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A bending robot that is configured to take out a workpiece that is stored on a stacker (31, 31A) having a storage reference flat plane and whose end face is being contacted with the storage reference flat plane, and is configured to then supply the workpiece to a bending machine, comprising: a main body that is movable parallel to the storage reference flat plane; an arm portion that is supported by the main body and capable of positioning above the stacker (31, 31A); characterised by a distance sensor that is provided in the arm portion and capable of measuring a distance to the workpiece stored on the stacker (31, 31A) in a contactless manner, the distance sensor being configured to output a first electric current or voltage value (Ib) corresponding to a distance to an upper surface of the uppermost workpiece stored on the stacker (31, 31A) and a second electric current or voltage value (Ia) corresponding to a distance to an upper surface of a bottom plate of the stacker (31, 31A) on which the workpiece (w) is stored, and the main body moves parallel to the storage reference flat plane and the distance sensor measures on a measurement path (BK, BKa) in a vicinity of the storage reference flat plane, and the bending robot includes a controller configured to judge whether or not a workpiece is placed on the stacker by determining whether or not two electric current or voltage values (la, Ib) with a difference are detected. a main body that is movable parallel to the storage reference flat plane; an arm portion that is supported by the main body and capable of positioning above the stacker (31, 31A); characterised by a distance sensor that is provided in the arm portion and capable of measuring a distance to the workpiece stored on the stacker (31, 31A) in a contactless manner, the distance sensor being configured to output a first electric current or voltage value (Ib) corresponding to a distance to an upper surface of the uppermost workpiece stored on the stacker (31, 31A) and a second electric current or voltage value (Ia) corresponding to a distance to an upper surface of a bottom plate of the stacker (31, 31A) on which the workpiece (w) is stored, and the main body moves parallel to the storage reference flat plane and the distance sensor measures on a measurement path (BK, BKa) in a vicinity of the storage reference flat plane, and the bending robot includes a controller configured to judge whether or not a workpiece is placed on the stacker by determining whether or not two electric current or voltage values (la, Ib) with a difference are detected.
A four-point link (10; 20) for attaching a vehicle axle to a vehicle frame of a vehicle, in particular of a commercial vehicle, having two trailing arms (11; 21) which are connected to one another by way of a central region (12; 22), the central region (12; 22) having two parallel plates (13; 23), a reinforcing element being fastened on at least one plate (13; 23), characterized in that the plates are fastened to the trailing arms via a plug-in connection and/or clamped connection; and in that, on their inner side, the trailing arms have two grooves which extend in the longitudinal direction of the trailing arms and in which in each case one side edge of the plates is plugged.
A washing or cleaning agent, characterized in that it contains at least one protease, the protease comprising an amino acid sequence, which is selected from the group consisting of a) amino acid sequence, which is identical to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 3 b) amino acid sequence, which is identical to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2. a) amino acid sequence, which is identical to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 3 b) amino acid sequence, which is identical to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 2.
Air bleed system comprising an air bleed port provided on an engine of an aircraft, an air supply pipe designed to be in fluid communication with an air equipment of the aircraft, a pressure sensor suitable for measuring the air pressure in said supply pipe and/or in said air equipment, a pressure relief valve mounted in said air supply pipe and configured to block the air supply to said equipment in the event of overpressure detected by said pressure sensor, said pressure relief valve comprising: - a valve body comprising an air inlet, an air outlet and an air circulation duct which is arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet and extends in a direction, called the longitudinal direction, - a closure member (121, 122) pivotally mounted in said air circulation duct about a pivot axis, between an open position in which air can freely circulate from said air inlet toward said air outlet, and a closed position in which said closure member has a surface, called the upstream face (121a, 122a) which extends across the circulation duct so as to prevent any air circulation toward said air outlet, characterized in that said pressure relief valve further comprises: - at least one air discharge channel passing through said valve body configured to spontaneously fluidically connect, when said closure member is in said closed position, at least one air discharge opening formed on said upstream face of said closure member and at least one air evacuation opening which opens to the outside of the air circulation duct. - a valve body comprising an air inlet, an air outlet and an air circulation duct which is arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet and extends in a direction, called the longitudinal direction, - a closure member (121, 122) pivotally mounted in said air circulation duct about a pivot axis, between an open position in which air can freely circulate from said air inlet toward said air outlet, and a closed position in which said closure member has a surface, called the upstream face (121a, 122a) which extends across the circulation duct so as to prevent any air circulation toward said air outlet, - at least one air discharge channel passing through said valve body configured to spontaneously fluidically connect, when said closure member is in said closed position, at least one air discharge opening formed on said upstream face of said closure member and at least one air evacuation opening which opens to the outside of the air circulation duct.
