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A home carbonation system, the system comprising: a bottle holder to hold a bottle during carbonation; and an axis around which said bottle holder rotates at an angle to receive said bottle for said carbonation and to release said bottle after said carbonation; a carbonating arm connected to the housing of said system via a spring and wherein said carbonating arm is lowerable during said carbonation, said carbonating arm having a cam surface; a normally open valve having a plunger pressable by said cam surface during carbonation to seal said valve; a mechanical lock to lock said bottle within said carbonation system during carbonation; wherein said mechanical lock comprises a recessed area in which a protrusion of said bottle holder sits when said bottle is in an upright position and said carbonating arm is lowered and wherein said recessed area prevents said bottle holder from rotating around said axis when said carbonating arm is lowered; and a gradual releaser to controllably release pressure after said carbonation and to delay the unlocking of said bottle from said mechanical lock after said carbonation has ended; wherein said gradual releaser comprises a damper to enable said spring to gradually raise said carbonating arm after said carbonation with a controlled velocity to gradually unpress said plunger and gradually unseal said valve. a bottle holder to hold a bottle during carbonation; and an axis around which said bottle holder rotates at an angle to receive said bottle for said carbonation and to release said bottle after said carbonation; a carbonating arm connected to the housing of said system via a spring and wherein said carbonating arm is lowerable during said carbonation, said carbonating arm having a cam surface; a normally open valve having a plunger pressable by said cam surface during carbonation to seal said valve; a mechanical lock to lock said bottle within said carbonation system during carbonation; wherein said mechanical lock comprises a recessed area in which a protrusion of said bottle holder sits when said bottle is in an upright position and said carbonating arm is lowered and wherein said recessed area prevents said bottle holder from rotating around said axis when said carbonating arm is lowered; and a gradual releaser to controllably release pressure after said carbonation and to delay the unlocking of said bottle from said mechanical lock after said carbonation has ended; wherein said gradual releaser comprises a damper to enable said spring to gradually raise said carbonating arm after said carbonation with a controlled velocity to gradually unpress said plunger and gradually unseal said valve.
A pneumatic tire comprising: a tread portion provided with at least one block and a shoulder main groove adjacent the at least one block; the at least one block comprising a main portion having a ground contact surface for coming into contact with a ground and an auxiliary portion located radially inward of the ground contact surface of the main portion and protruding laterally from the main portion; and the auxiliary portion comprising a first portion extending along in a longitudinal direction of the shoulder main groove and at least two second portions located radially outward of the first portion and arranged separately from one another in the longitudinal direction of the shoulder main groove. a tread portion provided with at least one block and a shoulder main groove adjacent the at least one block; the at least one block comprising a main portion having a ground contact surface for coming into contact with a ground and an auxiliary portion located radially inward of the ground contact surface of the main portion and protruding laterally from the main portion; and the auxiliary portion comprising a first portion extending along in a longitudinal direction of the shoulder main groove and at least two second portions located radially outward of the first portion and arranged separately from one another in the longitudinal direction of the shoulder main groove.
A method of decoding video and images, comprising: decoding a picture from a coded bitstream having a syntax hierarchy comprising at least a picture layer (310, 500), an independently decodable slice containing one or more contiguous rows of macroblocks of the picture, and a macroblock layer (340, 520), wherein a coding syntax of the independently decodable slice includes a start code made of a start code prefix, SCP, being a unique sequence of three bytes, and a one byte start code suffix, SCS, used to identify a slice, the start code being followed by a slice header that signals an address of said slice and an indication whether picture header information is repeated in said slice, the slice header being followed by payload data for the macroblock layer, wherein emulation of the SCP is prevented through an encapsulation mechanism according to which any string within the payload of three consecutive bytes similar to the three bytes of the SCP is replaced with a similar string in which a supplementary, fixed value byte has been inserted, wherein the decoding the picture comprises: decoding said signaled indication whether picture header information is repeated in said slice; if picture header information is indicated to be repeated, decoding the picture header information; decoding the signaled address; reconstructing the slice at a location in the picture indicated by the signaled address; and performing overlap smoothing on at least some block edges within said slice, excepting at boundary edges of said slice, wherein the overlap smoothing includes filtering operations coupled to a block-based transform in order to simulate an overlapped transform. decoding said signaled indication whether picture header information is repeated in said slice; if picture header information is indicated to be repeated, decoding the picture header information; decoding the signaled address; reconstructing the slice at a location in the picture indicated by the signaled address; and performing overlap smoothing on at least some block edges within said slice, excepting at boundary edges of said slice, wherein the overlap smoothing includes filtering operations coupled to a block-based transform in order to simulate an overlapped transform.
