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An interlock and setting section for a downhole tool system, the interlock and setting section comprising:- a shifting profile located within a throughbore of the downhole tool system, wherein the shifting profile is capable of being coupled to by a shifting tool in the throughbore of the downhole tool system, in order to move the shifting profile with respect to the downhole tool system; a load connector member coupled to the shifting profile and further coupled to a load setting member arranged to deliver a load to a tool as required; wherein there is further provided a selective locking mechanism (6, 7) to selectively lock at least the load setting member to at least one of the downhole tool system and the shifting profile; wherein the downhole tool system comprises a static mandrel (3, 23) against which a load is to be generated; and wherein the selective locking mechanism (6, 7) comprises two lock members (6,7) located in a recess in the static mandrel (3, 23) and which, in a locking configuration, are arranged such that one of the lock members is restrained from longitudinal movement with respect to the static mandrel (3, 23) and wherein the lock members (6, 7) radially support one another to permit load to be transferred from the shifting profile to the load setting member a shifting profile located within a throughbore of the downhole tool system, wherein the shifting profile is capable of being coupled to by a shifting tool in the throughbore of the downhole tool system, in order to move the shifting profile with respect to the downhole tool system; a load connector member coupled to the shifting profile and further coupled to a load setting member arranged to deliver a load to a tool as required; wherein there is further provided a selective locking mechanism (6, 7) to selectively lock at least the load setting member to at least one of the downhole tool system and the shifting profile; wherein the downhole tool system comprises a static mandrel (3, 23) against which a load is to be generated; and wherein the selective locking mechanism (6, 7) comprises two lock members (6,7) located in a recess in the static mandrel (3, 23) and which, in a locking configuration, are arranged such that one of the lock members is restrained from longitudinal movement with respect to the static mandrel (3, 23) and wherein the lock members (6, 7) radially support one another to permit load to be transferred from the shifting profile to the load setting member
A tissue resection device, comprising: a hollow member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis; a drive member situated at least partly within the hollow member; a rotary cutting member for side cutting, the rotary cutting member having an elongate body with a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and a distal end, wherein the proximal end is coupled to the drive member and wherein the elongate body has an hourglass shape between the proximal end of the elongate body and the distal end of the elongate body along the longitudinal axis of the elongate body; and an opening, formed in the distal end of the hollow member along the longitudinal axis of the hollow member, the opening of the hollow member sized and shaped to partially expose the rotary cutting member through the opening of the hollow member, wherein the shape of the opening in the direction of the axis of the hollow member has edges, that are concave shaped and are substantially similar to the hourglass shape of the rotary cutting member, characterized in that the rotary cutting member partially protrudes from the opening of the hollow member. a hollow member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis; a drive member situated at least partly within the hollow member; a rotary cutting member for side cutting, the rotary cutting member having an elongate body with a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and a distal end, wherein the proximal end is coupled to the drive member and wherein the elongate body has an hourglass shape between the proximal end of the elongate body and the distal end of the elongate body along the longitudinal axis of the elongate body; and an opening, formed in the distal end of the hollow member along the longitudinal axis of the hollow member, the opening of the hollow member sized and shaped to partially expose the rotary cutting member through the opening of the hollow member, wherein the shape of the opening in the direction of the axis of the hollow member has edges, that are concave shaped and are substantially similar to the hourglass shape of the rotary cutting member, characterized in that the rotary cutting member partially protrudes from the opening of the hollow member.
An internal combustion engine comprising a processor and cylinders provided with valves controlled by means of electromechanical actuators, the processor comprises means (34, 38, 39) for modifying the torque (Cbrut) requested by the driver of the vehicle in a filtered torque (Cfiltre) controlled to the engine, reducing the variations of this requested torque (Cbrut), and for determining as a function of this filtered torque (Cfiltre) a cylinder mode relative to the number of active cylinders, a deactivated cylinder being such that its valves are kept closed, and for operating the activation or deactivation of the cylinders during a change of cylinder mode, characterized in that the processor also comprises means for, after the choice of the active cylinders, determining for these active cylinders a valve mode relative to the number of active inlet valves per active cylinder, and after the determination of the valve mode, for determining a lift mode of the active valves of the active cylinders, between a conventional lift mode, in which the moments of opening and closing of the valves are determined and controlled and a ballistic lift mode, in which the moment of opening of the valves is determined and controlled, the moment of closing then being determined by the time necessary for a valve to pass from a closed position to the open position then, without pause, to return to a closed position.
