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An object handling system comprising two substantially perpendicular sets of rails (22a, 22b) forming a grid above a plurality of stacks of containers, the spacing of the perpendicular rails (22a, 22b) defining a grid spacing, wherein a first portion of stacks comprise containers of single grid spacing size, the handling system further comprising a plurality of a first robotic load handling devices operating on the grid above the first portion of stacks of containers, the load handling devices, comprising a body mounted on wheels, the body comprising lifting means for lifting a container from a stack of containers, the wheels comprising a first set of wheels being arranged to engage with at least two rails of the first set of rails and a second set of wheels being arranged to engage with at least two rails of the second set of rails, the first set of wheels being independently moveable and driveable with respect to the second set of wheels such that when in motion only one set of wheels is engaged with the grid at any one time thereby enabling movement of the load handling devices along the rails by driving only the set of wheels engaged with the rails, characterised in that a second portion of stacks comprise containers larger than one grid spacing, the system further comprising at least one second robotic load handling device adapted to drive above the first and second portion of stacks, the at least one second robotic handling device operable on the grid being adapted so as to lift and move containers from within the second portion of stacks comprising containers larger than one grid spacing.
Protective equipment, of the protective vest type, comprising: - a main part designed to cover at least part of the torso of a user, the main part defining an opening for an arm of the user, - at least one removable side part, designed to cover at least one shoulder of the user, and - for the or each side part, a reversible system for attaching said side part to main part, the fastening system comprising: - at least one of appendage, comprising a proximal end secured to the side part, and a distal end bearing a first fastening member, - at least one belt, secured at each of its ends to the main part and defining, with the main part, a passage for the appendage, and - at least one second fastening member, suitable for cooperating with the first fastening member to reversibly secure the first and second fastening members (64, 70) to each other, the second fastening member being borne by the belt, the appendage the appendage being engaged in the passage, and the first fastening member cooperates with the second fastening member, characterized in that the belt is covered by the side part, an inner surface of the side part being oriented toward said belt. - a main part designed to cover at least part of the torso of a user, the main part defining an opening for an arm of the user, - at least one removable side part, designed to cover at least one shoulder of the user, and - for the or each side part, a reversible system for attaching said side part to main part, - at least one of appendage, comprising a proximal end secured to the side part, and a distal end bearing a first fastening member, - at least one belt, secured at each of its ends to the main part and defining, with the main part, a passage for the appendage, and - at least one second fastening member, suitable for cooperating with the first fastening member to reversibly secure the first and second fastening members (64, 70) to each other, the second fastening member being borne by the belt, the appendage the appendage being engaged in the passage, and the first fastening member cooperates with the second fastening member, characterized in that the belt is covered by the side part, an inner surface of the side part being oriented toward said belt.
A system for estimating a pointing error of an antenna of a satellite, the satellite comprising a payload comprising a multichannel transmitter or receiver comprising a multichannel antenna, one analogue processing chain per channel and a set of digital integrated circuits, the system comprising an estimation device, implemented aboard the satellite or in a ground station, for estimating a pointing error of the antenna, the system being characterised in that the device for estimating a pointing error is configured to: - acquire (202, 403), for at least two channels of the transmitter or of the receiver, at least two test signals, each test signal having been transmitted or received by the antenna along a different direction (θ A, θ B) from the viewpoint of the satellite, - for at least one pair of acquired test signals, determine, for each test signal, a relative complex gain between the test signal received or transmitted respectively on two distinct channels, - determine a comparative measurement between the two test signals from either the ratio between the two relative complex gains and/or the difference between the phases of the two relative complex gains, - determine a pointing error (dθ) of the antenna on the basis of the comparative measurement, of the expected directions of transmission or of reception of the test signals (θ A, θ B) and of a model of the gain of the antenna for each channel and in a plurality of directions. - acquire (202, 403), for at least two channels of the transmitter or of the receiver, at least two test signals, each test signal having been transmitted or received by the antenna along a different direction (θ A, θ B) from the viewpoint of the satellite, - for at least one pair of acquired test signals, determine, for each test signal, a relative complex gain between the test signal received or transmitted respectively on two distinct channels, - determine a comparative measurement between the two test signals from either the ratio between the two relative complex gains and/or the difference between the phases of the two relative complex gains, - determine a pointing error (dθ) of the antenna on the basis of the comparative measurement, of the expected directions of transmission or of reception of the test signals (θ A, θ B) and of a model of the gain of the antenna for each channel and in a plurality of directions.
