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Drop-on-demand inkjet printing device comprising at least one through-flow print head, the through-flow print head having one or more nozzles for ejecting a drop of fluid onto a substrate to be printed, and a fluid circulation system for feeding and circulating fluid through the print head, said fluid circulation system comprising - a main reservoir for containing an amount of fluid, - a supply buffer tank for receiving fluid from the main reservoir and supplying fluid to the through-flow print head, - a return manifold for receiving fluid from the through-flow print head and returning fluid to the main reservoir, wherein the main reservoir is connected to the supply buffer tank via a feed conduit provided with a pump means for directing fluid from the main reservoir to the supply buffer tank, wherein the supply buffer tank is in fluid communication with the one or more nozzles of the through-flow print head via a nozzle supply conduit, the one or more nozzles being in fluid communication with the return manifold via a nozzle return conduit, wherein the return manifold is connected to the main reservoir via a discharge conduit, wherein the main reservoir and the supply buffer tank are arranged in height with respect to the one or more nozzles such that during operation a back pressure is established at the one or more nozzles and fluid flows from the supply buffer tank through the through-flow print head to the return manifold and then back into the main reservoir; characterised in that the supply buffer tank is provided with at least one further lockable conduit connecting the supply buffer tank to the main reservoir. - a main reservoir for containing an amount of fluid, - a supply buffer tank for receiving fluid from the main reservoir and supplying fluid to the through-flow print head, - a return manifold for receiving fluid from the through-flow print head and returning fluid to the main reservoir,
A thermoplastic polyurethane which is comprised of the reaction product of a hydroxyl terminated polyester intermediate, a polyisocyanate, and a glycol chain extender; wherein the hydroxyl terminated polyester intermediate is synthesized from 1,3-propylene glycol and adipic acid; wherein the hydroxyl terminated polyester intermediate has a number average molecular weight which is within the range of 500 to 10,000 Daltons, wherein the glycol chain extender is 1,4-butane diol and wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane includes hard segments that are the reaction product of the polyisocyanate and the glycol chain extender.
A polymeric multilayer film having first and second opposed major surfaces, adjacent first and second layers that are separable from each other, and an array of indentations extending into the first and second layers.
A coagulation/flocculation apparatus for the treatment of a hydraulic flow of any type of liquid, upstream of a physical separation element, in particular upstream of a flotation unit, or of a filtration unit, in particular a membrane filtration unit, which apparatus comprises at least one coagulator with injection of coagulant, followed by a flocculator, which are successively passed through by the hydraulic flow, characterized in that: - the coagulator comprises a high-energy coagulant injection reactor being an in-line mixer, suitable for dissipating at least 1000W/m 3, followed by a non-stirred coagulation reactor, - a high-energy intermediate element is positioned between the coagulation reactor and the flocculator, equipped at its outlet with a weir, followed by the flocculator, said flocculator being static and of plug-flow type. - the coagulator comprises a high-energy coagulant injection reactor being an in-line mixer, suitable for dissipating at least 1000W/m 3, followed by a non-stirred coagulation reactor, - a high-energy intermediate element is positioned between the coagulation reactor and the flocculator, equipped at its outlet with a weir, followed by the flocculator, said flocculator being static and of plug-flow type.
A method of fabricating a ceramic matrix composite, the method comprising: generating a stream of vaporized precursor, wherein the vaporized precursor is a precursor of either silicon carbide or silicon nitride; flowing the stream for one or more periods of time through a chamber that contains a fibrous structure such that the fibrous structure is exposed to the stream, wherein the fibrous structure initially contains no silicon carbide matrix or silicon nitride matrix, the vaporized precursor depositing over the one or more periods of time on the fibrous structure as a ceramic matrix of either the silicon carbide or the silicon nitride, wherein the deposited ceramic matrix is greater than 90% dense; and for at least a portion of the one or more periods of time, including a vaporized rare earth element in the stream such that the ceramic matrix deposited during the portion of the one or more periods of time includes dispersed rare earth element; wherein in an initial portion of the one or more periods of time, the stream excludes the vaporized rare earth element; and wherein in a final portion of the one or more periods of time, the stream includes the vaporized rare earth element. generating a stream of vaporized precursor, wherein the vaporized precursor is a precursor of either silicon carbide or silicon nitride; flowing the stream for one or more periods of time through a chamber that contains a fibrous structure such that the fibrous structure is exposed to the stream, wherein the fibrous structure initially contains no silicon carbide matrix or silicon nitride matrix, the vaporized precursor depositing over the one or more periods of time on the fibrous structure as a ceramic matrix of either the silicon carbide or the silicon nitride, wherein the deposited ceramic matrix is greater than 90% dense; and for at least a portion of the one or more periods of time, including a vaporized rare earth element in the stream such that the ceramic matrix deposited during the portion of the one or more periods of time includes dispersed rare earth element; wherein in an initial portion of the one or more periods of time, the stream excludes the vaporized rare earth element; and wherein in a final portion of the one or more periods of time, the stream includes the vaporized rare earth element.
