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A method for correcting for inaccuracies in the coordinates associated with the collected data in an optical coherence tomography system for obtaining longitudinal optical scattering profiles within a sample at a plurality of transverse locations by scanning a beam of radiation across a sample, and wherein that sample moves with respect to the OCT system, the inaccuracies caused by the relative movement between the OCT system and the sample, said method comprising: acquiring a first set of longitudinal scans at a first plurality of transverse locations across the sample, said first set of scans all being taken during a first time period; acquiring a second set of longitudinal scans at a second plurality of transverse locations across the sample, said second plurality of scans being larger than the first plurality and said second set of scans all being taken during a second time period longer than said first time period and wherein at least some of the second plurality of transverse locations on the sample correspond substantially to at least some of the first plurality of transverse locations on the sample; matching certain ones of said second plurality of scans to certain ones of said first plurality of scans to define pairs of scans, said matching being based on an evaluation of whether the associated optical scattering profiles of the scans are substantially similar; and determining a displacement between the OCT system and the sample associated with each of the matching pairs and using the displacements to adjust the coordinates associated with at least some of the scans of the second set thereby correcting for inaccuracies created by said relative movement during the acquisition of the second set of scans. acquiring a first set of longitudinal scans at a first plurality of transverse locations across the sample, said first set of scans all being taken during a first time period; acquiring a second set of longitudinal scans at a second plurality of transverse locations across the sample, said second plurality of scans being larger than the first plurality and said second set of scans all being taken during a second time period longer than said first time period and wherein at least some of the second plurality of transverse locations on the sample correspond substantially to at least some of the first plurality of transverse locations on the sample; matching certain ones of said second plurality of scans to certain ones of said first plurality of scans to define pairs of scans, said matching being based on an evaluation of whether the associated optical scattering profiles of the scans are substantially similar; and determining a displacement between the OCT system and the sample associated with each of the matching pairs and using the displacements to adjust the coordinates associated with at least some of the scans of the second set thereby correcting for inaccuracies created by said relative movement during the acquisition of the second set of scans.
A battery module comprising: a cell assembly comprising a plurality of secondary cells stacked in at least one direction; a cooling plate having a plate shape and placed below the cell assembly to receive the cell assembly thereon; a front cover covering a front end portion of the cell assembly and comprising a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a rear cover covering a rear end portion of the cell assembly and comprising a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a left side cover covering a left side of the cell assembly, the left side cover comprising a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate, a front end portion welded to the front cover, and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; a right side cover covering a right side of the cell assembly, the right side cover comprising a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate, a front end portion welded to the front cover, and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; and an upper plate covering an upper portion of the cell assembly, the upper plate comprising a left end portion welded to the left side cover and a right end portion welded to the right side cover, wherein the secondary cells are pouch-type secondary cells; and wherein each of the cooling plate, the front cover, the rear cover, the left side cover, the right side cover, and the upper plate are welded together by a friction stir welding method. a cell assembly comprising a plurality of secondary cells stacked in at least one direction; a cooling plate having a plate shape and placed below the cell assembly to receive the cell assembly thereon; a front cover covering a front end portion of the cell assembly and comprising a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a rear cover covering a rear end portion of the cell assembly and comprising a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a left side cover covering a left side of the cell assembly, the left side cover comprising a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate, a front end portion welded to the front cover, and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; a right side cover covering a right side of the cell assembly, the right side cover comprising a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate, a front end portion welded to the front cover, and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; and an upper plate covering an upper portion of the cell assembly, the upper plate comprising a left end portion welded to the left side cover and a right end portion welded to the right side cover, wherein the secondary cells are pouch-type secondary cells; and wherein each of the cooling plate, the front cover, the rear cover, the left side cover, the right side cover, and the upper plate are welded together by a friction stir welding method.
A coated metallic substrate comprising compounds, at least 40% by weight of which are composed of alpha-amino acids linked via peptide bonds (referred to as polypeptide for short hereinbelow), as adhesion promoters between the coating and the substrate, wherein the polypeptides are hydrophobins of the formula X n -C 1 -X 1-50 -C 2 -X 0-5 -C 3 -X 1-100 -C 4 -X 1-100 -C 5 -X 1-50 -C 6 -X 0-5 -C 7 -X 1-50 -C 8 -X m, where each X may be identical or different and may be any of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids (Phe, Leu, Ser, Tyr, Cys, Trp, Pro, His, Gln, Arg, Ile Met, Thr, Asn, Lys, Val, Ala, Asp, Glu, Gly), the indices next to X indicate in each case the number of amino acids, and C is cysteine, alanine, serine, glycine, methionine or threonine, with at least four of the residues denoted C being cysteine, and furthermore the indices n and m being independently of one another natural numbers from 0 and 500, preferably from 15 to 300, and the amount of hydrophobins being from 0.01 to 100 mg/m 2.
