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A system for monitoring ice accretion on an aircraft, the system comprising: a boundary locator configured to determine a test location within a projection region of an aircraft window, the determined test location corresponding to a boundary that separates an ice-accretion portion of an exterior surface of the aircraft window and an ice-free portion of the exterior surface of the aircraft window in conditions that include the atmosphere having super-cooled water droplets up to a predetermined size; and an optical projector (16, 44) configured to project a beam of light upon an interior surface of the aircraft window, and to direct the projected beam of light onto the determined test location within the projection region of the interior surface of the aircraft window; characterised in that the boundary locator includes an optical projector interface, an aircraft interface, a storage device, and a processor, the processor configured to calculate the boundary location based on aircraft conditions and atmospheric conditions received via the aircraft interface and a predetermined maximum size of super-cooled water droplets retrieved from the storage device, and to determine the test location corresponding thereto. a boundary locator configured to determine a test location within a projection region of an aircraft window, the determined test location corresponding to a boundary that separates an ice-accretion portion of an exterior surface of the aircraft window and an ice-free portion of the exterior surface of the aircraft window in conditions that include the atmosphere having super-cooled water droplets up to a predetermined size; and an optical projector (16, 44) configured to project a beam of light upon an interior surface of the aircraft window, and to direct the projected beam of light onto the determined test location within the projection region of the interior surface of the aircraft window; characterised in that the boundary locator includes an optical projector interface, an aircraft interface, a storage device, and a processor, the processor configured to calculate the boundary location based on aircraft conditions and atmospheric conditions received via the aircraft interface and a predetermined maximum size of super-cooled water droplets retrieved from the storage device, and to determine the test location corresponding thereto.
A refrigeration cycle apparatus comprising: a refrigerant circuit in which refrigerant circulates in the order of a compressor, an oil separator, a first heat exchanger, a decompressing apparatus, and a second heat exchanger and returns to the compressor; an oil reservoir configured to store refrigeration oil; a first pipe that connects the oil separator and the oil reservoir, the first pipe being configured to send the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator to the oil reservoir; a second pipe that connects the oil reservoir and a suction side of the compressor; a third pipe that connects the oil reservoir and the suction side of the compressor at a position lower than a position at which the second pipe is connected to the oil reservoir; and a heater configured to heat the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator; characterized in that the refrigeration cycle apparatus further comprises: a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the oil reservoir; and a controller configured to control the heater to heat the refrigeration oil when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is lower than a defined temperature, wherein the heater is installed at the first pipe. a refrigerant circuit in which refrigerant circulates in the order of a compressor, an oil separator, a first heat exchanger, a decompressing apparatus, and a second heat exchanger and returns to the compressor; an oil reservoir configured to store refrigeration oil; a first pipe that connects the oil separator and the oil reservoir, the first pipe being configured to send the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator to the oil reservoir; a second pipe that connects the oil reservoir and a suction side of the compressor; a third pipe that connects the oil reservoir and the suction side of the compressor at a position lower than a position at which the second pipe is connected to the oil reservoir; and a heater configured to heat the refrigeration oil separated by the oil separator; characterized in that the refrigeration cycle apparatus further comprises: a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the oil reservoir; and a controller configured to control the heater to heat the refrigeration oil when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is lower than a defined temperature, wherein the heater is installed at the first pipe. a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the oil reservoir; and a controller configured to control the heater to heat the refrigeration oil when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is lower than a defined temperature, wherein the heater is installed at the first pipe.
