mhurhangee/ep-ind-claims huggingface dataset:
Method for observing a sample, including the following steps: a) illuminating said sample using a laser diode that is able to emit an incident light wave propagating toward the sample, said laser diode being supplied with a supply current, such that a laser effect is obtained when an intensity of said supply current ( i) exceeds what is termed a threshold intensity ( i s); b) acquiring, using an image sensor, an image of the sample, the latter being positioned between the laser diode and the image sensor, each image being representative of a light wave transmitted by the sample under the effect of said illumination; the method being characterized in that the intensity ( i) of the supply current of said laser diode is less than or equal to what is termed a critical intensity ( i c), said critical intensity being determined, prior to step a), according to the following preliminary steps: i) positioning the laser diode such that the incident light wave that it emits propagates as far as the image sensor; ii) supplying the laser diode with what is termed an initial supply current whose intensity is greater than or equal to said threshold intensity ( i s), and acquiring an image, termed initial image, using said image sensor, said initial image having transverse interference fringes; iii) modifying the intensity of the supply current and acquiring an image using the image sensor, this step being repeated until an image is acquired that has transverse interference fringes that are attenuated in comparison with the initial image, the intensity of the supply current then corresponding to the critical intensity ( i c). a) illuminating said sample using a laser diode that is able to emit an incident light wave propagating toward the sample, said laser diode being supplied with a supply current, such that a laser effect is obtained when an intensity of said supply current ( i) exceeds what is termed a threshold intensity ( i s); b) acquiring, using an image sensor, an image of the sample, the latter being positioned between the laser diode and the image sensor, each image being representative of a light wave transmitted by the sample under the effect of said illumination; i) positioning the laser diode such that the incident light wave that it emits propagates as far as the image sensor; ii) supplying the laser diode with what is termed an initial supply current whose intensity is greater than or equal to said threshold intensity ( i s), and acquiring an image, termed initial image, using said image sensor, said initial image having transverse interference fringes; iii) modifying the intensity of the supply current and acquiring an image using the image sensor, this step being repeated until an image is acquired that has transverse interference fringes that are attenuated in comparison with the initial image, the intensity of the supply current then corresponding to the critical intensity ( i c).
The D 2, D 3, or D 4 dopamine receptor agonist and the chemical compound having sedative effects for use in the treatment of menopausal hot flashes, wherein the compound that is a D 2, D 3, or D 4 dopamine receptor agonist is Ropinirole and the compound having sedative effects is Tizanidine.
A multi-layer ballistic woven fabric, comprising: an upper woven layer having upper warp yarns and upper weft yarns that are interwoven together to form the upper woven layer; a lower woven layer having lower warp yarns and lower weft yarns that are interwoven together to form the lower woven layer wherein both the warp yarns (12, 15) and the weft yarns (14, 17) of the upper and lower woven layers (11, 13) are ballistic yarns; and a plurality of securing yarns, each securing yarn interwoven with at least some of the upper yarns (12, 14) and some of the lower yarns (15, 17) so as to secure the upper and lower woven layers (11, 13) together, wherein the multi-layer ballistic woven fabric is formed by interweaving the securing yarns with the warp yarns (12, 15) and weft yarns (14, 17) as the upper woven layer and lower woven layer are made characterized in that at least some of the upper yarns (12, 14) and lower yarns (15, 17) are offset from each other so as to overlap by between 10% and 95%; and the securing yarns are of significantly smaller denier than the warp yarns (12, 15) and weft yarns (14, 17) and have significantly lower tenacities and tensile moduli than the warp yarns and weft yarns (14, 17). an upper woven layer having upper warp yarns and upper weft yarns that are interwoven together to form the upper woven layer; a lower woven layer having lower warp yarns and lower weft yarns that are interwoven together to form the lower woven layer wherein both the warp yarns (12, 15) and the weft yarns (14, 17) of the upper and lower woven layers (11, 13) are ballistic yarns; and a plurality of securing yarns, each securing yarn interwoven with at least some of the upper yarns (12, 14) and some of the lower yarns (15, 17) so as to secure the upper and lower woven layers (11, 13) together, wherein the multi-layer ballistic woven fabric is formed by interweaving the securing yarns with the warp yarns (12, 15) and weft yarns (14, 17) as the upper woven layer and lower woven layer are made at least some of the upper yarns (12, 14) and lower yarns (15, 17) are offset from each other so as to overlap by between 10% and 95%; and the securing yarns are of significantly smaller denier than the warp yarns (12, 15) and weft yarns (14, 17) and have significantly lower tenacities and tensile moduli than the warp yarns and weft yarns (14, 17).
