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A leather bicycle saddle, comprising: a leather cover; an arc support mounted at a bottom side of said leather cover, said arc support having a front end terminating in a head abutment portion and an opposing rear end affixed to a rear side of said leather cover; and an adjustment device mounted at said bottom side of said leather cover, said adjustment device comprising a screw bolt holder, an adjustment screw bolt and an adjustment seat, said screw bolt holder being affixed to a front bottom side of said leather cover and comprising a stop wall and a through hole located at said stop wall, said adjustment screw bolt comprising a bolt head and a screw shank, said bolt head being abutted against said stop wall of said screw bolt holder and being rotatably received in said through hole of said screw bolt holder, said screw shank having one end thereof fixedly connected to said bolt head, said adjustment seat comprising a seat block and a stop block, said seat block defining therein a mounting slot and a screw hole, said mounting slot and said screw hole being kept apart, said mounting slot defining a close end and an opposing open end, said head abutment portion of said arc support being abutted against said close end of said mounting slot, wherein said stop block is detachably engaged into said open end of said mounting slot, and said screw hole is adapted for receiving said screw shank of said adjustment screw bolt, said adjustment seat being forwardly turnable about said head abutment portion from a horizontal position to an inclined position. a leather cover; an arc support mounted at a bottom side of said leather cover, said arc support having a front end terminating in a head abutment portion and an opposing rear end affixed to a rear side of said leather cover; and an adjustment device mounted at said bottom side of said leather cover, said adjustment device comprising a screw bolt holder, an adjustment screw bolt and an adjustment seat, said screw bolt holder being affixed to a front bottom side of said leather cover and comprising a stop wall and a through hole located at said stop wall, said adjustment screw bolt comprising a bolt head and a screw shank, said bolt head being abutted against said stop wall of said screw bolt holder and being rotatably received in said through hole of said screw bolt holder, said screw shank having one end thereof fixedly connected to said bolt head, said adjustment seat comprising a seat block and a stop block, said seat block defining therein a mounting slot and a screw hole, said mounting slot and said screw hole being kept apart, said mounting slot defining a close end and an opposing open end, said head abutment portion of said arc support being abutted against said close end of said mounting slot, wherein said stop block is detachably engaged into said open end of said mounting slot, and said screw hole is adapted for receiving said screw shank of said adjustment screw bolt, said adjustment seat being forwardly turnable about said head abutment portion from a horizontal position to an inclined position.
A vaccine, comprising (a) one or more polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 94% identity to SEQ ID NO:2 capable of eliciting an immune response against an Ehrlichia sp.; and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant. (a) one or more polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 94% identity to SEQ ID NO:2 capable of eliciting an immune response against an Ehrlichia sp.; and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvant.
A method of producing reshaped final plastic granules, comprising the step of: - providing a plurality of initial granules with a predetermined shape, each initial granule having (a) a main plane defined by the two largest, substantially orthogonal dimensions thereof and (b) a primary thickness defined as the dimension thereof in a direction orthogonal to the main plane of the granule, and (c) a predetermined average surface-to-volume ratio of at most 3 mm 2 /mm 3, wherein the primary thickness of the initial granules is at least 1 mm within substantially the entire volume of the granules, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of: - continuously feeding said plurality of initial granules into a pressing unit adapted for mechanically reshaping the initial granules, said pressing unit comprising at least two opposite smooth pressing surfaces with a gap therebetween, the width of said gap ranging from 0,05 mm to 0,7 mm, and - mechanically reshaping the initial granules by means of said pressing unit to produce reshaped final granules, each reshaped final granule having a surface-to-volume ratio of at least 4 mm 2 /mm 3 and a primary thickness of at most 0.7 mm within substantially the entire volume of each of the reshaped final granules. - providing a plurality of initial granules with a predetermined shape, each initial granule having (a) a main plane defined by the two largest, substantially orthogonal dimensions thereof and (b) a primary thickness defined as the dimension thereof in a direction orthogonal to the main plane of the granule, and (c) a predetermined average surface-to-volume ratio of at most 3 mm 2 /mm 3, wherein the primary thickness of the initial granules is at least 1 mm within substantially the entire volume of the granules, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of: - continuously feeding said plurality of initial granules into a pressing unit adapted for mechanically reshaping the initial granules, said pressing unit comprising at least two opposite smooth pressing surfaces with a gap therebetween, the width of said gap ranging from 0,05 mm to 0,7 mm, and - mechanically reshaping the initial granules by means of said pressing unit to produce reshaped final granules, each reshaped final granule having a surface-to-volume ratio of at least 4 mm 2 /mm 3 and a primary thickness of at most 0.7 mm within substantially the entire volume of each of the reshaped final granules.
