mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method for wireless communication, comprising: Receiving, at a device, broadcast information broadcast from a wireless network, said broadcast information indicating certain devices and/or services being available within a coverage area; deciding, at the device, whether to perform event-triggered peer discovery based on the received broadcast information; detecting, by the device, an event triggering peer discovery if the decision is made to perform event-triggered peer discovery; and performing, by the device, peer discovery based on detection of the event triggering peer discovery. Receiving, at a device, broadcast information broadcast from a wireless network, said broadcast information indicating certain devices and/or services being available within a coverage area; deciding, at the device, whether to perform event-triggered peer discovery based on the received broadcast information;
Energy storage plant, comprising: a working fluid different from atmospheric air; a casing storing the working fluid in a gaseous phase and in pressure equilibrium with the atmosphere; a tank storing said working fluid in liquid or super-critical phase with a temperature close to the critical temperature; wherein said critical temperature is close to the ambient temperature, preferably between 0°C and 100°C; at least a driven machine different from an electric generator; wherein the plant is configured to perform a closed cyclic thermodynamic transformation, first in one direction in a charge configuration and then in an opposite direction in a discharge configuration, between said casing and said tank; wherein in the charge configuration the plant stores heat and pressure; wherein in the discharge configuration the plant generates mechanical energy and transfers it to the driven machine to drive said driven machine. a working fluid different from atmospheric air; a casing storing the working fluid in a gaseous phase and in pressure equilibrium with the atmosphere; a tank storing said working fluid in liquid or super-critical phase with a temperature close to the critical temperature; wherein said critical temperature is close to the ambient temperature, preferably between 0°C and 100°C; at least a driven machine different from an electric generator; wherein the plant is configured to perform a closed cyclic thermodynamic transformation, first in one direction in a charge configuration and then in an opposite direction in a discharge configuration, between said casing and said tank; wherein in the charge configuration the plant stores heat and pressure; wherein in the discharge configuration the plant generates mechanical energy and transfers it to the driven machine to drive said driven machine.
Internal combustion engine with a cylinder head and a crankcase, with - at least one hollow camshaft that forms an outlet for oil mist-containing blow-by gases from the crankshaft and that is formed as oil mist pre-separator for pre-separation of the oil fraction from these gases - whereby an oil mist post-separator is connected at the axial end of the camshaft - whereby the oil mist post-separator is arranged inside the cylinder head, characterised in that - the oil mist post-separator has a dip pipe that protrudes into the hollow camshaft or a dip sleeve that encompasses the camshaft, - the oil mist post-separator is formed as an impactor, whereby: - the oil mist post-separator has flow nozzles which serve to accelerate the oil mist, - an impact surface for capture of oil is arranged downstream and opposite the flow nozzles, - a side of the impact surface facing the flow nozzles has a fissured or porous surface that can be formed as non-woven fabric or as knitted fabric, or - the oil mist post-separator is formed as a cyclone, whereby at least a part of a flow-impinged inner surface of the oil mist post-separator formed as a cyclone has a fissured or porous surface. - at least one hollow camshaft that forms an outlet for oil mist-containing blow-by gases from the crankshaft and that is formed as oil mist pre-separator for pre-separation of the oil fraction from these gases - whereby an oil mist post-separator is connected at the axial end of the camshaft - whereby the oil mist post-separator is arranged inside the cylinder head, characterised in that - the oil mist post-separator has a dip pipe that protrudes into the hollow camshaft or a dip sleeve that encompasses the camshaft, - the oil mist post-separator is formed as an impactor, whereby: - the oil mist post-separator has flow nozzles which serve to accelerate the oil mist, - an impact surface for capture of oil is arranged downstream and opposite the flow nozzles, - a side of the impact surface facing the flow nozzles has a fissured or porous surface that can be formed as non-woven fabric or as knitted fabric, or - the oil mist post-separator has flow nozzles which serve to accelerate the oil mist, - an impact surface for capture of oil is arranged downstream and opposite the flow nozzles, - a side of the impact surface facing the flow nozzles has a fissured or porous surface that can be formed as non-woven fabric or as knitted fabric, or - the oil mist post-separator is formed as a cyclone, whereby at least a part of a flow-impinged inner surface of the oil mist post-separator formed as a cyclone has a fissured or porous surface.
