mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A specimen retrieval apparatus comprising: an elongated tubular member defining a lumen extending therethrough and having a proximal end and a distal end; a vacuum assembly coupled to the proximal end of the elongated tubular member and in communication with the lumen extending therethrough, the vacuum assembly configured for operation in at least one of a suction mode and a pressure mode; and a suction cone disposed at the distal end of the elongated tubular member, the suction cone defining an aperture at an apex thereof, the aperture in fluid communication with the lumen of the elongated tubular member, the suction cone configured to suction a tissue specimen thereto by means of said vacuum assembly when the vacuum assembly is operating in the suction mode; characterized by a specimen retrieval bag disposed at a distal end of the elongated tubular member, the bag being inflatable from an un-deployed state to a deployed state by means of said vacuum assembly when the vacuum assembly is operating in the pressure mode. an elongated tubular member defining a lumen extending therethrough and having a proximal end and a distal end; a vacuum assembly coupled to the proximal end of the elongated tubular member and in communication with the lumen extending therethrough, the vacuum assembly configured for operation in at least one of a suction mode and a pressure mode; and a suction cone disposed at the distal end of the elongated tubular member, the suction cone defining an aperture at an apex thereof, the aperture in fluid communication with the lumen of the elongated tubular member, the suction cone configured to suction a tissue specimen thereto by means of said vacuum assembly when the vacuum assembly is operating in the suction mode; characterized by a specimen retrieval bag disposed at a distal end of the elongated tubular member, the bag being inflatable from an un-deployed state to a deployed state by means of said vacuum assembly when the vacuum assembly is operating in the pressure mode.
A method of verifying the validity of a message received by a telecommunications terminal which is operable in a boot mode and a runtime mode, the method characterized by including, in response to receiving the message when the terminal is in the runtime mode, causing the terminal to enter the boot mode; and the terminal verifying the validity of the message while operating in the boot mode.
Pharmaceutical composition characterized in that the composition comprises a synergistic combination of an antiarthritic agent, namely Chondroitin sulphate, and an interleukin-1 inhibiting agent, namely Diacerein, in addition to pharmaceutically acceptable excipients; wherein Chondroitin sulphate is present in the formulation in a concentration range from 100.0 mg to 1.2 g and Diacerein from 25.0 mg to 100.0 mg, which are formulated in a single dosage unit to be orally administered, for use in the control and treatment of Osteoarthrosis.
Method for registering a terminal with an application server (140, 150) being a member of a pool of available application servers in an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, interconnected through a network, for providing services to the terminal, the method comprising: receiving a registration request from the terminal, selecting in accordance with a predefined set of rules comprising at least two rules, an application server for servicing a requested service to the terminal wherein at least one of the rules is based on information relating to at least one of; the application server belonging to a group of application servers; policies to be applied in the IMS; the status of an application server; and the network topology of the interconnecting network; and registering the terminal with the selected application server; characterized in that it further comprises the steps of detecting the status of the application server; upon detecting a failed status of the application server, initiating the registration of a terminal registered with the application server, with a second application server, in order for the second application server to take over the services provided by the failed application server to the terminal. receiving a registration request from the terminal, selecting in accordance with a predefined set of rules comprising at least two rules, an application server for servicing a requested service to the terminal wherein at least one of the rules is based on information relating to at least one of; the application server belonging to a group of application servers; policies to be applied in the IMS; the status of an application server; and the network topology of the interconnecting network; and registering the terminal with the selected application server; characterized in that it further comprises the steps of detecting the status of the application server; upon detecting a failed status of the application server, initiating the registration of a terminal registered with the application server, with a second application server, in order for the second application server to take over the services provided by the failed application server to the terminal.
