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A method of operating a dispensing device for at least one air treatment agent, the dispensing device comprising: a housing having one or more walls (2', 2") to define an interior adapted to receive at least one removable container of air treatment agent at least partially therein; and within said housing the device comprises: an airborne agent detector means operable to detect airborne agents in the air, wherein said means are provided with at least one aperture to the exterior of the device to permit, in use, air from outside of the device to enter said airborne agent detector means; receiving means for receiving said at least one container of air treatment agent; emanation means adapted, in use, to emanate the air treatment agent from the device through one or more exit orifices in the housing; control means in communication with the emanation means and in communication with said airborne agent detector means; the airborne agent detector means comprises one or more metal oxide semiconductor/metal oxide odour sensors; characterised in that once the metal oxide semiconductor/metal oxide odour sensor(s) has been heated up to an operational temperature the application of power to the sensor(s) is provided by pulses of power for between a 5 to 1000ms period with an off-period lasting between 0.5 to 10 seconds pulses. a housing having one or more walls (2', 2") to define an interior adapted to receive at least one removable container of air treatment agent at least partially therein; and within said housing the device comprises: an airborne agent detector means operable to detect airborne agents in the air, wherein said means are provided with at least one aperture to the exterior of the device to permit, in use, air from outside of the device to enter said airborne agent detector means; receiving means for receiving said at least one container of air treatment agent; emanation means adapted, in use, to emanate the air treatment agent from the device through one or more exit orifices in the housing; control means in communication with the emanation means and in communication with said airborne agent detector means; the airborne agent detector means comprises one or more metal oxide semiconductor/metal oxide odour sensors; an airborne agent detector means operable to detect airborne agents in the air, wherein said means are provided with at least one aperture to the exterior of the device to permit, in use, air from outside of the device to enter said airborne agent detector means; receiving means for receiving said at least one container of air treatment agent; emanation means adapted, in use, to emanate the air treatment agent from the device through one or more exit orifices in the housing; control means in communication with the emanation means and in communication with said airborne agent detector means; the airborne agent detector means comprises one or more metal oxide semiconductor/metal oxide odour sensors;
A microanchor comprising: a. a first tissue engagement member; b. a second tissue engagement member; and c. a resilient, strain relieving connector joining said first tissue engagement member to said second tissue engagement member; d. external means; wherein said microanchor has a retracted state and an engaged state, said first tissue engagement member and said second tissue engagement member forming a pincer in said engaged state; wherein said first and second tissue engagement members in said engaged state are configured to penetrate tissue less than 1 mm; wherein said connector is a coiled spring and characterised in that when the microanchor is in the retracted state the first tissue engagement member and the second tissue engagement member are physically wound against the tension of the spring such that they are in proximity to each other and physically constrained by said external means. a. a first tissue engagement member; b. a second tissue engagement member; and c. a resilient, strain relieving connector joining said first tissue engagement member to said second tissue engagement member; d. external means;
A method for manufacturing a cosmetic applicator brush (10, 10', 10", 10 iV), the cosmetic applicator brush (10, 10', 10 iV) comprising a plurality of discs (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 vi, 20 vii, 20 viii) assembled relative to one another along an axes, each disc (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 iv) having a body (22, 22', 22", 22 V, 22 iv, 22 vii, 22 viii) with a plurality of bristles(26, 26'), comprising the step of: forming the cosmetic applicator brush (10, 10', 10", 10 iV) by a mono-injection molding of each of the plurality of discs (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 iv, 20 vii, 20 viii), wherein adjacent discs (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 vi, 20 vii, 20 viii) are maintained at an angular relationship with respect to one another independent of a disc specific keying element, wherein the plurality of bristles (26, 26') further comprise one or more branches with different sizes extending from the plurality of bristles (26, 26'), characterized in that the bodies (22, 22', 22 v, 22 vi, 22 vii, 22 viii) of the plurality of discs (20, 20', 20 v, 20 vi, 20 vii, 20 viii) have polygonal shapes when viewed perpendicular to the axes, the plurality of bristles (26, 26') consist of bristles extending outward from an apex of the polygonal shape and bristles extending outward from a side of the polygonal shape. forming the cosmetic applicator brush (10, 10', 10", 10 iV) by a mono-injection molding of each of the plurality of discs (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 iv, 20 vii, 20 viii), wherein adjacent discs (20, 20', 20", 20 v, 20 vi, 20 vii, 20 viii) are maintained at an angular relationship with respect to one another independent of a disc specific keying element, wherein the plurality of bristles (26, 26') further comprise one or more branches with different sizes extending from the plurality of bristles (26, 26'), characterized in that the bodies (22, 22', 22 v, 22 vi, 22 vii, 22 viii) of the plurality of discs (20, 20', 20 v, 20 vi, 20 vii, 20 viii) have polygonal shapes when viewed perpendicular to the axes, the plurality of bristles (26, 26') consist of bristles extending outward from an apex of the polygonal shape and bristles extending outward from a side of the polygonal shape.
