mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of manufacturing a biophotonic nanodevice, the method comprising the steps of: forming a nanopattern comprised of nanoscale geometries that define a light-scattering regime on a surface of a substrate using E-beam lithography; depositing on the substrate an aqueous silk-fibroin matrix solution; and drying the silk-fibroin matrix solution so that a solidified silk-fibroin film is formed, having the nanopattern on its surface; removing the solidified silk-fibroin film from the substrate, so that the removed solidified silk-fibroin film is a biophotonic nanodevice; and wherein the silk-fibroin is characterized by beta-sheet secondary structure. forming a nanopattern comprised of nanoscale geometries that define a light-scattering regime on a surface of a substrate using E-beam lithography; depositing on the substrate an aqueous silk-fibroin matrix solution; and drying the silk-fibroin matrix solution so that a solidified silk-fibroin film is formed, having the nanopattern on its surface; removing the solidified silk-fibroin film from the substrate, so that the removed solidified silk-fibroin film is a biophotonic nanodevice; and
A charging device for a mobile terminal, characterized by comprising a motor for power generation, a drive module, a charge pump module, a filtering and voltage regulation module and a control unit; wherein, the drive module is connected with an input end of the motor and is configured to obtain swing kinetic energy of the mobile terminal to drive the motor to work; the charge pump module is connected with an output end of the motor and is configured to boost a voltage output by the motor; the filtering and voltage regulation module, an input end of which is connected with the charge pump module, is configured to perform direct current filtering and voltage regulation processing on a voltage output by the charge pump module, so as to output a charging voltage matching with a battery; the control unit is connected with the filtering and voltage regulation module and is configured to accumulate charging current so as to adapt to the battery and to control a charging process; wherein the drive module comprises a gear set and a gravity hammer, and the gravity hammer is connected with the motor through the gear set, so as to adjust rotation speed of the motor to make the motor output electric energy; the gravity hammer is a magnet, and the drive module further comprises a vibration button, which is a common key of the mobile terminal and is directly above the gravity hammer; and a magnet whose magnetic pole is the same as that of the gravity hammer is set right below the vibration button; so that, once the vibration button is pressed, the gravity hammer swings freely to drive the gear to rotate.
Sealing device for the edge region of a movable leaf of a door or a window, with a sealing strip movable relative to the leaf for the optional sealing a gap between the leaf and another body, wherein movement of the sealing strip can be driven from the open to the sealing position by a guided sliding movement of a release element relative to the leaf, wherein movement of the release element is transferable via an elastic transmission component to the driving side of a lockable transmission mechanism, through the driven side of which movement of the sealing strip can be driven into the sealing position, and wherein the lock of the lockable transmission mechanism against moving the sealing strip into the sealing position, can be disengaged through the sliding movement of the release element over a predetermined minimum distance, characterised in that the lock is formed by a flexible spring (7, 11) which is resilient to buckling through movement of the release element, wherein the lock is engaged as long as the flexible spring (7, 11) is not buckled, and wherein the lock is thus released when the flexible spring (7, 11) is buckled.
A conductive tip catheter, comprising: a flexible tubular member comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the flexible tubular member defining a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end; an electrically conductive metallic coil at least partially located within the lumen of the flexible tubular member, the electrically conductive metallic coil comprising: a first region located at a distal end of the metallic coil and having a first pitch, wherein the first region of the electrically conductive metallic coil extends distally from the distal end of the flexible tubular member; a second region proximal to the first region and having a second pitch that is greater than the first pitch; and a third region proximal to the second region and having a third pitch that is different from the first pitch and the second pitch; and a conductive tip located at the distal end of the flexible tubular member, the conductive tip defining a tip lumen in fluid communication with the lumen, wherein the conductive tip comprises a conductive polymer. a flexible tubular member comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the flexible tubular member defining a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end; an electrically conductive metallic coil at least partially located within the lumen of the flexible tubular member, the electrically conductive metallic coil comprising: a first region located at a distal end of the metallic coil and having a first pitch, wherein the first region of the electrically conductive metallic coil extends distally from the distal end of the flexible tubular member; a second region proximal to the first region and having a second pitch that is greater than the first pitch; and a third region proximal to the second region and having a third pitch that is different from the first pitch and the second pitch; and a first region located at a distal end of the metallic coil and having a first pitch, wherein the first region of the electrically conductive metallic coil extends distally from the distal end of the flexible tubular member; a second region proximal to the first region and having a second pitch that is greater than the first pitch; and a third region proximal to the second region and having a third pitch that is different from the first pitch and the second pitch; and a conductive tip located at the distal end of the flexible tubular member, the conductive tip defining a tip lumen in fluid communication with the lumen, wherein the conductive tip comprises a conductive polymer.