A method for tracking fuel consumption of a vehicle, the method comprising operating a telematics device installed in the vehicle to: collect fuel data from at least one fuel data source of the vehicle during a trip completed by the vehicle; track, during the trip, for each fuel data source, a cumulative amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle determined based on the fuel data collected from that fuel data source; determine a confidence level of each fuel data source at a plurality of points in the trip; identify an initial fuel data source; generate a plurality of mid-trip fuel records, each mid-trip fuel record indicating the cumulative amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle at a point in the trip determined based on the fuel data collected from the initial fuel data source; identify a final fuel data source based on a priority of each fuel data source and each confidence level of each fuel data source; determine whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid based on whether the initial fuel data source is the same fuel data source as the final fuel data source; and transmit the plurality of mid-trip fuel records and an indication of whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid to a fleet management system. collect fuel data from at least one fuel data source of the vehicle during a trip completed by the vehicle; track, during the trip, for each fuel data source, a cumulative amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle determined based on the fuel data collected from that fuel data source; determine a confidence level of each fuel data source at a plurality of points in the trip; identify an initial fuel data source; generate a plurality of mid-trip fuel records, each mid-trip fuel record indicating the cumulative amount of fuel consumed by the vehicle at a point in the trip determined based on the fuel data collected from the initial fuel data source; identify a final fuel data source based on a priority of each fuel data source and each confidence level of each fuel data source; determine whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid based on whether the initial fuel data source is the same fuel data source as the final fuel data source; and transmit the plurality of mid-trip fuel records and an indication of whether the plurality of mid-trip fuel records is valid to a fleet management system.
A semiconductor biosensor, comprising: a central reaction unit capable of being embedded into a semiconductor chip; and with the central reaction unit comprising: a common source electrode; a bit line controller; an oxide film, and a plurality of receptors adapted for coupling with at least one charged target fixed on a surface of the said oxide film; wherein the central reaction unit comprises is characterized in a plurality of conducting wires, wherein one end of each conducting wire is connected to the common source electrode; a plurality of non-volatile memory type transistors respectively connected to another end of each conducting wire; a plurality of sense-amplifiers respectively connected to each of said non-volatile memory type transistors, with the bit line controller analyzing signals sensed by each of said sense-amplifiers and managing the operation of the said non-volatile memory type transistors, and with the oxide film wrapping or covering the said conducting wires. a central reaction unit capable of being embedded into a semiconductor chip; and with the central reaction unit comprising: a common source electrode; a bit line controller; an oxide film, and a plurality of receptors adapted for coupling with at least one charged target fixed on a surface of the said oxide film; wherein the central reaction unit comprises is characterized in a plurality of conducting wires, wherein one end of each conducting wire is connected to the common source electrode; a plurality of non-volatile memory type transistors respectively connected to another end of each conducting wire; a plurality of sense-amplifiers respectively connected to each of said non-volatile memory type transistors, with the bit line controller analyzing signals sensed by each of said sense-amplifiers and managing the operation of the said non-volatile memory type transistors, and with the oxide film wrapping or covering the said conducting wires. a common source electrode; a bit line controller; an oxide film, and a plurality of receptors adapted for coupling with at least one charged target fixed on a surface of the said oxide film; a plurality of conducting wires, wherein one end of each conducting wire is connected to the common source electrode; a plurality of non-volatile memory type transistors respectively connected to another end of each conducting wire; a plurality of sense-amplifiers respectively connected to each of said non-volatile memory type transistors, with the bit line controller analyzing signals sensed by each of said sense-amplifiers and managing the operation of the said non-volatile memory type transistors, and with the oxide film wrapping or covering the said conducting wires.
A method comprising: receiving a first packet-switched reservation request to configure a first circuit-switched channel, wherein a packet-switched reservation request is a request communicated via a packet-switched channel; communicating data associated with the first packet-switched reservation request through the first circuit-switched channel according to a best effort communication scheme; receiving a second packet-switched reservation request to configure a second circuit-switched channel; and communicating data associated with the second packet-switched reservation request through the second circuit-switched channel according to a guaranteed throughput communication scheme; and terminating a data transfer associated with the second packet-switched reservation request when a third packet-switched reservation request is received, the third packet-switched reservation request to request a guaranteed throughput communication scheme that is to use at least one resource used by the data transfer associated with the second packet-switched reservation request. receiving a first packet-switched reservation request to configure a first circuit-switched channel, wherein a packet-switched reservation request is a request communicated via a packet-switched channel; communicating data associated with the first packet-switched reservation request through the first circuit-switched channel according to a best effort communication scheme; receiving a second packet-switched reservation request to configure a second circuit-switched channel; and communicating data associated with the second packet-switched reservation request through the second circuit-switched channel according to a guaranteed throughput communication scheme; and terminating a data transfer associated with the second packet-switched reservation request when a third packet-switched reservation request is received, the third packet-switched reservation request to request a guaranteed throughput communication scheme that is to use at least one resource used by the data transfer associated with the second packet-switched reservation request.
