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A flow reducer for a faucet dispensing pressurized liquid, the flow reducer comprising: a body with an interior having a first upstream end and a second downstream end, the interior including a tapered wall portion adjacent the first end and a straight portion downstream from the tapered wall; an insert positioned within the interior, the insert comprising a straight portion sized to fit within and closely match the size of the straight wall of the body, and a tapered portion sized to fit within and closely match the tapered wall of the body; a shaft extending through the body to engage the insert with an eccentrically positioned pin received within an opening of the insert, wherein rotation of the shaft will result in lateral movement of the insert within the interior, the shaft accessible outside of the body; wherein the tapered portion of the insert includes a wider end upstream and a narrower end downstream and the straight portion extends from the narrower end of the tapered portion; wherein movement of the insert upstream within the interior will move the tapered portion away from the tapered wall and provide a gap between the tapered portion and the tapered wall for liquid to flow through the body from the first end toward the second end; and, wherein rotation of the shaft may be used to select the size of the gap between the tapered portion and the tapered wall to select a desired flow rate of liquid through the body. a body with an interior having a first upstream end and a second downstream end, the interior including a tapered wall portion adjacent the first end and a straight portion downstream from the tapered wall; an insert positioned within the interior, the insert comprising a straight portion sized to fit within and closely match the size of the straight wall of the body, and a tapered portion sized to fit within and closely match the tapered wall of the body; a shaft extending through the body to engage the insert with an eccentrically positioned pin received within an opening of the insert, wherein rotation of the shaft will result in lateral movement of the insert within the interior, the shaft accessible outside of the body; wherein the tapered portion of the insert includes a wider end upstream and a narrower end downstream and the straight portion extends from the narrower end of the tapered portion; wherein movement of the insert upstream within the interior will move the tapered portion away from the tapered wall and provide a gap between the tapered portion and the tapered wall for liquid to flow through the body from the first end toward the second end; and, wherein rotation of the shaft may be used to select the size of the gap between the tapered portion and the tapered wall to select a desired flow rate of liquid through the body.
A method of distortion correction in an image of a room captured from above by a camera having a non-rectilinear lens, including: i) obtaining multiple images (101; 212) of the room captured from above by the camera over time; ii) determining where one or more bottom portions of one or more objects are located in at least some of the multiple images; iii) determining where a boundary of the floor of the room is located in the multiple images based on the determined locations of the bottom portions, wherein an area of said at least some of the multiple images is considered to belong to the floor of the room only if a number of bottom portions having moved in the area during a finite time interval exceeds a threshold value; iv) generating a three-dimensional model (102,103) of the room by defining one or more walls (172a-d) around the determined boundary of the floor, wherein the walls extend perpendicularly away from a plane of the boundary of the floor, and v) generating a distortion-corrected image of the room by projecting at least one image of the multiple images onto the three-dimensional model of the room. i) obtaining multiple images (101; 212) of the room captured from above by the camera over time; ii) determining where one or more bottom portions of one or more objects are located in at least some of the multiple images; iii) determining where a boundary of the floor of the room is located in the multiple images based on the determined locations of the bottom portions, wherein an area of said at least some of the multiple images is considered to belong to the floor of the room only if a number of bottom portions having moved in the area during a finite time interval exceeds a threshold value; iv) generating a three-dimensional model (102,103) of the room by defining one or more walls (172a-d) around the determined boundary of the floor, wherein the walls extend perpendicularly away from a plane of the boundary of the floor, and v) generating a distortion-corrected image of the room by projecting at least one image of the multiple images onto the three-dimensional model of the room.
A method for adjusting a queue of broadcast receiving applications, characterized by comprising: acquiring a historical parameter of any broadcast receiving application, wherein the broadcast receiving application is arranged in a first queue of broadcast receiving applications; determining whether the historical parameter meets a first predefined condition; generating a second queue of broadcast receiving applications, when the historical parameter of a first target broadcast receiving application in the first queue of broadcast receiving applications meets the first predefined condition; and moving the first target broadcast receiving application to the second queue of broadcast receiving applications, such that the first target broadcast receiving application in the second queue processes broadcast messages in parallel with other broadcast receiving applications rather than the first target broadcast receiving application in the first queue, while the other broadcast receiving applications in the first queue process the broadcast messages in sequence. acquiring a historical parameter of any broadcast receiving application, wherein the broadcast receiving application is arranged in a first queue of broadcast receiving applications; determining whether the historical parameter meets a first predefined condition; generating a second queue of broadcast receiving applications, when the historical parameter of a first target broadcast receiving application in the first queue of broadcast receiving applications meets the first predefined condition; and moving the first target broadcast receiving application to the second queue of broadcast receiving applications, such that the first target broadcast receiving application in the second queue processes broadcast messages in parallel with other broadcast receiving applications rather than the first target broadcast receiving application in the first queue, while the other broadcast receiving applications in the first queue process the broadcast messages in sequence.
