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An apparatus for an acoustic alerting system for an electric/hybrid vehicle, the apparatus comprising: - a control unit configured to receive, from a vehicle bus, vehicle state information; - a first acoustic transducer for antitheft-based alerts; - a first output in communication with the first acoustic transducer for antitheft-based alerts; - a second output configured for communication with a second acoustic transducer for Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System, AVAS, based alerts; wherein, - if the vehicle state information is related to an antitheft condition, the control unit is further configured to generate a control signal and send said control signal to the first output for activation of the first acoustic transducer; and - if the vehicle state information is related to an AVAS condition, the control unit is further configured to access a signal generator block (2, 3, 4) configured to generate an acoustic signal, based on the vehicle state information including at least one vehicle's running parameter, the control unit is further configured to send said acoustic signal to the second output for activation of the second acoustic transducer, said apparatus being characterized in that the signal generator block (2, 3, 4) comprises at least one memory storing acoustic signal samples, and wherein at least if the vehicle state information is related to an AVAS condition said signal generator block (2, 3, 4) is configured to generate said acoustic signal by causing playing back at least part of said acoustic signal samples contained in said memory, wherein, if the vehicle state information is related to the AVAS condition, the control unit is configured to cause adaptation of said acoustic signal in accordance to said at least one vehicle's running parameter, said vehicle's running parameter comprising at least an electronic data of speed and/or acceleration, and wherein said adaptation at least comprises a frequency shift of the acoustic signal depending at least on said electronic data. - a control unit configured to receive, from a vehicle bus, vehicle state information; - a first acoustic transducer for antitheft-based alerts; - a first output in communication with the first acoustic transducer for antitheft-based alerts; - a second output configured for communication with a second acoustic transducer for Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System, AVAS, based alerts; wherein, - if the vehicle state information is related to an antitheft condition, the control unit is further configured to generate a control signal and send said control signal to the first output for activation of the first acoustic transducer; and - if the vehicle state information is related to an AVAS condition, the control unit is further configured to access a signal generator block (2, 3, 4) configured to generate an acoustic signal, based on the vehicle state information including at least one vehicle's running parameter, the control unit is further configured to send said acoustic signal to the second output for activation of the second acoustic transducer,
A computer-implemented method for at least partially authenticating a person, the method comprising: receiving a color image (100, 104) and an infrared, IR image (200, 204) of a person presenting an identification to an identification scanner, the IR image taken contemporaneously with the color image, wherein the color image and the IR image each depict a face; determining a set of facial landmarks depicted in the color image; determining, from the IR image, a depth value for each facial landmark in the set of facial landmarks; determining an average depth difference based on the depth values of at least a sub-set of facial landmarks in the set of facial landmarks and a depth value of an anchor facial landmark; comparing the average depth difference to a difference threshold to provide a comparison and selectively authenticating the person based on the comparison; and further comprising at least partially authenticating the person in response to determining that an age difference exceeds a years threshold, wherein the age difference comprises one of: a difference between an actual age determined based on a birth date indicated in the identification and an estimated age determined from the color image, and a difference between an age sum and an estimated age determined from the color image, the age sum comprising a sum of an age of the identification and an estimated age determined from an image of the identification. receiving a color image (100, 104) and an infrared, IR image (200, 204) of a person presenting an identification to an identification scanner, the IR image taken contemporaneously with the color image, wherein the color image and the IR image each depict a face; determining a set of facial landmarks depicted in the color image; determining, from the IR image, a depth value for each facial landmark in the set of facial landmarks; determining an average depth difference based on the depth values of at least a sub-set of facial landmarks in the set of facial landmarks and a depth value of an anchor facial landmark; comparing the average depth difference to a difference threshold to provide a comparison and selectively authenticating the person based on the comparison; and further comprising at least partially authenticating the person in response to determining that an age difference exceeds a years threshold, wherein the age difference comprises one of: a difference between an actual age determined based on a birth date indicated in the identification and an estimated age determined from the color image, and a difference between an age sum and an estimated age determined from the color image, the age sum comprising a sum of an age of the identification and an estimated age determined from an image of the identification. a difference between an actual age determined based on a birth date indicated in the identification and an estimated age determined from the color image, and a difference between an age sum and an estimated age determined from the color image, the age sum comprising a sum of an age of the identification and an estimated age determined from an image of the identification.