A gas turbine engine having a core generator providing an annular duct for the flow of working gas which exhausts from the duct through an annular flow mixer, the flow mixer having a plurality of circumferentially spaced exhaust chutes from which the working gas exits in respective exhaust plumes, the exhaust chutes being configured such that, at the discharge end of the flow mixer, a radially outer portion of each exhaust chute radially overlaps with a radially inner portion of at least one adjacent exhaust chute, characterised in that the gas turbine engine has a propeller assembly rearward of the flow mixer which provides a row of propellers, the exhaust plumes impinging on the propellers, and each exhaust chute of the flow mixer forms a mouth which increases in width from the radially inner extremity to the radially outer extremity of the exhaust chute.
A method for a station, STA, to transmit uplink data based on an uplink multi-user, UL MU, transmission scheme in a wireless local area network, WLAN, system, the method comprising: transmitting a buffer status report, BSR, to an access point, AP, to assist the AP at determining UL MU scheduling information; receiving, from the AP to which the STA is associated, a frame including the UL MU scheduling information for the uplink data transmission; and transmitting the uplink data to the AP based on the UL MU scheduling information, wherein the transmission of the uplink data is performed after Short Interframe Space, SIFS, after the reception of the frame including the UL MU scheduling information, wherein the frame further includes null information that extends a length of the frame to provide the STA additional time to prepare the transmission of the uplink data, wherein the null information comprises null subframes. transmitting a buffer status report, BSR, to an access point, AP, to assist the AP at determining UL MU scheduling information; receiving, from the AP to which the STA is associated, a frame including the UL MU scheduling information for the uplink data transmission; and transmitting the uplink data to the AP based on the UL MU scheduling information, wherein the transmission of the uplink data is performed after Short Interframe Space, SIFS, after the reception of the frame including the UL MU scheduling information, wherein the frame further includes null information that extends a length of the frame to provide the STA additional time to prepare the transmission of the uplink data, wherein the null information comprises null subframes.
A repositioning station for a continuous shingled stream of overlapping semirigid planar articles in which the articles, being carried upon an incoming conveyor in a flat configuration and in a facedown position, enter the repositioning station in a first horizontal direction and then transported by the repositioning station in a second horizontal direction onto an outgoing conveyor to form a stack with the articles in an upright position that is carried away upon the outgoing conveyor in a third horizontal direction, the repositioning station defining a transport circuit and being characterised by including: a lateral deviation assembly located at an inlet of the repositioning station, the lateral deviation assembly including a plurality of lengthwise-disposed roller units along which the transport circuit follows a generally ellipsoidal deviation path to veer the shingled stream from the first direction to the second direction and also to pivot the articles in the shingled stream from the facedown position to the upright position about a curvilinear axis coinciding with an innermost and bottommost boundary of the transport circuit throughout the lateral deviation assembly.
A system comprising a retardation compensation element (56, 57, 58, 110) combined with a vertical alignment nematic liquid crystal cell in which liquid crystal molecules are aligned to have a pre-tilt angle of between 3 and 10 degrees to the normal to a cell substrate when no voltage is applied, for compensating a phase difference of light passing through a liquid crystal layer of said vertical alignment nematic liquid crystal cell, said retardation compensation element (56, 57, 58, 110) comprising: a biaxial birefringent medium (85, 111, 112) which is made by oblique deposition of an inorganic material and has both an optical axis inclined to a surface of said vertical alignment nematic liquid crystal cell and a fast axis (L6, L9, L10) which coincides with an orthographic projection of a deposition direction of said inorganic material onto said surface, said biaxial birefringent medium (85, 111, 112) having the angle of the fast axis to a pre-tilt direction in the plane of the substrate of the liquid crystal molecules selected to be between 125 degrees and 145 degrees. a biaxial birefringent medium (85, 111, 112) which is made by oblique deposition of an inorganic material and has both an optical axis inclined to a surface of said vertical alignment nematic liquid crystal cell and a fast axis (L6, L9, L10) which coincides with an orthographic projection of a deposition direction of said inorganic material onto said surface, said biaxial birefringent medium (85, 111, 112) having the angle of the fast axis to a pre-tilt direction in the plane of the substrate of the liquid crystal molecules selected to be between 125 degrees and 145 degrees.
