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A method for joining a metal component and a polymer component, the method comprising: - obtaining a metal component and a polymer component; - obtaining an extrusion die plate having one through hole; - placing the extrusion die plate between said metal component and said polymer component; wherein the method further comprises - rotating and plunging a probe of a non-consumable and rigid tool across the thickness of the metal component and eventually through said through hole of the extrusion die plate, thereby extruding a part of the metal component through said through hole of the extrusion die plate into the polymer component, wherein the probe has a rotation axis having an offset to the centre of said through hole of the extrusion die plate during the rotating and plunging action. - obtaining a metal component and a polymer component; - obtaining an extrusion die plate having one through hole; - placing the extrusion die plate between said metal component and said polymer component; - rotating and plunging a probe of a non-consumable and rigid tool across the thickness of the metal component and eventually through said through hole of the extrusion die plate, thereby extruding a part of the metal component through said through hole of the extrusion die plate into the polymer component, wherein the probe has a rotation axis having an offset to the centre of said through hole of the extrusion die plate during the rotating and plunging action.
A back support garment for a wearer, said garment comprising: a compression pants portion being configured to provide support for the wearer's pelvis, legs, and groin area; and a belt portion being configured to support a lumbar and an abdominal area of the wearer, and including a rear portion configured to overlay and support the lumbar portion of the wearer; said belt portion comprises a first end and a second end that are releasably attachable to each other so as to adjustably secure said belt portion tightly around the wearer's waist; wherein said belt portion is attached fixedly to and extending upwardly from said compression pants portion so as to align the rear portion with the lumbar region of the wearer, wherein the back support garment has a pack support structure supporting therein one or more hot or cold packs characterized in that the pack support structure is adjacent an inner surface of said belt portion, said belt portion being attached to said pants portion so as to align the pack support portion with the lumbar region of the wearer and to maintain temperature transferring contact between an inner surface of the pack support structure adjacent said hot and cold packs and the wearer's lumbar region, and wherein a rear portion of said compression pants portion is fixedly secured to the rear portion of said belt portion adjacent the hot or cold packs. a compression pants portion being configured to provide support for the wearer's pelvis, legs, and groin area; and a belt portion being configured to support a lumbar and an abdominal area of the wearer, and including a rear portion configured to overlay and support the lumbar portion of the wearer; said belt portion comprises a first end and a second end that are releasably attachable to each other so as to adjustably secure said belt portion tightly around the wearer's waist; wherein said belt portion is attached fixedly to and extending upwardly from said compression pants portion so as to align the rear portion with the lumbar region of the wearer, wherein the back support garment has a pack support structure supporting therein one or more hot or cold packs characterized in that the pack support structure is adjacent an inner surface of said belt portion, said belt portion being attached to said pants portion so as to align the pack support portion with the lumbar region of the wearer and to maintain temperature transferring contact between an inner surface of the pack support structure adjacent said hot and cold packs and the wearer's lumbar region, and wherein a rear portion of said compression pants portion is fixedly secured to the rear portion of said belt portion adjacent the hot or cold packs.
A process for modifying a polydopamine polymer or a derivative thereof consisting in grafting, on said polymer or said derivative, at least one organic polymer by radical chemical grafting in the presence of at least one cleavable aryl salt.
A dental implantation system, comprising: a patient-interacting device having an instrument adapted to at least interact with and prepare a site within a mouth of a patient for receiving a dental implant; a guiding device in communication with a fiducial marker adapted to be engaged with the mouth of the patient, the guiding device being configured to receive the patient-interacting device, and to guide the instrument of the patient-interacting device, relative to the fiducial marker, in conjunction with manipulation of the patient-interacting device by a user; a controller device including a processor, the controller device being configured to be in communication with the guiding device, and to direct the patient-interacting device via the guiding device to prepare the site to receive the dental implant; and an engagement sensor operably engaged with the patient-interacting device, and configured to be in communication with the controller device, the engagement sensor being configured to sense disengagement between the patient-interacting device and the user and to communicate the disengagement to the controller device, the controller device being responsive to the sensed disengagement to direct the guiding device to at least maintain the patient-interacting device at a minimum vertical disposition. a patient-interacting device having an instrument adapted to at least interact with and prepare a site within a mouth of a patient for receiving a dental implant; a guiding device in communication with a fiducial marker adapted to be engaged with the mouth of the patient, the guiding device being configured to receive the patient-interacting device, and to guide the instrument of the patient-interacting device, relative to the fiducial marker, in conjunction with manipulation of the patient-interacting device by a user; a controller device including a processor, the controller device being configured to be in communication with the guiding device, and to direct the patient-interacting device via the guiding device to prepare the site to receive the dental implant; and an engagement sensor operably engaged with the patient-interacting device, and configured to be in communication with the controller device, the engagement sensor being configured to sense disengagement between the patient-interacting device and the user and to communicate the disengagement to the controller device, the controller device being responsive to the sensed disengagement to direct the guiding device to at least maintain the patient-interacting device at a minimum vertical disposition.
