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A method of producing a nanocomposite based on a compound selected from polypropylene and poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) and comprising silver nanoparticles, the method comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a stabilizing solution of a stabilizing agent in aqueous solvent, wherein the stabilizing agent is polyvinylpyrrolidone having formula: (C 6 H 9 NO) n wherein n is an integer comprised between 20 and 20,000; (b) adding a compound selected from polypropylene and poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) to the stabilizing solution prepared in step (a), obtaining a first suspension; (c) preparing a solution of a silver precursor in aqueous solvent; (d) adding the solution prepared in step (c) to the first suspension obtained in step (b), obtaining a second suspension; (e) preparing a reducing solution of a reducing agent in aqueous solvent; (f) adding the reducing solution prepared in step (e) to the second suspension obtained in step (d), so as to obtain a mixture wherein silver nanoparticles are generated by means of a reduction reaction of the silver precursor; (g) conducting a thermal treatment for removing the aqueous solvent from the mixture obtained in step (f), obtaining a powder of nanocomposite based on a compound selected from polypropylene and poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) and comprising silver nanoparticles, wherein the silver nanoparticles obtained in step (f) have an equivalent spherical diameter comprised between 5 nm and 500 nm, wherein the equivalent spherical particle diameter was determined according to the description. (a) preparing a stabilizing solution of a stabilizing agent in aqueous solvent, wherein the stabilizing agent is polyvinylpyrrolidone having formula: (C 6 H 9 NO) n wherein n is an integer comprised between 20 and 20,000; (b) adding a compound selected from polypropylene and poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) to the stabilizing solution prepared in step (a), obtaining a first suspension; (c) preparing a solution of a silver precursor in aqueous solvent; (d) adding the solution prepared in step (c) to the first suspension obtained in step (b), obtaining a second suspension; (e) preparing a reducing solution of a reducing agent in aqueous solvent; (f) adding the reducing solution prepared in step (e) to the second suspension obtained in step (d), so as to obtain a mixture wherein silver nanoparticles are generated by means of a reduction reaction of the silver precursor; (g) conducting a thermal treatment for removing the aqueous solvent from the mixture obtained in step (f), obtaining a powder of nanocomposite based on a compound selected from polypropylene and poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) and comprising silver nanoparticles,
A single use container designed to store and dispense a liquid substance, comprising: a) a container body that defines a storage compartment for storing the liquid substance and provided with a neck including a seal positioned in the neck to seal a liquid substance in the storage compartment during storage; b) a cap defining a recess and being adapted for engaging the neck and including structure (207, 212) for piercing the seal and a channel which passes through the structure for piercing the seal to the recess; c) an applicator located in the recess; characterized in that: the applicator and recess together define a chamber between an end of the channel and the applicator to allow liquid to flow from said channel into said chamber; and wherein said chamber has a perimeter measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, that is larger than a perimeter of the channel, also as measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, to allow expansion of liquid flowing from said channel into said chamber. a) a container body that defines a storage compartment for storing the liquid substance and provided with a neck including a seal positioned in the neck to seal a liquid substance in the storage compartment during storage; b) a cap defining a recess and being adapted for engaging the neck and including structure (207, 212) for piercing the seal and a channel which passes through the structure for piercing the seal to the recess; c) an applicator located in the recess; characterized in that: the applicator and recess together define a chamber between an end of the channel and the applicator to allow liquid to flow from said channel into said chamber; and wherein said chamber has a perimeter measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, that is larger than a perimeter of the channel, also as measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, to allow expansion of liquid flowing from said channel into said chamber. the applicator and recess together define a chamber between an end of the channel and the applicator to allow liquid to flow from said channel into said chamber; and wherein said chamber has a perimeter measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, that is larger than a perimeter of the channel, also as measured in a horizontal plane when the container is upright, to allow expansion of liquid flowing from said channel into said chamber.
An abrasive flap disc having a carrier plate and abrasive lamellae which are arranged on the carrier plate around a central opening and are made of abrasive fabric comprising a base fabric and abrasive grain applied to the base fabric, the diameter of the abrasive flap disc being in the range between 110 mm and 130 mm, and the abrasive lamellae being designed as rectangular, characterized in that the abrasive lamellae have a width in the range between 24 mm and 30 mm, that the abrasive grain is a grain mixture, which consists of 25% to 75% zirconium dioxide and of 25% to 75% aluminum oxide, and that the number of the abrasive lamellae is between 30 and 46.
