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A packing apparatus comprising a sealing mechanism configured to seal a lid of a cardboard box transported in a state that flaps (F1, F2) thereof are folded in and closed, by affixing a tape continuously on following portions of the cardboard box: a first side portion on a downstream side with respect to a transportation direction; the folded-in flap; and a second side portion opposite to the first side portion, the sealing mechanism including a first pressing member and a second pressing member, the first pressing member being configured to press the tape against the first side portion and the flaps (F1, F2), and the second pressing member being configured to press the tape against the flaps (F1, F2) and the second side portion, wherein the packing apparatus further comprises: a timing sensing section configured to sense a timing at which the affixing of the tape on the first side portion is initiated; and characterized in that a pressing force control section configured to control pressing force exerted by the first and second pressing members (51b, 52b), based on a result of the sensing performed by the timing sensing section, such that the pressing force is reduced after the affixing of the tape on the first side portion is initiated and kept reduced until the affixation of the tape T on the cardboard box C is completed. the first pressing member being configured to press the tape against the first side portion and the flaps (F1, F2), and the second pressing member being configured to press the tape against the flaps (F1, F2) and the second side portion, a timing sensing section configured to sense a timing at which the affixing of the tape on the first side portion is initiated; and characterized in that a pressing force control section configured to control pressing force exerted by the first and second pressing members (51b, 52b), based on a result of the sensing performed by the timing sensing section, such that the pressing force is reduced after the affixing of the tape on the first side portion is initiated and kept reduced until the affixation of the tape T on the cardboard box C is completed.
A method for authenticating access to remote devices, the method comprising: receiving authentication data for authenticating a user for using a pointing device at a Point-of-Sale, POS, device for initiating of a transaction; establishing a handshake communication between the pointing device and the POS device; transmitting a handshake signal to the pointing device via the handshake communication; receiving, via a touch screen of the POS device, user input that includes an authenticating input and encoded data, the user input provided via the pointing device at the touch screen, the authenticating input for authenticating the user for the transaction, the encoded data being embedded in the authenticating input based on the handshake signal via a modulation of an input signal for the authenticating input; accessing the authenticating input to determine the encoded data that is embedded in the authenticating input; determining the encoded data from the modulation of the input signal for the authenticating input; determining a correlation between the authentication data and the encoded data; and determining, based on the correlation and the authenticating input, an authentication for initiating the transaction by the user at the POS device. receiving authentication data for authenticating a user for using a pointing device at a Point-of-Sale, POS, device for initiating of a transaction; establishing a handshake communication between the pointing device and the POS device; transmitting a handshake signal to the pointing device via the handshake communication; receiving, via a touch screen of the POS device, user input that includes an authenticating input and encoded data, the user input provided via the pointing device at the touch screen, the authenticating input for authenticating the user for the transaction, the encoded data being embedded in the authenticating input based on the handshake signal via a modulation of an input signal for the authenticating input; accessing the authenticating input to determine the encoded data that is embedded in the authenticating input; determining the encoded data from the modulation of the input signal for the authenticating input; determining a correlation between the authentication data and the encoded data; and determining, based on the correlation and the authenticating input, an authentication for initiating the transaction by the user at the POS device.
