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An anti-frost device (100, 200) suitable to be installed in the area of at least one row of plants to prevent damage caused by frost and/or ice on said plants; said anti-frost device (100, 200) comprising: - at least one burner suitable for generating heated gas; - at least one pipe suitable to be arranged along said at least one row of plants; said at least one pipe being in fluid communication with said at least one burner, so that the heated gas generated by said at least one burner flows into said at least one pipe; wherein said at least one pipe comprises: - holes for outflow of the heated gas from said at least one pipe; - a first end proximal to said at least one burner; - a second closed end, distal to said at least one burner; characterised in that said at least one pipe comprises a longitudinal dividing wall, so that said at least one pipe comprises a first conduit and a second conduit; said holes being formed in the area of said second conduit; said second conduit being closed by means of a bulkhead at the first end of said at least one pipe and communicating with the first conduit at the second end of said at least one pipe, so that the heated gas coming out of the burner is forced to flow in the first conduit until it reaches the second end of said at least one pipe, enters the second conduit and flows out of the holes of said at least one pipe. - at least one burner suitable for generating heated gas; - at least one pipe suitable to be arranged along said at least one row of plants; said at least one pipe being in fluid communication with said at least one burner, so that the heated gas generated by said at least one burner flows into said at least one pipe; wherein said at least one pipe comprises: - holes for outflow of the heated gas from said at least one pipe; - a first end proximal to said at least one burner; - a second closed end, distal to said at least one burner; - holes for outflow of the heated gas from said at least one pipe; - a first end proximal to said at least one burner; - a second closed end, distal to said at least one burner; characterised in that said at least one pipe comprises a longitudinal dividing wall, so that said at least one pipe comprises a first conduit and a second conduit; said holes being formed in the area of said second conduit; said second conduit being closed by means of a bulkhead at the first end of said at least one pipe and communicating with the first conduit at the second end of said at least one pipe, so that the heated gas coming out of the burner is forced to flow in the first conduit until it reaches the second end of said at least one pipe, enters the second conduit and flows out of the holes of said at least one pipe.
A process for the preparation of lofexidine base or hydrochloride, which comprises: a) reacting 2,6-dichlorophenol and ethyl 2-chloropropionate in a polar aprotic solvent in the presence of an alkali metal carbonate to give ethyl 2-(2,6-dichlorophenoxy)propionate of formula b) reacting the compound of formula with ethylenediamine in the presence of tetravalent titanium alkoxides, in an apolar solvent. a) reacting 2,6-dichlorophenol and ethyl 2-chloropropionate in a polar aprotic solvent in the presence of an alkali metal carbonate to give ethyl 2-(2,6-dichlorophenoxy)propionate of formula b) reacting the compound of formula with ethylenediamine in the presence of tetravalent titanium alkoxides, in an apolar solvent.
A method for operating a wireless communication device within a communication system, the method comprising: generating a packet comprising a plurality of portions including a short training field, STF, and a payload; applying at least one of a plurality of cyclic shift delayed, CSDs, to at least one of the plurality of portions of the packet, each of the plurality of CSDs being a respective integer multiple of a time period; and via a plurality of antennas, transmitting a signal including the packet to a plurality of wireless communication devices (18-32, 1202, 1204, 1206) such that each of the plurality of antennas transmitting at a respective time in accordance with a respective one of the plurality of CSDs; wherein the plurality of CSDs being compliant in accordance with a first communication protocol; the plurality of CSDs being backward compliant in accordance with a second communication protocol being a legacy communication protocol relative to the first communication protocol; characterized by all of the plurality of CSDs corresponding to the first communication protocol; a subset of the plurality of CSDs corresponding to the second communication protocol; employing all of the plurality of CSDs when transmitting the signal using all of the plurality of antennas; and employing a subset of the plurality of CSDs when transmitting the signal using less than all of the plurality of antennas. generating a packet comprising a plurality of portions including a short training field, STF, and a payload; applying at least one of a plurality of cyclic shift delayed, CSDs, to at least one of the plurality of portions of the packet, each of the plurality of CSDs being a respective integer multiple of a time period; and via a plurality of antennas, transmitting a signal including the packet to a plurality of wireless communication devices (18-32, 1202, 1204, 1206) such that each of the plurality of antennas transmitting at a respective time in accordance with a respective one of the plurality of CSDs; wherein the plurality of CSDs being compliant in accordance with a first communication protocol; the plurality of CSDs being backward compliant in accordance with a second communication protocol being a legacy communication protocol relative to the first communication protocol; characterized by all of the plurality of CSDs corresponding to the first communication protocol; a subset of the plurality of CSDs corresponding to the second communication protocol; employing all of the plurality of CSDs when transmitting the signal using all of the plurality of antennas; and employing a subset of the plurality of CSDs when transmitting the signal using less than all of the plurality of antennas.
