mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Slide closure for a vessel that operatively contains molten metal, comprising: - a slide housing including a recess receiving a first refractory closure plate presenting a first face with a first flow-through opening; - a slide unit including an opening receiving a second refractory closure plate presenting a second face with a second flow-through opening; - wherein said slide closure is arranged such that the slide unit is displaced relative to the slide housing in a longitudinal direction; - wherein said slide closure is further arranged such that a gap or the pressure between opposing first and second faces of the first and second refractory closure plate (8A, 8B) can be adjusted by parallel displacement in an axial direction; - wherein at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) is arranged in the slide housing and/or the slide unit, the at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) is adapted to clamp the corresponding refractory closure plate (8A, 8B); wherein the at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) is arranged to start the clamping of the corresponding refractory closure plate (8A, 8B) via an actuation of the at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) when the slide unit is displaced relative to the slide housing and the first and the second refractory closure plates (8A, 8B) are distant apart from each other, before the first and the second faces of the respective first and the second refractory closure plates (8A, 8B) are in contact under pressure. - a slide housing including a recess receiving a first refractory closure plate presenting a first face with a first flow-through opening; - a slide unit including an opening receiving a second refractory closure plate presenting a second face with a second flow-through opening; - wherein said slide closure is arranged such that the slide unit is displaced relative to the slide housing in a longitudinal direction; - wherein said slide closure is further arranged such that a gap or the pressure between opposing first and second faces of the first and second refractory closure plate (8A, 8B) can be adjusted by parallel displacement in an axial direction; - wherein at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) is arranged in the slide housing and/or the slide unit, the at least one clamping mechanism (22A, 24A, 26A, 28A, 22B, 24B, 26B, 28B) is adapted to clamp the corresponding refractory closure plate (8A, 8B);
A method for coating a substrate, comprising: a. applying a primer coating composition onto at least a portion of a substrate, wherein the primer coating composition comprises a self-emulsified polyester microgel comprising a polyester-melamine microgel; b. applying a second coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate coated with the primer coating composition of component (a) without first substantially curing the primer coating composition of component (a); c. optionally, applying a third coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate coated with the coating composition of component (b) without first substantially curing (a) and/or (b); d. substantially curing the coating compositions of components (a), (b) and, if used, (c). a. applying a primer coating composition onto at least a portion of a substrate, wherein the primer coating composition comprises a self-emulsified polyester microgel comprising a polyester-melamine microgel; b. applying a second coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate coated with the primer coating composition of component (a) without first substantially curing the primer coating composition of component (a); c. optionally, applying a third coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate coated with the coating composition of component (b) without first substantially curing (a) and/or (b); d. substantially curing the coating compositions of components (a), (b) and, if used, (c).
A system comprising: a nozzle; a source of material to be deposited on a substrate in fluid communication with the nozzle; a delivery gas source in fluid communication with the source of material to be deposited with the nozzle; an exhaust channel disposed adjacent to the nozzle; a confinement gas source in fluid communication with the nozzle and the exhaust channel, and disposed adjacent to the exhaust channel; and an actuator to adjust a fly height separation between a deposition nozzle aperture of the nozzle and a deposition target; characterised in that the actuator is configured to adjust the fly height separation to start or stop a deposition of material. a nozzle; a source of material to be deposited on a substrate in fluid communication with the nozzle; a delivery gas source in fluid communication with the source of material to be deposited with the nozzle; an exhaust channel disposed adjacent to the nozzle; a confinement gas source in fluid communication with the nozzle and the exhaust channel, and disposed adjacent to the exhaust channel; and an actuator to adjust a fly height separation between a deposition nozzle aperture of the nozzle and a deposition target; characterised in that the actuator is configured to adjust the fly height separation to start or stop a deposition of material.
