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A liquid jet head comprising: a plurality of nozzles adapted to jet a liquid; a piezoelectric actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the nozzles and fillable with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of each of the pressure chambers; and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid with which the pressure chamber is filled, characterised in that the control section is configured to generate a drive waveform including a plurality of the pulse signals adapted to expand the capacity of the pressure chamber, and sets a unique crest value of at least one of the pulse signals (P1, P2) other than the pulse signal applied last out of the pulse signals which expand the capacity of the pressure chambers to a different value from absolute values of crest values of other pulse signals in the drive waveform, the absolute values of the crest values of the other pulse signals being identical. a plurality of nozzles adapted to jet a liquid; a piezoelectric actuator having a plurality of pressure chambers corresponding respectively to the nozzles and fillable with the liquid, and adapted to vary a capacity of each of the pressure chambers; and a control section adapted to apply a pulse signal to the piezoelectric actuator to thereby expand and contract the capacity of the pressure chamber so as to jet the liquid with which the pressure chamber is filled, characterised in that the control section is configured to generate a drive waveform including a plurality of the pulse signals adapted to expand the capacity of the pressure chamber, and sets a unique crest value of at least one of the pulse signals (P1, P2) other than the pulse signal applied last out of the pulse signals which expand the capacity of the pressure chambers to a different value from absolute values of crest values of other pulse signals in the drive waveform, the absolute values of the crest values of the other pulse signals being identical.
A refrigerant vapor compression system comprising a plurality of components connected in a refrigerant flow circuit by a plurality of refrigerant lines (2,4,6), said components including at least a compression device, a refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger, a primary expansion device, a refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger, and a flash tank; each of said components defining an internal volume and the plurality of refrigerant lines defining an internal volume, the system volume equal to the sum of the internal volumes of said component volumes and the internal volume of the plurality of refrigerant lines, wherein the flash tank is disposed in the refrigerant flow circuit between the refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger and the refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger; wherein the refrigerant is carbon dioxide and the refrigerant vapor compression system is operable in a transcritical cycle; and wherein the system further comprises an economizer circuit operatively associated with the refrigerant flow circuit, the economizer including a refrigerant vapor injection line connecting a chamber of the flash tank in refrigerant vapor flow communication with an intermediate pressure stage of the compression device; and characterised in that the internal volume of the flash tank ranges from at least 10% to about 30% of the system volume.
Device for guiding floating bodies on a water surface, comprising floating bodies which are connected via traction means to a towing means which is guided in a circulating manner via guiding devices, wherein at least one guiding device is connected to a buoyancy element which is mounted in a floating manner relative to an anchor under water, wherein tensioning bodies are provided on the traction means to pretension them, wherein the traction means comprises two traction elements arranged one behind the other in the towing direction and tensioned by the tensioning bodies, wherein the traction elements are designed as ropes, and wherein the traction element downstream in the towing direction is attached to the bow side and the traction element upstream in the towing direction is attached to the stern side of a boat as a floating body.
A method in the context of a xDSL appliance for delivering payloads through an interface, wherein the interface is a gamma interface of the xDSL appliance; the method comprising: - receiving a data transfer unit, DTU, wherein the DTU payload comprises at least one data unit and each data unit includes a header and a payload; - if the received DTU is an in-sequence DTU, forwarding the at least one data unit of the received DTU to the interface; - if the received DTU is an out-of-sequence DTU, - segmenting the out-of-sequence DTU into data units; - determining priority levels of the data units; and - for any particular data unit among the segmented data units, selectively forwarding a payload of the particular data unit to the interface if its priority level satisfies a priority condition indicating that the particular data unit belongs to priority traffic or holding the particular data unit if its priority level does not satisfy the priority condition. - receiving a data transfer unit, DTU, wherein the DTU payload comprises at least one data unit and each data unit includes a header and a payload; - if the received DTU is an in-sequence DTU, forwarding the at least one data unit of the received DTU to the interface; - if the received DTU is an out-of-sequence DTU, - segmenting the out-of-sequence DTU into data units; - determining priority levels of the data units; and - for any particular data unit among the segmented data units, selectively forwarding a payload of the particular data unit to the interface if its priority level satisfies a priority condition indicating that the particular data unit belongs to priority traffic or holding the particular data unit if its priority level does not satisfy the priority condition. - segmenting the out-of-sequence DTU into data units; - determining priority levels of the data units; and - for any particular data unit among the segmented data units, selectively forwarding a payload of the particular data unit to the interface if its priority level satisfies a priority condition indicating that the particular data unit belongs to priority traffic or holding the particular data unit if its priority level does not satisfy the priority condition.