An electrical contact coupling for a track-borne vehicle, particularly a railway vehicle, wherein the electrical contact coupling comprises the following: - a coupling housing having at least one frontal housing opening (23, 33); - a first contact holder arranged in said coupling housing having at least one and preferably a plurality of particularly adjacently arranged electrical contacts; and - a preferably plate-shaped contacting support having at least one and preferably a plurality of particularly adjacently formed contact tabs extending in the longitudinal direction of said contacting support, wherein the contacting support is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the coupling housing relative to said coupling housing from a first position, in which the contacting support with the at least one contact tab is completely accommodated within the coupling housing, into a second position and vice versa, characterized in that at least the front end region of the contacting support protrudes from the at least one frontal housing opening (23, 33) of the coupling housing in the second position to form an electrical contact between the at least one contact tab and at least one electrical contact of a mating coupling of preferably structurally identical design to electrical contact coupling. - a coupling housing having at least one frontal housing opening (23, 33); - a first contact holder arranged in said coupling housing having at least one and preferably a plurality of particularly adjacently arranged electrical contacts; and - a preferably plate-shaped contacting support having at least one and preferably a plurality of particularly adjacently formed contact tabs extending in the longitudinal direction of said contacting support,
A battery module assembly comprising a plurality of battery modules (110, 120), each comprising a plurality of battery cells or unit modules mounted in a module case in a state in which the battery cells or the unit modules are connected in series to each other, wherein the battery modules (110, 120) are arranged adjacent to each other in a lateral direction in a state in which the battery modules (110, 120) are electrically connected to each other, and a cooling member comprising a coolant conduit to allow a liquid coolant to flow therealong is mounted at an outside of each of the battery modules (110, 120), the battery module assembly comprises two or more cooling members, wherein coolant conduits of the cooling members are connected to each other so that a coolant introduced through one of the cooling members continuously flows to the other cooling member, the cooling member is configured to have a structure in which one or more coolant conduits are mounted at a plate body formed in a shape corresponding to the outside of each of the battery modules (110, 120), characterized in that: the plate body is provided at an outside thereof with a continuous groove corresponding to a width of each of the coolant conduits, and each of the coolant conduits is fixedly disposed in the groove, in that one or more thermally conductive fixing members configured to contact each of the battery modules (110, 120) are connected to each of the coolant conduits so as to improve thermal conductivity from each of the battery modules (110, 120) to the cooling member, and in that the thermally conductive fixing members are mounted to fix each of the coolant conduits to the groove of the plate body.
An industrial truck with a load part and a battery-powered drive part that comprises a driver standing platform and a frame that is equipped with a transverse metal plate and two wheel carriers (36, 38), wherein a battery standing platform is provided between the wheel carriers (36, 38), characterized in that the frame is further equipped with a rear wall facing the load part, in that a battery storage region is formed below a standing platform mounted on the frame such that the transverse metal plate forms a standing surface for the battery standing platform, wherein the battery can be shifted from its battery standing platform into the battery storage region, wherein the battery standing platform and the battery storage region lie in one plane.
Container holder for use in a nutritional liquid preparation machine for the preparation of a nutritional liquid from the mixture of ingredients contained in a container and liquid supplied by the machine in the container; said holder comprising a body with a filtration unit; the body comprising a dedicated housing for receiving the filtration unit; the filtration unit comprising a liquid outlet wherein the filtration unit is arranged with the container holder to be movable between a first position in which a container receiving seat of the container holder is uncovered for enabling the loading and unloading of the container in the container holder and a second position the body comprises the container receiving seat arranged for receiving the container in a defined container sitting position, and encompasses the contour of the container receiving seat, wherein in the second position, the container receiving seat is covered by the filtration unit for enabling the liquid outlet of the filtration unit to be positioned at the inlet side of the container when a container is present in the container holder and wherein the dedicated housing for receiving the filtration unit in the defined second position is of larger cross-section than the cross-section of the container receiving seat, characterized in that the inlet wall of the casing also comprises a gas inlet for receiving a gas injector of the beverage machine; such gas inlet being axially offset relative to the liquid inlet and being in fluid communication with the liquid outlet.