An overcharge protection device including a diagnostic function, comprising: a mechanical overcharge protection device, connected between a relay actuation coil of a main relay and a ground, for interrupting a connection between the relay actuation coil and the ground when a degree of swelling of a battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; characterized by a control unit for diagnosing whether the mechanical overcharge protection device is operating or has failed by detecting a voltage (VRAD) between two ends of the mechanical overcharge protection device. a mechanical overcharge protection device, connected between a relay actuation coil of a main relay and a ground, for interrupting a connection between the relay actuation coil and the ground when a degree of swelling of a battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; characterized by a control unit for diagnosing whether the mechanical overcharge protection device is operating or has failed by detecting a voltage (VRAD) between two ends of the mechanical overcharge protection device.
A method for processing a Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar, PoISAR, image in a monostatic case, comprising steps of: performing decomposition and color space conversion on an original PolSAR image to obtain a Saturation, S, channel image, a Hue, H, channel image and an Intensity, I, channel image; performing enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the S channel image to extract a first area from the S channel image; performing, based on the first area, enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the H channel image to extract a second area from the H channel image; performing, based on the second area, enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the I channel image, and performing morphological filtering on the I channel image having gone through the K-means clustering; and determining, according to an area attribute parameter, a third area from the I channel image having gone through the morphological filtering, wherein the step of performing decomposition and color space conversion on an original PolSAR image comprises: decomposing the original PolSAR image using Pauli matrices; and converting the decomposed original PolSAR image from a Red-Green-Blue, RGB, color space into a Hue-Saturation-Intensity, HSI, color space. performing decomposition and color space conversion on an original PolSAR image to obtain a Saturation, S, channel image, a Hue, H, channel image and an Intensity, I, channel image; performing enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the S channel image to extract a first area from the S channel image; performing, based on the first area, enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the H channel image to extract a second area from the H channel image; performing, based on the second area, enhanced Lee filtering and K-means clustering on the I channel image, and performing morphological filtering on the I channel image having gone through the K-means clustering; and determining, according to an area attribute parameter, a third area from the I channel image having gone through the morphological filtering, wherein the step of performing decomposition and color space conversion on an original PolSAR image comprises: decomposing the original PolSAR image using Pauli matrices; and converting the decomposed original PolSAR image from a Red-Green-Blue, RGB, color space into a Hue-Saturation-Intensity, HSI, color space. decomposing the original PolSAR image using Pauli matrices; and converting the decomposed original PolSAR image from a Red-Green-Blue, RGB, color space into a Hue-Saturation-Intensity, HSI, color space.
A rubber composition comprising a mixture of natural rubber, nanocarbon and carbon black reinforcing agents wherein the relative amount in parts per hundred rubber (pphr) of nanocarbon to carbon black is in the range of 1: 40 to 1: 2 and the relative amount in parts per hundred (pphr) of nanocarbon to natural rubber is in the range of 1: 100 to 10: 100 wherein the nanocarbon component is pre-dispersed within the natural rubber component and wherein the nanocarbon is a nanosized carbon structure.