An underwater capillary plasma device comprising: a power supply unit configured to supply a power source; a discharge electrode configured to receive, in use, the power source supplied from the power supply unit and induce capillary plasma discharge inside a fluid; and a gas supply unit configured to inject an auxiliary gas into the fluid in which capillary plasma discharge takes place, in use, by means of the discharge electrode, wherein the discharge electrode comprises: a metal tip electrically connected to an output terminal of the power supply unit; and a cylindrically shaped dielectric tube arranged to surround the metal tip and protrude from an end of the metal tip by a certain length (d), characterized in that an end of the dielectric tube coming in contact with the fluid is formed so that the end of the dielectric tube is sloped in a direction spanning from an inner circumferential surface to an outer circumferential surface of a cylinder constituting the dielectric tube such that, in use, the wear of the dielectric tube by the plasma is reduced. a power supply unit configured to supply a power source; a discharge electrode configured to receive, in use, the power source supplied from the power supply unit and induce capillary plasma discharge inside a fluid; and a gas supply unit configured to inject an auxiliary gas into the fluid in which capillary plasma discharge takes place, in use, by means of the discharge electrode, wherein the discharge electrode comprises: a metal tip electrically connected to an output terminal of the power supply unit; and a cylindrically shaped dielectric tube arranged to surround the metal tip and protrude from an end of the metal tip by a certain length (d), characterized in that an end of the dielectric tube coming in contact with the fluid is formed so that the end of the dielectric tube is sloped in a direction spanning from an inner circumferential surface to an outer circumferential surface of a cylinder constituting the dielectric tube such that, in use, the wear of the dielectric tube by the plasma is reduced. a metal tip electrically connected to an output terminal of the power supply unit; and a cylindrically shaped dielectric tube arranged to surround the metal tip and protrude from an end of the metal tip by a certain length (d), characterized in that an end of the dielectric tube coming in contact with the fluid is formed so that the end of the dielectric tube is sloped in a direction spanning from an inner circumferential surface to an outer circumferential surface of a cylinder constituting the dielectric tube such that, in use, the wear of the dielectric tube by the plasma is reduced.
A multi-stage cement calcining plant suspension preheater comprising: - a plurality of stages each of which has a separator (2, 3) for separating raw cement meal from a gas in which the meal is suspended and wherein said separators of said plurality of stages are serially connected and in series with a calcining combustor, - said plurality of stages comprising a top separator arranged at the uppermost stage of the preheater and a plurality of bottom separators arranged at the lowermost stages of the preheater, - the separators (2, 3) comprising: - a separator housing comprising a substantially cylindrical upper part and a substantially conical lower part, - a tangential inlet in the upper part of the separator housing for introducing an un-separated stream of gas and raw cement meal in suspension, - an outlet in a lowermost end of the conical part for discharging a first fraction of coarse cement raw meal material, - a central tube extending with a free end axially into the separator housing for diverting a second fraction of fine cement raw meal material and gas, - the central tube of the top separator enters the separator housing in the lower part of the separator housing, whereas the central tubes of the bottom separators enters the separator housing in the upper part of the separator housing. - a plurality of stages each of which has a separator (2, 3) for separating raw cement meal from a gas in which the meal is suspended and wherein said separators of said plurality of stages are serially connected and in series with a calcining combustor, - said plurality of stages comprising a top separator arranged at the uppermost stage of the preheater and a plurality of bottom separators arranged at the lowermost stages of the preheater, - the separators (2, 3) comprising: - a separator housing comprising a substantially cylindrical upper part and a substantially conical lower part, - a tangential inlet in the upper part of the separator housing for introducing an un-separated stream of gas and raw cement meal in suspension, - an outlet in a lowermost end of the conical part for discharging a first fraction of coarse cement raw meal material, - a central tube extending with a free end axially into the separator housing for diverting a second fraction of fine cement raw meal material and gas, - a separator housing comprising a substantially cylindrical upper part and a substantially conical lower part, - a tangential inlet in the upper part of the separator housing for introducing an un-separated stream of gas and raw cement meal in suspension, - an outlet in a lowermost end of the conical part for discharging a first fraction of coarse cement raw meal material, - a central tube extending with a free end axially into the separator housing for diverting a second fraction of fine cement raw meal material and gas, - the central tube of the top separator enters the separator housing in the lower part of the separator housing, whereas the central tubes of the bottom separators enters the separator housing in the upper part of the separator housing.
