mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Timepiece movement comprising a magnetic escapement formed in part by an escape wheel (42; 52) which participates in a magnetic system of this magnetic escapement and which is provided with at least one functional permanent magnet (20, 22), the set of the functional permanent magnets of the escape wheel having a total magnetic moment that is oriented in a general direction of magnetisation, this escape wheel further comprising at least one permanent magnet (44; 44A) for compensating said total magnetic moment, said at least one compensating permanent magnet being arranged such that the vector addition of the total magnetic moment with the compensating magnetic moment results in either a zero vector or in a resultant vector whose norm is less than the norm of the total magnetic moment.
A composition [composition] comprising: - at least one aromatic polymer [polymer], - at least one fluorinated polyurethane [F-TPU polymer], said F-TPU polymer comprising recurring units derived from: optionally [monomer (a)] at least one diol selected from the group comprising poly-ether type diol, poly-ester type diol, polybutadien-diol and polycarbonate-diol; [monomer (b)] at least one hydroxy-terminated (per)fluoropolyether polymer [PFPE polymer]; [monomer (c)] at least one aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate; and [monomer (d)] at least one aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic diol having from 1 to 14 carbon atoms; and - optionally at least one further ingredient - at least one aromatic polymer [polymer], - at least one fluorinated polyurethane [F-TPU polymer], said F-TPU polymer comprising recurring units derived from: optionally [monomer (a)] at least one diol selected from the group comprising poly-ether type diol, poly-ester type diol, polybutadien-diol and polycarbonate-diol; [monomer (b)] at least one hydroxy-terminated (per)fluoropolyether polymer [PFPE polymer]; [monomer (c)] at least one aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate; and [monomer (d)] at least one aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic diol having from 1 to 14 carbon atoms; and optionally [monomer (a)] at least one diol selected from the group comprising poly-ether type diol, poly-ester type diol, polybutadien-diol and polycarbonate-diol; [monomer (b)] at least one hydroxy-terminated (per)fluoropolyether polymer [PFPE polymer]; [monomer (c)] at least one aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate; and [monomer (d)] at least one aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic diol having from 1 to 14 carbon atoms; and - optionally at least one further ingredient
A method for use in a network node, the method comprising: transmitting a set of system information transmissions, wherein each transmission within the set comprises system information, and wherein the set of transmissions enable soft combining by configuring a portion of the system information to be the same for each transmission within the set; for each transmission, providing an indication of an identifier associated with the respective transmission, wherein the indication: enables a wireless device to determine that the transmissions belong to the set of system information transmissions and are therefore capable of being soft-combined; is provided other than in the system information; and is provided by encoding the indication on a reference signal. transmitting a set of system information transmissions, wherein each transmission within the set comprises system information, and wherein the set of transmissions enable soft combining by configuring a portion of the system information to be the same for each transmission within the set; for each transmission, providing an indication of an identifier associated with the respective transmission, wherein the indication: enables a wireless device to determine that the transmissions belong to the set of system information transmissions and are therefore capable of being soft-combined; is provided other than in the system information; and is provided by encoding the indication on a reference signal. enables a wireless device to determine that the transmissions belong to the set of system information transmissions and are therefore capable of being soft-combined; is provided other than in the system information; and is provided by encoding the indication on a reference signal.
A method for recovering steel reinforcements from a conveyor belt carcass having steel reinforcements (17, 18) which are bonded to the carcass of the conveyor belt, comprising the steps of heating the steel reinforcements (17, 18) in the conveyor belt by induction heating to a temperature which is sufficient to substantially breakdown bonding between the steel reinforcements (17, 18) and the carcass of the conveyor belt and applying a mechanical force to the steel reinforcements (17, 18) which is sufficient to separate the steel reinforcements (17, 18) from the conveyor belt carcass, said method being characterized in that the steel reinforcements are separated from the conveyor belt by pulling every other steel reinforcement in the conveyor belt in a first direction with the remaining steel reinforcements being pulled in another direction to split the conveyor belt into a first split component and a second split component, and reeling the steel reinforcing elements from the first split component onto a first steel cord take-up spool and the rubber component from the first split component onto a first rubber take-up spool, and simultaneously reeling the steel reinforcing elements from the second split component onto a second steel cord take-up spool and the rubber component from the second split component onto a second rubber take-up spool.
