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An LED apparatus including a light emitter having an axis and a lens for directing light from the light emitter in a preferential-side off-axial direction with respect to the emitter axis, comprising: an emitter-adjacent base end forming an opening radially around the emitter axis and defining a base plane substantially perpendicular to the emitter axis; an inner surface extending from the opening and including (a) an inner lateral surface radially surrounding the emitter axis and (b) an inner end surface, the inner surface forming a void; an output-end surface configured to direct light toward the preferential side; and an outer lateral surface extending from the base end radially around the inner surface and configured for TIR to direct light toward the output-end surface; whereby light from the emitter exits the output-end surface predominantly toward the preferential side; characterized in that said inner end surface is configured to direct light toward the preferential side, and said outer lateral surface has angles of divergence with respect to the emitter axis which are the greatest on the preferential side and decrease toward the non-preferential side. an emitter-adjacent base end forming an opening radially around the emitter axis and defining a base plane substantially perpendicular to the emitter axis; an inner surface extending from the opening and including (a) an inner lateral surface radially surrounding the emitter axis and (b) an inner end surface, the inner surface forming a void; an output-end surface configured to direct light toward the preferential side; and an outer lateral surface extending from the base end radially around the inner surface and configured for TIR to direct light toward the output-end surface;
A method for optimizing memory power consumption in a portable communication device, the method comprising: configuring a heterogeneous system memory for a system on chip, SoC, on the portable communication device, the heterogeneous system memory comprising non-volatile random access memory, NVRAM, and volatile random access memory, VRAM, coupled to the SoC; allocating a first portion of the NVRAM as a block device for a swap operation, a second portion of the NVRAM for read-only program code and data, and a third portion of the NVRAM for operating system page tables; allocating the VRAM for a program heap and a program stack; and further characterized by: calibrating a size of the block device, wherein the calibrating comprises periodically measuring an average write count and a read count associated with the NVRAM over a time period. configuring a heterogeneous system memory for a system on chip, SoC, on the portable communication device, the heterogeneous system memory comprising non-volatile random access memory, NVRAM, and volatile random access memory, VRAM, coupled to the SoC; allocating a first portion of the NVRAM as a block device for a swap operation, a second portion of the NVRAM for read-only program code and data, and a third portion of the NVRAM for operating system page tables; allocating the VRAM for a program heap and a program stack; and further characterized by: calibrating a size of the block device, wherein the calibrating comprises periodically measuring an average write count and a read count associated with the NVRAM over a time period.
A device for shaping flat products into slit pipes or primary pipe products, comprising at least one internal shaping tool (3, 3a) for the at least stepwise shaping of the flat product in the radial direction of the cross-section of the slit pipe or primary pipe product to be produced, and at least one external shaping tool for shaping the flat product from the outside, characterized in that at least one light source and at least one receiver for measuring the inner contour of the slit pipe or the primary pipe product or the inner shape thereof are connected to at least one internal shaping tool (3, 3a).
