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An apparatus for processing signals, in particular physiological measuring signals, wherein the apparatus is provided with a plurality of channels with main signal inputs for receiving input signals, which input signals each comprise a specific signal component and a signal component common to all input signals, wherein each channel is provided with an impedance transforming input amplifier, wherein the apparatus is configured for supplying to the first input of each input amplifier a respective input signal and, to the second input, an analogue reference signal which is equal for all channels, wherein the apparatus is provided with a digital signal processor (310; 410) and one or more analogue digital converters for supplying the signals provided by the input amplifiers to the digital signal processor (310; 410), wherein the signal processor (310; 410) is designed for converting signals received from the one or more analogue digital converters at least into one or more output signals, wherein the signal processor (310; 410) is designed for processing, in particular digitally averaging, the signals received from the one or more analogue-digital converters, for providing a digital reference signal, wherein the apparatus is provided with a digital-analogue converter for converting the digital reference signal into said analogue reference signal, wherein each channel is provided with a dc-compensation means, e.g. a compensation amplifier, wherein an input of the compensation means is coupled to said signal processor (310; 410) for receiving a control signal therefrom, characterized in that the dc-compensation means are configured to compensate the input signals, received via main inputs, and for providing the compensated input signals to the first inputs of the input amplifiers, wherein the signal processor (310; 410) is designed for detecting a signal offset voltage for each channel, and for adapting said control signals in order that the dc-compensation means compensate the input signals, received via main inputs, by removing at least a part of detected signal offset voltages from the input signals to provide compensated input signals to the first inputs of the input amplifiers.
Device (1, 33) for readout of and/or communication with a consumer carried token, wherein the device comprises a scanning light source; a scanning camera; a wireless radiofrequency detection and/or communication device; a first area for wireless radiofrequency detection and/or communication; characterized by a second area spatially separated from said first area for wireless optical detection and/or communication; wherein said first area is located above said second area; wherein said second area comprises a cavity with at least a front opening for inserting said token by a user, bordered by at least a bottom surface, a backside wall, and a top illumination unit, wherein said top illumination unit comprises at least one essentially vertical translucent skirt with its free edge pointing towards the second area; as well as an opening, said skirt at least partly surrounding said opening; and wherein either (i) the scanning light source as well as the scanning camera are located behind and/or below said first area, both aiming in an upward direction, wherein above said scanning light source and said scanning camera a mirror is mounted, for at the same time deflecting the scanning light beam and directing it into said second area onto said bottom surface through said opening in an essentially vertical direction, and deflecting optical information reflected from said token located in said second area arriving at the mirror in an essentially vertical direction, onto said scanning camera; or (ii) the scanning light source as well as the scanning camera are located behind and/or below said first area, both aiming in a downward direction, into said second area onto said bottom surface through said opening in an essentially vertical direction. wherein said top illumination unit comprises at least one essentially vertical translucent skirt with its free edge pointing towards the second area; as well as an opening, said skirt at least partly surrounding said opening;
Manufacturing process for a light-alloy hybrid wheel, particularly based on aluminum or magnesium, including a front flange and a rim, the process implementing the following separate operational phases: - the flange is made with an internal profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat; - the rim is made with, on the one side, an external profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat, and on the other side, a circular flank for assembly with a part of the flange; - the flange is assembled to the rim, at the seat of said flange and the circular flank of the rim. characterized in that the rim is made according to the following consecutive operations: - an operation of manufacturing a circular flank; - an operation of expanding said circular flank to the size of the final rim in a single step; - an operation of cold or hot flospinning of the circular flank so as to obtain the rim in the final shape and profile thereof, comprising a shoulder only on the side that will not be welded to the flange. - the flange is made with an internal profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat; - the rim is made with, on the one side, an external profile capable of constituting a tire bead seat, and on the other side, a circular flank for assembly with a part of the flange; - the flange is assembled to the rim, at the seat of said flange and the circular flank of the rim. - an operation of manufacturing a circular flank; - an operation of expanding said circular flank to the size of the final rim in a single step; - an operation of cold or hot flospinning of the circular flank so as to obtain the rim in the final shape and profile thereof, comprising a shoulder only on the side that will not be welded to the flange.