Method for assembling parts selected from a plurality of first parts and a plurality of second parts, comprising the following steps performed by a computer: - for each first part and each second part from the plurality of first parts and the plurality of second parts, estimating a quantity of material to be sanded so that the first part and the second part can be assembled, and estimating a discrepancy between the relative position of the assembled first and second parts and a nominal relative position, the sum of the estimated quantity and the estimated discrepancy being an indicator of the defectiveness of the assembly of the first part with the second part; - for a batch of N assemblies to be produced, assigning N first parts from the plurality of first parts to N second parts from the plurality of second parts to form N pairs ({Ai, Bj}) from a first part and a second part, said assignment being made in such a way that said N pairs minimise an overall defectiveness corresponding to the sum of the indicators of defectiveness of the assembly of each of the N pairs; - and in that it includes the formation of the assembly and the sanding of the N pairs which minimise the overall defectiveness. - for each first part and each second part from the plurality of first parts and the plurality of second parts, estimating a quantity of material to be sanded so that the first part and the second part can be assembled, and estimating a discrepancy between the relative position of the assembled first and second parts and a nominal relative position, the sum of the estimated quantity and the estimated discrepancy being an indicator of the defectiveness of the assembly of the first part with the second part; - for a batch of N assemblies to be produced, assigning N first parts from the plurality of first parts to N second parts from the plurality of second parts to form N pairs ({Ai, Bj}) from a first part and a second part, said assignment being made in such a way that said N pairs minimise an overall defectiveness corresponding to the sum of the indicators of defectiveness of the assembly of each of the N pairs; - and in that it includes the formation of the assembly and the sanding of the N pairs which minimise the overall defectiveness.
A method of using a paint cup assembly with a paint sprayer, characterized in that the method comprises: providing a paint cup assembly including a valve assembly, a paint reservoir, an extended ring that at least partially surrounds the paint reservoir, and a cap that can be threadably engaged with the extended ring, wherein the paint cup assembly is movable from a closed configuration in which fluid flow through an outlet is prevented to an open configuration in which fluid flow through the outlet is permitted during engagement with the paint sprayer; filling the paint cup assembly with paint; closing the paint cup assembly; inverting the paint cup assembly; and engaging the paint cup assembly with the paint sprayer, wherein the open configuration is achieved automatically during engagement, and wherein engaging the paint cup assembly with the paint sprayer is performed after inverting the paint cup assembly. providing a paint cup assembly including a valve assembly, a paint reservoir, an extended ring that at least partially surrounds the paint reservoir, and a cap that can be threadably engaged with the extended ring, wherein the paint cup assembly is movable from a closed configuration in which fluid flow through an outlet is prevented to an open configuration in which fluid flow through the outlet is permitted during engagement with the paint sprayer; filling the paint cup assembly with paint; closing the paint cup assembly; inverting the paint cup assembly; and engaging the paint cup assembly with the paint sprayer, wherein the open configuration is achieved automatically during engagement, and wherein engaging the paint cup assembly with the paint sprayer is performed after inverting the paint cup assembly.
A housing arrangement, having at least one housing and a plug-in connector, wherein the housing arrangement has at least one seal that is placed in a milled portion (16, 18) provided in the housing and wherein the seal consists of a compressible material having an elastic portion, characterized in that a bonding connection between the plug-in connector and the housing is realized with an electrically conductive surface coating that is applied to a surface of a housing flange adjacent to the milled portion and provides corrosion protection; an electrically insulating surface coating (26a, 26b) as a resistant corrosion protection is applied at the environmental side up to the region on which the seal lies and at the surface of the housing flange adjacent to the seal.
An industrial two-layered fabric comprising an upper surface side fabric comprising at least an upper surface side warp (1U; 3U; 4U; 5U, 7U; 8U; 9U; 10U) and at least an upper surface side weft (2'U; 4'U; 6'U; 8'U), and a lower surface side fabric comprising at least a lower surface side warp (3L; 4L; 5L; 7L; 8L; 9L; 10L) and at least a lower surface side weft (2'L; 4'L; 6'L; 8'L) bound by at least an upper surface side biding yarn (2Ub; 6Ub) and at least a lower surface side biding yarn (2Lb; 6Lb), said industrial two-layered fabric is constituted by at least second pair of warps in which the upper surface side binding yarn functioning as a binding yarn and the lower surface side binding yarn functioning as a binding yarn are vertically arranged, and at least third pair of warps in which two upper surface side warps are adjacently arranged, said industrial two-layered fabric further comprises at least an auxiliary weft (1'S; 3'S; 5'S; 7'S) which is not exposed to a surface of the fabric without being woven with any warp, characterized in that said two-layered fabric is further constituted by at least first pair of warps in which the upper surface side warp and the lower surface side warp are vertically arranged.
