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A tissue roll-handling clamp mountable on a vehicle, said clamp having opposed tissue-engagement clamping surfaces (36, 36a) capable of selectively clamping outwardly curved surfaces of a tissue roll, said clamp including a frame assembly for movably supporting respective proximal ends of a pair of selectively openable and closable elongate opposing clamp arms (32, 34) having substantially equal lengths between respective proximal pivot pins or lateral hydraulic sliding members and respective distal ends to which respective ones of said clamping surfaces (36, 36a) are connected through respective distal pivot pins, wherein the clamp arms (32, 34) are selectively closable and openable relative to each other by hydraulic cylinders to engage and release the tissue roll, said clamp arms (32, 34) being capable of movement in unison through the extension or retraction of a pair of upender hydraulic cylinders by said frame assembly to alternative positions where said clamp arms (32, 34) extend longitudinally from said frame assembly selectively in either substantially horizontal or substantially vertical directions of extension, said frame assembly being capable of maintaining said respective clamping surfaces (36, 36a) at substantially equal elevations to each other during said movement, said frame assembly being incapable of causing said respective clamping surfaces (36, 36a) to be at substantially unequal elevations.
A heat dissipation device comprising: a lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure having a base structure, said base structure having a top surface and a bottom surface; a close-loop shunting heat conductive structure having a first end and a second end; a distal heat dissipating segment configured to dissipate heat to an exterior of the heat dissipation device, said distal heat dissipating segment connected to at least one end of the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure; and a heat generating device, said heat generating device connected to the top surface or the bottom surface of the base structure, wherein the first end of the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure is connected on the opposite surface of the base structure than the heat generating device and the second end of the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure is connected to the distal heat dissipating structure so that heat generated from the heat generating device is conductable through the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure and through the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure to the distal heat dissipating segment to be dissipated to the exterior of the heat dissipation device, and characterized in that the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure comprises a different heat-conductive material than the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure. a lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure having a base structure, said base structure having a top surface and a bottom surface; a close-loop shunting heat conductive structure having a first end and a second end; a distal heat dissipating segment configured to dissipate heat to an exterior of the heat dissipation device, said distal heat dissipating segment connected to at least one end of the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure; and a heat generating device, said heat generating device connected to the top surface or the bottom surface of the base structure, wherein the first end of the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure is connected on the opposite surface of the base structure than the heat generating device and the second end of the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure is connected to the distal heat dissipating structure so that heat generated from the heat generating device is conductable through the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure and through the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure to the distal heat dissipating segment to be dissipated to the exterior of the heat dissipation device, and characterized in that the lateral-spreading heat dissipating structure comprises a different heat-conductive material than the closed-loop shunting heat conductive structure.
A device for the manufacture of three-dimensional objects using superimposed layers which is capable, for each layer that is to be manufactured, of applying a laser beam treatment to a layer of powdery or liquid material placed in a sintering field, said device comprising - a galvanometric head able to steer a laser beam toward each point of a maximum sintering zone of said sintering field when said galvanometric head is positioned at a predetermined position, said galvanometric head comprising deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam, - movement means for moving said galvanometric head into a plane parallel to the plane of said sintering field, making it possible to position said galvanometric head in at least two different positions, an effective sintering zone being associated with each position of said galvanometric head, - a central unit comprising: - limiting means able to send commands to the galvanometric head deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam and able to limit the steering of the laser beam to an effective sintering zone, situated inside said maximum sintering zone, and - means for controlling the movement means, adapted to control the positioning of said galvanometric head in a plurality of positions so as to cover a global sintering zone with a plurality of effective sintering zones, characterized in that: said effective sintering zones comprise overlap zones, the deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam are piloted by the central unit to trace various paths in the sintering field, the scanning paths done in two effective zones having an overlap zone being interlaced in said overlap zone. - a galvanometric head able to steer a laser beam toward each point of a maximum sintering zone of said sintering field when said galvanometric head is positioned at a predetermined position, said galvanometric head comprising deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam, - movement means for moving said galvanometric head into a plane parallel to the plane of said sintering field, making it possible to position said galvanometric head in at least two different positions, an effective sintering zone being associated with each position of said galvanometric head, - a central unit comprising: - limiting means able to send commands to the galvanometric head deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam and able to limit the steering of the laser beam to an effective sintering zone, situated inside said maximum sintering zone, and - means for controlling the movement means, adapted to control the positioning of said galvanometric head in a plurality of positions so as to cover a global sintering zone with a plurality of effective sintering zones, - limiting means able to send commands to the galvanometric head deflecting means for deflecting the laser beam and able to limit the steering of the laser beam to an effective sintering zone, situated inside said maximum sintering zone, and - means for controlling the movement means, adapted to control the positioning of said galvanometric head in a plurality of positions so as to cover a global sintering zone with a plurality of effective sintering zones,
A method of position-location measurement in wireless communications, the method comprising: generating at an access point a pilot signal and a reference signal, the reference signal comprising a sequence of symbols carrying no data and known to an access terminal; and transmitting from the access point to the access terminal the pilot signal and the reference signal in a time slot to assist the access terminal in position-location measurement, wherein the pilot signal and the reference signal are used by the access terminal to perform position-location measurement. generating at an access point a pilot signal and a reference signal, the reference signal comprising a sequence of symbols carrying no data and known to an access terminal; and transmitting from the access point to the access terminal the pilot signal and the reference signal in a time slot to assist the access terminal in position-location measurement, wherein the pilot signal and the reference signal are used by the access terminal to perform position-location measurement.
