mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A midsole for a shoe, where the midsole is 3D printed from an elastic polymeric material, the midsole comprising: - a sole facing surface - a foot facing surface - a plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) that in a first position are substantially perpendicular to the sole facing surface that extend from the sole facing surface to the foot facing surface where each wall (9; 20, 21, 22) has a height, - where the plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) define a plurality of cells (18; 23) having a central axis that is substantially parallel to the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) and having a radius from a wall to the central axis, - where the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) in a second position are configured to elastically deform upon application of an external force so that the deformation provides a change in the radius and/or the height, - and where the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) are adapted to return to their first position upon removal of the external force, wherein the midsole as a whole is formed out of the plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) and cells (18, 23), the entire midsole is constructed from the 3D printed elastic material, where the entire midsole is 3D printed from the same material, wherein the cells (18, 23) are triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, semi-circular, circular or hexagonal, and wherein the thickness of each wall (9; 20, 21, 22) is between 0.4 and 1.6 mm, more preferably between 0.5 and 1.2 mm, more preferably between 0.6 and 1.0 mm, or more preferably between 0.7 and 0.9 mm. - a sole facing surface - a foot facing surface - a plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) that in a first position are substantially perpendicular to the sole facing surface that extend from the sole facing surface to the foot facing surface where each wall (9; 20, 21, 22) has a height, - where the plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) define a plurality of cells (18; 23) having a central axis that is substantially parallel to the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) and having a radius from a wall to the central axis, - where the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) in a second position are configured to elastically deform upon application of an external force so that the deformation provides a change in the radius and/or the height, - and where the walls (9; 20, 21, 22) are adapted to return to their first position upon removal of the external force, wherein the midsole as a whole is formed out of the plurality of walls (9; 20, 21, 22) and cells (18, 23), the entire midsole is constructed from the 3D printed elastic material, where the entire midsole is 3D printed from the same material, wherein the cells (18, 23) are triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, semi-circular, circular or hexagonal, and wherein the thickness of each wall (9; 20, 21, 22) is between 0.4 and 1.6 mm, more preferably between 0.5 and 1.2 mm, more preferably between 0.6 and 1.0 mm, or more preferably between 0.7 and 0.9 mm.
A method for industrial production of especially fine powders and mineral powders, where the material to be ground is mixed to a gas-solid matter suspension, which through acceleration nozzles is led at least to two counter jets, which meet in grinding chamber for further grinding of the powders contained in the jets, characterized in that the ground gas-solid matter suspension is led in its turn by means of working gas at least to two intermediate containers; in the grinding circulation, in which containers the gas is removed from the mixture and into intermediate container (2a, 2b) a certain quantity of solid matter is collected, which quantity is returned to be ground and led to the other container (2a, 2b) and said quantity is circulated through the grinding process among intermediate containers; until in some container the quality is established sufficient for removal off the process.
A method for improving the interpretation of the surroundings of an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, wherein the UAV comprises at least one sensor unit configured to capture an image of a surrounding environment, the method comprising the steps of: - acquiring said image comprising depth data from said sensor unit, - determining a boundary (115, 115') between a first image portion (111, 111') and a second image portion (121, 121'), wherein said second image portion (121, 121') surrounds said first image portion (111, 111'), said boundary (115, 115') being defined by an interface between first periphery sub-portions (112, 112') of said first image portion and second periphery sub-portions (122, 122') of said second image portion, wherein a difference in depth data between adjacent said first periphery sub-portions and said second periphery sub-portions is above a first predetermined threshold and/or wherein said second periphery sub-portions comprises undefined depth data, - determining the area of the first image portion (111, 111'), - determining the shape of the first image portion, and - if the area of the first image portion (111, 111') is below a 20 second predetermined threshold, and if the shape of the first image portion (111, 111') is not elongated such that the average length of the first image portion (111, 111') is at least 10 - 30 % of the length of the image, determining that the first image portion (111, 111') contains incorrect depth data and deleting and/or adjusting the incorrect depth data contained by said first image portion (111, 111'). - acquiring said image comprising depth data from said sensor unit, - determining a boundary (115, 115') between a first image portion (111, 111') and a second image portion (121, 121'), wherein said second image portion (121, 121') surrounds said first image portion (111, 111'), said boundary (115, 115') being defined by an interface between first periphery sub-portions (112, 112') of said first image portion and second periphery sub-portions (122, 122') of said second image portion, wherein a difference in depth data between adjacent said first periphery sub-portions and said second periphery sub-portions is above a first predetermined threshold and/or wherein said second periphery sub-portions comprises undefined depth data, - determining the area of the first image portion (111, 111'), - determining the shape of the first image portion, and - if the area of the first image portion (111, 111') is below a 20 second predetermined threshold, and if the shape of the first image portion (111, 111') is not elongated such that the average length of the first image portion (111, 111') is at least 10 - 30 % of the length of the image, determining that the first image portion (111, 111') contains incorrect depth data and deleting and/or adjusting the incorrect depth data contained by said first image portion (111, 111').
