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Apparatus for applying a fluid to a transfer member in a printing system comprising: a pressurized chamber arranged to receive the fluid, the chamber comprising a housing, an aperture and a pair of lateral seals, the aperture being defined between the pair of lateral seals, a mounting arranged to position the chamber in relation to the transfer member such that the aperture is a defined distance from a surface of the transfer member, wherein at least one of the lateral seals is moveable along an axis of the pressurized chamber to adjust a size of the aperture, the apparatus characterized in that: the transfer member comprises an anilox roller; the housing comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion comprising a projection that extends from the pressurized chamber towards the transfer member; and the apparatus comprises a format limiter linear actuator arranged to move a format limiter laterally within the aperture, the format limiter being comprised in at least one of the lateral seals, the mounting being arranged to position the format limiter a defined distance from the surface of the transfer member, and the format limiter being arranged below the projection. a pressurized chamber arranged to receive the fluid, the chamber comprising a housing, an aperture and a pair of lateral seals, the aperture being defined between the pair of lateral seals, a mounting arranged to position the chamber in relation to the transfer member such that the aperture is a defined distance from a surface of the transfer member, wherein at least one of the lateral seals is moveable along an axis of the pressurized chamber to adjust a size of the aperture, the apparatus characterized in that: the transfer member comprises an anilox roller; the housing comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion comprising a projection that extends from the pressurized chamber towards the transfer member; and the apparatus comprises a format limiter linear actuator arranged to move a format limiter laterally within the aperture, the format limiter being comprised in at least one of the lateral seals, the mounting being arranged to position the format limiter a defined distance from the surface of the transfer member, and the format limiter being arranged below the projection. the transfer member comprises an anilox roller; the housing comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion comprising a projection that extends from the pressurized chamber towards the transfer member; and the apparatus comprises a format limiter linear actuator arranged to move a format limiter laterally within the aperture, the format limiter being comprised in at least one of the lateral seals, the mounting being arranged to position the format limiter a defined distance from the surface of the transfer member, and the format limiter being arranged below the projection.
A method of fabricating an implantable medical device comprising a drug reservoir layer comprising a macrocyclic triene lactone drug and less than 0.01% by weight, based on the weight of macrocyclic triene lactone present, of a pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant stabilizer, the method comprising, providing an implantable medical device wherein: the implantable medical device may be a device body or it may be a device body that has already been coated with one or more layers of material(s); providing an essentially pure macrocyclic triene lactone drug; providing a pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant stabilizer in an amount of 0.02% to 0.1% by weight based on the weight of the macrocyclic triene lactone drug to be disposed on the device body; combining the macrocyclic triene lactone drug and pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant stabilizer; dissolving or dispersing the combined macrocyclic triene lactone drug and pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant stabilizer in a coating solvent; spray-coating the drug/stabilizer-containing solvent onto the implantable medical device body; drying the spray-coated implantable medical device at an elevated temperature that has been determined to not detrimentally affect the macrocyclic triene lactone drug; mounting the dried spray-coated implantable medical device on a carrier vehicle; and sterilizing the mounted implantable medical device/carrier vehicle; wherein subsequent to mounting and prior to sterilization, the mounted implantable medical device/carrier vehicle is packaged in a gas permeable container; and wherein sterilization comprises ethylene oxide.
Acidic monomer according to Formula I: in which A = a linear or branched aliphatic C 1 -C 18 -hydrocarbon group, which can be interrupted by one or more -O-, -S-, -CO-O-, -O-CO-NH-, -HN-CO-NH- or -CO-NR 1 -, R 1 = H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, X = is absent or is a linear or branched aliphatic C 1 -C 10 hydrocarbon group, which can be interrupted by one or more -O-, -S-, -CO-O-, -O-CO-NH-, -HN-CO-NH- or -CO-NR 2 -, R 2 = H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, PG = a radically polymerizable group selected from vinyl, allyl, CH 2 =CR 3 -CO-Y- or R 4 O-CO-C(=CH 2)-CH 2 -Y-, Y = O or NR 5 or is absent, R 3 = H or CH 3 R 4 = H or a C 1 -C 7 alkyl group, R 5 = H or a C 1 -C 7 alkyl group, n = 1, 2, 3 or 4, m = 1 or 2, p = 1, 2 or 3, and q = 1, 2 or 3. A = a linear or branched aliphatic C 1 -C 18 -hydrocarbon group, which can be interrupted by one or more -O-, -S-, -CO-O-, -O-CO-NH-, -HN-CO-NH- or -CO-NR 1 -, R 1 = H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, X = is absent or is a linear or branched aliphatic C 1 -C 10 hydrocarbon group, which can be interrupted by one or more -O-, -S-, -CO-O-, -O-CO-NH-, -HN-CO-NH- or -CO-NR 2 -, R 2 = H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, PG = a radically polymerizable group selected from vinyl, allyl, CH 2 =CR 3 -CO-Y- or R 4 O-CO-C(=CH 2)-CH 2 -Y-, Y = O or NR 5 or is absent, R 3 = H or CH 3 R 4 = H or a C 1 -C 7 alkyl group, R 5 = H or a C 1 -C 7 alkyl group, n = 1, 2, 3 or 4, m = 1 or 2, p = 1, 2 or 3, and q = 1, 2 or 3.