A document validating/stacking device comprising: a validator for discriminating authenticity of an inserted document and a stacker detachably attached to the validator for storing the document supplied from validator, wherein the validator comprises a rocker rotatably attached around a pivot shaft, a head formed with the rocker and a drive device for rotating the rocker around the pivot shaft, the stacker comprises an interim chamber for receiving the document supplied from the validator, a storage for receiving and holding the document supplied from the interim chamber, a pusher plate movable between an initial position within the interim chamber and an extended position within the storage, and an X-linkage having a driver arm, wherein the rotation of the rocker causes the head to move in a circular arc to separably push a passive area of the driver arm that therefore rotates in the same rotational direction as the circular arc movement of the head to expand the X-linkage, to thereby move the pusher plate from the initial position to the extended position and to stow the document within the interim chamber into the storage.
A composition comprising a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer; and at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising one or more groups selected from (meth)acryl or vinyl ether, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer is aromatic and has a refractive index of at least 1.50; and the composition comprises no greater than 30 wt.-% ethylenically unsaturated monomer. a styrene-isobutylene block copolymer; and at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising one or more groups selected from (meth)acryl or vinyl ether, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer is aromatic and has a refractive index of at least 1.50; and the composition comprises no greater than 30 wt.-% ethylenically unsaturated monomer.
Insertable plumbing element having a sleeve-shaped insertion plug, by means of which the insertable element can be inserted into an end-located insertion opening in a plumbing pipe section, which insertion plug has, at least on the outer circumference, an outer layer of elastic material for securing it by frictional engagement in the insertion opening, and having a reinforcing sleeve, which is provided to reinforce the outer layer transversely to the plug longitudinal axis and which is produced from a material that is inflexible in comparison with the outer layer and which is surrounded by the outer layer, wherein at least two retaining fins composed of elastic material are formed integrally on the outer layer, said fins being arranged in a manner distributed in a circumferential direction of the insertion plug and projecting beyond the insertion plug transversely to the plug longitudinal axis, and wherein the retaining fins have a bent fin cross section, characterized in that the fin cross sections of the retaining fins are bent in the same circumferential direction, and in that the retaining fins each have, for deformation of the retaining fins in the same circumferential direction, an end edge region which is at the front in the insertion direction of the insertion plug and which widens to an increasing extent in the insertion direction.
An embolic implant comprising: an embolic coil comprising a coiled wire; a detachment feature (18, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d) affixed to the embolic coil approximate a proximal end of the embolic coil; and a stretch resistant fiber engaged to the detachment feature, extended through a lumen of the embolic coil, and affixed to the embolic coil approximate a distal end of the embolic coil; characterised in that the detachment feature further comprises a first engagement surface (36, 36a, 36b) and a second engagement surface (36, 36a, 36b) longitudinally offset from each other by a length approximately equal to half of a diameter of the coiled wire. an embolic coil comprising a coiled wire; a detachment feature (18, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d) affixed to the embolic coil approximate a proximal end of the embolic coil; and a stretch resistant fiber engaged to the detachment feature, extended through a lumen of the embolic coil, and affixed to the embolic coil approximate a distal end of the embolic coil; characterised in that the detachment feature further comprises a first engagement surface (36, 36a, 36b) and a second engagement surface (36, 36a, 36b) longitudinally offset from each other by a length approximately equal to half of a diameter of the coiled wire.
