mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A partition for selectively dividing a space, the partition comprising: a panel including a first side and a second opposing side; a locking mechanism mounted in the panel, the locking mechanism including a first side and a second opposing side; a first actuator positioned on the first side of the panel and coupled to the first side of the locking mechanism; characterized by a second actuator positioned on the second side of the panel and coupled to the second side of the locking mechanism; a tri-lobe cam rotationally coupled to the first actuator, the tri-lobe cam including a center lobe positioned between a first outer lobe and a second outer lobe; wherein the first outer lobe and the second outer lobe are sized and configured to limit the rotation of the tri-lobe cam and the first actuator to a range of approximately 90 degrees. a panel including a first side and a second opposing side; a locking mechanism mounted in the panel, the locking mechanism including a first side and a second opposing side; a first actuator positioned on the first side of the panel and coupled to the first side of the locking mechanism; characterized by a second actuator positioned on the second side of the panel and coupled to the second side of the locking mechanism; a tri-lobe cam rotationally coupled to the first actuator, the tri-lobe cam including a center lobe positioned between a first outer lobe and a second outer lobe; wherein the first outer lobe and the second outer lobe are sized and configured to limit the rotation of the tri-lobe cam and the first actuator to a range of approximately 90 degrees.
Method of operating an apparatus for handling notes of value, in particular in an automated teller machine, wherein the apparatus comprises a depositing and/or dispensing compartment into which to deposit notes of value and/or from which to dispense them to a customer, in the case of which notes of value are removed from cash boxes of the apparatus in accordance with a pay-out request, in the case of which multiple withdrawals of the notes of value removed are detected with the aid of a multiple-withdrawal sensor, in the case of which, when a multiple withdrawal has been detected, at least the notes of value involved in the multiple withdrawal are transported into the depositing and/or dispensing compartment, in the case of which the notes of value involved in the multiple withdrawal are separated out of the depositing and/or dispensing compartment, in the case of which the denomination and/or number of the notes of value involved in the multiple withdrawal are/is determined with the aid of a reading unit, and in the case of which the number and/or denomination determined for the notes of value involved in the multiple withdrawal are/is taken into account in the stock management of the cash boxes.
A portable loudspeaker (10; 100), comprising: an enclosure (12;102) that defines an acoustic cavity in an interior of the enclosure; an electro-acoustic transducer (16;110) arranged to radiate sound pressure into the acoustic cavity; a user-operable switch (20;152;154;156) located in the interior of the enclosure, just below an exterior enclosure wall; a compliant button (26; 106) that forms part of the enclosure and overlies and is spaced from the switch, the compliant button comprising an area with enough compliance such that it can be pushed down far enough to operate the user-operable switch; characterized in that the portable loudspeaker further comprises a sound-deadening member (30; 150) positioned in the space between the button and the switch and arranged to inhibit sound pressure in the acoustic cavity from reaching said area of the button. an enclosure (12;102) that defines an acoustic cavity in an interior of the enclosure; an electro-acoustic transducer (16;110) arranged to radiate sound pressure into the acoustic cavity; a user-operable switch (20;152;154;156) located in the interior of the enclosure, just below an exterior enclosure wall; a compliant button (26; 106) that forms part of the enclosure and overlies and is spaced from the switch, the compliant button comprising an area with enough compliance such that it can be pushed down far enough to operate the user-operable switch; characterized in that the portable loudspeaker further comprises a sound-deadening member (30; 150) positioned in the space between the button and the switch and arranged to inhibit sound pressure in the acoustic cavity from reaching said area of the button.
A device for directing an agent that is magnetic or magnetizable: with a plurality of permanent magnet elements, wherein a first magnet element in the plurality of magnet elements produces a first magnetic field; a second magnet element in the plurality of magnet elements produces a second magnetic field; the first magnet element and the second magnet element define a central space between the first and the second magnet element; characterized in that the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field overlap to create a combined field and create a local magnetic field strength minimum outside the central space, the local minimum being a region of smaller magnetic field compared to a nearby magnetic field; the magnetic field in front of the local minimum configured to apply a force on the agent; the first magnet element and the second magnet element are at an angle to one another and the magnetic fields represented by the magnetic field lines are able to combine together in a fashion the creates a lower magnetic field strength, so as to form the local field minimum outside the central space, and the central space is physical space between the magnet elements of least volume enclosed by a minimal convex shape and the convex shape includes all material points of the magnet elements.
