mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
System for controlling a self-driving vehicle controllable on the basis of control values and acceleration values, comprising: - a navigation module; - a control module; - at least one camera; - a recognition module; wherein the navigation module is configured: - to receive a destination, chosen from a closed list of destinations, from a user; - to determine a position of the vehicle; - to determine a route from the position to the destination; - to convert the route into navigation instructions; - to supply the navigation instructions to the control module; - to receive a recognition confirmation from the recognition module; wherein the camera is configured: - to capture live camera images from the vehicle and to supply the images to the control module and the recognition module; wherein the control module is configured: - to receive at least one navigation instruction from the navigation module; - to receive the live camera images from the camera; - to convert the at least one navigation instruction and the camera images into control values and acceleration values for the controllable self-driving vehicle; wherein the recognition module is configured: - to receive live camera images; - to compare the live camera images with previously stored camera images annotated with at least characteristics of navigation points; - to determine that a navigation point has been reached if a live camera image has a predefined degree of correspondence with a camera image annotated with a navigation point; and - to supply a recognition confirmation to the navigation module if it is determined that a navigation point has been reached. - a navigation module; - a control module; - at least one camera; - a recognition module; - to receive a destination, chosen from a closed list of destinations, from a user; - to determine a position of the vehicle; - to determine a route from the position to the destination; - to convert the route into navigation instructions; - to supply the navigation instructions to the control module; - to receive a recognition confirmation from the recognition module; - to capture live camera images from the vehicle and to supply the images to the control module and the recognition module; - to receive at least one navigation instruction from the navigation module; - to receive the live camera images from the camera; - to convert the at least one navigation instruction and the camera images into control values and acceleration values for the controllable self-driving vehicle; - to receive live camera images; - to compare the live camera images with previously stored camera images annotated with at least characteristics of navigation points; - to determine that a navigation point has been reached if a live camera image has a predefined degree of correspondence with a camera image annotated with a navigation point; and - to supply a recognition confirmation to the navigation module if it is determined that a navigation point has been reached.
A glass or glass-ceramic roll forming apparatus including a glass feed device for supplying a supplied stream of molten glass that is characterized by: a pair of forming rolls (14, 16) maintained at a surface temperature of 500° C or higher, the forming rolls being spaced closely adjacent each other defining a glass forming gap between the forming rolls with the glass forming gap located vertically below the glass feed device for receiving the supplied stream of molten glass and thinning the supplied stream of molten glass between the forming rolls to form a formed glass ribbon having a formed thickness; a pair of sizing rolls (24, 26) maintained at a surface temperature of 400° C or lower, the sizing rolls being spaced closely adjacent each other defining a glass sizing gap between the sizing rolls with the glass sizing gap that is smaller than the forming gap located vertically below the forming rolls for receiving the formed glass ribbon and thinning the formed glass ribbon to produce a sized glass ribbon having a desired thickness and a desired thickness uniformity. a pair of forming rolls (14, 16) maintained at a surface temperature of 500° C or higher, the forming rolls being spaced closely adjacent each other defining a glass forming gap between the forming rolls with the glass forming gap located vertically below the glass feed device for receiving the supplied stream of molten glass and thinning the supplied stream of molten glass between the forming rolls to form a formed glass ribbon having a formed thickness; a pair of sizing rolls (24, 26) maintained at a surface temperature of 400° C or lower, the sizing rolls being spaced closely adjacent each other defining a glass sizing gap between the sizing rolls with the glass sizing gap that is smaller than the forming gap located vertically below the forming rolls for receiving the formed glass ribbon and thinning the formed glass ribbon to produce a sized glass ribbon having a desired thickness and a desired thickness uniformity.
A method of manufacturing and/or inspecting a glow plug including an inner conductor and an outer disposed member, where the inner conductor includes an electrically conductive heating unit configured to generate heat by energization, and an energization member connected in series with the heating unit to provide an energization path to the heating unit, and the outer disposed member includes a housing configured to house the heating unit therein, and a metal tubular member disposed on an outer periphery of the energization member; wherein the heating unit is a metal coil unit the method comprises: inspecting for the presence of short circuit abnormality between the inner conductor and the outer disposed member based on a decay time between the input of a current value of a preset predetermined value or more and the decaying of the current value below of predetermined current threshold value, wherein the current value is supplied by a current that flows through the inner conductor upon application of a high voltage higher than a voltage applied during normal use of the glow plug to the inner conductor for a time short enough to suppress a temperature rise of the inner conductor due to application of the high voltage, wherein the inspection is carried out when the coil unit is at a ambient temperature, wherein it is determined with a processor whether the decay time is more than a reference time, and in the case the decay time is not more than the reference value it is determined that there is a short circuit abnomality. inspecting for the presence of short circuit abnormality between the inner conductor and the outer disposed member based on a decay time between the input of a current value of a preset predetermined value or more and the decaying of the current value below of predetermined current threshold value, wherein the current value is supplied by a current that flows through the inner conductor upon application of a high voltage higher than a voltage applied during normal use of the glow plug to the inner conductor for a time short enough to suppress a temperature rise of the inner conductor due to application of the high voltage, wherein the inspection is carried out when the coil unit is at a ambient temperature, wherein it is determined with a processor whether the decay time is more than a reference time, and in the case the decay time is not more than the reference value it is determined that there is a short circuit abnomality.
