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An antithrombogenic metallic material comprising a metallic material whose surface is coated with a coating material, said coating material containing: a phosphonic acid derivative or a catechol derivative, said phosphonic acid derivative being a carboxyalkylphosphonic acid or an aminoalkylphosphonic acid, and said catechol derivative being a compound of the following General Formula, a compound of the following General Formula, a compound of the following General Formula, or a compound of the following General Formula a polymer containing, as a constituent monomer, a compound selected from the group consisting of alkyleneimines, vinylamines, allylamines, lysine, protamine, and diallyldimethylammonium chloride; and an anionic compound containing a sulfur atom and having anticoagulant activity; said polymer being covalently bound to said phosphonic acid derivative or said catechol derivative, said phosphonic acid derivative or said catechol derivative being bound to said metallic material through a phosphonic acid group or a catechol group thereof, wherein the abundance ratio of nitrogen atoms to the abundance of total atoms as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the surface is 4.0 to 13.0 atomic percent. a phosphonic acid derivative or a catechol derivative, said phosphonic acid derivative being a carboxyalkylphosphonic acid or an aminoalkylphosphonic acid, and said catechol derivative being a compound of the following General Formula, a compound of the following General Formula, a compound of the following General Formula, or a compound of the following General Formula a polymer containing, as a constituent monomer, a compound selected from the group consisting of alkyleneimines, vinylamines, allylamines, lysine, protamine, and diallyldimethylammonium chloride; and an anionic compound containing a sulfur atom and having anticoagulant activity;
Case for counterframe for disappearing sliding door provided with a side (a, b) for supporting hanging objects, the case being of the type comprising - a rigid shell obtained by coupling pre-shaped metal or plastic sheets and comprising two side definition walls having an external face each; - a finishing supporting element; and - cross beams which allow the anchorage of the finishing supporting element in correspondence with at least one of the two side definition walls of the rigid shell; characterized in that said case further comprises: - a first layer of semi-soft material; and - a second layer of rigid material; the first layer of semi-soft material being placed against one external face of one side definition wall in the space between said side definition wall and the finishing supporting element, the second layer of rigid material being superimposed on the first layer in such a way as to serve for clamping the gripping part of the fixing plugs, and the cross beams being superimposed on said second layer. - a rigid shell obtained by coupling pre-shaped metal or plastic sheets and comprising two side definition walls having an external face each; - a finishing supporting element; and - cross beams which allow the anchorage of the finishing supporting element in correspondence with at least one of the two side definition walls of the rigid shell; characterized in that said case further comprises: - a first layer of semi-soft material; and - a second layer of rigid material; the first layer of semi-soft material being placed against one external face of one side definition wall in the space between said side definition wall and the finishing supporting element, the second layer of rigid material being superimposed on the first layer in such a way as to serve for clamping the gripping part of the fixing plugs, and the cross beams being superimposed on said second layer.
An additive manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object in an additive manufacturing apparatus by a layer-wise selective solidification of building material by means of an irradiation with laser radiation, wherein: in a process chamber repeatedly a layer of building material is applied on a previously selectively solidified building material layer and is scanned with laser radiation at positions corresponding to the cross-section of the object in this layer, the laser radiation is generated by means of a laser light source and is directed onto the building material layer via a number of optical components, wherein an optics compartment that is encased by an optics compartment housing accommodates the optical components, wherein a defined gas atmosphere is maintained inside of the optics compartment, characterized in that the relative humidity of the defined gas atmosphere is kept below 3% and in that the laser light source is a CO laser. in a process chamber repeatedly a layer of building material is applied on a previously selectively solidified building material layer and is scanned with laser radiation at positions corresponding to the cross-section of the object in this layer, the laser radiation is generated by means of a laser light source and is directed onto the building material layer via a number of optical components, wherein an optics compartment that is encased by an optics compartment housing accommodates the optical components, wherein a defined gas atmosphere is maintained inside of the optics compartment,
Method for operating a steam turbine, wherein the steam turbine has a rotatably mounted steam turbine rotor and a housing which is arranged around the steam turbine rotor, wherein the rotor is coupled in terms of torque to a generator rotor of an electrical generator, wherein the generator is cooled with a cooling medium, in particular air, wherein a cooling pressure of the cooling medium in the generator is set, wherein the generator rotor exerts a torque on the steam turbine rotor, characterized in that the torque from the generator rotor to the steam turbine rotor is changed by means of a change in the cooling pressure.
