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Apparatus, comprising: a probe, configured for insertion into a body cavity of a patient and comprising a force sensor for measuring a force applied to the force sensor; characterised in that the apparatus further comprises a processor, which is configured to receive a plurality of measurements from the force sensor, each of the measurements indicative of the force, to detect that the measurements received over a period of time of at least a specified duration have not varied by more than a predefined amount, and to set a baseline of the force sensor, for use in further measurements, to a value based on the measurements received during the period. a probe, configured for insertion into a body cavity of a patient and comprising a force sensor for measuring a force applied to the force sensor; characterised in that the apparatus further comprises a processor, which is configured to receive a plurality of measurements from the force sensor, each of the measurements indicative of the force, to detect that the measurements received over a period of time of at least a specified duration have not varied by more than a predefined amount, and to set a baseline of the force sensor, for use in further measurements, to a value based on the measurements received during the period.
A medical gripping device, comprising: a pair of movable clips (12, 13) made from an elastic material, a fixed clip; the movable clips being provided to face the fixed clip, the movable clips (12, 13) having lower ends fixed to the fixed clip and the other ends opened; and a control mechanism, configured to abut against the movable clips (12, 13); wherein a protrusion portion (16, 17) is formed on the base side of each movable clip (12, 13), wherein the protrusion portions (16, 17) are not provided symmetrically with respect to the fixed clip, but are provided to be displaced slightly from each other in the longitudinal direction of the fixed clip, such that abutment of the control mechanism against the protrusions (16, 17) of the movable clips (12, 13) during operation causes a timing at which a gripping target is gripped between one of the movable clips and the fixed clip being shifted from a timing at which the gripping target is gripped between the other movable clip and the fixed clip. a pair of movable clips (12, 13) made from an elastic material, a fixed clip; the movable clips being provided to face the fixed clip, the movable clips (12, 13) having lower ends fixed to the fixed clip and the other ends opened; and a control mechanism, configured to abut against the movable clips (12, 13); wherein a protrusion portion (16, 17) is formed on the base side of each movable clip (12, 13), wherein the protrusion portions (16, 17) are not provided symmetrically with respect to the fixed clip, but are provided to be displaced slightly from each other in the longitudinal direction of the fixed clip, such that abutment of the control mechanism against the protrusions (16, 17) of the movable clips (12, 13) during operation causes a timing at which a gripping target is gripped between one of the movable clips and the fixed clip being shifted from a timing at which the gripping target is gripped between the other movable clip and the fixed clip.
A method for preparing a multilayer microparticle, the method comprising: (a) forming a layer comprising a first polymer on a solid planar surface that is the base of a well by depositing a first composition one or more times on the solid surface, wherein the first composition comprises the first polymer and a first solvent, and evaporating the first solvent in the deposited first composition; (b) forming a layer comprising a second polymer and a therapeutic agent by depositing a second composition on all or part of the layer formed in step (a), wherein the second composition comprises the second polymer, the therapeutic agent, and a second solvent; and evaporating the second solvent in the deposited second composition; and (c) forming an additional layer comprising a third polymer by depositing a third composition one or more times on a previously formed layer, wherein the third composition comprises the third polymer and a third solvent; and evaporating the third solvent in the deposited third composition; wherein the first and the third compositions do not contain a therapeutic agent; wherein the first, second, and third polymers are poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), and wherein the average molecular weight of the first and the third polymers is greater than the average molecular weight of the second polymer by at least 40 kilodalton. (a) forming a layer comprising a first polymer on a solid planar surface that is the base of a well by depositing a first composition one or more times on the solid surface, wherein the first composition comprises the first polymer and a first solvent, and evaporating the first solvent in the deposited first composition; (b) forming a layer comprising a second polymer and a therapeutic agent by depositing a second composition on all or part of the layer formed in step (a), wherein the second composition comprises the second polymer, the therapeutic agent, and a second solvent; and evaporating the second solvent in the deposited second composition; and (c) forming an additional layer comprising a third polymer by depositing a third composition one or more times on a previously formed layer, wherein the third composition comprises the third polymer and a third solvent; and evaporating the third solvent in the deposited third composition; wherein the first and the third compositions do not contain a therapeutic agent; wherein the first, second, and third polymers are poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), and wherein the average molecular weight of the first and the third polymers is greater than the average molecular weight of the second polymer by at least 40 kilodalton.
