mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Switching kinematics for a vacuum interrupter of a switch, having a drive, a closing spring, a first switching gate which is arranged rotatably about a first axis, a first switching lever on which the first switching gate acts, a switch shaft which is fixedly connected to the first switching lever, and a keep-open spring which acts on the switch shaft, wherein the vacuum interrupter has at least two switching contacts, at least one of which is a moving contact, and the vacuum interrupter can be moved between a first position, in which the switching contacts of the vacuum interrupter are separated from each other, and a second position, in which the switching contacts are in contact with each another, wherein the keep-open spring is connected to the switch shaft by means of a crank element and a transmission member, and the keep-open spring acts on the first switching lever by means of the transmission member and the switch shaft and thus does not directly act on the switching lever, wherein the keep-open spring is fastened to the crank element, and the crank element is movably arranged between the transmission element and a fastening element, characterized in that the crank element has a movably arranged deflection element, the transmission element is movably connected to a transmission crank, the transmission crank is, in turn, movably connected to the fastening element, and in that the keep-open spring acts on the transmission crank by means of the deflection element and thus transfers the keep-open torque T OHF to the transmission member. the keep-open spring acts on the first switching lever by means of the transmission member and the switch shaft and thus does not directly act on the switching lever, wherein the keep-open spring is fastened to the crank element, and the crank element is movably arranged between the transmission element and a fastening element, characterized in that the crank element has a movably arranged deflection element, the transmission element is movably connected to a transmission crank, the transmission crank is, in turn, movably connected to the fastening element, and in that the keep-open spring acts on the transmission crank by means of the deflection element and thus transfers the keep-open torque T OHF to the transmission member.
A method for starting a Universal Serial Bus state machine, characterized by comprising: connecting a USB voltage bus, USB_VBUS, pin in a terminal to a logic level output within the terminal; if detecting (S20,101) that a voltage of a charging voltage pin in the terminal is greater than a threshold limit value, starting a charging state machine to charge a battery and a USB state machine to perform a USB enumeration process, wherein, the logic level is a high level and the high level is not greater than a withstand voltage value of the USB voltage bus pin, or the step of connecting a USB voltage bus, USB_VBUS, pin in a terminal to a logic level output within the terminal comprises: grounding the USB voltage bus pin. connecting a USB voltage bus, USB_VBUS, pin in a terminal to a logic level output within the terminal; if detecting (S20,101) that a voltage of a charging voltage pin in the terminal is greater than a threshold limit value, starting a charging state machine to charge a battery and a USB state machine to perform a USB enumeration process, wherein, the logic level is a high level and the high level is not greater than a withstand voltage value of the USB voltage bus pin, or the step of connecting a USB voltage bus, USB_VBUS, pin in a terminal to a logic level output within the terminal comprises: grounding the USB voltage bus pin.
A coated contact lens comprising: a lens core with an equilibrium water content of less than about 2%, the lens core comprising an outer surface; and a hydrogel layer covalently attached to at least a portion of the outer surface, the hydrogel layer adapted to contact an ophthalmic surface, wherein the hydrogel layer comprises a hydrophilic polymer population of one or more species, wherein the hydrophilic polymer population includes a first species comprising PEG and a second species comprising polyacrylamide. a lens core with an equilibrium water content of less than about 2%, the lens core comprising an outer surface; and a hydrogel layer covalently attached to at least a portion of the outer surface, the hydrogel layer adapted to contact an ophthalmic surface, wherein the hydrogel layer comprises a hydrophilic polymer population of one or more species, wherein the hydrophilic polymer population includes a first species comprising PEG and a second species comprising polyacrylamide.
Measuring device for measuring electrical quantities, in particular electrical voltages and/or electrical currents, comprising: - a housing body comprising a housing chamber, - at least one measuring apparatus arranged or formed in the housing chamber for measuring an electrical quantity which is measurable by means of the measuring device, the housing body having at least one receiving region for releasably receiving an electrical energy store, the receiving region being designed as a shaft-like or shaft-shaped recess in the housing body, at least one electrical connection element which forms part of an electrical connection apparatus on the housing-body side being arranged or formed in the region of the receiving region to electrically connect an electrical energy store which is received in the receiving region, characterized in that the electrical connection element is arranged or designed so as to be protected against contact. - a housing body comprising a housing chamber, - at least one measuring apparatus arranged or formed in the housing chamber for measuring an electrical quantity which is measurable by means of the measuring device, the housing body having at least one receiving region for releasably receiving an electrical energy store, the receiving region being designed as a shaft-like or shaft-shaped recess in the housing body, at least one electrical connection element which forms part of an electrical connection apparatus on the housing-body side being arranged or formed in the region of the receiving region to electrically connect an electrical energy store which is received in the receiving region, characterized in that the electrical connection element is arranged or designed so as to be protected against contact.