A coin-operated washing/drying machine, comprising a cabinet and a coin box assembly disposed within the cabinet, wherein a supporting structure is fixedly disposed within the cabinet; at least a bottom surface of the coin box assembly is fixedly connected with the supporting structure by a fastener; wherein the coin box assembly comprises a coin insertion portion and a coin storage box, an inlet is disposed at a top surface of the coin storage box, and the coin insertion portion has a coin channel leading into the inlet; characterized in that: the fastener passes through from the interior of the coin box assembly and is fixedly connected with the supporting structure; a cross beam is connected between the tops of two side plates of the cabinet, and the top surface of the coin storage box is fixedly connected with a bottom surface of the cross beam; wherein a three-side coaming plate, a top cover plate and a front control panel are disposed at the top of the cabinet and close the cabinet together; a coin slot is disposed in the coin insertion portion; a first opening is disposed in the control panel; the coin insertion portion passes into the first opening from a back surface of the control panel so as to expose the coin slot to the outside; and the coin storage box comprises a housing and a lockable drawer disposed within the housing in a pushing-pulling manner; a second opening is disposed in the control panel; and the coin storage box passes into the second opening from the back surface of the control panel so as to expose a keyhole of the lockable drawer to the outside; wherein the fastener is invisible from an overall appearance of the coin-operated washing/drying machine. the fastener passes through from the interior of the coin box assembly and is fixedly connected with the supporting structure; a cross beam is connected between the tops of two side plates of the cabinet, and the top surface of the coin storage box is fixedly connected with a bottom surface of the cross beam; wherein a three-side coaming plate, a top cover plate and a front control panel are disposed at the top of the cabinet and close the cabinet together; a coin slot is disposed in the coin insertion portion; a first opening is disposed in the control panel; the coin insertion portion passes into the first opening from a back surface of the control panel so as to expose the coin slot to the outside; and the coin storage box comprises a housing and a lockable drawer disposed within the housing in a pushing-pulling manner; a second opening is disposed in the control panel; and the coin storage box passes into the second opening from the back surface of the control panel so as to expose a keyhole of the lockable drawer to the outside; wherein the fastener is invisible from an overall appearance of the coin-operated washing/drying machine.
A method of detecting hand related parameters and determining at least a location, in a 3D space, of each hand parameter from a 3D point cloud corresponding to a hand in the 3D space provided by a range finding imaging system, the hand related parameters comprising at least a hand tip (501, 601, 701), defined as a single point of interest that corresponds to the main extremity of a hand, and a hand palm centre (502, 503, 603), the method comprising the steps of: a) determining, from the 3D point cloud, a distance map of the hand; b) determining a location, in the 3D space, of the hand palm centre using said distance map; c) performing a Principal Component Analysis, PCA, on the 3D point cloud; d) determining, from the PCA, a principal direction; e) determining, from the 3D point cloud, a vector having an origin located at a position determined by the hand palm centre and a direction determined by said principal direction; f) determining, for each point of the 3D point cloud, an orthonormal projection onto said vector; g) determining, from the orthonormal projection, a histogram; and h) determining a location, in the 3D space, of the hand tip by determining the position in the 3D space corresponding to a predetermined range in said histogram. a) determining, from the 3D point cloud, a distance map of the hand; b) determining a location, in the 3D space, of the hand palm centre using said distance map; c) performing a Principal Component Analysis, PCA, on the 3D point cloud; d) determining, from the PCA, a principal direction; e) determining, from the 3D point cloud, a vector having an origin located at a position determined by the hand palm centre and a direction determined by said principal direction; f) determining, for each point of the 3D point cloud, an orthonormal projection onto said vector; g) determining, from the orthonormal projection, a histogram; and h) determining a location, in the 3D space, of the hand tip by determining the position in the 3D space corresponding to a predetermined range in said histogram.
Assembly formed by a structure comprising railway points with a VCC clamp lock mounted on a sleeper by means of a sole plate, characterised in that on the one hand the sole plate has a rigidity between 100 and 220 kN/mm and on the other hand the base of the structure is fixed to the sleeper by means of a clamping device which traverses the sole plate and is designed to generate a defined preload on the sole plate by means of an incrementation mechanism integrated into the clamping device.
