mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
An apparatus comprising: a biometric sensor for sensing one or more biometric parameters of a subject; a detector configured to detect one or more subject-dependent parameters including the shape or curvature of a band attaching the apparatus to a wrist of a subject; and a controller configured to initially perform a security function using the biometric sensor without using the detector and subsequently perform the security function, after successful verification of the one or more detected subject-dependent parameters, using the detector but without using the biometric sensor, wherein the detector is configured to detect a change in shape or curvature of the band configured to attach the apparatus to the wrist of the subject, wherein detection, by the detector, of a change in shape or curvature of the band configured to attach the apparatus to the wrist of the subject prevents successful verification of the one or more detected subject-dependent parameters and prevents performance of the security function without using the biometric sensor. a biometric sensor for sensing one or more biometric parameters of a subject; a detector configured to detect one or more subject-dependent parameters including the shape or curvature of a band attaching the apparatus to a wrist of a subject; and a controller configured to initially perform a security function using the biometric sensor without using the detector and subsequently perform the security function, after successful verification of the one or more detected subject-dependent parameters, using the detector but without using the biometric sensor, wherein the detector is configured to detect a change in shape or curvature of the band configured to attach the apparatus to the wrist of the subject, wherein detection, by the detector, of a change in shape or curvature of the band configured to attach the apparatus to the wrist of the subject prevents successful verification of the one or more detected subject-dependent parameters and prevents performance of the security function without using the biometric sensor.
Protective apparatus for arranging in the front or rear region of a motor vehicle, having an undertray made from fiber-reinforced plastic for protecting assemblies or components arranged above it against damage as a consequence of stone chipping or ground contact, the undertray having three-dimensionally structured regions (1.1, 1.2) for increasing its rigidity, wherein the undertray is designed to absorb chassis and/or crash loads and has integrated holders for movably attaching chassis links, characterized in that a depression (1.3) for receiving a steering gear or steering cylinder is configured integrally in the undertray.
A method for direct writing of single crystal alloys, the method being characterised by: heating a single-crystal substrate using an induction heat source to a predetermined temperature below its melting point; using a laser to form a melt pool on a surface of the substrate, wherein the single-crystal substrate is positioned on a base plate, and wherein the laser and the base plate are movable relative to each other, the laser being used for direct metal deposition; introducing a superalloy powder to the melt pool; and controlling the temperature of the melt pool using the induction heat source and the laser to maintain a predetermined thermal gradient on a solid and liquid interface of the melt pool so as to form a single crystal deposit on the single-crystal substrate; wherein the induction heat source is used for controlling the solid-liquid interface temperature gradient as the crystal grows. heating a single-crystal substrate using an induction heat source to a predetermined temperature below its melting point; using a laser to form a melt pool on a surface of the substrate, wherein the single-crystal substrate is positioned on a base plate, and wherein the laser and the base plate are movable relative to each other, the laser being used for direct metal deposition; introducing a superalloy powder to the melt pool; and controlling the temperature of the melt pool using the induction heat source and the laser to maintain a predetermined thermal gradient on a solid and liquid interface of the melt pool so as to form a single crystal deposit on the single-crystal substrate; wherein the induction heat source is used for controlling the solid-liquid interface temperature gradient as the crystal grows.
