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A method of stopping production and making safe an undersea bottom-to-surface connection production pipe comprising a first pipe portion resting on the sea bottom from a well head to the bottom end of a second pipe portion going up to a ship or floating support on the surface, in which method, after stopping production, first depressurization of the entire undersea bottom-to-surface connection production pipe is performed allowing a portion only of the gas contained in the production fluid contained in said production pipe to be discharged on the surface via its top end; characterized in that the following subsequent steps are then performed: a) isolating said first production pipe portion from said second pipe portion, and leaving the production fluid in said first production pipe portion, but not in said second pipe portion, which is emptied; and b) additionally depressurizing the first production pipe portion filled with production fluid by reducing the pressure in said first pipe portion to a pressure level close to that on the surface and by discharging more completely the gas contained in the production fluid that it contains. a) isolating said first production pipe portion from said second pipe portion, and leaving the production fluid in said first production pipe portion, but not in said second pipe portion, which is emptied; and b) additionally depressurizing the first production pipe portion filled with production fluid by reducing the pressure in said first pipe portion to a pressure level close to that on the surface and by discharging more completely the gas contained in the production fluid that it contains.
Device for unwinding strip material required for producing vehicle tyres, in particular tread material, from a material drum, having - a conveying path along which strip material that has been unwound from the material drum moves; and - a monitoring device which is configured to detect complete unwinding of the strip material from the material drum; wherein the monitoring device comprises a material sampler which is configured to mechanically scan a sampling point on the conveying path, so that the presence of the strip material at the sampling point on the conveying path can be detected by means of the mechanical scanning by the material sampler, wherein the material sampler has a contact body which is configured to be in contact with the unwound strip material moving along the conveying path at the sampling point, characterized in that a supporting device for the strip material is arranged close to the sampling point, wherein the contact body is configured to push the strip material or a carrier layer of the strip material against the supporting device when strip material is present at the sampling point. - a conveying path along which strip material that has been unwound from the material drum moves; and - a monitoring device which is configured to detect complete unwinding of the strip material from the material drum; wherein the monitoring device comprises a material sampler which is configured to mechanically scan a sampling point on the conveying path, so that the presence of the strip material at the sampling point on the conveying path can be detected by means of the mechanical scanning by the material sampler, wherein the material sampler has a contact body which is configured to be in contact with the unwound strip material moving along the conveying path at the sampling point, characterized in that a supporting device for the strip material is arranged close to the sampling point, wherein the contact body is configured to push the strip material or a carrier layer of the strip material against the supporting device when strip material is present at the sampling point.
A cutting tool comprising a cemented carbide substrate comprising WC and a binder phase comprising one or more of Co, Fe and Ni wherein the cemented carbide also comprises eta phase comprising Me 12 C and/or Me 6 C carbides where Me is one or more metals selected from W, Mo and the binder phase metals wherein the substoichiometric carbon content in the cemented carbide is between -0.30 to -0.16 wt% wherein the substoichiometric carbon is the total carbon content determined by chemical analysis minus the calculated stoichiometric carbon content, where the calculation of the stoichiometric carbon content is based on the assumption that the WC and possible other carbides present in the cemented carbide are stoichiometric.
A solar heat collecting apparatus comprised of plural reflection lines and one or more reception lines, wherein the plural reflection lines are arranged in parallel in a north-south direction; each reflection line (2A-2D) is provided with plural reflecting mirrors that reflect sunlight; the plural reflecting mirrors are provided with a heliostat mechanism that causes the plural reflecting mirrors to follow a movement of the sun to adjust an angle of a reflecting surface of the plural reflecting mirrors; the heliostat mechanism includes an east-west angle adjustment unit, to adjust the angle of the reflecting surface of the plural reflecting mirrors in the east-west direction, and a north-south angle adjustment unit, having actuators, to adjust the angle of the reflecting surface of the plural reflecting mirrors in the north-south direction; the one or more reception lines are arranged in a fixed position above and orthogonal to the plural reflection lines, each reception line is provided with one receiver, and the receiver collects heat from the reflected light of the sunlight reflected by the plural reflecting mirrors, characterized in that: the east-west angle adjustment unit has a rotating ring which is connected to the plural reflecting mirrors via a frame, and the angle of the reflecting surface of the plural reflecting mirrors on each reflection line (2A-2D) is simultaneously adjusted via the frame by a rotation of the rotating ring; and in that the actuators are disposed to correspond one-to-one to the plural reflecting mirrors, each reflecting mirror is connected to an arm of the corresponding actuator, and the angle of the reflecting surface of each reflecting mirror is individually adjusted by a back-and-forth motion of the arm of the corresponding actuator.
