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A method for quantifying the inhibition efficiency of at least one first bacterial or yeast strain on a single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain, the method comprising: a) providing at least one first bacterial or yeast strain which produces no or only negligible volumes of gas; b) providing a single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain; c) cultivating the at least one first bacterial or yeast strain and the single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain in a closed culture system which is gas impermeable and to which no additional nutrients are added and waste products are not removed; d) measuring the volume of the total gas produced in the closed culture system of c) over a period of time by means of an automatic gas measuring device measuring the pressure of the gas produced; e) measuring the volume of the total gas produced by the single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain when cultivated in absence of any further bacterial or yeast strains in a closed culture system over the same period of time by means of an automatic gas measuring device measuring the pressure of the gas produced; and f) comparing the pressure of the total gas of d) and e). a) providing at least one first bacterial or yeast strain which produces no or only negligible volumes of gas; b) providing a single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain; c) cultivating the at least one first bacterial or yeast strain and the single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain in a closed culture system which is gas impermeable and to which no additional nutrients are added and waste products are not removed; d) measuring the volume of the total gas produced in the closed culture system of c) over a period of time by means of an automatic gas measuring device measuring the pressure of the gas produced; e) measuring the volume of the total gas produced by the single gas producing second bacterial or yeast strain when cultivated in absence of any further bacterial or yeast strains in a closed culture system over the same period of time by means of an automatic gas measuring device measuring the pressure of the gas produced; and f) comparing the pressure of the total gas of d) and e).
Claw for introducing loads into the thermal insulation of a building, the claw comprising a mounting part and at least one load introducing part, wherein the mounting part and the load introducing part include an angle (α) between 60° and 120°, preferably 90°, and wherein a front edge of the load introducing part comprises at least one point, characterized in that the front edge of the load introducing part(s) comprises an uneven number of points, in particular three or five points, wherein a central point protrudes further than the rest of the points in a plane lying in the load introducing part orthogonal to the mounting part.
A suture grasper (100, 200) for securing and holding a portion of a suture, the suture grasper (100, 200) comprising an elongated tubular body (110, 210) and a handle (130, 230), the elongated tubular body (110, 210) defines an inner lumen, the elongated tubular body (110, 210) having a proximal end (112, 212) and a distal end (114, 214); the handle (130, 230) is attached to the proximal end of the elongated tubular body; an inner member element (120, 220) is slidably disposed within the inner lumen of the elongated tubular body (110, 210), the inner member element (120, 220) having a proximal end (122, 222) configured to slidably extend from and retract into the handle (130, 230); and a push button (160, 260) extends from a proximal end of the handle (130, 230), the push button (160, 260) being coupled to the inner member element (120, 220) for actuation or movement of the inner member element (120, 220) in a distal direction or a proximal direction, wherein the distal end (114, 214) of the elongated tubular body (110, 210) includes a sharp tip (116, 216) capable of crossing or penetrating tissue, and wherein a distal end of the inner member element (120, 220) includes at least one grasping element (140, 240); characterized in that the suture grasper comprises a proximal spring (150, 250) disposed within the push button (160, 260), the proximal spring (150, 250) abutting against the proximal end of the inner member element (120, 220) to bias the inner member element (120, 220) distally, and a distal spring (170, 270) within the handle for biasing the push button (160, 260) and the inner member element (120, 220) in the proximal direction.
An air conditioning apparatus that has a refrigerant circuit configured as a result of a compressor, a four-way switching valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an indoor heat exchanger being interconnected, and a control unit, and is configured to switch the four-way switching valve to a cooling cycle state to thereby perform a cooling operation that circulates refrigerant in the order of the compressor, the outdoor heat exchanger, the expansion valve, and the indoor heat exchanger, and to switch the four-way switching valve to a heating cycle state to thereby perform a heating operation that circulates the refrigerant in the order of the compressor, the indoor heat exchanger, the expansion valve, and the outdoor heat exchanger, wherein the outdoor heat exchanger is a heat exchanger that uses multi-hole flat tubes as heat transfer tubes, and wherein the control unit is configured to perform, when stopping the heating operation, pressure equalization control that switches the four-way switching valve from the heating cycle state to the cooling cycle state, thereafter stops the compressor, and equalizes the pressure in the refrigerant circuit, and, when the four-way switching valve is switched from the heating cycle state to the cooling cycle state, an opening degree of the expansion valve is set to a pressure equalization opening degree which is a larger opening degree than during an accumulator refrigerant discharge control and a four-way switching noise reduction control performed before the pressure equalization control.
