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A robotic surgical system comprising: a manipulator assembly including a manipulator arm having proximal and distal portions, the distal portion having an adapter; characterized by further comprising: a surgical instrument comprising a wrist unit and a surgical tool coupled to the wrist unit, the wrist unit being releasably coupleable to the adapter, the surgical instrument configured to be driven by the manipulator arm in at least one degree of freedom, the surgical instrument comprising an integrated circuit chip for storing a counter signal indicating the number of times the wrist unit has been coupled to or uncoupled from the adapter; a master device for accepting a physical movement from an operator; a controller for controlling the manipulator assembly and the surgical instrument in response to the accepted physical movement from the master device, the controller configured to issue a warning and downgrade the performance of the system in dependence upon the counter signal received from the surgical instrument. a manipulator assembly including a manipulator arm having proximal and distal portions, the distal portion having an adapter; characterized by further comprising: a surgical instrument comprising a wrist unit and a surgical tool coupled to the wrist unit, the wrist unit being releasably coupleable to the adapter, the surgical instrument configured to be driven by the manipulator arm in at least one degree of freedom, the surgical instrument comprising an integrated circuit chip for storing a counter signal indicating the number of times the wrist unit has been coupled to or uncoupled from the adapter; a master device for accepting a physical movement from an operator; a controller for controlling the manipulator assembly and the surgical instrument in response to the accepted physical movement from the master device, the controller configured to issue a warning and downgrade the performance of the system in dependence upon the counter signal received from the surgical instrument. a surgical instrument comprising a wrist unit and a surgical tool coupled to the wrist unit, the wrist unit being releasably coupleable to the adapter, the surgical instrument configured to be driven by the manipulator arm in at least one degree of freedom, the surgical instrument comprising an integrated circuit chip for storing a counter signal indicating the number of times the wrist unit has been coupled to or uncoupled from the adapter; a master device for accepting a physical movement from an operator; a controller for controlling the manipulator assembly and the surgical instrument in response to the accepted physical movement from the master device, the controller configured to issue a warning and downgrade the performance of the system in dependence upon the counter signal received from the surgical instrument.
A structure for an energy storage device, comprising: a first polycrystalline substrate obtained by extruding molten substrate material through silicon carbide rollers (604a, 604b), wherein the molten substrate comprises boron silicon, wherein the extruding is extruded at a rate that cools the substrate into a polycrystalline structure, said rate selected to produce a desired grain size; and a first porous layer formed within the first polycrystalline substrate, wherein the first porous layer contains multiple channels formed by anodic etching or wet etching. a first polycrystalline substrate obtained by extruding molten substrate material through silicon carbide rollers (604a, 604b), wherein the molten substrate comprises boron silicon, wherein the extruding is extruded at a rate that cools the substrate into a polycrystalline structure, said rate selected to produce a desired grain size; and a first porous layer formed within the first polycrystalline substrate, wherein the first porous layer contains multiple channels formed by anodic etching or wet etching.
A panel for providing heating and cooling, characterised in that the panel comprises at least one body including a porous medium comprising particles that are joined such that pores of the particles of the porous material are not covered by binder or sealer, and a phase change material that is loaded into the porous medium and has a latent heat of fusion which allows the body to cool and heat a space by transitioning between solid and liquid states and a thermally conductive additive, and the panel includes at least one capillary tube for carrying liquid to receive thermal energy from or provide thermal energy to the panel.
An imaging system comprising: a parabolic reflector having a base and defining a focal point and a first axis, wherein the first axis is the collimation axis of the parabolic reflector; a light source disposed proximate said base essentially along said first axis, and wherein said light source has a point source of light disposed at or near the focal point of said parabolic reflector, said light source disposed in front of said parabolic reflector, an imaging device disposed in front of said light source and comprising a zooming lens at the front of the imaging device, and the zooming lens having a second axis essentially coincident with said first axis, wherein the rear of the imaging device faces the light source and wherein the front of the imaging device faces away from the light source and the parabolic reflector; and wherein the diameter of said parabolic reflector is sufficiently larger than the imaging device such that an adequate amount of collimated light is directed around the imaging device, and such that the light emitted from the light source essentially perpendicular to said first axis and toward said parabolic reflector avoids the imaging device to a significant extent. a parabolic reflector having a base and defining a focal point and a first axis, wherein the first axis is the collimation axis of the parabolic reflector; a light source disposed proximate said base essentially along said first axis, and wherein said light source has a point source of light disposed at or near the focal point of said parabolic reflector, said light source disposed in front of said parabolic reflector, an imaging device disposed in front of said light source and comprising a zooming lens at the front of the imaging device, and the zooming lens having a second axis essentially coincident with said first axis, wherein the rear of the imaging device faces the light source and wherein the front of the imaging device faces away from the light source and the parabolic reflector; and wherein the diameter of said parabolic reflector is sufficiently larger than the imaging device such that an adequate amount of collimated light is directed around the imaging device, and such that the light emitted from the light source essentially perpendicular to said first axis and toward said parabolic reflector avoids the imaging device to a significant extent.
