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Sintering furnace, comprising a first zone, a second zone, a transition zone arranged between the first zone and the second zone, at least one conveying mechanism for the transport of bodies to be sintered, in the form of compacts comprising lubricant and/or wax, on a conveying surface from the first zone through the transition zone to the second zone, and at least one gas discharge device with at least one gas discharge device opening, wherein the gas discharge device opening is at least partially arranged in a region of the transition zone, wherein the gas discharge device opening is at least partially, preferably completely, at the level of the level of the conveying surface or below the level of the conveying surface, characterized in that the transition zone has at least one region of which a smallest cross-sectional area is smaller than the cross-sectional area of at least one zone adjoining the transition zone, wherein the first zone is a burnout zone and said second zone is a sintering zone, wherein the transition zone has a narrowed cross-section with respect to the burnout zone and the sintering zone.
A surgical stapling device comprising; a housing; a plurality of cartridges which are coupled together to form a barrel, the barrel being rotatably supported within the housing, each of the cartridges defining a plurality of staple pockets and supporting a plurality of staples; an anvil pivotally coupled to the housing, the anvil being movable in relation to the barrel between an open position and a clamped position; a drive shaft defining a helical thread extending through the housing and through the barrel; a pusher operatively connected to the drive shaft, the pusher defining a threaded bore, the drive shaft extending through the threaded bore of the pusher such that rotatable movement of the drive shaft causes longitudinal movement of the pusher about the drive shaft and through the barrel, the pusher being configured to eject the staples from the plurality of cartridges in response to actuation of the drive shaft; and an indexer supported about the drive shaft at a position distally of the pusher, the indexer being operatively engaged with the barrel and adapted to rotate the barrel upon movement in a proximal direction after the first firing stroke of the pusher to align the second one of the plurality of cartridges with the anvil, wherein the barrel is positioned within the housing to align a first one of the plurality of cartridges with the anvil to eject the plurality of staples from the first cartridge upon movement of the pusher through a first firing stroke and subsequently rotatable within the housing to align a second one of the plurality of cartridges with the anvil to eject the plurality of staples from the second cartridge upon movement of the pusher within the barrel through a second firing stroke; wherein the pusher includes a hub and a plurality of flexible arms that extend distally from the hub, the distal end of each of the flexible arms being positioned to engage the indexer and wherein the indexer includes a body defining an annular rib, the distal end of the flexible arms of the pusher being positioned to engage the annular rib as the pusher is moved distally through the barrel to translate distal movement of the pusher into distal movement of the indexer and such that subsequent proximal movement of the pusher causes corresponding proximal movement of the indexer.
A forming system for forming a metal pipe having a hollow shape, the system comprising: a forming apparatus including a gas supply portion that supplies gas into a heated metal pipe material when forming the metal pipe, and a discharge unit (200A, 200B) that discharges the gas which is in the formed metal pipe; a floor surface on which the forming apparatus is placed; and an underground pit provided at a lower portion of the floor surface, characterized in that an exhaust port of the discharge unit is positioned in an internal space of a structure having the internal space, and the discharge unit includes an exhaust pipe (210, 220) positioned in the underground pit as the structure and provided with the exhaust port. a forming apparatus including a gas supply portion that supplies gas into a heated metal pipe material when forming the metal pipe, and a discharge unit (200A, 200B) that discharges the gas which is in the formed metal pipe; a floor surface on which the forming apparatus is placed; and an underground pit provided at a lower portion of the floor surface, characterized in that an exhaust port of the discharge unit is positioned in an internal space of a structure having the internal space, and the discharge unit includes an exhaust pipe (210, 220) positioned in the underground pit as the structure and provided with the exhaust port.
Dishwasher with a dishwasher cavity which can be closed and opened by a door, and with a monitoring device for monitoring the fill level of at least one container (4, 5) which is used to store a consumable (KS, RS) for a number of wash cycles, such as for instance detergent, rinse aid or regenerating salt, wherein the monitoring device • is arranged in the inside of the door or in a floor assembly of the dishwasher below the dishwasher cavity, • is embodied to determine a number of remaining wash cycles, for which the fill level of the at least one container (4, 5) is sufficient, and • is embodied to take into account at least one use-influencing parameter when the number of remaining wash cycles is determined, characterised in that the at least one use-influencing parameter is a setting value for a rinsing water temperature and/or a wash program. • is arranged in the inside of the door or in a floor assembly of the dishwasher below the dishwasher cavity, • is embodied to determine a number of remaining wash cycles, for which the fill level of the at least one container (4, 5) is sufficient, and • is embodied to take into account at least one use-influencing parameter when the number of remaining wash cycles is determined,
A cotton seed comprising in its genome a aad-12 / pat transgenic event having a DNA sequence that is at least 95% identical to residues 1,355 - 7,741 of SEQ ID NO:21, wherein the genome also comprises a diagnostic DNA sequence selected from the group consisting of residues 1329 - 1380 of SEQ ID NO:1 and residues 143 - 194 of SEQ ID NO:2.
