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An optical fiber ribbon, comprising: a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel; and a tape material covering the plurality of optical fibers into a tape, characterized in that the plurality of optical fibers are coated respectively with translucent color layers of different colors, the tape material is made of a colorless and transparent material, and in at least two of the plurality of optical fibers, markings for identifying the optical fiber ribbon are provided under the translucent color layers at a same position in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber ribbon, the translucent color layers being sufficiently translucent to make the markings visible from outside the optical fiber ribbon through the translucent color layers. a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel; and a tape material covering the plurality of optical fibers into a tape,
A communication method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information from a network device, wherein the first indication information indicates channel occupancy information of the network device, and the channel occupancy information comprises a channel occupancy time or a channel unoccupied time, wherein the channel unoccupied time is a backoff time of the network device on a beam of a channel; when the first indication information indicates the channel occupancy time of the network device, performing, by the terminal device, downlink measurement and/or receiving downlink data within the channel occupancy time; and when the first indication information indicates the channel unoccupied time of the network device, within the channel unoccupied time, skipping performing, by the terminal device, downlink measurement, skipping receiving the downlink data, skipping sending a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback corresponding to the downlink data, or determining that a downlink measurement result is invalid. receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information from a network device, wherein the first indication information indicates channel occupancy information of the network device, and the channel occupancy information comprises a channel occupancy time or a channel unoccupied time, wherein the channel unoccupied time is a backoff time of the network device on a beam of a channel; when the first indication information indicates the channel occupancy time of the network device, performing, by the terminal device, downlink measurement and/or receiving downlink data within the channel occupancy time; and when the first indication information indicates the channel unoccupied time of the network device, within the channel unoccupied time, skipping performing, by the terminal device, downlink measurement, skipping receiving the downlink data, skipping sending a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback corresponding to the downlink data, or determining that a downlink measurement result is invalid.
A communication apparatus comprising: first search means for searching for a Neighbor Awareness Networking, NAN, device existing in a NAN cluster joined by the communication apparatus, the first search means adapted to search in a predetermined channel by a first method complying with Wi-Fi Alliance NAN standard; second search means for searching, over a plurality of channels including the predetermined channel, another communication apparatus by a second method complying with Wi-Fi Direct services standard, the searching of the second search means comprising a listen state and a search state; accepting means for accepting a search instruction at the communication apparatus from a user; and control means for controlling, in response to accepting the one instruction by the accepting means, the first search means and the second search means so as to execute a search by the first method and a search by the second method, wherein the control means is adapted to execute a control so that during a period in which the search of the one predetermined channel is executed by the second search means, the search by the first search means is executed in parallel. first search means for searching for a Neighbor Awareness Networking, NAN, device existing in a NAN cluster joined by the communication apparatus, the first search means adapted to search in a predetermined channel by a first method complying with Wi-Fi Alliance NAN standard; second search means for searching, over a plurality of channels including the predetermined channel, another communication apparatus by a second method complying with Wi-Fi Direct services standard, the searching of the second search means comprising a listen state and a search state; accepting means for accepting a search instruction at the communication apparatus from a user; and control means for controlling, in response to accepting the one instruction by the accepting means, the first search means and the second search means so as to execute a search by the first method and a search by the second method, wherein the control means is adapted to execute a control so that during a period in which the search of the one predetermined channel is executed by the second search means, the search by the first search means is executed in parallel.
A skin treatment apparatus comprising: - a light source comprising a light emitting element for transmitting light energy to the skin and a charge storage device for discharging an energy dose to the light emitting element; - at least one sensor for measuring a parameter of the skin; - a control system configured to determine a treatment energy dose to be delivered, this being derived using the sensor measurement; and - wherein the control system is arranged to enable charging of the charge storage device in a two or more stage operation, wherein in a first stage charging is to an intermediate energy level, and in a second or further stage to an energy level sufficient to deliver the treatment energy dose. - a light source comprising a light emitting element for transmitting light energy to the skin and a charge storage device for discharging an energy dose to the light emitting element; - at least one sensor for measuring a parameter of the skin; - a control system configured to determine a treatment energy dose to be delivered, this being derived using the sensor measurement; and - wherein the control system is arranged to enable charging of the charge storage device in a two or more stage operation, wherein in a first stage charging is to an intermediate energy level, and in a second or further stage to an energy level sufficient to deliver the treatment energy dose.