A device for at least partial CO 2 elimination from patient blood in an extracorporeal circuit, having a CO 2 eliminator which comprises a housing with a blood inlet and a blood outlet as well as a gas inlet and a gas outlet, wherein a hollow fiber arrangement is provided in the housing, through which arrangement both gas and blood can flow and which has an active fiber length for gas exchange as part of an overall fiber length, wherein the hollow fibers are arranged in mats, wherein the fibers in the mats are aligned in parallel and the mats are stacked in the hollow fiber arrangement, such that fibers in parallel adjacent mats are approximately at a right angle to each other, and that the length of the passageway for blood, which corresponds to the thickness of the hollow fiber arrangement, is substantially at a right angle to the fiber orientation and extends along the shortest path through the hollow fiber arrangement, wherein the hollow fiber arrangement has a cuboid shape and the quotient of active fiber length and minimum length of the passageway for blood through the hollow fiber arrangement is less than 3.5, preferably less than 3, particularly preferably less than 2, most preferably less than 1.1, wherein the fibers provided in the active exchange region are unsealed while the fibers in a peripheral region are sealed and thus not active for gas exchange, wherein the hollow fiber arrangement has a square cross section whose side length corresponds to the overall fiber length and the active exchange region has a square cross section whose side length corresponds to the active fiber length, characterized in that the fiber surface area of the hollow fiber arrangement which is active for gas exchange is in the range from 0.5 to 1.2 m 2.
A method for setting weft insertion conditions in a multi-color weft insertion loom including a weft insertion device, a setting device, and a weft-insertion control unit, the weft insertion device including two or more weft insertion systems which each include a plurality of weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) that operate in a weft insertion operation, the setting device setting control values for controlling operations of the weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) belonging to the respective weft insertion systems, the control values being set in advance in the weft-insertion control unit as the weft insertion conditions in association with selection numbers assigned to the respective weft insertion systems, the weft-insertion control unit controlling, in accordance with the control values, the operations of the weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) belonging to the respective weft insertion systems, thereby causing the weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) to perform the weft insertion operation, characterized in that a storage device stores control values used in previous weaving operations as weft insertion conditions in association with selection numbers wherein the setting device performs the steps of: reading control values for weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) that are setting targets from control values included in weft insertion conditions stored in the storage device and corresponding to a selected selection number; and setting, in response to a generation of a setting command signal, the control values read in the reading step in the weft-insertion control unit as control values for the weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) that are the setting targets in a weft insertion system corresponding to a designated selection number. reading control values for weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) that are setting targets from control values included in weft insertion conditions stored in the storage device and corresponding to a selected selection number; and setting, in response to a generation of a setting command signal, the control values read in the reading step in the weft-insertion control unit as control values for the weft-insertion-related devices (15, 20, 21, 22, 31, 32) that are the setting targets in a weft insertion system corresponding to a designated selection number.