A method comprising: obtaining, at a computing device (104 or 610), sensor data captured by a sensor of an aircraft during a power up event in which an engine or auxiliary power unit of the aircraft is operating and providing power to aircraft equipment, wherein the sensor data includes multiple parameter values (118, 120, 122), and wherein each parameter value corresponds to a respective sample period during the power up event; determining, by the computing device, a set of delta values, wherein each delta value from the set of delta values indicates a difference between a first parameter value and a second parameter value from a pair of parameter values corresponding to consecutive sample periods of the sensor data; determining, by the computing device, a set of quantized delta values by assigning delta values from the set of delta values to quantization bins based on magnitudes of the delta values; determining, by the computing device, a normalized count of delta values for each of the quantization bins; performing, by the computing device, a comparison of each normalized count of the delta values of each of the respective quantization bins to a respective anomaly detection threshold of the respective quantization bin; and generating, by the computing device and based on the comparison, an output indicating whether the sensor data is indicative of an operational anomaly for aircraft equipment associated with the sensor. obtaining, at a computing device (104 or 610), sensor data captured by a sensor of an aircraft during a power up event in which an engine or auxiliary power unit of the aircraft is operating and providing power to aircraft equipment, wherein the sensor data includes multiple parameter values (118, 120, 122), and wherein each parameter value corresponds to a respective sample period during the power up event; determining, by the computing device, a set of delta values, wherein each delta value from the set of delta values indicates a difference between a first parameter value and a second parameter value from a pair of parameter values corresponding to consecutive sample periods of the sensor data; determining, by the computing device, a set of quantized delta values by assigning delta values from the set of delta values to quantization bins based on magnitudes of the delta values; determining, by the computing device, a normalized count of delta values for each of the quantization bins; performing, by the computing device, a comparison of each normalized count of the delta values of each of the respective quantization bins to a respective anomaly detection threshold of the respective quantization bin; and generating, by the computing device and based on the comparison, an output indicating whether the sensor data is indicative of an operational anomaly for aircraft equipment associated with the sensor.
An engine piston structure comprising: an outer peripheral portion formed along an outer shape of the piston, and having a predetermined thickness; a pair of piston pin supporters substantially cylindrically shaped, and having peripheral walls with a predetermined thickness, the piston pin supporters supporting a piston pin of which both ends are inserted into insertion holes defined by the peripheral walls of the pair of the piston pin supporters; and couplers each coupling the pair of piston pin supporters to the outer peripheral portion, wherein the outer peripheral portion and the peripheral walls of the piston pin supporters are solid, each of the couplers has a porous structure in which hollow portions are formed, and the outer peripheral portion, the pair of piston pin supporters, and the couplers are made of a metal material and are integrally formed together, characterized in that each of the couplers has a hollow honeycomb structure. an outer peripheral portion formed along an outer shape of the piston, and having a predetermined thickness; a pair of piston pin supporters substantially cylindrically shaped, and having peripheral walls with a predetermined thickness, the piston pin supporters supporting a piston pin of which both ends are inserted into insertion holes defined by the peripheral walls of the pair of the piston pin supporters; and couplers each coupling the pair of piston pin supporters to the outer peripheral portion, wherein the outer peripheral portion and the peripheral walls of the piston pin supporters are solid, each of the couplers has a porous structure in which hollow portions are formed, and the outer peripheral portion, the pair of piston pin supporters, and the couplers are made of a metal material and are integrally formed together, characterized in that each of the couplers has a hollow honeycomb structure.
A fusion polypeptide comprising, in N-terminal to C-terminal order: (a) an alpha sKlotho which lacks the transmembrane domain and lacks the signal peptide, but retains Klotho domains 1 and 2, in which 20 amino acids have been deleted from the C-terminus thereof, (b) a linker; and (c) serum albumin.
