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An air conditioning device for controlling humidity and temperature of supply air drawn from an outdoor space into an indoor space, the air conditioning device comprising: - a supply channel having a first blower for conducting supply air from an outdoor space into an indoor space, - an exhaust channel having a second blower for conducting exhaust air from the indoor space into the outdoor space, - a rotating energy exchanger arranged between the supply channel and the exhaust channel, - in the supply channel, a cooler downstream of the energy exchanger for lowering the temperature of the supplied supply air below the dew point, characterized in that the exhaust channel comprises, before the energy exchanger, an additional cooler for lowering the temperature of the exhaust air stream before the energy exchanger. - a supply channel having a first blower for conducting supply air from an outdoor space into an indoor space, - an exhaust channel having a second blower for conducting exhaust air from the indoor space into the outdoor space, - a rotating energy exchanger arranged between the supply channel and the exhaust channel, - in the supply channel, a cooler downstream of the energy exchanger for lowering the temperature of the supplied supply air below the dew point, characterized in that the exhaust channel comprises, before the energy exchanger, an additional cooler for lowering the temperature of the exhaust air stream before the energy exchanger.
A smokeless tobacco product comprising: a. a tobacco material comprising a translucent tobacco extract, wherein the translucent tobacco extract is characterized by a percent light transmittance of at least 30% at visible light wavelengths greater than 600 nm; b. a sugar substitute in an amount of at least 80% by weight of the smokeless tobacco product; and c. a sugar alcohol syrup, wherein the smokeless tobacco product is orally dissolvable and substantially translucent. a. a tobacco material comprising a translucent tobacco extract, wherein the translucent tobacco extract is characterized by a percent light transmittance of at least 30% at visible light wavelengths greater than 600 nm; b. a sugar substitute in an amount of at least 80% by weight of the smokeless tobacco product; and c. a sugar alcohol syrup,
Multicomponent adhesive composition, preferably a hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, comprising: - a composition A comprising: ∘ at least one silyl polymer comprising at least one hydrolyzable alkoxysilane group; ∘ at least one tackifying resin; - a composition B comprising: ∘ at least one catalyst; ∘ at least one compound C chosen from: ▪ a compound C1 with a number-average molecular mass ranging from 300 g/mol to 500 000 g/mol, said number-average molecular mass being measured by size exclusion chromatography using polystyrene standards; and ▪ a compound C2 with a vapor pressure at 20°C of greater than or equal to 0.08 kPa; ▪ and mixtures thereof; the composition A:composition B mass ratio ranging from 99.98:0.02 to 60:40, preferably from 99.95:0.05 to 60:40, and preferentially from 99.95:0.05 to 80:20, and even more preferentially from 99.95:0.05 to 90:10; the total content of catalyst ranging from 0.01% to 10% by weight and preferably from 0.01% to 5% by weight relative to the total weight of said adhesive composition. - a composition A comprising: ∘ at least one silyl polymer comprising at least one hydrolyzable alkoxysilane group; ∘ at least one tackifying resin; ∘ at least one silyl polymer comprising at least one hydrolyzable alkoxysilane group; ∘ at least one tackifying resin; - a composition B comprising: ∘ at least one catalyst; ∘ at least one compound C chosen from: ▪ a compound C1 with a number-average molecular mass ranging from 300 g/mol to 500 000 g/mol, said number-average molecular mass being measured by size exclusion chromatography using polystyrene standards; and ▪ a compound C2 with a vapor pressure at 20°C of greater than or equal to 0.08 kPa; ▪ and mixtures thereof; ∘ at least one catalyst; ∘ at least one compound C chosen from: ▪ a compound C1 with a number-average molecular mass ranging from 300 g/mol to 500 000 g/mol, said number-average molecular mass being measured by size exclusion chromatography using polystyrene standards; and ▪ a compound C2 with a vapor pressure at 20°C of greater than or equal to 0.08 kPa; ▪ and mixtures thereof; ▪ a compound C1 with a number-average molecular mass ranging from 300 g/mol to 500 000 g/mol, said number-average molecular mass being measured by size exclusion chromatography using polystyrene standards; and ▪ a compound C2 with a vapor pressure at 20°C of greater than or equal to 0.08 kPa; ▪ and mixtures thereof; the composition A:composition B mass ratio ranging from 99.98:0.02 to 60:40, preferably from 99.95:0.05 to 60:40, and preferentially from 99.95:0.05 to 80:20, and even more preferentially from 99.95:0.05 to 90:10; the total content of catalyst ranging from 0.01% to 10% by weight and preferably from 0.01% to 5% by weight relative to the total weight of said adhesive composition.
