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A leaching method of metal bearing material or metal mineral concentrates comprising the steps: a. Adhering mineral concentrates or a metal bearing material in a stable manner to a support to form agglomerates; wherein said support is characterized in that it is made of non porous polypropylene particles between 3 and 20 mm, of specific gravity less than 1, stable in strongly acidic solutions of pH1 - pH4, resistant to abrasion, and does not deform at temperatures up to 60°C;b. Transporting the agglomerates to a processing site; c. Loading the agglomerates onto a packed bed reactor or forming a heap of agglomerates; d. Leaching the mineral concentrate or metal bearing material by irrigating with chemical and/or biological agents present in an acidic solution; e. Optionally, supplying forced air to the reactor or heap of agglomerates in a counter-current direction relative to that of the irrigation solution; f. Recovering the loaded solution or "PLS" that percolated in the reactor or heap for its subsequent treatment; g. Recovering the solid residuals of the reactor or heap; h. Separating the residual solids, unleached mineral concentrates and any formed precipitates; i. Reusing the support in another cycle of the leaching process comprising steps d - h. a. Adhering mineral concentrates or a metal bearing material in a stable manner to a support to form agglomerates; wherein said support is characterized in that it is made of non porous polypropylene particles between 3 and 20 mm, of specific gravity less than 1, stable in strongly acidic solutions of pH1 - pH4, resistant to abrasion, and does not deform at temperatures up to 60°C;b. Transporting the agglomerates to a processing site; c. Loading the agglomerates onto a packed bed reactor or forming a heap of agglomerates; d. Leaching the mineral concentrate or metal bearing material by irrigating with chemical and/or biological agents present in an acidic solution; e. Optionally, supplying forced air to the reactor or heap of agglomerates in a counter-current direction relative to that of the irrigation solution; f. Recovering the loaded solution or "PLS" that percolated in the reactor or heap for its subsequent treatment; g. Recovering the solid residuals of the reactor or heap; h. Separating the residual solids, unleached mineral concentrates and any formed precipitates; i. Reusing the support in another cycle of the leaching process comprising steps d - h.
A tuning system for tuning a hand percussion instrument having a head and a shell, the tuning system comprising: a rim, the rim secured to the head of the instrument, the rim comprising a plurality of receptacles, the receptacles secured at an outer periphery of the rim such that the receptacles are below the plane of the rim; a side plate assembly, the side plate assembly secured to the shell of the instrument; and a tuning rod, the tuning rod having a first end received by the receptacle, and the tuning rod having a second end received by the side plate assembly, characterised in that the receptacles have a first side section and a second side section, the side sections having a curved edge that radiates outward from the centre of the rim, the receptacles have a bottom section joined to the side sections, the bottom section comprising an opening, and the first end of the tuning rod is received by the opening such that the first end is held substantially below the plane of the rim, and the first end being accessible to a user for varying the tension on the head. a rim, the rim secured to the head of the instrument, the rim comprising a plurality of receptacles, the receptacles secured at an outer periphery of the rim such that the receptacles are below the plane of the rim; a side plate assembly, the side plate assembly secured to the shell of the instrument; and a tuning rod, the tuning rod having a first end received by the receptacle, and the tuning rod having a second end received by the side plate assembly, characterised in that the receptacles have a first side section and a second side section, the side sections having a curved edge that radiates outward from the centre of the rim, the receptacles have a bottom section joined to the side sections, the bottom section comprising an opening, and the first end of the tuning rod is received by the opening such that the first end is held substantially below the plane of the rim, and the first end being accessible to a user for varying the tension on the head.
A method for operating an engine harmonic cancellation system comprising an adaptive filter adapted to generate a noise cancellation signal from a signal indicative of engine speed and first and second microphones adapted to be used to update coefficients of the adaptive filter, the method comprising: receiving, from a first microphone located near the front of a vehicle cabin, a signal representative of noise in the vehicle cabin; receiving, from a second microphone located near the rear of the vehicle cabin, a signal representative of noise in the vehicle cabin; assessing correlation between the signal from the first microphone with the signal from the second microphone; selectively modifying operation of the engine audio harmonic cancellation system depending on the result of the correlation assessment. receiving, from a first microphone located near the front of a vehicle cabin, a signal representative of noise in the vehicle cabin; receiving, from a second microphone located near the rear of the vehicle cabin, a signal representative of noise in the vehicle cabin; assessing correlation between the signal from the first microphone with the signal from the second microphone; selectively modifying operation of the engine audio harmonic cancellation system depending on the result of the correlation assessment.