An optical receiver comprising: a mixer (1, 51x, 51y) arranged to mix input light and local light to obtain in-phase signal light and quadrature-phase signal light; a light receiving device(3ai, 3aq, 3bq, 23i, 23q, 3ai-X, 3aq-X, 3ai-Y, 3aq-Y) arranged to receive the in-phase signal light and the quadrature-phase signal light and convert the in-phase signal light and the quadrature-phase signal light into respective analog electric signals; an analog-to-digital converter (4i, 4q) arranged to convert the analog electric signals into respective digital signals; a signal processor (5, 5A) arranged to perform digital signal processing using each of the digital signals; a monitor arranged to monitor a quality of a receiving signal with reference to information obtained through the digital signal processing; and a controller (2A, 7, 8, 27, 37, 47, 57) arranged to control a power ratio between the input light and the local light that are to be mixed with each other, the controller (2A, 7, 8, 27, 37, 47, 57) comprising: an input-light level controller arranged to control the level of the input light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y); and a local-light level controller arranged to control the level of the local light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y), characterized in that the controller (2A, 7, 8, 27, 37, 47, 57) additionally comprises a controlling amount providing unit (7, 17, 27, 37, 47, 57) arranged to provide the input-light level controller, and the local-light level controller with amounts of level to be controlled, and thereby control the power ratio, the amounts being based on the result of monitoring by the monitor. a mixer (1, 51x, 51y) arranged to mix input light and local light to obtain in-phase signal light and quadrature-phase signal light; a light receiving device(3ai, 3aq, 3bq, 23i, 23q, 3ai-X, 3aq-X, 3ai-Y, 3aq-Y) arranged to receive the in-phase signal light and the quadrature-phase signal light and convert the in-phase signal light and the quadrature-phase signal light into respective analog electric signals; an analog-to-digital converter (4i, 4q) arranged to convert the analog electric signals into respective digital signals; a signal processor (5, 5A) arranged to perform digital signal processing using each of the digital signals; a monitor arranged to monitor a quality of a receiving signal with reference to information obtained through the digital signal processing; and a controller (2A, 7, 8, 27, 37, 47, 57) arranged to control a power ratio between the input light and the local light that are to be mixed with each other, the controller (2A, 7, 8, 27, 37, 47, 57) comprising: an input-light level controller arranged to control the level of the input light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y); and a local-light level controller arranged to control the level of the local light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y), an input-light level controller arranged to control the level of the input light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y); and a local-light level controller arranged to control the level of the local light that is to be input into the mixer (1, 51x, 51y),
A pharmaceutical composition comprising: a complex, comprising: a) at least one cationic and/or polycationic peptide or protein or a polyimine as a carrier, and b) at least one nucleic acid molecule as a cargo, wherein the at least one nucleic acid molecule is RNA, wherein the cationic and/or polycationic component of the carrier and the nucleic acid molecule comprised as cargo in said complex are provided in an N/P ratio in the range of 0.4-0.9, and at least one protein or peptide antigen that is selected from the group consisting of: (i) an antigen from a pathogen associated with infectious disease; (ii) an antigen associated with allergy or allergic disease; (iii) an antigen associated with autoimmune disease; and (iv) an antigen associated with a cancer or tumour disease or a functional fragment, variant and/or derivative of said protein or peptide antigen, wherein the at least one protein or peptide antigen is provided as a separate component of the pharmaceutical composition and wherein component is not ovalbumine or the ovalbumine-derived peptide SIINFEKL. a complex, comprising: a) at least one cationic and/or polycationic peptide or protein or a polyimine as a carrier, and b) at least one nucleic acid molecule as a cargo, wherein the at least one nucleic acid molecule is RNA, wherein the cationic and/or polycationic component of the carrier and the nucleic acid molecule comprised as cargo in said complex are provided in an N/P ratio in the range of 0.4-0.9, and a) at least one cationic and/or polycationic peptide or protein or a polyimine as a carrier, and b) at least one nucleic acid molecule as a cargo, wherein the at least one nucleic acid molecule is RNA, at least one protein or peptide antigen that is selected from the group consisting of: (i) an antigen from a pathogen associated with infectious disease; (ii) an antigen associated with allergy or allergic disease; (iii) an antigen associated with autoimmune disease; and (iv) an antigen associated with a cancer or tumour disease or a functional fragment, variant and/or derivative of said protein or peptide antigen, wherein the at least one protein or peptide antigen is provided as a separate component of the pharmaceutical composition and wherein component is not ovalbumine or the ovalbumine-derived peptide SIINFEKL. (i) an antigen from a pathogen associated with infectious disease; (ii) an antigen associated with allergy or allergic disease; (iii) an antigen associated with autoimmune disease; and (iv) an antigen associated with a cancer or tumour disease
A finger-foil seal (60, 120), comprising: an aerodynamic foil (72, 128) having a generally annular body through which a first opening is formed; a finger seal retention structure (68, 132) disposed around the aerodynamic foil; and a finger seal backing spring (70, 130) coupled to the finger seal retention structure and extending radially inward therefrom to contact an outer circumferential surface of the aerodynamic foil; characterized in that the finger-foil seal further comprises a first anti-rotation pin (98, 140) extending radially from the finger seal retention structure and into the first opening in the aerodynamic foil to inhibit rotation of the aerodynamic foil during operation of the finger-foil seal. an aerodynamic foil (72, 128) having a generally annular body through which a first opening is formed; a finger seal retention structure (68, 132) disposed around the aerodynamic foil; and a finger seal backing spring (70, 130) coupled to the finger seal retention structure and extending radially inward therefrom to contact an outer circumferential surface of the aerodynamic foil; characterized in that the finger-foil seal further comprises a first anti-rotation pin (98, 140) extending radially from the finger seal retention structure and into the first opening in the aerodynamic foil to inhibit rotation of the aerodynamic foil during operation of the finger-foil seal.
