mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
An object processing system including a conveyor belt running around at least two rollers and having a conveying direction, a stationary processing unit adapted to process an object disposed on the conveyor belt, and a control unit adapted and configured to control the movement of the conveyor belt to position the object at the processing unit and to trigger action of the processing unit, wherein the conveyor belt is provided in its conveying direction with a linear encoder scale for position determining purposes and the system furthermore includes a position encoder comprising a first encoder head and a second encoder head arranged at a distance ( d enc) from each other along the conveying direction to observe the encoder scale on the conveyor belt, as well as an encoder signal processing unit connected to the first and second encoder heads (11, 12) and to the control unit, the encoder signal processing unit being adapted and configured, i.e. programmed, to receive first and second encoder signals, i.e. pulses, from the first and second encoder heads (11, 12), respectively, and to generate a belt position signal, i.e. encoder output, derived from the first and second encoder signals, which belt position signal serves as an input signal for the control unit, characterized in that the conveyor belt is a steel belt in which the encoder scale is provided on an upper surface of the belt, wherein the encoder scale comprises alternating marker sections and voids with a pitch (p), wherein the marker sections are composed of markers engraved in the belt surface at regular intervals, and wherein the distance ( d enc) between the first and second encoder is d enc ≠ N·p, N being an integer.
Method for producing a mould segment of a vulcanizing mould for a pneumatic vehicle tyre for forming the profiling of a tread, having a metallic base part with a mould side with ribs which form channels encircling or delimiting profile elements, characterized in that a rib skeleton consisting of ribs, the arrangement and the profile of which at least partially corresponds to the arrangement and the profile of ribs forming channels, is milled from the base part, inserts with peripheral frame parts are built up by means of an additive method, the inserts being inserted into the rib skeleton and the frame parts completing the ribs of the rib skeleton to form the ribs forming the channels. in that a rib skeleton consisting of ribs, the arrangement and the profile of which at least partially corresponds to the arrangement and the profile of ribs forming channels, is milled from the base part, inserts with peripheral frame parts are built up by means of an additive method, the inserts being inserted into the rib skeleton and the frame parts completing the ribs of the rib skeleton to form the ribs forming the channels.
Quick release connection comprising at least one female component and at least one male component adapted to be fastened to and unfastened from said female component, wherein said quick release connection further comprises at least one locking/unlocking system and at least one control means, and in that said female component comprises at least one insertion seat of said male component inside which said male component is blocked through a plurality of balls going out at least partially of an internal wall of said seat, said balls being able to pass, by interposing said locking/unlocking system and actuating said control means, from a first operating locking position, in which said balls keep said male component inside said insertion seat, to a second operating unlocking position, in which said balls allow extracting said male component from said insertion seat, and vice versa, characterized in that said locking/unlocking system further comprises at least one cam element inserted around said balls, said cam element being rotating on said balls to generate a locking/unlocking movement and pass said balls from their first operating position to their second operating position, and vice versa.
A laminate comprising: a metal substrate; a sliding layer overlying the metal substrate, the sliding layer including a polymer fabric comprising a first polymer P1, a melt-processable matrix polymer comprising a second polymer P2 and filler, wherein either P1 or P2 is a fluoropolymer, wherein the total amount of fluoropolymer and filler is at least 28 vol% and not greater than 70 vol% of the sliding layer. a metal substrate; a sliding layer overlying the metal substrate, the sliding layer including a polymer fabric comprising a first polymer P1, a melt-processable matrix polymer comprising a second polymer P2 and filler, a polymer fabric comprising a first polymer P1, a melt-processable matrix polymer comprising a second polymer P2 and filler,
A method for molding a stack of a first composite material and at least one second composite material each of which is formed into a sheet shape and formed by impregnating a base material with resin, comprising: providing a frontmost layer of the first composite material, the frontmost layer including a first resin and a first base material, the first resin being impregnated in the first base material and having a photocuring property, providing a second layer of the second composite material, the second layer including a second resin and a second base material, the second resin being impregnated in the second base material and having a thermosetting property, the second layer being adjacent to the frontmost layer, and curing the first resin by irradiating the frontmost layer with light, then curing the second resin by heating the second layer, and completing the curing of the first resin contained in the frontmost layer before starting the curing of the second resin contained in the second layer. providing a frontmost layer of the first composite material, the frontmost layer including a first resin and a first base material, the first resin being impregnated in the first base material and having a photocuring property, providing a second layer of the second composite material, the second layer including a second resin and a second base material, the second resin being impregnated in the second base material and having a thermosetting property, the second layer being adjacent to the frontmost layer, and curing the first resin by irradiating the frontmost layer with light, then curing the second resin by heating the second layer, and completing the curing of the first resin contained in the frontmost layer before starting the curing of the second resin contained in the second layer.