An adjustment device for a pivot joint fitting of a motor vehicle seat - with a housing portion, - with a drive unit, - with a gear unit, which is downstream from the drive unit, is driven by the drive unit, has at least one self-locking gear and drives an output shaft, wherein the self-locking gear is an eccentric gear and comprises an annular gear wheel and an eccentric protrusion, and the eccentric protrusion extends on a control gear wheel around a bore that is centric with respect to an axis of the pivot joint fitting, - with an element that can be adjusted about the axis of the pivot joint fitting and is rotationally connected to the output shaft and is adjustable in an angle range ≤ 360°, preferably ≤ 90°, about the axis of the joint fitting, and - with at least one stop means that limits the pivoting range of the adjustable element at least in one first pivoting direction, wherein the stop means has a first stop and a first counter-stop (52, 112), and the first counter-stop (52, 112) is in contact with the first stop when the adjustable element is located at a first end of its pivoting range, characterised in that the stop means is disposed between the control gear wheel and the annular gear wheel, that the first stop is disposed on the control gear wheel, and that the first counter-stop (52, 112) is disposed on the annular gear wheel. - with a housing portion, - with a drive unit, - with a gear unit, which is downstream from the drive unit, is driven by the drive unit, has at least one self-locking gear and drives an output shaft, wherein the self-locking gear is an eccentric gear and comprises an annular gear wheel and an eccentric protrusion, and the eccentric protrusion extends on a control gear wheel around a bore that is centric with respect to an axis of the pivot joint fitting, - with an element that can be adjusted about the axis of the pivot joint fitting and is rotationally connected to the output shaft and is adjustable in an angle range ≤ 360°, preferably ≤ 90°, about the axis of the joint fitting, and - with at least one stop means that limits the pivoting range of the adjustable element at least in one first pivoting direction, wherein the stop means has a first stop and a first counter-stop (52, 112), and the first counter-stop (52, 112) is in contact with the first stop when the adjustable element is located at a first end of its pivoting range,
An acoustic sensor comprising: a side wall closed at each end by an end wall to form a substantially cylindrical cavity which, in use, contains a fluid; a transmitter operatively associated with a first of the end walls; a receiver operatively associated with a second of the end walls; wherein a radius, a, of the cavity and a height, h, of the cavity satisfies the following inequality: a h is greater than 1.2; and wherein, in use, the transmitter causes oscillatory motion of the first end wall in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the end walls; such that the axial oscillations of the end wall drive substantially radial oscillations of the fluid pressure in the cavity; and the substantially radial oscillations in the pressure of the fluid drive oscillatory motion of the end wall associated with the receiver, generating an electrical signal, and wherein the first of the end walls is defined by a disc comprising a thinner central region and a thicker outer region, so as to reduce the transmission of parasitic oscillations through the structure of the sensor to the receiver. a side wall closed at each end by an end wall to form a substantially cylindrical cavity which, in use, contains a fluid; a transmitter operatively associated with a first of the end walls; a receiver operatively associated with a second of the end walls; wherein a radius, a, of the cavity and a height, h, of the cavity satisfies the following inequality: a h is greater than 1.2; and wherein, in use, the transmitter causes oscillatory motion of the first end wall in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the end walls; such that the axial oscillations of the end wall drive substantially radial oscillations of the fluid pressure in the cavity; and the substantially radial oscillations in the pressure of the fluid drive oscillatory motion of the end wall associated with the receiver, generating an electrical signal, and wherein the first of the end walls is defined by a disc comprising a thinner central region and a thicker outer region, so as to reduce the transmission of parasitic oscillations through the structure of the sensor to the receiver. a h is greater than 1.2; and wherein, in use, the transmitter causes oscillatory motion of the first end wall in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the end walls; such that the axial oscillations of the end wall drive substantially radial oscillations of the fluid pressure in the cavity; and the substantially radial oscillations in the pressure of the fluid drive oscillatory motion of the end wall associated with the receiver, generating an electrical signal, and wherein the first of the end walls is defined by a disc comprising a thinner central region and a thicker outer region, so as to reduce the transmission of parasitic oscillations through the structure of the sensor to the receiver.
