mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A control system for controlling air volume to maintain a desired concentration of airborne contamination in a cleanroom supplied by a HVAC system being operative to supply treated air to the cleanroom which comprises one or more zones or rooms (102, 104, 106, 108), each of the zones or rooms (102, 104, 106, 108) having a respective desired concentration of airborne contamination, and the HVAC system comprises at least one HVAC air handling unit supplying treated air through a ducting system, and one or more constant air volume devices and/or one or more variable air volume devices positioned in a ducting generally associated with each respective zone or room (102, 104, 106, 108) of the cleanroom, the system comprising: sensing means for sensing a concentration of non-viable particles and/or viable particles in real time or near real time; and processing means for comparing the sensed concentration of non-viable particles and/or viable particles against the desired concentration of airborne contamination and outputting at least one control signal to the HVAC system based on the comparison, and characterised in that the processing means comprises a model predictive controller which comprises a model component configured to receive a HVAC system operating condition from extrinsic data analysis and configured to model HVAC system behaviour; and means for receiving the modelled HVAC system behaviour and outputting the at least one control signal to the HVAC system based on the modelled HVAC system behaviour, a cost minimizing function and constraints. sensing means for sensing a concentration of non-viable particles and/or viable particles in real time or near real time; and processing means for comparing the sensed concentration of non-viable particles and/or viable particles against the desired concentration of airborne contamination and outputting at least one control signal to the HVAC system based on the comparison, and characterised in that the processing means comprises a model predictive controller which comprises a model component configured to receive a HVAC system operating condition from extrinsic data analysis and configured to model HVAC system behaviour; and means for receiving the modelled HVAC system behaviour and outputting the at least one control signal to the HVAC system based on the modelled HVAC system behaviour, a cost minimizing function and constraints.
A data transfer method for connecting in series a master unit (2, 2A) and a plurality of slave units (3, 3A) with a serial bus by a daisy chain system wherein the master unit (2, 2A) is situated on an upstream side and the plurality of slave units (3, 3A) are situated on a downstream side, and transferring data having an appended error check code or error correction code between a data transmitter and a data receiver via said serial bus, characterized in that said method comprises: transferring said data in said serial bus in each of said slave units (3, 3A), which is situated between said data transmitter and said data receiver, from said data transmitter to said data receiver without performing an error check or error correction of said data; performing said error check of said data in a circuit provided in each of said slave units (3, 3A) aside from a circuit flowing said data; and informing a result of said error check to said master unit (2, 2A) individually by each of said slave units (3, 3A) which has performed error check of said data informs. transferring said data in said serial bus in each of said slave units (3, 3A), which is situated between said data transmitter and said data receiver, from said data transmitter to said data receiver without performing an error check or error correction of said data; performing said error check of said data in a circuit provided in each of said slave units (3, 3A) aside from a circuit flowing said data; and informing a result of said error check to said master unit (2, 2A) individually by each of said slave units (3, 3A) which has performed error check of said data informs.
An apparatus for thawing and delivery of biological material, comprising: a housing defining an interior space of a size and shape to receive a container of biological material to be thawed; a thermoelectric heating element; a squeezing apparatus mounted in said interior space and operable to exert a squeezing force on a biological material container received at the heating surface of said thermoelectric heating element, the squeezing apparatus exerting the squeezing force on the container without contact with biological material contained within the container; and a control for applying power to said thermoelectric heating element so as to warm biological material within the biological material container and to operate said squeezing apparatus so as to deliver the warmed biological material from the biological material container; characterized in that said thermoelectric heating element being mounted in said interior space and having a heating surface configured to receive the biological material container. a housing defining an interior space of a size and shape to receive a container of biological material to be thawed; a thermoelectric heating element; a squeezing apparatus mounted in said interior space and operable to exert a squeezing force on a biological material container received at the heating surface of said thermoelectric heating element, the squeezing apparatus exerting the squeezing force on the container without contact with biological material contained within the container; and a control for applying power to said thermoelectric heating element so as to warm biological material within the biological material container and to operate said squeezing apparatus so as to deliver the warmed biological material from the biological material container; characterized in that said thermoelectric heating element being mounted in said interior space and having a heating surface configured to receive the biological material container.