A storage system comprising: a plurality of grid members (18, 20) arranged in a grid pattern to form a grid structure comprising a plurality of grid cells; one or more stacks of storage containers, wherein each stack is located vertically below a respective grid cell, and each storage container in each stack is made of a material comprising thermoplastic and a fire retardant agent; and at least one load handling device comprising a grabber device operative to move on the grid structure to releasably grab one or more of the storage containers from each stack in the storage system; characterised in that the material comprises 30 to 50 wt% magnesium hydroxide. a plurality of grid members (18, 20) arranged in a grid pattern to form a grid structure comprising a plurality of grid cells; one or more stacks of storage containers, wherein each stack is located vertically below a respective grid cell, and each storage container in each stack is made of a material comprising thermoplastic and a fire retardant agent; and at least one load handling device comprising a grabber device operative to move on the grid structure to releasably grab one or more of the storage containers from each stack in the storage system; characterised in that the material comprises 30 to 50 wt% magnesium hydroxide.
A method for discriminating bulk liquid from foam and/or residuals of said bulk liquid of a sample contained in a sample vessel, comprising the following steps: providing a probe having an electric capacitance; moving said probe into said sample; characterized in that it further comprises the steps of repeatedly performing a pair of consecutive steps of charging the probe by applying a voltage source thereto and at least partially discharging said probe by connecting the probe to an electric drain to generate a discharging current; measuring a quantity indicative of said discharging current for each pair of consecutive steps of charging and at least partially discharging said probe; analyzing said quantity in a manner to determine an electric resistance (R mess) of said sample via said probe; discriminating said bulk liquid from said foam and/or said residuals of said bulk liquid based on a change of said electric resistance (R mess) of said sample occuring when said probe contacts said bulk liquid. providing a probe having an electric capacitance; moving said probe into said sample; characterized in that it further comprises the steps of repeatedly performing a pair of consecutive steps of charging the probe by applying a voltage source thereto and at least partially discharging said probe by connecting the probe to an electric drain to generate a discharging current; measuring a quantity indicative of said discharging current for each pair of consecutive steps of charging and at least partially discharging said probe; analyzing said quantity in a manner to determine an electric resistance (R mess) of said sample via said probe; discriminating said bulk liquid from said foam and/or said residuals of said bulk liquid based on a change of said electric resistance (R mess) of said sample occuring when said probe contacts said bulk liquid.
A centrifugal pendulum for a motor vehicle drive train, having a carrier and a pendulum mass pivotably mounted relative to the carrier via at least one roller body, wherein the at least one roller body is received with a first rolling region in a roller track of the carrier and is received with a second rolling region in a roller track of the pendulum mass, characterized in that at least one of the two roller tracks (6, 8) is partially or completely formed by an axially formed sheet-metal portion such that a free edge of the axially formed sheet-metal portion points away from the nearest pendulum mass.
A method to prevent deactivation of a metal catalyst in a catalytic polymerisation process of polymeric binders whereby pyrithione biocides selected from zinc pyrithione, copper pyrithione, and sodium pyrithione, are present characterized by the addition of a suitable Zn, Cu or Na salt selected from Zn, Cu or Na salts of fatty acids or Zn, Cu or Na salts of beta diketones; whereby the Zn, Cu or Na salt is added in an amount of at least a 3: 1 weight ratio of Zn, Cu or Na salt to pyrithione biocide.
