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A plasma cutting apparatus (10; 110), comprising: - a housing comprising a base (18; 112), an upright pedestal (20; 114) extending upward from the base (18; 112) and a stationary head (22; 116) cantilevered from the upright pedestal (20; 114); - a workpiece support (14; 118) extending from the upright pedestal (20; 114) and located below the stationary head (22; 116); - a movable plasma nozzle (16; 120) extending downward from an underside of the stationary head (22; 116) and oriented for delivering a cutting plasma generally along one direction and toward a workpiece on the workpiece support (14; 118); and - a nozzle drive arrangement mounted to the stationary head (22; 116) and connected for moving the plasma nozzle (16; 120) during a cutting operation, characterized by further including permanent, removable, or deflectable shielding (28; 122) which is included at the underside of the stationary head (22; 116) and adjustable in height for raising and lowering the shielding (28; 122) to facilitate aligning of the plasma nozzle (16; 120) before cutting and for accessing the plasma nozzle (16; 120) for repairing and/or replacing the plasma nozzle (16; 120). - a housing comprising a base (18; 112), an upright pedestal (20; 114) extending upward from the base (18; 112) and a stationary head (22; 116) cantilevered from the upright pedestal (20; 114); - a workpiece support (14; 118) extending from the upright pedestal (20; 114) and located below the stationary head (22; 116); - a movable plasma nozzle (16; 120) extending downward from an underside of the stationary head (22; 116) and oriented for delivering a cutting plasma generally along one direction and toward a workpiece on the workpiece support (14; 118); and - a nozzle drive arrangement mounted to the stationary head (22; 116) and connected for moving the plasma nozzle (16; 120) during a cutting operation,
A method of discharging artificial snow from a snow making facility including an evaporator vessel and producing snow by means of the technique of freezing water under vacuum pressure by maintaining a vacuum pressure corresponding to the boiling point of water at a temperature below 0°C in the evaporator vessel and producing water vapor that absorbs the latent heat of vaporization from the water whereby the water temperature drops until it freezes and reaches the super cooling temperature that corresponds to the existing vacuum pressure, characterized by: - withdrawing the produced snow from a bottom portion of the evaporator vessel by means of a first pipe screw conveyor; - conveying the withdrawn snow from the first screw conveyor through a controlled first valve and into a second pipe screw conveyor; and - discharging the snow to the atmosphere from the second screw conveyor through a likewise controlled second valve: whereby - a vacuum pressure essentially the same as that in the evaporator vessel is selectively created in at least the second pipe screw conveyor through a third controlled valve connecting the second pipe screw conveyor to the evaporator vessel via a branch-off from the second pipe screw conveyor. - withdrawing the produced snow from a bottom portion of the evaporator vessel by means of a first pipe screw conveyor; - conveying the withdrawn snow from the first screw conveyor through a controlled first valve and into a second pipe screw conveyor; and - discharging the snow to the atmosphere from the second screw conveyor through a likewise controlled second valve: whereby - a vacuum pressure essentially the same as that in the evaporator vessel is selectively created in at least the second pipe screw conveyor through a third controlled valve connecting the second pipe screw conveyor to the evaporator vessel via a branch-off from the second pipe screw conveyor.
An apparatus for degassing oil in an oil system, the apparatus comprising: - a room for receiving oil that is to be subjected to degassing; - an inlet for feeding oil into the room; - an outlet for feeding oil out of the room; - a suction arrangement connected to said outlet for sucking out oil from the room via the outlet; - a non-return valve, which is connected to the upper part of the room and which is arranged to allow gases and water vapour to flow out of the room and thereby allow an under-pressure that promotes separation of gas from the oil to be generated in the room; and - a regulating device for regulating the feeding of oil into the room via said inlet, characterized in: - that said room comprises a first chamber and a second chamber, which is connected to the first chamber, smaller than the first chamber and arranged above the first chamber, said inlet and outlet being arranged in the first chamber and the non-return valve being connected to the second chamber; - that the regulating device comprises a float and a valve member actuated by the float; - that the float has a lower section (51 a) located in the first chamber and an upper section (51 b) extending into the second chamber, the upper section of the float delimiting a flow passage (63; 64) extending between the first chamber and the second chamber; and - that the valve member is arranged to open said inlet when the float assumes a lower first position in the room and close said inlet when the float assumes an upper second position in the room. - a room for receiving oil that is to be subjected to degassing; - an inlet for feeding oil into the room; - an outlet for feeding oil out of the room; - a suction arrangement connected to said outlet for sucking out oil from the room via the outlet; - a non-return valve, which is connected to the upper part of the room and which is arranged to allow gases and water vapour to flow out of the room and thereby allow an under-pressure that promotes separation of gas from the oil to be generated in the room; and - a regulating device for regulating the feeding of oil into the room via said inlet, - that said room comprises a first chamber and a second chamber, which is connected to the first chamber, smaller than the first chamber and arranged above the first chamber, said inlet and outlet being arranged in the first chamber and the non-return valve being connected to the second chamber; - that the regulating device comprises a float and a valve member actuated by the float; - that the float has a lower section (51 a) located in the first chamber and an upper section (51 b) extending into the second chamber, the upper section of the float delimiting a flow passage (63; 64) extending between the first chamber and the second chamber; and - that the valve member is arranged to open said inlet when the float assumes a lower first position in the room and close said inlet when the float assumes an upper second position in the room.
