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A surgical access sheath, comprising: an elongate tube with a working channel; a handle connected to the elongate tube; a proximal section of the handle having a flared configuration and a surface facing generally proximally, the surface extending radially inwardly with progressive distal positions along the handle to form a funnel leading into the working channel of the elongate tube; characterized in that a distal section of the handle is sized and configured to move on the elongate tube to a preferred position along the tube. an elongate tube with a working channel; a handle connected to the elongate tube; a proximal section of the handle having a flared configuration and a surface facing generally proximally, the surface extending radially inwardly with progressive distal positions along the handle to form a funnel leading into the working channel of the elongate tube; characterized in that a distal section of the handle is sized and configured to move on the elongate tube to a preferred position along the tube.
A base station that transmits to a terminal packet data for High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, through a High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel, HS-PDSCH, and decode information for decoding said packet data of said HS-PDSCH through a High Speed Shared Control Channel, HS-SCCH, and receives a decoding status of said HS-PDSCH from said terminal through a High Speed Dedicated Control Channel, HS-DPCCH, a sub-frame of said HS-DPCCH including Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement, HARQ-ACK, information in which said decoding status of said HS-PDSCH is indicated by Acknowledgement, ACK,/Negative Acknowledgement, NACK,/Discontinuous Transmission, DTX, said base station comprising: a detector adapted to detect said decoding status of said HS-PDSCH from said HS-DPCCH from said terminal; and a decision unit adapted to count a number of times that said ACK/NACK inserted in said HARQ-ACK information has been consecutively detected based on a detection result of said detector, and to decrease transmission power of said HS-SCCH constituting a pair with said HS-PDSCH through which said packet data is retransmitted, by an amount corresponding to the number of times that said ACK/NACK has been consecutively detected. a detector adapted to detect said decoding status of said HS-PDSCH from said HS-DPCCH from said terminal; and a decision unit adapted to count a number of times that said ACK/NACK inserted in said HARQ-ACK information has been consecutively detected based on a detection result of said detector, and to decrease transmission power of said HS-SCCH constituting a pair with said HS-PDSCH through which said packet data is retransmitted, by an amount corresponding to the number of times that said ACK/NACK has been consecutively detected.
A catheter comprising: a tubular body formed from an elastic and flexible synthetic resin material; and a valve having a slit that can be opened and closed, the slit passing through an outer surface of the tubular body from an inner surface of the tubular body, the catheter being arranged to allow passage of a solution from the inside of the tubular body toward the outside of the tubular body through the slit and passage of a solution from the outside of the tubular body toward the inside of the tubular body through the slit, the catheter being provided with a movable wall at a tip of the tubular body characterized by having differences in hardness in the thickness direction of the tubular body at the location of at least the movable wall, and in the cross-sectional surface perpendicular to the center axis of the tubular body, the movable wall having a wall central portion located at a position close to the center axis and a wall tip member located at a position far from the center axis, the slit formed on the wall tip member, and the movable wall having a linear shape. a tubular body formed from an elastic and flexible synthetic resin material; and a valve having a slit that can be opened and closed, the slit passing through an outer surface of the tubular body from an inner surface of the tubular body,
An image processing apparatus comprising: first obtaining means for obtaining an image based on an image picked up by a wide-angle image pickup unit; second obtaining means for obtaining installation direction information regarding an image pickup direction of the wide-angle image pickup unit; determining means for determining, on the basis of the installation direction information obtained by the second obtaining means, a priority area for execution of an object detecting process, wherein the priority area is a part of the image obtained by the first obtaining means; and detecting means for executing the object detecting process in accordance with the determination of the determining means, wherein the object detecting process is executed in a whole area of the image starting from the priority area. first obtaining means for obtaining an image based on an image picked up by a wide-angle image pickup unit; second obtaining means for obtaining installation direction information regarding an image pickup direction of the wide-angle image pickup unit; determining means for determining, on the basis of the installation direction information obtained by the second obtaining means, a priority area for execution of an object detecting process, wherein the priority area is a part of the image obtained by the first obtaining means; and detecting means for executing the object detecting process in accordance with the determination of the determining means, wherein the object detecting process is executed in a whole area of the image starting from the priority area.
