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A piezoelectric energy harvester system comprising: a composite shim having a thickness dimension made smaller than a width dimension and a length dimension; wherein the composite shim is clamped at one extremity, and is loaded at an opposed extremity by a seismic mass to mechanically match the system to surrounding vibration resonance; one or more piezoelectric layers (46, 48) laminated on the composite shim; and electrodes plated onto the one or more piezoelectric layers (46, 48) for connection to an electronic harvesting circuit, a battery, or a super capacitor; wherein the system comprises pillars or walls embedded in the composite shim, each of the walls forming an angle with an axis in the width dimension and an axis in the length dimension, each of the pillars or walls oriented in the thickness dimension direction and each of the pillars or walls having a diameter or width, respectively, that varies in size based on its location in the composite shim, characterized in that the diameters of the pillars or the thicknesses of the walls shift progressively from a maximum to a minimum in the length dimension of the composite shim from the clamping area towards the seismic mass. a composite shim having a thickness dimension made smaller than a width dimension and a length dimension; wherein the composite shim is clamped at one extremity, and is loaded at an opposed extremity by a seismic mass to mechanically match the system to surrounding vibration resonance; one or more piezoelectric layers (46, 48) laminated on the composite shim; and electrodes plated onto the one or more piezoelectric layers (46, 48) for connection to an electronic harvesting circuit, a battery, or a super capacitor; wherein the system comprises pillars or walls embedded in the composite shim, each of the walls forming an angle with an axis in the width dimension and an axis in the length dimension, each of the pillars or walls oriented in the thickness dimension direction and each of the pillars or walls having a diameter or width, respectively, that varies in size based on its location in the composite shim, characterized in that the diameters of the pillars or the thicknesses of the walls shift progressively from a maximum to a minimum in the length dimension of the composite shim from the clamping area towards the seismic mass.
A process for isomerization of an endo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound to produce a corresponding exo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound, comprising: (a) providing a first solution containing an endo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound dissolved in a hydrocarbon solvent; (b) adding a cosolvent to the first solution to form a second solution; (c) adding an aluminum halide catalyst to the second solution, the cosolvent being effective to enhance dissolution of the aluminum halide in the second solution; and (d) isomerizing dissolved endo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound in the presence of dissolved aluminum halide catalyst to produce exo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compounds, wherein the cosolvent is a linear alkyl ester of a carboxylic acid. (a) providing a first solution containing an endo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound dissolved in a hydrocarbon solvent; (b) adding a cosolvent to the first solution to form a second solution; (c) adding an aluminum halide catalyst to the second solution, the cosolvent being effective to enhance dissolution of the aluminum halide in the second solution; and (d) isomerizing dissolved endo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compound in the presence of dissolved aluminum halide catalyst to produce exo-hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene compounds, wherein the cosolvent is a linear alkyl ester of a carboxylic acid.
Lighting and/or signaling device for a motor vehicle, having a housing, a light guide, a light guide support and a bezel, wherein the light guide support and the bezel each have a lug (15, 17) for snapping into the housing, and the housing has a snap-on sleeve for the light guide support and the bezel characterized in that the snap-on sleeve for the light guide support and the bezel has a side wall and two crosspieces, 6) protruding from the side wall for snapping the snap-on tabs (15, 17) behind the crossbars (5, 6), respectively one of the light guide support and the other of the bezel.
