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A method to control a washing machine, the washing machine including a tub and a drum, the drum being rotatably mounted inside the tub and apt to contain laundry to be washed, the method comprising: - setting a washing cycle among a plurality of washing cycles; - calculating a first weight of the laundry in the drum before water is supplied to the drum and/or tub; - comparing the first weight to a first threshold; - calculating a first duration of the set washing cycle on the basis of said first weight; - displaying said first duration; characterized in that - if said first weight is above the first threshold, then the method further includes: ∘ introducing water into the tub; ∘ calculating a second weight of the laundry present into the drum; ∘ calculating a second duration of the set washing cycle on the basis of said second weight; ∘ displaying said second duration; - and, if said first weight is below or equal to the first threshold, then the method further includes: ∘ gradually updating said first duration while executing said washing cycle, without calculating the second duration. - setting a washing cycle among a plurality of washing cycles; - calculating a first weight of the laundry in the drum before water is supplied to the drum and/or tub; - comparing the first weight to a first threshold; - calculating a first duration of the set washing cycle on the basis of said first weight; - displaying said first duration; - if said first weight is above the first threshold, then the method further includes: ∘ introducing water into the tub; ∘ calculating a second weight of the laundry present into the drum; ∘ calculating a second duration of the set washing cycle on the basis of said second weight; ∘ displaying said second duration; ∘ introducing water into the tub; ∘ calculating a second weight of the laundry present into the drum; ∘ calculating a second duration of the set washing cycle on the basis of said second weight; ∘ displaying said second duration; - and, if said first weight is below or equal to the first threshold, then the method further includes: ∘ gradually updating said first duration while executing said washing cycle, without calculating the second duration. ∘ gradually updating said first duration while executing said washing cycle, without calculating the second duration.
A shoulder harness including a harness network composed of at least a back-fitting member to be worn on the back of an operator and right and left shoulder belts to be worn on right and left shoulders of the operator, and including a hanging element connected to the harness network and composing a hook fixed on a hip pad, such that a working machine can be retained on the hanging element, wherein front ends of the right and left shoulder belts join at a juncture in front of a central part of the operator, characterized by a waist belt detachably connected to the lower end of said back-fitting member and worn on the operator's waist; and an intermediary member interposed between the harness network and the hanging element to support the hanging element suspended therefrom, wherein said hanging element is suspended from said intermediary member by a suspension member such as a wide belt, string or the like; and both said intermediary member and said hanging element are located at one side of the operator's body, wherein the waist belt is connected to the intermediary member, characterised in that said intermediary member is at a height above the hanging element, in that a first holding member connects the intermediary member and the back-fitting member, and in that a second holding member connects the intermediary member to the juncture of the front ends of the right and left shoulder belts,
A method for assembling a female mould on a compression moulding machine for obtaining objects made of polymeric material by compression moulding, the machine being configured for supporting a plurality of female moulds, the method comprising the steps of: - providing a pre-assembled female mould arrangement, the pre-assembled female mould arrangement comprising a plurality of components including at least a base, forming means having a forming cavity and a fastening element which renders the forming means fixed relative to the base; - placing the pre-assembled female mould arrangement on a support of the moulding machine; - fixing the pre-assembled female mould arrangement to the support, wherein the forming means comprise an annular forming element extending about an axis and delimiting the forming cavity about said axis, the forming means further comprising a plate element, which delimits the forming cavity transversely to said axis, and wherein the pre-assembled female mould arrangement comprises a peripheral annular component that surrounds at least partially the annular forming element. - providing a pre-assembled female mould arrangement, the pre-assembled female mould arrangement comprising a plurality of components including at least a base, forming means having a forming cavity and a fastening element which renders the forming means fixed relative to the base; - placing the pre-assembled female mould arrangement on a support of the moulding machine; - fixing the pre-assembled female mould arrangement to the support,
A tablet comprising: 1-(3-(2-(1-benzothiophen-5-yl)ethoxy)propyl)azetidin-3-ol or a salt thereof; and ethyl cellulose, wherein the content of ethyl cellulose is 1 to 30% based on the tablet mass. 1-(3-(2-(1-benzothiophen-5-yl)ethoxy)propyl)azetidin-3-ol or a salt thereof; and ethyl cellulose,
Lever system for force transmission for a grinding roller, with a central rocking lever having a rocking lever axis that is supported on a bearing block, and with a hydraulic cylinder having a piston rod for the application of force to the rocking lever, wherein on the central rocking lever an eccentrically and only on one side of the central rocking lever arranged side lever is provided, wherein the side lever has a lever arm extending in the opposite direction to the grinding roller and wherein a force coupling is provided between the lever arm of the side lever and the piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder. with a central rocking lever having a rocking lever axis that is supported on a bearing block, and with a hydraulic cylinder having a piston rod for the application of force to the rocking lever, wherein on the central rocking lever an eccentrically and only on one side of the central rocking lever arranged side lever is provided, wherein the side lever has a lever arm extending in the opposite direction to the grinding roller and wherein a force coupling is provided between the lever arm of the side lever and the piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder.
