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Processing system for processing a hot glass sheet, the processing system comprising: a roller conveyor extending along a direction of conveyance of the processing system and including a plurality of rollers having a set of roller ends that are located within a heated location of the processing system and aligned with each other along the direction of conveyance; a roller support structure located within the heated location of the processing system and having an elongated cooling unit including a housing defining a cooling chamber that receives and has bearings that rotatably support the aligned set of roller ends, and the cooling unit including a cooling circuit that supplies cooling liquid to the cooling chamber to provide cooling of the aligned set of roller ends and cooling of the bearings; and characterized in that: the roller support structure including round cans that project into the cooling chamber and have respective open ends through which the aligned set of roller ends respectively project into the cooling chamber, the round cans supporting the bearings which rotatably support the aligned set of roller ends, and the housing of the cooling unit and the open ended round cans defining a flow path of the cooling circuit that supplies the cooling liquid for cooling the aligned set of roller ends and the bearings. a roller conveyor extending along a direction of conveyance of the processing system and including a plurality of rollers having a set of roller ends that are located within a heated location of the processing system and aligned with each other along the direction of conveyance; a roller support structure located within the heated location of the processing system and having an elongated cooling unit including a housing defining a cooling chamber that receives and has bearings that rotatably support the aligned set of roller ends, and the cooling unit including a cooling circuit that supplies cooling liquid to the cooling chamber to provide cooling of the aligned set of roller ends and cooling of the bearings; and characterized in that: the roller support structure including round cans that project into the cooling chamber and have respective open ends through which the aligned set of roller ends respectively project into the cooling chamber, the round cans supporting the bearings which rotatably support the aligned set of roller ends, and the housing of the cooling unit and the open ended round cans defining a flow path of the cooling circuit that supplies the cooling liquid for cooling the aligned set of roller ends and the bearings.
A joint lock having a lock body and a joint bar hoop, wherein the lock body accommodates a lock cylinder and a latch which is selectively movable by the lock cylinder from a locking position into a release position, and wherein the joint bar hoop comprises a plurality of joint bars pivotally connected to one another, with a first end of the joint bar hoop having an elongate locking bar which can be introduced into an introduction opening of the lock body and which can be locked in the lock body by means of the latch, wherein the lock body furthermore accommodates a preloading device which preloads the latch into the locking position, with the latch being temporarily movable against the preload from the locking position into the release position by introduction of the locking bar into the lock body, with the preloading device being adapted to move the latch back into the locking position again when the locking bar is completely introduced into the lock body, with the latch being configured as a rotating latch, characterized in that the rotating latch is rotatably supported at a jacket surface of the lock cylinder.
A wave energy recovery apparatus comprising at least a base, a reciprocating panel, a pivot shaft for the reciprocating panel, a control system, a power-take-off unit with a primary shaft to convert kinetic energy of waves or tidal currents to another type of energy, and a connection mechanism to connect the PTO unit to the panel or to the pivot shaft and to disconnect the PTO unit from the panel or from the pivot shaft and the apparatus comprises actuator means to connect the primary shaft of the PTO unit either to the back and forth moving panel or its pivot shaft while the panel and the pivot shaft are reciprocating, characterized in that the actuator means comprises synchronizing means to rotate the primary shaft of the PTO unit back and forth without a load and to synchronize the back and forth motion of the primary shaft with the motion of the panel and the pivot shaft before connecting the back and forth moving primary shaft to the back and forth moving panel or the pivot shaft.
A fan, in particular for the fresh and/or circulating air intake for a vehicle air-conditioning system, with a fan housing, an impeller with an axis of rotation and a fan motor driving the impeller, wherein the fan housing has at least one intake opening for an intake duct and an outlet opening for an outlet duct, wherein the surface normal to the intake opening of the intake duct is arranged in a skewed manner with respect to the axis of rotation of the impeller and the intake opening in a plane offset to the outlet opening in the direction of the axis of rotation of the impeller, wherein the fan motor on the opposite side of the impeller is arranged with respect to the intake duct(s) and two intake ducts (6a, 6b) with one respective assigned intake opening (20a, 20b) are provided, wherein the intake openings (20a, 20b) are arranged on opposite sides of the axis of rotation of the impeller, characterised in that the intake openings (20a, 20b) are arranged in one plane, wherein the intake openings are point-symmetrical to one another with respect to the axis of rotation.
