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A string of thermoelectric elements (102, 103) characterised in that the thermoelectric elements (102,103) are connected to one another by stranded wire conductors, wherein each of the stranded wire conductors is compacted in cross section near where the stranded wire conductors connect to the elements (102, 103) and is expanded in cross section away from where the stranded wire conductors connect to the elements (102, 103).
A sealed linear encoder for determining the relative position of a first object and a second object, comprising: a housing adapted for attachment to the first object; a scale unit arranged in a hollow body of the housing having a slot which extends in a direction of measurement; a scanning unit for scanning the scale unit and being mounted on a first end of a pedestal that is slidably accommodated within said slot and whose second end is adapted for attachment to the second object; a first pair of sealing lips (28, 28') arranged for sealing opposite edges of the slot; a second pair of sealing lips (29, 29') arranged for sealing opposite edges of the slot, said second pair of sealing lips being displaced from the first pair of sealing lips in a direction normal to the direction of measurement; the pedestal and sealing lips (28, 28', 29, 29') being configured such that the pedestal intersects the first and second pairs of sealing lips at respective locations that are axially displaced along the direction of measurement whereby there is no axial overlap between the first and second pairs of sealing lips at said locations; characterized in that: the pedestal comprises two laterally spaced supports (30, 31) of respective widths h 1 and h 2 that are interconnected by a crossbar such that there is no axial overlap of the two supports, and such that each of the two supports intersects only one of the first and second pairs of sealing lips and the crossbar is fully accommodated within the diamond-shaped hollow described by the four sealing lips. a housing adapted for attachment to the first object; a scale unit arranged in a hollow body of the housing having a slot which extends in a direction of measurement; a scanning unit for scanning the scale unit and being mounted on a first end of a pedestal that is slidably accommodated within said slot and whose second end is adapted for attachment to the second object; a first pair of sealing lips (28, 28') arranged for sealing opposite edges of the slot; a second pair of sealing lips (29, 29') arranged for sealing opposite edges of the slot, said second pair of sealing lips being displaced from the first pair of sealing lips in a direction normal to the direction of measurement; the pedestal and sealing lips (28, 28', 29, 29') being configured such that the pedestal intersects the first and second pairs of sealing lips at respective locations that are axially displaced along the direction of measurement whereby there is no axial overlap between the first and second pairs of sealing lips at said locations;
A prefabricated, self-supporting construction element for use in the construction of a multi-storey building, where a plurality of such construction elements can be placed at the side of one another and on top of one another; wherein the construction element has a plurality of sides comprising a substantially rectangular floor side, at least two substantially parallel wall sides standing upright from said floor side, and a ceiling side above the wall sides; each of said wall sides has an internal surface and an external surface; each of said internal surfaces is a finished surface; each of said external surfaces is profiled with protruding ribs such that external surfaces of adjacent construction elements may form, in use, a plurality of horizontally-oriented and vertically-oriented channels for in-situ casting of a flowing, hardening material for the formation of a supporting structure in the form of columns and beams for supporting a plurality of construction elements on top of one another, and for the leading of supply lines, pipes and cables to the building: characterised in that said external surfaces comprise insulating material which, when brought together with corresponding external surfaces of adjacent construction elements, creates a stable element that forms a permanent insulating cladding (16, 18) for the subsequently in-situ cast supporting structure.