A silicon carbide single crystal manufacturing apparatus comprising: a vacuum chamber; a pedestal on which a seed crystal made of a silicon carbide single crystal substrate is disposed, the pedestal disposed in the vacuum chamber; an inlet disposed on a bottom surface of the vacuum chamber and introducing source gas of silicon carbide from below the seed crystal; a reaction chamber extending from the bottom surface of the vacuum chamber toward the pedestal in the vacuum chamber, the reaction chamber including a cylindrical member having a hollow portion through which the source gas passes, the reaction chamber decomposing the source gas by heating and supplying the decomposed source gas toward the seed crystal; a first heating device disposed in the vacuum chamber around an outer periphery of the reaction chamber and heating the reaction chamber; a second heating device disposed in the vacuum chamber around an outer periphery of the pedestal and keeping a high temperature of a growth surface of a silicon carbide single crystal grown on a surface of the seed crystal; and an outlet disposed outside the first and second heating devices (13, 14) in the vacuum chamber and discharging unreacted gas in the source gas, wherein after the source gas supplied from the reaction chamber is supplied toward the pedestal, the source gas is let flow outward in a radial direction of the silicon carbide single crystal between the reaction chamber and the silicon carbide single crystal, is let flow outside the first and second heating devices (13, 14) in the vacuum chamber, and is discharged through the outlet. a vacuum chamber; a pedestal on which a seed crystal made of a silicon carbide single crystal substrate is disposed, the pedestal disposed in the vacuum chamber; an inlet disposed on a bottom surface of the vacuum chamber and introducing source gas of silicon carbide from below the seed crystal; a reaction chamber extending from the bottom surface of the vacuum chamber toward the pedestal in the vacuum chamber, the reaction chamber including a cylindrical member having a hollow portion through which the source gas passes, the reaction chamber decomposing the source gas by heating and supplying the decomposed source gas toward the seed crystal; a first heating device disposed in the vacuum chamber around an outer periphery of the reaction chamber and heating the reaction chamber; a second heating device disposed in the vacuum chamber around an outer periphery of the pedestal and keeping a high temperature of a growth surface of a silicon carbide single crystal grown on a surface of the seed crystal; and an outlet disposed outside the first and second heating devices (13, 14) in the vacuum chamber and discharging unreacted gas in the source gas, wherein after the source gas supplied from the reaction chamber is supplied toward the pedestal, the source gas is let flow outward in a radial direction of the silicon carbide single crystal between the reaction chamber and the silicon carbide single crystal, is let flow outside the first and second heating devices (13, 14) in the vacuum chamber, and is discharged through the outlet.
An audio encoding apparatus (100, 200) comprising: an encoder for encoding a time segment of an input audio signal to be encoded to obtain a corresponding encoded signal segment; a decoder for decoding the encoded signal segment to obtain a re-decoded signal segment; and a clipping detector for analyzing the re-decoded signal segment with respect to at least one of an actual signal clipping or a perceptible signal clipping and for generating a corresponding clipping alert; wherein the encoder is further configured to again encode the time segment of the audio signal with at least one modified encoding parameter resulting in a reduced clipping probability in response to the clipping alert, the at least one modified encoding parameter causing the encoder to modify a rounding procedure in a quantizer by selecting a smaller quantization threshold for a frequency coefficient. an encoder for encoding a time segment of an input audio signal to be encoded to obtain a corresponding encoded signal segment; a decoder for decoding the encoded signal segment to obtain a re-decoded signal segment; and a clipping detector for analyzing the re-decoded signal segment with respect to at least one of an actual signal clipping or a perceptible signal clipping and for generating a corresponding clipping alert; wherein the encoder is further configured to again encode the time segment of the audio signal with at least one modified encoding parameter resulting in a reduced clipping probability in response to the clipping alert, the at least one modified encoding parameter causing the encoder to modify a rounding procedure in a quantizer by selecting a smaller quantization threshold for a frequency coefficient.
An gel-like anti-corrosive coating composition precursor comprising polyaniline, polyvinyl butyral and an alcohol-containing solvent, the anti-corrosive coating composition precursor having a storage modulus G' of 0.01 to 300 Pa and a loss modulus G" of 0.01 to 100 Pa obtained by a frequency dispersion measurement at a temperature of 25 ± 1 °C at a frequency of 0.1 to 100 rad/s, wherein the storage modulus G' is within a region surrounded by coordinates (0.1, 0.01), (100, 1), (0.1, 110) and (100, 300) when a coordinate having a value of the frequency as a and a value of the storage modulus G' as b is (a, b) in a double logarithmic graph with the frequency as the abscissa and the storage modulus G' as the ordinate; and the loss modulus G" is within a region surrounded by coordinates (0.1, 0.01), (100, 1), (0.1, 30) and (100, 100) when a coordinate having a value of the frequency as a and a value of the loss modulus G" as c is (a, c) in the double logarithmic graph, the gel-like anti-corrosive coating composition being obtainable by immersing a solid mixture of polyaniline and polyvinyl butyral in an alcohol containing solvent to swell, feeding the swollen solid mixture to a high pressure disperser together with the alcohol-containing solvent, wherein the mass ratio of solid mixture: alcohol-containing solvent is in the range of from 5: 95 to 60: 40, and applying with a high pressure disperser a pressure of 5 to 80 MPa, so that the polyaniline particles are homogeneously dispersed in the polyvinyl butyral and the alcohol-containing solvent, wherein the solid mixture of polyaniline and polyvinyl butyral is prepared from a polyaniline particle mixed with polyvinyl butyral and an alcohol-containing solvent, wherein the latter is volatilized to form said solid mixture, and wherein the high pressure disperser is an apparatus in which a sample is fed into a narrow channel with a solvent and a pressure is applied to cause the sample to spout from the channel.
