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Paper machine clothing comprising a substrate with an upper side, a lower side, two lateral edges and an usable region between the two lateral edges, wherein the usable region comprises a plurality of through-channels extending through the substrate and connecting the upper side with the lower side, wherein the through-channels are non-cylindrical with a cross sectional area becoming smaller when going in a thickness direction of the substrate from the upper side to a middle region of the substrate between the upper side and the lower side, characterized in that a shape of the cross sectional area of at least one through-channel, preferably of all through-channels, of the plurality of through-channels changes when going in the thickness direction of the substrate from the upper side to the lower side.
A well template comprising a template structure resting on a seabed foundation, wherein the template structure and the seabed foundation are mutually connected through a connection (10; 11) that permits movable engagement between the template structure and the seabed foundation, at least in vertical directions, wherein the movable connection between the template structure and the seabed foundation comprises a column that is arranged to rise vertically from an upper end of a suction anchor, the column being slidingly received in a guiding tube, wherein the guiding tube is formed on a structural member extending from a base frame included in the template structure.
A storage wagon for transporting bulk material, including a bottom conveyor belt which is arranged in place of a bottom surface within a container resting on a wagon frame and has a front discharge end, with regard to a transport direction, and a rear receiving end, characterized in that the bottom conveyor belt is adjustable relative to the container by means of drives (11, 22, 26) from a basic position suited for maximal accommodation of bulk material in the container into a transfer position intended for transferring bulk material, in which the discharge end is raised with respect to the receiving end.
Blade angle adjustment drive for a wind power plant having at least one electrical converter, at least one electric motor electrically coupled to the converter which is powered or can be powered by the converter, at least one rotor blade coupled to the electric motor which is or can be rotated by means of the electric motor around a rotor blade axis, at least one monitoring unit which monitors the operation of the converter, which detects one or more malfunctions in the operation of the converter, on the basis of which operation of the converter is or can be interrupted at least temporarily, characterized by at least one activatable additional unit, the activation of which prevents or can prevent interruption in the operation of the converter by the monitoring unit during an emergency stop operation.
Apparatus for the hot dip coating of a metal strip with at least two layers, having a continuous furnace for conducting and heating the metal strip, having a first vessel, which is disposed downstream of the continuous furnace in the travel direction of the metal strip and is filled with a melt (11.1), and having at least one second vessel filled with a melt (12.1), having a nozzle disposed between the continuous furnace and the first vessel for conducting and introducing the metal strip into the melt (11.1) in the first vessel, having a transition (11.2) disposed between the vessels (11, 12) for conducting the metal strip, having at least one deflection roller disposed in the second vessel for deflecting and discharging the metal strip from the second vessel, characterized in that at the transition (11.2) at least one inductor is disposed and wherein at least one heating means is provided, which is disposed in the travel direction of the metal strip between the first and second vessels (11, 12).
A security element for manufacturing value documents, such as banknotes, checks or the like, having a substrate with an upper side and making available at least one image, wherein - the image is formed by a micro cavity structure having a multiplicity of adjacent micro cavities (5, 6) and by a smooth region, - the micro cavities have, respectively in a spatial direction lying parallel to the upper side, a structure width (w) of 0.5 μm to 3 μm and perpendicularly thereto a structure depth (t), and have an aspect ratio defined by the ratio of the structure depth (t) to the structure width (w), and - to the micro cavity structure and the smooth region a metalliferous coating is applied, characterized in that - the aspect ratio of the micro cavities (5, 6) is greater than 0.3 and - the metalliferous coating on the micro cavity structure is so configured that the micro cavity structure and the smooth region upon transmissive viewing have a brightness difference of at least 10%, such that the micro cavity structure forms a first image region and the smooth region forms a second image region of the image. - the image is formed by a micro cavity structure having a multiplicity of adjacent micro cavities (5, 6) and by a smooth region, - the micro cavities have, respectively in a spatial direction lying parallel to the upper side, a structure width (w) of 0.5 μm to 3 μm and perpendicularly thereto a structure depth (t), and have an aspect ratio defined by the ratio of the structure depth (t) to the structure width (w), and - to the micro cavity structure and the smooth region a metalliferous coating is applied, - the aspect ratio of the micro cavities (5, 6) is greater than 0.3 and - the metalliferous coating on the micro cavity structure is so configured that the micro cavity structure and the smooth region upon transmissive viewing have a brightness difference of at least 10%, such that the micro cavity structure forms a first image region and the smooth region forms a second image region of the image.
