mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method which comprises: (a) separating a heated whole crude oil feedstock into vaporous and liquid hydrocarbons in a unit that provides a vaporization function; (b) transferring at least a portion of said vaporous hydrocarbons to a radiant heating section of a furnace to induce severe thermal cracking; (c) retaining at least part of said liquid hydrocarbons in said unit; (d) contacting in counter current flow said retained liquid hydrocarbons with at least one heated gas to form additional vaporous hydrocarbons for transfer to a radiant heating section of a furnace; (e) introducing near the bottom of said unit at least one quenching oil to form an oil-liquid hydrocarbon mixture, said quenching oil being at a temperature of less than 371 °C; and (f) removing at least a portion of said oil-liquid hydrocarbon mixture from said unit; whereby the operation of said unit is driven toward said vaporization function. (a) separating a heated whole crude oil feedstock into vaporous and liquid hydrocarbons in a unit that provides a vaporization function; (b) transferring at least a portion of said vaporous hydrocarbons to a radiant heating section of a furnace to induce severe thermal cracking; (c) retaining at least part of said liquid hydrocarbons in said unit; (d) contacting in counter current flow said retained liquid hydrocarbons with at least one heated gas to form additional vaporous hydrocarbons for transfer to a radiant heating section of a furnace; (e) introducing near the bottom of said unit at least one quenching oil to form an oil-liquid hydrocarbon mixture, said quenching oil being at a temperature of less than 371 °C; and (f) removing at least a portion of said oil-liquid hydrocarbon mixture from said unit; whereby the operation of said unit is driven toward said vaporization function.
A method for accelerating a gear train of a braking, clamping or gripping device with initially reduced mass moment of inertia, - wherein, out of the rotating part of a drive motor and the downstream gearings (230, 260) acting on a lifting slide, the part of the gear train close to the motor can be accelerated before the part of this gear train remote from the motor, - wherein the part of the gear train close to the motor is connected to the part of the gear train remote from the motor via a non-shiftable shaft coupling, which has rotational play, is based on a disc coupling and consists of an input disc and an output disc, or via a thrust coupling with longitudinal play, and - wherein the rotational play or the longitudinal play is fully available during every gripping and releasing process in order to set the stationary gearing parts in motion rapidly together with the already accelerated gearing parts, and - wherein, with a shaft coupling with rotational play, on each change of direction, coupling elements of the input disc and coupling elements (62, 63) of the output disc contact one another via flat flanks (54, 55) and (64, 65) only after a coupling angle of at least 10 degrees. - wherein, out of the rotating part of a drive motor and the downstream gearings (230, 260) acting on a lifting slide, the part of the gear train close to the motor can be accelerated before the part of this gear train remote from the motor, - wherein the part of the gear train close to the motor is connected to the part of the gear train remote from the motor via a non-shiftable shaft coupling, which has rotational play, is based on a disc coupling and consists of an input disc and an output disc, or via a thrust coupling with longitudinal play, and - wherein the rotational play or the longitudinal play is fully available during every gripping and releasing process in order to set the stationary gearing parts in motion rapidly together with the already accelerated gearing parts, and - wherein, with a shaft coupling with rotational play, on each change of direction, coupling elements of the input disc and coupling elements (62, 63) of the output disc contact one another via flat flanks (54, 55) and (64, 65) only after a coupling angle of at least 10 degrees.
Method of improving the print quality of graphic elements in PDF documents at a prepress stage of the printing operation by means of a computer, the method comprising the steps of • analyzing the page content of the PDF document by means of the computer and saving the page content in a suitable data structure • searching the data structure for graphic elements that meet specific preselected criteria in terms of an assessment of the height and width of the graphic paths of the graphics elements present in the PDF document by means of the computer • selecting graphic elements, the height or width of which is smaller than a predefined height or width • converting the selected graphic elements into image masks by rendering the selected graphic elements in the computer, wherein a rule is applied to render the selected graphic elements, said rule causing only pixels in the screen to be filled of which lines of the graphic elements in their width overlap a specific portion of the pixel in the screen • replacing the selected original graphic elements in the PDF document with generated image masks by means of the computer • printing the PDF document with the generated image masks in a printing machine, wherein before the converting step, selected neighboring graphic elements are combined to form a common graphic element for the conversion and wherein the graphic elements are vectorized text graphics. • analyzing the page content of the PDF document by means of the computer and saving the page content in a suitable data structure • searching the data structure for graphic elements that meet specific preselected criteria in terms of an assessment of the height and width of the graphic paths of the graphics elements present in the PDF document by means of the computer • selecting graphic elements, the height or width of which is smaller than a predefined height or width • converting the selected graphic elements into image masks by rendering the selected graphic elements in the computer, wherein a rule is applied to render the selected graphic elements, said rule causing only pixels in the screen to be filled of which lines of the graphic elements in their width overlap a specific portion of the pixel in the screen • replacing the selected original graphic elements in the PDF document with generated image masks by means of the computer • printing the PDF document with the generated image masks in a printing machine, wherein before the converting step, selected neighboring graphic elements are combined to form a common graphic element for the conversion and wherein the graphic elements are vectorized text graphics.
