mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of bonding a first composition comprising a first polymer that first polymer being a fluoropolymer that is curable by a peroxide curing reaction to a second composition comprising a second polymer said second polymer being different from the first polymer, wherein the second polymer is selected from curable fluoropolymers and silicone-containing polymers and wherein the first and second composition are free of a dehydrofluorination agent, said method comprises: bringing the first composition in contact with the second composition such that a common interface is formed, curing at least the part of the compositions forming the common interface, wherein the curing is carried out in presence of a peroxide curing agent and a bonding promoter, wherein the bonding promoter corresponds to the general formula R 1 QSi(R 2) x (R 3) 3-x wherein R 1 is CH 2 =CX or wherein X represents a halogen or a lower alkyl group having 1, 2, 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Q is a chemical bond or an organic linking group, each R 2 independently represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or aryl group, each R 3 represents a halogen or a group OR 4, wherein each R 4 independently represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or aryl group. bringing the first composition in contact with the second composition such that a common interface is formed, curing at least the part of the compositions forming the common interface, wherein the curing is carried out in presence of a peroxide curing agent and a bonding promoter, wherein the bonding promoter corresponds to the general formula R 1 QSi(R 2) x (R 3) 3-x wherein R 1 is CH 2 =CX or wherein X represents a halogen or a lower alkyl group having 1, 2, 3 or 4 carbon atoms, Q is a chemical bond or an organic linking group, each R 2 independently represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or aryl group, each R 3 represents a halogen or a group OR 4, wherein each R 4 independently represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or aryl group.
A composition for use in massive parallel nucleic acid sequencing comprising: a) a library of nucleic acids comprising a plurality of library inserts wherein each nucleic acid of the library comprises (i) at least one library insert obtained from one of four or more samples, (ii) a first non-native nucleic acid, and (iii) a second non-native nucleic acid, wherein the first non-native nucleic acid and the second non-native nucleic acid are located on opposing sides of the at least one library insert, and the first non-native nucleic acid comprises a first distinguishable nucleic acid barcode and the second non-native nucleic acid comprises a second distinguishable nucleic acid bar code, wherein the first and second distinguishable nucleic acid barcodes are unique to the one of the four or more samples; and b) four universal blocking (U-block) nucleic acids, wherein (i) a first and second U-block nucleic acid are configured to hybridize to the first non-native nucleic acid on opposing sides of the first distinguishable nucleic acid barcode and (ii) a third and fourth U-block nucleic acid are configured to hybridize to the second non-native nucleic acid on opposing sides of the second distinguishable nucleic acid barcode, and (iii) each of the U-block nucleic acids do not substantially hybridize to a portion of the first or second distinguishable nucleic acid barcodes. a) a library of nucleic acids comprising a plurality of library inserts wherein each nucleic acid of the library comprises (i) at least one library insert obtained from one of four or more samples, (ii) a first non-native nucleic acid, and (iii) a second non-native nucleic acid, wherein the first non-native nucleic acid and the second non-native nucleic acid are located on opposing sides of the at least one library insert, and the first non-native nucleic acid comprises a first distinguishable nucleic acid barcode and the second non-native nucleic acid comprises a second distinguishable nucleic acid bar code, wherein the first and second distinguishable nucleic acid barcodes are unique to the one of the four or more samples; and b) four universal blocking (U-block) nucleic acids, wherein (i) a first and second U-block nucleic acid are configured to hybridize to the first non-native nucleic acid on opposing sides of the first distinguishable nucleic acid barcode and (ii) a third and fourth U-block nucleic acid are configured to hybridize to the second non-native nucleic acid on opposing sides of the second distinguishable nucleic acid barcode, and (iii) each of the U-block nucleic acids do not substantially hybridize to a portion of the first or second distinguishable nucleic acid barcodes.