A method of determining the sequence of a target ribonucleic acid, comprising: (a) hybridising a primer to the target RNA, using the primer to form a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) from the target RNA, and removing the target RNA; (b) contacting the cDNA with a polynucleotide binding protein and a transmembrane pore in the absence of the target RNA such that the polynucleotide binding protein controls the movement of the cDNA through the pore; and (c) taking one or more measurements as the cDNA moves with respect to the pore wherein the measurements are indicative of one or more characteristics of the cDNA and thereby determining the sequence of the target RNA; wherein the method does not comprise polymerase chain reaction or reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR). (a) hybridising a primer to the target RNA, using the primer to form a complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) from the target RNA, and removing the target RNA; (b) contacting the cDNA with a polynucleotide binding protein and a transmembrane pore in the absence of the target RNA such that the polynucleotide binding protein controls the movement of the cDNA through the pore; and (c) taking one or more measurements as the cDNA moves with respect to the pore wherein the measurements are indicative of one or more characteristics of the cDNA and thereby determining the sequence of the target RNA;
Surgical system for cutting an anatomical structure (F, T) of a patient according to at least one target plane defined in a coordinate system of the anatomical structure, a tracker being attached to said anatomical structure, comprising: (i) a robotic device comprising: - a cutting tool, - an actuation unit having a serial architecture comprising from three to five motorized degrees of freedom, at least two of said motorized degrees of freedom being rotational degrees of freedom about respective rotation axes, the angles between said axes being 90° ± 30°, configured for adjusting a position and orientation of the cutting tool relative to each target plane, - a planar mechanism connecting the last segment of the actuation unit to the cutting tool, the planar mechanism being configured to constrain the cutting tool to move only inside a plane, with at least two degrees of freedom; (ii) a passive articulated lockable holding arm supporting the actuation unit; (iii) a tracking unit configured to determine in real time the pose of a cutting plane with respect to the coordinate system of the anatomical structure, (iv) a control unit configured to determine the pose of the cutting plane with respect to each target plane and to control the actuation unit so as to bring the cutting plane into alignment with said target plane. (i) a robotic device comprising: - a cutting tool, - an actuation unit having a serial architecture comprising from three to five motorized degrees of freedom, at least two of said motorized degrees of freedom being rotational degrees of freedom about respective rotation axes, the angles between said axes being 90° ± 30°, configured for adjusting a position and orientation of the cutting tool relative to each target plane, - a planar mechanism connecting the last segment of the actuation unit to the cutting tool, the planar mechanism being configured to constrain the cutting tool to move only inside a plane, with at least two degrees of freedom; - a cutting tool, - an actuation unit having a serial architecture comprising from three to five motorized degrees of freedom, at least two of said motorized degrees of freedom being rotational degrees of freedom about respective rotation axes, the angles between said axes being 90° ± 30°, configured for adjusting a position and orientation of the cutting tool relative to each target plane, - a planar mechanism connecting the last segment of the actuation unit to the cutting tool, the planar mechanism being configured to constrain the cutting tool to move only inside a plane, with at least two degrees of freedom; (ii) a passive articulated lockable holding arm supporting the actuation unit; (iii) a tracking unit configured to determine in real time the pose of a cutting plane with respect to the coordinate system of the anatomical structure, (iv) a control unit configured to determine the pose of the cutting plane with respect to each target plane and to control the actuation unit so as to bring the cutting plane into alignment with said target plane.
Lance head for a snow lance with a lance head casing having nozzles (12, 15, 18) for the exit of water and/or air and with at least one first chamber configured in the inside of the lance head casing, which chamber is traversed by water exiting at least one part of the nozzles (12, 15, 18) and the inner surface of which is at least the same as but preferably greater than the outer surface of the lance head casing, in which the inner surface of the at least one chamber is configured in a profiled manner to increase the surface coming into contact with the water, characterized in that the profiling is formed by ribs.