Refrigerator, comprising a coolant compressor which comprises a hermetically sealed housing as well as a drive unit arranged inside said housing with a unit for cyclic compression of a coolant and an electric motor for driving said unit, whereby said coolant compressor further comprises at least one connecting part for connecting said compressor to a mounting structure of said refrigerator, whereby said connecting part comprises an inner element and an outer element encompassing said inner element, whereby said inner element has a larger stiffness compared to said outer element, characterized in that both said inner element and said outer element are built as having respective elastic elements (82, 84).
A method of acid fracture treatment, comprising: initiating fracturing of a subterranean formation in which a wellbore is formed to create a formation fracture; after initiating the fracturing for a period of time, determining that a dimension of the created formation fracture reaches a value, and in response, injecting the acidic fluid into the wellbore, and injecting an acidic fluid into the wellbore to etch walls of the formation fracture to thereby create fracture conductivity; introducing a gas into the wellbore to foam fluids in the wellbore; and increasing a foam quality of the fluids with time during the treatment, wherein the foam quality is based on a volume of the introduced gas and a volume of the fluids in the wellbore. initiating fracturing of a subterranean formation in which a wellbore is formed to create a formation fracture; after initiating the fracturing for a period of time, determining that a dimension of the created formation fracture reaches a value, and in response, injecting the acidic fluid into the wellbore, and injecting an acidic fluid into the wellbore to etch walls of the formation fracture to thereby create fracture conductivity; determining that a dimension of the created formation fracture reaches a value, and in response, injecting the acidic fluid into the wellbore, and injecting an acidic fluid into the wellbore to etch walls of the formation fracture to thereby create fracture conductivity; introducing a gas into the wellbore to foam fluids in the wellbore; and increasing a foam quality of the fluids with time during the treatment, wherein the foam quality is based on a volume of the introduced gas and a volume of the fluids in the wellbore.
A cell culture substrate comprising: a cell culture surface having a film attached thereto, wherein said film comprises one or more plasma polymerized monomers selected from: i) the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acetic acid, vinylacetic acid and combinations thereof; and a coating on said film-coated surface, said coating deposited from a coating solution comprising one or more extracellular matrix peptides or proteins and an aqueous solvent, wherein the total extracellular matrix protein concentration in the coating solution is 1 ng/ml to 1 mg/ml. i) the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acetic acid, vinylacetic acid and combinations thereof;
A method of enabling calibration during start-up of a micro controller unit, MCU, device, which is part of an automotive engine control unit, ECU, for cold-start calibration of an engine, wherein the MCU device comprises: a signal processing logic; a device memory; and a memory mapping mechanism operably coupled between the signal processing logic and the device memory, wherein data is stored within at least a part of the device memory of the MCU device, wherein the MCU device is arranged for detachable coupling with an external support device comprising at least one memory element, wherein initialisation data and calibration data is stored within the at least one memory element of the external support device, the method comprising, within the MCU device: reading the initialisation data from the external support device; and configuring the memory mapping mechanism to overlay the data stored within the device memory with the calibration data in accordance with the initialisation data such that, when the signal processing logic sends an access request to the device memory directed to an area of memory, onto which an area of overlay memory of the external support device has been overlaid, the memory mapping mechanism redirects the access request to the corresponding area of overlay memory. a signal processing logic; a device memory; and a memory mapping mechanism operably coupled between the signal processing logic and the device memory, reading the initialisation data from the external support device; and configuring the memory mapping mechanism to overlay the data stored within the device memory with the calibration data in accordance with the initialisation data such that, when the signal processing logic sends an access request to the device memory directed to an area of memory, onto which an area of overlay memory of the external support device has been overlaid, the memory mapping mechanism redirects the access request to the corresponding area of overlay memory.