A process for purifying a diaryl carbonate, comprising: introducing an aqueous stream to a diaryl carbonate stream that comprises a metal contaminant, wherein the diaryl carbonate stream comprises greater than or equal to 70 wt% diaryl carbonate based on the total weight of the diaryl carbonate stream, wherein the aqueous stream reacts with the metal contaminant to form a precipitate; wherein introducing the aqueous stream to the diaryl carbonate stream results in introducing 100 to 10,000 ppm water based on the total composition of the diaryl carbonate stream and the aqueous stream; removing the precipitate via one or both of a separation column and a filter to result in a purified diaryl carbonate; wherein when the removing utilizes the separation column, the process further comprises: removing a bottom stream comprising the precipitate from the separation column; removing a top stream from the separation column; directing a top stream first portion into the separation column and collecting a top stream second portion, wherein the top stream second component comprises the purified diaryl carbonate. introducing an aqueous stream to a diaryl carbonate stream that comprises a metal contaminant, wherein the diaryl carbonate stream comprises greater than or equal to 70 wt% diaryl carbonate based on the total weight of the diaryl carbonate stream, wherein the aqueous stream reacts with the metal contaminant to form a precipitate; wherein introducing the aqueous stream to the diaryl carbonate stream results in introducing 100 to 10,000 ppm water based on the total composition of the diaryl carbonate stream and the aqueous stream; removing the precipitate via one or both of a separation column and a filter to result in a purified diaryl carbonate; wherein when the removing utilizes the separation column, the process further comprises: removing a bottom stream comprising the precipitate from the separation column; removing a top stream from the separation column; directing a top stream first portion into the separation column and collecting a top stream second portion, wherein the top stream second component comprises the purified diaryl carbonate. removing a bottom stream comprising the precipitate from the separation column; removing a top stream from the separation column; directing a top stream first portion into the separation column and collecting a top stream second portion, wherein the top stream second component comprises the purified diaryl carbonate.
Wristwatch including a case and at least one bracelet strand secured to each other, the connection between said bracelet strand and said case including a fastening device which includes at least one fastening element allowing said bracelet strand to be detached from said case when said fastening element is subjected to a predetermined force, and which includes at least one pin, which is a sacrificial pin and includes at least one area of mechanical resistance lower than 45 MPa, on at least one shoulder of said sacrificial pin extending in an axial direction, characterized in that said case and said bracelet strand are pivotally hinged about said shoulder of said sacrificial pin which includes, on said shoulder, at least one area of mechanical resistance lower than the lowest mechanical resistance of said case and than the lowest mechanical resistance of said bracelet strand.
A process station of devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37) for conveying biological product containers comprising a main lane for the flow of said conveying devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37) and a secondary lane for the flow of said conveying devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37) connected to each other by connection stretches (7a, 7b), comprising a diverting unit for said conveying devices (3, 31, 32) from said main lane to said secondary lane and a return unit for said conveying devices (3, 35-37) from said secondary lane to said main lane, characterized in that each of said diverting units and each of said return units are provided with means (6, 10, 11a, 11b) adapted to allow the identification, control and detection of said conveying devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37) without interrupting the motion thereof (3, 31, 32, 35-37), in advance, with respect to the actuation of diverting means (9, 13) for the same (3, 31, 32, 35-37) from one lane (2, 5) to the other (5, 2), said diverting unit comprising a diverting device comprising a cam provided with two side portions (14a, 14b) rotating around a central shaft, each of said two side portions (14a, 14b) being adapted to impact one of said conveying devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37), said return unit comprising a motorized belt adapted to interact with an outer side cylindrical surface of the conveying device (3, 31, 32, 35-37) so as to set said conveying device (3, 31, 32, 35-37) in rotation around a vertical axis without interrupting the motion of said conveying devices (3, 31, 32, 35-37) the flow of which is therefore continuous.
An implantable medical device including a first capture element formed of a frame of curved leg elements arranged substantially in a sphere with an end opening, the frame providing a material capture chamber therein accessible through the opening; a coupling member attached to the frame wherein the coupling member is at least partially flexible; and a stabilisation member attached to the coupling member for stabilising the capture element, wherein the stabilisation member is a second capture element formed of a frame of curved leg elements arranged substantially in a sphere with an end opening, the frame providing a material capture chamber therein accessible through the opening, wherein the first and second capture elements have their openings facing a common direction, and wherein the flexible coupling member enables the capture elements to tilt relative to one another.
