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A communications cable, comprising: a core, including: a dielectric separator comprising: a spline extending longitudinally in said core and having opposing ends (162; 164); a first compartment extending along one side of the spline and defining a first channel; and a second compartment extending along an opposite side of said spline opposite the first compartment and defining a second channel; a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors; a first optical fiber disposed in the first channel; and a second optical fiber disposed in the second channel; and an outer jacket substantially surrounding said core and comprising an inner surface; characterised in that wherein said first and second compartments are connected to said spline near a center of said spline, such that said dielectric separator has a crossweb shape; and each said twisted pair of conductors is sandwiched between one of the opposing ends of the spline and either of the first compartment or the second compartment. a core, including: a dielectric separator comprising: a spline extending longitudinally in said core and having opposing ends (162; 164); a first compartment extending along one side of the spline and defining a first channel; and a second compartment extending along an opposite side of said spline opposite the first compartment and defining a second channel; a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors; a first optical fiber disposed in the first channel; and a second optical fiber disposed in the second channel; and a dielectric separator comprising: a spline extending longitudinally in said core and having opposing ends (162; 164); a first compartment extending along one side of the spline and defining a first channel; and a second compartment extending along an opposite side of said spline opposite the first compartment and defining a second channel; a spline extending longitudinally in said core and having opposing ends (162; 164); a first compartment extending along one side of the spline and defining a first channel; and a second compartment extending along an opposite side of said spline opposite the first compartment and defining a second channel; a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors; a first optical fiber disposed in the first channel; and a second optical fiber disposed in the second channel; and an outer jacket substantially surrounding said core and comprising an inner surface; characterised in that wherein said first and second compartments are connected to said spline near a center of said spline, such that said dielectric separator has a crossweb shape; and each said twisted pair of conductors is sandwiched between one of the opposing ends of the spline and either of the first compartment or the second compartment.
An apparatus for measuring the profile of a tread of a tire mounted on a vehicle, comprising a measuring module adapted to be travelled over by the vehicle, and at least one illumination device which is configured and arranged such that during operation it projects at least one light line onto the profile to be measured, and at least one image recording device which is configured for recording at least one image of at least one area of the profile to be measured, wherein the at least one illumination device and the at least one image recording device are configured and arranged such that the illumination direction of the illumination device and the image recording direction of the image recording device are oriented neither parallel to one another nor orthogonally with respect to the tread of the tire during a measurement, and the apparatus comprises a plurality of measuring modules arranged transversely with respect to the running direction of the tire and connected to a shared evaluation device; wherein the illumination devices are configured such that the individual light lines are encoded to be identifiable and in particular to permit unambiguous association thereof with one of the measuring modules; characterized in that the light lines comprise a temporal encoding in that the illumination device is configured such that the light lines are not projected simultaneously onto the tread of the tire, but in a predefined time sequence.
A method of transmitting display data from a remote computer to a local computer having a display whereby a user is able to view said remote computer display data on said local computer display, the method comprising: dividing at least part of the remote computer display data into a plurality of tiles; determining whether each tile represents image data or text data by applying a colour reduction algorithm to each said tile to produce a colour-reduced tile and comparing each tile with its corresponding colour reduced tile; encoding each tile representing text data using a lossless compression; and encoding each tile representing image data using a lossy compression, wherein said transmitted display data comprises said lossy encoded image data and said lossless encoded text data; and wherein said determining step comprises: compressing each said tile using a lossless compression to produce a first encoded copy; compressing said colour reduced tile with said lossless compression used in said first encoding step to produce a second encoded copy; and comparing said first and second encoded copies to determine whether said tile represents image data or text data, wherein a tile represents image data if the size of the first encoded copy is large relative to the size of the second encoded copy and a tile represents text data if the sizes are approximately equal. dividing at least part of the remote computer display data into a plurality of tiles; determining whether each tile represents image data or text data by applying a colour reduction algorithm to each said tile to produce a colour-reduced tile and comparing each tile with its corresponding colour reduced tile; encoding each tile representing text data using a lossless compression; and encoding each tile representing image data using a lossy compression, wherein said transmitted display data comprises said lossy encoded image data and said lossless encoded text data; and wherein said determining step comprises: compressing each said tile using a lossless compression to produce a first encoded copy; compressing said colour reduced tile with said lossless compression used in said first encoding step to produce a second encoded copy; and comparing said first and second encoded copies to determine whether said tile represents image data or text data, wherein a tile represents image data if the size of the first encoded copy is large relative to the size of the second encoded copy and a tile represents text data if the sizes are approximately equal. compressing each said tile using a lossless compression to produce a first encoded copy; compressing said colour reduced tile with said lossless compression used in said first encoding step to produce a second encoded copy; and comparing said first and second encoded copies to determine whether said tile represents image data or text data, wherein a tile represents image data if the size of the first encoded copy is large relative to the size of the second encoded copy and a tile represents text data if the sizes are approximately equal.