A medical system including a first main stent prosthesis having at least one lateral branch, a second side stent-graft prosthesis having a body of a generally tubular wall structure, and a guiding element; wherein: said lateral branch having a distal orifice at a distal end being configured for receiving said second side stent-graft prosthesis connectable thereto, said tubular wall structure of said second side-stent graft prosthesis including an orifice element configured for receiving said guiding element through its orifice, and said guiding element having a distal end positioned proximally at an interior and at a distance from said distal orifice of said lateral branch at a connection point of said side branch; such that said stent-graft prosthesis is arrangeable slideably along said guiding element over said orifice element to said orifice of said lateral branch for delivery and deployment of said side stent-graft prosthesis through a delivery lumen of a catheter with its lumen threadable over said guiding element, wherein said second side stent-graft prosthesis extends distally beyond said connection point when moved with its orifice element over said guiding element for engagement at said connection point; and said orifice element preferably being a guiding mate. said lateral branch having a distal orifice at a distal end being configured for receiving said second side stent-graft prosthesis connectable thereto, said tubular wall structure of said second side-stent graft prosthesis including an orifice element configured for receiving said guiding element through its orifice, and said guiding element having a distal end positioned proximally at an interior and at a distance from said distal orifice of said lateral branch at a connection point of said side branch; such that said stent-graft prosthesis is arrangeable slideably along said guiding element over said orifice element to said orifice of said lateral branch for delivery and deployment of said side stent-graft prosthesis through a delivery lumen of a catheter with its lumen threadable over said guiding element, wherein said second side stent-graft prosthesis extends distally beyond said connection point when moved with its orifice element over said guiding element for engagement at said connection point; and said orifice element preferably being a guiding mate.
A locking washer assembly (1; 1') intended to be used with a screw, the locking washer assembly comprising a first locking washer (2, 2') and a second locking washer, wherein the first (2; 2') and second locking washer comprise teeth for engaging an element (16, 17) to be attached by means of a screw joint and further said first and second locking washer (1; 1') comprise means for engaging each other, wherein the first locking washer (2; 2') comprises a central through hole that is larger than the central hole of the second locking washer, characterized in that said second locking washer has a diameter of its central through hole that prevents the teeth of the second locking washer to engage with a screw head that has a chamfer or radius in the transition between the screw head and the shank of said screw (15, 15', 15") that it is intended to be used with, wherein the through hole has a diameter that if the washer is introduced closest to said screw head having said radius or said chamfer having two radiuses (5a, 5b) the second locking washer will when being parallel with the underside of the screw head, form a gap, wherein the first (2; 2') and the second locking washers are of the cam locking type the first locking washer (2; 2") has a diameter of its central through hole that allows the first locking washer's teeth to engage with a surface of said screw ead, wherein this engagement is possible when the first locking washer (2; 2') is pushed up against said screw head.
A method for precoding in a wireless communication system, comprising: obtaining, by a receiver, a reference signal from a transmitter; deriving, by the receiver, a rank indication, a codebook index n 1 in a first code-book C 1, codebook indices k 1 and k 2 in a second codebook C 2,, a wideband channel quality indicator, CQI 1, and a subband channel quality indicator, CQI 2, based on the obtained reference signal; sending, by the receiver, the rank indication, the codebook index n 1 in the first codebook C 1, the codebook indices k 1 and k 2 in the second codebook C 2,, the wideband CQI 1 and the subband CQI 2, to the transmitter; and receiving, by the receiver, data precoded by a first precoder from the transmitter, wherein the first precoder is determined by the transmitter based on the rank indication and the indices n 1, k 1 and k 2; characterized in that: the first precoder comprises a second precoder and a third precoder, wherein the second precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 1 at the transmitter, and the third precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 2 at the transmitter, wherein the second precoder represents a wideband precoder, and the third precoder represents a subband precoder. obtaining, by a receiver, a reference signal from a transmitter; deriving, by the receiver, a rank indication, a codebook index n 1 in a first code-book C 1, codebook indices k 1 and k 2 in a second codebook C 2,, a wideband channel quality indicator, CQI 1, and a subband channel quality indicator, CQI 2, based on the obtained reference signal; sending, by the receiver, the rank indication, the codebook index n 1 in the first codebook C 1, the codebook indices k 1 and k 2 in the second codebook C 2,, the wideband CQI 1 and the subband CQI 2, to the transmitter; and receiving, by the receiver, data precoded by a first precoder from the transmitter, wherein the first precoder is determined by the transmitter based on the rank indication and the indices n 1, k 1 and k 2; characterized in that: the first precoder comprises a second precoder and a third precoder, wherein the second precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 1 at the transmitter, and the third precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 2 at the transmitter, wherein the second precoder represents a wideband precoder, and the third precoder represents a subband precoder. the first precoder comprises a second precoder and a third precoder, wherein the second precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 1 at the transmitter, and the third precoder is determined by the indices n 1 and k 2 at the transmitter, wherein the second precoder represents a wideband precoder, and the third precoder represents a subband precoder.
