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An actuator (100, 100', 300, 500) for rotating an optical path folding element (OPFE) (150, 350, 550) configured to fold light from a first optical path to a second optical path, the actuator (100, 100', 300, 500) comprising: a) a first voice coil motor; and b) a first curved ball-guided mechanism (160, 560) operative to create a first rotation movement of the OPFE (150, 550) around a first rotation axis upon actuation by the first VCM, the first rotation axis being perpendicular to the first optical path and to the second optical path; wherein the first curved ball-guided mechanism includes at least one first pair of arc-shaped grooves (102a, 102b; 502a, 502b, 514a 514b) having a plurality of balls (112a, 114a, 116a, 112b, 114b, 116b; 512a, 514a, 516a; 512b, 514b, 516b) located therein, the first pair of arc-shaped grooves (102a, 102b; 502a, 502b) having a center of curvature on the first rotation axis and facilitating rotation of the OPFE (150, 550) about the first rotation axis. a) a first voice coil motor; and b) a first curved ball-guided mechanism (160, 560) operative to create a first rotation movement of the OPFE (150, 550) around a first rotation axis upon actuation by the first VCM, the first rotation axis being perpendicular to the first optical path and to the second optical path; wherein the first curved ball-guided mechanism includes at least one first pair of arc-shaped grooves (102a, 102b; 502a, 502b, 514a 514b) having a plurality of balls (112a, 114a, 116a, 112b, 114b, 116b; 512a, 514a, 516a; 512b, 514b, 516b) located therein, the first pair of arc-shaped grooves (102a, 102b; 502a, 502b) having a center of curvature on the first rotation axis and facilitating rotation of the OPFE (150, 550) about the first rotation axis.
A modified spin-echo sequence method for measuring temperature comprising: providing an electron spin system comprising a diamond NV center proximal to a heat source, said diamond NV center having a temperature-dependent zero-field splitting (Δ) of its ground electronic spin state; applying a detuned microwave pulse and an echo-pulse to the diamond NV center to decouple an NV electronic spin of the diamond NV center from external magnetic fields; recording a fluorescence signal from the diamond NV center, the fluorescence signal resulting from the modified spin-echo sequence; determining the temperature-dependent zero-field splitting (Δ) from the fluorescence signal; and determining a temperature from the temperature-dependent zero field splitting (Δ). providing an electron spin system comprising a diamond NV center proximal to a heat source, said diamond NV center having a temperature-dependent zero-field splitting (Δ) of its ground electronic spin state; applying a detuned microwave pulse and an echo-pulse to the diamond NV center to decouple an NV electronic spin of the diamond NV center from external magnetic fields; recording a fluorescence signal from the diamond NV center, the fluorescence signal resulting from the modified spin-echo sequence; determining the temperature-dependent zero-field splitting (Δ) from the fluorescence signal; and determining a temperature from the temperature-dependent zero field splitting (Δ).
A catalyst system that reduces polymeric fouling, the catalyst system comprising: at least one titanate compound; at least one aluminum compound; and an antifouling agent chosen from one or more of: an anhydride comprising a cyclic moiety, and an anhydride-capped polymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 150 g/mol to 200,000 g/mol. at least one titanate compound; at least one aluminum compound; and an antifouling agent chosen from one or more of: an anhydride comprising a cyclic moiety, and an anhydride-capped polymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of from 150 g/mol to 200,000 g/mol.
Mulching device for processing plant stumps on a field, which can be moved over a field in a forward direction and is equipped with a tool (54, 54') which can be set in rotation about an axis of rotation inclined upwards and rearwards during operation in order to process the plant stumps, the tool (54, 54') being connected to a shaft driving the same, which is mounted such that it can be rotated freely about an axis extending transversely with respect to the forward direction and horizontally or is height-adjustable, and the shaft can be aligned with respect to the ground by a guide means, characterized in that the guide means comprise a skid running on the ground, which is coupled to the shaft, and in that the shaft is preloaded forwards and downwards by a spring or an actuator.
