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A steerable catheter for delivering and deploying a medical device comprising: an elongate tubular outer sheath having proximal and distal ends and a linear axis; a housing mounted to the distal end of the sheath, the housing defining a chamber adapted to contain the medical device, the housing having an open distal port at its distal end; an inner shaft extending through the sheath, the inner shaft being relatively inextensible under tension; an abutment secured to the distal end of the inner shaft, the abutment being disposed in the chamber and defining the proximal end of the chamber, the inner shaft and abutment being movable longitudinally with respect to the sheath and housing; the outer sheath having a shelf adjacent the proximal region of the housing and proximal of the abutment, the shelf being adapted to be engaged by a proximally facing surface of the abutment to apply a compressive force to the outer sheath in response to tensioning of the inner shaft; the outer sheath being sufficiently torsionally rigid to transmit, controllably, rotation applied at the proximal end to the distal end; the outer sheath being constructed to bend longitudinally away from the linear axis under a compressive load applied by the abutment against the shelf, the degree of bending corresponding to the degree of compression applied to the sheath; and the outer sheath being retractable relative to the abutment whereby a medical device contained in the chamber may be at least partially deployed at a selected location by retracting the outer sheath relative to the abutment. an elongate tubular outer sheath having proximal and distal ends and a linear axis; a housing mounted to the distal end of the sheath, the housing defining a chamber adapted to contain the medical device, the housing having an open distal port at its distal end; an inner shaft extending through the sheath, the inner shaft being relatively inextensible under tension; an abutment secured to the distal end of the inner shaft, the abutment being disposed in the chamber and defining the proximal end of the chamber, the inner shaft and abutment being movable longitudinally with respect to the sheath and housing; the outer sheath having a shelf adjacent the proximal region of the housing and proximal of the abutment, the shelf being adapted to be engaged by a proximally facing surface of the abutment to apply a compressive force to the outer sheath in response to tensioning of the inner shaft; the outer sheath being sufficiently torsionally rigid to transmit, controllably, rotation applied at the proximal end to the distal end; the outer sheath being constructed to bend longitudinally away from the linear axis under a compressive load applied by the abutment against the shelf, the degree of bending corresponding to the degree of compression applied to the sheath; and the outer sheath being retractable relative to the abutment whereby a medical device contained in the chamber may be at least partially deployed at a selected location by retracting the outer sheath relative to the abutment.
A secure document, comprising: - a first layer comprising a metallic holographic structure forming an arrangement of pixels each comprising a plurality of sub-pixels of discrete colors; and - a second layer positioned facing the first layer, said second layer being opaque with respect at least to the visible wavelength spectrum; - wherein the first layer comprises first perforations formed by a first laser radiation, at least a first part of the first perforations revealing locally through the holographic structure, dark areas in the sub-pixels caused by underlying regions of the second opaque layer which are located facing said at least one first part of the first perforations, so as to form a customized image from the arrangement of pixels combined with the dark areas. - a first layer comprising a metallic holographic structure forming an arrangement of pixels each comprising a plurality of sub-pixels of discrete colors; and - a second layer positioned facing the first layer, said second layer being opaque with respect at least to the visible wavelength spectrum; - wherein the first layer comprises first perforations formed by a first laser radiation, at least a first part of the first perforations revealing locally through the holographic structure, dark areas in the sub-pixels caused by underlying regions of the second opaque layer which are located facing said at least one first part of the first perforations, so as to form a customized image from the arrangement of pixels combined with the dark areas.
A method for inhibiting methane production by a methanogen during an anaerobic reductive dechlorination process of soil or groundwater, the method comprising: contacting the methanogen with an effective amount of a composition comprising red yeast rice to target one or more enzymes and coenzymes, including 8-hydroxy-5-deazaflavin (Coenzyme F 420), that are responsible for methane production in order to positively affect competition of the methanogen and halo bacteria for organic hydrogen donors injected into the soil and the groundwater during the anaerobic reductive dechlorination process.
A polyester resin composition, comprising: a polyester resin that is obtained from a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof and a diol as main raw material; and a copper-containing compound and a nitrogen-containing chelate ligand having a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic structure or a tertiary amine structure that are mixed with the polyester resin, wherein 0.001 to 0.5 mmol of the copper-containing compound is mixed on a copper atom basis relative to 100g of the polyester resin. a polyester resin that is obtained from a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative thereof and a diol as main raw material; and a copper-containing compound and a nitrogen-containing chelate ligand having a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic structure or a tertiary amine structure that are mixed with the polyester resin, wherein 0.001 to 0.5 mmol of the copper-containing compound is mixed on a copper atom basis relative to 100g of the polyester resin.
