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An intervertebral device comprising: a tissue engineering scaffold having a height sized for engagement within a space between adjacent vertebrae and to maintain the intervertebral space corresponding to the height of the tissue engineering scaffold, the tissue engineering scaffold having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a central core; the tissue engineering scaffold having a first region of interconnected and bonded fiber comprising the top surface, the bottom surface, and the central core; the tissue engineering scaffold having a second region of interconnected and bonded fiber comprising an annulus around the central core; wherein the first region has a property exhibiting a first value; the second region has a property exhibiting a second value; and the first region and the second region are joined to form a continuous structure; and a third region of interconnected and bonded fiber between the first region and the second region, the third region having the property exhibiting a gradient value between the first value and the second value. a tissue engineering scaffold having a height sized for engagement within a space between adjacent vertebrae and to maintain the intervertebral space corresponding to the height of the tissue engineering scaffold, the tissue engineering scaffold having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a central core; the tissue engineering scaffold having a first region of interconnected and bonded fiber comprising the top surface, the bottom surface, and the central core; the tissue engineering scaffold having a second region of interconnected and bonded fiber comprising an annulus around the central core; wherein the first region has a property exhibiting a first value; the second region has a property exhibiting a second value; and the first region and the second region are joined to form a continuous structure; and a third region of interconnected and bonded fiber between the first region and the second region, the third region having the property exhibiting a gradient value between the first value and the second value.
Battery system having at least two storage cells and a degassing system which is connected in a fluid-conducting fashion to the storage cells, wherein the battery system comprises at least one signal generator, arranged in the degassing system, and an evaluation unit which evaluates signals of at least one signal generator, wherein the at least one signal generator is designed in such as way so as to change its signal state given a predefined volume flow at the signal generator or an associated predefined difference in pressure upstream and downstream of the signal generator, characterized in that the battery system comprises a plurality of battery modules having at least two storage cells, and the battery system has one signal generator per battery module, and wherein the signal generator is respectively arranged in a cover, having a degassing line, of the battery module.
Carriage for a railway vehicle, comprising a body; said body extending in a horizontal longitudinal direction, corresponding to a direction of travel of the vehicle; said body comprising: a roof having a curved surface; and at least a first electrical line extending over said roof in the longitudinal direction, said first electrical line forming a projection with respect to said curved surface; the curved surface comprising a central, substantially flat and horizontal portion and first and second side portions; the carriage further comprising a side wind stabilising aerodynamic element; said stabilising aerodynamic element comprising at least a first fairing attached to the roof of the body and covering the first electrical line, said first fairing having a first aerodynamic profile, said first airfoil comprising a first and a second portion, adjacent to each other perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of said first and second portions having a convex shape, a minimum radius of curvature of the first portion being smaller than a minimum radius of curvature of the second portion; the carriage being characterised in that the second portion of the aerodynamic profile of the fairing is disposed substantially horizontally, said second portion being located in an extension of the central part of the curved surface of the roof. the curved surface comprising a central, substantially flat and horizontal portion and first and second side portions; the carriage further comprising a side wind stabilising aerodynamic element; said stabilising aerodynamic element comprising at least a first fairing attached to the roof of the body and covering the first electrical line, said first fairing having a first aerodynamic profile, said first airfoil comprising a first and a second portion, adjacent to each other perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of said first and second portions having a convex shape, a minimum radius of curvature of the first portion being smaller than a minimum radius of curvature of the second portion; the carriage being characterised in that the second portion of the aerodynamic profile of the fairing is disposed substantially horizontally, said second portion being located in an extension of the central part of the curved surface of the roof.