A kit for performing hematoxylin and eosin staining, the kit comprising (i) a pH buffered wash solution and (ii) a hematoxylin solution, wherein said pH buffered wash solution comprises an organic acid and a polyhydroxy alcohol, wherein the organic acid is tartaric acid, and wherein the pH buffered wash solution has a pH buffering range of from about pH 2.0 to about pH 5.0.
Lifting tube with a tube wall extending around a longitudinal axis and enclosing a tube interior, wherein the lifting tube can be reversibly deformed along its longitudinal axis into an elongated configuration and, with reduction of the tube interior, a contracted configuration, wherein the tube wall has a plurality of outer crease lines, along which the tube wall can buckle to produce the contracted configuration, characterized in that the outer crease lines run obliquely to each in such a way that, when deformed into the contracted configuration, sections of the tube wall experience a torsion around the longitudinal axis.
Device for transceiving alternating optical signals, comprising: - a first part and a second part electrically isolated from each other; - a secondary emitter comprised within the second part and facing the first part, adapted to transmit an alternating optical signal; - a primary receiver comprised within the first part and facing the second part, adapted to receive said alternating optical signal and generate a corresponding analog electrical signal; and - a signal detector, comprised within the first part and connected to the primary receiver, adapted to extract an AC component with substantially zero average from said analog electrical signal, the AC component being adapted to contain useful information; characterized in that it includes: - a bias detector, comprised within the first part and connected to the primary receiver, adapted to extract a continuous component from said analog electrical signal; and - a processing and control unit connected to the first part, adapted to receive the AC component and the continuous component, and verify, depending on the continuous component, whether the AC component contains the useful information. - a first part and a second part electrically isolated from each other; - a secondary emitter comprised within the second part and facing the first part, adapted to transmit an alternating optical signal; - a primary receiver comprised within the first part and facing the second part, adapted to receive said alternating optical signal and generate a corresponding analog electrical signal; and - a signal detector, comprised within the first part and connected to the primary receiver, adapted to extract an AC component with substantially zero average from said analog electrical signal, the AC component being adapted to contain useful information; - a bias detector, comprised within the first part and connected to the primary receiver, adapted to extract a continuous component from said analog electrical signal; and - a processing and control unit connected to the first part, adapted to receive the AC component and the continuous component, and verify, depending on the continuous component, whether the AC component contains the useful information.
An exhaust brake valve for an automotive engine, comprising a valve body, an air cylinder, and a rocker arm, wherein the air cylinder includes an air inlet, a plunger cylinder and a one-way air cylinder connected to the plunger cylinder, wherein the one-way air cylinder comprises a piston, a pushing bar which is connected to the piston and extends from an output end of the air cylinder remote from the air inlet, and a return spring arranged between the output end of the air cylinder and the piston, wherein the plunger cylinder comprises a plunger piston, a one-way valve, a one-way valve spring, a pushing bar and a return spring arranged between the plunger piston and the piston of the one-way air cylinder, wherein the air inlet is connected to the one-way valve, the one-way valve is located on the plunger piston, the one-way valve spring is arranged between the one-way valve and the plunger piston, and the return spring is adapted to return the plunger piston towards the air inlet, and wherein air pressure through the air inlet and the one-way valve transmits a pushing force to the piston of the one-way air cylinder directly, whose pushing bar extends out of a shell of the air cylinder and is then rotary connected with the rocker arm. wherein the one-way air cylinder comprises a piston, a pushing bar which is connected to the piston and extends from an output end of the air cylinder remote from the air inlet, and a return spring arranged between the output end of the air cylinder and the piston, wherein the plunger cylinder comprises a plunger piston, a one-way valve, a one-way valve spring, a pushing bar and a return spring arranged between the plunger piston and the piston of the one-way air cylinder, wherein the air inlet is connected to the one-way valve, the one-way valve is located on the plunger piston, the one-way valve spring is arranged between the one-way valve and the plunger piston, and the return spring is adapted to return the plunger piston towards the air inlet, and wherein air pressure through the air inlet and the one-way valve transmits a pushing force to the piston of the one-way air cylinder directly, whose pushing bar extends out of a shell of the air cylinder and is then rotary connected with the rocker arm.