A device for measuring the intensity of the light scattered by a thin film of a colloidal medium, comprising: - a monochromatic light source, - a convergent optical system focusing the light of said source onto said thin film to be analysed and comprising a dioptric element one of the faces of which constitutes a first wall delimiting the thin film, - at least one photosensitive detector reacting to the light scattered or backscattered by the thin film, - means for processing the signal coming from said photodetector, characterized in that another, second wall is made up of a plane surface at the end of a rod, and in that said device comprises means for positioning said plane surface at a predetermined distance from said first wall and means for maintaining the parallelism between said two walls. - a monochromatic light source, - a convergent optical system focusing the light of said source onto said thin film to be analysed and comprising a dioptric element one of the faces of which constitutes a first wall delimiting the thin film, - at least one photosensitive detector reacting to the light scattered or backscattered by the thin film, - means for processing the signal coming from said photodetector, characterized in that another, second wall is made up of a plane surface at the end of a rod, and in that said device comprises means for positioning said plane surface at a predetermined distance from said first wall and means for maintaining the parallelism between said two walls.
An electric parking brake device configured to enable switching of a control mode between: a switch operation mode to lock and release electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) by operation of an electric parking brake switch; and a shift link operation mode to lock and release the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) in conjunction with shift operation of a shift lever, characterized in that the electric parking brake device comprises a switch breakdown determination part configured to determine breakdown of the electric parking brake switch; a brake operation determination part configured to determine whether the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in a locked state; and a mode selection control part configured to select the shift link operation mode as the control mode if the switch breakdown determination part determines that the electric parking brake switch is broken down and the brake operation determination part determines that the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in the locked state. a switch operation mode to lock and release electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) by operation of an electric parking brake switch; and a shift link operation mode to lock and release the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) in conjunction with shift operation of a shift lever, characterized in that the electric parking brake device comprises a switch breakdown determination part configured to determine breakdown of the electric parking brake switch; a brake operation determination part configured to determine whether the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in a locked state; and a mode selection control part configured to select the shift link operation mode as the control mode if the switch breakdown determination part determines that the electric parking brake switch is broken down and the brake operation determination part determines that the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in the locked state. a switch breakdown determination part configured to determine breakdown of the electric parking brake switch; a brake operation determination part configured to determine whether the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in a locked state; and a mode selection control part configured to select the shift link operation mode as the control mode if the switch breakdown determination part determines that the electric parking brake switch is broken down and the brake operation determination part determines that the electric parking brakes (27L, 27R) are in the locked state.
Hand crimp tool for crimping electrical contact terminals onto electrical cables, comprising a crimping frame with two essentially parallel guide rails (21, 23), a first lever handle and a second lever handle, wherein the lever handles (11, 13) are adapted to be manually operated by an operator, thereby being brought from an open configuration to a closed configuration, the hand crimp tool further comprising a first crimping die (31, 33) and a corresponding second crimping die (35, 37), and a die carrier which is adapted to support the first crimping die (31, 33), wherein the die carrier is operatively connected to the first lever handle and/or the second lever handle and slidably arranged between the guide rails (21, 23), wherein the guide rails (21, 23) are essentially bar-shaped and oriented in a common longitudinal direction, and in that the die carrier is adapted to slide in a linear direction parallel to the longitudinal direction of the guide rails (21, 23), along inner opposite faces of the guide rails (21, 23), thereby being guided from a cable receiving position to a crimping position, wherein the die carrier is adapted to support two first crimping dies (31, 33), and wherein the two first crimping dies (31, 33) are crimping anvils and are provided at different anvil heights h a and/or wherein surfaces of the two first crimping dies (31, 33) are provided with different radii of curvature, and wherein the two first crimping dies (31, 33) are arranged on the die carrier such that the two first crimping dies (31, 33) can be moved with respect to each other in a direction which corresponds essentially to an orientation of a cable which is received by the hand crimp tool for crimping.