A method of producing a composition comprising one or more galacto-oligosaccharide(s), the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a mixture comprising - a galactosyl donor comprising a galactosyl group bound to a leaving group, which galactosyl donor has a molar weight of at most 350 g/mol, - a galactosyl acceptor which is different from the galactosyl donor, said galactosyl acceptor is a saccharide or a sugar-alcohol, and wherein the molar ratio between the galactosyl acceptor and the galactosyl donor is at least 1:10, and wherein the mixture comprises at least 0.05 mol/L of the galactosyl acceptor and the galactosyl donor in a concentration of at most 0.7 mol/L, b) providing an enzyme having beta-galactosidase activity and having a T-value of at most 0.6, said enzyme contacting the mixture, the determination of the T-value of a beta-galactosidase enzyme is performed by providing a solution consisting of the beta-galactosidase enzyme in an amount sufficient to use 33% (w/w) of added lactose in 1 hour at 37°C for 4 hours and calculated using the formula: T − value = amount of produced galactose in mol amount of used lactose in mol and c) allowing the enzyme to release the leaving group of the galactosyl donor and transfer the galactosyl group of the galactosyl donor to the galactosyl acceptor, thus forming the galacto-oligosaccharide, and thereby obtaining the composition comprising the galacto-oligosaccharide. a) providing a mixture comprising - a galactosyl donor comprising a galactosyl group bound to a leaving group, which galactosyl donor has a molar weight of at most 350 g/mol, - a galactosyl acceptor which is different from the galactosyl donor, said galactosyl acceptor is a saccharide or a sugar-alcohol, and wherein the molar ratio between the galactosyl acceptor and the galactosyl donor is at least 1:10, and wherein the mixture comprises at least 0.05 mol/L of the galactosyl acceptor and the galactosyl donor in a concentration of at most 0.7 mol/L, - a galactosyl donor comprising a galactosyl group bound to a leaving group, which galactosyl donor has a molar weight of at most 350 g/mol, - a galactosyl acceptor which is different from the galactosyl donor, said galactosyl acceptor is a saccharide or a sugar-alcohol, and b) providing an enzyme having beta-galactosidase activity and having a T-value of at most 0.6, said enzyme contacting the mixture, the determination of the T-value of a beta-galactosidase enzyme is performed by providing a solution consisting of the beta-galactosidase enzyme in an amount sufficient to use 33% (w/w) of added lactose in 1 hour at 37°C for 4 hours and calculated using the formula: T − value = amount of produced galactose in mol amount of used lactose in mol and c) allowing the enzyme to release the leaving group of the galactosyl donor and transfer the galactosyl group of the galactosyl donor to the galactosyl acceptor, thus forming the galacto-oligosaccharide, and thereby obtaining the composition comprising the galacto-oligosaccharide.
A circuit for a system for contactless inductive energy transfer, wherein the circuit comprises: a primary side circuit being arranged on the primary side that can be connected to a supply voltage on the primary side, and a secondary side circuit being arranged on the secondary side that can be connected to a load which is to be supplied with energy; a transformer stage with galvanic separation for contactless transfer of energy from the primary side to the secondary side via an air gap, wherein at least two magnetically coupled inductors for inductive energy transfer are provided which are spatially separable from one another by removing the secondary side from the primary side; wherein the transformer stage comprises a resonant converter and the secondary side circuit further comprises a subsequent stabilising stage, characterized in that the circuit does not provide a channel for feeding back information about an output voltage of the transformer stage to the primary side, wherein the circuit is formed such that the output voltage of the transformer stage is maintained in a predetermined value range in case of variations of the load to be supplied, of the supply voltage and/or a distance between the primary side and the secondary side, and wherein the subsequent stabilising stage comprises a Buck-converter and the transformer stage being formed by an LLC- or LLCC-converter operated at a fixed frequency, the fixed frequency operated converter being supplied by a Boost-converter, the Boost-converter being either an AC-DC-converter or a DC-DC-converter. a primary side circuit being arranged on the primary side that can be connected to a supply voltage on the primary side, and a secondary side circuit being arranged on the secondary side that can be connected to a load which is to be supplied with energy; a transformer stage with galvanic separation for contactless transfer of energy from the primary side to the secondary side via an air gap, wherein at least two magnetically coupled inductors for inductive energy transfer are provided which are spatially separable from one another by removing the secondary side from the primary side; wherein the transformer stage comprises a resonant converter and the secondary side circuit further comprises a subsequent stabilising stage, characterized in that the circuit does not provide a channel for feeding back information about an output voltage of the transformer stage to the primary side, wherein the circuit is formed such that the output voltage of the transformer stage is maintained in a predetermined value range in case of variations of the load to be supplied, of the supply voltage and/or a distance between the primary side and the secondary side, and wherein the subsequent stabilising stage comprises a Buck-converter and the transformer stage being formed by an LLC- or LLCC-converter operated at a fixed frequency, the fixed frequency operated converter being supplied by a Boost-converter, the Boost-converter being either an AC-DC-converter or a DC-DC-converter.