A method of operating a cleaning apparatus of a combine harvester having a screening apparatus in which grains are separated from other impurities, wherein the screening apparatus has a screening box which is caused to produce longitudinal and transverse oscillations by way of an oscillation drive and which accommodates an upper screen and at least one lower screen, having a measuring device (22, 23) which is associated at least with the upper screen and determines at same a crop material distribution by way of the grain separation achieved at same, having a transverse inclination sensor which ascertains a transverse inclination of the combine harvester, and wherein the ascertained measurement values are fed to a control unit, by way of which a phase adjustment of the transverse oscillations of the oscillation drive and an adjustment of the screening apparatus are controlled, characterised in that when a limit value of the transverse inclination of the combine harvester and/or a limit value of the grain separation achieved at the upper screen is exceeded a cross-section which determines the screen opening width is increased only at the upper screen, wherein the upper screen is subdivided into at least two sectors (31, 32, 33) extending over its length, wherein each of the outwardly disposed sectors (31, 33) has an adjusting drive (34, 35) for changing the screen opening width, wherein the screen opening width is increased at a down-slope directed sector (31, 33) of the upper screen when the limit value of the transverse inclination of the combine harvester and/or the limit value of grain separation is exceeded so that after one of the limit values or both limit values is or are exceeded a down-slope directed sector (34 or 35) has a larger screen opening width than an up-slope directed sector (34 or 35).
An electrically actuated braking system for an aircraft, comprising: an electro-mechanical brake actuator (EMAbrake) proximate a wheel of the aircraft, the EMAbrake including a motor; an electro-mechanical actuator controller (EMAC) including a first motor controller for generating a first drive signal for the EMAbrake to decelerate or hold stationary the aircraft, and a second motor controller for generating a second drive signal for the EMAbrake to decelerate or hold stationary the aircraft, characterised in that the first motor controller and the second motor controller are dissimilar, in that dissimilar technologies are used for the motor controllers at control actuator level, so as to provide protection against common mode failure of the first and second motor controllers. an electro-mechanical brake actuator (EMAbrake) proximate a wheel of the aircraft, the EMAbrake including a motor; an electro-mechanical actuator controller (EMAC) including a first motor controller for generating a first drive signal for the EMAbrake to decelerate or hold stationary the aircraft, and a second motor controller for generating a second drive signal for the EMAbrake to decelerate or hold stationary the aircraft, characterised in that the first motor controller and the second motor controller are dissimilar, in that dissimilar technologies are used for the motor controllers at control actuator level, so as to provide protection against common mode failure of the first and second motor controllers.
A computer-implemented method of manipulating a two-dimensional digital input image of a face and/or human body of a human subject using an image operator that represents a change in a lighting characteristic, wherein the image operator is calculated based on a score offset indicative of a desire to manipulate the lighting characteristic in the input image by a particular degree and a mapping obtained by linear regression between values of principal components analysis, PCA, model parameters of a dataset of aligned two-dimensional digital images of faces and/or bodies of human subjects and at least one user-defined score allocated to each of a plurality of the images in the dataset, each score representing a degree of the lighting characteristic in the image, wherein the image operator and the input image are aligned, the method comprising: receiving a request comprising a score offset indicative of a desire to manipulate the lighting characteristic in the input image by a particular degree; and applying a calculated image operator to the input image to produce a manipulated input image which corresponds to the input image but with the lighting characteristic manipulated; and wherein calculating of the image operator comprises: determining a PCA mean image of the dataset; determining PCA model parameter offsets based on the score offset and the mapping; determining an adjusted mean image of the dataset by applying the PCA model parameter offsets to the PCA mean image, and determining a pixel-wise change between the PCA mean image of the dataset and the adjusted mean image of the dataset to generate the image operator representing the requested manipulation of the lighting characteristics. receiving a request comprising a score offset indicative of a desire to manipulate the lighting characteristic in the input image by a particular degree; and applying a calculated image operator to the input image to produce a manipulated input image which corresponds to the input image but with the lighting characteristic manipulated; determining a PCA mean image of the dataset; determining PCA model parameter offsets based on the score offset and the mapping; determining an adjusted mean image of the dataset by applying the PCA model parameter offsets to the PCA mean image, and determining a pixel-wise change between the PCA mean image of the dataset and the adjusted mean image of the dataset to generate the image operator representing the requested manipulation of the lighting characteristics.
