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A method for recovering precious metals from secondary resources comprising the following steps: (a) providing a source of solid waste material comprising precious metals in an amount of at least 0.0001 % b.w.; (b) bringing said waste material into contact with heterotrophic microorganisms capable of producing and releasing hydrocyanic acid; (c) adding a solvent or an aqueous nutrient solution capable of serving as a nutrient source for said microorganisms to the mixture; (d) depleting said waste materials from the precious metals contained therein by complexation of the metals with said hydrocyanic acid released by said micro-organisms; (e) separating the depleted solid waste material from the liquid containing the metal-cyano complexes; (f) recovering the precious metals from their cyano-complexes in known manner, wherein the depleting step is conducted at a concentration of biogenic hydrocyanic acid released by said microorganisms which is at most 50 % of the concentration of abiotic hydrocyanic acid required to transfer 100 % of the precious metal present in the waste material into metal-cyano complexes, and wherein the liquid obtained from step (e) is brought into contact with an adsorption agent capable of physically binding the metal-cyano complexes out of the liquid phase and wherein said solid waste material is selected from the group consisting of fly ashes, waste incineration ashes, metal scoriae and electronic scraps. (a) providing a source of solid waste material comprising precious metals in an amount of at least 0.0001 % b.w.; (b) bringing said waste material into contact with heterotrophic microorganisms capable of producing and releasing hydrocyanic acid; (c) adding a solvent or an aqueous nutrient solution capable of serving as a nutrient source for said microorganisms to the mixture; (d) depleting said waste materials from the precious metals contained therein by complexation of the metals with said hydrocyanic acid released by said micro-organisms; (e) separating the depleted solid waste material from the liquid containing the metal-cyano complexes; (f) recovering the precious metals from their cyano-complexes in known manner, wherein the depleting step is conducted at a concentration of biogenic hydrocyanic acid released by said microorganisms which is at most 50 % of the concentration of abiotic hydrocyanic acid required to transfer 100 % of the precious metal present in the waste material into metal-cyano complexes, and wherein the liquid obtained from step (e) is brought into contact with an adsorption agent capable of physically binding the metal-cyano complexes out of the liquid phase and wherein said solid waste material is selected from the group consisting of fly ashes, waste incineration ashes, metal scoriae and electronic scraps.
A transmitter for transmitting data to a receiver of a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network including a plurality of resource elements, at least a subset of the plurality of resource elements shared by a plurality of transmitters (UEs) for transmitting data from the plurality of transmitters (UEs) to the receiver, the transmitter, comprising at least one antenna, an encoder configured to receive a data element to be transmitted to a receiver of the wireless communication network, and to map the data element to a codeword, the codeword obtained by selecting at least one vector from a unique set of vectors, the unique set of vectors exclusively assigned to the transmitter, each vector including a plurality of symbols, each symbol to be transmitted over a resource element of the wireless communication network, and a transceiver coupled to the encoder and to the antenna, the transceiver configured to transmit via the antenna the codeword on the subset of resource elements, the codeword representing the data element and identifying the transmitter at the receiver, wherein the encoder is configured to obtain the codeword by selecting and linearly combining a plurality of vectors from the unique set of vectors. at least one antenna, an encoder configured to receive a data element to be transmitted to a receiver of the wireless communication network, and to map the data element to a codeword, the codeword obtained by selecting at least one vector from a unique set of vectors, the unique set of vectors exclusively assigned to the transmitter, each vector including a plurality of symbols, each symbol to be transmitted over a resource element of the wireless communication network, and to receive a data element to be transmitted to a receiver of the wireless communication network, and to map the data element to a codeword, the codeword obtained by selecting at least one vector from a unique set of vectors, the unique set of vectors exclusively assigned to the transmitter, each vector including a plurality of symbols, each symbol to be transmitted over a resource element of the wireless communication network, and a transceiver coupled to the encoder and to the antenna, the transceiver configured to transmit via the antenna the codeword on the subset of resource elements, the codeword representing the data element and identifying the transmitter at the receiver, wherein the encoder is configured to obtain the codeword by selecting and linearly combining a plurality of vectors from the unique set of vectors.