A hole formation method comprising: a hole formation step of machining a portion to be processed of a workpiece material by means of drilling to form a hole while a lubricant material for assisting machining process is in contact with at least one of a drill bit and the portion to be processed, wherein the lubricant material for assisting machining process has a sheet shape; wherein the drill bit includes at least one cutting edge and a leading flank adjacent to the cutting edge, the leading flank being set to have a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 μm or more and 3.0 μm or less, and when the portion to be processed is machined by means of drilling to form a hole, the lubricant material for assisting machining process is held on the leading flank. a hole formation step of machining a portion to be processed of a workpiece material by means of drilling to form a hole while a lubricant material for assisting machining process is in contact with at least one of a drill bit and the portion to be processed, wherein the lubricant material for assisting machining process has a sheet shape; wherein the drill bit includes at least one cutting edge and a leading flank adjacent to the cutting edge, the leading flank being set to have a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 μm or more and 3.0 μm or less, and when the portion to be processed is machined by means of drilling to form a hole, the lubricant material for assisting machining process is held on the leading flank.
A ridge waveguide laser device comprising: a substrate; a core joined to the substrate and containing a laser medium, the core being a flat plate-like core having a ridge structure portion and being formed of a material having a refractive index higher than that of the substrate; and a cladding joined only to an upper surface of the ridge-structure portion of the core, thus constituting a ridge waveguide together with the core, and characterized in that the cladding is made from a birefringent material having ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices lower than the refractive index of the core, the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices being different. a substrate; a core joined to the substrate and containing a laser medium, the core being a flat plate-like core having a ridge structure portion and being formed of a material having a refractive index higher than that of the substrate; and a cladding joined only to an upper surface of the ridge-structure portion of the core, thus constituting a ridge waveguide together with the core, and characterized in that the cladding is made from a birefringent material having ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices lower than the refractive index of the core, the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices being different.
Method for the depassivation of a lithium-thionyl battery, characterized in that a) at least one current test load (LAST) is applied to an electrode of the battery, wherein a shape, a magnitude and/or points in time of the application of the at least one current test load (LAST) occur(s) dependent on a measurement of a time-dependent response signal (u(t), du(t)) on the battery, and energy of the at least one current test load (LAST) is drawn from the battery itself, b) a comparison of the response signal (u(t), du(t)) of the battery to the at least one current test load (LAST) to at a least one predefined criterion is carried out, wherein from the_response signal (u(t), du(t)) of the battery, a temporal change variable (ddu(t)), in particular a difference (ddu(t)) between two voltage drops, is calculated from the response signal (du(t)): ddu t 2 = du t 2 − du t 1. and subsequently the c) establishment of an operating state or issuing of an error message occurs depending on satisfaction of the at least one predefined criterion. a) at least one current test load (LAST) is applied to an electrode of the battery, wherein a shape, a magnitude and/or points in time of the application of the at least one current test load (LAST) occur(s) dependent on a measurement of a time-dependent response signal (u(t), du(t)) on the battery, and energy of the at least one current test load (LAST) is drawn from the battery itself, b) a comparison of the response signal (u(t), du(t)) of the battery to the at least one current test load (LAST) to at a least one predefined criterion is carried out, wherein from the_response signal (u(t), du(t)) of the battery, a temporal change variable (ddu(t)), in particular a difference (ddu(t)) between two voltage drops, is calculated from the response signal (du(t)): ddu t 2 = du t 2 − du t 1. and subsequently the c) establishment of an operating state or issuing of an error message occurs depending on satisfaction of the at least one predefined criterion.
A melting curve analysis method for detecting the nucleotide polymorphism of the target gene using a PNA probe comprising a reporter and a quencher coupled thereto, wherein the PNA probe contains two side chains of negatively charged amino acids which, consecutively coupled, have two nucleotides in between.
Impedance matching method, for a transmitting or receiving system, comprising the following steps: - connecting, in a detachable manner, a first module (M-P) containing an amplifier to a second module (M-C) containing impedance matching computation means; - connecting, in a detachable manner, a third module (M-A) to the second module, whilst the second module is connected to the first one, the third module containing an antenna, a matching impedances network and memory means for storing control data of the impedances network, - carrying out a matching computation in the second module whilst it is thus connected in a detachable manner between the first and third modules, and providing, by the second module to the third module, control data for the matching impedances network, resulting from this computation, - storing the control data in the memory means of the third module, - removing the second module and connecting, in a detachable manner, the third module to the first module in such a way as to connect the amplifier to the antenna through the matching impedances network, the latter being controlled by the stored control data. - connecting, in a detachable manner, a first module (M-P) containing an amplifier to a second module (M-C) containing impedance matching computation means; - connecting, in a detachable manner, a third module (M-A) to the second module, whilst the second module is connected to the first one, the third module containing an antenna, a matching impedances network and memory means for storing control data of the impedances network, - carrying out a matching computation in the second module whilst it is thus connected in a detachable manner between the first and third modules, and providing, by the second module to the third module, control data for the matching impedances network, resulting from this computation, - storing the control data in the memory means of the third module, - removing the second module and connecting, in a detachable manner, the third module to the first module in such a way as to connect the amplifier to the antenna through the matching impedances network, the latter being controlled by the stored control data.
