mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
A method of updating pre-computed database query results in a distributed database system, wherein the distributed database system comprises a data cache platform maintaining the pre-computed database query results and a computation platform for computing the pre-computed database query results based on data maintained in the computation platform, wherein the data cache platform maintains a probabilistic model modeling discrepancies between the pre-computed database query results maintained in the data cache platform and presumed actual database query results, the method comprising: - determining, by the data cache platform, probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated based on the probabilistic model; - detecting, by the data cache platform, an asynchronous real-time event which has a probabilistic influence on the discrepancies between the pre-computed database query results maintained in the data cache platform and presumed actual database query results; - analyzing, at the data cache platform, whether the asynchronous real-time event is represented in the probabilistic model; - increasing, by the data cache platform, the determined probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated if the asynchronous real-time events is determined to be not represented in the probabilistic model; - automatically issuing, by the data cache platform, re-computation orders to the computation platform for updating pre-computed database query results on the basis of the determined probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated, wherein pre-computed database query results having a probability of being outdated above a given threshold are ordered to be re-computed; and - receiving, at the data cache platform, the updated pre-computed database query results as results of the re-computation orders. - determining, by the data cache platform, probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated based on the probabilistic model; - detecting, by the data cache platform, an asynchronous real-time event which has a probabilistic influence on the discrepancies between the pre-computed database query results maintained in the data cache platform and presumed actual database query results; - analyzing, at the data cache platform, whether the asynchronous real-time event is represented in the probabilistic model; - increasing, by the data cache platform, the determined probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated if the asynchronous real-time events is determined to be not represented in the probabilistic model; - automatically issuing, by the data cache platform, re-computation orders to the computation platform for updating pre-computed database query results on the basis of the determined probabilities of the pre-computed database query results being outdated, wherein pre-computed database query results having a probability of being outdated above a given threshold are ordered to be re-computed; and - receiving, at the data cache platform, the updated pre-computed database query results as results of the re-computation orders.
A method to monitor mechanical loads of at least one positioning actuator for the rotational positioning of a movable part of a wind turbine, the method comprising: - detecting at least two load parameters indicating, a first one, a torque exerted upon the positioning actuator (17, 30) and, the second one, an angular speed of the positioning actuator (17, 30), due to external forces acting upon the movable part (3, 6), by means of respective sensor means (24a-b, 36a-b; 37a-b, 38b-a) coupled to the positioning actuator (17, 30); - processing the detected load parameters in order to obtain torque and angular speed associated with the positioning actuator (17, 30); - generating an event every time the obtained torque exceeds a torque threshold or the obtained angular speed exceeds an angular speed threshold; - storing data concerning every event; and - processing the stored event data in order to estimate the residual life of said positioning actuator (17, 30). - detecting at least two load parameters indicating, a first one, a torque exerted upon the positioning actuator (17, 30) and, the second one, an angular speed of the positioning actuator (17, 30), due to external forces acting upon the movable part (3, 6), by means of respective sensor means (24a-b, 36a-b; 37a-b, 38b-a) coupled to the positioning actuator (17, 30); - processing the detected load parameters in order to obtain torque and angular speed associated with the positioning actuator (17, 30); - generating an event every time the obtained torque exceeds a torque threshold or the obtained angular speed exceeds an angular speed threshold; - storing data concerning every event; and - processing the stored event data in order to estimate the residual life of said positioning actuator (17, 30).
Pliers for severing pieces of chocolate, in particular quasi prism-shaped pieces of chocolate of Toblerone, comprising two manually operable plier limbs (12, 14) and at least one connecting joint (26, 66), characterized in that the pliers comprise a plier head with at least three plier jaws (16, 18, 20), wherein the first plier jaw is actively configured and exhibits a shape for producing a predetermined breaking point between quasi prism-shaped pieces of chocolate that are successively arranged on a chocolate base and the second plier jaw is passively configured as a counterpart to the first plier jaw, and the piece of chocolate to be severed is pried from the remaining chocolate base through interaction of the plier jaws (16, 18), and the second plier jaw comprises a capturing unit for receiving the severed piece of chocolate.