A method for efficiently recycling a stream containing iron sludge, characterised in that the method comprises the following steps: a) providing a stream containing iron sludge, which iron sludge is obtained from a sand filter that forms part of a process for the preparation of drinking water; b) obtaining an aqueous product stream from a regeneration step at a drinking water production facility; c) subjecting the aqueous product stream of step b) to a treatment for the recovery of salt, thereby producing a residual stream, wherein said treatment for the recovery of salt comprises at least one filtration step; d) mixing the stream containing iron sludge of step a) with the residual stream of step c), thereby producing a mixed stream, wherein the residual stream of step c) is mixed with the aforementioned stream containing iron sludge of step a) in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 vol.%, based on the mixed stream thus obtained; e) applying the mixed stream of step d) as an Fe nutrient in an agricultural context, wherein humic and fulvic acids are present in the residual stream in a concentration ranging from 10 to 30 wt.%, based on the weight of the residual stream. a) providing a stream containing iron sludge, which iron sludge is obtained from a sand filter that forms part of a process for the preparation of drinking water; b) obtaining an aqueous product stream from a regeneration step at a drinking water production facility; c) subjecting the aqueous product stream of step b) to a treatment for the recovery of salt, thereby producing a residual stream, wherein said treatment for the recovery of salt comprises at least one filtration step; d) mixing the stream containing iron sludge of step a) with the residual stream of step c), thereby producing a mixed stream, wherein the residual stream of step c) is mixed with the aforementioned stream containing iron sludge of step a) in an amount ranging from 1 to 20 vol.%, based on the mixed stream thus obtained; e) applying the mixed stream of step d) as an Fe nutrient in an agricultural context,
A cooling apparatus for facilitating cooling of an electronic subsystem having a circuit board, the cooling apparatus comprising: a liquid cooled cooling structure mounted to a front of a housing having a docking slot therein, the cooling structure comprising a coolant inlet, a coolant outlet, and a horizontally extending coolant carrying bar between coolant inlet and the coolant outlet, the liquid cooling structure comprising a thermally conductive material; and, a heat transfer element comprising a horizontally extending thermally conductive heat transfer member secured to a circuit board of the electronic subsystem and in contact with one or more heat generating components mounted on the circuit board, and a vertically extending thermally conductive thermal interface plate connected to one end of the heat transfer member; wherein the electronic subsystem is slideable within the docking slot for docking and undocking thereof, the thermal interface plate making thermal contact with the coolant carrying bar when the electronic subsystem is docketed within the docking slot to complete a heat conduction path from the one or more components to the coolant carrying bar through the heat transfer member and thermal interface plate respectively a liquid cooled cooling structure mounted to a front of a housing having a docking slot therein, the cooling structure comprising a coolant inlet, a coolant outlet, and a horizontally extending coolant carrying bar between coolant inlet and the coolant outlet, the liquid cooling structure comprising a thermally conductive material; and, a heat transfer element comprising a horizontally extending thermally conductive heat transfer member secured to a circuit board of the electronic subsystem and in contact with one or more heat generating components mounted on the circuit board, and a vertically extending thermally conductive thermal interface plate connected to one end of the heat transfer member;
A vacuum cleaner comprising: a main body comprising a fan motor to generate suction force; a suction unit connected to the main body to suction foreign matter from a surface to be cleaned in a state of contacting the surface; a dust collector separably mounted to the main body to separate and collect foreign matter from air suctioned by the suction unit; and characterised by a wheel assembly to receive the main body and to move the main body, wherein the main body is rotatable independently of the wheel assembly such that the main body rotates in response to a change in a driving direction thereof, and the wheel assembly rotates, in response to the rotation of the main body, to change its direction to that in which the main body is directed. a main body comprising a fan motor to generate suction force; a suction unit connected to the main body to suction foreign matter from a surface to be cleaned in a state of contacting the surface; a dust collector separably mounted to the main body to separate and collect foreign matter from air suctioned by the suction unit; and characterised by a wheel assembly to receive the main body and to move the main body, wherein the main body is rotatable independently of the wheel assembly such that the main body rotates in response to a change in a driving direction thereof, and the wheel assembly rotates, in response to the rotation of the main body, to change its direction to that in which the main body is directed.
An organic electroluminescent element comprising a pair of electrodes having therebetween at least one constituting layer containing a phosphorescent light emitting layer, wherein one of the constituting layer contains a compound represented by Formula wherein R 501 - R 507 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, or by Formula wherein R 531 - R 537 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, wherein the compound has a molecular weight of 450 or more.
