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A spring wall for securement between associated end members (202, 204) for forming an associated gas spring assembly, said spring wall formed from an unreinforced elastomeric material and comprising: a first wall portion extending axially along a longitudinal axis and circumferentially thereabout, said first wall portion having a first flexural modulus and a first nominal stiffness value; and, a second wall portion extending along said longitudinal axis and circumferentially thereabout, said second wall portion disposed in longitudinal relation to said first wall portion, said second side wall portion having a second flexural modulus that is at least 25 percent greater than said first flexural modulus and a second nominal stiffness value that is different from said first nominal stiffness value of said first wall portion with said difference between said first and second nominal stiffness values being at least partially related to said difference in said first and second flexural moduli such that a non-constant stiffness profile is established along a longitudinal length of said spring wall. a first wall portion extending axially along a longitudinal axis and circumferentially thereabout, said first wall portion having a first flexural modulus and a first nominal stiffness value; and, a second wall portion extending along said longitudinal axis and circumferentially thereabout, said second wall portion disposed in longitudinal relation to said first wall portion, said second side wall portion having a second flexural modulus that is at least 25 percent greater than said first flexural modulus and a second nominal stiffness value that is different from said first nominal stiffness value of said first wall portion with said difference between said first and second nominal stiffness values being at least partially related to said difference in said first and second flexural moduli such that a non-constant stiffness profile is established along a longitudinal length of said spring wall.
A stent comprising: a first end portion and a second end portion; an elongate body comprising a coiled wire disposed therealong, the coiled wire spanning between the first end portion and the second end portion, and defining a lumen there through; a safety wire comprising a proximal end and a distal end, disposed through the lumen and fixed with respect to each of the first and second end portions of the coiled wire, characterized by: a proximal end cap fixed to the proximal end of the safety wire and a distal end cap fixed to the distal end of the safety wire, each of the proximal and distal end caps are fixed with respect to first and second ends of the coiled wire, wherein at least one of the proximal and distal end caps comprises a window configured to receive the safety wire there through, and configured to allow access to the safety wire to join the safety wire and the respective end cap. a first end portion and a second end portion; an elongate body comprising a coiled wire disposed therealong, the coiled wire spanning between the first end portion and the second end portion, and defining a lumen there through; a safety wire comprising a proximal end and a distal end, disposed through the lumen and fixed with respect to each of the first and second end portions of the coiled wire, characterized by: a proximal end cap fixed to the proximal end of the safety wire and a distal end cap fixed to the distal end of the safety wire, each of the proximal and distal end caps are fixed with respect to first and second ends of the coiled wire, wherein at least one of the proximal and distal end caps comprises a window configured to receive the safety wire there through, and configured to allow access to the safety wire to join the safety wire and the respective end cap. a proximal end cap fixed to the proximal end of the safety wire and a distal end cap fixed to the distal end of the safety wire, each of the proximal and distal end caps are fixed with respect to first and second ends of the coiled wire, wherein at least one of the proximal and distal end caps comprises a window configured to receive the safety wire there through, and configured to allow access to the safety wire to join the safety wire and the respective end cap.
Process for the production of a crosslinked moulding comprising polyaryletherketones (PAEK), comprising the steps of: (a) provision of a mixture comprising a PAEK and a crosslinking agent, (b) production of a moulding made of the mixture, and (c) thermal treatment of the moulding at a temperature at which PAEK is crosslinked, with resultant production of the crosslinked moulding, and where the crosslinking agent is a di(aminophenyl) compound in which the two aminophenyl rings have bonding to one another by way of an aliphatic group comprising a carbocyclic moiety. (a) provision of a mixture comprising a PAEK and a crosslinking agent, (b) production of a moulding made of the mixture, and (c) thermal treatment of the moulding at a temperature at which PAEK is crosslinked, with resultant production of the crosslinked moulding, and
A method in an audio encoder for allocating bits to a gain adjustment quantizer and a shape quantizer to be used for encoding a gain shape vector, the method comprising: - determining a current bitrate and a first signal property value, and wherein the method is characterized by - identifying one bit allocation for the gain adjustment quantizer and the shape quantizer for the determined current bitrate and the first signal property by using information from a table indicating at least one bit allocation for the gain adjustment quantizer and the shape quantizer which are mapped to a bitrate and a first signal property, and - applying the identified bit allocation when encoding the gain shape vector. - determining a current bitrate and a first signal property value, and wherein the method is characterized by - identifying one bit allocation for the gain adjustment quantizer and the shape quantizer for the determined current bitrate and the first signal property by using information from a table indicating at least one bit allocation for the gain adjustment quantizer and the shape quantizer which are mapped to a bitrate and a first signal property, and - applying the identified bit allocation when encoding the gain shape vector.