A household appliance comprising a panel enabling the user to monitor and control the functions of the household appliance, a control unit disposed behind the panel, a shaft that is connected to the control unit and that enables user preferences to be transmitted to the control unit, a knob that actuates the shaft, a housing that is disposed on the panel and wherein the knob is placed, a guiding member having • a circular flange that is mounted on the shaft, that has a diameter larger than the diameter of the housing and that remains behind the panel and • a sheath that extends on the flange and that surrounds the shaft characterized by • the guiding member comprising the flange that is surrounded by a wall and • the wall that bears against the rear side of the panel when the assembly of the knob to the panel is completed. • a circular flange that is mounted on the shaft, that has a diameter larger than the diameter of the housing and that remains behind the panel and • a sheath that extends on the flange and that surrounds the shaft characterized by • the guiding member comprising the flange that is surrounded by a wall and • the wall that bears against the rear side of the panel when the assembly of the knob to the panel is completed.
Device rotatably articulated with an electrical connection system, comprising two pieces (2, 3) articulated connected to each other in rotation and each having a hollow housing (22, 32) and two electrical connection elements (4, 5) housed in the device, the two electrical connection elements cooperating together to provide electrical continuity when the two articulated parts are associated, the electrical connection and disconnection between the two elements being automatic during the association and respectively the dissociation of the two parts, characterized in that one of the two electrical connection elements is made of two longitudinally abutting portions (42, 43), one of the parts being movable relative to the other on the one hand in rotation and on the other hand in translation according to an elastic movement, said movable part being the one intended to be in contact with the other electrical connection element.
A curable composition which comprises an organic polymer containing reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula given below wherein a is 3 and an organic polymer containing an average of 0.5 to 1.5 reactive silyl groups represented by the general formula given below per molecule. -Si(R 1 3-a)X a wherein R 1 represents an alkyl group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group containing 7 to 20 carbon atoms or a triorganosiloxy group represented by (R') 3 SiO-, in which the three R' groups may be the same or different and each represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms and, when there are two or more R 1 groups, they may be the same or different, and X represents a hydroxyl group or a hydrolysable group and, when there are two or more X groups, they may be the same or different, and a represents 1, 2 or 3, wherein the main chain of each of the organic polymers and is an oxyalkylene polymer.
A topical hair styling composition comprising: a cosmetically acceptable base having 40 wt. % - 98 wt. % water; 0.5 to 5 wt. % acrylates/dimethicone copolymer; 0.1 to 1 wt. % dimethicone PEG-8 polyacrylate; wherein the ratio of acrylates/dimethicone copolymer to dimethicone PEG-8 polyacrylate is 2:1 to 23:1. a cosmetically acceptable base having 40 wt. % - 98 wt. % water; 0.5 to 5 wt. % acrylates/dimethicone copolymer; 0.1 to 1 wt. % dimethicone PEG-8 polyacrylate; wherein the ratio of acrylates/dimethicone copolymer to dimethicone PEG-8 polyacrylate is 2:1 to 23:1.
A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving data to and from a plurality of terminals, the wireless communication system comprising: normal transmitting/receiving means for transmitting and receiving normal data, among the data, to and from a terminal, based on priorities assigned to each of a plurality of buffers stored in a base station (1, 3), wherein the data comprises attribute information, which shows a type of information included in the data; urgent transmitting/receiving means for assigning a high priority to a buffer storing a lowest amount of data among the plurality of buffers, transmitting and receiving urgent data, among the data, which is different from the normal data, to and from the terminal, via the buffer to which the high priority is assigned and changing from the priority assigned to the buffers to the priority that is assigned in advance, after the transmitting and receiving of urgent data is finished; and judging means for determining whether the data transmitted and received is the normal data or urgent data, based on the attribute information, wherein the normal transmitting/receiving means or the urgent transmitting/receiving means is implemented based on the result of the determination of the judging means. normal transmitting/receiving means for transmitting and receiving normal data, among the data, to and from a terminal, based on priorities assigned to each of a plurality of buffers stored in a base station (1, 3), wherein the data comprises attribute information, which shows a type of information included in the data; urgent transmitting/receiving means for assigning a high priority to a buffer storing a lowest amount of data among the plurality of buffers, transmitting and receiving urgent data, among the data, which is different from the normal data, to and from the terminal, via the buffer to which the high priority is assigned and changing from the priority assigned to the buffers to the priority that is assigned in advance, after the transmitting and receiving of urgent data is finished; and judging means for determining whether the data transmitted and received is the normal data or urgent data, based on the attribute information, wherein the normal transmitting/receiving means or the urgent transmitting/receiving means is implemented based on the result of the determination of the judging means.
