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A method for manufacturing austenitic stainless steel comprising: a hot rolling step of heating and hot-rolling a slab of stainless steel at a heating temperature during the hot rolling; and a heat treatment step of subjecting austenitic stainless steel obtained through the hot rolling to heat treatment within a temperature range of 1100 to 1160°C, and thereafter, cooling the austenitic stainless steel at cooling speed of 100°C/min. or more, wherein the slab of stainless steel has a chemical composition containing:, by mass%, C: at most 0.04%; Cr: 7 to 20%, Ni: 10 to 22%, Si: 2.5 to 7%, Mn: at most 10%, sol. Al: at most 0.03%, P: at most 0.03%, S: at most 0.03%; N: at most 0.035%, a total amount of one or more types of elements selected from Nb, Ti, Ta, and Zr: 0.05 to 0.7%; and the remainder being Fe and impurities, and the heating temperature T h is defined as T h in which ΔT of Formula: T h = 1135 - 90Si - 2.9Cr + 40Ni - ΔT is at least 60°C. a hot rolling step of heating and hot-rolling a slab of stainless steel at a heating temperature during the hot rolling; and a heat treatment step of subjecting austenitic stainless steel obtained through the hot rolling to heat treatment within a temperature range of 1100 to 1160°C, and thereafter, cooling the austenitic stainless steel at cooling speed of 100°C/min. or more,
Lighting arrangement for an interior of a vehicle having a light control infrastructure having multiple control outputs for respectively connecting one or more lighting arrangements and having an operator control unit for selecting and altering a control variable, the control variable being able to be made available at each of the control outputs, - having a control input for a single control variable that can assume multiple control values, the control input being connectable to one of the control outputs, - and having a luminaire for producing light on the basis of the control values, characterized in that - the luminaire is a multicoloured luminaire having an input interface for supplying a colour variable, which can assume multiple colour values, and a brightness variable, which can assume multiple brightness values, - the lighting arrangement contains a control unit that has the control input and an output interface for the colour variable and the brightness variable that is connected to the input interface, - the control unit is designed to assign a brightness value and a colour value to a control value received at the control input using a mapping rule and to output them on the output interface, - the control unit forms an adapter module of its own, a separate adapter module or an adapter module integrated into the luminaire for the multicoloured luminaire, so that the adapter module together with the luminaire forms a modified luminaire or a luminaire module. - having a control input for a single control variable that can assume multiple control values, the control input being connectable to one of the control outputs, - and having a luminaire for producing light on the basis of the control values, characterized in that - the luminaire is a multicoloured luminaire having an input interface for supplying a colour variable, which can assume multiple colour values, and a brightness variable, which can assume multiple brightness values, - the lighting arrangement contains a control unit that has the control input and an output interface for the colour variable and the brightness variable that is connected to the input interface, - the control unit is designed to assign a brightness value and a colour value to a control value received at the control input using a mapping rule and to output them on the output interface, - the control unit forms an adapter module of its own, a separate adapter module or an adapter module integrated into the luminaire for the multicoloured luminaire, so that the adapter module together with the luminaire forms a modified luminaire or a luminaire module.
A method of processing acquired ophthalmic image data comprising the steps of: providing an imaging signal produced by an imaging device, the imaging signal produced by a light source being capable of penetrating beyond the retinal pigment epithelium of a subject's eye; detecting intensities of the imaging signal as the imaging signal is backscattered by each of a plurality of tissue layers in the subject's eye for a plurality of axial scans, characterised in that the method further comprises the steps of: determining a ratio of the intensities of the backscattered imaging signals, the ratio being the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a retinal layer with respect to the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a sub-RPE layer for each of the plurality of axial scans; and determining a representative value for each of the plurality of axial scans based at least in part on the determined ratio for the corresponding axial scan. providing an imaging signal produced by an imaging device, the imaging signal produced by a light source being capable of penetrating beyond the retinal pigment epithelium of a subject's eye; detecting intensities of the imaging signal as the imaging signal is backscattered by each of a plurality of tissue layers in the subject's eye for a plurality of axial scans, characterised in that the method further comprises the steps of: determining a ratio of the intensities of the backscattered imaging signals, the ratio being the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a retinal layer with respect to the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a sub-RPE layer for each of the plurality of axial scans; and determining a representative value for each of the plurality of axial scans based at least in part on the determined ratio for the corresponding axial scan. determining a ratio of the intensities of the backscattered imaging signals, the ratio being the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a retinal layer with respect to the intensity of the backscattered imaging signal of at least a portion of a sub-RPE layer for each of the plurality of axial scans; and determining a representative value for each of the plurality of axial scans based at least in part on the determined ratio for the corresponding axial scan.