A programmable cylinder lock of the type comprising a stator and a cylindrical rotor, mounted inside the stator for rotation around its own axis and having a keyhole extending in the axis direction for insertion of a key, and comprising inside rotor a number of key followers movable along their own longitudinal and transversal directions, intended to cooperate with the codification conformations of a key inserted into the keyhole of rotor, and a number of locking pins movable along their own longitudinal direction, which form the lock blocking members, said key followers and locking pins forming together a number of pairs each including a locking pin and a key follower and having toothings (7,5) intended to mutually cooperate, in different relative positions, in order to define the lock codification, the rotor including a transversally displaceable stop bar cooperating with a longitudinal groove of stator and having projections susceptible of cooperating with notches of the locking pins in order to immobilize the locking pins when rotor is made to rotate within stator and the stop bar comes out of said groove and engages the locking pins, and comprising a change bar which is transversally displaceable and is slidingly coupled with the key followers in order to normally keeping the key followers engaged with the locking pins and to disengage the key followers from the locking pins when said change bar comes into said groove of stator and provides a lock programming position, characterized in that one of the members (4,6), which compose at least some of the pairs each including a locking pin and a key follower, are provided with two parallel and adjacent toothings (7a,7b), each toothing (7a,7b) having its pitch phase displaced with respect to the pitch phase of the other toothing (7b,7a), and in that at least one of said members (4,6), which compose the pair including a locking pin and a key follower, has a limited mobility along the direction of the axis of rotor whereby said member (4 or 6) is allowed to displace in such a way that the mutual engagement between the members (4,6) may take place into the one or the other of said two toothings (7a.7b) of one of the members (4,6) forming the pair.
A system for detecting a fire or overheating event, the system comprising: an elongated pneumatic tube filled with an inert gas under pressure; a diaphragm hermetically sealing the pneumatic tube on one end; a fiber Bragg grating, FBG, connected to the diaphragm in such a way that a deformation of the diaphragm will change the amount of strain on the FBG, wherein in response to temperature rises, the inert gas expands and pressure within the elongated pneumatic tube increases thereby deforming the diaphragm outward to create a measurable pressure on the FBG and in response to damage of the pneumatic tube, the pressure of inert gas decreases due to leakage of the gas out of pneumatic tube thereby collapsing the diaphragm creating a detectable change of pressure on the FBG; a light source configured to transmit light through the FBG; a photodetector configured to receive a reflected optical signal reflected from the fiber Bragg grating; and a processing unit configured to determine wavelengths of the reflected optical signal, and, based on the wavelengths determined, whether a fire/overheat event has occurred, the system is operating under standard conditions, or if damage has occurred to the system. an elongated pneumatic tube filled with an inert gas under pressure; a diaphragm hermetically sealing the pneumatic tube on one end; a fiber Bragg grating, FBG, connected to the diaphragm in such a way that a deformation of the diaphragm will change the amount of strain on the FBG, wherein in response to temperature rises, the inert gas expands and pressure within the elongated pneumatic tube increases thereby deforming the diaphragm outward to create a measurable pressure on the FBG and in response to damage of the pneumatic tube, the pressure of inert gas decreases due to leakage of the gas out of pneumatic tube thereby collapsing the diaphragm creating a detectable change of pressure on the FBG; a light source configured to transmit light through the FBG; a photodetector configured to receive a reflected optical signal reflected from the fiber Bragg grating; and a processing unit configured to determine wavelengths of the reflected optical signal, and, based on the wavelengths determined, whether a fire/overheat event has occurred, the system is operating under standard conditions, or if damage has occurred to the system.
A method for manufacturing citrus fibers in dry form, comprising the steps of: a. Providing an aqueous slurry of a source of citrus fibers, said slurry having a pH of between 2 and 9; b. Homogenizing the aqueous slurry of a source of citrus fibers to obtain an aqueous slurry of citrus fibers; c. Contacting the aqueous slurry of citrus fibers with an organic solvent to obtain a precipitate phase and a liquid phase; wherein the precipitate is in the form of granules, wherein the precipitate granules are formed by bringing the slurry under agitation into a container containing the organic solvent or by pouring said slurry in the organic solvent; d. Separating said precipitate phase from the liquid phase to obtain a semi-dry citrus fiber cake having a dry substance-content of at least 10 wt% relative to the mass of said cake; e. Comminuting said cake to obtain grains containing citrus fibers; and optionally mixing said grains with an additive to obtain semi-dry citrus fibers optionally comprising the additive; and f. Desolventizing and/or dehydrating said semi-dry citrus fibers to obtain dry citrus fibers optionally comprising an additive and having a moisture content of preferably below 20 wt% relative to the total weight of the fibers. a. Providing an aqueous slurry of a source of citrus fibers, said slurry having a pH of between 2 and 9; b. Homogenizing the aqueous slurry of a source of citrus fibers to obtain an aqueous slurry of citrus fibers; c. Contacting the aqueous slurry of citrus fibers with an organic solvent to obtain a precipitate phase and a liquid phase; wherein the precipitate is in the form of granules, wherein the precipitate granules are formed by bringing the slurry under agitation into a container containing the organic solvent or by pouring said slurry in the organic solvent; d. Separating said precipitate phase from the liquid phase to obtain a semi-dry citrus fiber cake having a dry substance-content of at least 10 wt% relative to the mass of said cake; e. Comminuting said cake to obtain grains containing citrus fibers; and optionally mixing said grains with an additive to obtain semi-dry citrus fibers optionally comprising the additive; and f. Desolventizing and/or dehydrating said semi-dry citrus fibers to obtain dry citrus fibers optionally comprising an additive and having a moisture content of preferably below 20 wt% relative to the total weight of the fibers.