A tire shape inspection method that inspects a shape of a tread face formed of protruding blocks having contact faces formed at top portions of the protruding blocks and recessed grooves arranged between the protruding blocks by detecting height data of the tread face, the method comprising: a contact face acquisition step of acquiring height changes of the contact faces by removing height data outside of a prescribed height range from the detected height data of the tread face, the prescribed height range including an average value of the detected height data; a height change interpolation step of interpolating the section of the height data removed in the contact face acquisition step by using heights in the prescribed height range in the height changes of the contact faces acquired in the contact face acquisition step, and acquiring the interpolated height changes of the contact faces; and a runout value acquisition step of acquiring, as a runout value indicating the shape of the tread face, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the interpolated height changes of the contact faces. a contact face acquisition step of acquiring height changes of the contact faces by removing height data outside of a prescribed height range from the detected height data of the tread face, the prescribed height range including an average value of the detected height data; a height change interpolation step of interpolating the section of the height data removed in the contact face acquisition step by using heights in the prescribed height range in the height changes of the contact faces acquired in the contact face acquisition step, and acquiring the interpolated height changes of the contact faces; and a runout value acquisition step of acquiring, as a runout value indicating the shape of the tread face, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the interpolated height changes of the contact faces.
A dispensing cap configured to be coupled to the mouth of a container storing a first substance and for housing a capsule storing a second substance; the cap comprising: - a sleeve to be coupled to the container; - a roof movable between a raised rest position and a lowered dispensing position - side walls connecting the sleeve and the roof, configured so that during the lowering of the roof they do not penetrate inside the cap but are laterally folded on themselves; characterized in that the cap moreover comprises at least a blocking device configured for blocking the roof in the lowered position; the blocking device comprising: - a plurality of hook elements substantially axially projecting from the sleeve towards the roof; - a plurality of lip elements substantially radially projecting from the roof; wherein the hook elements and the lip elements are configured so that: - during the lowering of the roof the lip elements exceed the hook elements; - once the hook elements have been exceeded by the lip elements, the lip elements are blocked by the hook elements. - a sleeve to be coupled to the container; - a roof movable between a raised rest position and a lowered dispensing position - side walls connecting the sleeve and the roof, configured so that during the lowering of the roof they do not penetrate inside the cap but are laterally folded on themselves; characterized in that the cap moreover comprises at least a blocking device configured for blocking the roof in the lowered position; the blocking device comprising: - a plurality of hook elements substantially axially projecting from the sleeve towards the roof; - a plurality of lip elements substantially radially projecting from the roof; wherein the hook elements and the lip elements are configured so that: - during the lowering of the roof the lip elements exceed the hook elements; - once the hook elements have been exceeded by the lip elements, the lip elements are blocked by the hook elements.
An oxygen-absorbing resin composition, comprising: a gas barrier resin having an oxygen transmission rate of 500 mL·20 μm/(m 2 ·day·atm) or less as measured at 20°C and 65%RH; wherein the oxygen transmission rate is defined as the volume of oxygen transmitted through a film having an area of 1 m 2 and a thickness of 20 μm per day under a differential pressure of oxygen of 1.01325 bar (1 atm); a thermoplastic resin including repeating units represented by the following general Formula: (where X is a methylene group or an oxygen atom, R 1 is an alkenylene group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 5 to 5000); at least one type of metal salt selected from the group consisting of an iron salt, a nickel salt, a copper salt, a manganese salt, and a cobalt salt; and a bifunctional processing stabilizer that is a compound having an acrylate structure and a hindered phenol structure in a same molecule. a gas barrier resin having an oxygen transmission rate of 500 mL·20 μm/(m 2 ·day·atm) or less as measured at 20°C and 65%RH; wherein the oxygen transmission rate is defined as the volume of oxygen transmitted through a film having an area of 1 m 2 and a thickness of 20 μm per day under a differential pressure of oxygen of 1.01325 bar (1 atm); a thermoplastic resin including repeating units represented by the following general Formula: (where X is a methylene group or an oxygen atom, R 1 is an alkenylene group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 5 to 5000); at least one type of metal salt selected from the group consisting of an iron salt, a nickel salt, a copper salt, a manganese salt, and a cobalt salt; and a bifunctional processing stabilizer that is a compound having an acrylate structure and a hindered phenol structure in a same molecule.
