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A method for connecting a metal fitting to a reinforced thermoplastic duct comprising: inserting a first end of the fitting having a plurality of barbs into an end of the duct; installing a clamp around the duct applying a compressive force to the duct and the fitting to restrain movement of the duct relative to the fitting; then heating the duct to a temperature greater than a glass transition temperature of a thermoplastic material used to form the duct; restructuring the duct to include a plurality of protrusions positioned between the plurality of barbs of the fitting. inserting a first end of the fitting having a plurality of barbs into an end of the duct; installing a clamp around the duct applying a compressive force to the duct and the fitting to restrain movement of the duct relative to the fitting; then heating the duct to a temperature greater than a glass transition temperature of a thermoplastic material used to form the duct; restructuring the duct to include a plurality of protrusions positioned between the plurality of barbs of the fitting.
Station for measuring the particulate contamination of a transport pod for the atmospheric transportation and storage of semiconductor substrates, the said pod comprising a casing that can be closed by a removable access door, the said station comprising: - an interface that can be coupled to the said transport pod casing, in place of the said door, and - a measurement device comprising a vacuum pump, a particle counter and a measurement pipe an inlet of which opens to the inside of the said casing and an outlet of which is connected to the vacuum pump, the measurement pipe also being connected to the particle counter so as to place the inside of the transport pod casing, coupled to the said measurement station, in communication with the particle counter, characterized in that the interface comprises a projecting tube and at least one injection nozzle positioned at a mobile end of the projecting tube so as to direct a jet of gas in a direction perpendicular to a wall portion inside the said casing coupled to the said measurement station, so as to detach particles from the said casing by the impingement of the jet of gas onto the said wall, the said interface being provided with a plurality of spacers that allow the said interface to couple to the said casing leaving gaps for the passage of a leakage flow between the inside of the said casing and the external environment. - an interface that can be coupled to the said transport pod casing, in place of the said door, and - a measurement device comprising a vacuum pump, a particle counter and a measurement pipe an inlet of which opens to the inside of the said casing and an outlet of which is connected to the vacuum pump, the measurement pipe also being connected to the particle counter so as to place the inside of the transport pod casing, coupled to the said measurement station, in communication with the particle counter,
A method comprising: identifying a contact on a surface of a trackpad of a computing device; calculating a value of a first speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; and in response to determining that the first speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad is equal to or less than a first threshold speed: blocking cursor movement and scrolling on a display device, which result from the movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; calculating a value of a second speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; calculating a value of an accumulated total distance moved by the contact along the surface of the trackpad; and continuing to block cursor movement and scrolling on the display device based on determining both that the value of the second speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad is less than a second threshold speed, and on determining that the value of the total distance moved by the contact along the surface of the trackpad is less than a threshold distance value, wherein the second threshold speed is faster than the first threshold speed. identifying a contact on a surface of a trackpad of a computing device; calculating a value of a first speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; and in response to determining that the first speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad is equal to or less than a first threshold speed: blocking cursor movement and scrolling on a display device, which result from the movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; calculating a value of a second speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad; calculating a value of an accumulated total distance moved by the contact along the surface of the trackpad; and continuing to block cursor movement and scrolling on the display device based on determining both that the value of the second speed of movement of the contact along the surface of the trackpad is less than a second threshold speed, and on determining that the value of the total distance moved by the contact along the surface of the trackpad is less than a threshold distance value, wherein the second threshold speed is faster than the first threshold speed.
