mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method for the manufacturing of a heat source for an aerosol forming article, comprising: - providing a mould defining a cavity having a first opening; - providing a chamber above said cavity, the chamber having a second opening fluidly connected to the first opening; - placing a particulate component in the chamber; - compressing the particulate component in the chamber up to a first pressure so that it forcedly flows into said cavity; - compressing the particulate component in the cavity up to a second pressure higher than said first pressure to form the heat source; - wherein the heat source has a length between 2 mm and 20 mm. - providing a mould defining a cavity having a first opening; - providing a chamber above said cavity, the chamber having a second opening fluidly connected to the first opening; - placing a particulate component in the chamber; - compressing the particulate component in the chamber up to a first pressure so that it forcedly flows into said cavity; - compressing the particulate component in the cavity up to a second pressure higher than said first pressure to form the heat source; - wherein the heat source has a length between 2 mm and 20 mm.
Lock for a motor vehicle door, with a locking mechanism; an actuating lever mechanism (1, 2) which acts on the locking mechanism, and a drive unit (3, 4) for at least one lever of the actuating lever mechanism (1, 2). wherein the - drive unit (3, 4) includes at least one motor and one slider which is acted upon by the motor, wherein - the slider is equipped with a recess for at least one cylindrical output shaft of the motor, and wherein - a head of the output shaft which is constructed with a cylindrical cross section is seated and radially supported in the recess which has a U-shaped cross section. - drive unit (3, 4) includes at least one motor and one slider which is acted upon by the motor, wherein - the slider is equipped with a recess for at least one cylindrical output shaft of the motor, and wherein - a head of the output shaft which is constructed with a cylindrical cross section is seated and radially supported in the recess which has a U-shaped cross section.
A system for actuating an engine valve in an internal combustion engine to produce an engine valve event, said system comprising: means for imparting valve actuation motion; a housing disposed intermediate said motion imparting means and the engine valve; an outer piston slidably disposed in an outer piston bore formed in said housing, said outer piston having a cavity formed therein; an inner piston slidably disposed in the outer piston cavity; a valve (410, 430) in communication with the outer piston cavity, said valve (410, 430) having a first position and a second position, wherein the position of said valve (410, 430) determines the timing of the engine valve event; a supply passage adapted to supply hydraulic fluid to the outer piston cavity; and a reset passage adapted to release hydraulic fluid from the outer piston cavity, characterized in that the reset passage terminates at the outer piston bore at a position located closer to the engine valves than the position at which the supply passage terminates at the outer piston bore. means for imparting valve actuation motion; a housing disposed intermediate said motion imparting means and the engine valve; an outer piston slidably disposed in an outer piston bore formed in said housing, said outer piston having a cavity formed therein; an inner piston slidably disposed in the outer piston cavity; a valve (410, 430) in communication with the outer piston cavity, said valve (410, 430) having a first position and a second position, wherein the position of said valve (410, 430) determines the timing of the engine valve event; a supply passage adapted to supply hydraulic fluid to the outer piston cavity; and a reset passage adapted to release hydraulic fluid from the outer piston cavity, characterized in that the reset passage terminates at the outer piston bore at a position located closer to the engine valves than the position at which the supply passage terminates at the outer piston bore.
A drop generator for a printing head of a continuous inkjet printer, including: - at least one ink feed conduit for feeding ink into a stimulation chamber, which has a quality factor Q lower than 2 for at least one resonant frequency f r of said cavity, - stimulation means (34, 35, 35a) for stimulating a wall of said stimulation chamber; - at least one nozzle for ejecting a jet. - at least one ink feed conduit for feeding ink into a stimulation chamber, which has a quality factor Q lower than 2 for at least one resonant frequency f r of said cavity, - stimulation means (34, 35, 35a) for stimulating a wall of said stimulation chamber; - at least one nozzle for ejecting a jet.