A method for producing a Cu-Ni-Sn alloy by a continuous casting method or a semi-continuous casting method, the method comprising: pouring a molten Cu-Ni-Sn alloy from one end of a mold, both ends of which are open, and continuously drawing out the alloy as an ingot from the other end of the mold while solidifying a part of the alloy, the part being near the mold, performing primary cooling by spraying a liquid mist on the drawn-out ingot, and performing secondary cooling by immersing the ingot having been subjected to the primary cooling in a liquid, thereby making a cast product of the Cu-Ni-Sn alloy, wherein the primary cooling is performed by allowing the ingot to pass through a separate cooler disposed immediately below the mold, wherein the cooler comprises: a columnar main body; a liquid supply part provided at an upper part of the columnar main body and configured in such a way as to discharge the liquid downward; and an air ejection part that ejects air toward a central axis of the columnar main body, the air ejection part provided below the liquid supply part. pouring a molten Cu-Ni-Sn alloy from one end of a mold, both ends of which are open, and continuously drawing out the alloy as an ingot from the other end of the mold while solidifying a part of the alloy, the part being near the mold, performing primary cooling by spraying a liquid mist on the drawn-out ingot, and performing secondary cooling by immersing the ingot having been subjected to the primary cooling in a liquid, thereby making a cast product of the Cu-Ni-Sn alloy, wherein the primary cooling is performed by allowing the ingot to pass through a separate cooler disposed immediately below the mold, wherein the cooler comprises: a columnar main body; a liquid supply part provided at an upper part of the columnar main body and configured in such a way as to discharge the liquid downward; and an air ejection part that ejects air toward a central axis of the columnar main body, the air ejection part provided below the liquid supply part. a columnar main body; a liquid supply part provided at an upper part of the columnar main body and configured in such a way as to discharge the liquid downward; and an air ejection part that ejects air toward a central axis of the columnar main body, the air ejection part provided below the liquid supply part.
A method for controlling a pixel of an image sensor, wherein each pixel of the image sensor comprises at least one photodiode formed in a semiconductor active layer by a doped region of a first type of conductivity covered by a superficial region of the opposite type maintained at a nil reference potential, and an anti-blooming gate above the active layer, adjacent on one side to the photodiode and on another side to a drain for evacuating electric charges, connected to a reference potential, the sensor operating periodically with at each period a determined duration of integration (Ti), characterized in that the anti-blooming gate is set, during most of the duration of integration, to a blocking potential creating in the active layer beneath the gate a potential barrier of a first height, and, during a series of brief pulses over the duration of integration, to a positive anti-blooming potential creating beneath the gate a potential barrier of a second height, lower than the first, this latter potential barrier retaining the charges representing the lighting in the photodiode up to a blooming threshold.
A method for establishing a communication path in an optical network, the communication path comprising a plurality of sections, wherein the power level of a section is controlled by a respective power control unit of a network node, the method comprising the steps of: in response to a request to establish a communication path, controlling a plurality of power control units to perform a first power-up mode of operation, wherein the first power-up mode of operation comprises the step of setting a power control factor of a respective section of the communication path directly to a value estimated to provide a first power level in a single step; further comprising the steps of controlling each one of the plurality of power control units to perform a second power-up mode of operation, wherein the second power-up mode of operation provides a fine tuning of the first power level to a target power level, wherein the first power-up mode or second power-up mode is performed in two or more sections in parallel in time. in response to a request to establish a communication path, controlling a plurality of power control units to perform a first power-up mode of operation, wherein the first power-up mode of operation comprises the step of setting a power control factor of a respective section of the communication path directly to a value estimated to provide a first power level in a single step; further comprising the steps of controlling each one of the plurality of power control units to perform a second power-up mode of operation, wherein the second power-up mode of operation provides a fine tuning of the first power level to a target power level, wherein the first power-up mode or second power-up mode is performed in two or more sections in parallel in time.
