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A flow sensing device comprising: a semiconductor chip having a chip cap and a chip base and a flow channel integrated therein, the flow channel formed between the chip base and the chip cap, and a sensing element positioned in said flow channel, the semiconductor chip having a first passage-opening in said chip base in fluid communication with said flow channel, and a second passage-opening in one of said chip base, said chip cap, and a space between said chip base and said chip cap in fluid communication with said flow channel; and a package base, having a top surface on a top side and a bottom surface on a bottom side, attached to said chip base of said semiconductor chip at said top surface, said package base having a first aperture in fluid communication with said first passage-opening, said first aperture extending through said package base from said top surface to said bottom surface, said first passage-opening being accessible from said bottom side of said package base and said second passage-opening of said semiconductor chip being accessible from said top side of said package base. a semiconductor chip having a chip cap and a chip base and a flow channel integrated therein, the flow channel formed between the chip base and the chip cap, and a sensing element positioned in said flow channel, the semiconductor chip having a first passage-opening in said chip base in fluid communication with said flow channel, and a second passage-opening in one of said chip base, said chip cap, and a space between said chip base and said chip cap in fluid communication with said flow channel; and a package base, having a top surface on a top side and a bottom surface on a bottom side, attached to said chip base of said semiconductor chip at said top surface, said package base having a first aperture in fluid communication with said first passage-opening, said first aperture extending through said package base from said top surface to said bottom surface, said first passage-opening being accessible from said bottom side of said package base and said second passage-opening of said semiconductor chip being accessible from said top side of said package base.
A magnetic position sensor comprising at least one magnetised unit, a first magnetosensitive probe and a second magnetosensitive probe; the first and second magnetosensitive probes (2, 3) being fixed with respect to each other; the magnetised unit being able to move vis-à-vis these first and second magnetosensitive probes (2, 3) on a movement travel and having an absolute position at each moment; said magnetised unit producing, in the vicinity of said first magnetosensitive probe, a magnetic field having firstly a normal component and secondly at least one tangential or transverse component, varying sinusoidally and periodically over N periods distributed over the movement travel, N being a number greater than 1; said first magnetosensitive probe being able to measure at least two of the three components of the magnetic field so as to determine a first data item relating to the position of the magnetised unit; characterised in that the second magnetosensitive probe is able to measure absolutely, incrementally and reversibly a number of complete rotations of the magnetic field so as to determine a second data item relating to the position of the magnetised unit, whether or not this second magnetosensitive probe being powered; the sensor comprising a module for calculating the absolute position of the magnetised unit from the first and second data items.
Method for operating an electrical interface between a first and a second electrical device, said interface having lines for a supply voltage and a communication channel, the first electrical device being a converter and the second electrical device being a brake motor, i.e. an electric motor comprising a brake, the converter supplying electrical power to the electric motor by means of power supply lines, a coil of an electromagnet of an electromagnetically operable brake being arranged in the second device in series with a controllable switch, the series circuit of the controllable switch and the coil being electrically powered from the lines, i.e. the supply voltage delivered by the controllable voltage source is applied to the series circuit, characterised in that in a first method step, a first supply voltage is applied to the lines, the first supply voltage not being able to bring about venting of the brake, in a second method step, data are transmitted over the communication channel, and in a third method step, after verifying the data transmission, i.e. after the data have been successfully transmitted, a second supply voltage is applied to the lines, which, and/or the magnitude of which, is greater than the first supply voltage and/or the magnitude thereof, such that the second supply voltage is able to bring about venting of the brake, and values detected by means of a sensor regarding the angular position of the rotor shaft of the motor are transmitted over the communication channel.
A method for controlling a jet loom, which jet loom contains a plurality of relay nozzles arranged along a fluid feed conduit, wherein a weft yarn is introduced into the fluid feed conduit, the relay nozzles are actuated so as to eject time-staggered fluid pulses which produce a fluid flow in the fluid feed conduit, and the weft yarn is conveyed by the fluid flow through the fluid feed conduit, characterized in that the relay nozzles are actuated based on a local distribution of characteristics of the weft yarn within the respectively conveyed weft yarn section. which jet loom contains a plurality of relay nozzles arranged along a fluid feed conduit,
A method of labelling a protein comprising reacting a labelling reagent selected from: wherein n and m are independently selected from an integer from 2 to 12; and a protein selected from an antibody, an interferon, a lymphokine, a cytokine, a hormone, or a growth factor, whereby a labelled protein is formed.