A modified polyamine produced by a reaction of: (i) a polyamine containing 2 to 1800 primary and/or secondary amino groups per molecule; (ii) a polyester; and (iii) a phosphorus-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula, a tautomer thereof, a metal salt thereof, and an amine salt thereof: wherein: R 1 and R 2 each independently represent hydrogen, a hydroxy group, a cyano group, or -O-R 3, and R 3 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 24 carbon atom; the polyamine and the phosphorus-containing compound form a salt through a free amino group of the polyamine and a hydroxyl group of the phosphorus-containing compound; and the amount of the phosphorus-containing compound is from 0.004 to 0.7 moles per mole of primary and/or secondary amino groups of the polyamine. (i) a polyamine containing 2 to 1800 primary and/or secondary amino groups per molecule; (ii) a polyester; and (iii) a phosphorus-containing compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula, a tautomer thereof, a metal salt thereof, and an amine salt thereof: wherein: R 1 and R 2 each independently represent hydrogen, a hydroxy group, a cyano group, or -O-R 3, and R 3 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 24 carbon atom; the polyamine and the phosphorus-containing compound form a salt through a free amino group of the polyamine and a hydroxyl group of the phosphorus-containing compound; and the amount of the phosphorus-containing compound is from 0.004 to 0.7 moles per mole of primary and/or secondary amino groups of the polyamine.
An assembly for handling a fluid, comprising a valve having at least one revolving valve element (16, 16') and a coupling device (17, 32, 45), wherein said coupling device (17, 32, 45) comprises at least one port (33, 46, 47,48) coupled to a flow path (35, 36, 49, 50) and is adapted for interacting with said at least one revolving valve element in order to control a fluid flow through said at least one port using a relative valve position between the revolving valve element and the coupling device, and the movement between the revolving valve element and the coupling device is a revolving movement, and a controller adapted for controlling the relative valve position based on at least one of a current and a previous measurement of an amount of the fluid flow dependent on the relative valve position; wherein the coupling device is a microfluidic chip.
A method for transmitting data, performed by a terminal device, the method comprising: generating a first Media Access Control, MAC, Protocol Data Unit, PDU corresponding to a first resource and a second MAC PDU corresponding to a second resource at a MAC layer; sending the second MAC PDU to a physical layer from the MAC layer when the first resource and the second resource partially overlap or completely overlap in time domain and/or frequency domain, wherein the first MAC PDU corresponding to the first resource is not sent to the physical layer from the MAC layer; sending a third MAC PDU, to the physical layer from the MAC layer, the third MAC PDU corresponding to a third resource, when a size of the third resource matches a size of the first MAC PDU, the first MAC PDU has not been transmitted in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest, HARQ, process, a priority of the second resource is higher than a priority of the first resource, the first resource and the third resource are 3GPP configured grant resources, and a HARQ process number corresponding to the first resource and a HARQ process number corresponding to the third resource are the same; wherein the third MAC PDU is the first MAC PDU. generating a first Media Access Control, MAC, Protocol Data Unit, PDU corresponding to a first resource and a second MAC PDU corresponding to a second resource at a MAC layer; sending the second MAC PDU to a physical layer from the MAC layer when the first resource and the second resource partially overlap or completely overlap in time domain and/or frequency domain, wherein the first MAC PDU corresponding to the first resource is not sent to the physical layer from the MAC layer; sending a third MAC PDU, to the physical layer from the MAC layer, the third MAC PDU corresponding to a third resource, when a size of the third resource matches a size of the first MAC PDU, the first MAC PDU has not been transmitted in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest, HARQ, process, a priority of the second resource is higher than a priority of the first resource, the first resource and the third resource are 3GPP configured grant resources, and a HARQ process number corresponding to the first resource and a HARQ process number corresponding to the third resource are the same; wherein the third MAC PDU is the first MAC PDU.