A method for power management for applications having duty-cycled high peak supply currents comprising: charging a buffer capacitor with a first current supplied by a battery, wherein the first current is limited by a current limiter; supplying a load with a second current supplied by the buffer capacitor, wherein the second current comprises a pulsed current; and controlling the current limiter with at least one of a plurality of sensor inputs to limit a capacity degradation of the battery; wherein the current limiter is latched into a conductive bypass mode and a bias circuit of the current limiter is disabled, in response to the load entering a sleep mode and the buffer capacitor being charged above a threshold voltage, wherein the threshold voltage is greater than a minimum voltage. charging a buffer capacitor with a first current supplied by a battery, wherein the first current is limited by a current limiter; supplying a load with a second current supplied by the buffer capacitor, wherein the second current comprises a pulsed current; and controlling the current limiter with at least one of a plurality of sensor inputs to limit a capacity degradation of the battery; wherein the current limiter is latched into a conductive bypass mode and a bias circuit of the current limiter is disabled, in response to the load entering a sleep mode and the buffer capacitor being charged above a threshold voltage, wherein the threshold voltage is greater than a minimum voltage.
A lean NO x trap catalyst, comprising: i) a first p layer on a substrate, said first layer comprising a mixture or alloy of platinum and palladium, a first inorganic oxide selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica-alumina or a magnesia/alumina composite oxide, a promoter, wherein the promoter comprises manganese, bismuth, or barium, and a hydrocarbon absorbing material, wherein the hydrocarbon absorbing material is a molecular sieve.; and ii) a second deposited on the first layer, said second layer comprising one or more platinum group metals, an oxygen storage capacity material selected from the group consisting of cerium oxide, zirconium oxide, a ceria-zirconia mixed oxide, and an alumina-ceria-zirconia mixed oxide, and a second inorganic oxide; wherein the first layer is free of oxygen storage capacity material. i) a first p layer on a substrate, said first layer comprising a mixture or alloy of platinum and palladium, a first inorganic oxide selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica-alumina or a magnesia/alumina composite oxide, a promoter, wherein the promoter comprises manganese, bismuth, or barium, and a hydrocarbon absorbing material, wherein the hydrocarbon absorbing material is a molecular sieve.; and a mixture or alloy of platinum and palladium, a first inorganic oxide selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica-alumina or a magnesia/alumina composite oxide, a promoter, wherein the promoter comprises manganese, bismuth, or barium, and a hydrocarbon absorbing material, wherein the hydrocarbon absorbing material is a molecular sieve.; and ii) a second deposited on the first layer, said second layer comprising one or more platinum group metals, an oxygen storage capacity material selected from the group consisting of cerium oxide, zirconium oxide, a ceria-zirconia mixed oxide, and an alumina-ceria-zirconia mixed oxide, and a second inorganic oxide;
A method for device discovery, the method comprising: a first user equipment, LTE, obtaining sidelink discovery information, SDI, for use in discovering a second UE in proximity to the first UE, wherein the SDI comprises at least a first part of a discovery message; the first UE transmitting the SDI over a physical sidelink channel, PSCH, characterized in that: the PSCH is a physical sidelink control channel, PSCCH, the discovery message comprises the first part and a second part, the SDI, which is transmitted over the PSCCH and which comprises the first part of the discovery message, does not include the second part of the discovery message, the first part of the discovery message comprises: i) information indicating a required quality of service, QoS, ii) information indicating a LTE capability, and/or iii) information indicating a service type, and the method further comprises the first UE transmitting a MAC PDU on the PSSCH after transmitting the SDI on the PSCCH, wherein the MAC PDU comprises the second part of the discovery message. a first user equipment, LTE, obtaining sidelink discovery information, SDI, for use in discovering a second UE in proximity to the first UE, wherein the SDI comprises at least a first part of a discovery message; the first UE transmitting the SDI over a physical sidelink channel, PSCH, characterized in that: the PSCH is a physical sidelink control channel, PSCCH, the discovery message comprises the first part and a second part, the SDI, which is transmitted over the PSCCH and which comprises the first part of the discovery message, does not include the second part of the discovery message, the first part of the discovery message comprises: i) information indicating a required quality of service, QoS, ii) information indicating a LTE capability, and/or iii) information indicating a service type, and the method further comprises the first UE transmitting a MAC PDU on the PSSCH after transmitting the SDI on the PSCCH, wherein the MAC PDU comprises the second part of the discovery message. the PSCH is a physical sidelink control channel, PSCCH, the discovery message comprises the first part and a second part, the SDI, which is transmitted over the PSCCH and which comprises the first part of the discovery message, does not include the second part of the discovery message, the first part of the discovery message comprises: i) information indicating a required quality of service, QoS, ii) information indicating a LTE capability, and/or iii) information indicating a service type, and the method further comprises the first UE transmitting a MAC PDU on the PSSCH after transmitting the SDI on the PSCCH, wherein the MAC PDU comprises the second part of the discovery message.