An interconnecting device comprising: a plurality of outgoing ports (134, 135) for connection to a first network; a plurality of incoming ports (136, 137) for connection to a second network; memory configured to store at least one port translation from an incoming port to an outgoing port; and at least one hardware processor configured to: determine whether an incoming connection from an originating device was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is configured; characterised in that the processor is further configured to: in case the incoming connection was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is configured, return a challenge to the originating device, the challenge intended to distinguish humans from computers; receive a response to the challenge; verify that the response is a correct response to the challenge; and in case the response is a correct response to the challenge, forward the connection to an outgoing port (134, 135) corresponding, according to the port translation, to the incoming port at which the incoming connection was received, in case the incoming connection was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is not configured, no challenge-response test is used. a plurality of outgoing ports (134, 135) for connection to a first network; a plurality of incoming ports (136, 137) for connection to a second network; memory configured to store at least one port translation from an incoming port to an outgoing port; and determine whether an incoming connection from an originating device was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is configured; characterised in that the processor is further configured to: in case the incoming connection was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is configured, return a challenge to the originating device, the challenge intended to distinguish humans from computers; receive a response to the challenge; verify that the response is a correct response to the challenge; and in case the response is a correct response to the challenge, forward the connection to an outgoing port (134, 135) corresponding, according to the port translation, to the incoming port at which the incoming connection was received, in case the incoming connection was received at an incoming port for which port forwarding is configured, return a challenge to the originating device, the challenge intended to distinguish humans from computers; receive a response to the challenge; verify that the response is a correct response to the challenge; and in case the response is a correct response to the challenge, forward the connection to an outgoing port (134, 135) corresponding, according to the port translation, to the incoming port at which the incoming connection was received,
A method for determining a line-of-sight error to a target with a Semi-Active Laser sensor, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of target pulses; starting a target track for pulses that cross a noise threshold; opening a pulse gate within the target track; for every laser pulse received within the pulse gate crossing the noise threshold, determining a time index relative to the pulse gate center and stored in a memory; temporally offsetting the stored pulses based on their corresponding time indexes; summing the offset pulses together to generate a summed pulse signal; and determining the line-of-sight error to the target from the summed pulse signal. receiving a plurality of target pulses; starting a target track for pulses that cross a noise threshold; opening a pulse gate within the target track; for every laser pulse received within the pulse gate crossing the noise threshold, determining a time index relative to the pulse gate center and stored in a memory; temporally offsetting the stored pulses based on their corresponding time indexes; summing the offset pulses together to generate a summed pulse signal; and determining the line-of-sight error to the target from the summed pulse signal.
Laundry treatment appliance with at least one removable liquid container (7,10), wherein - the liquid container (7,10) can be locked against removal by means of at least one locking mechanism (13, 14), characterised in that - the at least one locking mechanism (13, 14) can be electrically actuated by the laundry treatment appliance, so that a removal of the liquid container is prevented during operation of the laundry treatment appliance. - the liquid container (7,10) can be locked against removal by means of at least one locking mechanism (13, 14), - the at least one locking mechanism (13, 14) can be electrically actuated by the laundry treatment appliance, so that a removal of the liquid container is prevented during operation of the laundry treatment appliance.
A process for the recovery of rhodiumfrom a catalyst purge stream from a C6 or higher olefin hydroformylation process, the process comprising: (a) treating a catalyst-containing liquid purge stream from the hydroformylation process, wherein the catalyst comprises rhodium and an organophosphorous ligand, with an oxidant in the presence of a separate liquid aqueous phase comprising a halide-free acid at a sufficient temperature to effect oxidation of a majority of the contained organophosphorous ligand, wherein the halide-free acid is a C1-C6 organic acid or phosphorous acid; (b) recovering the aqueous phase; (c) contacting the aqueous phase with a separate organic phase by mixing the two phases under a syngas atmosphere, wherein the separate organic phase comprises water-insoluble, hydrolysable organophosphorous ligand and recycled olefin from a hydroformylation process; and (d) separating the organic phase to be recycled back to a hydroformylation process wherein the hydrolysable organophosphorous ligand is a trivalent P ligand that contains at least one P-Z bond wherein Z is oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, fluorine or bromine; wherein a "majority" of the contained organophosphorous ligand means 50 wt% or more of the contained organophosphorous ligand in the liquid purge stream; wherein the recycled olefin comprises a stream that has been recovered following a hydroformylation process or derived from such a stream such that the contained olefin has passed through a hydroformylation process at least once. (a) treating a catalyst-containing liquid purge stream from the hydroformylation process, wherein the catalyst comprises rhodium and an organophosphorous ligand, with an oxidant in the presence of a separate liquid aqueous phase comprising a halide-free acid at a sufficient temperature to effect oxidation of a majority of the contained organophosphorous ligand, wherein the halide-free acid is a C1-C6 organic acid or phosphorous acid; (b) recovering the aqueous phase; (c) contacting the aqueous phase with a separate organic phase by mixing the two phases under a syngas atmosphere, wherein the separate organic phase comprises water-insoluble, hydrolysable organophosphorous ligand and recycled olefin from a hydroformylation process; and (d) separating the organic phase to be recycled back to a hydroformylation process wherein the hydrolysable organophosphorous ligand is a trivalent P ligand that contains at least one P-Z bond wherein Z is oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, fluorine or bromine; wherein a "majority" of the contained organophosphorous ligand means 50 wt% or more of the contained organophosphorous ligand in the liquid purge stream; wherein the recycled olefin comprises a stream that has been recovered following a hydroformylation process or derived from such a stream such that the contained olefin has passed through a hydroformylation process at least once.