A crystalline polymorph of monosodium N-[8(2-hydroxybenzoyl)amino]caprylate wherein the crystalline polymorph is monosodium N-[8-(2 hydroxybenzoyl)amino]caprylate trihydrate (Form III)
Apparatus for a spinning line, comprising: - a roving frame having predominant extension along a longitudinal direction, comprising: a) a plurality of modules (6a-6d) aligned and placed side by side along said longitudinal direction, wherein each module (6a-6d) comprises a creel, a drawing device, a rail, flyers, a carriage and spindles, said modules (6a-6d) being spaced each other longitudinally from a respective passageway of the roving frame; - a ground plane on which said roving frame rests, a rear zone wherein said creels are arranged and a front zone on the side opposite the rear zone with respect to the drawing device; - characterized in that an operator may pass through at least one passageway to go from the front zone to the rear zone of the apparatus, or vice versa; - wherein each module (6a-6d) comprises a control box containing electric motors and motion transmission means for actuating the drawing cylinders of the drawing device and the control box of a predefined module (6b, 6c, 6d) is arranged in the passageway between said predefined module (6b, 6c, 6d) and a previous or subsequent module (6a, 6b, 6c), at a predefined height with respect to the ground plane. - a roving frame having predominant extension along a longitudinal direction, comprising: a) a plurality of modules (6a-6d) aligned and placed side by side along said longitudinal direction, wherein each module (6a-6d) comprises a creel, a drawing device, a rail, flyers, a carriage and spindles, said modules (6a-6d) being spaced each other longitudinally from a respective passageway of the roving frame; a) a plurality of modules (6a-6d) aligned and placed side by side along said longitudinal direction, wherein each module (6a-6d) comprises a creel, a drawing device, a rail, flyers, a carriage and spindles, said modules (6a-6d) being spaced each other longitudinally from a respective passageway of the roving frame; - a ground plane on which said roving frame rests, a rear zone wherein said creels are arranged and a front zone on the side opposite the rear zone with respect to the drawing device; - characterized in that an operator may pass through at least one passageway to go from the front zone to the rear zone of the apparatus, or vice versa; - wherein each module (6a-6d) comprises a control box containing electric motors and motion transmission means for actuating the drawing cylinders of the drawing device and the control box of a predefined module (6b, 6c, 6d) is arranged in the passageway between said predefined module (6b, 6c, 6d) and a previous or subsequent module (6a, 6b, 6c), at a predefined height with respect to the ground plane.
A gas turbine engine comprising; a main compressor section having a high pressure compressor with a downstream discharge, and more upstream locations; a turbine section having a high pressure turbine; a tap tapping air from at least one of said more upstream locations in said compressor section, passing said tapped air through a heat exchanger and then to a cooling compressor, said cooling compressor compressing air downstream of said heat exchanger, and delivering air into said high pressure turbine; characterized by a core housing having an outer peripheral surface and a fan housing defining an inner peripheral surface, at least one bifurcation duct (158, 160) extending between said outer peripheral surface to said inner peripheral surface, and said heat exchanger being received within said at least one bifurcation duct; and wherein air is delivered into a heat exchanger first leg within said core housing, the leg extending outwardly of said core housing and into said at least one bifurcation duct, and to a second leg extending back toward a center axis of the engine, and back into said core housing to deliver the air to said cooling compressor.
