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An apparatus for detecting a marker implanted within tissue that includes an energy converter coupled to a circuit for changing a configuration of an antenna of the marker, the apparatus comprising: a set of transmit electrodes coupled to a signal generator for transmitting a drive current into tissue around the marker; a set of receive electrodes configured to detect voltage signals within the tissue corresponding to impedance of the tissue in response to the drive current; a light source for delivering light pulses into the body to cause the energy converter to activate and deactivate the circuit to change the configuration of the antenna of the marker; and a processor coupled to the receive electrodes for processing the voltage signals to identify changes in the impedance that are synchronized with the light pulses to determine whether the marker is operating properly. a set of transmit electrodes coupled to a signal generator for transmitting a drive current into tissue around the marker; a set of receive electrodes configured to detect voltage signals within the tissue corresponding to impedance of the tissue in response to the drive current; a light source for delivering light pulses into the body to cause the energy converter to activate and deactivate the circuit to change the configuration of the antenna of the marker; and a processor coupled to the receive electrodes for processing the voltage signals to identify changes in the impedance that are synchronized with the light pulses to determine whether the marker is operating properly.
A control device for a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, said internal combustion engine including an exhaust path, an injection device injecting a reducing agent to said exhaust path, and a reserving unit reserving said reducing agent, comprising: a reserved amount detection unit detecting a reserved amount of said reducing agent in said reserving unit; and a control unit receiving an output from said reserved amount detection unit, said control unit changing an operation line of said internal combustion engine to an operation line with a lower degree of generation of nitrogen oxide step by step in accordance with a decrease in said detected reserved amount, and controlling an output of said internal combustion engine based on said changed operation line, said control unit controlling the output of said internal combustion engine by changing an operation point along an equal output line in accordance with change of said operation line. a reserved amount detection unit detecting a reserved amount of said reducing agent in said reserving unit; and a control unit receiving an output from said reserved amount detection unit, said control unit changing an operation line of said internal combustion engine to an operation line with a lower degree of generation of nitrogen oxide step by step in accordance with a decrease in said detected reserved amount, and controlling an output of said internal combustion engine based on said changed operation line, said control unit controlling the output of said internal combustion engine by changing an operation point along an equal output line in accordance with change of said operation line.
An imaging control method, comprising: obtaining a current image generated based on an exposure parameter, wherein the current image includes a plurality of pixels; determining a plurality of target pixel groups from at least portion of the plurality of pixels; determining a dark channel histogram based on the plurality of the target pixel groups; determining a characteristic feature based on the dark channel histogram, the characteristic feature being related to a distribution tendency corresponding to the dark channel histogram; and updating the exposure parameter, based on the characteristic feature, to generate an updated image, wherein determining the dark channel histogram comprises: for each of the target pixel groups, determining a plurality of average pixel values corresponding to a plurality of different color channels, wherein for a target pixel group, a target channel value is the minimum value among the plurality of average pixel values of the target pixel group and reflects a dark channel value. obtaining a current image generated based on an exposure parameter, wherein the current image includes a plurality of pixels; determining a plurality of target pixel groups from at least portion of the plurality of pixels; determining a dark channel histogram based on the plurality of the target pixel groups; determining a characteristic feature based on the dark channel histogram, the characteristic feature being related to a distribution tendency corresponding to the dark channel histogram; and updating the exposure parameter, based on the characteristic feature, to generate an updated image, wherein determining the dark channel histogram comprises: for each of the target pixel groups, determining a plurality of average pixel values corresponding to a plurality of different color channels, wherein for a target pixel group, a target channel value is the minimum value among the plurality of average pixel values of the target pixel group and reflects a dark channel value.
A blow molded heat set PET container having enhanced thermal, properties and a first glass transition temperature Tg_1 and a second substantially higher endothermic transition temperature Tg_2 characterized in Tg_1 and Tg_2 being about: Tg_1 = 96.6° C and Tg_2 = 141.5° C; Or Tg_1=89.6° C and Tg_2=162.3° C; or Tg_1=97.6° C and Tg_2=168.6° C. Tg_1 = 96.6° C and Tg_2 = 141.5° C; Or Tg_1=89.6° C and Tg_2=162.3° C; or Tg_1=97.6° C and Tg_2=168.6° C.
