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Storage container for receiving a liquid such as a detergent or a washing or rinsing additive, comprising: - a housing which is designed to be inserted, in an insertion direction, into a receiving means of a water-conducting domestic appliance, in particular a washing machine, and - a container-side coupling element which is designed to be coupled to the domestic appliance by means of a receiving-side coupling element arranged in the receiving means, forming a coupling means, such that the liquid can flow via the coupling means into the domestic appliance, characterised by - a catch element which is designed to form a catch connection together with a catch counter element of the domestic appliance arranged in the receiving means when the housing is inserted into the receiving means, which catch connection releasably fixes the housing in the receiving means, and - a restoring element by means of which a piston of the container-side coupling element is preloaded against the housing such that, in the latched state, at the container-side coupling element, a preload force is applied onto the housing in the opposite direction to the insertion direction. - a housing which is designed to be inserted, in an insertion direction, into a receiving means of a water-conducting domestic appliance, in particular a washing machine, and - a container-side coupling element which is designed to be coupled to the domestic appliance by means of a receiving-side coupling element arranged in the receiving means, forming a coupling means, such that the liquid can flow via the coupling means into the domestic appliance, characterised by - a catch element which is designed to form a catch connection together with a catch counter element of the domestic appliance arranged in the receiving means when the housing is inserted into the receiving means, which catch connection releasably fixes the housing in the receiving means, and - a restoring element by means of which a piston of the container-side coupling element is preloaded against the housing such that, in the latched state, at the container-side coupling element, a preload force is applied onto the housing in the opposite direction to the insertion direction.
A radio tag reading device comprising: a transmission unit configured to transmit a radio wave for communication with a radio tag toward at least a predetermined region including a placement region in which an operator places a commodity on a placement table on which the commodity with the radio tag storing commodity information is placed; a reception unit configured to receive a response signal including the commodity information from the radio tag in response to the radio wave transmitted by the transmission unit; characterized by: a detection unit configured to detect the operator approaching the placement table; a reading start unit configured to, when the detection unit detects approaching of the operator, start operations of the transmission unit and of the reception unit; and a reading unit configured to read and store the commodity information from the response signal received by the reception unit. a transmission unit configured to transmit a radio wave for communication with a radio tag toward at least a predetermined region including a placement region in which an operator places a commodity on a placement table on which the commodity with the radio tag storing commodity information is placed; a reception unit configured to receive a response signal including the commodity information from the radio tag in response to the radio wave transmitted by the transmission unit; characterized by: a detection unit configured to detect the operator approaching the placement table; a reading start unit configured to, when the detection unit detects approaching of the operator, start operations of the transmission unit and of the reception unit; and a reading unit configured to read and store the commodity information from the response signal received by the reception unit.
A service exchange system comprising: a service peering exchange configured for execution by a service peering exchange platform comprising one or more computing devices; and a cloud exchange connected via an access link to the service peering exchange platform, wherein the cloud exchange is configured with: a first virtual circuit connecting a first customer network to the service peering exchange via the access link; and a second virtual circuit connecting a second customer network to the service peering exchange via the access link, wherein the service peering exchange is configured to receive, at a service exchange endpoint of the service peering exchange, via the first virtual circuit, an incoming service request destined to the service exchange endpoint, wherein the incoming service request can invoke an application programming interface for an application configured for execution by the second customer network, and wherein the service peering exchange is configured to output, in response to receiving the incoming service request, via the second virtual circuit, an outgoing service request destined to a service endpoint of the second customer network, wherein the outgoing service request can invoke the application programming interface of the application configured for execution by the second customer network. a first virtual circuit connecting a first customer network to the service peering exchange via the access link; and a second virtual circuit connecting a second customer network to the service peering exchange via the access link, wherein the service peering exchange is configured to receive, at a service exchange endpoint of the service peering exchange, via the first virtual circuit, an incoming service request destined to the service exchange endpoint, wherein the incoming service request can invoke an application programming interface for an application configured for execution by the second customer network, and wherein the service peering exchange is configured to output, in response to receiving the incoming service request, via the second virtual circuit, an outgoing service request destined to a service endpoint of the second customer network, wherein the outgoing service request can invoke the application programming interface of the application configured for execution by the second customer network.