A catheter, the catheter comprising: an inner tube; a coil tube disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner tube, the coil tube being a wound wire coil, the coil tube having at least one first coil and at least one second coil, the at least one second coil being located concentrically with the at least first coil and whose winding direction of the wound wire coil is different from that of the at least one first coil; and the inner tube and the coil tube being rotatable relative to each other around a central axis of the coil tube, wherein the catheter further comprises a rotary operation unit fixed to a proximal portion of the coil tube, the rotary operation unit configured to transmit a rotational force to the coil tube. an inner tube; a coil tube disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner tube, the coil tube being a wound wire coil, the coil tube having at least one first coil and at least one second coil, the at least one second coil being located concentrically with the at least first coil and whose winding direction of the wound wire coil is different from that of the at least one first coil; and the inner tube and the coil tube being rotatable relative to each other around a central axis of the coil tube, wherein the catheter further comprises a rotary operation unit fixed to a proximal portion of the coil tube, the rotary operation unit configured to transmit a rotational force to the coil tube.
Power divider/combiner with M inputs and N outputs (42a-42h), M and N being integer numbers of which one is at least equal to one and of which the other is at least equal to two, the divider comprising a body of closely related form produced in a metal material, an outline of the body comprising a first zone and a second zone, the inputs being linked to one of the zones and the outputs being linked to the other of the zones, the body comprising a first region situated approximately between the first zone of the outline and a midplane (BB4, CC4) situated approximately mid-way from the first zone and from the second zone, and a second region situated approximately between the second zone of the outline and the midplane, the body also comprising a void (48, 49a, 49b) located in the first region and one or more voids located in the second region substantially along one or more planes parallel to the midplane such that each output is linked to at least one input by two different topological paths, characterized in that it also comprises a slit extending substantially between the void of the first region and the second zone of the outline.
A urinary catheter assembly comprising at least one urinary catheter for collecting urine from a body opening and a collecting bag connected to the catheter, in a way that a urinary flow can be established in a flow path from the catheter into the bag, the assembly further comprises a catheter package with a container and a cover, the container forms an accommodation for an insertable part of the catheter, characterised in that the cover forms a cavity for the collecting bag and the cover is releasably fixed to the container, wherein the package forms an overlap in which the cavity partly covers the accommodation.
An enzyme granule, comprising a mixture of a laccase and a buffer, wherein the reserve alkalinity of the granulate is at least 0.3 g NaOH per 100 g granulate; wherein a 1% w/w aqueous solution/suspension of the granule has a pH in the range from 8 to 11; and wherein the laccase is an enzyme according to EC 1.10.3.2.