A knife mill, comprising: a comminution container for receiving material to be comminuted, having a container base and an outer annular wall; a knife rotating in the comminution container in order to comminute the material to be comminuted; a drive motor for driving the knife; a base plate for placing thereon the comminution container; a cooling device for cooling the comminution container; characterized in that the cooling device cools the base plate and the base plate in turn cools the container base of the comminution container.
A thermoplastic resin film comprising at least a base layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin; the heat seal layer containing the thermoplastic resin having a melting point that is lower than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin of the base layer, the melting point respectively referring to the melting point peak temperature measured by differential scanning calorimetry in accordance with JIS K7121:1987;a core roughness depth Rk of a surface of the heat seal layer measured in accordance with ISO 13565-2:1996 being from 1.2 to 9.0 μm; and a ratio Rzjis/Rk of a ten point height of roughness profile Rzjis to a core roughness depth Rk of the surface of the heat seal layer measured in accordance with JIS B0601:2013 Appendix 1 being from 2.0 to 9.0, wherein the heat seal layer contains: (i) at least two types of thermoplastic resins that are incompatible each other, incompatible each other referring to a combination wherein a melting peak of each of the at least two types of thermoplastic resins is observed isolated in differential scanning calorimetry of the mixture of the thermoplastic resins, or (ii) a fine filler having an aspect ratio of 1 to 1.5 and a fine filler having an aspect ratio of greater than 1.5 but 10 or less. (i) at least two types of thermoplastic resins that are incompatible each other, incompatible each other referring to a combination wherein a melting peak of each of the at least two types of thermoplastic resins is observed isolated in differential scanning calorimetry of the mixture of the thermoplastic resins, or (ii) a fine filler having an aspect ratio of 1 to 1.5 and a fine filler having an aspect ratio of greater than 1.5 but 10 or less.
A catalyst mixture comprising a mechanical mixture of (a) particles of solid catalyst component comprising titanium (Ti), magnesium (Mg), and chloride (Cl), and (b) from 0.2 to 5.0% by weight of particles of a solid compound having an average particle size, measured according to the method disclosed in the description, ranging from 0.1 μm to 1 mm and containing more than 50% by weight of SiO 2 units, said percentage of (b) being based on the total weight of catalyst mixture (a)+(b).
A method of generating a microorganism profile of the oral cavity of a mammalian subject comprising a) masticating a chewing gum within the oral cavity of a subject for up to 10 minutes, and b) after masticating, sonicating the chewing gum that was masticated to detect the presence and absence of at least one type of microorganism contained on or within the chewing gum after contact with the oral cavity of the subject, wherein the presence or absence of at least one type of microorganism determines the microorganism profile of the oral cavity of the subject. a) masticating a chewing gum within the oral cavity of a subject for up to 10 minutes, and b) after masticating, sonicating the chewing gum that was masticated to detect the presence and absence of at least one type of microorganism contained on or within the chewing gum after contact with the oral cavity of the subject,
A manufacturing method of a deposition mask including a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, and having a plurality of through-holes formed therein, the manufacturing method comprising: a step of preparing a metal plate; a processing step of processing the metal plate into an intermediate product comprising: a plurality of deposition mask portions each including a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, and having a plurality of through-holes formed therein; and a support portion that surrounds the plurality of deposition mask portions, and is partially connected to the short sides of the plurality of deposition mask portions; and a separation step of separating the deposition mask portions from the support portion to obtain the deposition mask; wherein, in the intermediate product, the long sides of the deposition mask portions are not connected to the support portion, and wherein the intermediate product includes a gap between the deposition mask portion and the support portion. a step of preparing a metal plate; a processing step of processing the metal plate into an intermediate product comprising: a plurality of deposition mask portions each including a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, and having a plurality of through-holes formed therein; and a support portion that surrounds the plurality of deposition mask portions, and is partially connected to the short sides of the plurality of deposition mask portions; and a separation step of separating the deposition mask portions from the support portion to obtain the deposition mask; wherein, in the intermediate product, the long sides of the deposition mask portions are not connected to the support portion, and wherein the intermediate product includes a gap between the deposition mask portion and the support portion.
