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Microfluidic chip capable of carrying out manipulations of cells and/or structuring and/or culturing thereof, comprising: - a block made from biocompatible material, - a passage channel (7, 8) made in the block for the passage of cells bathed in a liquid, - a resonant cavity made in the block, connected to the passage channel, - an acoustic wave generator capable of forming at least one cell aggregate (18, 25) in acoustic levitation in the resonant cavity, - at least one optical emitter capable of illuminating cells in the resonant cavity through at least one wall of the resonant cavity and simultaneous with the generation of acoustic waves in such a way as to structure said at least one aggregate by means of the technique of optical exclusion of a portion of the cells such that only the cells that are not sensitive to the illumination form an aggregate in one layer, the chip characterized in that the resonant cavity comprises walls for containing the cells originating from the passage channel, in such a way that the cells are no longer under the influence of a flow in the passage channel. - a block made from biocompatible material, - a passage channel (7, 8) made in the block for the passage of cells bathed in a liquid, - a resonant cavity made in the block, connected to the passage channel, - an acoustic wave generator capable of forming at least one cell aggregate (18, 25) in acoustic levitation in the resonant cavity, - at least one optical emitter capable of illuminating cells in the resonant cavity through at least one wall of the resonant cavity and simultaneous with the generation of acoustic waves in such a way as to structure said at least one aggregate by means of the technique of optical exclusion of a portion of the cells such that only the cells that are not sensitive to the illumination form an aggregate in one layer, the chip characterized in that the resonant cavity comprises walls for containing the cells originating from the passage channel, in such a way that the cells are no longer under the influence of a flow in the passage channel.
A razor cartridge comprising a multiple blade razor system consisting of a plurality of blades defining a blade plane and at least one lubricating body that is a strip, the lubricating body having a mushroom shape surface with a lower lobe and an upper lobe, characterized by having a strip exposure from -0.10 millimeters to 0.10 millimeters; wherein the strip exposure is defined in relation to the blade plane and a highest point of the lower lobe; and the blade plane is at or below a maximum strip height, said maximum strip height is defined in relation to the highest point of the upper lobe.
A fastener for engagement with bone, comprising: a bone engaging portion; a head portion; a deformable portion that contacts the head portion, the deformable portion including a material that deforms when the fastener engages one or more fastener-engaging structures of a stabilizing structure; and a retaining structure that retains the deformable portion in contact with the head portion by a force that includes a non-frictional component, the retaining structure comprising a through hole defined in the head portion, and further comprising a bore defined in an exterior surface of the fastener such that the bore intersects the through hole, wherein the deformable portion extends into the through hole and is exposed to the bore and further wherein a portion of the deformable portion that extends into the through hole includes a rod portion that traverses the bore, the rod portion connecting one side of the deformable portion to an opposite side of the deformable portion. a bone engaging portion; a head portion; a deformable portion that contacts the head portion, the deformable portion including a material that deforms when the fastener engages one or more fastener-engaging structures of a stabilizing structure; and a retaining structure that retains the deformable portion in contact with the head portion by a force that includes a non-frictional component, the retaining structure comprising a through hole defined in the head portion, and further comprising a bore defined in an exterior surface of the fastener such that the bore intersects the through hole, wherein the deformable portion extends into the through hole and is exposed to the bore and further wherein a portion of the deformable portion that extends into the through hole includes a rod portion that traverses the bore, the rod portion connecting one side of the deformable portion to an opposite side of the deformable portion.
A multi-layer building panel of a sandwich type having thermal insulation properties, utilisable for the manufacture of roofs and walls of buildings, comprising: - a main layer in insulating material comprising a first surface and a second surface; - a first reinforcement layer connected to the main layer along said first surface; - a second reinforcement layer connected to the main layer along said second surface, said second reinforcement layer comprising a layer manufactured in polymeric material; said main layer being sandwiched between the first and second reinforcement layers, and said second reinforcement layer comprising a further fibrous backing layer attached to said layer in polymeric material, characterised in that said first reinforcement layer is manufactured in metal material, and in that said layer in polymeric material of the second reinforcement layer is manufactured in a material selected from the group consisting of: high-density polyethylene or HDPE, low-density polyethylene or LDPE or a mixture thereof. - a main layer in insulating material comprising a first surface and a second surface; - a first reinforcement layer connected to the main layer along said first surface; - a second reinforcement layer connected to the main layer along said second surface, said second reinforcement layer comprising a layer manufactured in polymeric material; high-density polyethylene or HDPE, low-density polyethylene or LDPE or a mixture thereof.