A plastic bottle, comprising: a body portion provided with at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion and at least one body portion reference surface surrounding the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion, wherein the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion extends in an up-down direction of the body portion and is twisted in shape in a circumferential direction of the plastic bottle with a central axis of the plastic bottle as a center, the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion has a first depression, a second depression, and protrusions, the first depression is in a direction from the at least one body portion reference surface toward inside the plastic bottle, the second depression is present at a circumferential center of the first depression and is in a direction from the first depression further toward inside the plastic bottle, the protrusions are present respectively at opposite ends of the first depression in the up-down direction and are each in a form of a curved surface that extends over an entire circumferential width of the first depression and that protrudes from the first depression toward outside the plastic bottle, and each of the protrusions has a dimension in the up-down direction which dimension is smallest at circumferentially opposite ends of the protrusion and largest at a circumferentially central portion of the protrusion. a body portion provided with at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion and at least one body portion reference surface surrounding the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion, wherein the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion extends in an up-down direction of the body portion and is twisted in shape in a circumferential direction of the plastic bottle with a central axis of the plastic bottle as a center, the at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel portion has a first depression, a second depression, and protrusions, the first depression is in a direction from the at least one body portion reference surface toward inside the plastic bottle, the second depression is present at a circumferential center of the first depression and is in a direction from the first depression further toward inside the plastic bottle, the protrusions are present respectively at opposite ends of the first depression in the up-down direction and are each in a form of a curved surface that extends over an entire circumferential width of the first depression and that protrudes from the first depression toward outside the plastic bottle, and each of the protrusions has a dimension in the up-down direction which dimension is smallest at circumferentially opposite ends of the protrusion and largest at a circumferentially central portion of the protrusion.
A computer-implemented method of operating an autonomous driving vehicle, ADV, the method comprising: receiving, at an autonomous driving system, ADS, on the ADV, a stream of audio signals captured using one or more audio capturing devices and a sequence of image frames captured using one or more image capturing devices mounted on the ADV, wherein the sequence of image frames captures images of a surrounding environment of the ADV; extracting, by the ADS, a first feature vector from the stream of captured audio signals, and a second feature vector from the sequence of captured image frames; concatenating, by the ADS, the first feature vector and the second feature vector to create a concatenated feature vector, wherein the concatenating is performed using a weighted feature-level fusion approach such that features from the first feature vector and the second feature vector are selected according to a weighted factor, wherein the weighted factor is a signal-to-noise ratio, wherein the signal-to-noise ratio, determined empirically, is used to measure a level of noisiness on a road segment at different times of a day in different weather conditions, and the noisier the surrounding environment of the ADV when travelling on the road segment, the more features from the first feature vector are selected; and determining, by the ADS using a first neural network model based on the concatenated feature vector, that an emergency vehicle is present in the surrounding environment of the ADV. receiving, at an autonomous driving system, ADS, on the ADV, a stream of audio signals captured using one or more audio capturing devices and a sequence of image frames captured using one or more image capturing devices mounted on the ADV, wherein the sequence of image frames captures images of a surrounding environment of the ADV; extracting, by the ADS, a first feature vector from the stream of captured audio signals, and a second feature vector from the sequence of captured image frames; concatenating, by the ADS, the first feature vector and the second feature vector to create a concatenated feature vector, wherein the concatenating is performed using a weighted feature-level fusion approach such that features from the first feature vector and the second feature vector are selected according to a weighted factor, wherein the weighted factor is a signal-to-noise ratio, wherein the signal-to-noise ratio, determined empirically, is used to measure a level of noisiness on a road segment at different times of a day in different weather conditions, and the noisier the surrounding environment of the ADV when travelling on the road segment, the more features from the first feature vector are selected; and determining, by the ADS using a first neural network model based on the concatenated feature vector, that an emergency vehicle is present in the surrounding environment of the ADV.
Method for determining an index set I for running queries more efficiently against a database, the method being implemented in a computer system with a physical processing unit and a physical storage device, the computer storing the database with N attributes in the physical storage device, the method comprising the following steps: setting the working index set I = Ø; determining a single-attribute index { i} ( i = 1,..., N) that maximizes the ratio between associated costs reduction and associated additional memory consumption; adding the determined single-attribute index to the working index set I; for each single-attribute index { i} ( i = 1,..., N) and for each index k ∈ I, (a) creating a new index set Ĩ by adding { i} as new single-attribute index to the working index set I if I ∩ { i} = Ø;and (b) creating a new index set Ĩ by appending { i} at the end of index k of the working index set I; from the new index sets Ĩ created in step, selecting the new set Ĩ ∗ that has the maximum ratio between associated costs reduction and associated additional memory consumption; and setting the working index set I = Ĩ ∗; repeating steps - until a predetermined condition is reached. setting the working index set I = Ø; determining a single-attribute index { i} ( i = 1,..., N) that maximizes the ratio between associated costs reduction and associated additional memory consumption; adding the determined single-attribute index to the working index set I; for each single-attribute index { i} ( i = 1,..., N) and for each index k ∈ I, (a) creating a new index set Ĩ by adding { i} as new single-attribute index to the working index set I if I ∩ { i} = Ø;and (b) creating a new index set Ĩ by appending { i} at the end of index k of the working index set I; (a) creating a new index set Ĩ by adding { i} as new single-attribute index to the working index set I if I ∩ { i} = Ø;and (b) creating a new index set Ĩ by appending { i} at the end of index k of the working index set I; from the new index sets Ĩ created in step, selecting the new set Ĩ ∗ that has the maximum ratio between associated costs reduction and associated additional memory consumption; and setting the working index set I = Ĩ ∗; repeating steps - until a predetermined condition is reached.