Machining installation, in particular a beam joining installation, for machining a workpiece with an energized beam, in particular a laser beam, wherein the machining installation has a machining tool that is movable in a transportation direction and has a machining head that emits the beam and a contact-pressure installation having a contact-pressure element which, when viewed in the transportation direction, is disposed at a height level with and so as to be laterally next to the beam, characterized in that the contact-pressure installation has at least one further contact-pressure element (29, 30) which in the transportation direction is disposed ahead of and/or behind the beam-proximate contact-pressure element, wherein the contact-pressure elements (28, 29, 30) are disposed on the same side of the workpiece and act from the same direction with a contact-pressure force, and wherein the contact-pressure elements (28, 29, 30) for pressing with a clamping force on a single-part or multiple-part workpiece are activatable or de-activatable individually and preferably independently of one another.
A device for fracturing calcifications in heart valves comprising: a tube formed with at least two longitudinal slits that form at least two struts, each of said struts comprising two or more pairs of notches formed on opposite sides of the strut, said struts having a contracted orientation in which said struts are not expanded outwards from said tube and an outwardly expanded orientation in which said struts are expanded outwards from said tube and have sufficient strength and rigidity to impact and fracture a calcification in a heart valve; a curved waist portion extending between two longitudinally-spaced pairs of said notches, characterized in that in the outwardly expanded orientation, said waist portions are curved radially inwards and said waist portion is made from a scored or weakened portion of said strut.
A surgical instrument assembly, comprising a modular motor drive unit, which has an output drive assembly with at least one output drive element (10A, 10B; 100; 1000); and an instrument shaft, which can be releasably connected to the drive unit and which has an input drive assembly with at least one input drive element (20A, 20B; 200; 2000), wherein the output drive assembly and the input drive assembly can be coupled to one another by means of a mechanical interface, which comprises at least one pin and a cut-out, wherein a gap is formed between the pin and the cut-out, the gap being wave-shaped in a radial direction, in which gap a radially displaceable, axially secured intermediate element assembly (100.7) with one or more intermediate elements is arranged in such a way that, if the pin is displaced axially, its wave-shaped outer wall that faces the cut-out is displaced in a corresponding manner, which moves the corresponding intermediate elements in the radial direction in a form-locking manner, which in turn cause a corresponding axial displacement of the cut-out in a form-locking manner, or, if the cut-out is displaced axially, its wave-shaped inner wall that faces the pin is displaced in a corresponding manner, which moves the corresponding intermediate elements in the radial direction in a form-locking manner, which in turn cause a corresponding axial displacement of the pin in a form-locking manner.
A laundry machine, comprising: a rotatable drum; a drying duct configured to circulate air discharged from the drum by resupplying it thereto; an evaporator and a first condenser sequentially provided on a flow path formed by the drying duct; a compressor and an expansion apparatus configured to form a refrigerant cycle along with the evaporator and the first condenser; and a second condenser configured to receive refrigerant condensed by the first condenser and to condense the received refrigerant again, characterized in that: the second condenser is integrally formed with the evaporator, and a refrigerant pipe of the second condenser is disposed to be submerged under condensation water line at a lower portion of the evaporator. a rotatable drum; a drying duct configured to circulate air discharged from the drum by resupplying it thereto; an evaporator and a first condenser sequentially provided on a flow path formed by the drying duct; a compressor and an expansion apparatus configured to form a refrigerant cycle along with the evaporator and the first condenser; and a second condenser configured to receive refrigerant condensed by the first condenser and to condense the received refrigerant again, characterized in that: the second condenser is integrally formed with the evaporator, and a refrigerant pipe of the second condenser is disposed to be submerged under condensation water line at a lower portion of the evaporator. the second condenser is integrally formed with the evaporator, and a refrigerant pipe of the second condenser is disposed to be submerged under condensation water line at a lower portion of the evaporator.