Electric motor vehicle coolant pump for supplying a coolant to a motor vehicle internal combustion engine, comprising a two-part pump housing with an integral pump rotor housing part and a separate integral body housing part, wherein a pump rotor is arranged in the pump rotor housing part, the pump rotor being configured to be rotated about an axis; an electric drive motor is arranged in the body housing part, the drive motor driving the pump rotor, an axial coolant inlet and a tangential coolant outlet are provided on the pump rotor housing part, both housing parts (12, 14) each comprise one annular mounting flange (16, 18), which fixes the housing parts (12, 14) radially with respect to each other and allows the housing parts (12, 14) to be assembled on each other in any rotary position, a rotary fixation is provided which is formed by a recess at one housing part and a nose configured to engage in the recess at the other housing part, and which allows the two housing parts (12, 14) to be mounted with respect to each other in only one single rotational angle, a self-locking axial fixation arrangement is provided to axially fix the two housing parts (12, 14) to each other, and the axial fixation arrangement is formed by an inwardly open annular groove in the pump rotor housing part, a corresponding outwardly open annular groove in the body housing part, and by a radially biased spring-lock washer configured to extend radially into each of the annular grooves (26, 28).
Coil module for an electric machine, comprising at least one coil disc having at least one coil support made of an electrically insulating material and a plurality of individual windings, which are made of an electrically conductive material and arranged on the at least one coil disc circumferentially around a centre point of the at least one coil disc, wherein each of the windings comprises two active regions, which extend radially from the centre point, and two passive regions, which extend tangentially on their radially outer and inner periphery, and the active regions of different windings do not cover one another in plan view of the coil disc, but each passive region of one of the windings partly covers the corresponding passive regions of the two directly adjacent windings, respectively, characterised in that in cross section, the respective winding has a greater thickness at the same cross-sectional area in the axial direction in the active regions than in the passive regions. at least one coil disc having at least one coil support made of an electrically insulating material and a plurality of individual windings, which are made of an electrically conductive material and arranged on the at least one coil disc circumferentially around a centre point of the at least one coil disc, wherein each of the windings comprises two active regions, which extend radially from the centre point, and two passive regions, which extend tangentially on their radially outer and inner periphery, and the active regions of different windings do not cover one another in plan view of the coil disc, but each passive region of one of the windings partly covers the corresponding passive regions of the two directly adjacent windings, respectively, characterised in that in cross section, the respective winding has a greater thickness at the same cross-sectional area in the axial direction in the active regions than in the passive regions.
A strain of Escherichia sp. capable of producing O-acetyl homoserine, characterized in that: a) the strain of Escherichia sp. overexpresses a gene encoding a polypeptide having homoserine O-acetyltransferase activity; and b) the strain of Escherichia sp. overexpresses (i) a gene encoding a polypeptide having acetyl-CoA synthase activity, and (ii) a gene encoding a mutated pantothenate kinase polypeptide such that the pantothenate kinase activity is refractory to feedback inhibition by CoA, such that acetyl-CoA biosynthesis pathway of the strain is fortified, wherein said genes are overexpressed by employing a heterologous promoter or by increasing a number of the gene copies. a) the strain of Escherichia sp. overexpresses a gene encoding a polypeptide having homoserine O-acetyltransferase activity; and b) the strain of Escherichia sp. overexpresses (i) a gene encoding a polypeptide having acetyl-CoA synthase activity, and (ii) a gene encoding a mutated pantothenate kinase polypeptide such that the pantothenate kinase activity is refractory to feedback inhibition by CoA, such that acetyl-CoA biosynthesis pathway of the strain is fortified,
Ternary lipid association consisting of β-sitosterol, isocetyl stearoyl stearate and glyceryl tri-2-ethylhexanoate, wherein β-sitosterol is present in a proportion of 0.1% to 5% by weight of said association.
