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An optical probe comprising an optical window for transmitting light therethrough, an ultrasonic transducer for applying ultrasonic vibrations to said optical window for cleaning said optical window, and one or more light guides (18,20) for transmitting light through said optical window to a measurement region and/or receiving light transmitted through said optical window from said measurement region, wherein said ultrasonic transducer is coupled to said optical window via an elongate body adapted to transmit ultrasonic vibrations from said ultrasonic transducer to said window, characterised in that said one or more light guides (18,20) are located adjacent said elongate body and communicate with said optical window and at least a distal end of said one or more light guides (18,20) is extending alongside the elongate body and wherein said elongate body comprises a solid shaft whereby ultrasonic energy is transmitted therethrough with minimum energy loss.
An additive manufacturing apparatus in which an object is formed in a tank by selective photo-curing of a liquid resin contained in the tank through exposure to radiation, said apparatus wherein the tank has one or more ports (202, 204) for an introduction and evacuation of the liquid resin under a control of one or more pumps (P1, P2), said one or more pumps (P1, P2) fluidly coupling, during a printing operation and under a control of a controller, a resin-containing area of said tank to one or more sources of resin and resin storage (R1, R2, 402), wherein the one or more sources of resin and the resin storage (R1, R2, 402) are chilled, and wherein the controller (208, 300) comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the controller (208, 300) to: prior to the printing operation in the tank, pump the liquid resin from the one or more sources of resin and resin storage (R1, R2, 402) into the tank via a first port in the tank so as to fill the tank with the liquid resin to an operational level; perform the printing operation in the tank; detect a temperature of the liquid resin in the tank reaching or exceeding a threshold; in response to said detection, pause the printing operation, and pump the liquid resin in the tank to the resin storage (R1, R2, 402) so as to evacuate the tank; and pump new resin into the tank. prior to the printing operation in the tank, pump the liquid resin from the one or more sources of resin and resin storage (R1, R2, 402) into the tank via a first port in the tank so as to fill the tank with the liquid resin to an operational level; perform the printing operation in the tank; detect a temperature of the liquid resin in the tank reaching or exceeding a threshold; in response to said detection, pause the printing operation, and pump the liquid resin in the tank to the resin storage (R1, R2, 402) so as to evacuate the tank; and pump new resin into the tank.
Injection pump for the hot-chamber die casting of corrosive light alloys comprising a body provided with an internal coaxial liner where an injector piston sealingly slides driven into a reciprocating motion by a relevant actuator, said liner being made of a material that resists the corrosion of said light alloys and has a coefficient of linear thermal expansion at temperatures between 300°K e 950°K which is different by at least 1,5* 10 -6 /°K from the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the material of said body, and further comprising static sealing elements, made of a graphite-based non-metallic material that yields under compression, arranged between the internal surface of the body and the external surface of the liner, as well as means for the axial compression of the liner, characterized in that it includes further axial compression means arranged between a locking member integral with the body and said static sealing elements.
A platform assembly for forming part of a floor of an elevator car, the platform assembly comprising a first platform module having a planar upper face (u) and an elongated front face, a second platform module having a planar upper face (u) and an elongated front face, a locking member for locking the front faces (3,5) of the first and second platform modules (2,4) to each other when they are set against each other, which locking member is movably mounted on the first platform module, the upper faces (u) of the first and second platform modules (2,4) being coplanar when their front faces (3,5) are set against each other, characterized in that the locking member is mounted on the first platform module movably in the longitudinal direction of the front face of the first platform module, and in that both the locking member mounted on the first platform module and the second platform module comprises a locking protrusion (7, 8) protruding from the front face (3,5) of the platform module (2, 4) in question, and both the locking member mounted on the first platform module and the second platform comprises a locking slot (9,10), and the locking slot of the locking member is arranged to receive the locking protrusion of the second platform and the locking slot of the second platform is arranged to receive the locking protrusion of the locking member when the front faces (3,5) of the platform modules (2,4) are set against each other, and in that edges (11, 12) of said locking protrusions (7, 8) are arranged to move behind edges (13, 14) of said locking slots (9, 10) when the locking member is moved in said longitudinal direction of the front face, thereby locking the platform modules (2,4) to each other.
