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A method to relieve stress in a hard capsule shell formed of a cap portion and a body portion that fit together as telescoping parts and comprising a locking mechanism for locking the cap portion and the body portion, to reduce propensity to break, comprising a step (326 or 218) of: heating an area of both the cap and body portions of the hard capsule shell that overlap to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the capsule shell but below a melt temperature of the area of the cap and body portions of the hard capsule shell that overlap for a duration sufficient to reduce internal stress in the hard capsule shell, wherein the hard capsule shell has a ratio of plasticizer to polymer of from 0 to 0.25. heating an area of both the cap and body portions of the hard capsule shell that overlap to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the capsule shell but below a melt temperature of the area of the cap and body portions of the hard capsule shell that overlap for a duration sufficient to reduce internal stress in the hard capsule shell, wherein the hard capsule shell has a ratio of plasticizer to polymer of from 0 to 0.25.
A fuel/air mixing disk for use in a fuel/air mixing combustor assembly comprising: a disk comprising a plurality of pie shaped sectors, each sector having a first face, a second face, and an annular wall coupling the first and second faces together and separating the first and second faces to provide at least one fuel plenum disposed between the first and second faces and bounded by the annular wall and adapted to be in fluid communication with a fuel flow passage; and a plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes extending through the pre-mixing disk between the first face and the second face, each mixing tube including an outer tube wall extending axially along a tube axis between an inlet end and an exit end and in fluid communication with the at least one fuel plenum, at least a portion of the plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes further including at least one fuel injection hole having a fuel injection hole diameter extending through said outer tube wall, said at least one fuel injection hole having an injection angle relative to said tube axis, said injection angle being in the range of 20 to 90 degrees, and a recession distance extending between said fuel injection hole and said exit end along said tube axis, said recession distance being about 5 to 100 times greater than said fuel injection hole diameter. a disk comprising a plurality of pie shaped sectors, each sector having a first face, a second face, and an annular wall coupling the first and second faces together and separating the first and second faces to provide at least one fuel plenum disposed between the first and second faces and bounded by the annular wall and adapted to be in fluid communication with a fuel flow passage; and a plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes extending through the pre-mixing disk between the first face and the second face, each mixing tube including an outer tube wall extending axially along a tube axis between an inlet end and an exit end and in fluid communication with the at least one fuel plenum, at least a portion of the plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes further including at least one fuel injection hole having a fuel injection hole diameter extending through said outer tube wall, said at least one fuel injection hole having an injection angle relative to said tube axis, said injection angle being in the range of 20 to 90 degrees, and a recession distance extending between said fuel injection hole and said exit end along said tube axis, said recession distance being about 5 to 100 times greater than said fuel injection hole diameter.
An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus, the outdoor unit comprising a heat exchanger having heat exchanger cores stacked in a plurality of stages in a vertical direction of the outdoor unit, each of the heat exchanger cores including a plurality of fins arranged in parallel to each other at intervals therebetween; and heat transfer tubes (10, 10A) provided to extend through the plurality of fins, each of the heat transfer tubes (10, 10A) allowing refrigerant to flow therethrough, characterized in that each of the plurality of fins of the heat exchanger includes a deformable portion (11A, 11C, 11E1, 11E2) configured to be deformable by impacts applied to the deformable portion (11A, 11C 11E1, 11E2), the deformable portion (11A, 11C) being formed at a position where the plurality of fins of an upper one of the heat exchanger cores adjacent to each other in the vertical direction of the outdoor unit come into contact with the plurality of fins of a lower one of the heat exchanger cores adjacent to each other in the vertical direction of the outdoor unit. a plurality of fins arranged in parallel to each other at intervals therebetween; and heat transfer tubes (10, 10A) provided to extend through the plurality of fins, each of the heat transfer tubes (10, 10A) allowing refrigerant to flow therethrough,
A washing machine (1, 2) comprising: a cabinet; a control panel (100, 200) disposed on a front surface of the cabinet; a display unit (150, 250) installed on the control panel (100, 200) such that a front surface of the display unit is exposed through a front of the control panel; a speaker (170, 270) disposed at a rear of the control panel (100, 200); and a speaker hole (143, 243) formed through the control panel (100, 200) so that sound being generated from the speaker is transmitted to outside the control panel, wherein the speaker hole (143, 243) is disposed to be spaced apart from the speaker (170, 270), characterized in that the washing machine further comprises a speaker housing installed at the rear surface of the control panel and on which the speaker is mounted at a rear side of the speaker housing, and the speaker housing comprises an opening that is open through a part of the speaker housing, wherein the speaker housing comprises a guide rib that protrudes toward a front of the speaker housing and is provided adjacent to the opening. a cabinet; a control panel (100, 200) disposed on a front surface of the cabinet; a display unit (150, 250) installed on the control panel (100, 200) such that a front surface of the display unit is exposed through a front of the control panel; a speaker (170, 270) disposed at a rear of the control panel (100, 200); and a speaker hole (143, 243) formed through the control panel (100, 200) so that sound being generated from the speaker is transmitted to outside the control panel,
A method for preparing methyl methacrylate from methacrolein and methanol; said method comprising contacting in a reactor a mixture comprising methacrolein, methanol and oxygen with a catalyst bed of heterogeneous catalyst comprising a support and a noble metal, wherein mass transfer rate of oxygen in hour -1 divided by space-time yield in moles methyl methacrylate/kg-catalyst hour in the catalyst bed is at least 25 kg catalyst/mole methyl methacrylate; wherein the noble metal is any of gold, platinum, iridium, osmium, silver, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium.
