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A switching apparatus comprising: a plurality of parallel-connected current-conductive branches, each current-conductive branch including at least one respective gas tube switch; a switching control unit configured to control the turn-on of the gas tube switches in a switching order so that the flow of current in the switching apparatus is controlled to switch between the current-conductive branches, wherein the switching order of the turn-on of the gas tube switches is arranged so that only one of the current-conductive branches is carrying the current during each turn-on cycle of the switching apparatus; characterized in that the switching apparatus further comprises a monitoring unit configured to monitor a respective parameter indicative of a respective state of each gas tube switch, wherein the switching control unit is configured to arrange the switching order of the turn-on of the gas tube switches in response to a deviation of at least one monitored parameter from a target value or range. a plurality of parallel-connected current-conductive branches, each current-conductive branch including at least one respective gas tube switch; a switching control unit configured to control the turn-on of the gas tube switches in a switching order so that the flow of current in the switching apparatus is controlled to switch between the current-conductive branches, wherein the switching order of the turn-on of the gas tube switches is arranged so that only one of the current-conductive branches is carrying the current during each turn-on cycle of the switching apparatus; characterized in that the switching apparatus further comprises a monitoring unit configured to monitor a respective parameter indicative of a respective state of each gas tube switch, wherein the switching control unit is configured to arrange the switching order of the turn-on of the gas tube switches in response to a deviation of at least one monitored parameter from a target value or range.
Process for providing carbon dioxide for the synthesis of urea from ammonia and carbon dioxide, in which a carbon dioxide-containing flue gas is used as a first starting gas mixture, where this first starting gas mixture is supplied to a low-pressure absorber in which carbon dioxide is absorbed from the first starting gas mixture in a liquid solvent based on an ammonia-water mixture, where a carbon dioxide-containing synthesis gas is also used as a second starting gas mixture and this second starting gas mixture is supplied to a high-pressure absorber in which carbon dioxide is absorbed from this second starting gas mixture in a liquid solvent based on an ammonia-water mixture at elevated pressure, characterized in that the same carbon dioxide-depleted liquid solvent is used for the absorption step in the low-pressure absorber and for the absorption step in the high-pressure absorber and is supplied to the high-pressure absorber and the low-pressure absorber in at least two parallel substreams.
An airfoil, comprising: a skin, comprising an external surface and an internal surface, opposite the external surface, wherein the skin is magnetically and electrically conductive; an interior space, formed by the skin, wherein the internal surface of the skin faces the interior space; a leading edge along the external surface of the skin; and a hybrid acoustic induction-heating system, configured to impede formation of ice on the external surface of the skin and comprising: an induction coil within the interior space, wherein at least a portion of the induction coil is sufficiently close to the internal surface of the skin to produce an eddy current in the skin when an alternating electrical current is flowing in the induction coil; characterised by at least one magnet within the interior space, wherein at least the one magnet is configured to produce a steady-state magnetic field within the skin. a skin, comprising an external surface and an internal surface, opposite the external surface, wherein the skin is magnetically and electrically conductive; an interior space, formed by the skin, wherein the internal surface of the skin faces the interior space; a leading edge along the external surface of the skin; and a hybrid acoustic induction-heating system, configured to impede formation of ice on the external surface of the skin and comprising: an induction coil within the interior space, wherein at least a portion of the induction coil is sufficiently close to the internal surface of the skin to produce an eddy current in the skin when an alternating electrical current is flowing in the induction coil; characterised by at least one magnet within the interior space, wherein at least the one magnet is configured to produce a steady-state magnetic field within the skin. an induction coil within the interior space, wherein at least a portion of the induction coil is sufficiently close to the internal surface of the skin to produce an eddy current in the skin when an alternating electrical current is flowing in the induction coil; characterised by at least one magnet within the interior space, wherein at least the one magnet is configured to produce a steady-state magnetic field within the skin.