A method for establishing a route between an initial node and a terminal node in an ad-hoc network comprising a plurality of mobile nodes, said method comprising: - a step of detection, by at least one first relay node of the network (N_4), of an information item concerning the belonging of said first relay node (N_4) to at least one path linking a first initial node (N_1) and a first terminal node (N_10) seeking to establish a communication link between them, and concerning the distance from said first relay node (N_4) to the first initial node (N-1) and/or to the first terminal node (N_10), - a step of communication of the detected information item to at least one second initial node (N_2) not belonging to said at least one path linking the first initial node (N-1) and the first terminal node (N-10), - a step of selection of a route between the second initial node (N-2) and a second terminal node (N_6), said selection step being executed by an initial node as a function of the information detected and communicated to said initial node. - a step of detection, by at least one first relay node of the network (N_4), of an information item concerning the belonging of said first relay node (N_4) to at least one path linking a first initial node (N_1) and a first terminal node (N_10) seeking to establish a communication link between them, and concerning the distance from said first relay node (N_4) to the first initial node (N-1) and/or to the first terminal node (N_10), - a step of communication of the detected information item to at least one second initial node (N_2) not belonging to said at least one path linking the first initial node (N-1) and the first terminal node (N-10), - a step of selection of a route between the second initial node (N-2) and a second terminal node (N_6), said selection step being executed by an initial node as a function of the information detected and communicated to said initial node.
A power unit for producing both alternating current and direct current, comprising: a switcher connected to a direct current source, wherein the switcher includes circuitry configured to produce both alternating current having first characteristics and direct current having second characteristics, wherein the circuitry comprises a plurality of insulated gate bipolar transistor circuits (204, 208, 212) and drive circuits (202, 206, 210) connected to the insulated gate bipolar transistor circuits (204, 208, 212), charactierized in that insulated gate bipolar modules (204, 208, 212) configured to operate as a pulse wave modulated inverter to produce alternating current are also the same insulated gate bipolar modules (204, 208, 212) configured to produce the direct current.
A method for manufacturing a crosslinked polyolefin separator, comprising the steps of: introducing polyolefin, a diluting agent, an initiator and alkoxysilane containing a carbon-carbon double bonded group to an extruder, followed by mixing, and then carrying out extrusion to obtain a silane-grafted polyolefin composition; molding the extruded silane-grafted polyolefin composition in the form of a sheet and stretching the sheet; introducing the stretched sheet to an extraction water bath containing a crosslinking catalyst to extract the diluting agent and to perform aqueous crosslinking; and thermally fixing the resultant aqueous crosslinked product. introducing polyolefin, a diluting agent, an initiator and alkoxysilane containing a carbon-carbon double bonded group to an extruder, followed by mixing, and then carrying out extrusion to obtain a silane-grafted polyolefin composition; molding the extruded silane-grafted polyolefin composition in the form of a sheet and stretching the sheet; introducing the stretched sheet to an extraction water bath containing a crosslinking catalyst to extract the diluting agent and to perform aqueous crosslinking; and thermally fixing the resultant aqueous crosslinked product.
Swimming goggles with distance adjustment, comprising a left and a right eyepiece which is mounted in a frame and adjusting means for adjusting the distance between the left and the right eyepiece consisting of a rotatable rotating body which is arranged to be adjustable in the central region between two connecting pieces and is connected to the connecting pieces respectively on the end face-side by two threaded screw connections (18, 19; 20, 21) acting in opposite direction, wherein the connecting pieces have protection against torsion (8, 8a, 34) which prevents mutual torsion of the connecting pieces in the frame.
An ice production plant comprising at least one condensing unit for the supply of refrigerant fluid to at least two ice makers, each having evaporation means for said fluid, a bypass to subject said evaporation means to a hot gas defrosting cycle, comprising shutoff means (9, 16) for said refrigerant fluid coming from said condensing unit and regulating means for the pressure of said refrigerant fluid, and by comprising a receiving device for said refrigerant fluid, positioned downstream of said condensing unit and upstream of said shutoff means and regulation means, characterized in that said receiving device comprises a supplementary tube conveying to said receiving device said refrigerant fluid in the gaseous and liquid state outgoing from said evaporators of said ice makers during said hot gas defrosting cycle.
A selective downhole actuator (110, 210, 310, 410, 510) comprising at least a first actuator position, a second actuator position and a third actuator position; wherein the selective downhole actuator (110, 210, 310, 410, 510) is fluid-actuated and is reconfigurable between the first actuator position and the second actuator position; and the selective downhole actuator is selectively reconfigurable to the third actuator position by varying an operating parameter during a transition of the selective downhole actuator between the first and second actuator positions; wherein at least a portion of a stroke of the actuator in at least one axial direction is damped, the damping comprising viscous damping provided by a choke; wherein the selective downhole actuator (110, 210, 310, 410, 510) further comprises a passageway comprising a throughbore; wherein the choke is located in a chamber sealed from the throughbore.