A halftone phase shift photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate, a first film serving as a halftone phase shift film on the substrate, a second film serving as a light shielding film formed contiguous to the first film, a third film serving as a hard mask film formed contiguous to the second film, and a fourth film formed contiguous to the third film, wherein the first and third films (1,3) are formed of silicon-containing materials which are resistant to chlorine base dry etching and removable by fluorine base dry etching, the second and fourth films (2,4) are formed of silicon-free, chromium-containing materials which are resistant to fluorine base dry etching and removable by chlorine base dry etching, and characterized in that the fourth film has a thickness of 30 to 120 nm. the first and third films (1,3) are formed of silicon-containing materials which are resistant to chlorine base dry etching and removable by fluorine base dry etching, the second and fourth films (2,4) are formed of silicon-free, chromium-containing materials which are resistant to fluorine base dry etching and removable by chlorine base dry etching, and characterized in that the fourth film has a thickness of 30 to 120 nm.
A security element comprising, as an authentication and forgery-protection means, a 2-dimensional non-periodic, quasi-crystalline tiling, said tiling being embodied in the form of a material or a material modification in or on said element, wherein the term "quasi-crystalline" means that the 2-dimensional tiling has internal symmetry elements, such as rotational symmetry and/or mirror symmetry, but lacks translational symmetry, i.e. that it is non-periodic at least along one dimension.
A movable furniture portion, in particular a drawer, having a rail bar arranged between a rear wall and a front panel, wherein the rail bar is mounted to the front panel by way of a rotatable adjusting member and the front panel is inclined by rotation of the adjusting member, characterised in that upon rotation of the adjusting member both the spacing of the adjusting member relative to the front panel and also relative to the rail bar is adjusted.
A method (1, 10, 40, 50, 70, 130) of distributing clock synchronization information within an optical communications network comprising a plurality of network elements, the method comprising: a. receiving an ingress clock synchronization message at a first said network element, the ingress clock synchronization message comprising a clock synchronisation message identifier and a correction field (2, 52); characterised by b. inserting the clock synchronisation message identifier into an optical channel frame overhead (3, 14, 54, 132) and inserting the ingress clock synchronisation message into an optical channel frame payload (4, 56); c. transmitting the optical channel frame overhead and the optical channel frame payload across the first network element, across the network to a second said network element, and across the second network element (5, 18, 22, 24, 42), and determining a transit time of the clock synchronisation message identifier across each of the network elements (6, 20, 44, 58, 60, 134); and d. at the second network element, updating the correction field of the ingress clock synchronisation message with said transit times to form an egress clock synchronisation message (7, 26, 28, 30, 32, 62, 74). a. receiving an ingress clock synchronization message at a first said network element, the ingress clock synchronization message comprising a clock synchronisation message identifier and a correction field (2, 52); characterised by b. inserting the clock synchronisation message identifier into an optical channel frame overhead (3, 14, 54, 132) and inserting the ingress clock synchronisation message into an optical channel frame payload (4, 56); c. transmitting the optical channel frame overhead and the optical channel frame payload across the first network element, across the network to a second said network element, and across the second network element (5, 18, 22, 24, 42), and determining a transit time of the clock synchronisation message identifier across each of the network elements (6, 20, 44, 58, 60, 134); and d. at the second network element, updating the correction field of the ingress clock synchronisation message with said transit times to form an egress clock synchronisation message (7, 26, 28, 30, 32, 62, 74).