A powder surface processing apparatus using plasma of a rotary cylindrical surface discharge plasma module, the apparatus comprising a plate-like electrode layer serving as an external surface of the rotary cylindrical surface discharge plasma module; and an insulating layer disposed on an internal surface of the plate-like electrode layer, characterized in that it has a plurality of plasma generating electrodes in the form of bars which are disposed on the insulating layer and arranged at intervals in the circumferential or longitudinal direction of the rotary cylindrical surface discharge plasma module, the plurality of plasma generating electrodes and the plate-like electrode layer being connected to a plasma power supply providing an alternating voltage, wherein powder is injected into the rotary cylindrical surface discharge plasma module, and the surface of the powder is treated by the plasma generated around the plasma generating electrodes.
An endoscope, comprising: an insertion portion; and an operation unit that is connected to one end of the insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion includes a tube that is provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, wherein the operation unit is connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and has a through hole that smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels, wherein the endoscope comprises: a single-use portion that is used once and then discarded; and a reusable portion that is removed from the single-use portion and reused, wherein the single-use portion includes the tube, and wherein the reusable portion includes the distal tip, characterized in that the insertion portion includes a fractured portion of a tube shape that covers a joint between the tube and the distal tip and is fractured when the single-use portion and the reusable portion are separated. an insertion portion; and an operation unit that is connected to one end of the insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion includes a tube that is provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, wherein the operation unit is connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and has a through hole that smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels, wherein the endoscope comprises: a single-use portion that is used once and then discarded; and a reusable portion that is removed from the single-use portion and reused, wherein the single-use portion includes the tube, and wherein the reusable portion includes the distal tip, characterized in that the insertion portion includes a fractured portion of a tube shape that covers a joint between the tube and the distal tip and is fractured when the single-use portion and the reusable portion are separated. a single-use portion that is used once and then discarded; and a reusable portion that is removed from the single-use portion and reused, wherein the single-use portion includes the tube, and wherein the reusable portion includes the distal tip, characterized in that the insertion portion includes a fractured portion of a tube shape that covers a joint between the tube and the distal tip and is fractured when the single-use portion and the reusable portion are separated.
A winding section for winding a continuous band of bags around one or more than one cores and comprising: - A feed path of the band; - A winding device for winding the band around the core and; - Tear means (60, 60', 61, 61', 150) configured to cause the tear of the band in correspondence of the completion of a winding and facilitate the initiation of a subsequent winding; and characterized in that the winding device comprises a support rotatable around a longitudinal axis and provided with at least a first and a second spindle connected to the support in a rotatable manner around their longitudinal axis to realize the winding of the roll in formation and further slidingly mounted axially between an extended position, wherein they result emerging from the support in a substantially orthogonal manner to it for realizing the winding, and a retracted position; the winding section further comprising: - A mobile core loader and; - A controlling movement system (50, 51, 55, 100); and wherein the said controlling movement system (50, 51, 55, 100) is synchronized in such a way that when it conducts a spindle (16, 17) in rotation in extended position to complete a first winding of a roll in formation, it moves the second spindle back from the extended position to the retracted position so as to rotate subsequently the loader in axis with the said second spindle and spear the cores arranged on the loader with the said second spindle after its extraction from the retracted position to the extended position, the said controlling movement system being further synchronized to control subsequently the removal of the loader and, in proximity of the completion of the first winding, control the subsequent rotation of the support around its axis that conducts to an inversion of position between the two spindles (16, 17) so that the second spindle extracted and placed in rotation intercepts the feed path of the band and, after the tear of the band, initiates a new winding while a retroaction of the first spindle causes the fall of the rolls formed. - A feed path of the band; - A winding device for winding the band around the core and; - Tear means (60, 60', 61, 61', 150) configured to cause the tear of the band in correspondence of the completion of a winding and facilitate the initiation of a subsequent winding; - A mobile core loader and; - A controlling movement system (50, 51, 55, 100);
