mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Method for quantitatively estimating defects potentially present in an object comprising at least one outer surface, the method comprises the steps of: a) "illuminating" the outer surface of the object with an inductive wave field at a predetermined frequency; b) measuring, at the outer surface of the object, an induced wave field; characterised in that it further comprises the steps of: c) developing, from the properties of the object's material, a coupling matrix T associated with a depth Z of the object from the outer surface: - by performing a meshing of the object and by associating to each elementary meshes a test point situated at the barycentre of the mesh, and sources points assimilated to point shaped sources; and by solving equations representing the superposition of the contributions of each radiating source in the object, and verifying limit conditions on the test points from the meshing; d) solving the matrix system H → 0 → 0 → = T. J → in order to determine a vector J at depth Z, H representing the induced wave field, T the coupling matrix and J s a vector representative of the induce effect at the depth Z; e) extracting a sub-vector J s of the vector J, corresponding to a potential defect on the object at depth Z by detecting local variation of the vector J; and f) quantitatively estimating the potential defect from the sub-vector J s at depth Z. a) "illuminating" the outer surface of the object with an inductive wave field at a predetermined frequency; b) measuring, at the outer surface of the object, an induced wave field; characterised in that it further comprises the steps of: c) developing, from the properties of the object's material, a coupling matrix T associated with a depth Z of the object from the outer surface: - by performing a meshing of the object and by associating to each elementary meshes a test point situated at the barycentre of the mesh, and sources points assimilated to point shaped sources; and by solving equations representing the superposition of the contributions of each radiating source in the object, and verifying limit conditions on the test points from the meshing; - by performing a meshing of the object and by associating to each elementary meshes a test point situated at the barycentre of the mesh, and sources points assimilated to point shaped sources; and by solving equations representing the superposition of the contributions of each radiating source in the object, and verifying limit conditions on the test points from the meshing; d) solving the matrix system H → 0 → 0 → = T. J → in order to determine a vector J at depth Z, H representing the induced wave field, T the coupling matrix and J s a vector representative of the induce effect at the depth Z; e) extracting a sub-vector J s of the vector J, corresponding to a potential defect on the object at depth Z by detecting local variation of the vector J; and f) quantitatively estimating the potential defect from the sub-vector J s at depth Z.
A handheld device for selectively applying a dental care agent to an area of a mouth, the device comprising: at least one image generator; and one or more processors that are in communication with the at least one image generator and that are operable to perform the following operations: receiving, by the one or more processors, an image of the area of the mouth; identifying, within the image, a feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, an actual reflectance and an actual topology of the feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, a desired reflectance and a desired topology of the feature of interest; calculating, by the one or more processors, an amount of DCA to be applied to a portion of the feature of interest based on comparing the actual reflectance to the desired reflectance and the actual topology to the desired topology; and causing, by the one or more processors, the calculated amount of DCA to be applied to the portion of the feature of interest. at least one image generator; and one or more processors that are in communication with the at least one image generator and that are operable to perform the following operations: receiving, by the one or more processors, an image of the area of the mouth; identifying, within the image, a feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, an actual reflectance and an actual topology of the feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, a desired reflectance and a desired topology of the feature of interest; calculating, by the one or more processors, an amount of DCA to be applied to a portion of the feature of interest based on comparing the actual reflectance to the desired reflectance and the actual topology to the desired topology; and causing, by the one or more processors, the calculated amount of DCA to be applied to the portion of the feature of interest. receiving, by the one or more processors, an image of the area of the mouth; identifying, within the image, a feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, an actual reflectance and an actual topology of the feature of interest; determining, by the one or more processors, a desired reflectance and a desired topology of the feature of interest; calculating, by the one or more processors, an amount of DCA to be applied to a portion of the feature of interest based on comparing the actual reflectance to the desired reflectance and the actual topology to the desired topology; and causing, by the one or more processors, the calculated amount of DCA to be applied to the portion of the feature of interest.