An airflow conversion device, comprising a first portion, a second portion and an impeller structure, wherein a first flow channel is formed in the first portion, a second flow channel is formed in the second portion, and the impeller structure is configured as: when driving airflow is provided to one of the first flow channel and the second flow channel, the driving airflow makes the impeller structure to rotate, and under an action of the impeller structure, the other one of the first flow channel and the second flow channel generates airflow in an opposite direction from the driving airflow, wherein the impeller structure comprises a first impeller, a second impeller and a connecting shaft, the first impeller and the second impeller rotating synchronously, a deflection direction of blades of the first impeller and a deflection direction of blades of the second impeller being in opposite directions, the first impeller being located in the first flow channel, and the second impeller being located in the second flow channel, the first impeller and the second impeller being provided on the connecting shaft, characterized in that the airflow conversion device further comprises two partition structures which partition the first flow channel and the second flow channel after being spliced, each of the partition structures comprises a partition plate that is configured as a semi-circular ring structure, the two partition plates are spliced to form a circular ring structure, and the connecting shaft passes through an inner circle of the circular ring structure. the impeller structure is configured as: when driving airflow is provided to one of the first flow channel and the second flow channel, the driving airflow makes the impeller structure to rotate, and under an action of the impeller structure, the other one of the first flow channel and the second flow channel generates airflow in an opposite direction from the driving airflow, wherein the impeller structure comprises a first impeller, a second impeller and a connecting shaft, the first impeller and the second impeller rotating synchronously, a deflection direction of blades of the first impeller and a deflection direction of blades of the second impeller being in opposite directions, the first impeller being located in the first flow channel, and the second impeller being located in the second flow channel, the first impeller and the second impeller being provided on the connecting shaft, characterized in that the airflow conversion device further comprises two partition structures which partition the first flow channel and the second flow channel after being spliced, each of the partition structures comprises a partition plate that is configured as a semi-circular ring structure, the two partition plates are spliced to form a circular ring structure, and the connecting shaft passes through an inner circle of the circular ring structure.
A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine, comprising: an airfoil that extends in span between a tip and a root opposite from said tip; wherein said root includes a plug, a looped portion that surrounds said plug and at least one clamp wherein said at least one clamp contacts only a portion of said looped portion, and only partially surrounds said looped portion, on an opposite side of said looped portion from said plug; characterised in that a distal end of said at least one clamp is curved in a direction away from said looped portion. an airfoil that extends in span between a tip and a root opposite from said tip; wherein said root includes a plug, a looped portion that surrounds said plug and at least one clamp wherein said at least one clamp contacts only a portion of said looped portion, and only partially surrounds said looped portion, on an opposite side of said looped portion from said plug; characterised in that a distal end of said at least one clamp is curved in a direction away from said looped portion.
A method for calibrating an endoscope camera comprising an endoscope with a light source and a camera, a container, and a colour chart plate with a colour chart having a circular central bright achromatic field, the method comprising the steps of inserting the endoscope into the container, aligning the camera's field of view with the circular central achromatic bright field of the colour chart and adjusting the size of a beam of the light source until pixels inside the circular central achromatic field are saturated while pixels outside the circular central achromatic field are not saturated, extract colour values from colour patches of the colour chart plate and calculate correction values, characterized by further comprising managing automatic gain control so that the signal from the colour patches outside the circular central achromatic bright field is not saturated.
Device for the comminution of foodstuffs, which device has a drive device for driving at least one rotary cutter in rotation and has a container, characterized in that the drive device is designed to drive two rotary cutters, and in that the container has two interconnected cylindrical chambers and/or two cylindrical chambers which merge into one another, into which cylindrical chambers in each case one of the two rotary cutters can be inserted.
A method to form a continuous web of a paper, a paperboard ply, an MFC film or a nonwoven fabric comprising fibers and/or fibrils, which method comprises the steps of: - providing a furnish comprising fibers and/or fibrils and a surface active agent, - applying said furnish onto a wire to form a web, - draining white water from said web, - adding microfibrillated cellulose and/or nanocrystalline cellulose to said white water, whereby said surface active agent is bonded to or physically interacting with said MFC or NCC forming a complex, - recycling said complex to the furnish and/or to the web, wherein said complex, comprising theMFC or the NCC and the surface active agent, is separated from at least part of the white water before being recycled to the furnish. - providing a furnish comprising fibers and/or fibrils and a surface active agent, - applying said furnish onto a wire to form a web, - draining white water from said web, - adding microfibrillated cellulose and/or nanocrystalline cellulose to said white water, whereby said surface active agent is bonded to or physically interacting with said MFC or NCC forming a complex, - recycling said complex to the furnish and/or to the web,
A stiffened torque bar, comprising: a torque bar body (320, 420) having a first end and a second end; characterised in that it further comprises a bolt strap (326, 424) having a front surface and a back surface and a first aperture (325, 425) and a second aperture (326, 426), whereby the bolt strap is perpendicular to the torque bar body, and wherein the bolt strap meets the torque bar body at the second end of the torque bar body between the first aperture and the second aperture; the torque bar further comprising a mounting hole located in the torque bar body by the first end. a torque bar body (320, 420) having a first end and a second end; characterised in that it further comprises a bolt strap (326, 424) having a front surface and a back surface and a first aperture (325, 425) and a second aperture (326, 426), whereby the bolt strap is perpendicular to the torque bar body, and wherein the bolt strap meets the torque bar body at the second end of the torque bar body between the first aperture and the second aperture; the torque bar further comprising a mounting hole located in the torque bar body by the first end.
