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A method of producing soft cast-molded contact lenses having enhanced surface quality, the method comprising: providing first and second mold members (12, 14) structured to be assembled together to form a lens-shaped cavity therebetween, each of the first and second mold members (12, 14) comprises a nucleated thermoplastic polyolefin resin having a melt flow rate in a range of 10 g/10 min to 40 g/10 min, wherein the nucleated thermoplastic polyolefin resin comprises a nucleating agent in an amount of from 0.1 wt% to 1.5 wt%; placing a soft contact lens-forming composition in the cavity or placing a soft contact lens-forming composition on a portion of one of the mold members and placing the other mold member in contact therewith to form the lens shaped cavity containing the composition; forming a cast-molded contact lens product from the contact lens-forming composition in the cavity by subjecting the soft contact lens-forming composition in the cavity to conditions effective to from a soft cast-molded contact lens; removing the cast-molded contact lens product from the first and second mold members (12, 14); and repeating the providing, placing, forming and removing steps a plurality of times to produce a plurality of soft cast-molded contact lens products having enhanced surface quality relative to an identically produced plurality of soft cast-molded contact lens products made using first and second mold members comprising a thermoplastic olefin resin having a melt flow rate of 1.9 g/10 min. providing first and second mold members (12, 14) structured to be assembled together to form a lens-shaped cavity therebetween, each of the first and second mold members (12, 14) comprises a nucleated thermoplastic polyolefin resin having a melt flow rate in a range of 10 g/10 min to 40 g/10 min, wherein the nucleated thermoplastic polyolefin resin comprises a nucleating agent in an amount of from 0.1 wt% to 1.5 wt%; placing a soft contact lens-forming composition in the cavity or placing a soft contact lens-forming composition on a portion of one of the mold members and placing the other mold member in contact therewith to form the lens shaped cavity containing the composition; forming a cast-molded contact lens product from the contact lens-forming composition in the cavity by subjecting the soft contact lens-forming composition in the cavity to conditions effective to from a soft cast-molded contact lens; removing the cast-molded contact lens product from the first and second mold members (12, 14); and repeating the providing, placing, forming and removing steps a plurality of times to produce a plurality of soft cast-molded contact lens products having enhanced surface quality relative to an identically produced plurality of soft cast-molded contact lens products made using first and second mold members comprising a thermoplastic olefin resin having a melt flow rate of 1.9 g/10 min.
An animal feed additive effective as preservative characterised in, that it comprises 30-80% by weight of propionic acid, 20-70% by weight of glyceryl propionates and less than 4% by weight of glycerol, balance to 100% by weight being water and that said glyceryl propionates comprise 10-30% by weight of glyceryl monopropionate, 40-70% by weight of glyceryl dipropionate and 10-30% by weight of glyceryl tripropionate, balance being 100 % by weight.
Metering system for metering a liquid metering medium, with a suction line, which is filled with a metering medium at the liquid pressure p s, and a pressure line, which is filled with the metering medium at the liquid pressure p d, wherein the suction line is connected to the pressure line by a metering member configured as a metering pump, with which metering medium can be conveyed from the suction line into the pressure line, wherein the metering pump has a conveying chamber, the volume of which can be changed with the aid of a movable displacement element in such a way that, in a first position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a minimum volume V min and, in a second position of the displacement element, the conveying chamber has a maximum volume V max, the conveying chamber being connected by a pressure valve to the pressure line and by a suction valve to the suction line, so, by an oscillating movement of the displacement element, metering medium can alternately be sucked out of the suction line via the suction valve into the conveying chamber and metering medium can be discharged from the conveying chamber via the pressure valve into the pressure line, characterised in that V max V min > p d p s κ, wherein κ = 1.5.
A method of attaching a regulating blade made of resin to an attachment portion of a development frame which is made of resin and includes the attachment portion for attaching the regulating blade, the regulating blade being disposed opposite to and not in contact with a development rotary member configured to bear and convey a developer toward a position at which an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member is developed, the regulating blade being configured to regulate an amount of the developer to be borne on the development rotary, member, the method of attaching the regulating blade comprising: a first application step of applying an adhesive to the attachment portion; a second application step of applying a hardening accelerator to the regulating blade; and an attaching step of attaching the regulating blade to the attachment portion via the adhesive applied to the attachment portion in the first application step and the hardening accelerator applied to the regulating blade in the second application step. a first application step of applying an adhesive to the attachment portion; a second application step of applying a hardening accelerator to the regulating blade; and an attaching step of attaching the regulating blade to the attachment portion via the adhesive applied to the attachment portion in the first application step and the hardening accelerator applied to the regulating blade in the second application step.