A composition comprising: an isolated Leukocidin E (LukE) protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, or a polypeptide thereof, having a non-functional CXCR1/CXCR2 binding domain, wherein one or more amino acid residues within the amino acid sequence of amino acid residues 182-196 of SEQ ID NO: 4 is substituted or deleted; and, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. an isolated Leukocidin E (LukE) protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, or a polypeptide thereof, having a non-functional CXCR1/CXCR2 binding domain, wherein one or more amino acid residues within the amino acid sequence of amino acid residues 182-196 of SEQ ID NO: 4 is substituted or deleted; and, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
A method of quantifying a multimeric free light chain in a sample comprising: (i) treating the multimeric free light chain for 5 seconds to 20 minutes with a separating agent selected to convert the multimeric free light chain into monomeric free light chain; (ii) binding the treated free light chain of step (i) to a free light chain-specific binding agent, wherein the free light chain-specific binding agent is a free light chain-specific antibody or free light chain-specific fragment thereof; (iii) comparing the amount of binding of the free light chain to the free light chain-specific binding agent to a calibration curve, wherein the calibration curve is obtained (i) by binding the free light chain-specific binding agent to one or more predetermined amounts of separating agent treated multimeric free light chain, prior to contacting with free light chain-specific binding agent or (ii) by binding the free light chain-specific binding agent to a predetermined amount of monomeric free light chain; and (iv) determining an amount of the multimeric free light chain in the sample; wherein the sample is a blood, serum or plasma, the separating agent is selected from cysteine, gluathione, tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP), β-mercaptoethanol (2-ME) β-mercaptoethylamine (cysteamine, 2-MEA), dithiothreitol and dithioerythritol and the concentration of the separating agent with the multimeric free light chain is less than 100 mM. (i) treating the multimeric free light chain for 5 seconds to 20 minutes with a separating agent selected to convert the multimeric free light chain into monomeric free light chain; (ii) binding the treated free light chain of step (i) to a free light chain-specific binding agent, wherein the free light chain-specific binding agent is a free light chain-specific antibody or free light chain-specific fragment thereof; (iii) comparing the amount of binding of the free light chain to the free light chain-specific binding agent to a calibration curve, wherein the calibration curve is obtained (i) by binding the free light chain-specific binding agent to one or more predetermined amounts of separating agent treated multimeric free light chain, prior to contacting with free light chain-specific binding agent or (ii) by binding the free light chain-specific binding agent to a predetermined amount of monomeric free light chain; and (iv) determining an amount of the multimeric free light chain in the sample;
A method for photoluminescence measurement of a photovoltaic cell sample which comprises two faces, connected by a contour C, called a front face and a rear face respectively, the photovoltaic cell bearing on an accommodating face of a base plate, called an active base plate, at its rear face, the photovoltaic cell comprising at least one first region partly delimited by the contour C and which emits a photoluminescence signal with an intensity, called a first intensity, at any point lower than the mean intensity of the photoluminescence signal of the sample called a reference intensity, the active base plate emitting a photoluminescence signal with an intensity, called a secondary intensity, at least equal to the reference intensity, the active base plate further comprises an edge B at a distance, according to a projection distance, from the contour C, and delimiting a peripheral section of the active base plate with said contour C. the photovoltaic cell comprising at least one first region partly delimited by the contour C and which emits a photoluminescence signal with an intensity, called a first intensity, at any point lower than the mean intensity of the photoluminescence signal of the sample called a reference intensity, the active base plate emitting a photoluminescence signal with an intensity, called a secondary intensity, at least equal to the reference intensity, the active base plate further comprises an edge B at a distance, according to a projection distance, from the contour C, and delimiting a peripheral section of the active base plate with said contour C.
