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A self locking nut and bolt assembly for a stack of rotating wheels, comprising: a tie bolt extending through the stack of rotating wheels; the tie bolt comprising bolt threads; a locking nut positioned on a first end of the tie bolt; the locking nut comprising nut threads sized to accommodate the bolt threads characterized in that it further comprises a locking washer positioned on the one end of the tie bolt within the locking nut; wherein the locking washer comprises washer threads sized to accommodate the bolts threads. a tie bolt extending through the stack of rotating wheels; the tie bolt comprising bolt threads; a locking nut positioned on a first end of the tie bolt; the locking nut comprising nut threads sized to accommodate the bolt threads it further comprises a locking washer positioned on the one end of the tie bolt within the locking nut; wherein the locking washer comprises washer threads sized to accommodate the bolts threads.
A roundabout for vehicular traffic, comprising: a plurality of modular blocks arranged in a generally circular roundabout pattern and affixed to a roadway or ground surface at an intersection of vehicle roadways; a first perimeter portion of the plurality of the blocks arranged to form segments of a perimeter of the roundabout; and a second interior portion of the plurality of the blocks arranged inwardly from the blocks of the first perimeter portion to form an interior of the roundabout; and wherein the blocks are arranged in concentric rings (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d), an outermost ring forming the perimeter of the roundabout, and characterized in that each of the blocks in at least one ring of the concentric rings (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) has a trapezoidal plan shape. a plurality of modular blocks arranged in a generally circular roundabout pattern and affixed to a roadway or ground surface at an intersection of vehicle roadways; a first perimeter portion of the plurality of the blocks arranged to form segments of a perimeter of the roundabout; and a second interior portion of the plurality of the blocks arranged inwardly from the blocks of the first perimeter portion to form an interior of the roundabout; and wherein the blocks are arranged in concentric rings (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d), an outermost ring forming the perimeter of the roundabout, and characterized in that each of the blocks in at least one ring of the concentric rings (22a, 22b, 22c, 22d) has a trapezoidal plan shape.
A computer-implemented method for object tracking, the method comprising: - defining a state-space of interest based on a class of objects subject to tracking; - representing the state-space of interest using a FEM, finite element model, representation partitioning the state-space of interest in elements; - initiating a state-space distribution defining a probability density for different states of at least one tracked object in the state-space of interest; - updating the state-space distribution based on evidence, wherein the evidence is at least one of sensor data and external data of at least one tracked object in said class of objects; - propagating the state-space distribution of the at least one tracked object for a time period; characterised in that the method further comprises: - autonomously prioritizing a state-space resolution of the state-space distribution, wherein prioritizing comprises increasing the resolution for the at least one tracked object in order to emphasize said at least one tracked object in said state-space distribution and lower resolution in domains of said state-space of interest having low priority. - defining a state-space of interest based on a class of objects subject to tracking; - representing the state-space of interest using a FEM, finite element model, representation partitioning the state-space of interest in elements; - initiating a state-space distribution defining a probability density for different states of at least one tracked object in the state-space of interest; - updating the state-space distribution based on evidence, wherein the evidence is at least one of sensor data and external data of at least one tracked object in said class of objects; - propagating the state-space distribution of the at least one tracked object for a time period; characterised in that the method further comprises: - autonomously prioritizing a state-space resolution of the state-space distribution, wherein prioritizing comprises increasing the resolution for the at least one tracked object in order to emphasize said at least one tracked object in said state-space distribution and lower resolution in domains of said state-space of interest having low priority. - autonomously prioritizing a state-space resolution of the state-space distribution, wherein prioritizing comprises increasing the resolution for the at least one tracked object in order to emphasize said at least one tracked object in said state-space distribution and lower resolution in domains of said state-space of interest having low priority.