A portable skin diagnosis device comprising: • a first measuring system comprising: • a diffuser; • an acquisition opening for placing in front of the skin; • a lighting system so as to illuminate the skin in the acquisition opening; • an optical detector that receives the light reflected by the skin placed in the acquisition opening; wherein • the lighting system is placed behind the diffuser so as to illuminate the skin in the acquisition opening via the diffuser; and • the optical detector is housed in an opaque tube that is pointed towards the acquisition opening, the lighting system surrounding the opaque tube and the diffuser including a material that is transparent to the wavelengths of the light emitted by the lighting system, the diffuser presenting a shape that is concave towards the acquisition opening; and wherein the device further comprises • a second measuring system that is configured to take a measurement on the skin in a manner that is not optical. • a first measuring system comprising: • a diffuser; • an acquisition opening for placing in front of the skin; • a lighting system so as to illuminate the skin in the acquisition opening; • an optical detector that receives the light reflected by the skin placed in the acquisition opening; wherein • the lighting system is placed behind the diffuser so as to illuminate the skin in the acquisition opening via the diffuser; and • the optical detector is housed in an opaque tube that is pointed towards the acquisition opening, the lighting system surrounding the opaque tube and the diffuser including a material that is transparent to the wavelengths of the light emitted by the lighting system, the diffuser presenting a shape that is concave towards the acquisition opening; and wherein the device further comprises • a second measuring system that is configured to take a measurement on the skin in a manner that is not optical.
A method for manufacturing a flexible electro-optical apparatus, comprising the steps of: manufacturing a lower substrate portion wherein a single-crystal layer is formed on the upper surface of said lower substrate portion; forming device layers wherein electronic devices are formed on the single-crystal layer; manufacturing a transparent upper substrate portion with an upper supporting substrate bonded to it; bonding said lower substrate portion and said upper substrate portion; injecting an electro-optical material between said lower substrate portion and said upper substrate portion; and making said bonded lower and upper substrate portions flexible; wherein said upper substrate portion is flexible, and the step of making said bonded lower and upper substrate portions flexible comprises the step of holding the bonded upper and lower substrate portions by an etching jig and removing a lower portion of said lower substrate portion; removing said upper supporting substrate. manufacturing a lower substrate portion wherein a single-crystal layer is formed on the upper surface of said lower substrate portion; forming device layers wherein electronic devices are formed on the single-crystal layer; manufacturing a transparent upper substrate portion with an upper supporting substrate bonded to it; bonding said lower substrate portion and said upper substrate portion; injecting an electro-optical material between said lower substrate portion and said upper substrate portion; and making said bonded lower and upper substrate portions flexible; wherein said upper substrate portion is flexible, and the step of making said bonded lower and upper substrate portions flexible comprises the step of holding the bonded upper and lower substrate portions by an etching jig and removing a lower portion of said lower substrate portion; removing said upper supporting substrate.
Transport vehicle of a carriage, including an opening and a loading platform, intended to receive by rolling the said carriage, characterised in that it comprises a hook fixed by a reversible separation device to a baseplate attached to the vehicle's loading platform, the insertion of a component of the said carriage into an opening of the hook triggering the closing of the hook on the said component by a fastener pivoting around an axis and the release by the reversible separation device of the hook of the baseplate, the said hook linked with the carriage being towed by a flexible band winding into a hoist fixed in the vehicle, and guiding means able to position the hook to the upright position and in contact with the baseplate when the carriage is extracted from the vehicle, the contact of the hook on the reversible separation device triggering the opening of the hook, to release the component of the said carriage and the linking of the hook on the baseplate.
A vehicle seat peripheral structure, comprising: a storage box attachable to a vehicle body; a seat turnably attached to a front end of the storage box through a hinge, and opening and closing the storage box; and a damper device interposed between the storage box and the seat, wherein the damper device includes: a cylinder; a piston slidably received inside the cylinder; a piston rod having one end connected to the piston, and another end protruding from the cylinder; wherein one of either the cylinder or the piston rod is turnably supported by an axis on one of either the storage box or the seat around a predetermined damper rotational axis line, and characterized in that the damper device further includes: an urging member urging the piston rod in a direction protruding from the cylinder, and wherein another of either the cylinder or the piston rod forms a free end, and slidingly contacts with a load receiving portion provided in another of either the storage box or the seat. a storage box attachable to a vehicle body; a seat turnably attached to a front end of the storage box through a hinge, and opening and closing the storage box; and a damper device interposed between the storage box and the seat, wherein the damper device includes: a cylinder; a piston slidably received inside the cylinder; a piston rod having one end connected to the piston, and another end protruding from the cylinder; a cylinder; a piston slidably received inside the cylinder; a piston rod having one end connected to the piston, and another end protruding from the cylinder; wherein one of either the cylinder or the piston rod is turnably supported by an axis on one of either the storage box or the seat around a predetermined damper rotational axis line, and characterized in that the damper device further includes: an urging member urging the piston rod in a direction protruding from the cylinder, and an urging member urging the piston rod in a direction protruding from the cylinder, and wherein another of either the cylinder or the piston rod forms a free end, and slidingly contacts with a load receiving portion provided in another of either the storage box or the seat.
