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Optical lighting apparatus having a constant luminance output, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of light-emitting diodes having a desired luminance output and configured in a compact array; a light diffuser positioned to receive output of the light-emitting diodes; a photodetector adapted to receive light energy reflected off the light diffuser and for generating an output signal proportional to the amount of received incident light at the photodetector; an optical insulator comprising an opaque tubular shroud open at least at one end and mounted around the photodetector to block the photodetector from receiving light directly from the light-emitting diodes; a controller circuit for variably controlling the drive current to the light- emitting diodes in response to the output signal from the photodetector; a temperature sensor proximate to the photodetector for sensing an ambient temperature thereat; characterised by a heater proximate to the photodetector, the heater having a temperature set above a highest expected value of the ambient temperature to maintain the temperature of the photodetector at a predetermined fixed setting thereby permitting the output luminance from the light-emitting devices to be constant and independent of changes in ambient temperature. a plurality of light-emitting diodes having a desired luminance output and configured in a compact array; a light diffuser positioned to receive output of the light-emitting diodes; a photodetector adapted to receive light energy reflected off the light diffuser and for generating an output signal proportional to the amount of received incident light at the photodetector; an optical insulator comprising an opaque tubular shroud open at least at one end and mounted around the photodetector to block the photodetector from receiving light directly from the light-emitting diodes; a controller circuit for variably controlling the drive current to the light- emitting diodes in response to the output signal from the photodetector; a temperature sensor proximate to the photodetector for sensing an ambient temperature thereat; characterised by a heater proximate to the photodetector, the heater having a temperature set above a highest expected value of the ambient temperature to maintain the temperature of the photodetector at a predetermined fixed setting thereby permitting the output luminance from the light-emitting devices to be constant and independent of changes in ambient temperature.
Method for measuring the dielectric properties of a sample with a scanning probe microscope comprising an oscillating cantilever probe, a sample and a source of electromagnetic radiation, which method comprises the steps of a) inducing oscillations of the cantilever by a driving piezo at at least two frequencies f 1 and f 2, wherein f 1 is within the full width at half maximum of a mechanical oscillation resonance frequency f C1 of the cantilever and f 2 is within the full width at half maximum of another mechanical oscillation resonance frequency f C2 of the cantilever; b) interacting the probe with the sample; c) illuminating the probe or a region of the sample including the area of contact with the probe with the electromagnetic radiation at a modulation frequency f m; and d) measuring a change in any one of the mechanical oscillation resonance frequencies of the cantilever f C1 or f C2, due to the modulated radiation at the modulation frequency f m, in order to determine dielectric properties of the sample. a) inducing oscillations of the cantilever by a driving piezo at at least two frequencies f 1 and f 2, wherein f 1 is within the full width at half maximum of a mechanical oscillation resonance frequency f C1 of the cantilever and f 2 is within the full width at half maximum of another mechanical oscillation resonance frequency f C2 of the cantilever; b) interacting the probe with the sample; c) illuminating the probe or a region of the sample including the area of contact with the probe with the electromagnetic radiation at a modulation frequency f m; and d) measuring a change in any one of the mechanical oscillation resonance frequencies of the cantilever f C1 or f C2, due to the modulated radiation at the modulation frequency f m, in order to determine dielectric properties of the sample.
An inhaler article comprising: a body extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece end to a distal end; a capsule cavity defined within the body, the capsule cavity having a cavity length extending along the longitudinal axis; a mouthpiece air channel extends from the capsule cavity to the mouthpiece end; an end cap disposed within the distal end and extending to the capsule cavity, the end cap extending from an end cap distal end face to an end cap inner end and comprising a helical air channel extending from the end cap distal end face to the end cap inner end; and a capsule disposed within the capsule cavity, the capsule having a capsule length, the capsule length is in a range from about 25% to about 99% of the cavity length, or about 50% to about 95% of the cavity length, or about 70% to about 90% of the cavity length, or from about 75% to about 85% of the cavity length, or about 80% of the cavity length. a body extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece end to a distal end; a capsule cavity defined within the body, the capsule cavity having a cavity length extending along the longitudinal axis; a mouthpiece air channel extends from the capsule cavity to the mouthpiece end; an end cap disposed within the distal end and extending to the capsule cavity, the end cap extending from an end cap distal end face to an end cap inner end and comprising a helical air channel extending from the end cap distal end face to the end cap inner end; and a capsule disposed within the capsule cavity, the capsule having a capsule length, the capsule length is in a range from about 25% to about 99% of the cavity length, or about 50% to about 95% of the cavity length, or about 70% to about 90% of the cavity length, or from about 75% to about 85% of the cavity length, or about 80% of the cavity length.