Hairdressing appliance comprising a portable treatment unit configured at least to spray steam onto the hair, the portable treatment unit comprising two arms (5, 6) configured to form a clamp provided with two hair-treatment surfaces (8, 9) arranged opposite each other and which concomitantly allow gripping of a lock of hair, the first arm comprising a vaporisation chamber and first spraying means (12, 12') configured to be connected to the vaporisation chamber and to spray steam towards the outside near the treatment surface of the first arm, said hairdressing appliance comprising a steam-transfer system (15, 22) configured to move steam from said first arm to the second arm and conversely to spray this steam towards the outside on the same side as the inner face of the second arm, near the treatment surface of the second arm, the hairdressing appliance comprising a device (12, 12', 22) for spraying steam towards the outside of the two arms (5, 6), alongside the inner faces thereof arranged facing each other, close to the two treatment surfaces (8, 9), the transfer system consisting firstly of the first spraying means that are configured to spray steam towards the outside of the inner face of the first arm and secondly a deflector configured on the inner face of the second arm, along the second treatment surface, in order to return outwards the steam sprayed by the first spraying means, characterised in that the deflector is in the form of a bowl that has a cross section in the form of a drop of water.
A pharmaceutical composition comprising (a) a solid amorphous dispersion of a cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor (CETPI) and a neutral concentration-enhancing polymer, (b) wherein said CETPI, in the absence of said concentration-enhancing polymer, has an aqueous solubility of less than 10 μg/ml at pH 1-8 at 22°C and a Clog P value of greater than 4; and (c) wherein the weight ratio of said CETPI to said concentration-enhancing polymer ranges from 0.01 to 4, (d) wherein the amount of crystalline CETP inhibitor does not exceed 10%, and (e) wherein said solid amorphous dispersion is substantially homogeneous such that the fraction of CETP inhibitor present in pure amorphous domains within the solid dispersion is less than 10% of the total amount of CETP inhibitor; wherein said neutral concentration-enhancing polymer is selected from vinyl polymers and copolymers having substituents of hydroxyl, alkylacyloxy, and cyclicamido, polyvinyl alcohols that have at least a portion of their repeat units in the unhydrolyzed (vinyl acetate) form; polyvinyl alcohol polyvinyl acetate copolymers; polyvinyl pyrrolidone; polyethylene polyvinyl alcohol copolymers, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose acetate, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose acetate, and hydroxyethyl ethyl cellulose. (a) a solid amorphous dispersion of a cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor (CETPI) and a neutral concentration-enhancing polymer, (b) wherein said CETPI, in the absence of said concentration-enhancing polymer, has an aqueous solubility of less than 10 μg/ml at pH 1-8 at 22°C and a Clog P value of greater than 4; and (c) wherein the weight ratio of said CETPI to said concentration-enhancing polymer ranges from 0.01 to 4, (d) wherein the amount of crystalline CETP inhibitor does not exceed 10%, and (e) wherein said solid amorphous dispersion is substantially homogeneous such that the fraction of CETP inhibitor present in pure amorphous domains within the solid dispersion is less than 10% of the total amount of CETP inhibitor; wherein said neutral concentration-enhancing polymer is selected from vinyl polymers and copolymers having substituents of hydroxyl, alkylacyloxy, and cyclicamido, polyvinyl alcohols that have at least a portion of their repeat units in the unhydrolyzed (vinyl acetate) form; polyvinyl alcohol polyvinyl acetate copolymers; polyvinyl pyrrolidone; polyethylene polyvinyl alcohol copolymers, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose acetate, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose acetate, and hydroxyethyl ethyl cellulose.