A thermocycling method for producing a microarray of DNA sequences, each comprising tandem repeats of a unit sequence that is 1 to 60 nucleotides long in a linear polynucleotide, the method comprising the steps of: i) providing a solid substrate with a surface, the surface having immobilised thereon a plurality of distinct single stranded primer polynucleotides each comprising at least two tandem repeats of a unit sequence that is 1 to 60 nucleotides long, ii) contacting the immobilised primer polynucleotides with single stranded template polynucleotides comprising at least two tandem repeats that are complementary to the unit sequence of the primer polynucleotides under hybridisation conditions that permit mismatched duplex formation between a unit sequence and its complement such that a 5' overhang of the template polynucleotide is generated, wherein the 5' overhang comprises at least one tandem repeat that is complementary to the unit sequence of the primer polynucleotide; iii) contacting the mismatched duplexes with a thermostable 5' to 3' polymerase and nucleotides under extension conditions that permit polynucleotide extension in a 5' to 3' direction; iv) denaturing the duplex of iii) under denaturing conditions to generate at least two different single stranded immobilised polynucleotides; and v) repeating steps ii) to iii) to increase the number of tandem repeats in the immobilised polynucleotides. i) providing a solid substrate with a surface, the surface having immobilised thereon a plurality of distinct single stranded primer polynucleotides each comprising at least two tandem repeats of a unit sequence that is 1 to 60 nucleotides long, ii) contacting the immobilised primer polynucleotides with single stranded template polynucleotides comprising at least two tandem repeats that are complementary to the unit sequence of the primer polynucleotides under hybridisation conditions that permit mismatched duplex formation between a unit sequence and its complement such that a 5' overhang of the template polynucleotide is generated, wherein the 5' overhang comprises at least one tandem repeat that is complementary to the unit sequence of the primer polynucleotide; iii) contacting the mismatched duplexes with a thermostable 5' to 3' polymerase and nucleotides under extension conditions that permit polynucleotide extension in a 5' to 3' direction; iv) denaturing the duplex of iii) under denaturing conditions to generate at least two different single stranded immobilised polynucleotides; and v) repeating steps ii) to iii) to increase the number of tandem repeats in the immobilised polynucleotides.
A gemstone setting comprising: a gemstone; at least one mounting surface; and at least one braze joint, the at least one braze joint being formed from a reactive metallic alloy, the braze joint adhering the gemstone to the mounting surface, the braze joint being substantially concealed from a direct line of sight from a top portion of the gemstone by preventing excessive alloy from getting outside a desired braze area, characterized in that the mounting surface is a surface of a hollow mounting rod and in that excess alloy is prevented from extending beyond the desired braze area by delivering the reactive metallic alloy to the desired braze area through the hollow mounting rod. a gemstone; at least one mounting surface; and at least one braze joint, the at least one braze joint being formed from a reactive metallic alloy, the braze joint adhering the gemstone to the mounting surface, the braze joint being substantially concealed from a direct line of sight from a top portion of the gemstone by preventing excessive alloy from getting outside a desired braze area, characterized in that the mounting surface is a surface of a hollow mounting rod and in that excess alloy is prevented from extending beyond the desired braze area by delivering the reactive metallic alloy to the desired braze area through the hollow mounting rod.