A method for the tamper-proof provision of a key certificate for a device key (Kpub) of a user device installed at a user by a server of a service provider who provides a service to the user via the user device, the method comprising: the server generates a one-time password for the user device and sends the generated one-time password to the user device via a data carrier; the user device locally generates a cryptographic device-key pair for the user device to be installed at the user, which pair comprises a public device key (Kpub) and a private device key (Kpriv) of the user device, the user device forms a signing request message for the locally generated public device key (Kpub), wherein the signing request message is logically linked to the one-time password of the user device read from the data carrier by calculating a keyed hash value (HMAC) for at least one data field of the signing request message depending on the one-time password of the user device and the locally generated public device key (Kpub), the user device transmits the formed signing request message to the server, wherein the server provides the key certificate to the user device if the signing request message received from the user device is successfully verified by the server against a one-time password generated for the user device by the server. the server generates a one-time password for the user device and sends the generated one-time password to the user device via a data carrier; the user device locally generates a cryptographic device-key pair for the user device to be installed at the user, which pair comprises a public device key (Kpub) and a private device key (Kpriv) of the user device, the user device forms a signing request message for the locally generated public device key (Kpub), wherein the signing request message is logically linked to the one-time password of the user device read from the data carrier by calculating a keyed hash value (HMAC) for at least one data field of the signing request message depending on the one-time password of the user device and the locally generated public device key (Kpub), the user device transmits the formed signing request message to the server, wherein the server provides the key certificate to the user device if the signing request message received from the user device is successfully verified by the server against a one-time password generated for the user device by the server.
Braking method of an agricultural or work vehicle equipped with a hydraulic transmission wherein a hydraulic pump is driven by a prime mover to power a hydraulic motor, wherein the hydraulic motor is operationally connected to at least one vehicle wheel, the hydraulic pump having variable displacement with the relative displacement controlled proportionally to the rotation speed (Engine Speed) of the prime mover, the hydraulic motor having variable displacement, the method comprising a first step of forcing a displacement increase of the hydraulic motor till to a predetermined value, when, in dynamic conditions of the vehicle, a relating accelerator pedal is completely released and a signal indicating the need to brake the vehicle is present and when the displacement of the hydraulic motor is increased following said first step, as a result of a pressure on the accelerator pedal, the method comprises a third step to restore the ordinary control strategy of the displacement of the hydraulic motor; said braking method is further characterized in that said ordinary control strategy provides that the displacement of the hydraulic motor is inversely proportional to the speed of the vehicle.
A method of manufacturing a display module from a silicon wafer, the display module including at least two display members (32, 33) movable via a deformable link relative to a fixed frame between a rest position and a display position, each display member including a display portion (32a, 33a) of a pattern complementary to the display portion of the other display member to form said pattern in said display position, comprising the step of a deep etching on a first thickness e1 of the silicon wafer, to obtain the fixed frame, the deformable link and an actuating push-button, the display portions (32a, 33a) being etched on a second thickness e2 of the silicon wafer greater than the first thickness e1.
Biocompatible material bar apt to prevent the interdental bone peak resorption following dental procedures, characterized in that said bar has a thickness, length and width to allow a complete and total insertion of said biocompatible material bar into the interdental bone thickness wherein said bar has the shape of an elongated rectangular parallelepiped and wherein said biocompatible material is titanium or alloys thereof.
Wind power installation with a rotor which has two or possibly more rotor blades and which is rotatably mounted for rotation around a rotor rotation axis, wherein the rotor is connected to a generator for generating electrical power, and the rotor and the generator form a part of a turbine which is received by a turbine carrier, and the turbine carrier is rotatably arranged at a supporting structure, characterised in that the turbine is lifted to the turbine carrier and is pivoted into the turbine carrier for fastening, with - a cable control (61 to 66) for lifting the turbine to the turbine carrier, for pivoting the turbine into the turbine carrier and for movably supporting the turbine during the pivoting process, and - a bearing device (67 to 70) for at least temporarily rotatably mounting the turbine during the pivoting process, wherein the bearing device (67 to 70) comprises: - a catching device arranged at the turbine carrier, and - a connection arm having a rounded end arranged at the turbine, wherein - at least during the pivoting process and for guiding the turbine the rounded end of the connection arm is engaged with the catching device. - a cable control (61 to 66) for lifting the turbine to the turbine carrier, for pivoting the turbine into the turbine carrier and for movably supporting the turbine during the pivoting process, and - a bearing device (67 to 70) for at least temporarily rotatably mounting the turbine during the pivoting process, wherein the bearing device (67 to 70) comprises: - a catching device arranged at the turbine carrier, and - a connection arm having a rounded end arranged at the turbine, - at least during the pivoting process and for guiding the turbine the rounded end of the connection arm is engaged with the catching device.