Method for producing solidified fibre bundles, comprising the steps of: a) applying a melt or solution to a planar carrier web, thereby forming a viscous coating, b) applying parallel filaments under tensile stress to said carrier web coated in this manner, c) pressing the filaments into the viscous coating, thereby forming an impregnate, d) optionally partially solidifying the coating until a plastically deformable state of the impregnate is reached by means of at least one of the steps of evaporating the solvent, thermal curing and cooling, wherein these steps are carried out only to the extent that a plastically deformable state is maintained, wherein a force is directly or indirectly exerted on the impregnate during or after the solidification of the coating, in particular by means of a pressing apparatus, e) rolling the impregnate onto a winding core to form a roll while maintaining a winding tension of the filaments in the impregnate, f) optionally securing the roll to the winding core using at least one sleeve and/or by means of at least one adhesive tape, g) solidifying the impregnate by means of at least one of the steps of evaporating the solvent, thermal curing and cooling, and h) dividing the solidified impregnate, in particular in parallel with and perpendicularly to the filament direction, in order to form solidified fibre bundles, wherein, while carrying out step g), a pressure is applied to the roll, which pressure results from the winding tension of the filaments in the impregnate. a) applying a melt or solution to a planar carrier web, thereby forming a viscous coating, b) applying parallel filaments under tensile stress to said carrier web coated in this manner, c) pressing the filaments into the viscous coating, thereby forming an impregnate, d) optionally partially solidifying the coating until a plastically deformable state of the impregnate is reached by means of at least one of the steps of evaporating the solvent, thermal curing and cooling, wherein these steps are carried out only to the extent that a plastically deformable state is maintained, wherein a force is directly or indirectly exerted on the impregnate during or after the solidification of the coating, in particular by means of a pressing apparatus, e) rolling the impregnate onto a winding core to form a roll while maintaining a winding tension of the filaments in the impregnate, f) optionally securing the roll to the winding core using at least one sleeve and/or by means of at least one adhesive tape, g) solidifying the impregnate by means of at least one of the steps of evaporating the solvent, thermal curing and cooling, and h) dividing the solidified impregnate, in particular in parallel with and perpendicularly to the filament direction, in order to form solidified fibre bundles,
Method for direct heating of liquid for the wet treatment, preferably washing, of laundry items, wherein steam flowing through a nozzle is brought together in at least one mixing chamber with the liquid to be heated, characterized in that the steam, or a steam-condensate mixture, flowing out of the nozzle and/or out of the mixing chamber is split, downstream of a divergent section of the nozzle, into multiple part flows by means of at least one flow divider.
A mask and headgear assembly comprising: a mask frame (300, 300A-300D), the mask frame (300, 300A-300D) further comprising: a core having an inlet connector for receiving a supply of pressurized gas from a delivery tube; a right arm extending from the core; and a left arm extending from the core, wherein each of the right and left arms (364, 362) form an associated air pathway through each respective arm (364, 362), wherein each arm (364, 362) includes a first aperture for supplying the supply of pressurized gas to a patient's airways; and a headgear interface located about a distal end of each arm (364, 362), the headgear interface being configured to be attached to a headgear assembly, the headgear interface further comprising a second aperture for communicating a portion of the supply of pressurized gas to an interior portion of the headgear assembly. a mask frame (300, 300A-300D), the mask frame (300, 300A-300D) further comprising: a core having an inlet connector for receiving a supply of pressurized gas from a delivery tube; a right arm extending from the core; and a left arm extending from the core, wherein each of the right and left arms (364, 362) form an associated air pathway through each respective arm (364, 362), wherein each arm (364, 362) includes a first aperture for supplying the supply of pressurized gas to a patient's airways; and a core having an inlet connector for receiving a supply of pressurized gas from a delivery tube; a right arm extending from the core; and a left arm extending from the core, wherein each of the right and left arms (364, 362) form an associated air pathway through each respective arm (364, 362), wherein each arm (364, 362) includes a first aperture for supplying the supply of pressurized gas to a patient's airways; and a headgear interface located about a distal end of each arm (364, 362), the headgear interface being configured to be attached to a headgear assembly, the headgear interface further comprising a second aperture for communicating a portion of the supply of pressurized gas to an interior portion of the headgear assembly.
A communication method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal from a base station, information that indicates information about pilot antenna ports used for a resource block, RB, set used by the terminal, wherein the pilot antenna ports used for the RB set are configured to be used by terminals to receive a signal on each RB in the RB set; wherein each pilot antenna port corresponds to a pilot location configured to be used for transmission of a pilot symbol for channel estimation for data demodulation; and determining, by the terminal based on the received information, the pilot antenna ports used by the terminal, wherein a field in downlink control information, DCI, is used to indicate a power ratio of energy per resource element, EPRE, of a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, to EPRE of a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, of the PDSCH; wherein the information is indicated by the field in the DCI; wherein a quantity of bits occupied by the field is greater than or equal to 2, wherein, after the determining, by the terminal, the pilot antenna ports used for the RB set, further comprising: receiving, by the terminal, a data symbol at an unused pilot location corresponding to a pilot antenna port unused for the RB set. receiving, by a terminal from a base station, information that indicates information about pilot antenna ports used for a resource block, RB, set used by the terminal, wherein the pilot antenna ports used for the RB set are configured to be used by terminals to receive a signal on each RB in the RB set; wherein each pilot antenna port corresponds to a pilot location configured to be used for transmission of a pilot symbol for channel estimation for data demodulation; and determining, by the terminal based on the received information, the pilot antenna ports used by the terminal, wherein a field in downlink control information, DCI, is used to indicate a power ratio of energy per resource element, EPRE, of a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, to EPRE of a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, of the PDSCH; wherein the information is indicated by the field in the DCI; wherein a quantity of bits occupied by the field is greater than or equal to 2, wherein, after the determining, by the terminal, the pilot antenna ports used for the RB set, further comprising: receiving, by the terminal, a data symbol at an unused pilot location corresponding to a pilot antenna port unused for the RB set.
