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A pipe connector comprising: a housing in which is formed an insertion hole configured such that an end portion of a pipe having an annular spool can be inserted; an O-ring that is placed in the insertion hole, is configured to be in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the pipe inserted into the housing, and configured to seal the space between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and the outer peripheral surface of the pipe; and a retainer that is integrally molded of a resin material, the retainer being configured to be attached to the housing from an intersecting direction intersecting an insertion direction of the pipe, and the retainer having: a regulation segment that regulates, by contact with the O-ring, the position, in the insertion direction, of the O-ring placed in the insertion hole, and a prevention segment that is configured to engage with the spool of the pipe having the end portion inserted into the insertion hole and configured to prevent the pipe from being removed from the insertion hole. a housing in which is formed an insertion hole configured such that an end portion of a pipe having an annular spool can be inserted; an O-ring that is placed in the insertion hole, is configured to be in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the pipe inserted into the housing, and configured to seal the space between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and the outer peripheral surface of the pipe; and a retainer that is integrally molded of a resin material, the retainer being configured to be attached to the housing from an intersecting direction intersecting an insertion direction of the pipe, and the retainer having: a regulation segment that regulates, by contact with the O-ring, the position, in the insertion direction, of the O-ring placed in the insertion hole, and a prevention segment that is configured to engage with the spool of the pipe having the end portion inserted into the insertion hole and configured to prevent the pipe from being removed from the insertion hole. a regulation segment that regulates, by contact with the O-ring, the position, in the insertion direction, of the O-ring placed in the insertion hole, and a prevention segment that is configured to engage with the spool of the pipe having the end portion inserted into the insertion hole and configured to prevent the pipe from being removed from the insertion hole.
A load calibration device for an ascent assistance apparatus, the device comprising; a motive force generator; a motive force applicator operably linked to the motive force generator; for applying in use a motive force to an object; characterised in that, it further comprises a control mechanism having a load sensing means, and a haulage force application means; said control mechanism being formed and arranged so as to control the motive force generator in a first, calibration, mode wherein the motive force generator is stopped, and further wherein the load sensing means is formed and arranged to detect a load applied to the motive force applicator by the object and said haulage force application means is operable to determine an amount of haulage force to be applied to the motive force applicator by the motive force generator in accordance with the equation hf equals dl multiplied by a, where: "hf" equals haulage force in kg; "dl" equals load detected by the load sensing means in kg and "a" equals applied assistance as a percentage and further wherein a signal is communicated to a user to signal the successful calibration of the device.
A fall arrest device, comprising: a drum for winding a safety line; an energy absorber ring configured to absorb energy in the event of a fall, wherein the energy absorber ring provides an interference fit between a first component of the device and a second component of the device; and a speed responsive engagement arrangement responsive to the speed of rotation of the drum and configured to deploy to enable relative rotation of the first and second components, characterized in that the energy absorber ring is mounted to one side of and coaxially with the drum. a drum for winding a safety line; an energy absorber ring configured to absorb energy in the event of a fall, wherein the energy absorber ring provides an interference fit between a first component of the device and a second component of the device; and a speed responsive engagement arrangement responsive to the speed of rotation of the drum and configured to deploy to enable relative rotation of the first and second components, characterized in that the energy absorber ring is mounted to one side of and coaxially with the drum.