An apparatus comprising: a first sensor configured to generate a first output; a camera configured to generate a second output; a light detector (115, 116) configured to determine a lighting level; a processor; and a gesture detection module executable by the processor to detect a gesture based on at least one of the first output and the second output, wherein at least a portion of the camera is selectively deactivated based on the lighting level and a gesture range, and wherein, if the lighting level is less than a lighting threshold, the at least a portion of the camera is selectively deactivated and gesture recognition is performed based on the first output from the first sensor. a first sensor configured to generate a first output; a camera configured to generate a second output; a light detector (115, 116) configured to determine a lighting level; a processor; and a gesture detection module executable by the processor to detect a gesture based on at least one of the first output and the second output, wherein at least a portion of the camera is selectively deactivated based on the lighting level and a gesture range, and wherein, if the lighting level is less than a lighting threshold, the at least a portion of the camera is selectively deactivated and gesture recognition is performed based on the first output from the first sensor.
A method comprising: evaluating, in a graphics processor, pixel shading in parametric space over a higher-level input primitive; generating in a rasterizer shading requests and defining a local grid in parametric space over which shading is computed and cached for reuse, wherein a size of the local grid is based on local geometry; partitioning shaders into multiple different components, each component shading at a different frequency, wherein said components are run in parallel; re-using pixel shading between primitives making up the higher-level input primitive; and returning, by a lookup unit, an already shaded result if cached and otherwise setting up, by a interpolation unit, a shading quad with attributes and performing pixel shading by a pixel shader. evaluating, in a graphics processor, pixel shading in parametric space over a higher-level input primitive; generating in a rasterizer shading requests and defining a local grid in parametric space over which shading is computed and cached for reuse, wherein a size of the local grid is based on local geometry; partitioning shaders into multiple different components, each component shading at a different frequency, wherein said components are run in parallel; re-using pixel shading between primitives making up the higher-level input primitive; and returning, by a lookup unit, an already shaded result if cached and otherwise setting up, by a interpolation unit, a shading quad with attributes and performing pixel shading by a pixel shader.
Contacting element (10, 40) for connecting a luminaire or an electrical unit to a mounting rail comprising a mounting rail profile having at least one busbar which is arranged therein and has electrically contactable conductors, the contacting element (10, 40) comprising a contact holding body (15, 41) having a plurality of connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2) which can be moved between an open position, in which an at least partial insertion and removal of the contacting element (10, 40) from the mounting rail profile is possible, and a contacting position, in which the connecting contacts (20 1, 202, 30 1, 30 2) contact conductors of the at least one busbar, and at least two connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2) being movably arranged on the contact holding body (15, 41), characterized in that at least two of the connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2), which are movably arranged on the contact holding body (15, 41), are combined to form a group and are mounted on the contact holding body (15, 41) such that they can only be moved in a fixed relation to one another with respect to the contact holding body (15, 41), so that two associated conductors of the at least one busbar are always contacted by this pair of connecting contacts. the contacting element (10, 40) comprising a contact holding body (15, 41) having a plurality of connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2) which can be moved between an open position, in which an at least partial insertion and removal of the contacting element (10, 40) from the mounting rail profile is possible, and a contacting position, in which the connecting contacts (20 1, 202, 30 1, 30 2) contact conductors of the at least one busbar, and at least two connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2) being movably arranged on the contact holding body (15, 41), characterized in that at least two of the connecting contacts (20 1, 20 2, 30 1, 30 2), which are movably arranged on the contact holding body (15, 41), are combined to form a group and are mounted on the contact holding body (15, 41) such that they can only be moved in a fixed relation to one another with respect to the contact holding body (15, 41), so that two associated conductors of the at least one busbar are always contacted by this pair of connecting contacts.
An agent comprising Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis, B.longum subsp. longum, B.breve, B.pseudocatenulatum, or B. bifidum for use in a method of altering the composition of the gut bacterial microbiome in nursing non-human mammals to prevent and treat disease, the method comprising: administering to a nursing non-human mammal a dose of the agent; wherein the agent is an agent that limits the availability of at least one of milk glycans and milk glycan monomers in the nursing mammal's gut; and wherein the limited availability of said at least one of milk glycans and milk glycan monomers reduces total populations of enteric pathogens and related organisms in the nursing non-human mammal's gut. administering to a nursing non-human mammal a dose of the agent; wherein the agent is an agent that limits the availability of at least one of milk glycans and milk glycan monomers in the nursing mammal's gut; and
A method for estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of a surgical textile, the method comprising: • at a processor in communication with an electronic device, extracting a feature from a portion of an image of the surgical textile, said feature comprising a color intensity value in a component space; • at the processor, tagging the portion of the image of the surgical textile with a blood volume indicator, comprising estimated hemoglobin mass, upon transforming the extracted feature into the blood volume indicator with a parametric model; and • at the processor, estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in at least the portion of the surgical textile, associated with the portion of the image of the surgical textile, according to the blood volume indicator. • at a processor in communication with an electronic device, extracting a feature from a portion of an image of the surgical textile, said feature comprising a color intensity value in a component space; • at the processor, tagging the portion of the image of the surgical textile with a blood volume indicator, comprising estimated hemoglobin mass, upon transforming the extracted feature into the blood volume indicator with a parametric model; and • at the processor, estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in at least the portion of the surgical textile, associated with the portion of the image of the surgical textile, according to the blood volume indicator.