A soundproofing device comprising a sound absorbing material having a cellular scaffold (2,110,120,130) with cells (5,96), wherein a thixotropic material is located in the cells (5,96) of the cellular scaffold (2,110), and wherein the thixotropic material exhibits a change in viscosity in response to sound energy; in which the cellular scaffold (2,110) has a honeycomb structure and in which the sound absorbing material comprises a layer of honeycomb structure having top and bottom seal layers (30,31) which seal the cells in the honeycomb structure; or in which the cellular scaffold is in the form of a polymer film having a plurality of cellular compartments or pockets (5,7), and wherein said cellular compartments or pockets (5,7) contain the sound absorbing material.
A helmet comprising: a first pad arranged to contact an occipital region of a user's head; and second pads arranged to contact a user's cheek region respectively, characterized in that the first pad is movably provided in the helmet so as to move from a first occipital region-contact position to a second occipital region-contact position in contact with the occipital region at each positions, each of the second pads is movably provided in the helmet so as to move from a first cheek-contact position to a second cheek-contact position in contact with the cheeks at each position when the first pad moves from the first occipital region-contact position to the second occipital region-contact position, and wherein the helmet is arranged to move relative to a user's head by a predetermined distance when a first state, in which the first pad is located at the first occipital region-contact position and the second pads are located at the first cheek-contact position, is changed into a second state in which the first pad moves to the second occipital region-contact position and the second pads move to the second cheek-contact position. a first pad arranged to contact an occipital region of a user's head; and second pads arranged to contact a user's cheek region respectively, characterized in that the first pad is movably provided in the helmet so as to move from a first occipital region-contact position to a second occipital region-contact position in contact with the occipital region at each positions, each of the second pads is movably provided in the helmet so as to move from a first cheek-contact position to a second cheek-contact position in contact with the cheeks at each position when the first pad moves from the first occipital region-contact position to the second occipital region-contact position, and wherein the helmet is arranged to move relative to a user's head by a predetermined distance when a first state, in which the first pad is located at the first occipital region-contact position and the second pads are located at the first cheek-contact position, is changed into a second state in which the first pad moves to the second occipital region-contact position and the second pads move to the second cheek-contact position.
Filling device for filling fine-grain and dusting bulk goods, such as cement, into a valve bag hanging off a filling spout of a packaging machine, having a filling channel and at least one controllable channel shutter for controlling the passage through the filling channel of bulk material to be filled into the valve bag, wherein the channel shutter comprises, disposed at least partially within the filling channel, a pivotable closing head whose pivot axis is oriented transverse to the filling channel so that in the closed state the channel shutter shuts off the filling channel substantially completely and in the entirely opened state, entirely clears the filling cross section in at least one central region, characterized in that the channel shutter is provided with a cylindrical accommodation therein for the closing head, and that the closing head comprises in the region of the interior of the filling channel at least one closing wall disposed eccentric relative to the pivot axis, and that the pivot axle comprises a pair of axle stubs which are connected in the region of the filling channel by the at least one eccentric closing wall, and that the closing wall is configured as a wall section of a cylinder extending over an angular section.