Apparatus for co-aligning a plurality of input radiation beams each having a respective waveband, which includes: an optical collimating element and an optical deflecting element, characterised in further comprising a plurality of respective lateral deflectors (12, 20) to impart in use a selected respective lateral displacement to each input beam, wherein the optical collimating element is arranged for passing each of said radiation beams with respective imparted lateral displacements, and the optical deflecting element is arranged for receiving the radiation beams passed by said optical collimating element, and is adapted to apply a wavelength-dependent angular deflection to said beams, wherein said respective lateral displacements are selected having regard to the waveband of each beam to cause the radiation beams passed by said optical deflecting element to be co-aligned. an optical collimating element and an optical deflecting element, characterised in further comprising a plurality of respective lateral deflectors (12, 20) to impart in use a selected respective lateral displacement to each input beam, wherein the optical collimating element is arranged for passing each of said radiation beams with respective imparted lateral displacements, and the optical deflecting element is arranged for receiving the radiation beams passed by said optical collimating element, and is adapted to apply a wavelength-dependent angular deflection to said beams, wherein said respective lateral displacements are selected having regard to the waveband of each beam to cause the radiation beams passed by said optical deflecting element to be co-aligned.
A method for updating a current image to a desired image on an electronic paper display with a plurality of pixels, comprising: determining a desired final optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display from the desired image; determining a current optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display from the current image; determining an intermediate optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display; determining a control signal for driving the electronic paper display from the determined current optical state toward the determined intermediate optical state, then toward the determined final optical state; and applying the determined control signal to drive the electronic paper display from the determined current optical state toward the determined intermediate optical state, then toward the determined final optical state, characterised by determining the intermediate optical state from an intermediate pseudo-random noise image based on the content of the current image and the desired image, wherein the intermediate pseudo-random noise image is filtered by the edges of the current image such that the edges appear less visible because of the random noise while constant color areas are moved to a constant color intermediate image. determining a desired final optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display from the desired image; determining a current optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display from the current image; determining an intermediate optical state for each pixel of the electronic paper display; determining a control signal for driving the electronic paper display from the determined current optical state toward the determined intermediate optical state, then toward the determined final optical state; and applying the determined control signal to drive the electronic paper display from the determined current optical state toward the determined intermediate optical state, then toward the determined final optical state, characterised by determining the intermediate optical state from an intermediate pseudo-random noise image based on the content of the current image and the desired image, wherein the intermediate pseudo-random noise image is filtered by the edges of the current image such that the edges appear less visible because of the random noise while constant color areas are moved to a constant color intermediate image.
Wrapping apparatus comprising - an object supporting device, - a wrapping apparatus frame (2.1, 2.r, 40) carrying the object supporting device, - an object rotating device (10.f, 10.r), and - at least one reservoir holder for holding a reservoir of wrapping material, wherein the wrapping apparatus is arranged to be moved over ground in a travelling direction, wherein the object supporting device is arranged to carry an object to be wrapped, wherein the object rotating device (10.f, 10.r) is arranged to rotate the object carried on the object supporting device with respect to the wrapping apparatus frame (2.1, 2.r, 40) around an object rotating axis being perpendicular to the travelling direction, wherein the wrapping apparatus is arranged - to carry the rotated object on the object supporting device, - to wrap the rotated object on the object supporting device into at least one web of wrapping material taken from the or at least one reservoir held by the or one reservoir holder, - to remove the wrapped object from the object supporting device and - to deposit it onto the ground, characterized in that the object rotating device (10.f, 10.r) is arranged to rotate the object on the object supporting device with respect to the wrapping apparatus frame (2.1, 2.r, 40) with a velocity (v_B) selected out of different possible rotational velocities and the wrapping apparatus is arranged to automatically select a rotational velocity (v_B) and to achieve the selected rotational velocity (v_B) for the rotation of the object with respect to the wrapping apparatus frame (2.1, 2.r, 40) performed by the object rotating device (10.f, 10.r) - at least in the end of wrapping the object on the object supporting device and - before the object is removed from the object supporting device, wherein the wrapping apparatus is arranged to select the rotational velocity (v_B) depending on a measured value indicative of the current travelling velocity (v) over ground of the moved wrapping apparatus. - an object supporting device, - a wrapping apparatus frame (2.1, 2.r, 40) carrying the object supporting device, - an object rotating device (10.f, 10.r), and - at least one reservoir holder for holding a reservoir of wrapping material, - to carry the rotated object on the object supporting device, - to wrap the rotated object on the object supporting device into at least one web of wrapping material taken from the or at least one reservoir held by the or one reservoir holder, - to remove the wrapped object from the object supporting device and - to deposit it onto the ground, - at least in the end of wrapping the object on the object supporting device and - before the object is removed from the object supporting device,
