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A drill bit (31, 33, 35), comprising: a cutting portion having an edge (56, 76, 96) for penetrating bone; and a resilient tine (52, 72, 92) configured to be inserted into a drill housing, the resilient tine including a tab (68, 81, 91) having an abutment surface (64, 84, 94) configured to establish a snap-fit connection with a drill gear within the drill housing; and a stop surface (53, 83, 93) configured to engage a bottom surface of the drill gear; wherein the drill bit is capable of being removed from the drill housing by disengaging the abutment surface from the drill gear; characterised in that the drill bit further comprises a pair of tangs (78, 98) at least partially encasing the resilient tine, wherein the pair of tangs are connected by a strengthening bridge. a cutting portion having an edge (56, 76, 96) for penetrating bone; and a resilient tine (52, 72, 92) configured to be inserted into a drill housing, the resilient tine including a tab (68, 81, 91) having an abutment surface (64, 84, 94) configured to establish a snap-fit connection with a drill gear within the drill housing; and a stop surface (53, 83, 93) configured to engage a bottom surface of the drill gear; wherein the drill bit is capable of being removed from the drill housing by disengaging the abutment surface from the drill gear; characterised in that the drill bit further comprises a pair of tangs (78, 98) at least partially encasing the resilient tine, wherein the pair of tangs are connected by a strengthening bridge.
An air conditioning system for a cab of an agricultural machine, comprising: - an air conditioning unit that comprises a evaporator and a blower for generating a reduced pressure in the air conditioning unit and supplying conditioned air to the cab; and - a condensate drain unit that comprises a reservoir to which are connected one or more drain pipes (7a, 7b), which lead to drain pipes (8a, 8b) that can be mounted in upright profile posts of the cab, the system further comprises one or more T-junctions (11a, 11 b) or similar connection elements, and one or more supplementary pipe elements (10a, 10b), wherein each of the drain pipes (7a, 7b) is connected to an upright drain pipe (8a, 8b) via two branches of a T-junction (11a, 11 b), wherein the inlet end of a supplementary pipe element (10a, 10b) is mounted onto the third branch of the T-junction and characterised in that the outlet end (12a, 12b) of each supplementary pipe element (10a, 10b) is located at the suction side of the blower. - an air conditioning unit that comprises a evaporator and a blower for generating a reduced pressure in the air conditioning unit and supplying conditioned air to the cab; and - a condensate drain unit that comprises a reservoir to which are connected one or more drain pipes (7a, 7b), which lead to drain pipes (8a, 8b) that can be mounted in upright profile posts of the cab,
An apparatus for encoding an audio signal having a plurality of channels, comprising: a downmixer for downmixing the plurality of channels to obtain a downmix signal; a residual signal calculator adapted for calculating a residual signal; a phase information calculator adapted for calculating information on a phase difference between the downmix and the residual signal to obtain phase information; and an output generator for outputting the phase information. a downmixer for downmixing the plurality of channels to obtain a downmix signal; a residual signal calculator adapted for calculating a residual signal; a phase information calculator adapted for calculating information on a phase difference between the downmix and the residual signal to obtain phase information; and an output generator for outputting the phase information.
A method for removing sulfur from a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock that includes refractory sulfur compounds, comprising the steps of: producing an oxidative desulfurization catalyst by appending oxidizing groups selected from the group consisting of sulfur trioxide and nitrogen dioxide to the surface of a solid carbon support material, by the steps of: first contacting the support material with a gas that includes sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide to append the groups to the surface of the solid carbon support material, the gas having a moisture content of less than 100 ppm by volume to prevent the formation of acid; and then contacting the support material and the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide appended thereof with molecular oxygen to produce the sulfur trioxide or nitrogen dioxide groups on the surface of the solid carbon support material; contacting a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock that includes refractory sulfur compounds with the oxidative desulfurization catalyst to selectively oxidize at least a portion of the refractory sulfur compounds present to produce oxidized sulfur compounds and a low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock, separating the oxidized sulfur compounds from low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock; and recovering the low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock. producing an oxidative desulfurization catalyst by appending oxidizing groups selected from the group consisting of sulfur trioxide and nitrogen dioxide to the surface of a solid carbon support material, by the steps of: first contacting the support material with a gas that includes sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide to append the groups to the surface of the solid carbon support material, the gas having a moisture content of less than 100 ppm by volume to prevent the formation of acid; and then contacting the support material and the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide appended thereof with molecular oxygen to produce the sulfur trioxide or nitrogen dioxide groups on the surface of the solid carbon support material; first contacting the support material with a gas that includes sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide to append the groups to the surface of the solid carbon support material, the gas having a moisture content of less than 100 ppm by volume to prevent the formation of acid; and then contacting the support material and the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide or nitrogen dioxide appended thereof with molecular oxygen to produce the sulfur trioxide or nitrogen dioxide groups on the surface of the solid carbon support material; contacting a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock that includes refractory sulfur compounds with the oxidative desulfurization catalyst to selectively oxidize at least a portion of the refractory sulfur compounds present to produce oxidized sulfur compounds and a low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock, separating the oxidized sulfur compounds from low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock; and recovering the low sulfur hydrocarbonaceous feedstock.