A method for the production of freeze-dried pellets comprising factor VIII, the method comprising the steps of: a) freezing droplets of a solution comprising factor VIII to form pellets; b) freeze-drying the pellets; characterized in that in step a) the droplets are formed by means of droplet formation of the solution comprising factor VIII into a cooling tower which has a temperature-controllable inner wall surface and an interior temperature below the freezing temperature of the solution and that in step b) the pellets are freeze-dried in a rotating receptacle which is housed inside a vacuum chamber. a) freezing droplets of a solution comprising factor VIII to form pellets; b) freeze-drying the pellets;
Rotor blade mould for producing a rotor blade of a wind turbine or a portion thereof with a heatable mould portion having a shaping surface for shaping the rotor blade surface, and wherein the heatable mould portion has at least two heating portions and each heating portion comprises at least one electrical resistance heating element which is arranged on or below the shaping surface and a supply unit for supplying the at least one resistance heating element with electrical current for heating, wherein each supply unit comprises a control unit for controlling the electrical current for heating and optionally a transformer or current controller for providing the electrical current for heating, characterised in that each supply unit has a switch cabinet and the respective control unit for controlling the electrical current for heating is received in the switch cabinet, wherein the control unit or a portion thereof is mounted on a removable outer wall portion of the switch cabinet and in that electrical connections to this outer wall portion are provided as releasable connections in order to simplify a replacement of this outer wall portion including the elements which are mounted thereon with another outer wall portion.
A gas turbine engine comprising: an intercooling system; a main compressor section having a downstream most end, and more upstream locations; a turbine section having a high pressure turbine; and a tap for tapping air at a first temperature and pressure from at least one of said more upstream locations in said main compressor section, the intercooling system comprising: a heat exchanger (112; 122) for cooling said tapped air to a second temperature cooler than the first temperature; and a cooling compressor (114; 140) configured to compress the cooled tapped air communicated from the heat exchanger (112; 122) to a second pressure greater than the first pressure and configured to communicate the cooling air to said high pressure turbine, said heat exchanger (112; 122) having at least two passes (128, 132; 144, 148); wherein: one of said passes (128; 144) is configured to pass the tapped air radially outwardly, and a second of said passes (132; 148) is configured to return the cooled tapped air radially inwardly to the cooling compressor (114; 140); and a main fan delivers bypass air into a bypass duct (105; 120) and into said main compressor section, and said heat exchanger (112; 122) is positioned within said bypass duct (105; 120) to be cooled by bypass air. an intercooling system; a main compressor section having a downstream most end, and more upstream locations; a turbine section having a high pressure turbine; and a tap for tapping air at a first temperature and pressure from at least one of said more upstream locations in said main compressor section, the intercooling system comprising: a heat exchanger (112; 122) for cooling said tapped air to a second temperature cooler than the first temperature; and a cooling compressor (114; 140) configured to compress the cooled tapped air communicated from the heat exchanger (112; 122) to a second pressure greater than the first pressure and configured to communicate the cooling air to said high pressure turbine, said heat exchanger (112; 122) having at least two passes (128, 132; 144, 148); a heat exchanger (112; 122) for cooling said tapped air to a second temperature cooler than the first temperature; and a cooling compressor (114; 140) configured to compress the cooled tapped air communicated from the heat exchanger (112; 122) to a second pressure greater than the first pressure and configured to communicate the cooling air to said high pressure turbine, said heat exchanger (112; 122) having at least two passes (128, 132; 144, 148); wherein: one of said passes (128; 144) is configured to pass the tapped air radially outwardly, and a second of said passes (132; 148) is configured to return the cooled tapped air radially inwardly to the cooling compressor (114; 140); and a main fan delivers bypass air into a bypass duct (105; 120) and into said main compressor section, and said heat exchanger (112; 122) is positioned within said bypass duct (105; 120) to be cooled by bypass air.
A metal resin composite member for a tire, comprising a metal cord and a resin layer, the resin layer being formed of a resin mixture that includes a thermoplastic resin A, which has a hard segment and a soft segment, and a thermoplastic resin B, which is formed of the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A, and a ratio of the hard segment in the resin mixture being from 60% by mass to less than 75% by mass, wherein the same structural units refers to a case in which thermoplastic resin B consists only of the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A, or a case in which thermoplastic resin B includes the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A in an amount of 80% by mass or more, of the total structural units, characterized in that the thermoplastic resin A is a polyester thermoplastic elastomer and the thermoplastic resin B is a polybutylene terephthalate. the resin layer being formed of a resin mixture that includes a thermoplastic resin A, which has a hard segment and a soft segment, and a thermoplastic resin B, which is formed of the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A, and a ratio of the hard segment in the resin mixture being from 60% by mass to less than 75% by mass, wherein the same structural units refers to a case in which thermoplastic resin B consists only of the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A, or a case in which thermoplastic resin B includes the same structural units as the hard segment of thermoplastic resin A in an amount of 80% by mass or more, of the total structural units, characterized in that the thermoplastic resin A is a polyester thermoplastic elastomer and the thermoplastic resin B is a polybutylene terephthalate.