A neural stimulating system, comprising: a stimulation output circuit adapted to deliver a neural stimulation therapy; a stimulation delivery controller coupled to the stimulation output circuit, the stimulation delivery controller adapted to control the delivery of the neural stimulation therapy by executing a first stimulation algorithm adapted to treat a non-respiratory disorder using vagal nerve stimulation; a respiratory signal input adapted to receive a respiratory signal indicative of respiratory cycles; a respiratory disorder detector coupled to the respiratory signal input, the respiratory disorder detector adapted to detect a respiratory disorder induced by the vagal nerve stimulation using the respiratory sig-nal; a stimulation switch coupled to the respiratory disorder detector and the stimulation delivery controller, the stimulation switch adapted to stop executing the first stimulation algorithm in response to the detection of the respiratory disorder induced by the vagal nerve stimulation; and a synchronization module coupled to the stimulation delivery control-ler and the respiratory signal input, the synchronization module adapted to synchronize the delivery of the neural stimulation therapy to the respiratory cycles. a stimulation output circuit adapted to deliver a neural stimulation therapy; a stimulation delivery controller coupled to the stimulation output circuit, the stimulation delivery controller adapted to control the delivery of the neural stimulation therapy by executing a first stimulation algorithm adapted to treat a non-respiratory disorder using vagal nerve stimulation; a respiratory signal input adapted to receive a respiratory signal indicative of respiratory cycles; a respiratory disorder detector coupled to the respiratory signal input, the respiratory disorder detector adapted to detect a respiratory disorder induced by the vagal nerve stimulation using the respiratory sig-nal; a stimulation switch coupled to the respiratory disorder detector and the stimulation delivery controller, the stimulation switch adapted to stop executing the first stimulation algorithm in response to the detection of the respiratory disorder induced by the vagal nerve stimulation; and a synchronization module coupled to the stimulation delivery control-ler and the respiratory signal input, the synchronization module adapted to synchronize the delivery of the neural stimulation therapy to the respiratory cycles.
A printing apparatus comprising: a plasma treatment unit that performs plasma treatment on a surface of a treatment object; a recording unit that performs an inkjet recording process on the surface of the treatment object subjected to the plasma treatment by the plasma treatment unit; and characterized in that the printing apparatus comprises a control unit that adjusts plasma energy for the plasma treatment according to a type of an ink used in the inkjet recording process, and the plasma treatment unit is configured to acidify at least the surface of the treatment object. a plasma treatment unit that performs plasma treatment on a surface of a treatment object; a recording unit that performs an inkjet recording process on the surface of the treatment object subjected to the plasma treatment by the plasma treatment unit; and characterized in that the printing apparatus comprises a control unit that adjusts plasma energy for the plasma treatment according to a type of an ink used in the inkjet recording process, and the plasma treatment unit is configured to acidify at least the surface of the treatment object.
A wind turbine power generating system comprising a wind turbine connected to a speed-increasing gearbox having a high-speed output shaft and an electrical generator having an input shaft, the wind turbine power generating system further comprising: a coupling system interconnecting said output and input shafts, wherein said coupling system has a portion of its torque path split between at least one of a) a torsional wind-up and b) a displacement component, either or both having a torsional dampening component, said torsional damping component being a frictional slip component set in the forward direction to at least 10% of the rated turbine torque, and torsional rotational displacement movement in a reverse direction taken from the group of at least 10 to 60 degrees for turbines with generators operating at 1000 rpm or more and, for turbines with generators operating at generator speeds less than 1000 rpm, in the range of 1 to 5 degrees per 100 rpm.