Internal gear fluid machine with a housing, a ring gear rotatably mounted in the housing about a ring gear axis of rotation and a pinion gear rotatably mounted in the ring gear about a pinion gear axis of rotation offset parallel to the ring gear axis of rotation, wherein, viewed in cross-section, on the one hand, to form a first sealing location, an inner gearing of the ring gear is in sealing engagement with an outer gearing of the pinion gear in an engagement region fixed to the housing and, on the other hand, to form a second sealing location, at least one tooth head of the inner gearing is in contact with a tooth head of the outer gearing a sealing manner or both the tooth head of the inner gearing and the tooth head of the outer gearing are in contact with a filler piece on opposing sides, wherein a first fluid space is present between the inner gearing and the outer gearing on one side of a pressure chord intersecting the first sealing location and the second sealing location and a second fluid space is present on the other side of the pressure chord, and wherein the ring gear is rotatably mounted in a compensation ring received in a compensation ring receptacle of the housing with clearance in the radial direction, wherein the compensation ring is held on the housing so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis into different pivot positions and is fixed in the circumferential direction within the housing by means of an anti-rotation device, characterised in that the compensation ring is associated with a plurality of support devices which each form a tilting bearing for tilting the compensation ring with respect to the housing about a tilting axis.
Cooking device comprising at least one support plane comprising at least one upper surface, at least one lower surface and at least one induction hob that includes at least one induction plate, characterized in that said upper surface is flat and said lower surface comprises at least one aperture connected to an induction plate seating closed at the top and made at least partly in the thickness of the support plane between its upper surface and the lower surface to which at least one induction plate is associated, wherein said induction plate seating is open at the lower part and blind above, and has a height lower than the thickness of said support plane, and wherein said at least one induction plate seating comprises an upper surface configured to include at least one induction plate and defining, with respect to said upper surface, a distance with values comprised between 0.5 mm and 7 mm, advantageously between 2 mm and 6 mm, even more advantageously between 3 mm and 5 mm.
a method implemented by a scheduler in a base station for selecting a carrier for uplink transmissions from a mobile terminal to the base station, in a multi carrier communication system, said method comprising: a first uplink carrier for low-rate data transmission and a second uplink carrier for high-rate data transmission, receiving a happiness indication from a mobile terminal assigned to the first uplink carrier, said happiness indication indicating a buffer level of said mobile terminal; and reassigning said mobile terminal to the second uplink carrier based on said happiness indication, wherein reassigning said mobile terminal to the second uplink carrier based on said happiness indication comprises switching said mobile terminal between said first uplink carrier and said second uplink carrier. a first uplink carrier for low-rate data transmission and a second uplink carrier for high-rate data transmission, receiving a happiness indication from a mobile terminal assigned to the first uplink carrier, said happiness indication indicating a buffer level of said mobile terminal; and reassigning said mobile terminal to the second uplink carrier based on said happiness indication, wherein reassigning said mobile terminal to the second uplink carrier based on said happiness indication comprises switching said mobile terminal between said first uplink carrier and said second uplink carrier.
A sensing assembly (100,200,300) for an electrical switching apparatus, said electrical switching apparatus comprising a base having a pocket portion (6,8,10), and a bus bar (20,30,40) coupled to said base, said sensing assembly (100,200,300) comprising: a housing structured to be coupled to said pocket portion (6,8,10); a power harvester coupled to said housing; a current sensor coupled to said housing, characterised in that it further comprises: a voltage sensing circuit disposed internal with respect to said housing and being structured to be electrically connected to said bus bar (20,30,40). a housing structured to be coupled to said pocket portion (6,8,10); a power harvester coupled to said housing; a current sensor coupled to said housing, characterised in that it further comprises: a voltage sensing circuit disposed internal with respect to said housing and being structured to be electrically connected to said bus bar (20,30,40).
