mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
An airfoil comprising: an airfoil structure defining a damping network that includes a first cavity, a second cavity, and a flow passage connecting the first and second cavities (82, 84); and a damping material configured to flow through the damping network, wherein the damping network comprises a network volume between about 10% and about 50% of the network volume is occupied by the damping material, characterised in that: the damping network further comprises a second flow passage connecting the first and second cavities (82, 84), and a third flow passage connecting the flow passage and the second flow passage. an airfoil structure defining a damping network that includes a first cavity, a second cavity, and a flow passage connecting the first and second cavities (82, 84); and a damping material configured to flow through the damping network, wherein the damping network comprises a network volume between about 10% and about 50% of the network volume is occupied by the damping material, characterised in that: the damping network further comprises a second flow passage connecting the first and second cavities (82, 84), and a third flow passage connecting the flow passage and the second flow passage.
A compressed fuel dispensing station (100, 200, 300) comprising: a compressor (120, 220, 320) configured to compress a fuel source (110, 210, 310); a plurality of fuel dispensing units (130, 230, 330); at least one low pressure compressed fuel reservoir (140, 240, 340) fluidly connected to the compressor and the plurality of fuel dispensing units; and a plurality of high pressure compressed fuel reservoirs (160, 260, 360); wherein each high pressure compressed fuel reservoir is fluidly connected to the compressor and there is at least one high pressure compressed fuel reservoir dedicated to each of the plurality of fuel dispensing units. a compressor (120, 220, 320) configured to compress a fuel source (110, 210, 310); a plurality of fuel dispensing units (130, 230, 330); at least one low pressure compressed fuel reservoir (140, 240, 340) fluidly connected to the compressor and the plurality of fuel dispensing units; and a plurality of high pressure compressed fuel reservoirs (160, 260, 360); wherein each high pressure compressed fuel reservoir is fluidly connected to the compressor and there is at least one high pressure compressed fuel reservoir dedicated to each of the plurality of fuel dispensing units.
A system for motivating and/or prompting persons to wash hands, the system comprises - a sensor means (10;10') for detecting use of a toilet or a urinal, which sensor means (10;10') creates a first signal indicative of that use have been detected, - a signalling means (13,14) for in response to the first signal issuing at least one second signal reminding and/or prompting persons to use a cleansing agent dispenser, and - a first transmitter means (11;11') for transmitting the first signal obtained by the sensor means (10;10') to the signalling means (13,14) characterized in that - the signalling means (13,14) is associated with the cleansing agent dispenser, and - the system comprises a second transmitter means for, in response to actuation of the cleansing agent dispenser, transmitting a signal to the signalling means (13,14) that a dose of cleansing agent has been dispensed. - a sensor means (10;10') for detecting use of a toilet or a urinal, which sensor means (10;10') creates a first signal indicative of that use have been detected, - a signalling means (13,14) for in response to the first signal issuing at least one second signal reminding and/or prompting persons to use a cleansing agent dispenser, and - a first transmitter means (11;11') for transmitting the first signal obtained by the sensor means (10;10') to the signalling means (13,14) characterized in that - the signalling means (13,14) is associated with the cleansing agent dispenser, and - the system comprises a second transmitter means for, in response to actuation of the cleansing agent dispenser, transmitting a signal to the signalling means (13,14) that a dose of cleansing agent has been dispensed.