Method for operating a hydraulic drive which has a hydraulic consumer with a positionable piston in a cylinder which is connected to a tank at one connection via a pump of variable rotational speed and at another connection via a proportional valve, wherein a position (x) of the piston is controlled using model-based control in which a rotational speed (n) of the pump is used as a manipulated variable and in which a position (y) of the proportional valve is preset, wherein an inverse system model of the hydraulic drive is used in order to set a setpoint value for a force on the piston using the proportional valve, and characterized in that, in order to achieve the setpoint value for the force on the piston, a setpoint profile of the position of the proportional valve is inferred by means of planning setpoint pressures in the hydraulic drive and resulting positions (y) of the proportional valve. wherein a position (x) of the piston is controlled using model-based control in which a rotational speed (n) of the pump is used as a manipulated variable and in which a position (y) of the proportional valve is preset, wherein an inverse system model of the hydraulic drive is used in order to set a setpoint value for a force on the piston using the proportional valve, and characterized in that, in order to achieve the setpoint value for the force on the piston, a setpoint profile of the position of the proportional valve is inferred by means of planning setpoint pressures in the hydraulic drive and resulting positions (y) of the proportional valve.
Valved male luer connector comprising a casing, a tubular member having an inlet portion and an outlet portion with an open terminal end, an elastic hollow element secured to the casing and enclosing the tubular member, said elastic hollow element having a terminal wall, which normally seals closed said terminal end of the outlet portion of the tubular member and having a cut, and a collar interposed between the casing and the elastic hollow element and axially displaceable, following thrust engagement by a female connector connectable to said male connector, causing a stretching deformation of said elastic hollow element and consequent opening of the flow passage between said inlet portion and said outlet portion of the tubular member, characterized in that it comprises a priming cap designed to be releasably connected to the casing of the connector to provide stretching deformation of said elastic element and to keep said terminal end of the outlet portion of the tubular member in communication with the atmosphere through a liquid-impermeable barrier, said priming cap comprising a skirt arranged outside the casing and configured to engage said casing and a tubular part (32, 33) coaxial to said skirt, which carries said liquid-impermeable barrier and is arranged to interact with said collar interposed between the casing and the elastic hollow element.
Housing for a drug delivery device comprising an outer housing with a distal end and a proximal end, a housing insert, which is rotationally constrained to the outer housing and guided axially movable relative to the outer housing, and a cartridge holder, which is attachable to the distal end of the outer housing by corresponding coupling parts (15, 21) on the cartridge holder and on the outer housing comprising at least one groove provided on one of the cartridge holder and on the outer housing and at least one lug provided on the other of the cartridge holder and on the outer housing, wherein the cartridge holder comprises proximally facing ramps and the housing insert comprises corresponding distally facing ramps, characterized in that the at least one groove comprises a first sloped portion inclined such that the cartridge holder is moved proximally relative to the outer housing upon a rotational attaching movement and a second sloped portion inclined such that the cartridge holder is moved distally relative to the outer housing upon a rotational attaching movement, wherein the proximally facing ramps and the distally facing ramps engage at least when the at least one lug is in the second sloped portion of the at least one groove and are inclined such that the housing insert is moved proximally relative to the outer housing and the cartridge holder upon an attaching movement of the cartridge holder.