Compositions containing a) 15 to 90% by weight of nylon-6,6, b) 3 to 30% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyamide from the group comprising nylon-4,6 and/or semiaromatic copolyamides containing terephthalic acid as monomer unit and having a melting point in the range from 270°C to 330°C, wherein the proportion of said constituent(s) b) based on the sum of all thermoplastic polymers contained in the composition is 5 to 40% by weight, c) 5 to 70% by weight of glass fibres, and d) 0.01 to 3% by weight of at least one heat stabilizer, wherein the sum of all percentages by weight always adds up to 100 and that, in addition to constituents a), b), c), and d), these also contain e) 0.01 to 5% by weight of dipentaerythritol and/or tripentaerythritol, wherein the remaining constituents are reduced such that the sum of all percentages by weight always adds up to 100. a) 15 to 90% by weight of nylon-6,6, b) 3 to 30% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyamide from the group comprising nylon-4,6 and/or semiaromatic copolyamides containing terephthalic acid as monomer unit and having a melting point in the range from 270°C to 330°C, wherein the proportion of said constituent(s) b) based on the sum of all thermoplastic polymers contained in the composition is 5 to 40% by weight, c) 5 to 70% by weight of glass fibres, and d) 0.01 to 3% by weight of at least one heat stabilizer,
A pipe clamp assembly comprising: a band having an inner annular seal element wrappable around a pipe; and opposing clamp members extending from said band; and tightening elements for clamping together said clamp members, said tightening elements passing through holders located at ends of said clamp members; the pipe clamp assembly is characterised by a keeper fastened to one of said holders at a first end of at least one of the tightening elements, said keeper having a cover portion that lies over said first end, wherein two opposing legs extend from said cover portion that straddle said first end and wherein said keeper is assembled to said holder by inserting said legs into apertures formed in said holder. a band having an inner annular seal element wrappable around a pipe; and opposing clamp members extending from said band; and tightening elements for clamping together said clamp members, said tightening elements passing through holders located at ends of said clamp members; the pipe clamp assembly is characterised by a keeper fastened to one of said holders at a first end of at least one of the tightening elements, said keeper having a cover portion that lies over said first end, wherein two opposing legs extend from said cover portion that straddle said first end and wherein said keeper is assembled to said holder by inserting said legs into apertures formed in said holder.
Turbine, in particular high-pressure turbine, for an aircraft engine, with a housing on which turbine guide blades are arranged circumferentially, wherein the turbine guide blades have at least one interior space which is flowed through by cooling air during the operation of the turbine, and wherein at least one turbine guide blade has, in the region of an inner wall in a radial direction of the turbine, a cooling air passage via which cooling air can be supplied to the interior space of the turbine guide blade, characterized in that a rotor apparatus with blade platforms is arranged upstream of the turbine guide blades, wherein blade roots of rotor blades of said rotor apparatus have a passage for conducting a cooling-air stream with swirl into an annular space, which is charged with swirling flow, upstream of the cooling air passage, wherein the cooling-air stream can be fed from the annular space to a sealing-air annular space which is arranged, in a radial direction of the turbine, below the inner wall of the at least one turbine guide blade, and wherein the swirl of the cooling-air stream can be set such that, in addition to the cooling of the at least one turbine guide blade, a gap between the blade platforms of the rotor apparatus and the inner wall of the turbine guide blades is also sealed off.
A drive system for sensitive devices used in radio astronomy, the drive system comprising: a first motor; a first converter configured to supply a first drive power to the first motor, and to control a rotational speed and/or a rotational position of the first motor; a first power supply line for providing the first motor with the first drive power; and a first signal line for providing the first converter with a signal indicating a measured rotational speed and/or a measured rotational position of the first motor, the drive system is characterised in that the drive system further comprises a shaft grounding element for grounding a drive shaft of the first motor, and wherein each one of the first power supply line and the first signal line further comprises a line filter unit (80, 90) being a low-pass filter for filtering electromagnetic interference signals by blocking frequencies higher than 30 MHz, preferably higher than 8 MHz. a first motor; a first converter configured to supply a first drive power to the first motor, and to control a rotational speed and/or a rotational position of the first motor; a first power supply line for providing the first motor with the first drive power; and a first signal line for providing the first converter with a signal indicating a measured rotational speed and/or a measured rotational position of the first motor, the drive system is characterised in that the drive system further comprises a shaft grounding element for grounding a drive shaft of the first motor, and wherein each one of the first power supply line and the first signal line further comprises a line filter unit (80, 90) being a low-pass filter for filtering electromagnetic interference signals by blocking frequencies higher than 30 MHz, preferably higher than 8 MHz.