A switching device comprising: - a switching unit comprising one or more electric poles (21A, 21B, 21C) having an insulating casing, said switching device being reversibly movable between an insertion position, at which said switching unit is electrically connected with an electric line, and a withdrawal position, at which said switching unit is electrically disconnected from said electric line; - one or more actuating elements (7A, 7B) operatively coupleable with an actuating mechanism of a shutter device to operate one or more shutters of said shutter device during the movement of said switching device, said actuating elements being fixed to said switching unit; characterised in that: - at least one of said actuating elements comprises first mechanical connection means for mechanical connection with the insulating casing of at least one of said electric poles; - the insulating casing of at least one of said electric poles comprises second mechanical connection means for mechanical connection with at least one of said actuating elements, the at least one of said actuating elements (7A, 7B) being mechanically connected with said insulated casing by said first and second mechanical connections means. - a switching unit comprising one or more electric poles (21A, 21B, 21C) having an insulating casing, said switching device being reversibly movable between an insertion position, at which said switching unit is electrically connected with an electric line, and a withdrawal position, at which said switching unit is electrically disconnected from said electric line; - one or more actuating elements (7A, 7B) operatively coupleable with an actuating mechanism of a shutter device to operate one or more shutters of said shutter device during the movement of said switching device, said actuating elements being fixed to said switching unit; - at least one of said actuating elements comprises first mechanical connection means for mechanical connection with the insulating casing of at least one of said electric poles; - the insulating casing of at least one of said electric poles comprises second mechanical connection means for mechanical connection with at least one of said actuating elements, the at least one of said actuating elements (7A, 7B) being mechanically connected with said insulated casing by said first and second mechanical connections means.
A resuscitator system including a resuscitator, a gas flow conduit connected at one end to a gas outlet of the resuscitator, a patient valve connected to the opposite end of the gas flow conduit and arranged to open to allow flow of gas from the gas flow conduit to a patient during an inspiratory phase and to close during an expiratory phase such that a major part of expired gas is prevented from flowing into the conduit and instead exits to atmosphere, the patient valve including a first valve element that is opened by expiratory gas pressure to allow gas to flow along an expiratory flow path, characterised in that the patient valve includes a second valve element located in the expiratory flow path downstream of the first valve element, that the second valve element is opened by gas pressure passed by the first valve element during an expiratory phase, that the second valve element communicates with a chamber opening to atmosphere, that the patient valve includes two pressure monitoring channels (32 and 33) extending from the patient valve along the gas flow conduit, the first channel opening to be exposed to gas pressure on an upstream side of the second valve element, the second channel opening to be exposed to gas pressure on a downstream side of the second valve element, and that the first and second channels (32 and 33) extend to a differential pressure arrangement (320, 330, 340) in the resuscitator that provides an output indication of expiratory gas flow from the differential pressure across the second valve element.
A touchscreen device comprising a processor and a touchscreen, the processor operably configured to: receive input indicative of a selection of input elements for a subset of input elements from a set of given input elements, the subset for providing application input data to a computer application, the subset displayable on the touchscreen; receive further input indicative of a size and location of a display area, the display area for rendering output from the computer application, wherein the display area is smaller than the touchscreen; and render the subset on the touchscreen such that the subset is operably configured to receive the application input data, the subset being rendered outside the display area and remaining on the touchscreen as long as the computer application is running. receive input indicative of a selection of input elements for a subset of input elements from a set of given input elements, the subset for providing application input data to a computer application, the subset displayable on the touchscreen; receive further input indicative of a size and location of a display area, the display area for rendering output from the computer application, wherein the display area is smaller than the touchscreen; and render the subset on the touchscreen such that the subset is operably configured to receive the application input data, the subset being rendered outside the display area and remaining on the touchscreen as long as the computer application is running.