An apparatus, comprising: a handle for a surgical instrument, wherein the handle comprises a handle memory circuit for storing handle usage data for the handle, a processor circuit in communication with the handle memory circuit, and a battery cavity configured to receive a battery pack; and an inspection station, wherein the inspection station comprises an inspection station processor circuit for determining one or more service recommendations for the handle based on the handle usage data stored in the memory of the handle and based on service recommendation criteria; characterised in that: the handle comprises power contacts configured to engage the power terminals of the battery pack and/or one or more signal contacts positioned in the battery cavity; the inspection station is configured for connection to the handle when the battery pack is removed from the handle; the inspection station comprises a data and/or power adapter configured to fit within the battery cavity; and the data and/or power adapter is configured to be placed in communication with the processor circuit of the handle via the power contacts and/or via the one or more signal contacts. a handle for a surgical instrument, wherein the handle comprises a handle memory circuit for storing handle usage data for the handle, a processor circuit in communication with the handle memory circuit, and a battery cavity configured to receive a battery pack; and an inspection station, wherein the inspection station comprises an inspection station processor circuit for determining one or more service recommendations for the handle based on the handle usage data stored in the memory of the handle and based on service recommendation criteria; characterised in that: the handle comprises power contacts configured to engage the power terminals of the battery pack and/or one or more signal contacts positioned in the battery cavity; the inspection station is configured for connection to the handle when the battery pack is removed from the handle; the inspection station comprises a data and/or power adapter configured to fit within the battery cavity; and the data and/or power adapter is configured to be placed in communication with the processor circuit of the handle via the power contacts and/or via the one or more signal contacts. the handle comprises power contacts configured to engage the power terminals of the battery pack and/or one or more signal contacts positioned in the battery cavity; the inspection station is configured for connection to the handle when the battery pack is removed from the handle; the inspection station comprises a data and/or power adapter configured to fit within the battery cavity; and the data and/or power adapter is configured to be placed in communication with the processor circuit of the handle via the power contacts and/or via the one or more signal contacts.
A lashing platform comprising a base frame, a setting plate resiliently supported on the base frame, a plurality of screwing devices for inserting twistlocks into container fittings or removing twistlocks from container fittings, a plurality of magazines for accommodating the twistlocks, and a plurality of transfer devices (50a, 50b) for transferring a twistlock from a magazine to a screwing device or from a screwing device to a magazine, characterized by at least two units (E1, E2), which are each formed by at least two screwing devices, at least one transfer device (50a, 50b), and at least one magazine and which can be moved relative to each other in the longitudinal direction of the lashing platform within the base frame, at least one drive for moving the units (E1, E2), and a controller for moving the units (E1, E2) into positions in which the screwing devices have access to the container fittings of containers of different size.
A retractable seal system for use between a high pressure side and a low pressure side of a turbine engine, comprising: a seal positioned in a slot of a stationary component wherein the seal comprises a neck positioned between a pair of hooks of the slot of the stationary component; an upper flange positioned on the pair of hooks within a groove of the stationary component characterized in that the pair of hooks are formed by the groove, and one or more springs positioned about the stationary component and positioned in between the flange and the pair of hooks; a pressure balance pocket positioned about the seal; and a conduit in communication with the pressure balance pocket and the high pressure side. a seal positioned in a slot of a stationary component wherein the seal comprises a neck positioned between a pair of hooks of the slot of the stationary component; an upper flange positioned on the pair of hooks within a groove of the stationary component characterized in that the pair of hooks are formed by the groove, and one or more springs positioned about the stationary component and positioned in between the flange and the pair of hooks; a pressure balance pocket positioned about the seal; and a conduit in communication with the pressure balance pocket and the high pressure side.