A system for researching, diagnosing, and/or therapeutics of the gastrointestinal tract, comprising: at least one swallowable sensing and utility device (40, 60) including a camera system; receiving means configured to receive image data signal from said at least one sensing and utility device from at least a one first pass and one second pass of the sensing and utility device through the gastrointestinal tract; data processing means configured to determine a position of the sensing and utility device in the gastrointestinal tract at any given time on the basis of received signal strength, to generate a map of the gastrointestinal tract from image data received in the at least one first pass through the gastrointestinal tract, and to identify a target location from image or other data received in the at least one first pass; analysing means configured to perform image analysis of the image data received in the at least one second pass to match said image data with said map of the gastrointestinal tract, thereby to identify in said image data received from the at least one second pass the target location first identified in said at least one first pass on said map of the gastrointestinal tract; wherein the at least one said sensing and utility device (60, 40) includes means configured to perform a job in the gastrointestinal tract at said target location during said at least one second pass, under control of said analysing means. at least one swallowable sensing and utility device (40, 60) including a camera system; receiving means configured to receive image data signal from said at least one sensing and utility device from at least a one first pass and one second pass of the sensing and utility device through the gastrointestinal tract; data processing means configured to determine a position of the sensing and utility device in the gastrointestinal tract at any given time on the basis of received signal strength, to generate a map of the gastrointestinal tract from image data received in the at least one first pass through the gastrointestinal tract, and to identify a target location from image or other data received in the at least one first pass; analysing means configured to perform image analysis of the image data received in the at least one second pass to match said image data with said map of the gastrointestinal tract, thereby to identify in said image data received from the at least one second pass the target location first identified in said at least one first pass on said map of the gastrointestinal tract; wherein the at least one said sensing and utility device (60, 40) includes means configured to perform a job in the gastrointestinal tract at said target location during said at least one second pass, under control of said analysing means.
Apparatus for generating a decorrelation signal using an input signal, comprising: means for providing a plurality of subband signals, wherein a subband signal includes a sequence of at least two subband samples, the sequence of the subband samples representing a bandwidth of the subband signal, which is smaller than a bandwidth of the input signal, wherein the means for providing a plurality of subband signals comprises a complex exponential modulated filterbank; and means for filtering each subband signal using a reverberation filter to obtain a plurality of reverberated subband signals, wherein a plurality of reverberated subband signals together represent the decorrelation signal, wherein the reverberation filter is operative to introduce an integer subband sample delay and a fractional subband sample delay into a subband signal, the fractional subband sample delay being greater than "0" and smaller than a sampling period of the subband signal. means for providing a plurality of subband signals, wherein a subband signal includes a sequence of at least two subband samples, the sequence of the subband samples representing a bandwidth of the subband signal, which is smaller than a bandwidth of the input signal, wherein the means for providing a plurality of subband signals comprises a complex exponential modulated filterbank; and means for filtering each subband signal using a reverberation filter to obtain a plurality of reverberated subband signals, wherein a plurality of reverberated subband signals together represent the decorrelation signal, wherein the reverberation filter is operative to introduce an integer subband sample delay and a fractional subband sample delay into a subband signal, the fractional subband sample delay being greater than "0" and smaller than a sampling period of the subband signal.
An isolated antibody or fragment thereof, which has specificity to a human GM-CSF protein, wherein the antibody or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain variable region comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO: 14, and a light chain variable region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22.
An apparatus for measuring a heart valve annulus of a patient, comprising: a shaft having a handle at a proximal end thereof, a fluid passageway and expansion means at a distal end thereof for radially expanding the heart valve annulus wherein the expansion means are provided by a balloon; and a sizer for measuring the diameter of the expanded annulus, characterized in that the sizer further comprises a hub mounted to the distal end of the shaft adjacent to the balloon, a plurality of arms attached to and extending from the hub, and a plurality of expanding portions mounted to distal end portions of the arms and extending circumferentially about the balloon wherein the balloon is provided for expanding the arms, that a pressure measuring device (44; 78) for measuring a pressure applied to the annulus by the balloon is provided wherein the pressure measuring device is formed by a pressure monitoring gauge or strain gauges or both and that a locking mechanism for locking in the expanded size of the sizer is mounted on the inner surface of the expanding portions. a shaft having a handle at a proximal end thereof, a fluid passageway and expansion means at a distal end thereof for radially expanding the heart valve annulus wherein the expansion means are provided by a balloon; and a sizer for measuring the diameter of the expanded annulus, characterized in that the sizer further comprises a hub mounted to the distal end of the shaft adjacent to the balloon, a plurality of arms attached to and extending from the hub, and a plurality of expanding portions mounted to distal end portions of the arms and extending circumferentially about the balloon wherein the balloon is provided for expanding the arms, that a pressure measuring device (44; 78) for measuring a pressure applied to the annulus by the balloon is provided wherein the pressure measuring device is formed by a pressure monitoring gauge or strain gauges or both and that a locking mechanism for locking in the expanded size of the sizer is mounted on the inner surface of the expanding portions.