Device for vulcanizing profiles guided through the device, in particular continuous profiles such as, for example, extruded profiles made of rubber, or a sequence of profile pieces, having at least one cavity formed by at least one wall (2, 3, 4), the at least one wall (2, 3, 4) having at least one profile inlet and at least one profile outlet and at least one hot gas inlet and at least one hot gas outlet so that hot gas can flow through the cavity, the hot gas flow being guided by the at least one wall (2, 3, 4) and/or by at least one flow guide element (6, 7, 8) inside the cavity along at least one section of at least one profile, characterized by adjusting means (10, 11, 12, 13, 23, 24) for adjusting the distance of the at least one wall (2, 3, 4) and/or of the at least one flow guide element (6, 7, 8) from the at least one profile.
A nickel-metal hydride storage battery comprising: a battery main part; a negative electrode containing a hydrogen absorbing alloy, a case made of metal housing the battery main part; and a safety valve device having an excessive pressure preventing function for preventing excessive rise of internal pressure in the case by discharging gas from the case when the internal pressure in the case exceeds a predetermined value, wherein the case includes a release hole formed through the case to provide communication between inside and outside of the case, the safety valve device includes a valve member sealingly covering the release hole and including a wall forming a valve internal space communicated with the release hole, and the safety valve device has, in addition to the excessive pressure preventing function, a hydrogen leakage function for allowing leakage of hydrogen gas in the case to outside of the battery even when the internal pressure in the case is the predetermined value or less to suppress an increase of hydrogen in the battery due to corrosion of the hydrogen absorbing alloy of the negative electrode and wherein the wall of the valve member, forming the valve internal space, includes a hydrogen permeable part which allows the hydrogen gas of the valve internal space to leak out by hydrogen permeation. a battery main part; a negative electrode containing a hydrogen absorbing alloy, a case made of metal housing the battery main part; and a safety valve device having an excessive pressure preventing function for preventing excessive rise of internal pressure in the case by discharging gas from the case when the internal pressure in the case exceeds a predetermined value, wherein the case includes a release hole formed through the case to provide communication between inside and outside of the case, the safety valve device includes a valve member sealingly covering the release hole and including a wall forming a valve internal space communicated with the release hole, and the safety valve device has, in addition to the excessive pressure preventing function, a hydrogen leakage function for allowing leakage of hydrogen gas in the case to outside of the battery even when the internal pressure in the case is the predetermined value or less to suppress an increase of hydrogen in the battery due to corrosion of the hydrogen absorbing alloy of the negative electrode and
A modular screen member for a sectional system for delimiting outdoor areas, comprising a base element designed to maintain the screen member in an erect position and an upper element designed to be raised and lowered with respect to the base element, characterized in that the base element consists of a frame provided with two uprights and two crosspieces enclosing a panel, and said upper element consists of a frame provided with two uprights and two crosspieces enclosing a panel, each of said uprights of the upper element consists of a section bar, and each of said uprights of the base element consists of another section bar, the outer profile of uprights of the upper element perfectly matches the inner profile of a corresponding seat provided in the respective upright of the lower element, said seat being parallel to a recess housing said panel and opening inwardly in the direction of the other upright, the uprights of the upper element are slidingly housed in the seat of the corresponding uprights of the lower element, and inside the seat of each upright a gas spring is placed, wherein the lower end of said gas springs is constrained to the lower end of the respective upright, and the upper end of said gas springs is constrained to the upper end of a corresponding upright.
A replaceable printing component (104, 508) comprising: a printhead (128, 514) having a memory and a plurality of test components; and a factory identification code stored in the memory that comprises a resistance measured on the test components wherein the test components are selected from the group consisting of a metal resistor, a polysilicon resistor, a thermal resistor, a PMOS transistor, and an NMOS transistor. a printhead (128, 514) having a memory and a plurality of test components; and a factory identification code stored in the memory that comprises a resistance measured on the test components wherein the test components are selected from the group consisting of a metal resistor, a polysilicon resistor, a thermal resistor, a PMOS transistor, and an NMOS transistor.