A current or tidal turbine (110; 1200) comprising: a floating spar buoy, the floating spar buoy including a keel at a bottom end; a spreader disposed on the floating spar buoy, wherein the spreader comprises outer end connection points for attaching one or more mooring lines (150; 1225) connected to one or more anchors; and a turbine with a drivetrain and generator disposed on the floating spar buoy for converting current or tidal flow into electricity, wherein the floating spar buoy and turbine rotate relative to the spreader to face a current flow.
Building protection device for a flushing pipe to be connected to a sanitary ceramic and for a drain pipe to be connected to the sanitary ceramic, with a first sealing element (14.1) associated with the flushing pipe, a second sealing element (14.2) associated with the drain pipe, a rear wall (14.3) connecting the first sealing element (14.1) and the second sealing element (14.1), and a wall connected to the rear wall (14.3), preferably a circumferential wall (14.4), wherein the wall (14.4) connected to the rear wall (14.3) is formed in one piece or is connected to the rear wall (14.3) in a material-locking manner, wherein the first sealing element (14.1), the second sealing element (14.2), the rear wall (14.3) and the wall (14.4) are made of plastic, wherein the first sealing element (14.1) and the second sealing element (14.2) are designed in the form of axially open pipe sockets, and wherein the building protection device also has at least one removable or detachable protective cover (14.5), which covers the first sealing element (14.1) and/or the second sealing element (14.2) and is arranged at least partially in front of the front side of the rear wall (14.3). a first sealing element (14.1) associated with the flushing pipe, a second sealing element (14.2) associated with the drain pipe, a rear wall (14.3) connecting the first sealing element (14.1) and the second sealing element (14.1), and a wall connected to the rear wall (14.3), preferably a circumferential wall (14.4), wherein the wall (14.4) connected to the rear wall (14.3) is formed in one piece or is connected to the rear wall (14.3) in a material-locking manner, wherein the first sealing element (14.1), the second sealing element (14.2), the rear wall (14.3) and the wall (14.4) are made of plastic, wherein the first sealing element (14.1) and the second sealing element (14.2) are designed in the form of axially open pipe sockets, and wherein the building protection device also has at least one removable or detachable protective cover (14.5), which covers the first sealing element (14.1) and/or the second sealing element (14.2) and is arranged at least partially in front of the front side of the rear wall (14.3).
A die module set for a pressing tool, comprising two different cores (5, 14) and two different reinforcement rings (8, 11) being designed to be coordinated in a way that a first die including a first core and the reinforcement rings (8, 11) or alternatively a second die including the other core and only one of the reinforcement rings can be composed thereof.
Proton-conducting electrolyte membrane, comprising at least one base material and at least one dopant, the dopant being a reaction product of an at least dibasic inorganic acid, selected from the group encompassing phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid, with an organic compound selected from the group encompassing linear or branched, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic alcohols having 5 to 20 carbon atoms and linear or branched, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic amines having 5 to 20 carbon atoms, the reaction product having an unreacted acidic hydroxyl group of the inorganic acid, and the membrane comprising the dopant at a concentration of 10 to < 30 wt%, based on the total weight of the dried doped membrane.