Device for protecting an object or a person, the protective device comprising a sealed resilient membrane provided for receiving a gas and a fibrous envelope containing said membrane: when the protective device is in its idle state, the size of the membrane is different from the size of the envelope and the envelope containing the membrane can be folded, when the protective device is in its active state, the size of the membrane corresponds in shape to the size of the envelope, the membrane then occupying a first volume corresponding to the maximum volume of the envelope, referred to as a second volume, the envelope being provided for preventing the volume of the membrane from expanding beyond the maximum volume of the envelope, said envelope being provided to take a shape that adjusts to the object or person to be protected, and in that, in the unstressed state the inflated membrane can occupy a third volume which is greater than the maximum volume of the envelope. when the protective device is in its idle state, the size of the membrane is different from the size of the envelope and the envelope containing the membrane can be folded, when the protective device is in its active state, the size of the membrane corresponds in shape to the size of the envelope, the membrane then occupying a first volume corresponding to the maximum volume of the envelope, referred to as a second volume, the envelope being provided for preventing the volume of the membrane from expanding beyond the maximum volume of the envelope, said envelope being provided to take a shape that adjusts to the object or person to be protected, and in that, in the unstressed state the inflated membrane can occupy a third volume which is greater than the maximum volume of the envelope.
Engine shaft of hybrid design, more particularly the low-pressure shaft or the radial shaft of a gas-turbine engine, including a fiber-composite plastic tube connected at the ends with an externally toothed power transmission element, wherein the power transmission element is of the two-part design and includes a toothed part made of steel of a specific hardness and, frontally weldedly connected thereto, a tapering adapter part enclosed by the fiber-composite material to provide a scarf joining, characterized in that the adapter part comprises a different material than the toothed part, and that the thermal expansion of the adapter part approximately equals to the expansion behaviour of the fiber-composite material.
A waveguide device, comprising: a substrate comprising an electro-optical material with a first refractive index; a waveguide formed in the electro-optical material, the waveguide comprising a plurality of tracks; a plurality of electrodes (302, 304) formed in a vicinity of the waveguide; wherein the tracks comprise a second refractive index smaller than the first refractive index, are parallel to each other with a common direction (z) defining a direction (z) of the waveguide, and form an arrangement in a plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; and wherein the arrangement comprises at least 40 equilateral triangles of identical side lengths, wherein all three corners of each of the equilateral triangles each coincide with a different track of the plurality of tracks in the plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; wherein the waveguide comprises a core; wherein the core is defined by a first interruption of the arrangement of the tracks comprising the equilateral triangles in the plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; and wherein the waveguide comprises an asymmetric cladding thickness (t, t'), such that a section of the waveguide with a minimum thickness (t') is arranged between the core and an electrode of the plurality of electrodes (302, 304), in particular between the core and the nearest electrode. a substrate comprising an electro-optical material with a first refractive index; a waveguide formed in the electro-optical material, the waveguide comprising a plurality of tracks; a plurality of electrodes (302, 304) formed in a vicinity of the waveguide; wherein the tracks comprise a second refractive index smaller than the first refractive index, are parallel to each other with a common direction (z) defining a direction (z) of the waveguide, and form an arrangement in a plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; and wherein the arrangement comprises at least 40 equilateral triangles of identical side lengths, wherein all three corners of each of the equilateral triangles each coincide with a different track of the plurality of tracks in the plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; wherein the waveguide comprises a core; wherein the core is defined by a first interruption of the arrangement of the tracks comprising the equilateral triangles in the plane perpendicular to the direction (z) of the waveguide; and wherein the waveguide comprises an asymmetric cladding thickness (t, t'), such that a section of the waveguide with a minimum thickness (t') is arranged between the core and an electrode of the plurality of electrodes (302, 304), in particular between the core and the nearest electrode.
Solar selective absorbing coating with solar absorbing properties and low emissivity, composed of a substrate of metallic, dielectric or ceramic material, with at least one metallic layer that is highly reflective in medium-far infrared, deposited on the substrate, an absorbing multilayer structure deposited on the reflecting metallic layer, composed by alternating dielectric and metallic layers, and at least one anti-reflecting dielectric layer, deposited on the absorbing multilayer structure, the dielectric layers of the absorbing multilayer structure can be of equal or different thickness and/or composition with respect to each other and the metallic layers of the absorbing multilayer structure can have equal or different thickness and/or composition with respect to each othe, characterised in that the thickness of each of the metallic and dielectric layers of the absorbing multilayer structure being less than 10 nm and preferably less than 1 nm, with the overall thickness of the absorbing multilayer structure being between 5 and 1000 nm, and where the layers of a dielectric nature of the solar selective absorbing coating are deposited by means of reactive sputtering including inert gas and reactant gas in the chamber or part of the chamber where these dielectric layers are deposited, while the metallic layers of the solar selective absorbing coating are deposited by DC sputtering, introducing inert gas exclusively in the chamber or part of the chamber where these metallic sheets are deposited.
