mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Heating apparatus having a combustion chamber that has a bottom (12.1), lateral walls (12.2 to 12.5) and an upper opening closed off by at least one removable plate, the heating apparatus also having a first circuit configured to convey combustion products from the combustion chamber to an exhaust duct, the heating apparatus comprising: - at least one air circuit (56, 56') for supplying the combustion chamber with air and having at least two air injection manifolds (32, 32') comprising one or more segments comprising injection orifices, which open into the combustion chamber, are separated from one another by a distance of less than or equal to 5 cm, and extend over at least 30% of the periphery of the combustion chamber, - a first enclosure around the combustion chamber, said first enclosure being spaced apart from at least some of the lateral walls (12.2 to 12.5) of the combustion chamber so as to form the first circuit for circulating combustion products from the combustion chamber to the exhaust duct, the combustion chamber comprising the first air injection manifold, positioned between 0.4 and 0.75 times the height of the combustion chamber from the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber, and the second air injection manifold positioned adjoining the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber, the orifices of said second air injection manifold being spaced apart from the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber. - at least one air circuit (56, 56') for supplying the combustion chamber with air and having at least two air injection manifolds (32, 32') comprising one or more segments comprising injection orifices, which open into the combustion chamber, are separated from one another by a distance of less than or equal to 5 cm, and extend over at least 30% of the periphery of the combustion chamber, - a first enclosure around the combustion chamber, said first enclosure being spaced apart from at least some of the lateral walls (12.2 to 12.5) of the combustion chamber so as to form the first circuit for circulating combustion products from the combustion chamber to the exhaust duct, the combustion chamber comprising the first air injection manifold, positioned between 0.4 and 0.75 times the height of the combustion chamber from the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber, and the second air injection manifold positioned adjoining the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber, the orifices of said second air injection manifold being spaced apart from the bottom (12.1) of the combustion chamber.
A vehicle including a front body structure, comprising: a pair of side members arranged on both sides of a front compartment (F C) of the vehicle to extend in a fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle, the side members each including a reinforcement part for supporting a vehicle unit component, and a variable plate-thickness structure (50, 80, 110) or a variable partition-thickness structure (60, 90) or a variable sectional dimension structure (70, 100) arranged in a forward area in front of the reinforcement part, for adjusting strength of the forward area, characterized in that the strength is adjusted so that, as to a maximum value of a sum of a stress of axial-force component and a stress of bending moment component both generated in respective imaginary sections (Ia, Ib,... Ie) continuing in a longitudinal direction of the forward area when a collision load is exerted to the front end of the forward area from the front, the maximum value of a sum of a stress of axial-force component and a stress of bending moment component of front part of each imaginary section (Ia, Ib,... Ie) is equal to that of rear part of the same imaginary section (Ia, Ib,... Ie). a pair of side members arranged on both sides of a front compartment (F C) of the vehicle to extend in a fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle, the side members each including a reinforcement part for supporting a vehicle unit component, and a variable plate-thickness structure (50, 80, 110) or a variable partition-thickness structure (60, 90) or a variable sectional dimension structure (70, 100) arranged in a forward area in front of the reinforcement part, for adjusting strength of the forward area, characterized in that the strength is adjusted so that, as to a maximum value of a sum of a stress of axial-force component and a stress of bending moment component both generated in respective imaginary sections (Ia, Ib,... Ie) continuing in a longitudinal direction of the forward area when a collision load is exerted to the front end of the forward area from the front, the maximum value of a sum of a stress of axial-force component and a stress of bending moment component of front part of each imaginary section (Ia, Ib,... Ie) is equal to that of rear part of the same imaginary section (Ia, Ib,... Ie).
Method for operating a braking device of a drive train of a vehicle, the drive train comprising an automatic transmission having a transmission-side parking lock, with a service brake and a parking brake which can be operated independently of the service brake, wherein when a parking condition occurs the parking lock is engaged in a controlled manner by means of at least one control device when the vehicle is secured against rolling away by a service brake which can be operated independently of the parking brake, characterised in that when the parking condition occurs and the service brake is operated, the control device determines whether a brake pressure applied by the service brake is so that the vehicle is secured against rolling away, and when the parking condition occurs and the brake pressure applied by the service brake is sufficient in order to secure the vehicle against rolling away, the engagement of the parking lock by the control device is enabled by the control device.