A method for surface-modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer as a modification target, the method comprising: step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points A on a surface of the modification target; step 2 of radically polymerizing a non-functional monomer starting from the polymerization initiation points A to grow non-functional polymer chains; step 3 of washing the modification target on which the non-functional polymer chains are grown; step 4 of forming polymerization initiation points B on a surface of the non-functional polymer chains; and step 5 of radically polymerizing a fluorine-containing functional monomer starting from the polymerization initiation points B to grow fluorine-containing functional polymer chains, the washing being carried out with at least one selected from the group consisting of hot water, steam, and an organic solvent at a temperature of 50°C to 150°C, the non-functional monomer being at least one selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, acrylic acid esters, alkali metal salts of acrylic acid, amine salts of acrylic acid, acrylamide, dimethylacrylamide, diethylacrylamide, isopropylacrylamide, hydroxyethylacrylamide, methoxymethylacrylamide, acryloylmorpholine, methoxyethyl acrylate, hydroxyethyl acrylate, methacrylic acid, methacrylic acid esters, alkali metal salts of methacrylic acid, amine salts of methacrylic acid, methacrylamide, dimethylmethacrylamide, diethylmethacrylamide, isopropylmethacrylamide, hydroxyethylmethacrylamide, methacryloylmorpholine, methoxyethyl methacrylate, hydroxyethyl methacrylate, and acrylonitrile, the fluorine-containing functional monomer being an acrylate or methacrylate containing at least one of the following groups: a fluoroalkyl group, a fluoroalkylether group, and a dimethylsiloxane group. step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points A on a surface of the modification target; step 2 of radically polymerizing a non-functional monomer starting from the polymerization initiation points A to grow non-functional polymer chains; step 3 of washing the modification target on which the non-functional polymer chains are grown; step 4 of forming polymerization initiation points B on a surface of the non-functional polymer chains; and step 5 of radically polymerizing a fluorine-containing functional monomer starting from the polymerization initiation points B to grow fluorine-containing functional polymer chains,
Shaft-mounted transmitter in the form of a plastoferrite ring, wherein - the transmitter is arranged as a centrically shaft-mounted transmitter in the region of an intermediate flange of a shaft housing, - with a shaft that is at least partially enclosed in a separating manner by the flange-mounted housing, preferably a shaft that is encapsulated in a housing assembled by means of flanges, the plastoferrite ring is arranged in the enclosed region with a clearance from the housing of 0.05 to 1 mm, preferably 0.1 to 0.7 mm, particularly preferably 0.2 to 0.6 mm, - the plastoferrite ring is adhesively bonded or vulcanized in a permanently elastic manner to a steel hub, - the intermediate flange has board-mounted, integrated circuits, - the circuits are formed so as to interpolate the items of information obtained in total while improving the signal quality, characterized in that - in the board design, all of the resistive, capacitive and inductive components, such as resistors, capacitors, coils or else diodes, are arranged on one side of the board and field-sensitive, integrated circuits are arranged on the other side of the board. - the transmitter is arranged as a centrically shaft-mounted transmitter in the region of an intermediate flange of a shaft housing, - with a shaft that is at least partially enclosed in a separating manner by the flange-mounted housing, preferably a shaft that is encapsulated in a housing assembled by means of flanges, the plastoferrite ring is arranged in the enclosed region with a clearance from the housing of 0.05 to 1 mm, preferably 0.1 to 0.7 mm, particularly preferably 0.2 to 0.6 mm, - the plastoferrite ring is adhesively bonded or vulcanized in a permanently elastic manner to a steel hub, - the intermediate flange has board-mounted, integrated circuits, - the circuits are formed so as to interpolate the items of information obtained in total while improving the signal quality, characterized in that - in the board design, all of the resistive, capacitive and inductive components, such as resistors, capacitors, coils or else diodes, are arranged on one side of the board and field-sensitive, integrated circuits are arranged on the other side of the board.
A method for moving a vehicle to a component of an object distant thereto, wherein the vehicle has a navigation module comprising a camera and evaluation electronics, and an identification element is attached to the object in a predetermined position such that it is detected by the camera in a remote range (D max) of the vehicle from the object, and the evaluation electronics calculate a reversing line (40 i, 40 ii, 40 iii, 40a) of the vehicle from the perspective position of the camera to the identification element, characterized in that in a starting position of the vehicle, a static object coordinate system (K o) is generated by the navigation module, the vehicle is placed in the object coordinate system (K o) and a reversing line (40 i, 40 ii, 40 iii, 40a) is calculated from the starting position to a prepositioning point (S Vi, Svii, SV iii).
