mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Method for producing a binder foam for asphalt production, particularly for producing foam bitumen, comprising the steps: a) providing a pressurized stream of heated binder, particularly bitumen; b) providing a liquid, particularly water, having a lower evaporation temperature under atmospheric pressure than the temperature of the provided heated binder stream; c) injecting the liquid into the binder stream under pressure, such that a pressurized mixture stream of binder with liquid drops dispersed therein or with liquid drops dispersed therein and vapour bubbles resulting from said drops is present downstream of the injection point; and d) reducing the pressure of the mixture stream, particularly to atmospheric pressure, for foaming the binder as a result of an evaporation of liquid drops contained therein and/or expansion of the vapour bubbles generated from the liquid drops, characterized in that the injection of the liquid into the binder stream is carried out at an angle (α) greater than 120°, particularly at an angle (α) of 180°, with respect to the flow direction of the binder stream, i.e. in a direction oblique against or entirely against the flow direction of the binder stream. a) providing a pressurized stream of heated binder, particularly bitumen; b) providing a liquid, particularly water, having a lower evaporation temperature under atmospheric pressure than the temperature of the provided heated binder stream; c) injecting the liquid into the binder stream under pressure, such that a pressurized mixture stream of binder with liquid drops dispersed therein or with liquid drops dispersed therein and vapour bubbles resulting from said drops is present downstream of the injection point; and d) reducing the pressure of the mixture stream, particularly to atmospheric pressure, for foaming the binder as a result of an evaporation of liquid drops contained therein and/or expansion of the vapour bubbles generated from the liquid drops,
An underlayer formulation for forming an underlayer for promoting the formation of self assembled structures, comprising: a. a polymer comprising at least one monomer repeat unit having the structure wherein X is a crosslinking group chosen from and wherein n is 0-5, p is 0-5, q is 1-2, m is 1-2 and R is H, C 1 -C 4 alkyl or tri(C 1 -C 4 alkyl)silyl; b. at least one thermal acid generator; and c. a solvent. a. a polymer comprising at least one monomer repeat unit having the structure wherein X is a crosslinking group chosen from and wherein n is 0-5, p is 0-5, q is 1-2, m is 1-2 and R is H, C 1 -C 4 alkyl or tri(C 1 -C 4 alkyl)silyl; b. at least one thermal acid generator; and c. a solvent.
Protective seal in the form of a hollow body comprising a first wall substantially planar in form, a second wall substantially planar in form and opposite to the first wall, and a portion between the first wall and the second wall, said first wall including an opening, said second wall including at least one slot, said protective seal being configured to pass, when a force is exerted on the second wall, in a direction perpendicular to said second wall, from a rest position, in which the at least one slot is closed, to a constrained position, in which the at least one slot is deformed, leaving clear an opening in the second wall.
A device for dispensing a prescribed product into at least one Petri dish, each Petri dish comprising a removable lid able to be placed over a bottom part of smaller width, the device comprising transfer means for transferring the Petri dish to a product dispensing station where the Petri dish is held with a space between its lid and bottom part to allow the dispensing of product via a product dispensing head comprising an outlet nozzle dispensing product into the bottom part when the outlet nozzle is in a product dispensing position, characterized in that the device further comprises a determined piston comprising a determined tray supporting the bottom part at the product dispensing station, and means for driving the determined tray in rotation around itself relative to the product dispensing head, arranged to cause the bottom part to rotate relative to the product dispensing head lying in the product dispensing position into the bottom part, wherein the outlet nozzle is arranged relative to the determined tray to dispense product into the bottom part set in rotation, the transfer means comprising a transfer member to transfer the bottom part as far as a determined stop position at the product dispensing station, the transfer member having an upper supporting opening for supporting the lid of the Petri dish above a lower supporting opening for supporting the bottom part of the Petri dish, said determined tray being capable of passing through the openings (311b, 312b) to lift the bottom part of the Petri dish into the lid by passing through their respective supporting opening (311b, 312b), when the transfer member lies in the determined stop position at the product dispensing station, the determined piston provided with the determined tray having the function of rotating the bottom part of the Petri dish during the dispensing of product into the bottom part in said product dispensing position, and having the function of lifting the bottom part of the Petri dish through the upper supporting opening to insert the bottom part into the lid of the Petri dish in said determined stop position.