An antistatic transfer belt comprising: a base substrate formed of yarns; and an electrically conductive material applied to said substrate, said belt capable of dissipating static electric charge whilst maintaining a desired air permeability in the range of 20 to 200 CFM wherein said conductive material is conductive batt or conductive foam; and wherein said belt is used in an apparatus to produce a nonwoven web formed by a production process taken from the group consisting of airlaid, drylaid, spunbond, meltbond, spunlace, or a combination of two or more such production processes. a base substrate formed of yarns; and an electrically conductive material applied to said substrate, said belt capable of dissipating static electric charge whilst maintaining a desired air permeability in the range of 20 to 200 CFM wherein said conductive material is conductive batt or conductive foam; and wherein said belt is used in an apparatus to produce a nonwoven web formed by a production process taken from the group consisting of airlaid, drylaid, spunbond, meltbond, spunlace, or a combination of two or more such production processes.
A method of operation of a portable electronic device comprising the steps of: detecting an attached device that is associated with a drive voltage; determining an identification of the attached device, wherein the method is characterized by: selecting the drive voltage with which the attached device is associated using the identification of the attached device; and driving a vibrator using the selected drive voltage associated with the identification of the attached device. detecting an attached device that is associated with a drive voltage; determining an identification of the attached device, wherein the method is characterized by: selecting the drive voltage with which the attached device is associated using the identification of the attached device; and driving a vibrator using the selected drive voltage associated with the identification of the attached device. selecting the drive voltage with which the attached device is associated using the identification of the attached device; and driving a vibrator using the selected drive voltage associated with the identification of the attached device.
A method of forming a multi-layer coated substrate, comprising the steps of: a. spraying a first ceramic material onto the substrate to form a ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic material is formed of at least one of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides; b. spraying cBN particles onto the ceramic layer; c. infiltrating a second ceramic material into the cBN particles wherein the second ceramic material is chosen from the set consisting of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides, and wherein the infiltration step is performed by a chemical vapor infiltration process to create a composite cBN particle layer; d. bonding the cBN composite layer by a method selected from the set consisting of microwave sintering, infrared heating or, laser radiation; and e. spraying a third ceramic material onto the cBN composite layer to form a second ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic material comprises at least one of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides. a. spraying a first ceramic material onto the substrate to form a ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic material is formed of at least one of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides; b. spraying cBN particles onto the ceramic layer; c. infiltrating a second ceramic material into the cBN particles wherein the second ceramic material is chosen from the set consisting of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides, and wherein the infiltration step is performed by a chemical vapor infiltration process to create a composite cBN particle layer; d. bonding the cBN composite layer by a method selected from the set consisting of microwave sintering, infrared heating or, laser radiation; and e. spraying a third ceramic material onto the cBN composite layer to form a second ceramic layer, wherein the ceramic material comprises at least one of carbides, carbonitrides, borides, carbon, and oxides.