An optical signal manipulation system including: a series of ports (101 - 104) for carrying a series of optical signals to be manipulated; a spatial separating means for spatially separating at least a first and a second group of light signals from said series of optical signals, the spatial separating means including means for projecting said first group in a first angular direction and the second group in a second angular direction, where the first and second angular directions are different from each other; a wavelength dispersion element subsequently spatially separating wavelengths of said first and second group of light signals into two groups of spatially separated wavelength channels; and wavelength processing means for separately processing separated wavelengths of said first and second group, wherein the two groups of spatially separated wavelength channels are projected onto spatially separated regions of the wavelength processing means. a series of ports (101 - 104) for carrying a series of optical signals to be manipulated; a spatial separating means for spatially separating at least a first and a second group of light signals from said series of optical signals, the spatial separating means including means for projecting said first group in a first angular direction and the second group in a second angular direction, where the first and second angular directions are different from each other; a wavelength dispersion element subsequently spatially separating wavelengths of said first and second group of light signals into two groups of spatially separated wavelength channels; and wavelength processing means for separately processing separated wavelengths of said first and second group, wherein the two groups of spatially separated wavelength channels are projected onto spatially separated regions of the wavelength processing means.
Set of plates (21, 22; 40, 41) obtained by cutting from a block (4"', 35) made of metallic or composite material extending around a plane and having a length, a width and a thickness, the block comprising a first plate (21, 40) presenting an upper face and a second plate (22, 41) presenting a lower face, the lower face of the second plate (22, 41) presenting a surface having a shape complementary to the upper face of the first plate (21, 40) facing it more or less at a constant height, corresponding to the height of the line of cutting in the block (4"', 35), characterised in that the upper face of the first plate (21, 40) presents a surface having at least two lines of inflection parallel to the length or width of the block relative to said plane, and in that the dimension of the block, length or width, to which said at least two lines of inflection are parallel is greater than or equal to 600 mm.
A modified capsular saccharide comprising a blocking group at a hydroxyl group position on at least one of the monosaccharide units of the corresponding native capsular saccharide for use as a medicament.
A method for transferring data between devices belonging to different client domains, wherein each client domain acts as a separate machine running its own instance of an operating system to perform one or more configured tasks, the different client domains each comprising an inter-domain networking layer and being configured such that one client domain cannot directly access the resources of another client domain whereby the client domains are isolated from one another and errors in a given client domain do not affect the remaining client domains, the method comprising: - a shared resource domain that acts as a separate machine running its own instance of an operating system on a central device and includes an inter domain networking layer for communicating with the client domains via a switch mapping a memory region from a source device belonging to a first client domain into the shared resource domain and mapping a memory region from a target device belonging to a second client domain into the shared resource domain; and - the shared resource domain, in response to a request from one of said first and second client domains, accessing the mapped memory region of the other of the first and second client domains and transferring data from the mapped memory region of the source device to the mapped memory region of the target device; - whereby the transfer of said data between the first and second client domains is facilitated while maintaining the error isolation between said first and second client domains. - a shared resource domain that acts as a separate machine running its own instance of an operating system on a central device and includes an inter domain networking layer for communicating with the client domains via a switch mapping a memory region from a source device belonging to a first client domain into the shared resource domain and mapping a memory region from a target device belonging to a second client domain into the shared resource domain; and - the shared resource domain, in response to a request from one of said first and second client domains, accessing the mapped memory region of the other of the first and second client domains and transferring data from the mapped memory region of the source device to the mapped memory region of the target device; - whereby the transfer of said data between the first and second client domains is facilitated while maintaining the error isolation between said first and second client domains.
Composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising: (a) at least one 2-amino-5-ethylphenol coupler, or an addition salt or solvate thereof, and (b) at least one oxidation base 3-(2,5-diaminophenyl)-1-propanol and/or the addition salts thereof or solvates thereof. (a) at least one 2-amino-5-ethylphenol coupler, or an addition salt or solvate thereof, and (b) at least one oxidation base 3-(2,5-diaminophenyl)-1-propanol and/or the addition salts thereof or solvates thereof.
A peptide for use in treating oral mucositis in a subject who has been exposed to a damaging amount of radiation or chemotherapeutic agents, wherein the peptide is a peptide comprising the amino acid sequence of any of SEQ ID NOs: 5, 10, 24, 27, 28, 31, 34, 63 and 90 or a pharmaceutical salt, ester or amide thereof and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient.
A device for the anchoring of a suture in tissue, which device comprises an anchor being arranged at a distal end of the device, the anchor comprising an anchor foot and an anchoring sleeve, the anchoring sleeve being positioned on a shoulder of the anchor foot and consisting of, or comprising a material, which is liquefiable by mechanical vibrations, characterized by a guide sleeve with a distal part (3.1) of a smaller cross section, and a proximal part (3.2) of a larger cross section, and with an axial lumen, a sonotrode, which extends in the lumen of the guide sleeve, the sonotrode comprising a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the proximal end is designed for a coupling of the sonotrode to a vibration source, and the suture, which runs through the anchor foot, wherein the anchoring sleeve is clamped or clampably arranged between the anchor foot and a pushing sleeve, or the sonotrode, or the guide sleeve.