A method for transmission of timestamp information, the method being performed by a transmitter device, the method comprising obtaining a first timestamp; inserting a protected representation of the first timestamp in a payload field of a message (900, 1000), wherein the message (900, 1000) is a precision time protocol, PTP, message (900, 1000); timestamping the message (900, 1000) by inserting a second timestamp in a timestamp field of the message (900, 1000); and transmitting the timestamped message (900, 1000) to a receiver device.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a device to at least: obtain a first motion estimate for a medical instrument based on robotic data regarding physical manipulation of the medical instrument; obtain a second motion estimate for the medical instrument based on position sensor data received from at least one position sensor; determine a motion estimate disparity based on a comparison of the first motion estimate and the second motion estimate; based on the motion estimate disparity, update (a) a weighting factor for a location derivable from the robotic data, or (b) a weighting factor for a location derivable from the position sensor data; and determine a position estimate for the medical instrument based on the updated weighting factor. obtain a first motion estimate for a medical instrument based on robotic data regarding physical manipulation of the medical instrument; obtain a second motion estimate for the medical instrument based on position sensor data received from at least one position sensor; determine a motion estimate disparity based on a comparison of the first motion estimate and the second motion estimate; based on the motion estimate disparity, update (a) a weighting factor for a location derivable from the robotic data, or (b) a weighting factor for a location derivable from the position sensor data; and determine a position estimate for the medical instrument based on the updated weighting factor.
A method for chlorination and dehydrogenation of ethane, comprising: mixing a low-melting-point metal chloride in a gas phase with C 2 H 6 at a reaction temperature; reducing the low-melting-point metal chloride to form a liquid-state low-melting-point metal; and chlorinating and dehydrogenizing C 2 H 6 to produce a mixed gas containing HCl, C 2 H 6, C 2 H 4, C 2 H 2, and C 2 H 3 Cl; the low-melting-point metal chloride is BiCl 3 or SnCl 2.
Use of a mixture of 2 to 60% by weight of one or more polymers with 40 to 98% by weight of one or more polymers, where polymer is a (meth) acrylate copolymer comprising 90 to 100% by weight free radically polymerized units of 66 to 95% by weight of C 1 - to C 4 -alkyl esters of acrylic or of methacrylic acid and 5 to 34% by weight units of (meth) acrylate monomers having an anionic group, and 0 to 10% by weight of further vinylically polymerizable monomers, and polymer is a vinyl polymer different from polymer or a polysaccharide or a derivative of a polysaccharide comprising 88 to 100% neutral monomer units and up to 12% by weight polymerized monomer units having ionic radicals, wherein polymer is a copolymer of methyl methacrylate and ethyl acrylate, a copolymer of methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate and trimethylammoniumethyl methacrylate, polyvinyl acetate (PVAc), hydroxyethylcellulose, ethylcellulose or a mixture of said polymers, for the production of a coated pharmaceutical form consisting of an active ingredient-containing core and a polymeric coating of the mixture of polymers and, wherein pharmaceutically usual excipients can be admixed with the polymer mixture, characterized in that the glass transition temperature of polymer is not more than 70°C, and an active ingredient release profile in which the active ingredient is released by comparison with a pharmaceutical form coated with polymer alone starting at the same pH but more slowly is attained.
A method of reporting Channel Quality Information, CQI, without reporting a precoding matrix index, PMI, and a rank indicator, RI, to an eNB by a user equipment configured in a multi-antenna based wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a reference signal configuration defined by P antenna ports via a higher layer; receiving a rank of a multi-antenna transmission from the eNB, wherein the rank is represented as M, M>1; grouping the P antenna ports to P/M antenna port groups, wherein each of the P/M antenna port groups comprises M antenna ports; calculating two CQIs corresponding to two codewords for each of the P/M antenna port groups, under the assumption that unit matrixes of M x M size are applied to the P/M antenna port groups such that a M antenna ports transmission is performed via each of the P/M antenna port groups; and reporting CQIs for N best antenna port groups selected from the P/M antenna port groups in an order of channel quality and information about the N best antenna port groups, wherein the information about the N best antenna port groups includes antenna port group indexes related to each of the N best antenna port groups. receiving a reference signal configuration defined by P antenna ports via a higher layer; receiving a rank of a multi-antenna transmission from the eNB, wherein the rank is represented as M, M>1; grouping the P antenna ports to P/M antenna port groups, wherein each of the P/M antenna port groups comprises M antenna ports; calculating two CQIs corresponding to two codewords for each of the P/M antenna port groups, under the assumption that unit matrixes of M x M size are applied to the P/M antenna port groups such that a M antenna ports transmission is performed via each of the P/M antenna port groups; and reporting CQIs for N best antenna port groups selected from the P/M antenna port groups in an order of channel quality and information about the N best antenna port groups, wherein the information about the N best antenna port groups includes antenna port group indexes related to each of the N best antenna port groups.
