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Autonomous device for controlling a heating circuit of a windscreen wiper blade (B1, B2) of a motor vehicle, comprising a module for regulating the electrical power supply of the heating circuit, provided with an input for connecting to an electrical power generator and with an output for connecting to the terminals of said heating circuit of a windscreen wiper blade (B1, B2), comprising means (3, 4) for acquiring, at an instant t, a data item representing a temperature outside the vehicle, on the one hand, and a data item representing the instantaneous speed of the vehicle, on the other hand, said acquisition means (3, 4) being configured to transmit said data to the regulation module, characterized in that it comprises a sealed casing, inside which the regulation module and the means for acquiring a data item representing the instantaneous speed of the vehicle are at least arranged, with said connection input and output (21, 22) of the regulation module being arranged in order to be accessible on the outside of said casing.
A transmission probe comprising: an optical element comprising: a main body having a semicircular plate shape, formed of a light transmissive material and including an arc-shaped optical path, wherein irradiation light can travel along the arc-shaped optical path of the circumference of the main body, while repeating total reflection inside the semi-circumference of the main body; and a gap formed on the arc-shaped optical path in the main body, wherein the gap is shaped into a through groove which penetrates through to a straight portion of the main body, thereby dividing the main body of the optical element into two separate parts, and the transmission probe further comprising: an irradiation purpose optical transmission path configured to emit irradiation light to the optical element such that total reflection occurs on an inner surface of the arc-shaped optical path of the optical element; and a measurement purpose optical transmission path configured to receive, as measurement light, return light passing through the gap of the optical element and emitted from the arc-shaped optical path. an optical element comprising: a main body having a semicircular plate shape, formed of a light transmissive material and including an arc-shaped optical path, wherein irradiation light can travel along the arc-shaped optical path of the circumference of the main body, while repeating total reflection inside the semi-circumference of the main body; and a gap formed on the arc-shaped optical path in the main body, wherein the gap is shaped into a through groove which penetrates through to a straight portion of the main body, thereby dividing the main body of the optical element into two separate parts, and a main body having a semicircular plate shape, formed of a light transmissive material and including an arc-shaped optical path, wherein irradiation light can travel along the arc-shaped optical path of the circumference of the main body, while repeating total reflection inside the semi-circumference of the main body; and a gap formed on the arc-shaped optical path in the main body, wherein the gap is shaped into a through groove which penetrates through to a straight portion of the main body, thereby dividing the main body of the optical element into two separate parts, and the transmission probe further comprising: an irradiation purpose optical transmission path configured to emit irradiation light to the optical element such that total reflection occurs on an inner surface of the arc-shaped optical path of the optical element; and a measurement purpose optical transmission path configured to receive, as measurement light, return light passing through the gap of the optical element and emitted from the arc-shaped optical path. an irradiation purpose optical transmission path configured to emit irradiation light to the optical element such that total reflection occurs on an inner surface of the arc-shaped optical path of the optical element; and a measurement purpose optical transmission path configured to receive, as measurement light, return light passing through the gap of the optical element and emitted from the arc-shaped optical path.
An apparatus for treatment of a body lumen of a patient body, the body lumen having a lumen wall, the apparatus comprising: a catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end with an axis therebetween; a radially expandable member supported by the distal end of the catheter body, the expandable member having a low profile insertion configuration and a larger profile configuration; a plurality of bipolar electrode pairs carried by the expandable member so that expansion of the expandable member within the lumen urges each electrode pair against the lumen wall, wherein each bipolar electrode pair has an inner edge spacing between electrodes of x mm and each electrode has a length of L mm; and an electrical energy source configured to apply a power in Watts for a time of t seconds such that: power = b * x ∧ 2 * L * t ∧ − 0.59, wherein b is a parameter in a range of 0.2 to 0.6, and wherein the expandable member comprises an inflatable balloon. a catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end with an axis therebetween; a radially expandable member supported by the distal end of the catheter body, the expandable member having a low profile insertion configuration and a larger profile configuration; a plurality of bipolar electrode pairs carried by the expandable member so that expansion of the expandable member within the lumen urges each electrode pair against the lumen wall, wherein each bipolar electrode pair has an inner edge spacing between electrodes of x mm and each electrode has a length of L mm; and an electrical energy source configured to apply a power in Watts for a time of t seconds such that: power = b * x ∧ 2 * L * t ∧ − 0.59, wherein b is a parameter in a range of 0.2 to 0.6, and wherein the expandable member comprises an inflatable balloon.