An in-cell touch panel comprising a top substrate and a bottom substrate disposed opposite to each other, a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes disposed on a same layer and independent from each other, a touch sensing chip, a black matrix layer, a color filter layer and a plurality of wires for connecting the self-capacitance electrodes to the touch sensing chip, wherein the self-capacitance electrodes constitute a common electrode layer and the wires and the self-capacitance electrodes are disposed on different layers; the touch sensing chip is configured to apply common electrode signals to self-capacitance electrodes in a display time period and determine touch positions by detecting capacitance value variation of self-capacitance electrodes in a touch time period; characterized in that: the self-capacitance electrodes and the wires are both disposed on a side of the top substrate that faces the bottom substrate; the common electrode layer is located on the color filter layer, the wires are located between the black matrix layer and the color filter layer, and the self-capacitance electrodes and corresponding wires are electrically connected through via holes in the color filter layer; orthogonal projections of gaps between two adjacent ones of the self-capacitance electrodes on the bottom substrate are within regions of patterns of the black matrix layer; orthogonal projections of the wires on the bottom substrate are within regions of the pattern of the black matrix layer; and the black matrix layer is located on a side of the top substrate facing the bottom substrate and the color filter layer is disposed on the black matrix layer. the self-capacitance electrodes and the wires are both disposed on a side of the top substrate that faces the bottom substrate; the common electrode layer is located on the color filter layer, the wires are located between the black matrix layer and the color filter layer, and the self-capacitance electrodes and corresponding wires are electrically connected through via holes in the color filter layer; orthogonal projections of gaps between two adjacent ones of the self-capacitance electrodes on the bottom substrate are within regions of patterns of the black matrix layer; orthogonal projections of the wires on the bottom substrate are within regions of the pattern of the black matrix layer; and the black matrix layer is located on a side of the top substrate facing the bottom substrate and the color filter layer is disposed on the black matrix layer.
A storage and order-picking system for the fully-automated picking of articles that are stored in storage loading aids and are picked according to an order, comprising: an article store; a first conveyor system that conveys storage loading aids leaving the article store to a picking station that is operated unmanned; a fully-automated gripping unit on said picking station, which removes articles to be picked from said storage loading aids and deposits them in accordance with the order, the articles deposited according to an order, particularly in an order loading aid, subsequently being conveyed away by means of a second conveyor system; an image identification device for determining possible gripping points for the gripping unit in order to grip articles from the storage loading aids, characterized in that the image identification device comprises at least two cameras in the region of the gripping unit, the capturing directions of which are aligned into the storage loading aid located in the gripping region of the gripping unit, while being coordinated and in particular inclined toward each other, and that the gripping unit can be moved sideways also at short notice for determining possible gripping points in order to allow at least two cameras of the image identification device to have a clear view of the articles in the storage loading aid. an article store; a first conveyor system that conveys storage loading aids leaving the article store to a picking station that is operated unmanned; a fully-automated gripping unit on said picking station, which removes articles to be picked from said storage loading aids and deposits them in accordance with the order, the articles deposited according to an order, particularly in an order loading aid, subsequently being conveyed away by means of a second conveyor system; an image identification device for determining possible gripping points for the gripping unit in order to grip articles from the storage loading aids, characterized in that the image identification device comprises at least two cameras in the region of the gripping unit, the capturing directions of which are aligned into the storage loading aid located in the gripping region of the gripping unit, while being coordinated and in particular inclined toward each other, and that the gripping unit can be moved sideways also at short notice for determining possible gripping points in order to allow at least two cameras of the image identification device to have a clear view of the articles in the storage loading aid.
Control system comprising a locking pressure space, an unlocking pressure space and a hydraulic element which moves under the pressure of pressure fluid into the locking pressure space on one side of the hydraulic element and into an unlocking pressure space on the other side of the hydraulic element, both pressure spaces (13, 16) being connected to the same main line (3, 4) via in each case one line (19 and 20, respectively), characterized in that a pressure compensating valve is connected into the line to the locking pressure space, a ball which is supported against a spring being inserted into an axial stepped bore of the pressure compensating valve, which ball is assigned a correspondingly shaped ball seat in the stepped bore, with the result that the ball is raised up from the ball seat by way of the spring, and a piston which is mounted such that it can slide in the stepped bore pressing on the ball such that it acts counter to the spring, which piston is connected to the main line and is a restricted-orifice piston, in which a restricted orifice is situated.