An electrochemical storage device comprising: a plurality of electrochemical cells connected electrically in series, wherein each cell comprises: a negative anode electrode comprising activated carbon and being a capacitive electrode which stores charge through either a reversible nonfaradiac reaction of alkali metal cations on a surface thereof or a pseudocapacitive electrode which undergoes a partial charge transfer surface interaction with alkali metal cations on a surface thereof; a positive cathode electrode which in operation reversibly intercalates alkali metal cations; and an aqueous electrolyte, wherein the charge storage capacity of the anode electrode is less than the charge storage capacity of the cathode electrode; and wherein water in the electrolyte locally electrolyzes to form hydrogen and OH - species at the anode electrode of at least one of the plurality of cells when the charge storage capacity of the anode electrode is exceeded on charging the at least one cell. a plurality of electrochemical cells connected electrically in series, wherein each cell comprises: a negative anode electrode comprising activated carbon and being a capacitive electrode which stores charge through either a reversible nonfaradiac reaction of alkali metal cations on a surface thereof or a pseudocapacitive electrode which undergoes a partial charge transfer surface interaction with alkali metal cations on a surface thereof; a positive cathode electrode which in operation reversibly intercalates alkali metal cations; and an aqueous electrolyte, wherein the charge storage capacity of the anode electrode is less than the charge storage capacity of the cathode electrode; and wherein water in the electrolyte locally electrolyzes to form hydrogen and OH - species at the anode electrode of at least one of the plurality of cells when the charge storage capacity of the anode electrode is exceeded on charging the at least one cell. a negative anode electrode comprising activated carbon and being a capacitive electrode which stores charge through either a reversible nonfaradiac reaction of alkali metal cations on a surface thereof or a pseudocapacitive electrode which undergoes a partial charge transfer surface interaction with alkali metal cations on a surface thereof; electrode which stores charge through either a reversible nonfaradiac reaction of alkali metal cations on a surface thereof or a pseudocapacitive electrode which undergoes a partial charge transfer surface interaction with alkali metal cations on a surface thereof; a positive cathode electrode which in operation reversibly intercalates alkali metal cations; and an aqueous electrolyte,
Luminaire for road illumination, said luminaire comprising a housing containing a light source provided with optics, the luminaire further comprising a sensor unit adapted to determine optical properties of a reflective reference surface or road surface in the surrounding of the luminaire by measuring light properties of light being reflected by said reflective reference surface or road surface and a calculation unit adapted to calculate the parameters for controlling the light output of the luminaire based on the optical properties measured by the sensor unit, wherein the determined optical properties comprise at least both of specular and diffuse reflection and are determined by measuring at least one of the following light properties: - the degree of specular and diffuse reflection; - the ratio of diffuse and specular measured reflective light intensities; - the ratio of reflective light intensity and light intensity as outputted by the light source; - the pattern and polarization of the reflected light; and - the color of reflected light. - the degree of specular and diffuse reflection; - the ratio of diffuse and specular measured reflective light intensities; - the ratio of reflective light intensity and light intensity as outputted by the light source; - the pattern and polarization of the reflected light; and - the color of reflected light.
A sample collection device for collecting a blood sample of a patient, the sample collection device at least comprising: - a first partially deformable shell, - a second at least partially pierceable shell, wherein in the mounted state of the collection device a pre-packaged vacuum is sealed between the first shell and the second shell, further wherein the second shell holds in the mounted state a sample container and an automatic mechanical cutting mechanism comprising a rotatable cutting blade and an actuator spring, the actuator spring being actuatable by pressing the first shell, thereby releasing and rotating the cutting blade, further wherein by pressing the first shell the pre-packaged vacuum is released to a collection opening of the second shell such that the vacuum effects a suction effect such that blood coming out of the incision created by the rotatable cutting blade leaks into the sample container. - a first partially deformable shell, - a second at least partially pierceable shell, wherein in the mounted state of the collection device a pre-packaged vacuum is sealed between the first shell and the second shell, further wherein the second shell holds in the mounted state a sample container and an automatic mechanical cutting mechanism comprising a rotatable cutting blade and an actuator spring, the actuator spring being actuatable by pressing the first shell, thereby releasing and rotating the cutting blade, further wherein by pressing the first shell the pre-packaged vacuum is released to a collection opening of the second shell such that the vacuum effects a suction effect such that blood coming out of the incision created by the rotatable cutting blade leaks into the sample container.