System for screwless fixing of a body with a projecting formation to a panel with an opening, in which said projecting formation has a head portion having in one direction (A-A) an extension greater than that of said opening and a neck portion which, in said direction (A-A), has an extension smaller than or the same as that of said opening; the projecting formation being able to pass through the opening of the panel in an inclined position and then be rotated towards the panel and displaced in said direction (A-A) towards an engaged position in which both the ends of the head portion of said projecting formation extend outside said opening; locking means being able to be operated while the projecting formation of the body is in the engaged position, so as to fix stably in this condition the body to the panel; the locking means comprising a locking member having at least one first retaining formation able to snap-engage with a corresponding second retaining formation; the locking member being able to assume with respect to the body a pre-engagement position wherein said first and second retaining formations ( 11, 12a) are situated close together but disengaged from each other, the locking member being able thereafter to be displaced into a stable engaged and locked position wherein said retaining formations (11, 12a) are firmly engaged together and the at least one first retaining formation of the locking member co-operates with the panel, on the opposite side to said projecting formation, preventing displacement of the body with respect thereto; characterized in that said second retaining formation is provided in said body, and in that the neck portion of the projecting formation of the body has at least one projection oriented in said direction (A-A) and able to be arranged along a corresponding side of the opening of the panel so as to eliminate the play between said neck portion and said opening when the projecting formation is in the abovementioned engaged position.
Method for fabricating a probe configuration for characterizing a sample comprising the steps of: • forming a tip of the probe configuration by first forming from a first diamond layer a diamond body having a nucleation side at the apex region and thereafter providing a second diamond layer on the nucleation side at least on the apex region of the diamond body, the second diamond layer being conductive; • attaching a cantilever to the tip, • attaching the cantilever with the tip attached to it, to a holder, the step of forming a diamond body from the first diamond layer comprising: • providing a substrate, the substrate having a top side and a back side being opposite to the top side; • etching a mold in the substrate in the top side of the substrate, • depositing the first diamond layer on the top side of the substrate thereby filling the mold with the first diamond layer and forming in the mold the diamond body having an apex; • patterning the first diamond layer to form the diamond body around the mold; • underetching the first diamond layer at least at the apex region thereby at least partially releasing the diamond body from the substrate. • forming a tip of the probe configuration by first forming from a first diamond layer a diamond body having a nucleation side at the apex region and thereafter providing a second diamond layer on the nucleation side at least on the apex region of the diamond body, the second diamond layer being conductive; • attaching a cantilever to the tip, • attaching the cantilever with the tip attached to it, to a holder, • providing a substrate, the substrate having a top side and a back side being opposite to the top side; • etching a mold in the substrate in the top side of the substrate, • depositing the first diamond layer on the top side of the substrate thereby filling the mold with the first diamond layer and forming in the mold the diamond body having an apex; • patterning the first diamond layer to form the diamond body around the mold; • underetching the first diamond layer at least at the apex region thereby at least partially releasing the diamond body from the substrate.
An imager device comprising a semiconductor substrate and an imager pixel, the imager pixel comprising: an active region (104, 114, 116, 118, 120) formed from doped portions of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the active region comprises a photoconversion device and a charge storage region; a circuit (106, 124, 110, 128) configured to receive charge from the photoconversion device and output a voltage representative of the charge, the circuit comprising a transfer transistor gate, wherein the transfer transistor gate is configured to gate charge from the photoconversion device to the charge storage region; a shallow trench isolation region formed from oxide in the semiconductor substrate that surrounds the active region and the circuit, characterized in that the transfer transistor gate is configured so as not to overlap any part of the shallow trench isolation region; and the imager pixel further comprises implant regions in the active region, wherein the implant regions are interposed between the transfer transistor gate and the shallow trench isolation region, when viewed in a top-down view, along border regions between the transfer transistor gate and the shallow trench isolation region and wherein the implant regions are configured to prevent said charge from being transferred from the photoconversion device to the charge storage region along the sides of the transfer transistor gate so as to limit charge transfer to a channel region underneath the transfer transistor gate. an active region (104, 114, 116, 118, 120) formed from doped portions of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the active region comprises a photoconversion device and a charge storage region; a circuit (106, 124, 110, 128) configured to receive charge from the photoconversion device and output a voltage representative of the charge, the circuit comprising a transfer transistor gate, wherein the transfer transistor gate is configured to gate charge from the photoconversion device to the charge storage region; a shallow trench isolation region formed from oxide in the semiconductor substrate that surrounds the active region and the circuit, characterized in that the transfer transistor gate is configured so as not to overlap any part of the shallow trench isolation region; and the imager pixel further comprises implant regions in the active region, wherein the implant regions are interposed between the transfer transistor gate and the shallow trench isolation region, when viewed in a top-down view, along border regions between the transfer transistor gate and the shallow trench isolation region and wherein the implant regions are configured to prevent said charge from being transferred from the photoconversion device to the charge storage region along the sides of the transfer transistor gate so as to limit charge transfer to a channel region underneath the transfer transistor gate.