Tubular container comprising an outer tube, an inner container and at least one air passage area from the exterior of the tubular container towards an intermediate cavity between the outer tube and the inner container, wherein the inner container comprises a skirt arranged around a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the outer tube comprises a skirt arranged around a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end, a distal end and wherein the outer tube comprises a head placed in the proximal end, wherein the tubular container is characterised in that: - the inner container comprises an adapter having a neck, being the adapter arranged at the proximal end of the skirt of the inner container around the longitudinal axis, joined to the head of the outer tube and joined to the skirt of the inner container; - the skirt of the inner container comprises a first section, having a length and extending from the distal end towards the proximal end of the skirt, and a second section, extending from the first section towards the neck of the adapter, wherein the second section comprises a deployable portion of the skirt with a length, being the total length of the skirt equal to the sum of the length of the first section plus the length of the deployable portion, wherein the deployable portion is located under the adapter and joined to the adapter; and wherein - the skirts (2a, 2b) have an adjustable length difference (h) at the distal ends (6a, 6b) depending on the length of the deployable portion. - the inner container comprises an adapter having a neck, being the adapter arranged at the proximal end of the skirt of the inner container around the longitudinal axis, joined to the head of the outer tube and joined to the skirt of the inner container; - the skirt of the inner container comprises a first section, having a length and extending from the distal end towards the proximal end of the skirt, and a second section, extending from the first section towards the neck of the adapter, wherein the second section comprises a deployable portion of the skirt with a length, being the total length of the skirt equal to the sum of the length of the first section plus the length of the deployable portion, wherein the deployable portion is located under the adapter and joined to the adapter; and wherein - the skirts (2a, 2b) have an adjustable length difference (h) at the distal ends (6a, 6b) depending on the length of the deployable portion.
An apparatus designed to load magazines for electrode caps for welding electrodes, characterised by the fact that it consists of an electrode cap rotating conduit which, on one end, is connected to a heliconveyor at the outlet of which the electrode caps will stand on their drilled front side, and which is designed so that the electrode caps are rotated 90° about their Z axis, and which is mounted, with its other end facing the upper end of the guide duct in such a way that the vibrations of the heliconveyor are not transmitted to the other system components, and that the outlet of the electrode cap rotating conduit and the guide duct are facing each other in such a way that the electrode caps are transported in a safe manner, and that said guide duct, with its lower end, is connected to the magazine loading unit which has a magazine connector on the side facing the magazine to be loaded which is designed in such a way that it matches the socket used to fasten the magazine to a cap changer on the machine side, and the magazine connector is equipped with locking lever sensors that detect the correct position of the magazine inside the magazine connector, and houses two ball pressure pieces inside the conduit of the magazine connector which are aligned in the direction of operation, and that the magazine loading unit holds at least one sensor below the guide duct which detects the electrode caps dropping out of the guide duct, and that a cylinder, present on the side opposite to the magazine connector, is mounted inside the magazine loading unit by way of a retainer, and that a pressure piece, connected to the plunger shaft of the cylinder, is located in-between the cylinder and the electrode cap present in the magazine loading unit's conduit, and a ball pressure piece is located behind the sensor in the direction of operation in such a way as to prevent the electrode caps transported from the guide duct from accidentally moving out of the position and leaving the detection zone of the sensor.
A method performed by transmitter apparatus, the transmitter apparatus being provided with a configured grant retransmission counter, CG-ReC, the method comprising: - incrementing or decrementing or toggling the CG-ReC when a new transmission of a packet is performed to a receiver apparatus, wherein a packet includes one or more transport blocks; - in case of a retransmission or an incremental redundancy transmission of the same packet to said receiver apparatus, maintaining the CG-ReC unchanged, where a retransmission is due to channel failure, decoding failure, or LBT failure; - incrementing or decrementing or toggling the CG-ReC when a transmission of a new packet, being different from said packet, is transmitted to the receiver apparatus; - incrementing or decrementing or toggling said CG-ReC by one or more depending on if a counting criteria is performed on a transport block level or based on a number of erroneous code block group(s); and - generating a retransmission assignment indicator, ReAl, signal to be sent to the receiver apparatus, wherein the ReAl signal conveys the value of the CG-ReC from which the receiver, depending on the criteria, derives which code block groups are erroneous or which transport block are erroneous. - incrementing or decrementing or toggling the CG-ReC when a new transmission of a packet is performed to a receiver apparatus, wherein a packet includes one or more transport blocks; - in case of a retransmission or an incremental redundancy transmission of the same packet to said receiver apparatus, maintaining the CG-ReC unchanged, where a retransmission is due to channel failure, decoding failure, or LBT failure; - incrementing or decrementing or toggling the CG-ReC when a transmission of a new packet, being different from said packet, is transmitted to the receiver apparatus; - incrementing or decrementing or toggling said CG-ReC by one or more depending on if a counting criteria is performed on a transport block level or based on a number of erroneous code block group(s); and - generating a retransmission assignment indicator, ReAl, signal to be sent to the receiver apparatus, wherein the ReAl signal conveys the value of the CG-ReC from which the receiver, depending on the criteria, derives which code block groups are erroneous or which transport block are erroneous.