Detector arrangement (10, 20) for the detection of ionizing radiation comprising a scintillator volume, at least one light sensing device and a multifunctional coating arranged in an interacting relation to said at least one light sensing device and being in optical contact with said scintillator volume, whereby said multifunctional coating is configured to a) reflect light of a given wavelength; and b) convert at least part of thermal and/or epi-thermal neutrons entering said multifunctional coating into light; wherein the multifunctional coating has diffuse reflective properties such that light can be transported by means of diffuse reflection until impinging on a sensitive area of the light sensing device, wherein said multifunctional coating comprises a first layer of a neutron conversion material configured to convert at least part of thermal and/or epi-thermal neutrons entering said multifunctional coating into light and a second layer of a wavelength shifting material configured to shift light of short wavelengths to be re-emitted back through said scintillator volume at a wavelength at which said multifunctional coating is reflective; such that the multifunctional coating is configured to reflect light of a given wavelength coming from the scintillator volume back through said scintillator volume and to emit light from neutron conversion into the said scintillator volume, whereby the light is detected by said light sensing device. a) reflect light of a given wavelength; and b) convert at least part of thermal and/or epi-thermal neutrons entering said multifunctional coating into light;
A catheter, comprising: a tubular sheath defining a first lumen which extends from a proximal end to a distal end of the tubular sheath; and a rapid exchange segment defining a second lumen which extends from an entry port to an exit port of the rapid exchange segment, wherein the rapid exchange segment has a proximal stub portion angled with respect to the second lumen, the proximal stub portion is mated with the tubular sheath in a lengthwise direction such that the proximal stub portion of the rapid exchange segment connects with a distal portion of the tubular sheath, whereby the distal portion of the tubular sheath which connects with the proximal stub portion of the rapid exchange segment does not contain the first lumen, wherein the tubular sheath and the rapid exchange segment are mated together offset from each other such that an axis of the second lumen and an axis of the first lumen are arranged at an angle (β) with respect to each other, and wherein a length of the distal portion of the tubular sheath not containing the first lumen is optimized to prevent kinking and improve navigation of the catheter. a tubular sheath defining a first lumen which extends from a proximal end to a distal end of the tubular sheath; and a rapid exchange segment defining a second lumen which extends from an entry port to an exit port of the rapid exchange segment, wherein the rapid exchange segment has a proximal stub portion angled with respect to the second lumen, the proximal stub portion is mated with the tubular sheath in a lengthwise direction such that the proximal stub portion of the rapid exchange segment connects with a distal portion of the tubular sheath, whereby the distal portion of the tubular sheath which connects with the proximal stub portion of the rapid exchange segment does not contain the first lumen, wherein the tubular sheath and the rapid exchange segment are mated together offset from each other such that an axis of the second lumen and an axis of the first lumen are arranged at an angle (β) with respect to each other, and wherein a length of the distal portion of the tubular sheath not containing the first lumen is optimized to prevent kinking and improve navigation of the catheter.
A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator compartment having a door; an opening formed at a front of the door; a home bar disposed in the door to provide a storage chamber therein; a home bar door provided at the opening to selectively open or close the home bar; one or more hinge shafts (21, 22); a latch unit to selectively lock or unlock the home bar door respectively to or from the home bar; characterised by an automatic opening unit provided in a vicinity of the home bar, for pushing the home bar door to a predetermined angle so that the home bar door is automatically opened by gravity; and a damping unit mounted to at least one position on a lower portion of the home bar door to reduce a rotating speed of the one or more hinge shafts (21, 22) when the home bar door is being opened, allowing the home bar door to controllably open, and wherein an end of a respective one of the one or more hinge shafts is connected to the damping unit. a refrigerator compartment having a door; an opening formed at a front of the door; a home bar disposed in the door to provide a storage chamber therein; a home bar door provided at the opening to selectively open or close the home bar; one or more hinge shafts (21, 22); a latch unit to selectively lock or unlock the home bar door respectively to or from the home bar; characterised by an automatic opening unit provided in a vicinity of the home bar, for pushing the home bar door to a predetermined angle so that the home bar door is automatically opened by gravity; and a damping unit mounted to at least one position on a lower portion of the home bar door to reduce a rotating speed of the one or more hinge shafts (21, 22) when the home bar door is being opened, allowing the home bar door to controllably open, and wherein an end of a respective one of the one or more hinge shafts is connected to the damping unit.