A method of controlling a washing machine that includes a tub disposed in a casing and having an opening formed on a front surface thereof so that laundry may be loaded, a drum rotatably provided in the tub and configured to accommodate laundry therein, a plurality of nozzles (610b, 610c, 610d, 610e) configured to spray circulating water into the tub, a pump including at least a pump motor, whereby the pump is configured to supply said circulating water discharged from said tub to said plurality of nozzles (610b, 610c, 610d, 610e), the method comprising: a step of sensing a laundry amount accommodated in the drum; a step of performing water supply into the drum according to the sensed laundry amount; a step of rotating the pump motor at a certain initial rotation speed and transferring washing water discharged from the drum to the plurality of nozzles (610b, 610c, 610d, 610e) for spraying water into the drum; a step of sensing a water level in the drum; and a step of performing a re-supply of water at least once until the sensed water level reaches a set water level; characterised in that the method further comprises a step of increasing the rotation speed of the pump motor whenever the re-supply of water is performed. a step of sensing a laundry amount accommodated in the drum; a step of performing water supply into the drum according to the sensed laundry amount; a step of rotating the pump motor at a certain initial rotation speed and transferring washing water discharged from the drum to the plurality of nozzles (610b, 610c, 610d, 610e) for spraying water into the drum; a step of sensing a water level in the drum; and a step of performing a re-supply of water at least once until the sensed water level reaches a set water level; characterised in that the method further comprises a step of increasing the rotation speed of the pump motor whenever the re-supply of water is performed.
A power toothbrush, comprising: a drive train, responsive to a drive signal, for producing a brushing action in bristles of a brushhead assembly coupled to the toothbrush; a magnet at the rear of the drive train, the drive train being arranged so that the rear of the drive train moves laterally due to force on the bristles; a displacement determining system including a first Hall-effect sensor for determining pressure applied against a user's teeth by the bristles of the toothbrush by a direct force measurement, the first Hall-effect sensor being arranged to recognize lateral displacement of the drive train; a phase shift determining system including a second Hall-effect sensor for detecting a change in phase between the drive signal and a mechanical response of the brushhead assembly produced by movement of the magnet as pressure on the bristles changes; a processing system responsive to the pressure determined by the displacement determining system and the change in phase detected by the phase shift determining system for adjusting a trigger point indicative of excessive bristle force. a drive train, responsive to a drive signal, for producing a brushing action in bristles of a brushhead assembly coupled to the toothbrush; a magnet at the rear of the drive train, the drive train being arranged so that the rear of the drive train moves laterally due to force on the bristles; a displacement determining system including a first Hall-effect sensor for determining pressure applied against a user's teeth by the bristles of the toothbrush by a direct force measurement, the first Hall-effect sensor being arranged to recognize lateral displacement of the drive train; a phase shift determining system including a second Hall-effect sensor for detecting a change in phase between the drive signal and a mechanical response of the brushhead assembly produced by movement of the magnet as pressure on the bristles changes; a processing system responsive to the pressure determined by the displacement determining system and the change in phase detected by the phase shift determining system for adjusting a trigger point indicative of excessive bristle force.