Torque transmission device comprising a clutch device which is received in a housing with a first clutch apparatus, having a first multiple disc assembly which can be actuated by way of a first actuating element, a first drive multiple disc carrier and a first output component which can be connected to a first transmission input shaft, and a second clutch apparatus having a second multiple disc assembly which can be actuated by way of a second actuating element, a second drive multiple disc carrier and a second output component which can be connected to a second transmission input shaft, the first and second drive multiple disc carriers being connected to one another or being configured in one piece, and an intermediate component being arranged operatively between the first and second multiple disc assembly (36, 60), for the support of the actuating force which acts on the first and the second multiple disc assembly, characterized in that a torsional vibration damper is arranged outside the housing with a damper input part and a damper output part which can be rotated to a limited extent with respect to the damper input part counter to the action of energy store elements, and the damper output part can be connected indirectly or directly to the drive multiple disc carrier, the intermediate component receiving a centrifugal force pendulum device, the centrifugal force pendulum device comprising a pendulum mass which is received on the intermediate component such that it can be pivoted to a limited extent, the centrifugal force pendulum device being arranged radially outside the first and second multiple disc assembly (36, 60).
A method for determining a treatment which can be carried out on a textile material item, comprising the steps of: - carrying out a first scan on an area of the textile material item by means of near infrared band, NIR, electromagnetic radiation to obtain a first signal indicative of the nature of the textile material in the scanned area; - carrying out a second scan on said area of the textile material item by means of visible band electromagnetic radiation to obtain a second signal indicative of the color of the textile material in the scanned area; wherein said first scan and second scan are performed on an unstained area of the textile material, and wherein the method further comprises the steps of: - carrying out a third scan by means of near infrared band electromagnetic radiation on a stained area of the textile material item where there is a stain, to obtain a third signal indicative of the nature of the textile material in the scanned stained area; - transmitting said first signal, second signal and third signal to an electronic processing means; - determining a treatment program for the textile material item by said electronic processing means, based on a processing of said first signal, second signal and third signal; - providing a control unit of a household appliance and/or a user interface with information about the treatment program determined by the electronic processing means. - carrying out a first scan on an area of the textile material item by means of near infrared band, NIR, electromagnetic radiation to obtain a first signal indicative of the nature of the textile material in the scanned area; - carrying out a second scan on said area of the textile material item by means of visible band electromagnetic radiation to obtain a second signal indicative of the color of the textile material in the scanned area; - carrying out a third scan by means of near infrared band electromagnetic radiation on a stained area of the textile material item where there is a stain, to obtain a third signal indicative of the nature of the textile material in the scanned stained area; - transmitting said first signal, second signal and third signal to an electronic processing means; - determining a treatment program for the textile material item by said electronic processing means, based on a processing of said first signal, second signal and third signal; - providing a control unit of a household appliance and/or a user interface with information about the treatment program determined by the electronic processing means.
Supply unit configured to supply a specific type of coffee beans, said supply unit being provided with at least a containing device in which the coffee beans of the specific type of coffee are contained, with a first volumetric feed device configured to feed a volumetrically metered quantity of coffee beans of a specific type of coffee beans from said containing device, and with a second singularized feed device configured to remove coffee beans, one at a time, in a singularized manner, from said containing device, said supply unit being characterized in that said containing device comprises a containing compartment of said type of coffee beans, and in that said second singularized feed device is installed in said compartment.