Method for the selection of desired immune system cells having effector/target lytic properties among a population of immune system cells, including the steps of: a) letting the immune system cells previously. collected from a human being interact with cells, in particular tumor cells and microorganisms; b) checking, the effect of the interaction in step a); c) selecting, amongst immune system cells that have interacted with the target cells, in particular tumor cells and microorganisms, only those immune system cells that have shown effector/target lytic properties; characterised in that steps a), b) and c) are carried out by displacing single cells by means or a miniaturized device which allows real-time manipulation of single effector cells without altering the cytolytic activity thereof. a) letting the immune system cells previously. collected from a human being interact with cells, in particular tumor cells and microorganisms; b) checking, the effect of the interaction in step a); c) selecting, amongst immune system cells that have interacted with the target cells, in particular tumor cells and microorganisms, only those immune system cells that have shown effector/target lytic properties;
A method for preparing a rare earth sintered magnet from a corresponding alloy powder using a mold and a feeder, said mold comprising a die, an upper punch having a pressure surface, and a lower punch having a pressure surface, the pressure surface of one or both of the upper and lower punches being shaped non-planar, a cavity being defined between the die and the lower punch, the feeder including a shooter having a lower end port for passage of the alloy powder, the port being aligned with the cavity, said method comprising the steps of feeding the alloy powder from the feeder into the cavity through the shooter until the cavity is filled with the alloy powder, compressing the alloy powder fill in the cavity under a magnetic field between the upper and lower punches for uniaxial pressure molding to form a precursor, and heat treating the precursor, characterized in that the shooter is provided with a main sieve at its lower end port such that the main sieve is disposed closely above the cavity, the main sieve having a sifting surface of non-planar shape corresponding to that of the pressure surface of the upper or lower punch, and during the step of feeding the alloy powder into the cavity through the shooter, trembling is applied to the shooter to assist the alloy powder to pass through the main sieve and fall into the cavity.
A method for partitioning at least two genomic regions of a reference genome into a plurality of portions comprising: a) determining sequencing coverage variability across a reference genome; b) selecting an initial portion length; c) partitioning at least two genomic regions according to the initial portion length in (b), wherein the at least two genomic regions comprise a first genomic region and a second genomic region; d) comparing the sequencing coverage variability determined in (a) for each of the at least two genomic regions by calculating a proportionality factor according to the following equation: P = var 1 / var 2 ∧ 1 / 3 wherein var1 is the sequencing coverage variability of the first genomic region and var2 is the sequencing coverage variability of the second genomic region, thereby generating a comparison; e) recalculating the number of portions for at least one of the genomic regions according to the proportionality factor in (d) and the total number of portions determined from the initial portion length in (b), thereby determining an optimized portion length; and f) re-partitioning at least one of the genomic regions into a plurality of portions according to the optimized portion length in (e). a) determining sequencing coverage variability across a reference genome; b) selecting an initial portion length; c) partitioning at least two genomic regions according to the initial portion length in (b), wherein the at least two genomic regions comprise a first genomic region and a second genomic region; d) comparing the sequencing coverage variability determined in (a) for each of the at least two genomic regions by calculating a proportionality factor according to the following equation: P = var 1 / var 2 ∧ 1 / 3 wherein var1 is the sequencing coverage variability of the first genomic region and var2 is the sequencing coverage variability of the second genomic region, thereby generating a comparison; e) recalculating the number of portions for at least one of the genomic regions according to the proportionality factor in (d) and the total number of portions determined from the initial portion length in (b), thereby determining an optimized portion length; and f) re-partitioning at least one of the genomic regions into a plurality of portions according to the optimized portion length in (e).