A system suitable for synchronization of optical atomic clocks using quantum interference of time-entangled photons, the system comprising a substrate having a first index of refraction; and a waveguide layer on the substrate, wherein the waveguide layer has a second index of refraction different from the first index of refraction, the waveguide layer comprising: one or more mode splitters that are suitable to receive a first photon in a first mode and a second photon in a second mode through an input port and suitable to provide the first photon through a first output port and the second photon through a second output port; and a mode converter coupled to the second output of a mode splitter in the one or more mode splitters; wherein: the mode converter is suitable to receive the second photon through a port and is suitable to output the second photon in the first mode through the port; and wherein the mode converter comprises a waveguide coupled to the port and is configured to cause the second photon to output through the port propagating in the first mode. the system comprising a substrate having a first index of refraction; and a waveguide layer on the substrate, wherein the waveguide layer has a second index of refraction different from the first index of refraction, the waveguide layer comprising: one or more mode splitters that are suitable to receive a first photon in a first mode and a second photon in a second mode through an input port and suitable to provide the first photon through a first output port and the second photon through a second output port; and a mode converter coupled to the second output of a mode splitter in the one or more mode splitters; one or more mode splitters that are suitable to receive a first photon in a first mode and a second photon in a second mode through an input port and suitable to provide the first photon through a first output port and the second photon through a second output port; and a mode converter coupled to the second output of a mode splitter in the one or more mode splitters; wherein: the mode converter is suitable to receive the second photon through a port and is suitable to output the second photon in the first mode through the port; and wherein the mode converter comprises a waveguide coupled to the port and is configured to cause the second photon to output through the port propagating in the first mode. the mode converter is suitable to receive the second photon through a port and is suitable to output the second photon in the first mode through the port; and wherein the mode converter comprises a waveguide coupled to the port and is configured to cause the second photon to output through the port propagating in the first mode.
Swing door with a door leaf, a door jamb and a stop protection device that is built on the front side of the door leaf, wherein the front side faces away the hinges of the swing door, wherein the stop protection device comprises a push rod and a lever mounted sucht that it is pivotable in the and against the opening direction of the swing door, wherein the lever is arranged in a gap between the front side and the door jamb in its pivot in position during the closed swing door and, as soon as the lever is exposed from the door jamb during the opening of the swing door, protrudes from the front side with its one lever arm in its pivot out position, so that a stop protection of the door leaf edge is achieved by the lever arm during the opening of the swing door, wherein the other lever arm is coupled with the one longitudinal end of the push rod and the other longitudinal end of the push rod is coupled with a driver attached on the door jamb, so that the lever is pushed from the pivot in position in the pivot out position during the opening of the swing door and from the pivot out position in the pivot in position during the closing of the swing door by the driver via the push rod, characterized in that the stop protection device comprises a first biasing means that is supported on the door jamb and engages on the lever, so that, as soon as the lever is exposed from the door jamb and the lever is decoupled from the driver, the lever is held in the pivot out position by the first biasing means.
Integrating analog-to-digital converter, comprising: - a measuring voltage input for application of an analog measurement voltage (U M) to be digitalised, the input being connected by way of a measuring resistor (R M) with the inverting input of an integrator, - a first reference voltage input for application of a first reference voltage (U ref1) and a second reference voltage input ( for application of a second reference voltage (U ref2), wherein the first and the second reference voltage inputs (18, 20) are connected - alternatively to one another - by means of a first reference voltage switch (16, 16') with the inverting input of the integrator by way of a first reference resistance (R ref), - a comparator, which is downstream of the integrator, for comparison of a test voltage, which is present at its comparator test voltage input, with a comparator reference voltage present at its comparator reference voltage input, wherein the comparator test voltage input is connected with the output of the integrator and - a control device arranged to cyclically actuate the first reference voltage switch (16, 16') and to measure time intervals between individual switching processes, characterised in that an inverter inverting the measurement voltage (U M) and a first heating resistance (R MH) thermally coupled with the measurement resistor (R M) are connected in series between the measuring voltage input and the output of the first reference voltage switch (16, 16'), wherein the total loss power arising at the measuring resistance (R M), heating resistance (R MH) and reference resistance (R ref) is independent of the measurement value. - a measuring voltage input for application of an analog measurement voltage (U M) to be digitalised, the input being connected by way of a measuring resistor (R M) with the inverting input of an integrator, - a first reference voltage input for application of a first reference voltage (U ref1) and a second reference voltage input ( for application of a second reference voltage (U ref2), wherein the first and the second reference voltage inputs (18, 20) are connected - alternatively to one another - by means of a first reference voltage switch (16, 16') with the inverting input of the integrator by way of a first reference resistance (R ref), - a comparator, which is downstream of the integrator, for comparison of a test voltage, which is present at its comparator test voltage input, with a comparator reference voltage present at its comparator reference voltage input, wherein the comparator test voltage input is connected with the output of the integrator and - a control device arranged to cyclically actuate the first reference voltage switch (16, 16') and to measure time intervals between individual switching processes,
A heat exchanger (102, 104) comprising: plate-shaped fins; a plurality of heat transfer pipes attached to the tube insertion parts formed in the fins so as to intersect the fins, and headers (153, 154) in which ends of the heat transfer pipes are inserted into heat transfer-pipe-attaching portions (153a, 154a), wherein the heat transfer pipes are disposed at intervals in a long-edge direction of the fins, each of the heat transfer pipes has a shape in which a horizontal width thereof along a short-edge direction of the fins is larger than a vertical width thereof along the long-edge direction of the fins, each of the tube insertion parts are formed as an opening such that the tube insertion part extends in the short-edge direction and such that a portion thereof on one edge of the fin is open, and the fins have a wave shape at at least a portion thereof and, characterised by each of the crests and troughs in the wave shape extending through the short-edge direction of the fins, the fins are capable of expanding and contracting in the long-edge direction such that a pitch of the tube insertion parts of the fins is adjusted to a pitch of the heat-transfer-attaching portions (153a, 154a) in the headers (153, 154). plate-shaped fins; a plurality of heat transfer pipes attached to the tube insertion parts formed in the fins so as to intersect the fins, and headers (153, 154) in which ends of the heat transfer pipes are inserted into heat transfer-pipe-attaching portions (153a, 154a), wherein the heat transfer pipes are disposed at intervals in a long-edge direction of the fins, each of the heat transfer pipes has a shape in which a horizontal width thereof along a short-edge direction of the fins is larger than a vertical width thereof along the long-edge direction of the fins, each of the tube insertion parts are formed as an opening such that the tube insertion part extends in the short-edge direction and such that a portion thereof on one edge of the fin is open, and the fins have a wave shape at at least a portion thereof and, characterised by each of the crests and troughs in the wave shape extending through the short-edge direction of the fins, the fins are capable of expanding and contracting in the long-edge direction such that a pitch of the tube insertion parts of the fins is adjusted to a pitch of the heat-transfer-attaching portions (153a, 154a) in the headers (153, 154).
Trench cutter, comprising - at least one pair of cutting wheels, - at least one bearing plate on which the cutting wheels of a pair are rotatably arranged on the two sides of the bearing plate, - a base frame on the underside of which the at least one bearing plate is attached, and - a cutting wheel drive for driving the cutting wheels via a transmission lubricated with transmission oil in the bearing plate, characterized - in that at least one heat exchanger is arranged above the bearing plate, and - in that for cooling the transmission oil, an oil circuit is formed to which the at least one heat exchanger is connected above the bearing plate. - at least one pair of cutting wheels, - at least one bearing plate on which the cutting wheels of a pair are rotatably arranged on the two sides of the bearing plate, - a base frame on the underside of which the at least one bearing plate is attached, and - a cutting wheel drive for driving the cutting wheels via a transmission lubricated with transmission oil in the bearing plate, - in that at least one heat exchanger is arranged above the bearing plate, and - in that for cooling the transmission oil, an oil circuit is formed to which the at least one heat exchanger is connected above the bearing plate.