A method for providing an acknowledgement ACK/negative acknowledgement NACK report independent of a round trip time, RTT, from a second radio node to a first radio node, comprising: the first radio node transmitting over a radio channel data blocks to the second radio node; the second radio node receiving a signal from the first radio node; and detecting that some data blocks are correctly received and some data blocks are not correctly received, generating an ACK/NACK message identifying correctly received data blocks as void, not correctly received data blocks as NACKed and data blocks not yet received as void, where void means that no ACK/NACK information is provided such the second radio node does not confirm in the ACK/NACK message that a data block is correctly received from the first radio node, wherein the ACK/NACK message is a piggy-backed ACK/NACK, PAN, message including a starting sequence number for a sequence of the transmitted data blocks associated with the PAN message, the PAN message having a reported bitmap in which each bit corresponds to one of the transmitted data block associated with the PAN message and indicates whether that data block is void or NACKed; the second radio node sending the ACK/NACK PAN message to the first radio node; the method comprising the further steps of: the first radio node receiving and decoding the ACK/NACK PAN message, wherein the value "1" received in a bit of the reported bitmap indicates that the corresponding data block is identified as void and the value "0" received in a bit of the reported bitmap identifies the corresponding data block as NACKed; and the first radio node re-transmitting the data blocks identified as NACKed to the second radio node. the first radio node transmitting over a radio channel data blocks to the second radio node; the second radio node receiving a signal from the first radio node; and detecting that some data blocks are correctly received and some data blocks are not correctly received, the first radio node receiving and decoding the ACK/NACK PAN message, wherein the value "1" received in a bit of the reported bitmap indicates that the corresponding data block is identified as void and the value "0" received in a bit of the reported bitmap identifies the corresponding data block as NACKed; and the first radio node re-transmitting the data blocks identified as NACKed to the second radio node.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive building information, wherein the building information includes: space information defining a plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) of a building; occupancy sensing system information describing a location of each of a plurality of occupancy sensing system fixtures (214, 526) with respect to a representation (212, 316, 420) of the building; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system information describing a relationship between the plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) and a plurality of HVAC devices (318, 418, 530) installed in the building; create a mapping between a space (319, 419, 528) of the plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528), a fixture (214, 526) of the plurality of fixtures (214, 526), and an HVAC device (318, 418, 530) of the plurality of HVAC devices (318, 418, 530) based on the building information; and modify an operation of the HVAC device (318, 418, 530) based on the mapping and responsive to a determination of occupancy in the space (319, 419, 528) by the fixture (214, 526). receive building information, wherein the building information includes: space information defining a plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) of a building; occupancy sensing system information describing a location of each of a plurality of occupancy sensing system fixtures (214, 526) with respect to a representation (212, 316, 420) of the building; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system information describing a relationship between the plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) and a plurality of HVAC devices (318, 418, 530) installed in the building; space information defining a plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) of a building; occupancy sensing system information describing a location of each of a plurality of occupancy sensing system fixtures (214, 526) with respect to a representation (212, 316, 420) of the building; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system information describing a relationship between the plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528) and a plurality of HVAC devices (318, 418, 530) installed in the building; create a mapping between a space (319, 419, 528) of the plurality of spaces (319, 419, 528), a fixture (214, 526) of the plurality of fixtures (214, 526), and an HVAC device (318, 418, 530) of the plurality of HVAC devices (318, 418, 530) based on the building information; and modify an operation of the HVAC device (318, 418, 530) based on the mapping and responsive to a determination of occupancy in the space (319, 419, 528) by the fixture (214, 526).