A method comprising: receiving, by a network device, a packet for a flow; obtaining, by the network device from a flow cache entry for the flow, a memory address referenced by one or more actions of the flow cache entry and a first learn index for the memory address, the first learn index indicating a first allocation of the memory address; determining, by the network device, that the first learn index matches a second learn index stored to a memory address map entry for the memory address in a memory address map, the second learn index indicating a second allocation of the memory address; forwarding, by the network device, in response to the determining, the packet using the one or more actions of the flow cache entry; incrementing, by the network device in response to reallocating the memory address referenced by the one or more actions, the second learn index; initiating, by the network device, a timer in response to the reallocating; and refraining from initiating a subsequent reallocation of the memory address referenced by the one or more actions until the timer exceeds a delay threshold; wherein a learn index represents a number of times the memory address has been reallocated or freed by the network device. receiving, by a network device, a packet for a flow; obtaining, by the network device from a flow cache entry for the flow, a memory address referenced by one or more actions of the flow cache entry and a first learn index for the memory address, the first learn index indicating a first allocation of the memory address; determining, by the network device, that the first learn index matches a second learn index stored to a memory address map entry for the memory address in a memory address map, the second learn index indicating a second allocation of the memory address; forwarding, by the network device, in response to the determining, the packet using the one or more actions of the flow cache entry; incrementing, by the network device in response to reallocating the memory address referenced by the one or more actions, the second learn index; initiating, by the network device, a timer in response to the reallocating; and refraining from initiating a subsequent reallocation of the memory address referenced by the one or more actions until the timer exceeds a delay threshold; wherein a learn index represents a number of times the memory address has been reallocated or freed by the network device.
A method of producing hydrogen from ammonia the method comprising: (i) providing ammonia as a fuel source; (ii) introducing ammonia into a reactor and reacting at least some of the ammonia with a metal and/or a metal-containing-compound to form at least one intermediate and optionally hydrogen; (iii) decomposing at least some of the intermediate produced in step (ii) to form hydrogen and to regenerate the metal and/or the metal-containing-compound; (iv) removing at least some of the hydrogen formed in step (iii); and (v) reacting the regenerated metal and/or the regenerated metal-containing-compound with further ammonia; wherein the metal and/or metal containing compound comprises or is selected from the group consisting of Group I metals; wherein the Group I metal is selected from the group consisting of Na, Li, K, Rb, Cs, alloys and mixtures of two or more thereof; wherein the reaction of the at least some ammonia with the metal and/or the metal-containing-compound to form the at least one intermediate is carried out at a temperature in the range of from 450 to 800oC and at a pressure in the range of from 0.01 to 20 MPa; wherein the at least one intermediate is a metal amide. (i) providing ammonia as a fuel source; (ii) introducing ammonia into a reactor and reacting at least some of the ammonia with a metal and/or a metal-containing-compound to form at least one intermediate and optionally hydrogen; (iii) decomposing at least some of the intermediate produced in step (ii) to form hydrogen and to regenerate the metal and/or the metal-containing-compound; (iv) removing at least some of the hydrogen formed in step (iii); and (v) reacting the regenerated metal and/or the regenerated metal-containing-compound with further ammonia;
An inverted microscope (100; 200; 300) comprising: a lens holding mechanism (6; 26) which includes a fixation part and a movable part fitted to cover the fixation part, the movable part holding an objective lens (5, 5') so that the objective lens (5, 5') can revolve around a predetermined axis, the objective lens (5, 5') being arranged under a sample and used to form an observation image of the sample; a focusing mechanism which holds the fixation part of the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) on its upper part and moves the objective lens (5, 5') up and down together with the lens holding mechanism (6; 26); a microscope main body (11; 21; 31) which serves as a casing including the focusing mechanism therein, and includes an opening (11c; 21c; 31c) for allowing an attachment of the focusing mechanism and the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) in its upper wall surface (11a; 21a; 31a); characterised in further comprising a blockage member (6d, 14; 27) which is provided so that it can revolve together with the movable part, and blocks an intrusion of fluid spilled onto the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) into the opening (11c; 21c; 31c), wherein a size of the blockage member (6d, 14; 27) in a horizontal plane is larger than a size of an image of the opening (11c; 21c; 31 