mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A turbine blade comprising: an airfoil, platform, and integral dovetail; said airfoil including transversely opposite pressure and suction sides (20,22) extending chordally between opposite leading and trailing edges (24,26), and longitudinally in span from root to tip; and said tip including first and second tip ribs (36,38) extending outwardly from a tip floor along said pressure and suction sides (20,22) between said leading and trailing edges (24,26) to define a tip cavity; characterised in that the turbine blade further comprises: an exit ramp bridging said first and second ribs (36,38) at an aft junction thereof near said trailing edge, said exit ramp including a forward land extending forward toward said leading edge to blend smoothly with the aft end of the tip floor between the two ribs, rising in elevation aft from said tip floor, and including an aft land extending aft towards said trailing edge to blend smoothly with the top surface of the airfoil tip. an airfoil, platform, and integral dovetail; said airfoil including transversely opposite pressure and suction sides (20,22) extending chordally between opposite leading and trailing edges (24,26), and longitudinally in span from root to tip; and said tip including first and second tip ribs (36,38) extending outwardly from a tip floor along said pressure and suction sides (20,22) between said leading and trailing edges (24,26) to define a tip cavity; characterised in that the turbine blade further comprises: an exit ramp bridging said first and second ribs (36,38) at an aft junction thereof near said trailing edge, said exit ramp including a forward land extending forward toward said leading edge to blend smoothly with the aft end of the tip floor between the two ribs, rising in elevation aft from said tip floor, and including an aft land extending aft towards said trailing edge to blend smoothly with the top surface of the airfoil tip. an exit ramp bridging said first and second ribs (36,38) at an aft junction thereof near said trailing edge, said exit ramp including a forward land extending forward toward said leading edge to blend smoothly with the aft end of the tip floor between the two ribs, rising in elevation aft from said tip floor, and including an aft land extending aft towards said trailing edge to blend smoothly with the top surface of the airfoil tip.
Seal assembly comprising a first machine element and a second machine element, which are in each case composed of an electrically conductive material, and a seal, wherein the two machine elements (1, 2) are sealed in relation to one another by the seal, wherein the seal comprises an electrically conductive supporting body, and wherein the supporting body comprises at least one substantially spike-shaped protrusion of an electrically conductive material, characterized in that at least one of the machine elements (1, 2) is composed of an electrically conductive plastics material which for production reasons is at least partially covered by an electrically isolating injection-moulded surface, and in that the at least one substantially spike-shaped protrusion is disposed on the side of the supporting body that faces the injection-moulded surface and completely penetrates the injection-moulded surface.
A signal processing apparatus for determining color converting means for color-converting a second image signal obtained through image pickup by a second image pickup device to be converted into a first image signal approximate to an image signal obtained through image pickup by a target first image pickup device, characterized by comprising: difference calculating means for calculating a spectral difference value indicating a difference between spectral characteristics of the first image pickup device and spectral characteristics of the second image pickup device; and processing determining means for determining a color converting means performing linear conversion as the color converting means when the spectral difference value is equal to or less than a determination reference value and determining a color converting means performing non-linear conversion as the color converting means when the spectral difference value is greater than the determination reference value. difference calculating means for calculating a spectral difference value indicating a difference between spectral characteristics of the first image pickup device and spectral characteristics of the second image pickup device; and processing determining means for determining a color converting means performing linear conversion as the color converting means when the spectral difference value is equal to or less than a determination reference value and determining a color converting means performing non-linear conversion as the color converting means when the spectral difference value is greater than the determination reference value.
A device for applying adhesives to a granular ballast bed of a railway track at a job site, the device including an electrical power supply and control for pumping the adhesives from containers (60, 61) via flexible hose lines (9, 10), as well as a gear pump and a mass flow meter (15, 16) in the flexible hose line (9, 10) for the controlled discharge of the adhesives, characterised in that the entire device is installed on a railway wagon and has a boom with a spray bar, wherein the spray bar can be brought into position at a front of the railway wagon, and that a control unit is present, which is configured in such a way that the flow rate of the adhesives can be controlled as a function of the travel speed by determining the latter by means of a travel speed sensor on the railway carriage, for the speed-dependent controlled application of the adhesive in a plurality of selectable spray patterns.