A motorcycle tyre for traveling on rough terrain, the tyre comprising: a tread portion being provided with blocks; at least one of the blocks comprising a ground contact surface having a pair of lateral edges extending in a tyre axial direction, the at least one of the blocks provided with a pair of lateral narrow grooves extending in the tyre axial direction on the ground contact surface to form a pair of edge-side portions defined between the pair of lateral narrow grooves and the pair of lateral edges; and at least one of the pair of edge-side portions comprising a neck portion having a minimum circumferential length thereof, wherein a circumferential length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions increases toward axially both sides from the neck portion, characterized in that an average circumferential length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions represented by a ratio of a ground contact surface area of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions to an axial maximum length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.35 times a circumferential maximum length of the at least one of the blocks. a tread portion being provided with blocks; at least one of the blocks comprising a ground contact surface having a pair of lateral edges extending in a tyre axial direction, the at least one of the blocks provided with a pair of lateral narrow grooves extending in the tyre axial direction on the ground contact surface to form a pair of edge-side portions defined between the pair of lateral narrow grooves and the pair of lateral edges; and at least one of the pair of edge-side portions comprising a neck portion having a minimum circumferential length thereof, wherein a circumferential length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions increases toward axially both sides from the neck portion, characterized in that an average circumferential length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions represented by a ratio of a ground contact surface area of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions to an axial maximum length of the at least one of the pair of edge-side portions is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.35 times a circumferential maximum length of the at least one of the blocks.
A shift control system comprising: a start clutch that transmits and outputs a torque from an engine according to a fastening adjustment; a transmission that shifts gears through a shifting movement of a meshing clutch (205, 217) according to a vehicle speed to output the torque transmitted and output from the start clutch to drive wheels (225a 223b); a clutch actuator that performs the fastening adjustment of the start clutch; a shift actuator that causes the shifting movement of the meshing clutch; a torque detector that detects a transmitting torque toward the drive wheels; a clutch controller that controls the clutch actuator to perform the fastening adjustment so that a transmission torque of the start clutch is reduced during an interval just before and after shifting a gear while maintaining engine output transmitting torque detected by the torque detector at the time of shifting the gear and preventing an excessive shock torque due to the shifting; characterized in that the clutch controller holds a given engagement state of a clutch control according to the accelerator position and the number of rotation of the engine before shifting the gear, measures a differentiated value of the number of rotation of the engine, and weakens a clutch engagement if the differentiated value is smaller than a target value and strengthens the clutch engagement if the differentiated value is larger than the target value. a start clutch that transmits and outputs a torque from an engine according to a fastening adjustment; a transmission that shifts gears through a shifting movement of a meshing clutch (205, 217) according to a vehicle speed to output the torque transmitted and output from the start clutch to drive wheels (225a 223b); a clutch actuator that performs the fastening adjustment of the start clutch; a shift actuator that causes the shifting movement of the meshing clutch; a torque detector that detects a transmitting torque toward the drive wheels; a clutch controller that controls the clutch actuator to perform the fastening adjustment so that a transmission torque of the start clutch is reduced during an interval just before and after shifting a gear while maintaining engine output transmitting torque detected by the torque detector at the time of shifting the gear and preventing an excessive shock torque due to the shifting;
A method for characterising the environment of a first robot, the first robot having a base, an arm extending from the base and having a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, a first datum carried by the arm, a plurality of drivers arranged to drive the joints to move and a plurality of position sensors for sensing the position of each of the joints, the method comprising: mating the first datum carried by the arm of the first robot with a second datum on a second robot in the environment of the first robot, wherein the second robot has a base, an arm extending from the base and having a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, and a plurality of drivers arranged to drive those joints to move, and the datum carried by the arm of the first robot and the datum on the second robot are mutually configured so that the orientation of the first datum is fixed with respect to the second datum when the datums are mated; calculating in dependence on the outputs of the position sensors when the first and second datums are mated a position of the second robot relative to a reference location defined in a frame of reference local to the first robot and an orientation of the second robot relative to the first robot; and controlling the drivers to drive the joints of the first arm to reconfigure the arm of the first robot in dependence on at least the calculated position and orientation. mating the first datum carried by the arm of the first robot with a second datum on a second robot in the environment of the first robot, wherein the second robot has a base, an arm extending from the base and having a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, and a plurality of drivers arranged to drive those joints to move, and the datum carried by the arm of the first robot and the datum on the second robot are mutually configured so that the orientation of the first datum is fixed with respect to the second datum when the datums are mated; calculating in dependence on the outputs of the position sensors when the first and second datums are mated a position of the second robot relative to a reference location defined in a frame of reference local to the first robot and an orientation of the second robot relative to the first robot; and controlling the drivers to drive the joints of the first arm to reconfigure the arm of the first robot in dependence on at least the calculated position and orientation.