A method of medical ultrasound imaging a body having nonlinear acoustic propagation properties, the method including: transmitting an acoustic transmit signal in the form of a slow decay signal burst including at least one transmit acoustic frequency such that at least some of the acoustic energy of the transmit signal is transmitted into the body; the body producing in response to the acoustic energy a demodulation of the transmit signal as a demodulated signal; and receiving an acoustic receive signal comprising echoes of the demodulated signal, the receive signal having a frequency approximately equal to the frequency of the demodulated signal; wherein the envelope of the transmit signal has an amplitude rise time which is significantly less than its amplitude decay time, such that the demodulated signal is not more than one cycle in duration. transmitting an acoustic transmit signal in the form of a slow decay signal burst including at least one transmit acoustic frequency such that at least some of the acoustic energy of the transmit signal is transmitted into the body; the body producing in response to the acoustic energy a demodulation of the transmit signal as a demodulated signal; and receiving an acoustic receive signal comprising echoes of the demodulated signal, the receive signal having a frequency approximately equal to the frequency of the demodulated signal; wherein the envelope of the transmit signal has an amplitude rise time which is significantly less than its amplitude decay time, such that the demodulated signal is not more than one cycle in duration.
An electronic lock, comprising: a lock body; a shackle to transition between a locked state and unlocked state relative to the lock body; a lock control system to maintain the shackle in the locked state in response to receiving first locking command from a first keyholder; a multi-keyholder management system to receive a locking command associated with a second keyholder; and an unlock control system to release the shackle to the unlocked state after receiving both: (i) an unlock command from the first keyholder providing a first keyholder credential, and (ii) an unlock command from the second keyholder providing a second keyholder credential, wherein the unlock control system is further configured to release the shackle to the unlocked state in response to receiving a digital bolt- cutting unlock request from an entity having bolt-cutting authority. a lock body; a shackle to transition between a locked state and unlocked state relative to the lock body; a lock control system to maintain the shackle in the locked state in response to receiving first locking command from a first keyholder; a multi-keyholder management system to receive a locking command associated with a second keyholder; and an unlock control system to release the shackle to the unlocked state after receiving both: (i) an unlock command from the first keyholder providing a first keyholder credential, and (ii) an unlock command from the second keyholder providing a second keyholder credential, (i) an unlock command from the first keyholder providing a first keyholder credential, and (ii) an unlock command from the second keyholder providing a second keyholder credential, wherein the unlock control system is further configured to release the shackle to the unlocked state in response to receiving a digital bolt- cutting unlock request from an entity having bolt-cutting authority.
An illuminator comprising: a short wave infrared, SWIR, laser; a defocussed lens collimator optically coupled to the laser, the defocussed lens collimator configured to produce a diverging semi-circular beam by diverging the beam emitted by the laser; a first beam shaping diffuser optically coupled to the defocused lens collimator to diffuse the diverged beam produced by the defocused lens collimator, wherein the first beam shaping diffuser is a 5 degree circular beam shaping diffuser; a second beam shaping diffuser optically coupled to the first beam shaping diffuser to further diffuse the diffused beam produced by the first beam shaping diffuser the second beam shaping diffuser being configured to create a 90 degree horizontal by 40 degree vertical illumination field with a Gaussian distribution centered in the horizontal plane; and a bandpass filter optically connected to the second beam shaping diffuser configured to filter the emissions of a further diffused beam produced by the second beam shaping diffuser, wherein the bandpass filter is configured to pass a Full-Width-Half-Maximum bandwidth of about 100 nm, to allow laser energy at 1550 nm to pass through. a short wave infrared, SWIR, laser; a defocussed lens collimator optically coupled to the laser, the defocussed lens collimator configured to produce a diverging semi-circular beam by diverging the beam emitted by the laser; a first beam shaping diffuser optically coupled to the defocused lens collimator to diffuse the diverged beam produced by the defocused lens collimator, wherein the first beam shaping diffuser is a 5 degree circular beam shaping diffuser; a second beam shaping diffuser optically coupled to the first beam shaping diffuser to further diffuse the diffused beam produced by the first beam shaping diffuser the second beam shaping diffuser being configured to create a 90 degree horizontal by 40 degree vertical illumination field with a Gaussian distribution centered in the horizontal plane; and a bandpass filter optically connected to the second beam shaping diffuser configured to filter the emissions of a further diffused beam produced by the second beam shaping diffuser, wherein the bandpass filter is configured to pass a Full-Width-Half-Maximum bandwidth of about 100 nm, to allow laser energy at 1550 nm to pass through.