A curtain coatable gas barrier coating composition comprising polyvinyl alcohol and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is a water-soluble non-ionic ethoxylated alcohol and the solids content of the composition is 4-20 %.
A device for forming a beam of an antenna array, said device including: an antenna array having a plurality of spatially distributed antenna elements; a plurality of switches, each antenna element being connected to a respective switch; a processor for selectively switching, via said plurality of switches, said antenna elements between first and second states, such that said antenna elements receive an incoming signal in said first state and do not receive an incoming signal in said second state; and a receiver coupled with said antenna array via said switches, and coupled with said processor, characterised in that said receiver is configured to: generate a reference signal; modify said reference signal in substantial synchronisation with said antenna elements being switched to said first state; mix said incoming signal with the modified reference signal to generate a mixed signal; and accumulate said mixed signal over an integration period to generate an accumulated signal, such that said accumulated signal is indicative of the direction and magnitude of said beam of said antenna array. an antenna array having a plurality of spatially distributed antenna elements; a plurality of switches, each antenna element being connected to a respective switch; a processor for selectively switching, via said plurality of switches, said antenna elements between first and second states, such that said antenna elements receive an incoming signal in said first state and do not receive an incoming signal in said second state; and a receiver coupled with said antenna array via said switches, and coupled with said processor,
A system for control of functions in a motor vehicle and comprising a set of operating devices (C11,..., Cn2) configured to be manipulated by an operator with the object of ordering a desired function of the vehicle, wherein the system comprises: at least one peripheral unit (PU1, PU2,..., PU(n-1), Pun) provided with at least one operating device (C11,..., Cn2) from among said set of operating devices, which at least one peripheral unit (PU1, PU2,..., PU(n-1), Pun) is configured to generate a respective signal indicating a setting (p11,..., pn2) of the at least one operating device (C11,..., Cn2) and an identity (ID1, ID2,..., ID(n-1), IDn) for the at least one peripheral unit, the identity (ID1, ID2,..., ID(n-1), IDn) being fixed and unique within the vehicle, and a main unit in communicative connection with the at least one peripheral unit (PU1, PU2,..., PU(n-1), Pun) and configured to receive the signal from the at least one peripheral unit (PU1, PU2,..., PU(n-1), Pun) and generate on the basis thereof at least one command (cmd1, cmd2,..., cmd(n-1), cmdn) directed at causing the desired function to be effected characterised in that said respective setting (p11,..., pn2) indicated by the at least one operating device (C11,..., Cn2) represents a generic status indication, and the main unit is configurable to interpret the generic status indication from a given operating device (C11,..., Cn2) of a peripheral unit (PU1, PU2,..., PU(n-1), Pun) as a particular function to be effected depending on how the main unit is programmed.
A graphene-containing dry film lubricant, consisting of: 12 to 32 wt.-% of binder, wherein the binder is a polymer with a molar mass (Mw) of at least 5,000 g/mol to 100,000 g/mol and is selected from the group consisting of polyamideimide, polyimide, polyetheretherketone (PEEK), polyetherketone, polyethersulfone, and/or silicone resins or mixtures thereof, 0.5 to 5 wt.-% of co-binder, wherein the co-binder is a molecular or an oligomer compound with a molar mass (Mw) of <1 000 g/mol and is selected from the group consisting of epoxides, isocyanates, blocked isocyanates and/or carbodiimides, 4 to 10 wt.-% of solid lubricant, wherein the solid lubricant is selected from the group consisting of waxes, modified waxes, PE, PP, PA, silicon waxes, PTFE, polyfluorinated compounds, graphite, boron nitride (hexagonal), tin sulfide, zinc sulfide, tungsten disulfide, metal sulfides, calcium phosphates, silicates, sheet silicates, talc and/or mica, 0.5 to 10 wt.-% of graphene, wherein graphene is used in the form of graphene platelets which have a thickness of up to 100 nm with a lateral extent of up to 20 μm, preferably a thickness of 1 to 5 nm and a lateral extent of 0.5 to 10 μm. 0.1 to 2.0 wt.-% of additives, and solvent to make up to 100 wt.-%. 12 to 32 wt.