c) projected onto the horizontal plane and the blockage member comprises a first protrusion part (14; 27) provided in a periphery part of the movable part around the predetermined axis and protruding towards the upper wall surface (11a; 21a; 31a). a lens holding mechanism (6; 26) which includes a fixation part and a movable part fitted to cover the fixation part, the movable part holding an objective lens (5, 5') so that the objective lens (5, 5') can revolve around a predetermined axis, the objective lens (5, 5') being arranged under a sample and used to form an observation image of the sample; a focusing mechanism which holds the fixation part of the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) on its upper part and moves the objective lens (5, 5') up and down together with the lens holding mechanism (6; 26); a microscope main body (11; 21; 31) which serves as a casing including the focusing mechanism therein, and includes an opening (11c; 21c; 31c) for allowing an attachment of the focusing mechanism and the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) in its upper wall surface (11a; 21a; 31a); a blockage member (6d, 14; 27) which is provided so that it can revolve together with the movable part, and blocks an intrusion of fluid spilled onto the lens holding mechanism (6; 26) into the opening (11c; 21c; 31c), wherein a size of the blockage member (6d, 14; 27) in a horizontal plane is larger than a size of an image of the opening (11c; 21c; 31 c) projected onto the horizontal plane and the blockage member comprises a first protrusion part (14; 27) provided in a periphery part of the movable part around the predetermined axis and protruding towards the upper wall surface (11a; 21a; 31a).
A method of operating a vehicle having a non-electric engine selectively coupled to a transmission and a recuperation device selectively coupled to the transmission, comprising the acts of: • determining lowest and highest gear ratio set-points of the transmission based at least in part on lowest and highest non-electric engine rotational speed limitations, respectively; • determining if the vehicle is in a coasting mode; • while the vehicle is in a coasting mode, modifying the lowest gear ratio set-point to slow the non-electric engine below the lowest non-electric engine rotational speed limitation; • recuperating kinetic energy while slowing the vehicle, using a recuperation device; • determining a termination of the coasting mode of the vehicle; and • restoring the lowest gear ratio set-point and accelerating the non-electric engine to at least the lowest non-electric engine rotational speed limitation. • determining lowest and highest gear ratio set-points of the transmission based at least in part on lowest and highest non-electric engine rotational speed limitations, respectively; • determining if the vehicle is in a coasting mode; • while the vehicle is in a coasting mode, modifying the lowest gear ratio set-point to slow the non-electric engine below the lowest non-electric engine rotational speed limitation; • recuperating kinetic energy while slowing the vehicle, using a recuperation device; • determining a termination of the coasting mode of the vehicle; and • restoring the lowest gear ratio set-point and accelerating the non-electric engine to at least the lowest non-electric engine rotational speed limitation.
Continuously variable transmission device for a two-, three- or four-wheel motorcycle, connectable to a drive shaft, comprising: - a drive pulley provided with active surfaces (8a,10a) for a V-belt, equipped with a mobile bushing carrying one of said active surfaces, said mobile bushing being slidable axially under the action of rollers of a speed regulator to obtain a gear shift between low gear and high gear; - a fixed bushing, fixable and coaxial to the motor shaft; - a cam system (20,22;32a,32b) operating between the fixed bushing and the mobile bushing suitable to transmit the rotation between the fixed bushing and the mobile bushing, configured to prevent the approach between the active surfaces (8a,10a) or to facilitate the approach between them, wherein the cam system comprises at least one pin fixed to the fixed bushing and projecting radially outwards from this and a first cam profile of the mobile bushing, characterized in that the cam profile is closed and has an active portion, against which the pin goes in abutment when the motor shaft exerts an active torque during an acceleration phase, and braked portion_, distinct from the active portion, against which pin goes in abutment when the motor shaft exerts a braked torque during a deceleration phase, and in that the active portion is linear and the braked portion is linear and different in inclination from the active portion, or the active portion is curvilinear and the braked portion is curvilinear and different in pattern from the active portion. - a drive pulley provided with active surfaces (8a,10a) for a V-belt, equipped with a mobile bushing carrying one of said active surfaces, said mobile bushing being slidable axially under the action of rollers of a speed regulator to obtain a gear shift between low gear and high gear; - a fixed bushing, fixable and coaxial to the motor shaft; - a cam system (20,22;32a,32b) operating between the fixed bushing and the mobile bushing suitable to transmit the rotation between the fixed bushing and the mobile bushing, configured to prevent the approach between the active surfaces (8a,10a) or to facilitate the approach between them,