A method of eliminating leaking of molded fluid channels of a surgical cassette manifold, the method comprising: providing a front housing, rear housing, and a gasket, wherein the front housing comprises one or more molded fluid channels and one or more seal channels, and wherein at least a portion of the gasket is located between the front housing and the rear housing, molding the gasket onto the rear housing to create a single unit, wherein the gasket comprises one or more seal lips configured and dimensioned to couple with the one or more seal channels; and assembling the front housing to the rear housing having the gasket, wherein the one or more seal lips couple with the seal channels. providing a front housing, rear housing, and a gasket, wherein the front housing comprises one or more molded fluid channels and one or more seal channels, and wherein at least a portion of the gasket is located between the front housing and the rear housing, wherein the front housing comprises one or more molded fluid channels and one or more seal channels, and wherein at least a portion of the gasket is located between the front housing and the rear housing, molding the gasket onto the rear housing to create a single unit, wherein the gasket comprises one or more seal lips configured and dimensioned to couple with the one or more seal channels; and assembling the front housing to the rear housing having the gasket, wherein the one or more seal lips couple with the seal channels.
Dishwasher, especially household dishwasher, with a washing container, in the floor area of which a collection dish for washing liquor is disposed, which is divided with the aid of at least one mesh filter into a coarse contamination area and a fine contamination area, characterised by a pump, which is connected on the suction side to the fine contamination area and on the pressure side has a first outlet opening for circulation of washing liquor, a second output opening for pumping away of washing liquor and to which a closure device for alternately closing the outlet openings (19, 23) is assigned, wherein a drain line is connected to the first outlet opening, in which a Venturi nozzle is disposed, which has a suction connection connected to the coarse contamination area.
A coupling mechanism for a mechatronic locking system, wherein the coupling mechanism comprises - an outer coupling part (16.1) which is rotatably mounted about a rotation axis; - an inner coupling part (16.2) which is rotatably mounted relative to the outer coupling part (16.1); - a coupling intermediate piece (18.14); - a coupling element which is movable along an axis which is radial to the rotation axis; and - a drive which is configured to move the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) from a first position into a second position and from the second into the first position, wherein the first position is defined by a first distance to the rotation axis and the second position by a second distance to the rotation axis; wherein the drive comprises a spring spindle (18.10), via which it moves the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) between the first and the second position, and wherein the coupling element is positively guided by the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) in a manner such that its position along the radial axis is completely defined by the coupling intermediate piece (18.14), wherein the coupling element does not connect the outer coupling part (16.1) to the inner coupling part (16.2) when the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) is in the first position and wherein the coupling element connects the outer coupling part (16.1) to the inner coupling part (16.2) when the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) is in the second position, wherein the spring spindle (18.10) comprises a spring (18.13), a shaft (18.11) and a positioning pin (18.12), wherein the spring spindle (18.10) is configured to store the work mustered by the drive in a deformation of the spring (18.13), characterised in that the shaft (18.11) comprises a longitudinal axis (18.17) and in that the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) is movable by way of a moving of the spring (18.13) along this longitudinal axis (18.17). - an outer coupling part (16.1) which is rotatably mounted about a rotation axis; - an inner coupling part (16.2) which is rotatably mounted relative to the outer coupling part (16.1); - a coupling intermediate piece (18.14); - a coupling element which is movable along an axis which is radial to the rotation axis; and - a drive which is configured to move the coupling intermediate piece (18.14) from a first position into a second position and from the second into the first position, wherein the first position is defined by a first distance to the rotation axis and the second position by a second distance to the rotation axis;
A beard trimmer comprising: - a cutting system; - a comb provided with a working window for the cutting system, said comb being tiltably mounted on a holder; - a knob for adjusting the cutting height; and - cooperation means between the knob and the comb, said cooperation means allowing, during use, to convert a rotational movement of the knob into a movement of the comb away from its holder; characterized in that the cooperation means comprise a helical slot formed in the inner face of the knob and a protuberance positioned either on the comb, or on an intermediate part connecting said comb to said knob. - a cutting system; - a comb provided with a working window for the cutting system, said comb being tiltably mounted on a holder; - a knob for adjusting the cutting height; - cooperation means between the knob and the comb, said cooperation means allowing, during use, to convert a rotational movement of the knob into a movement of the comb away from its holder;
