mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A refrigerator comprising a main body, storage chambers (11, 12) provided within the main body, and doors (20, 30) to open and close the storage chambers (11, 12), each door (20, 30) including: a front glass forming an external appearance of a front surface of each door (20, 30); a light guide member disposed on a rear surface of the front glass; a light emitting device disposed at the outside of the light guide member to generate light toward the light guide member such that light is emitted from a front side of the door (20, 30), wherein scattering members are provided within the light guide member to scatter the light of the light emitting device transmitted through the light guide member; and transmitting parts are provided on the front glass corresponding to the scattering members to transmit the light of the scattering members toward the front surface of the door (20, 30), characterized in that the light emitting device changes a light emitting state thereof according to opened and closed states of the doors (20, 30) such that different colors are emitted when the doors (20, 30) are opened and when the doors (20, 30) are closed, respectively. a front glass forming an external appearance of a front surface of each door (20, 30); a light guide member disposed on a rear surface of the front glass; a light emitting device disposed at the outside of the light guide member to generate light toward the light guide member such that light is emitted from a front side of the door (20, 30), wherein scattering members are provided within the light guide member to scatter the light of the light emitting device transmitted through the light guide member; and transmitting parts are provided on the front glass corresponding to the scattering members to transmit the light of the scattering members toward the front surface of the door (20, 30), characterized in that the light emitting device changes a light emitting state thereof according to opened and closed states of the doors (20, 30) such that different colors are emitted when the doors (20, 30) are opened and when the doors (20, 30) are closed, respectively.
A structure (30, 31, 140), such as a concrete structure, with a reinforcement system for anchoring tendons (40, 140) for structural reinforcing the structure, said reinforcement system comprises at least one anchor (50, 150) and at least one tendon (40, 140), said anchor is adapted to fix said tendon in and/or outside said structure characterized in that said reinforcement system comprises a ductility element (10, 110), which is positioned in structural connection, between said tendon (40, 140) and said anchor (50, 150), said ductility element (10, 110) comprising weakened deformation zones, said weakened deformation zones are configured for increasing the ductility of said reinforcement system, said weakened deformation zones being deformable and thereby said weakened deformation zones are configured for allowing the length of deformation zones on the ductility element (10, 110) to increase or decrease in an axial direction along the length of said tendon (40, 140), when the stress on the ductility element (10, 110) exceeds a certain level, in that the ductility element (10, 110) comprises a first end (11, 111), a second end (12, 112) and a through going channel (13, 113), said through going channel being disposed internally within the one or more deformable zones and said tendon (40, 140) being received in said through going channel (13, 113), the through going channel being disposed such that the tensile force on the tendon (40, 140) during use are oriented along the extension of the through going channel (13, 113), so that all the deformation zones are subjected to the same force applied by the stress in the tendon (40, 140), and the weakest deformation zone will thereby collapse first, in that the first end (11, 111) of the ductility element (10, 110) cooperates with the structure (30, 31, 140) for transferring the load from said tendon (40, 140), and in that the second end (12, 112) of the ductility element (10, 110) cooperates with the anchor (50, 150) for fixing the tendon (40, 140), thereby providing a structural connection between the ductility element (10, 110) and the tendon (40, 140).
A fuel cell unit adapted to connect to a positive load rail and a negative load rail, suitable for being one of a number connected in parallel to the positive load rail and the negative load rail, the fuel cell unit comprising a fuel cell, having a fuel cell output voltage presented between a positive fuel cell output terminal and a negative fuel cell output terminal, and a regulating voltage converter having a DC converter output voltage presented across a positive converter output terminal and a negative converter output terminal and an input adapted to be driven; wherein the regulating voltage converter is arranged so that the converter input (12, 14) is driven by the fuel cell output voltage in series with the converter output voltage; and the converter output voltage combines with the fuel cell output voltage such that the sum of the voltage across the fuel cell and the regulating voltage converter corresponds to the voltage across the positive load rail and negative load rail.