A method for mapping a sensor pixel array to an illumination pixel array according to a surface, the method executed at least in part on a computer and comprising: forming a group mapping by assigning each pixel in a plurality of pixels on the sensor array to a corresponding group of an ordered set of groups on the illumination pixel array, wherein each group has a group width defined by a set of p adjacent pixels on the illumination pixel array and the ordered set has k groups by: projecting onto the surface and recording a first multiple group index image with a first pattern of lines and a second multiple group index image with a second pattern of lines, wherein lines that appear at identical positions in both the first pattern of lines and the second pattern of lines are evenly spaced from each other by a first distance that is a first multiple of group width p, wherein the first multiple is an integer greater than 1, and lines that appear only in either the first pattern of lines or the second pattern of lines are evenly spaced from each other by a second distance that is a second multiple of group size and that exceeds the first distance; projecting onto the surface and recording a subset of a set of p multiline images, wherein each multiline image projects a line within each group and wherein the projected lines in each of the subset of p multiline images are evenly spaced apart by a group width of p pixels; and correlating lines in one of the recorded multiline images with lines from the first and second multiple group index images (52a,52b) to generate the group mapping for all k groups and storing the correlation in a computer-accessible memory. projecting onto the surface and recording a first multiple group index image with a first pattern of lines and a second multiple group index image with a second pattern of lines, wherein lines that appear at identical positions in both the first pattern of lines and the second pattern of lines are evenly spaced from each other by a first distance that is a first multiple of group width p, wherein the first multiple is an integer greater than 1, and lines that appear only in either the first pattern of lines or the second pattern of lines are evenly spaced from each other by a second distance that is a second multiple of group size and that exceeds the first distance; projecting onto the surface and recording a subset of a set of p multiline images, wherein each multiline image projects a line within each group and wherein the projected lines in each of the subset of p multiline images are evenly spaced apart by a group width of p pixels; and correlating lines in one of the recorded multiline images with lines from the first and second multiple group index images (52a,52b) to generate the group mapping for all k groups and storing the correlation in a computer-accessible memory.
A tire comprising a rubber composition comprising at least: - a diene elastomer; - between 20 and 160 phr, preferably 25 and 150 phr, of a liquid plasticizer; - less than 20 phr of a reinforcing filler; and - from 600 to 1500 phr of metal particles having a density of between 4 and 20 g/cm 3 and a BET surface area of between 0.1 and 4.5 m 2 /g wherein the density of metal particles is measured in accordance with JIS Z 8807: 2012; wherein the BET surface area is measured in accordance with French standard NF ISO 9277 of December 1996. - a diene elastomer; - between 20 and 160 phr, preferably 25 and 150 phr, of a liquid plasticizer; - less than 20 phr of a reinforcing filler; and - from 600 to 1500 phr of metal particles having a density of between 4 and 20 g/cm 3 and a BET surface area of between 0.1 and 4.5 m 2 /g wherein the density of metal particles is measured in accordance with JIS Z 8807: 2012; wherein the BET surface area is measured in accordance with French standard NF ISO 9277 of December 1996.
A method of making a defect-free vitreous carbon material, said method comprising impregnating a pyrolytically evanescent three-dimensional fiber mesh, wherein the three-dimensional fiber mesh has a volume fraction that is less than 0.5 of the total volume of the vitreous carbon material, with a polymerizable resin, curing said polymerizable resin, and pyrolyzing the cured resin containing said mesh to volatilize and remove said mesh at a temperature of 2000°C or higher, and to vitrify the cured resin to yield said defect-free vitreous carbon material.
A panel bender for bending sheet metal by means of at least one bending tool arranged on a bending beam, wherein the bending beam extends along a direction (x), having a machine body, having at least two guide receptacles which run in a first direction (z) on the machine body, wherein the first direction (z) is perpendicular to the direction (x) along which the bending beam extends, having at least two drive guide units which are movably arranged in the at least two guide receptacles, and wherein the bending beam is movably arranged in the drive guide units in a second direction (y) running perpendicular to the first direction (z) and perpendicular to the direction (x) along which the bending beam extends, characterized in that at least one second drive is arranged in each drive guide unit, wherein the at least one second drive engages the bending beam to move the same in the second direction (y). having a machine body, having at least two guide receptacles which run in a first direction (z) on the machine body, wherein the first direction (z) is perpendicular to the direction (x) along which the bending beam extends, having at least two drive guide units which are movably arranged in the at least two guide receptacles, and wherein the bending beam is movably arranged in the drive guide units in a second direction (y) running perpendicular to the first direction (z) and perpendicular to the direction (x) along which the bending beam extends, characterized in that at least one second drive is arranged in each drive guide unit, wherein the at least one second drive engages the bending beam to move the same in the second direction (y).