A vaccine comprising: i) coxsackie B virus CBV1 and CBV2 in inactivated form or in the form of a subunit vaccine, a virus-like particle, a nucleic acid of said virus or a combination thereof, and ii) at least one coxsackie B virus selected from the group consisting of CBV3, CBV4, CBV5 and CBV6 in inactivated form or in the form of a subunit vaccine, a virus-like particle, a nucleic acid of said virus or a combination thereof for use in preventing or treating type 1 diabetes, wherein the nucleic acid of i) and ii) is a fragment of viral RNA or cDNA encoding the whole virus or an individual viral protein. i) coxsackie B virus CBV1 and CBV2 in inactivated form or in the form of a subunit vaccine, a virus-like particle, a nucleic acid of said virus or a combination thereof, and ii) at least one coxsackie B virus selected from the group consisting of CBV3, CBV4, CBV5 and CBV6 in inactivated form or in the form of a subunit vaccine, a virus-like particle, a nucleic acid of said virus or a combination thereof for use in preventing or treating type 1 diabetes,
A method for location determination, the method comprising: receiving, by an antenna mounted on a moving platform, a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of emitters; identifying a signal of interest, SOI, from the signals, whereby the signal of interest comprises a coherent pulse train; splitting the SOI into a plurality of look segments; determining frequency of arrival, FOA, measurements from the look segments; and determining a location of the emitter, from the plurality of emitters, that transmitted the SOI by using the FOA measurements; wherein the determining of the FOA measurements comprises: downconverting each of the look segments to generate downconverted look segments; coherently demodulating each of the downconverted look segments to generate demodulated look segments; obtaining pulse-to-pulse phase measurements from each of the demodulated look segments; unwrapping the pulse-to-pulse phase measurements to generate unwrapped pulse train phase advances; performing linear regression and scaling to determine a slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances; and determining the FOA measurements from the slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances. receiving, by an antenna mounted on a moving platform, a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of emitters; identifying a signal of interest, SOI, from the signals, whereby the signal of interest comprises a coherent pulse train; splitting the SOI into a plurality of look segments; determining frequency of arrival, FOA, measurements from the look segments; and determining a location of the emitter, from the plurality of emitters, that transmitted the SOI by using the FOA measurements; wherein the determining of the FOA measurements comprises: downconverting each of the look segments to generate downconverted look segments; coherently demodulating each of the downconverted look segments to generate demodulated look segments; obtaining pulse-to-pulse phase measurements from each of the demodulated look segments; unwrapping the pulse-to-pulse phase measurements to generate unwrapped pulse train phase advances; performing linear regression and scaling to determine a slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances; and determining the FOA measurements from the slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances. downconverting each of the look segments to generate downconverted look segments; coherently demodulating each of the downconverted look segments to generate demodulated look segments; obtaining pulse-to-pulse phase measurements from each of the demodulated look segments; unwrapping the pulse-to-pulse phase measurements to generate unwrapped pulse train phase advances; performing linear regression and scaling to determine a slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances; and determining the FOA measurements from the slope of each of the unwrapped pulse train phase advances.
Carriage for a sliding bearing, wherein the carriage has a first and a second guide seat (31, 32) that are each elongated in the longitudinal direction and extend next to one another and which are each designed to receive, in an operating state, a guide portion (21, 22) of a rail respectively assigned to them while surrounding said guide portion and thereby fixing the carriage to the rail in a longitudinally displaceable manner, characterized in that the carriage has a carriage body and an actuating arm which together form a first one of the guide seats (31, 32), the actuating arm being fixed to the carriage body so as to be guided displaceably with respect thereto perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction in order to enable opening of the first guide seat (31, 32) by displacing the actuating arm for removing the assigned first guide portion (21, 22) from the first guide seat (31, 32) or for introducing the assigned first guide portion (21, 22) into the first guide seat (31, 32) along a removal direction running perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein the guide device forms a stop which defines an end of the displacement path, the actuating arm being displaceable relative to the base body along the displacement path, starting from the operating state, until the stop is reached and forming an opening of the first guide seat when abutting against the stop, through which the first guide portion is removeable.