Device for locking and unlocking the door of an electric household appliance, wherein a hook member is connected to the door and can be inserted into an opening of a support casing, the device comprising said support casing in which there is provided an electrical switch, the state of which is indicative of the open or closed condition of the door; a retaining member or slider mounted movably with respect to the support casing between a rest position in which it allows the introduction of the hook member into said opening and at least one working position in which it is adapted to retain the hook member introduced into said opening; locking means, including a locking member movable in the casing relative to the retaining member or slider between a disengaged position and an engaged position in which it is adapted to allow and prevent, respectively, the passage of the retaining member or slider from the working position to the rest position, opposing means (14, 50) associated with the locking member and tending to maintain it in the engaged position, and electrically activatable control means adapted to control the position of said locking member; said control means comprising an electrically controlled actuator (25, 26), which can be coupled to a movable toothed wheel through a movable transmission member, and which, as a consequence of successive activations, tends, through the transmission member, to make said toothed wheel alternately assume a first position and a second position, in which the toothed wheel retains and frees, respectively, the locking member, maintaining it in the disengaged position and allowing its passage into the engaged position under the action of said opposing means (14, 50), respectively; wherein said movable transmission member is configured and arranged in such a way that it can interfere with and be locked by said retaining member or slider when the latter is in a rest position, in which said door is open, thus impeding the passage of the aforesaid toothed wheel to said second position, the arrangement being such that, if the actuator (25, 26) happens to be energized while the door is open, the retaining member or slider prevents the transmission member from causing the toothed wheel to pass from the first to the second position, and the latter, in turn, locks the locking member in the aforesaid disengaged position, in such a way that when the door is next closed the door remains unlocked until the next activation of the actuator (25, 26).
An apparatus for laser-processing a material, the apparatus comprising: a laser source configured to provide a diffraction-limited beam of pulsed laser radiation; a diffraction device configured to diffract the diffraction-limited beam to generate a diffracted beam (30 diff) of pulsed laser radiation; a focusing device configured to focus the diffracted beam onto the material; and a controller configured to control the diffracted beam in time and space to irradiate the material at a target position with radiation from a set of radiation pulses of the diffracted beam so that each radiation pulse from the set of radiation pulses is incident at the target position with a cross-sectional portion of the diffracted beam, the cross-sectional portion including a local intensity maximum of the diffracted beam, wherein the beam cross-sectional portions of at least a subset of the pulses of the set include each a different local intensity maximum, wherein at least a subset of local intensity maxima of the diffracted beam are distributed along a line, and wherein the controller is configured to control the diffracted beam to move the beam over the target position in the direction of the line. a laser source configured to provide a diffraction-limited beam of pulsed laser radiation; a diffraction device configured to diffract the diffraction-limited beam to generate a diffracted beam (30 diff) of pulsed laser radiation; a focusing device configured to focus the diffracted beam onto the material; and a controller configured to control the diffracted beam in time and space to irradiate the material at a target position with radiation from a set of radiation pulses of the diffracted beam so that each radiation pulse from the set of radiation pulses is incident at the target position with a cross-sectional portion of the diffracted beam, the cross-sectional portion including a local intensity maximum of the diffracted beam, wherein the beam cross-sectional portions of at least a subset of the pulses of the set include each a different local intensity maximum, wherein at least a subset of local intensity maxima of the diffracted beam are distributed along a line, and wherein the controller is configured to control the diffracted beam to move the beam over the target position in the direction of the line.
Hydrostatic drive, consisting at least of a variable displacement pump, one or more hydraulic motors, a feed pump, an adjustable feed pressure limiting valve, an adjusting unit, and a drive controller which actuates the adjusting unit, characterized in that the adjusting unit is supplied with hydraulic energy by way of an electrohydraulic supply unit, the supply unit consisting of an electric motor and an auxiliary pump which is coupled to it, and the outlet of the auxiliary pump being connected to the adjusting unit directly or via a check valve.
Container with two walls comprising an outer wall integral with an inner shell, the outer wall and the inner shell each comprising a bottom and a lateral wall, container wherein - the inner shell is formed by a plastic film having a thermoadhesive side, - the lateral wall of the inner shell is positively connected with the lateral wall of the outer wall by an adhesion zone, and the adhesion zone has an adhesion force continually decreasing along an axis substantially vertical with respect to the bottom of the container and oriented from the top of the lateral wall to the bottom of the container. - the inner shell is formed by a plastic film having a thermoadhesive side, - the lateral wall of the inner shell is positively connected with the lateral wall of the outer wall by an adhesion zone, and the adhesion zone has an adhesion force continually decreasing along an axis substantially vertical with respect to the bottom of the container and oriented from the top of the lateral wall to the bottom of the container.
