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A computer-implemented method for providing a lens shape for an ophthalmic lens, comprising the following steps: a) providing a predetermined lens shape of an ophthalmic lens, having a front surface and a back surface, wherein the predetermined lens shape comprises a predetermined shape of the front surface and a predetermined shape of the back surface within a prescription zone of the back surface bordered by a first boundary line, such that the ophthalmic lens satisfies predetermined optical properties within the prescription zone; b) determining a carrier point on the back surface within the prescription zone and a plurality of carrier lines each extending from the carrier point into a respective direction; c) determining a transition zone of the back surface, wherein the transition zone extends radially outwards from the first boundary line towards the outer edge of the ophthalmic lens and ends at a second boundary line bordering the transition zone radially outwards; d) for each carrier line, setting a desired constant curvature gradient in the transition zone; e) for each carrier line, determining a curvature profile of the back surface between the first boundary line and an outer edge the ophthalmic lens along the carrier line, and wherein the curvature profile in the transition zone is determined based on the respective desired constant curvature gradient; and characterized by flattening a profile of the curvature of the prescription zone in the direction of the carrier lines along the first boundary line via approximation by a polynomial or a spline function or a Fourier series to obtain a flattened curvature profile and to provide for angular smoothing of the back surface radially outwards of the first boundary line, and wherein the flattened curvature profile is used as a radially inward starting curvature value for each carrier line. a) providing a predetermined lens shape of an ophthalmic lens, having a front surface and a back surface, wherein the predetermined lens shape comprises a predetermined shape of the front surface and a predetermined shape of the back surface within a prescription zone of the back surface bordered by a first boundary line, such that the ophthalmic lens satisfies predetermined optical properties within the prescription zone; b) determining a carrier point on the back surface within the prescription zone and a plurality of carrier lines each extending from the carrier point into a respective direction; c) determining a transition zone of the back surface, wherein the transition zone extends radially outwards from the first boundary line towards the outer edge of the ophthalmic lens and ends at a second boundary line bordering the transition zone radially outwards; d) for each carrier line, setting a desired constant curvature gradient in the transition zone; e) for each carrier line, determining a curvature profile of the back surface between the first boundary line and an outer edge the ophthalmic lens along the carrier line, and wherein the curvature profile in the transition zone is determined based on the respective desired constant curvature gradient; and
A semiconductor device comprising: a first coupler (3, 130); an encoding circuit configured to execute differential Manchester encoding on digital data based on a clock inputted thereto via the first coupler, and to output an encoded data; a second coupler (6, 160); and a demodulating circuit configured to demodulate the encoded data inputted thereto via the second coupler, wherein the demodulating circuit includes a first sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data based on a sampling frequency set to be two times higher than that of the encoded data, and to output first sample data, a second sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data at a timing earlier than that in the first sampling circuit based on the sampling frequency, and to output second sample data, a determination circuit configured to determine whether or not the level of the first sample data and the level of the second sample data match each other, and a selection circuit configured to select first phase data obtained by even-numbered sampling or second phase data obtained by odd-numbered sampling from the first sample data, on the basis of determination data generated at the determination circuit. a first coupler (3, 130); an encoding circuit configured to execute differential Manchester encoding on digital data based on a clock inputted thereto via the first coupler, and to output an encoded data; a second coupler (6, 160); and a demodulating circuit configured to demodulate the encoded data inputted thereto via the second coupler, wherein the demodulating circuit includes a first sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data based on a sampling frequency set to be two times higher than that of the encoded data, and to output first sample data, a second sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data at a timing earlier than that in the first sampling circuit based on the sampling frequency, and to output second sample data, a determination circuit configured to determine whether or not the level of the first sample data and the level of the second sample data match each other, and a selection circuit configured to select first phase data obtained by even-numbered sampling or second phase data obtained by odd-numbered sampling from the first sample data, on the basis of determination data generated at the determination circuit. a first sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data based on a sampling frequency set to be two times higher than that of the encoded data, and to output first sample data, a second sampling circuit configured to sample the encoded data at a timing earlier than that in the first sampling circuit based on the sampling frequency, and to output second sample data, a determination circuit configured to determine whether or not the level of the first sample data and the level of the second sample data match each other, and a selection circuit configured to select first phase data obtained by even-numbered sampling or second phase data obtained by odd-numbered sampling from the first sample data, on the basis of determination data generated at the determination circuit.