A medical dressing comprising a. a radiation-emitting module having a source of radiation for the emission of electromagnetic radiation, and b. an NO module containing photolabile nitric oxide donors, whereby the electromagnetic radiation stemming from the radiation-emitting module can cleave these nitric oxide donors, so that the NO module generates NO that can then be released from the NO module; whereby in the dressing, a system is used that degrades or neutralizes polyoxidized nitrogen oxides, oxygen radical anions, hydrated electrons or hydroxyl radicals (radical trapping system). a. a radiation-emitting module having a source of radiation for the emission of electromagnetic radiation, and b. an NO module containing photolabile nitric oxide donors, whereby the electromagnetic radiation stemming from the radiation-emitting module can cleave these nitric oxide donors, so that the NO module generates NO that can then be released from the NO module; whereby in the dressing, a system is used that degrades or neutralizes polyoxidized nitrogen oxides, oxygen radical anions, hydrated electrons or hydroxyl radicals (radical trapping system).
A method of enabling multiple different operating systems to run concurrently on the same computer, comprising: selecting a first operating system to have a high priority; selecting at least one second operating system to have a lower priority than the first operating system; and providing a common program arranged to switch between and control said first and second operating systems; characterised in that the common program handles hardware interrupts by passing them to interrupt service routines of the first operating system and the second operating system is modified to make it responsive to interrupt messages from the common program, wherein a hardware interrupt for the second operating system causes the common program to generate an interrupt message for the second operating system, the hardware interrupt for the second operating system is notified through the interrupt message, and the common program calls an interrupt handling routine of the second operating system corresponding to the interrupt message which is pending. selecting a first operating system to have a high priority; selecting at least one second operating system to have a lower priority than the first operating system; and providing a common program arranged to switch between and control said first and second operating systems; characterised in that the common program handles hardware interrupts by passing them to interrupt service routines of the first operating system and the second operating system is modified to make it responsive to interrupt messages from the common program, wherein a hardware interrupt for the second operating system causes the common program to generate an interrupt message for the second operating system, the hardware interrupt for the second operating system is notified through the interrupt message, and the common program calls an interrupt handling routine of the second operating system corresponding to the interrupt message which is pending.
A virus comprising (i) a genome engineered to express a nucleic acid encoding a chimeric influenza virus hemagglutinin polypeptide or (ii) the chimeric influenza virus HA polypeptide, said chimeric influenza virus HA polypeptide comprising an HA stem domain and an HA globular head domain, wherein the HA globular head domain is from a different influenza virus strain or subtype than the influenza virus strain or subtype of the HA stem domain, wherein (a) the HA stem domain comprises (i) an HA1 N-terminal stem segment, wherein the HA1 N-terminal stem segment consists of amino acid residues HA1 N-term through A p; (ii) an HA1 C-terminal stem segment, wherein the HA1 C-terminal stem segment consists of amino acid residues A q through HA1 C-term; and (iii) an HA2 stem domain; and (b) the HA globular head domain comprises the amino acid residues between A p and A q of an HA1 domain; and wherein HA1 N-term is the N-terminal amino acid of a mature HAO protein lacking a signal peptide; wherein HA1 C-term is the C-terminal amino acid of an HA1 domain; A p is the Cys that corresponds to amino acid position 52 of an HA1 domain using H3 numbering; and wherein A q is the Cys that corresponds to amino acid position 277 of an HA1 domain using H3 numbering. (a) the HA stem domain comprises (i) an HA1 N-terminal stem segment, wherein the HA1 N-terminal stem segment consists of amino acid residues HA1 N-term through A p; (ii) an HA1 C-terminal stem segment, wherein the HA1 C-terminal stem segment consists of amino acid residues A q through HA1 C-term; and (iii) an HA2 stem domain; and (b) the HA globular head domain comprises the amino acid residues between A p and A q of an HA1 domain;
Upper grip of broom handle for a mop equipped with rotating element composed of a handle firmly fixed to the shaft and a rotating knob joined to said handle at the free end of the handle, characterised by the fact that said knob can have two positions, one lowered, close to and adhering to the handle, free to rotate and a second slightly raised, away from said handle in a locked position without the possibility of rotating where said knob is partially hollow, rotating and hinged on a pin firmly attached to the handle; on the inner circumferential surface of said knob there is a distributed series of first anti-rotation devices that can join to, in the transition from the first to the second position, with corresponding second anti-rotation devices on said handle or on said pin.