Apparatus for providing tyre blanks with at least one tyre component which is pre-crosslinked by way of electron beams, comprising: - a radiation protection housing with an irradiation chamber with an electron beam source and two airlocks (11, 11') which are adjacent on one side of the irradiation chamber, characterized in that - one slide arrangement per airlock (11, 11'), each slide arrangement comprising a cross-slide (14, 14') and a radiation slide (19, 19'), the cross-slides (14, 14') extending below the level of the airlocks (11, 11') between the airlocks (11, 11') and the irradiation chamber and being capable of being moved with respect to the electron beam source, it being possible for the irradiation slides (19, 19') to be displaced on and with respect to the cross-slides (14, 14') and to be moved in this way between the respective airlock (11, 11') and the irradiation chamber, and a rotatable quick-change receptacle for receiving a tyre blank which is clamped in a torus shape on a workpiece gripper being placed on each irradiation slide (19, 19'), - conveying devices (2, 5', 5') for transporting the tyre blanks in and out, - gripping devices (6, 6', 6") for the simultaneous handling of a plurality of tyre blanks and workpiece grippers between the airlocks (11, 11') and the conveying devices (2, 5', 5'). - a radiation protection housing with an irradiation chamber with an electron beam source and two airlocks (11, 11') which are adjacent on one side of the irradiation chamber, characterized in that - one slide arrangement per airlock (11, 11'), each slide arrangement comprising a cross-slide (14, 14') and a radiation slide (19, 19'), the cross-slides (14, 14') extending below the level of the airlocks (11, 11') between the airlocks (11, 11') and the irradiation chamber and being capable of being moved with respect to the electron beam source, it being possible for the irradiation slides (19, 19') to be displaced on and with respect to the cross-slides (14, 14') and to be moved in this way between the respective airlock (11, 11') and the irradiation chamber, and a rotatable quick-change receptacle for receiving a tyre blank which is clamped in a torus shape on a workpiece gripper being placed on each irradiation slide (19, 19'), - conveying devices (2, 5', 5') for transporting the tyre blanks in and out, - gripping devices (6, 6', 6") for the simultaneous handling of a plurality of tyre blanks and workpiece grippers between the airlocks (11, 11') and the conveying devices (2, 5', 5').
A reaction mixture for producing ethanol and/or acetate from a carbon source in aerobic conditions, wherein the mixture comprises - a first acetogenic microorganism in an exponential growth phase; - free oxygen; and - a second acetogenic microorganism in a stationary phase wherein the first and second acetogenic microorganism is capable of converting the carbon source to the acetate and/or ethanol. - a first acetogenic microorganism in an exponential growth phase; - free oxygen; and - a second acetogenic microorganism in a stationary phase
A powertrain system comprising: an engine; a cooling system connected to the engine and having one or more actuators; a multivariable controller configured in more than one control component including an off-line portion configured to operate without input from an operating engine and an online portion configured to operate with input from an operating engine, the on-line portion connected to the engine and the cooling system and the off-line portion being a separate control component than a control component of the on-line portion; one or more sensors in communication with the controller and configured to sense values of one or more variables of the engine and/or the cooling system; and wherein: the controller is configured to control positions of the one or more actuators of the cooling system; the controller is configured to receive values for one or more variables sensed by the one or more sensors during operation of the engine, where at least one received value for a sensed variable is indicative of one or more conditions of the engine and/or the cooling system; and the on-line portion of the controller is configured to adjust one or more positions of the actuators of the cooling system to drive a value of the one or more conditions to associated condition set point trajectories for the engine and/or cooling system based on a quadratic programming problem determined with the off-line portion of the controller. a cooling system connected to the engine and having one or more actuators; a multivariable controller configured in more than one control component including an off-line portion configured to operate without input from an operating engine and an online portion configured to operate with input from an operating engine, the on-line portion connected to the engine and the cooling system and the off-line portion being a separate control component than a control component of the on-line portion; one or more sensors in communication with the controller and configured to sense values of one or more variables of the engine and/or the cooling system; and the controller is configured to control positions of the one or more actuators of the cooling system; the controller is configured to receive values for one or more variables sensed by the one or more sensors during operation of the engine, where at least one received value for a sensed variable is indicative of one or more conditions of the engine and/or the cooling system; and the on-line portion of the controller is configured to adjust one or more positions of the actuators of the cooling system to drive a value of the one or more conditions to associated condition set point trajectories for the engine and/or cooling system based on a quadratic programming problem determined with the off-line portion of the controller.