A porous medical implant made from a thermoform of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate homopolymer, copolymer, or blend thereof obtained by vacuum membrane thermoforming of a porous substrate of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate homopolymer, copolymer or blend thereof wherein the substrate is a mesh comprising oriented monofilament fibers, wherein the mesh has been placed on a mold, covered by an impermeable flexible membrane, drawn down onto the mold by applying a vacuum, heated under tension, allowed to cool, released from the vacuum, and removed from the mold.
A bidirectional downhole fluid flow control system comprising: at least one injection flow control component having direction dependent flow resistance; and characterized by at least one production flow control component in parallel with the at least one injection flow control component, wherein, inflow of production fluid experiences a greater flow resistance through the at least one injection flow control component than outflow of injection fluid through the at least one injection flow control component, wherein, inflow of production fluid experiences a lower flow resistance through the at least one production flow control component than outflow of injection fluid through the at least one production flow control component. at least one injection flow control component having direction dependent flow resistance; and characterized by at least one production flow control component in parallel with the at least one injection flow control component, wherein, inflow of production fluid experiences a greater flow resistance through the at least one injection flow control component than outflow of injection fluid through the at least one injection flow control component, wherein, inflow of production fluid experiences a lower flow resistance through the at least one production flow control component than outflow of injection fluid through the at least one production flow control component.
An optically variable security element for securing valuable articles, the security element comprising a carrier having a reflective surface region whose dimension defines an x-y plane and a z-axis perpendicular thereto, wherein - the reflective surface region includes a plurality of reflective pixels that each comprise one or more, identically oriented reflective facets, an orientation of each facet relative to the x-y plane being determined by the specification of its normalized normal vector, - the reflective facets are oriented in such a way that the reflective surface region is perceptible for a viewer as a protruding and/or receding surface with respect to its actual spatial form, characterized in that - at least a portion of the facets is provided with a diffractive grating pattern composed of a plurality of grating lines whose grating vector lies parallel to the cross product of the unit vector in the z-direction with the normal vector of the respective facet. - the reflective surface region includes a plurality of reflective pixels that each comprise one or more, identically oriented reflective facets, an orientation of each facet relative to the x-y plane being determined by the specification of its normalized normal vector, - the reflective facets are oriented in such a way that the reflective surface region is perceptible for a viewer as a protruding and/or receding surface with respect to its actual spatial form, characterized in that - at least a portion of the facets is provided with a diffractive grating pattern composed of a plurality of grating lines whose grating vector lies parallel to the cross product of the unit vector in the z-direction with the normal vector of the respective facet.
A device for dissolving compressed blocks of loose-fill cellulose thermal insulation material comprising: a support surface for the compressed blocks of insulation, a cylinder with a cylinder mantel surface and a first and a second edge (4a, 4b), protruding members arranged on the cylinder mantel surface, wherein said cylinder is rotatable around a substantially horizontal axis in order to process and dissolve the compressed blocks of insulation between the protruding members and a processing zone arranged by an end of said support surface, characterized in that said protruding members arranged on the cylinder mantel surface are elongated protrusions extending substantially parallel to the horizontal axis and in that said cylinder is arranged to rotate inside of an arc-shaped surface partly covering the cylinder mantel surface and prolonging the processing zone in a peripheral direction of the cylinder.. a support surface for the compressed blocks of insulation, a cylinder with a cylinder mantel surface and a first and a second edge (4a, 4b), protruding members arranged on the cylinder mantel surface, wherein said cylinder is rotatable around a substantially horizontal axis in order to process and dissolve the compressed blocks of insulation between the protruding members and a processing zone arranged by an end of said support surface, characterized in that said protruding members arranged on the cylinder mantel surface are elongated protrusions extending substantially parallel to the horizontal axis and in that said cylinder is arranged to rotate inside of an arc-shaped surface partly covering the cylinder mantel surface and prolonging the processing zone in a peripheral direction of the cylinder..