A voice over IP, VoIP, client, comprising: an access module, configured to make, through a preset high-speed wireless network, the VoIP client access an Internet; a sending module, configured to send a call request to a call controller; a receiving module, configured to receive at least one called number and a rate for calling each of the at least one called number that are returned by a call controller, wherein the at least one called number comprises: one or more numbers registered by and/or bound to the called party corresponding to the call request; a selection module, configured to select one from the at least one called number as a called number of the current call according to the at least one called number and the rate for calling each of the at least one called number; and an execution module, configured to perform a call proceeding by using the selected called number. an access module, configured to make, through a preset high-speed wireless network, the VoIP client access an Internet; a sending module, configured to send a call request to a call controller; a receiving module, configured to receive at least one called number and a rate for calling each of the at least one called number that are returned by a call controller, wherein the at least one called number comprises: one or more numbers registered by and/or bound to the called party corresponding to the call request; a selection module, configured to select one from the at least one called number as a called number of the current call according to the at least one called number and the rate for calling each of the at least one called number; and an execution module, configured to perform a call proceeding by using the selected called number.
1. A welding method for sealing a cooling-water channel of an electric-machine housing, characterized by the steps of: a) sealing the opened ends of the cooling-water channel using sealing parts to form an S-shaped sealed cooling water channel inside the electric-machine housing, wherein the sealing parts are placed inside sealing-part slots, the sealing-part slots being located outside the turning channels at the ends of the electric-machine housing in a circumferential direction, and wherein each sealing slot is an independent slot of any shape, that corresponds to the shape, and number of water-cooling channels' design respectively, and b) welding each of the sealing parts and the electric-machine-housing together by friction-stir-welding, in one single and complete single-welding-seam mode, so that the sealing parts placed inside the sealing slots form sealing end blocks that seals the turning channels to form the complete S-shaped cooling water sealed channel. a) sealing the opened ends of the cooling-water channel using sealing parts to form an S-shaped sealed cooling water channel inside the electric-machine housing, wherein the sealing parts are placed inside sealing-part slots, the sealing-part slots being located outside the turning channels at the ends of the electric-machine housing in a circumferential direction, and wherein each sealing slot is an independent slot of any shape, that corresponds to the shape, and number of water-cooling channels' design respectively, and b) welding each of the sealing parts and the electric-machine-housing together by friction-stir-welding, in one single and complete single-welding-seam mode, so that the sealing parts placed inside the sealing slots form sealing end blocks that seals the turning channels to form the complete S-shaped cooling water sealed channel.
A refinish paint system which comprises at least two paints, wherein each of the paints includes: an unactivated film-forming portion; and an activator portion that when combined with said unactivated film-forming portion, forms a coating composition, said coating composition being capable of forming at least one of a primer filler layer, a sealer layer, a topcoat layer, or a clearcoat layer, wherein the same activator portion is used to crosslink each of the unactivated film-forming portions and each layer uses the same unactivated film-forming portion to activator volumetric mix ratio. an unactivated film-forming portion; and an activator portion that when combined with said unactivated film-forming portion, forms a coating composition, said coating composition being capable of forming at least one of a primer filler layer, a sealer layer, a topcoat layer, or a clearcoat layer, wherein the same activator portion is used to crosslink each of the unactivated film-forming portions and each layer uses the same unactivated film-forming portion to activator volumetric mix ratio.
A MEMS sensor comprising: a vibrating sensing structure formed from a semiconductor substrate layer, the semiconductor substrate layer being mounted on a pedestal comprising an electrically insulating substrate layer bonded to the semiconductor substrate to form a sensor chip; and the pedestal further comprising at least one electrically insulating spacer layer for mounting the sensor chip to a housing, wherein the electrically insulating spacer layer is octagonal; characterised in that the sensor chip is a rectangular sensor chip. a vibrating sensing structure formed from a semiconductor substrate layer, the semiconductor substrate layer being mounted on a pedestal comprising an electrically insulating substrate layer bonded to the semiconductor substrate to form a sensor chip; and the pedestal further comprising at least one electrically insulating spacer layer for mounting the sensor chip to a housing, wherein the electrically insulating spacer layer is octagonal; characterised in that the sensor chip is a rectangular sensor chip.