A container, comprising: an enclosure including a bottom portion, a top portion, and a plurality of sides which bound an interior of the enclosure, the enclosure including a sump region proximate the bottom portion of the enclosure, and a fillable bladder positioned within the enclosure, an interior of the fillable bladder being accessible only through an opening in the enclosure proximate the top portion of the enclosure, a bottom portion of the fillable bladder is centered by the sump region away from each of the plurality of sides of the enclosure and centered under the opening in the enclosure, wherein a first horizontal cross-sectional area of the fillable bladder located in the sump region of the enclosure is smaller than a second horizontal cross-sectional area of the fillable bladder, the second horizontal cross-sectional area being above the first horizontal cross-sectional area and outside of the sump region of the enclosure. an enclosure including a bottom portion, a top portion, and a plurality of sides which bound an interior of the enclosure, the enclosure including a sump region proximate the bottom portion of the enclosure, and a fillable bladder positioned within the enclosure, an interior of the fillable bladder being accessible only through an opening in the enclosure proximate the top portion of the enclosure, a bottom portion of the fillable bladder is centered by the sump region away from each of the plurality of sides of the enclosure and centered under the opening in the enclosure, wherein a first horizontal cross-sectional area of the fillable bladder located in the sump region of the enclosure is smaller than a second horizontal cross-sectional area of the fillable bladder, the second horizontal cross-sectional area being above the first horizontal cross-sectional area and outside of the sump region of the enclosure.
A control device for controlling an operation of a refrigerant circuit that includes a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, a four-way-valve configured to change a direction in which the refrigerant flows, an internal heat exchanger configured to condense the refrigerant compressed by the compressor in an internal heating operation, a receiver tank configured to store part of the condensed refrigerant, an expansion valve configured to depress the refrigerant flowing out of the receiver tank, an external heat exchanger configured to evaporate the depressed refrigerant, an accumulator configured to supply a refrigerant gas of a refrigerant flowing out of the external heat exchanger to the compressor, a bypass pipe connecting a gas-phase portion of the receiver tank to the accumulator, and an opening/closing valve configured to control opening and closing of the bypass pipe; wherein the control device is configured to determine during the internal heating operation, whether or not the internal heating operation is to be paused according to whether or not a set temperature set for the internal heating operation is reached, and in case where the set temperature is reached, the control device is configured to determine that the internal heating operation is to be paused, and in a case where the internal heating operation is to be paused, the control device is configured to determine whether or not a frost suppression operation condition is established, and in a case where the frost suppression operation condition is established, the control device is configured to perform a frost suppression operation of defrosting the external heat exchanger by changing the four-way valve and controlling the opening/closing valve from a closed state to an opened state and thereby circulating a refrigerant ejected from the compressor in the order of the external heat exchanger, the receiver tank, the bypass pipe, the accumulator, and the compressor before pausing the internal heating operation.
A thermoform packaging machine comprising at least two clamp chains for holding a bottom film on both sides and for conveying the bottom film along a production direction of the thermoform packaging machine, wherein the clamp chains are guided in chain guides, wherein the thermoform packaging machine comprises a forming station for producing troughs in the bottom film, a sealing station and at least one cutting station, which are arranged in this sequence along the production direction on a machine frame, wherein the chain guides extend at least from the forming station along an infeed line to the sealing station, wherein an upper guide surface of each of the chain guides has, along the forming station, a first vertical distance from an installation surface of the machine frame of the thermoform packaging machine, wherein the chain guides exhibit on and along the sealing station a horizontal orientation and the chain guide exhibits along the infeed line at least partially an ascending orientation, wherein the thermoform packaging machine comprises a product infeed belt, wherein the product infeed belt comprises a conveying surface and a deflection area, and wherein the transition from the conveying surface to the deflection area defines a delivery edge at which the product leaves the product infeed belt characterized in that the chain guides each comprise the upper guide surface and a lower guide surface, between which a respective clamp chain is guided, and the upper guide surface exhibits a horizontal orientation on and along the forming station, wherein the upper guide surface has, along the sealing station, a second vertical distance from the installation surface, and the second vertical distance is at least 100 mm larger than the first vertical distance, and wherein the delivery edge has a third vertical distance from the installation surface, the third vertical distance being at least 10 mm smaller than the second distance.