A flat panel for forming a wall of a building, comprising a wall body formed of a cured rigid foam and a reinforcement arranged within the cured rigid foam and having at least one reinforcement means formed in whole or at least in part of a filament yarn textile, characterised by at least one continuous recess in the wall body extending in the thickness direction of the wall body and by at least one frame-like strengthening unit which is arranged in the wall body adjacent to the recess and which is formed in its entirety or at least in sections around the recess.
A door comprising a door leaf which can be lifted, along a predetermined path, from a closed position in which it closes a wall opening into an open position in which it is located substantially overhead, wherein the door leaf has two, three or more door leaf elements arranged one on top of the other in the closed position and hinged together along articulation axes running roughly perpendicular to the predetermined path, wherein an edge of the door leaf that is lowermost in the closed position and trails during lifting can, at least when the door reaches the open position, be lifted separately in a direction of lifting with respect to a door leaf element arranged thereabove in the closed position and with respect to the predetermined path, by swivelling a lower door leaf element which has said edge, and wherein the door has a limiting device (220, 230, 240, 249; 260, 270) limiting the swivelling movement of the lower door leaf in the direction of lifting, at least along a section of the predetermined path, wherein the door is guided along the predetermined path by means of a guide rail arrangement of the door, wherein the door leaf is guided along the predetermined path by means of an interaction between the guide rail arrangement and guide elements arranged on the door leaf, and the door leaf element which can be lifted separately is connected to at least one guide element by means of a swivelling lever of a lever arrangement facilitating alteration of the distance between the at least one guide element arranged on this door leaf element and the door leaf element, wherein, when the open position is reached, the guide element is swivelled in a direction opposite to the direction of lifting relative to the lower door leaf element by swivelling the swivelling lever along a lever axis, characterised in that, when the door leaf reaches the open position, the limiting device has a fixed guide surface which interacts with a limiting element mounted on the lower edge of the lower door leaf element, wherein the fixed guide surface can be mounted on the wall with the wall opening and extends obliquely upwards in the upper area of the wall opening, in particular in the area of an arched guide rail section of the guide rail arrangement.
A folded optics system for a camera with an image sensor, the folded optics system comprising: a lens group including one or more lens elements; a first prism to redirect light to the lens group; a second prism to receive the light from the lens group and redirect the light to the image sensor; an inner carrier structure to couple with the lens group; an outer carrier structure to couple with the inner carrier structure; a suspension structure for moveably holding the inner carrier structure relative to the outer carrier structure and an actuator module to: move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a first direction; move the inner carrier structure relative to the outer carrier structure in at least a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction; and move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a third direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction. a lens group including one or more lens elements; a first prism to redirect light to the lens group; a second prism to receive the light from the lens group and redirect the light to the image sensor; an inner carrier structure to couple with the lens group; an outer carrier structure to couple with the inner carrier structure; a suspension structure for moveably holding the inner carrier structure relative to the outer carrier structure and an actuator module to: move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a first direction; move the inner carrier structure relative to the outer carrier structure in at least a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction; and move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a third direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction. move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a first direction; move the inner carrier structure relative to the outer carrier structure in at least a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction; and move the inner carrier structure and the outer carrier structure together, relative to the image sensor, in at least a third direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