A process of producing a welded article of dispersion strengthened platinum base alloy sheet material comprising the steps of - providing at least one piece (1, 4) of dispersion strengthened platinum base alloy sheet material; - overlapping the edges to be weld connected; - melt welding of the overlapped edges of said dispersion strengthened platinum base alloy only at the periphery of said edges; - weld connecting the platinum sheet material by a compression welding method, to produce the weld; - removing the melt welded portions on the periphery of the welded article, characterized in that the melt welding step is TIG welding (Tungsten Inertgas Welding), the TIG welding comprising the steps of: a. adjusting TIG welding power to minimize energy input into the weld; b. contacting said weld with an arc gas composition to maximize rapid quenching of the weld; c. contacting said weld with a second gas, the contact being predominantly at the undersurface of said weld, so that the undersurface of the weld is quenched; d. contacting said weld with a trailing gas to enhance cooling of the weld beyond that achieved by said arc gas and said second gas. - providing at least one piece (1, 4) of dispersion strengthened platinum base alloy sheet material; - overlapping the edges to be weld connected; - melt welding of the overlapped edges of said dispersion strengthened platinum base alloy only at the periphery of said edges; - weld connecting the platinum sheet material by a compression welding method, to produce the weld; - removing the melt welded portions on the periphery of the welded article,
A method of enhancing a transmission opportunity of a wireless device, wherein the wireless device communicates with a second wireless system and attempts to interoperate with a first wireless system, and the first wireless system is configured with a first interframe space duration, the method comprising: sensing a wireless medium; and characterized by determining an interframe space duration (DIS_x) of the wireless device to be shorter than a second interframe space duration (DIS_2) specified in a standard corresponding to the second wireless system when the wireless medium is occupied by the first wireless system; and transmitting a data frame of the wireless device after the wireless medium is idle for at least the interframe space duration (DIS_x), wherein the data frame complies with the standard corresponding to the second wireless system. sensing a wireless medium; and characterized by determining an interframe space duration (DIS_x) of the wireless device to be shorter than a second interframe space duration (DIS_2) specified in a standard corresponding to the second wireless system when the wireless medium is occupied by the first wireless system; and transmitting a data frame of the wireless device after the wireless medium is idle for at least the interframe space duration (DIS_x), wherein the data frame complies with the standard corresponding to the second wireless system.
Decorative grille for a motor vehicle front, comprising a plurality of decorative elements (10, 20), each having a decorative element end wall and a decorative element side wall projecting therefrom, and a plurality of connecting elements, by way of which adjacent decorative elements are connected to one another, wherein the decorative elements (10, 20) are arranged in rows and the decorative elements (10, 20) of the one row have a lateral offset relative to the decorative elements (10, 20) of the adjacent row of decorative elements (10, 20), characterised in that the decorative element side walls of the decorative elements have a respective open region located in a long side of the associated side wall, wherein the connecting elements are connected to the long sides of the associated decorative element side walls and the associated open region is provided between the respective connecting elements.
Method for the production of beverages by means of a capsule comprising a side wall and an entry surface for the entrance of water under pressure into the capsule, said side wall and said entry surface forming the containment volume for containing the infusion or soluble product, and said entry surface comprising one or more reduced thickness areas, characterized in that said method comprises the following steps: pushing said entry surface of said capsule using pushing means and injecting a flux of water under pressure against said entry surface of said capsule so that the injection of water under pressure against said entry surface of said capsule opens said reduced thickness areas of said entry surface so as to allow the water under pressure to enter into said capsule.
A system for uroflowmetry, the system comprising: a microphone configured to obtain time-varying audio data of urination based on the sound of a human subject's urine impacting a surface; and a processor and an associated memory, wherein the processor is configured to: process the audio data of urination via a machine learning model that is trained based on simulated urine flow data and associated audio data received from a urine flow simulator, and on a human subject's real urine flow data and associated audio data of urine impacting a surface received from a urine flow measuring device, wherein the state of the human subject or the audio signature of the urine impacting the surface is unaltered by the flow measuring device and the machine learning model is a recurrent model that operates on the time-varying audio data such that a state of the model is input to a subsequent state of the model to leverage time correlations in the time-varying audio data, and the time correlations indicate that a current flow rate of urination is dependent on a previous flow rate of urination, and output the processed audio data of urination to be used in uroflowmetry. a microphone configured to obtain time-varying audio data of urination based on the sound of a human subject's urine impacting a surface; and a processor and an associated memory, wherein the processor is configured to: process the audio data of urination via a machine learning model that is trained based on simulated urine flow data and associated audio data received from a urine flow simulator, and on a human subject's real urine flow data and associated audio data of urine impacting a surface received from a urine flow measuring device, wherein the state of the human subject or the audio signature of the urine impacting the surface is unaltered by the flow measuring device and the machine learning model is a recurrent model that operates on the time-varying audio data such that a state of the model is input to a subsequent state of the model to leverage time correlations in the time-varying audio data, and the time correlations indicate that a current flow rate of urination is dependent on a previous flow rate of urination, and output the processed audio data of urination to be used in uroflowmetry.