Cord for use in an elastomer product, preferably in a pneumatic tire, comprising a reinforcement core which is made of an electrically nonconductive material and which has an electrically conductive coating, where, located on the electrically conductive layer, covering same, there is a further, electrically insulating layer, characterized in that the electrically conductive layer comprises electrically conductive particles, for example carbon black particles, graphite powder or carbon nanotubes, or consists of such particles or powder.
Apparatus for storing headphones or earphones comprising a base plate with an axis orthogonally moulded to same, on which a winding spool is rotatably mounted, wherein the winding spool has two parallel circular discs (22, 27), between which a winding space is formed and wherein in the upper disc arranged on the side facing away from the base plate a recess for the passage of a mini jack plug is arranged, wherein the upper disc has a receptacle for a mini jack plug on its upper side, wherein the upper disc has a circumferential web on its upper side, in which an outlet for a cable is inserted and which delimits a receiving space for a mini jack plug, wherein the recess of the upper disc is formed by a slot, which extends between two opposite locations of the circumferential web and whose width is dimensioned in a way that a mini jack plug can be passed through, characterised in that below the recess in the lower disc formed by a slot, parallel to the slot, a guide for a mini jack plug in the form of an indentation is arranged.
Shifting apparatus for a double clutch transmission of a motor vehicle, it being possible for the different gear shifts which are possible in a double clutch transmission to be realized with the aid of a gear-shifting drum, the first input shaft of the double clutch transmission being assigned the odd gear stages, in particular the first, third and fifth gear stage (I, III, V) (first, third and fifth gear), and the second input shaft of the double clutch transmission being assigned the even gear stages, in particular the second, fourth and sixth gear stage (II, IV, VI) (second, fourth and sixth gear), it being possible for the individual gear stages (I to VI) to be engaged or disengaged effectively by way of a provided slider sleeve and selector rail system, and the gear-shifting drum having a shift guide plate (3, 4, 5, 6) and/or a shift contour for controlling the movement of each selector rail (7b, 8b, 9b), the gear-shifting drum being configured and designed in such a way that, with the aid of the said gear-shifting drum, firstly the possible sequential upshifts and downshifts and secondly also multiple downshifts can be realised within the double clutch transmission, namely the gear-shifting drum has an axially non-displaceable but rotatable first gear-shifting drum part and a second gear-shifting drum part which is mounted axially displaceably on the first gear-shifting drum part, characterized in that the second gear-shifting drum part has a shift guide plate for controlling the engagement and disengagement of in each case two gear stages, and in that the effective course of the said shift guide plate can be set in a correspondingly variable way in a manner which is dependent on a shifting mechanism which realises at least two possible courses, and in that the shifting mechanism has a first and a second control track (A, B), the control tracks (A, B) being provided or configured on the second gear-shifting drum part.
A control device of a vehicle equipped with both an internal combustion engine that can selectively change its combustion mode to a homogenous combustion, a stratified combustion or a lean-burn combustion and a brake booster that uses, as a power source, an intake air negative pressure produced by the internal combustion engine, which comprises: an inclination detecting means for detecting or estimating an inclination of the vehicle in a front and back direction; and in which a control is so carried out as to control the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine at a standstill of the vehicle after cold starting, while a catalyst is not sufficiently activated, in accordance with the inclination of the vehicle outputted by the inclination detecting means in such a manner as to cause the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine to take the stratified combustion or the lean-burn combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is smaller than a threshold value and cause the combustion mode to take the homogenous combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is larger than the threshold value in order to produce intake air negative pressure for the brake booster to increase braking power at the standstill to prevent the vehicle from moving downward due to the inclination of the vehicle. an inclination detecting means for detecting or estimating an inclination of the vehicle in a front and back direction; and in which a control is so carried out as to control the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine at a standstill of the vehicle after cold starting, while a catalyst is not sufficiently activated, in accordance with the inclination of the vehicle outputted by the inclination detecting means in such a manner as to cause the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine to take the stratified combustion or the lean-burn combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is smaller than a threshold value and cause the combustion mode to take the homogenous combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is larger than the threshold value in order to produce intake air negative pressure for the brake booster to increase braking power at the standstill to prevent the vehicle from moving downward due to the inclination of the vehicle.