A network device, wherein the network device is a first network device, and the first network device represents a user equipment, UE, a terminal device, or any other network device that needs to perform access during wireless communication, and the network device comprises: a sending module, configured to (S201, S301) send a first signal to enable a second network device to learn a location of the first network device before cell selection is performed; a receiving module, configured to, before the sending module sends a second signal after cell selection is performed, receive a at least one third signal sent by a at least one second network device of a second network device group wherein the third signal is a synchronization signal; and a processing module, configured to perform cell selection, by determining a cell to be accessed or a cell to be camped on, according to the at least one third signal, wherein the sending module is specifically configured to send the first signal before the processing module performs cell selection and before the processing module detects the synchronization signal; and the sending module is further configured to (S202, S304) send the second signal after the processing module performs cell selection, wherein resources used by the sending module to send the first signal and the second signal are different, and the second signal is a random access signal. a sending module, configured to (S201, S301) send a first signal to enable a second network device to learn a location of the first network device before cell selection is performed; a receiving module, configured to, before the sending module sends a second signal after cell selection is performed, receive a at least one third signal sent by a at least one second network device of a second network device group wherein the third signal is a synchronization signal; and a processing module, configured to perform cell selection, by determining a cell to be accessed or a cell to be camped on, according to the at least one third signal, wherein the sending module is specifically configured to send the first signal before the processing module performs cell selection and before the processing module detects the synchronization signal; and the sending module is further configured to (S202, S304) send the second signal after the processing module performs cell selection, wherein resources used by the sending module to send the first signal and the second signal are different, and the second signal is a random access signal.
A method for manufacturing a metallic article comprising: heating a mass of titanium alloy to a thixoforming temperature, said thixoforming temperature being between a solidus temperature of said titanium alloy and a liquidus temperature of said titanium alloy, said titanium alloy comprising 5 to 27 percent by weight cobalt, optionally one or more of the following impurities: Impurity Maximum (wt%) Oxygen 0.25 Nitrogen 0.03 Other elements, each 0.10 Other elements, total 0.30 and balance titanium, wherein a difference between said solidus temperature and said liquidus temperature of said titanium alloy is at least 100 °C; and forming said mass into said metallic article while said mass is at said thixoforming temperature, further comprising maintaining said mass at said thixoforming temperature for at least 600 seconds prior to said forming said mass into said metallic article. heating a mass of titanium alloy to a thixoforming temperature, said thixoforming temperature being between a solidus temperature of said titanium alloy and a liquidus temperature of said titanium alloy, said titanium alloy comprising 5 to 27 percent by weight cobalt, optionally one or more of the following impurities: Impurity Maximum (wt%) Oxygen 0.25 Nitrogen 0.03 Other elements, each 0.10 Other elements, total 0.30 and balance titanium, wherein a difference between said solidus temperature and said liquidus temperature of said titanium alloy is at least 100 °C; and and balance titanium, wherein a difference between said solidus temperature and said liquidus temperature of said titanium alloy is at least 100 °C; and forming said mass into said metallic article while said mass is at said thixoforming temperature, further comprising maintaining said mass at said thixoforming temperature for at least 600 seconds prior to said forming said mass into said metallic article.
Method for testing an air-conditioning unit which - is intended to provide conditioned ambient air for a vehicle and - is exposed to solar radiation during the operation of the vehicle, characterised in that - the solar radiation is simulated by means of an artificial light source during the test, - the artificial light source is set on the basis of a preliminary test during which test irradiation with light is performed at a representative location of the air-conditioning unit, wherein thermal properties of the air-conditioning unit at the representative location are known in advance. - is intended to provide conditioned ambient air for a vehicle and - is exposed to solar radiation during the operation of the vehicle, - the solar radiation is simulated by means of an artificial light source during the test, - the artificial light source is set on the basis of a preliminary test during which test irradiation with light is performed at a representative location of the air-conditioning unit,
Egg sorter comprising: - a guide track provided with an upwardly inclined track portion, - transfer means for transferring eggs over the guide track, and - sorting means for sorting the eggs, which sorting means comprise: - measuring means measuring a physical magnitude of the eggs, as well as - control means sending the eggs in different directions in dependence on the value of the measured physical magnitude and being provided with a control valve which is capable of transferring the eggs from the track portion in two different directions in dependence on the status of the control valve, and - further transfer means which further transfer the eggs coming from the control means, characterized in that the further transfer means comprise two star-shaped wheels (25, 27) which are located at the end of the track portion, where one of the wheels is located on the side of the track portion over which the eggs are transferred and the other wheel is present on the track portion side turned away from this track portion side, which wheels further transfer the eggs in two different directions, where the control valve guides the eggs to either of the wheels in dependence on the control valve status. - a guide track provided with an upwardly inclined track portion, - transfer means for transferring eggs over the guide track, and - sorting means for sorting the eggs, which sorting means comprise: - measuring means measuring a physical magnitude of the eggs, as well as - control means sending the eggs in different directions in dependence on the value of the measured physical magnitude and being provided with a control valve which is capable of transferring the eggs from the track portion in two different directions in dependence on the status of the control valve, and - further transfer means which further transfer the eggs coming from the control means, - measuring means measuring a physical magnitude of the eggs, as well as - control means sending the eggs in different directions in dependence on the value of the measured physical magnitude and being provided with a control valve which is capable of transferring the eggs from the track portion in two different directions in dependence on the status of the control valve, and - further transfer means which further transfer the eggs coming from the control means,