Method for automatically determining a suitable angulation or inclination of a recording system for a visualisation of a guide wire during a navigation of the guide wire through a vascular system of a patient from a vessel into a branch of the vessel, whereby the guide wire has a curvature and a first proximal section on the first side of the curvature and a second distal section having the tip of the guide wire on the second side of the curvature, with the following steps: • Recording of a sequence of live X-ray images of the guide wire and presentation of the X-ray images on a display unit, the method characterised in that during this process the following steps are carried out: • Identifying the guide wire on at least some of the X-ray images, • Applying a first virtual tangent to the first section and a second virtual tangent to the second section of the guide wire, • Determining a point of intersection of the virtual tangents, • Determining a triangle, the three corners of which are the point of intersection and a first point on the first section and a second point on the second section, • Determining the area of the triangle, and • Determining the suitable angulation or inclination of the recording system by maximising the area of the triangle by means of movement of the recording system. • Recording of a sequence of live X-ray images of the guide wire and presentation of the X-ray images on a display unit, the method characterised in that during this process the following steps are carried out: • Identifying the guide wire on at least some of the X-ray images, • Applying a first virtual tangent to the first section and a second virtual tangent to the second section of the guide wire, • Determining a point of intersection of the virtual tangents, • Determining a triangle, the three corners of which are the point of intersection and a first point on the first section and a second point on the second section, • Determining the area of the triangle, and • Determining the suitable angulation or inclination of the recording system by maximising the area of the triangle by means of movement of the recording system.
A method of video decoding, executable by a processor, the method comprising: receiving video data comprising a chroma component and a luma component, wherein the luma and chroma components share the partition tree structure from the root node of a super block, and the condition on when luma and chroma components start separate tree partitioning depends on partitioning information of said luma component; parsing, deriving or selecting a number of presets for the chroma component in one frame, and a number of presets for the luma component in the one frame; and decoding the video data, wherein the method comprises, when the luma and chroma components have different partitioning or semi-decoupled partitioning, performing a separate Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter CDEF process of filtering luma and chroma components independent from each other based on the number of presets for the chroma component in one frame, and the number of presets for the luma component in the one frame, wherein the number of presets derived for the luma component is different from the number of presets derived for the chroma component at picture level, wherein block level preset indexes indicating a selected preset are signaled separately for luma and chroma components. receiving video data comprising a chroma component and a luma component, wherein the luma and chroma components share the partition tree structure from the root node of a super block, and the condition on when luma and chroma components start separate tree partitioning depends on partitioning information of said luma component; parsing, deriving or selecting a number of presets for the chroma component in one frame, and a number of presets for the luma component in the one frame; and decoding the video data, wherein the method comprises, when the luma and chroma components have different partitioning or semi-decoupled partitioning, performing a separate Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter CDEF process of filtering luma and chroma components independent from each other based on the number of presets for the chroma component in one frame, and the number of presets for the luma component in the one frame, wherein the number of presets derived for the luma component is different from the number of presets derived for the chroma component at picture level, wherein block level preset indexes indicating a selected preset are signaled separately for luma and chroma components.
A method for chlorinating a sucrose-6-ester to produce 4,1',6'-trichloro-4,1',6'-trideoxy-6- O -ester of galactosucrose (TGS-6E) of the formula M-OC(=O)R', wherein R' is a hydrophobic group such that TGS-6E has an octanol-water partition coefficient cLogP of 0.5 or greater, and M is the moiety completing the rest of TGS-6E, the method comprising: (i) reacting the sucrose-6-ester with a chlorinating agent in N,N-dimethylformamide to obtain a chlorination reaction mixture, and removing at least a portion of the HCl resulting from the chlorination reaction as a DMF-HCl mixture by vacuum distillation, to obtain a reaction mixture comprising said TGS-6E and at least one under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester of the formula M'-OC(=O)R', wherein R' is a hydrophobic group such that the under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester has an octanol-water partition coefficient cLogP of 0.5 or greater, and M' is the moiety completing the rest of the under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester; (ii) returning the at least one under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester to a chlorinating step and further chlorinating the at least one sucrose-6-ester to obtain TGS-6E; and (iii) optionally repeating steps (i) and (ii) "n" times where n ≥ 1. (i) reacting the sucrose-6-ester with a chlorinating agent in N,N-dimethylformamide to obtain a chlorination reaction mixture, and removing at least a portion of the HCl resulting from the chlorination reaction as a DMF-HCl mixture by vacuum distillation, to obtain a reaction mixture comprising said TGS-6E and at least one under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester of the formula M'-OC(=O)R', wherein R' is a hydrophobic group such that the under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester has an octanol-water partition coefficient cLogP of 0.5 or greater, and M' is the moiety completing the rest of the under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester; (ii) returning the at least one under-chlorinated sucrose-6-ester to a chlorinating step and further chlorinating the at least one sucrose-6-ester to obtain TGS-6E; and (iii) optionally repeating steps (i) and (ii) "n" times where n ≥ 1.