A method of controlling perfusion of at least one ex vivo organ with medical fluid using a perfusion apparatus, transporter and/or organ diagnostic apparatus, comprising the following steps: - inputting organ data; - selecting one or more types of perfusion modes; - selecting a type of flow control for each selected perfusion mode; - controlling flow of the medical fluid based on the selected perfusion mode and flow control; - detecting operating conditions experienced by the medical fluid and organ during perfusion; - comparing detected operating conditions with prestored normal ranges for each of the detected operating conditions and automatically generating an organ viability index based on the comparison, the organ viability index including a compilation of the detected operating conditions and the prestored normal ranges for each of the detected operating conditions; and - generating a message relating to organ viability based on the organ viability index and/or making automatic adjustments to regulate viability, wherein the organ is not returned to the donor. - inputting organ data; - selecting one or more types of perfusion modes; - selecting a type of flow control for each selected perfusion mode; - controlling flow of the medical fluid based on the selected perfusion mode and flow control; - detecting operating conditions experienced by the medical fluid and organ during perfusion; - comparing detected operating conditions with prestored normal ranges for each of the detected operating conditions and automatically generating an organ viability index based on the comparison, the organ viability index including a compilation of the detected operating conditions and the prestored normal ranges for each of the detected operating conditions; and - generating a message relating to organ viability based on the organ viability index and/or making automatic adjustments to regulate viability, wherein the organ is not returned to the donor.
A knitted-fabric seaming method for a circular knitting machine, in which one end of a knitted fabric knitted by a circular knitting machine is transferred from knitting needles of a knitting needle cylinder of the circular knitting machine to transferring needles in a state that the number of the knitting needles is the same as the number of the transferring needles, and thereafter the one end of the knitted fabric is closed by a sewing machine unit, wherein inner loops preceding final loops of the knitted fabric caught on the knitting needles, are divided in half into a first loop group and a second loop group in a circumferential direction of the knitted fabric, loops facing each other are joined at the time of closing the first loop group and the second loop group, and the joined loops are seamed by a sewing machine of the sewing machine unit, characterized in that the transferring needles and the knitting needles are moved relative to each other in an axial direction of the knitting needles such that an external surface of a tip end of each of the transferring needles comes close to an internal surface of a tip end of the corresponding knitting needle, for the purpose of transferring the knitted fabric from the knitting needles with use of the transferring needles, wherein the axial direction is an axial direction with respect to the knitting needle cylinder; a transferring member is inserted into a space between the adjacent knitting needles of the knitting needle cylinder from outside to inside in a radial direction of the knitting needle cylinder, so as to guide the knitting needle by the distal end portion of each of the transferring members, and the transferring member is moved from the knitting needle to the transferring needle in the axial direction of the knitting needles, and the tip ends of the transferring needles are inserted into the inner loops, so as to transfer the knitted fabric from the knitting needles to the transferring needles.
An image forming apparatus comprising: a photoreceptor having a photoreceptor surface; a lubricant applicator to apply a lubricant to the photoreceptor surface; a charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface; and a lubricant residual amount detector to detect a residual amount of the lubricant, the charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface by applying a first voltage composed of a DC voltage to the photoreceptor surface in a case where the lubricant residual amount detector detects that the residual amount of the lubricant is greater than a predetermined amount, and the charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface by applying a second voltage composed of a DC voltage smaller than the first voltage to the photoreceptor surface in a case where the lubricant residual amount detector detects that the residual amount of the lubricant is equal to or less than the predetermined amount. a photoreceptor having a photoreceptor surface; a lubricant applicator to apply a lubricant to the photoreceptor surface; a charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface; and a lubricant residual amount detector to detect a residual amount of the lubricant, the charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface by applying a first voltage composed of a DC voltage to the photoreceptor surface in a case where the lubricant residual amount detector detects that the residual amount of the lubricant is greater than a predetermined amount, and the charging device (41, 41a) to charge the photoreceptor surface by applying a second voltage composed of a DC voltage smaller than the first voltage to the photoreceptor surface in a case where the lubricant residual amount detector detects that the residual amount of the lubricant is equal to or less than the predetermined amount.
