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A method for forming a printed product comprising the steps of: providing a first section (116 A) and a second section (116 B) of the printed product with an identical array of stitching locations, each stitching location receiving a stitch or being punched through; each section being an array of sheets; punching a hole in the first section (116 A) at a first stitching location; punching a hole in the second section (116 B) at a second stitching location; aligning the stitching location arrays of the first and second sections (116 A, 116 B) with each other; passing stitching material of a first stitch through the hole in the second section (116 B) at the second stitching location; and stitching the first section (116 A) with the first stitch at the second stitching location; wherein at each aligned stitching location only one section receives a stitch, any remaining sections each receive a punch at the corresponding aligned stitching location. providing a first section (116 A) and a second section (116 B) of the printed product with an identical array of stitching locations, each stitching location receiving a stitch or being punched through; each section being an array of sheets; punching a hole in the first section (116 A) at a first stitching location; punching a hole in the second section (116 B) at a second stitching location; aligning the stitching location arrays of the first and second sections (116 A, 116 B) with each other; passing stitching material of a first stitch through the hole in the second section (116 B) at the second stitching location; and stitching the first section (116 A) with the first stitch at the second stitching location; wherein at each aligned stitching location only one section receives a stitch, any remaining sections each receive a punch at the corresponding aligned stitching location.
A planter device including a body, at least part of which is tubular and is aimed at containing the plant to be planted, formed by bringing together two elongated elements (10, 11) having, at the level of the tubular portion, a U-shaped or angle-shaped cross-section and one end of which, that is also the one of the tubular portion, is closed and with a pointed shape, while the other end is carried by a mechanism for actuating the elements (10, 11) away from and towards each other, while the handles (20, 21) are designed capable of permitting, on the one hand, to maintain the device so as to push the tubular portion by its tip into the ground and, on the other hand, to operate the mechanism in opening to permit the insertion of the plant into the tubular body, or to release the plant in the ground after burial of the tubular portion, wherein the actuating mechanism includes a U-shaped frame with each of the legs (30, 31) of which is made integral, on the inner side of the legs (30, 31), an element (10, 11) of the body through a pair of connecting rods (13, 14, 15, 16), so as to form a deformable parallelogram, the handles (20, 21) being hinged on the frame, while each of them is connected to a connecting rod (14, 16) of each pair of connecting rods, so that the actuation of the handles (20, 21) acts on the deformable parallelogram.
A method for taking fish up from a body of water comprising the step of: • providing a duct having a lower open end below the water surface and an upper open end arranged at a floating working platform above sea level, characterised in that it further comprises the steps of • introducing water into the duct from the upper open end to give a water stream from the upper open end of the duct to the lower open end of the duct, and • allowing the fish to swim up in the duct against the water stream therein, wherein the incoming water is directed to flow into the duct, and that the fish is separated from the flowing by means of a grating inclining upwards from the top end of the duct to a separation plate arranged above the water level in the duct. • providing a duct having a lower open end below the water surface and an upper open end arranged at a floating working platform above sea level, characterised in that it further comprises the steps of • introducing water into the duct from the upper open end to give a water stream from the upper open end of the duct to the lower open end of the duct, and • allowing the fish to swim up in the duct against the water stream therein,
Method of fabricating thin films of semiconductor materials by implanting ions in a substrate composed of at least two different elements at least one of which can form a gaseous phase on bonding with itself and/or with impurities, the method including the following steps: bombarding one face of the substrate with ions of a non-gaseous heavy species, that is to say having an atomic weight greater than 20, in order to implant those ions in a concentration sufficient to create in the substrate a layer of microcavities containing a gaseous phase formed by the element of the substrate; bringing this face of the substrate into intimate contact with a stiffener; and obtaining cleavage at the level of the microcavity layer by the application of heat treatment and/or a splitting stress. bombarding one face of the substrate with ions of a non-gaseous heavy species, that is to say having an atomic weight greater than 20, in order to implant those ions in a concentration sufficient to create in the substrate a layer of microcavities containing a gaseous phase formed by the element of the substrate; bringing this face of the substrate into intimate contact with a stiffener; and obtaining cleavage at the level of the microcavity layer by the application of heat treatment and/or a splitting stress.