A lubricating composition comprising: a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; b) at least 0.1 weight % of an N-alkylated dianiline compound; c) at least 0.1 weight % of an ashless antioxidant selected from a diarylamine antioxidant, a phenolic antioxidant, and combinations thereof, and d) at least 0.01 weight % of an overbased calcium detergent; wherein the lubricating composition comprises less than 0.15 weight percent of phosphorus; and wherein the N-alkylated dianiline is an N,N'-alkylated dianiline compound represented by the formula: wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from alkyl groups of 1 to 24 carbon atoms, which alkyl groups are selected from acyclic alkyl groups, cyclic alkyl groups, and combinations thereof. a) an oil of lubricating viscosity; b) at least 0.1 weight % of an N-alkylated dianiline compound; c) at least 0.1 weight % of an ashless antioxidant selected from a diarylamine antioxidant, a phenolic antioxidant, and combinations thereof, and d) at least 0.01 weight % of an overbased calcium detergent;
A photovoltaic cell (10, 50) comprising: a substrate; a conductive first electrode; an electromotive force layer comprising particles formed from an n-type metal oxide semiconductor that is one of tin oxide and titanium dioxide or a composite thereof, said particles being coated by an insulating substance which forms an insulating coat, the particles comprising an intermediate crystalline layer configured to provide an intermediate energy level in a band gap due to ultraviolet irradiation initiated photoexcited structural change which causes atomic rearrangement in the particles formed from the n-type metal oxide semiconductor; a p-type semiconductor layer; and a conductive second electrode, the substrate, the first electrode, the electromotive force layer, the p-type semiconductor layer, and the second electrode being laminated, wherein the photovoltaic cell (10, 50) is configured such that light irradiation can cause electromotive force to be generated due to the photoexcitation of electrons in the band gap of the electromotive force layer. a substrate; a conductive first electrode; an electromotive force layer comprising particles formed from an n-type metal oxide semiconductor that is one of tin oxide and titanium dioxide or a composite thereof, said particles being coated by an insulating substance which forms an insulating coat, the particles comprising an intermediate crystalline layer configured to provide an intermediate energy level in a band gap due to ultraviolet irradiation initiated photoexcited structural change which causes atomic rearrangement in the particles formed from the n-type metal oxide semiconductor; a p-type semiconductor layer; and a conductive second electrode, the substrate, the first electrode, the electromotive force layer, the p-type semiconductor layer, and the second electrode being laminated, wherein the photovoltaic cell (10, 50) is configured such that light irradiation can cause electromotive force to be generated due to the photoexcitation of electrons in the band gap of the electromotive force layer.
Instrument for use in surgery in connection with a bone anchor insertion device wherein the bone anchor insertion device comprises a drive shaft connectable to a shank of a bone anchor, the drive shaft comprising a channel for receiving a needle (4, 4') therethrough; the instrument including a hollow shaft configured to connect to the drive shaft; a needle holder (50, 50') configured to receive a needle (4, 4') and to be translated with respect to the hollow shaft; an actuator rotatable with respect to the hollow shaft; and a transmission member configured to be coupled to the needle holder (50, 50') and to convert a rotational movement of the actuator to a translational movement of the needle holder (50, 50') to advance and/or retract the needle (4, 4'); wherein the transmission member comprises a first advancement structure that is configured to engage a second advancement structure provided at the hollow shaft for effecting the translational movement of the needle holder (50, 50'), wherein the first advancement structure is provided at an inner surface of the transmission member and the second advancement structure is provided at an outer surface of the hollow shaft. a hollow shaft configured to connect to the drive shaft; a needle holder (50, 50') configured to receive a needle (4, 4') and to be translated with respect to the hollow shaft; an actuator rotatable with respect to the hollow shaft; and a transmission member configured to be coupled to the needle holder (50, 50') and to convert a rotational movement of the actuator to a translational movement of the needle holder (50, 50') to advance and/or retract the needle (4, 4'); wherein the transmission member comprises a first advancement structure that is configured to engage a second advancement structure provided at the hollow shaft for effecting the translational movement of the needle holder (50, 50'), wherein the first advancement structure is provided at an inner surface of the transmission member and the second advancement structure is provided at an outer surface of the hollow shaft.
A printer, comprising: a printer cartridge that includes a nozzle plate and an ink reservoir (404, 406, 408); and a controller, configured to initiate at least one of a nozzle plate wiping operation and an intermediate spitting operation, wherein the controller is configured to determine, prior to initiating each nozzle plate wiping operation, whether to initiate the intermediate spitting operation instead of the nozzle plate wiping operation, based on a determination, wherein the determination is made based on an information including an ink usage of the ink reservoir (404, 406, 408) and a number of nozzle plate wiping operations, characterized in that the determination is made based at least in part on at least one of: a projection of whether the ink in the ink reservoir (404, 406, 408) will be exhausted prior to the nozzle plate being wiped a predetermined number of times, and whether an initial spitting operation associated with the nozzle plate wiping operation will consume more ink than a projected amount of ink consumed by the intermediate spitting operation. a printer cartridge that includes a nozzle plate and an ink reservoir (404, 406, 408); and a controller, configured to initiate at least one of a nozzle plate wiping operation and an intermediate spitting operation, wherein the controller is configured to determine, prior to initiating each nozzle plate wiping operation, whether to initiate the intermediate spitting operation instead of the nozzle plate wiping operation, based on a determination, wherein the determination is made based on an information including an ink usage of the ink reservoir (404, 406, 408) and a number of nozzle plate wiping operations, characterized in that the determination is made based at least in part on at least one of: wherein the determination is made based on an information including an ink usage of the ink reservoir (404, 406, 408) and a number of nozzle plate wiping operations, characterized in that the determination is made based at least in part on at least one of: a projection of whether the ink in the ink reservoir (404, 406, 408) will be exhausted prior to the nozzle plate being wiped a predetermined number of times, and whether an initial spitting operation associated with the nozzle plate wiping operation will consume more ink than a projected amount of ink consumed by the intermediate spitting operation.