A computer-implemented method of excluding portions of a local scene from a video signal in a local augmented reality, AR, environment for data capture and transmission compliance, said method comprising: slaving a pointing direction of a video camera to user motion; capturing the video signal within a video camera field of view, FOV, in a local scene; prior to capturing the video signal determining whether the video camera pointing direction satisfied an alignment condition to a marker in the local scene such that the video camera FOV lies within a user-defined allowable FOV based on the marker, wherein the marker is paired to a sensor, wherein the sensor detects the presence of the marker within a sensor FOV to determine whether the camera pointing direction satisfies the alignment condition; and if the alignment condition is not satisfied, controlling the camera to exclude at least a portion of the video camera FOV that lies outside the user-defined allowable FOV from capture within the video signal. slaving a pointing direction of a video camera to user motion; capturing the video signal within a video camera field of view, FOV, in a local scene; prior to capturing the video signal determining whether the video camera pointing direction satisfied an alignment condition to a marker in the local scene such that the video camera FOV lies within a user-defined allowable FOV based on the marker, wherein the marker is paired to a sensor, wherein the sensor detects the presence of the marker within a sensor FOV to determine whether the camera pointing direction satisfies the alignment condition; and if the alignment condition is not satisfied, controlling the camera to exclude at least a portion of the video camera FOV that lies outside the user-defined allowable FOV from capture within the video signal.
A service tracking system for a spray applicator, said system comprising at least one replaceable spray bar having at least one non-volatile memory unit; and a controller connected to said at least one non-volatile memory unit; wherein the controller is configured to control the operation of said at least one replaceable spray bar; characterized in that the controller is configured to periodically update run-time data stored on each non-volatile memory unit regarding the operation of the specific spray bar.
A communication system for implementing Internet Protocol, IP, cross-domain interconnecting via a Border media Gateway, BG, comprising: a Media Gateway Controller, MGC, of a calling IP domain for call control; an MGC of a called IP domain for call control, wherein the calling IP domain interconnects the called IP domain through the BG; a calling Media Gateway, MG, in the calling IP domain, configured to bear media, and create media streams between a user side and a network side under the control of the MGC of the calling IP domain; a called MG in the called IP domain, configured to bear media, and create media streams between the user side and the network side under the control of the MGC of the called IP domain; the BG, configured to create media streams from the BG to the calling MG and media streams from the BG to the called MG according to IP domain information of the calling MG, IP domain information of the called MG, settings of calling media streams and settings of called media streams, and process and forward the media streams between the calling MG and the called MG. a Media Gateway Controller, MGC, of a calling IP domain for call control; an MGC of a called IP domain for call control, wherein the calling IP domain interconnects the called IP domain through the BG; a calling Media Gateway, MG, in the calling IP domain, configured to bear media, and create media streams between a user side and a network side under the control of the MGC of the calling IP domain; a called MG in the called IP domain, configured to bear media, and create media streams between the user side and the network side under the control of the MGC of the called IP domain; the BG, configured to create media streams from the BG to the calling MG and media streams from the BG to the called MG according to IP domain information of the calling MG, IP domain information of the called MG, settings of calling media streams and settings of called media streams, and process and forward the media streams between the calling MG and the called MG.
A body composition measuring device comprising: a current applying unit (2A, 2B, 4) which is configured to apply a current at a first frequency and a current at a second frequency to a living body; a voltage measuring unit (3A, 3B, 5) which is configured to mesure a voltage induced in the living body from the application of the current; a bioelectric impedance calculation unit which is configured to calculate a bioelectric impedance value for each frequency from the applied current and the measured voltage; and a body composition calculation unit which is configured to calculate an index indicative of the body composition based on the calculated bioelectric impedance value, said device characterized in that; said body composition calculation unit is configured to correct the index indicative of the body composition, that has been calculated based on either one of the bioelectric impedance value at the first frequency or the bioelectric impedance value at the second frequency, by using a difference between the bioelectric impedance value at the first frequency and the bioelectric impedance value at the second frequency. a current applying unit (2A, 2B, 4) which is configured to apply a current at a first frequency and a current at a second frequency to a living body; a voltage measuring unit (3A, 3B, 5) which is configured to mesure a voltage induced in the living body from the application of the current; a bioelectric impedance calculation unit which is configured to calculate a bioelectric impedance value for each frequency from the applied current and the measured voltage; and a body composition calculation unit which is configured to calculate an index indicative of the body composition based on the calculated bioelectric impedance value, said device characterized in that; said body composition calculation unit is configured to correct the index indicative of the body composition, that has been calculated based on either one of the bioelectric impedance value at the first frequency or the bioelectric impedance value at the second frequency, by using a difference between the bioelectric impedance value at the first frequency and the bioelectric impedance value at the second frequency.