Method for trading on an electronic trading platform, having the following features: - trade orders of subscribers of the trading platform are placed, - a decentralized transaction database of the trading platform is managed, said transaction database comprising data and a zero-knowledge proof of a present state of the transaction database, - on the basis of trade orders of the subscribers, proceeding from the present state, the transaction database is converted into a new state by a multi-party computation, characterized by the following features: - the data comprise an order book and balances of accounts of the subscribers, - order data of the trade orders are split into a plurality of parts ( s OD, s OF) by cryptographic secret sharing, - the parts ( s OD, s OF) are distributed among parties of the multi-party computation, - the present state is read by the parties, and - the new state is written by the parties. - trade orders of subscribers of the trading platform are placed, - a decentralized transaction database of the trading platform is managed, said transaction database comprising data and a zero-knowledge proof of a present state of the transaction database, - on the basis of trade orders of the subscribers, proceeding from the present state, the transaction database is converted into a new state by a multi-party computation, characterized by the following features: - the data comprise an order book and balances of accounts of the subscribers, - order data of the trade orders are split into a plurality of parts ( s OD, s OF) by cryptographic secret sharing, - the parts ( s OD, s OF) are distributed among parties of the multi-party computation, - the present state is read by the parties, and - the new state is written by the parties.
A door drive comprising electrically operated components (2, 10) which are supplied with electrical energy via a mains connection, wherein a control and an electrical energy store are provided, with the control separating the door drive from the mains and the electrical energy store providing the electrical energy in a first operating mode and with the control connecting the door drive to the mains in a second operating mode, characterized in that a charge control which switches into the second operating mode independently of the operating mode of the drive motor to charge the electrical energy store in dependence on the period of time which has passed since the last charge cycle.
A display system comprising: a Multi-Functional Peripheral (1, 1A), MFP, configured to perform specific processing based on a request from a terminal, the MFP (1, 1A) comprising: a connection portion configured to connect the MFP (1, 1A) to the terminal; an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from another MFP (1, 1B), screen data indicating an element corresponding to a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by said another MFP (1, 1B) before the MFP (1, 1A) connects to the terminal; and a display control portion (123, 124) configured to arrange a second screen including the part or the whole of the first screen based on the screen data to control the terminal to display the second screen, a terminal; and the another MFP; wherein the another MFP includes a second connection portion configured to connect the another MFP to the terminal, and a second display control portion configured to control the terminal to display the first screen, the first screen being used for a user to perform operation for the specific processing, and the terminal includes a display portion configured to display the first screen and the second screen. a connection portion configured to connect the MFP (1, 1A) to the terminal; an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from another MFP (1, 1B), screen data indicating an element corresponding to a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by said another MFP (1, 1B) before the MFP (1, 1A) connects to the terminal; and a display control portion (123, 124) configured to arrange a second screen including the part or the whole of the first screen based on the screen data to control the terminal to display the second screen, a terminal; and the another MFP; wherein the another MFP includes a second connection portion configured to connect the another MFP to the terminal, and a second display control portion configured to control the terminal to display the first screen, the first screen being used for a user to perform operation for the specific processing, and the terminal includes a display portion configured to display the first screen and the second screen.
A seawater mineral extract derived from seawater having a salinity of from 3.4% Brix to 3.6% Brix, wherein the seawater mineral extract comprises a mineral salt content of from 25% to 55% of the overall seawater mineral extract by weight characterised in that the seawater mineral extract is an inorganic concentrated liquid ionized composition having a magnesium concentration of at least 40 g/l.