Winding arrangement (300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800) for an electric installation, the winding arrangement comprising an electric conductor and a plurality of cooling ducts, wherein the electric conductor is coiled up forming several layers around an axis, wherein: - each cooling duct of said plurality of cooling ducts extends between a pair of adjacent layers of the coiled electric conductor in axial direction through the winding arrangement and in tangential direction not entirely around the axis, wherein each layer contacts at least one cooling duct and the cooling ducts are arranged in a spiral arrangement from inside to outside such that the plurality of cooling ducts form a circumferential structure around the axis that increases a diameter of the winding arrangement in a constant manner and that ensures therefore a cylindrical form of the winding arrangement; - the cooling ducts of the plurality of cooling ducts are distributed among more than one pair of adjacent layers such that the winding arrangement is essentially cylindrical; characterized in that the winding arrangement comprises two pluralities of cooling ducts (401, 402) arranged in two spiral arrangements (461, 462), wherein each duct of the first spiral arrangement is arranged diametrically opposite to another duct of the second spiral arrangement, each layer contacting therefore two cooling ducts. - each cooling duct of said plurality of cooling ducts extends between a pair of adjacent layers of the coiled electric conductor in axial direction through the winding arrangement and in tangential direction not entirely around the axis, wherein each layer contacts at least one cooling duct and the cooling ducts are arranged in a spiral arrangement from inside to outside such that the plurality of cooling ducts form a circumferential structure around the axis that increases a diameter of the winding arrangement in a constant manner and that ensures therefore a cylindrical form of the winding arrangement; - the cooling ducts of the plurality of cooling ducts are distributed among more than one pair of adjacent layers such that the winding arrangement is essentially cylindrical;
A face sealing annular valve for a fluid working machine, the valve having a valve body arranged around a central axis and comprising an annular valve seat and guide means, and an annular valve member located around or within the guide means; the guide means comprising one or more cylindrically arranged guides to restrict radial motion of the annular valve member, the guide means being configured loosely to retain the annular valve member around or within the guide means so that the annular valve member is free to tilt out of a plane perpendicular to the central axis within a maximum tilt angle; the annular valve member arranged around an axis of symmetry and moveable axially in relation to the guide means to sealedly engage with the annular valve seat; and a guide engaging surface region extending around a circumference of the annular valve member; wherein the annular valve member has a minimum inner circumference or maximum outer circumference at which the guide engaging surface region of the annular valve member faces the guide means across a minimum spacing between the annular valve member and the guide means, wherein the annular valve member is configured so that, when the annular valve member and the annular valve seat are coaxial, the spacing between the guide means and the guide-engaging surface region increases with distance along the central axis from the minimum spacing at the minimum inner circumference or maximum outer circumference, and characterized in that the annular valve member is configured such that no part of the annular valve member falls within a region defined by frusta extending from the minimum inner circumference or maximum inner circumference at an angle equal to the maximum tilt angle away from the axis of symmetry.
Use of a polyamine curable, highly saturated nitrile rubber composition having resistant to hardening caused by polycyclic aromatic compounds; the composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polyamine curable, highly saturated nitrile rubber having an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer unit, a diene-based monomer unit, an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monoester monomer unit, and an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester monomer unit other than the α,β-ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monoester monomer unit, and having an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated nitrile monomer unit content of 22.0 to 24.5 wt.% and an iodine value of 120 or less, and 4 to 31 parts by weight of an aliphatic carboxylic acid diester compound of polyalkylene glycol as a cure molding material of a sealing material exposed to polycyclic aromatic compound.
A compressor system comprising: a first compressor operable to produce a flow of compressed fluid including a quantity of moisture; a dryer including a refrigeration system including an evaporator and a refrigerant compressor that is separate from the fluid compressor and operable to produce the flow of refrigerant, the evaporator passing a flow of refrigerant therethrough and operable to cool the flow of compressed fluid such that the dryer reduces the quantity of moisture within the flow of compressed fluid; a drive member coupled to the first compressor and operable to drive the first compressor, characterized by a cooling passage extending from a point downstream of the evaporator to a point upstream of the refrigerant compressor, at least a portion of the cooling passage in thermal exchange relationship with the drive member. a first compressor operable to produce a flow of compressed fluid including a quantity of moisture; a dryer including a refrigeration system including an evaporator and a refrigerant compressor that is separate from the fluid compressor and operable to produce the flow of refrigerant, the evaporator passing a flow of refrigerant therethrough and operable to cool the flow of compressed fluid such that the dryer reduces the quantity of moisture within the flow of compressed fluid; a drive member coupled to the first compressor and operable to drive the first compressor, characterized by a cooling passage extending from a point downstream of the evaporator to a point upstream of the refrigerant compressor, at least a portion of the cooling passage in thermal exchange relationship with the drive member.