Method, implemented by a computer system, for tessellating a three-dimensional modeled object parameterized for tessellation, comprising the steps of: • providing, planar 2D meshes associated to geometrical data of a boundary representation of the modeled object, the boundary representation comprising the geometrical data including parametric surfaces and topological data including a set of faces each defined as a portion of the 2D domain of a respective parametric surface, the respective parametric surface being a function ( S ( u,v)) of two first parameters ( u,v) which outputs 3D positions (x(u,v), y(u,v), z(u,v)) for inputs values of the two first parameters, the 2D meshes each forming a partition of a respective face with parametric patches bounded by vertices within the respective face and by parametric arcs that correspond to a subdivision of boundary edges of the respective face, the parametric patches being among the class of parametric patches having boundary curves that do not loop, each parametric patch of the partition having boundary arcs that do not cross each other, each parametric patch having control points, each parametric patch being a function (b(s,t),p(s,t)) of two second parameters (s,t) which outputs positions of the 2D domain ( u,v) for input values of the two second parameters; and • determining 3D meshes by evaluating the position of vertices of the 2D meshes on the respective parametric surfaces. • providing, planar 2D meshes associated to geometrical data of a boundary representation of the modeled object, the boundary representation comprising the geometrical data including parametric surfaces and topological data including a set of faces each defined as a portion of the 2D domain of a respective parametric surface, the respective parametric surface being a function ( S ( u,v)) of two first parameters ( u,v) which outputs 3D positions (x(u,v), y(u,v), z(u,v)) for inputs values of the two first parameters, the 2D meshes each forming a partition of a respective face with parametric patches bounded by vertices within the respective face and by parametric arcs that correspond to a subdivision of boundary edges of the respective face, the parametric patches being among the class of parametric patches having boundary curves that do not loop, each parametric patch of the partition having boundary arcs that do not cross each other, each parametric patch having control points, each parametric patch being a function (b(s,t),p(s,t)) of two second parameters (s,t) which outputs positions of the 2D domain ( u,v) for input values of the two second parameters; and • determining 3D meshes by evaluating the position of vertices of the 2D meshes on the respective parametric surfaces.
An implantable device for measuring a neural response to a stimulus, the device comprising: a plurality of electrodes including one or more nominal stimulus electrodes and one or more nominal sense electrodes; a stimulus source for providing a stimulus to be delivered from the one or more stimulus electrodes to neural tissue; measurement circuitry for amplifying a neural signal sensed at the one or more sense electrodes; and a control unit configured to control application of a stimulus to the neural tissue and measurement of an evoked neural response, the control unit further configured to recover charge on the stimulus electrodes by short circuiting the stimulus electrodes to each other, the control unit further configured to cause the stimulus source to apply an electrical stimulus from the stimulus electrodes to neural tissue while keeping the or each sense electrode disconnected from the measurement circuitry, the control unit further configured to impose a delay during which the stimulus electrodes are open circuited and the sense electrode is disconnected from the measurement circuitry and from the stimulus electrodes, and the control unit further configured to measure a neural response signal present at the sense electrode by connecting the or each sense electrode to the measurement circuitry after the delay; characterized in that the control unit is further configured to settle the measurement circuitry prior to a stimulus by connecting the or each sense electrode to the measurement circuitry to allow the measurement circuitry to settle towards a bio-electrically defined steady state. a plurality of electrodes including one or more nominal stimulus electrodes and one or more nominal sense electrodes; a stimulus source for providing a stimulus to be delivered from the one or more stimulus electrodes to neural tissue; measurement circuitry for amplifying a neural signal sensed at the one or more sense electrodes; and a control unit configured to control application of a stimulus to the neural tissue and measurement of an evoked neural response, the control unit further configured to recover charge on the stimulus electrodes by short circuiting the stimulus electrodes to each other, the control unit further configured to cause the stimulus source to apply an electrical stimulus from the stimulus electrodes to neural tissue while keeping the or each sense electrode disconnected from the measurement circuitry, the control unit further configured to impose a delay during which the stimulus electrodes are open circuited and the sense electrode is disconnected from the measurement circuitry and from the stimulus electrodes, and the control unit further configured to measure a neural response signal present at the sense electrode by connecting the or each sense electrode to the measurement circuitry after the delay; characterized in that the control unit is further configured to settle the measurement circuitry prior to a stimulus by connecting the or each sense electrode to the measurement circuitry to allow the measurement circuitry to settle towards a bio-electrically defined steady state.
An exposure method of exposing an object with an energy beam, the method comprising: mounting the object on a movable body (WST, WTB) that can move at least in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal within a predetermined plane; measuring positional information of the movable body using an encoder system, which has one of a grating section (39X 1, 39X 2, 39Y 1, 39Y 2) and a head unit (62A, 62B, 62C, 62D) arranged at the movable body where the object is held and the other is arranged external to the movable body and which is arranged to measure positional information of the movable body within the predetermined plane with a head that faces the grating section among a plurality of heads of the head unit; and controlling a position of the movable body within the predetermined plane, based on correction information to compensate for at least a measurement error in the positional information of the encoder system and measurement information of the encoder system, the measurement error occurring due to a positional shift within the predetermined plane of a detection point of the head used for the measurement. mounting the object on a movable body (WST, WTB) that can move at least in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal within a predetermined plane; measuring positional information of the movable body using an encoder system, which has one of a grating section (39X 1, 39X 2, 39Y 1, 39Y 2) and a head unit (62A, 62B, 62C, 62D) arranged at the movable body where the object is held and the other is arranged external to the movable body and which is arranged to measure positional information of the movable body within the predetermined plane with a head that faces the grating section among a plurality of heads of the head unit; and controlling a position of the movable body within the predetermined plane, based on correction information to compensate for at least a measurement error in the positional information of the encoder system and measurement information of the encoder system, the measurement error occurring due to a positional shift within the predetermined plane of a detection point of the head used for the measurement.