Power tool (10; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60) with a rotatable tool designed as a saw blade or milling cutter, comprising a sensor device for detecting a mechanical vector quantity, wherein the mechanical vector quantity comprises a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress, and the mechanical vector quantity depends on a force emanating from the tool, wherein the direction of the detected vector quantity corresponds to the direction, in which the tool urges relative to another component of the power tool (10; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60), and a control device communicatively coupled to the sensor device, characterized in that the control device is adapted to recognize an event and/or a state of the power tool (10; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60) according to a change of direction of the mechanical vector quantity detected by the sensor device, wherein the control device is adapted to recognize, as the event and/or the state to be recognized, a kickback, a forward sawing, a backward sawing and/or a plunging of the tool into a workpiece.
A composition comprising: a) one or more copolymer of i) one or more of one or more vinyl or vinylidene aromatic monomers and/or one or more (meth)acrylates; with ii) one or more unsaturated compounds containing one or more nucleophilic groups wherein the copolymer contains on average 0.01 to 5.0 percent by weight of nucleophilic groups based on the weight of the copolymer, said copolymer having a Tg of greater than 100 °C (as measured according to the description); b) one or more thermoplastic elastomer based polymers containing one or more nucleophilic groups; and c) one or more polymers having electrophilic groups; wherein the electrophilic groups are reactive with the nucleophilic groups. a) one or more copolymer of i) one or more of one or more vinyl or vinylidene aromatic monomers and/or one or more (meth)acrylates; with ii) one or more unsaturated compounds containing one or more nucleophilic groups wherein the copolymer contains on average 0.01 to 5.0 percent by weight of nucleophilic groups based on the weight of the copolymer, said copolymer having a Tg of greater than 100 °C (as measured according to the description); b) one or more thermoplastic elastomer based polymers containing one or more nucleophilic groups; and c) one or more polymers having electrophilic groups;
A system for performing a secure blockchain transaction, the system comprising: a terminal for generating the blockchain transaction, the terminal configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode; and a switch connector configured to prevent the terminal from operating in the first mode and the second mode simultaneously; wherein, when the terminal is in the first mode, the terminal is connected via a network to a system provider server, the system provider server in communication with a plurality of blockchain devices; wherein, when the terminal is in the second mode, the terminal is in communication with a cold storage device; wherein the cold storage device is configured to store a private key and to sign the blockchain transaction using the private key; and wherein the terminal is configured to transmit to the cold storage device the blockchain transaction to be signed on the cold storage device using the private key. a terminal for generating the blockchain transaction, the terminal configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode; and a switch connector configured to prevent the terminal from operating in the first mode and the second mode simultaneously; wherein, when the terminal is in the first mode, the terminal is connected via a network to a system provider server, the system provider server in communication with a plurality of blockchain devices; wherein, when the terminal is in the second mode, the terminal is in communication with a cold storage device; wherein the cold storage device is configured to store a private key and to sign the blockchain transaction using the private key; and wherein the terminal is configured to transmit to the cold storage device the blockchain transaction to be signed on the cold storage device using the private key.
A detecting means for detecting a signal that is indicative of the activity of the respiratory muscles of a person to be examined said detecting means comprising a band means which is passed around a torso region which widens and narrows in response to the respiration of a person to be examined, characterized in that the detecting means further comprises a tube portion, a buckle means which is included in the band means and is loaded by said band means in accordance with the narrowing and widening of the torso region, wherein said buckle means is adapted to squeeze said tube portion in accordance with the tensile loading of said band means, such that the buckle means causes a change in the volume of the tube portion when loaded in accordance with the narrowing and widening of the torso region, and wherein a bypass throttle bore is provided in the tube portion or in a plug or connector of the detecting means.