A method of preparing a nano-metal-supported catalyst, comprising: splitting the cellulose fibers into individual fibers on a micrometer scale and cutting the split fibers to a length of 1 to 2 mm, and carbonizing the cut cellulose fibers, thus preparing a cellulose catalyst support being in an individual fiber form; supporting a catalyst metal for growing carbon nanotubes on a surface of the carbonized cellulose catalyst support and supplying a carbon source to a surface of the cellulose catalyst support supported with the catalyst metal for growing carbon nanotubes, thus growing the carbon nanotubes; and supporting a nano-metal catalyst on the catalyst support having the carbon nanotubes grown thereon, wherein the nano-metal catalyst is one or more selected from a group consisting of palladium, cobalt, molybdenum and ruthenium. splitting the cellulose fibers into individual fibers on a micrometer scale and cutting the split fibers to a length of 1 to 2 mm, and carbonizing the cut cellulose fibers, thus preparing a cellulose catalyst support being in an individual fiber form; supporting a catalyst metal for growing carbon nanotubes on a surface of the carbonized cellulose catalyst support and supplying a carbon source to a surface of the cellulose catalyst support supported with the catalyst metal for growing carbon nanotubes, thus growing the carbon nanotubes; and supporting a nano-metal catalyst on the catalyst support having the carbon nanotubes grown thereon, wherein the nano-metal catalyst is one or more selected from a group consisting of palladium, cobalt, molybdenum and ruthenium.
An amplifier providing switchable impedance matching, comprising: an output inductor that is part of an output path of the amplifier; a first amplifier stage (202, 302) comprising a first inductor coupled to the output inductor, and the first inductor coupled to a first power supply, the first inductor configured to couple a signal amplified by the first amplifier stage at a first power level to the output inductor in response to a first enable signal; and a second amplifier stage (204, 304) comprising a second inductor coupled to the output inductor, and the second inductor selectively coupled to either a second or third, different power supply, the second inductor configured to couple the signal amplified by the second amplifier stage at either a second or third power level to the output inductor in response to a second enable signal (S2, V S2). an output inductor that is part of an output path of the amplifier; a first amplifier stage (202, 302) comprising a first inductor coupled to the output inductor, and the first inductor coupled to a first power supply, the first inductor configured to couple a signal amplified by the first amplifier stage at a first power level to the output inductor in response to a first enable signal; and a second amplifier stage (204, 304) comprising a second inductor coupled to the output inductor, and the second inductor selectively coupled to either a second or third, different power supply, the second inductor configured to couple the signal amplified by the second amplifier stage at either a second or third power level to the output inductor in response to a second enable signal (S2, V S2).
A method for digesting carcasses and/or cadavers comprising: loading a carcass/cadaver into a tissue digester, the tissue digester comprising a tissue digestion container, wherein the tissue digestion container is loaded when a longitudinal direction of the tissue digestion container is horizontal; tilting the tissue digestion container with the carcasses/cadaver loaded therewithin 10 to less than 90 degrees from horizontal; and digesting the tissue of the carcasses/cadaver after said tilting by a digestive fluid, wherein the tissue digestion container is maintained tilted in a non-vertical and non-horizontal orientation during said digesting step so that gravity moves the carcasses/cadaver toward a lower digesting end of the tissue digestion container and tissue of the carcasses/cadaver not initially immersed in the digestive fluid when the container is in the tilted position progressively moves downward toward the lower digestive end as the immersed tissue is digested. loading a carcass/cadaver into a tissue digester, the tissue digester comprising a tissue digestion container, wherein the tissue digestion container is loaded when a longitudinal direction of the tissue digestion container is horizontal; tilting the tissue digestion container with the carcasses/cadaver loaded therewithin 10 to less than 90 degrees from horizontal; and digesting the tissue of the carcasses/cadaver after said tilting by a digestive fluid, wherein the tissue digestion container is maintained tilted in a non-vertical and non-horizontal orientation during said digesting step so that gravity moves the carcasses/cadaver toward a lower digesting end of the tissue digestion container and tissue of the carcasses/cadaver not initially immersed in the digestive fluid when the container is in the tilted position progressively moves downward toward the lower digestive end as the immersed tissue is digested.