A road wheel for tracked vehicle, comprising: a first rim half; and a second rim half operatively connected to the first rim half, wherein the first rim half comprises at least a first portion that is angled away from the second rim half, wherein the second rim half comprises at least a first portion that is angled away from the first rim half, and wherein a hollow cavity is formed between the first portion of the first rim half and the first portion of the second rim half, characterised in that at least one of the first rim half and the second rim half comprises a flange configured to support an elastomeric pad. a first rim half; and a second rim half operatively connected to the first rim half, wherein the first rim half comprises at least a first portion that is angled away from the second rim half, wherein the second rim half comprises at least a first portion that is angled away from the first rim half, and wherein a hollow cavity is formed between the first portion of the first rim half and the first portion of the second rim half, characterised in that at least one of the first rim half and the second rim half comprises a flange configured to support an elastomeric pad.
A well comprising a body and at least one fitting for connecting a pipe to the well, wherein the fitting is provided with an inner sheath which is directed towards the inside of the body and which is provided with internal connection surfaces (4a, 4b) for connecting the pipe with the well, the inner diameters of the connection surfaces (4a, 4b) being different in size for connecting pipes of different sizes to the fitting, characterized in that the connection surfaces (4a, 4b), having different inner diameters, are arranged successively in an axial direction of the fitting such that a connection surface having the smallest diameter resides closest to a centre part of the well while a connection surface having the largest diameter resides farthest away from the centre part of the well, that the well is formed by rotational moulding; and that the fitting is provided with an outer sheath which is directed outwards from the body, and in that the inner sheath is arranged inside the outer sheath, whereby the fitting continues from an outwards directed part of the outer sheath to an inwards directed part of the inner sheath.
A composition comprising at least one thermoplastic polyurethane and at least one poly(meth)acrylate, wherein the at least one thermoplastic polyurethane is a polyurethane based on hexamethylene 1,6-diisocyanate as structural component (a), on at least one diol as structural component (b) and on at least one chain extender as structural component (c), where the at least one chain extender is selected from the group consisting of ethylene 1,2-glycol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol and 1,6-hexanediol, where the composition comprises a quantity in the range of 5% by weight to 60% by weight of the at least one thermoplastic polyurethane, and where the composition comprises a quantity in the range of 40% by weight to 95% by weight of the at least one poly (meth) acrylate, where the entirety of all of the components of the composition provides 100% by weight, where diol used comprises a polyetherdiol or polyesterdiol or a mixture of two or more thereof, and where the quantities reacted of the structural components (a), (b) and (c) are such that the equivalence ratio of NCO groups of the diisocyanates (a) to the entirety of the hydroxy groups of the structural components (b) and (c) is 0.9 to 1.1: 1.
An antenna producing a radiation diagram revolving around a geometric axis and having a maximum radiation in a plane perpendicular to the direction of said axis X, the antenna comprising a conductive surface forming a ground plane of the antenna; a power supply wire extending along said axis from a first end to a second end, the first end being located at the level of the ground plane of the antenna toward a second end powering a set of N identical radiating strands located substantially in the same main plane, N being an integer; each of said N radiating strands (210, 220, 230, 240) describing an initial segment extending radially from the geometric axis X and prolonged by a circle-arc portion centered on said axis X, the circle-arc portions of the strands turning around the axis X in the same direction; characterized in that the antenna further comprises a set of N ground return rods of the set of N radiating strands, the ground return rod (510, 520, 530, 540) of each radiating strand (210, 220, 230, 240, 710, 720, 730, 810, 820, 830, 840) being electrically connected, at a first end, to the end of the circle-arc portion of the strand and, at the opposite end, to the ground plane; and in that each of the power supply wire and the initial segment of each radiating strand (210, 220, 230, 240) comprises at least one meander.