A speech encoding apparatus comprising: a time-frequency domain transform section that transforms a time domain input signal to a frequency domain signal; a vector quantization section that divides the frequency domain signal into a plurality of sub-vectors and quantizes spectral coefficients of each of the resultant sub-vectors; an encoding section that encodes codebook indication values of all of the sub-vectors obtained by the quantization; an identifying section that identifies a position of a sub-vector whose codebook indication value has a largest used bit count among all of the codebook indication values; an estimation section that estimates a number of bits used by the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count, based on a total number of bits available in transmission units of the input signal and a sum of used bits of a codebook indication value other than the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count; a difference calculation section that calculates a difference between an actual value and an estimated value, the actual value being a number of bits obtained by encoding the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count by the encoding section, the estimated value being the estimated number of bits of the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count; and a parameter encoding section that encodes the identified position information of the sub-vector and the calculated difference information. a time-frequency domain transform section that transforms a time domain input signal to a frequency domain signal; a vector quantization section that divides the frequency domain signal into a plurality of sub-vectors and quantizes spectral coefficients of each of the resultant sub-vectors; an encoding section that encodes codebook indication values of all of the sub-vectors obtained by the quantization; an identifying section that identifies a position of a sub-vector whose codebook indication value has a largest used bit count among all of the codebook indication values; an estimation section that estimates a number of bits used by the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count, based on a total number of bits available in transmission units of the input signal and a sum of used bits of a codebook indication value other than the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count; a difference calculation section that calculates a difference between an actual value and an estimated value, the actual value being a number of bits obtained by encoding the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count by the encoding section, the estimated value being the estimated number of bits of the codebook indication value having the largest used bit count; and a parameter encoding section that encodes the identified position information of the sub-vector and the calculated difference information.
A line monitoring system for an optical communication system comprising: a test signal transmitter configured to provide a test signal for transmission on an optical communication system, the optical communication system comprising: a first optical fiber path for receiving said test signal and carrying said test signal in a first direction, a second optical fiber path for carrying signals in a second direction opposite from said first direction, and a plurality of loop back paths (42-1, 42-2, 42-N), each of said loop back paths for coupling said test signal to said second optical fiber path as an associated returned test signal, characterised in that the line monitoring system further comprises a correlator configured to calculate differential loop gain data (82, 84, 86, 88) associated with each of said loop back paths from said associated returned test signals and provide an output identifying a fault in the optical communication system in response to said differential loop gain data, said differential loop gain data comprising, for each of said loop back paths: a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the loop back path, minus a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the previous one of said loop back paths (42 -1). a test signal transmitter configured to provide a test signal for transmission on an optical communication system, the optical communication system comprising: a first optical fiber path for receiving said test signal and carrying said test signal in a first direction, a second optical fiber path for carrying signals in a second direction opposite from said first direction, and a plurality of loop back paths (42-1, 42-2, 42-N), each of said loop back paths for coupling said test signal to said second optical fiber path as an associated returned test signal, a first optical fiber path for receiving said test signal and carrying said test signal in a first direction, a second optical fiber path for carrying signals in a second direction opposite from said first direction, and a plurality of loop back paths (42-1, 42-2, 42-N), each of said loop back paths for coupling said test signal to said second optical fiber path as an associated returned test signal, characterised in that the line monitoring system further comprises a correlator configured to calculate differential loop gain data (82, 84, 86, 88) associated with each of said loop back paths from said associated returned test signals and provide an output identifying a fault in the optical communication system in response to said differential loop gain data, said differential loop gain data comprising, for each of said loop back paths: a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the loop back path, minus a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the previous one of said loop back paths (42 -1). a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the loop back path, minus a loop gain imparted to said test signal through the previous one of said loop back paths (42 -1).