A connection device for electrically connecting a vehicle to a charging cable provided with a charging socket, the connection device comprising a housing in which there are mounted at least a first and a second power contact (20, 22), each power contact (20, 22) comprising a front section which extends in a connection base at the front of the casing and a rear section which extends in a rear part of the casing, in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of connection of the charging socket, the connection base being provided to allow connection of the complementary charging socket, this device comprising at least one printed circuit board mounted in the rear part of the housing, the printed circuit board extending in a plane substantially parallel to the connection base. branching direction, characterised in that said printed circuit board comprises a first face provided with a first metal cushion which is compressed between the printed circuit board and the branching direction. and an axial surface of the rear section of the first power contact, and a second face provided with a first power contact sensor. temperature which is arranged opposite the first metal cushion, so as to allow rapid detection of any abnormal rise in temperature at the first power contact. connection of the charging socket, the connection base being provided to allow connection of the complementary charging socket, this device comprising at least one printed circuit board mounted in the rear part of the housing, the printed circuit board extending in a plane substantially parallel to the connection base. branching direction, characterised in that said printed circuit board comprises a first face provided with a first metal cushion which is compressed between the printed circuit board and the branching direction. and an axial surface of the rear section of the first power contact, and a second face provided with a first power contact sensor. temperature which is arranged opposite the first metal cushion, so as to allow rapid detection of any abnormal rise in temperature at the first power contact.
Use of a porous polymer etched ion-track membrane as a separator in a lithium-sulfur battery comprising at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode and at least one liquid electrolyte comprising at least one salt of a cationic ion selected in the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium and calcium in solution in at least one solvent, wherein: - said polymer is selected from the group comprising polyethyleneterephtalate, polycarbonate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyimide polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), and polyvinilidene fluorure (PVdF), - said membrane has a frontside, a backside, and a thickness, - the frontside of said membrane is designed to face the positive electrode, - the backside of said membrane is designed to face the negative electrode, - the thickness of said membrane between said frontside and said backside is ranging from about 5 to 60 μm, - said membrane comprises a plurality of nanochannels, - the majority in number of said nanochannels is continuous and has an opening tip at the frontside and an opening tip at the backside of said membrane, - the opening tip diameter of each of said nanochannels at the frontside of said membrane (D FS) ranges from about 10 to 200 nm, - the opening tip diameter distribution of the nanochannels at the front side and at the back side is narrow, wherein narrow means that all nanochannels of the membrane have approximately the same opening tip diameter ± 0-10%. - said polymer is selected from the group comprising polyethyleneterephtalate, polycarbonate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyimide polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), and polyvinilidene fluorure (PVdF), - said membrane has a frontside, a backside, and a thickness, - the frontside of said membrane is designed to face the positive electrode, - the backside of said membrane is designed to face the negative electrode, - the thickness of said membrane between said frontside and said backside is ranging from about 5 to 60 μm, - said membrane comprises a plurality of nanochannels, - the majority in number of said nanochannels is continuous and has an opening tip at the frontside and an opening tip at the backside of said membrane, - the opening tip diameter of each of said nanochannels at the frontside of said membrane (D FS) ranges from about 10 to 200 nm, - the opening tip diameter distribution of the nanochannels at the front side and at the back side is narrow, wherein narrow means that all nanochannels of the membrane have approximately the same opening tip diameter ± 0-10%.
Rail vehicle braking device comprising at least one first electrodynamic brake (24; 80), which comprises a drive unit, which has at least one drive motor and a power supply unit for supplying power to the drive motor in a traction mode of the drive unit, and at least one braking regulation unit (22; 82), which has the respective power supply unit and at least one braking control unit (28, 30; 84), which, in a first braking mode, controls the respective power supply unit so as to provide a braking effect, characterized by at least one sensor unit (58; 86), which is provided for detecting at least one braking effect characteristic quantity for the first braking mode of the brake (24; 80), and at least one first braking monitoring apparatus (53; 190), which is assigned to the first brake (24; 80), is independent of the braking regulation unit (22; 82) and is provided for taking into consideration the braking effect characteristic quantity for initiating a fallback measure relating to the brake (24; 80) in a first monitoring mode.