A method for testing compatibility between the energy requirements of an electrically stand-alone home-automation device and a predefined site for installing a photovoltaic module, the electrically stand-alone home-automation device comprising the photovoltaic module, a device that closes, occults, protects from the sun or screens and an element for storing electrical energy that is configured to supply the device that closes, occults, protects from the sun or screens with power, the element for storing electrical energy being connected to the photovoltaic module and intended to be charged by the electrical energy generated by the photovoltaic module, the method being characterized in that it comprises at least: - A step of selecting the electrically stand-alone home-automation device and storing, in a memory, data identifying the electrically stand-alone home-automation device, - A step of obtaining, via acquisition or via input, and storing, in a memory, position data relating to the predefined site, the position data comprising at least data on the location and on the orientation of the predefined site, - A step of estimating and storing, in a memory, data of a sun chart at the predefined site, - A step of computing an estimation of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site over a year while taking into account the position of the predefined site and the shadow mask, - A step of computing an energy balance on the basis of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site and of the energy requirements of the selected electrically stand-alone home-automation device. - A step of selecting the electrically stand-alone home-automation device and storing, in a memory, data identifying the electrically stand-alone home-automation device, - A step of obtaining, via acquisition or via input, and storing, in a memory, position data relating to the predefined site, the position data comprising at least data on the location and on the orientation of the predefined site, - A step of estimating and storing, in a memory, data of a sun chart at the predefined site, - A step of computing an estimation of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site over a year while taking into account the position of the predefined site and the shadow mask, - A step of computing an energy balance on the basis of the variation in the amplitude of the solar radiation received at the predefined site and of the energy requirements of the selected electrically stand-alone home-automation device.
A neutron detector, comprising a stack arrangement of two or more detector elements, each with two mutually parallel substrate plates made from a first neutron-transparent material, which are coated on mutually facing sides with a neutron absorber material (1, 5), and there being defined between the coated substrate plates facing each other a measurement space filled with a counter gas, in which two electrode wire planes, arranged parallel to the substrate plates, having electrode wires running parallel in the respective electrode wire planes are arranged, and the electrode wire planes being spaced apart from one another by means of a spacing frame, characterized in that the measurement space is gas-tight and the substrate plates being spanned between the detector elements at a side facing away from the measurement in each case on a self-supporting frame made of a second neutron-transparent material to form a compensation volume, wherein in each case two detector elements are arranged such that the respective self-supporting frames are joined together so as to cover one another, wherein a gas passage is provided at least at one side of the joined self-supporting frames, to form a variable compensation volume.
A vibration isolator, comprising: an upper housing and a lower housing; an upper reservoir housing defining a upper fluid chamber; a removable lower reservoir housing defining a lower fluid chamber; a piston spindle resiliently coupled to the upper housing with an upper elastomer member, the piston spindle being resiliently coupled to the lower housing with a lower elastomer member; an inertia track having a tuning passage, the inertia track being removably coupled to the piston spindle; a tuning fluid disposed within the upper fluid chamber, the lower fluid chamber, and the tuning passage; wherein the vibration isolator cancels vibratory forces at an isolation frequency ( f i), the isolation frequency being at least partially dependent upon a size of the tuning passage; characterized in that the inertia track is secured directly to the piston spindle with a removable fastener (425a-425d) external to the upper housing and the lower housing, wherein the inertia track is removable from the isolator once the fastener and the lower reservoir housing have been removed, by removing the inertia track through the space created by the removal of the lower reservoir housing. an upper housing and a lower housing; an upper reservoir housing defining a upper fluid chamber; a removable lower reservoir housing defining a lower fluid chamber; a piston spindle resiliently coupled to the upper housing with an upper elastomer member, the piston spindle being resiliently coupled to the lower housing with a lower elastomer member; an inertia track having a tuning passage, the inertia track being removably coupled to the piston spindle; a tuning fluid disposed within the upper fluid chamber, the lower fluid chamber, and the tuning passage; wherein the vibration isolator cancels vibratory forces at an isolation frequency ( f i), the isolation frequency being at least partially dependent upon a size of the tuning passage; characterized in that the inertia track is secured directly to the piston spindle with a removable fastener (425a-425d) external to the upper housing and the lower housing, wherein the inertia track is removable from the isolator once the fastener and the lower reservoir housing have been removed, by removing the inertia track through the space created by the removal of the lower reservoir housing.