A dot recording apparatus comprising: a recording head which has a plurality of nozzles in a nozzle row; a main scan driving mechanism which moves the recording head relative to a recording medium in a main scan direction and performs a main scan pass that forms dots on the recording medium; a sub-scan driving mechanism (74, 75) which performs a sub-scan which relatively moves the recording medium and the recording head in a sub-scan direction that intersects with the main scan direction; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform multi-pass recording which completes forming of the dots on a main scan line by N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2) main scan passes, wherein a dot rate which represents a rate of pixels in which dot recording is performed in each main scan pass of the multi-pass recording is set so as to be changed gradually and periodically over a plurality of sections in the main scan direction, and wherein the number of values of the dot rate different from each other in the plurality of sections lined up in the main scan direction is set so as to be equal to or greater than 3, characterized in that: each section is separated by a boundary with a non-linear shape repeated in a predetermined period along a direction intersecting the main scan direction. a recording head which has a plurality of nozzles in a nozzle row; a main scan driving mechanism which moves the recording head relative to a recording medium in a main scan direction and performs a main scan pass that forms dots on the recording medium; a sub-scan driving mechanism (74, 75) which performs a sub-scan which relatively moves the recording medium and the recording head in a sub-scan direction that intersects with the main scan direction; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform multi-pass recording which completes forming of the dots on a main scan line by N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2) main scan passes, wherein a dot rate which represents a rate of pixels in which dot recording is performed in each main scan pass of the multi-pass recording is set so as to be changed gradually and periodically over a plurality of sections in the main scan direction, and wherein the number of values of the dot rate different from each other in the plurality of sections lined up in the main scan direction is set so as to be equal to or greater than 3, characterized in that: each section is separated by a boundary with a non-linear shape repeated in a predetermined period along a direction intersecting the main scan direction.
Use as a solvent in a phytosanitary formulation of an esteramide compound chosen from the following compounds, and mixtures thereof: - MeOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - MeOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - CycloOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - CycloOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - EhOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - EhOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - PeOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; - CycloOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - CycloOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; - BuOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - BuOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; where - A MG represents an MG a group of formula -CH(CH 3)-CH 2 -CH 2 -, or MG b group of formula - CH 2 -CH 2 -CH(CH 3)- or a mixture of MG a and MG b groups; - A ES represents an ES a group of formula -CH(C 2 H 5)-CH 2 -, or ES b group of formula - CH 2 -CH(C 2 H 5)- or a mixture of ES a and ES b groups; - Pe represents a pentyl group, - Cyclo represents a cyclohexyl group; - Eh represents a 2-ethylhexyl group; and - Bu represents a butyl group. - MeOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - MeOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - CycloOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - CycloOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - EhOOC-A MG -CONMe 2; - EhOOC-A ES -CONMe 2; - PeOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - PeOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; - CycloOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - CycloOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; - BuOOC-A MG -CONEt 2; - BuOOC-A ES -CONEt 2; - A MG represents an MG a group of formula -CH(CH 3)-CH 2 -CH 2 -, or MG b group of formula - CH 2 -CH 2 -CH(CH 3)- or a mixture of MG a and MG b groups; - A ES represents an ES a group of formula -CH(C 2 H 5)-CH 2 -, or ES b group of formula - CH 2 -CH(C 2 H 5)- or a mixture of ES a and ES b groups; - Pe represents a pentyl group, - Cyclo represents a cyclohexyl group; - Eh represents a 2-ethylhexyl group; and - Bu represents a butyl group.
An electronic blasting capsule for use in a blasting arrangement which includes a drilling machine, a drill rod and a drill bit connected to the drilling machine and a pressurized source for directing a cartridge through passages (26, 32) in the drill rod and drill bit, the electronic capsule including a cartridge, and within the cartridge, a propellant, an initiating device, an energy storage arrangement, a sensor for generating a signal which is dependent on the position of the capsule and a controller which, in response to the signal, controls the supply of energy from the energy storage arrangement to fire the initiating device and so initiate the propellant, characterised in that, in use, as the capsule is moved along a predetermined path, the sensor generates a signal dependent on the position of the capsule in said passages (26, 32) within the drill rod and the drill bit.