A network device for use in a Fibre Channel network, the network device comprising: receiving means for receiving at an ingress port a first Fibre Channel packet having a header indicating that the first Fibre Channel packet should be transmitted to a first egress port; storing means for storing a copy of the first Fibre Channel packet in a buffer associated with the ingress port; transmitting means for transmitting a first replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to the first egress port and for transmitting a second replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to a second egress port, wherein the second egress port is configured to disregard the buffer-to-buffer credit flow control mechanism of the Fibre Channel protocol. receiving means for receiving at an ingress port a first Fibre Channel packet having a header indicating that the first Fibre Channel packet should be transmitted to a first egress port; storing means for storing a copy of the first Fibre Channel packet in a buffer associated with the ingress port; transmitting means for transmitting a first replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to the first egress port and for transmitting a second replica of the first Fibre Channel packet to a second egress port, wherein the second egress port is configured to disregard the buffer-to-buffer credit flow control mechanism of the Fibre Channel protocol.
An in vitro method for isolating, amplifying, and sequencing viral nucleic acids from an acellular fraction of a biological fluid comprising: a) providing an acellular fraction of the biological fluid, preferably wherein the acellular fraction is obtained by centrifuging the biological fluid at a relative centrifugal force of 100 g to 500 g, preferably at a relative centrifugal force of 300 g, and recovering the supernatant, b) centrifuging the acellular fraction of the biological fluid at a relative centrifugal force of between 12 000 and 15 000 g, preferably at 12 000 g or at 15 000 g, more preferably at 12 000 g, and recovering the supernatant, thereby obtaining a viral fraction of said biological fluid, c) contacting the viral fraction of the biological fluid with saponin and at least one nucleic acids-digesting enzyme, d) inactivating the at least one nucleic acids-digesting enzyme, e) extracting viral nucleic acids, f) optionally, reverse-transcribing viral genomic RNAs, g) amplifying viral genomic DNA and/or viral cDNA, and h) sequencing amplified viral genomic DNA and/or viral cDNA; wherein the biological fluid is blood. a) providing an acellular fraction of the biological fluid, preferably wherein the acellular fraction is obtained by centrifuging the biological fluid at a relative centrifugal force of 100 g to 500 g, preferably at a relative centrifugal force of 300 g, and recovering the supernatant, b) centrifuging the acellular fraction of the biological fluid at a relative centrifugal force of between 12 000 and 15 000 g, preferably at 12 000 g or at 15 000 g, more preferably at 12 000 g, and recovering the supernatant, thereby obtaining a viral fraction of said biological fluid, c) contacting the viral fraction of the biological fluid with saponin and at least one nucleic acids-digesting enzyme, d) inactivating the at least one nucleic acids-digesting enzyme, e) extracting viral nucleic acids, f) optionally, reverse-transcribing viral genomic RNAs, g) amplifying viral genomic DNA and/or viral cDNA, and h) sequencing amplified viral genomic DNA and/or viral cDNA;
A lossless coding method for a signal in a floating-point format, comprising: (a) a step of converting a first signal sample sequence in the floating-point format into a second signal sample sequence in an integer format; (b) a step of losslessly compressing said second signal sample sequence in the integer format to produce a first code sequence; (c) a step of producing a difference signal in the floating-point format that corresponds to the difference between said second signal sample sequence in the integer format and said first signal sample sequence in the floating-point format; (d) a step of determining which coding processing is of higher compression efficiency, a first coding processing that codes a sequence of bits capable of assuming nonzero in each sample of said difference signal in the floating-point format, the bits capable of assuming non-zero being determined by the absolute value of the integer value of the corresponding sample in said second signal sample sequence in the integer format, or a second coding processing that codes all bits of said difference signal; and (e) a step of coding said difference signal by said first coding processing to produce a second code sequence if the result of said determination indicates said first coding processing, or coding said difference signal by said second coding processing to produce a second code sequence if the result of said determination indicates said second coding processing. (a) a step of converting a first signal sample sequence in the floating-point format into a second signal sample sequence in an integer format; (b) a step of losslessly compressing said second signal sample sequence in the integer format to produce a first code sequence; (c) a step of producing a difference signal in the floating-point format that corresponds to the difference between said second signal sample sequence in the integer format and said first signal sample sequence in the floating-point format; (d) a step of determining which coding processing is of higher compression efficiency, a first coding processing that codes a sequence of bits capable of assuming nonzero in each sample of said difference signal in the floating-point format, the bits capable of assuming non-zero being determined by the absolute value of the integer value of the corresponding sample in said second signal sample sequence in the integer format, or a second coding processing that codes all bits of said difference signal; and (e) a step of coding said difference signal by said first coding processing to produce a second code sequence if the result of said determination indicates said first coding processing, or coding said difference signal by said second coding processing to produce a second code sequence if the result of said determination indicates said second coding processing.