A method of actuating a debris barrier comprising: providing a debris barrier disposed in a fluid communication pathway within a lower connection tool within a wellbore; wherein the debris barrier is disposed within a circumferential groove in the lower connection tool; engaging an upper connection tool with the lower connection tool; actuating the debris barrier to displace a portion of a fluid in the fluid communication pathway; and establishing fluid communication between the upper connection tool and the lower connection tool through the circumferential groove in the fluid communication pathway comprising the debris barrier. providing a debris barrier disposed in a fluid communication pathway within a lower connection tool within a wellbore; wherein the debris barrier is disposed within a circumferential groove in the lower connection tool; engaging an upper connection tool with the lower connection tool; actuating the debris barrier to displace a portion of a fluid in the fluid communication pathway; and establishing fluid communication between the upper connection tool and the lower connection tool through the circumferential groove in the fluid communication pathway comprising the debris barrier.
Method for operating a thermal control system of an electric or hybrid motor vehicle, comprising at least one electric battery for driving an electric machine, the thermal control system comprising a system with a heat pump having an evaporator, a first condenser located at the front face of the vehicle, a second condenser intended to heat the passenger compartment of the vehicle, a compressor, a water/coolant heat exchanger and a refrigerating fluid or coolant which passes through these components and circulates in a coolant loop connecting the evaporator, the condensers (24, 26), the compressor and the water/coolant heat exchanger, the thermal control system additionally comprising two separate water loops (40, 42), specifically a first water loop operating at a first temperature intended to cool the electric battery and a second water loop operating at a second temperature intended to cool the electric machine, the first water loop comprising a first water radiator, the water/coolant heat exchanger, an electrical resistance element, the electric battery and a fan heater disposed between the evaporator and the second condenser of the heat pump, and the second water loop comprising a water radiator of the drive train, the electric machine and the charger, the radiator being disposed parallel to the first condenser and the first water radiator, characterized in that, when the vehicle runs without having been previously plugged into an external source of electrical energy in order to recharge the battery, when the outside temperature is lower than a first threshold value, when the battery has a temperature lower than a fourth threshold value and when there is no risk of icing of the water radiator (40, 60), the heat coming from the drive train coupled to at least one of the water radiators (44, 60) for extracting the heat from the outside air is used to heat the passenger compartment of the vehicle via the heat pump.
A device for producing composite components comprising at least one wound fiber reinforced polymer layer, comprising: - a support with a first holding device and a second holding device for mounting a liner in between, wherein the first and the second holding device are established such that the liner can rotate around a central rotation axis which extends through the first holding device and the second holding device, and - at least two movable arms for feeding a fiber structure, wherein the support is established such that the liner can be moved axially parallel to the central rotation axis and each movable arm for feeding the fiber structure is a robotic arm which comprises at least two joints which each allow bending and twisting. - a support with a first holding device and a second holding device for mounting a liner in between, wherein the first and the second holding device are established such that the liner can rotate around a central rotation axis which extends through the first holding device and the second holding device, and - at least two movable arms for feeding a fiber structure,
A method for towing a marine seismic acquisition array (30, 32) in a body of water, comprising: towing a plurality of laterally spaced apart sensor streamers behind a survey vessel in the water, a lateral spacing between adjacent streamers represented by L; characterized by towing at least two laterally spaced apart seismic energy sources behind the survey vessel, a lateral spacing between the at least two sources represented by kL, wherein k is a constant and wherein k is at most equal to the number of streamers; and steering the sensor streamers to have a selected spread angle between a first portion of the streamers extending behind the survey vessel and a second portion of the streamers extending behind the survey vessel, and using seismic data from overlapping common depth point lines (31, 33) acquired laterally between the lateral positions of the sources (30, 32) to reduce infill acquisition. towing a plurality of laterally spaced apart sensor streamers behind a survey vessel in the water, a lateral spacing between adjacent streamers represented by L; characterized by towing at least two laterally spaced apart seismic energy sources behind the survey vessel, a lateral spacing between the at least two sources represented by kL, wherein k is a constant and wherein k is at most equal to the number of streamers; and steering the sensor streamers to have a selected spread angle between a first portion of the streamers extending behind the survey vessel and a second portion of the streamers extending behind the survey vessel, and using seismic data from overlapping common depth point lines (31, 33) acquired laterally between the lateral positions of the sources (30, 32) to reduce infill acquisition.