A method for casting concrete products by mold casting, where concrete mix is fed in a casting mold from a casting apparatus (1, 1', 1", 1''') moved above the mold, which casting apparatus comprises a concrete mix container and a nozzle connected to the bottom of the concrete mix container, wherein the area inside the nozzle defines a casting duct, and the concrete mix is vibrated with a vibrator assembly located at least partially in the area inside the nozzle of the casting apparatus, characterized in that the concrete mix is vibrated in the area inside the nozzle with the vibrator assembly performing only vertical vibrating motion, and that the vertical movement of concrete mix inside the nozzle is enhanced with protrusions located on the outer surface of the vibrator assembly in the area located inside the nozzle, or the surface of the vibrator assembly located inside the nozzle is formed serrated for enhancing the downwards movement of concrete mix in-side the nozzle.
A T7 ribonucleic acid polymerase variant comprising an amino acid sequence at least 95%, at least 98%, or at least 99% identical to SEQ ID NO:1 modified to include an amino acid substitution corresponding to position G47 of SEQ ID NO:1; wherein the amino acid substitution is alanine (G47A).
A peptide comprising a carboxyl-terminal sequence from a growth hormone and not the domain of growth hormone responsible for IGF-1 production, for use in treating osteoarthritis; increasing chondrocyte, proteoglycan or collagen production or quality or repair or promoting cartilage tissue formation or repair; promoting or improving muscle, ligament or tendon mass, repair, form or function; or treating a muscle wasting disorder; wherein the peptide comprises amino acids 182-189 of human growth hormone, and wherein the peptide includes a disulphide bond which confers a cyclic configuration on the peptide in the region represented by said amino acids.
An apparatus comprising: a package having a first surface and a plurality of first external conductive contacts exposed at the first surface; a capacitor inside the package, the capacitor having a plurality of first conductive contacts exposed at a first surface of the capacitor, a first portion of each of the plurality of first conductive contacts spanning a width of the first surface of the capacitor, the first surface of the capacitor being substantially parallel to the first surface of the package; and each of the plurality of first conductive contacts being connected to a respective plurality of first conductive paths connecting in parallel the first portion of a respective first conductive contact of the capacitor to a corresponding one of the plurality of first external conductive contacts. a package having a first surface and a plurality of first external conductive contacts exposed at the first surface; a capacitor inside the package, the capacitor having a plurality of first conductive contacts exposed at a first surface of the capacitor, a first portion of each of the plurality of first conductive contacts spanning a width of the first surface of the capacitor, the first surface of the capacitor being substantially parallel to the first surface of the package; and each of the plurality of first conductive contacts being connected to a respective plurality of first conductive paths connecting in parallel the first portion of a respective first conductive contact of the capacitor to a corresponding one of the plurality of first external conductive contacts.
A deposition head assembly for depositing a material on a target, the deposition head assembly comprising a deposition head comprising: a channel for transporting an aerosol comprising the material; one or more inlets (104, 114) for introducing a sheath gas into said deposition head; a first chamber connected to said inlets; characterized in that the deposition head assembly comprises a region proximate to an exit of said channel for combining the aerosol with the sheath gas, thereby forming an annular jet comprising an outer sheath flow surrounding an inner aerosol flow; and an extended nozzle for transporting the annular jet. a channel for transporting an aerosol comprising the material; one or more inlets (104, 114) for introducing a sheath gas into said deposition head; a first chamber connected to said inlets; characterized in that the deposition head assembly comprises a region proximate to an exit of said channel for combining the aerosol with the sheath gas, thereby forming an annular jet comprising an outer sheath flow surrounding an inner aerosol flow; and an extended nozzle for transporting the annular jet.
A method of preventing denial-of-service attacks on hosts attached to a subnet, the attacks initiated by a remote node over an external network, the method performed by a router which forwards packets between the external network and the subnet, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by the router, a packet for forwarding to a destination address in an address space of the subnet according to the IPv6 protocol; looking up the destination address in a neighbor discovery, ND, table maintained by the router, wherein the ND table is populated by operations on the subnet that were completed prior to receipt of the packet, the ND table containing entries with each entry storing address information of one of the hosts that have been verified by the router to be active; forwarding the packet to the destination address in response to a determination that the destination address is stored in the ND table; discarding the packet in response to a determination that the destination address is not stored in the ND table; detecting that a given one of the entries representing a given one of the hosts has an elapsed lifetime that reaches a verification threshold; verifying that the given host is active; extending a lifetime of the given entry in the ND table in response to a determination that the given host is active; and deleting the given entry from the ND table when the given entry expires in response to a determination that the given host is not active. receiving, by the router, a packet for forwarding to a destination address in an address space of the subnet according to the IPv6 protocol; looking up the destination address in a neighbor discovery, ND, table maintained by the router, wherein the ND table is populated by operations on the subnet that were completed prior to receipt of the packet, the ND table containing entries with each entry storing address information of one of the hosts that have been verified by the router to be active; forwarding the packet to the destination address in response to a determination that the destination address is stored in the ND table; discarding the packet in response to a determination that the destination address is not stored in the ND table; detecting that a given one of the entries representing a given one of the hosts has an elapsed lifetime that reaches a verification threshold; verifying that the given host is active; extending a lifetime of the given entry in the ND table in response to a determination that the given host is active; and deleting the given entry from the ND table when the given entry expires in response to a determination that the given host is not active.