A method for purifying teriparatide (PTH1-34) by ion exchange chromatography, comprising the steps of (a) contacting a fluid which comprises PTH1-34 with a cation exchange material under conditions that allow for the reversible binding of PTH1-34 to said cation exchange material; (b) optionally washing the cation exchange material to remove unbound material; (c) eluting PTH1-34 by increasing the pH and decreasing the ionic strength. (a) contacting a fluid which comprises PTH1-34 with a cation exchange material under conditions that allow for the reversible binding of PTH1-34 to said cation exchange material; (b) optionally washing the cation exchange material to remove unbound material; (c) eluting PTH1-34 by increasing the pH and decreasing the ionic strength.
A composite, comprising: (i) a polymeric substrate; (ii) an adhesion-promoting layer comprising a silicon-oxy-carbide layer having a thickness from about 100 to about 900 nm, wherein the SOC layer is deposited on and covers at least one surface of the polymeric substrate and wherein the SOC layer is formed by atmospheric plasma deposition of a chemical precursor of the SOC layer, wherein the chemical precursor comprises tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane (TMCTS) or octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (OMCTS) or a combination thereof; and (iii) an oxygen-barrier layer deposited and overlying the adhesion-promoting layer such that the adhesion-promoting layer is sandwiched between the polymeric substrate and the OBL, wherein the OBL reduces oxygen diffusion into the polymeric substrate, said OBL comprising metallic materials, ceramic materials, or combinations thereof.
Mounting of a clutch release bearing around a shaft of a motor vehicle gearbox, said mounting comprising: - a bearing having a rotating ring and a fixed ring each provided with a raceway (3, 4) forming between them a rolling track wherein rolling bodies are disposed to guide the relative rotation of said rings, the rotating ring being integral with an actuating member of the diaphragm of the clutch by an substantially axial bearing of said member on said diaphragm; - an annular support for associating the bearing on the shaft, said support having a bearing ring whereon a mounting ring integral with the fixed ring is disposed by allowing for a radial movement of said bearing with respect to said support, - a self-centring washer of the bearing on the shaft, said washer having a rear wall in axial bearing on a front wall of the mounting ring and a surface bearing on a complementary surface of the support in such a way as to place in axial stress a rear wall of the mounting ring against a front wall of the bearing ring; in said mounting the washer is elastically deformable between a stable state wherein the surface has an inside nominal dimension and a stressed state wherein the surface has an increased inside dimension (φ c), and in that the surface and/or the complementary surface is formed on a surface with a truncated geometry which is arranged to maintain the washer in a stressed state through beating of said surface on said complementary surface, said mounting being characterised in that the washer is elastically deformable in such a way as to transform the radial return force in a stable state of said washer into an axial bearing force on said washer. - a bearing having a rotating ring and a fixed ring each provided with a raceway (3, 4) forming between them a rolling track wherein rolling bodies are disposed to guide the relative rotation of said rings, the rotating ring being integral with an actuating member of the diaphragm of the clutch by an substantially axial bearing of said member on said diaphragm; - an annular support for associating the bearing on the shaft, said support having a bearing ring whereon a mounting ring integral with the fixed ring is disposed by allowing for a radial movement of said bearing with respect to said support, - a self-centring washer of the bearing on the shaft, said washer having a rear wall in axial bearing on a front wall of the mounting ring and a surface bearing on a complementary surface of the support in such a way as to place in axial stress a rear wall of the mounting ring against a front wall of the bearing ring;
Method for operating an inverter with a boost converter circuit, an intermediate circuit and a buck converter circuit, for converting a DC voltage (+U_ZL, -J_ZL) of a solar generator into an AC voltage (U_network) for feeding into a network, wherein the boost converter circuit increases the DC voltage (+U_ZL, -U_ZL) if the latter is smaller than a peak-to-peak maximum of the network voltage (U_network), and the buck converter circuit reduces an intermediate circuit voltage (+U_ZH, -U_ZH), if required, to a lower voltage (U_network) presently required in the network, characterized in that the boost converter circuit dynamically increases the DC voltage (+U_ZL, -U_ZL) to the value presently required in the network and, in so doing, intermittently supplies an approximately sinusoidal voltage profile for the intermediate circuit voltage (+U_ZH, -U_ZH), and in that the boost converter circuit boosts a positive or negative voltage level (+U_ZL, -U_ZL) of the solar generator compared to an average voltage level according to the amount of the value (U_network) presently required in the network and hence increases the dynamic intermediate circuit voltage (+U_ZH, -U_ZH) to said value if the positive or negative voltage level (+U ZL, -U_ZL) is smaller in terms of amount than the voltage (U_network) presently required in the network compared to the average voltage level.