A nasal cannula (10; 110; 210) for nasally supplying a patient with therapeutic gas, encompassing a distribution conduit component (12; 112; 212) having a distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) that extends along a virtual distribution path passing centrally through it; the distribution path defining a longitudinal direction; the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) comprising two branch openings (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b); a respective supply conduit (26, 28; 126, 128; 226, 228) for supplying the patient with therapeutic gas from the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) branching off from each branch opening (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b); the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) comprising, in addition to the branch openings (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b), two coupling openings (22, 24; 122, 124; 222, 224) arranged at a distance from the branch openings (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b); the nasal cannula (10; 110; 210) encompassing a plug (14; 114; 214) with which one of the two coupling openings (22, 24; 122, 124; 222, 224), constituting a closure opening (22; 122; 222), is closable by the plug (14; 114; 214) for a flow of gas through it; and a further one of the two coupling openings (22, 24; 122, 124; 222, 224), constituting a delivery opening (24; 124; 224), being embodied for connection of a gas delivery line (16, 18; 116, 118; 216, 218) to the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220), characterized in that the plug (14; 114; 214) comprises a flow-directing configuration (42; 142; 242) having an exposed flow-directing surface (44; 144; 244); the flow-directing surface (44; 144; 244) being arranged, in a reference state in which the plug (14; 114; 214) is arranged on the nasal cannula (10; 110; 210) so as to close off the closure opening (22; 122; 222) as intended, in the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) in the longitudinal region of extent of at least one branch opening (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b), and being canted with respect to the distribution path in such a way that it deflects therapeutic gas, flowing in the distribution conduit (20; 120; 220) in from the delivery opening (24; 124; 224) along the distribution path, to at least one of the branch openings (26b, 28b; 126b, 128b; 226b, 228b).
A method for enhancing an activity for mammalian cultured cells of a laminin fragment or a variant thereof each having integrin binding activity, the method comprising bringing a culture surface of a cell culture vessel into contact with a coating solution containing the laminin fragment or a variant thereof and a protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment, thereby achieving coating of the culture surface with the laminin fragment or a variant thereof, the coating solution containing the laminin fragment or a variant thereof in such an amount that the culture surface is coated at a concentration lower than 0.5 (μg/cm 2, the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment being present at a concentration which is 10-fold or more that of the laminin fragment or a variant thereof and is 50 μg/mL or higher in the coating solution, the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment having a molecular weight of 10000 or higher, wherein the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment is one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of gelatin, serum albumin, transferrin, myelin basic protein, β-lactoglobulin and glutathione S-transferase, and the activity for mammalian cultured cells being at least one kind selected from activity for binding to cell-surface adhesion receptors, cell-adhesive activity, cell growth-supporting activity and colony formation-promoting activity, wherein the laminin fragment is a laminin E8 fragment. the method comprising bringing a culture surface of a cell culture vessel into contact with a coating solution containing the laminin fragment or a variant thereof and a protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment, thereby achieving coating of the culture surface with the laminin fragment or a variant thereof, the coating solution containing the laminin fragment or a variant thereof in such an amount that the culture surface is coated at a concentration lower than 0.5 (μg/cm 2, the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment being present at a concentration which is 10-fold or more that of the laminin fragment or a variant thereof and is 50 μg/mL or higher in the coating solution, the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment having a molecular weight of 10000 or higher, wherein the protein that is neither a laminin nor a laminin fragment is one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of gelatin, serum albumin, transferrin, myelin basic protein, β-lactoglobulin and glutathione S-transferase, and the activity for mammalian cultured cells being at least one kind selected from activity for binding to cell-surface adhesion receptors, cell-adhesive activity, cell growth-supporting activity and colony formation-promoting activity, wherein the laminin fragment is a laminin E8 fragment.
An outdoor unit for an air conditioner in which a pair of motor support tables are disposed at an upper portion of a housing, and an outdoor fan having a fan motor is supported on the pair of motor support tables, and air sucked from a side of the housing through a heat exchanger in the housing by the outdoor fan is upwardly blown out, characterized in that rectifying units for guiding airflow passing through the heat exchanger and reaching a lower surface portion of each of the pair of motor support tables to an outer radial direction of the outdoor fan are provided at lower and upper sides of each of the motor support tables, wherein the rectifying units are configured to be uniformly upwardly sloped from an inside of the motor support table to an outside of the motor support table at the lower and upper sides of each of the motor support tables.
A method of controlling an HVAC system, the method comprising: receiving a message from an online social network via a network; using translation software stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium to translate the received message into a command for an HVAC controller of the HVAC; using the HVAC controller to control the HVAC system in accordance with the command; and wherein the message is a natural language message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, and wherein the natural language message is translated by the translation software into a command that is recognizable by the HVAC controller for controlling the HVAC system. receiving a message from an online social network via a network; using translation software stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium to translate the received message into a command for an HVAC controller of the HVAC; using the HVAC controller to control the HVAC system in accordance with the command; and wherein the message is a natural language message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, and wherein the natural language message is translated by the translation software into a command that is recognizable by the HVAC controller for controlling the HVAC system.