A fire suppression system comprising: a water supply system configured to collect water effluent from at least one onboard water source (54a-54n); a gas generation system configured to provide a supply of inert gas to an inert flow line; a gas-water mixer disposed downstream of the water supply system and the gas generation system, the gas-water mixer configured to receive the water effluent and the supply of inert gas and to generate an inert aerosol; a fire suppressant distribution network disposed downstream of the gas-water mixer, the fire suppressant distribution network configured to provide the inert aerosol to areas of an aircraft; a high-rate discharge module connected to the fire suppressant distribution network; characterized by a metered/low-rate discharge fire suppressant module connected to the fire suppressant distribution network; a mixing valve disposed at an intersection of the inert flow line and the fire suppressant distribution network, wherein the metered/low-rate discharge module and the gas-water mixer are fluidly connected to the mixing valve such that the mixing valve can control a fire suppressant ratio between flows from each of the gas-water mixer and the metered/low-rate discharge module to the fire suppressant distribution network. a water supply system configured to collect water effluent from at least one onboard water source (54a-54n); a gas generation system configured to provide a supply of inert gas to an inert flow line; a gas-water mixer disposed downstream of the water supply system and the gas generation system, the gas-water mixer configured to receive the water effluent and the supply of inert gas and to generate an inert aerosol; a fire suppressant distribution network disposed downstream of the gas-water mixer, the fire suppressant distribution network configured to provide the inert aerosol to areas of an aircraft; a high-rate discharge module connected to the fire suppressant distribution network; characterized by a metered/low-rate discharge fire suppressant module connected to the fire suppressant distribution network; a mixing valve disposed at an intersection of the inert flow line and the fire suppressant distribution network, wherein the metered/low-rate discharge module and the gas-water mixer are fluidly connected to the mixing valve such that the mixing valve can control a fire suppressant ratio between flows from each of the gas-water mixer and the metered/low-rate discharge module to the fire suppressant distribution network.
A process for preparing two-component natural polymeric water-based glues, suitable for gluing lignocellulosic surfaces, particularly cork and wood, comprising the following steps: (a) extraction of an aqueous phase and liquefied soluble components comprising polyols, both resulting from a mixture in turn resulting from the liquefaction of cork dust and/or granules, by cork depolymerization, such liquefaction comprising mixing the cork dust and/or granules with distilled water which thereby acts as an extracting agent, thus obtaining said liquefied soluble components comprising polyols, (b) evaporation of said aqueous phase to remove the water and to obtain a first component which consists of a gel composed by said soluble components of the liquefaction mixture, (c) mixing and homogenization of the gel with a second component which consists of an aliphatic isocyanate as a crosslinking agent, in water, and, optionally, (d) addition and mixture of cork dust to the previously formulated mixture. (a) extraction of an aqueous phase and liquefied soluble components comprising polyols, both resulting from a mixture in turn resulting from the liquefaction of cork dust and/or granules, by cork depolymerization, such liquefaction comprising mixing the cork dust and/or granules with distilled water which thereby acts as an extracting agent, thus obtaining said liquefied soluble components comprising polyols, (b) evaporation of said aqueous phase to remove the water and to obtain a first component which consists of a gel composed by said soluble components of the liquefaction mixture, (c) mixing and homogenization of the gel with a second component which consists of an aliphatic isocyanate as a crosslinking agent, in water, and, optionally, (d) addition and mixture of cork dust to the previously formulated mixture.
An effective amount of a compound that reduces external pressure effects for use in treating glaucoma in a mammal, wherein external pressure effects experienced by the mammal are alleviated, wherein said compound is a) botulinum toxin; or b) a combination of lidocaine and alcohol; and wherein the compound is administered by percutaneous injection into one or more points in the musculature at the eyelid margin adjacent to the muscle of Riolan. a) botulinum toxin; or b) a combination of lidocaine and alcohol;
A composite arrangement; comprising: at least two parallel cover plates; and spacer and stiffener devices that are enclosed between the cover plates and connected with the cover plates, wherein the spacer and stiffener devices are configured as tubular elements, wherein tube longitudinal axes of the tubular elements are oriented at a slant angle relative to surface orthogonal lines of the at least two parallel cover plates, characterized in that the tubular elements are divided, in particular divided in half and configured as longitudinally cut cylinder segments that are offset from each other. at least two parallel cover plates; and spacer and stiffener devices that are enclosed between the cover plates and connected with the cover plates, wherein the spacer and stiffener devices are configured as tubular elements, wherein tube longitudinal axes of the tubular elements are oriented at a slant angle relative to surface orthogonal lines of the at least two parallel cover plates, characterized in that the tubular elements are divided, in particular divided in half and configured as longitudinally cut cylinder segments that are offset from each other.