A method of detecting a single-base deletion at nucleotide position 117 in the tcdC gene of Ribotype 027 strains of C. difficile (tcdC Δ117) in a sample, the method comprising: - performing an amplifying step comprising contacting the sample with a set of tcdC primers to produce an amplification product if a tcdC nucleic acid is present in the sample; - performing a hybridizing step comprising contacting the amplification product with a detectable tcdC Δ117 probe; and - detecting the presence or absence of a signal from said detectable tcdC Δ117 probe, wherein the presence of the signal is indicative of the presence of tcdC Δ117 in the sample and wherein the absence of the signal is indicative of the absence of tcdC Δ117 in the sample; wherein said detectable tcdC Δ117 probe is a Cobra probe that comprises a reporter domain having a contiguous sequence that is fully complementary to the single-base deletion at nucleotide position 117 and wherein said reporter domain is separated from an anchor domain by a non-nucleoside linker comprising one or more hexaethylene glycol; and wherein said Cobra probe comprises a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2, or a complement thereof. - performing an amplifying step comprising contacting the sample with a set of tcdC primers to produce an amplification product if a tcdC nucleic acid is present in the sample; - performing a hybridizing step comprising contacting the amplification product with a detectable tcdC Δ117 probe; and - detecting the presence or absence of a signal from said detectable tcdC Δ117 probe, wherein the presence of the signal is indicative of the presence of tcdC Δ117 in the sample and wherein the absence of the signal is indicative of the absence of tcdC Δ117 in the sample;
A method for clock compensation with respect to i) a first communication device utilizing a first clock having a first clock frequency, and ii) a second communication device utilizing a second clock having a second clock frequency, the method comprising: determining, at the first communication device, a first timestamp corresponding to when a first transmission is transmitted by the second communication device; determining, at the first communication device, a second timestamp corresponding to when a second transmission is received at the second communication device; and determining, at the first communication device, whether a compensation indicator has been received from the second communication device; and compensating, at the first communication device, for a difference between the first clock frequency and the second clock frequency to provide a compensated first timestamp and a compensated second timestamp when it is determined that the compensation indicator has not been received from the second communication device, wherein a presence of the compensation indicator indicates that the first timestamp and second timestamps are received in terms of the first clock frequency and do not need to be compensated. determining, at the first communication device, a first timestamp corresponding to when a first transmission is transmitted by the second communication device; determining, at the first communication device, a second timestamp corresponding to when a second transmission is received at the second communication device; and determining, at the first communication device, whether a compensation indicator has been received from the second communication device; and compensating, at the first communication device, for a difference between the first clock frequency and the second clock frequency to provide a compensated first timestamp and a compensated second timestamp when it is determined that the compensation indicator has not been received from the second communication device, wherein a presence of the compensation indicator indicates that the first timestamp and second timestamps are received in terms of the first clock frequency and do not need to be compensated.
A preform, in which layers formed of a reinforcing-fiber base material comprising a binder composition and reinforcing fibers are laminated, while the binder composition is made to exist between the respective layers formed of the reinforcing-fiber base material, wherein the binder composition comprises the following components and: an amorphous polyamide with a glass transition temperature of 140°C or higher, having a dicyclohexylmethane skeleton in the molecule; and a sulfonamide compound. an amorphous polyamide with a glass transition temperature of 140°C or higher, having a dicyclohexylmethane skeleton in the molecule; and a sulfonamide compound.
A tip element preferably for a dental treatment device, in particular a scaler, wherein the tip element performs an ultrasonic vibration during its utilization, comprising - a first end section for reversibly attaching the tip element to a hand piece, - a second end section, forming a dental tool, and - a motion transformation section arranged between the first end section and the second end section, wherein, for transforming an ultrasonic vibration having a first vibration direction to an ultrasonic vibration having a second vibration direction, the motion transformation section has a first bended subsection and a second bended subsection, wherein the tip element has a pointed tip and wherein a course of the tip element is bended - about a first angle (α1) in the first bended subsection and - about a second angle (α2) in the second bended subsection wherein in the second end section the course of the tip element is bended in a tilted direction about a third angle (α3) relative to a main plane including the first bended subsection and the second bended subsection, wherein the third angle (α3) is between -75° and +75°, preferable between -35° and 35°, characterized in that the tip element comprises a titanium amount of less than 80 weight - %. - a first end section for reversibly attaching the tip element to a hand piece, - a second end section, forming a dental tool, and - a motion transformation section arranged between the first end section and the second end section, wherein, for transforming an ultrasonic vibration having a first vibration direction to an ultrasonic vibration having a second vibration direction, the motion transformation section has a first bended subsection and a second bended subsection, wherein the tip element has a pointed tip and wherein a course of the tip element is bended - about a first angle (α1) in the first bended subsection and - about a second angle (α2) in the second bended subsection wherein in the second end section the course of the tip element is bended in a tilted direction about a third angle (α3) relative to a main plane including the first bended subsection and the second bended subsection, wherein the third angle (α3) is between -75° and +75°, preferable between -35° and 35°, characterized in that the tip element comprises a titanium amount of less than 80 weight - %.