A variable magnification optical system comprising: a reflective optical element having a positive magnification power and configured to be movable relative to an object plane; and a refractive optical system (11, 12) configured to form an intermediate image between the object plane and the reflective optical element, the refractive optical system including plural refractive optical elements, wherein a constant magnification of the intermediate image with respect to the object plane is maintained before and after a magnification change of an image projected onto a screen due to a change in the distance of the reflective optical element from the object plane by moving at least one of the plural refractive optical elements, characterised in that when enlarging an image projected on the screen, the distance between the screen and the reflective optical element is increased without changing the distance between the screen and the object plane. a reflective optical element having a positive magnification power and configured to be movable relative to an object plane; and a refractive optical system (11, 12) configured to form an intermediate image between the object plane and the reflective optical element, the refractive optical system including plural refractive optical elements, wherein a constant magnification of the intermediate image with respect to the object plane is maintained before and after a magnification change of an image projected onto a screen due to a change in the distance of the reflective optical element from the object plane by moving at least one of the plural refractive optical elements, characterised in that when enlarging an image projected on the screen, the distance between the screen and the reflective optical element is increased without changing the distance between the screen and the object plane.
An electrical plug, comprising: a plug body having a pair of through holes formed on a bottom thereof, a printed circuit board accommodated inside the plug body, a pair of electrically conductive members extending through the pair of through holes, respectively, a pair of electrically conductive connectors connecting the pair of electrically conductive members, respectively, to the printed circuit board, characterized in that the plug body further has an orienting bulge, and the electrical plug further comprises an orienting member cooperating with the orienting bulge on the bottom of the plug body to orient the pair of electrically conductive members in an anti-loosening orientation, in which a distance between outer ends of the electrically conductive members is smaller than a distance between inner ends of the electrically conductive members, wherein the orienting member comprises: a pair of cylinders, the pair of electrically conductive members extending through the pair of cylinders, respectively, and a connecting portion connecting the pair of cylinders, the connecting portion cooperating with the orienting bulge on the bottom of the plug body to orient the pair of electrically conductive members; and wherein the connecting portion of the orienting member comprises a deformable bottom plate, wherein the deformable bottom plate is pressed against the orienting bulge on the bottom of the plug body, and is deformed to have a shape corresponding to the shape of the orienting bulge, such that the pair of cylinders are tilted away from each other, thereby orienting the pair of electrically conductive members in the anti-loosening orientation. a plug body having a pair of through holes formed on a bottom thereof, a printed circuit board accommodated inside the plug body, a pair of electrically conductive members extending through the pair of through holes, respectively, a pair of electrically conductive connectors connecting the pair of electrically conductive members, respectively, to the printed circuit board, characterized in that the plug body further has an orienting bulge, and the electrical plug further comprises an orienting member cooperating with the orienting bulge on the bottom of the plug body to orient the pair of electrically conductive members in an anti-loosening orientation, in which a distance between outer ends of the electrically conductive members is smaller than a distance between inner ends of the electrically conductive members, a pair of cylinders, the pair of electrically conductive members extending through the pair of cylinders, respectively, and a connecting portion connecting the pair of cylinders, the connecting portion cooperating with the orienting bulge on the bottom of the plug body to orient the pair of electrically conductive members; and
Electricity insulating disc (4, 5) for medium or high voltage electrical equipment made from thermoplastic material having a relative dielectric constant of less than 4.0, comprising regions assigned to the support of at least one electrical conductor (6, 7) and regions assigned to the support on a part such as an enclosure at a potential different from the potential of the conductor, characterised in that the thermoplastic material is machined from a block of the thermoplastic material, which is a semicrystalline terephtalate polyethylene polyester having a crystallinity ratio comprised between 25% and 50%.
Cutting machine for cutting sheet material in stacks, having a pressure beam that is lowerable onto the material, wherein the pressure beam is mounted so as to be vertically displaceable in a machine frame, and means (12, 13) for lowering the pressure beam onto the material are provided, and a mechanism which exerts a force that is directed counter to the weight of the pressure beam acts on the pressure beam, characterized in that the means (12, 13) for lowering the pressure beam comprise an electric motor, wherein the pressure beam by means of the electric motor is also transferable to the fully lifted position of said pressure beam.