A method of operating a voltage regulator having a plurality of switches and a delay time period T_Td, said method comprising: providing a hysteresis parameter V_hyst to a hysteresis comparator, the hysteresis parameter V_hyst being a function of circuit components, a voltage output Vout of the regulator, a voltage input Vin of the regulator, and a signal that drives one of the plurality of switches; and driving the switches based on the hysteresis parameter; characterized in that one or more of the circuit components that provide the hysteresis parameter also define a hysteresis time period T_ hyst, the hysteresis time period T_ hyst defining in combination with the delay time period T_Td, a switching time period T for the regulator that is substantially constant providing a hysteresis parameter V_hyst to a hysteresis comparator, the hysteresis parameter V_hyst being a function of circuit components, a voltage output Vout of the regulator, a voltage input Vin of the regulator, and a signal that drives one of the plurality of switches; and driving the switches based on the hysteresis parameter; characterized in that one or more of the circuit components that provide the hysteresis parameter also define a hysteresis time period T_ hyst, the hysteresis time period T_ hyst defining in combination with the delay time period T_Td, a switching time period T for the regulator that is substantially constant
LED lighting apparatus having a colour mixing unit, wherein the colour mixing unit has at least a first and a second colour group (9a, b, c) of LEDs, wherein the LEDs in the colour groups (9a, b, c) differ by virtue of the light colour (R, B, G), having a power supply for supplying a supply voltage to the colour mixing unit, wherein the supply voltage is in the form of a rectified AC voltage, wherein a repetition rate of half-cycles (H1, H2, H3) of the supply voltage defines a voltage frequency, having a control device for selectively activating and deactivating the colour groups (9a, b, c), wherein the colour mixing unit produces a mixed colour (M1, M2, M3) by means of the selectively activated and deactivated colour groups (9a, b, c), characterized in that a repetition rate of a colour time window comprising at least one half-cycle (H1, H2, H3) defines a colour mixing frequency, wherein the control device is designed to actuate the colour groups (9a, b, c) such that they are activated within the colour time window in succession in order to produce the mixed colour (M1, M2, M3) during the colour time window, wherein at most one changeover operation between the colour groups (9a, b, c) is effected in a half-cycle (H1, H2, H3).
A method of processing digitized microphone signal data in order to detect wind noise, the method comprising: obtaining a first signal (L in) and a second signal (R in) from at least one microphone, the first and second signals reflecting a common acoustic input, and the first and second signals being at least one of temporally distinct and spatially distinct; the method being characterised by: processing the first signal (L in) to determine a first distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the first signal only at one or more selected values; processing the second signal (R in) to determine a second distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the second signal only at one or more selected values; calculating a difference between the first distribution and the second distribution by calculating the point-wise difference between the first and second distributions at each selected value, and summing the absolute values of the point-wise differences to produce a measure of the difference between the first distribution and the second distribution; and if the difference exceeds a detection threshold, outputting an indication that wind noise is present. obtaining a first signal (L in) and a second signal (R in) from at least one microphone, the first and second signals reflecting a common acoustic input, and the first and second signals being at least one of temporally distinct and spatially distinct; the method being characterised by: processing the first signal (L in) to determine a first distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the first signal only at one or more selected values; processing the second signal (R in) to determine a second distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the second signal only at one or more selected values; calculating a difference between the first distribution and the second distribution by calculating the point-wise difference between the first and second distributions at each selected value, and summing the absolute values of the point-wise differences to produce a measure of the difference between the first distribution and the second distribution; and if the difference exceeds a detection threshold, outputting an indication that wind noise is present. processing the first signal (L in) to determine a first distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the first signal only at one or more selected values; processing the second signal (R in) to determine a second distribution of the signal sample magnitudes of the second signal only at one or more selected values; calculating a difference between the first distribution and the second distribution by calculating the point-wise difference between the first and second distributions at each selected value, and summing the absolute values of the point-wise differences to produce a measure of the difference between the first distribution and the second distribution; and if the difference exceeds a detection threshold, outputting an indication that wind noise is present.