A method for deposition of yttrium monoxide film on a substrate by reactive magnetron sputtering, comprising the following steps: (i) positioning a substrate in a vacuum chamber having a magnetron and yttrium source for sputtered particles and a process gas shroud means for partially enveloping the magnetron, the substrate having a surface facing the source; (ii) operating the magnetron to sputter yttrium particles from the yttrium source for coating the substrate surface, including introducing a process gas to the shroud means; (iii) withdrawing and depleting gas from the vacuum chamber and creating process pressure between 1×10 -3 and 5×10 -3 Torr with 1.40×10 -8 - 1.74×10 -5 Torr oxygen partial pressure by inletting the process gases and continuing sputtering yttrium particles from the yttrium source; as soon as the desired thickness of coating on the substrate surface is reached, disactivating the magnetron. (i) positioning a substrate in a vacuum chamber having a magnetron and yttrium source for sputtered particles and a process gas shroud means for partially enveloping the magnetron, the substrate having a surface facing the source; (ii) operating the magnetron to sputter yttrium particles from the yttrium source for coating the substrate surface, including introducing a process gas to the shroud means; (iii) withdrawing and depleting gas from the vacuum chamber and creating process pressure between 1×10 -3 and 5×10 -3 Torr with 1.40×10 -8 - 1.74×10 -5 Torr oxygen partial pressure by inletting the process gases and continuing sputtering yttrium particles from the yttrium source; as soon as the desired thickness of coating on the substrate surface is reached, disactivating the magnetron.
An anode material comprising secondary graphite particles that predominantly have a form that approximates an oblate spheroid, that being a surface of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its minor axis, and have a D50 of less than 5 microns, wherein the secondary graphite particles comprise an aggregate of ground primary graphite particles, and the ground primary graphite particles are spheronised and coated with a carbon based material being one or more of pitch, polyethylene oxide and polyvinyl oxide, then pyrolysed at a temperature between 880°C to 1100°C for a time in the range of 12 to 40 hours, thereby producing the secondary particle that approximates an oblate spheroid, wherein the amount of carbon based material in the secondary graphite particles is in the range of 2 to 10 wt% relative to graphite.
A cryosauna, which comprises an evaporator and/or a heat exchanger and at least one baffle plate (3, 4) for cooling, wherein the evaporator is designed as a static evaporator, characterised in that a first baffle plate is arranged vertically in front of the evaporator or heat exchanger and a second baffle plate is arranged horizontally close to a cover of the cryosauna for the purpose of improving temperature homogeneity.
An apparatus comprising a processor configured to perform a component carrier configuration, re-configuration, activation or de-activation, the processor comprising a detector configured to detect a signaling format used by received acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement messages on a 3GPP LTE physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, and a deciding unit configured to decide a codebook size of the received acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement messages based on the detected signaling format, characterized in that, when the detector detects a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection, the deciding unit decides the codebook size based on a predetermined maximum number of downlink component carriers, and when the detector detects a PUCCH format 2/2a/2b with joint coding, the deciding unit decides the codebook size based on the number of configured or activated downlink component carriers.