A Ti-containing ferritic stainless steel sheet comprising on mass percent basis: 0.01% or less of C; 0.5% or less of Si; 0.3% or less of Mn; 0.01% to 0.04% of P; 0.01% or less of S; 8% to 30% of Cr; 0.005% to 1.0% of Al; 0.05% to 0.5% of Ti; 0.04% or less of N, 8 ≤ Ti/(C+N) ≤ 30 being satisfied; optionally further comprising at least one of 0.3% or less of Ni, Cu and Co; 0.01% or less of B; 0.5% or less of Nb; 0.5% or less of Zr; 0.1% or less of Ca; 0.3% or less of Ta; 0.3% or less of W; 0.3% or less of V; 0.3% or less of Sn; and/or 2.0% or less of Mo and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein a grain size number of ferrite grain is 6.0 or more, and an average diameter Dp of precipitations, each being defined by the following formula: [a long axis length of a Ti base precipitate + a short axis length thereof]/2, of the Ti base precipitates in the steel sheet is in the range of from 0.05 μm to 1.0 μm. 0.01% or less of C; 0.5% or less of Si; 0.3% or less of Mn; 0.01% to 0.04% of P; 0.01% or less of S; 8% to 30% of Cr; 0.005% to 1.0% of Al; 0.05% to 0.5% of Ti; 0.04% or less of N, 8 ≤ Ti/(C+N) ≤ 30 being satisfied; optionally further comprising at least one of 0.3% or less of Ni, Cu and Co; 0.01% or less of B; 0.5% or less of Nb; 0.5% or less of Zr; 0.1% or less of Ca; 0.3% or less of Ta; 0.3% or less of W; 0.3% or less of V; 0.3% or less of Sn; and/or 2.0% or less of Mo and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, wherein a grain size number of ferrite grain is 6.0 or more, and an average diameter Dp of precipitations, each being defined by the following formula: [a long axis length of a Ti base precipitate + a short axis length thereof]/2, of the Ti base precipitates in the steel sheet is in the range of from 0.05 μm to 1.0 μm.
A material kneading apparatus comprising: a screw that is inserted into a cylinder, an inside of which a material is loaded, and is rotatably supported in both end portions on an upstream side and a downstream side or in an end portion on the upstream side, in the cylinder, wherein a first kneading blade comprising a plurality of sending blades (32A, 32B) in form of a two blade type that are helically provided on the screw and are configured to send the material toward the downstream side with rotation of the screw; and a second kneading blade comprising a returning blade in form of a two blade type that is helically provided on the screw and is configured to return the material, which has been sent toward the downstream side by the first kneading blade, toward the upstream side, the second kneading blade having a smaller number of starts of screw threads than the number of starts of screw threads of the first kneading blade, characterized in that a plurality of the returning blades are provided on the screw, wherein upstream side beginning ends of the returning blades are engaged with downstream side terminal ends of sending blades that are one of the sending blades (32A, 32B), and wherein the upstream side beginning ends of the returning blades are separated from downstream side terminal ends of sending blades that are the other one of the sending blades (32A, 32B). a screw that is inserted into a cylinder, an inside of which a material is loaded, and is rotatably supported in both end portions on an upstream side and a downstream side or in an end portion on the upstream side, in the cylinder, a first kneading blade comprising a plurality of sending blades (32A, 32B) in form of a two blade type that are helically provided on the screw and are configured to send the material toward the downstream side with rotation of the screw; and a second kneading blade comprising a returning blade in form of a two blade type that is helically provided on the screw and is configured to return the material, which has been sent toward the downstream side by the first kneading blade, toward the upstream side, the second kneading blade having a smaller number of starts of screw threads than the number of starts of screw threads of the first kneading blade, characterized in that a plurality of the returning blades are provided on the screw, wherein upstream side beginning ends of the returning blades are engaged with downstream side terminal ends of sending blades that are one of the sending blades (32A, 32B), and wherein the upstream side beginning ends of the returning blades are separated from downstream side terminal ends of sending blades that are the other one of the sending blades (32A, 32B).
A system for stretching, drying and pressing a garment, comprising a clothes-hanger and at least one stretching device, said stretching device comprising: - a first rod (1; 26) connected to said clothes-hanger by means of coupling-releasing means (3; 27); - two pairs of arms (8; 22), each pair comprising a first arm and a second arm, each of the two arms of each pair comprising a first end connected to the first rod at a respective anchoring position and a second end, which is movable with respect to said first anchoring position, and is adapted to move close to or away from the anchoring position in controlled manner; - first stretching means (7; 21), comprising two garment stretching elements (7; 21), arranged at opposite sides with respect to the first rod (1; 26), each of the stretching elements (7; 21) being connected to the two movable second ends of a respective one of said pairs of arms (8; 22) so as to move in a direction perpendicular to the first rod (1; 26), thus moving away therefrom or close thereto, as a result of said movements of said movable second ends; - control means (6, 11, 12) for controlling the movement of said movable second ends of the arms (8; 22). - a first rod (1; 26) connected to said clothes-hanger by means of coupling-releasing means (3; 27); - two pairs of arms (8; 22), each pair comprising a first arm and a second arm, each of the two arms of each pair comprising a first end connected to the first rod at a respective anchoring position and a second end, which is movable with respect to said first anchoring position, and is adapted to move close to or away from the anchoring position in controlled manner; - first stretching means (7; 21), comprising two garment stretching elements (7; 21), arranged at opposite sides with respect to the first rod (1; 26), each of the stretching elements (7; 21) being connected to the two movable second ends of a respective one of said pairs of arms (8; 22) so as to move in a direction perpendicular to the first rod (1; 26), thus moving away therefrom or close thereto, as a result of said movements of said movable second ends; - control means (6, 11, 12) for controlling the movement of said movable second ends of the arms (8; 22).