A rotatable data card, comprising a data card body, a USB connector and a rotating shaft assembly, wherein the rotating shaft assembly comprises a rotating shaft, a fixed fluted disk, and a rotating shaft casing, the rotating shaft and the fixed fluted disk are accommodated in the rotating shaft casing; the USB connector comprises a bracket, wherein a hole is opened on the bracket, the rotating shaft casing is set in the hole, and the rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the data card body; teeth are set on the rotating shaft and the fixed fluted disk, wherein the rotating shaft and the fixed fluted disk are engaged with each other through the manner of coordination of the teeth; and the teeth on the rotating shaft and on the fixed fluted disk are arranged such that the rotating shaft rotates relative to the fixed fluted disk in such a way that each time the data card body is rotated an angle between the data card body and the USB connector is different from 180 degrees. the USB connector comprises a bracket, wherein a hole is opened on the bracket, the rotating shaft casing is set in the hole, and the rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the data card body; teeth are set on the rotating shaft and the fixed fluted disk, wherein the rotating shaft and the fixed fluted disk are engaged with each other through the manner of coordination of the teeth; and the teeth on the rotating shaft and on the fixed fluted disk are arranged such that the rotating shaft rotates relative to the fixed fluted disk in such a way that each time the data card body is rotated an angle between the data card body and the USB connector is different from 180 degrees.
A beam splitting apparatus (54;60;70;80) for use within a lithographic system, comprising: a plurality of static mirrors (56,57;62a-62c;71a-71c;81-83) each arranged to receive a different part of a first radiation beam from a radiation source and to reflect a respective portion of radiation along one of a plurality of directions to form a plurality of branch radiation beams (B 1 -B 3) for provision to a plurality of tools, characterized in that each static mirror is arranged to extend partially across the first radiation beam.
A cutting method for cutting a fiber reinforced composite material and/or a metal using an entry sheet which comprises a resin sheet comprising a solid lubricant selected from the group consisting of graphite, molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide, molybdenum compounds, polytetrafluoroethylenes and polyimides, characterized in that the fiber reinforced composite material comprises a carbon fiber reinforced plastic, the metal comprises a titanium alloy or an aluminum alloy, the cutting is performed while cooling a cutting portion and/or a cutting tool using a gas, an amount of the gas supplied to the cutting portion and/or the cutting tool is 5 to 300 L/min, a gas outlet area in an apparatus for supplying the gas is 7 mm 2 to 2000 mm 2, and a distance between a gas outlet of the apparatus for supplying the gas and the cutting portion and/or the cutting tool is 100 mm to 500 mm. the fiber reinforced composite material comprises a carbon fiber reinforced plastic, the metal comprises a titanium alloy or an aluminum alloy, the cutting is performed while cooling a cutting portion and/or a cutting tool using a gas, an amount of the gas supplied to the cutting portion and/or the cutting tool is 5 to 300 L/min, a gas outlet area in an apparatus for supplying the gas is 7 mm 2 to 2000 mm 2, and a distance between a gas outlet of the apparatus for supplying the gas and the cutting portion and/or the cutting tool is 100 mm to 500 mm.