Method for operating a controllable shock absorber, in particular for a vehicle chassis, the shock absorber comprising a cylinder tube which has a hydraulic fluid which is received therein in a sealed manner, a piston which can be moved axially along a cylinder tube axis within the cylinder tube and divides the cylinder tube into two working spaces (11, 21), a piston rod which is oriented parallel to the cylinder tube axis and is connected to the piston, the piston having at least two fluid leadthroughs (12, 22), by way of which the one working space (11, 21) is connected to the other working space (21, 11), a first valve assembly for damping the piston movement in a first actuating direction being arranged on a first fluid leadthrough, and a second valve assembly for damping the piston movement in a second actuating direction being arranged on a second fluid leadthrough, each valve assembly (13, 23) having at least one valve disc (14, 24) which is seated on a valve seat (15, 25) in a closed valve position, and which is spaced apart at least partially from the valve seat (15, 25) in an open valve position, each valve assembly (13, 23) comprising a pilot control chamber (16, 26), it being possible for the respective valve disc (14, 24) to be prestressed into the closed valve position by way of pressure loading of the pilot control chamber (16, 26), it being possible for the pressure in the respective pilot control chambers (16, 26) to be set by way of at least one pilot control valve, the pilot control valve comprising a valve body which can be moved in a defined manner between a closed position and an open position, as a result of which an outflow cross section between the pilot control chambers (16, 26) and the working spaces (21, 11) can be set in a targeted manner, characterized in that the valve body of the pilot control valve is loaded on the outflow side with a back pressure (p) in a defined manner, as a result of which the movement of the valve body is damped.
A packet processing method, wherein the method comprises: receiving, by a service distribution node, service routing information sent by a controller, wherein the service routing information comprises a flow identifier, a service identifier, and a next-hop address, the flow identifier is used to identify a packet flow, the service identifier is allocated to the packet flow, the service identifier is used to identify a sequence of service node instances that process the packet flow, and the next-hop address is used to identify the address of the service node instance that processes the packet flow; receiving, by the service distribution node, a first packet; acquiring, by the service distribution node, a first flow identifier according to the first packet, and searching the service routing information according to the first flow identifier to acquire a matched service identifier and a matched next-hop address; and sending, by the service distribution node, a second packet to a first service node instance that has the matched next-hop address, wherein the second packet is formed by adding the matched service identifier to the first packet. receiving, by a service distribution node, service routing information sent by a controller, wherein the service routing information comprises a flow identifier, a service identifier, and a next-hop address, the flow identifier is used to identify a packet flow, the service identifier is allocated to the packet flow, the service identifier is used to identify a sequence of service node instances that process the packet flow, and the next-hop address is used to identify the address of the service node instance that processes the packet flow; receiving, by the service distribution node, a first packet; acquiring, by the service distribution node, a first flow identifier according to the first packet, and searching the service routing information according to the first flow identifier to acquire a matched service identifier and a matched next-hop address; and sending, by the service distribution node, a second packet to a first service node instance that has the matched next-hop address, wherein the second packet is formed by adding the matched service identifier to the first packet.
A drug delivery device for injecting medicament, the drug delivery device comprising: a body (12, 22); a reservoir movably disposed in the body (12,22) for accommodating a medicament, the reservoir extending along a longitudinal axis; a needle, the needle having a distal end for insertion into a patient, and a lumen extending proximally from the distal end, the lumen being connectable with the reservoir, wherein, at least a portion of the lumen extends proximally from the distal end along a reference axis that is not parallel with the longitudinal axis; a secondary needle in communication with the needle; a first spring adapted to move the reservoir from a first reservoir position to a second reservoir position in the body (12,22) to establish communication with the needle via the secondary needle; a second spring; a needle driver adapted to displace the needle from a first state to a second state, the needle being disposed at an end of the needle driver; and a needle actuator displaced within the body (12, 22) relative to the needle driver by the second spring, wherein during its displacement, the needle actuator interacts with the needle driver to cause the needle displacement from the first state to the second state. a body (12, 22); a reservoir movably disposed in the body (12,22) for accommodating a medicament, the reservoir extending along a longitudinal axis; a needle, the needle having a distal end for insertion into a patient, and a lumen extending proximally from the distal end, the lumen being connectable with the reservoir, wherein, at least a portion of the lumen extends proximally from the distal end along a reference axis that is not parallel with the longitudinal axis; a secondary needle in communication with the needle; a first spring adapted to move the reservoir from a first reservoir position to a second reservoir position in the body (12,22) to establish communication with the needle via the secondary needle; a second spring; a needle driver adapted to displace the needle from a first state to a second state, the needle being disposed at an end of the needle driver; and a needle actuator displaced within the body (12, 22) relative to the needle driver by the second spring, wherein during its displacement, the needle actuator interacts with the needle driver to cause the needle displacement from the first state to the second state.
A crosslinkable polyester prepared by free radical polymerization of the double bonds of an unsaturated polyester prepolymer, wherein the number average functionality of the unsaturation in the prepolymer is 0.05 to 25, and wherein the polyester does not comprise (meth)acrylate or residues thereof.