Device for ball-throwing training, which comprises • a stand base, • a supporting structure having at least two vertical guide posts (30, 31) able to be longitudinally adjusted relative to each other, and a spacer element, one end of one of the guide posts being arranged at the stand base and a distal end of another guide post being arranged at the spacer element, • a covering surface which is fixed to the spacer element so as to at least partially obscure the view of a court, particularly of a throwing target, and which comprises an extendable screen and a stretch frame able to be adjusted between the rigid upper end and the extendable lower end of the screen, • wherein the spacer element is arranged, on the side of the guide post that lies opposite the stand base, in such a manner that the covering surface in a first position, called the normal position, is arranged at right angles to the spacer element and, in this normal position, the ground projection areas of covering surface and stand base do not overlap. • a stand base, • a supporting structure having at least two vertical guide posts (30, 31) able to be longitudinally adjusted relative to each other, and a spacer element, one end of one of the guide posts being arranged at the stand base and a distal end of another guide post being arranged at the spacer element, • a covering surface which is fixed to the spacer element so as to at least partially obscure the view of a court, particularly of a throwing target, and which comprises an extendable screen and a stretch frame able to be adjusted between the rigid upper end and the extendable lower end of the screen, • wherein the spacer element is arranged, on the side of the guide post that lies opposite the stand base, in such a manner that the covering surface in a first position, called the normal position, is arranged at right angles to the spacer element and, in this normal position, the ground projection areas of covering surface and stand base do not overlap.
A device for applying force to an area of a patient's heart along or near the atrioventricular groove, comprising: a tensioning element configured to be delivered by a flexible member guided through a catheter and positioned generally along or near the atrioventricular groove; and a compression member positionable along the tensioning element and over a desired segment of the atrioventricular groove to develop force to be applied to an adjacent area of the heart by selective tensioning of the tensioning element, wherein the compression member has a shaped profile along its length, the device being characterized in that the shaped profile comprises at least two bends and an M-shaped section, the compression member further comprises a generally curved center segment, a generally straight center segment, or a center segment having a vertex; the compression member has end segments shaped to orient the compression member; and the compression member is self-orienting upon application of tension in a selected location for treatment. a tensioning element configured to be delivered by a flexible member guided through a catheter and positioned generally along or near the atrioventricular groove; and a compression member positionable along the tensioning element and over a desired segment of the atrioventricular groove to develop force to be applied to an adjacent area of the heart by selective tensioning of the tensioning element, wherein the compression member has a shaped profile along its length, the device being characterized in that the shaped profile comprises at least two bends and an M-shaped section, the compression member further comprises a generally curved center segment, a generally straight center segment, or a center segment having a vertex; the compression member has end segments shaped to orient the compression member; and the compression member is self-orienting upon application of tension in a selected location for treatment.
A method for encoding by a polar encoder comprising a plurality of encoding branches, the method comprising: dividing (1805, 1905) the plurality of encoding branches into at least a first encoding branch subset and a second encoding branch subset, outputs of the first encoding branch subset being independent of inputs to the second encoding branch subset; generating (1810, 1910) first and second subsets of output bits of a codeword in first and second encoding operations, the generating comprising inputting information bits of an information bit-vector and at least one frozen bit into respective encoding branches of the plurality of encoding branches and generating the first subset of output bits using the first encoding branch subset prior to generating the second subset of output bits using the second encoding branch subset; and outputting (1815, 1915), from the encoder, the first subset of output bits prior to outputting the second subset of output bits. dividing (1805, 1905) the plurality of encoding branches into at least a first encoding branch subset and a second encoding branch subset, outputs of the first encoding branch subset being independent of inputs to the second encoding branch subset; generating (1810, 1910) first and second subsets of output bits of a codeword in first and second encoding operations, the generating comprising inputting information bits of an information bit-vector and at least one frozen bit into respective encoding branches of the plurality of encoding branches and generating the first subset of output bits using the first encoding branch subset prior to generating the second subset of output bits using the second encoding branch subset; and outputting (1815, 1915), from the encoder, the first subset of output bits prior to outputting the second subset of output bits.