A data sharing system that shares data between a plurality of communication terminals (1-1,1-2) capable of exchanging a communication message in a wireless manner, wherein each of said communication terminals (1-1,1-2) comprises: a data storage unit that stores one or more pieces of data; a data provision unit that transmits a list, in which information of data stored in said data storage unit has been written, to said other communication terminal by said communication message, reads data, which has been requested by said communication message from said other communication terminal, from said data storage unit, and transmits said data to said other communication terminal by said communication message; a request possibility determination unit that determines whether it is possible to secure a communication time required for acquiring said data from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2), between said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2) having transmitted said list to a self-communication terminal (1-1,1-2) by said communication message and a self-communication terminal (1-1,1-2); and a data acquisition unit that decides data not stored in said data storage unit among data on said list received by said communication message from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2), and requests said decided data from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2) by said communication message on a condition that said request possibility determination unit determines that it is possible to secure said communication time. a data storage unit that stores one or more pieces of data; a data provision unit that transmits a list, in which information of data stored in said data storage unit has been written, to said other communication terminal by said communication message, reads data, which has been requested by said communication message from said other communication terminal, from said data storage unit, and transmits said data to said other communication terminal by said communication message; a request possibility determination unit that determines whether it is possible to secure a communication time required for acquiring said data from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2), between said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2) having transmitted said list to a self-communication terminal (1-1,1-2) by said communication message and a self-communication terminal (1-1,1-2); and a data acquisition unit that decides data not stored in said data storage unit among data on said list received by said communication message from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2), and requests said decided data from said other communication terminal (1-1,1-2) by said communication message on a condition that said request possibility determination unit determines that it is possible to secure said communication time.
A biodegradable polyester, characterized in that, the biodegradable polyester comprises components as follows in mole percent: A) containing repeating units of acid components as follows: 51 to 56 mol% of terephthalic acid A1; 30 to 40 mol% of sebacic acid A2; and 6 to 14 mol% of an aliphatic dibasic acid A3 with a carbon chain length of 6 or less; B) butanediol. A) containing repeating units of acid components as follows: 51 to 56 mol% of terephthalic acid A1; 30 to 40 mol% of sebacic acid A2; and 6 to 14 mol% of an aliphatic dibasic acid A3 with a carbon chain length of 6 or less; 51 to 56 mol% of terephthalic acid A1; 30 to 40 mol% of sebacic acid A2; and 6 to 14 mol% of an aliphatic dibasic acid A3 with a carbon chain length of 6 or less; B) butanediol.
An annulus filler for mounting to a rotor disc of a gas turbine engine and bridging the gap between adjacent fan blades and first and second gas-washed elements (112, 110) of a turbine engine stage, the rotor disc having a first rotor disc hook (18,118) and a second rotor disc hook (19,119), the annulus filler comprising: a lid having a front end and a rear end; a first hook member (5,105) projecting from the lid adjacent the front end thereof and configured to engage with the first rotor disc hook (18,118) of the rotor disc; a second hook member (6,106) projecting from the lid adjacent the rear end thereof and configured to engage with the second rotor disk hook (19,119) of the rotor disc; a first lip (11,111) extending from the front end of the lid and being configured to fit beneath the first gas-washed element of the gas turbine engine; and a second lip (9,109) extending from the rear end of the lid and being configured to fit beneath the second gas-washed element (10,110) of the gas turbine engine; characterised in that the annulus filler further comprises one or more guide ramps which extend from the second lip (9,109), the or each guide ramp being angled in a direction towards the first and second hook members relative to the second lip to encourage the second lip to fit beneath the second gas-washed element when the annulus filler is translated in a direction towards said second gas-washed element. a lid having a front end and a rear end; a first hook member (5,105) projecting from the lid adjacent the front end thereof and configured to engage with the first rotor disc hook (18,118) of the rotor disc; a second hook member (6,106) projecting from the lid adjacent the rear end thereof and configured to engage with the second rotor disk hook (19,119) of the rotor disc; a first lip (11,111) extending from the front end of the lid and being configured to fit beneath the first gas-washed element of the gas turbine engine; and a second lip (9,109) extending from the rear end of the lid and being configured to fit beneath the second gas-washed element (10,110) of the gas turbine engine; characterised in that the annulus filler further comprises one or more guide ramps which extend from the second lip (9,109), the or each guide ramp being angled in a direction towards the first and second hook members relative to the second lip to encourage the second lip to fit beneath the second gas-washed element when the annulus filler is translated in a direction towards said second gas-washed element.