A heat exchanger, comprising a casing designed as a hollow box by a top plate, a bottom plate, a front plate, a rear plate, and two lateral plates (15, 16), and a heat transfer unit accommodated in said casing, wherein said heat transfer unit has flat plates alternately folded back in reverse direction, and a first flow passage and a second flow passage are alternately formed in multiple layers between said flat plates, and among the front plate and the rear plate running in parallel to a folding line of said flat plate of said casing, a high temperature fluid inlet and a high temperature fluid outlet to be communicated with the second flow passage are provided on said front plate side, and a low temperature fluid inlet and a low temperature fluid outlet to be communicated with said first flow passage are provided on said rear plate side, a lateral plate sealing member covering the entire region of each end portion of said first flow passage and said second flow passage and air-tightly closing the end portions, the lateral plate sealing member and a holding plate with rigidity are interposed between each lateral plate (15, 16) confronted with the end portions of said heat transfer unit and said heat transfer unit, a biasing means which applies pressure on said lateral plate sealing member to the end portion of the heat transfer unit via said holding plate is provided between each holding plate and each lateral plate (15, 16), characterized in that said biasing means is a coil spring disposed at such distribution as required, a flange nut is inserted from a side of said holding plate of said coil spring, spring supporting bolts for inserting into the lateral plates (15, 16) are engaged and connected with said flange nuts, and by tightening said spring supporting bolts and by compressing said coil spring, pressing force of said coil spring on said holding plate is restricted, and by loosening said spring supporting bolts while a forward end of said spring supporting bolt is engaged with a portion of said flange nut the restriction of said coil spring is released so that pressing force is applied on said holding plate via said flange nut.
A multilayer coating system being present on an optionally pre-coated substrate and comprising at least three coatings layers L1, L2 and L3 being different from one another, namely a first pigmented coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of an optionally pre-coated substrate, a second coating layer L2 applied over the first pigmented coating layer L1, and a third coating layer L3 applied over the second coating layer L2, characterized in that the second coating layer L2 is formed from a coating composition comprising at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 being different from one another, wherein block B1 comprises at least one kind of side chains S1 attached to the backbone and block B2 comprises at least one kind of side chains S2 attached to the backbone, which are different from side chains S1, wherein each of side chains S1 comprises at least one polymeric moiety M1 being selected from the group consisting of polyester, polyether and poly(meth)acrylate moieties, and each of side chains S2 comprises at least one polymeric moiety M2 being different from polymeric moiety M1 and being selected from the group consisting of polyester, poly(meth)acrylate, polyether, polysiloxane and polystyrene moieties. a first pigmented coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of an optionally pre-coated substrate, a second coating layer L2 applied over the first pigmented coating layer L1, and a third coating layer L3 applied over the second coating layer L2, characterized in that the second coating layer L2 is formed from a coating composition comprising at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 being different from one another, wherein block B1 comprises at least one kind of side chains S1 attached to the backbone and block B2 comprises at least one kind of side chains S2 attached to the backbone, which are different from side chains S1, wherein each of side chains S1 comprises at least one polymeric moiety M1 being selected from the group consisting of polyester, polyether and poly(meth)acrylate moieties, and each of side chains S2 comprises at least one polymeric moiety M2 being different from polymeric moiety M1 and being selected from the group consisting of polyester, poly(meth)acrylate, polyether, polysiloxane and polystyrene moieties.
A vacuum pump for pumping gas from a process chamber, the pump comprising: a rotor (28, 30) supported for rotation in a pumping chamber (36, 38, 40) by a drive shaft (32, 34), the shaft extending through a shaft bore (52, 54, 56, 58) in a transverse wall (42, 44, 46, 48) of the pumping chamber extending transversely to the drive shaft, and a seal arrangement located in the shaft bore between the shaft and the transverse wall for resisting the passage of gas through the shaft bore, wherein on rotation of the rotor gas is pumped from a low pressure region at an inlet of the pumping chamber to a high pressure region at an outlet of the pumping chamber, and wherein the rotor and the transverse wall are spaced apart by an axial clearance providing a back leakage path (5, 7) along which back leakage of gas can flow from the high pressure region to the low pressure region contacting the seal arrangement along the back leakage path, and characterized in that the pump comprises an additional leakage path (8, 10, 12, 14) for back leakage formed spaced away from the seal arrangement along which gas can flow without contact with the seal arrangement and means to deliver a purge gas through the shaft bore and across the seal arrangement to provide sufficient purge gas pressure to cause the resistance to gas flow along the back leakage path to be greater than the resistance to gas flow along the additional leakage path so that the amount of gas which contacts the seal arrangement during use of the pump is reduced. a rotor (28, 30) supported for rotation in a pumping chamber (36, 38, 40) by a drive shaft (32, 34), the shaft extending through a shaft bore (52, 54, 56, 58) in a transverse wall (42, 44, 46, 48) of the pumping chamber extending transversely to the drive shaft, and a seal arrangement located in the shaft bore between the shaft and the transverse wall for resisting the passage of gas through the shaft bore, wherein on rotation of the rotor gas is pumped from a low pressure region at an inlet of the pumping chamber to a high pressure region at an outlet of the pumping chamber, and wherein the rotor and the transverse wall are spaced apart by an axial clearance providing a back leakage path (5, 7) along which back leakage of gas can flow from the high pressure region to the low pressure region contacting the seal arrangement along the back leakage path, and characterized in that the pump comprises an additional leakage path (8, 10, 12, 14) for back leakage formed spaced away from the seal arrangement along which gas can flow without contact with the seal arrangement and means to deliver a purge gas through the shaft bore and across the seal arrangement to provide sufficient purge gas pressure to cause the resistance to gas flow along the back leakage path to be greater than the resistance to gas flow along the additional leakage path so that the amount of gas which contacts the seal arrangement during use of the pump is reduced.