A continuous heating furnace comprising: a conveyance body stretched in an endless shape and configured to convey a burning target; a furnace main body partially or entirely surrounding the conveyance body to form a burning space; a roller configured to support a portion of the conveyance body in the furnace main body; one or more closed gas heaters having an introduction hole configured to introduce a fuel gas into a heater main body, a combustion chamber in which the fuel gas introduced from the introduction hole is combusted, a discharge section to which an exhaust gas generated by combustion in the combustion chamber is guided, a radiation surface heated by the exhaust gas flowing through the discharge section or combustion in the combustion chamber and configured to transfer radiant heat to the burning target, and an exhaust hole configured to exhaust the exhaust gas that heats the radiation surface to the outside of the heater main body, and disposed in the furnace main body; and an exhaust pipe in communication with the exhaust hole of the closed gas heater and through which the exhaust gas is guided, wherein the exhaust pipe surrounds and comes in partial contact with a portion of the roller protruding in the direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the burning target more than the conveyance body and extends in a vertical direction, wherein the exhaust pipe is configured to enable heat exchange between the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe and the roller. a conveyance body stretched in an endless shape and configured to convey a burning target; a furnace main body partially or entirely surrounding the conveyance body to form a burning space; a roller configured to support a portion of the conveyance body in the furnace main body; one or more closed gas heaters having an introduction hole configured to introduce a fuel gas into a heater main body, a combustion chamber in which the fuel gas introduced from the introduction hole is combusted, a discharge section to which an exhaust gas generated by combustion in the combustion chamber is guided, a radiation surface heated by the exhaust gas flowing through the discharge section or combustion in the combustion chamber and configured to transfer radiant heat to the burning target, and an exhaust hole configured to exhaust the exhaust gas that heats the radiation surface to the outside of the heater main body, and disposed in the furnace main body; and an exhaust pipe in communication with the exhaust hole of the closed gas heater and through which the exhaust gas is guided, wherein the exhaust pipe surrounds and comes in partial contact with a portion of the roller protruding in the direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the burning target more than the conveyance body and extends in a vertical direction, wherein the exhaust pipe is configured to enable heat exchange between the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe and the roller.
A vehicle visual recognition device, comprising: a support shaft that is supported at a vehicle body side; a rotating member that is rotatably supported at the support shaft; a plurality of contact portions (32A-32H) that are provided at the rotating member and that are capable of contacting the support shaft; and a visual recognition section that is provided so as to be capable of rotating integrally with the rotating member, that assists visual recognition of a vehicle occupant, and that is stored or deployed by rotating the rotating member, characterized in that a projection leading end face of at least one (32E-32H) of the contact portions (32A-32H) is disposed at an inner side in a radial direction of a circular circumference at which a projection leading end face of another (32A-32D) of the contact portions (32A-32H) is disposed. a support shaft that is supported at a vehicle body side; a rotating member that is rotatably supported at the support shaft; a plurality of contact portions (32A-32H) that are provided at the rotating member and that are capable of contacting the support shaft; and a visual recognition section that is provided so as to be capable of rotating integrally with the rotating member, that assists visual recognition of a vehicle occupant, and that is stored or deployed by rotating the rotating member, a projection leading end face of at least one (32E-32H) of the contact portions (32A-32H) is disposed at an inner side in a radial direction of a circular circumference at which a projection leading end face of another (32A-32D) of the contact portions (32A-32H) is disposed.
Method for producing a hydrostatic profiled rail guide having a hydrostatically mounted guide carriage arranged so as to be longitudinally displaceable on a guide rail, wherein the guide carriage is provided with pressure compartments and compartment faces arranged around the pressure compartments, and wherein the guide rail is provided, on its sides facing the pressure compartments, with rail running faces for hydrostatically mounting the guide carriage on the guide rail, characterized in that the compartment faces formed on the guide carriage are provided with a first coating that consists of a Cu/Sn alloy that is deposited galvanically and is subsequently polished in a polishing operation.
A device for detecting and indicating wear of a tire, characterised in that the device comprises: - at least one moisture detector comprising at least one dry charged catalytic electrode accumulator located below a wear surface in a tread area of the tire; - means for generating energy, and - a transmitter for transmitting signals indicating wear of the tire. - at least one moisture detector comprising at least one dry charged catalytic electrode accumulator located below a wear surface in a tread area of the tire; - means for generating energy, and - a transmitter for transmitting signals indicating wear of the tire.
A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, (102, 202) comprising: a processor; and a memory (130, 132) coupled with the processor, the memory storing executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: receive a data packet; determine information associated with the data packet, wherein the information comprises a WTRU identifier, ID, and a bearer ID; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine an egress communication link; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine a radio link control, RLC, channel of the egress communication link; and submit the data packet to the determined RLC channel of the egress communication link. a processor; and a memory (130, 132) coupled with the processor, the memory storing executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: receive a data packet; determine information associated with the data packet, wherein the information comprises a WTRU identifier, ID, and a bearer ID; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine an egress communication link; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine a radio link control, RLC, channel of the egress communication link; and submit the data packet to the determined RLC channel of the egress communication link. receive a data packet; determine information associated with the data packet, wherein the information comprises a WTRU identifier, ID, and a bearer ID; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine an egress communication link; based on the information associated with the data packet, determine a radio link control, RLC, channel of the egress communication link; and submit the data packet to the determined RLC channel of the egress communication link.