A door lock, comprising: a cam having a notch, wherein when a door hook mounted on a door is inserted into the notch of the cam, the door hook is fixed in the cam; and driving means actuated by a push force from outside of the door, a pull force from outside of the door, a push force from inside of the door, or by a control signal, wherein the driving means moves the cam from a locked position to an unlocked position; a sliding block abutting against the cam and reciprocating with rotation of the cam; a rocking block mounted on the sliding block, wherein the rocking block may be in a rotatable state or a non-rotatable state a rocking block locking mechanism (402, 403, 405, 407) for locking the rocking block to make it non-rotatable or releasing the rocking block to make it rotatable; and characterised in that the driving means further comprises: automatic unlocking means (103, 433), wherein when actuated by a signal, the driving means moves the cam from the locked position to the unlocked position and actuates the rocking block to rotate to unlock during an automatic unlocking process; wherein the automatic unlocking means (103, 433) comprises: an operating rod for pressing the rocking block locking mechanism on the rocking block into the interior of the rocking block; and an actuator for actuating the operating rod. a cam having a notch, wherein when a door hook mounted on a door is inserted into the notch of the cam, the door hook is fixed in the cam; and driving means actuated by a push force from outside of the door, a pull force from outside of the door, a push force from inside of the door, or by a control signal, wherein the driving means moves the cam from a locked position to an unlocked position; a sliding block abutting against the cam and reciprocating with rotation of the cam; a rocking block mounted on the sliding block, wherein the rocking block may be in a rotatable state or a non-rotatable state a rocking block locking mechanism (402, 403, 405, 407) for locking the rocking block to make it non-rotatable or releasing the rocking block to make it rotatable; and characterised in that the driving means further comprises: automatic unlocking means (103, 433), wherein when actuated by a signal, the driving means moves the cam from the locked position to the unlocked position and actuates the rocking block to rotate to unlock during an automatic unlocking process; wherein the automatic unlocking means (103, 433) comprises: an operating rod for pressing the rocking block locking mechanism on the rocking block into the interior of the rocking block; and an actuator for actuating the operating rod. an operating rod for pressing the rocking block locking mechanism on the rocking block into the interior of the rocking block; and an actuator for actuating the operating rod.
A system for simulating film grain, comprising: a video decoder configured to receive and decode an encoded video stream; and a film grain restoration processor configured to simulate film grain, wherein the system is configured to receive and decode encoded film grain information that includes at least one parameter specifying an attribute of the film grain in the video stream, wherein the film grain restoration processor is configured to simulate film grain using the decoded film grain information, the film grain information including a set of parameters, each specifying a different film grain attribute, characterised in that the set of parameters includes a plurality of intensity-independent parameters including a parameter defining an aspect ratio of the film grain. a video decoder configured to receive and decode an encoded video stream; and a film grain restoration processor configured to simulate film grain,
A method of transmission by a transceiver device, the method comprising identifying a first set of control information within a data packet, the data packet comprising also other information not part of the first set; mapping the first set on first bits at first bit locations; mapping the other information on second bits at second bit locations, wherein the first bit locations have a higher transmission reliability than the second bit locations in a modulation scheme; generating a modulated signal by applying the modulation scheme to the first bits at the first bit locations and the second bits at the second bit locations using Gray mapping; and transmitting the modulated signal, wherein the transmission by the transceiver device implements hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, scheme, and the first set of control information includes HARQ control bits. mapping the first set on first bits at first bit locations; mapping the other information on second bits at second bit locations, wherein the first bit locations have a higher transmission reliability than the second bit locations in a modulation scheme; generating a modulated signal by applying the modulation scheme to the first bits at the first bit locations and the second bits at the second bit locations using Gray mapping; and transmitting the modulated signal, wherein the transmission by the transceiver device implements hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, scheme, and the first set of control information includes HARQ control bits.