A wireless communication method with coverage enhancement, CE, performed by an eNode B, eNB, comprising: transmitting one or more medium access control, MAC random access responses, RARs, to one or more user equipments, UEs, in response to receiving one or more random access preambles, RA-preambles, from the one or more UEs, wherein the transmitting is able to be performed by a first manner in which the MAC RAR-s in response to the RA preamble-s belonging to one RA-preamble set corresponding to one CE level are carried by a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, which is scheduled by a first physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, characterized in that the first PDCCH is scrambled by a set-specific radio network temporary identity, RNTI, and the set-specific RNTI is related to the set index of the one RA-preamble set the set-specific RNTI follows a preamble-specific RNTI of the RA preamble-s. transmitting one or more medium access control, MAC random access responses, RARs, to one or more user equipments, UEs, in response to receiving one or more random access preambles, RA-preambles, from the one or more UEs, wherein the transmitting is able to be performed by a first manner in which the MAC RAR-s in response to the RA preamble-s belonging to one RA-preamble set corresponding to one CE level are carried by a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, which is scheduled by a first physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, characterized in that the first PDCCH is scrambled by a set-specific radio network temporary identity, RNTI, and the set-specific RNTI is related to the set index of the one RA-preamble set the set-specific RNTI follows a preamble-specific RNTI of the RA preamble-s.
A valve 10 comprising an inlet 11 and an outlet 22, the valve having a valve element moveable between a first equilibrium position and a second open position, wherein when the valve element is in the first position, the inlet and the outlet are not in flow communication and when the valve element is in the second position the inlet and the outlet are in flow communication, and wherein the valve element is moveable reversibly from the first position to the second position in response to a net force from the opposing fluid pressures at the inlet and the outlet, characterised in that the valve element comprises a piston 12 having a first surface area responsive to fluid pressure at the outlet and a second smaller surface area responsive to fluid pressure at the inlet, wherein the piston is moveable in response to the net force on the first and second surface areas.
A method of predicting a remaining serviceable life of a critical rotating component (170, 180) of a gas turbine engine comprising: providing a detection component (100, 200, 300) with a crack initiation feature, the detection component being situated in the gas turbine engine and being remote from the critical rotating component; inspecting the detection component to determine whether a crack has formed at the crack initiation feature; and estimating a remaining serviceable life of the critical rotating component based on whether a crack has formed at the crack-initiation feature, wherein the step of estimating a remaining serviceable life of the critical rotating component uses the additional stress experienced by the detection component over that experienced by the critical rotating component at their respective locations in the gas turbine engine and the relative material properties of the detection component and the critical rotating component. providing a detection component (100, 200, 300) with a crack initiation feature, the detection component being situated in the gas turbine engine and being remote from the critical rotating component; inspecting the detection component to determine whether a crack has formed at the crack initiation feature; and estimating a remaining serviceable life of the critical rotating component based on whether a crack has formed at the crack-initiation feature, wherein the step of estimating a remaining serviceable life of the critical rotating component uses the additional stress experienced by the detection component over that experienced by the critical rotating component at their respective locations in the gas turbine engine and the relative material properties of the detection component and the critical rotating component.
A fluid coupling assembly comprising: a first coupling member; a second coupling member magnetically engageable with the first coupling member; a valve member disposed within the first coupling member, wherein the valve member is moveable between a sealed position in contact with a valve seat and an unsealed position spaced from the valve seat; characterized in that an activation member is disposed within and fixed with respect to the second coupling member and configured to move the valve member when the first and second coupling members (102, 104) are magnetically engaged; wherein magnetic engagement of the first coupling member and the second coupling member provides and maintains a mechanical force sufficient to unseal a fluid flow path traversing a portion of each coupling member. a first coupling member; a second coupling member magnetically engageable with the first coupling member; a valve member disposed within the first coupling member, wherein the valve member is moveable between a sealed position in contact with a valve seat and an unsealed position spaced from the valve seat; characterized in that an activation member is disposed within and fixed with respect to the second coupling member and configured to move the valve member when the first and second coupling members (102, 104) are magnetically engaged; wherein magnetic engagement of the first coupling member and the second coupling member provides and maintains a mechanical force sufficient to unseal a fluid flow path traversing a portion of each coupling member.