A method of quality assessing stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states for use in cell therapy for levels of cell contamination, said method comprising the steps of (i) determining a micro-RNA expression profile of the stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states to be assessed for a particular group or subset of micro-RNAs; (ii) providing a reference micro-RNA expression profile of the particular group or subset of micro-RNAs which is derived from a cell sample of stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states that conforms to a predetermined standard for the use of stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states in the cell therapy; (iii) comparing the micro-RNA expression profile determined in step (i) with the reference micro-RNA expression profile provided in step (ii); and (iv) determining from the comparison of micro-RNA expression profiles a quality assessment as to the suitability of the stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states for use in the cell therapy. (i) determining a micro-RNA expression profile of the stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states to be assessed for a particular group or subset of micro-RNAs; (ii) providing a reference micro-RNA expression profile of the particular group or subset of micro-RNAs which is derived from a cell sample of stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states that conforms to a predetermined standard for the use of stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states in the cell therapy; (iii) comparing the micro-RNA expression profile determined in step (i) with the reference micro-RNA expression profile provided in step (ii); and (iv) determining from the comparison of micro-RNA expression profiles a quality assessment as to the suitability of the stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells or their intermediate stages of differentiating to one or more terminal differentiating states for use in the cell therapy.
A terminal mounting structure for a vehicle motor drive device comprising: a plurality of electrical leads that extend from a motor coil of the vehicle motor drive device; a plurality of receive-side terminals each of which extends from a distal end of each of the electrical leads; a mounting stand that includes an electrically-insulating base and a plurality of supply-side conductive bars that are disposed at intervals and extend so as to pass through the base; a plurality of screws each of which passes through the receive-side terminal in a direction crossing an extending direction of the receive-side terminal, each of which is screwed into a screw hole formed at an end part of the supply-side conductive bar so as to cause each of the receive-side terminals to contact each of the supply-side conductive bars and to fix each of the receive-side terminals to each of the supply-side conductive bars; and a contact prevention mechanism that is provided in the mounting stand so as to prevent adjacent receive-side terminals from contacting with each other, characterized in that the end part of the conductive bar on the side of a motor chamber is formed to be eccentric from a center axis of the conductive bar, wherein an eccentric direction is directed to the motor coil. a plurality of electrical leads that extend from a motor coil of the vehicle motor drive device; a plurality of receive-side terminals each of which extends from a distal end of each of the electrical leads; a mounting stand that includes an electrically-insulating base and a plurality of supply-side conductive bars that are disposed at intervals and extend so as to pass through the base; a plurality of screws each of which passes through the receive-side terminal in a direction crossing an extending direction of the receive-side terminal, each of which is screwed into a screw hole formed at an end part of the supply-side conductive bar so as to cause each of the receive-side terminals to contact each of the supply-side conductive bars and to fix each of the receive-side terminals to each of the supply-side conductive bars; and a contact prevention mechanism that is provided in the mounting stand so as to prevent adjacent receive-side terminals from contacting with each other, characterized in that the end part of the conductive bar on the side of a motor chamber is formed to be eccentric from a center axis of the conductive bar, wherein an eccentric direction is directed to the motor coil.
A method for reprocessing used aircraft de-icing agents comprising glycol, in which the used aircraft de-icing agent, possibly contaminated with runway de-icing agent, is collected in a suitable device, the used aircraft de-icing agent is subsequently brought to a glycol content between 55 and 75% by weight without, or after only coarse, prior separation off of solid or suspended impurities, by expelling water at elevated temperature, the concentrated used aircraft de-icing agent obtained in this way is transported to a central reprocessing system, where it is subjected to a fine distillation after adjusting the pH to at least 7 by admixing an alkaline agent until the said pH is reached, and where the glycol is produced as distillate of the fine distillation. the used aircraft de-icing agent, possibly contaminated with runway de-icing agent, is collected in a suitable device, the used aircraft de-icing agent is subsequently brought to a glycol content between 55 and 75% by weight without, or after only coarse, prior separation off of solid or suspended impurities, by expelling water at elevated temperature, the concentrated used aircraft de-icing agent obtained in this way is transported to a central reprocessing system, where it is subjected to a fine distillation after adjusting the pH to at least 7 by admixing an alkaline agent until the said pH is reached, and where the glycol is produced as distillate of the fine distillation.