Application device for applying media, particularly for health and body care, comprising a housing which comprises at least one discharge channel for the medium, and comprising a bristle bundle which is assigned to said discharge channel and projects over an end of the housing, wherein bristle filaments forming the bristle bundle release a middle bundle channel, and ends of the bristle filaments at the fastening side are interconnected by fusion, characterized in that the ends of the bristle filaments at the fastening side are connected to the housing by overmolding with a plastic forming the housing.
Method for anisotropic etching of patterns in at least one layer to be etched through a hard mask comprising carbon in an inductively coupled plasma etching reactor, the hard mask being made of boron doped with carbon (B:C), the method comprising, before the anisotropic etching of the patterns in said layer to be etched through the hard mask of boron doped with carbon (B:C), the following steps: - creating an intermediate hard mask located on a layer of boron doped with carbon intended to form the hard mask made of boron doped with carbon (B:C), - etching the layer of boron doped with carbon (B:C) through the intermediate hard mask in order to form the hard mask made of boron doped with carbon (B:C), the etching of the hard mask of boron doped with carbon (B:C) being carried out in a plasma made of species comprising: chlorine, argon (Ar), a gas containing oxygen and a fluorinated gas, the creation of the intermediate hard mask and the etching of the hard mask made of boron doped with carbon (B:C) being carried out in said inductively coupled plasma etching reactor. - creating an intermediate hard mask located on a layer of boron doped with carbon intended to form the hard mask made of boron doped with carbon (B:C), - etching the layer of boron doped with carbon (B:C) through the intermediate hard mask in order to form the hard mask made of boron doped with carbon (B:C), the etching of the hard mask of boron doped with carbon (B:C) being carried out in a plasma made of species comprising: chlorine, argon (Ar), a gas containing oxygen and a fluorinated gas,
A polymer comprising units derived from ethylene and poly(alkoxide) wherein a portion of the ethylene is bonded to one or more backbone carbon atoms of the poly(alkoxide), the polymer having at least 0.15 units of C 5 amyl branches per 1000 carbon atoms, based on the number of carbon atoms in the portion of ethylene bonded to one or more backbone carbon atoms of the poly(alkoxide) exclusive of the carbon atoms that form part of the poly(alkoxide), and no detectable propyl branches, as determined by 13 C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
Handheld electric power tool with a main switch for enabling the function of the handheld electric power tool and at least one safety device for enabling the main switch, the safety device having at least one capacitive switch assigned to a handle of the handheld electric power tool, characterized in that the capacitive switch has at least one exciter electrode and at least one receiver electrode and also at least one dielectric sensor area (10, 11), arranged on the handle, the operating frequency f of the exciter electrode lying in a frequency range greater than the power-line frequency of the handheld electric power tool, and in particular in a frequency range from 2 kHz to 10 kHz.
System for operating a stockpile, having a conveying device for piling and/or unpiling bulk material, a control technology device which is connected to the conveying device and is intended to automatically control the conveying device, and a control computer which is connected to the control technology device and controls piling and/or unpiling operations on the basis of a three-dimensional stockpile model, characterized in that the control computer is set up to carry out a deterministic dynamic physical simulation which simulates the movement of bulk material during piling and/or unpiling and therefore updates the stockpile model according to the amount of bulk material which has been piled and/or unpiled, the system not having a measuring apparatus for measuring the stockpile geometry.
Multiway valve with a valve casing containing an elongated control chamber bounded by a peripheral wall surface and in which is mounted, with axial movement capability, a valve spool which has on at least one end section (25, 26) a bearing section (27, 28) covering a length section of the peripheral wall surface and adjoined by a web section (36, 37) with a smaller cross-section, wherein at the peripheral wall surface a feed passage (12, 12a, 12b) with at least one feed port (13a, 13b) serving for the supply of a pressurised fluid leads in, wherein the valve spool is made at least partially elastically bendable, so that the bearing section (27, 28) is bendable relative to at least one other section of the valve spool resting on the peripheral wall surface of the control chamber, characterised in that the feed port or ports (13a, 13b) is or are covered by the bearing section (27, 28) in at least one axial position of the valve spool, and that the valve spool is made in one piece, wherein the bearing section (27, 28) may be so aligned relative to the control chamber by the fluid power of the pressurised fluid flowing through the feed port or ports (13a, 13b) covered by it, owing to the elastic flexibility of the valve spool, that an axially continuous annular fluid bearing gap through which the in-fed pressurised fluid flows, forms between the bearing section (27, 28) and the peripheral wall surface of the control chamber covered by it.