A construct (120, 220, 620, 720, 820) for overlying a surface (22, 622, 722, 822) in a microwave oven while supporting food being cooked in the microwave oven, the construct comprising: at least one layer of microwave interactive material mounted to a support layer (127 or 130), wherein the layer of microwave interactive material is operative for becoming hot when exposed to microwave energy, the support layer is at least generally polygonal-shaped, whereby the support layer includes a plurality of edges and a plurality of corners; the support layer (127 or 130) has a length and a width, and the width is perpendicular to the length; the layer of microwave interactive material extends at least substantially all the way to at least one of the edges of the support layer; the layer of microwave interactive material has an overall shape having a periphery; the periphery of the layer of microwave interactive material is at least partially recessed from at least a portion of a first corner of the corners of the support layer, so that at least some of the first corner is not covered by the layer of microwave interactive material; the periphery of the layer of microwave interactive material includes a portion; the portion is adjacent the first corner of the support layer (127 or 130); and the portion at least generally has a radius of curvature, characterized in that the radius of curvature is at least about 70.9% of (((0.5)(the length)) 2 + ((0.5)(the width)) 2) 0.5. at least one layer of microwave interactive material mounted to a support layer (127 or 130), wherein the layer of microwave interactive material is operative for becoming hot when exposed to microwave energy, the support layer is at least generally polygonal-shaped, whereby the support layer includes a plurality of edges and a plurality of corners; the support layer (127 or 130) has a length and a width, and the width is perpendicular to the length; the layer of microwave interactive material extends at least substantially all the way to at least one of the edges of the support layer; the layer of microwave interactive material has an overall shape having a periphery; the periphery of the layer of microwave interactive material is at least partially recessed from at least a portion of a first corner of the corners of the support layer, so that at least some of the first corner is not covered by the layer of microwave interactive material; the periphery of the layer of microwave interactive material includes a portion; the portion is adjacent the first corner of the support layer (127 or 130); and the portion at least generally has a radius of curvature,
Driver-assistance device for assisting with driving a motor vehicle following a road, this driver-assistance device comprising: - a sensor suitable for acquiring a signal representative of the presence of an obstacle in the interior of a detection field of this sensor, and - a control module that is programmed to control a driver-assistance function for assisting with driving the motor vehicle, depending on the signal acquired by said sensor, characterized in that the control module is furthermore programmed: a) to detect, on the basis of a position of the motor vehicle and of characteristics of said road, that a section of this road is located outside of the detection field of said sensor, and b) in case of detection of this road section located outside of the detection field of said sensor, to control said driver-assistance function while taking into account the potential presence of an obstacle on said road section, characterized in that the control module is furthermore programmed: - in step a), to determine, on the basis of said position of the motor vehicle and of said characteristics of the road that it is following, a distance separating the motor vehicle from said road section, and - in step b), to control said driver-assistance function while taking into account this distance separating the motor vehicle from said road section. - a sensor suitable for acquiring a signal representative of the presence of an obstacle in the interior of a detection field of this sensor, and - a control module that is programmed to control a driver-assistance function for assisting with driving the motor vehicle, depending on the signal acquired by said sensor, a) to detect, on the basis of a position of the motor vehicle and of characteristics of said road, that a section of this road is located outside of the detection field of said sensor, and b) in case of detection of this road section located outside of the detection field of said sensor, to control said driver-assistance function while taking into account the potential presence of an obstacle on said road section, - in step a), to determine, on the basis of said position of the motor vehicle and of said characteristics of the road that it is following, a distance separating the motor vehicle from said road section, and - in step b), to control said driver-assistance function while taking into account this distance separating the motor vehicle from said road section.
A cultivator containing an operating element with distributed spiral teeth, in the upper part connected to each other in the shape of a regular polygon, wherein the spiral teeth are made with a pointed part with a sharpening angle α = 20°-40°, a tilt angle to the horizon β=25°-45° and with the possibility of rotation of the tooth full penetration in the interval γ = 40°-120°, wherein the spiral teeth form an open circular profile in the plan.
An on-vehicle control device comprising: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image from an image-capturing device that captures the image of surroundings of a vehicle; an overhead view image generating unit that generates an overhead view image from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, the overhead view image being a plan view of the surroundings of the vehicle seen from above the vehicle; a white line recognizing unit that recognizes possible white lines on a road surface in the overhead view image; a white line information saving unit that saves information including positional information of the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit; a white line position predicting unit that predicts a position of a possible white line to be reached, based on information about a previous possible white line saved by the white line information saving unit and vehicle behavior information; and a white line judging unit that excludes, among the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit, a possible white line that extends in a radial direction from the image-capturing device in the overhead view image and satisfies a predetermined condition. an image acquiring unit that acquires an image from an image-capturing device that captures the image of surroundings of a vehicle; an overhead view image generating unit that generates an overhead view image from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, the overhead view image being a plan view of the surroundings of the vehicle seen from above the vehicle; a white line recognizing unit that recognizes possible white lines on a road surface in the overhead view image; a white line information saving unit that saves information including positional information of the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit; a white line position predicting unit that predicts a position of a possible white line to be reached, based on information about a previous possible white line saved by the white line information saving unit and vehicle behavior information; and a white line judging unit that excludes, among the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit, a possible white line that extends in a radial direction from the image-capturing device in the overhead view image and satisfies a predetermined condition.
