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A method for determining the presence of a narcotic in a liquid sample containing a mixture comprising at least one interferant, the method comprising: a. determining a voltage at which, in absence of the interferant, a voltammetric signal of the narcotic can be detected; b. contacting an electrode with the mixture comprising the at least one interferant and potentially comprising the narcotic; c. applying a pretreatment potential to the electrode for a duration of at least 5 seconds; d. measuring a voltammetric response of the mixture, the measurement comprising at least the determined voltage; and e. determining whether the narcotic is present in the mixture by analyzing whether the voltammetric signal of the narcotic, resolved from a voltammetric signal of the interferant, can be detected in the measured voltammetric response; characterised in that the pretreatment potential measures from -0.4 V to -2 V versus Ag/AgCl. a. determining a voltage at which, in absence of the interferant, a voltammetric signal of the narcotic can be detected; b. contacting an electrode with the mixture comprising the at least one interferant and potentially comprising the narcotic; c. applying a pretreatment potential to the electrode for a duration of at least 5 seconds; d. measuring a voltammetric response of the mixture, the measurement comprising at least the determined voltage; and e. determining whether the narcotic is present in the mixture by analyzing whether the voltammetric signal of the narcotic, resolved from a voltammetric signal of the interferant, can be detected in the measured voltammetric response;
Method of damping vibrations of at least one pair of adjacent stay cables (4a, 4b) of a civil engineering structure, in which the stay cables of said pair are linked by a damper, characterized in that said damper has a first stiffness in response to tensile stress and a second stiffness in response to compressive stress, the first stiffness being greater than the second stiffness.
A partition (1,60) formed from a single folded piece of foldable material comprising: a first panel (2,21), a second panel (3,22), and a third panel (4,23), wherein the first panel (2,21) forms a first flap (24,31) and a second flap (26,32), and the second panel (3,22) forms a third flap (27,33) and a fourth flap (29,34), and wherein a first portion of the third panel (4,23) corresponds to a first center panel and a second portion of the third panel (4,23) corresponds to a second center panel; wherein the first flap (24,31) and the first center panel define a first cell configured to receive a first item; wherein the first flap (24,31) and the second flap (26,32) define a second cell configured to receive a second item; wherein the second flap (26,32) and the second center panel define a third cell configured to receive a third item; wherein the second center panel and the fourth flap (29,34) together form a fourth cell configured to receive a fourth item; wherein the fourth flap (29,34) and the third flap (27,33) define a fifth cell configured to receive a fifth item; and wherein the third flap (27,33) and the first center panel define a sixth cell configured to receive a sixth item characterized in that the foldable material is comprised of a flexible material so that the first (24,31), second (26,32), third (27,33), and fourth (29,34) flaps in use are configured to generally conform to the contour of product housed in any of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth cells. a first panel (2,21), a second panel (3,22), and a third panel (4,23), wherein the first panel (2,21) forms a first flap (24,31) and a second flap (26,32), and the second panel (3,22) forms a third flap (27,33) and a fourth flap (29,34), and wherein a first portion of the third panel (4,23) corresponds to a first center panel and a second portion of the third panel (4,23) corresponds to a second center panel; wherein the first flap (24,31) and the first center panel define a first cell configured to receive a first item; wherein the first flap (24,31) and the second flap (26,32) define a second cell configured to receive a second item; wherein the second flap (26,32) and the second center panel define a third cell configured to receive a third item; wherein the second center panel and the fourth flap (29,34) together form a fourth cell configured to receive a fourth item; wherein the fourth flap (29,34) and the third flap (27,33) define a fifth cell configured to receive a fifth item; and wherein the third flap (27,33) and the first center panel define a sixth cell configured to receive a sixth item characterized in that the foldable material is comprised of a flexible material so that the first (24,31), second (26,32), third (27,33), and fourth (29,34) flaps in use are configured to generally conform to the contour of product housed in any of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth cells.