Method for detecting a discrepancy in the fuel injection process of an internal combustion engine, said engine comprising a camshaft that actuates at least one fuel injector of the engine's fuel injection equipment, wherein said method comprises the steps of: - determining a value T that is representative of the torque generated on the camshaft, such as the instantaneous torque or rotational speed of the camshaft, said torque being a resultant of accelerating and decelerating forces exerted on the camshaft by said at least one fuel injector during a phase of operation of said internal combustion engine, and - monitoring the value T for any increment, decrement or irregularity, characterized in that the method further comprises the step of: - comparing the value T with the torque of a newly manufactured or tuned engine for detecting a fault or an irregularity in a function of said at least one fuel injector. - determining a value T that is representative of the torque generated on the camshaft, such as the instantaneous torque or rotational speed of the camshaft, said torque being a resultant of accelerating and decelerating forces exerted on the camshaft by said at least one fuel injector during a phase of operation of said internal combustion engine, and - monitoring the value T for any increment, decrement or irregularity, - comparing the value T with the torque of a newly manufactured or tuned engine for detecting a fault or an irregularity in a function of said at least one fuel injector.
A liquid fuel portable heater for heating air to enter in an environment to be heated, comprising: - a frame connecting and joining all the components of the heater, so as to easily move the heater in one body; - a tank for liquid fuel placed on board the heater, - a combustion chamber having a fuel inlet with a nebulizer having a nebulizer nozzle; - an outer casing forming an interspace around the combustion chamber, suitable to be crossed by a flow of air thereby thermally insulating the combustion chamber from the outer casing, and simultaneously heating and forcibly entering an environment to be heated; - an electric pump having an inlet for suctioning said liquid fuel from the tank, and an outlet connected to said nebulizer to bring the liquid fuel to the nebulizer; - an electric control unit configured so that, when the heater is turned on, said control unit actuates the electric pump by supplying it with a sequence of pulses (115, 115') with a non-zero voltage, and pause intervals with a substantially zero voltage alternating to said pulses, wherein the average duration of the pulses (115, 115') is less than the average duration of the pause intervals. - a frame connecting and joining all the components of the heater, so as to easily move the heater in one body; - a tank for liquid fuel placed on board the heater, - a combustion chamber having a fuel inlet with a nebulizer having a nebulizer nozzle; - an outer casing forming an interspace around the combustion chamber, suitable to be crossed by a flow of air thereby thermally insulating the combustion chamber from the outer casing, and simultaneously heating and forcibly entering an environment to be heated; - an electric pump having an inlet for suctioning said liquid fuel from the tank, and an outlet connected to said nebulizer to bring the liquid fuel to the nebulizer; - an electric control unit configured so that, when the heater is turned on, said control unit actuates the electric pump by supplying it with a sequence of pulses (115, 115') with a non-zero voltage, and pause intervals with a substantially zero voltage alternating to said pulses, wherein the average duration of the pulses (115, 115') is less than the average duration of the pause intervals.
A method for making a dunnage product from a two-ply stock material, comprising a step of operating a dunnage conversion machine to simultaneously draw sheet stock material from two sub-stacks of sheet stock material (110, 112), thereby providing a two-ply sheet stock material for conversion into a dunnage product, characterised in that: the two sub-stacks of sheet stock material (110, 112) are formed by laying open a stack of single-ply fan-folded sheet stock material.
A method of detecting a condition associated with a final phase of a plasma dicing process comprising the steps of: providing a non-metallic substrate (18, 120) having a plurality of dicing lanes defined thereon; plasma etching through the substrate (18, 120) along the dicing lanes, wherein during the plasma etching infrared emission emanating from at least a portion of the dicing lanes is monitored so that an increase in infrared emission from the dicing lanes is observed as the final phase of the plasma dicing operation is entered; and detecting the condition associated with the final phase of the plasma dicing from the monitored infrared emission. providing a non-metallic substrate (18, 120) having a plurality of dicing lanes defined thereon; plasma etching through the substrate (18, 120) along the dicing lanes, wherein during the plasma etching infrared emission emanating from at least a portion of the dicing lanes is monitored so that an increase in infrared emission from the dicing lanes is observed as the final phase of the plasma dicing operation is entered; and detecting the condition associated with the final phase of the plasma dicing from the monitored infrared emission.