A neural circuit capable of producing a weighted sum of digitised input signals, which are encoded on a given number of bits, and of applying an activation function to said weighted sum in order to produce a digitised activation signal at the output, said circuit having at least: - one multiplier multiplying each input signal ( x 1 to x n) by a weight value ( w 1j to W nj); - one accumulator accumulating the results of said multiplier in order to produce said weighted sum, and; - one activation unit performing said activation function; characterised in that said activation unit has at least one shift unit capable of approximating a nonlinear activation function, the result of said approximated activation function being obtained by one or more arithmetic shifts of the bits of said weighted sum, the shift unit being capable of performing a saturation operation directly on said weighted sum or on a temporary result of the activation function before saturation, the saturated datum being delivered at the output of said activation unit, the saturation being performed by a right shift on said sum, the value of which is deduced from the desired saturation position, by preserving the least significant bits according to the desired final precision, the activation unit having a linear rectifier capable of further performing a linear rectification on the datum present at the output of the shift unit, said datum being the result of a saturation performed directly on said weighted sum present at the input of said activation unit, said linear rectification carrying out said activation function. - one multiplier multiplying each input signal ( x 1 to x n) by a weight value ( w 1j to W nj); - one accumulator accumulating the results of said multiplier in order to produce said weighted sum, and; - one activation unit performing said activation function;
A combustion chamber of a gas turbine, for combusting a fuel in the presence of combustion air, wherein the combustion chamber is designed as dual fuel combustion chamber, which in a gas fuel operating mode can be fed a mixture of a gaseous fuel and combustion air via a swirl body, and which in a liquid fuel, operating mode can be fed, via a fuel lance, a liquid fuel and via the swirl body, combustion air, wherein the fuel lance is received in a mounting wall and, forming a radial gap is surrounded radially outside by an adjoining lance cap at least in sections, which is likewise received in the mounting wall, wherein in the mounting wall an air chamber is formed, which is fed combustion air, which is branched off from the plenum, via an air line, wherein, bypassing the swirl body, combustion air emanating from the air chamber can be fed to a mixing chamber of the combustion chamber via the radial gap, and wherein the radial gap is formed between the fuel lance and the adjoining lance cap, wherein in particular the lance cap is designed as a sleeve surrounding the fuel lance radially outside at least in sections, and wherein the radial gap is designed to cool the fuel lance via an air flow leading through the air chamber and the radial gap along the fuel lance, wherein the combustion chamber contains the mixing chamber which is located radially within the swirl body, and the air flow is fed from the radial gap to the mixing chamber of the combustion chamber and wherein between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber a premixing chamber is located.
An optical pulse reshaping device comprising: an input unit for a seed pulse; an output unit for an output pulse; a nonlinear medium having a normal dispersion effect; and an anomalous dispersion medium connected to the nonlinear medium, wherein the input unit, the nonlinear medium, the anomalous dispersion medium and the output unit are connected in series, and a seed pulse input to the input unit is output as an optical pulse having a compressed pulse width, wherein a dispersion value and an effective length of the nonlinear medium is determined for generating a nonlinear effect and a dispersion effect regarding the nonlinear medium with an approximately similar degree of magnitude. an input unit for a seed pulse; an output unit for an output pulse; a nonlinear medium having a normal dispersion effect; and an anomalous dispersion medium connected to the nonlinear medium,
A pneumatic tire comprising: a tread having a plurality of land portions demarcated by circumferential grooves, wherein sipes are formed in at least one of the land portions to form a plurality of rods each surrounded by the sipes, each rod has a bent portion between an outer surface of the rod and a root thereof, each rod is bent so as to form a corner at the bent portion with the land portions being shoulder land portions that are disposed on outer sides in the axial direction and that extend in the circumferential direction, each shoulder land portion having an axial groove that extends across the shoulder land portion to form a plurality of shoulder blocks spaced from each other in the circumferential direction, and at least a part of the plurality of shoulder blocks has the rods, characterized in that a ratio of a distance from the sipes to the circumferential groove in the axial direction to a width of the shoulder block in the axial direction being not less than 0.1. a tread having a plurality of land portions demarcated by circumferential grooves, wherein sipes are formed in at least one of the land portions to form a plurality of rods each surrounded by the sipes, each rod has a bent portion between an outer surface of the rod and a root thereof, each rod is bent so as to form a corner at the bent portion with the land portions being shoulder land portions that are disposed on outer sides in the axial direction and that extend in the circumferential direction, each shoulder land portion having an axial groove that extends across the shoulder land portion to form a plurality of shoulder blocks spaced from each other in the circumferential direction, and at least a part of the plurality of shoulder blocks has the rods, characterized in that a ratio of a distance from the sipes to the circumferential groove in the axial direction to a width of the shoulder block in the axial direction being not less than 0.1.