A high or medium voltage switch comprising a first and a second terminal (8, 9), a first and a second set of contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) arranged between the first and the second terminal (8, 9), each set comprising two or more contact elements, a first drive connected to said first set of contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c) adapted to mutually displace the sets of contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) along a displacement direction, wherein each contact element (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) comprises an insulating carrier carrying at least one conducting element, and wherein in a first mutual position of said contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) the conducting elements of said contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) form at least one conducting path in an axial direction between said first and said second terminals (8, 9) in a direction transversally to said displacement direction, and wherein in a second mutual position of said contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) the conducting elements are mutually displaced and do not form said conducting path, characterized in that the switch comprises a second drive connected to said second set of contact elements (14a, 14b, 14c), wherein said first and second drives (18, 19) are adapted to simultaneously move said first and second set, respectively, in opposite directions, and in that the switch comprises a housing, wherein said housing comprises a first tube section ending in a first and a second support insulator (6, 7) at opposite sides with the first terminal extending through the first support insulator and the second terminal extending through the second support insulator, and a second tube section, arranged substantially perpendicular to said first tube section, wherein said first and second drives (18, 19) are arranged in opposite end regions of said second tube section, wherein said contact elements (13a, 13b, 13c; 14a, 14b, 14c) are arranged at an intersection region of said first and second tube sections (3, 4).
Method for manufacturing a sheet comprising a support, in particular at least partially opaque and/or translucent, made from at least one polymeric material, comprising the step consisting in compacting at least one zone of the support so as to cause the appearance of a multitone watermarked effect exhibiting different degrees of light and dark zones, the compaction of the support being obtained by a compression in which the support is compressed between a first mould comprising a first raised motif and a second mould comprising or not comprising a second raised motif, at least one of the first and second moulds having raised areas of variable height in order to form the multitone watermarked effect, the support being coextruded, made from at least one polymeric material comprising a core layer and at least one skin layer (11, 12), the core layer comprising voids.
Linear actuator comprising a console, an outer tube connected to the console, an electric motor, a transmission, and a spindle in connection with the transmission, a spindle nut on the spindle, an inner tube connected to the spindle nut, and where the spindle nut and the inner tube are guided inside the outer tube, and a rear mounting secured to a rear end of the console, where the console comprises a first fixing geometry having a number of first fingers distributed in the circumferential direction around the longitudinal axis of the spindle and the rear mounting comprises a second fixing geometry as negative form of the first fixing geometry, wherein the first fixing geometry and the second fixing geometry form an overlapping region, where the linear actuator comprises a spring ring arranged in the overlapping region, characterized in that the spring ring is positioned in the overlapping region between at least a first protrusion at the first fixing geometry on a side facing away from the rear mounting, and at least a second protrusion at the second fixing geometry on a side facing away from the console.
A relaxation apparatus comprising a body-supporting unit with a seat portion on which a user can sit and a back portion is fixed at a rear part of the seat portion, the relaxation apparatus further comprising a reclining mechanism and a rocking unit, the back portion being reclinable about the rear part of the seat portion by the reclining mechanism, the rocking unit including a motor for rocking the body-supporting unit and a controller for controlling the rocking unit to rock the body-supporting unit, characterized in that: the controller provides an operation mode in which a relaxation rocking of the body-supporting unit to give a relaxation effect to the user is carried out for a predetermined period of time and then a refresh rocking of the body-supporting unit to give a refresh effect to the user is carried out until the operation mode ends; the controller is adapted to control, during the relaxation rocking, the reclining mechanism to recline the back portion by a specific degree from a standing position to a reclined state, a speed at which the back portion is reclined to have a gradual decrease, the motor to decrease a frequency of rocking of the body-supporting unit gradually, and the motor to introduce fluctuations to an amplitude of the rocking of the body-supporting unit; and the controller is adapted to control, during the refresh rocking, the reclining mechanism to move the back portion in the reclined state in directions of raise and reclining alternately until the back portion reaches the standing position. the controller provides an operation mode in which a relaxation rocking of the body-supporting unit to give a relaxation effect to the user is carried out for a predetermined period of time and then a refresh rocking of the body-supporting unit to give a refresh effect to the user is carried out until the operation mode ends; the controller is adapted to control, during the relaxation rocking, the reclining mechanism to recline the back portion by a specific degree from a standing position to a reclined state, a speed at which the back portion is reclined to have a gradual decrease, the motor to decrease a frequency of rocking of the body-supporting unit gradually, and the motor to introduce fluctuations to an amplitude of the rocking of the body-supporting unit; and the controller is adapted to control, during the refresh rocking, the reclining mechanism to move the back portion in the reclined state in directions of raise and reclining alternately until the back portion reaches the standing position.