A hydrogel composition comprising: a) a crosslinked polymer derived from one or more olefinically unsaturated polymerizable carboxylic monomers; b) an optional comonomer; and c) a water-soluble thermoplastic polyurethane comprising the reaction product of: i) an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate; and ii) a polyol component comprising of at least one polyethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 1450; wherein the aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate comprises dicyclohexylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (H12MDI), 4,4'-methyl enebis(phenyl isocyanate), toluene diisocyanate, or m-xylene diisocyanate; wherein the composition exhibits high yield stress at low shear; and wherein the composition does not contain a solvent other than water. a) a crosslinked polymer derived from one or more olefinically unsaturated polymerizable carboxylic monomers; b) an optional comonomer; and c) a water-soluble thermoplastic polyurethane comprising the reaction product of: i) an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate; and ii) a polyol component comprising of at least one polyethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 1450; wherein the aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate comprises dicyclohexylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (H12MDI), 4,4'-methyl enebis(phenyl isocyanate), toluene diisocyanate, or m-xylene diisocyanate; i) an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate; and ii) a polyol component comprising of at least one polyethylene glycol having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of at least 1450; wherein the aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate comprises dicyclohexylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (H12MDI), 4,4'-methyl enebis(phenyl isocyanate), toluene diisocyanate, or m-xylene diisocyanate;
Method for adjusting the position of a main coil assembly in a cyclotron with respect to a reference plane, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing a cyclotron designed for accelerating charged particles in a particle acceleration region of a median plane of the cyclotron, said cyclotron comprising a main coil assembly (30, 31) designed to generate a main magnetic field ( for bending a trajectory of the charged particles in the acceleration region and first positioning means which are adapted to adjust a position of said main coil assembly (30, 31) with respect to said median plane, b) applying power to the main coil assembly, c) selecting a first position, at a first azimuth in the median plane and outside the particle acceleration region, at which the magnitude (Bv) of an axial component ( ( Bv) of the main magnetic field perpendicular to the median plane is smaller than 25% of a maximum magnitude (Bv_max) of the axial component of the main magnetic field at said first azimuth, d) placing a magnetic field sensor at the first position and orienting it in order to detect a radial component (( Bh) of the main magnetic field parallel to the median plane, e) measuring the magnitude of said radial component of the main magnetic field with the magnetic field sensor, thereby yielding a first measured value Bh1, f) adjusting the position of the main coil assembly (30, 31) with respect to the median plane by using the first positioning means so as to reduce the absolute value of Bh1. a) providing a cyclotron designed for accelerating charged particles in a particle acceleration region of a median plane of the cyclotron, said cyclotron comprising a main coil assembly (30, 31) designed to generate a main magnetic field ( for bending a trajectory of the charged particles in the acceleration region and first positioning means which are adapted to adjust a position of said main coil assembly (30, 31) with respect to said median plane, b) applying power to the main coil assembly, c) selecting a first position, at a first azimuth in the median plane and outside the particle acceleration region, at which the magnitude (Bv) of an axial component ( ( Bv) of the main magnetic field perpendicular to the median plane is smaller than 25% of a maximum magnitude (Bv_max) of the axial component of the main magnetic field at said first azimuth, d) placing a magnetic field sensor at the first position and orienting it in order to detect a radial component (( Bh) of the main magnetic field parallel to the median plane, e) measuring the magnitude of said radial component of the main magnetic field with the magnetic field sensor, thereby yielding a first measured value Bh1, f) adjusting the position of the main coil assembly (30, 31) with respect to the median plane by using the first positioning means so as to reduce the absolute value of Bh1.
A soil cultivation device comprising a plurality of device sections (1a, 1b, 1c) arranged laterally in juxtaposition with respect to a towing direction, wherein said device sections (1a, 1b, 1c) include at least one loosening tine and at least one first and second loosening share (3, 4), wherein the loosening tine of a device section (1a, 1b, 1c) is arranged in front of the loosening shares (3, 4) of this device section (1a, 1b, 1c) with respect to said towing direction and between the loosening shares (3, 4) in a transverse direction extending perpendicularly to said towing direction and wherein the distance between the second loosening share and the loosening tine measured in the towing direction is greater than the distance between the first loosening share and the loosening tine measured in the towing direction, characterized in that said first and second loosening shares (3, 4) are formed non-symmetrical, said first loosening share causing a soil movement in a first direction and said second loosening share causing a soil movement in a second direction opposite the first direction, and that said first and second loosening shares (3, 4) each cause an oppositely directed lateral displacement of the soil in the direction of a furrow created by said loosening tine.
A peptide conjugate comprising a receptor associated protein peptide linked to a fucosidase inhibitor, the RAP peptide comprising a polypeptide sequence at least 80% homologous to amino acids 210-319 of RAP of SEQ ID NO: 1 wherein the fucosidase inhibitor inhibits the activity of alpha-L-fucosidase to cleave fucose residues from glycoproteins and induces glycoprotein-derived oligosaccharide build-up in the lysosome, wherein the fucosidase inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of L-deoxyfuconojirimycin, beta-1-C-methyl deoxymannojirimycin, beta-1-C-ethyl deoxymannojirimycin, beta-1-C-phenyl deoxymannojirimycin, (3R,4R,5S,6S)-1-butyl-4,5,6-trihydroxyazepane-3-carboxylic acid (Faz), beta-L-homofucononojirimycin, substituted (1-alpha,2-beta,3-alpha or beta,4-alpha,5-alpha or beta)-2,3,4-trihydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)cyclopentylamines and 2,6-imino-2,6,7-trideoxy-D-glycero-D-gluco heptitol.