A light-emitting diode comprising a substrate, a first electrode layer and a thin colloidal layer located between the substrate and the first electrode layer, the LED further comprising smoothing means located within the colloidal layer and/or between the colloidal layer and the first electrode layer so that the outer surface of the colloidal layer or of the smoothing means facing the first electrode layer has a roughness R a ≤ 30 nm and R a ≥1 nm, preferably R a ≤ 10 nm and R a ≥3 nm and more preferably R a ≤ 5 nm and R a ≥3 nm, characterized in that the smoothing means are smoothing particles.
A composite component having a first planiform layer and a plurality of structural members which are applied side by side on the same surface of the planiform layer with a given spacing therebetween, said structural members consisting of a tape-shaped body made of plastic material or composite plastic material and arranged in a spiral-shaped manner, with upper and lower contact surfaces and surface portions disposed therebetween, and said structural members being arranged with the contact surfaces resting on the first layer, a space formed between two structural members permitting to accommodate at least one insert member, characterised in that at least one further planiform layer is arranged on the structural members opposite the first layer and the at least one layer and the at least one further layer (12, 18) are accommodated, and spaced apart from each other, by the insert members or the structural members or by both the insert members and the structural members, and - in that a lateral surface of the insert member facing the surface portion of the structural member is spaced a small distance from said surface portion of said structural member, such that when the first or second layer (12, 18) is exposed to a load exerted thereon, the surface portion of the structural member will abut against the lateral surface of the insert member only once a certain degree of pressurisation has been attained, or - in that the insert member has one lateral surface abutting against an adjacent surface portion of the structural member and has an opposite lateral surface spaced apart from the opposing structural member, or - in that both lateral surfaces of the insert member abut against the surface portions of the adjacent structural members, or - in that the width of the at least one insert member disposed between two structural members spaced apart from each other is formed such as to be greater than the smallest distance between the surface portions of said opposing structural members. - in that a lateral surface of the insert member facing the surface portion of the structural member is spaced a small distance from said surface portion of said structural member, such that when the first or second layer (12, 18) is exposed to a load exerted thereon, the surface portion of the structural member will abut against the lateral surface of the insert member only once a certain degree of pressurisation has been attained, or - in that the insert member has one lateral surface abutting against an adjacent surface portion of the structural member and has an opposite lateral surface spaced apart from the opposing structural member, or - in that both lateral surfaces of the insert member abut against the surface portions of the adjacent structural members, or - in that the width of the at least one insert member disposed between two structural members spaced apart from each other is formed such as to be greater than the smallest distance between the surface portions of said opposing structural members.
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to facilitate, at least in part, assignment, at least in part, of at least one bandwidth reservation, BWR, for at least one of at least one packet stream and at least one stream reservation class, the at least one bandwidth reservation being greater than an expected communication bandwidth of the at least one packet stream, the assignment of the at least one bandwidth reservation to be made prior to commencement of communication of the at least one packet stream, the at least one bandwidth reservation to be assigned to the at least one of the at least one packet stream and the at least one stream reservation class; characterised in that: the at least one bandwidth reservation includes a plurality of bandwidth reservations; the plurality of bandwidth reservations includes a subset of the bandwidth reservations that are to be reserved for, by, and/or on behalf of one or more processes; and the subset of the bandwidth reservations is to be unused by the one or more processes for packet communication. circuitry to facilitate, at least in part, assignment, at least in part, of at least one bandwidth reservation, BWR, for at least one of at least one packet stream and at least one stream reservation class, the at least one bandwidth reservation being greater than an expected communication bandwidth of the at least one packet stream, the assignment of the at least one bandwidth reservation to be made prior to commencement of communication of the at least one packet stream, the at least one bandwidth reservation to be assigned to the at least one of the at least one packet stream and the at least one stream reservation class; the at least one bandwidth reservation includes a plurality of bandwidth reservations; the plurality of bandwidth reservations includes a subset of the bandwidth reservations that are to be reserved for, by, and/or on behalf of one or more processes; and the subset of the bandwidth reservations is to be unused by the one or more processes for packet communication.