Hydrodynamic coupling having a pump impeller as first blade wheel and having a turbine wheel as second blade wheel, wherein the pump impeller has pump-impeller blades connected to a main body of the pump impeller and wherein the turbine wheel has turbine-wheel blades connected to a main body of the turbine wheel, wherein the pump impeller and the turbine wheel are each mounted so as to be rotatable about a central axis and wherein the blades of the pump impeller have boundary edges which are arranged in a manner facing the boundary edges of the blades of the turbine wheel, such that at least one of the blades of one blade wheel has a boundary edge, wherein the boundary edge is subdivided into a first portion with a first edge contour and a second portion with a second edge contour, and wherein the first and the second edge contour are different and characterized in that the second portion with the second edge contour has a sharp-edged edge contour.
An endoluminal braided stent comprising a meshed tubular body woven by weaving filaments and having a proximal end opening and a distal end opening, wherein the meshed tubular body comprises a first portion and a second portion along an axial direction and a plurality of first hooked and wound knots, wherein at least two weaving filaments from one end of the second portion are hooked and wound to each other in axial direction of the meshed tubular body to form one of the first hooked and wound knots and are then separated, and all the weaving filaments constituting the first hooked and wound knots are woven to form the first portion, and the mesh density of the first portion is smaller than that of the second portion, and wherein the first portion comprises a conical open end portion and the radius length of the conical open end portion is gradually increased from the one side closer to the second portion to another side further away from the second portion. wherein at least two weaving filaments from one end of the second portion are hooked and wound to each other in axial direction of the meshed tubular body to form one of the first hooked and wound knots and are then separated, and all the weaving filaments constituting the first hooked and wound knots are woven to form the first portion, and the mesh density of the first portion is smaller than that of the second portion, and wherein the first portion comprises a conical open end portion and the radius length of the conical open end portion is gradually increased from the one side closer to the second portion to another side further away from the second portion.
A sensing circuit (100, 200; 500) comprising: a first amplifier stage comprising a first p-channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS, transistor for generating a first single-ended output voltage (120, 249) based on a first current passing through a resistive memory element (112, 209, 229) and the first PMOS, transistor; a second amplifier stage (130, 250; 530) including a current path between a supply voltage and a ground voltage, the current path comprising a second PMOS transistor and a gain transistor, responsive to the first single-ended output voltage (120, 249), for amplifying the first single-ended output voltage (120, 249, 409) to produce a second single-ended output voltage (140, 259) representing a data output of the resistive memory element (112, 209, 229); and a reference current sensing circuit comprising a reference resistance pair for generating a reference voltage based on an average current of the reference resistance pair, wherein a first resistive element in the reference resistance pair is configured to represent a low logical data value and a second resistive element in the reference resistance pair is configured to represent a high logical data value; wherein the first PMOS transistor and the second PMOS transistor are both responsive to the reference voltage. a first amplifier stage comprising a first p-channel metal oxide semiconductor, PMOS, transistor for generating a first single-ended output voltage (120, 249) based on a first current passing through a resistive memory element (112, 209, 229) and the first PMOS, transistor; a second amplifier stage (130, 250; 530) including a current path between a supply voltage and a ground voltage, the current path comprising a second PMOS transistor and a gain transistor, responsive to the first single-ended output voltage (120, 249), for amplifying the first single-ended output voltage (120, 249, 409) to produce a second single-ended output voltage (140, 259) representing a data output of the resistive memory element (112, 209, 229); and a reference current sensing circuit comprising a reference resistance pair for generating a reference voltage based on an average current of the reference resistance pair, wherein a first resistive element in the reference resistance pair is configured to represent a low logical data value and a second resistive element in the reference resistance pair is configured to represent a high logical data value; wherein the first PMOS transistor and the second PMOS transistor are both responsive to the reference voltage.