Machine for winding coils comprising at least one support frame (11, 12), a belt (13, 14) having a closed-ring configuration installed on the support frame (11, 12) so as to substantially surround it peripherally, and a platform on which the at least one support frame (11, 12) is positioned, characterized in that said platform is provided with support elements (17a, 17b) configured to selectively support the at least one support frame (11, 12) in a distanced position with respect to the platform, and in that with at least some of said support elements (17a, 17b) actuation members are associated, able to be selectively activated to take at least some of said support elements (17a, 17b) to a first operating position constraining the support frame (11, 12) to the platform, and to a second non-operating position of non-interference with said support frame (11, 12) to define an interspace between said platform and said support frame (11, 12) suitable for the lateral insertion or lateral removal of said belt (13, 14) on said support frame (11, 12).
Process for producing a three-dimensional structure on a support structure, wherein polymer particles are applied to the support structure by means of an electrophotographic process and a three-dimensional structure with support structure is obtained, wherein the polymer particles comprising a polymer matrix having a coating of an inorganic semimetal oxide or metal oxide, wherein the polymer matrix has at least one first functional group A and at least one second functional group B, both functional groups A and B being able to form at least one covalent bond with one another, said functional group A being selected from the group consisting of an azide group, C-C double bond, C-C triple bond, aldehyde group, ketone group, imine group, thioketone group and thiol group, and wherein said functional group B being selected from the group consisting of a C-C double bond, C-C triple bond, C-N triple bond, diene group, thiol group and amine group.
Lignin nanoparticles comprising crosslinked lignin and a hydrophobic active agent against plant infections, wherein the lignin nanoparticles are obtainable by a process comprising the following steps: (i) dissolving modified lignin and a hydrophobic active agent in an organic solvent having low solubility in water that is not more than 100 g/l; (ii) combining the solution with water and a surfactant to form a pre-emulsion; (iii) forming an emulsion from the pre-emulsion; and (iv) crosslinking the modified lignin to form lignin nanoparticles comprising the hydrophobic active agent, wherein the modified lignin is lignin which is chemically modified to comprise at least two functional groups suitable for polymerization and/or crosslinking selected from the group consisting of terminal double bonds, epoxy groups, alkynyl groups, aldehyde groups, keto groups, and silane groups, wherein the hydrophobic active agent has a solubility in water of not more than 100 g/L. (i) dissolving modified lignin and a hydrophobic active agent in an organic solvent having low solubility in water that is not more than 100 g/l; (ii) combining the solution with water and a surfactant to form a pre-emulsion; (iii) forming an emulsion from the pre-emulsion; and (iv) crosslinking the modified lignin to form lignin nanoparticles comprising the hydrophobic active agent,
A mobile magnetic robot for stripping coatings from a ferro-magnetic work piece comprising a chassis, said chassis being connected to a power module and to a stripping unit (18,19), said power module and said stripping unit being connected to a remote controller, said stripping unit being adapted to supply ultra high pressure fluid in the range of 240-420 MPa to the coating of said work piece, a shroud having a fluid seal adapted to contact said work piece and confine said fluid, said shroud (20,21) having an exhaust guide for removing said fluid, said power module being operatively connected to at least one wheel (15,16) for rotating said at least one wheel and comprising at least one magnet characterised in that said at least one wheel has a tyre (25,26) and in that the at least one magnet comprises a bar magnet operatively attached to said power module wherein the bar magnet is shaped and disposed in a plane parallel with the surface of said ferro-magnetic work piece to gain the strongest magnetic attraction between the bar and the work piece, for magnetically attracting said robot to said ferro-magnetic work piece with sufficient magnetic force to maintain said robot in operative relationship with said work piece, said bar magnet being spaced from said ferro-magnetic work piece to prevent damage to the coating.
A process for the blanking of metal parts (10; 11), wherein a double layered basic material with two preferably essentially identical, mutually stacked individual layers is placed and clamped partly between a blanking die and a blank holder and wherein a blanking punch is moved relative to the blanking die and the blank holder over a distance corresponding to at least a thickness of the double layered basic material whereby two blanked parts (10; 11) are cut and separated from the double layered basic material, characterised in that the two layers of the doubled layered basic material each have a thickness in the range between 0.5 and 0.05 mm and in that the doubled layered basic material is also clamped between the blanking punch and a counter punch, which counter punch moves with the blanking punch when the latter is moved to cut and separate the two blanked parts (10; 11) from the double layered basic material.