A system, comprising: electrodes on at least one lead configured to be operationally positioned for use in modulating neural tissue, the neural tissue including dorsal horn tissue or nerve root tissue; a neural modulation generator configured to use at least some of the electrodes to generate a modulation field, characterised by the neural modulation generator being configured to use a programmed modulation parameter set to promote uniformity of the modulation field for a distance across the dorsal horn tissue corresponding to a length of an electrode span adjacent to the dorsal horn tissue, the electrode span including two or more of the electrodes on the at least one lead; and a controller configured to control the neural modulation generator to generate said modulation field in pulse trains of at least two pulses. electrodes on at least one lead configured to be operationally positioned for use in modulating neural tissue, the neural tissue including dorsal horn tissue or nerve root tissue; a neural modulation generator configured to use at least some of the electrodes to generate a modulation field, characterised by the neural modulation generator being configured to use a programmed modulation parameter set to promote uniformity of the modulation field for a distance across the dorsal horn tissue corresponding to a length of an electrode span adjacent to the dorsal horn tissue, the electrode span including two or more of the electrodes on the at least one lead; and a controller configured to control the neural modulation generator to generate said modulation field in pulse trains of at least two pulses.
Disk brake, in particular for utility vehicles, with a brake disk, a first brake lining on a first side of the brake disk and a second brake lining on a second side of the brake disk opposite the first side, wherein a spreading device (28, 30; 42, 44; 48, 50) which generates a force which moves the first and the second brake lining (14, 16) away from one another, characterized in that the spreading device (28, 30; 42, 44; 48, 50) is supported on a retainer spring (20, 22) of the first and the second brake lining (14, 16).
Sensor subassembly for a vehicle with at least one sensor unit (160, 260) which is arranged in a cap-shaped plastic part (20, 120, 220), wherein the cap-shaped plastic part (20, 120, 220) is carried by a retaining bush (30, 130, 230) and seals this at one end, wherein between the cap-shaped plastic part (20, 120, 220) and the retaining bush (30, 130, 230) in a first sealing region (42, 142, 242), to seal a first leakage path, a resilient sealing and compensating element (40, 140, 240) is pressed in such that the cap-shaped plastic part (20, 120, 220) in conjunction with the sealing and compensating element (40, 140, 240) tightly seals the retaining bush (30, 130, 230) at one end, wherein the first sealing region (42, 142, 242) is designed as an open recess, characterized in that the sealing and compensating element (40, 140, 240) is inserted in the first sealing region (42, 142, 242) such that the sealing and compensating element (40, 140, 240) is radially compressed between a first sealing surface (22, 122, 222) of the cap-shaped plastic part (20, 120, 220) and a second sealing surface (32, 132, 232) of the retaining bush (30, 130, 230), and that the sealing and compensating element (40, 140, 240) is held by a retaining element (50, 150, 250) in the first sealing region (42, 142, 242).
An aqueous composition comprising at least one hydrophobic compound having at least one linkage of Formula I: - NHC -X- wherein the linkage of Formula comprises 30 to 100% by mol of the total urethane linkages in the hydrophobic compound; X is the residue of a cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol which is substituted with at least two -R 1; -C R 1; -(CH 2 CH 2 O) n (CH(CH 3)CH 2 O) m C R 1; or mixtures thereof; where the cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol is selected from glucose, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, arabinose, ribose, allose, altrose, mannose, xylose, lyxose, gulose, galactose, talose, fructose, ribulose, mannoheptulose, sedoheptulose, threose, erythritol, threitol, glucopyranose, mannopyranose, talopyranose, allopyranose, altropyranose, idopyranose, gulopyranose, glucitol, mannitol, sorbitol, arabitol, xylitol, ribitol, galactitol, fucitol, iditol, inositol, dipentaerythritol, volemitol, gluconic acid, glyceric acid, xylonic acid, galactaric acid, ascorbic acid, gluconic acid lactone, glyceric acid lactone, xylonic acid lactone, glucosamine, galactosamine, or mixtures thereof; wherein each n is independently 0 to 20; each m is independently 0 to 20; m+n is greater than 0; and each R 1 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 5 to 29 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond. the linkage of Formula comprises 30 to 100% by mol of the total urethane linkages in the hydrophobic compound; X is the residue of a cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol which is substituted with at least two -R 1; -C R 1; -(CH 2 CH 2 O) n (CH(CH 3)CH 2 O) m C R 1; or mixtures thereof; where the cyclic or acyclic sugar alcohol is selected from glucose, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, arabinose, ribose, allose, altrose, mannose, xylose, lyxose, gulose, galactose, talose, fructose, ribulose, mannoheptulose, sedoheptulose, threose, erythritol, threitol, glucopyranose, mannopyranose, talopyranose, allopyranose, altropyranose, idopyranose, gulopyranose, glucitol, mannitol, sorbitol, arabitol, xylitol, ribitol, galactitol, fucitol, iditol, inositol, dipentaerythritol, volemitol, gluconic acid, glyceric acid, xylonic acid, galactaric acid, ascorbic acid, gluconic acid lactone, glyceric acid lactone, xylonic acid lactone, glucosamine, galactosamine, or mixtures thereof; wherein each n is independently 0 to 20; each m is independently 0 to 20; m+n is greater than 0; and each R 1 is independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 5 to 29 carbons optionally comprising at least 1 unsaturated bond.
