mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of low grey level enhancement in a field emission display panel, FED, based on a sub-row driving, SRD, modulation scheme, wherein the pixel data of a row of the FED panel is split into a plurality of pieces of sub-row data, each piece of sub-row data corresponding to one bit of the pixel data of the row, wherein pixel data of a row is applied to the row during a row selection period in a plurality of sub-periods corresponding to the number of bits of the pixel data, and each piece of the sub-row data is displayed for a duration corresponding to the weight of the corresponding bit in the pixel data, and wherein a sub-period comprises a data transmission period in which the sub- row data is processed and a data display period in which the sub-row data is displayed according to the weight of the bit; the method comprising: applying error diffusion to reduce the pixel data width; dividing the error diffused pixel data into sub-row data according to the weight of each bit; re-organising the order of the sub-row data and the corresponding sub- periods such that when the sub-row data is to be applied to a row one after the other, the first and the last sub-row data are sub-row data with the highest and the next highest weights while sub-row data with the lowest weights are to be applied in between the first and the last sub-row data, and applying the sub-row data in the corresponding sub-periods in the re-organised order to a pixel row during a row selection period. applying error diffusion to reduce the pixel data width; dividing the error diffused pixel data into sub-row data according to the weight of each bit; re-organising the order of the sub-row data and the corresponding sub- periods such that when the sub-row data is to be applied to a row one after the other, the first and the last sub-row data are sub-row data with the highest and the next highest weights while sub-row data with the lowest weights are to be applied in between the first and the last sub-row data, and applying the sub-row data in the corresponding sub-periods in the re-organised order to a pixel row during a row selection period.
A method of monitoring a patient having a patient monitoring apparatus that is configured to weigh the patient, present queries to the patient, receive non-verbal answers from the patient, and electronically communicate that information to a remotely located central computer, the method comprising: receiving in the central computer from the patient monitoring apparatus information regarding the patient's second weight and second time of the second weight; storing in the central computer the patient's second weight and second time; calculating, by the central computer, a change in the patient's weight between the second weight and a previously stored first weight; comparing, by the central computer, the change in the patient's weight to a threshold change in the patient's weight; triggering an alert by the central computer when the change in the patient's weight exceeds the threshold change in the patient's weight, causing the patient monitoring apparatus to query a series of questions to the patient; receiving in the central computer non-verbal responses from the patient to the series of questions; and notifying a caregiver of the alert and sending the responses to the caregiver; whereby the caregiver can review the alert and the patient's answers to determine if the patient requires medical treatment. receiving in the central computer from the patient monitoring apparatus information regarding the patient's second weight and second time of the second weight; storing in the central computer the patient's second weight and second time; calculating, by the central computer, a change in the patient's weight between the second weight and a previously stored first weight; comparing, by the central computer, the change in the patient's weight to a threshold change in the patient's weight; triggering an alert by the central computer when the change in the patient's weight exceeds the threshold change in the patient's weight, causing the patient monitoring apparatus to query a series of questions to the patient; receiving in the central computer non-verbal responses from the patient to the series of questions; and notifying a caregiver of the alert and sending the responses to the caregiver; whereby the caregiver can review the alert and the patient's answers to determine if the patient requires medical treatment.
Spectacle temple hinge of a spectacle frame, composed of a spectacle endpiece of flat material oriented vertically at least in the joint region with a horizontal longitudinal recess, with two projections (4; 6) directed towards each other and spaced apart in parallel from each other, and with a hinge pin having end-face receiving slits (8; 9) on both sides for the projections (5; 6), with the bottoms of the receiving slits (8; 9) being spaced apart from each other by a distance that corresponds to the distance between the projections (5; 6), and with a joint region of a spectacle temple with a vertical receiving opening engaging in the longitudinal recesses, characterized in that the spectacle temple in the joint region consists of flat material twisted at right angles against the joint region of the spectacle endpiece, and in that a function bushing is inserted securely against rotation into the receiving opening of the spectacle temple, which function bushing has a collar which protrudes from the bottom thereof and which is provided with an end-face radial mounting slit, and in that, in a mounted position of the spectacle temple, the mounting slit is in alignment with the end-face receiving slits (8; 9) of the hinge pin and the projections (5; 6).