An articulated instrument for use in surgical procedures comprising: an instrument tube defining the longitudinal axis of the instrument and configured to accommodate mechanical transmission elements (11, 12, 13); an articulated end-effector at a distal extremity of the instrument tube, comprising distal end-effector links (8, 9), a proximal end-effector link, and at least two rotation joints; a set of at least two rotating elements (14, 15, 16), placed at a proximal extremity of the instrument tube, configured to actuate the proximal and distal end-effector links (5, 8, 9) of the articulated end-effector; flexible mechanical transmission elements (11, 12, 13), passing through the instrument tube, configured to transmit motion from each rotating element (14, 15, 16) to the respective end-effector link (5, 8, 9) of the articulated end-effector; characterised in further comprising at least one distal amplification element, mounted between the proximal end-effector link and the flexible mechanical transmission elements (11a, 11b) and comprising a disk-like element with two teeth areas separated by a circular groove, the at least one distal amplification element being directly connected to the flexible mechanical transmission elements (11a, 11b) at the circular groove, and configured to amplify the motion transmitted from each rotating element (14, 15, 16) to the proximal end-effector link of the articulated end-effector. an instrument tube defining the longitudinal axis of the instrument and configured to accommodate mechanical transmission elements (11, 12, 13); an articulated end-effector at a distal extremity of the instrument tube, comprising distal end-effector links (8, 9), a proximal end-effector link, and at least two rotation joints; a set of at least two rotating elements (14, 15, 16), placed at a proximal extremity of the instrument tube, configured to actuate the proximal and distal end-effector links (5, 8, 9) of the articulated end-effector; flexible mechanical transmission elements (11, 12, 13), passing through the instrument tube, configured to transmit motion from each rotating element (14, 15, 16) to the respective end-effector link (5, 8, 9) of the articulated end-effector; characterised in further comprising at least one distal amplification element, mounted between the proximal end-effector link and the flexible mechanical transmission elements (11a, 11b) and comprising a disk-like element with two teeth areas separated by a circular groove, the at least one distal amplification element being directly connected to the flexible mechanical transmission elements (11a, 11b) at the circular groove, and configured to amplify the motion transmitted from each rotating element (14, 15, 16) to the proximal end-effector link of the articulated end-effector.
Dermatological preparation for use as an antibacterial, antimycotic or antiviral agent on human skin and/or hair, in the treatment of a dermatological condition, wherein the dermatological preparation comprises an active substance combination, wherein the active substance combination comprises a) one or more physiologically acceptable hydroxamic acids, and b) one or more alkyl ethers of glycerol of the general structural formula where R 1 and R 2 independently of one another are branched or unbranched alkyl radicals having 1-18 carbon atoms, wherein the one or more alkyl ethers of glycerol are present in a concentration of from 0.001 to 5.0 wt.% of the preparation. a) one or more physiologically acceptable hydroxamic acids, and b) one or more alkyl ethers of glycerol of the general structural formula where R 1 and R 2 independently of one another are branched or unbranched alkyl radicals having 1-18 carbon atoms,
A sensor for night vision applications, comprising a photocathode comprising: an InP substrate at the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InP buffer layer fabricated on a surface of the InP substrate opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InGaAsP absorption layer fabricated on a surface of the InP buffer layer opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InP cap layer formed on the surface of the absorption layer opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode, wherein the InP cap layer forms an emitter layer emitting photoelectrons in response to the incident light, characterized in that the InGaAsP absorption layer limits long wavelength response cutoff of the sensor to between 1.25 to 1.4μm wavelength, wherein the InGaAsP absorption layer comprises an In 1-x Ga x As y P 1-y composition in the range of In 0.68 Ga 0.32 As 0.69 P 0.31 to In 0.76 Ga 0.24 As 0.51 P 0.49. an InP substrate at the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InP buffer layer fabricated on a surface of the InP substrate opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InGaAsP absorption layer fabricated on a surface of the InP buffer layer opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode; an InP cap layer formed on the surface of the absorption layer opposite to the light receiving surface of the photocathode, wherein the InP cap layer forms an emitter layer emitting photoelectrons in response to the incident light, characterized in that the InGaAsP absorption layer limits long wavelength response cutoff of the sensor to between 1.25 to 1.4μm wavelength, wherein the InGaAsP absorption layer comprises an In 1-x Ga x As y P 1-y composition in the range of In 0.68 Ga 0.32 As 0.69 P 0.31 to In 0.76 Ga 0.24 As 0.51 P 0.49.
A method of communication performed by an apparatus for transmitting first information and second information, the method comprising: selecting a first coding rate based on a target error rate for transmission of the second information in order to meet the target error rate for transmission of the second information; encoding first data according to the first coding rate to generate encoded data and encoded parity information; selecting a second coding rate based on a target error rate for transmission of the first information in order to meet the target error rate for transmission of the first information; transmitting the first information according to the second coding rate, the first information comprising the encoded data and a portion of the encoded parity information, wherein the portion of the encoded parity information is obtained by puncturing the encoded parity information according to the second coding rate; determining that retransmission is needed; and transmitting the second information comprising the encoded parity information as a result of the determination. selecting a first coding rate based on a target error rate for transmission of the second information in order to meet the target error rate for transmission of the second information; encoding first data according to the first coding rate to generate encoded data and encoded parity information; selecting a second coding rate based on a target error rate for transmission of the first information in order to meet the target error rate for transmission of the first information; transmitting the first information according to the second coding rate, the first information comprising the encoded data and a portion of the encoded parity information, wherein the portion of the encoded parity information is obtained by puncturing the encoded parity information according to the second coding rate; determining that retransmission is needed; and transmitting the second information comprising the encoded parity information as a result of the determination.