Lamp comprising an integral lamp housing with a lighting arrangement for defined light output, the lighting arrangement comprising: a shelfwasher arrangement with a first lighting means as well as a first optical system associated with the first lighting means for deflecting light emitted by the first lighting means so as to generate, laterally of the lamp, a lighting surface defined with respect to a vertical surface, and a spot arrangement with a second lighting means as well as a second optical system associated with the second lighting means for deflecting light emitted by the second lighting means so as to illuminate a sub-region of the lighting surface with greater illuminance than the shelfwasher arrangement; characterized in that the lamp housing comprises a carrier housing and an arrangement housing movably provided relative to the carrier housing, wherein the shelfwasher arrangement and the spot arrangement are arranged at least partially in the arrangement housing. an integral lamp housing with a lighting arrangement for defined light output, the lighting arrangement comprising: a shelfwasher arrangement with a first lighting means as well as a first optical system associated with the first lighting means for deflecting light emitted by the first lighting means so as to generate, laterally of the lamp, a lighting surface defined with respect to a vertical surface, and a spot arrangement with a second lighting means as well as a second optical system associated with the second lighting means for deflecting light emitted by the second lighting means so as to illuminate a sub-region of the lighting surface with greater illuminance than the shelfwasher arrangement; characterized in that the lamp housing comprises a carrier housing and an arrangement housing movably provided relative to the carrier housing, wherein the shelfwasher arrangement and the spot arrangement are arranged at least partially in the arrangement housing.
A method for fabricating a light emitting apparatus in which at least a portion of a light emitting element is covered with a light transmissive resin containing phosphor particles which emit light when excited by light emitted by the light emitting element, the method comprising: (a) directly processing the phosphor particles by irradiating the phosphor particles with a laser beam which passes through the light transmissive resin, to adjust chromaticity of light to be emitted by the light emitting apparatus, and in step (a), the laser beam is focused on the phosphor particles to directly process the phosphor particles. (a) directly processing the phosphor particles by irradiating the phosphor particles with a laser beam which passes through the light transmissive resin, to adjust chromaticity of light to be emitted by the light emitting apparatus, and
A profile bar to be locked to a glass panel, the profile bar comprising a frame whose shape is a continuous profile extending in the longitudinal direction, and said frame also comprising: - a slot which is continuous in the longitudinal direction and in which the panel can be installed; - a first side (111 a) and a second side (111 b) of the slot, delimiting the slot and supporting the glass panel to be installed in it; and - a protrusion provided on the first side (111 a) of the slot and configured to be placed in a groove in the glass panel; characterized in that - the profile bar further comprises a separate locking piece comprising a locking part which can be inserted between the glass panel in the slot and the second side of the slot (111 b), where said locking part is configured to make the slot narrower, to push the glass panel against said protrusion and to support the glass panel in such a way that said protrusion remains in the groove of the glass panel, wherein the detachment of the panel from the frame is prevented, - the frame comprises a first fixing member, and the locking piece comprises a corresponding second fixing member, which fixing members are configured to be placed against each other and to lock the locking piece in the frame, and - the locking piece is made of plastic or metal. - a slot which is continuous in the longitudinal direction and in which the panel can be installed; - a first side (111 a) and a second side (111 b) of the slot, delimiting the slot and supporting the glass panel to be installed in it; and - a protrusion provided on the first side (111 a) of the slot and configured to be placed in a groove in the glass panel; - the profile bar further comprises a separate locking piece comprising a locking part which can be inserted between the glass panel in the slot and the second side of the slot (111 b), where said locking part is configured to make the slot narrower, to push the glass panel against said protrusion and to support the glass panel in such a way that said protrusion remains in the groove of the glass panel, wherein the detachment of the panel from the frame is prevented, - the frame comprises a first fixing member, and the locking piece comprises a corresponding second fixing member, which fixing members are configured to be placed against each other and to lock the locking piece in the frame, and - the locking piece is made of plastic or metal.