An assembly comprising a pan partition and a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance comprising a pan-like cooking container, the pan partition being a partition wall which is insertable in the cooking container and is removable, extends from one side wall of the cooking container to the opposite side wall and rests against the bottom of the cooking container, the pan partition forming a physical separation, extending in the vertical direction, between partial areas in the interior of the cooking container which are located on one side and the other side of the pan partition, characterized in that the cooking appliance further comprises a controller and a receiver module and the pan partition is provided with at least one sensor (50, 52, 54) for an environmental parameter and with a transmitting module by which a sensor signal can be output, the receiver module being configured to receive the sensor signal originating from the transmitting module.
A high-voltage feeder clamp for applications ranging from 60 kV and higher, having two elongate clamp halves (1, 2), which are approximately mirror-symmetrical and each of which has two parallel longitudinal channels (3, 4) for receiving the end portions of two parallel stranded conductors (5, 6) to be connected, which longitudinal channels (3, 4) have partially circular cross-sections, wherein the two clamp halves (1, 2) can be clamped together by means of multiple, preferably three, screws arranged in succession in the direction of the longitudinal channels (3, 4) and stranded conductors (5, 6), which screws pass through the openings (8, 9) in the two clamp halves (1, 2) arranged along the longitudinal symmetry axis of the clamping halves (1, 2) and of which the end portions are arranged completely in recesses (10, 11 and 10, 11') on the sides of the clamp halves (1, 2) lying opposite the longitudinal channels (3, 4), within an approximately semi-circular or semi-elliptical curve (12 or 13) that tightly circumscribes the outer contour of the feeder clamp, wherein the openings (8, 9) on the two clamp halves (1, 2) through which the screws pass have different widths, wherein the openings in one clamp half only just allow the screws to be passed through, whereas the openings on the other clamp half are wider in a region bordering the first-mentioned clamp half, characterised in that the openings on said other clamp half enable the second-mentioned clamp half to be arranged at an incline in the event that two stranded conductors (5, 6) of different thickness are to be connected, wherein the clamping half that can be placed at an incline encompasses the stranded conductor (5, 6) bearing against said clamping half over a wider sector angle than the clamping half only just allowing the screws to be passed through, and the radius of the partial circle of the cross-section of each longitudinal channel (3, 4) corresponds to that of the cross-section of the thickest stranded conductor to be clamped.
A partially thermally spray coated substrate including an outer surface (10, 20) adapted to be in contact with a workpiece as part of a rolling process or end-use application, said outer surface being non-smooth and defined by an underlying texture profile, said outer surface comprising a thermal spray coating (11, 31, 31') along a plurality of first regions of the outer surface to produce a plurality of thermally coated first regions, and, and a remainder of said outer surface being devoid of the thermal spray coating along a plurality of second regions of the outer surface to produce a plurality of non-coated second regions (12, 32), wherein said thermally coated first regions of the outer surface in combination with said second regions of the non-coated region do not substantially alter or degrade the underlying texture profile of the outer surface, wherein said partially thermally spray coated surface is devoid of a non-thermal spray coating, wherein the thermally sprayed coating is applied at regular intervals so as to provide for equal spacing between adjacent coated first regions along the non-smooth outer surface, and wherein adjacent coated first regions are separated by one of the non-coated second regions.
An isolated PD-L1 antibody comprising a heavy chain immunoglobulin variable domain sequence and a light chain immunoglobulin variable domain sequence, wherein the HC comprises (a) a HC CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence NHAIS (SEQ ID NO: 14); and (b) a HC CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence TINSDTHTYYATWPKG (SEQ ID NO: 15); and c) a HC CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence RIFSSSNI (SEQ ID NO: 16); and the LC comprises (a) a LC CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence QASQSIYNNNWLS (SEQ ID NO: 17); and (b) a LC CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence LASTLAS (SEQ ID NO: 12); and (c) a LC CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence IGGESSNNDGIA (SEQ ID NO: 18), and wherein the antibody binds to an epitope of human PD-L1 comprising the amino acid sequence CGIQDTNSKKQSDTHLEET (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or has a half maximal effective concentration (EC 50) of at least 1.5 x 10 -11 M.