Upper part of a valve, in particular for sanitary fittings, with a sleeve-like head piece which can be fastened in a valve housing of a sanitary fitting, which is centrally penetrated by a spindle having a handle connection, which spindle is mounted in the head piece so as to be rotatable about its longitudinal axis and via which a valve body can be operated, wherein at least one radially projecting cantilever is formed on the spindle inside the head piece, which can be placed with one side face against at least one stop arranged in the head piece, whereby the maximum angle of rotation of the spindle is limited, wherein a projection is laterally formed on the cantilever, which, on abutment of the cantilever against a stop of the head piece, at least partially covers said stop, wherein the valve body is formed by a rotatably arranged control disc, which rests on a non-rotatably arranged inlet disc, characterised in that at the end of the spindle a disc is formed on the cantilever, on whose side facing away from the spindle a driver is formed on, which engages in a recess of the control disc and that the disc axially rests on a shoulder arranged in the head piece.
A method for performing a mobile station to mobile station, M2M, communication by a source mobile station, MS, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: performing a M2M initiation procedure with a base station, BS, the M2M initiation procedure comprising: configuring a part of uplink, UL, subframes of a radio frame to downlink, DL, subframes, such that the source MS operates in a DL mode during the part of the UL subframes; receiving, from one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn), UL reference signals, RSs, for channel estimation, in the configured DL subframes; measuring channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS based on the UL RSs for channel estimation; transmitting, to the BS, information on the channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS; and receiving, from the BS, information indicating one of the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) as a partner MS, and performing the M2M communication with the partner MS, wherein the UL RSs for channel estimation are received in a first or last symbol in the configured DL subframes. performing a M2M initiation procedure with a base station, BS, the M2M initiation procedure comprising: configuring a part of uplink, UL, subframes of a radio frame to downlink, DL, subframes, such that the source MS operates in a DL mode during the part of the UL subframes; receiving, from one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn), UL reference signals, RSs, for channel estimation, in the configured DL subframes; measuring channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS based on the UL RSs for channel estimation; transmitting, to the BS, information on the channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS; and receiving, from the BS, information indicating one of the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) as a partner MS, and performing the M2M communication with the partner MS, wherein the UL RSs for channel estimation are received in a first or last symbol in the configured DL subframes. configuring a part of uplink, UL, subframes of a radio frame to downlink, DL, subframes, such that the source MS operates in a DL mode during the part of the UL subframes; receiving, from one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn), UL reference signals, RSs, for channel estimation, in the configured DL subframes; measuring channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS based on the UL RSs for channel estimation; transmitting, to the BS, information on the channel quality between the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) and the source MS; and receiving, from the BS, information indicating one of the one or more mobile stations (MS1, MSn) as a partner MS, and performing the M2M communication with the partner MS, wherein the UL RSs for channel estimation are received in a first or last symbol in the configured DL subframes.
An eye tracking system for tracking one or more of a user's eyes, the system comprising: an closed-eye detector operable to detect when a user has closed one or more of their eyes; an eye tracker operable to detect an eye orientation in dependence upon a measured deformation of an eyelid corresponding to an eye that has been detected to be shut; and an image renderer operable to render a foveated image for display in response to the detected eye orientation. an closed-eye detector operable to detect when a user has closed one or more of their eyes; an eye tracker operable to detect an eye orientation in dependence upon a measured deformation of an eyelid corresponding to an eye that has been detected to be shut; and an image renderer operable to render a foveated image for display in response to the detected eye orientation.
Phenacene compounds of formula I wherein one of groups a, b and c is S and the other two groups are C-R 1 and C-R 2, respectively, one of groups d, e and f is S and the other two groups are C-R 5 and C-R 6, respectively, R 1 -R 10 are independently of each other H, halogene, -CN, -NO 2 or a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C 1 -C 40 hydrocarbon residue, which can be substituted 1- to 5-fold with halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), -OR a, -NR a 2, -CN and/or -NO 2, and wherein one or more CH 2 -groups can be replaced by -O-, -S-, -NR b -, - OC - or -C -, and wherein R a and R b are independently of each other H, C 1 -C 30 akyl, C 2 -C 30 alkenyl, C 2 -C 30 alkynyl, C 1 -C 30 haloalkyl, C 2 -C 30 haloalkenyl, C 2 -C 30 haloalkynyl or C 2 -C 30 acyl.
Radio sensor module for detecting material containers in a warehouse or transport system, having a transmission device for a wireless transmission of signals, wherein the radio sensor module has a holder and a rocker mounted pivotably therein, characterized in that a sensor for detecting a position of the rocker and the transmission device are arranged in the rocker.