A display array comprising first and second display units connected together at adjacent edges thereof, where each said adjacent edge has a combined power and data port, the combined power and data ports being connected together by a removable power and data connector that provides power, data and mechanical connections between the display units; characterised in that at least some of the display units are removably connected to respective mounting brackets mechanically interconnected by bars that extend through a plurality of the mounting brackets, so as to provide structural integrity to the array.
Optical fiber sensing device, comprising: - a tubular element with a recess extending in a length direction of the tubular element, the recess being enclosed by the tubular element, - an optical fiber arranged in the recess, the optical fiber comprising one or more light distortion structures, such as a fiber Bragg grating, and being expandable in the length direction of the recess, - one or more expandable elements, having a higher compressibility or deformability than the tubular element in a transverse direction, arranged at one or both ends of the tubular element, the optical fiber being enclosed in the expandable elements, characterized by: the tubular element being substantially incompressible or undeformable; the expandable elements being arranged for transferring the expansion or contraction by the expandable elements in the length direction to the optical fiber when expanding or contracting in the length direction, along with the optical fiber, when the expandable elements are subjected to a transverse load, the direction being transverse to a length direction; and the optical fiber sensing device being suitable for sensing the distribution of the compression or deformation of a compressible or deformable element (2, 16). - a tubular element with a recess extending in a length direction of the tubular element, the recess being enclosed by the tubular element, - an optical fiber arranged in the recess, the optical fiber comprising one or more light distortion structures, such as a fiber Bragg grating, and being expandable in the length direction of the recess, - one or more expandable elements, having a higher compressibility or deformability than the tubular element in a transverse direction, arranged at one or both ends of the tubular element, the optical fiber being enclosed in the expandable elements, characterized by: the tubular element being substantially incompressible or undeformable; the expandable elements being arranged for transferring the expansion or contraction by the expandable elements in the length direction to the optical fiber when expanding or contracting in the length direction, along with the optical fiber, when the expandable elements are subjected to a transverse load, the direction being transverse to a length direction; and the optical fiber sensing device being suitable for sensing the distribution of the compression or deformation of a compressible or deformable element (2, 16). the tubular element being substantially incompressible or undeformable; the expandable elements being arranged for transferring the expansion or contraction by the expandable elements in the length direction to the optical fiber when expanding or contracting in the length direction, along with the optical fiber, when the expandable elements are subjected to a transverse load, the direction being transverse to a length direction; and the optical fiber sensing device being suitable for sensing the distribution of the compression or deformation of a compressible or deformable element (2, 16).