Plunger pump for conveying a fluid, having at least one plunger which can be driven in an oscillating manner and is guided without contact in a sealing arrangement which separates a suction chamber, which has a feed line, from a working chamber, and having a bellows which hermetically surrounds the plunger in certain regions, which on the one hand is fixed tightly to the plunger and on the other hand is fixed tightly to a boundary wall in the region of a feed-through opening for the plunger, characterized in that adjacent to the suction chamber, an equalizing chamber is arranged which is open towards the interior of the bellows and which is filled with a pressurized medium during operation, wherein the medium pressure is equal to or less than the inlet pressure of the fluid acting on the outside of the bellows.
Method for detecting ionising radiation from a potentially radioactive fluid by means of a scintillation cell, said scintillation cell comprising: - at least one first waveguide comprising at least one surface, the surface being covered with a first layer of a first scintillation material, - a second layer of a second scintillation material covering the first layer, the thickness of the second layer being between 1 and 4 times the mean path of a tritium β particle in the second scintillation material, the first and the second scintillation material having at least one scintillation property that is different therebetween so as to allow their respective contributions to be distinguished, the second layer being intended to be placed in contact with the fluid, said method for detecting comprising the following steps: - putting the fluid in contact with at least the second layer, - detecting and recording the scintillation signal, - separating the recorded scintillation signal into a respective first and a second contribution (C1, C2) of the first and of the second layer (232, 233), - detecting a tritium β particle if the contribution of the first layer is less than a radiation detection threshold and if the sum of the contributions of the first and of the second layer is less than a first scintillation threshold for detecting an α particle from radon 222 or from thoron. - at least one first waveguide comprising at least one surface, the surface being covered with a first layer of a first scintillation material, - a second layer of a second scintillation material covering the first layer, the thickness of the second layer being between 1 and 4 times the mean path of a tritium β particle in the second scintillation material, the first and the second scintillation material having at least one scintillation property that is different therebetween so as to allow their respective contributions to be distinguished, the second layer being intended to be placed in contact with the fluid, - putting the fluid in contact with at least the second layer, - detecting and recording the scintillation signal, - separating the recorded scintillation signal into a respective first and a second contribution (C1, C2) of the first and of the second layer (232, 233), - detecting a tritium β particle if the contribution of the first layer is less than a radiation detection threshold and if the sum of the contributions of the first and of the second layer is less than a first scintillation threshold for detecting an α particle from radon 222 or from thoron.
A method of manufacturing a knit article having a reflective yarn, comprising: knitting an article using a first yarn; knitting the reflective yarn into a first region of the article using a float plaiting stitch; cutting the article comprising the reflective yarn according to a predetermined pattern to form a cut knit article having a first edge and an opposing second edge; characterised by plaiting the first region of the article with a plaiting yarn, and joining the first edge of the cut knit article to the second edge of the cut knit article. knitting an article using a first yarn; knitting the reflective yarn into a first region of the article using a float plaiting stitch; cutting the article comprising the reflective yarn according to a predetermined pattern to form a cut knit article having a first edge and an opposing second edge; characterised by plaiting the first region of the article with a plaiting yarn, and joining the first edge of the cut knit article to the second edge of the cut knit article.