A molding device for manufacturing at least a plastic hollow part by injection molding comprising - at least a first molding station comprising at least a first mold comprising a first mold half and a second mold half forming a first mold cavity for molding a first part of a hollow part; - at least a second molding station comprising at least a second mold comprising a first mold half and a second mold half forming a second mold cavity for molding a second part of the hollow part; - at least a demolding station for demolding the hollow part; wherein a core which is transferable from the first molding station to the second molding station and/or to the demolding station is locatable at least partially inside the first and second mold cavity (13, 23) thereby forming a part of the first and second mold cavity (13, 23); wherein at least one stripper is slidingly arranged around an outer surface of the core; wherein the stripper is arranged at the core in a passive position spaced from a first end of the core with a first distance at the first molding station, wherein at least a part of the first end of the core is located inside the first mold cavity and the stripper is located outside the first mold cavity; wherein the stripper is arranged at the core in a molding position spaced from a first end of the core with a second distance at the second molding station, wherein at least a part of the first end of the core is located inside the second mold cavity and the stripper together with the first mold half and the second mold half of the second mold form the second mold cavity; wherein the stripper is arranged at the core in a demolding position spaced from a first end of the core with a third distance when the core is positioned outside of the first and second mold cavity (13, 23) at the demolding station; characterized in that the first distance is larger than the second distance and wherein the second distance is larger than the third distance. - at least a first molding station comprising at least a first mold comprising a first mold half and a second mold half forming a first mold cavity for molding a first part of a hollow part; - at least a second molding station comprising at least a second mold comprising a first mold half and a second mold half forming a second mold cavity for molding a second part of the hollow part; - at least a demolding station for demolding the hollow part;
A side-gate nozzle assembly for delivering a stream of moldable material to a cavity insert located beside the side-gate nozzle assembly, the side-gate nozzle assembly being characterised by comprising: a heated nozzle body having a nozzle body flow channel extending therethrough and a widthwise slot extending across a downstream side of the heated nozzle body, the nozzle body flow channel having a nozzle body outlet that ends at a wall of the slot; a load component received in the slot, the load component having a load component flow channel in fluid communication between the nozzle body outlet that ends at the wall of the slot and a load component outlet an end of the load component; and a side-gate tip assembly adjacent to the end of the load component and in fluid communication between the load component flow channel and the cavity insert, wherein in operation thermal expansion of the load component causes the end of the load component to press the side-gate tip assembly towards the cavity insert. a heated nozzle body having a nozzle body flow channel extending therethrough and a widthwise slot extending across a downstream side of the heated nozzle body, the nozzle body flow channel having a nozzle body outlet that ends at a wall of the slot; a load component received in the slot, the load component having a load component flow channel in fluid communication between the nozzle body outlet that ends at the wall of the slot and a load component outlet an end of the load component; and a side-gate tip assembly adjacent to the end of the load component and in fluid communication between the load component flow channel and the cavity insert, wherein in operation thermal expansion of the load component causes the end of the load component to press the side-gate tip assembly towards the cavity insert.
A composition comprising nanoparticles comprising paclitaxel and an albumin for use in a method of treating melanoma in a human individual, wherein the individual is selected for the treatment based on the individual having a melanoma comprising a mutation in BRAF.
A fixing device comprising: a rotatable endless fixing belt; a pressing member configured to form a pressing area with the fixing belt; a pushing member configured to come into contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt via a lubricant and to push the fixing belt to the pressing member at the pressing area; and a cap configured to be attached to an end portion of the fixing belt through an elastic member and to be rotated together with the fixing belt, characterized in that the cap has a contact part with which an end face of the fixing belt comes into contact, the contact part has a groove configured to store the lubricant leaked from the inner circumferential face of the fixing belt, the groove is formed such that a width is varied along a radial direction of the cap, and the groove is shaped in a pyramid. a rotatable endless fixing belt; a pressing member configured to form a pressing area with the fixing belt; a pushing member configured to come into contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt via a lubricant and to push the fixing belt to the pressing member at the pressing area; and a cap configured to be attached to an end portion of the fixing belt through an elastic member and to be rotated together with the fixing belt, characterized in that the cap has a contact part with which an end face of the fixing belt comes into contact, the contact part has a groove configured to store the lubricant leaked from the inner circumferential face of the fixing belt, the groove is formed such that a width is varied along a radial direction of the cap, and the groove is shaped in a pyramid.