A light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an interlayer located between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a host, a first dopant, and a second dopant, the host, the first dopant, and the second dopant are different from each other, the first dopant is a phosphorescent dopant, a Stokes shift of the second dopant is less than or equal to 15 nm, a spectral overlap integral of an emission spectrum of the first dopant and an absorption spectrum of the second dopant is greater than or equal to 1.5 × 10 15 M -1 cm -1 nm 4, and the spectral overlap integral is evaluated by Equation 1: J λ = ∫ 0 ∞ ε λ λ 4 F D λ dλ wherein, in Equation 1, J(λ) is the spectral overlap integral of the emission spectrum of the first dopant and the absorption spectrum of the second dopant in units of M -1 cm -1 nm 4, ε(λ) is a molar extinction coefficient of the second dopant calculated from the absorption spectrum of the second dopant in units of M -1 cm -1, λ is the wavelength of the emission spectrum and the absorption spectrum in units of nm, and F D (λ) is the normalized emission spectrum of the first dopant, and wherein the emission spectrum of the first dopant is an emission spectrum evaluated at room temperature in a 5 μM toluene solution of the first dopant, and the absorption spectrum of the second dopant is an absorption spectrum evaluated at room temperature in a 5 μM toluene solution of the second dopant. a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an interlayer located between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a host, a first dopant, and a second dopant, the host, the first dopant, and the second dopant are different from each other, the first dopant is a phosphorescent dopant, a Stokes shift of the second dopant is less than or equal to 15 nm, a spectral overlap integral of an emission spectrum of the first dopant and an absorption spectrum of the second dopant is greater than or equal to 1.5 × 10 15 M -1 cm -1 nm 4, and the spectral overlap integral is evaluated by Equation 1: J λ = ∫ 0 ∞ ε λ λ 4 F D λ dλ wherein, in Equation 1, J(λ) is the spectral overlap integral of the emission spectrum of the first dopant and the absorption spectrum of the second dopant in units of M -1 cm -1 nm 4, ε(λ) is a molar extinction coefficient of the second dopant calculated from the absorption spectrum of the second dopant in units of M -1 cm -1, λ is the wavelength of the emission spectrum and the absorption spectrum in units of nm, and F D (λ) is the normalized emission spectrum of the first dopant, and wherein the emission spectrum of the first dopant is an emission spectrum evaluated at room temperature in a 5 μM toluene solution of the first dopant, and the absorption spectrum of the second dopant is an absorption spectrum evaluated at room temperature in a 5 μM toluene solution of the second dopant.
A method of aligning a quadrate wafer in a first photolithography process, comprising: step A: fabricating mask aligning markers (23, 24) in a periphery region of a mask, which is used for a first exposure process of the quadrate wafer, around a mask pattern (25, 26, 27) of the mask; step B: during the first exposure process, positioning the quadrate wafer in a preset region by using the mask aligning markers (23, 24) on the mask, and exposing the quadrate wafer through the mask; and step C: performing alignment for the quadrate wafer during a second exposure process and subsequent exposure processes by using aligning markers on the quadrate wafer that are obtained during the first exposure process, wherein the mask aligning markers includes bars that are parallel to sides of the quadrate wafer respectively. step A: fabricating mask aligning markers (23, 24) in a periphery region of a mask, which is used for a first exposure process of the quadrate wafer, around a mask pattern (25, 26, 27) of the mask; step B: during the first exposure process, positioning the quadrate wafer in a preset region by using the mask aligning markers (23, 24) on the mask, and exposing the quadrate wafer through the mask; and step C: performing alignment for the quadrate wafer during a second exposure process and subsequent exposure processes by using aligning markers on the quadrate wafer that are obtained during the first exposure process,
An implantable medical device comprising: a pulse generator defining a proximal end and a distal end and comprising a housing; a plurality of electrodes; circuitry within the housing, the circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing via the electrodes; and a lead defining a longitudinal axis, wherein the lead comprises at least one of the electrodes, the lead further comprising: an elongate body defining a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end of the elongate body is connected to the distal end of the housing; and a fixation helix attached to the distal end of the elongate body and defining a proximal end and a distal end, characterised in that a width of the fixation helix transverse to the longitudinal axis is greatest at the distal end of the fixation helix. a pulse generator defining a proximal end and a distal end and comprising a housing; a plurality of electrodes; circuitry within the housing, the circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing via the electrodes; and a lead defining a longitudinal axis, wherein the lead comprises at least one of the electrodes, the lead further comprising: an elongate body defining a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end of the elongate body is connected to the distal end of the housing; and a fixation helix attached to the distal end of the elongate body and defining a proximal end and a distal end, characterised in that a width of the fixation helix an elongate body defining a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end of the elongate body is connected to the distal end of the housing; and a fixation helix attached to the distal end of the elongate body and defining a proximal end and a distal end, characterised in that a width of the fixation helix transverse to the longitudinal axis is greatest at the distal end of the fixation helix.