An image processing device that discriminates between a mucosal region and a non-mucosal region that are contained in an intraluminal image, the image processing device comprising: a candidate region detecting unit that detects a candidate region to be discriminated whether the region is a mucosal region or not, on the basis of a feature data of each pixel that constitutes the intraluminal image; and a structure edge region detecting unit (17, 41) that detects a structure edge contained in the intraluminal image, characterized by a region discriminating unit (18, 19, 21, 31, 42) that discriminates whether the candidate region is a mucosal region or not, on the basis of a relative positional relationship between the structure edge and the candidate region, wherein the region discriminating unit (18, 19, 21, 31, 42) comprises: an approximate structure edge line calculating unit (18, 42) that calculates an approximate structure edge line as an approximate line of the structure edge; and an overlap deciding unit (19, 21, 31) that decides whether the approximate structure edge line and the candidate region overlap, and the region discriminating unit discriminates whether the candidate region is a mucosal region on the basis of a result of a decision by the overlap deciding unit (19, 21, 31). a candidate region detecting unit that detects a candidate region to be discriminated whether the region is a mucosal region or not, on the basis of a feature data of each pixel that constitutes the intraluminal image; and a structure edge region detecting unit (17, 41) that detects a structure edge contained in the intraluminal image, characterized by a region discriminating unit (18, 19, 21, 31, 42) that discriminates whether the candidate region is a mucosal region or not, on the basis of a relative positional relationship between the structure edge and the candidate region, wherein the region discriminating unit (18, 19, 21, 31, 42) comprises: an approximate structure edge line calculating unit (18, 42) that calculates an approximate structure edge line as an approximate line of the structure edge; and an overlap deciding unit (19, 21, 31) that decides whether the approximate structure edge line and the candidate region overlap, and an approximate structure edge line calculating unit (18, 42) that calculates an approximate structure edge line as an approximate line of the structure edge; and an overlap deciding unit (19, 21, 31) that decides whether the approximate structure edge line and the candidate region overlap, and the region discriminating unit discriminates whether the candidate region is a mucosal region on the basis of a result of a decision by the overlap deciding unit (19, 21, 31).
An organic light emitting display device comprising: a first pixel on a substrate; a switching transistor with a first active layer provided inside the first pixel; a driving transistor with a second active layer provided inside the first pixel; a first light shielding layer overlapping the second active layer, the first light shielding layer preventing external light from being incident on the second active layer; a second light shielding layer overlapping the first active layer, the second light shielding layer preventing external light from being incident on the first active layer; and a dummy pixel (D-P) provided adjacent to the first pixel and connected to a dummy data line (D-DL) provided at an outer periphery of the dummy pixel (D-P), the dummy pixel being configured such that it is not capable of emitting light, wherein the first light shielding layer is electrically connected with a source electrode or drain electrode of the driving transistor, and the second light shielding layer is electrically insulated from the first light shielding layer, wherein the second light shielding layer is electrically connected with the dummy data line (D-DL), and wherein the dummy data line (D-DL) is coupled to an electrical potential that is lower than a threshold voltage of the switching transistor. a first pixel on a substrate; a switching transistor with a first active layer provided inside the first pixel; a driving transistor with a second active layer provided inside the first pixel; a first light shielding layer overlapping the second active layer, the first light shielding layer preventing external light from being incident on the second active layer; a second light shielding layer overlapping the first active layer, the second light shielding layer preventing external light from being incident on the first active layer; and a dummy pixel (D-P) provided adjacent to the first pixel and connected to a dummy data line (D-DL) provided at an outer periphery of the dummy pixel (D-P), the dummy pixel being configured such that it is not capable of emitting light, wherein the first light shielding layer is electrically connected with a source electrode or drain electrode of the driving transistor, and the second light shielding layer is electrically insulated from the first light shielding layer, wherein the second light shielding layer is electrically connected with the dummy data line (D-DL), and wherein the dummy data line (D-DL) is coupled to an electrical potential that is lower than a threshold voltage of the switching transistor.
An apparatus, suitable for measuring a property of a fluid, comprising a source of beta particles, a detector capable of detecting beta particles, means (18,19) to support said source and said detector spaced apart from each other and in contact with said fluid, such that fluid may enter the space between the source and detector and that the source is positioned to emit beta particles towards said detector; wherein said detector comprises a scintillation material in optical communication with a photodetector, characterised in that the apparatus comprises means to physically isolate said photodetector from said fluid comprising a window of optically conducting material placed between said scintillation material and said photodetector, said optically conducting material being capable of transmitting light from the scintillation detector to the photodetector.