Hybrid-driven motor vehicle having a drive device having an internal combustion engine which outputs onto a gearbox which has a number of translation steps which in a traction mode, in which the vehicle is driven by the internal combustion engine, provides switchable driving gears (1 to 6), namely from a start gear as far as a highest driving gear, and having a driving electric machine as a second drive source, characterised in that the gearbox has at least one translation step providing a thrust gear, which translation step is not activated by the gearbox control device in traction mode, but rather only in a thrust mode in which the vehicle drags the internal combustion engine, that a quotient of the translation (i) of one of the driving gears (1 to 6) which can be switched in the traction mode to the translation (i) of the next higher driving gear (1 to 6) which can be switchable in the traction mode defines a progressive ratio (φ), and that the gearbox is configured such that the progressive ratios (φ) become smaller, the higher the driving gears (1 to 6) are, that the progressive ratio (φ 6/7) between the highest driving gear and the thrust gear is at least greater than the progressive ratio (φ 5/6) from the second-highest driving gear to the highest driving gear, and that the thrust gear is switched at least at the point at which, at an appropriate speed, the vehicle is braked in recuperation mode via the electric machine.
A thermoelectric conversion module comprising: a plurality of substrates; a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements each electrically connected at one end to the first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes, electrically connected to another end of each one of the thermoelectric conversion elements; and characterised by connectors that electrically connect the plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to the thermoelectric conversion elements to the second electrodes electrically connected to adjacent thermoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of either the first electrodes or the second electrodes disposed on the substrates, a plurality of the connectors disposed between adjacent substrates, connectors positioned between adjacent substrates defined as inter-substrate connectors, a plurality of the inter-substrate connectors provided between adjacent substrates, one of the plurality of inter-substrate connectors connected from a first electrode positioned on one substrate to a second electrode positioned on another substrate, and another one of the plurality of inter-substrate connectors connected from a first electrode on the another substrate to a second electrode on the one substrate. a plurality of substrates; a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements each electrically connected at one end to the first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes, electrically connected to another end of each one of the thermoelectric conversion elements; and characterised by connectors that electrically connect the plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to the thermoelectric conversion elements to the second electrodes electrically connected to adjacent thermoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of either the first electrodes or the second electrodes disposed on the substrates, a plurality of the connectors disposed between adjacent substrates, connectors positioned between adjacent substrates defined as inter-substrate connectors, a plurality of the inter-substrate connectors provided between adjacent substrates, one of the plurality of inter-substrate connectors connected from a first electrode positioned on one substrate to a second electrode positioned on another substrate, and another one of the plurality of inter-substrate connectors connected from a first electrode on the another substrate to a second electrode on the one substrate.
A grain-oriented electrical steel plate having a surface formed with a groove, wherein the groove is formed in a state that a metal oxide layer is coated on the surface of the electrical steel plate, and the groove is formed with a narrow width and a deep depth as a ratio of the width Wb and the depth Db is 3.4:1 to 1.5:1 wherein the groove has a curvature radius RBb of 0.2 μm to 100 μm at a position where the depth of the groove is a maximum, wherein a curvature radius R s on the groove surface to the quarter-way position of the depth D of the groove is 4 μm to 130 μm, wherein recrystallization of a coated steel plate exists under the groove.