A combine comprising: an engine compartment comprising an engine for propelling the combine; a feeder housing for receiving cut crop; a separating system for threshing the cut crop to produce grain and residue; a residue chopper for chopping the residue; and a controller, characterized in that the controller is configured to: - estimate risk factors that correlate to a risk of fire in the engine compartment due to airborne particles created by at least one of the cut crop, the separating system or the residue chopper; - estimate a fire risk based on the risk factors; and - implement corrective action based on the estimated fire risk. an engine compartment comprising an engine for propelling the combine; a feeder housing for receiving cut crop; a separating system for threshing the cut crop to produce grain and residue; a residue chopper for chopping the residue; and a controller, characterized in that the controller is configured to: - estimate risk factors that correlate to a risk of fire in the engine compartment due to airborne particles created by at least one of the cut crop, the separating system or the residue chopper; - estimate a fire risk based on the risk factors; and - implement corrective action based on the estimated fire risk. - estimate risk factors that correlate to a risk of fire in the engine compartment due to airborne particles created by at least one of the cut crop, the separating system or the residue chopper; - estimate a fire risk based on the risk factors; and - implement corrective action based on the estimated fire risk.
A motion platform system comprising a motion platform which will in use be able to move in a motion envelope and which is supported on a base by a displacement mechanism comprising a plurality of displacement units, each displacement unit comprising a drive unit having a rotational output member, a crank arm driveable by the output member, and a connecting arm connected to the crank arm and to the platform by first and second connection means at its respective ends, the first connection means comprising a 3-axis bearing situated at a position away from the rotational axis of the rotational output member, characterised in the connecting arm having a configuration such that a portion of the connecting arm is offset laterally from a straight line extending between the first and second connection means and wherein the straight line extending between the first and second connection means would run through the respective crank arm or other parts of the system in at least a possible position of the movement envelope of the motion platform.
A transfer board comprising: an elongate main body portion; an enlarged end portion at each end of the main body portion, which end portion extends laterally at each side of the main body portion beyond the width of the main body portion; and a seat that is mounted on the main body portion for sliding movement along the main body portion; wherein the seat has side portions that engage respective side portions of the main body portion to retain the seat on the main body portion whilst affording said sliding movement along the main body portion; characterised in that said side portions (11, 8) of the seat and the main body portion are formed with interengaging ribs and grooves that snap engage to retain the seat on the main body portion whilst affording said sliding movement along the main body portion. an elongate main body portion; an enlarged end portion at each end of the main body portion, which end portion extends laterally at each side of the main body portion beyond the width of the main body portion; and a seat that is mounted on the main body portion for sliding movement along the main body portion; wherein the seat has side portions that engage respective side portions of the main body portion to retain the seat on the main body portion whilst affording said sliding movement along the main body portion; characterised in that said side portions (11, 8) of the seat and the main body portion are formed with interengaging ribs and grooves that snap engage to retain the seat on the main body portion whilst affording said sliding movement along the main body portion.
A device for producing calibration-true sausages, comprising: at least one sausage tube (140, 140a) having a sausage tube cross section that is constant over a sausage length, a closed end and an open end; a stuffing tube having a stuffing tube cross section and a longitudinal axis for filling the sausage tube (140, 140a) with sausage meat from a sausage meat store; and a carriage, which is arranged and formed to allow a relative movement, along the longitudinal axis of the stuffing tube, between the sausage tube (140, 140a), which is arranged on the carriage and substantially coaxially to the stuffing tube, and the stuffing tube from a first position to a second position and vice versa, wherein in the first position a section of the stuffing tube is arranged in the sausage tube and in the second position the sausage tube (140, 140a) is spaced apart from the stuffing tube in the direction of the longitudinal axis; wherein the sausage tube (140, 140a) has at the closed end thereof an opening, the diameter of which is dimensioned and arranged such that sausage products produced in the sausage tube (140, 140a) and still in the sausage tube can be driven out of the open end of the sausage tube (140, 140a) by means of a compressed air source attached to the opening. at least one sausage tube (140, 140a) having a sausage tube cross section that is constant over a sausage length, a closed end and an open end; a stuffing tube having a stuffing tube cross section and a longitudinal axis for filling the sausage tube (140, 140a) with sausage meat from a sausage meat store; and a carriage, which is arranged and formed to allow a relative movement, along the longitudinal axis of the stuffing tube, between the sausage tube (140, 140a), which is arranged on the carriage and substantially coaxially to the stuffing tube, and the stuffing tube from a first position to a second position and vice versa, wherein in the first position a section of the stuffing tube is arranged in the sausage tube and in the second position the sausage tube (140, 140a) is spaced apart from the stuffing tube in the direction of the longitudinal axis; wherein the sausage tube (140, 140a) has at the closed end thereof an opening, the diameter of which is dimensioned and arranged such that sausage products produced in the sausage tube (140, 140a) and still in the sausage tube can be driven out of the open end of the sausage tube (140, 140a) by means of a compressed air source attached to the opening.