An image decoding device comprising: an intra prediction unit for, when a coding mode for a coding block is an intra coding mode, carrying out an intra-frame prediction process on each of processing blocks to generate a prediction value for each of pixels of a prediction image, each of the processing blocks being the coding block or a sub-block obtained by dividing the coding block, wherein, when an intra prediction parameter indicates a horizontal prediction process, the intra prediction unit adds, at each row within a predetermined number of a row or rows from an upper end of the processing block, a value to a luminance value of a pixel adjacent to left of the processing block and sets a result of the addition as a predicted value of the prediction image, the value being proportional to an amount of change in a horizontal direction of luminance values of pixels adjacent to top of the processing block and being obtained by scaling the amount of change, and the intra prediction unit sets, at remaining rows of the processing block, a luminance value of a pixel adjacent to left of the processing block as a predicted value of the prediction image, wherein the intra prediction unit calculates a predicted value of each pixel in the processing block according to S ′ x y = { S − 1, y + S x, − 1 − S − 1, − 1 / u y < C S − 1, y y ≧ C wherein S'(x, y) is the predicted value at the coordinates (x, y), S(x, y) is the luminance value of the already-encoded pixel at the coordinates (x, y), 1/u is a scaling value used for horizontal prediction and C is an integer larger than 0. an intra prediction unit for, when a coding mode for a coding block is an intra coding mode, carrying out an intra-frame prediction process on each of processing blocks to generate a prediction value for each of pixels of a prediction image, each of the processing blocks being the coding block or a sub-block obtained by dividing the coding block, wherein, when an intra prediction parameter indicates a horizontal prediction process, the intra prediction unit adds, at each row within a predetermined number of a row or rows from an upper end of the processing block, a value to a luminance value of a pixel adjacent to left of the processing block and sets a result of the addition as a predicted value of the prediction image, the value being proportional to an amount of change in a horizontal direction of luminance values of pixels adjacent to top of the processing block and being obtained by scaling the amount of change, and the intra prediction unit sets, at remaining rows of the processing block, a luminance value of a pixel adjacent to left of the processing block as a predicted value of the prediction image, wherein the intra prediction unit calculates a predicted value of each pixel in the processing block according to S ′ x y = { S − 1, y + S x, − 1 − S − 1, − 1 / u y < C S − 1, y y ≧ C wherein S'(x, y) is the predicted value at the coordinates (x, y), S(x, y) is the luminance value of the already-encoded pixel at the coordinates (x, y), 1/u is a scaling value used for horizontal prediction and C is an integer larger than 0.
A process for the extrusion of ceramic masses, which comprises a) mixing a ceramic mass and which comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of cordierite; mullite; silicon carbide; titanium dioxide; titanium carbide; boron carbide; boron oxide; talc; carbon black; graphite; rare earth oxides and zeolites, with at least one cellulose ether, at least one plasticizer, wherein polycarboxylic acid copolymers and/or salts thereof are used, and at least one defoamer selected from the group comprising alkylene glycol homopolymers, copolymers, terpolymers and block copolymers; adducts of alkylene oxides; alkylene glycol ethers of higher alcohols; alkylene glycol fatty acid esters; polyoxyalkylene sorbitol fatty acid esters; addition products of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and acetylene; phosphate esters; and mixtures thereof, as individual components or as premixed additive, the amount of, and, viewed as a mixture, used in the ceramic mass is from 0.3 to 10% by weight based on the total formulation of the ceramic mass and b) subsequently extruding it. a) mixing a ceramic mass and which comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of cordierite; mullite; silicon carbide; titanium dioxide; titanium carbide; boron carbide; boron oxide; talc; carbon black; graphite; rare earth oxides and zeolites, with at least one cellulose ether, at least one plasticizer, wherein polycarboxylic acid copolymers and/or salts thereof are used, and at least one defoamer selected from the group comprising alkylene glycol homopolymers, copolymers, terpolymers and block copolymers; adducts of alkylene oxides; alkylene glycol ethers of higher alcohols; alkylene glycol fatty acid esters; polyoxyalkylene sorbitol fatty acid esters; addition products of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and acetylene; phosphate esters; and mixtures thereof, as individual components or as premixed additive, the amount of, and, viewed as a mixture, used in the ceramic mass is from 0.3 to 10% by weight based on the total formulation of the ceramic mass and at least one cellulose ether, at least one plasticizer, wherein polycarboxylic acid copolymers and/or salts thereof are used, and at least one defoamer selected from the group comprising alkylene glycol homopolymers, copolymers, terpolymers and block copolymers; adducts of alkylene oxides; alkylene glycol ethers of higher alcohols; alkylene glycol fatty acid esters; polyoxyalkylene sorbitol fatty acid esters; addition products of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and acetylene; phosphate esters; and mixtures thereof, b) subsequently extruding it.