A firing mechanism assembly comprising: a firing body and an activation button moveable relative to the firing body between an initial position and an actuated position, the activation button configured to deploy a plunger when moved to the actuated position, the firing mechanism assembly further including a piercing element extending from at least one of the firing body and the activation button; and a near-field communication, NFC, assembly, characterised in that the NFC assembly comprises a film disposed proximate the piercing element and configured to be pierced by the piercing element upon movement of the activation button to the actuated position, and an NFC circuit configured to indicate a film status including at least an unpierced film status before the film is pierced and a pierced film status after the film is pierced. a firing body and an activation button moveable relative to the firing body between an initial position and an actuated position, the activation button configured to deploy a plunger when moved to the actuated position, the firing mechanism assembly further including a piercing element extending from at least one of the firing body and the activation button; and a near-field communication, NFC, assembly, characterised in that the NFC assembly comprises a film disposed proximate the piercing element and configured to be pierced by the piercing element upon movement of the activation button to the actuated position, and an NFC circuit configured to indicate a film status including at least an unpierced film status before the film is pierced and a pierced film status after the film is pierced.
Console intended to be attached to the surface of a building wall, the said console being adapted to support at least one part of a profile intended to serve as a support for one or more protection panels of insulating panels associated with the said surface, the console comprising: a support element for at least one part of a profile, (b) at least one reinforcement adapted to extend in a plane inclined, advantageously perpendicularly, relative to the surface, (c) a part adapted to cooperate with a fixing means for attaching the console to the said surface and (d) a bearing zone in the vicinity of the support element for the profile, the said bearing zone being associated with a spacer means for adapting the position of the bearing zone relative to the surface, characterised in that the bearing zone is associated with a hollow component or tube having a recess having an open plane section with at least one rectilinear edge so as to define at least one inner plane face of the recess, advantageously at least two rectilinear edges so as to define at least two separate plane faces of the recess, preferably a substantially square or rectangular or hexagonal open plane section so as to define four or six inner plane faces of the recess, the said recess having a central axis and being adapted to receive a nut or sleeve with an internal thread and having at least one or more outer plane faces adapted to bear against one or more inner plane faces of the recess in order to prevent or limit, preferably prevent, rotation of the nut or sleeve in the recess, in that a bolt has a threaded shank cooperating with the threaded hole of the nut or sleeve in order to adjust the position of the head of the bolt or of the end of the shank relative to the nut or sleeve and in that the console is associated with a means for limiting or preventing a translational movement of the nut or sleeve in the recess or a translational movement of the bolt or of its threaded shank relative to the recess such that rotation of the shank in the threaded hole of the nut or sleeve will generate either an axial movement of the head of the bolt away from the hollow component or tube or translational axial displacement of the nut or sleeve relative to the hollow component or tube.
A photovoltaic structure for a roadway suitable for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, comprising: - at least one photovoltaic cell, - a non-opaque surfacing, covering at least the front face of said photovoltaic cell and having an outer surface which is both irregularly macrotextured and irregularly microtextured, the macrotexture comprising surface irregularities in the range 0.5 to 50 mm horizontally, the microtexture comprising surface irregularities which characteristic horizontal size of which is less than 0.5 mm, said outer surface allowing pedestrian and vehicular traffic, a macrotexture depth having a mean texture depth MTD measured according to the NF EN 13036-1 standard comprised between 0.2 mm and 3 mm, the non-opaque surfacing having a PSV value of resistance to polishing according to the NF EN 13043 standard of at least PSV 44, better still PSV 50, even better still PSV 53, the mean texture depth MTD being at least 0.30 mm, better still at least 0.6 mm, said non-opaque surfacing being formed from a binder and non-opaque texturing elements having a size ranging from 0.4 to 4 mm, said texturing elements forming reliefs with different shapes and different sizes in order to obtain the macrotexture and the microtexture. - at least one photovoltaic cell, - a non-opaque surfacing, covering at least the front face of said photovoltaic cell and having an outer surface which is both irregularly macrotextured and irregularly microtextured, the macrotexture comprising surface irregularities in the range 0.5 to 50 mm horizontally, the microtexture comprising surface irregularities which characteristic horizontal size of which is less than 0.5 mm, said outer surface allowing pedestrian and vehicular traffic, a macrotexture depth having a mean texture depth MTD measured according to the NF EN 13036-1 standard comprised between 0.2 mm and 3 mm, the non-opaque surfacing having a PSV value of resistance to polishing according to the NF EN 13043 standard of at least PSV 44, better still PSV 50, even better still PSV 53, the mean texture depth MTD being at least 0.30 mm, better still at least 0.6 mm,