A water heating system comprising: a reservoir; cold and heated water pipes connected to the reservoir; a cold water temperature sensor attached to the cold water pipe and located proximate to the reservoir, wherein the cold water temperature sensor is configured to measure a cold water temperature of the cold water pipe and output a cold water temperature signal representative of the sensed cold water temperature; a heated water temperature sensor configured to measure a heated water temperature and output a heated water temperature signal representative of the sensed heated water temperature; and a controller system comprising: an energy meter configured to measure energy usage of the water heating system; and a processor configured to receive the heated and cold water temperature signals, characterized in that the processor is further configured to determine a volume of used heated water using the received heated and cold water temperature signals. a reservoir; cold and heated water pipes connected to the reservoir; a cold water temperature sensor attached to the cold water pipe and located proximate to the reservoir, wherein the cold water temperature sensor is configured to measure a cold water temperature of the cold water pipe and output a cold water temperature signal representative of the sensed cold water temperature; a heated water temperature sensor configured to measure a heated water temperature and output a heated water temperature signal representative of the sensed heated water temperature; and a controller system comprising: an energy meter configured to measure energy usage of the water heating system; and a processor configured to receive the heated and cold water temperature signals, characterized in that the processor is further configured to determine a volume of used heated water using the received heated and cold water temperature signals. an energy meter configured to measure energy usage of the water heating system; and a processor configured to receive the heated and cold water temperature signals, characterized in that the processor is further configured to determine a volume of used heated water using the received heated and cold water temperature signals.
An information processing apparatus comprising: a touch panel configured to detect a contact operation and a contactless operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller configured to determine whether an application activated at the information processing apparatus supports contactless operations; configured to control the application based only on contact operations detected at the touch panel when is determined that the application does not support contactless operations; and the information processing apparatus being characterized in that the controller is configured to control the application based on both contact operations and contactless operations detected at the touch panel when it is determined that the application supports contactless operations, wherein the controller is configured to increase a sensitivity of the touch panel when it is determined that the application supports contactless operations. a touch panel configured to detect a contact operation and a contactless operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller configured to determine whether an application activated at the information processing apparatus supports contactless operations; configured to control the application based only on contact operations detected at the touch panel when is determined that the application does not support contactless operations; and whether an application activated at the information processing apparatus supports contactless operations; configured to control the application based only on contact operations detected at the touch panel when is determined that the application does not support contactless operations; and
Cover for the contactor of the starter of a motor vehicle, comprising a wall which delimits a chamber, described as a contact chamber, on the interior of which at least two contact heads (23, 24) of two power terminals (26, 27) are arranged, together with a contact plate, which is designed to switch from a unactive position, in which said contact plate breaks the contact between said two power terminals (26, 27), to an active position, in which said contact plate establishes a contact between the two power terminals (26, 27) via the contact heads (23, 24) of said power terminals (26, 27), in which a membrane effects the closure of said contact chamber, characterized in that the membrane comprises at least one central zone, formed of a deformable material, to permit the movement of said contact plate by the action of an element which is external to said contact chamber.
Method for preventive treatment of wood, said method comprising the following steps: a first impregnation of the wood using a first solution comprising a first salt; and a second impregnation of the wood using a second solution comprising a second salt; characterised in that the second impregnation of the wood also uses a dye in the form of a paste as an additive, preferably a dye in the form of a paste with a brown colour. a first impregnation of the wood using a first solution comprising a first salt; and a second impregnation of the wood using a second solution comprising a second salt; characterised in that the second impregnation of the wood also uses a dye in the form of a paste as an additive, preferably a dye in the form of a paste with a brown colour.
Fiber optic connector which can change polarity comprising: a connector housing (9101, 9201) with at least one ferrule at a first end; a rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) at a second end of the connector housing (9101, 9201), wherein the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) includes a body (9109.1a) with a passageway (P-P) for passing a fiber optic cable, the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) further comprising a protrusion; and wherein the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the connector thereby converting the fiber optic connector from a first polarity with the protrusion adjacent to a first side of the connector housing, to a second polarity with the protrusion adjacent to a second side of the connector housing, wherein the first polarity is not the same as the second polarity. a connector housing (9101, 9201) with at least one ferrule at a first end; a rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) at a second end of the connector housing (9101, 9201), wherein the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) includes a body (9109.1a) with a passageway (P-P) for passing a fiber optic cable, the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) further comprising a protrusion; and wherein the rotatable boot assembly (9109.1, 9209.1) is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the connector thereby converting the fiber optic connector from a first polarity with the protrusion adjacent to a first side of the connector housing, to a second polarity with the protrusion adjacent to a second side of the connector housing, wherein the first polarity is not the same as the second polarity.