Process for the production of a flexible polyurethane foam, comprising the step of reaction of A) polyester polyols with secondary hydroxyl end groups, which are obtainable from the reaction of a polyester comprising carboxyl end groups with an epoxide of the general formula: wherein R1 represents an alkyl radical or an aryl radical and wherein the polyester comprising carboxyl end groups has an acid number of from ≥ 25 mg of KOH/g to ≤ 400 mg of KOH/g and a hydroxyl number of ≤ 5 mg of KOH/g with B1) polyisocyanates which are chosen from the group comprising tolylene diisocyanate, diphenylmethane diisocyanate, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, xylylene diisocyanate, naphthylene diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, diisocyanatodicyclohexylmethane and/or isophorone diisocyanate; B2) prepolymers of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1); B3) allophanates, ureas, biurets, isocyanurates, uretdiones and/or carbodiimides of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1); and/or B4) carbodiimide/uretonimine derivatives of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1). A) polyester polyols with secondary hydroxyl end groups, which are obtainable from the reaction of a polyester comprising carboxyl end groups with an epoxide of the general formula: wherein R1 represents an alkyl radical or an aryl radical and wherein the polyester comprising carboxyl end groups has an acid number of from ≥ 25 mg of KOH/g to ≤ 400 mg of KOH/g and a hydroxyl number of ≤ 5 mg of KOH/g with B1) polyisocyanates which are chosen from the group comprising tolylene diisocyanate, diphenylmethane diisocyanate, polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate, xylylene diisocyanate, naphthylene diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, diisocyanatodicyclohexylmethane and/or isophorone diisocyanate; B2) prepolymers of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1); B3) allophanates, ureas, biurets, isocyanurates, uretdiones and/or carbodiimides of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1); and/or B4) carbodiimide/uretonimine derivatives of the polyisocyanates mentioned in B1).
A method for controlling the power available on the electric traction chain of a powertrain consisting of a combustion engine that can transmit the torque thereof to the wheels over various transmission ratios, of a first electric machine of a second electric machine linked alternately to the input shafts of the combustion engine or of the first electric machine in the powertrain, and of a supply battery for the electric machines, the supply voltage being established by a DC voltage converter arranged between the terminals of the battery and those of the electric machines, characterized in that the converter can impose, on the electric machines, a voltage equal to that of the battery (Ubat), or a voltage (Udc) that is greater than this when the driver requests a strong acceleration, and during the combustion ratio changes.
A method for producing a MgF 2 sintered body of a compact polycrystalline structure having a bulk density of 2.90g/cm 3 or more for a neutron moderator, comprising the steps of: pulverizing a high-purity MgF 2 raw material and mixing the same with 0.03-0.5 % by weight of a sintering aid added; molding the same at a molding pressure of 5MPa or more using a uniaxial press device; molding the same at a molding pressure of 5MPa or more using a cold isostatic pressing device; conducting preliminary sintering in the temperature range of 550°C-600°C for 4-10 hours in an air atmosphere; heating in the temperature range of 750°C-840°C for 5-12 hours in an inert gas atmosphere; and conducting main sintering by heating in the temperature range of 900°C-1100°C for 0.5-3 hours in the same atmosphere as the preceding step so as to form a MgF 2 sintered body having a compact structure. pulverizing a high-purity MgF 2 raw material and mixing the same with 0.03-0.5 % by weight of a sintering aid added; molding the same at a molding pressure of 5MPa or more using a uniaxial press device; molding the same at a molding pressure of 5MPa or more using a cold isostatic pressing device; conducting preliminary sintering in the temperature range of 550°C-600°C for 4-10 hours in an air atmosphere; heating in the temperature range of 750°C-840°C for 5-12 hours in an inert gas atmosphere; and conducting main sintering by heating in the temperature range of 900°C-1100°C for 0.5-3 hours in the same atmosphere as the preceding step so as to form a MgF 2 sintered body having a compact structure.