A coupling device for a tube having an end portion provided with an outer chamfer, the device comprising a tubular body provided internally with an annular sealing element and with an attachment member (4, 40) for retaining the end portion of the tube in leaktight manner in the body, at least one retractable abutment arranged so as to oppose insertion into the body of a tube end portion that is not chamfered and so that the chamfer of the tube end portion that is chamfered forms a cam for causing the abutment to retract while it is being inserted into the body and a tubular disconnection pusher that is coaxial with the annular sealing element, that defines a through section for the tube end portion, and that is movable between a first position in which it allows the attachment member to perform retention, and a second position in which it prevents the attachment member from performing retention, the pusher having a first end remote from the attachment member and arranged to be capable of moving the pusher from its first position to its second position, and the abutment being part of the pusher.
System comprising a plate exchanger comprising a plurality of plates delimiting between them, two by two, at least parallel first fluidic flow channels and a distribution device fed by a flow of a first fluid, notably a liquid, and injecting the flow of first fluid into the plurality of first channels at an output of the distribution device, said first channels being staggered in a first direction, the output of the distribution device consisting of a distribution element for the first fluid, notably formed in a porous material, configured in such a way as to be passed through by the first fluid with a pressure drop such that the first fluid leaves from the distribution element with a uniform surface distribution at an output surface of the distribution element, in a way that ensures a uniform feed of first fluid for the first channels, in which the distribution device comprises a tubular element open at one end to allow the tubular element to be fed by the flow of first fluid and closed at an opposite end in a manner that is tight to the flow of first fluid, and in that all or part of the walls of the tubular element consists of the distribution element for the first fluid, any potential remaining part of the walls of the tubular element being tight to the first fluid and in that tne system comprises a feed device suitable for feeding said feed zones of the first channels with a flow of a second fluid, notably a gas, the first fluid being distributed at the output of the distribution device in such a way as to directly encounter, after its ejection, a flow formed by the second fluid previously leaving at the output of the feed device, and in that it comprises an anti-coalescence device configured to oppose the effect of coalescence of the first fluid leaving at the output surface of the distribution element, the anti-coalescence device having planar support elements in contact with or in immediate proximity to said output surface at different positions of the output surface, each support element being formed by an edge of a given plate of the plate exchanger, notably a top edge of the given plate in the second direction, said plate edge being in contact with the output surface of the distribution element, characterized in that the distribution element for the first fluid is offset in a second direction substantially at right angles to the first direction X of the center of the feed device.
An elongated plate-form piezoelectric body, which comprises an optically active helical chiral polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and has an elongated plate shape having a thickness of from 0.001 mm to 0.2 mm, a width of from 0.1 mm to 30 mm and a width-to-thickness ratio of 2 or higher, wherein: a crystallinity measured by a DSC method is from 20% to 80%, birefringence is from 0.01 to 0.03, characterized in that the length-to-width ratio is 20 or higher, and a lengthwise direction and a main orientation direction of the helical chiral polymer are substantially parallel to each other, and "substantially parallel" meaning that the angle is from 0° to less than 30°. a crystallinity measured by a DSC method is from 20% to 80%, birefringence is from 0.01 to 0.03, characterized in that the length-to-width ratio is 20 or higher, and a lengthwise direction and a main orientation direction of the helical chiral polymer are substantially parallel to each other, and "substantially parallel" meaning that the angle is from 0° to less than 30°.
Endoscopic instrument with an elongate shaft tube which has an axially continuous and substantially cylindrical main lumen for receiving a shaft (32, 46) of an endoscope lens system (33, 43), with a tool which is arranged at a distal end of the shaft tube and is connected to a distal end region of the shaft tube, and with an elongate transmission element, wherein the tool can be controlled via the transmission element from a proximal end of the shaft tube, wherein the transmission element is designed as a pull rod and the tool comprises at least one movable tool element that is movable relative to the tool by means of the pull rod, and wherein the shaft tube has an axially continuous secondary lumen, which adjoins the main lumen in a transverse direction, has a smaller cross-sectional area than the main lumen, is connected to the main lumen via a transition region, narrowed in relation to the main lumen and the secondary lumen, and receives the transmission element, wherein the narrowed transition region is narrower than a corresponding transverse dimension of the transmission element.