A method of collecting a strand using an air stream dissipater including an air stream deflector and a perforated pipe, the method comprising: texturizing the strand with an air stream on a first side of the air stream deflector, the air stream deflector including a planar body disposed substantially perpendicular to the texturized strand on the first side of the air stream deflector; directing the texturized strand through an aperture in the air stream deflector to a second side of the air stream deflector; passing the texturized strand through a lumen of the perforated pipe disposed on the second side of the air stream deflector, the perforated pipe being substantially perpendicular to the planar body of the air stream deflector and the lumen of the perforated pipe being in communication with the aperture in the air stream deflector; and collecting the texturized strand in a container on the second side of the air stream deflector, whereby the air stream dissipater redirects excess air after texturizing the strand away from the container thereby reducing tangles in the texturized strand when the texturized strand is subsequently pulled from the container. texturizing the strand with an air stream on a first side of the air stream deflector, the air stream deflector including a planar body disposed substantially perpendicular to the texturized strand on the first side of the air stream deflector; directing the texturized strand through an aperture in the air stream deflector to a second side of the air stream deflector; passing the texturized strand through a lumen of the perforated pipe disposed on the second side of the air stream deflector, the perforated pipe being substantially perpendicular to the planar body of the air stream deflector and the lumen of the perforated pipe being in communication with the aperture in the air stream deflector; and collecting the texturized strand in a container on the second side of the air stream deflector, whereby the air stream dissipater redirects excess air after texturizing the strand away from the container thereby reducing tangles in the texturized strand when the texturized strand is subsequently pulled from the container.
A method of energy densification for a material in the form of divided solids, in particular a biomass, for the purpose of obtaining pyrolytic oils for energy purposes, that have high net calorific value in the range 4000 kilocalories per kilogram to 7000 kilocalories per kilogram the method being characterized in that it comprises the following successive steps: • preconditioning the material by heating and drying in order to raise said material to a temperature close to 100°C and to relative humidity not exceeding about 10% in a preconditioning device; • pyrolyzing the material that is subsequently caused to flow through a substantially hermetic pyrolytic reactor the inlet of the reactor being connected in leaktight manner to the outlet from the preconditioning device, the reactor containing at least one transfer screw or vibrating tube heated by the Joule effect, said material being heated progressively up to a temperature lying in the range 300°C to 850°C with a fast temperature rise of several hundreds of degrees Celsius per second, the electrical power passing through the transfer screw or the vibrating tube for providing heating by the Joule effect being regulated as a function of the material in order to obtain the desired temperature level during the transit time of said material through said reactor; • extracting pyrolysis gas from a high portion of the reactor for rapid recondensation thereof in a vertical condenser; and • recovering pyrolytic oils from a low portion of the vertical condenser. • preconditioning the material by heating and drying in order to raise said material to a temperature close to 100°C and to relative humidity not exceeding about 10% in a preconditioning device; • pyrolyzing the material that is subsequently caused to flow through a substantially hermetic pyrolytic reactor the inlet of the reactor being connected in leaktight manner to the outlet from the preconditioning device, the reactor containing at least one transfer screw or vibrating tube heated by the Joule effect, said material being heated progressively up to a temperature lying in the range 300°C to 850°C with a fast temperature rise of several hundreds of degrees Celsius per second, the electrical power passing through the transfer screw or the vibrating tube for providing heating by the Joule effect being regulated as a function of the material in order to obtain the desired temperature level during the transit time of said material through said reactor; • extracting pyrolysis gas from a high portion of the reactor for rapid recondensation thereof in a vertical condenser; and • recovering pyrolytic oils from a low portion of the vertical condenser.
A composition comprising: a hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound selected from the group consisting of a tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt, a C 1 -C 3 alkyl- or C 2 -C 3 alkenyl-tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt, and tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine; and an isothiazolinone compound selected from 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, and mixtures thereof, wherein, when the isothiazolinone compound is 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, the weight ratio of the hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound to the 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one is between 1:2 and 1:8; and when the isothiazolinone compound is 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, the weight ratio of the hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound to the 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one is between 10000:1 and 5000:1. a hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound selected from the group consisting of a tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt, a C 1 -C 3 alkyl- or C 2 -C 3 alkenyl-tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt, and tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine; and an isothiazolinone compound selected from 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, and mixtures thereof, wherein, when the isothiazolinone compound is 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, the weight ratio of the hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound to the 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one is between 1:2 and 1:8; and when the isothiazolinone compound is 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one, the weight ratio of the hydroxymethyl-substituted phosphorus compound to the 2-methyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one is between 10000:1 and 5000:1.