A movable processing apparatus for mineral material processing, comprising: a movable frame; a side conveyor attached to the frame; a pivot joint for the side conveyor which pivot joint is attached between the side conveyor and the frame; characterized in that the side conveyor is pivotable horizontally around the pivot joint to one or more operating positions at least on one side of the processing apparatus and to a protected state in a transportation position under the frame. a movable frame; a side conveyor attached to the frame; a pivot joint for the side conveyor which pivot joint is attached between the side conveyor and the frame; characterized in that the side conveyor is pivotable horizontally around the pivot joint to one or more operating positions at least on one side of the processing apparatus and to a protected state in a transportation position under the frame.
A confectionery product, comprising: a powder region comprising a particulate sweetener comprising a saccharide, the particulate sweetener having a particle size D(v,0.5) of 250 micrometers or less; a chewy confectionery composition region surrounding the powder region, wherein the chewy confectionery composition has a hardness of 8 to 20 N/m 2 as measured by a texture analyzer; and a coating composition surrounding the chewy confectionery composition region, wherein the coating composition is a combination of a soft panned coating and a hard panned coating wherein the soft panned coating is an intermediate layer between the chewy confectionery composition region and the hard panned coating; wherein the confectionery product cracks or splits in half when chewed with a single bite, and exhibits i) a loss of powder from the powder region of 7 to 100 wt% based on the total weight of the powder region; or ii) complete dissolution of the powder region within 15 seconds when the broken sample is exposed to 37°C simulated saliva at a flow rate of 1 liter/minute. a powder region comprising a particulate sweetener comprising a saccharide, the particulate sweetener having a particle size D(v,0.5) of 250 micrometers or less; a chewy confectionery composition region surrounding the powder region, wherein the chewy confectionery composition has a hardness of 8 to 20 N/m 2 as measured by a texture analyzer; and a coating composition surrounding the chewy confectionery composition region, wherein the coating composition is a combination of a soft panned coating and a hard panned coating wherein the soft panned coating is an intermediate layer between the chewy confectionery composition region and the hard panned coating; wherein the confectionery product cracks or splits in half when chewed with a single bite, and exhibits i) a loss of powder from the powder region of 7 to 100 wt% based on the total weight of the powder region; or ii) complete dissolution of the powder region within 15 seconds when the broken sample is exposed to 37°C simulated saliva at a flow rate of 1 liter/minute. i) a loss of powder from the powder region of 7 to 100 wt% based on the total weight of the powder region; or ii) complete dissolution of the powder region within 15 seconds when the broken sample is exposed to 37°C simulated saliva at a flow rate of 1 liter/minute.
A method for electrostatically coating a target substrate, which method comprises: a) flowing an electrically isolated wet coating composition comprising a waterborne coalescable polymeric binder through a first fluid conduit in controlled fluid communication with and into an electrostatic coating apparatus comprising an electrostatically-charged rotating atomizer; b) depositing sufficient coating composition onto the rotating atomizer so that electrostatically-charged coating composition droplets are slung onto the target substrate and form a coating thereon; c) flowing an electrically isolated aqueous cleaning liquid through a second fluid conduit in controlled fluid communication with and into the apparatus before deposition of the coating composition onto the rotating atomizer is halted or interrupted; and d) depositing the aqueous cleaning liquid onto the atomizer before or within a sufficiently short time after a halt or interruption in coating composition deposition onto the atomizer so that a coalesced polymeric binder film does not accumulate on the atomizer. a) flowing an electrically isolated wet coating composition comprising a waterborne coalescable polymeric binder through a first fluid conduit in controlled fluid communication with and into an electrostatic coating apparatus comprising an electrostatically-charged rotating atomizer; b) depositing sufficient coating composition onto the rotating atomizer so that electrostatically-charged coating composition droplets are slung onto the target substrate and form a coating thereon; c) flowing an electrically isolated aqueous cleaning liquid through a second fluid conduit in controlled fluid communication with and into the apparatus before deposition of the coating composition onto the rotating atomizer is halted or interrupted; and d) depositing the aqueous cleaning liquid onto the atomizer before or within a sufficiently short time after a halt or interruption in coating composition deposition onto the atomizer so that a coalesced polymeric binder film does not accumulate on the atomizer.