A method of fabricating a turbine engine blade, the blade being made of composite material comprising fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix and comprising an airfoil, a first platform situated at one longitudinal end of the airfoil and having an inside face defining a flow passage and an outside face opposite from the inside face, and at least one functional element projecting from the outside face of the first platform and connecting with said outside face in a direction that is substantially circumferential, the method comprising: • making a single-piece fiber blank (300; 400) by multilayer weaving; • shaping the fiber blank to obtain a single-piece fiber preform (310; 410) having a first portion (302; 402) forming a preform for the blade airfoil (320; 420) and a second portion (313, 314; 413, 414) forming a preform for the first platform and a preform for at least one functional element; and • densifying the fiber preform with a matrix in order to obtain a composite material blade (110; 210) having fiber reinforcement formed by the preform and densified by the matrix and forming a single piece incorporating the airfoil (120; 220), the first platform (140; 240), and said at least one functional element; in which method the second portion of the preform comprises a set of yarn layers interlinked by weaving with at least one non-interlinked zone being arranged therein enabling the or each functional element preform to be deployed relative to the preform for the first platform, at one or more locations positioned in the longitudinal direction, the airfoil preform being of varying thickness in the longitudinal direction, said method being characterized in that the fiber blank portion corresponding to the second preform portion includes one or more yarn layers taken from the portion of the fiber blank corresponding to the airfoil preform. • making a single-piece fiber blank (300; 400) by multilayer weaving; • shaping the fiber blank to obtain a single-piece fiber preform (310; 410) having a first portion (302; 402) forming a preform for the blade airfoil (320; 420) and a second portion (313, 314; 413, 414) forming a preform for the first platform and a preform for at least one functional element; and • densifying the fiber preform with a matrix in order to obtain a composite material blade (110; 210) having fiber reinforcement formed by the preform and densified by the matrix and forming a single piece incorporating the airfoil (120; 220), the first platform (140; 240), and said at least one functional element;
A carburetor base of an engine provided with an axial through hole and a pulsation hole channel, the carburetor base being provided with an anti-blocking component; wherein the anti-blocking component is mounted in the axial through hole and is provided with an air inlet channel, and the air inlet channel communicates with the pulsation hole channel; wherein the anti-blocking component is a tubular article, and is tightly matched with the axial through hole; wherein the anti-blocking component is provided with an annular recess on an outer wall thereof, and the annular recess communicates with the pulsation hole channel; wherein the annular recess is provided with a single through hole; and wherein a position of the through hole can be adjusted during manufacturing of the carburetor base so that, in use it is located above the air inlet channel, to avoid the pulsation hole channel being blocked by fuel oil.
An optical component for use in an optical system, wherein the optical component has an outer surface and a diffraction grating is formed by a series of grooves in at least a portion of the outer surface that are substantially parallel to one another and substantially longer than they are wide, the diffraction grating having a grating period of order 10 2 or 10 3 nm; wherein the diffraction grating exhibits at least a first and a second groove characteristic at each point on the surface portion which both affect the manner in which light incident on the diffraction grating is diffracted at that point; characterised in that the first and second groove characteristics gradually vary over the surface portion so as to gradually vary the manner in which the incident light is diffracted at different points on the surface portion, the first and second groove characteristics varying with respective gradients that are in different directions to one another at at least some points on the surface portion, wherein the first groove characteristic is one of and the second groove characteristic is a different one of: gradually varying slant which does not change by more than the order of 10 -3 degrees over a single grating period, gradually varying depth which does not change by more than the order of 10 -2 nm over a single grating period and gradually varying linewidth which does not change by more than the order of 10 -2 nm over a single grating period.