An electronic smoking article comprising: a heater-wick element including a heatable portion and at least one wicking portion, the heater-wick element comprising a plurality of metal beads or particles, said heater-wick element in communication with a liquid supply region including a liquid material, the at least one wicking portion extending into the liquid supply region, the heatable portion being integrally formed with the at least one wicking portion, the heater-wick element configured to wick the liquid material from the liquid supply region such that the liquid material travels along the heater-wick element through interstices and voids between the plurality of metal beads or particles, and the heater-wick element having a porosity ranging from about 30% to about 60% and configured to volatilize the liquid material to produce an aerosol, characterised in that the electronic smoking article further comprises: brazed connection regions wrapped around the heater-wick element, wherein the heatable portion is formed between the brazed connection regions, and electrical leads attached to each brazed connection region. a heater-wick element including a heatable portion and at least one wicking portion, the heater-wick element comprising a plurality of metal beads or particles, said heater-wick element in communication with a liquid supply region including a liquid material, the at least one wicking portion extending into the liquid supply region, the heatable portion being integrally formed with the at least one wicking portion, the heater-wick element configured to wick the liquid material from the liquid supply region such that the liquid material travels along the heater-wick element through interstices and voids between the plurality of metal beads or particles, and the heater-wick element having a porosity ranging from about 30% to about 60% and configured to volatilize the liquid material to produce an aerosol, characterised in that the electronic smoking article further comprises: brazed connection regions wrapped around the heater-wick element, wherein the heatable portion is formed between the brazed connection regions, and electrical leads attached to each brazed connection region. brazed connection regions wrapped around the heater-wick element, wherein the heatable portion is formed between the brazed connection regions, and electrical leads attached to each brazed connection region.
A method for protecting a lacquered or painted surface with a lacquer or a paint, which lacquer or paint is crosslinkable by polymerization and not cured, which comprises (i) laminating a protection film, comprising a support coated with a non-adhesive layer, on said surface such that the non-adhesive layer of the film is in contact with the surface and (ii) crosslinking the lacquer or the paint, said non-adhesive layer comprising at least 50% by weight of one or several polyolefin(s) selected from a polyethylene, a synthetic rubber, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a polypropylene, a copolymer of polypropylene and polyethylene, and mixtures of these compounds, and said non-adhesive layer having: - an elastic modulus G' ≥ 3.10 5 Pa, measured at 1 Hz over a temperature range of from 0°C to 50°C; and - a loss angle tan δ < 1, where tan δ = G"/G', G" being the viscous modulus of the non-adhesive layer measured at 1 Hz over a temperature range of from 0°C to 50°C; said protection film having, before application onto the lacquered or painted surface, a peel force, measured according to the AFERA 5001 standard (180° peel and peel rate of 300 mm/min), in the range of 0 to 100 cN/cm, and, after application onto the lacquered or painted surface, a peel force, measured by tensile testing (180° peel and peel rate of 300 mm/min), in the range of 1 to 100 cN/cm. - an elastic modulus G' ≥ 3.10 5 Pa, measured at 1 Hz over a temperature range of from 0°C to 50°C; and - a loss angle tan δ < 1, where tan δ = G"/G', G" being the viscous modulus of the non-adhesive layer measured at 1 Hz over a temperature range of from 0°C to 50°C;
Feeding device for feeding brittle grinding stock onto a roll gap formed between two rollers (6, 12) of a roller press, comprising - a material feed chute above the roll gap, and - a feed control device with a control element for controlling the flow of brittle grinding stock emerging from the feed chute and flowing towards the roll gap, wherein the control element has a lower delimiting surface which defines a clearance between the control element and the roller surface of a first of the two rollers for the passage of the brittle grinding stock, characterized in that the lower delimiting surface of the control element projects at each outer section, relative to the longitudinal extent of the roll gap, such that in the region of these two outer sections, the clearance between the control element and the roller surface of the first roller is narrower than the clearance between the control element and the roller surface of the first roller in the area of the central section of the lower delimiting surface of the control element located between the two outer sections. - a material feed chute above the roll gap, and - a feed control device with a control element for controlling the flow of brittle grinding stock emerging from the feed chute and flowing towards the roll gap, wherein the control element has a lower delimiting surface which defines a clearance between the control element and the roller surface of a first of the two rollers for the passage of the brittle grinding stock, characterized in that the lower delimiting surface of the control element projects at each outer section, relative to the longitudinal extent of the roll gap, such that in the region of these two outer sections, the clearance between the control element and the roller surface of the first roller is narrower than the clearance between the control element and the roller surface of the first roller in the area of the central section of the lower delimiting surface of the control element located between the two outer sections.