A computer-implemented method for processing digital images of a document, comprising: obtaining a plurality of digital images of the document; segmenting at least a first digital image of the plurality of images into pixels associated with a foreground of the first digital image and pixels associated with a background of the first digital image; detecting a plurality of contours in the segmented first digital image; deciding, for each detected contour of the plurality of contours, whether that contour is an open contour or a closed contour; drawing, for each detected contour of the plurality of contours, a bounding rectangle around that contour; determining an area of each bounding rectangle and detecting the bounding rectangle with the largest area based on the determined areas; and determining that one or more sides of the document is out-of-bounds of the first digital image based, at least in part, on the decisions by: determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area bounds an open contour; and determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area touches one or more edges of the first digital image. obtaining a plurality of digital images of the document; segmenting at least a first digital image of the plurality of images into pixels associated with a foreground of the first digital image and pixels associated with a background of the first digital image; detecting a plurality of contours in the segmented first digital image; deciding, for each detected contour of the plurality of contours, whether that contour is an open contour or a closed contour; drawing, for each detected contour of the plurality of contours, a bounding rectangle around that contour; determining an area of each bounding rectangle and detecting the bounding rectangle with the largest area based on the determined areas; and determining that one or more sides of the document is out-of-bounds of the first digital image based, at least in part, on the decisions by: determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area bounds an open contour; and determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area touches one or more edges of the first digital image. determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area bounds an open contour; and determining that the bounding rectangle with the largest area touches one or more edges of the first digital image.
A method for crimping corners, in particular for crimping corners of window frames made of aluminum profiles, comprising the steps of: arranging two profiles on a worktop of a crimping machine and next performing the crimp by means of at least two crimping tools of the crimping machine, wherein the first crimping tool is located at a side of the first profile, and the second crimping tool is located at a side of the second profile, characterized by performing the crimp in at least two stages, such that in each subsequent crimping stage the crimp is performed at a different position of a single profile or the crimp is performed simultaneously in two profiles.
Tension levelling system for a metal strip comprising at least a couple of levelling rolls of which at least one having an internal cavity elastically expandable through insertion into the same of a pressurized fluid, further comprising a plurality of tension rolls and a plurality of stretching rolls, said at least one couple of levelling rolls is positioned between said plurality of stretching rolls, said metal strip is wrappable on said plurality of stretching rolls and on said at least one couple of levelling rolls, and characterized by comprising sealing means suitable to divide said internal cavity in a plurality of chambers each of which is expandable in an independent way from the others through insertion of a pressurized fluid and in that each chamber includes an annular form substantially axial symmetric respect to the axis of said levelling roll having said internal cavity.
An apparatus for producing spunbonds from continuous filaments, in particular of thermoplastic material, comprising at least one spinneret for spinning the continuous filaments, at least one monomer extraction apparatus, at least one cooling device for cooling the filaments, at least one stretching device for stretching the filaments and comprising at least one depositing device, in particular in the form of a depositing foraminous belt for depositing the filaments to form a nonwoven web, wherein at least one deformable seal (2.2) for sealing at least one gap formed between the spinneret and the monomer extraction apparatus is disposed between the spinneret and the monomer extraction apparatus, and/or wherein at least one deformable seal for sealing at least one gap formed between the monomer extraction apparatus and the cooling device is disposed between the monomer extraction apparatus and the cooling device, and/or wherein at least one deformable seal for sealing at least one gap formed between the cooling device and the stretching device or the intermediate channel (11.1) is disposed between the cooling device and the stretching device or an intermediate channel (11.1) of the stretching device and wherein the installation properties, in particular the pressing force and/or the pressing pressure and/or the contact area of the at least one seal (2.2, 7, 8) in relation to the boundary surfaces of the respective gap (2.1, 5, 6) is/are variable or adjustable.
A casing of a turbomachine, particularly an exhaust casing of a turbojet, comprising at least one ferrule and at least one flange (3, 4) delimiting at least partially one end of said ferrule, and at least one clevis positioned at least in part on the outer surface of the ferrule, said clevis comprising a bore capable of receiving an element for attaching the casing to a support, the flange comprising an access cut-out substantially coaxial with the bore of said at least one clevis, said access cut-out allowing access to the bore, characterized in that said access cut-out is arranged in a larger release cut-out in the flange (3, 4) and constitutes an indentation on said release cut-out.
Semi-finished product assembly for manufacturing a fibre-composite component by forming a planar semi-finished fibre-composite product in a moulding tool, comprising the semi-finished fibre-composite product and a plurality of retaining elements which are fixed to said semi-finished fibre-composite product and which each extend beyond the periphery thereof, characterized in that the retaining elements for avoiding a height-related projection are disposed so as to be countersunk in recesses of the semi-finished fibre-composite product.
