13) comprising at least fragrances, on a filling line downstream of the batch production line.
A system for automatically packaging items (26, 28, 30, 32, 34) that vary in size and number for shipment, comprising - a packaging station for holding a pre-folded cardboard box to receive one or more item(s) (26, 28, 30, 32, 34) to be packaged, said pre-folded cardboard box having a bottom panel, two side panels (14, 16) and a first end panel, the first end panel being joined to each of said side panels (14, 16), the side panels (14, 16) and the end panel being erected from the bottom panel to form a box having an open top and an open side, the bottom panel having an end portion intended to form a second end panel, each side panel (14, 16) having an end portion intended to form a corner panel (42, 44), characterized by means for automatically packaging items, including - at least one cutting unit adapted to introduce cuts (48, 50) between the end portions of the side panels (14, 16) intended to form said corner panels (42,44) and the end portion of the bottom panel intended to form said second end panel and for adjustably shortening the end portions of the side panels (14, 16) and the end portion of the bottom panel of the pre-folded box, and - at least one folding unit for folding the corner panels (42, 44) and the second end panel to close said open side of the box. - a packaging station for holding a pre-folded cardboard box to receive one or more item(s) (26, 28, 30, 32, 34) to be packaged, said pre-folded cardboard box having a bottom panel, two side panels (14, 16) and a first end panel, the first end panel being joined to each of said side panels (14, 16), the side panels (14, 16) and the end panel being erected from the bottom panel to form a box having an open top and an open side, the bottom panel having an end portion intended to form a second end panel, each side panel (14, 16) having an end portion intended to form a corner panel (42, 44), - at least one cutting unit adapted to introduce cuts (48, 50) between the end portions of the side panels (14, 16) intended to form said corner panels (42,44) and the end portion of the bottom panel intended to form said second end panel and for adjustably shortening the end portions of the side panels (14, 16) and the end portion of the bottom panel of the pre-folded box, and - at least one folding unit for folding the corner panels (42, 44) and the second end panel to close said open side of the box.
Construction foil, in particular roofing membrane, roof foil, flat roofing membrane, facade membrane and/or vapor barrier and/or sub-roofing membrane, in particular underlayment and/or sarking membrane, with a single-layer or multilayer layer structure, wherein at least one moisture sensor for detecting moisture is assigned to the construction foil, characterized in that the moisture sensor is designed as an active pick-up, and in that the moisture sensor has at least one electrode and the electrode is in direct contact with a nonwoven layer. the moisture sensor is designed as an active pick-up, and in that the moisture sensor has at least one electrode and the electrode is in direct contact with a nonwoven layer.