A transducer assembly operable to transmit ultrasonic energy in a desired direction towards a zone adapted to be acoustically coupled to an object or area of interest, the assembly comprising a piezoelectric subassembly (121, 122) matching a curved support layer disposed behind said piezoelectric subassembly with respect to the desired direction, wherein the piezoelectric subassembly comprises piezoelectric elements and metal connections, wherein the piezoelectric elements are disposed along a first direction, so-called azimuth direction, to form a number of parallel curved segments of piezoelectric elements extending in a second direction, so-called elevation direction, each piezoelectric segment being in contact with a corresponding metal connection extending in the elevation direction for transmitting/receiving electric signals to/from each piezoelectric segment, characterized in that the subassembly comprises a central part and a lateral part extending from the central part, wherein the central part comprises piezoelectric material and the lateral part comprises a resin material incorporating the metal connections so that each curved segment results substantially in a sequence of resin/piezoelectric/resin materials disposed along the elevation direction with the extension and curvature of the piezoelectric material disposed in the central part of the subassembly defining the elevation focussing of the transducer assembly, wherein the relation between area covered by the central part and area covered by the lateral part is function of the aperture of the transducer assembly in the elevation direction.
A powder dispenser for making a component by additive manufacturing; the dispenser comprising: - a lower opening, which comprises an outlet portion for letting said powder fall and is defined by a first size, which is measured along a horizontal axis, and by a second size, which is smaller than said first size and is measured along a horizontal direction orthogonal to said horizontal axis; - a vertical channel, which inferiorly ends at said outlet portion and, at the top, is adapted to communicate with a tank for receiving said powder; - a shutter device for varying the length of said outlet portion with respect to the total length of said lower opening along said horizontal axis; characterized in that said shutter device comprises at least a first element, which is movable so as to vary the position of an end point of said outlet portion along said horizontal axis; and actuator means controlled so as to move said first element. - a lower opening, which comprises an outlet portion for letting said powder fall and is defined by a first size, which is measured along a horizontal axis, and by a second size, which is smaller than said first size and is measured along a horizontal direction orthogonal to said horizontal axis; - a vertical channel, which inferiorly ends at said outlet portion and, at the top, is adapted to communicate with a tank for receiving said powder; - a shutter device for varying the length of said outlet portion with respect to the total length of said lower opening along said horizontal axis;
A method for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, by a user equipment, a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal in a first subframe and a second subframe of a frame, wherein, in the second subframe, the SSS is received in a symbol of the second subframe that is after a symbol of the second subframe in which the PSS is received, and after a set of second symbols of the subframe in which a set of other synchronization signals is received, and wherein, in the first subframe of the frame, the SSS is received in a symbol of the first subframe that is before a symbol of the first subframe in which the PSS is received; and synchronizing, by the UE, with a base station based at least in part on the PSS and the SSS received in the first and the second subframes. receiving, by a user equipment, a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal in a first subframe and a second subframe of a frame, wherein, in the second subframe, the SSS is received in a symbol of the second subframe that is after a symbol of the second subframe in which the PSS is received, and after a set of second symbols of the subframe in which a set of other synchronization signals is received, and wherein, in the first subframe of the frame, the SSS is received in a symbol of the first subframe that is before a symbol of the first subframe in which the PSS is received; and wherein, in the second subframe, the SSS is received in a symbol of the second subframe that is after a symbol of the second subframe in which the PSS is received, and after a set of second symbols of the subframe in which a set of other synchronization signals is received, and wherein, in the first subframe of the frame, the SSS is received in a symbol of the first subframe that is before a symbol of the first subframe in which the PSS is received; and synchronizing, by the UE, with a base station based at least in part on the PSS and the SSS received in the first and the second subframes.