A sealing ring, comprising: - an annular body having a circumferential profile; - elastic members, peripherally coupled to the annular body and configured to counteract an expansion or a contraction of the annular body in a radial direction; wherein- the annular body comprises two or more sealing elements extending along circumferential sections, each sealing element extending between two opposite ends (51, 52), the sealing elements being adjacent to each other to thereby define the circumferential profile of the annular body, each sealing element partially overlapping the sealing element adjacent thereto, - each sealing element has an inner surface, the inner surfaces of the sealing elements that make up the annular body define an inner circumferential profile of the annular body, - each sealing element has an outer surface, the outer surfaces of the sealing elements define an outer circumferential profile of the annular body, - each sealing element has two opposite lateral surfaces, connecting the inner surface and the outer surface, characterized in that - the elastic members comprise a pair of springs for each sealing element, the springs being located on two opposite lateral surfaces of the sealing elements of the annular body so that each pair of ends (51, 52) of two adjacent sealing elements comprises two springs, thereby each sealing element shares two springs with each adjacent sealing element. - an annular body having a circumferential profile; - elastic members, peripherally coupled to the annular body and configured to counteract an expansion or a contraction of the annular body in a radial direction; wherein- the annular body comprises two or more sealing elements extending along circumferential sections, each sealing element extending between two opposite ends (51, 52), the sealing elements being adjacent to each other to thereby define the circumferential profile of the annular body, each sealing element partially overlapping the sealing element adjacent thereto, - each sealing element has an inner surface, the inner surfaces of the sealing elements that make up the annular body define an inner circumferential profile of the annular body, - each sealing element has an outer surface, the outer surfaces of the sealing elements define an outer circumferential profile of the annular body, - each sealing element has two opposite lateral surfaces, connecting the inner surface and the outer surface, characterized in that - the elastic members comprise a pair of springs for each sealing element, the springs being located on two opposite lateral surfaces of the sealing elements of the annular body so that each pair of ends (51, 52) of two adjacent sealing elements comprises two springs, thereby each sealing element shares two springs with each adjacent sealing element.
An acoustic droplet ejection apparatus comprising: an acoustic actuator comprising at least one piezoelectric element operating in thickness mode; a control means associated with the actuator; and a fluid well having a base and at least one side wall; wherein the actuator is arranged to couple acoustic energy into the fluid well through the side wall; wherein the actuator is configured to focus the acoustic energy within the fluid well; and wherein the control means is arranged to control the actuator such that the size of the ejected droplets are adjustable. an acoustic actuator comprising at least one piezoelectric element operating in thickness mode; a control means associated with the actuator; and a fluid well having a base and at least one side wall; wherein the actuator is arranged to couple acoustic energy into the fluid well through the side wall; wherein the actuator is configured to focus the acoustic energy within the fluid well; and wherein the control means is arranged to control the actuator such that the size of the ejected droplets are adjustable.
A heater system characterized by: a plurality of hinged carrier members, each hinged carrier member defining an inner periphery surface, an outer receiving portion, end portions, and connecting portions disposed adjacent the outer receiving portion and extending along a longitudinal portion of the hinged carrier member; and a plurality of resistive heating elements disposed within the outer receiving portions of the hinged carrier members, the resistive heating elements defining end portions; wherein the inner periphery surfaces of the hinged carrier members are adapted to transfer heat to a target and the connecting portions are removably connected to the connection portions of adjacent ones of the carrier members to form hinges. a plurality of hinged carrier members, each hinged carrier member defining an inner periphery surface, an outer receiving portion, end portions, and connecting portions disposed adjacent the outer receiving portion and extending along a longitudinal portion of the hinged carrier member; and a plurality of resistive heating elements disposed within the outer receiving portions of the hinged carrier members, the resistive heating elements defining end portions; wherein the inner periphery surfaces of the hinged carrier members are adapted to transfer heat to a target and the connecting portions are removably connected to the connection portions of adjacent ones of the carrier members to form hinges.
A method for producing a fibre-reinforced plastics-material component, especially a body part of a vehicle, wherein at least two fibre components (1, 2) • are provided, • are arranged in relation to each other such that they overlap one another at least in a partial region, • are injection-moulded around or impregnated with a resin-like liquid and • then are cured, wherein the at least two fibre components (1, 2) are injection-moulded around or impregnated with the resin-like liquid in an injection mould and prior to the injection moulding-around or impregnation are stapled together in their region of overlap with at least one staple element by means of a stapling tool, characterised in that, when being stapled together, the two fibre components (1, 2) are pressed against a forming face by means of a template-like tool. • are provided, • are arranged in relation to each other such that they overlap one another at least in a partial region, • are injection-moulded around or impregnated with a resin-like liquid and • then are cured, wherein the at least two fibre components (1, 2) are injection-moulded around or impregnated with the resin-like liquid in an injection mould and prior to the injection moulding-around or impregnation are stapled together in their region of overlap with at least one staple element by means of a stapling tool, characterised in that, when being stapled together, the two fibre components (1, 2) are pressed against a forming face by means of a template-like tool.