A method of separating air comprising: compressing, purifying and cooling the air; the air being cooled such that a superheated air stream is formed from part of the air having a temperature at least 5 K above a dew point temperature of the air at a pressure of the superheated air stream; introducing the air into an air separation unit comprising a higher pressure column and a lower pressure column, separating the air into component fractions enriched in at least oxygen and nitrogen within the air separation unit and utilizing streams of the component fractions to assist in the cooling of the air; washing krypton and xenon from at least part of the superheated air stream within a mass transfer contacting zone located in a bottom portion of the higher pressure column or in an auxiliary column connected to the bottom portion of the higher pressure column such that a bottoms liquid rich in krypton and xenon is produced, the mass transfer contacting zone being operated with a liquid to vapor ratio between 0.04 and 0.15; stripping a stream of the liquid rich in krypton and xenon within a stripping column with a stripping gas, thereby producing a krypton-xenon-rich bottoms liquid having a higher concentration of krypton and xenon than the liquid rich in krypton and xenon produced in the mass transfer contacting zone; and withdrawing a krypton-xenon-rich stream composed of the krypton-xenon-rich bottoms liquid from the stripping column. compressing, purifying and cooling the air; the air being cooled such that a superheated air stream is formed from part of the air having a temperature at least 5 K above a dew point temperature of the air at a pressure of the superheated air stream; introducing the air into an air separation unit comprising a higher pressure column and a lower pressure column, separating the air into component fractions enriched in at least oxygen and nitrogen within the air separation unit and utilizing streams of the component fractions to assist in the cooling of the air; washing krypton and xenon from at least part of the superheated air stream within a mass transfer contacting zone located in a bottom portion of the higher pressure column or in an auxiliary column connected to the bottom portion of the higher pressure column such that a bottoms liquid rich in krypton and xenon is produced, the mass transfer contacting zone being operated with a liquid to vapor ratio between 0.04 and 0.15; stripping a stream of the liquid rich in krypton and xenon within a stripping column with a stripping gas, thereby producing a krypton-xenon-rich bottoms liquid having a higher concentration of krypton and xenon than the liquid rich in krypton and xenon produced in the mass transfer contacting zone; and withdrawing a krypton-xenon-rich stream composed of the krypton-xenon-rich bottoms liquid from the stripping column.
A communication system comprising: an optical transmitter to which an transmission signal is input, and which is configured to modulate the transmission signal to an optical signal and transmit the optical signal; and an optical receiver that is configured to receive the optical signal and demodulate the optical signal to a transmission signal, wherein the optical receiver includes a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert the optical signal into an analog electric signal, an analog digital converter configured to convert the analog electric signal into a digital signal and output monitoring information indicative of amplitude of the analog electric signal; a dispersion estimation and compensation unit configured to process the digital signal and estimate a wavelength dispersion of the optical signal; and a controller configured to identify a reference value corresponding to the estimated wavelength dispersion, and control the amplitude of the analog electric signal based on the reference value and the monitoring information, wherein the controller is configured to control the reference value to become smaller as the estimated wavelength dispersion is increased. an optical transmitter to which an transmission signal is input, and which is configured to modulate the transmission signal to an optical signal and transmit the optical signal; and an optical receiver that is configured to receive the optical signal and demodulate the optical signal to a transmission signal, wherein the optical receiver includes a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert the optical signal into an analog electric signal, an analog digital converter configured to convert the analog electric signal into a digital signal and output monitoring information indicative of amplitude of the analog electric signal; a dispersion estimation and compensation unit configured to process the digital signal and estimate a wavelength dispersion of the optical signal; and a controller configured to identify a reference value corresponding to the estimated wavelength dispersion, and control the amplitude of the analog electric signal based on the reference value and the monitoring information, wherein the controller is configured to control the reference value to become smaller as the estimated wavelength dispersion is increased.