A tapered microstructured optical fiber for supercontinuum generation comprising a triangular or hexagonal lattice of elements, the lattice of elements comprising a plurality of a first type of element having first element diameter, df, being arranged at a pitch of A, wherein said tapered optical fiber comprises a core region that is capable of guiding light at a first wavelength along a longitudinal axis of said optical fiber and a cladding region surrounding said core region, said optical fiber comprising a tapered section in which the pitch A of the lattice of elements of the microstructured optical fibre is tapered, the tapered section being arranged between a first longitudinal position and a second longitudinal position, said tapered section comprising a first taper section having a first length, L 1, over which the optical fiber is tapered down to a taper waist, and a second taper section having a second length, L 2, over which said optical fiber is tapered up, wherein L 2 = y·L 1, where y is smaller than 1, wherein the cladding region is tapered down from a first cladding area to a waist cladding area over said first length and the cladding region is tapered up to a second cladding area over said second length, wherein the ratio between said first element diameter df and said pitch, df / A, is substantially constant along the first taper section and the second taper section.
A nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide referred to as Assembly Activating Protein, the polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, SEQ ID NO: 8, SEQ ID NO: 9, SEQ ID NO: 10, SEQ ID NO: 11, SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 13, SEQ ID NO: 14, SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 16, SEQ ID NO: 17, SEQ ID NO: 18, SEQ ID NO: 19, SEQ ID NO: 20, SEQ ID NO: 21, and SEQ ID NO: 22, or encoding a polypeptide comprising a functionally active variant of any of these amino acid sequences, wherein the functionally active variant is capable of promoting the assembly of a parvoviral capsid consisting essentially of VP3 and wherein the functionally active variant has an amino acid sequence that is at least 60% identical to any of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1 to 22 wherein the nucleic acid is incapable of expressing any of the functional Rep proteins, VP1, VP2 and VP3.
A computer-implemented method for generating, from a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, a mel-scale spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language using a text-to-speech conversion system which comprises a sequence to sequence recurrent neural network, wherein the sequence to sequence recurrent neural network comprises an encoder neural network and an attention-based decoder recurrent neural network, the method comprising: receiving, at the encoder neural network, the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; processing, using the encoder neural network, the sequence of characters to generate a respective encoded representation of each of the characters in the sequence; receiving, at the attention-based decoder recurrent neural network, a sequence of decoder inputs; for each decoder input in the sequence of decoder inputs, processing, using the attention-based decoder neural network, the decoder input and the encoded representations to generate multiple frames of the mel-scale spectrogram; and generating a waveform from the mel-scale spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language. receiving, at the encoder neural network, the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; processing, using the encoder neural network, the sequence of characters to generate a respective encoded representation of each of the characters in the sequence; receiving, at the attention-based decoder recurrent neural network, a sequence of decoder inputs; for each decoder input in the sequence of decoder inputs, processing, using the attention-based decoder neural network, the decoder input and the encoded representations to generate multiple frames of the mel-scale spectrogram; and generating a waveform from the mel-scale spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.
Process for producing an oxygen-consuming electrode, comprising the steps of: a) precipitating silver oxide by simultaneously adding an aqueous NaOH solution and a silver nitrate solution to a receiver vessel, using a mechanical stirrer to introduce a stirring energy in the range from 0.01 W/l to 10 W/l, in the course of which the pH is kept constant within the range from pH 10 to 12, and the temperature is kept within a range from 20°C to 80°C, b) removing the precipitated silver oxide from step a) from the suspension and washing the silver oxide, c) drying the silver oxide at a temperature in the range from 80°C to 200°C, d) further processing the resulting silver oxide with an electrically conductive carrier material, a catalyst comprising silver particles, and a finely divided fluorinated polymer to give a flat oxygen-consuming electrode. a) precipitating silver oxide by simultaneously adding an aqueous NaOH solution and a silver nitrate solution to a receiver vessel, using a mechanical stirrer to introduce a stirring energy in the range from 0.01 W/l to 10 W/l, in the course of which the pH is kept constant within the range from pH 10 to 12, and the temperature is kept within a range from 20°C to 80°C, b) removing the precipitated silver oxide from step a) from the suspension and washing the silver oxide, c) drying the silver oxide at a temperature in the range from 80°C to 200°C, d) further processing the resulting silver oxide with an electrically conductive carrier material, a catalyst comprising silver particles, and a finely divided fluorinated polymer to give a flat oxygen-consuming electrode.