A system comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging system; a radiation source configured to deliver a treatment; and at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a programmable processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising: capturing a baseline MRI scan and, during the treatment, a subsequent MRI scan; comparing a baseline edema analysis utilizing the baseline MRI scan with a subsequent edema analysis utilizing the subsequent MRI scan to estimate a change in edema in patient tissues; and alerting a clinician or stopping the treatment when the estimated change in edema exceeds an expected value by more than a threshold amount. a magnetic resonance imaging system; a radiation source configured to deliver a treatment; and at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a programmable processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising: capturing a baseline MRI scan and, during the treatment, a subsequent MRI scan; comparing a baseline edema analysis utilizing the baseline MRI scan with a subsequent edema analysis utilizing the subsequent MRI scan to estimate a change in edema in patient tissues; and alerting a clinician or stopping the treatment when the estimated change in edema exceeds an expected value by more than a threshold amount. capturing a baseline MRI scan and, during the treatment, a subsequent MRI scan; comparing a baseline edema analysis utilizing the baseline MRI scan with a subsequent edema analysis utilizing the subsequent MRI scan to estimate a change in edema in patient tissues; and alerting a clinician or stopping the treatment when the estimated change in edema exceeds an expected value by more than a threshold amount.
RF connection system for contacting a printed circuit board, PCB,, the RF connection system comprising: an RF connector configured to be mounted to the PCB; and a mounting element configured to be mounted between a heat sink of the PCB and the RF connector to thermally decouple the RF connector from the heat sink, wherein the mounting element comprises at least one alignment interface for aligning the RF connector with respect to the heat sink; wherein the mounting element comprises a thermally insulating material; characterized in that the at least one alignment interface comprises several fastening portions for fastening the RF connector to the mounting element and the mounting element to the heat sink, respectively; wherein each fastening portion is configured as a fastening hole for receiving a fastening element. an RF connector configured to be mounted to the PCB; and a mounting element configured to be mounted between a heat sink of the PCB and the RF connector to thermally decouple the RF connector from the heat sink, wherein the mounting element comprises at least one alignment interface for aligning the RF connector with respect to the heat sink; wherein the mounting element comprises a thermally insulating material; characterized in that the at least one alignment interface comprises several fastening portions for fastening the RF connector to the mounting element and the mounting element to the heat sink, respectively; wherein each fastening portion is configured as a fastening hole for receiving a fastening element.
A rubber composition containing, based on parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the rubber (phr), conjugated diene-based elastomers comprising: from 40 to 90 phr, alternately 60 to 80 phr, of a styrene/butadiene elastomer having a molecular weight profile comprising a weight average molecular weight (Mw) in a range of from 500,000 to 800,000, with the low molecular weight content having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of up to 150,000 being limited to a maximum of seven weight percent of the styrene/butadiene elastomer wherein the molecular weight distribution is determined using gel permeation chromatography according to ASTM 3536-91, and from 60 to 10 phr, alternately 40 to 20, phr, of at least one additional conjugated diene-based elastomer; from 40 to 150 phr, alternately 40 to 120 phr, of a filler comprising a combination of carbon black and silica together with a coupling agent having a moiety reactive or interactive with hydroxyl groups on the silica and another different moiety reactive or interactive with the diene-based elastomers. conjugated diene-based elastomers comprising: from 40 to 90 phr, alternately 60 to 80 phr, of a styrene/butadiene elastomer having a molecular weight profile comprising a weight average molecular weight (Mw) in a range of from 500,000 to 800,000, with the low molecular weight content having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of up to 150,000 being limited to a maximum of seven weight percent of the styrene/butadiene elastomer wherein the molecular weight distribution is determined using gel permeation chromatography according to ASTM 3536-91, and from 60 to 10 phr, alternately 40 to 20, phr, of at least one additional conjugated diene-based elastomer; from 40 to 90 phr, alternately 60 to 80 phr, of a styrene/butadiene elastomer having a molecular weight profile comprising a weight average molecular weight (Mw) in a range of from 500,000 to 800,000, with the low molecular weight content having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of up to 150,000 being limited to a maximum of seven weight percent of the styrene/butadiene elastomer wherein the molecular weight distribution is determined using gel permeation chromatography according to ASTM 3536-91, and from 60 to 10 phr, alternately 40 to 20, phr, of at least one additional conjugated diene-based elastomer; from 40 to 150 phr, alternately 40 to 120 phr, of a filler comprising a combination of carbon black and silica together with a coupling agent having a moiety reactive or interactive with hydroxyl groups on the silica and another different moiety reactive or interactive with the diene-based elastomers.