Semiconductor chip, comprising a substrate, a stack of insulating layers arranged on the substrate, in a centre area of the semiconductor chip at least one of - a sensing element, and a circuit in the stack for electrically connecting the sensing element, and - electronic circuitry in the stack, between the centre area and an edge of the semiconductor chip: - a seal ring, and - an optical inspection area, wherein both, the seal ring and the optical inspection area, comprise conductive structures (22, 23) around the centre area, wherein the optical inspection area is arranged between the seal ring and the edge of the semiconductor chip, wherein each of the seal ring and the optical inspection area is implemented in the stack, wherein the seal ring is configured to protect the centre area from lateral impact, and wherein the optical inspection area is configured to enable the detection of a crack propagated into the optical inspection area by optical inspection means, characterized in that the semiconductor chip further comprises a crack stop area between the optical inspection area and the edge of the semiconductor chip, wherein the crack stop area is implemented in the stack, and wherein the crack stop area is configured to prevent an expansion of a crack towards the centre area induced from dicing a semiconductor wafer into multiple semiconductor chips, wherein the crack stop area comprises a conductive structure for preventing the expansion of cracks, wherein the conductive structure in the crack stop area is disconnected from the conducting structure in the optical inspection area, wherein the conductive structure of the crack stop area includes multiple conductive elements (243, 244) on different levels in the stack disconnected from each other per level and across levels, and wherein the conductive elements (243, 244) of at least two adjacent levels are offset from each other in a direction from the centre area to the edge. - a sensing element, and a circuit in the stack for electrically connecting the sensing element, and - electronic circuitry in the stack, - a seal ring, and - an optical inspection area,
A fluid transfer system for transferring a liquid sample from a liquid source to a remote liquid sample analyser, the system comprising a capillary that connects the liquid source and the liquid sample analyser, the system arranged such that, in use, liquid flows from the liquid source to the liquid sample analyser via the capillary, wherein the capillary forms a looped circuit between the liquid source and the liquid sample analyser, and the system further comprising means for pumping the liquid sample through the capillary, wherein the volume of the liquid sample transferred in the capillary line is low compared with the volume of liquid in the liquid source.
A method of accessing group services in a communications network adapted to provide machine to machine communication, the method comprising: a services capability server determining, based on at least one of a condition or information at the services capability server, to access group based network layer services; the services capability server transmitting a request to access group based network layer services, the request comprising information specifying a requested service for the group; a first core network node receiving the request to access group based network layer services; the first core network node transmitting a request to authorize the access of group based network layer services; the first core network node receiving authorization information and serving node information for the requested service; after receiving the authorization information, the first core network node generating and transmitting a request to provision information about the group in a second core network node; the first core network node receiving an indication from the second core network node that the second core network node is configured for providing the service to the group; and the first core network node replying to the services capability server with an indication of whether access to the group based service is allowed. a services capability server determining, based on at least one of a condition or information at the services capability server, to access group based network layer services; the services capability server transmitting a request to access group based network layer services, the request comprising information specifying a requested service for the group; a first core network node receiving the request to access group based network layer services; the first core network node transmitting a request to authorize the access of group based network layer services; the first core network node receiving authorization information and serving node information for the requested service; after receiving the authorization information, the first core network node generating and transmitting a request to provision information about the group in a second core network node; the first core network node receiving an indication from the second core network node that the second core network node is configured for providing the service to the group; and the first core network node replying to the services capability server with an indication of whether access to the group based service is allowed.
A flexible display apparatus, comprising: a flexible base layer defined with a first area, a second area and a bend portion comprising a bend allowance section between the first area and the second area of the flexible base layer; a plurality of display pixels of a display area provided in the first area of the flexible base layer; at least one driver integrated circuit placed in the second area of the flexible base layer; and a support layer having a portion corresponding to a substantially flat portion of the flexible display apparatus and a rounded end portion, wherein the support layer is arranged on a first side of the flexible base layer such that the bend allowance section of the flexible base layer wraps around the rounded end portion of the support layer, and wherein the rounded end portion is thicker than the portion corresponding to a substantially flat portion of the flexible display apparatus; characterised in that the rounded end portion of the support layer fully conforms to the curvature of the flexible base layer. a flexible base layer defined with a first area, a second area and a bend portion comprising a bend allowance section between the first area and the second area of the flexible base layer; a plurality of display pixels of a display area provided in the first area of the flexible base layer; at least one driver integrated circuit placed in the second area of the flexible base layer; and a support layer having a portion corresponding to a substantially flat portion of the flexible display apparatus and a rounded end portion, wherein the support layer is arranged on a first side of the flexible base layer such that the bend allowance section of the flexible base layer wraps around the rounded end portion of the support layer, and wherein the rounded end portion is thicker than the portion corresponding to a substantially flat portion of the flexible display apparatus; characterised in that the rounded end portion of the support layer fully conforms to the curvature of the flexible base layer.