A method of forming a predetermined metalized pattern on a substrate, comprising: casting and curing using UV irradiation a polymerizable precursor into a first side of the substrate so as to form a water swellable acrylic layer on the substrate, the water swellable acrylic layer having thick portions and thin portions such that the thin portions correspond to the predetermined pattern, wherein the polymerizable precursor comprises between about 30 to 95 parts by weight of a mono-alkoxy polyakylene glycol acrylate having a molecular weight of above 500 daltons, between about 5 to 65 parts by weight of ethoxylated trimethylolpropane tri-acrylate or a mixture of a polyalkylene glycol di-acrylate and a hydroxy alkyl monoacrylate, and between about 0.1 to 2.5 parts by weight of a photoinitiator; etching the water swellable acrylic layer so that the thin portions are removed and the substrate is partially exposed; metalizing the first side so as to deposit metal onto the exposed portions of the substrate and onto the thick portions of the water swellable acrylic layer; and exposing the water swellable acrylic layer to water, releasing the water swellable acrylic layer and its over-coat of metal from the substrate and leaving the substrate with the predetermined metalized pattern. casting and curing using UV irradiation a polymerizable precursor into a first side of the substrate so as to form a water swellable acrylic layer on the substrate, the water swellable acrylic layer having thick portions and thin portions such that the thin portions correspond to the predetermined pattern, wherein the polymerizable precursor comprises between about 30 to 95 parts by weight of a mono-alkoxy polyakylene glycol acrylate having a molecular weight of above 500 daltons, between about 5 to 65 parts by weight of ethoxylated trimethylolpropane tri-acrylate or a mixture of a polyalkylene glycol di-acrylate and a hydroxy alkyl monoacrylate, and between about 0.1 to 2.5 parts by weight of a photoinitiator; etching the water swellable acrylic layer so that the thin portions are removed and the substrate is partially exposed; metalizing the first side so as to deposit metal onto the exposed portions of the substrate and onto the thick portions of the water swellable acrylic layer; and exposing the water swellable acrylic layer to water, releasing the water swellable acrylic layer and its over-coat of metal from the substrate and leaving the substrate with the predetermined metalized pattern.
Capsule for preparing a beverage, comprising a casing having first and second end walls (3, 4) spaced apart from each other and interconnected by a lateral wall having an essentially annular shape, and defining an internal chamber containing an amount or dose of a substance for the preparation of a beverage; said casing having at least one first and at least one second permeable or pierceable wall portion (5a, 4a), acting as inlet and outlet, respectively, for the introduction of a flow of water into said chamber and the outflow of the beverage from said chamber, respectively; the capsule being characterized in that an inlet wall portion for the introduction of water into said chamber is provided in said annular lateral wall.
Friction ring for a brake disc with at least one friction surface, which is intended for interacting with a brake lining, wherein the friction ring comprises a PMMC material (particle metal matrix composite), such as in particular an Al-MMC material, at least in the region of the friction surface, or consists thereof completely, characterized in that the friction surface has a multiplicity of microgrooves, which extend in a radially directed manner with respect to a circumferential direction of rotation of the friction ring, non-tangentially angled to the circumferential direction of rotation, that is to say at least with one component.
A method of wireless communication at a base station, comprising: identifying, by a processor, a first search space configuration for a first search space; setting, by the processor, a second search space configuration for a second search space based, at least in part, on the first search space configuration, the setting comprising: setting, in a first transmission time interval, TTI, a frequency band for the second search space equal to a first frequency band that overlaps with a frequency band of the first search space; and setting, in a second TTI, the frequency band for the second search space equal to a second frequency band that does not overlap with the frequency band of the first search space; and transmitting, by the processor, control information to a mobile device in at least one of the first search space and the second search space. identifying, by a processor, a first search space configuration for a first search space; setting, by the processor, a second search space configuration for a second search space based, at least in part, on the first search space configuration, the setting comprising: setting, in a first transmission time interval, TTI, a frequency band for the second search space equal to a first frequency band that overlaps with a frequency band of the first search space; and setting, in a second TTI, the frequency band for the second search space equal to a second frequency band that does not overlap with the frequency band of the first search space; and setting, in a first transmission time interval, TTI, a frequency band for the second search space equal to a first frequency band that overlaps with a frequency band of the first search space; and setting, in a second TTI, the frequency band for the second search space equal to a second frequency band that does not overlap with the frequency band of the first search space; and transmitting, by the processor, control information to a mobile device in at least one of the first search space and the second search space.