A method for controlling insects comprising the application of a liquid composition on a water surface, wherein the composition contains - a polyorganosiloxane; - a larvicide, which contains temephos, spinosad, dinetofuran, methopren, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, or Bacillus sphaericus; and - at least 10 wt% of a water-immiscible synthetic organic solvent, wherein the synthetic organic solvent comprises an aliphatic C 5-12 ketone, C 5-18 aliphatic hydrocarbon, ester of aliphatic C 6-24 alcohol with aliphatic C 1-6 acid, and/or an aliphatic di-C 2-18 ether. - a polyorganosiloxane; - a larvicide, which contains temephos, spinosad, dinetofuran, methopren, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, or Bacillus sphaericus; and - at least 10 wt% of a water-immiscible synthetic organic solvent, wherein the synthetic organic solvent comprises an aliphatic C 5-12 ketone, C 5-18 aliphatic hydrocarbon, ester of aliphatic C 6-24 alcohol with aliphatic C 1-6 acid, and/or an aliphatic di-C 2-18 ether.
Method for obtaining a composite material part from a preform of layers of fibers pre-impregnated with resin stacked on top of one another on a tool, each fiber comprising a plurality of filaments, the preform being delimited by a lower surface, an upper surface and a peripheral flank, the preform being subjected to a polymerization phase, characterized in that it consists of attaching to the tool with a convex shape, after the last layer has been laid, a peripheral part comprising a surface away from the flank and a wing adapted to cover a peripheral edge of the upper surface, so as to generate in the periphery of the preform, a peripheral cavity adjacent to the flank of the preform, the filaments of the fibers comprising a first end arranged in the area of a first zone of the flank and a second end arranged in the area of a second zone of the flank spaced from the first zone and, before the polymerization phase, withdrawing, by suction means arranged in the area of the first and second zones of the flank, gas present in the peripheral cavity so as to tension filaments of the preform by exerting a traction force at ends of the filaments.
A method for optimizing rate of penetration when drilling into a geological formation, comprising the steps of: gathering real-time PWD (pressure while drilling) data; acquiring modeled ECD (equivalent circulating density) data; calculating the standard deviation of the differences of said real-time PWD and said modeled ECD data; calculating a predicted maximum tolerable ECD based on the calculated standard deviation; and determining the rate of penetration of a drill string based on the maximum tolerable ECD of a drilling process. gathering real-time PWD (pressure while drilling) data; acquiring modeled ECD (equivalent circulating density) data; calculating the standard deviation of the differences of said real-time PWD and said modeled ECD data; calculating a predicted maximum tolerable ECD based on the calculated standard deviation; and determining the rate of penetration of a drill string based on the maximum tolerable ECD of a drilling process.
A controller for a load circuit which is configured to connect a power source with a load, comprising: a plurality of semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) arranged in parallel and configured to control driving and stopping of the load by switching ON and OFF state of the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2); current sensors (12, 22), whereby a respective current sensor (12, 22) is provided for each of the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) to detect currents flowing through the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2); and a control unit configured to output control signals to the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) so that the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) are turned on and off in different ON-time zones and different OFF-time zones with respect to each semiconductor switch (Q1, Q2) when a drive command signal is inputted to the control unit, and configured to shut off the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) based on the currents detected by the current sensors (12, 22). a plurality of semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) arranged in parallel and configured to control driving and stopping of the load by switching ON and OFF state of the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2); current sensors (12, 22), whereby a respective current sensor (12, 22) is provided for each of the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) to detect currents flowing through the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2); and a control unit configured to output control signals to the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) so that the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) are turned on and off in different ON-time zones and different OFF-time zones with respect to each semiconductor switch (Q1, Q2) when a drive command signal is inputted to the control unit, and configured to shut off the semiconductor switches (Q1, Q2) based on the currents detected by the current sensors (12, 22).