A gas piston system for an autoloading firearm comprising: a barrel having a longitudinally-extending bullet pathway; a gas block defining a piston bore; a gas inlet axial passageway axially aligned with the piston bore and positioned forward of the bore, the passageway having a closed front end and a rear end which opens rearward into the piston bore, said passageway having a smaller diameter than the piston bore and fluidly connecting the bore with the bullet pathway for diverting combustion gas from the pathway to the bore upon discharging the firearm; and a piston slidably disposed in the bore for reciprocating movement, the piston including a head having an axially-extending protrusion projecting towards the passageway, the protrusion being a cylindrical stud of smaller diameter than the head and being configured for slidable insertion into the passageway, the piston being movable from a first actuation position in which the protrusion is inserted into the passageway to a second actuation position in which the protrusion is at least partially withdrawn from the passageway; wherein the protrusion blocks flow of combustion gas from the passageway to the piston bore when the piston is in the first position. a barrel having a longitudinally-extending bullet pathway; a gas block defining a piston bore; a gas inlet axial passageway axially aligned with the piston bore and positioned forward of the bore, the passageway having a closed front end and a rear end which opens rearward into the piston bore, said passageway having a smaller diameter than the piston bore and fluidly connecting the bore with the bullet pathway for diverting combustion gas from the pathway to the bore upon discharging the firearm; and a piston slidably disposed in the bore for reciprocating movement, the piston including a head having an axially-extending protrusion projecting towards the passageway, the protrusion being a cylindrical stud of smaller diameter than the head and being configured for slidable insertion into the passageway, the piston being movable from a first actuation position in which the protrusion is inserted into the passageway to a second actuation position in which the protrusion is at least partially withdrawn from the passageway; wherein the protrusion blocks flow of combustion gas from the passageway to the piston bore when the piston is in the first position.
A personal care product stand comprising: a base having a resting plane, a center axis and a top surface defining a handle receiving portion configured to hold a handle, the base defining a cavity; and at least one permanent docking magnet positioned within the cavity at least 10 mm from the center axis of the base, characterised in that the at least one permanent docking magnet has a slanted end face directly contacting an underside surface directly below the handle receiving portion. a base having a resting plane, a center axis and a top surface defining a handle receiving portion configured to hold a handle, the base defining a cavity; and at least one permanent docking magnet positioned within the cavity at least 10 mm from the center axis of the base, characterised in that the at least one permanent docking magnet has a slanted end face directly contacting an underside surface directly below the handle receiving portion.
A reflow oven chamber assembly configured to be installed within a reflow oven chamber of a reflow oven of the type used to join electronic components to a substrate, the reflow oven chamber assembly comprising: a chamber housing disposable within the reflow oven chamber; at least one heating element disposed in the chamber housing; and at least one compression box assembly disposed in the chamber housing, characterised in that the at least one compression box assembly includes: a compression box housing having at least one intake port (88,90) located adjacent the at least one heating element, an intake duct disposed in the compression box, the intake duct having at least one inlet (102,104) opening in fluid communication with the at least one intake port (88,90) of the compression box housing and an outlet opening at the bottom of the intake duct, and a diffuser plate disposed above the intake duct, wherein the compression box assembly is configured to draw heated air into the compression box housing from the reflow oven chamber through the at least one intake port (88,90) and into the at least one inlet opening (102,104) of the intake duct and exhaust air out of the outlet opening of the intake duct to the diffuser plate. a chamber housing disposable within the reflow oven chamber; at least one heating element disposed in the chamber housing; and at least one compression box assembly disposed in the chamber housing, a compression box housing having at least one intake port (88,90) located adjacent the at least one heating element, an intake duct disposed in the compression box, the intake duct having at least one inlet (102,104) opening in fluid communication with the at least one intake port (88,90) of the compression box housing and an outlet opening at the bottom of the intake duct, and a diffuser plate disposed above the intake duct,