Method for coating plate-shaped substrates, characterised by the steps: a) heating the substrate to transformation temperature, b) simultaneously with and/or subsequent to a): heating the underside of the substrate to a higher temperature than the upper side of the substrate, c) vapour deposition of at least one material to be deposited on the substrate. a) heating the substrate to transformation temperature, b) simultaneously with and/or subsequent to a): heating the underside of the substrate to a higher temperature than the upper side of the substrate, c) vapour deposition of at least one material to be deposited on the substrate.
Method for transferring surface textures such as interference layers, holograms, and other highly refractive optical microstructures to substrates, comprising the following steps: a) applying a flexible covercoat as release coating onto a carrier film, b) applying an embossing sol to this covercoat and giving it a surface texture, c) making a stack consisting of a layer of bonding agent and the surface texture, the bonding agent being applied directly onto the surface texture, and then transferring this stack onto the substrate, the bonding agent consisting of a nanocomposite obtained by surface modification of i) colloidal inorganic particles with ii) one or several silanes of the general formula R x -Si-A 4-x, in which the radicals A are the same or different and represent hydroxyl groups or groups that can be removed hydrolytically, except for methoxy, the radicals R are the same or different and represent groups that cannot be removed hydrolytically and x has the value 0, 1, 2 or 3, with x ≥ 1 in at least 50 mol% of the silanes; under the conditions of the sol-gel process with a sub-stoichiometric amount of water, based on the hydrolysable groups present, with formation of a nanocomposite sol, and further hydrolysis and condensation of the nanocomposite sol if necessary. d) removing the carrier film, e) subjecting the stack to thermal treatment. a) applying a flexible covercoat as release coating onto a carrier film, b) applying an embossing sol to this covercoat and giving it a surface texture, c) making a stack consisting of a layer of bonding agent and the surface texture, the bonding agent being applied directly onto the surface texture, and then transferring this stack onto the substrate, the bonding agent consisting of a nanocomposite obtained by surface modification of i) colloidal inorganic particles with ii) one or several silanes of the general formula R x -Si-A 4-x, in which the radicals A are the same or different and represent hydroxyl groups or groups that can be removed hydrolytically, except for methoxy, the radicals R are the same or different and represent groups that cannot be removed hydrolytically and x has the value 0, 1, 2 or 3, with x ≥ 1 in at least 50 mol% of the silanes; under the conditions of the sol-gel process with a sub-stoichiometric amount of water, based on the hydrolysable groups present, with formation of a nanocomposite sol, and further hydrolysis and condensation of the nanocomposite sol if necessary. i) colloidal inorganic particles with ii) one or several silanes of the general formula R x -Si-A 4-x, in which the radicals A are the same or different and represent hydroxyl groups or groups that can be removed hydrolytically, except for methoxy, the radicals R are the same or different and represent groups that cannot be removed hydrolytically and x has the value 0, 1, 2 or 3, with x ≥ 1 in at least 50 mol% of the silanes; d) removing the carrier film, e) subjecting the stack to thermal treatment.
A vehicle control system comprising a speed control system and a traction control system, the traction control system being operable to cause a reduction in speed of one or more wheels when a speed of the one or more wheels exceeds a traction control system intervention threshold value, the speed control system being operable in an active state in which the speed control system causes the vehicle to operate in accordance with a target speed value, characterized in that when the speed control system is in the active state, the traction control system intervention threshold value is set to a value selected in dependence at least in part on the target speed value.
A collimating light engine, comprising: a reflector having a first surface; a light source and circuitry affixed to the reflector proximate the first surface; and a reflective baffle formed of a unitary folded film disposed over and in contact with the light source and extending over a portion of the reflector, the reflector and the reflective baffle are formed together into a hollow wedge shape so that the light source is obscured from view at angles less than 50 degrees from the normal to the reflector. a reflector having a first surface; a light source and circuitry affixed to the reflector proximate the first surface; and a reflective baffle formed of a unitary folded film disposed over and in contact with the light source and extending over a portion of the reflector, the reflector and the reflective baffle are formed together into a hollow wedge shape so that the light source is obscured from view at angles less than 50 degrees from the normal to the reflector.