A process for continuously producing a trimanganese tetraoxide having a tap density of at least 1.5 g/cm 3 and a relative standard deviation of the particle size of at most 40%, the process comprising: a step of mixing a manganese aqueous solution and an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide as an alkaline aqueous solution so that the oxidation-reduction potential is at least 0 mV and that the manganese molar ratio OH - /Mn 2+ (mol/mol) is at most 0.55, wherein the mixing is a method of adding the manganese aqueous solution and the alkaline aqueous solution to a solvent respectively at constant rates to the solvent, followed by mixing, and wherein no complexing agent is used when the manganese aqueous solution and the alkaline aqueous solution are mixed.
A method for making a material comprising: providing a mixture of a polytriarylamine and a compound; forming a film of the mixture; and treating the film; wherein the compound comprises at least one functional group selected from arylamine and arylphosphine and at least two functional groups selected from vinyl, allyl, vinyl ether, epoxy, and acrylate, and wherein: the mixture is a mixture solution of the polytriarylamine and the compound; the treating comprises treating the film under heat and/or photo radiation; and the polytriarylamine or compound comprises structural unit according to one of the following formulas I, II and III: wherein R 1 is, independently at each occurrence, a C 1 -C 20 aliphatic radical, a C 3 -C 20 aromatic radical, or a C 3 -C 20 cycloaliphatic radical; and a is, independently at each occurrence, an integer ranging from 0-4. wherein Ar 1 is a direct bond, an aryl or heteroaryl; Ar 2, and Ar 3 are, independently at each occurrence, an aryl or heteroaryl; A is, independently at each occurrence, O or a direct bond; R 2 is a C 1 -C 20 aliphatic radical, a C 3 -C 20 aromatic radical, or a C 3 -C 20 cycloaliphatic radical; and b is an integer ranging from 0-4. providing a mixture of a polytriarylamine and a compound; forming a film of the mixture; and treating the film; the compound comprises at least one functional group selected from arylamine and arylphosphine and at least two functional groups selected from vinyl, allyl, vinyl ether, epoxy, and acrylate, and the mixture is a mixture solution of the polytriarylamine and the compound; the treating comprises treating the film under heat and/or photo radiation; and the polytriarylamine or compound comprises structural unit according to one of the following formulas I, II and III: wherein R 1 is, independently at each occurrence, a C 1 -C 20 aliphatic radical, a C 3 -C 20 aromatic radical, or a C 3 -C 20 cycloaliphatic radical; and a is, independently at each occurrence, an integer ranging from 0-4. wherein Ar 1 is a direct bond, an aryl or heteroaryl; Ar 2, and Ar 3 are, independently at each occurrence, an aryl or heteroaryl; A is, independently at each occurrence, O or a direct bond; R 2 is a C 1 -C 20 aliphatic radical, a C 3 -C 20 aromatic radical, or a C 3 -C 20 cycloaliphatic radical; and b is an integer ranging from 0-4. Ar 1 is a direct bond, an aryl or heteroaryl; Ar 2, and Ar 3 are, independently at each occurrence, an aryl or heteroaryl; A is, independently at each occurrence, O or a direct bond; R 2 is a C 1 -C 20 aliphatic radical, a C 3 -C 20 aromatic radical, or a C 3 -C 20 cycloaliphatic radical; and b is an integer ranging from 0-4.
Air guide for the front surface of a motor vehicle comprising a channel for sealably channelling the air entering through the front of the vehicle to a cooling system when the air guide is mounted onto the vehicle, characterised in that the channel comprises mechanical weakness areas defining programmed permanent shape-changing areas capable, along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, of shortening the air guide when said mechanical weakness areas change shape, and in that each wall forming the channel consists of at least two stepped planes, the surfaces forming intersection between two stepped planes forming said mechanical weakness area.
Differential for a motor vehicle transmission, wherein the differential has a first output shaft having a torque-transmitting interface for a first side shaft, and a second output shaft having a torque-transmitting interface for a second side shaft, wherein the torque-transmitting interface of the first output shaft is configured as an internal toothing, characterized in that the torque-transmitting interface of the second output shaft is configured as an external toothing.