A tunnel lining segment made of reinforced concrete, wherein the tunnel lining segment has a load transfer area for a longitudinal joint, characterized in that at least one steel bar with an end face is installed in the tunnel lining segment, the steel bar being arranged in the tunnel lining segment in such a way that a tangent to a centroidal axis of the steel bar encloses an angle (α) of between 0° and 45° in the end face with a normal to the load transfer area, and wherein the end face is arranged at a distance (a) from the load transfer area which is between 0 mm and 50 mm, preferably between 0 mm and 10 mm.
A radar sensing system for a vehicle, the radar sensing system comprising: a transmitter configured for installation and use on a vehicle, and configured to transmit a continuous wave radio frequency signal, wherein the transmitter is further configured to continuously decrease a power level of the transmitted RF signal as a function of time over a plurality of time intervals; a receiver configured for installation and use on the vehicle, and configured to receive a continuous RF signal, wherein the received RF signal is the transmitted RF signal reflected from targets in the environment; wherein the received RF signal is provided to a processor; wherein the processor is configured to sample the received RF signal to produce a sampled stream; wherein the processor is configured to process the sampled stream during the plurality of time intervals, wherein different time intervals of the plurality of time intervals will contain RF signals with different signal levels that are reflected from first and second targets, wherein the first target is closer than a first threshold distance from the vehicle, and wherein the second target is farther than the first threshold distance from the vehicle; and wherein the processor is further configured to select, over a selected time interval of the plurality of time intervals, samples in the sampled stream that are free of RF signals reflected off of the first target. a transmitter configured for installation and use on a vehicle, and configured to transmit a continuous wave radio frequency signal, wherein the transmitter is further configured to continuously decrease a power level of the transmitted RF signal as a function of time over a plurality of time intervals; a receiver configured for installation and use on the vehicle, and configured to receive a continuous RF signal, wherein the received RF signal is the transmitted RF signal reflected from targets in the environment; wherein the received RF signal is provided to a processor; wherein the processor is configured to sample the received RF signal to produce a sampled stream; wherein the processor is configured to process the sampled stream during the plurality of time intervals, wherein different time intervals of the plurality of time intervals will contain RF signals with different signal levels that are reflected from first and second targets, wherein the first target is closer than a first threshold distance from the vehicle, and wherein the second target is farther than the first threshold distance from the vehicle; and wherein the processor is further configured to select, over a selected time interval of the plurality of time intervals, samples in the sampled stream that are free of RF signals reflected off of the first target.
An item of apparatus or equipment which, in use, is directly or indirectly worn by a person so that flexure of said item is: initiated by, controlled by, or directly attributable to the motion of said person, said item being passive in that other than its wearer, the item possesses no independent source of power for moving the item, and in which said item is provided with - an integral source of stored electrical energy, and - an electrically powered radio transceiver capable of both receiving signals representative of a location, or from which a location can be derived, and transmitting signals representative of said location, and the radio transceiver and the integral source of stored electrical energy are directly or indirectly connected within the item such that the former is at least partially powered by the latter; wherein the integral source of stored electrical energy further comprises and/or is connected at least partially internally within the item to an integral energy recovery module and characterised in that the electrical energy to be stored is generated as a result of the flexure of piezo-electric fibres (14; 16) extending within the item so that when the item is in use, the piezo-electric fibres (14; 16) are deformed in unison with the flexure of the item. - an integral source of stored electrical energy, and - an electrically powered radio transceiver capable of both receiving signals representative of a location, or from which a location can be derived, and transmitting signals representative of said location, and the radio transceiver and the integral source of stored electrical energy are directly or indirectly connected within the item such that the former is at least partially powered by the latter; wherein the integral source of stored electrical energy further comprises and/or is connected at least partially internally within the item to an integral energy recovery module and characterised in that the electrical energy to be stored is generated as a result of the flexure of piezo-electric fibres (14; 16) extending within the item so that when the item is in use, the piezo-electric fibres (14; 16) are deformed in unison with the flexure of the item.