A system for interrogating an interferometer, the system comprising: an optical signals generation system for concurrently generating a plurality of optical signals that each have a different modulation parameter and optically coupling each of the plurality of optical signals to a plurality of optical ports (16, 18, 20) of the interferometer for ingress of the plurality of optical signals into the interferometer; and an interferometer output processing system configured to determine a plurality of transfer values indicative of the fractional power distribution of each optical signal at each of the plurality of optical ports by exploiting the different modulation parameter of each of the plurality of optical signals, the interferometer output processing system being configured to determine an ingress optical power and an egress optical power (O1, O2, O3) at each of the plurality of ports, and further configured to determine an optical phase shift generated within the interferometer using the plurality of transfer values, the ingress optical power and the egress optical power at each of the plurality of optical ports (16, 18, 20), wherein the plurality of optical signals when so generated have different amplitude modulation frequencies and the interferometer output processing system is configured to generate the fractional distribution by measuring different frequency components in the plurality of optical signals generated by the different amplitude modulation frequencies. an optical signals generation system for concurrently generating a plurality of optical signals that each have a different modulation parameter and optically coupling each of the plurality of optical signals to a plurality of optical ports (16, 18, 20) of the interferometer for ingress of the plurality of optical signals into the interferometer; and an interferometer output processing system configured to determine a plurality of transfer values indicative of the fractional power distribution of each optical signal at each of the plurality of optical ports by exploiting the different modulation parameter of each of the plurality of optical signals, the interferometer output processing system being configured to determine an ingress optical power and an egress optical power (O1, O2, O3) at each of the plurality of ports, and further configured to determine an optical phase shift generated within the interferometer using the plurality of transfer values, the ingress optical power and the egress optical power at each of the plurality of optical ports (16, 18, 20), wherein the plurality of optical signals when so generated have different amplitude modulation frequencies and the interferometer output processing system is configured to generate the fractional distribution by measuring different frequency components in the plurality of optical signals generated by the different amplitude modulation frequencies.
A diagnostic method for adult T-cell leukemia, comprising the steps of: measuring an amount of a marker protein in a blood sample taken from a subject, wherein the marker protein is Coagulation Factor Xa; and if a measured value is a predetermined reference value or more, determining that when the subject is a carrier of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) or an individual in remission of ATL, the subject suffers from, or is likely to develop, ATL. measuring an amount of a marker protein in a blood sample taken from a subject, wherein the marker protein is Coagulation Factor Xa; and if a measured value is a predetermined reference value or more, determining that when the subject is a carrier of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) or an individual in remission of ATL, the subject suffers from, or is likely to develop, ATL.
Use of a circuit arrangement comprising power electronics components for discharging a surge current, the surge current being a surge current which occurs in the case of transient overvoltages of the 8/20 μs or 10/350 μs pulse shape, the circuit arrangement being a power supply unit, a DC-DC converter, an inverter, a step-up or step-down converter or a power supply device of this type, the circuit arrangement including a driver and a power semiconductor, the driver driving the power semiconductor to ensure the current or voltage supply to a load (R1; R2) connected to the circuit arrangement, and the power semiconductor being arranged in a shunt arm of the circuit arrangement, the circuit arrangement including a sensor for detecting transient overvoltages (Isurge), the sensor being in communication with the driver, wherein when an overvoltage event is detected, the driver causes the power semiconductor in the shunt arm to be turned on such that the surge current is safely discharged and the parts of the circuit arrangement are not damaged or destroyed by the respective overvoltage event. the circuit arrangement being a power supply unit, a DC-DC converter, an inverter, a step-up or step-down converter or a power supply device of this type, the circuit arrangement including a driver and a power semiconductor, the driver driving the power semiconductor to ensure the current or voltage supply to a load (R1; R2) connected to the circuit arrangement, and the power semiconductor being arranged in a shunt arm of the circuit arrangement, the circuit arrangement including a sensor for detecting transient overvoltages (Isurge), the sensor being in communication with the driver, wherein when an overvoltage event is detected, the driver causes the power semiconductor in the shunt arm to be turned on such that the surge current is safely discharged and the parts of the circuit arrangement are not damaged or destroyed by the respective overvoltage event.
A method, performed by a network node, for transmitting data on a shared channel in a wireless network, the method comprising: performing a plurality of listen-before-talk, LBT, assessments for a corresponding plurality of substantially disjoint subsets of resources of a shared channel; based on the plurality of LBT assessments and on respective thresholds related to respective sizes of the plurality of resource subsets, determining that at least one resource subset is available for transmission; and transmitting signals or data to one or more user equipment, UE, using only resources selected from the at least one resource subset determined to be available. performing a plurality of listen-before-talk, LBT, assessments for a corresponding plurality of substantially disjoint subsets of resources of a shared channel; based on the plurality of LBT assessments and on respective thresholds related to respective sizes of the plurality of resource subsets, determining that at least one resource subset is available for transmission; and transmitting signals or data to one or more user equipment, UE, using only resources selected from the at least one resource subset determined to be available.