Clutch support designed to support at least one first clutch (100, 200), said support delimiting a duct having at least one outlet orifice allowing a hydraulic fluid to circulate from an actuating system towards the at least one first clutch and comprising at least one radial-extension part, characterized in that the duct further comprises an annular part, the actuating system comprising a passage designed to cooperate with the duct in order to allow fluidic circulation of the hydraulic fluid between the duct and the passage. said support delimiting a duct having at least one outlet orifice allowing a hydraulic fluid to circulate from an actuating system towards the at least one first clutch and comprising at least one radial-extension part, characterized in that the duct further comprises an annular part, the actuating system comprising a passage designed to cooperate with the duct in order to allow fluidic circulation of the hydraulic fluid between the duct and the passage.
Circuit for inrush-current limiting in a power supply unit, comprising at least one first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor, which together form a voltage source for components to be supplied by the power supply unit, and a switch, by means of which the second storage capacitor is switched on in a time-delayed manner with respect to the start of the charging of the first storage capacitor, characterized in that the circuit is a power factor correction circuit and has a control device for controlling the power factor correction circuit, and the control device represents a component to be fed by the power supply unit and causes the switch to be switched on at operation start-up of the control device or at a later time, the operation start-up taking place at a time at which the first storage capacitor connected to a power supply system has reached a stable working state or a specific charging state, and the switch disconnecting the second storage capacitor, connected in parallel to the first storage capacitor, from the first storage capacitor until the time of the operation start-ups or the later time. at least one first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor, which together form a voltage source for components to be supplied by the power supply unit, and a switch, by means of which the second storage capacitor is switched on in a time-delayed manner with respect to the start of the charging of the first storage capacitor, characterized in that the circuit is a power factor correction circuit and has a control device for controlling the power factor correction circuit, and the control device represents a component to be fed by the power supply unit and causes the switch to be switched on at operation start-up of the control device or at a later time, the operation start-up taking place at a time at which the first storage capacitor connected to a power supply system has reached a stable working state or a specific charging state, and the switch disconnecting the second storage capacitor, connected in parallel to the first storage capacitor, from the first storage capacitor until the time of the operation start-ups or the later time.
A method of optical label swapping implemented by a switch used in a software defined network system comprising: providing a payload signal having a Nyquist shaped carrier in a first bandwidth spacing using a payload generator module controlling at least one first optical laser; inserting an optical label adjacent to the payload signal in a second bandwidth spacing with a label generator controlling at least one second optical laser, the optical label either added to a left or right side of the payload signal spectrum, wherein the label generator and the payload generator are controlled by said software defined network, SDN, system including at least one hardware processor; transmitting a package of the payload and the first optical label to a receiving node (201, 301); wherein the payload signal rate is at 400 Gbit/s, the first bandwidth spacing is 75 GHz, the second bandwidth spacing is a remainder of a 100 GHz bandwidth spacing that encompasses the first bandwidth spacing, and the optical label is at 10GbE data rate; and swapping the optical label at the receiving node (201, 301) with a flex grid wavelength selective switch, WSS, (113, 116) controlled by the software defined network, wherein said swapping the optical label at the receiving node (201, 301) comprises shifting the center frequency and passband width of the wavelength selective switch, WSS, to provide that the optical label can be placed on either side of the 400-Gbit/s payload signal spectrum that occupies the 75-GHz bandwidth. providing a payload signal having a Nyquist shaped carrier in a first bandwidth spacing using a payload generator module controlling at least one first optical laser; inserting an optical label adjacent to the payload signal in a second bandwidth spacing with a label generator controlling at least one second optical laser, the optical label either added to a left or right side of the payload signal spectrum, wherein the label generator and the payload generator are controlled by said software defined network, SDN, system including at least one hardware processor; transmitting a package of the payload and the first optical label to a receiving node (201, 301); wherein the payload signal rate is at 400 Gbit/s, the first bandwidth spacing is 75 GHz, the second bandwidth spacing is a remainder of a 100 GHz bandwidth spacing that encompasses the first bandwidth spacing, and the optical label is at 10GbE data rate; and swapping the optical label at the receiving node (201, 301) with a flex grid wavelength selective switch, WSS, (113, 116) controlled by the software defined network, wherein said swapping the optical label at the receiving node (201, 301) comprises shifting the center frequency and passband width of the wavelength selective switch, WSS, to provide that the optical label can be placed on either side of the 400-Gbit/s payload signal spectrum that occupies the 75-GHz bandwidth.