A method for estimating attitude of a spacecraft fitted with a star tracker and an onboard star catalogue, comprising calibration of spatial errors, said method comprising a step, so called third step consisting of expressing the difference in interstellar angular distances measured by the star tracker in axes relative to said star tracker and in interstellar angular distances calculated from information of the onboard star catalogue, and being characterized in that, for calibration of spatial errors, it comprises the steps (7, 9, 10) consisting of: - first step: modeling the spatial errors on the scale of the pixel and of the view field of the star tracker, - second step: partitioning the view field into elementary zones, each zone being linked to a spatial error value at the view field scale and a value of spatial error amplitude at the pixel scale, - fourth step: using an estimation filter to realign a state vector formed by the amplitudes of the spatial errors from the calculated difference in interstellar distances and measured interstellar distances, the first three steps (7, 8, 9) being interchangeable. - first step: modeling the spatial errors on the scale of the pixel and of the view field of the star tracker, - second step: partitioning the view field into elementary zones, each zone being linked to a spatial error value at the view field scale and a value of spatial error amplitude at the pixel scale, - fourth step: using an estimation filter to realign a state vector formed by the amplitudes of the spatial errors from the calculated difference in interstellar distances and measured interstellar distances,
A lifting device for interchangeable containers for a load transport vehicle, in particular on a roll-off tipper vehicle or a skip loader vehicle, comprising at least one pivoting arm for unloading an interchangeable container from the load transport vehicle or for loading an interchangeable container onto the load transport vehicle and a hydraulic pivot drive cylinder arrangement as pivot drive means for the pivoting arm, characterised in that the pivot drive cylinder arrangement comprises at least one double cylinder having two double-acting single cylinders (70, 90) coupled to one another in series, each having a cylinder chamber (71, 91) and a respective piston (73, 93) which is movable therein and is provided with a piston rod (72, 92) which can be extended out of the respective cylinder chamber, wherein one of the single cylinders has a larger effective piston diameter than the other single cylinder and the ratio of the effective piston diameter of the one single cylinder to the effective piston diameter of the other single cylinder is between 1:1.1 and 1:1.5, in particular approximately 1:1.25, wherein furthermore a piston longitudinal axis of one of the single cylinders (70, 90) is aligned with a piston longitudinal axis of the other single cylinder (70, 90) and the single cylinders (70, 90) are coupled to one another in series so that the piston rods (72, 92) can be extended in opposite directions from the respective cylinder chamber (71, 91).
A data packet transmission method, wherein the method comprises: receiving, by a network device, a first request message from user equipment, wherein the first request message is used to request the network device to allocate data cache space; caching, by the network device in the data cache space, at least a part of a data packet sent by a server device to the user equipment, wherein sending the data packet by the server is requested by the user equipment by sending a third request message to the server, and the server device, based on third message, is to send the data packet; receiving, by the network device, a second request message from the user equipment, wherein the second request message is used to request the network device to send the cached data packet; and sending, by the network device, a part or all of the cached data packet to the user equipment, characterized in that the first request message is sent by the user equipment if the user equipment is playing a video and detects that a network load and/or a channel quality is lower than a preset indicator, thereby predicting that video freeze may occur during video play. receiving, by a network device, a first request message from user equipment, wherein the first request message is used to request the network device to allocate data cache space; caching, by the network device in the data cache space, at least a part of a data packet sent by a server device to the user equipment, wherein sending the data packet by the server is requested by the user equipment by sending a third request message to the server, and the server device, based on third message, is to send the data packet; receiving, by the network device, a second request message from the user equipment, wherein the second request message is used to request the network device to send the cached data packet; and sending, by the network device, a part or all of the cached data packet to the user equipment, characterized in that the first request message is sent by the user equipment if the user equipment is playing a video and detects that a network load and/or a channel quality is lower than a preset indicator, thereby predicting that video freeze may occur during video play.
Crucible for growing silicon ingots, the crucible comprising: a vessel having a bottom wall and side walls surrounding an inner portion of the vessel; a coating layer applied to inner surfaces of the bottom wall and the side walls, the coating layer comprising a temperature-resistant material compatible with ingot growth from molten silicon; a patterned protrusion layer applied to the inner surface of the coating layer of the bottom wall, the patterned protrusion layer comprising: a matrix consisting of silicon nitride and adapted to form a non-wetting agent when in contact with the liquid silicon melt and further comprising particles of a nucleation enhancing material being one of Silica (SiO 2) sand, Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Carbon, which is adapted for forming a wetting agent when in contact with a liquid silicon melt such that a liquid silicon melt coming into contact with the particles may wet these particles, the patterned protrusion layer being applied in such manner and the particles being adapted such that the particles locally protrude from the matrix the particles of the nucleation enhancing material having sizes of between 100 μm and 1 mm. a vessel having a bottom wall and side walls surrounding an inner portion of the vessel; a coating layer applied to inner surfaces of the bottom wall and the side walls, the coating layer comprising a temperature-resistant material compatible with ingot growth from molten silicon; a patterned protrusion layer applied to the inner surface of the coating layer of the bottom wall, the patterned protrusion layer comprising: a matrix consisting of silicon nitride and adapted to form a non-wetting agent when in contact with the liquid silicon melt and further comprising particles of a nucleation enhancing material being one of Silica (SiO 2) sand, Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Carbon, which is adapted for forming a wetting agent when in contact with a liquid silicon melt such that a liquid silicon melt coming into contact with the particles may wet these particles, the patterned protrusion layer being applied in such manner and the particles being adapted such that the particles locally protrude from the matrix the particles of the nucleation enhancing material having sizes of between 100 μm and 1 mm. a matrix consisting of silicon nitride and adapted to form a non-wetting agent when in contact with the liquid silicon melt and further comprising particles of a nucleation enhancing material being one of Silica (SiO 2) sand, Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Carbon, which is adapted for forming a wetting agent when in contact with a liquid silicon melt such that a liquid silicon melt coming into contact with the particles may wet these particles, the patterned protrusion layer being applied in such manner and the particles being adapted such that the particles locally protrude from the matrix the particles of the nucleation enhancing material having sizes of between 100 μm and 1 mm.