A washing machine comprising: - a chamber for receiving goods to be washed, - a tank adapted to contain a liquid, - a heat pump comprising a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a compressor and a pressure lowering device forming a circuit comprising a heat transfer fluid, the first heat exchanger being adapted to cool said heat transfer fluid and to heat water to be used in the chamber, the second heat exchanger being adapted to heat said heat transfer fluid and to cool the liquid contained in the tank, a liquid circulation conduit being associated to the tank, characterized in that, to supply heat to the tank during operation of the heat pump, washing machine further comprises an additional, fluid to air heat exchanger connected into such liquid circulation conduit such that liquid is circulated between the tank and said additional, fluid to air heat exchanger, a controllable fan associated with said additional heat exchanger and a control unit configured to control the controllable fan during operation of the heat pump. - a chamber for receiving goods to be washed, - a tank adapted to contain a liquid, - a heat pump comprising a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a compressor and a pressure lowering device forming a circuit comprising a heat transfer fluid, the first heat exchanger being adapted to cool said heat transfer fluid and to heat water to be used in the chamber, the second heat exchanger being adapted to heat said heat transfer fluid and to cool the liquid contained in the tank, a liquid circulation conduit being associated to the tank,
Evaluation unit for assessing a tire assembling apparatus by use of a measuring rim, wherein the measuring rim comprises the following: a rim well which is bounded by a rim flange (111, 112) and configured to hold a tire, and strain measuring equipment (121; 122) for a recording of the strain component which develops during the tire assembling, with the following: a receiving appliance, configured to receive signals from the strain measuring equipment depending on strains during the tire assembling; and a processing unit, configured to determine a stress of a tire during the tire assembling by an assembling apparatus and characterized in that the processing unit is configured to assess the tire assembling apparatus based on the stress of the tire. a receiving appliance, configured to receive signals from the strain measuring equipment depending on strains during the tire assembling; and a processing unit, configured to determine a stress of a tire during the tire assembling by an assembling apparatus and characterized in that the processing unit is configured to assess the tire assembling apparatus based on the stress of the tire.
A control device for an injection molding facility, including an axial hot nozzle for supplying fluid plastic to molding cavities using a distributing unit, and a part to be moved axially during molding operations, comprising an annular jack arranged coaxially with respect to the hot nozzle and mechanical means for connecting the jack to the part to be moved, characterized in that the mechanical means for connecting the jack to the part to be moved are made up of arms carried by the jack and attachment rods borne by the part to be moved.
A system to be used for transmitting ultrasonic vibration, the system comprising a sonotrode and a guide shaft, wherein the sonotrode has a distal end (1.1) and a proximal end (1.2) and is designed to vibrate in a stationary wave with a wave length and comprising at least one node position between the distal end (1.1) and the proximal end (1.2) and an anti-node position at the distal end (1.1), wherein the guide shaft has a distal end (2.1) and a proximal end and a through opening extending from the distal end (2.1) to the proximal end, wherein, for operation, the sonotrode extends through the through opening of the guide shaft with a radial clearance and the distal end (2.1) of the guide shaft is situated on a distal side of a most distal one of the at least one node position of the sonotrode, wherein the radial clearance between the sonotrode and the guide shaft is a minimum radial clearance for a sonotrode portion (1.3) comprising the most distal node position, characterized by the distal end (1.1) of the sonotrode being equipped with a polymer ring at said anti node position.