A method for avoiding interferences in Frequency Division Duplex operating areas, comprising coordinating the use of radio resources between a macro base station and short range coverage extension nodes SCENs deployed within the coverage area of said macro base station and operating in Frequency Division Duplex FDD mode, by sending messages from said macro base station and/or said SCENs, wherein the method is characterised in that it comprises: sending said messages by means of a synchronized Time Division Duplex TDD air interface between said SCENs and said macro base station; wherein said sending comprises sending said messages either unidirectionally from said macro base station towards said SCENs by broadcasting or bidirectionally, by a message interchanging, between said macro base station and each of said SCENs, by corresponding dedicated channels, wherein to avoid interferences in downlink and uplink FDD communications said messages comprise a list of FDD radio resources that could be used in the next radio frame; wherein said list is sent from said macro base station to the SCENs and includes unused or guaranteed radio resources on a radio frame by radio frame basis, enforcing said SCENs to use said unused or guaranteed radio resources for service end users, wherein said TDD air interface is deployed in a frequency band different from FDD uplink and downlink frequency bands. sending said messages by means of a synchronized Time Division Duplex TDD air interface between said SCENs and said macro base station; wherein said sending comprises sending said messages either unidirectionally from said macro base station towards said SCENs by broadcasting or bidirectionally, by a message interchanging, between said macro base station and each of said SCENs, by corresponding dedicated channels, wherein to avoid interferences in downlink and uplink FDD communications said messages comprise a list of FDD radio resources that could be used in the next radio frame; wherein said list is sent from said macro base station to the SCENs and includes unused or guaranteed radio resources on a radio frame by radio frame basis, enforcing said SCENs to use said unused or guaranteed radio resources for service end users, wherein said TDD air interface is deployed in a frequency band different from FDD uplink and downlink frequency bands.
A method for processing email messages, the method comprising: receiving, at a server an email that has an associated expiration time value, wherein the expiration time value represents a time period for which the email is maintained in a first folder on the server prior to automatic deletion; transmitting, from the server, a copy of the received email to a second folder on a client device in communication with the server, the second folder on the client device being synchronized with the first folder on the server; monitoring the received email to determine if the time period corresponding to the expiration time value is lapsed; determining if the transmitted copy of the received email is still in the second folder on the client device; and in response to (i) determining that the time period corresponding to the value of expiration has lapsed, and (ii) that the transmitted copy of the received email is still in the second folder on the client device, automatically deleting the received email from the first folder on the server. receiving, at a server an email that has an associated expiration time value, wherein the expiration time value represents a time period for which the email is maintained in a first folder on the server prior to automatic deletion; transmitting, from the server, a copy of the received email to a second folder on a client device in communication with the server, the second folder on the client device being synchronized with the first folder on the server; monitoring the received email to determine if the time period corresponding to the expiration time value is lapsed; determining if the transmitted copy of the received email is still in the second folder on the client device; and in response to (i) determining that the time period corresponding to the value of expiration has lapsed, and (ii) that the transmitted copy of the received email is still in the second folder on the client device, automatically deleting the received email from the first folder on the server.
A process for producing synthetic fuels, in which in a first process stage an educt mixture containing steam and oxygenates, such as methanol and/or dimethyl ether, is converted to olefins on a catalyst, this olefin mixture is divided in a separating means into a C 1 -C 4 fraction and a C 5+ fraction, the C 5+ fraction is divided into a pentene and hexene fraction and fractions with seven or more carbon atoms, the pentene and hexene fraction is at least partly subjected to an etherification with methanol, and the ethers thus obtained are admixed to the fractions with seven or more carbon atoms characterized in that a partial stream of the C 5 and C 6 fraction is guided past the etherification and admixed directly to the fractions with seven or more carbon atoms.
Method for producing a node structure with at least two profile members (120, 130), in particular made of fibre plastic composite material, which should be connected securely with one another at one of their profile ends (121, 131) in a connection node, comprising the steps - providing the prefabricated profile members (120, 130) which are designed at their profile ends (121, 131), which to be connected, with corresponding abutting surfaces (122, 132); - a positioning the profile ends (121, 131) in a pressing tool generating the connection node such that between the abutting surfaces (122, 132) there exists a homogeneous spacing gap, wherein the spacing gap has a gap measurement of 0.25 mm to 3 mm; - carrying out a pressing procedure with the addition of short-fibre plastic mass for generating a connection node connecting in form-fitting manner the profile ends (121, 131), wherein prior to the closing of the pressing tool the short-fibre plastic mass is introduced into its tool cavity and during the pressing procedure also penetrates into the spacing gap. - providing the prefabricated profile members (120, 130) which are designed at their profile ends (121, 131), which to be connected, with corresponding abutting surfaces (122, 132); - a positioning the profile ends (121, 131) in a pressing tool generating the connection node such that between the abutting surfaces (122, 132) there exists a homogeneous spacing gap, wherein the spacing gap has a gap measurement of 0.25 mm to 3 mm; - carrying out a pressing procedure with the addition of short-fibre plastic mass for generating a connection node connecting in form-fitting manner the profile ends (121, 131), wherein prior to the closing of the pressing tool the short-fibre plastic mass is introduced into its tool cavity and during the pressing procedure also penetrates into the spacing gap.