A method for channel coding, comprising: mapping a first bit sequence having a length of K bits to a second bit sequence based on a first permutation pattern; applying Polar encoding to the second bit sequence to obtain a Polar encoded bit sequence; determining a first bit sequence matrix by arranging the Polar encoded bit sequence; determining a second bit sequence matrix by applying a second permutation pattern to the first bit sequence matrix, wherein the second permutation pattern comprises a row permutation that is the same as a predefined sequence π in all positions, or a column permutation that is the same as the predefined sequence π in all positions, where the predefined sequence is π {0, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 9, 17, 10, 18, 11, 19, 12, 20, 13, 21, 14, 22, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 27, 29, 30, 31}; and selecting T bits based on the second bit sequence matrix for rate matching, where K and T are both non-negative integers. mapping a first bit sequence having a length of K bits to a second bit sequence based on a first permutation pattern; applying Polar encoding to the second bit sequence to obtain a Polar encoded bit sequence; determining a first bit sequence matrix by arranging the Polar encoded bit sequence; determining a second bit sequence matrix by applying a second permutation pattern to the first bit sequence matrix, wherein the second permutation pattern comprises a row permutation that is the same as a predefined sequence π in all positions, or a column permutation that is the same as the predefined sequence π in all positions, where the predefined sequence is π {0, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 9, 17, 10, 18, 11, 19, 12, 20, 13, 21, 14, 22, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 27, 29, 30, 31}; and selecting T bits based on the second bit sequence matrix for rate matching, where K and T are both non-negative integers.
A hand-retaining device, such as for example a glove or a hand strap which can be fastened on the hand, which hand-retaining device has, between the thumb and forefinger, a flexible and/or movable loop which is suitable for fastening the hand-retaining device on a hook-like device of a pole grip wherein the loop is fastened in an essentially non-movable and/or non-flexible manner on the hand-retaining device, but the loop is itself of movable and/or flexible design, wherein the loop is made of a flexible material with a sufficient level of inherent rigidity to stabilize it in a position in the space between the thumb and forefinger, wherein the projecting part of the loop on the hand-retaining device is arranged essentially in the plane which, when the hand is open and stretched out, is defined by the thumb and forefinger, and wherein in the rest position, the loop is of essentially semicircular or semi-oval form,.
A waste sorting manipulator comprising: a gripper assembly for interacting with one or more waste objects (106a, 106b, 106c), to be sorted within a working area; at least one servo for moving the gripper assembly with respect to the working area (108; and at least one slidable coupling mounted between the at least one servo and the gripper assembly for allowing relative movement between the at least one servo and the gripper assembly, wherein the gripper assembly is a suction gripper assembly having a deformable suction cup and the deformable suction cup is configured to deform when the deformable suction cup engages the one or more waste objects to be sorted, wherein the rate of compression of the at least one slidable coupling is greater than the rate of extension of the at least one slidable coupling. a gripper assembly for interacting with one or more waste objects (106a, 106b, 106c), to be sorted within a working area; at least one servo for moving the gripper assembly with respect to the working area (108; and at least one slidable coupling mounted between the at least one servo and the gripper assembly for allowing relative movement between the at least one servo and the gripper assembly, wherein the gripper assembly is a suction gripper assembly having a deformable suction cup and the deformable suction cup is configured to deform when the deformable suction cup engages the one or more waste objects to be sorted, wherein the rate of compression of the at least one slidable coupling is greater than the rate of extension of the at least one slidable coupling.
A hand-held medicant delivery device (20; 100; 200; 300; 400), comprising: a. a housing (22; 308; 408) having a first end and a second end; b. a mouthpiece attached to the first end; c. a fluid delivery system (30; 302; 402); d. a vaporization system, comprising a heating element (150, 152) in between the mouthpiece and the fluid delivery system (30; 302; 402); and e. a power control system (34; 306), comprising a circuit configured to provide a precise amount of power from a power source to heat the heating element (150, 152) to a minimum required temperature to completely vaporize a predetermined volume of a liquid metered by a pressure generator, and control a precise duration of time to supply the precise amount of power to completely vaporize the predetermined volume of the liquid at the minimum required temperature. a. a housing (22; 308; 408) having a first end and a second end; b. a mouthpiece attached to the first end; c. a fluid delivery system (30; 302; 402); d. a vaporization system, comprising a heating element (150, 152) in between the mouthpiece and the fluid delivery system (30; 302; 402); and e. a power control system (34; 306), comprising a circuit configured to provide a precise amount of power from a power source to heat the heating element (150, 152) to a minimum required temperature to completely vaporize a predetermined volume of a liquid metered by a pressure generator, and control a precise duration of time to supply the precise amount of power to completely vaporize the predetermined volume of the liquid at the minimum required temperature.