A method of operating a gas sensor for a gas analyte including a sensing component, comprising: in a first mode, interrogating the sensor by periodically applying an electrical signal to the sensing component of the sensor, measuring a sensor response to the electrical signal which is indicative of a sensitivity of the sensor each time the electrical signal is applied to the sensing component, determining whether one or more thresholds have been exceeded based upon the sensor response determined each time the electrical signal is applied to the sensing component, and entering a second mode, different from the first mode in analysis of the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals, if one or more thresholds are exceeded, characrerised in that the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals in the second mode is analyzed to determine if the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals is stabilizing. in a first mode, interrogating the sensor by periodically applying an electrical signal to the sensing component of the sensor, measuring a sensor response to the electrical signal which is indicative of a sensitivity of the sensor each time the electrical signal is applied to the sensing component, determining whether one or more thresholds have been exceeded based upon the sensor response determined each time the electrical signal is applied to the sensing component, and entering a second mode, different from the first mode in analysis of the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals, if one or more thresholds are exceeded, characrerised in that the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals in the second mode is analyzed to determine if the sensor response to the periodically applied electrical signals is stabilizing.
A real-time thermocycler (100, 200), comprising: - a well (120, 230a-b) for storing a sample comprising a target and fluorescence molecules, - a thermal unit for adjusting a temperature of the sample, - an excitation unit for exciting the fluorescence molecules of the sample via radiation, - a detection unit for detecting a fluorescence signal (124, 224a-b) from the sample, and - a controller for controlling the excitation unit characterised in that the controller is configured to adjust an intensity of the excitation of the sample based on information about the target, such that the fluorescence signal is in a working range of the detection unit. - a well (120, 230a-b) for storing a sample comprising a target and fluorescence molecules, - a thermal unit for adjusting a temperature of the sample, - an excitation unit for exciting the fluorescence molecules of the sample via radiation, - a detection unit for detecting a fluorescence signal (124, 224a-b) from the sample, and - a controller for controlling the excitation unit characterised in that the controller is configured to adjust an intensity of the excitation of the sample based on information about the target, such that the fluorescence signal is in a working range of the detection unit.
A liquefier (5, 105, 205, 305, 405) for use in an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system, the liquefier describing a passageway having an inlet portion (51, 151, 251, 351, 451) with a substantially circular cross-section for receipt of a filament of material and an outlet (56, 156, 256, 356, 456) downstream of the inlet portion, wherein the passageway transitions from the inlet portion to a non-circular portion (53, 153, 253, 353, 453) downstream of the inlet portion and the non-circular portion or a segment thereof splays or flares toward a substantially circular portion (54, 154, 254, 354, 454) at or toward the outlet, the non-circular portion having a non-circular cross-section.
A method of quantizing line spectral frequency vectors in a speech coder, a line spectral frequency vector comprises a plurality of line spectral frequency coefficients, wherein an auto regressive or moving average predictor is used to predict a plurality of predicted line spectral frequency coefficients, said method comprising: obtaining a plurality of quantized line spectral frequency coefficients from the respective predicted line spectral frequency coefficients and a plurality of residual codebook vectors for forming a quantized line spectral frequency representation, the representation having a plurality of elements indicative of said plurality of the quantized line spectral frequency coefficients; rearranging the quantized line spectral frequency coefficients in the frequency domain in an orderly fashion such that the elements in the representation are distributed in an ascending order; and estimating a weighted spectral distortion in the frequency domain based on a difference between each of the rearranged quantized line spectral frequency coefficients and the respective line spectral frequency coefficients, wherein an optimal residual codebook vector is selected from the plurality of residual codebook vectors in order to minimize the estimated weighted spectral distortion. obtaining a plurality of quantized line spectral frequency coefficients from the respective predicted line spectral frequency coefficients and a plurality of residual codebook vectors for forming a quantized line spectral frequency representation, the representation having a plurality of elements indicative of said plurality of the quantized line spectral frequency coefficients; rearranging the quantized line spectral frequency coefficients in the frequency domain in an orderly fashion such that the elements in the representation are distributed in an ascending order; and estimating a weighted spectral distortion in the frequency domain based on a difference between each of the rearranged quantized line spectral frequency coefficients and the respective line spectral frequency coefficients, wherein an optimal residual codebook vector is selected from the plurality of residual codebook vectors in order to minimize the estimated weighted spectral distortion.