A method of detecting information encoded in an optical signal, the method comprising: receiving an optical signal (610, 710) from free-space at a plurality of regions of an aperture, wherein the optical signal comprises wavefront aberrations; accumulating optical signal energy from the optical signal in associated regions of at least one optical resonator (620, 720), to approach a steady state of accumulated optical signal energy in the associated regions, wherein the associated regions of the at least one optical resonator act on the optical signal substantially independent of adjacent and/or other regions of the optical resonator, such that the wavefront aberrations do not cause significant interference from one region to the next; outputting optical signal energy from the accumulated optical signal energy, the intensity of the output optical signal energy from each associated region proportional to the accumulated optical signal energy in each associated region; detecting combined output optical signal energy, the combined output optical signal energy being a combination of the output optical signal energy from a plurality of the associated regions; and determining a modulation characteristic of the received optical signal based on the detected combined output optical signal energy. receiving an optical signal (610, 710) from free-space at a plurality of regions of an aperture, wherein the optical signal comprises wavefront aberrations; accumulating optical signal energy from the optical signal in associated regions of at least one optical resonator (620, 720), to approach a steady state of accumulated optical signal energy in the associated regions, wherein the associated regions of the at least one optical resonator act on the optical signal substantially independent of adjacent and/or other regions of the optical resonator, such that the wavefront aberrations do not cause significant interference from one region to the next; outputting optical signal energy from the accumulated optical signal energy, the intensity of the output optical signal energy from each associated region proportional to the accumulated optical signal energy in each associated region; detecting combined output optical signal energy, the combined output optical signal energy being a combination of the output optical signal energy from a plurality of the associated regions; and determining a modulation characteristic of the received optical signal based on the detected combined output optical signal energy.
An upper garment comprising: a front body piece; a back body piece; sleeves; and elongated gussets that each extend toward a flank hem and a cuff from an underarm of the front body piece and the back body piece, the front body piece, the back body piece, the sleeves, and the gussets being integrally sewn to each other, wherein each of the gussets includes three blocks of a flank part, an underarm part, and a sleeve part, the flank part and the sleeve part of the gusset each have both side edges defined by a gently curved line or a straight line, the underarm part of the gusset includes a front convex part and a back convex part at both side edges of a front underarm part and a back underarm part, the front convex part and the back convex part being gradually curved so as to become largest in width in a vicinity of an arm hole bottom, characterized in that the front body piece, the back body piece, and each of the sleeves to which the front convex part and the back convex part of the gusset are sewn are configured in different shapes without concaves that are matched with the front convex part and the back convex part of the gusset,and wherein a material of the gusset has higher elastic force and is more difficult to bend in a width direction than a material of the body piece (D, F). a front body piece; a back body piece; sleeves; and elongated gussets that each extend toward a flank hem and a cuff from an underarm of the front body piece and the back body piece, the front body piece, the back body piece, the sleeves, and the gussets being integrally sewn to each other, wherein each of the gussets includes three blocks of a flank part, an underarm part, and a sleeve part, the flank part and the sleeve part of the gusset each have both side edges defined by a gently curved line or a straight line, the underarm part of the gusset includes a front convex part and a back convex part at both side edges of a front underarm part and a back underarm part, the front convex part and the back convex part being gradually curved so as to become largest in width in a vicinity of an arm hole bottom, characterized in that the front body piece, the back body piece, and each of the sleeves to which the front convex part and the back convex part of the gusset are sewn are configured in different shapes without concaves that are matched with the front convex part and the back convex part of the gusset,and wherein a material of the gusset has higher elastic force and is more difficult to bend in a width direction than a material of the body piece (D, F).