A system comprising; a plurality of modular subassemblies and a precision mounting plate; wherein each modular subassembly comprises an enclosure and a plurality of optical components aligned to the enclosure, and the enclosure comprises a plurality of precision mounting structures; and wherein each modular subassembly is mechanically coupled to the precision mounting plate by attachment of a mounting structure of a modular subassembly directly to a corresponding precision mounting structure located on the precision mounting plate, characterized in that by mechanically coupling each modular subassembly to the precision mounting plate using the mounting structure of a respective modular subassembly and the corresponding mounting structure on the precision mounting plate, adjacent modular subassemblies are aligned to each other upon such attachment, and wherein two of the modular subassemblies mechanically coupled to the precision mounting plate are also attached to each other by mechanically coupling a precision alignment structure on one of the two modular subassemblies to a respective alignment structure on the other of the two modular subassemblies; wherein a first one of the modular subassemblies comprises a first light source operating at a first wavelength, a second light source operating at a second wavelength, and a single beam shaping lens aligned to the first light source and second light source such that light beams output from the first light source and the second light source are directed through the single beam shaping lens; and wherein a second one of the modular subassemblies comprises an objective lens optically coupled to the single beam shaping lens in the first one of the modular subassemblies, and a tube lens optically coupled to the objective lens, the objective lens to focus light onto a flow cell positioned at a predetermined distance from the objective lens. a plurality of modular subassemblies and a precision mounting plate; wherein each modular subassembly comprises an enclosure and a plurality of optical components aligned to the enclosure, and the enclosure comprises a plurality of precision mounting structures; and wherein each modular subassembly is mechanically coupled to the precision mounting plate by attachment of a mounting structure of a modular subassembly directly to a corresponding precision mounting structure located on the precision mounting plate, characterized in that by mechanically coupling each modular subassembly to the precision mounting plate using the mounting structure of a respective modular subassembly and the corresponding mounting structure on the precision mounting plate, adjacent modular subassemblies are aligned to each other upon such attachment, and wherein two of the modular subassemblies mechanically coupled to the precision mounting plate are also attached to each other by mechanically coupling a precision alignment structure on one of the two modular subassemblies to a respective alignment structure on the other of the two modular subassemblies;
A four-wheel-drive vehicle that has main drive wheels (181, 182), to which a drive force of a drive source of the vehicle is always transferred, and auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192), to which a drive force of the drive source is transferred via a drive force transfer device so as to be adjustable in accordance with a travel state of the vehicle, and a four-wheel-drive vehicle control device, the four-wheel-drive vehicle control device controlling the drive force transfer device and comprising: a detector that detects occurrence of a vibrating state, in which the main drive wheels (181, 182) and the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) slip alternately in a four-wheel-drive state in which a drive force is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192), or occurrence of a preliminary state, in which the vibrating state may occur; and a vibration suppression controller that reduces the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) via the drive force transfer device when the vibrating state or the preliminary state is detected by the detector, characterized in that the vibration suppression controller is configured to reduce the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) on condition that a thermal load of the drive force transfer device is less than a predetermined threshold. a detector that detects occurrence of a vibrating state, in which the main drive wheels (181, 182) and the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) slip alternately in a four-wheel-drive state in which a drive force is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192), or occurrence of a preliminary state, in which the vibrating state may occur; and a vibration suppression controller that reduces the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) via the drive force transfer device when the vibrating state or the preliminary state is detected by the detector, characterized in that the vibration suppression controller is configured to reduce the drive force which is transferred to the auxiliary drive wheels (191, 192) on condition that a thermal load of the drive force transfer device is less than a predetermined threshold.
A hand protection device for a vehicle, having - a protective guard which can be connected rigidly to a handlebar of the vehicle, - an extension element which is arranged to be movable relative to the protective guard, which element can be fixed in a first position and in at least one second position different from the first position, characterised in that - the extension element can be fixed in a second position above the protective guard and in a further second position below the protective guard. - a protective guard which can be connected rigidly to a handlebar of the vehicle, - an extension element which is arranged to be movable relative to the protective guard, which element can be fixed in a first position and in at least one second position different from the first position, - the extension element can be fixed in a second position above the protective guard and in a further second position below the protective guard.
Housing for a Roots-type pump with a suction flange and a discharge flange, wherein the housing comprises fastening elements (30, 31), characterised in that the fastening elements (30, 31) have two installation faces (32, 33) arranged at an angle of 90° to one another, in that the installation faces (32, 33) arranged at an angle of 90° to one another are connected to one another by means of a connection face arranged at an angle of 45° to the installation faces (32, 33), and in that intersecting lines of the installation faces (32, 33) and of the connection faces are formed as chamfers.