A method for making a surface enhanced Raman scattering element comprising a substrate having a main surface; a molded layer formed on the main surface and including a fine structural part; and a conductor layer formed on the fine structural part and constituting an optical function part for generating surface enhanced Raman scattering; the method comprising: a first step of forming a nanoimprint layer on a main surface of a wafer including a plurality of portions each corresponding to the substrate; a second step of transferring, by using a mold including a film base and having a pattern corresponding to the fine structural part, the pattern to the nanoimprint layer after the first step, and thereby forming the molded layer including the fine structural part for each portion corresponding to the substrate; a third step of forming the conductor layer on the fine structural part after the second step; and a fourth step of cutting the wafer into each portion corresponding to the substrate after the second step; characterised in that the mold including the film base is more flexible than the wafer, and after the second step the mold is released from the wafer by tearing it away from an end part. a first step of forming a nanoimprint layer on a main surface of a wafer including a plurality of portions each corresponding to the substrate; a second step of transferring, by using a mold including a film base and having a pattern corresponding to the fine structural part, the pattern to the nanoimprint layer after the first step, and thereby forming the molded layer including the fine structural part for each portion corresponding to the substrate; a third step of forming the conductor layer on the fine structural part after the second step; and a fourth step of cutting the wafer into each portion corresponding to the substrate after the second step; characterised in that the mold including the film base is more flexible than the wafer, and after the second step the mold is released from the wafer by tearing it away from an end part.
A system for analyzing at least one characteristic of the skin by means falling under optics (4, 7) and computer image processing (4, 5), notably for screening skin cancer or for proposing at least one product adapted to the skin and/or to the hair, comprising: - a consumer electronics device, comprising an objective, capable of acquiring at least one image by digital means and capable of producing data relating to said at least one acquired image; and characterized in that it comprises: - specific means, separate from said consumer electronics device for producing an optical magnification of the image capable of analyzing at least one characteristic of the skin; and - means for introducing at least one information in the image, these means being included in said specific means for producing an optical magnification of the image; and - means for processing said data in connection with said at least one acquired image with the purpose of producing information relating to at least one characteristic of the skin. - a consumer electronics device, comprising an objective, capable of acquiring at least one image by digital means and capable of producing data relating to said at least one acquired image; and characterized in that it comprises: - specific means, separate from said consumer electronics device for producing an optical magnification of the image capable of analyzing at least one characteristic of the skin; and - means for introducing at least one information in the image, these means being included in said specific means for producing an optical magnification of the image; and - means for processing said data in connection with said at least one acquired image with the purpose of producing information relating to at least one characteristic of the skin.
Method for monitoring and/or locating water losses in a water pipe network comprising a plurality of hydrographs, characterised in that the method comprises at least the following steps: - positioning measuring units at selected points of the pipe network, each measuring unit consisting of two sensors (3, 4) which operate simultaneously as a transmitter and a receiver and are attached to the outer face of a pipe along the pipe axis, preferably at the springing height, - measuring the flow velocity of the fluid in the pipe by means of an ultrasonic measuring method, in which method a first ultrasonic pulse is transmitted through the liquid in the flow direction and a second ultrasonic pulse is transmitted counter to the flow direction, the sensors operate alternately as a transmitter and a receiver, and the flow velocity is determined from the transit time difference Δt between the ultrasonic signals in the flow direction and the ultrasonic signals counter to the flow direction, - transmitting the measured data to a database of a central processing unit by means of a data transfer module connected to the respective measuring units and, - analysing the measured data in the central processing unit by analysing the measured data of the hydrographs using a characteristic minimum, the hydrographs being examined for minimum measured values, and the water movements thus identified indicating leakage losses. - positioning measuring units at selected points of the pipe network, each measuring unit consisting of two sensors (3, 4) which operate simultaneously as a transmitter and a receiver and are attached to the outer face of a pipe along the pipe axis, preferably at the springing height, - measuring the flow velocity of the fluid in the pipe by means of an ultrasonic measuring method, in which method a first ultrasonic pulse is transmitted through the liquid in the flow direction and a second ultrasonic pulse is transmitted counter to the flow direction, the sensors operate alternately as a transmitter and a receiver, and the flow velocity is determined from the transit time difference Δt between the ultrasonic signals in the flow direction and the ultrasonic signals counter to the flow direction, - transmitting the measured data to a database of a central processing unit by means of a data transfer module connected to the respective measuring units and, - analysing the measured data in the central processing unit by analysing the measured data of the hydrographs using a characteristic minimum, the hydrographs being examined for minimum measured values, and the water movements thus identified indicating leakage losses.