Apparatus for illuminating a sample, having at least one pulsed laser light source for repeatedly emitting a first laser pulse along a first optical path and a second laser pulse along a second optical path which is spatially separate from the first optical path; a superposition element for collinear superposition of the two laser pulses in a common optical path; a delay stage, arranged in the first or the second optical path (14, 16), for delaying one of the two laser pulses relative to the other laser pulse in such a way that the two laser pulses emitted along the common optical path onto the sample have a temporal superposition; a common chirp unit, arranged in the common optical path, for modifying the frequency both of the first laser pulse and of the second laser pulse; and at least one separate chirp unit, arranged in the first optical path, for modifying the frequency solely of the first laser pulse; wherein the common chirp unit and the separate chirp unit are matched with each other for achieving a desired state, in which the difference between an instantaneous frequency of the first laser pulse, modified both by the separate chirp unit and by the common chirp unit, and an instantaneous frequency of the second laser pulse, modified solely by the common chirp unit, is constant during the temporal superposition of the two laser pulses; characterized in that at least the wavelength of the first laser pulse is variable in a predetermined wavelength range using the pulsed laser light source; and the separate chirp unit is coupled to a controller, by means of which the separate chirp unit is actuatable with a control parameter, dependent on the wavelength of the first laser pulse, for setting the desired state.
An assay cartridge comprising a sample chamber, a collection component, a collection conduit and an output conduit, wherein said sample chamber is connected to said collection component via said collection conduit, said collection component comprises a collection chamber, a sensing conduit, and a sensing chamber, wherein said collection conduit is connected to the top of said collection chamber at a position proximal to a side wall of said collection chamber, and wherein said output conduit is connected to the bottom of said collection chamber; and wherein said sensing conduit comprises a tube that extends down from the top of said collection chamber to position one end of the tube at a pre-defined height in said collection chamber, wherein the other end of sensing conduit tube is connected to the sensing chamber at the top of said sensing chamber and proximal to a side wall of said sensing chamber and said sensing chamber further comprises a sensing chamber vent.
Pipeline element comprising an integrated heating and/or cooling device, comprising a pipe body which forms a flow channel portion in its interior and on which an electrical heating and/or cooling element is held, and comprising at least one heat-conducting element (13, 14) which is in contact with the electrical heating and/or cooling element, the pipe body having a chamber which protrudes into its interior, is delimited by a chamber wall and is closed off from the interior of the pipe body, the heating and/or cooling element being inserted into the chamber and at least two mutually independent metal heat-conducting elements (13, 14) being provided which each engage in the chamber and are in contact with the heating and/or cooling element on opposite sides, characterized in that the pipe body is made of plastics material, in that a plurality of protruding spacer ribs (21, 28) are present in the chamber, and in that the heating and/or cooling element is held between the spacer ribs (21, 28) at a distance from the chamber wall, with an intermediate space between the cooling and/or heating element and the chamber wall being filled by the material of the heat-conducting elements (13, 14).
Netting (100, 100b) for alarm security consisting at least partly of steel ropes (110, 112), wherein the steel ropes comprise one or more steel ropes with a signal conductor, wherein steel ropes (110, 112) of the netting are superimposed at crossing points of the netting (100, 100b), are intertwined and/or are linked by means of connecting elements.
An inductively heatable aerosol-generating article (100, 400, 500, 600) comprising an aerosol-forming substrate (130, 430, 530, 630) and a susceptor assembly (120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620, 1020) for inductively heating the aerosol-forming substrate (130, 430, 530, 630) under the influence of an alternating magnetic field, wherein the susceptor assembly (120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620, 1020) comprises a first susceptor (121, 221, 321, 421, 521, 621, 1021) and a second susceptor (122, 222, 322, 422, 522, 622, 1022), wherein the first susceptor (121, 221, 321, 421, 521, 621, 1021) comprises a first susceptor material having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance, and wherein the second susceptor (122, 222, 322, 422, 522, 622, 1022) comprises a second ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic susceptor material, characterized in that the second susceptor material has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance.
A cell culture medium for the production of a tissue substitute, comprising one or more macromolecular crowders, wherein the macromolecular crowders are large poly-dispersed macromolecules, and wherein one of the macromolecular crowders is carrageenan.
Roller shutter (1, 20) having a winding shaft onto which the roller shutter (1, 20) can be wound and from which the roller shutter (1, 20) can be unrolled, wherein the roller shutter (1, 20) is formed from shutter segments (3; 21) which are connected to one another in segment rows, which segment rows are oriented in the longitudinal direction of the winding shaft, wherein the shutter segments (3; 21) each provided in a segment row are rigidly connected to one another, and the shutter segments (3; 21) of each segment row are connected to the shutter segments (3; 21) of adjacent segment rows so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis oriented in the longitudinal direction of the winding shaft, and wherein adjacent shutter segments (3; 21) of each segment row are connected to one another by way of at least one plug-in connection, characterized in that at least one subset of the shutter segments (3; 21) forming the roller shutter (1, 20) is frame-shaped in form, in that at least one subset of the shutter segments (3; 21) forming the roller shutter (1, 20) is produced from plastic, and in that, of the adjacent shutter segments (3; 21) of each segment row, the one shutter segment (3; 21) has at least one outwardly directed connecting peg (6; 26) of the plug-in connection that is held in an assigned and inwardly directed connecting opening (7; 27) of this plug-in connection in the adjacent shutter segment (3; 21).