A clip for attaching at least two members (14, 15) to each other, comprising: a grommet including a body portion configured to be inserted into an attachment hole (14a, 15a) provided in each of the at least two members, a flange portion provided on a base end side of the body portion with respect to an axial direction, and a grommet hole including a flange recess provided in the base end side of the flange portion and an insertion hole extending from a bottom of the flange recess to a tip end of the body portion; and a pin including a shaft portion configured to be inserted into the insertion hole and a head portion provided on the base end side of the shaft portion, wherein the body portion has at least two elastic pieces extending in the axial direction so as to be capable of engaging a peripheral edge of the attachment hole by elastic deformation, the pin is configured to be capable of advancing relative to the grommet from an engagement position where the elastic pieces are caused to undergo elastic deformation to engage the peripheral edge of the attachment hole to a release position where engagement of the elastic piece with the peripheral edge of the attachment hole is released, and an inner circumferential surface of the grommet hole is provided with an engagement portion (23, 33) that can be engaged by a tool to apply a force in a removing direction in the release position, and the head portion is located on a tip end side of at least a part of the engagement portion with respect to the axial direction in the release position. a grommet including a body portion configured to be inserted into an attachment hole (14a, 15a) provided in each of the at least two members, a flange portion provided on a base end side of the body portion with respect to an axial direction, and a grommet hole including a flange recess provided in the base end side of the flange portion and an insertion hole extending from a bottom of the flange recess to a tip end of the body portion; and a pin including a shaft portion configured to be inserted into the insertion hole and a head portion provided on the base end side of the shaft portion, wherein the body portion has at least two elastic pieces extending in the axial direction so as to be capable of engaging a peripheral edge of the attachment hole by elastic deformation, the pin is configured to be capable of advancing relative to the grommet from an engagement position where the elastic pieces are caused to undergo elastic deformation to engage the peripheral edge of the attachment hole to a release position where engagement of the elastic piece with the peripheral edge of the attachment hole is released, and an inner circumferential surface of the grommet hole is provided with an engagement portion (23, 33) that can be engaged by a tool to apply a force in a removing direction in the release position, and the head portion is located on a tip end side of at least a part of the engagement portion with respect to the axial direction in the release position.
Method for the open-loop and/or closed-loop control of a hydraulic system of a motor vehicle, wherein the hydraulic system has a main oil pump and an additional oil pump, wherein the main oil pump is driven by an internal combustion engine, wherein the additional oil pump is driven by an electric motor, wherein a high-pressure branch is at least partially fed by the main oil pump, wherein the high-pressure branch or a low-pressure branch is fed by means of the additional oil pump depending on the switch position of a switching valve, wherein the additional oil pump is used for feeding the high-pressure branch or the low-pressure branch depending on a total volume flow demand (QB,Tot) and on the volume flow (QVKM) available from the main oil pump, characterized in that a nominal rotation speed (nEM,Nom) of the electric motor is determined on the basis of a volume flow balance (ΔQ3), a valve status of the switching valve, a low-pressure pump map or a high-pressure pump map, wherein depending on the valve status, either the low-pressure pump map or the high-pressure pump map is used to determine the nominal rotation speed (nEM,Nom), wherein the low-pressure pump map describes the correlation between the delivery volume of the additional oil pump into the low-pressure branch and the rotation speed of the electric motor required for this, and the high-pressure pump map describes the correlation between the delivery volume of the additional oil pump into the main pressure branch and the rotation speed of the electric motor required for this.
A method of encoding a point cloud to generate a bitstream of compressed point cloud data representing a three-dimensional location of an object, the point cloud being located within a volumetric space recursively split into sub-volumes and containing points of the point cloud, wherein a volume is partitioned into a first set of child sub-volumes and a second set of child sub-volumes, the first set of child sub-volumes being positioned in a first plane and the second set of child sub-volumes being positioned in a second plane parallel to the first plane, and wherein an occupancy bit associated with each respective child sub-volume indicates whether that respective child sub-volume contains at least one of the points, the method being characterized by determining whether the volume is planar based on whether all child sub-volumes containing at least one point are positioned in either the first set or the second set, wherein determining whether the volume is planar includes determining that the volume is planar by determining that at least one of the child sub-volumes in the first set contains at least one of the points and that none of the child sub-volumes in the second set contain any of the points; encoding in the bitstream a planar mode flag to signal whether the volume is planar; encoding, based on the volume being planar, a planar position flag to signal that said at least one of the child sub-volumes is in the first plane; encoding, in the bitstream, occupancy bits for the child sub-volumes of the first set including, refraining from coding occupancy bits associated with the second set based on the second set containing no points; and outputting the bitstream of compressed point cloud data. determining whether the volume is planar based on whether all child sub-volumes containing at least one point are positioned in either the first set or the second set, wherein determining whether the volume is planar includes determining that the volume is planar by determining that at least one of the child sub-volumes in the first set contains at least one of the points and that none of the child sub-volumes in the second set contain any of the points; encoding in the bitstream a planar mode flag to signal whether the volume is planar; encoding, based on the volume being planar, a planar position flag to signal that said at least one of the child sub-volumes is in the first plane; encoding, in the bitstream, occupancy bits for the child sub-volumes of the first set including, refraining from coding occupancy bits associated with the second set based on the second set containing no points; and outputting the bitstream of compressed point cloud data.