A friction disk comprising: a friction disk core having a first surface with multiple channels extending radially across the first surface; a first wear liner having at least two wear liner segments (112,114) each configured to be coupled to the first surface of the friction disk core to form an annular liner and each including a wear surface, a non-wear surface, and a rib extending from the non-wear surface and configured to be received by one of the multiple channels; the friction disk core further having a second surface and including multiple channels extending radially across the second surface; and a second wear liner configured to be coupled to the second surface of the friction disk core, wherein the second wear liner includes at least two wear liner segments (112, 114) that form an annular liner when coupled to the friction disk core, each including a wear surface, a non-wear surface, and a rib extending from the non-wear surface and configured to be received by one of the multiple channels, the friction disk further comprising at least two fasteners each configured to extend through the friction disk core and respective segments of the first wear liner and the second wear liner, characterized by: openings, in each of the wear liners, which are pass-through holes or pass-through apertures extending completely through the respective wear liner from the wear surface to the non-wear surface through the ribs, the openings configured to receive the fasteners, the openings including a counterbore defined in the wear surface. a friction disk core having a first surface with multiple channels extending radially across the first surface; a first wear liner having at least two wear liner segments (112,114) each configured to be coupled to the first surface of the friction disk core to form an annular liner and each including a wear surface, a non-wear surface, and a rib extending from the non-wear surface and configured to be received by one of the multiple channels; the friction disk core further having a second surface and including multiple channels extending radially across the second surface; and a second wear liner configured to be coupled to the second surface of the friction disk core, wherein the second wear liner includes at least two wear liner segments (112, 114) that form an annular liner when coupled to the friction disk core, each including a wear surface, a non-wear surface, and a rib extending from the non-wear surface and configured to be received by one of the multiple channels, the friction disk further comprising at least two fasteners each configured to extend through the friction disk core and respective segments of the first wear liner and the second wear liner, characterized by: openings, in each of the wear liners, which are pass-through holes or pass-through apertures extending completely through the respective wear liner from the wear surface to the non-wear surface through the ribs, the openings configured to receive the fasteners, the openings including a counterbore defined in the wear surface.
A fastener cartridge assembly, comprising: a cartridge body comprising a cavity, and a sled and/or driver in the cartridge body; a lock moveably positioned in said cavity, wherein said lock is configured to move from a locked position to an unlocked position, and wherein the sled and/or driver is configured to engage the lock during a firing stroke to move the lock from the locked position to the unlocked position; and a fastener removably positioned in said cavity, wherein said fastener is secured to said lock when said lock is in said locked position, characterised in that said cavity comprises a key and said key releases said fastener from said lock when said lock moves to said unlocked position. a cartridge body comprising a cavity, and a sled and/or driver in the cartridge body; a lock moveably positioned in said cavity, wherein said lock is configured to move from a locked position to an unlocked position, and wherein the sled and/or driver is configured to engage the lock during a firing stroke to move the lock from the locked position to the unlocked position; and a fastener removably positioned in said cavity, wherein said fastener is secured to said lock when said lock is in said locked position, characterised in that said cavity comprises a key and said key releases said fastener from said lock when said lock moves to said unlocked position.
A reagent mixing container, comprising: (a) a first chamber having a first end, a second end, and a lumen extending therebetween; (b) a supplemental chamber having a first end, a second end, and a lumen therebetween, wherein said second end of said first chamber and said second end of said supplemental chamber are adjacent; (c) a stopper comprising a first position and a second position, wherein in said first position said stopper is positioned to seal the lumen of said first chamber at said second end of said first chamber and the lumen of said supplemental chamber at said second end of said supplemental chamber, and in said second position, said stopper is displaced from said first position, whereby the lumen of said supplemental chamber is co-extensive with the lumen of said first chamber; (d) a plunger sealingly positioned at the first end of said supplemental chamber, and slideably moveable in the lumen of said supplemental chamber from the supplemental chamber first end towards said supplemental chamber second end; wherein the stopper encloses a magnetic bar or at least one magnetic bead. (a) a first chamber having a first end, a second end, and a lumen extending therebetween; (b) a supplemental chamber having a first end, a second end, and a lumen therebetween, wherein said second end of said first chamber and said second end of said supplemental chamber are adjacent; (c) a stopper comprising a first position and a second position, wherein in said first position said stopper is positioned to seal the lumen of said first chamber at said second end of said first chamber and the lumen of said supplemental chamber at said second end of said supplemental chamber, and in said second position, said stopper is displaced from said first position, whereby the lumen of said supplemental chamber is co-extensive with the lumen of said first chamber; (d) a plunger sealingly positioned at the first end of said supplemental chamber, and slideably moveable in the lumen of said supplemental chamber from the supplemental chamber first end towards said supplemental chamber second end; wherein