Microwave disinfection system configured to destroy or inactivate in real time one or more pathogens by means of one or more microwave irradiations, wherein said microwave disinfection system comprises a microwave disinfection device including: - a control section including electronic control means and storage means; and - a microwave irradiation section controlled by the electronic control means and configured to emit microwave signals; the microwave disinfection system further comprising human-machine interface means connected to the control section and configured to allow a user to configure the control section by setting and storing in the storage means one or more predefined microwave irradiation parameters related to one or more predefined microwave disinfection treatments against one or more pathogens; wherein the electronic control means are configured to operate the microwave irradiation section based on the predefined microwave irradiation parameter(s) stored in the storage means such that said microwave irradiation section performs the predefined microwave disinfection treatment(s) against said pathogen(s); wherein the microwave irradiation section is configured to, when operated by the electronic control means, perform one or more microwave irradiations based on said predefined microwave irradiation parameter(s); characterized in that the human-machine interface means are configured to allow a user to set and store in the storage means, for a specific pathogen, one or more respective predefined microwave irradiation parameters related to one or more respective predefined microwave disinfection treatments against said specific pathogen. - a control section including electronic control means and storage means; and - a microwave irradiation section controlled by the electronic control means and configured to emit microwave signals; the microwave disinfection system further comprising human-machine interface means connected to the control section and configured to allow a user to configure the control section by setting and storing in the storage means one or more predefined microwave irradiation parameters related to one or more predefined microwave disinfection treatments against one or more pathogens; wherein the electronic control means are configured to operate the microwave irradiation section based on the predefined microwave irradiation parameter(s) stored in the storage means such that said microwave irradiation section performs the predefined microwave disinfection treatment(s) against said pathogen(s); wherein the microwave irradiation section is configured to, when operated by the electronic control means, perform one or more microwave irradiations based on said predefined microwave irradiation parameter(s); characterized in that the human-machine interface means are configured to allow a user to set and store in the storage means, for a specific pathogen, one or more respective predefined microwave irradiation parameters related to one or more respective predefined microwave disinfection treatments against said specific pathogen.
A solid-state image pickup device comprising: a pixel unit and a read circuit configured to sample, at a sample timing (S/H), pixel data corresponding to a single line transferred from the pixel unit once a cycle of a horizontal synchronizing signal (Hsync); characterized in that the solid-state image pickup device further comprises a lens driver-control means adapted to control operation timing of a pulse-driven lens actuator driver based on the sampling timing (S/H) of the read circuit, wherein the lens driver-control means is adapted to synchronize the operation timing with the sampling timing, and to set a cycle of a pulse signal of the lens actuator driver to an integral multiple and/or an integral submultiple of the cycle of the horizontal synchronizing signal (Hsync), and then to change the phase of the pulse signal of the actuator driver so that the sampling timing of the read circuit does not overlap an edge of the pulse signal. a pixel unit and a read circuit configured to sample, at a sample timing (S/H), pixel data corresponding to a single line transferred from the pixel unit once a cycle of a horizontal synchronizing signal (Hsync); characterized in that the solid-state image pickup device further comprises a lens driver-control means adapted to control operation timing of a pulse-driven lens actuator driver based on the sampling timing (S/H) of the read circuit, wherein the lens driver-control means is adapted to synchronize the operation timing with the sampling timing, and to set a cycle of a pulse signal of the lens actuator driver to an integral multiple and/or an integral submultiple of the cycle of the horizontal synchronizing signal (Hsync), and then to change the phase of the pulse signal of the actuator driver so that the sampling timing of the read circuit does not overlap an edge of the pulse signal.