A control system, characterized by comprising: a controller; and a plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22); wherein, each of the plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22) has an input end for connecting to an external power supply to receive an external voltage, and an output end for outputting a regulated voltage generated according to the external voltage, wherein the external power supply is a low voltage battery of an electric vehicle; the plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22) comprise at least one first power regulating module and at least one second power regulating module, the output end of one of the at least one first power regulating modules is connected to the controller, the output end of each of the at least one second power regulating module is connected to a respective one of load modules the input end of the at least one second power regulating module is connected to the external power supply through a switching circuit; the switching circuit comprises at least a first switch, a control end of the first switch is connected to the controller; and the controller is further connected to a wake-up end of the at least one second power regulating module; the at least one first power regulating module is configured to be woken up upon receiving an external wake-up signal sent by a communication unit; the at least one first power regulating module is configured, when being woken up, to supply power to the controller the controller is configured, when being powered on, to control the first switch to be switched on and sends an internal wake-up signal to the at least one second power regulating module; the at least one second power regulating module is configured to be woken up upon receiving the internal wake-up signal sent by the powered on controller. a controller; and a plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22); wherein, each of the plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22) has an input end for connecting to an external power supply to receive an external voltage, and an output end for outputting a regulated voltage generated according to the external voltage, wherein the external power supply is a low voltage battery of an electric vehicle; the plurality of power regulating modules (21, 22) comprise at least one first power regulating module and at least one second power regulating module, the output end of one of the at least one first power regulating modules is connected to the controller, the output end of each of the at least one second power regulating module is connected to a respective one of load modules
Method for controlling a high-pressure fuel supply pump configured to supply pressurized fuel to an internal combustion engine, the high-pressure fuel supply pump comprising a compression chamber, a solenoid-actuated Intake valve for delivering unpressurized fuel to the compression chamber, a movable plunger reciprocating in the compression chamber between a first plunger position and a second plunger position for pressurizing fuel in the compression chamber, and a discharge valve for discharging pressurized fuel from the compression chamber to be supplied to the internal combustion engine, the solenoid-actuated intake valve being configured to be biased into a first direction towards a first stop position of the intake valve by means of a biasing force and being configured to be displaced against the biasing force into a second direction opposite to the first direction towards a second stop position of the intake valve by means of magnetic force and to be kept at the second stop position by means of magnetic force, and the method comprising: - applying control current to the solenoid-actuated intake valve for displacing the intake valve Into the second direction to the second stop position and for keeping the intake valve at the second stop position during a first time period (ΔT0, ΔT1) by means of magnetic force; and - applying control current to the solenoid-actuated intake valve In a second time period (ΔT2) after the first time period (ΔT0 ΔT1) during a movement of the solenoid-actuated intake valve from the second stop position into the first direction, characterized in that applying control current to the solenoid-actuated intake valve during the second time period (ΔT2) comprises gradually decreasing the control current, in particular gradually decreasing the control current down to zero. - applying control current to the solenoid-actuated intake valve for displacing the intake valve Into the second direction to the second stop position and for keeping the intake valve at the second stop position during a first time period (ΔT0, ΔT1) by means of magnetic force; and - applying control current to the solenoid-actuated intake valve In a second time period (ΔT2) after the first time period (ΔT0 ΔT1) during a movement of the solenoid-actuated intake valve from the second stop position into the first direction,
An image processing apparatus that assigns a binary label to each pixel which constitutes image data by using graph cut processing, comprising: labeling means that selects N >3 pixels in the image data in such a manner to represent a predetermined shape in an image and that minimizes an energy function comprising a Nth-order energy, in which the labels of the N pixels are variables; and wherein the variables are represented as 0 or 1, and the labeling means sets the Nth-order energy in the case that all the variables corresponding to the selected pixels are 0 or 1 in such a manner that the Nth-order energy is smaller than the case that not all the variables are 0 or 1; characterized in that the predetermined shape represents a straight line extending in a plurality of directions and the N pixels are selected along the straight line, or the predetermined shape represents a circular or circular arc and N pixels are selected along a circumference of the circular or circular arc. labeling means that selects N >3 pixels in the image data in such a manner to represent a predetermined shape in an image and that minimizes an energy function comprising a Nth-order energy, in which the labels of the N pixels are variables; and wherein the variables are represented as 0 or 1, and the labeling means sets the Nth-order energy in the case that all the variables corresponding to the selected pixels are 0 or 1 in such a manner that the Nth-order energy is smaller than the case that not all the variables are 0 or 1; characterized in that the predetermined shape represents a straight line extending in a plurality of directions and the N pixels are selected along the straight line, or the predetermined shape represents a circular or circular arc and N pixels are selected along a circumference of the circular or circular arc.