A closure comprising: (a) a frame defining an opening, said frame comprising a hinge jamb and a strike jamb; (b) a panel mounted via a hinge relative to said hinge jamb, said panel assuming a closed position in which said panel abuts a primary abutment surface of said hinge jamb and a primary abutment surface of said strike jamb, providing an at least partial closure for said opening, said panel being hingedly movable towards a swing-side of said opening to an open position in which said opening is substantially unobscured, said primary abutment surfaces (12a, 14a) of said hinge jamb and of said strike jamb being deployed to oppose forces tending to displace said panel away from said swing-side of said opening; and (c) a compression member displaceable when said panel assumes said closed position between an engaged state in which said compression member is disposed between an abutment surface of said panel and a secondary abutment surface of said strike jamb and a disengaged state in which said compression member is displaced so as to allow hinged motion of said panel towards said open position, wherein said secondary abutment surface of said strike jamb is deployed to oppose forces tending to displace said panel towards said swing-side of said opening, and wherein said panel abutment surface, said compression member and said secondary abutment surface of said strike jamb are configured such that, when said compression member assumes said engaged state, forces acting on said compression member opposing opening of said panel are primarily compressive forces, wherein said panel and said strike jamb are formed with complementary interlocking features (42, 44, 48, 50) configured to interlock when said panel assumes said closed position so as to oppose inward motion of an edge of said panel due to bowing of said panel when said panel is in said closed position, characterized in that said compression member in said engaged state prevents disengagement of said complementary interlocking features. (a) a frame defining an opening, said frame comprising a hinge jamb and a strike jamb; (b) a panel mounted via a hinge relative to said hinge jamb, said panel assuming a closed position in which said panel abuts a primary abutment surface of said hinge jamb and a primary abutment surface of said strike jamb, providing an at least partial closure for said opening, said panel being hingedly movable towards a swing-side of said opening to an open position in which said opening is substantially unobscured, said primary abutment surfaces (12a, 14a) of said hinge jamb and of said strike jamb being deployed to oppose forces tending to displace said panel away from said swing-side of said opening; and (c) a compression member displaceable when said panel assumes said closed position between an engaged state in which said compression member is disposed between an abutment surface of said panel and a secondary abutment surface of said strike jamb and a disengaged state in which said compression member is displaced so as to allow hinged motion of said panel towards said open position,
A method implemented by a first node in a network, the method comprising: sending a first link state message to other nodes in the network, wherein the first link state message comprises a mode field set to indicate centralized link state flooding reduction, wherein the centralized link state flooding reduction mode directs a selection of a leader node in the network based on the first link state message, the leader node computes the flooding topology, floods the flooding topology to the other nodes, and the other nodes receive and use the flooding topology from the leader node; obtaining data indicating connectivity of a plurality of nodes in the network; computing the flooding topology according to the data indicating connectivity of the plurality of nodes, wherein the first node is selected as the leader node; sending the flooding topology, so that the flooding topology is used by nodes receiving the flooding topology to transmit a link state message over the flooding topology without transmitting such link state message through network links that are excluded from the flooding topology. sending a first link state message to other nodes in the network, wherein the first link state message comprises a mode field set to indicate centralized link state flooding reduction, wherein the centralized link state flooding reduction mode directs a selection of a leader node in the network based on the first link state message, the leader node computes the flooding topology, floods the flooding topology to the other nodes, and the other nodes receive and use the flooding topology from the leader node; obtaining data indicating connectivity of a plurality of nodes in the network; computing the flooding topology according to the data indicating connectivity of the plurality of nodes, wherein the first node is selected as the leader node; sending the flooding topology, so that the flooding topology is used by nodes receiving the flooding topology to transmit a link state message over the flooding topology without transmitting such link state message through network links that are excluded from the flooding topology.