A dsRNA for use in a method of treating of TTR-related ocular amyloidosis by reducing TTR expression in a retinal pigment epithelium of a subject, wherein the dsRNA is to be administered to the retina of the subject, and wherein the dsRNA has (i) the sense strand GGAuuucAuGuAAccAAGAdTdT and the antisense strand UCUUGGUuAcAUGAAAUCCdTdT, (ii) the sense strand cAGuGuucuuGcucuAuAAdTdT and the antisense strand UuAuAGAGcAAGAAcACUGdTdT, or (iii) the sense strand cAGuGuucuuGcucuAuAAdTdTL10 and the antisense strand UuAuAGAGcAAgAAcACUGdTdT, wherein c is 2'-O-methylcytidine-3'-phosphate, u is 2'-O-methyluridine-3'-phosphate, dT is 2'-deoxythymidine-3'-phosphate and L10 is a conjugated cholesterol. (i) the sense strand GGAuuucAuGuAAccAAGAdTdT and the antisense strand UCUUGGUuAcAUGAAAUCCdTdT, (ii) the sense strand cAGuGuucuuGcucuAuAAdTdT and the antisense strand UuAuAGAGcAAGAAcACUGdTdT, or (iii) the sense strand cAGuGuucuuGcucuAuAAdTdTL10 and the antisense strand UuAuAGAGcAAgAAcACUGdTdT,
Method for correcting chemical shift artifacts, CSA, which arise in the magnetic resonance DIXON method when using bipolar readout gradients, fast DIXON MR, to capture the in-phase and opposed-phase echoes, wherein in-phase and opposed-phase relate to a phase relationship between water spins and fat spins, comprising the following method steps: providing a trained convolutional neural network, CNN, which has been trained using acquisition data acquired in phase and in phase opposition by the DIXON MR method, comprising acquisition data that contains CSA in mutually opposite directions of the readout gradient, and acquisition data that contains CSA only in one direction of the readout gradient, so that the CNN is trained to transform the acquisition data obtained by the fast DIXON MR such that it exhibits CSA that now arise only in the same direction of the readout gradient; producing control instructions for acquiring at least two instances of fast DIXON MR acquisition data, by acquiring the in-phase and opposed-phase echoes of the water protons and fat protons; applying the trained CNN to the acquisition data produced in the preceding step in order to minimise the CSA or remove it entirely from the acquisition data in mutually opposite directions of the readout gradient and calculate corrected acquisition data, feed the corrected acquisition data to a conventional Dixon algorithm to generate a fat image and a water image, wherein fat and water images are aligned by spatial registration and the CSA only arising in the same direction of the readout gradient only arises as a global shift for all voxels in the fat image. providing a trained convolutional neural network, CNN, which has been trained using acquisition data acquired in phase and in phase opposition by the DIXON MR method, comprising acquisition data that contains CSA in mutually opposite directions of the readout gradient, and acquisition data that contains CSA only in one direction of the readout gradient, so that the CNN is trained to transform the acquisition data obtained by the fast DIXON MR such that it exhibits CSA that now arise only in the same direction of the readout gradient; producing control instructions for acquiring at least two instances of fast DIXON MR acquisition data, by acquiring the in-phase and opposed-phase echoes of the water protons and fat protons; applying the trained CNN to the acquisition data produced in the preceding step in order to minimise the CSA or remove it entirely from the acquisition data in mutually opposite directions of the readout gradient and calculate corrected acquisition data, feed the corrected acquisition data to a conventional Dixon algorithm to generate a fat image and a water image, wherein fat and water images are aligned by spatial registration and the CSA only arising in the same direction of the readout gradient only arises as a global shift for all voxels in the fat image.
Method for assessing the state of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders with a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor which are connected to an evaluation unit, wherein a cylinder pressure is measured in each case with the pressure sensors (5, 7), wherein the first pressure sensor measures a reference measurement signal of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine assumed to be the reference cylinder and the second pressure sensor measures a first measurement signal of a first cylinder which is different from the reference cylinder, and in that the reference measurement signal of the reference cylinder and the first measurement signal are passed on to the evaluation unit, characterised in that, after measurement of the first measurement signal of the first cylinder, at least one further measurement of at least one further cylinder (10, 11) which is different from the reference cylinder is carried out with the second pressure sensor, and in that at least one further measurement signal (C, D) determined in the process is transmitted to the evaluation unit, and in that, during this time, the first pressure sensor transmits a reference measurement signal to the evaluation unit.