A delivery system for percutaneously deploying a stented prosthetic heart valve, the system comprising: an inner shaft assembly including an intermediate portion providing a coupling structure configured to selectively engage a stented prosthetic heart valve; a delivery sheath capsule slidably disposed over the inner shaft assembly and configured to compressively contain a stented prosthetic heart valve engaged with the coupling structure; and a recapture assembly slidably disposed over the inner shaft assembly, the recapture assembly including a recapture frame and a sleeve coupled to the frame, wherein the frame is transitionable from a compressed arrangement to an expanded arrangement in which the frame has a distally increasing diameter; wherein the system is configured to provide a loaded state in which the capsule compressively retains the stented prosthetic heart valve over the inner shaft assembly and the recapture assembly is longitudinally displaced from the stented prosthetic heart valve; wherein the system is further configured to provide a recapturing state in which a distal region of the stented prosthetic heart valve is distal the capsule and the recapture assembly is slidably disposed over the stented prosthetic heart valve distal the capsule, wherein the sleeve is funnel shaped and configured to slide along a surface of the prosthetic heart valve, with the distal end of the recapture assembly configured to engage the distal region of the prosthetic heart valve. an inner shaft assembly including an intermediate portion providing a coupling structure configured to selectively engage a stented prosthetic heart valve; a delivery sheath capsule slidably disposed over the inner shaft assembly and configured to compressively contain a stented prosthetic heart valve engaged with the coupling structure; and a recapture assembly slidably disposed over the inner shaft assembly, the recapture assembly including a recapture frame and a sleeve coupled to the frame, wherein the frame is transitionable from a compressed arrangement to an expanded arrangement in which the frame has a distally increasing diameter; wherein the system is configured to provide a loaded state in which the capsule compressively retains the stented prosthetic heart valve over the inner shaft assembly and the recapture assembly is longitudinally displaced from the stented prosthetic heart valve; wherein the system is further configured to provide a recapturing state in which a distal region of the stented prosthetic heart valve is distal the capsule and the recapture assembly is slidably disposed over the stented prosthetic heart valve distal the capsule, wherein the sleeve is funnel shaped and configured to slide along a surface of the prosthetic heart valve, with the distal end of the recapture assembly configured to engage the distal region of the prosthetic heart valve.
Retractable assembly, comprising a housing, a medium connection, which is arranged on the housing and which permits the connection between the retractable assembly and a vessel filled with medium, an immersion tube, which can be moved axially by a drive between three positions, specifically a process position leaving the housing, at least one intermediate position, and a service position entering into the housing, a probe, which is provided in the immersion tube, wherein the probe has a probe head at its end facing towards the medium wherein, in the service position, the probe head is arranged in a treatment chamber which is formed in the housing, wherein the immersion tube is divided into three sections, specifically a top section facing away from the vessel, a middle section in which a sealing system is provided, and a bottom section facing towards the vessel, wherein the sealing system is designed in such a way that an exchange of medium or contamination from the drive to the treatment chamber and vice versa does not take place in any position of the immersion tube, characterized in that a locking element, a self-locking drive or an automatic system is provided that locks the immersion tube in the intermediate position.
Protection device for an ostomy bag that will be fixed to a support part comprising two rings (2 1, 2 2) connected by their inside diameter forming a groove (15 1) facing outwards, one of rings can be glued around the orifice of an ostomy and on the skin of a patient, said device comprising a rigid, hollow shell capable of covering said bag, and a support ring fixed to the edge of said shell, and the hollowed out central part of which is firstly smaller than the external shape of the bag and secondly, capable of allowing the passage through the inlet orifice of the bag once the bag is connected to the support part, the support ring being open on a part of its periphery and thus making it possible, when the device is put into place on the bag, to slide said ring backwards on the bag and from the top when the patient is in the standing up position, and in the groove (15 1) of the support part making the connection between the inlet orifice of the bag on this support part and attaching the device to it, characterised in that: - the support ring comprises a removable tongue that closes the opening of the open part of the periphery of the ring once the ring has been put into place around the groove (15 1), thus making it impossible to move the protection device by sliding it laterally or vertically, said ring and its removable cleat in the closed position being capable of fully surrounding the groove (15 1). - the support ring comprises a removable tongue that closes the opening of the open part of the periphery of the ring once the ring has been put into place around the groove (15 1), thus making it impossible to move the protection device by sliding it laterally or vertically, said ring and its removable cleat in the closed position being capable of fully surrounding the groove (15 1).