A coupling device, comprising: a housing having proximal and distal ends and a central longitudinal axis A1 extending therebetween; and a clamp having a plurality of clamping elements and defining an instrument channel, the clamp being rotatable within the housing about the axis A1 between an unclamped position in which the clamping elements are free to move radially-outward away from the axis A1 and a clamped position in which the clamping elements are urged radially-inward towards the axis A1; and further comprising a trigger movable relative to the housing between a first position in which the trigger maintains the clamp in the unclamped position and a second position in which the trigger allows the clamp to move to the clamped position; and characterised in that the trigger is movable between the first and second positions by translating the trigger relative to the housing along an axis A2 that is parallel or substantially parallel to the axis A1. a housing having proximal and distal ends and a central longitudinal axis A1 extending therebetween; and a clamp having a plurality of clamping elements and defining an instrument channel, the clamp being rotatable within the housing about the axis A1 between an unclamped position in which the clamping elements are free to move radially-outward away from the axis A1 and a clamped position in which the clamping elements are urged radially-inward towards the axis A1; and further comprising a trigger movable relative to the housing between a first position in which the trigger maintains the clamp in the unclamped position and a second position in which the trigger allows the clamp to move to the clamped position; and characterised in that the trigger is movable between the first and second positions by translating the trigger relative to the housing along an axis A2 that is parallel or substantially parallel to the axis A1.
An Automatic Power Reduction APR protection device, comprising: a controller, a source board and a destination board, wherein, the controller is in communication connection with the source board and the destination board and the source board, and the destination board are asymmetrically and unidirectionally connected through an optical fiber, characterized in that, the destination board is arranged to, when detecting that an optical signal is abnormal, send a communication abnormality message comprising destination board information to the controller; the controller is arranged to find corresponding source board information according to the destination board information, and send a first control instruction to the source board according to the source board information; and the source board is arranged to reduce output power of the optical signal according to the received first control instruction, the device further comprises: a network manager, wherein the network manager is arranged to generate the corresponding relationship between the source board and the destination board according to the source board information, the destination board information and an optical fiber connecting relationship, and send the corresponding relationship between the source board and the destination board to the controller for storage; or, the network manager is arranged to send the source board information, the destination board information and the optical fiber connecting relationship to the controller; and correspondingly, the controller is further arranged to generate the corresponding relationship between the source board and the destination board according to the source board information, the destination board information and the optical fiber connecting relationship.
Method for recognizing road users, in particular persons in road traffic, comprising the following steps: - recording at least one environment image or a sequence of environment images by means of an optical sensor of a vehicle, - detecting a person in the environment image, - determining a pose of the detected person; - determining a presence of a means of transport of the person, wherein the presence of the means of transport is determined by considering a time sequence of pose states or by considering individual images, wherein the means of transport is classified by a corresponding classifier and the classifier classifies the means of transport on the basis of the pose and the typical leg movements; - assigning a movement profile to the person based on the determined means of transport of the person. - recording at least one environment image or a sequence of environment images by means of an optical sensor of a vehicle, - detecting a person in the environment image, - determining a pose of the detected person; - determining a presence of a means of transport of the person, wherein the presence of the means of transport is determined by considering a time sequence of pose states or by considering individual images, wherein the means of transport is classified by a corresponding classifier and the classifier classifies the means of transport on the basis of the pose and the typical leg movements; - assigning a movement profile to the person based on the determined means of transport of the person.