Sash for closing an architectural opening having an inner side and an outer side, comprising: - a transparent element, preferably of a planar shape, suitable to allow the passage of light through the sash, having an inner face and an outer face; - a weight-bearing frame, placed towards the inside, preferably in wood, suitable to support the transparent element and lock it engaging the inner face; - a cover frame, placed towards the outside, preferably in aluminium, fitted on the weight-bearing frame, suitable to protect the latter on the outer side; - a plurality of locking elements attachable to the weight-bearing frame wherein a locking element comprises: i) a locking portion suitable to engage the transparent element on the outer face to lock it to the weight-bearing frame; ii) a support portion suitable to be snap-engaged by the cover frame to perform its locking to the weight-bearing frame; wherein the support portion extends in height toward the outside, wherein the cover frame has a cavity specially shaped to snap-engage the support portion and lock to it; wherein the support portion comprises two locking wings, one in front of the other, which extend in length along the support portion, suitable to snap-engage the walls (400', 400") surrounding the cavity; wherein the locking element is attachable to the weight-bearing frame by a screw, characterised in that the locking element is presenting a through locking hole located between the two wings. - a transparent element, preferably of a planar shape, suitable to allow the passage of light through the sash, having an inner face and an outer face; - a weight-bearing frame, placed towards the inside, preferably in wood, suitable to support the transparent element and lock it engaging the inner face; - a cover frame, placed towards the outside, preferably in aluminium, fitted on the weight-bearing frame, suitable to protect the latter on the outer side; - a plurality of locking elements attachable to the weight-bearing frame wherein a locking element comprises: i) a locking portion suitable to engage the transparent element on the outer face to lock it to the weight-bearing frame; ii) a support portion suitable to be snap-engaged by the cover frame to perform its locking to the weight-bearing frame; wherein the support portion extends in height toward the outside, wherein the cover frame has a cavity specially shaped to snap-engage the support portion and lock to it; wherein the support portion comprises two locking wings, one in front of the other, which extend in length along the support portion, suitable to snap-engage the walls (400', 400") surrounding the cavity; wherein the locking element is attachable to the weight-bearing frame by a screw, characterised in that the locking element is presenting a through locking hole located between the two wings. i) a locking portion suitable to engage the transparent element on the outer face to lock it to the weight-bearing frame; ii) a support portion suitable to be snap-engaged by the cover frame to perform its locking to the weight-bearing frame;
A method for making aesthetic images, logos, wordings, patterns and signs on a flexible sublayer consisting of a precision synthetic single thread woven square mesh or pore fabric having an even construction and mesh opening therethrough with constant weight, thickness, surface characteristics and temperature performance, and made by weaving a thread comprising a polymer material selected from the group consisting of polyester, polyamide, polypropylene, polyether-sulphone, polyimide, polyamideimide, polyphenylene sulphide, polyetheretherketone, polyvinylden fluoride and polytetrafluoroethylene, said flexible sublayer having mesh openings or pores in a range from 2500 to 0 micrometres, 4-600 threads/cm, a thread diameter of 100-500 micrometres, a weave, a 15-300 g/m 2 weight, a 15-1000 micrometres thickness, said fabric having first and second surfaces and partially or fully coating at least one of said first and second surfaces of said precision fabric by a metal, alloy or semiconductor and removing patterns from said at least one of said metal, alloy or semiconductor coated first and second surfaces by a laser beam, said laser beam being absorbed by said metal, alloy or semiconducor coating, removing said metal, alloy or semiconductor coating by evaporating, while passing through said polymer material which is transparent to the laser beam, said laser beam not altering said precision mesh or pore fabric thereby preserving perspiring, acoustic and filtering properties of said precision fabric, said laser beam operating either in a continuous or pulsed regimen range with a frequency from 100 Hz to 500 MHz, a pulse duration from 200 ns to 10 femtoseconds, a wavelength from 1080 nm to 354 nm, a power from 5 to 100 W, a laser beam spot with a size from 10 to 200 micrometres, said laser beam being focalized on said sublayer by a micrometrically controlled focalizing lens system, and being driven through said flexible sublayer by a combined movement of said laser beam and of said flexible sublayer.
A mechanism for an office chair, said mechanism having a base support which is placeable on a chair column, a seat support and a backrest support, wherein by realizing a common pivot axis both the seat support is connected in an articulated manner to the base support by means of at least one pivot bolt and is pivotable relative to the base support and the backrest support is connected in an articulated manner to the base support by means of said at least one pivot bolt and is pivotable relative to the base support, wherein the pivot axis is the only common pivot axis between the seat support and the backrest support having resilient damping elements (16, 20) being positioned between components (6, 8, 14) of the mechanism, having at least one first resilient damping element being arranged between the base support and the seat support, which is acted upon when the seat support is pivoted, and at least one second resilient damping element being arranged either between the backrest support and the seat support or between the backrest support and the base support, which is acted upon when the backrest support is pivoted, characterized in that the damping elements (16, 20) are cuboid shaped, ring shaped or ring segment shaped blocks, whose resilience is definable by appropriate material selection.