A method for melting non-ferrous metals, in particular copper cathodes and copper scrap in a gas-fired shaft furnace, wherein the non-ferrous metal to be melted is introduced in the head region of the shaft furnace, pre-heated in a cylindrical furnace section, melted into a liquid metal in an adjacent area by means of several operated burners and the liquid metal is discharged through the discharge opening, wherein the non-ferrous metal to be melted is heated up, in the region of the cylindrical furnace section, by supplying thermal energy, generated by a burner arrangement of burners, annularly disposed at identical radial intervals in a plane at an intersection of a preheating area and a melting area, and emitted by rising exhaust gases, and in a subsequent melting area, the thermal energy required for melting is introduced by way of burners of a second burner arrangement disposed in a plane in an evenly distributed manner around the circumference, wherein a targeted melting in the direction of the discharge opening is carried out by way of the melting area, adjacent, at the intersection, to the preheating area, and of the following tapering in the direction of the furnace floor and the discharge opening, wherein, in the region of the furnace floor, the liquid metal flows, in a channel, in the direction of the discharge opening and thermal energy is introduced in the region of the upper wall section by way of at least one burner of a third burner arrangement, in order to ensure a reliable continuous outflow of the liquid metal out of the discharge opening, a consistently even flow of the exhaust gases occurring in the cylindrical furnace section by way of a cross-section expansion at the intersection between the preheating area and the melting area, characterized in that an exhaust gas temperature of the exhaust gases used for preheating is measured in an exhaust gas pipe and adjusted to a value of ≤ 600 °C by modifying the furnace output and/or thermal output and the measured exhaust gas temperature is used as a command variable for open-loop and closed-loop control of process parameters of the shaft furnace melting operation.
An electromagnetic sensitive fiber optic sensor, comprising: a first fiber optic wrapped cylinder, comprising a cylinder portion with a hole through the center, wherein a surface of the cylinder portion includes a magnetostrictive material that changes in length in response to a magnetic field; a pair of flux concentrators positioned at each end of the cylinder portion; and a pre-stressed bend-insensitive fiber optic cable threaded through the hole of the cylinder portion and wrapped around the cylinder portion a predetermined number of times, wherein the fiber optic cable is rigidly attached to the cylinder portion at each end of the magnetostrictive material, wherein the number of times is proportional to a sensitivity of the sensor. a first fiber optic wrapped cylinder, comprising a cylinder portion with a hole through the center, wherein a surface of the cylinder portion includes a magnetostrictive material that changes in length in response to a magnetic field; a pair of flux concentrators positioned at each end of the cylinder portion; and a pre-stressed bend-insensitive fiber optic cable threaded through the hole of the cylinder portion and wrapped around the cylinder portion a predetermined number of times, wherein the fiber optic cable is rigidly attached to the cylinder portion at each end of the magnetostrictive material, wherein the number of times is proportional to a sensitivity of the sensor.
Process for the cleaning of a mould drum (1, 61) for moulding products from a mass of food starting material, comprising one or more cavities with a mould cavity wall having at least partially a porous structure, whereas each cavity is connected to a passage, wherein the mould drum comprises a multitude of passages, each passage extending from the first front end to the second front end of the mould drum, wherein the first front end comprises distribution means configured as a ring that connects all passages so that a cleaning fluid is distributed to all passages in a cleaning apparatus (20, 40, 60), characterized in, that the passages are rinsed from the first front end to the second front end and that drum is cleaned from the outside by a rotating nozzle.