A distributed routing system for use in a communication network, said routing system comprises: at least one processor (110, 110') configured as a routing engine and/or a management engine, at least one switch fabric controller (140, 140') configured for controlling out-of-band traffic arriving thereat, and a plurality of white boxes, each being a stand-alone hardware comprising at least one line card or at least one fabric switching unit for providing switching or routing capabilities within a forwarding plane of said distributed routing system, wherein said at least one switch fabric controller is configured to connect said plurality of white boxes to said at least one processor, thereby enabling said at least one processor to manage routing of traffic to/from said plurality of white boxes; wherein said distributed routing system comprises the routing/management engine configured to be used as a focal point for inband control and management of traffic, and operative to configure line cards associated with said white boxes and routing tables of fabric switching units of said white boxes; and wherein said routing system is a virtual chassis that combines the plurality of white boxes, thereby obtaining a functionality of a router by utilizing a plurality of standalone white boxes. at least one switch fabric controller (140, 140') configured for controlling out-of-band traffic arriving thereat, and a plurality of white boxes, each being a stand-alone hardware comprising at least one line card or at least one fabric switching unit for providing switching or routing capabilities within a forwarding plane of said distributed routing system, wherein said at least one switch fabric controller is configured to connect said plurality of white boxes to said at least one processor, thereby enabling said at least one processor to manage routing of traffic to/from said plurality of white boxes; wherein said distributed routing system comprises the routing/management engine configured to be used as a focal point for inband control and management of traffic, and operative to configure line cards associated with said white boxes and routing tables of fabric switching units of said white boxes; and wherein said routing system is a virtual chassis that combines the plurality of white boxes, thereby obtaining a functionality of a router by utilizing a plurality of standalone white boxes.
A tissue retractor for treatment of a breathing disorder, the tissue retractor comprising: a) a shaft (s) sized for insertion into a soft tissue located in a patient's oral cavity or pharynx; b) a retractor member (r) connected at or near a first end of the shaft (s); and c) an anchor member (a) connected at or near a second end of the shaft (s), wherein the retractor member (r) and the anchor member (a) are each configured to be positioned on an external surface of the soft tissue, and at least one of the shaft (s), the retractor member (r) and the anchor member (a) interact to exert a pressure within the soft tissue in which the shaft (s) is inserted characterized in that the shaft (s) is flexible and the pressure prevents deformation of the external surface of the soft tissue in which the flexible shaft (s) is inserted. a) a shaft (s) sized for insertion into a soft tissue located in a patient's oral cavity or pharynx; b) a retractor member (r) connected at or near a first end of the shaft (s); and c) an anchor member (a) connected at or near a second end of the shaft (s),
A discharge protection device (10, 10a) comprising: an insulating substrate (12, 12a); a cavity (13, 13a) formed in the insulating substrate (12, 12a); at least a pair of discharge electrodes (16, 18) each including a portion (16k, 18k) exposed in the cavity (13, 13a), the exposed portions (16k, 18k) facing each other; and external electrodes (22, 24) formed on a surface of the insulating substrate (12, 12a) and connected to the discharge electrodes (16, 18), wherein a particulate supporting electrode material is dispersed between the exposed portions (16k, 18k) of the discharge electrodes (16, 18) in the cavity (13, 13a), wherein the insulating substrate (12, 12a) is a ceramic substrate containing a glass component, and wherein the particulate supporting electrode material has a conductive material, characterized in that a sealing member (14, 14p, 14q, 14s) configured to prevent the glass component in the ceramic substrate from entering the cavity (13, 13a) is disposed between the ceramic substrate (12, 12a) and the cavity (13, 13a) and in that the discharge protection device has been formed by firing a laminated body. an insulating substrate (12, 12a); a cavity (13, 13a) formed in the insulating substrate (12, 12a); at least a pair of discharge electrodes (16, 18) each including a portion (16k, 18k) exposed in the cavity (13, 13a), the exposed portions (16k, 18k) facing each other; and external electrodes (22, 24) formed on a surface of the insulating substrate (12, 12a) and connected to the discharge electrodes (16, 18), wherein a particulate supporting electrode material is dispersed between the exposed portions (16k, 18k) of the discharge electrodes (16, 18) in the cavity (13, 13a), wherein the insulating substrate (12, 12a) is a ceramic substrate containing a glass component, and wherein the particulate supporting electrode material has a conductive material, characterized in that a sealing member (14, 14p, 14q, 14s) configured to prevent the glass component in the ceramic substrate from entering the cavity (13, 13a) is disposed between the ceramic substrate (12, 12a) and the cavity (13, 13a) and in that the discharge protection device has been formed by firing a laminated body.