A thermal latent curing agent comprising one or more polyoxazoline based polymers and one or more curing agents, wherein the curing agents are: (i) physically entrapped in a matrix of the polyoxazoline based polymer, and/or (ii) covalently bonded to the polyoxazoline based polymer irreversibly as a side and/or terminal group, and/or (iii)covalently bonded to the polyoxazoline based polymer reversibly. (i) physically entrapped in a matrix of the polyoxazoline based polymer, and/or (ii) covalently bonded to the polyoxazoline based polymer irreversibly as a side and/or terminal group, and/or (iii)covalently bonded to the polyoxazoline based polymer reversibly.
A curable composition for stereolithography, comprising a photopolymerizable component and a photopolymerization initiator, the photopolymerizable component comprising a (meth)acrylic monomer at a proportion of 80% by mass or more with respect to the total photopolymerizable component, the photopolymerizable component comprising a difunctional (meth)acrylic monomer and a monofunctional (meth)acrylic monomer, the monofunctional (meth)acrylic monomer comprising a compound represented by the following Formula: wherein in Formula R 1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms or a monovalent hydrocarbon group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms from which a part of the carbon atoms is substituted by an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom, which may have a substituent; and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and wherein a cured product of the curable composition has a minimum value of a storage elastic modulus, in a range of from 25°C to 300°C, of not greater than 1.20×10 7 Pa, and a storage elastic modulus at 25°C of greater than 1.0×10 9 Pa, wherein the storage elastic modulus is determined according to the method specified in the passage of the specification titled "Measurement of storage elastic modulus". the photopolymerizable component comprising a (meth)acrylic monomer at a proportion of 80% by mass or more with respect to the total photopolymerizable component, the photopolymerizable component comprising a difunctional (meth)acrylic monomer and a monofunctional (meth)acrylic monomer, the monofunctional (meth)acrylic monomer comprising a compound represented by the following Formula: wherein in Formula R 1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms or a monovalent hydrocarbon group of 1 to 40 carbon atoms from which a part of the carbon atoms is substituted by an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom, which may have a substituent; and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and wherein a cured product of the curable composition has a minimum value of a storage elastic modulus, in a range of from 25°C to 300°C, of not greater than 1.20×10 7 Pa, and a storage elastic modulus at 25°C of greater than 1.0×10 9 Pa, wherein the storage elastic modulus is determined according to the method specified in the passage of the specification titled "Measurement of storage elastic modulus".
A device for receiving secondary radar signals designed for both quasi-dynamic or dynamic sectoring of the space to be monitored, comprising: • at least one antenna arrangement comprising a plurality N of antenna elements (AE1, 2, 3,..., N) for receiving transmitted secondary radar signals, • a signal processing unit connected to a connection point of the respective antenna element (AE1, 2, 3,..., N) for a parallel processing of all N antenna signals by a coupling matrix with adjustable coefficients (a 11, a 12,..., α 21, a 22....) for the sectorization of a space to be monitored by superposition of the antenna signals by means of multiplicative-additive linking of the received antenna signals, • a control device which controls the crosspoints α 11, α 12,..., α 21, α 22....) of the coupling matrix, wherein a coefficient α mN = 1 corresponds to "connected through" or a coefficient α mN = 0 corresponds to "open" or a coefficient α mN <1 corresponds to "attenuation" or a coefficient α mN >1 corresponds to "amplification" and which switches the path of the antenna signals through the coupling matrix and via at least one summer / addition circuit to the receivers m (1, 2,..., M; M>=2), such that with regard to dynamic sectoring, each receiver m (m = 1, 2,..., M) obtaines a different weighting for each receive telegram weighted by certain coupling coefficients (α m1, α m2,..., α mN), wherein in the quasi-dynamic case, the adjustable coefficients (α 11, α 12,..., α 21, α 22....) are fixed over a longer time lasting several hours in comparison to the dynamic case. • at least one antenna arrangement comprising a plurality N of antenna elements (AE1, 2, 3,..., N) for receiving transmitted secondary radar signals, • a signal processing unit connected to a connection point of the respective antenna element (AE1, 2, 3,..., N) for a parallel processing of all N antenna signals by a coupling matrix with adjustable coefficients (a 11, a 12,..., α 21, a 22....) for the sectorization of a space to be monitored by superposition of the antenna signals by means of multiplicative-additive linking of the received antenna signals, • a control device which controls the crosspoints α 11, α 12,..., α 21, α 22....) of the coupling matrix, wherein a coefficient α mN = 1 corresponds to "connected through" or a coefficient α mN = 0 corresponds to "open" or a coefficient α mN <1 corresponds to "attenuation" or a coefficient α mN >1 corresponds to "amplification" and which switches the path of the antenna signals through the coupling matrix and via at least one summer / addition circuit to the receivers m (1, 2,..., M; M>=2),