A machine tool system comprising: a lathe; a machining center disposed side by side with the lathe; and a loader that carries a workpiece, wherein the lathe comprises: a lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) that holds the workpiece with the workpiece directed to a front side; a main spindle (15, 16) that rotates around an axis; and a tool that machines the workpiece, the machining center comprises: a rotary tool that rotates around an axis in a horizontal direction; and a machining center-side workpiece holder that holds the workpiece and the loader comprises: a guide disposed so as to run above the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder along the horizontal direction; and a loader head (31, 31A) that holds the workpiece and carries the workpiece between at least the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder located in the position in which the workpiece is directed to the front side by moving along the guide and characterized in that the machining center-side workpiece holder is able to turn between at least a position in which the machining center-side workpiece holder holds the workpiece with the workpiece directed to the front side and a position in which the machining center-side workpiece holder holds the workpiece with the workpiece directed to the rotary tool. a lathe; a machining center disposed side by side with the lathe; and a loader that carries a workpiece, wherein the lathe comprises: a lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) that holds the workpiece with the workpiece directed to a front side; a main spindle (15, 16) that rotates around an axis; and a tool that machines the workpiece, a lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) that holds the workpiece with the workpiece directed to a front side; a main spindle (15, 16) that rotates around an axis; and a tool that machines the workpiece, the machining center comprises: a rotary tool that rotates around an axis in a horizontal direction; and a machining center-side workpiece holder that holds the workpiece and a rotary tool that rotates around an axis in a horizontal direction; and a machining center-side workpiece holder that holds the workpiece and the loader comprises: a guide disposed so as to run above the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder along the horizontal direction; and a loader head (31, 31A) that holds the workpiece and carries the workpiece between at least the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder located in the position in which the workpiece is directed to the front side by moving along the guide a guide disposed so as to run above the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder along the horizontal direction; and a loader head (31, 31A) that holds the workpiece and carries the workpiece between at least the lathe-side workpiece holder (13, 14) and the machining center-side workpiece holder located in the position in which the workpiece is directed to the front side by moving along the guide
An apparatus for measuring the composition of a gas mixture containing known components, comprising: a first gas density sensor configured and arranged to measure the density of a first mixture made by combining a gaseous first component and a gaseous second component; the apparatus being characterized in further comprising a second gas density sensor configured and arranged to measure the density of a second mixture made by combining the first mixture with a gaseous third component; and a processor programmed to determine based on data from the first gas density sensor the relative compositions of the first component and the second component in the first mixture, and to determine based on the data from the second gas density sensor the relative compositions of the first mixture and the third component in the second mixture, and thus to determine the relative compositions of the first component, the second component, and the third component in the second mixture. a first gas density sensor configured and arranged to measure the density of a first mixture made by combining a gaseous first component and a gaseous second component; the apparatus being characterized in further comprising a second gas density sensor configured and arranged to measure the density of a second mixture made by combining the first mixture with a gaseous third component; and a processor programmed to determine based on data from the first gas density sensor the relative compositions of the first component and the second component in the first mixture, and to determine based on the data from the second gas density sensor the relative compositions of the first mixture and the third component in the second mixture, and thus to determine the relative compositions of the first component, the second component, and the third component in the second mixture.
A product comprising a friction material, said friction material comprising: a plurality of fibers; a plurality of particles comprising graphite particles and diatomaceous earth particles; a chemical binder; and a resin bonding agent, which is different than said chemical binder, wherein at least one of the graphite particles or the diatomaceous earth particles of the plurality of particles are aggregated throughout the friction material, and wherein the friction material further comprises pores having a pore size greater than 4 μm accounting for at least 50 % of the total pore volume of the friction material as characterized by mercury porosimetry. a plurality of fibers; a plurality of particles comprising graphite particles and diatomaceous earth particles; a chemical binder; and a resin bonding agent, which is different than said chemical binder, wherein at least one of the graphite particles or the diatomaceous earth particles of the plurality of particles are aggregated throughout the friction material, and wherein the friction material further comprises pores having a pore size greater than 4 μm accounting for at least 50 % of the total pore volume of the friction material as characterized by mercury porosimetry.