A supply of sheet stock material (34,43) suitable for use in a dunnage conversion machine, comprising: a first ply (P 1) of sheet stock material, and a second ply (P 2) of sheet stock material that overlaps the first ply (P 1), characterized in that the first ply (P 1) and the second ply (P 2) both have an adhesive layer adjacent one of a leading end or a trailing end of each ply (P 1 and P 2), the adhesive layer being applied to opposing outwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies (P 1 and P 2) if adjacent the leading ends and the adhesive layer being applied to inwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies (P 1 and P 2) if adjacent the trailing ends. a first ply (P 1) of sheet stock material, and a second ply (P 2) of sheet stock material that overlaps the first ply (P 1), characterized in that the first ply (P 1) and the second ply (P 2) both have an adhesive layer adjacent one of a leading end or a trailing end of each ply (P 1 and P 2), the adhesive layer being applied to opposing outwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies (P 1 and P 2) if adjacent the leading ends and the adhesive layer being applied to inwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies (P 1 and P 2) if adjacent the trailing ends.
An encryption device comprising: an acquisition unit to acquire a plaintext M; a division unit to divide the plaintext M acquired by the acquisition unit, every b bits from a beginning, the b bits being a block size of an encryption function E of a block cipher, thereby generating b-bit values M 1,..., M m-1 and a value M m having 1 or more bits to b or less bits; an S1 calculation unit to assign a b-bit value H 1 to a value M 0, and for each integer i of i = 1,..., m in an ascending order, to take a value M i - 1 as input to the encryption function E, thereby calculating a value S 1 (i), and to calculate a value C i from the value S 1 (i) and a value M i; an S2 calculation unit to assign an r-bit value H 2 to a value S 2, and for each integer i of i = 1,..., m in an ascending order, to calculate a value S 2 (i) from the value S 1 (i) calculated by the S1 calculation unit and from a value S 2 (i - 1); a ciphertext generation unit to generate a ciphertext C from a value C i for each integer i of i = 1,..., m; and an authenticator generation unit to generate a (b + r)-bit authenticator T by using a value Si(m) and a value S 2 (m). an acquisition unit to acquire a plaintext M; a division unit to divide the plaintext M acquired by the acquisition unit, every b bits from a beginning, the b bits being a block size of an encryption function E of a block cipher, thereby generating b-bit values M 1,..., M m-1 and a value M m having 1 or more bits to b or less bits; an S1 calculation unit to assign a b-bit value H 1 to a value M 0, and for each integer i of i = 1,..., m in an ascending order, to take a value M i - 1 as input to the encryption function E, thereby calculating a value S 1 (i), and to calculate a value C i from the value S 1 (i) and a value M i; an S2 calculation unit to assign an r-bit value H 2 to a value S 2, and for each integer i of i = 1,..., m in an ascending order, to calculate a value S 2 (i) from the value S 1 (i) calculated by the S1 calculation unit and from a value S 2 (i - 1); a ciphertext generation unit to generate a ciphertext C from a value C i for each integer i of i = 1,..., m; and an authenticator generation unit to generate a (b + r)-bit authenticator T by using a value Si(m) and a value S 2 (m).
A cover material fastening cord (8, 8A, 8B, 8C) for fastening a cover material to a clip of a cushion material, the cover material fastening cord comprising: an elongated tape portion whose first rim is connected to the cover material; a plurality of block portions that are provided on a surface of the tape portion and project in a thickness direction of the tape portion; a plurality of flexible joint portions (71, 71A, 71C) provided on the surface of the tape portion between the block portions, each of the joint portions connecting adjacent ones of the block portions and defining a thin sheet-shaped component provided along the surface of the tape portion from a base side to a distal side of each of the block portions; and a flexible support portion (72, 72B) disposed along the block portions, the support portion being consecutive in the longitudinal direction of the tape portion and connected to each of the plurality of block portions and defining a thin sheet-shaped component extending in a width direction of the tape portion on the surface of the tape portion from the base side of each of the block portions, wherein the block portions, the joint portion (71, 71A, 71C) and the support portion (72, 72B) are integrally molded by a synthetic resin material. an elongated tape portion whose first rim is connected to the cover material; a plurality of block portions that are provided on a surface of the tape portion and project in a thickness direction of the tape portion; a plurality of flexible joint portions (71, 71A, 71C) provided on the surface of the tape portion between the block portions, each of the joint portions connecting adjacent ones of the block portions and defining a thin sheet-shaped component provided along the surface of the tape portion from a base side to a distal side of each of the block portions; and a flexible support portion (72, 72B) disposed along the block portions, the support portion being consecutive in the longitudinal direction of the tape portion and connected to each of the plurality of block portions and defining a thin sheet-shaped component extending in a width direction of the tape portion on the surface of the tape portion from the base side of each of the block portions, wherein the block portions, the joint portion (71, 71A, 71C) and the support portion (72, 72B) are integrally molded by a synthetic resin material.