A machine for processing the organic fraction of urban solid waste, which comprises: - a supporting frame, - a rectilinear channel which is open upwards to be loaded with material to be processed, and has an inlet mouth and an outlet mouth at its opposite longitudinal ends, - a perforated, rectilinear tube which is aligned to said rectilinear channel and has an open inlet end connected to the outlet mouth of said horizontal channel, as well as an open outlet end, - shutting means (49, 146) connected to first piston driving means (50, 148), which are operable to close said outlet end of the perforated tube, and - a pressing member which is slidably insertable through the inlet mouth of the channel, under control of second piston driving means, to progressively enter the channel, in such a way as to push the material contained therein into the perforated tube with said shutting means (49, 146) in a closed configuration, in such a way as to squeeze the material with drainage of its humid fraction through the holes in the perforated tube, characterized in that said outlet end of the perforated tube leads to a duct extending at right angles to the perforated tube, and said shutting means comprise a shutter which is slidably received within said duct, and in that said pressing member is further controllable to continue its stroke into the perforated tube, with said shutter in an open configuration, in such a way as to eject the squeezed material through said outlet end of the perforated tube. - a supporting frame, - a rectilinear channel which is open upwards to be loaded with material to be processed, and has an inlet mouth and an outlet mouth at its opposite longitudinal ends, - a perforated, rectilinear tube which is aligned to said rectilinear channel and has an open inlet end connected to the outlet mouth of said horizontal channel, as well as an open outlet end, - shutting means (49, 146) connected to first piston driving means (50, 148), which are operable to close said outlet end of the perforated tube, and - a pressing member which is slidably insertable through the inlet mouth of the channel, under control of second piston driving means, to progressively enter the channel, in such a way as to push the material contained therein into the perforated tube with said shutting means (49, 146) in a closed configuration, in such a way as to squeeze the material with drainage of its humid fraction through the holes in the perforated tube,
An apparatus for transporting articles between working locations, comprising: one or more rotatable ground engaging wheels mounted towards the bottom of the apparatus for rotation about an axis to provide rolling support for the apparatus; a manually engageable pulling handle, the pulling handle and the one or more ground engaging wheels being arranged to enable a user to manually pull the pulling handle generally rearwardly so as to tilt the apparatus rearwardly to a tilted rolling movement position, thereby enabling the user to roll the apparatus to a desired location by pushing or pulling the pulling handle in a desired direction; a frame; the apparatus characterised by one or more mount structures adjustably connected to the frame; and a plurality of containers (20, 22, 24) releasably connected to the one or more mount structures, including one or more latch mechanisms (94, 104) formed as part of respective handles (98, 100, 102) on at least one of the plurality of containers to latch the containers to the one or more mount structures. one or more rotatable ground engaging wheels mounted towards the bottom of the apparatus for rotation about an axis to provide rolling support for the apparatus; a manually engageable pulling handle, the pulling handle and the one or more ground engaging wheels being arranged to enable a user to manually pull the pulling handle generally rearwardly so as to tilt the apparatus rearwardly to a tilted rolling movement position, thereby enabling the user to roll the apparatus to a desired location by pushing or pulling the pulling handle in a desired direction; a frame; the apparatus characterised by one or more mount structures adjustably connected to the frame; and a plurality of containers (20, 22, 24) releasably connected to the one or more mount structures, including one or more latch mechanisms (94, 104) formed as part of respective handles (98, 100, 102) on at least one of the plurality of containers to latch the containers to the one or more mount structures.
A control system, comprising: a control apparatus, a driver, comprising an instruction position counter; and a mechanism part, comprising a motor, a decelerator and a rotator, wherein the decelerator is a gear pair with the reduction ratio being N/M, the gear pair enabling the rotator to rotate for integer N turns relative to the motor rotating for integer M turns; wherein the control apparatus is configured to send pulses used to control rotation of the rotator to the driver, wherein the rotator is rotated by the motor according to a reduction ratio as prescribed of the decelerator in which the motor is driven by the driver using a pulse number of the pulse for indicating an instruction position of the rotator, the control system characterized in that the control apparatus comprises: a counting range determining part, configured to, according to a setting as allocated, determine a counting range of a counter for counting the pulse number, wherein the counter restores a counting value of the pulses to an initial value when the counting value reaches to the counting range, wherein the counting range determining part multiples a prescribed pulse number which is required to accomplish one turn of rotation of the motor by a reciprocal of the reduction ratio and a correction value to determine the counting range, wherein the correction value is equal to the integer N and the counting range is corresponding to the N turns of the rotator. a control apparatus, a driver, comprising an instruction position counter; and a mechanism part, comprising a motor, a decelerator and a rotator, wherein the decelerator is a gear pair with the reduction ratio being N/M, the gear pair enabling the rotator to rotate for integer N turns relative to the motor rotating for integer M turns; wherein the control apparatus is configured to send pulses used to control rotation of the rotator to the driver, wherein the rotator is rotated by the motor according to a reduction ratio as prescribed of the decelerator in which the motor is driven by the driver using a pulse number of the pulse for indicating an instruction position of the rotator, the control system characterized in that the control apparatus comprises: a counting range determining part, configured to, according to a setting as allocated, determine a counting range of a counter for counting the pulse number, wherein the counter restores a counting value of the pulses to an initial value when the counting value reaches to the counting range, wherein the counting range determining part multiples a prescribed pulse number which is required to accomplish one turn of rotation of the motor by a reciprocal of the reduction ratio and a correction value to determine the counting range, wherein the correction value is equal to the integer N and the counting range is corresponding to the N turns of the rotator.