An integrated circuit device with wear out monitoring, the integrated circuit device comprising: a core circuit; a wear-out monitor device configured to adjust an indication of wear out of the core circuit regardless of whether the core circuit is activated; and a sensing circuit configured to detect an electrical property associated with the wear-out monitor device, wherein the electrical property is indicative of the wear out of the core circuit; wherein: the wear-out monitor device and the core circuit are formed in a common substrate formed of semiconductor material; the wear-out monitor device comprises the substrate and monitor atoms configured to diffuse in the substrate; and a doping profile of the monitor atoms in the substrate is indicative of wear out of the core circuit. a core circuit; a wear-out monitor device configured to adjust an indication of wear out of the core circuit regardless of whether the core circuit is activated; and a sensing circuit configured to detect an electrical property associated with the wear-out monitor device, wherein the electrical property is indicative of the wear out of the core circuit; wherein: the wear-out monitor device and the core circuit are formed in a common substrate formed of semiconductor material; the wear-out monitor device comprises the substrate and monitor atoms configured to diffuse in the substrate; and a doping profile of the monitor atoms in the substrate is indicative of wear out of the core circuit. the wear-out monitor device and the core circuit are formed in a common substrate formed of semiconductor material; the wear-out monitor device comprises the substrate and monitor atoms configured to diffuse in the substrate; and a doping profile of the monitor atoms in the substrate is indicative of wear out of the core circuit.
A method of preparing a catalyst precursor, the method comprising contacting a catalyst support material with a modifying component precursor in an impregnating liquid medium wherein the impregnating liquid medium comprises a mixture of water and an organic liquid solvent for the modifying component precursor, which mixture contains at least 2.5% by volume water but less than 12% by volume water based on the total volume of the impregnating liquid medium, the catalyst support material is selected from the group consisting of a catalyst support precursor which is convertible to a catalyst support upon calcination thereof, the catalyst support being in the form of a metal oxide which is an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Ti, Mg, Zr and Zn; and a catalyst support selected from the group consisting of alumina in the form of one or more aluminium oxides, silica (SiO 2), titania (TiO 2), magnesia (MgO), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2), zinc oxide (ZnO) and mixtures thereof; and the modifying component precursor comprises a compound of a modifying component selected from the group consisting of Si, Zr, Ti, Cu, Zn, Mn, Ba, Ni, Al, V, W, La and mixtures of two or more thereof, thereby to obtain a modifying component containing catalyst support material; optionally, calcining the modifying component containing catalyst support material at a temperature above 100°C to obtain a modified catalyst support; and introducing a precursor compound of cobalt (Co) as an active catalyst component onto and/or into (i) the catalyst support material prior to contacting the catalyst support material with the modifying component precursor; (ii) the modifying component containing catalyst support material; and/or (iii) the modified catalyst support, thereby to obtain a catalyst precursor.
A method for reclaiming rubber, comprising the steps of (i) providing a starting material comprising a vulcanized rubber polymer; (ii) subjecting the starting material to mechanical stress and at a temperature of at least 200°C either in the absence of a fragmentation additive or in the presence of a fragmentation additive capable of generating radicals at the temperature used, to achieve at least a partial destruction of the cross-links and the backbone structure of the rubber polymer into fragments; and (iii) partially reconstituting the fragments in the presence of a branching/grafting agent to obtain a renewed rubber composition, wherein said branching/grafting agent comprises a plurality of unsatured moieties capable of reacting with free radicals, preferably wherein said moieties are selected from C=C and C=O. (i) providing a starting material comprising a vulcanized rubber polymer; (ii) subjecting the starting material to mechanical stress and at a temperature of at least 200°C either in the absence of a fragmentation additive or in the presence of a fragmentation additive capable of generating radicals at the temperature used, to achieve at least a partial destruction of the cross-links and the backbone structure of the rubber polymer into fragments; and (iii) partially reconstituting the fragments in the presence of a branching/grafting agent to obtain a renewed rubber composition, wherein said branching/grafting agent comprises a plurality of unsatured moieties capable of reacting with free radicals, preferably wherein said moieties are selected from C=C and C=O.