A pressure signal detection circuit in which a pyroelectric signal obtained from a piezoelectric material is suppressed, comprising: a signal input unit configured to receive an input signal from the piezoelectric material; a differentiator configured to differentiate the input signal to generate a differential value of the input signal; a signal processing unit configured to output a signal component analysis value of the input signal based on the differential value of the input signal; and an offset removal unit configured to remove a pyroelectric signal from the input signal using the signal component analysis value; characterized by an integrating unit configured to integrate the input signal to output a piezo signal from which the pyroelectric signal is removed; wherein the signal processing unit is configured to compare the differential value of the input signal with a preset threshold value to determine whether the input signal is a piezo input signal or a pyro input signal, and when the differential value of the input signal is equal to or larger than the preset threshold value, the input signal is determined to be a piezo input signal, and the integrating unit integrates the input signal to restore the piezo signal; and when the differential value of the input signal is smaller than the preset threshold value, the input signal is determined to be a pyro signal, and the offset removal unit removes a pyroelectric signal from the input signal. a signal input unit configured to receive an input signal from the piezoelectric material; a differentiator configured to differentiate the input signal to generate a differential value of the input signal; a signal processing unit configured to output a signal component analysis value of the input signal based on the differential value of the input signal; and an offset removal unit configured to remove a pyroelectric signal from the input signal using the signal component analysis value; characterized by an integrating unit configured to integrate the input signal to output a piezo signal from which the pyroelectric signal is removed; wherein the signal processing unit is configured to compare the differential value of the input signal with a preset threshold value to determine whether the input signal is a piezo input signal or a pyro input signal, and when the differential value of the input signal is equal to or larger than the preset threshold value, the input signal is determined to be a piezo input signal, and the integrating unit integrates the input signal to restore the piezo signal; and when the differential value of the input signal is smaller than the preset threshold value, the input signal is determined to be a pyro signal, and the offset removal unit removes a pyroelectric signal from the input signal.
Continuous, catalytic process for preparing a vinyl ester of the formula R-C O-CH=CH 2 by reaction of a carboxylic acid of the formula R-C OH with a transvinylating reagent of the formula R 1 -C O-CH=CH 2 where R and R 1 are each independently an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic radical, characterized in that the reaction is effected at a temperature of 90 to 160°C and at a pressure of 0.8 to 8 MPa without withdrawal of a reactant in the presence of a transition metal catalyst containing at least one transition metal from the group of ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, iridium, palladium and platinum, and then the resulting reaction mixture is separated into its constituents.
A method for obtaining a location using neighbor awareness networking, NAN, comprising or initiating the steps of: requesting the location of a target NAN device; determining a cluster of wireless NAN devices comprising the target NAN device as well as at least two anchor NAN devices having predetermined locations to serve as positioning nodes; performing range measurements using the travel times of radio signals between the target NAN device and each of the at least two anchor NAN devices; and receiving messages including range measurement information of the range measurements from NAN devices of the cluster at a location center, wherein the location center obtains the location of the target NAN device using the range measurement information. requesting the location of a target NAN device; determining a cluster of wireless NAN devices comprising the target NAN device as well as at least two anchor NAN devices having predetermined locations to serve as positioning nodes; performing range measurements using the travel times of radio signals between the target NAN device and each of the at least two anchor NAN devices; and receiving messages including range measurement information of the range measurements from NAN devices of the cluster at a location center, wherein the location center obtains the location of the target NAN device using the range measurement information.
Parametric coding method for a multichannel digital audio signal comprising a coding step (G.722 Cod) for coding a signal from a channel reduction matrixing of the multichannel signal, characterized in that it also comprises the following steps: - frequency transformation (Fen., FFT) of the multichannel signal to obtain the spectra of the multichannel signal, for each frame; - subdivision, for each frame, of the spectra of the multichannel signal, into a plurality of frequency sub-bands; - obtaining, for each frame of predetermined length and for each frequency sub-band, of spatial information parameters; - division (Div.) of the spatial information parameters into two blocks of parameters interleaving the parameters of the different frequency sub-bands; - selection of the first or of the second block of parameters to be coded out of the two blocks obtained in the division step, according to whether the current frame to be coded is of even index or of odd index; - coding of the spatial information parameters of the block of parameters selected for the current frame. - frequency transformation (Fen., FFT) of the multichannel signal to obtain the spectra of the multichannel signal, for each frame; - subdivision, for each frame, of the spectra of the multichannel signal, into a plurality of frequency sub-bands; - obtaining, for each frame of predetermined length and for each frequency sub-band, of spatial information parameters; - division (Div.) of the spatial information parameters into two blocks of parameters interleaving the parameters of the different frequency sub-bands; - selection of the first or of the second block of parameters to be coded out of the two blocks obtained in the division step, according to whether the current frame to be coded is of even index or of odd index; - coding of the spatial information parameters of the block of parameters selected for the current frame.