An intravenous tubing set comprising: a coupling component for accessing a source of flush solution; a flush chamber; one or more IV tubing connecting the source of flush solution and the flush chamber; one or more flow control devices (60, 90) are disposed in the IV tubing between the source of flush solution and the flush chamber to control the flow of flush solution into the flush chamber; and one or more flow control devices (60, 90) are disposed in the IV tubing between the flush chamber and the patient catheter, characterised in that the flush chamber is heat sealed to an IV tubing, the IV tubing connecting the flush chamber and a patient catheter. a coupling component for accessing a source of flush solution; a flush chamber; one or more IV tubing connecting the source of flush solution and the flush chamber; one or more flow control devices (60, 90) are disposed in the IV tubing between the source of flush solution and the flush chamber to control the flow of flush solution into the flush chamber; and one or more flow control devices (60, 90) are disposed in the IV tubing between the flush chamber and the patient catheter,
High-voltage device having - an internal conductor, - an insulating body that surrounds the internal conductor along its longitudinal direction, comprising - insulating layers (5, 12, 17) configured from a synthetic material that is impregnated with a resin, and - electrically conductive control inserts (6, 16) so as to provide the field control, said control inserts being arranged in a concentric manner around the internal conductor and being spaced apart from one another by means of the insulating layers, wherein at least one of the control inserts (6, 16) is a contact insert that is connected in an electrical manner to the internal conductor by means of a contact-making device (7, 13), wherein the contact-making device (7, 13) comprises a contact element that is configured from an electrically conductive material that is connected in an electrical manner to the contact insert, characterized in that the contact element is fixed by means of an adhesive to a conductive base layer that is in electrical contact with the internal conductor. - an internal conductor, - an insulating body that surrounds the internal conductor along its longitudinal direction, comprising - insulating layers (5, 12, 17) configured from a synthetic material that is impregnated with a resin, and - electrically conductive control inserts (6, 16) so as to provide the field control, said control inserts being arranged in a concentric manner around the internal conductor and being spaced apart from one another by means of the insulating layers,
A gas diffusion electrode comprising a microporous layer on at least one surface of an electrically conductive porous substrate, wherein the microporous layer includes a first microporous layer that is in contact with the electrically conductive porous substrate, and a dense layer that is in contact with the first microporous layer, the dense layer having a thickness of 1 μm or more, and an average number density B of pores having a pore diameter of 0.15 μm or more and 1 μm or less in the dense layer is 1.3A or more where A is an average number density of pores having a pore diameter of 0.15 μm or more and 1 μm or less in the microporous layer disposed on at least one surface of the electrically conductive porous substrate. the microporous layer includes a first microporous layer that is in contact with the electrically conductive porous substrate, and a dense layer that is in contact with the first microporous layer, the dense layer having a thickness of 1 μm or more, and an average number density B of pores having a pore diameter of 0.15 μm or more and 1 μm or less in the dense layer is 1.3A or more where A is an average number density of pores having a pore diameter of 0.15 μm or more and 1 μm or less in the microporous layer disposed on at least one surface of the electrically conductive porous substrate.
Hot water heating system for heating drinking water of a drinking water circuit connectable or connected to the hot water heating system, wherein the hot water heating system is connectable to a hot water circuit via a heating connection, with a first buffer device for buffering heating water and with a heating device connectable to the drinking water circuit, wherein the heating device - for heating the drinking water through the heat of the heating water - is connected to the first buffer device, wherein the hot water heating system comprises a heat pump device connected to the heating connection and comprising at least one heat pump, wherein the heat pump device is connected to the first buffer device, characterized in that the heating device is additionally connected to the heating connection, wherein the heating device comprises two heat exchangers, which use the temperature of a hot water of the hot water circuit on the one hand and the temperature of the heating water on the other hand in order to heat the drinking water passing through the heating device.
A tool, such as an injection moulding tool or an embossing/pressing tool, comprising a heating device including a stack of layers for heating an active tool surface, the stack comprising: a coil carrier layer including at least one wound coil for generating an oscillating magnetic field, an electrically conductive top layer, being adjacent to the active tool surface, and a backing layer, being positioned beneath the coil carrier layer as seen from the top layer, the backing layer being electrically connected to the top layer at the edges where windings of the coil turns, and having a lower resistivity than the top layer, characterised by an electrically conductive intermediate layer, located between the coil carrier layer and the top layer, wherein the intermediate layer has a lower resistivity than the top layer, wherein a thermal resistance layer is placed between the intermediate layer and the top layer, the thermal resistance layer comprising a heat resistive plastic material such as a polyimide.