A ring for sealing an inflatable member, said ring comprising: a ring having a first end and a second end, a thickness, a diameter, and a length, said ring further having a lumen therethrough; a plurality of slits through the thickness of the ring at the first end of the ring,said slits extending into at least a portion of the length of the ring; a plurality of fingers at the first end of the ring located between the plurality of slits; a plurality of gaps through the thickness of the ring at the second end of the ring, said gaps extending into at least a portion of the length of the ring, said gaps being offset circumferentially relative to said slits and extending into the length of the ring so as to overlap at least partially with the slits, thereby creating a pivot region within said ring; a plurality of ring members at the second end of the ring located between said gaps; wherein, when the first end increases in diameter, the second end decreases in diameter. a ring having a first end and a second end, a thickness, a diameter, and a length, said ring further having a lumen therethrough; a plurality of slits through the thickness of the ring at the first end of the ring,said slits extending into at least a portion of the length of the ring; a plurality of fingers at the first end of the ring located between the plurality of slits; a plurality of gaps through the thickness of the ring at the second end of the ring, said gaps extending into at least a portion of the length of the ring, said gaps being offset circumferentially relative to said slits and extending into the length of the ring so as to overlap at least partially with the slits, thereby creating a pivot region within said ring; a plurality of ring members at the second end of the ring located between said gaps; wherein, when the first end increases in diameter, the second end decreases in diameter.
A camera for detecting objects moving relative to the camera in a conveying direction, the camera comprising a light receiver having a plurality of light receiving pixels arranged in at least two lines (22a-b) in a line direction transverse to the conveying direction and a control and evaluation unit configured to generate a first image and a second image of a partial region of the object by means of the two lines (22a-b), the images (40a-b) having a mutual offset at least in the line direction, to compute an image line of higher resolution than an original resolution of the light receiver from the first image and the second image, and to compose an overall image from the image lines generated in the course of the movement of the objects, characterized in that reception optics are arranged in front of the light receiver for providing the mutual offset between the images (40a-b).
Traffic management system, hereafter TMS, for managing traffic of guided vehicles over a railway network, said TMS comprising: - one or several requesting systems configured each for determining a route for one of said guided vehicles; - one or several trackside devices configured for controlling or modifying a flow of said guided vehicles over a track section of the railway network; wherein the TMS comprises a blockchain network of interconnected nodes, said nodes comprising requesting nodes, mining nodes and full nodes, - wherein each requesting system is a requesting node configured for generating within the blockchain network a transaction for locking or unlocking the track section of the route determined for the guided vehicle; - wherein each full node is a checking device of the railway network that is configured for receiving the transaction, checking whether the transaction is valid or invalid from validation answers sent by mining nodes concerned by said transaction, writing said transaction onto a block of the blockchain if the transaction is valid, and notifying the requesting system about the validity or invalidity of the transaction; - wherein the trackside devices are mining nodes of the blockchain network, wherein each mining node is configured for generating the validation answer that comprises an acceptance or refusal of the transaction involving the track section for which it is configured to control or modify the guided vehicle flow. - one or several requesting systems configured each for determining a route for one of said guided vehicles; - one or several trackside devices configured for controlling or modifying a flow of said guided vehicles over a track section of the railway network; wherein the TMS comprises a blockchain network of interconnected nodes, said nodes comprising requesting nodes, mining nodes and full nodes, - wherein each requesting system is a requesting node configured for generating within the blockchain network a transaction for locking or unlocking the track section of the route determined for the guided vehicle; - wherein each full node is a checking device of the railway network that is configured for receiving the transaction, checking whether the transaction is valid or invalid from validation answers sent by mining nodes concerned by said transaction, writing said transaction onto a block of the blockchain if the transaction is valid, and notifying the requesting system about the validity or invalidity of the transaction; - wherein the trackside devices are mining nodes of the blockchain network, wherein each mining node is configured for generating the validation answer that comprises an acceptance or refusal of the transaction involving the track section for which it is configured to control or modify the guided vehicle flow.