A sheath for producing a fully sealed access to the interior of a vessel of an animal or human body, comprising a base sheath having a distal end and a proximal end and a tubular body defining a pass-through channel, with the base sheath being adapted to be inserted into the vessel through a vessel aperture, characterized in that a wall of the tubular body of the base sheath has a through channel extending in the wall from the distal end towards the proximal end and existing in addition to the pass-through channel, wherein the sheath comprises a hemostatic valve 24, and wherein the through channel is adapted to conduct blood from the vessel towards the proximal end, allowing to ascertain a sufficient penetration depth of the sheath into the vessel.
Fitting for a metallically sealing joint with at least one metallic pipe, having - a metal fitting base body and - a press sleeve (56, 58), - wherein the fitting base body has a socket (82, 84) with an internal diameter adapted to the external diameter of the pipe to be joined, - wherein the press sleeve (56, 58) has at one end a receiving portion for receiving an end part of the socket (82, 84), - wherein the press sleeve (56, 58) has a pressing portion, the inner profile of which tapers in the axial direction to a diameter smaller than the external diameter of the fitting base body, - wherein in a starting position, the fitting base body is partly inserted into the press sleeve (56, 58), characterized in - that the socket (82, 84) has an cylindrical form and a cylindrical edge, wherein cylindrical is to be understood as a straight cylinder, and - that the inner profile of the pressing portion is capable, during an axial displacement onto the fitting base body, of flanging the edge of the socket (82, 84) inwardly, wherein the edge of the socket (82, 84) is pressed into the material of the pipe as a cutting edge, and of tapering the edge of the socket (82, 84) to an internal diameter which is smaller than the external diameter of the pipe to be joined. - a metal fitting base body and - a press sleeve (56, 58), - wherein the fitting base body has a socket (82, 84) with an internal diameter adapted to the external diameter of the pipe to be joined, - wherein the press sleeve (56, 58) has at one end a receiving portion for receiving an end part of the socket (82, 84), - wherein the press sleeve (56, 58) has a pressing portion, the inner profile of which tapers in the axial direction to a diameter smaller than the external diameter of the fitting base body, - wherein in a starting position, the fitting base body is partly inserted into the press sleeve (56, 58), - that the socket (82, 84) has an cylindrical form and a cylindrical edge, wherein cylindrical is to be understood as a straight cylinder, and - that the inner profile of the pressing portion is capable, during an axial displacement onto the fitting base body, of flanging the edge of the socket (82, 84) inwardly, wherein the edge of the socket (82, 84) is pressed into the material of the pipe as a cutting edge, and of tapering the edge of the socket (82, 84) to an internal diameter which is smaller than the external diameter of the pipe to be joined.
A device (100, 600, 700, 800) for carrying out at least one measurement and for taking milk samples from a milking machine, wherein the device allows milk to flow therethrough and comprises: an air separation device configured for separating the milk from air with which the milk is mixed; a measurement device which is arranged downstream of the air separation device, connected to the air separation device through a first milk outlet opening of the air separation device and configured for carrying out one or a plurality of measurements with the milk flowing through the device (100, 600, 700, 800); a sampling device configured for supplying milk to a sample container; characterized by an upwardly open channel (202, 602, 702, 802) arranged upstream of the measurement device and configured for accommodating at least a part of the milk which has been separated from the intermixed air in the air separation device and for conducting said milk such that it flows at least partially to the sampling device. an air separation device configured for separating the milk from air with which the milk is mixed; a measurement device which is arranged downstream of the air separation device, connected to the air separation device through a first milk outlet opening of the air separation device and configured for carrying out one or a plurality of measurements with the milk flowing through the device (100, 600, 700, 800); a sampling device configured for supplying milk to a sample container; characterized by an upwardly open channel (202, 602, 702, 802) arranged upstream of the measurement device and configured for accommodating at least a part of the milk which has been separated from the intermixed air in the air separation device and for conducting said milk such that it flows at least partially to the sampling device.
An airbag module for a vehicle occupant safety system comprising an airbag, a gas generator and a diffuser, wherein the diffuser comprises a dome section as well as at least one retaining section which can secure the airbag in a clamped manner, wherein the retaining section comprises at least one fastening opening in which at least one fastening device, in particular a fastening bolt, can be received, wherein the at least one fastening opening is arranged below the dome section, characterized in that the at least one fastening opening is arranged inside a gas generator circumference.