A heat shield vane support having a structure including at least one of a cylindrical portion and a frustoconical portion with an outboard diameter and an inboard diameter extending about an axis and extending axially between a forward face and an aft face, comprising: a flange extending circumferentially about the aft face radially inward from the inboard diameter; a plurality of anti-rotation features distributed circumferentially about the inboard diameter extending radially inward from the inboard diameter and extending axially with respect to the cylindrical portion between a forward edge and an aft edge; and a plurality of teeth distributed circumferentially about the forward face and extending axially from the forward face, wherein the plurality of anti-rotation features comprises a first thickness defined between a first channel and a second channel, wherein the first channel and the second channel are cut radially outboard from the inboard diameter toward the outboard diameter, wherein the first channel and the second channel extend axially over a portion of the inboard diameter of the cylindrical structure and parallel the axis. a flange extending circumferentially about the aft face radially inward from the inboard diameter; a plurality of anti-rotation features distributed circumferentially about the inboard diameter extending radially inward from the inboard diameter and extending axially with respect to the cylindrical portion between a forward edge and an aft edge; and a plurality of teeth distributed circumferentially about the forward face and extending axially from the forward face, wherein the plurality of anti-rotation features comprises a first thickness defined between a first channel and a second channel, wherein the first channel and the second channel are cut radially outboard from the inboard diameter toward the outboard diameter, wherein the first channel and the second channel extend axially over a portion of the inboard diameter of the cylindrical structure and parallel the axis.
An optical interferometer comprising - a plate and at least two slits or holes (31.1, 31.2) formed in the plate, wherein in each one of the slits or holes (31.1, 31.2) a quantum device (32.1, 32.2) is inserted such that the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) comprise equal directional orientation, and each one of the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) comprising a non-reciprocal transmission structure designed such that for first waves traversing the transmission structure in a forward direction the phases of the first waves are at least partially conserved, and for second waves traversing the transmission structure in a backward direction, the phases of the second waves are at least partially replaced by random ones, such that the phase conservation is more pronounced in the forward direction than in the backward direction; - a cavity comprising walls enclosing the interferometer such that at least one plate from a first wall to a second opposing wall thus divides the interior of the cavity into a first halve and a second halve; and - a black body radiator being disposed in a first half of the two halves such that it emits black body radiation towards the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) to pass through the quantum devices in a forward direction, wherein the walls in the first half are reflective and the walls in the second half are black and the walls are in thermal equilibrium with an external bath. - a plate and at least two slits or holes (31.1, 31.2) formed in the plate, wherein in each one of the slits or holes (31.1, 31.2) a quantum device (32.1, 32.2) is inserted such that the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) comprise equal directional orientation, and each one of the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) comprising a non-reciprocal transmission structure designed such that for first waves traversing the transmission structure in a forward direction the phases of the first waves are at least partially conserved, and for second waves traversing the transmission structure in a backward direction, the phases of the second waves are at least partially replaced by random ones, such that the phase conservation is more pronounced in the forward direction than in the backward direction; - a cavity comprising walls enclosing the interferometer such that at least one plate from a first wall to a second opposing wall thus divides the interior of the cavity into a first halve and a second halve; and - a black body radiator being disposed in a first half of the two halves such that it emits black body radiation towards the quantum devices (32.1, 32.2) to pass through the quantum devices in a forward direction, wherein the walls in the first half are reflective and the walls in the second half are black and the walls are in thermal equilibrium with an external bath.
Apparatus comprising: a fuel cell stack including a plurality of contiguous fuel cells compressed between a pair of end plates, each of said fuel cells comprising an electrolyte with an anode catalyst layer on one surface of the electrolyte and a cathode catalyst layer on a second surface of the electrolyte, an anode gas diffusion layer adjacent the anode catalyst and a cathode gas diffusion layer adjacent the cathode catalyst, an anode water transport plate having a fuel flow field adjacent the anode gas diffusion layer and a cathode water transport plate having an oxidant flow field adjacent the cathode gas diffusion layer; said stack having an anode end which is the end of the stack at which the anode of the fuel cell closest to that end is closer to that end than the cathode of the fuel cell closest to that end, and which is characterized by: the depth of fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow field of the fuel cell at the anode end of the stack being either a) between about 35% and about 65% deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow plates of the remaining fuel cells in the stack, or b) being deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow plates of the remaining fuel cells in the stack by about 0.15 mm to about 1.5 mm, or preferably from about 0.15 mm to about 0.5 mm, or more preferably from about 0.15 mm to about 0.25 mm. a fuel cell stack including a plurality of contiguous fuel cells compressed between a pair of end plates, each of said fuel cells comprising an electrolyte with an anode catalyst layer on one surface of the electrolyte and a cathode catalyst layer on a second surface of the electrolyte, an anode gas diffusion layer adjacent the anode catalyst and a cathode gas diffusion layer adjacent the cathode catalyst, an anode water transport plate having a fuel flow field adjacent the anode gas diffusion layer and a cathode water transport plate having an oxidant flow field adjacent the cathode gas diffusion layer; said stack having an anode end which is the end of the stack at which the anode of the fuel cell closest to that end is closer to that end than the cathode of the fuel cell closest to that end, and which is characterized by: the depth of fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow field of the fuel cell at the anode end of the stack being either a) between about 35% and about 65% deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow plates of the remaining fuel cells in the stack, or b) being deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the fuel flow plates of the remaining fuel cells in the stack by about 0.15 mm to about 1.5 mm, or preferably from about 0.15 mm to about 0.5 mm, or more preferably from about 0.15 mm to about 0.25 mm.