An assembly, comprising: - a housing defining an internal space of the assembly, - an electronic circuit arranged in the internal space, and - a protection strip arranged in the internal space for protecting the electronic circuit against external influences, characterized in that the protection strip forms a ground conductor that is electrically connected to the housing and to a ground connection of said electronic circuit. - a housing defining an internal space of the assembly, - an electronic circuit arranged in the internal space, and - a protection strip arranged in the internal space for protecting the electronic circuit against external influences,
A biopsy device with real-time imaging, comprising: (a) a body; (b) a needle extending from the body; (c) a tissue sample holder mounted to the body and in communication with the needle to receive one or more tissue samples, the tissue sample holder including a plurality of sample chambers and a receiving cavity, each sample chamber of the plurality of sample chambers being configured to receive the one or more tissue samples, characterized in that the plurality of sample chambers being arranged around the receiving cavity such that the receiving cavity is defined by a space disposed between the plurality of sample chambers; and (d) an x-ray sensor removably received within_the receiving cavity of the tissue sample holder and adapted to receive an x-ray that has passed through the one or more received tissue samples. (a) a body; (b) a needle extending from the body; (c) a tissue sample holder mounted to the body and in communication with the needle to receive one or more tissue samples, the tissue sample holder including a plurality of sample chambers and a receiving cavity, each sample chamber of the plurality of sample chambers being configured to receive the one or more tissue samples, characterized in that the plurality of sample chambers being arranged around the receiving cavity such that the receiving cavity is defined by a space disposed between the plurality of sample chambers; and (d) an x-ray sensor removably received within_the receiving cavity of the tissue sample holder and adapted to receive an x-ray that has passed through the one or more received tissue samples.
A stable formulation comprising a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to PCSK9, wherein PCSK9 comprises the amino acids of SEQ ID NO:1, the monoclonal antibody in an amount of 100 mg/ml to 150 mg/ml, and a pharmaceutically acceptable buffer in an amount of 0.05 mM to 40 mM, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable buffer is a sodium acetate buffer, and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant in an amount that is 0.004% w/v to 0.01% w/v, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant is polysorbate 80, polysorbate 60, polysorbate 40 or polysorbate 20, and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable stabilizer of 0.5% w/v to 10% w/v, wherein the stable formulation has a pH of between 4.0 to 6.0, wherein said pharmaceutically acceptable stabilizer is proline, and wherein the monoclonal antibody comprises a light chain variable region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:23 or a variant thereof, wherein the variant comprises one amino acid insertion, deletion and/ or substitution relative to SEQ ID NO:23; and a heavy chain variable region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:49 or a variant thereof, wherein the variant comprises one amino acid insertion, deletion and/ or substitution relative to SEQ ID NO:49, and a light chain constant region of SEQ ID NO:156 and a heavy chain constant region of SEQ ID NO:154 or SEQ ID NO:155.
A method for controlling a pressure inside a fuel tank system comprising a fuel tank and a controllable pressure relief valve (A, B, C, or D of 110),, the method comprising: - assessing whether a predetermined vapor expulsion risk is present, said predetermined vapor expulsion risk pertaining to a vapor expulsion from a main volume of the tank into a space accessible to an operator; - if said risk is present, operating said pressure relief valve (A, B, C, or D of 110), in accordance with a first pressure threshold, - if the risk is not present, operating said pressure relief valve (A, B, C, or D of 110), in accordance with a second pressure threshold, wherein the second pressure threshold is higher than the first pressure threshold. - assessing whether a predetermined vapor expulsion risk is present, said predetermined vapor expulsion risk pertaining to a vapor expulsion from a main volume of the tank into a space accessible to an operator; - if said risk is present, operating said pressure relief valve (A, B, C, or D of 110), in accordance with a first pressure threshold, - if the risk is not present, operating said pressure relief valve (A, B, C, or D of 110), in accordance with a second pressure threshold,