A pair of sliding parts (3,5) comprising annular bodies, in which a positive pressure generation mechanism including a positive pressure generation groove is provided on a high pressure side of one of sealing faces that relatively slide on each other, a negative pressure generation mechanism including a negative pressure generation groove is provided on a low pressure side, a pressure release groove is provided between the positive pressure generation groove and the negative pressure generation groove, and further, a radial groove that provides communication between the positive pressure generation groove, the pressure release groove and the negative pressure generation groove, and a high pressure fluid side is provided on the sealing face, and the positive pressure generation groove, the pressure release groove, the negative pressure generation groove, and the radial groove are isolated from a low pressure fluid side by a seal face, characterised in that the radial groove includes an inlet section that provides communication between an upstream side of the positive pressure generation groove and the pressure release groove, and the high pressure fluid side, and an outlet section that provides communication between a downstream side of the negative pressure generation groove and the pressure release groove, and the high pressure fluid side; said inlet section and said outlet section are inclined in the directions in which said sections (15a, 15b) respectively open from the low pressure side toward the high pressure side; and an intersection angle (θ) of both the sections (15a, 15b) made by a tangent line (m) on a sealing face end is set to be an obtuse angle.
An integrated sealing assembly (110, 120) for sealing a bundle of wires comprises: a first sheet formed of a sealant material; a second sheet disposed above the first sheet, the second sheet including a thermally conductive material; and a third sheet that can be disposed above the second sheet, characterized in that the third sheet is formed of the sealant material and defines a plurality of teeth on a top surface that define valleys there between for controlled placement of one or more wires of the bundles of wires, wherein the thermally conductive material extends from the second sheet into at least some portions of the plurality of teeth, wherein when the bundle of wires is overlaid in a first direction on the assembly, the assembly is wrapped in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction to thereby surround the wires, the second sheet facilitates the thermal energy distribution of applied heat throughout the assembly (110, 120) to thereby lower a viscosity of the sealant material to a point at which the sealant material fills voids between the bundle of wires. a first sheet formed of a sealant material; a second sheet disposed above the first sheet, the second sheet including a thermally conductive material; and a third sheet that can be disposed above the second sheet, characterized in that the third sheet is formed of the sealant material and defines a plurality of teeth on a top surface that define valleys there between for controlled placement of one or more wires of the bundles of wires, wherein the thermally conductive material extends from the second sheet into at least some portions of the plurality of teeth, wherein when the bundle of wires is overlaid in a first direction on the assembly, the assembly is wrapped in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction to thereby surround the wires, the second sheet facilitates the thermal energy distribution of applied heat throughout the assembly (110, 120) to thereby lower a viscosity of the sealant material to a point at which the sealant material fills voids between the bundle of wires.
A bidirectional water turbine comprising: an upstream rotor and a downstream rotor, wherein the upstream rotor and downstream rotor are contra-rotating and each rotor (20, 22) comprises a plurality of blades, the blades of the upstream and downstream rotors (20, 22) having substantially the same non-zero camber, characterised in that the blades of the upstream and downstream rotors are substantially symmetrical about a plane located between the upstream and downstream rotors and are opposite handed. an upstream rotor and a downstream rotor, wherein the upstream rotor and downstream rotor are contra-rotating and each rotor (20, 22) comprises a plurality of blades, the blades of the upstream and downstream rotors (20, 22) having substantially the same non-zero camber, characterised in that the blades of the upstream and downstream rotors are substantially symmetrical about a plane located between the upstream and downstream rotors and are opposite handed.