A method for manufacturing a structure material that comprises a thermoplastic resin, reinforced fibers, and voids, the method comprising: a first process for arranging a structure precursor, which is a mat comprising reinforced fibers and a matrix resin comprising the thermoplastic resin wherein the mat comprising reinforced fibers is impregnated with the resin in advance, in a mold with a surface temperature of 80°C or less; a second process for raising the surface temperature of the mold up to a temperature at which a storage elastic modulus (G') of the structure precursor is less than 1.2 × 10 8 Pa; a third process for lowering the surface temperature of the mold down to a temperature at which the storage elastic modulus (G') of the structure precursor is 1.2 × 10 8 Pa or more; and a fourth process for removing the structure material obtained after end of the third process from the mold, wherein the storage elastic modulus (G') is measured by dynamic viscoelasticity analysis on a 0.5mm thick and 10 mm wide sample under conditions of a temperature raising rate of 5°C / minute, a twisting vibration frequency of 0.5 Hz, and a strain amount of 0.1%. a first process for arranging a structure precursor, which is a mat comprising reinforced fibers and a matrix resin comprising the thermoplastic resin wherein the mat comprising reinforced fibers is impregnated with the resin in advance, in a mold with a surface temperature of 80°C or less; a second process for raising the surface temperature of the mold up to a temperature at which a storage elastic modulus (G') of the structure precursor is less than 1.2 × 10 8 Pa; a third process for lowering the surface temperature of the mold down to a temperature at which the storage elastic modulus (G') of the structure precursor is 1.2 × 10 8 Pa or more; and a fourth process for removing the structure material obtained after end of the third process from the mold, wherein the storage elastic modulus (G') is measured by dynamic viscoelasticity analysis on a 0.5mm thick and 10 mm wide sample under conditions of a temperature raising rate of 5°C / minute, a twisting vibration frequency of 0.5 Hz, and a strain amount of 0.1%.
A slurry production system comprising: a dispersion device configured to transfer an aqueous slurry containing a high nickel material prepared by a dispersion unit, which mixes a powder with a solvent, to a stirring tank (11; and circulate the aqueous slurry between the stirring tank and the dispersion unit; and a slurry storage device configured to store the aqueous slurry prepared by the dispersion device before the aqueous slurry is subjected to a coating process, wherein the slurry storage device includes a holding means configured to hold the aqueous slurry, and a pH value rise suppressing means configured to suppress a rise in a pH value of the aqueous slurry. a dispersion device configured to transfer an aqueous slurry containing a high nickel material prepared by a dispersion unit, which mixes a powder with a solvent, to a stirring tank (11; and circulate the aqueous slurry between the stirring tank and the dispersion unit; and a slurry storage device configured to store the aqueous slurry prepared by the dispersion device before the aqueous slurry is subjected to a coating process, wherein the slurry storage device includes a holding means configured to hold the aqueous slurry, and a pH value rise suppressing means configured to suppress a rise in a pH value of the aqueous slurry. a holding means configured to hold the aqueous slurry, and a pH value rise suppressing means configured to suppress a rise in a pH value of the aqueous slurry.
A reconfigurable aperture (100, 200), comprising: a plurality of metallic particles confined to a volume extending across an aperture area (360, 460, 560); an electrostatic, electromagnetic or magnetostatic controller configured to dynamically reposition the plurality of metallic particles within the volume to form opaque regions (340, 440, 540) in the aperture area (360, 460, 560); wherein the opaque regions (340, 440, 540), and transmissive regions (350, 450, 550) between the opaque regions (340, 440, 540), form a reconfigurable zone plate configured to change a collimation of a microwave beam propagating through the reconfigurable zone plate from an incident face of the reconfigurable zone plate to an exiting face of the reconfigurable zone plate opposite the incident face via diffraction. a plurality of metallic particles confined to a volume extending across an aperture area (360, 460, 560); an electrostatic, electromagnetic or magnetostatic controller configured to dynamically reposition the plurality of metallic particles within the volume to form opaque regions (340, 440, 540) in the aperture area (360, 460, 560); wherein the opaque regions (340, 440, 540), and transmissive regions (350, 450, 550) between the opaque regions (340, 440, 540), form a reconfigurable zone plate configured to change a collimation of a microwave beam propagating through the reconfigurable zone plate from an incident face of the reconfigurable zone plate to an exiting face of the reconfigurable zone plate opposite the incident face via diffraction.
A material having antimicrobial properties, said material comprising a polymer having incorporated therein a synergistic combination of at least two metal oxide powders, comprising a mixed oxidation state oxide of a first metal and a single oxidation state oxide of a second metal, the powders being incorporated substantially uniformly within said polymer, wherein the powders have substantially different specific gravities and substantially similar bulk densities and wherein the ions of the metal oxides are in ionic contact upon exposure of said material to moisture.