A process for producing and storing hydrogen, comprising the following process steps a. provision of an intermediate gas mixture having an increased proportion of hydrogen, b. contacting of the intermediate gas mixture with a hydrogen carrier medium in order to hydrogenate the hydrogen carrier medium so that hydrogen contained in the intermediate gas mixture is directly bound to the hydrogen carrier medium and selective depletion of hydrogen in the intermediate gas mixture is effected, c. storing the hydrogenated hydrogen carrier medium in a first storage unit, wherein the intermediate gas mixture has as gas components - carbon dioxide and/or methane, or - nitrogen and/or methane, or - nitrogen or argon, wherein these gas components do not react with the hydrogen carrier medium and are not bound to the hydrogen carrier medium, wherein the hydrogen carrier medium is a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC). a. provision of an intermediate gas mixture having an increased proportion of hydrogen, b. contacting of the intermediate gas mixture with a hydrogen carrier medium in order to hydrogenate the hydrogen carrier medium so that hydrogen contained in the intermediate gas mixture is directly bound to the hydrogen carrier medium and selective depletion of hydrogen in the intermediate gas mixture is effected, c. storing the hydrogenated hydrogen carrier medium in a first storage unit, - carbon dioxide and/or methane, or - nitrogen and/or methane, or - nitrogen or argon,
A robotic vacuum cleaner comprising a housing, a drive arrangement being configured to drive the vacuum cleaner along a surface to be cleaned, a vacuum producing unit, a debris receptacle, and a nozzle inlet arranged in a portion of the housing facing the surface to be cleaned, wherein the nozzle inlet comprises a frame structure forming an opening, the opening being arranged in fluid communication with the debris receptacle and the vacuum producing unit being arranged in fluid communication with the opening, wherein the frame structure has a leading edge portion and opposite thereto a trailing edge portion, the leading edge portion and the trailing edge portion border to the opening, the frame structure comprises a base portion extending substantially in parallel with the surface to be cleaned, the base portion extending at a first level, characterised in that the leading edge portion comprises at least two distance members forming there between a channel to the opening, the channel having a delimiting surface extending at a second level substantially in parallel with the first level, wherein the first level is arranged closer to the surface to be cleaned than the second level, wherein each distance member has a substantially triangular cross section extending substantially in parallel with the first plane, the distance member extending between the first level and the second level with a top of the substantially triangular cross section facing outwardly from the opening and a base of the substantially triangular cross section extending in parallel with the opening, and wherein side surfaces of the distance member extend substantially from the top to the base of the substantially triangular cross section, at least a portion of the side surfaces extending substantially perpendicularly to the base portion.
Filter device for the filtration of gases contaminated with particles, such as welding gases, which arise in particular in manufacturing processes using 3D printers in a production area, having a filter circuit having at least one gas filter (55, 56), which filters the particles from the gas, at least some of said particles passing from this gas filter (55, 56) into an assignable receptacle, wherein the particles pass into the receptacle as part of a backwashing process, wherein at least one further filter circuit, having at least one oil filter (NF1, NF2), is provided, said oil filter filtering an oil that comprises the particles obtained from the backwashing process, and wherein the oil contaminated with the particles from the gas filter (55, 56) can be passed to the unfiltered medium side of the oil filter (NF1, NF2), characterised in that cleaned oil from the filtrate side of the oil filter (NF1, NF2) can be passed into the gas filter (55, 56).
An olefin polymerization process, the process comprising: contacting a catalyst composition with an olefin monomer and an optional olefin comonomer in a polymerization reactor system under polymerization conditions to produce an olefin polymer, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a metallocene compound, an activator, and an optional co-catalyst, wherein the metallocene compound has the formula: wherein: M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; each X independently is a monoanionic ligand; Cp A is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkenyl substituent; Cp B is a fluorenyl group; and each R independently is H, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group. contacting a catalyst composition with an olefin monomer and an optional olefin comonomer in a polymerization reactor system under polymerization conditions to produce an olefin polymer, wherein the catalyst composition comprises a metallocene compound, an activator, and an optional co-catalyst, wherein the metallocene compound has the formula: wherein: M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; each X independently is a monoanionic ligand; Cp A is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkenyl substituent; Cp B is a fluorenyl group; and each R independently is H, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group. M is Ti, Zr, or Hf; each X independently is a monoanionic ligand; Cp A is a cyclopentadienyl group with an alkenyl substituent; Cp B is a fluorenyl group; and each R independently is H, a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbyl group, or a C 1 to C 36 hydrocarbylsilyl group.