A computer-implemented image restoration method comprising: determining an anchor image based on individual images of a burst image set; executing a feature extraction network based on the burst image set while using anchor information of the anchor image (320; 430), comprising extracting a local feature while using the anchor information for each of a plurality of layer groups of the feature extraction network, and wherein the executing of the local feature comprises: extracting a primary local feature from a first individual image of the individual images using a first layer group of the plurality of layer groups; transforming the primary local feature by fusing the anchor information with the primary local feature; extracting a secondary local feature from the transformed primary local feature using a second layer group of the plurality of layer groups; and determining a global feature based on the secondary local feature; generating a restored image based on a feature map corresponding to an output of the feature extraction network. determining an anchor image based on individual images of a burst image set; executing a feature extraction network based on the burst image set while using anchor information of the anchor image (320; 430), comprising extracting a local feature while using the anchor information for each of a plurality of layer groups of the feature extraction network, and wherein the executing of the local feature comprises: extracting a primary local feature from a first individual image of the individual images using a first layer group of the plurality of layer groups; transforming the primary local feature by fusing the anchor information with the primary local feature; extracting a secondary local feature from the transformed primary local feature using a second layer group of the plurality of layer groups; and determining a global feature based on the secondary local feature; extracting a primary local feature from a first individual image of the individual images using a first layer group of the plurality of layer groups; transforming the primary local feature by fusing the anchor information with the primary local feature; extracting a secondary local feature from the transformed primary local feature using a second layer group of the plurality of layer groups; and determining a global feature based on the secondary local feature; generating a restored image based on a feature map corresponding to an output of the feature extraction network.
A coil for winding and unwinding a line such as a cable or the like, comprising: - a central mandrel including two opposite faces (11, 12) perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the coil, - two arm assemblies each mounted on a respective opposite face of the central mandrel, - two ferrules, each ferrule being attached to the distal ends of the arms of a respective arm assembly, each ferrule comprising a plurality of sectors shaped as a portion of a circle, each sector including a tubular stringer, characterized in that each ferrule includes at least one final sector including: - a tubular stringer designed to come into abutment against a tubular stringer of an adjoining sector along a junction plane passing through the axis of rotation of the coil, - a retractable guiding element (312, 313), said guiding element being capable of moving perpendicularly to the junction plane between: ▪ a stowed position where the guiding element extends inside the stringer of the final sector, and ▪ a released position where the guiding element extends partially outside the stringer of the final sector to hold the final sector and the adjoining sector in position with respect to one another. - a central mandrel including two opposite faces (11, 12) perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the coil, - two arm assemblies each mounted on a respective opposite face of the central mandrel, - two ferrules, each ferrule being attached to the distal ends of the arms of a respective arm assembly, each ferrule comprising a plurality of sectors shaped as a portion of a circle, each sector including a tubular stringer, - a tubular stringer designed to come into abutment against a tubular stringer of an adjoining sector along a junction plane passing through the axis of rotation of the coil, - a retractable guiding element (312, 313), said guiding element being capable of moving perpendicularly to the junction plane between: ▪ a stowed position where the guiding element extends inside the stringer of the final sector, and ▪ a released position where the guiding element extends partially outside the stringer of the final sector to hold the final sector and the adjoining sector in position with respect to one another. ▪ a stowed position where the guiding element extends inside the stringer of the final sector, and ▪ a released position where the guiding element extends partially outside the stringer of the final sector to hold the final sector and the adjoining sector in position with respect to one another.
A lighting controller (70;80) for controlling a lighting arrangement comprising a set of at least two light sources (10,11,12), the controller comprising: a timing unit for controlling the timing of operation of the light sources in a repeating non-overlapping sequence, wherein the timing unit is adapted to switch on each light source for a respective lighting duration, wherein the timing unit comprises a detection subunit adapted to detect the end of the lighting duration for one light source and the timing unit is adapted to use the detected end of the lighting duration as a timing trigger for switching on the next light source in the sequence; wherein the controller further comprises an adjustment interface, adapted to receive information about lengths of the durations, and wherein the controller is adapted to independently and individually configure each of the durations according to the received information. a timing unit for controlling the timing of operation of the light sources in a repeating non-overlapping sequence, wherein the timing unit is adapted to switch on each light source for a respective lighting duration, wherein the timing unit comprises a detection subunit adapted to detect the end of the lighting duration for one light source and the timing unit is adapted to use the detected end of the lighting duration as a timing trigger for switching on the next light source in the sequence; wherein the controller further comprises an adjustment interface, adapted to receive information about lengths of the durations, and wherein the controller is adapted to independently and individually configure each of the durations according to the received information.