A discharge lamp lighting device comprising: a DC power source circuit; a smoothing capacitor connected to an output end of the DC power source circuit; an inverter main circuit adapted to convert a DC power output from the smoothing capacitor, to an AC power, and supply the AC power to a discharge lamp; characterized in that a main control circuit adapted to control the inverter main circuit so as to control the AC power to be supplied to the discharge lamp; a timer circuit adapted to count a predetermined time; a power supply suppression section adapted to voluntarily suppress power supply to the smoothing capacitor during a period where the timer circuit counts the predetermined time, while the discharge lamp is constantly turned on; a voltage/voltage drop detection section adapted to detect a voltage or a voltage drop of the smoothing capacitor at least during a period where the power supply to the smoothing capacitor is suppressed; a first comparator adapted to compare between a detection value of the voltage or the voltage drop of the smoothing capacitor and a first threshold value to determine the life end of smoothing capacitor, and output a result of the determination; and an auxiliary control circuit adapted to perform a control operation depending on the output of the first comparator. a DC power source circuit; a smoothing capacitor connected to an output end of the DC power source circuit; an inverter main circuit adapted to convert a DC power output from the smoothing capacitor, to an AC power, and supply the AC power to a discharge lamp; characterized in that a main control circuit adapted to control the inverter main circuit so as to control the AC power to be supplied to the discharge lamp; a timer circuit adapted to count a predetermined time; a power supply suppression section adapted to voluntarily suppress power supply to the smoothing capacitor during a period where the timer circuit counts the predetermined time, while the discharge lamp is constantly turned on; a voltage/voltage drop detection section adapted to detect a voltage or a voltage drop of the smoothing capacitor at least during a period where the power supply to the smoothing capacitor is suppressed; a first comparator adapted to compare between a detection value of the voltage or the voltage drop of the smoothing capacitor and a first threshold value to determine the life end of smoothing capacitor, and output a result of the determination; and an auxiliary control circuit adapted to perform a control operation depending on the output of the first comparator.
A method comprising: retrieving distance data indicating predicted distances of a heating surface of a heater of an Automated Fiber Placement machine to a surface of a laminate being laid-up by the Automated Fiber Placement machine, for each of multiple locations along a path that the heating surface will travel over the laminate surface during layup (606, 608); directing the Automated Fiber Placement machine to lay up the laminate in accordance with a Numerical Control program; identifying a current location of the heater in the path during layup; determining a speed at which the heater of the Automated Fiber Placement machine is moving at the current location; the method being characterized by correlating the current location of the heater with one of the predicted distances; and adjusting an amount of power for the heater during layup at the current location based on the predicted distance that was correlated with the current location, and the speed at the current location. retrieving distance data indicating predicted distances of a heating surface of a heater of an Automated Fiber Placement machine to a surface of a laminate being laid-up by the Automated Fiber Placement machine, for each of multiple locations along a path that the heating surface will travel over the laminate surface during layup (606, 608); directing the Automated Fiber Placement machine to lay up the laminate in accordance with a Numerical Control program; identifying a current location of the heater in the path during layup; determining a speed at which the heater of the Automated Fiber Placement machine is moving at the current location; the method being characterized by correlating the current location of the heater with one of the predicted distances; and adjusting an amount of power for the heater during layup at the current location based on the predicted distance that was correlated with the current location, and the speed at the current location.
A method of fabricating a radiating element for a base station antenna, the method comprising: forming first through fourth metal dipole arms from one or more sheets of metal; forming a dielectric mounting substrate comprising one or more pieces of dielectric material via injection molding; mounting the first through fourth metal dipole arms to the dielectric mounting substrate via an attachment mechanism; and mounting the dielectric mounting substrate having the first through fourth metal dipole arms mounted thereon on a feed stalk, wherein each of the first through fourth metal dipole arms has first and second spaced-apart conductive segments (334-1, 334-2) that together form a generally oval shape; and wherein each of the first and second conductive segments (334-1, 334-2) of the first through fourth metal dipole arms includes a first widened section that has a first average width, a second widened section that has a second average width and a narrowed section that has a third average width, the narrowed section being between the first widened section and the second widened section, wherein the third average width is less than half the first average width and less than half the second average width. forming first through fourth metal dipole arms from one or more sheets of metal; forming a dielectric mounting substrate comprising one or more pieces of dielectric material via injection molding; mounting the first through fourth metal dipole arms to the dielectric mounting substrate via an attachment mechanism; and mounting the dielectric mounting substrate having the first through fourth metal dipole arms mounted thereon on a feed stalk, wherein each of the first through fourth metal dipole arms has first and second spaced-apart conductive segments (334-1, 334-2) that together form a generally oval shape; and wherein each of the first and second conductive segments (334-1, 334-2) of the first through fourth metal dipole arms includes a first widened section that has a first average width, a second widened section that has a second average width and a narrowed section that has a third average width, the narrowed section being between the first widened section and the second widened section, wherein the third average width is less than half the first average width and less than half the second average width.