A roller bearing, characterized by comprising: a fixed ring having a fixed raceway surface; a rotary ring having a rotary raceway surface that faces the fixed raceway surface; and a plurality of rollers rollably disposed between the fixed raceway surface and the rotary raceway surface, wherein, out of the rotary raceway surface and a rolling contact surface of each of the rollers, one of the surfaces is provided with a black oxidation coating and the other surface is provided with a diamond-like carbon coating. a fixed ring having a fixed raceway surface; a rotary ring having a rotary raceway surface that faces the fixed raceway surface; and a plurality of rollers rollably disposed between the fixed raceway surface and the rotary raceway surface,
A process for purifying the xanthophyll astaxanthin, comprising a) suspending the xanthophyll in an organic solvent or solvent mixture, b) treating the suspension of the xanthophyll in the organic solvent or solvent mixture at elevated temperature, and c) subsequent separation off of the xanthophyll from the solvent by a solid-liquid separation, wherein the organic solvent is selected from ketones of the general formula and mixtures of ketones of the general formula where R 1 is C 1 -C 4 alkyl and R 2 is selected from C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl, phenyl and benzyl, wherein the phenyl rings in the two last-mentioned radicals are unsubstituted, or R 1 and R 2 together are linear C 4 -C 6 alkanediyl, which can bear 1, 2 or 3 methyl groups as substituents, wherein the ketone of the formula makes up at least 95 % by weight of the organic solvents used for suspending the xanthophyll, and wherein the suspension of the xanthophyll is treated at a temperature of at least 80°C and for at least 1 h, and wherein the xanthophyll used comprises halogenated hydrocarbons and/or phosphorus compounds as contaminants which are depleted. a) suspending the xanthophyll in an organic solvent or solvent mixture, b) treating the suspension of the xanthophyll in the organic solvent or solvent mixture at elevated temperature, and c) subsequent separation off of the xanthophyll from the solvent by a solid-liquid separation, wherein the organic solvent is selected from ketones of the general formula and mixtures of ketones of the general formula where R 1 is C 1 -C 4 alkyl and R 2 is selected from C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl, phenyl and benzyl, wherein the phenyl rings in the two last-mentioned radicals are unsubstituted, or R 1 and R 2 together are linear C 4 -C 6 alkanediyl, which can bear 1, 2 or 3 methyl groups as substituents, wherein the ketone of the formula makes up at least 95 % by weight of the organic solvents used for suspending the xanthophyll, and wherein the suspension of the xanthophyll is treated at a temperature of at least 80°C and for at least 1 h, and wherein the xanthophyll used comprises halogenated hydrocarbons and/or phosphorus compounds as contaminants which are depleted. where R 1 is C 1 -C 4 alkyl and R 2 is selected from C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 3 -C 8 cycloalkyl, phenyl and benzyl, wherein the phenyl rings in the two last-mentioned radicals are unsubstituted, or R 1 and R 2 together are linear C 4 -C 6 alkanediyl, which can bear 1, 2 or 3 methyl groups as substituents, wherein the ketone of the formula makes up at least 95 % by weight of the organic solvents used for suspending the xanthophyll, and wherein the suspension of the xanthophyll is treated at a temperature of at least 80°C and for at least 1 h, and wherein the xanthophyll used comprises halogenated hydrocarbons and/or phosphorus compounds as contaminants which are depleted.
A method for crimping a stent, comprising: (a) loading the stent on a mandrel; (b) placing the stent in a crimper; (c) reducing the stent profile to a first diameter; (d) loading the stent onto a balloon of a catheter delivery system after step (c); (e) placing the stent and the balloon back into the crimper; (f) pressurizing the balloon and heating a distal end of the catheter delivery system within the crimper to cause pillowing of the balloon between struts of the stent and reducing the crimper to a second diameter; and (g) after step (f), moving the crimper between the second and a third diameter to reduce the stent diameter to a final diameter. (a) loading the stent on a mandrel; (b) placing the stent in a crimper; (c) reducing the stent profile to a first diameter; (d) loading the stent onto a balloon of a catheter delivery system after step (c); (e) placing the stent and the balloon back into the crimper; (f) pressurizing the balloon and heating a distal end of the catheter delivery system within the crimper to cause pillowing of the balloon between struts of the stent and reducing the crimper to a second diameter; and (g) after step (f), moving the crimper between the second and a third diameter to reduce the stent diameter to a final diameter.