A modified ClyA pore comprising a plurality of subunits, wherein each subunit comprises a polypeptide represented by an amino acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein (i) exactly one Cys residue is substituted with Ala; (ii) exactly one Cys residue is substituted with Ala and exactly one Cys residue is substituted with Ser; or (iii) exactly one Cys residue is substituted with Ser and one or more of L99, E103, F166 and K294 are substituted with other amino acid residues, wherein the Cys residue is C87 or C285.
Lithium silicate glass ceramic, which comprises 8.0 to 16.0 wt.-% ZrO 2 and 0.5 to 3.5 wt.-% Al 2 O 3 and comprises lithium metasilicate as main crystalline phase and comprises more than 10 vol.-% of lithium metasilicate crystals.
A toner binder containing a polyester resin comprising one or more types of a linear polyester resin and a non-linear polyester resin which are obtained by polycondensation of a carboxylic acid component (x) and an alcohol component (y), wherein at least one type of contains 50 to 95 mol% of an aliphatic diol having a carbon number of 2 to 4 in the alcohol component (y), and and/ or containing, wherein the polyester resin is one obtained by esterifying 5 mol% or more of the terminal hydroxyl groups with a monocarboxylic acid, one obtained by esterifying 5 mol% or more of the terminal carboxyl groups with a monool, or one obtained by modifying 5 mol% or more of the terminal hydroxyl groups into vinyl groups, and satisfies expressions and: 11.5 ≤ SP value cal/cm 3 1 / 2 of P ≤ 13.0 as measured according to the description, 5.2 ≤ HLB value by Oda method of P ≤ 7.1 as measured and calculated according to the description.
Method for producing an electrical contact element which is electrically contactable by a counter-contact, wherein the method comprises the following steps: supplying a wire made of a first electrically conductive material having a jacket made of a second electrically conductive material; partially removing the jacket in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the wire; forming at least one cylindrical semi-finished product by subdividing the wire in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the wire; affixing the semi-finished product on a contact holder, such that the second electrically conductive material is connected with the contact holder; shaping the welded, semi-finished product to form the contact element, wherein a contact surface that is accessible to a counter-contact is formed by the first electrically conductive material. supplying a wire made of a first electrically conductive material having a jacket made of a second electrically conductive material; partially removing the jacket in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the wire; forming at least one cylindrical semi-finished product by subdividing the wire in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the wire; affixing the semi-finished product on a contact holder, such that the second electrically conductive material is connected with the contact holder; shaping the welded, semi-finished product to form the contact element, wherein a contact surface that is accessible to a counter-contact is formed by the first electrically conductive material.
A patient handling assembly including a frame, a patient support carried by the frame, a plurality of castors attached to the frame (C1b), and a steering wheel mechanism coupled to the frame, the steering wheel mechanism including an adjustable wheel support member, at least one wheel member attached to wheel support member, the wheel support member being adjustable between a wheel uppermost position and a wheel lowermost position, the steering wheel mechanism including an adjustment mechanism coupled to the wheel support member able to adjust the position of the wheel support member to one of a plurality of intermediate positions between said wheel uppermost and lowermost positions, characterized in that the adjustment mechanism provides a raising device for raising the wheel support incrementally.
Method for the detection of a blockage of a flue gas evacuation means of a burner system, in the case of which method at least one pressure characteristic value for the detection of the blockage is detected and/or evaluated, a test volumetric flow being produced for the detection of the blockage, which test volumetric flow is greater than an ignition volumetric flow of the burner system, a fan of the burner system for the production of the test volumetric flow being operated temporarily at a rotational speed which lies above a rotational speed for the production of the ignition volumetric flow, characterized in that the pressure characteristic value is detected by means of a pressure switch within the flue gas evacuation means, and the test volumetric flow is reduced before an ignition of the burner system to the ignition volumetric flow.
A process for the synthesis of boron phosphide, comprising the reduction of boron phosphate (BPO 4) with at least one alkaline earth metal according to Equation: BPO 4 + 4 EA − > BP + 4 EA O the process being a self- propagating high temperature synthesis, and at least part of a mixture comprising boron phosphate and the at least one alkaline earth metal is heated for initiating locally the reaction between boron phosphate and the alkaline earth metal.