A radio transmitting apparatus comprising: a determination section configured to determine a pattern of a constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence based on a predetermined relationship, and a position of a transmission band and a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal to be transmitted from the radio transmitting apparatus; and a transmission section configured to transmit the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence as the reference signal, wherein the predetermined relationship associates the position of the transmission band and a spectrum of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, further comprising: a cyclic shift section configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, and wherein the cyclic shift section is further configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, using an amount of shift in accordance with the position of the transmission band of the reference signal, in addition to the amount of shift set in a time domain. a determination section configured to determine a pattern of a constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence based on a predetermined relationship, and a position of a transmission band and a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal to be transmitted from the radio transmitting apparatus; and a transmission section configured to transmit the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence as the reference signal, wherein the predetermined relationship associates the position of the transmission band and a spectrum of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, further comprising: a cyclic shift section configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, and wherein the cyclic shift section is further configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, using an amount of shift in accordance with the position of the transmission band of the reference signal, in addition to the amount of shift set in a time domain. a cyclic shift section configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, and wherein the cyclic shift section is further configured to cyclically shift the determined pattern of the constant amplitude and zero auto-correlation code sequence, using an amount of shift in accordance with the position of the transmission band of the reference signal, in addition to the amount of shift set in a time domain.
A steering device of a vehicle, the steering device comprising: a column housing supported by a vehicle body; a column tube supported to be movable with respect to the column housing in an axial direction; and a pressing mechanism interposed between the column tube and the column housing to press the column tube, wherein the pressing mechanism includes: an abutment member that abuts against an outer surface of the column tube; a biasing member that is interposed between the abutment member and the column housing so as to bias the abutment member in a direction toward the column tube; and a shim member (60, 70) that is interposed between the biasing member and the abutment member and includes a supporting portion that abuts against the biasing member, and a pressing portion that abuts against the abutment member, characterized in that the pressing portion abuts against the abutment member in a region shifted from the supporting portion. a column housing supported by a vehicle body; a column tube supported to be movable with respect to the column housing in an axial direction; and a pressing mechanism interposed between the column tube and the column housing to press the column tube, wherein the pressing mechanism includes: an abutment member that abuts against an outer surface of the column tube; a biasing member that is interposed between the abutment member and the column housing so as to bias the abutment member in a direction toward the column tube; and a shim member (60, 70) that is interposed between the biasing member and the abutment member and includes a supporting portion that abuts against the biasing member, and a pressing portion that abuts against the abutment member, an abutment member that abuts against an outer surface of the column tube; a biasing member that is interposed between the abutment member and the column housing so as to bias the abutment member in a direction toward the column tube; and a shim member (60, 70) that is interposed between the biasing member and the abutment member and includes a supporting portion that abuts against the biasing member, and a pressing portion that abuts against the abutment member, characterized in that the pressing portion abuts against the abutment member in a region shifted from the supporting portion.
A system for determining positioning of an intubation tube in a patient, comprising: a first acoustic sensor (104, 110, 156, 304, 310) configured to be disposed to listen to one of a lung and a stomach of the patient and to provide a first signal; and a signal processing unit, coupled to the first acoustic sensor, configured to analyze spectral components of the first signal and determine whether a frequency of the spectral components of the first signal are characteristic of sounds induced by ventilation via the intubation tube of airflow to the lung or the stomach of the patient, and to determine placement of the tube in the body of the patient in response to said analysis, the signal processing unit being further configured to provide an instruction to relocate the first acoustic sensor when the determination is indicative that the placement of the intubation tube is proper. a first acoustic sensor (104, 110, 156, 304, 310) configured to be disposed to listen to one of a lung and a stomach of the patient and to provide a first signal; and a signal processing unit, coupled to the first acoustic sensor, configured to analyze spectral components of the first signal and determine whether a frequency of the spectral components of the first signal are characteristic of sounds induced by ventilation via the intubation tube of airflow to the lung or the stomach of the patient, and to determine placement of the tube in the body of the patient in response to said analysis, the signal processing unit being further configured to provide an instruction to relocate the first acoustic sensor when the determination is indicative that the placement of the intubation tube is proper.