A wire coating resin material comprising a resin component composed of at least one type of a copolymer which has units derived from the following monomer (a) and units derived from the following monomer (b), wherein at least one type of the copolymer is a copolymer which further has units derived from the following monomer (c) or units derived from the following monomer (d) (provided that the following radical generating group would be decomposed and would not remain in the units); the following strain hardening rate of the resin component is from 0.1 to 0.45; and the following melt flow rate of the resin component is from 1 to 200 g/10 min.: Monomer (a): tetrafluoroethylene, Monomer (b): ethylene, Monomer (c): a monomer having at least two polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, Monomer (d): a monomer having a radical generating group, Strain hardening rate: a uniaxial elongational viscosity is measured under conditions of a temperature of 270°C and a strain rate ε· of 1.0 s -1, and the strain hardening rate SH is obtained from the following formulae to: SH = dlnλ n t / dε t λ n t = η E + t / 3 η t ε t = ε. ⋅ t wherein SH is the strain hardening rate, In is a natural logarithm, λ n (t) is a non-linearity parameter, η E + (t) is an elongational viscosity in a non-linear region, n(t) is a linear elongational viscosity obtainable by converting an absolute value of a complex viscosity obtained as a function of ω by a shear dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under conditions of a temperature of 270°C and an angular frequency ω of from 0.1 to 100 (rad/s) to a function of time based on t = 1/ω, ε(t) is a Hencky strain, and t is an elongation time, Melt flow rate: a mass of the resin component flowing out in 10 minutes from an orifice having a diameter of 2 mm and a length of 8 mm, as measured in accordance with ASTM D-3159 under conditions of a temperature of 297°C and a load of 5 kg. Monomer (a): tetrafluoroethylene, Monomer (b): ethylene, Monomer (c): a monomer having at least two polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, Monomer (d): a monomer having a radical generating group, Strain hardening rate: a uniaxial elongational viscosity is measured under conditions of a temperature of 270°C and a strain rate ε· of 1.0 s -1, and the strain hardening rate SH is obtained from the following formulae to: SH = dlnλ n t / dε t λ n t = η E + t / 3 η t ε t = ε. ⋅ t
A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell that generates electricity using a fuel and an oxidant gas; a reforming unit that generates the fuel from a raw reforming material from a raw reforming material supply source and reforming water, and supplies the fuel to the fuel cell; a desulfurizer (11a6) that removes a sulfur component contained in the raw reforming material and supplies the desulfurized raw reforming material to the reforming unit; a raw reforming material supply pipe (11 a) that causes the raw reforming material to be fed to the desulfurizer; a raw material pump (11a5) that is provided in the raw reforming material supply pipe and supplies the raw reforming material to the desulfurizer; a recycling fuel pipe that causes a portion of the fuel which is fed to the fuel cell from the reforming unit to return as a recycling fuel to an introduction side of the raw material pump in the raw reforming material supply pipe; and a pressure control valve (11a4) that is provided on the raw reforming material supply source side of a connection portion of the raw reforming material supply pipe with the recycling fuel pipe, and is opened when pressure on a discharge side reaches a predetermined negative pressure, wherein the predetermined negative pressure of the pressure control valve is set such that a flow rate of the raw reforming material from the raw material pump is caused to be less than a minimum flow rate which is a minimum requirement for the fuel cell system, at a minimum pump opening degree which allows the raw material pump to perform discharge. a fuel cell that generates electricity using a fuel and an oxidant gas; a reforming unit that generates the fuel from a raw reforming material from a raw reforming material supply source and reforming water, and supplies the fuel to the fuel cell; a desulfurizer (11a6) that removes a sulfur component contained in the raw reforming material and supplies the desulfurized raw reforming material to the reforming unit; a raw reforming material supply pipe (11 a) that causes the raw reforming material to be fed to the desulfurizer; a raw material pump (11a5) that is provided in the raw reforming material supply pipe and supplies the raw reforming material to the desulfurizer; a recycling fuel pipe that causes a portion of the fuel which is fed to the fuel cell from the reforming unit to return as a recycling fuel to an introduction side of the raw material pump in the raw reforming material supply pipe; and a pressure control valve (11a4) that is provided on the raw reforming material supply source side of a connection portion of the raw reforming material supply pipe with the recycling fuel pipe, and is opened when pressure on a discharge side reaches a predetermined negative pressure, wherein the predetermined negative pressure of the pressure control valve is set such that a flow rate of the raw reforming material from the raw material pump is caused to be less than a minimum flow rate which is a minimum requirement for the fuel cell system, at a minimum pump opening degree which allows the raw material pump to perform discharge.
Container injection-moulded from plastic, comprising a bottom, a container wall and an insert element, which is rigidly connected to the container in a label region on the outer side of the container wall, wherein the container is produced by means of an IML process, characterized in that the bottom and the container wall have a uniform thickness, from which ridge-like thickenings protrude inwards or outwards, starting from a gate mark in the bottom, having a radial course on the bottom and extending on the container wall with an obliquely oriented inclination towards the upper edge of the container, wherein the ridge-like thickenings on the container wall and on the bottom do not cross, in each case have a radius of curvature with a constant sign and are formed such that, as flow promoters, they ensure a uniform flow front of the plastic during the production process.