A method comprising: detecting a touch input using one or more touch sensors located in a bezel portion and a display portion of a display device of a computing device, the bezel portion comprising display capabilities which can be made active; wherein, when the touch input is detected in the bezel portion while the display capabilities are inactive, if the duration of the touch input is longer than a threshold, it is determined that the user does not intend to interact with the computing device and the touch input is ignored, otherwise, if the duration of the touch input is shorter than the threshold, it is determined that the user intends to interact with the computing device and the display capabilities are made active. detecting a touch input using one or more touch sensors located in a bezel portion and a display portion of a display device of a computing device, the bezel portion comprising display capabilities which can be made active; wherein, when the touch input is detected in the bezel portion while the display capabilities are inactive, if the duration of the touch input is longer than a threshold, it is determined that the user does not intend to interact with the computing device and the touch input is ignored, otherwise, if the duration of the touch input is shorter than the threshold, it is determined that the user intends to interact with the computing device and the display capabilities are made active.
An MW(millimeter wave)/FIR (Far Infra red) light detector comprising: an electromagnetic-wave coupling means for concentrating an electromagnetic wave in a small spatial region of a sub-micron size; a first quantum dot for absorbing the electromagnetic wave concentrated by said electromagnetic-wave coupling means to bring about an ionization thereof; and a single-electron transistor including a second quantum dot electrostatically coupled to said first quantum dot, wherein the first and the second quantum dot are arranged such that if said electromagnetic wave of MW/FIR light having an amount of electromagnetic photon energy greater than the ionization energy of said first quantum dot is absorbed, a positive hole and an electron are created separately in the inside and outside of the first quantum dot by excitation of an electron in a quantized bound state of said first quantum dot to a free electron state of an electron system outside of said first quantum dot bringing about the ionization of said first quantum dot, and the electric conductivity of said single-electron transistor is varied with a change in electrostatic potential of said second quantum dot consequent upon the ionization of said first quantum dot, whereby said electromagnetic wave is detectable.
Method of MR imaging of at least two chemical species having different MR spectra, the method comprising the steps of: a) generating echo signals at two or more different echo times by subjecting an object positioned in the examination volume of a MR device to an imaging sequence of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, which imaging sequence is an inversion recovery sequence comprising an inversion RF pulse followed by an excitation RF pulse after an inversion recovery time; b) acquiring the echo signals; c) using a Dixon technique for separating signal contributions of the at least two chemical species to the acquired echo signals and for deriving a B 0 map from the echo signals; and d) reconstructing a phase-sensitive MR image (28, 29) from the signal contributions of at least one of the chemical species involving (i) differentiation between polarity and background phasing and (ii) phase correction of the signal contributions of the respective chemical species according to the background phasing, characterized in that the B 0 map is used to predict the background phasing of the signal contributions of the respective chemical species in the step of reconstructing the phase-sensitive MR image (28, 29). a) generating echo signals at two or more different echo times by subjecting an object positioned in the examination volume of a MR device to an imaging sequence of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, which imaging sequence is an inversion recovery sequence comprising an inversion RF pulse followed by an excitation RF pulse after an inversion recovery time; b) acquiring the echo signals; c) using a Dixon technique for separating signal contributions of the at least two chemical species to the acquired echo signals and for deriving a B 0 map from the echo signals; and d) reconstructing a phase-sensitive MR image (28, 29) from the signal contributions of at least one of the chemical species involving (i) differentiation between polarity and background phasing and (ii) phase correction of the signal contributions of the respective chemical species according to the background phasing,
Method for monitoring a security guard (10, 15) for security of construction sites on railway tracks against approaching trains, whereby the alertness parameters of the security guard (10, 15) are detected by a detection module and an alarm signal is transmitted to an alarm center by a transmission module if the alertness parameters of the security guard (10, 15) deviate from predetermined values, characterized in that a movement of the security guard (10, 15) is detected by at least one apparatus (22, 23) of the detection module, in that with absence of a movement of the security guard (10, 15) a first preset time is counted by a time counter module, and after the counting of the first preset time a warning signal is emitted, and in that after triggering of the warning signal a second preset time is counted by the time counter module, and after the counting of the second preset time the alarm signal is transmitted by the transmission module to the alarm center, whereby an evacuation of the construction site is initiated.
Mold for the hot forming of materials in the form of a sheet, of the type comprising a first half-shell bearing a die and a second half-shell between which is provided a chamber for forming of said sheet, the second half-shell being provided with channels and respective holes for feeding a pressurized gas into said chamber so as to generate pressure on a surface of the sheet opposite the die, wherein inside said die at least one ventilated chamber is provided, which is arranged on the side of the die opposite the second half-shell and is equipped with heating assemblies and ventilation assemblies for the circulation of hot air inside said at least one ventilated chamber.