A revamp process for modifying a sulfur abatement plant comprising a Claus process plant producing elemental sulfur, said Claus process plant comprising a Claus reaction furnace and 1 or more Claus conversion stages, each Claus conversion stage comprising a conversion reactor and a means for elemental sulfur condensation, and a means of Claus tail gas oxidation configured for receiving a Claus tail gas from said Claus process plant and configured for providing an oxidized Claus tail gas, said process revamp comprising the steps of a. providing a sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant producing sulfuric acid, and b. providing a means for temporary storing sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant, having a volume corresponding to the amount of sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant in from 4 hours to 120 hours, c. providing a means for transferring an amount or all of the sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant to means for storing sulfuric acid d. and providing a means for transferring sulfuric acid from said means for storing sulfuric acid to said Claus reaction furnace. characterized in the moles of sulfur in the transferred sulfuric acid relative to the moles of elemental sulfur withdrawn from said Claus process plant is from 3% or 5% to 15% or 20%. a. providing a sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant producing sulfuric acid, and b. providing a means for temporary storing sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant, having a volume corresponding to the amount of sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant in from 4 hours to 120 hours, c. providing a means for transferring an amount or all of the sulfuric acid produced in said sulfuric acid producing tail gas treatment plant to means for storing sulfuric acid d. and providing a means for transferring sulfuric acid from said means for storing sulfuric acid to said Claus reaction furnace.
A vacuum pump comprising a pump body whose inner side bounds a pump space and at whose outer side a valve for controlling the supply of a ballast gas into the pump space is arranged, with the valve having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, characterized in that a first and a second channel are formed in the pump body, with the inlet of each channel facing the valve and the outlet of each channel opening into the pump space; in that the valve is adjustable between a first open position and a second open position, with the outlet opening being aligned with the inlet of the first channel in the first open position and being aligned with the inlet of the second channel in the second open position; and in that the first and second channels have different lengths and/or the outlets of the first and second channels have different cross-sectional surfaces. a first and a second channel are formed in the pump body, with the inlet of each channel facing the valve and the outlet of each channel opening into the pump space; in that the valve is adjustable between a first open position and a second open position, with the outlet opening being aligned with the inlet of the first channel in the first open position and being aligned with the inlet of the second channel in the second open position; and in that the first and second channels have different lengths and/or the outlets of the first and second channels have different cross-sectional surfaces.
A downhole tool to be submerged into a well fluid from a top of a well, comprising: - a first tool section, - a tool housing having an inner face, and - a downhole communication module for communicating through a well fluid in a downhole well to operate the downhole tool, comprising: - a piezoelectric transceiver having a first face and a second face and being arranged in the tool housing, characterised in that the downhole communication module further comprises - an element, wherein the element is arranged between the piezoelectric transceiver and the tool housing, and the element is arranged in abutment with the first face of the piezoelectric transceiver and the inner face of the housing, so that the tool housing acts as a transducer when the piezoelectric transceiver is activated and enlarges in a radial direction of the tool housing, forcing the tool housing outwards and sending a signal through the well fluid. - a first tool section, - a tool housing having an inner face, and - a downhole communication module for communicating through a well fluid in a downhole well to operate the downhole tool, comprising: - a piezoelectric transceiver having a first face and a second face and being arranged in the tool housing, characterised in that the downhole communication module further comprises - an element, - a piezoelectric transceiver having a first face and a second face and being arranged in the tool housing, characterised in that the downhole communication module further comprises - an element, wherein the element is arranged between the piezoelectric transceiver and the tool housing, and the element is arranged in abutment with the first face of the piezoelectric transceiver and the inner face of the housing, so that the tool housing acts as a transducer when the piezoelectric transceiver is activated and enlarges in a radial direction of the tool housing, forcing the tool housing outwards and sending a signal through the well fluid.
At a first node of a cluster, the first node owning a persistent reservation on a storage device shared by nodes of the cluster, a method for the first node to defend against another node's attempt to preempt the first node's persistent reservation, the method comprising: after a network partition that prevents the first node from communicating with another node in the cluster, and prior to the first node being notified of the network partition, the first node detecting that another node in the cluster has attempted to reserve the storage device shared by nodes of the cluster, the detection comprising identifying that the other node has changed the other node's registration key in a registration data structure; and the first node changing the first node's registration key, registering the changed registration key in the registration data structure, and reserving the changed registration key in a reservation data structure. after a network partition that prevents the first node from communicating with another node in the cluster, and prior to the first node being notified of the network partition, the first node detecting that another node in the cluster has attempted to reserve the storage device shared by nodes of the cluster, the detection comprising identifying that the other node has changed the other node's registration key in a registration data structure; and the first node changing the first node's registration key, registering the changed registration key in the registration data structure, and reserving the changed registration key in a reservation data structure.