An impact protection apparatus (100, 200, 300) for an aerial vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) configured to be selectively inflatable to reduce forces experienced by the aerial vehicle during an impact, wherein a first inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) is disposed on a first side of the aerial vehicle when being inflated and wherein a second inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) is disposed on a second side of the aerial vehicle when being inflated, the first and second sides being different sides of the aerial vehicle; a control mechanism configured to cause compressed gas to flow into one or more inflatable members (130, 230, 330) of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) in response to a signal indicative of a detected state of the aerial vehicle, wherein the detected state of the aerial vehicle is a malfunction of the aerial vehicle; one or more sensors configured to collect data to predict from which direction the aerial vehicle will likely experience the impact; and a controller (140, 240, 260, 340) in communication with the one or more sensors and the control mechanism, wherein the controller (140, 240, 260, 340) is configured to control the control mechanism to selectively inflate the first and/or second inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members based on the data collected by the one or more sensors. a plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) configured to be selectively inflatable to reduce forces experienced by the aerial vehicle during an impact, wherein a first inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) is disposed on a first side of the aerial vehicle when being inflated and wherein a second inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) is disposed on a second side of the aerial vehicle when being inflated, the first and second sides being different sides of the aerial vehicle; a control mechanism configured to cause compressed gas to flow into one or more inflatable members (130, 230, 330) of the plurality of inflatable members (130, 230, 330) in response to a signal indicative of a detected state of the aerial vehicle, wherein the detected state of the aerial vehicle is a malfunction of the aerial vehicle; one or more sensors configured to collect data to predict from which direction the aerial vehicle will likely experience the impact; and a controller (140, 240, 260, 340) in communication with the one or more sensors and the control mechanism, wherein the controller (140, 240, 260, 340) is configured to control the control mechanism to selectively inflate the first and/or second inflatable member of the plurality of inflatable members based on the data collected by the one or more sensors.
A process for the preparation of a compound of formula VIII wherein PLG is a protecting-leaving group selected from the group consisting of methoxy and benzyloxy, and Z is hydroxyethyl or a group convertible to hydroxyethyl, wherein the group convertible to hydroxyethyl is selected from the group consisting of: -CH 2 COOR 1, wherein R 1 is selected from linear or branched C 1 -C 6 -alkyl or benzyl; cyanomethyl; -CH 2 CH(E 1 R 2)(E 2 R 3), wherein E 1 and E 2 are independently selected from a chalcogen element, and R 2 and R 3 are the same or different, selected from C 1 -C 4 -alkyl, or together form C 2 -C 4 -alkylene or o-phenylene connection; or -CH 2 CH 2 -OR 4 wherein R 4 is a hydroxy protecting group, selected from tertiary alkyl group, arylmethyl group, methoxy substituted C 1 -C 2 -alkyl group, trisubstituted silyl group, acyl, the process comprising the steps of: (i) providing a compound of formula VII wherein PLG is defined as above, and (ii) O-alkylating the compound of formula VII to obtain the compound of formula VIII, wherein said protecting-leaving group PLG is both, capable of acting as a protecting group in the O-alkylation reaction (ii) and capable of acting as a leaving group when it will be subjected to a nucleophilic substitution reaction. wherein PLG is a protecting-leaving group selected from the group consisting of methoxy and benzyloxy, and Z is hydroxyethyl or a group convertible to hydroxyethyl, wherein the group convertible to hydroxyethyl is selected from the group consisting of: -CH 2 COOR 1, wherein R 1 is selected from linear or branched C 1 -C 6 -alkyl or benzyl; cyanomethyl; -CH 2 CH(E 1 R 2)(E 2 R 3), wherein E 1 and E 2 are independently selected from a chalcogen element, and R 2 and R 3 are the same or different, selected from C 1 -C 4 -alkyl, or together form C 2 -C 4 -alkylene or o-phenylene connection; or -CH 2 CH 2 -OR 4 wherein R 4 is a hydroxy protecting group, selected from tertiary alkyl group, arylmethyl group, methoxy substituted C 1 -C 2 -alkyl group, trisubstituted silyl group, acyl, the process comprising the steps of: (i) providing a compound of formula VII wherein PLG is defined as above, and (ii) O-alkylating the compound of formula VII to obtain the compound of formula VIII, (i) providing a compound of formula VII wherein PLG is defined as above, and (ii) O-alkylating the compound of formula VII to obtain the compound of formula VIII,
Method for wear monitored granulating one or multiple plastic strands comprising the step of granulating the strands using a blade roll and an anvil blade cooperating therewith, characterized by the further steps: detecting at least one force check value which depends on a force applied for granulating the strands, wherein at least a deformation, a force or a current consumption of a drive motor for the blade roll is detected as the at least one force check value, and deriving a wear state of the anvil blade and/or of the blade roll from the detected force check value. detecting at least one force check value which depends on a force applied for granulating the strands, wherein at least a deformation, a force or a current consumption of a drive motor for the blade roll is detected as the at least one force check value, and deriving a wear state of the anvil blade and/or of the blade roll from the detected force check value.