A loading arm device for the loading of fluids, comprising - an arm construction having at least a first and a second movably articulated sub-arm (22,23), the sub-arms forming a first kinematic chain, and having a second kinematic chain comprising a linkage system including at least one parallel linkage (28,29) extending at least across the two sub-arms, - a mounting stand, wherein the mounting stand comprises a rotatable head having the first sub-arm articulated to it, - an articulated coupling of the second kinematic chain to a connection device (30,50,70), wherein the connection device is articulated to the second sub-arm of the first kinematic chain, and - a fluid conduit which is coupled in a fluid-tight manner to the connection device (30,50,70), characterized in that - the second kinematic chain is coupled to an articulated coupling on the rotatable head of the mounting stand, - the arm construction includes a resilient element for weight and/or length compensation, and - the mounting stand is a tube conduit of the fluid conduit. - an arm construction having at least a first and a second movably articulated sub-arm (22,23), the sub-arms forming a first kinematic chain, and having a second kinematic chain comprising a linkage system including at least one parallel linkage (28,29) extending at least across the two sub-arms, - a mounting stand, wherein the mounting stand comprises a rotatable head having the first sub-arm articulated to it, - an articulated coupling of the second kinematic chain to a connection device (30,50,70), wherein the connection device is articulated to the second sub-arm of the first kinematic chain, and - a fluid conduit which is coupled in a fluid-tight manner to the connection device (30,50,70), - the second kinematic chain is coupled to an articulated coupling on the rotatable head of the mounting stand, - the arm construction includes a resilient element for weight and/or length compensation, and - the mounting stand is a tube conduit of the fluid conduit.
Adaptive mirror comprising a ceramic substrate, at least one reflector which is disposed on the front-side of the substrate and also at least one piezoelectric actuator which is disposed on the rear-side of the substrate, at least one cooling device being integrated in the substrate or disposed on one of the surfaces of the substrate, characterised in that there is disposed between the piezoelectric actuator and the substrate, at least one LTCC layer which has a structuring for transporting a cooling liquid.
A method of detecting human objects in a video, comprising: detecting moving pixels in a video image using frame differencing; building and updating a dynamic model of a background using the video image; determining change pixels of the video image as the pixels that are different from the background; determining foreground blobs by spatially grouping the detected moving pixels and the determined change pixels; tracking the foreground blobs over time to form spatio-temporal targets; for each of N locations within the video image, where N is the number of pixels of the video image, comparing a corresponding predetermined human shape with the foreground blobs to obtain a corresponding probability of a human at the location, thereby obtaining N probabilities corresponding to the N locations, wherein the corresponding predetermined human shape is a predetermined shape whose size for each of the N locations is determined in response to a calibration of a video system used to obtain the video image, the calibration being performed using several human image samples; using the N probabilities, determining X humans are represented by the foreground blobs, where X is a whole number; using the determination of the representation of X humans, determining a crowd density within a first area of the real world; comparing the crowd density to a first threshold; and providing an event detection using the spatio-temporal targets and the determination of the representation of the X humans and a report of the detected event when the crowd density exceeds the first threshold and a crowd duration exceeds a second threshold. detecting moving pixels in a video image using frame differencing; building and updating a dynamic model of a background using the video image; determining change pixels of the video image as the pixels that are different from the background; determining foreground blobs by spatially grouping the detected moving pixels and the determined change pixels; tracking the foreground blobs over time to form spatio-temporal targets; for each of N locations within the video image, where N is the number of pixels of the video image, comparing a corresponding predetermined human shape with the foreground blobs to obtain a corresponding probability of a human at the location, thereby obtaining N probabilities corresponding to the N locations, wherein the corresponding predetermined human shape is a predetermined shape whose size for each of the N locations is determined in response to a calibration of a video system used to obtain the video image, the calibration being performed using several human image samples; using the N probabilities, determining X humans are represented by the foreground blobs, where X is a whole number; using the determination of the representation of X humans, determining a crowd density within a first area of the real world; comparing the crowd density to a first threshold; and providing an event detection using the spatio-temporal targets and the determination of the representation of the X humans and a report of the detected event when the crowd density exceeds the first threshold and a crowd duration exceeds a second threshold.