A headphone system comprising: an earpiece having an interior volume, the earpiece configured to couple to an ear and define an acoustic volume comprising the interior volume and a volume within the ear; a speaker acoustically coupled to the acoustic volume to provide acoustic energy to the acoustic volume based on a received driver signal; a feedback microphone acoustically coupled to the acoustic volume to detect at least residual noise within the acoustic volume, and generate a feedback audio signal indicative of the residual noise; and a control circuit comprising a sensor interface configured to receive aircraft data from an on-board aircraft system sensor, the aircraft data including an atmospheric pressure signal, the control circuit coupled to the feedback microphone to receive the feedback audio signal, and the control circuit being configured to adjust the driver signal based at least in part on the feedback audio signal and the atmospheric pressure signal. an earpiece having an interior volume, the earpiece configured to couple to an ear and define an acoustic volume comprising the interior volume and a volume within the ear; a speaker acoustically coupled to the acoustic volume to provide acoustic energy to the acoustic volume based on a received driver signal; a feedback microphone acoustically coupled to the acoustic volume to detect at least residual noise within the acoustic volume, and generate a feedback audio signal indicative of the residual noise; and a control circuit comprising a sensor interface configured to receive aircraft data from an on-board aircraft system sensor, the aircraft data including an atmospheric pressure signal, the control circuit coupled to the feedback microphone to receive the feedback audio signal, and the control circuit being configured to adjust the driver signal based at least in part on the feedback audio signal and the atmospheric pressure signal.
An ablation system, comprising: multiple electrodes configured to contact body tissue of a patient, including two or more ablation electrodes for contacting respective locations in a target organ and a return electrode; a signal-generating unit comprising multiple signal generators, which are configured to apply respective composite signals to respective ones of the ablation electrodes, the composite signals comprising multiple, respective signal components, including respective ablation signals, having different, respective ablation-signal amplitudes and phases at a common ablation-signal frequency, and respective probe signals having respective probe-signal amplitudes and different respective probe-signal frequencies; and a processor coupled to measure the probe signals received by each of the multiple electrodes, and responsively to the measured probe signals, to control the ablation-signal amplitudes and phases. multiple electrodes configured to contact body tissue of a patient, including two or more ablation electrodes for contacting respective locations in a target organ and a return electrode; a signal-generating unit comprising multiple signal generators, which are configured to apply respective composite signals to respective ones of the ablation electrodes, the composite signals comprising multiple, respective signal components, including respective ablation signals, having different, respective ablation-signal amplitudes and phases at a common ablation-signal frequency, and respective probe signals having respective probe-signal amplitudes and different respective probe-signal frequencies; and a processor coupled to measure the probe signals received by each of the multiple electrodes, and responsively to the measured probe signals, to control the ablation-signal amplitudes and phases.
Tank arrangement (1, 100) for storing a fluid, in particular a liquid reducing agent for the denitrification of the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, having a tank wall (4, 5), wherein the tank wall delimits an interior space, which can be filled with the fluid, of the tank arrangement from an exterior space, and having a heating arrangement for heating the fluid, wherein the heating arrangement comprises a heating element (9, 109) arranged in the interior space, characterized in that the heating arrangement is designed to inductively heat the heating element (9, 109), wherein an electrically actuable magnetization unit (7, 21; 7, 21, 115, 118) of the heating arrangement is arranged in the exterior space adjacent to the heating element (9, 109), and in that the tank wall is produced from electrically non-conductive or only insignificantly conductive plastic, such that inductive heating of the fluid can be performed substantially by way of the heating element, wherein the heating arrangement is situated close to a suction extraction point (17, 130) and/or to a filter of the tank arrangement, and wherein the suction extraction point and/or the filter have/has at least one metallic element, such that inductive heating of the suction extraction point (17, 130) and/or of the filter is possible.