A method for monitoring a turbine component using an imaging device and a processor, the method comprising: locating a plurality of machined surface features on the turbine component, wherein at least one of the machined surface features comprises a cooling hole or a component contour; locating at least one reference point; and, measuring a plurality of first distances between the plurality of machined surface features and the at least one reference point; locating the plurality of machined surface features on the turbine component at a second point in time; locating the at least one reference point at the second point in time; measuring a plurality of second distances between the plurality of machined surface features and the at least one reference point at the second point in time; and, comparing the plurality of first distances to the plurality of second distances to determine a strain analysis. locating a plurality of machined surface features on the turbine component, wherein at least one of the machined surface features comprises a cooling hole or a component contour; locating at least one reference point; and, measuring a plurality of first distances between the plurality of machined surface features and the at least one reference point; locating the plurality of machined surface features on the turbine component at a second point in time; locating the at least one reference point at the second point in time; measuring a plurality of second distances between the plurality of machined surface features and the at least one reference point at the second point in time; and, comparing the plurality of first distances to the plurality of second distances to determine a strain analysis.
A sealed refrigerant compressor (10A; 10B) comprising: a sealed container in which lubricating oil is reserved in a lower portion inside the sealed container; an electric component (20A; 20B) accommodated in the sealed container; and a compression component accommodated in the sealed container and configured to be driven by the electric component (20A; 20B), wherein the compression component includes: a crankshaft including a main shaft part, an eccentric shaft part and an oil feeding passage, a cylinder, and a piston coupled to the eccentric shaft part and being reciprocatable inside the cylinder, the electric component (20A; 20B) comprising a rotor (22A; 22B) to which the main shaft part is secured, and characterized by the rotor (22A; 22B) being provided with a balance hole which adjusts an unbalanced load caused by a structure of the main shaft part, wherein a position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage is deviated from a center axis of the main shaft part, wherein the balance hole is provided in a semicircular column region of the rotor (22A; 22B) which is located on a side opposite to the position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage, with respect to the center axis of the main shaft part which is located between the balance hole and the position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage. a sealed container in which lubricating oil is reserved in a lower portion inside the sealed container; an electric component (20A; 20B) accommodated in the sealed container; and a compression component accommodated in the sealed container and configured to be driven by the electric component (20A; 20B), wherein the compression component includes: a crankshaft including a main shaft part, an eccentric shaft part and an oil feeding passage, a cylinder, and a piston coupled to the eccentric shaft part and being reciprocatable inside the cylinder, the electric component (20A; 20B) comprising a rotor (22A; 22B) to which the main shaft part is secured, and characterized by the rotor (22A; 22B) being provided with a balance hole which adjusts an unbalanced load caused by a structure of the main shaft part, wherein a position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage is deviated from a center axis of the main shaft part, wherein the balance hole is provided in a semicircular column region of the rotor (22A; 22B) which is located on a side opposite to the position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage, with respect to the center axis of the main shaft part which is located between the balance hole and the position of center of mass of the oil feeding passage.
A method of manufacturing a High Temperature Superconductor, HTS, field coil (1100, 1400) from one or more HTS tapes (100, 900, 900A,B, 1401, 1501A-D), each HTS tape comprising a flexible substrate, an intermediate layer provided on a face of the flexible substrate, an HTS material layer provided on the intermediate layer, and electrically conductive cladding (104, 105) in electrical contact with the HTS material and extending across at least the edges of the HTS tape, the method comprising: winding the one or more HTS tapes about an axis to form a field coil (1000, 1300) comprising windings (1002, 1004) of HTS tape; and characterised by: after winding, removing material from an axial edge of the one or more of the HTS tapes around at least a part of one or more of the windings to reduce the extent of the one or more HTS tapes along the axis of the field coil, wherein removing material from an axial edge of the one or more of the HTS tapes comprises partially or wholly removing the cladding from an edge of the one or more of the HTS tapes around at least a part of one or more of the windings to increase the electrical resistance between the HTS material layer in the winding and the HTS material layer in an adjacent winding.