A method of fastening a second object to a first object the method comprising the steps of: - Providing the first object comprising a first attachment surface; - Providing the second object; - Placing the second object relative to the first object, with a resin between the first attachment surface and a second attachment surface of the second object; - While the resin is in contact with the first attachment surface and the second attachment surface, causing mechanical vibration to act on the second object or the first object or both, thereby activating the resin to cross-link; - Whereby the resin, after cross-linking, secures the second object to the first object, - the second object is a fastener comprising an anchoring plate having the second attachment surface, and a fastening element (32, 36) secured to the anchoring plate, characterized in that the anchoring plate has at least one through opening, wherein the anchoring plate comprises a spacer protruding from a distal anchoring plate surface that forms the second attachment surface, and wherein portions of the resin are caused to penetrate into the at least one through opening to thereby contribute to fastening. - Providing the first object comprising a first attachment surface; - Providing the second object; - Placing the second object relative to the first object, with a resin between the first attachment surface and a second attachment surface of the second object; - While the resin is in contact with the first attachment surface and the second attachment surface, causing mechanical vibration to act on the second object or the first object or both, thereby activating the resin to cross-link; - Whereby the resin, after cross-linking, secures the second object to the first object, - the second object is a fastener comprising an anchoring plate having the second attachment surface, and a fastening element (32, 36) secured to the anchoring plate, characterized in that the anchoring plate has at least one through opening, wherein the anchoring plate comprises a spacer protruding from a distal anchoring plate surface that forms the second attachment surface, and wherein portions of the resin are caused to penetrate into the at least one through opening to thereby contribute to fastening.
A progressive-power lens (10L/R) comprising: an eyeball-side surface including a distance portion adapted for distance vision and a near portion adapted for near vision, the distance and the near portion having different values of dioptric power, and an intermediate portion that connects the distance portion and the near portion to each other; and an object-side surface including a spherical first region having a first curvature and extending along a principal meridian, a spherical second region having a second curvature equal to the first curvature and facing the distance portion, and a third region located outside the first region and below the second region, characterized by the third region having a third curvature smaller than the first curvature, wherein the third region has an aspherical shape, and the third curvature decreases with distance from the principal meridian outward in a horizontal direction. an eyeball-side surface including a distance portion adapted for distance vision and a near portion adapted for near vision, the distance and the near portion having different values of dioptric power, and an intermediate portion that connects the distance portion and the near portion to each other; and an object-side surface including a spherical first region having a first curvature and extending along a principal meridian, a spherical second region having a second curvature equal to the first curvature and facing the distance portion, and a third region located outside the first region and below the second region,
A method for crash recovery with asynchronous consistent snapshots in persistent memory stores of a processing environment including a user program and infrastructure-maintained data structures, wherein the infrastructure-maintained data structures include a log of updates made to program data structures and a snapshot of the state of the program data structures, the method comprising: writing log entries in the log of updates to a transient memory, wherein the log entries correspond to store instructions and memory management instructions operating on a nonvolatile memory, NVM, and input/output, I/O, operations executed by program instructions of the user program, wherein each of the log entries represents an effect of a corresponding operation in the program instructions; and creating a snapshot in the NVM after a consistent program point based on the log of updates, wherein the snapshot provides a rollback position during restart following a crash, wherein infrastructure-maintained data structures are data structures created or maintained in the transient memory and the NVM, wherein the snapshot is created by walking the log entries and copying data from the log entries to the snapshot in a failure-atomic manner to guarantee that either all or none of the snapshot is visible on the NVM regardless of computer failures, and creation of the snapshot comprises creating and maintaining a mapping between addresses of data structures created on NVM by the program instructions and a corresponding state of data structures in the snapshot, wherein the mapping is persistent and resides in the snapshot. writing log entries in the log of updates to a transient memory, wherein the log entries correspond to store instructions and memory management instructions operating on a nonvolatile memory, NVM, and input/output, I/O, operations executed by program instructions of the user program, wherein each of the log entries represents an effect of a corresponding operation in the program instructions; and creating a snapshot in the NVM after a consistent program point based on the log of updates, wherein the snapshot provides a rollback position during restart following a crash, wherein infrastructure-maintained data structures are data structures created or maintained in the transient memory and the NVM, wherein the snapshot is created by walking the log entries and copying data from the log entries to the snapshot in a failure-atomic manner to guarantee that either all or none of the snapshot is visible on the NVM regardless of computer failures, and creation of the snapshot comprises creating and maintaining a mapping between addresses of data structures created on NVM by the program instructions and a corresponding state of data structures in the snapshot, wherein the mapping is persistent and resides in the snapshot.