A method for diagnosis or prognosis of the metabolic disease diabetes type II, comprising: measuring at least one parameter of one or more discriminated partially or completely separated or isolated portions of more than one dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) isoform from a patient sample, wherein the at least one parameter is the amount, concentration, activity, expression, or type or amount of post-translational modification of the more than one DPPIV isoform; and correlating said measured DPP parameter of the more than one DPPIV isoform with the presence, absence or severity of said disease. measuring at least one parameter of one or more discriminated partially or completely separated or isolated portions of more than one dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) isoform from a patient sample, wherein the at least one parameter is the amount, concentration, activity, expression, or type or amount of post-translational modification of the more than one DPPIV isoform; and correlating said measured DPP parameter of the more than one DPPIV isoform with the presence, absence or severity of said disease.
A method of mitigating the effect of a security threat potentially contained in a digitally encoded document, the method comprising: extracting embedded content contained in the digitally encoded document, such that the digitally encoded document is translated into parts (20a-23a) which contain references to one another and do not contain embedded data; content-checking, by means of at least one hardware-implemented content-checker, at least one of the parts separately from the other parts (20a-22a) of the digitally encoded document, wherein the content checking of the parts is performed bottom-up such that an embedded part is checked before the part that contains the embedded part, and wherein type information generated by a content checker about a part already checked is supplied by a scheduler to a content checker checking a further part; and only after checking the outer level document part, recombining at least some of the parts (20a-23a) and releasing a version of the digitally encoded document responsive to the content-checking. extracting embedded content contained in the digitally encoded document, such that the digitally encoded document is translated into parts (20a-23a) which contain references to one another and do not contain embedded data; content-checking, by means of at least one hardware-implemented content-checker, at least one of the parts separately from the other parts (20a-22a) of the digitally encoded document, wherein the content checking of the parts is performed bottom-up such that an embedded part is checked before the part that contains the embedded part, and wherein type information generated by a content checker about a part already checked is supplied by a scheduler to a content checker checking a further part; and only after checking the outer level document part, recombining at least some of the parts (20a-23a) and releasing a version of the digitally encoded document responsive to the content-checking.
A thermoplastic resin film comprising a surface coating layer derived from metal oxide-containing microparticles having an average primary particle size of 200 nm or less and a dispersion of an organic polymer in a solvent provided on at least one face of the thermoplastic resin film; the surface coating layer containing 40% by mass or greater of the metal oxide-containing microparticles relative to the total amount of the surface coating layer; the metal oxide containing aluminum; and a static charge half-life period S on the thermoplastic resin film face that is provided with the surface coating layer being 300 seconds or shorter as measured by a half-life period measurement method stipulated in JIS L 1094:1997.
A method of producing a microneedle sheet having at least one microneedle, the method comprising: preparing a sheet having a first surface and a second surface; making a first cut in a range from the first surface to the second surface of the sheet to form a first outer edge that defines a tip end of the microneedle; and making, after forming the first outer edge, a second cut in a range from the first surface to the second surface of the sheet to form a second outer edge that defines the tip end of the microneedle, thereby forming the tip end of the microneedle, wherein the making a second cut includes making the second cut such that the second cut intersects the first cut to form an X-shaped cut in the vicinity of the tip end of the microneedle. preparing a sheet having a first surface and a second surface; making a first cut in a range from the first surface to the second surface of the sheet to form a first outer edge that defines a tip end of the microneedle; and making, after forming the first outer edge, a second cut in a range from the first surface to the second surface of the sheet to form a second outer edge that defines the tip end of the microneedle, thereby forming the tip end of the microneedle, wherein the making a second cut includes making the second cut such that the second cut intersects the first cut to form an X-shaped cut in the vicinity of the tip end of the microneedle.