A vision sensor system comprising: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject; a movement mechanism that disposes the image capturing unit in an instructed position with an instructed attitude; a measuring unit that measures a three-dimensional shape of a surface of the subject using an image captured by the image capturing unit; and a movement control unit that determines a second position and a second attitude for capturing an image of the subject again on the basis of a measured shape which is a three-dimensional shape of the subject measured by means of the measuring unit using an image captured when the image capturing unit is disposed in a first position and a first attitude, and sends an instruction to the movement mechanism, wherein the three-dimensional shape is represented by means of height information from a reference surface, and the movement control unit extracts a deficient region which is deficient in the height information from the measured shape, and determines the second position and the second attitude on the basis of the height information around the deficient region in the measured shape, wherein the movement control unit determines the second position and the second attitude so that height information of a target segment is able to be acquired, the target segment links two points which are around the deficient region in the measured shape and on a straight line that passes through a centroid of the deficient region. an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject; a movement mechanism that disposes the image capturing unit in an instructed position with an instructed attitude; a measuring unit that measures a three-dimensional shape of a surface of the subject using an image captured by the image capturing unit; and a movement control unit that determines a second position and a second attitude for capturing an image of the subject again on the basis of a measured shape which is a three-dimensional shape of the subject measured by means of the measuring unit using an image captured when the image capturing unit is disposed in a first position and a first attitude, and sends an instruction to the movement mechanism, wherein the three-dimensional shape is represented by means of height information from a reference surface, and the movement control unit extracts a deficient region which is deficient in the height information from the measured shape, and determines the second position and the second attitude on the basis of the height information around the deficient region in the measured shape, wherein the movement control unit determines the second position and the second attitude so that height information of a target segment is able to be acquired, the target segment links two points which are around the deficient region in the measured shape and on a straight line that passes through a centroid of the deficient region.
A thermal printer configured for adapting RFID power settings, the thermal printer comprising: a processor; at least one RFID reader/writer (33, 34) having an adjustable power setting, characterized in that the processor is configured for utilizing a selected read RF power level sufficiently low to create an RF field small enough in strength so that a single RFID transponder is acted upon; reading and saving a serialized tag identification, TID, field for the single RFID transponder; increasing the RF power level; encoding data on the single RFID transponder; reducing the RF power level back down to the selected read RF power level; and reading and comparing the encoded data with data originally sent in a write command to confirm if the encoded data is accurately encoded. a processor; at least one RFID reader/writer (33, 34) having an adjustable power setting, characterized in that the processor is configured for utilizing a selected read RF power level sufficiently low to create an RF field small enough in strength so that a single RFID transponder is acted upon; reading and saving a serialized tag identification, TID, field for the single RFID transponder; increasing the RF power level; encoding data on the single RFID transponder; reducing the RF power level back down to the selected read RF power level; and reading and comparing the encoded data with data originally sent in a write command to confirm if the encoded data is accurately encoded.
A heat pump (120, 152, 182), comprising: a surround and spacer, SAS, structure (122, 154, 184) comprising a wall defining a first open side (132, 168, 196) and a second open side (136, 172, 200); an interconnect board (142, 176, 204) enclosed within the SAS structure, the interconnect board comprising one or more openings from a first surface of the interconnect board to a second surface of the interconnect board, the one or more openings defining locations at which a plurality of thermoelectric modules (146, 178, 206) are to be mounted on the interconnect board; the plurality of thermoelectric modules mounted on the interconnect board at the locations defined by the one or more openings, each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules having a first side and a second side; a hot-side heat spreader (124, 156, 186) that is in thermal contact with the first side of each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules; and a cold-side heat spreader (130, 166, 194) that is in thermal contact with the second side of each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules; wherein a periphery of the hot-side heat spreader mechanically contacts the wall of the SAS structure at the first open side, and a periphery of the cold-side heat spreader mechanically contacts the wall of the SAS structure at the second open side such that a compression force applied to the heat pump is absorbed by the SAS structure. a surround and spacer, SAS, structure (122, 154, 184) comprising a wall defining a first open side (132, 168, 196) and a second open side (136, 172, 200); an interconnect board (142, 176, 204) enclosed within the SAS structure, the interconnect board comprising one or more openings from a first surface of the interconnect board to a second surface of the interconnect board, the one or more openings defining locations at which a plurality of thermoelectric modules (146, 178, 206) are to be mounted on the interconnect board; the plurality of thermoelectric modules mounted on the interconnect board at the locations defined by the one or more openings, each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules having a first side and a second side; a hot-side heat spreader (124, 156, 186) that is in thermal contact with the first side of each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules; and a cold-side heat spreader (130, 166, 194) that is in thermal contact with the second side of each thermoelectric module of the plurality of thermoelectric modules; wherein a periphery of the hot-side heat spreader mechanically contacts the wall of the SAS structure at the first open side, and a periphery of the cold-side heat spreader mechanically contacts the wall of the SAS structure at the second open side such that a compression force applied to the heat pump is absorbed by the SAS structure.