Chromatography column whose packing comprises a monolithic porous material composed of a porous matrix based on amorphous silica or activated alumina, said material comprising rectilinear and mutually parallel open capillary channels extending through said porous matrix, characterized in that: - the channels have a substantially uniform cross-section relative to each other, i.e., the average diameter of a channel does not differ on average by more than 30% from the average of the channel diameters, - the cross-section of each channel is regular over its entire length, i.e., the diameter of a channel does not vary by more than a factor of two between the narrowest and widest areas of said channel, - the channels pass through the material from end to end, - the length of the channels is equal to or more than 10 mm. - the channels have a substantially uniform cross-section relative to each other, i.e., the average diameter of a channel does not differ on average by more than 30% from the average of the channel diameters, - the cross-section of each channel is regular over its entire length, i.e., the diameter of a channel does not vary by more than a factor of two between the narrowest and widest areas of said channel, - the channels pass through the material from end to end, - the length of the channels is equal to or more than 10 mm.
A device for fixed-angle fixation and compression of a bone fracture or osteotomy, having a bone plate which is formed of a top face, a bottom face and a plurality of holes connecting the top face and bottom face and arranged along the longitudinal axis of the plate, and bone screws with threaded heads, which are accommodated in the holes and may be screwed into the bone, at least one hole being a combination of two circular holes (2.1; 2.2) with different-sized diameters (D1, D2) and the centres of symmetry (SK, SE) of the two holes (2.1; 2.2) being arranged on the longitudinal axis of the bone plate, the circular holes (2.1; 2.2) being arranged offset in such a way relative to one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis that a circular portion of the small hole (2.2) forms a unilateral, crescent-shaped extension demarcated by edges at the circumference of the larger hole (2.1), characterised in that the internal wall of the large hole (2.1) is provided with an internal thread running from the top face to the bottom face, which internal thread extends up to the edges, and in that the crescent-shaped extension is unthreaded and the centre of symmetry of the small hole (2.2) is arranged close to the centre of symmetry of the large hole (2.1), wherein the distance between the two centres of symmetry (SK; SE) of the two holes (2.1; 2.2) fulfils the condition 1/18 D2 < A < 1/3 D2, wherein the bone screws fix the bone in the centre of symmetry of the small hole (2.2) by being screwed in and at the same time the threaded head comprises a conical external thread which on screwing in engages the internal thread of the large hole (2.1) and brings about relative displacement of the plate relative to the bone.
A method for enhancing intelligibility of speech content in an audio signal, the audio signal containing a speech component and a non-speech component, the speech component containing the speech content, the method comprising: obtaining reference loudness of the audio signal, wherein the reference loudness of the audio signal is the loudness of the audio signal without an environmental noise signal; adjusting partial loudness of the audio signal to the reference loudness; calculating a first metric as a signal-to-noise ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component of the adjusted audio signal; obtaining a second metric which is a reference signal-to-noise ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component and the environmental noise signal as derived from a speech intelligibility standard; deriving a boosting gain for boosting the speech component and/or an attenuating gain for attenuating the non-speech component based on a smallest one of the first and the second metric; and enhancing the intelligibility of the speech content by adjusting a ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component and the environmental noise signal, wherein the ratio is adjusted by applying the boosting gain to the speech component and/or applying the attenuating gain to the non-speech component. obtaining reference loudness of the audio signal, wherein the reference loudness of the audio signal is the loudness of the audio signal without an environmental noise signal; adjusting partial loudness of the audio signal to the reference loudness; calculating a first metric as a signal-to-noise ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component of the adjusted audio signal; obtaining a second metric which is a reference signal-to-noise ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component and the environmental noise signal as derived from a speech intelligibility standard; deriving a boosting gain for boosting the speech component and/or an attenuating gain for attenuating the non-speech component based on a smallest one of the first and the second metric; and enhancing the intelligibility of the speech content by adjusting a ratio of the speech component to the non-speech component and the environmental noise signal, wherein the ratio is adjusted by applying the boosting gain to the speech component and/or applying the attenuating gain to the non-speech component.
A method for reducing overhead of a feedback message during hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, operations performed by a user equipment, UE, in a wireless network, comprising: obtaining a parity check matrix, PCM, of a single spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codeword associated with a received message; assigning rows of the PCM to a number of respective groups, wherein a respective group of the number of respective groups having corresponding one or more parity checks as determined by the PCM, and wherein the respective group represents two or more rows of the PCM; generating a feedback message including a number of bits corresponding to the number of respective groups with one bit per group, wherein an individual bit of the number of bits indicates whether a corresponding respective group of the number of respective groups includes one or more unsatisfied parity checks; and transmitting or causing to transmit the feedback message to a base station of the wireless network. obtaining a parity check matrix, PCM, of a single spatially-coupled low-density parity-check codeword associated with a received message; assigning rows of the PCM to a number of respective groups, wherein a respective group of the number of respective groups having corresponding one or more parity checks as determined by the PCM, and wherein the respective group represents two or more rows of the PCM; generating a feedback message including a number of bits corresponding to the number of respective groups with one bit per group, wherein an individual bit of the number of bits indicates whether a corresponding respective group of the number of respective groups includes one or more unsatisfied parity checks; and transmitting or causing to transmit the feedback message to a base station of the wireless network.