An electric junction box comprising a wire guiding out portion structure arranged for winding a tape comprising: a gutter-shaped or inverted-gutter-shaped wire guiding wall; and a plate-shaped wire supporting wall opposed to the wire guiding wall, wherein at least two ribs (12, 23) for preventing a tape from slipping arranged parallel to each other in a wire guiding out direction are provided on at least one of the wire guiding wall and the wire supporting wall, and wherein a tip-side leading rib (12 1, 23 1) of the wire guiding wall or the wire supporting wall is projected longer in a wire radial direction than a second rib (12 2, 23 2) of the wire guiding wall or the wire supporting wall. a gutter-shaped or inverted-gutter-shaped wire guiding wall; and a plate-shaped wire supporting wall opposed to the wire guiding wall, wherein at least two ribs (12, 23) for preventing a tape from slipping arranged parallel to each other in a wire guiding out direction are provided on at least one of the wire guiding wall and the wire supporting wall, and wherein a tip-side leading rib (12 1, 23 1) of the wire guiding wall or the wire supporting wall is projected longer in a wire radial direction than a second rib (12 2, 23 2) of the wire guiding wall or the wire supporting wall.
Optical force sensing element for microsurgical instruments, for measuring force F in three orthogonal directions x, y, z, comprising a monolithic cylinder structure with a bottom surface expanding in a plane x-y, an axis in direction z, a cylindrical surface surrounding the axis z and a top surface opposite the bottom surface suitable to absorb and transmit the force F to be measured, the structure featuring three punch-like notches, all being parallel to the y- direction, spaced apart along the z-axis and forming exactly two blades in parallel x-y planes between the first and the second notch as well as between the second and the third notch, the structure further comprises three channels open or closed to the cylindrical surface and parallel to the z-axis, extending from the bottom surface to the top surface and crossing the first notch while bypassing the other two notches in the structure, the force sensing element further comprises three optical fibres each fixed in one of the three channels, all entering the structure from the bottom surface, crossing the first notch and ending at or near the top surface while being interrupted in the first notch building two surfaces (10, 12) of each fibre by defining Fabry-Perot interferometric cavities.
A digital to analog converter for performing noise shaped splitting of a digital input signal comprising: a plurality of unit cells, each adapted for providing an analog electrical signal to a common output in response to a respective control signal; a control system including a plurality of branches (416.1 TO 416.N) adapted for providing the control signals to corresponding unit cells, each branch adapted for receiving a plurality of most significant bits of the input signal; and a dynamic element matching circuit adapted for receiving a plurality of least significant bits of the input signal to generate respective output signals to the control system; wherein each branch includes a respective adder (420.1 TO 420.N) having a first input for the most significant bits of the input signal and a second input for a respective one of the output signals from the dynamic element matching circuit, wherein the dynamic element matching circuit includes a dynamics enhancement circuit configured to if it is determined, for any value of input signal, that there is insufficient data activity in the input signal, increase data activity in the control signals provided by the plurality of branches to the plurality of unit cells without changing the digital value represented by the control signals of the plurality of branches by adding signals to two or more branches of the plurality of branches. a plurality of unit cells, each adapted for providing an analog electrical signal to a common output in response to a respective control signal; a control system including a plurality of branches (416.1 TO 416.N) adapted for providing the control signals to corresponding unit cells, each branch adapted for receiving a plurality of most significant bits of the input signal; and a dynamic element matching circuit adapted for receiving a plurality of least significant bits of the input signal to generate respective output signals to the control system; wherein each branch includes a respective adder (420.1 TO 420.N) having a first input for the most significant bits of the input signal and a second input for a respective one of the output signals from the dynamic element matching circuit, wherein the dynamic element matching circuit includes a dynamics enhancement circuit configured to if it is determined, for any value of input signal, that there is insufficient data activity in the input signal, increase data activity in the control signals provided by the plurality of branches to the plurality of unit cells without changing the digital value represented by the control signals of the plurality of branches by adding signals to two or more branches of the plurality of branches.