A packaging and applicator device, comprising: - a first part (2, 64), - a second part (10; 40; 62) configured to turn relative to the first part about an axis of rotation, one of the parts comprising a resiliently deformable tab (16; 46), formed in the thickness of a tubular skirt of the corresponding part, and the other part comprising a portion in relief (8; 45; 66), the tab and the portion in relief being configured to co-operate so that turning the second part relative to the first part causes the tab to deflect when passing over the portion in relief, wherein a component of the deflection is parallel to the axis of rotation, the user being able to feel a tactile sensation during the passing. - a first part (2, 64), - a second part (10; 40; 62) configured to turn relative to the first part about an axis of rotation, one of the parts comprising a resiliently deformable tab (16; 46), formed in the thickness of a tubular skirt of the corresponding part, and the other part comprising a portion in relief (8; 45; 66), the tab and the portion in relief being configured to co-operate so that turning the second part relative to the first part causes the tab to deflect when passing over the portion in relief, wherein a component of the deflection is parallel to the axis of rotation, the user being able to feel a tactile sensation during the passing.
A method for integrating a messaging conversation with a location sharing event, the method comprising: Receiving, at a first mobile communication device, a message from a second mobile communication device through a first communication mode; parsing, by an integrated location sharing application on the first mobile communication device, the message to determine whether the message includes an indication of time, an indication of location, or both; and upon determining one of the indications, providing, by the integrated location sharing application, a prompt to a recipient of the message to send the location sharing event to the second mobile communication device, wherein the location sharing event is sent as a link representative of a current location of the first mobile communication device. Receiving, at a first mobile communication device, a message from a second mobile communication device through a first communication mode; parsing, by an integrated location sharing application on the first mobile communication device, the message to determine whether the message includes an indication of time, an indication of location, or both; and upon determining one of the indications, providing, by the integrated location sharing application, a prompt to a recipient of the message to send the location sharing event to the second mobile communication device, wherein the location sharing event is sent as a link representative of a current location of the first mobile communication device.
A cover rail comprising a base section extending in a longitudinal direction and having an elongated base portion and first and second fastening limbs (16, 18), wherein the fastening limbs (16, 18) project from the base portion and form a U-shaped cross-section together with at least one part of the base portion; and a cover section extending in the longitudinal direction and having an elongated cover portion and first and second latching limbs (28, 30), wherein the latching limbs (28, 30) project from the cover portion such that the cover portion has a part arranged between the latching limbs (28, 30) and a part projecting laterally beyond one of the latching limbs; wherein the base section and the cover section are configured to be assembled to form the cover rail, for which purpose fastening means (20, 22) are in each case provided at the first and second fastening limbs (16, 18) and latching means (36, 38) which are latchable to the fastening means (20, 22) are in each case provided at the first and second latching limbs (28, 30); and wherein, in the assembled state of the cover rail, the fastening means (20, 22) are latched to the latching means (36, 38) and the projecting part of the cover portion projects laterally beyond one of the fastening limbs (16, 18), characterized in that both outer angles (α) of the U-shaped cross-section, which are each present between one of the fastening limbs (16, 18) and the base portion, are greater than 270°.