A process for preparing an extruded pesticide granule comprising introducing urea into water to wet the urea, introducing a water soluble pesticide active agent into the wetted urea, adding a nonionic surfactant to produce a damp mixture, extruding the damp mixture to form an extrudate, and drying the extrudate to form the extruded pesticide granule, wherein the water soluble pesticide active agent has a solubility in water of at least 10 g/L.
A polyol component P) comprising: a) 35 to 70 wt%, based on the total amount of components A) to G1) of the polyol component P), of one or more polyether polyols A) having an OH number in the range from 300 to 520 mg KOH/g and a functionality in the range from 4.6 to 6.5, selected from reaction products of monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, polyhydric alcohols, alkoxylation products of the aforesaid compounds, or mixtures thereof with alkylene oxides; b) one or more polyether polyols B) with an OH number in the range from 320 to 500 mg KOH/g, selected from reaction products of aromatic diamines with alkylene oxides; c) one or more polyether polyols C) having an OH number in the range from 15 to 75 mg KOH/g, selected from reaction products of monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, polyhydric alcohols, water or mixtures thereof with alkylene oxides; d) optionally one or more polyols D) which are different from the polyether polyols A), B) and C); e) optionally one or more catalysts E); f) optionally one or more further components F) selected from auxiliaries and adjuvants; and g) optionally one or more blowing agents selected from chemical blowing agents G1) and physical blowing agents G2), wherein the OH number is determined in accordance with DIN 53240 and wherein the functionality is calculated by the formula F = ∑ i = 1 m n i ⋅ f i ∑ i = 1 m n i _ wherein n i = mol of starter i; f i = functionality of starter i; m = number of starters in the starter mixture; F = functionality. a) 35 to 70 wt%, based on the total amount of components A) to G1) of the polyol component P), of one or more polyether polyols A) having an OH number in the range from 300 to 520 mg KOH/g and a functionality in the range from 4.6 to 6.5, selected from reaction products of monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, polyhydric alcohols, alkoxylation products of the aforesaid compounds, or mixtures thereof with alkylene oxides; b) one or more polyether polyols B) with an OH number in the range from 320 to 500 mg KOH/g, selected from reaction products of aromatic diamines with alkylene oxides; c) one or more polyether polyols C) having an OH number in the range from 15 to 75 mg KOH/g, selected from reaction products of monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, polyhydric alcohols, water or mixtures thereof with alkylene oxides; d) optionally one or more polyols D) which are different from the polyether polyols A), B) and C); e) optionally one or more catalysts E); f) optionally one or more further components F) selected from auxiliaries and adjuvants; and g) optionally one or more blowing agents selected from chemical blowing agents G1) and physical blowing agents G2), n i = mol of starter i; f i = functionality of starter i; m = number of starters in the starter mixture; F = functionality.
Apparatus for co-aligning laterally displaced laser beams (11a, 11c), the apparatus comprising: a first laser source for generating a first laser beam, wherein the first laser beam is substantially monochromatic; a second laser source for generating a second laser beam, wherein the second laser beam is a broadband laser beam comprising a plurality of spectral components having different wavelengths; a collimating element for receiving each of said laser beams with respective lateral displacements; and a combining element for receiving each of said laser beams passed by said collimating element for co-aligning the laser beams to form a single spectrally composite laser beam, wherein the combining element is a diffraction grating or a prism; the apparatus further comprising: an optical assembly, comprising first and second optical elements (18a, 18b), disposed only in an optical path between an output of the second laser source and the collimating element, for spatially separating the plurality of spectral components of the second laser beam into the constituent spectral components prior to passing the second laser beam to the collimating element, wherein the first and second optical elements both comprise either a diffraction grating or an optical prism, and wherein the first and second optical elements have substantially the same optical characteristics. a first laser source for generating a first laser beam, wherein the first laser beam is substantially monochromatic; a second laser source for generating a second laser beam, wherein the second laser beam is a broadband laser beam comprising a plurality of spectral components having different wavelengths; a collimating element for receiving each of said laser beams with respective lateral displacements; and a combining element for receiving each of said laser beams passed by said collimating element for co-aligning the laser beams to form a single spectrally composite laser beam, wherein the combining element is a diffraction grating or a prism; the apparatus further comprising: an optical assembly, comprising first and second optical elements (18a, 18b), disposed only in an optical path between an output of the second laser source and the collimating element, for spatially separating the plurality of spectral components of the second laser beam into the constituent spectral components prior to passing the second laser beam to the collimating element, wherein the first and second optical elements both comprise either a diffraction grating or an optical prism, and wherein the first and second optical elements have substantially the same optical characteristics.