An apparatus for recognizing an iris, the apparatus comprising: an image acquisition module configured to acquire a plurality of images; and a processor configured to: select at least one image for iris recognition from among the plurality of images by discarding an image with a radius of pupil which is greater than a predetermined threshold value and discarding an image with a contrast between a pupil and an iris which is smaller than a predetermined threshold contrast; and recognize an iris in the at least one image, characterised in that the processor is further configured to select the at least one image by discarding an image with an eyelid opening distance which is smaller than a predetermined distance, wherein the eyelid opening distance is determined as a length of a shortest vertical line among vertical lines within a pupil column area, wherein the pupil column area is determined as an area with a width of the pupil, wherein the pupil column area comprises the pupil and a part of the iris, and wherein the vertical lines connect both boundaries of an eyelid and the iris within the pupil column area. an image acquisition module configured to acquire a plurality of images; and a processor configured to: select at least one image for iris recognition from among the plurality of images by discarding an image with a radius of pupil which is greater than a predetermined threshold value and discarding an image with a contrast between a pupil and an iris which is smaller than a predetermined threshold contrast; and recognize an iris in the at least one image, characterised in that the processor is further configured to select the at least one image by discarding an image with an eyelid opening distance which is smaller than a predetermined distance, wherein the eyelid opening distance is determined as a length of a shortest vertical line among vertical lines within a pupil column area, wherein the pupil column area is determined as an area with a width of the pupil, wherein the pupil column area comprises the pupil and a part of the iris, and wherein the vertical lines connect both boundaries of an eyelid and the iris within the pupil column area. select at least one image for iris recognition from among the plurality of images by discarding an image with a radius of pupil which is greater than a predetermined threshold value and discarding an image with a contrast between a pupil and an iris which is smaller than a predetermined threshold contrast; and recognize an iris in the at least one image, characterised in that the processor is further configured to select the at least one image by discarding an image with an eyelid opening distance which is smaller than a predetermined distance, wherein the eyelid opening distance is determined as a length of a shortest vertical line among vertical lines within a pupil column area, wherein the pupil column area is determined as an area with a width of the pupil, wherein the pupil column area comprises the pupil and a part of the iris, and wherein the vertical lines connect both boundaries of an eyelid and the iris within the pupil column area.
An imaging device (100, 800, 900), comprising: a substrate (144, 420, 520, 620, 720, 844), a thermal infrared ring-array imager which comprises circuitry and a ring-shaped detector element (142, 410, 510, 610, 710, 842) disposed on a surface of the substrate, the ring-shaped detector element (142, 410, 510, 610, 710, 842) comprising a circular array (142A, 412, 414, 512, 514, 612, 614, 616, 712, 842) of infrared detectors (142A, 412A, 414A, 512A, 514A, 612A, 614A, 616A, 712, 842A) configured to detect thermal infrared radiation, wherein the infrared detectors are formed around an outer perimeter surface of the ring-shaped detector element and are disposed perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, and wherein the ring-shaped detector element comprises interconnect structures to electrically connect the infrared detectors to the circuitry on the substrate; and a ring-shaped focusing element (200, 300), characterized in that the ring-shaped focusing element is disposed around the ring-shaped detector element and configured to direct focused incident infrared radiation towards the circular array of infrared detectors. a substrate (144, 420, 520, 620, 720, 844), a thermal infrared ring-array imager which comprises circuitry and a ring-shaped detector element (142, 410, 510, 610, 710, 842) disposed on a surface of the substrate, the ring-shaped detector element (142, 410, 510, 610, 710, 842) comprising a circular array (142A, 412, 414, 512, 514, 612, 614, 616, 712, 842) of infrared detectors (142A, 412A, 414A, 512A, 514A, 612A, 614A, 616A, 712, 842A) configured to detect thermal infrared radiation, wherein the infrared detectors are formed around an outer perimeter surface of the ring-shaped detector element and are disposed perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, and wherein the ring-shaped detector element comprises interconnect structures to electrically connect the infrared detectors to the circuitry on the substrate; and a ring-shaped focusing element (200, 300), characterized in that the ring-shaped focusing element is disposed around the ring-shaped detector element and configured to direct focused incident infrared radiation towards the circular array of infrared detectors.
A method of providing fluid loss control in a portion of a subterranean formation comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a plurality of whole seeds, the seeds consisting of whole basil seeds; introducing the treatment fluid into a portion of a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore such that the seeds swell and block openings in the subterranean formation to provide fluid loss control; and, degrading the whole basil seeds over time within the subterranean formation. providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a plurality of whole seeds, the seeds consisting of whole basil seeds; introducing the treatment fluid into a portion of a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore such that the seeds swell and block openings in the subterranean formation to provide fluid loss control; and, degrading the whole basil seeds over time within the subterranean formation.