An electromechanical actuator (1; 100) for controlling the movement of a moving outer part, such as landing gear, of an aircraft, the electromechanical actuator comprising: - a case, - an actuating member, such as a rod, that is translatable along an axis (X-X) relative to the case and that is made up of a deployed part and a non-deployed part, which are following one another along the axis and which are respectively deployed and not deployed outside the case, the axial span of the deployed part varying proportionally opposite that of the non-deployed part as a function of the translated position of the actuating member relative to the case, - an electric motor for translating the actuating member, which is supported by the case and is connected to the non-deployed part of the actuating member by mechanical transmission means, the case defining an inner volume inside which the non-deployed part of the actuating member, the motor and the transmission means are arranged, and - sealing elements (60, 61) that seal the inner volume relative to the outside of the case, characterized in that the inner volume is pressurized by being filled with a gaseous atmosphere so that in use, irrespective of the translated position of the actuating member, the gaseous atmosphere has a pressure greater than or equal to a preset absolute value of at least 1.5 bars, the sealing elements (60, 61) being provided to keep the inner volume pressurized. - a case, - an actuating member, such as a rod, that is translatable along an axis (X-X) relative to the case and that is made up of a deployed part and a non-deployed part, which are following one another along the axis and which are respectively deployed and not deployed outside the case, the axial span of the deployed part varying proportionally opposite that of the non-deployed part as a function of the translated position of the actuating member relative to the case, - an electric motor for translating the actuating member, which is supported by the case and is connected to the non-deployed part of the actuating member by mechanical transmission means, the case defining an inner volume inside which the non-deployed part of the actuating member, the motor and the transmission means are arranged, and - sealing elements (60, 61) that seal the inner volume relative to the outside of the case,
A method for forming a semiconductor structure, comprising providing a semiconductor layer with a transistor device having a first electrode, a second electrode and a control electrode for controlling a flow of carriers between the first electrode and the second electrode; depositing a passivation layer over the first electrode, the second electrode and the control electrode; depositing an etch stop layer on the passivation layer, such etch stop layer being disposed over the control electrode, the etch stop layer being formed as a composite structure, comprising: a first etch stop layer on the passivation layer, a buffer layer on the first etch stop layer, and a second etch stop layer on the buffer layer; forming a metal layer on a portion of the etch stop layer; removing exposed portions of the second etch stop layer, thereby leaving portions of the second etch stop layer under the metal layer; forming a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer and the metal layer; etching a window through a selected region in the dielectric layer and in the buffer layer over the control electrode, to expose a portion of the first etch stop layer disposed over the control electrode; and depositing a second metal layer on the portion of the dielectric layer formed on the first mentioned metal layer. providing a semiconductor layer with a transistor device having a first electrode, a second electrode and a control electrode for controlling a flow of carriers between the first electrode and the second electrode; depositing a passivation layer over the first electrode, the second electrode and the control electrode; depositing an etch stop layer on the passivation layer, such etch stop layer being disposed over the control electrode, the etch stop layer being formed as a composite structure, comprising: a first etch stop layer on the passivation layer, a buffer layer on the first etch stop layer, and a second etch stop layer on the buffer layer; forming a metal layer on a portion of the etch stop layer; removing exposed portions of the second etch stop layer, thereby leaving portions of the second etch stop layer under the metal layer; forming a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer and the metal layer; etching a window through a selected region in the dielectric layer and in the buffer layer over the control electrode, to expose a portion of the first etch stop layer disposed over the control electrode; and depositing a second metal layer on the portion of the dielectric layer formed on the first mentioned metal layer.