An in-flight entertainment system (100, 200, 300, 400, 600) configured to control seat actuation, comprising: an electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) configured to send commands to actuate a passenger seat based on input received via a passenger controlled device; wherein the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) is configured to receive a flight phase notification directly or through a peripheral controller (128, 228, 328, 428, 628); wherein if the flight phase notification indicates a taxi, takeoff and landing phase, the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) sends a command to disable actuation of the passenger seat; and wherein if the flight phase notification is not received for a predefined time period, the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) sends a command to disable actuation of the passenger seat. an electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) configured to send commands to actuate a passenger seat based on input received via a passenger controlled device; wherein the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) is configured to receive a flight phase notification directly or through a peripheral controller (128, 228, 328, 428, 628); wherein if the flight phase notification indicates a taxi, takeoff and landing phase, the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) sends a command to disable actuation of the passenger seat; and wherein if the flight phase notification is not received for a predefined time period, the electronic control unit (126, 226, 326, 426, 626) sends a command to disable actuation of the passenger seat.
An earphone for a hearing device, wherein the earphone is configured to be worn at the ear of a user, the earphone comprising: - a speaker housing comprising an output transducer for reproduction of audio signals, wherein the speaker housing has a first side configured to face towards the ear of the user when the earphone is worn by the user, and a second side opposite the first side; - an earphone housing configured to retain the speaker housing such that the second side of the speaker housing faces a first side of the earphone housing, wherein the earphone housing has as a second side opposite the first side; - a battery compartment for accommodating a replaceable battery, such that the replaceable battery is located at least partly between the second side of the speaker housing and at least a portion of the earphone housing; wherein the earphone comprises a retaining mechanism configured to retain the speaker housing and the earphone housing in a mechanical relationship with each other; wherein the earphone comprises a locking mechanism for locking and unlocking of the retaining mechanism, wherein the locking mechanism is configured to maintain the retaining mechanism in an operation configuration when locked and to allow the user to manipulate the retaining mechanism into a service configuration by repositioning the speaker housing relative to the earphone housing when unlocked; wherein the earphone is configured such that the battery compartment is inaccessible for replacement of the battery, when the retaining mechanism is in the operation configuration, and such that the battery compartment is accessible for replacement of the battery, when the retaining mechanism is in the service configuration; wherein the retaining mechanism further is configured to allow the speaker housing and the earphone housing to move relative to each other, when the retaining mechanism is in the operation configuration. - a speaker housing comprising an output transducer for reproduction of audio signals, wherein the speaker housing has a first side configured to face towards the ear of the user when the earphone is worn by the user, and a second side opposite the first side; - an earphone housing configured to retain the speaker housing such that the second side of the speaker housing faces a first side of the earphone housing, wherein the earphone housing has as a second side opposite the first side; - a battery compartment for accommodating a replaceable battery, such that the replaceable battery is located at least partly between the second side of the speaker housing and at least a portion of the earphone housing;
A memory manager in a multi processing environment, comprising: one or more producer processors assignable to produce jobs; one or more consumer processors assignable to consume the produced jobs; and a controller to manage the one or more consumer processors based on a condition of a bandwidth between a memory and the processors, said controller comprising a bandwidth monitor which checks the condition of the bandwidth between the memory and the processors, said bandwidth monitor comprising a queue monitor arranged to: check a length of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; or calculate a moving average of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number and specific time of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; wherein the controller is arranged to: adjust the number of processors assigned to consume the produced jobs based on the condition of the bandwidth; and/or adjust the assignment unit size of data to be consumed by the one or more consumer processors based on the condition of the bandwidth. one or more producer processors assignable to produce jobs; one or more consumer processors assignable to consume the produced jobs; and a controller to manage the one or more consumer processors based on a condition of a bandwidth between a memory and the processors, said controller comprising a bandwidth monitor which checks the condition of the bandwidth between the memory and the processors, said bandwidth monitor comprising a queue monitor arranged to: check a length of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; or calculate a moving average of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number and specific time of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; check a length of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; or calculate a moving average of a shared queue shared by the processors, determined according to the number and specific time of jobs to be processed in the shared queue; adjust the number of processors assigned to consume the produced jobs based on the condition of the bandwidth; and/or adjust the assignment unit size of data to be consumed by the one or more consumer processors based on the condition of the bandwidth.