-% of binder, wherein the binder is a polymer with a molar mass (Mw) of at least 5,000 g/mol to 100,000 g/mol and is selected from the group consisting of polyamideimide, polyimide, polyetheretherketone (PEEK), polyetherketone, polyethersulfone, and/or silicone resins or mixtures thereof, 0.5 to 5 wt.-% of co-binder, wherein the co-binder is a molecular or an oligomer compound with a molar mass (Mw) of <1 000 g/mol and is selected from the group consisting of epoxides, isocyanates, blocked isocyanates and/or carbodiimides, 4 to 10 wt.-% of solid lubricant, wherein the solid lubricant is selected from the group consisting of waxes, modified waxes, PE, PP, PA, silicon waxes, PTFE, polyfluorinated compounds, graphite, boron nitride (hexagonal), tin sulfide, zinc sulfide, tungsten disulfide, metal sulfides, calcium phosphates, silicates, sheet silicates, talc and/or mica, 0.5 to 10 wt.-% of graphene, wherein graphene is used in the form of graphene platelets which have a thickness of up to 100 nm with a lateral extent of up to 20 μm, preferably a thickness of 1 to 5 nm and a lateral extent of 0.5 to 10 μm. 0.1 to 2.0 wt.-% of additives, and
Device for controlling a heating/cooling system, which heating/cooling system is configured to be coupled to a temperature sensor, characterized in that the device comprises - a number of heat-actuatable NTC resistances (3,4), - adjacent heater elements (5, 6) for the supply of heat to said resistances (3, 4), - relays (8, 9) for connecting and disconnecting one or more of said resistances (3,4) in serial connection and parallel connection relatively to sensor, and - a control system configured to power said adjacent heater elements (5, 6), and in that for the increase or decrease of the heat or the cold provided by means of the system, the device is configured to couple the sensor to the heating/cooling system via said resistances (3,4) thereby providing galvanic separation between the control system and the connection between the heating/cooling system and the sensor. - a number of heat-actuatable NTC resistances (3,4), - adjacent heater elements (5, 6) for the supply of heat to said resistances (3, 4), - relays (8, 9) for connecting and disconnecting one or more of said resistances (3,4) in serial connection and parallel connection relatively to sensor, and - a control system configured to power said adjacent heater elements (5, 6),
Stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705) for driving a rotor of an electrical planar motor, wherein the stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705) comprises a first arrangement of stator longitudinal layers and a second arrangement of stator oblique or transverse layers, wherein the stator longitudinal layers comprise first coil conductors, and wherein the stator oblique or transverse layers comprise second coil conductors, wherein the second coil conductors are configured to interact with second drive magnets of the rotor in order to drive the rotor in a first direction, wherein the first coil conductors are configured to interact with first drive magnets of the rotor in order to drive the rotor in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the stator longitudinal layers and the stator oblique or transverse layers are arranged one above another in a third direction oriented perpendicularly to the first and second directions (12, 14), characterized in that the stator longitudinal layers and the stator oblique or transverse layers in the third direction are at the same average distance from a stator surface of the stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705), wherein the stator surface is the flat surface of the stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705) that faces the rotor. wherein the stator longitudinal layers comprise first coil conductors, and wherein the stator oblique or transverse layers comprise second coil conductors, wherein the second coil conductors are configured to interact with second drive magnets of the rotor in order to drive the rotor in a first direction, wherein the first coil conductors are configured to interact with first drive magnets of the rotor in order to drive the rotor in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the stator longitudinal layers and the stator oblique or transverse layers are arranged one above another in a third direction oriented perpendicularly to the first and second directions (12, 14), characterized in that the stator longitudinal layers and the stator oblique or transverse layers in the third direction are at the same average distance from a stator surface of the stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705), wherein the stator surface is the flat surface of the stator unit (100, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705) that faces the rotor.