Device having a surface movable in two directions in space, wherein belt units movable in the first direction in space are drivable by at least one driving means, which belt units are each provided with a carrier frame, wherein each carrier frame of a belt unit is pivotably connected at fixed distance to the carrier frame of the adjacent belt unit via one or more rotary joints forming an axis, wherein the belt units are provided with rollers and endless belts for the movement in the second spatial direction, which are coupled to a drive, characterized in that the rotational movement of a roller is coupled to the roller of the adjoining belt unit by means of crown gearing with a tooth profile, with which variable rotational movements of the driving roller can be continuously transmitted to the driven roller when the angle between the rotational axes of the rollers changes with an axis lying in the region of the engagement profile and outside the point of intersection of the rotational axes of the rollers.
Improved heat exchanger for exchanging heat between at least two fluids which are being guided through the heat exchanger, whereby the heat exchanger is of the type which is provided with parallel plates which are connected to one another by means of connecting walls (7,8) defining chambers which are provided with an inlet and an outlet, each in an above-mentioned connecting wall (7,8), for guiding an aforesaid fluid through the chambers (19,20), and whereby in these chambers (19,20) is provided at least one guiding profile to guide the flow through the chambers (19,20) according to a selected course which changes direction at least locally between the inlet and the outlet, characterised in that the guiding profile is an extruded tubular profile comprising two parallel walls by means of which the tubular profiles make contact with the above-mentioned plates and which are connected to one another by means of two sidewalls and one or several dividing walls which internally divide the extruded tubular profile in two or several compartments extending in the extruding direction of the tubular profile, and in that one or several passages for guiding a fluid are provided in the dividing walls and/or in the sidewalls.
A method for producing a plurality of coherent symbols from a plurality of digital radio frequency transmitters, comprising the steps of: - receiving a first vestigial sideband frame initialization packet (VFIP) for signaling a start of a new VSB data frame, the VSB frame initialization packet (VFIP) containing a plurality of stuff bytes for a deterministic trellis reset; wherein stuff-bytes are pre-calculated and inserted at predetermined byte positions of the first VSB frame initialization packet (VFIP) for deterministically initializing a plurality of Trellis coders, wherein the bytes of the VFIP packet are then delivered to the respective Trellis coder by a respective byte data interleaver, and wherein the predetermined byte positions include 52-55, 104-107, and 156-159. - receiving a first vestigial sideband frame initialization packet (VFIP) for signaling a start of a new VSB data frame, the VSB frame initialization packet (VFIP) containing a plurality of stuff bytes for a deterministic trellis reset; wherein stuff-bytes are pre-calculated and inserted at predetermined byte positions of the first VSB frame initialization packet (VFIP) for deterministically initializing a plurality of Trellis coders, wherein the bytes of the VFIP packet are then delivered to the respective Trellis coder by a respective byte data interleaver, and wherein the predetermined byte positions include 52-55, 104-107, and 156-159.
A method for determining the presence or absence of one or more chromosome alterations in sample nucleic acid, which method comprises: (a) characterizing mappability of a plurality of sequence read subsequences for sequence reads, wherein: there are multiple sequence read subsequences for each sequence read, the sequence read subsequences for each sequence read are of different lengths, and the sequence reads are of the sample nucleic acid; (b) identifying a subset of sequence reads for which there is a change in mappability of one or more sequence read subsequences of each sequence read; (c) comparing (i) the number of each of the sequence reads in the subset identified in (b) from the sample, to (ii) the number of each of the sequence reads in the subset identified in (b) from a reference, thereby generating a comparison; and (d) determining the presence or absence of one or more chromosome alterations for the sample according to the comparison in (c); wherein the one or more chromosome alterations comprise one or more of a chromosome translocation, a balanced chromosome translocation, a chromosome deletion, a chromosome inversion, and a heterologous insertion. (a) characterizing mappability of a plurality of sequence read subsequences for sequence reads, wherein: there are multiple sequence read subsequences for each sequence read, the sequence read subsequences for each sequence read are of different lengths, and the sequence reads are of the sample nucleic acid; there are multiple sequence read subsequences for each sequence read, the sequence read subsequences for each sequence read are of different lengths, and the sequence reads are of the sample nucleic acid; (b) identifying a subset of sequence reads for which there is a change in mappability of one or more sequence read subsequences of each sequence read; (c) comparing (i) the number of each of the sequence reads in the subset identified in (b) from the sample, to (ii) the number of each of the sequence reads in the subset identified in (b) from a reference, thereby generating a comparison; and (d) determining the presence or absence of one or more chromosome alterations for the sample according to the comparison in (c);