A silicon interposer for being held between a wiring board and semiconductor elements to electrically connect the wiring board to the semiconductor elements, comprising: a silicon wafer with a plurality of through-holes; through-hole electrodes formed in each of the plurality of through-holes for electrically connecting the wiring board to the semiconductor elements, each of the through-hole electrodes includes a base section disposed in a portion of each of the plurality of through-holes, and at least one buffer section completely filling each of the plurality of through-holes to form each of the through-hole electrodes, the buffer section being flattened, wherein the at least one buffer section is formed of a conductive material having a Young's modulus lower than that of the conductive material of the base section, wherein the conductive material of the at least one buffer section is made of solder, and the at least one buffer section is formed to have a height in the range of 10 to 20% of the height of the through-hole electrode. a silicon wafer with a plurality of through-holes; through-hole electrodes formed in each of the plurality of through-holes for electrically connecting the wiring board to the semiconductor elements, each of the through-hole electrodes includes a base section disposed in a portion of each of the plurality of through-holes, and at least one buffer section completely filling each of the plurality of through-holes to form each of the through-hole electrodes, the buffer section being flattened, wherein the at least one buffer section is formed of a conductive material having a Young's modulus lower than that of the conductive material of the base section, wherein the conductive material of the at least one buffer section is made of solder, and the at least one buffer section is formed to have a height in the range of 10 to 20% of the height of the through-hole electrode.
A cardan joint which is adapted to be located on two cardan shafts for transmitting rotational motion and torque on motorised vehicles, the cardan joint comprising: a spider which is adapted to be linked to the two cardan shafts; a spherical joint support member which is positioned in the center of the spider, wherein the spherical joint support member is comprised of a sphere and a spherical bushing female piece which has a bushing geometry that is suitable for said sphere, and wherein the sphere and the spherical bushing female piece are capable of sliding one over the other, the cardan joint being characterized in that in order to have axial forces being transferred by means of the spherical joint support member, the centre of the spherical joint support member is coincident with the centre of bending of the cardan joint and the spherical joint member is fixed in the axial direction relative to each of the two cardan shafts during operation.
A data encryption apparatus operable to apply encryption to MPEG video stream input data having at least a format identifying portion and a payload portion, said apparatus comprising: means for discriminating between said format identifying portion of the input data and said payload portion of the input data; and means for selectively applying encryption to the input data in dependence upon an output of the discriminating means so as to not encrypt picture header data and picture extension data comprising format identifying portion, but to encrypt at least a part of the payload portion of said input data, excluding start codes within the encrypted at least part of the payload portion. means for discriminating between said format identifying portion of the input data and said payload portion of the input data; and means for selectively applying encryption to the input data in dependence upon an output of the discriminating means so as to not encrypt picture header data and picture extension data comprising format identifying portion, but to encrypt at least a part of the payload portion of said input data, excluding start codes within the encrypted at least part of the payload portion.
A multidirectional switch device comprising: an assembled structure of a plurality of members (4,22), the plurality of members (4,22) including a button that is operable by a user; a holder configured to support the assembled structure; and a set of axial recesses and a set of axial projections that define a pivot axis (21,23) about which the button pivots relative to the holder, wherein the pivot axis (21,23) is arranged within the button to allow the holder to cooperate with the assembled structure for operation of the button in multiple directions, wherein the holder includes one of the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections, and one of the members (4,22) of the assembled structure other than the button includes the other one of the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections, the multidirectional switch device characterized in that the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections are located within the thickness of the button above a lower end of an overhang portion of the button. an assembled structure of a plurality of members (4,22), the plurality of members (4,22) including a button that is operable by a user; a holder configured to support the assembled structure; and a set of axial recesses and a set of axial projections that define a pivot axis (21,23) about which the button pivots relative to the holder, wherein the pivot axis (21,23) is arranged within the button to allow the holder to cooperate with the assembled structure for operation of the button in multiple directions, wherein the holder includes one of the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections, and one of the members (4,22) of the assembled structure other than the button includes the other one of the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections, the multidirectional switch device characterized in that the set of axial recesses and the set of axial projections are located within the thickness of the button above a lower end of an overhang portion of the button.