An isolated single-stranded polynucleotide nanoparticle comprising three or more Multivalent RNA (MV-RNA) sequences, each MV-RNA sequence joined by linkage nucleotides, self-forming into a spherical or disc-like nanoparticle of approximately 40nm to 100nm diameter with approximately twice the ratio of stems near the surface of the nanoparticle than at the core of the nanoparticle, wherein each MV-RNA sequence comprises three guide strands, and in a configuration as set forth in figure 15 that are each partially or fully complementary to a target gene.
Device for at least fluid-repellent joining of two opposite and positionable profile elements (2, 3) of a building region covering, comprising a universal butt connector with a base body for supporting the profile elements (2, 3) and with at least two sealing devices (5, 6) arranged next to each other on the base body for sealing contact of the base body to the profile elements (2, 3), characterised in that the at least two sealing devices (5, 6) are vulcanised directly onto the surface of the base body, and before application of the at least two sealing devices (5, 6) to the base body, an adhesion-promoting chemical and/or mechanical surface treatment of the base body is performed, preferably by coating the base body with an adhesion-promoting agent, and wherein the device comprises a metal strip matching the colour of the profile elements (2, 3), wherein the metal strip can be inserted between the two sealing devices (5, 6).
A system of detecting a blood analyte, comprising: a test strip holder, the test strip holder comprising a base defining a base cavity having a first end and a second end, the base defining a reading window adjacent the second end of the base cavity, the test strip holder further comprising a lid secured to the base over the base cavity, the lid defining a dosing window adjacent the first end of the base cavity; a wicking membrane received within the base cavity adjacent the first end of the base cavity and aligned under the dosing window; a lateral flow test strip, received within the base cavity, the lateral flow test strip having a dosing end and a testing end, the dosing end being positioned against the wicking membrane, such that an edge of the dosing end of the lateral flow test strip is in line with an edge of the dosing window; and a meter for receiving the test strip holder, the meter including a sensor alignable with the reading window, characterised in that the lid is flush with a top of the lateral flow test strip, such that fluid may not flow on top of the lateral test strip between the lid and the lateral flow test strip. a test strip holder, the test strip holder comprising a base defining a base cavity having a first end and a second end, the base defining a reading window adjacent the second end of the base cavity, the test strip holder further comprising a lid secured to the base over the base cavity, the lid defining a dosing window adjacent the first end of the base cavity; a wicking membrane received within the base cavity adjacent the first end of the base cavity and aligned under the dosing window; a lateral flow test strip, received within the base cavity, the lateral flow test strip having a dosing end and a testing end, the dosing end being positioned against the wicking membrane, such that an edge of the dosing end of the lateral flow test strip is in line with an edge of the dosing window; and a meter for receiving the test strip holder, the meter including a sensor alignable with the reading window, characterised in that the lid is flush with a top of the lateral flow test strip, such that fluid may not flow on top of the lateral test strip between the lid and the lateral flow test strip.
A method for actively cooling cables by means of gaseous or liquid cooling media, in which method the cables are installed or laid in a buoyancy-based manner, wherein a) at least one empty tube is laid or provided, the inner diameter of which is greater than the outer diameter of a payload transport tube string; and b) at least one high point head-end station (20, 20a) and at least one low point head-end station will be established or provided in the area of the empty tube run and in this manner accesses to an empty tube system will be provided; and c) at least one active feed system will be provided and at least one payload transport tube string will be pre-installed outside the empty tube; and d) the payload transport tube string will be introduced via the high point head-end station (20, 20a) by means of the active feed system and transported inside the empty tube system to a low point head-end station at the target location and positioned there and for this purpose the empty tube system will be flooded by using at least one primary lifting medium, wherein the outer diameter of the payload transport tube string is adapted to the required and desired effective buoyancy which acts in the lifting medium having a known density upon the payload transport tube string closed for this purpose, in order to counteract the respective weight of the payload transport tube string during the transport and positioning of the payload transport tube string inside the empty tube system, and wherein the payload transport tube string fulfills the function of a carrier tube, in which a cable to be laid or a payload to be laid is placed and thus a payload transport tube system is created, which, if it has been closed tightly afterwards, will meet the demand of a low-friction and low-resistance laying thanks to lifting forces in the empty tube that has been flooded with at least the lifting medium; characterized in that the density of the lifting medium can be modified by additives or replacement and thus the lifting behaviour can be changed also during the installation operation, and wherein the empty tube and/or the payload transport tube string are furthermore provided and used as media tubes supplying and discharging cooling media for the purpose of the active cooling. a) at least one empty tube is laid or provided, the inner diameter of which is greater than the outer diameter of a payload transport tube string; and b) at least one high point head-end station (20, 20a) and at least one low point head-end station will be established or provided in the area of the empty tube run and in this manner accesses to an empty tube system will be provided; and c) at least one active feed system will be provided and at least one payload transport tube string will be pre-installed outside the empty tube; and d) the payload transport tube string will be introduced via the high point head-end station (20, 20a) by means of the active feed system and transported inside the empty tube system to a low point head-end station at the target location and positioned there and for this purpose the empty tube system will be flooded by using at least one primary lifting medium,