An expression vector for expressing a tyrosinase to be presented on the surface of a bacterial cell, said expression vector comprising an expression cassette encoding a tyrosinase as a passenger in a Type V secretion β-autotransporter system, wherein said tyrosinase when expressed comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1.
A connector assembly comprising: a first connector (11, 31, 51, 71, 91) including a first insulator (13, 33, 53, 73) and a first contact (14, 34, 54, 74) held by the first insulator; a second connector (21, 41, 61, 81) including a second insulator (23, 43, 63, 83) and a second contact (24, 44, 64, 84) held by the second insulator, the second connector being fitted to the first connector along a fitting direction; a lever member (22, 42, 62, 72, 92) rotatably held by one of the first insulator and the second insulator; a push member (15, 35, 75) used to press the first contact and the second contact against each other; a first cam mechanism moving the first insulator and the second insulator relatively along the fitting direction in conjunction with rotation of the lever member; and a second cam mechanism moving the push member in conjunction with rotation of the lever member, wherein in a state where the second insulator is situated at a fitting start position with respect to the first insulator, when the lever member is rotated from an initial rotational position to a first rotational position, the second insulator is moved to a fitting position along the fitting direction by the first cam mechanism, and when the lever member is further rotated from the first rotational position to a second rotational position, the push member is moved by the second cam mechanism such that the first contact and the second contact come into contact with each other at a predetermined contact pressure with the second insulator being kept at the fitting position. a first connector (11, 31, 51, 71, 91) including a first insulator (13, 33, 53, 73) and a first contact (14, 34, 54, 74) held by the first insulator; a second connector (21, 41, 61, 81) including a second insulator (23, 43, 63, 83) and a second contact (24, 44, 64, 84) held by the second insulator, the second connector being fitted to the first connector along a fitting direction; a lever member (22, 42, 62, 72, 92) rotatably held by one of the first insulator and the second insulator; a push member (15, 35, 75) used to press the first contact and the second contact against each other; a first cam mechanism moving the first insulator and the second insulator relatively along the fitting direction in conjunction with rotation of the lever member; and a second cam mechanism moving the push member in conjunction with rotation of the lever member, wherein in a state where the second insulator is situated at a fitting start position with respect to the first insulator, when the lever member is rotated from an initial rotational position to a first rotational position, the second insulator is moved to a fitting position along the fitting direction by the first cam mechanism, and when the lever member is further rotated from the first rotational position to a second rotational position, the push member is moved by the second cam mechanism such that the first contact and the second contact come into contact with each other at a predetermined contact pressure with the second insulator being kept at the fitting position.
A system for delivery of a volume of infusible fluid comprising: a controller configured to: calculate a trajectory for delivering infusible fluid, the trajectory comprising at least one volume of fluid, and determine a schedule for delivering the at least one volume of fluid according to the trajectory, wherein the schedule comprising an interval and a volume of infusible fluid for delivery, wherein the schedule comprises a plurality of pulses of equal volumes of infusible fluid; and a volume sensor assembly for determining the at least one volume of fluid delivered, wherein the controller recalculates the trajectory based on the volume of fluid delivered including recalculating the volume of upcoming pulses if required. a controller configured to: calculate a trajectory for delivering infusible fluid, the trajectory comprising at least one volume of fluid, and determine a schedule for delivering the at least one volume of fluid according to the trajectory, wherein the schedule comprising an interval and a volume of infusible fluid for delivery, wherein the schedule comprises a plurality of pulses of equal volumes of infusible fluid; and calculate a trajectory for delivering infusible fluid, the trajectory comprising at least one volume of fluid, and determine a schedule for delivering the at least one volume of fluid according to the trajectory, wherein the schedule comprising an interval and a volume of infusible fluid for delivery, wherein the schedule comprises a plurality of pulses of equal volumes of infusible fluid; and a volume sensor assembly for determining the at least one volume of fluid delivered, wherein the controller recalculates the trajectory based on the volume of fluid delivered including recalculating the volume of upcoming pulses if required.