Device for improving a visual performance, having a first display element, adapted for displaying at least one moving grid consisting of grid elements at least one portable closure element, for occluding at least one eye; a portable eye tracking device, for measuring at least one characteristic value of a non-occluded eye; a first control unit having a first communication interface to the eye tracking device and a second communication interface to the at least one closure element; and a second control unit connected to the display element, having a third communication interface to the first control unit; wherein the second control unit is adapted to control a display for a non-occluded eye of the moving grids by the first display element based on the characteristic values measured by the eye tracking device, and wherein the second control unit is adapted to control a display for a non-occluded eye on the first display element in such a way that attention-capturing stimuli are additionally displayed. a first display element, adapted for displaying at least one moving grid consisting of grid elements at least one portable closure element, for occluding at least one eye; a portable eye tracking device, for measuring at least one characteristic value of a non-occluded eye; a first control unit having a first communication interface to the eye tracking device and a second communication interface to the at least one closure element; and a second control unit connected to the display element, having a third communication interface to the first control unit; wherein the second control unit is adapted to control a display for a non-occluded eye of the moving grids by the first display element based on the characteristic values measured by the eye tracking device, and wherein the second control unit is adapted to control a display for a non-occluded eye on the first display element in such a way that attention-capturing stimuli are additionally displayed.
A terminal adapted to access a web page address, the terminal comprising: a touch screen for displaying an address input window where an address of an accessed Internet web page is written and a virtual key pad; and a controller configured to generate a duplicated window in response to detection of a touch in an area of the address input window where said web page address is written, the duplicated window containing a replica of the web page address written in the address input window, to move the duplicated window in response to a dragging motion following the detected touch while the touch is maintained, to store the web page address when a dropping action subsequent to the dragging motion takes place in a key area of the virtual key pad, and to assign said web page address to a short cut code associated with a key having said key area in the virtual key pad, wherein the virtual key pad includes the qwerty key pad. a touch screen for displaying an address input window where an address of an accessed Internet web page is written and a virtual key pad; and a controller configured to generate a duplicated window in response to detection of a touch in an area of the address input window where said web page address is written, the duplicated window containing a replica of the web page address written in the address input window, to move the duplicated window in response to a dragging motion following the detected touch while the touch is maintained, to store the web page address when a dropping action subsequent to the dragging motion takes place in a key area of the virtual key pad, and to assign said web page address to a short cut code associated with a key having said key area in the virtual key pad, wherein the virtual key pad includes the qwerty key pad.
A package structure of a display component, comprising: a base substrate, a display component arranged on a surface of the base substrate, and an package layer covering the display component, wherein the package layer comprises a second inorganic layer, an organic layer, and a first inorganic layer capable of reducing an amount of charges to be trapped sequentially stacked along a direction toward the display component, characterized in that the package layer further comprises an organic buffer layer arranged between the first inorganic layer and the organic layer, wherein the first inorganic layer has a thickness of less than 1 μm, the organic layer has a thickness of between 1 μm and 20 μm, the second inorganic layer has a thickness of less than 1 μm, and the organic buffer layer has a thickness of between 0.1 μm and 0.3 μm, and wherein the first inorganic layer is an oxynitride layer with an atomic percentage of oxygen greater than 15%. characterized in that the package layer further comprises an organic buffer layer arranged between the first inorganic layer and the organic layer, wherein the first inorganic layer has a thickness of less than 1 μm, the organic layer has a thickness of between 1 μm and 20 μm, the second inorganic layer has a thickness of less than 1 μm, and the organic buffer layer has a thickness of between 0.1 μm and 0.3 μm, and wherein the first inorganic layer is an oxynitride layer with an atomic percentage of oxygen greater than 15%.
Batch dry methanisation unit comprising a loading space intended to receive a biomass to be methanised, the methanisation unit comprising a percolation means, and a discharge means for discharging a leachate, characterised in that - the methanisation unit comprises at least a first filter arranged to separate the loading space from a circulation space, - the circulation space being located between the first filter and the discharge means, - a second filter being arranged between the circulation space and the discharge means, said second filter being configured finer than the first filter, so as not to let through certain elements that the first filter lets through - said second filter being arranged so as to provide a second circulation space between said second filter and said discharge means. - the methanisation unit comprises at least a first filter arranged to separate the loading space from a circulation space, - the circulation space being located between the first filter and the discharge means, - a second filter being arranged between the circulation space and the discharge means, said second filter being configured finer than the first filter, so as not to let through certain elements that the first filter lets through - said second filter being arranged so as to provide a second circulation space between said second filter and said discharge means.