Panel railing (10, 10.3, 10.5, 10.6) - having a dimensionally stable U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), between the two legs (24, 24.3, 24.5, 25.6, 26, 26.5, 26.6) of which the foot region of a panel, in particular the glass panel of a railing, is held in a clamped manner, - having a U-shaped profile body (40, 40.5) enclosing the panel in the bottom region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - having a first spacing body (50, 52) in the mouth region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), said first spacing body (50, 52) being present between the panel and one of the two legs (26, 26.5, 26.6) of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - having a second spacing body, in the form of a round bar, in the mouth region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), said second spacing body being present between the panel and the other of the two legs (24, 24.3, 24.5, 25.6) of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - characterized in that - a spacer (60, 70, 70.6) is present, which rests on top of one of the legs (44, 44.5) of the U-shaped profile body (40, 40.5), - the round bar bears, in its state fitted in the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6) to the maximum extent, against the spacer (60, 70, 70.6). - having a dimensionally stable U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), between the two legs (24, 24.3, 24.5, 25.6, 26, 26.5, 26.6) of which the foot region of a panel, in particular the glass panel of a railing, is held in a clamped manner, - having a U-shaped profile body (40, 40.5) enclosing the panel in the bottom region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - having a first spacing body (50, 52) in the mouth region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), said first spacing body (50, 52) being present between the panel and one of the two legs (26, 26.5, 26.6) of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - having a second spacing body, in the form of a round bar, in the mouth region of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), said second spacing body being present between the panel and the other of the two legs (24, 24.3, 24.5, 25.6) of the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6), - characterized in that - a spacer (60, 70, 70.6) is present, which rests on top of one of the legs (44, 44.5) of the U-shaped profile body (40, 40.5), - the round bar bears, in its state fitted in the U-profile (22, 22.3, 22.5, 22.6) to the maximum extent, against the spacer (60, 70, 70.6).
A device for internal fixation of the bone fragments (2, 3) in a radius fracture, which device comprises at least one body for abutment against the bone fragments (2, 3) in the radius fracture, and fixing elements (6, 7) which are intended to be locked to the body for fixation of said bone fragments, which body has in a distal end portion at least two predrilled holes for fixing elements, and in a proximal end portion (1 b) at least two predrilled holes for fixing elements, wherein that the predrilled holes (8, 9) run obliquely relative to a longitudinal axis of the body so that all of the fixing elements (6, 7) which, after abutment of the body against the bone fragments (2, 3) in the radius fracture, are introduced into said bone fragments through holes (8, 9) in the body's distal end portion and proximal end portion cross the radius fracture as viewed in the transverse direction of the body; each fixing element (6, 7) has at least one fixing portion (10; 10a, 10b) for locking the fixing element in the bone fragments (2, 3) in the radius fracture and for locking the fixing element to the body; and the predrilled holes in the proximal end portion of the body run obliquely relative to the body's longitudinal axis so that fixing elements introduced through them are situated, as viewed in the body's longitudinal direction, in a substantially common plane which is oriented substantially in the body's longitudinal direction, characterised in that the predrilled holes in the distal end portion of the body run obliquely relative to the body's longitudinal axis so that fixing elements introduced through them are situated in different planes as viewed in the body's longitudinal direction, and in that the planes in which the distal fixing elements are situated run at angles relative to the plane in which the proximal fixing elements are situated and relative to one another as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the body.
A currency discriminating device comprising: discriminating means for discriminating authenticity and denomination of an inserted currency; currency sorting means for sorting the inserted currency to acceptance or return; and control means for controlling the currency sorting means based upon the discriminating result of the discriminating means, wherein the control means comprises a counter and a timer, controls the currency sorting means to accept the inserted currency determined to be genuine by the discriminating means and to return the inserted currency determined to be counterfeit by the discriminating means in a normal mode, and controls the currency sorting means to return all the inserted currency determined to be genuine and counterfeit in an acceptance prohibiting mode; if the discriminating means determines the inserted currency which is newly inserted to be counterfeit in the normal mode, the control means increases the value of the counter when an insertion interval of currency between the new insertion and the last insertion measured by the timer is within a predetermined time and changes to the acceptance prohibiting mode if the counter is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value; and if the discriminating means determines the inserted currency to be genuine in the acceptance prohibiting mode, the control means decreases the value of the counter and changes to the normal mode if the counter is less than a second predetermined value. discriminating means for discriminating authenticity and denomination of an inserted currency; currency sorting means for sorting the inserted currency to acceptance or return; and control means for controlling the currency sorting means based upon the discriminating result of the discriminating means, wherein the control means comprises a counter and a timer, controls the currency sorting means to accept the inserted currency determined to be genuine by the discriminating means and to return the inserted currency determined to be counterfeit by the discriminating means in a normal mode, and controls the currency sorting means to return all the inserted currency determined to be genuine and counterfeit in an acceptance prohibiting mode; if the discriminating means determines the inserted currency which is newly inserted to be counterfeit in the normal mode, the control means increases the value of the counter when an insertion interval of currency between the new insertion and the last insertion measured by the timer is within a predetermined time and changes to the acceptance prohibiting mode if the counter is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value; and if the discriminating means determines the inserted currency to be genuine in the acceptance prohibiting mode, the control means decreases the value of the counter and changes to the normal mode if the counter is less than a second predetermined value.