A binder, which is a binder for a secondary battery, comprising a fluorine-containing polymer containing: - a polymerized unit based on vinylidene fluoride (VdF); - a polymerized unit based on tetrafluoroethylene; and - a polymerized unit based on a monomer of the formula: wherein R 5, R 6, and R 7 are each independently H or a C 1-8 -hydrocarbon group; R 8 is a C 1-8 -hydrocarbon group; and Y 1 is an inorganic cation and/or an organic cation. - a polymerized unit based on vinylidene fluoride (VdF); - a polymerized unit based on tetrafluoroethylene; and - a polymerized unit based on a monomer of the formula:
An electronic device comprising: at least one environmental sensor configured to obtain air flowing in from outside of the electronic device; a plurality of openings (50, 60, 70, 10) formed in the electronic device; and a duct formed between the at least one environmental sensor and at least two of the plurality of openings, characterised in that at least one of the at least two openings has a bump (13a, 12b) configured to change a direction of air which flows along an outer surface of the electronic device. at least one environmental sensor configured to obtain air flowing in from outside of the electronic device; a plurality of openings (50, 60, 70, 10) formed in the electronic device; and a duct formed between the at least one environmental sensor and at least two of the plurality of openings, characterised in that at least one of the at least two openings has a bump (13a, 12b) configured to change a direction of air which flows along an outer surface of the electronic device.
A medical device for preserving previously removed corneal tissue, the device comprising an at least partially transparent base, at least one side wall, means for receiving and locking the corneal tissue, and an applanation lid for covering an opening opposite the base, the applanation lid including a transparent window, characterized in that the applanation lid further includes a support between the window and the side wall, the support having means for translating the window relative to the side wall of the device.
A shaving guidance system for guiding a user during a shaving procedure, the system comprising: an imaging module configured to register an image of a part of the body of the user; an image data analyzer configured to determine a local hair-growth direction based on data in the image; a controller configured to generate instructions about a direction in which a hair cutting device is to be moved over the body in dependence on the determined local hair-growth direction, and a feedback system configured to provide the instructions to the user. an imaging module configured to register an image of a part of the body of the user; an image data analyzer configured to determine a local hair-growth direction based on data in the image; a controller configured to generate instructions about a direction in which a hair cutting device is to be moved over the body in dependence on the determined local hair-growth direction, and a feedback system configured to provide the instructions to the user.
Method for treating an internal defect in a part made of a material, the method comprising the steps of: a) detecting and locating the internal defect in the part; b) defining, inside the part, at least one target volume (4; 4') which at least partially includes the defect; characterised in that: c) for each target volume (4; 4'), simultaneously irradiating the target volume by at least two beams which converge in the target volume and are continuous, whereby a treated area is obtained; wherein the energy applied to the target volume by each beam is less than a threshold energy for sintering the material, and the sum of the energies applied to the target volume by each one of the beams is greater than or equal to a transformation threshold energy, the transformation threshold energy corresponding to the threshold energy for sintering the material, when it is desired to obtain a selective sintering of the material in the target volume, or to the threshold energy for melting the material, when it is desired to obtain a selective melting of the material in the target volume, and wherein the material of the part is partially transparent to said at least two beams. a) detecting and locating the internal defect in the part; b) defining, inside the part, at least one target volume (4; 4') which at least partially includes the defect; characterised in that: c) for each target volume (4; 4'), simultaneously irradiating the target volume by at least two beams which converge in the target volume and are continuous, whereby a treated area is obtained; wherein the energy applied to the target volume by each beam is less than a threshold energy for sintering the material, and the sum of the energies applied to the target volume by each one of the beams is greater than or equal to a transformation threshold energy, the transformation threshold energy corresponding to the threshold energy for sintering the material, when it is desired to obtain a selective sintering of the material in the target volume, or to the threshold energy for melting the material, when it is desired to obtain a selective melting of the material in the target volume, and wherein the material of the part is partially transparent to said at least two beams.
Process of drainage of torrential surface water from a gravel road having a pavement structure with an unbound surface layer and a longitudinal slope, said process comprising the steps of: - dividing the gravel road into longitudinally sloped segments; - installing trapezoidal channels transverse to the slope into the pavement structure in each gravel road segment; characterized in that the channels are filled with crushed stone being more permeable compared to the unbound surface layer to make the torrential water flow sink down and be discharged from the pavement structure. - dividing the gravel road into longitudinally sloped segments; - installing trapezoidal channels transverse to the slope into the pavement structure in each gravel road segment;