A wireless access point characterized by: a scheduling unit (30, 15) for transmission opportunity, TXOP, granting configured to determine one or more wireless stations as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants a TXOP based on a parameter indicating a quality of an uplink data transmission, and a unit (13, 12) that is configured to acquire the TXOP using a random access scheme after the determination of the TXOP responders, to transmit a TXOP granting signal indicating a timing to perform the uplink data transmission to the TXOP responders; and to transmit an RTS and receive a CTS, before transmission of the TXOP granting signal, and setting a NAV to reserve a channel necessary to transmit at least both the TXOP granting signal and uplink data with the RTS. a scheduling unit (30, 15) for transmission opportunity, TXOP, granting configured to determine one or more wireless stations as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants a TXOP based on a parameter indicating a quality of an uplink data transmission, and a unit (13, 12) that is configured to acquire the TXOP using a random access scheme after the determination of the TXOP responders, to transmit a TXOP granting signal indicating a timing to perform the uplink data transmission to the TXOP responders; and to transmit an RTS and receive a CTS, before transmission of the TXOP granting signal, and setting a NAV to reserve a channel necessary to transmit at least both the TXOP granting signal and uplink data with the RTS. to acquire the TXOP using a random access scheme after the determination of the TXOP responders, to transmit a TXOP granting signal indicating a timing to perform the uplink data transmission to the TXOP responders; and to transmit an RTS and receive a CTS, before transmission of the TXOP granting signal, and setting a NAV to reserve a channel necessary to transmit at least both the TXOP granting signal and uplink data with the RTS.
A sliding door device comprising: a door (2a, 2b, 22a, 22b) being horizontally moved to open and close a doorway (1a, 21); a first light emitter which is provided on a first side of the doorway (1a, 21) and includes a first light-emitting surface; a second light emitter which is provided on a second side of the doorway (1a, 21) and includes a second light-emitting surface opposing the first light-emitting surface; first imaging means provided on the first side of the doorway (1a, 21); second imaging means provided on the second side of the doorway (1a, 21); and a controller for controlling the first light emitter, the second light emitter, the first imaging means, and the second imaging means to detect an obstacle in vicinity of the doorway (1a, 21) and for controlling opening and closure of the door (2a, 2b, 22a, 22b) according to presence and absence of the obstacle, wherein, the controller turns ON the first light emitter and the second light emitter at timings shifted from each other. a door (2a, 2b, 22a, 22b) being horizontally moved to open and close a doorway (1a, 21); a first light emitter which is provided on a first side of the doorway (1a, 21) and includes a first light-emitting surface; a second light emitter which is provided on a second side of the doorway (1a, 21) and includes a second light-emitting surface opposing the first light-emitting surface; first imaging means provided on the first side of the doorway (1a, 21); second imaging means provided on the second side of the doorway (1a, 21); and a controller for controlling the first light emitter, the second light emitter, the first imaging means, and the second imaging means to detect an obstacle in vicinity of the doorway (1a, 21) and for controlling opening and closure of the door (2a, 2b, 22a, 22b) according to presence and absence of the obstacle, wherein, the controller turns ON the first light emitter and the second light emitter at timings shifted from each other.
A computer-implemented unit-conversion method comprising: identifying a first numerical value in a first system of units displayed on a computing device; converting the first numerical value in the first system of units into a second numerical value in a second system of units, wherein the second system of units is determined based on an inferred user preference that is inferred by collecting data on the usage patterns of a device user relating to usage of units; and displaying the second numerical value and the second system of units on the computing device. identifying a first numerical value in a first system of units displayed on a computing device; converting the first numerical value in the first system of units into a second numerical value in a second system of units, wherein the second system of units is determined based on an inferred user preference that is inferred by collecting data on the usage patterns of a device user relating to usage of units; and displaying the second numerical value and the second system of units on the computing device.