An introducer system, comprising a medical device and an introducer apparatus (100, 200) for facilitating subcutaneous implantation of the medical device, the introducer apparatus comprising: a housing (102, 211) having a proximal end and a distal end, the housing further defining a proximal opening at or adjacent to the proximal end and a distal opening at or adjacent to the distal end, a tunneler extending from the distal end of the housing and configured to facilitate forming a subcutaneous pocket for the medical device, an inserter configured to form the subcutaneous pocket in the tissue and pass the medical device through the distal opening of the housing, wherein the housing includes a compartment that is configured to releasably hold and contain the medical device, characterised in that the compartment is configured to frictionally engage the medical device to hold the medical device within the compartment. a housing (102, 211) having a proximal end and a distal end, the housing further defining a proximal opening at or adjacent to the proximal end and a distal opening at or adjacent to the distal end, a tunneler extending from the distal end of the housing and configured to facilitate forming a subcutaneous pocket for the medical device, an inserter configured to form the subcutaneous pocket in the tissue and pass the medical device through the distal opening of the housing, wherein the housing includes a compartment that is configured to releasably hold and contain the medical device, characterised in that the compartment is configured to frictionally engage the medical device to hold the medical device within the compartment.
A heat shield, comprising: a first portion having a first end and a second end; a second portion integrally formed with the first end of the first portion, the second portion configured to form at least a partially hemmed edge; and a sealing member having an opening positioned along a longitudinal axis of the sealing member, wherein the partially hemmed edge is adapted and configured to mechanically retain the sealing member, the sealing member being positioned along at least a portion of the partially hemmed edge; characterised in that the opening is a slit comprising a substantially annular end. a first portion having a first end and a second end; a second portion integrally formed with the first end of the first portion, the second portion configured to form at least a partially hemmed edge; and a sealing member having an opening positioned along a longitudinal axis of the sealing member, wherein the partially hemmed edge is adapted and configured to mechanically retain the sealing member, the sealing member being positioned along at least a portion of the partially hemmed edge; characterised in that the opening is a slit comprising a substantially annular end.
A radio frame transmission method, wherein the method comprises: receiving physical random access channel, PRACH, trigger information that is carried in a first transmission subframe in a first radio frame and that is sent by a first wireless network device; and sending, to the first wireless network device in response to the PRACH trigger information, a preamble sequence carried in a second transmission subframe in a second radio frame, based on a preset first mapping relationship between a subframe number of the first transmission subframe and a subframe number of the second transmission subframe, wherein the structure of the first transmission subframe in the first radio frame is different from the structure of the second transmission subframe in the second radio frame. receiving physical random access channel, PRACH, trigger information that is carried in a first transmission subframe in a first radio frame and that is sent by a first wireless network device; and sending, to the first wireless network device in response to the PRACH trigger information, a preamble sequence carried in a second transmission subframe in a second radio frame, based on a preset first mapping relationship between a subframe number of the first transmission subframe and a subframe number of the second transmission subframe, wherein the structure of the first transmission subframe in the first radio frame is different from the structure of the second transmission subframe in the second radio frame.
Device for producing a curved preform, which at least to some extent has a component geometry of a fibre-composite component that is to be produced, from flat semi-finished fibre products, characterised in that a shearing apparatus is provided, which has at least two rotating rolling bodies (3a, 4a) arranged spaced from one another in the rolling direction and a control apparatus connected to the rolling bodies (3a, 4a), wherein the control apparatus is set up for setting mutually different rotating speeds (V 1, V 2) of the rolling bodies (3a, 4a) and the rolling bodies (3a, 4a) are constructed to bear non-positively on a semi-finished fibre product introduced into the device and to interact with the same in such a manner that shearing of the fibres of the semi-finished fibre product is effected by means of a rotating-speed differential (V 2 -V 1) set by means of the control apparatus between rolling bodies (3a, 4a) arranged spaced from one another in the rolling direction, for forming the curvature of the curved preform to be produced, wherein the control apparatus controls the individual rolling bodies in such a manner that the rotating speed (U 1, U 2) thereof can be set in each case.
Method for continuously drying bulk goods, in particular wood fibers and/or wood chips, in a dryer, in particular a drum dryer, which is supplied with bulk goods and through which a vapour gas mixture passes in a drying circuit, wherein the vapour gas mixture is indirectly heated via at least one heat exchanger by a burner exhaust gas which is heated in at least one burner and wherein the drying vapours are guided and heated up in the at least one heat exchanger and wherein upstream, downstream and/or within the at least one heat exchanger at least a partial flow of the drying vapours is branched off to be conducted into the burner, and the remaining partial flow is guided again to the dryer, characterized in that the partial flow to the burner is driven by means of at least one regulable partial vapour fan, which is regulated via the pollution level of the burner exhaust gases and which regulable partial vapour fan increases the flow volume and flow rate of the partial flow of the drying vapours to the burner, if the moisture content in the drying vapours rises.