A biopsy device, comprising: a housing; a coring cannula having a longitudinal axis and being centered on the axis and coupled to the housing, the coring cannula rotatable about the axis; and, a flexible transection blade having a first end and a second end and being coupled to the coring cannula, the second end forming a cutting edge, the flexible transection blade having a first blade position and a second blade position, characterized in that the coring cannula being movable along the axis from an initial cannula location towards a final cannula location in response to rotation of the coring cannula about the axis in a first direction, the flexible transection blade being in the first blade position while the coring cannula is between the initial and final cannula locations (118, 120), wherein rotation of the coring cannula in the first direction while the coring cannula is at the final cannula location rotates the flexible transection blade about the axis, moving the flexible transection blade from the first blade position to the second blade position, where the flexible transection blade being at least partly contained within the coring cannula when the coring cannula is between the initial position and the final position, wherein motion of the flexible transection blade from the first blade position to the second blade position advances the transection blade past the coring cannula. a housing; a coring cannula having a longitudinal axis and being centered on the axis and coupled to the housing, the coring cannula rotatable about the axis; and, a flexible transection blade having a first end and a second end and being coupled to the coring cannula, the second end forming a cutting edge, the flexible transection blade having a first blade position and a second blade position,
Leakage protection device for a tank for a toilet of a bathroom, said tank being of a recessed type in a bathroom wall or of the type disposed on the back of a bathroom wall, said leakage protection device comprising: - a shell comprising a shell perimeter edge; - a closing panel joined to the shell at the shell perimeter edge so as to define a chamber intended to house the tank, said closing panel being designed to be substantially parallel to the bathroom wall; wherein the protection device is configured to completely enclose the tank, and wherein the closing panel comprises at least one upper opening to allow access to the tank, and a lower opening, distinct from the upper opening, suitable to accommodate the passage of a pipe for flushing water from the tank to the toilet, characterized in that the closing panel is suitable for supporting the flush tank and the shell by itself, so that the flush tank, when installed, and the shell, can be directly anchored to, and supported only by the closing panel, allowing thereby to install the protection device on the bathroom wall once the shell has been closed on the closing panel. - a shell comprising a shell perimeter edge; - a closing panel joined to the shell at the shell perimeter edge so as to define a chamber intended to house the tank, said closing panel being designed to be substantially parallel to the bathroom wall;
A blade insert for a wind turbine blade root attachment for receiving a bolt within an internal thread of the insert, the insert comprising an elongate main body formed of a first material for receipt within the blade root, characterised in that joined thereto is an annular end portion, in use disposed at a blade root end face and through which the bolt extends, formed of a second material which has higher corrosion resistance than said first material, said second material being stainless steel.
A method of energy efficient wireless communication performed by a user equipment, UE, comprising: obtaining a signal pattern defining resources for use in receiving a first set (902, 1002) of reference signals (904, 1004) with a first density and a first periodicity (908, 1010) and a second set (906, 1006) of reference signals (912, 914, 1008) with a second density and a second periodicity (910, 1012), wherein the first density is less than the second density and the first periodicity provides a shorter maximum duration without signal present than the second periodicity and wherein the second set of reference signals comprises a signal burst; receiving the reference signals according to the signal pattern; and receiving a wake up message with a cross-subframe wake up indication corresponding to the second set of reference signals. obtaining a signal pattern defining resources for use in receiving a first set (902, 1002) of reference signals (904, 1004) with a first density and a first periodicity (908, 1010) and a second set (906, 1006) of reference signals (912, 914, 1008) with a second density and a second periodicity (910, 1012), wherein the first density is less than the second density and the first periodicity provides a shorter maximum duration without signal present than the second periodicity and wherein the second set of reference signals comprises a signal burst; receiving the reference signals according to the signal pattern; and receiving a wake up message with a cross-subframe wake up indication corresponding to the second set of reference signals.