Ignition arrangement, comprising an ignition coil and a spark plug, the ignition coil having a high voltage connector and a spring for the electric connection of the high voltage connector to the spark plug, a contact section (15.3) of the spring, which contact section (15.3) is directed towards the spark plug, having a reduced external circumference in comparison with an external circumference of further sections (15.1, 15.2) of the spring, the contact section (15.3) of the spring being of tapering configuration in the direction of the end of the spring and tapering conically, the spark plug having a contact region for contacting with the spring, the contact region having a recess which is surrounded by a closed, annular wall region and with a circular bottom region for receiving a contact section (15.3) of the spring of the spark plug, and the circular bottom region and the annular wall region of the recess being set up to make contact of the spring of the ignition coil with the contact region of the spark plug, characterized in that, in the mounted state, the contact section (15.3) of the spring is arranged in full contact, and adjacent windings on the contact section (15.3) of the spring touch one another, in that the annular wall region is set up to shield the contact section (15.3) of the spring, and in that the contact section (15.3) is set up to be shielded in the radial direction in the contact region of the spark plug.
A measurement method, comprising: acquiring a measurement threshold, by a user equipment, wherein the measurement threshold is related to a cell quality and a number of first beams; and performing a measurement, by the user equipment, when a measurement threshold requirement is met; the first beams are qualified beams which are the beams with beam qualities being higher than a beam quality threshold; wherein when the number of first beams is larger than a first threshold, the measurement threshold is related to a cell quality measurement threshold, characterized in that when the number of first beams is less than a second threshold, the measurement threshold is related to the cell quality measurement threshold and an offset, and the offset is a function of the number of first beams. acquiring a measurement threshold, by a user equipment, wherein the measurement threshold is related to a cell quality and a number of first beams; and performing a measurement, by the user equipment, when a measurement threshold requirement is met; the first beams are qualified beams which are the beams with beam qualities being higher than a beam quality threshold; wherein when the number of first beams is larger than a first threshold, the measurement threshold is related to a cell quality measurement threshold, characterized in that when the number of first beams is less than a second threshold, the measurement threshold is related to the cell quality measurement threshold and an offset, and the offset is a function of the number of first beams.
Formulation containing a soluble Fcγ receptor (sFcγR) in an aqueous buffered solution, wherein the concentration of the soluble Fcγ receptor is greater than 60 mg/ml and wherein it contains a physiologically acceptable buffer substance.
An operating method for a pump for conveying a fluid from a low-pressure side to a high-pressure side, wherein a return line is provided for returning the fluid from the high-pressure side to the low-pressure side, in which method a control valve in the return line is actuated by means of a surge limit control unit to avoid an unstable operating state, which control valve controls the flow through the return line, wherein a limit curve (60, 60') is maintained for a control parameter in the surge limit control unit, a current value of the control parameter is compared with the limit curve (60, 60') during the operation of the pump and wherein, as soon as the current value of the control parameter reaches the limit curve (60, 60'), the control valve in the return line is actuated in such a way that the current value of the control parameter moves away from the limit curve (60, 60'), characterized in that an operating parameter of the pump is used as the control parameter, which operating parameter is the torque of the pump, or the rotational speed of the pump, or the power consumption of the pump.
A gypsum board, wherein said gypsum board has at least one storage zone in which containers are provided that contain phase-transition materials, and has at least one attachment zone in which no containers are provided, wherein said storage zones have milling grooves in which the containers are provided, wherein at least 30% of the board thickness is retained in the zones in which containers are employed.