A drying device that dries ink discharged onto a surface of a recording medium, comprising: a drying conveyor portion that conveys the recording medium; and a blower portion that blows air toward the recording medium substantially parallel to an ink recording surface of the recording medium being conveyed by the drying conveyor portion and substantially parallel to a conveying direction of the recording medium and an air blowing passage provided in the blower portion, characterised in that the air blowing passage that encloses a conveying path along which a recording medium is conveyed by the drying conveyor portion in a continuous area extending from upstream to downstream in the conveying direction, and has upstream and downstream ends thereof open, through which the recording medium passes, so that air blown toward the recording medium flows through the air blowing passage. a drying conveyor portion that conveys the recording medium; and a blower portion that blows air toward the recording medium substantially parallel to an ink recording surface of the recording medium being conveyed by the drying conveyor portion and substantially parallel to a conveying direction of the recording medium and an air blowing passage provided in the blower portion, characterised in that the air blowing passage that encloses a conveying path along which a recording medium is conveyed by the drying conveyor portion in a continuous area extending from upstream to downstream in the conveying direction, and has upstream and downstream ends thereof open, through which the recording medium passes, so that air blown toward the recording medium flows through the air blowing passage.
Method for stressing a pattern which has a so-called pattern surface into a layer of semiconductor material which may be of silicon on the surface of a stack of layers produced on the surface of a substrate, the stack comprising at least one stressed layer of alloy Si x Ge y with x and y being molar fractions and the molar fraction y being equal to 1-x, and a layer of buried silicon oxide, characterised in that: - it comprises the etching, at the periphery of a surface having dimensions greater than those of the pattern surface, of the layer of buried silicon oxide and the stressed layer of alloy Si x Ge y over the depth of the layer of alloy; - the stressed layer of Si x Ge y in a compressed state being at least partially relaxed during the etching which defines the active zones, a tensile stress being induced in the layer of semiconductor material which may be of silicon, - the layer of buried silicon oxide being located between the layer of semiconductor material which may be of silicon and the stressed layer of alloy Si x Ge y. - it comprises the etching, at the periphery of a surface having dimensions greater than those of the pattern surface, of the layer of buried silicon oxide and the stressed layer of alloy Si x Ge y over the depth of the layer of alloy; - the stressed layer of Si x Ge y in a compressed state being at least partially relaxed during the etching which defines the active zones, a tensile stress being induced in the layer of semiconductor material which may be of silicon, - the layer of buried silicon oxide being located between the layer of semiconductor material which may be of silicon and the stressed layer of alloy Si x Ge y.
An imaging system, comprising: a detector module, including: a block of a plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels; and corresponding electronics (124, 604, 606, 132, 134 or 124, 128, 130, 134, 802) with hardware for both high energy resolution imaging mode and high X-ray flux imaging mode connected with the block of the plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels, the hardware comprising: a first shaper (128 1, 606 1) configured to operate at a first speed; a plurality of second shapers (128 2 -128 4, 606 2 -606 4) configured to operate at a second speed; and a controller configured to configure the detector module for one of high energy resolution imaging or high X-ray flux imaging, the imaging system being characterized in that the first speed is higher than the second speed. a detector module, including: a block of a plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels; and corresponding electronics (124, 604, 606, 132, 134 or 124, 128, 130, 134, 802) with hardware for both high energy resolution imaging mode and high X-ray flux imaging mode connected with the block of the plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels, the hardware comprising: a block of a plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels; and corresponding electronics (124, 604, 606, 132, 134 or 124, 128, 130, 134, 802) with hardware for both high energy resolution imaging mode and high X-ray flux imaging mode connected with the block of the plurality of direct conversion photon counting detector pixels, the hardware comprising: a first shaper (128 1, 606 1) configured to operate at a first speed; a plurality of second shapers (128 2 -128 4, 606 2 -606 4) configured to operate at a second speed; and a controller configured to configure the detector module for one of high energy resolution imaging or high X-ray flux imaging, the imaging system being characterized in that the first speed is higher than the second speed.