An apparatus for providing network security and allowing data transfer between at least two computing devices of a mobile platform, the apparatus comprising: a first memory configured for data communication with a first computing device of the mobile platform; a second memory configured for data communication with a second computing device of the mobile platform; and a controller configured to: detect a change in data stored in the first memory; and cause the change in data stored in the first memory to be reflected in the second memory. a first memory configured for data communication with a first computing device of the mobile platform; a second memory configured for data communication with a second computing device of the mobile platform; and a controller configured to: detect a change in data stored in the first memory; and cause the change in data stored in the first memory to be reflected in the second memory. detect a change in data stored in the first memory; and cause the change in data stored in the first memory to be reflected in the second memory.
Method for determining a bite point of a hybrid clutch in a hybrid vehicle, which hybrid clutch is operated by a hydrostatic clutch actuator, wherein the hybrid clutch separates or connects an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, and the bite point is detected by slowly operating the hybrid clutch from a separating position of the hybrid clutch, which the latter assumes in a non-operated state, when there is a defined torque reaction of the electric motor, characterized in that the bite point is adapted when the internal combustion engine is running and the electric motor is stationary, and the torque reaction of the electric motor is validated with a torque reaction of the internal combustion engine.
A running deck assembly, comprising: a front running deck; a rear running deck, a front end face of which is hinged with a rear end face of the front running deck by means of a hinge, a hinging gap being located at a location where the front running deck is hinged to the rear running deck; and an annular running belt, which is rotatably mounted around the front running deck and the rear running deck with a clearance; characterized in that the running deck assembly further comprises: a flexible layer, which is laid on an upper surface of the front running deck and an upper surface of the rear running deck and covers the hinging gap, a wear-resisting layer laid on an upper surface of the flexible layer, and a smooth layer for reducing a sliding friction between the wear-resisting layer and the annular running belt, which is laid on an upper surface of the wear-resisting layer. a front running deck; a rear running deck, a front end face of which is hinged with a rear end face of the front running deck by means of a hinge, a hinging gap being located at a location where the front running deck is hinged to the rear running deck; and an annular running belt, which is rotatably mounted around the front running deck and the rear running deck with a clearance; characterized in that the running deck assembly further comprises: a flexible layer, which is laid on an upper surface of the front running deck and an upper surface of the rear running deck and covers the hinging gap, a wear-resisting layer laid on an upper surface of the flexible layer, and a smooth layer for reducing a sliding friction between the wear-resisting layer and the annular running belt, which is laid on an upper surface of the wear-resisting layer. a flexible layer, which is laid on an upper surface of the front running deck and an upper surface of the rear running deck and covers the hinging gap, a wear-resisting layer laid on an upper surface of the flexible layer, and a smooth layer for reducing a sliding friction between the wear-resisting layer and the annular running belt, which is laid on an upper surface of the wear-resisting layer.
A process for the preparation of polymer latices by photo-initiated heterophase polymerization comprising at least the steps of: A) preparing a heterophase medium comprising at least a dispersed phase and a continuous phase and at least • one or more surfactant • one or more photoinitiators • one or more polymerizable monomers and B) polymerizing the one or more polymerizable monomers by irradiating said heterophase medium with electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength sufficient to induce the generation of radicals whereby • the photoinitiators are selected from compounds comprising at least one phosphorous oxide (P=O) or phosphorous sulfide (P=S) group and whereby • the irradiation of the heterophase medium is effected in such a manner that the ratio of the irradiated surface of the heterophase medium and its volume is at least 200 m -1. A) preparing a heterophase medium comprising at least a dispersed phase and a continuous phase and at least • one or more surfactant • one or more photoinitiators • one or more polymerizable monomers and • one or more surfactant • one or more photoinitiators • one or more polymerizable monomers B) polymerizing the one or more polymerizable monomers by irradiating said heterophase medium with electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength sufficient to induce the generation of radicals • the photoinitiators are selected from compounds comprising at least one phosphorous oxide (P=O) or phosphorous sulfide (P=S) group and whereby • the irradiation of the heterophase medium is effected in such a manner that the ratio of the irradiated surface of the heterophase medium and its volume is at least 200 m -1.