A block copolymer comprising at least one mono vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one conjugated diene monomer, wherein the block copolymer comprises at least a first and a second homo block of a mono vinyl aromatic monomer and, between these vinyl aromatic blocks, at least one homo block of a conjugated diene and at least one random block of at least one mono vinyl aromatic monomer and at least one conjugated diene, wherein the block copolymer comprises from 20 to 50 % by weight of conjugated diene monomer, based on the total block copolymer, wherein the block copolymer has a star shaped structure and wherein the block copolymer is obtained by a process that comprises the steps of forming by sequential anionic polymerization and coupling at feast one branch with the block sequence S1-S2-B1-S3/B2-S4 and/or S2-B1-S3/B2-S4, wherein S represents homo blocks of mono vinyl aromatic monomer, B represents homo blocks of conjugated diene, and S/B represents a random block consisting of vinyl aromatic monomer and conjugated diene, where at least the polymerization step of the random block S/B takes place in the presence of a potassium salt as randomizer, and wherein the random block S/B is a block wherein the mole fraction of conjugated diene units in a section of the block is substantially the same as the mole fractions of conjugated diene units in the entire block.
A method of inhibiting fouling and corrosion in a refinery distillation tower of the type wherein crude oil is injected into the tower for fractional distillation of a plurality of fractions of said crude oil and wherein steam from a steam generator is used as stripping medium in the tower, the improved method comprising feeding a dual action amine composition into said steam generator and carrying said dual action amine in vapor form to said tower, wherein a dual action amine in said composition has a distribution ratio, being the distribution of a chemical between the steam phase and liquid phase inside the steam generator, of 4.0 or less, a pKa of 7.0 to 11.0 and an amine HCl salt volatility index of 2.5 or less, wherein the amine HCl salt volatility index is calculated from the formula: P 225 NH 4 Cl P 225 Amine ⋅ Cl + P 300 NH 4 Cl P 300 Amine ⋅ HCl 2 where P is the vapor pressure at either 107.2 Centigrade (225 °F) or 148.9 Centigrade (300 °F) and wherein the dual action amine composition does not comprise N,N-dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA).
Decorative frame for a household appliance, which is embodied in an edge-side area with a thicker section, so that it is thicker in the edge-side area than it is in an inner area adjoining it inwards, wherein the thicker section embodied in the edge-side area is embodied by attaching a separate material part to a base frame, characterised in that the base frame is embodied in one plane and has a uniform thickness, wherein the base frame and the material part are embodied from stainless steel.
A coffee machine and a capsule suitable for being used in the coffee machine, the capsule comprising a receptacle wherein the coffee to be brewed is stored, a first opening arranged on the bottom surface of the receptacle, a first foil that covers the first opening, and a magnetic member disposed on the receptacle; the coffee machine comprising a body, a brewing chamber disposed inside the body, a capsule housing disposed on the brewing chamber and wherein a capsule is placed, a cover covering the body, and a sensor disposed on the body for detecting whether the capsule is placed into the coffee machine by detecting the magnetic member on the capsule, characterized by the magnetic member arranged to be damaged or displaced by the cover when the capsule is placed into and opened by the coffee machine, such that the capsule can no longer be detected by the coffee machine.