A method of nucleic acid amplification comprising contacting a double stranded nucleic acid with transposases bound to transposon DNA, wherein the transposon DNA includes a transposase binding site and an RNA polymerase promoter sequence, wherein the transposases/transposon DNA complex bind to target locations along the double stranded nucleic acid and cleave the double stranded nucleic acid into a plurality of double stranded fragments, with each double stranded fragment having the transposon DNA bound to each 5' end of the double stranded fragment, extending the double stranded fragments along the transposon DNA to make double stranded extension products having double stranded RNA polymerase promoter sequences at each end, contacting the double stranded extension products with an RNA polymerase to make a plurality of RNA transcripts of each double stranded extension product, reverse transcribing the RNA transcripts into single stranded copy DNA, forming complementary strands to the single stranded copy DNA to form a plurality of double stranded DNA amplicons corresponding to each double stranded fragment, wherein the double stranded DNA amplicons are linearly amplified from the original double stranded fragments.
A toy gun, comprising: a magazine; a power element; a driver element electrically connected with the power element; a gear set engaged by the driver element; and an electronic fire-control assembly electrically connected with the power element, the electronic fire-control assembly controlling the on and off of the driver element which in turn engages the gear set, the electronic fire-control assembly capable of detecting the magazine and responding accordingly, wherein the electronic fire-control assembly comprises a signal conversion board, at least a microprocessor configured on the signal conversion board, at least a magazine detection module configured in the microprocessor for detecting the state of the magazine, at least a shot selection module configured in the microprocessor, and a trigger on/off module data-linked with the shot selection module, characterized in that the electronic fire-control assembly is housed in an enclosure that is separate from the gear set so that the electronic fire-control assembly is independently detachable from the toy gun. a magazine; a power element; a driver element electrically connected with the power element; a gear set engaged by the driver element; and an electronic fire-control assembly electrically connected with the power element, the electronic fire-control assembly controlling the on and off of the driver element which in turn engages the gear set, the electronic fire-control assembly capable of detecting the magazine and responding accordingly,
A method comprising, at an ingress buffer module of a network device (102, 104, 106, 600), calculating a target transmission rate for an ingress port (108, 212) associated with the ingress buffer module based on feedback information received from a first egress port (110, 214) for said network device (102, 104, 106), the feedback information indicating a congestion degree at the first egress port (110, 214); comparing the calculated target transmission rate of the ingress port (108, 212) to a rate at which data for the first egress port (110, 214) is arriving at the ingress port (108, 212); determining whether to send a Pause message based on the results of the comparison, wherein the above process steps are performed at each of a plurality of ingress buffer modules with respect to its one or more associated ingress ports (108, 212). at an ingress buffer module of a network device (102, 104, 106, 600), calculating a target transmission rate for an ingress port (108, 212) associated with the ingress buffer module based on feedback information received from a first egress port (110, 214) for said network device (102, 104, 106), the feedback information indicating a congestion degree at the first egress port (110, 214); comparing the calculated target transmission rate of the ingress port (108, 212) to a rate at which data for the first egress port (110, 214) is arriving at the ingress port (108, 212); determining whether to send a Pause message based on the results of the comparison, wherein the above process steps are performed at each of a plurality of ingress buffer modules with respect to its one or more associated ingress ports (108, 212).
Upholstered furniture in the form of a chair and/or a sofa, comprising a backrest, a frame and a connecting device for connecting the backrest and the frame, wherein in a state of use of the seating furniture at least one first connection and at least one second connection are provided between the backrest and the connecting device, wherein the first connection is closed relative to the connecting device by means of lowering the backrest, wherein the backrest is pivotally supported on the connecting device by means of the first connection, wherein the second connection comprises corresponding stop surfaces (14, 15) on the backrest and the connecting device such that in the position of use a swivelling of the backrest to the rear is prevented and wherein the backrest is positioned by the first connection in such a way in relation to the connecting device that the corresponding stop surfaces (14,15) of the second connection are brought into contact substantially by pivoting the backrest to the rear, characterised in that the second connection comprises a locking connection engaged by swivelling the backrest and in that the locking connection substantially prevents a forward swivelling of the backrest.