A method for searching data, comprising: receiving from a requesting device, a search request text message that includes a search term and an identifier of the requesting device; obtaining a plurality of categories of search results, wherein each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term, and wherein each search result within each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term; and transmitting to the requesting device, an initial result text message that comprises a quantity of characters not greater than a predefined quantity of message characters that are allowed for a character-limited messaging protocol, and wherein the initial result text message includes: a most relevant search result of a most relevant category; a user instruction for sending a reply text message to request a subsequent result text message for a next most relevant search result of either the most relevant category or another category of the plurality of categories; and a selectable link to a web page of the plurality of categories of search results. receiving from a requesting device, a search request text message that includes a search term and an identifier of the requesting device; obtaining a plurality of categories of search results, wherein each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term, and wherein each search result within each category is ordered by relevance to at least the search term; and transmitting to the requesting device, an initial result text message that comprises a quantity of characters not greater than a predefined quantity of message characters that are allowed for a character-limited messaging protocol, and wherein the initial result text message includes: a most relevant search result of a most relevant category; a user instruction for sending a reply text message to request a subsequent result text message for a next most relevant search result of either the most relevant category or another category of the plurality of categories; and a selectable link to a web page of the plurality of categories of search results. a most relevant search result of a most relevant category; a user instruction for sending a reply text message to request a subsequent result text message for a next most relevant search result of either the most relevant category or another category of the plurality of categories; and a selectable link to a web page of the plurality of categories of search results.
Device for measuring current comprising at least one coil, without a ferromagnetic core, placed in the proximity of a conductor through which the current to be measured runs and which surrounds said coil at least partially, said conductor being made from a metal sheet comprising: - a central part dividing itself into a plurality of arms which form a loop surrounding the coil; - a first and a second end (4, 6) consisting of connection terminals, characterised in that the central part of the conductor is formed by a main branch connected to one of the ends (4, 6) and surrounding at least half of the coil, which branch widens and divides itself into two arms (8, 9) which pass on either side of the main branch and join together again at the other end. - a central part dividing itself into a plurality of arms which form a loop surrounding the coil; - a first and a second end (4, 6) consisting of connection terminals, characterised in that the central part of the conductor is formed by a main branch connected to one of the ends (4, 6) and surrounding at least half of the coil, which branch widens and divides itself into two arms (8, 9) which pass on either side of the main branch and join together again at the other end.
A method performed by one or more server computers, comprising: receiving, from a client, a plurality of music titles for respective music pieces that a user has the right to listen to; determining, for a music title of the plurality of music titles, that a matching video stored on the one or more server computers has the respective music piece for the music title as an audio component of the matching video; adding the matching video to a list of matching videos; storing the list of matching videos on the one or more server computers so that it is accessible to a user associated with the client; associating the list of matching videos with a user account specified by the client; receiving a playback request that is associated with the user account; and transmitting one or more matching videos specified by the list of matching videos in response to the playback request. receiving, from a client, a plurality of music titles for respective music pieces that a user has the right to listen to; determining, for a music title of the plurality of music titles, that a matching video stored on the one or more server computers has the respective music piece for the music title as an audio component of the matching video; adding the matching video to a list of matching videos; storing the list of matching videos on the one or more server computers so that it is accessible to a user associated with the client; associating the list of matching videos with a user account specified by the client; receiving a playback request that is associated with the user account; and transmitting one or more matching videos specified by the list of matching videos in response to the playback request.
Intraoral suctioning device for the intraoral negative pressure wound treatment, comprising: a dental splint, an elastic membrane sealing an aperture formed in the dental splint so as to define a sealed wound treatment area on the inside of the dental splint, and a suctioning channel system for evacuating the wound treatment area, characterized in that the aperture is formed as a through-hole and the elastic membrane is elastically deformable upon evacuation of the wound treatment area due to a pressure difference occurring on both sides of the elastic membrane, so that the elastic membrane can enter into the aperture. a dental splint, an elastic membrane sealing an aperture formed in the dental splint so as to define a sealed wound treatment area on the inside of the dental splint, and a suctioning channel system for evacuating the wound treatment area, characterized in that the aperture is formed as a through-hole and the elastic membrane is elastically deformable upon evacuation of the wound treatment area due to a pressure difference occurring on both sides of the elastic membrane, so that the elastic membrane can enter into the aperture.