A temperature sensing assembly comprising: a temperature sensor; a tube (322, 408) enclosing at least a portion of the temperature sensor; an adapter (318, 500) coupled to the tube; an adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) configured to adjustably couple the temperature sensor to the tube (322, 408) of the temperature sensing assembly; a thermowell having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being configured to attach to the adapter (318, 500) of the temperature sensing assembly and the distal end being configured to receive an end of the temperature sensor; wherein the adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) is configured to fix the temperature sensor to the tube at any point along the temperature sensor, the temperature sensing assembly further comprising a compression mechanism configured to generate a biasing force against the tube (322, 408) and the temperature sensor, the temperature sensing assembly being characterised in that the tube (322, 408) comprises a raised end portion (324, 410), a threaded portion, and a conical recess; and in that the adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) comprises a nut, a back ferrule and a front ferrule, the front ferrule being held in the conical recess of the tube (322, 408), the nut being received and adapted to be tightened at a threaded portion of the tube (322, 408), such that in operation the back ferrule and the front ferrule grip the temperature sensor, thereby attaching the temperature sensor to the tube (322, 408). a temperature sensor; a tube (322, 408) enclosing at least a portion of the temperature sensor; an adapter (318, 500) coupled to the tube; an adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) configured to adjustably couple the temperature sensor to the tube (322, 408) of the temperature sensing assembly; a thermowell having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being configured to attach to the adapter (318, 500) of the temperature sensing assembly and the distal end being configured to receive an end of the temperature sensor; wherein the adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) is configured to fix the temperature sensor to the tube at any point along the temperature sensor, the temperature sensing assembly further comprising a compression mechanism configured to generate a biasing force against the tube (322, 408) and the temperature sensor, the temperature sensing assembly being characterised in that the tube (322, 408) comprises a raised end portion (324, 410), a threaded portion, and a conical recess; and in that the adjustable clamping mechanism (310, 400) comprises a nut, a back ferrule and a front ferrule, the front ferrule being held in the conical recess of the tube (322, 408), the nut being received and adapted to be tightened at a threaded portion of the tube (322, 408), such that in operation the back ferrule and the front ferrule grip the temperature sensor, thereby attaching the temperature sensor to the tube (322, 408).
A method for adjusting a steering column for a motor vehicle, comprising a casing unit in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis and which has at least two casing tubes (31, 32, 33) which are guided so as to be adjustable relative to one another by an adjustment travel in the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal axis, wherein, along the adjustment travel, the casing tubes (31, 32, 33) are extended further out of one another in an operating region than in a transitional region, wherein a motorized adjustment drive acting on the casing tubes (31, 32, 33) is actuated electrically for the relative adjustment of the casing tubes (31, 32, 33) at a predetermined adjustment speed (v1, v2, v3), characterized in that a first adjustment speed is set in portions in the operating region and a second adjustment speed, which is higher than the first adjustment speed, is set in the transitional region, wherein the adjustment speed changes at the transition between the first and second adjustment speeds (v1, v2).
A composition, which is an antifouling coating composition comprising, blended with each other, - a silylacrylic copolymer having a component unit derived from triisopropylsilyl (meth) acrylate and a component unit derived from a polymerizable monomer having a polymerizable double bond; and - a rosin compound which is at least one of a rosin and a metal-free type rosin derivative, each having an acid value of ≤ 180 (mg KOH/g). - a silylacrylic copolymer having a component unit derived from triisopropylsilyl (meth) acrylate and a component unit derived from a polymerizable monomer having a polymerizable double bond; and - a rosin compound which is at least one of a rosin and a metal-free type rosin derivative, each having an acid value of ≤ 180 (mg KOH/g).
A wind turbine blade having a connecting portion at a root section for connecting the wind turbine blade to a hub, the root section provided with a plurality of inserts extending into the blade spaced around the root section by which the connection can be made between blade and hub, the inserts having exposed end faces and being formed of a first type of metal, characterized in that additional parts of a second type of metal are connected to the inserts, the second type of metal being more electrochemically active than the first type of metal, whereby the additional parts form sacrificial anodes.