A transformer, comprising: a tank having tank walls (21, 22, 25), wherein the tank walls (21, 22, 25) comprise composite panels having a layered structure comprising first and second skin layers (42, 43), with a core sandwiched between the first and second skin layers (42, 43), and wherein the tank has a fluid-tight insert operative to prevent an insulation fluid from contacting the composite panels, characterised in that the composite panels abut on an outer surface of the fluid-tight insert. a tank having tank walls (21, 22, 25), wherein the tank walls (21, 22, 25) comprise composite panels having a layered structure comprising first and second skin layers (42, 43), with a core sandwiched between the first and second skin layers (42, 43), and wherein the tank has a fluid-tight insert operative to prevent an insulation fluid from contacting the composite panels, characterised in that the composite panels abut on an outer surface of the fluid-tight insert.
An article of footwear, comprising: a hightop upper including a leg opening, wherein the hightop upper includes a foot insertion opening extending rearwardly and downwardly from a front portion of the leg opening at least to a heel area of the hightop upper, and wherein the foot insertion opening extends at least to a vertical line extending through a rearmost point of the hightop upper and terminates at a closed end located at a rear heel area, a lateral rear heel area, or a lateral side heel area of the hightop upper; a closure system engaged with the hightop upper for releasably closing the foot insertion opening, wherein the closure system extends between the closed end and the front portion of the leg opening; and a sole structure engaged with the hightop upper. a hightop upper including a leg opening, wherein the hightop upper includes a foot insertion opening extending rearwardly and downwardly from a front portion of the leg opening at least to a heel area of the hightop upper, and wherein the foot insertion opening extends at least to a vertical line extending through a rearmost point of the hightop upper and terminates at a closed end located at a rear heel area, a lateral rear heel area, or a lateral side heel area of the hightop upper; a closure system engaged with the hightop upper for releasably closing the foot insertion opening, wherein the closure system extends between the closed end and the front portion of the leg opening; and a sole structure engaged with the hightop upper.
A data storage and reproduction apparatus, comprising: a storage portion constituted of a non-volatile memory, said storage portion including a first area storing multimedia data, a second area different from said first area, and a third area; a reproduction portion (2, 6) for reproducing the multimedia data stored in said storage portion; and a control portion causing the multimedia data to be recorded in said first area in said storage portion; characterised in that said control portion causes storage position information which is information on a storage position in said first area, of the multimedia data stored in said first area, and reproduction position information which is information on a reproduction position of the multimedia data stored in said first area, to be stored in said second area every prescribed time, causes information corresponding to the latest of said storage position information in said second area with a flag to be stored and causes information corresponding to the latest of said reproduction position information in said second area with a flag to be stored, for each program, in said third area, and performs error check for a location corresponding to the latest of said storage position information and the latest of said reproduction position information stored in said third area and vicinity thereof when said data storage and reproduction apparatus suddenly stops. a storage portion constituted of a non-volatile memory, said storage portion including a first area storing multimedia data, a second area different from said first area, and a third area; a reproduction portion (2, 6) for reproducing the multimedia data stored in said storage portion; and a control portion causing the multimedia data to be recorded in said first area in said storage portion;
Flexible electric heater integrated in a fabric, with a surface extending substantially in a two-dimensional plane, comprising at least one heating strip approximately parallel to weft threads, said at least one heating strip being electrically connected to strips of electric conducting wires, said strips of electric conducting wires being arranged approximately parallel tc warp threads, next to different portions of fabric,, said at least one heating strip being composed of a plurality of electrically heating weft threads intertwined with the fabric, each strip of electric conducting wires being composed of a plurality of electrically conducting warp threads intertwined with the fabric, said plurality of electrically heating weft threads being intertwined with said plurality of electrically conducting warp threads, in which the strips of electrically conducting wires form conducting bands, characterised in that a warp density is provided with a higher value than in the rest of the flexible heater on the side of each conducting band and at the crossing of the conducting band and a heating weft thread, in that each of said electrically conducting warp threads and of said electrically conducting weft threads is composed of strands in an amount included between a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 46 capillaries, the section of the capillaries being included between 0.03 mm and 2 mm, and in that the amount of the electrically conducting warp threads of each strip of electric conductors is equal to a number included between 3 and 48 threads.