A method for receiving a Traffic Indication Map, TIM, element by a Station, STA, in a Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN, system, the method comprising: receiving a frame including the TIM element from an Access Point, AP; decoding a partial virtual bitmap included in the TIM element, wherein a block of the partial virtual bitmap includes concatenated Association Identifier Differential Value, ΔAID, fields, and a field following the concatenated ΔAID fields is configured to indicate the last of the concatenated ΔAID fields in order to allow said partial virtual bitmap to be decoded successfully, and wherein the ΔAID fields represent differential values encoded in an AID Differential Encode, ADE, mode. receiving a frame including the TIM element from an Access Point, AP; decoding a partial virtual bitmap included in the TIM element, wherein a block of the partial virtual bitmap includes concatenated Association Identifier Differential Value, ΔAID, fields, and a field following the concatenated ΔAID fields is configured to indicate the last of the concatenated ΔAID fields in order to allow said partial virtual bitmap to be decoded successfully, and wherein the ΔAID fields represent differential values encoded in an AID Differential Encode, ADE, mode.
Headwear used for protection of the head from impacts including both linear and angular forces to the head comprising: an inner layer for engaging an outer surface of the head of the wearer; an outer shell layer for impacting exterior objects; a plurality of components located between the inner layer and the outer shell layer and arranged at spaced positions around the head of the wearer; each of the components being arranged to allow relative movement between the outer surface of the head and the outer shell layer in a direction generally parallel to the outer surface of the head to accommodate said angular forces; wherein each of the components comprises a flexible bladder filled with a low friction liquid; wherein each of the components has an outer wall and an inner wall with the liquid therebetween such that the outer wall can slide relative to the inner wall in a direction generally parallel to the walls to accommodate said angular forces. an inner layer for engaging an outer surface of the head of the wearer; an outer shell layer for impacting exterior objects; a plurality of components located between the inner layer and the outer shell layer and arranged at spaced positions around the head of the wearer; each of the components being arranged to allow relative movement between the outer surface of the head and the outer shell layer in a direction generally parallel to the outer surface of the head to accommodate said angular forces; wherein each of the components comprises a flexible bladder filled with a low friction liquid; wherein each of the components has an outer wall and an inner wall with the liquid therebetween such that the outer wall can slide relative to the inner wall in a direction generally parallel to the walls to accommodate said angular forces.
A system for the protection of a power grid against electric faults, said power grid being connected to an electric power supply source, the system comprising: - a plurality of circuit breakers (10, 20, 30) each associated with a corresponding grid area, said plurality of circuit breakers comprising at least a first circuit breaker operatively associated with a first electronic unit and positioned at a first hierarchy level, and one or more additional circuit breakers (20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 33) each comprising a corresponding second electronic unit (120, 121, 122, 130, 131, 132, 133) and positioned at one or more additional levels hierarchically lower than said first level and in cascade to each other; characterized in that - said first circuit breaker comprises at least one semiconductor electronic breaking device, and in that said first electronic unit is configured so that, upon appearance of an electric fault in a grid area, said first electronic unit drives said semiconductor electronic breaking device so as to limit the current flowing through the semiconductor electronic breaking device for at least a predetermined period of time and sends to at least one of said one or more additional circuit breakers an intervention command suitable to allow the intervention, among the circuit breakers that detected the fault, of the circuit breaker positioned closest and immediately upstream, relative to said power supply source, of the area where the fault occurred. - a plurality of circuit breakers (10, 20, 30) each associated with a corresponding grid area, said plurality of circuit breakers comprising at least a first circuit breaker operatively associated with a first electronic unit and positioned at a first hierarchy level, and one or more additional circuit breakers (20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 33) each comprising a corresponding second electronic unit (120, 121, 122, 130, 131, 132, 133) and positioned at one or more additional levels hierarchically lower than said first level and in cascade to each other; - said first circuit breaker comprises at least one semiconductor electronic breaking device, and in that said first electronic unit is configured so that, upon appearance of an electric fault in a grid area, said first electronic unit drives said semiconductor electronic breaking device so as to limit the current flowing through the semiconductor electronic breaking device for at least a predetermined period of time and sends to at least one of said one or more additional circuit breakers an intervention command suitable to allow the intervention, among the circuit breakers that detected the fault, of the circuit breaker positioned closest and immediately upstream, relative to said power supply source, of the area where the fault occurred.