A hip replacement prosthesis comprising a femoral stem, a femoral head, or an acetabular assembly (12, 14), and one or more sensors coupled to said femoral stem, femoral head, or acetabular assembly, wherein the hip replacement prosthesis further comprises a memory to store data collected by the one or more sensors and positioned in the femoral stem, characterized in that said one or more sensors comprises one or more accelerometers (42, 53) and motion sensors arranged to provide data on the range of motion of the hip.
A nonwoven fabric, comprising: a mechanically entangled blend of fibers comprising (a) post-consumer recycled polymer staple fibers (PCR-staple fibers) formed from a synthetic polymeric material, wherein the PCR-staple fibers are devoid of a hydrophilic finish coating, and (b) one or more additional fibers selected from a plurality of wettable staple fibers comprising hydrophilic-modified polyester staple fibers having a hydrophilic finish coated thereon, a plurality of cellulosic fibers, or a combination thereof, and wherein the PCR-staple fibers comprise a polyethylene terephthalate, such as a post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PCR-PET), a polyolefin, or a polyamide; wherein the PCR-staple fibers are mechanically entangled with the one or more additional fibers to define the nonwoven fabric, and wherein the PCR-staple fibers are formed from recyclable post-consumer waste that has been subjected to chemical treatment and/or mechanical processing to break the recyclable post-consumer waste into a plurality of smaller components prior to being melted and extruded into the PCR-staple fibers. a mechanically entangled blend of fibers comprising (a) post-consumer recycled polymer staple fibers (PCR-staple fibers) formed from a synthetic polymeric material, wherein the PCR-staple fibers are devoid of a hydrophilic finish coating, and (b) one or more additional fibers selected from a plurality of wettable staple fibers comprising hydrophilic-modified polyester staple fibers having a hydrophilic finish coated thereon, a plurality of cellulosic fibers, or a combination thereof, and wherein the PCR-staple fibers comprise a polyethylene terephthalate, such as a post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PCR-PET), a polyolefin, or a polyamide; wherein the PCR-staple fibers are mechanically entangled with the one or more additional fibers to define the nonwoven fabric, and wherein the PCR-staple fibers are formed from recyclable post-consumer waste that has been subjected to chemical treatment and/or mechanical processing to break the recyclable post-consumer waste into a plurality of smaller components prior to being melted and extruded into the PCR-staple fibers.
Method for monitoring at least one traction means in a lift assembly wherein the traction means comprises electrically conducting tension carriers which are surrounded by an electrically conducting jacket, the method comprising: - monitoring an electrical resistance of the tension carriers, wherein at least two states: - interrupted tension carrier - earthed tension carrier - damaged tension carrier can be ascertained by a monitoring device: - evaluating the ascertained states of the tension carrier, wherein - an interrupted tension carrier can be ascertained by an electrical resistance which tends to infinity, - an earthed tension carrier can be ascertained by an electrical resistance which tends to zero, - a damaged tension carrier can be ascertained by an increased or by a reduced electrical resistance and wherein the states are assigned to a warning state; and - further operating or further operating whilst delivering a pre-warning or putting the lift assembly out of operation taking into account the warning state, characterized in that during the evaluation both each individual traction means with all appurtenant tension carriers and also a sum of all the traction means in the lift assembly with all appurtenant tension carriers are each assigned a warning state and that for further operation or putting the lift assembly out of operation a most serious warning state selected from the most serious warning state of each individual traction means and the warning state of the total of all the traction means is definitive. - monitoring an electrical resistance of the tension carriers, wherein at least two states: - interrupted tension carrier - earthed tension carrier - damaged tension carrier - evaluating the ascertained states of the tension carrier, wherein - an interrupted tension carrier can be ascertained by an electrical resistance which tends to infinity, - an earthed tension carrier can be ascertained by an electrical resistance which tends to zero, - a damaged tension carrier can be ascertained by an increased or by a reduced electrical resistance and - further operating or further operating whilst delivering a pre-warning or putting the lift assembly out of operation taking into account the warning state,