An operating method of a mobile device for performing pairing with an electronic device, the operating method comprising: receiving a reception wireless signal from the electronic device; in response to determining that a strength of the reception wireless signal is equal to or greater than a proximity threshold for determining proximity to the electronic device, obtaining sensing information about a movement of the mobile device using at least one sensor of the mobile device; adapting a touch threshold indicating a wireless signal strength for determining a touch with the electronic device, based on the sensing information; and in response to determining that the strength of the reception wireless signal is equal to or greater than the adapted touch threshold, performing the pairing with the electronic device. receiving a reception wireless signal from the electronic device; in response to determining that a strength of the reception wireless signal is equal to or greater than a proximity threshold for determining proximity to the electronic device, obtaining sensing information about a movement of the mobile device using at least one sensor of the mobile device; adapting a touch threshold indicating a wireless signal strength for determining a touch with the electronic device, based on the sensing information; and in response to determining that the strength of the reception wireless signal is equal to or greater than the adapted touch threshold, performing the pairing with the electronic device.
Luminaire for receiving lamps which are held at both ends and which have, at a first end, a base which engages in a socket on the luminaire which is provided with socket contacts which make electrical contact with the contacts of the lamp base, wherein the socket holds the first end of the lamp mechanically via the base and with a mounting on the luminaire which receives a holding part on the lamp which is arranged at a second end of said lamp, wherein the mounting holds said second end of the lamp mechanically in the luminaire via the holding part, wherein the mounting merely serves to secure the lamp mechanically and is of contact-free construction as regards electrical contacts and wherein the mounting is capable of receiving a holding part which merely serves to secure the lamp mechanically, characterised in that the mounting for a lamp on a luminaire component with a substantially pot-shaped base body, on the bottom of which there are arranged two mutually opposed end walls (21/22) which hold, between them, two side walls (23/24) which are likewise opposed, wherein the end walls and side walls (21/22/23/24) enclose a receiving space which is accessible via an aperture which is divided into a push-in section and a holding section which is located behind in the direction of pushing-in, and that the socket with a clearance for receiving a mounting dome belonging to a base, wherein there is arranged in said clearance a spring element which acts, particularly via a pressure plate, upon a holding part and with a holding pin which is arranged in said clearance and is articulated in a spring-restoring elastic manner.
Switchable bucket tappet for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine, having an outer body which has a ring-like base designed for making contact with at least one high-lift cam, from the outer edge of which base there protrudes a hollow cylindrical skirt, wherein a hollow cylindrical projection leads away from an inner edge of the base, in the bore of which projection an inner part is guided by way of its outer shell, said inner part being axially movable relative to the outer body and the base of said inner part serving as a thrust portion for a low-lift cam and that side of said inner part which is averted from the base serving as an abutment for a gas exchange valve, wherein two coupling means in the form of pistons run in the bucket tappet, which coupling means, in order to couple the outer body to the inner part, can by way of hydraulic medium pressure be displaced in sections out of their receptacle (14, 15) in one of the components (2, 9) into or onto a driver surface (16, 17) of the respective other component (9, 2), wherein, in order to decouple the outer body from the inner part, the coupling means can, in the case of deactivated/reduced hydraulic medium pressure, be displaced back into their receptacle (14, 15) under the force of a compression spring, wherein the outer body is acted on in the cam direction by a lost motion spring, wherein a rotation prevention means protrudes from the outer shell of the skirt, characterized in that the base of the inner element has two diametrically opposite segments which are connected directly to the base-side edge region of the outer shell of said inner element and which serve to form an enlarged thrust surface, of rectangular form in plan view, for the low-lift cam, and wherein the segments run in recessed fashion in a complementary pocket in the base of the outer body, wherein, in a coupled state, the bases (3, 11) are at least approximately flush with one another, wherein the first piston of the coupling means is seated in a receptacle of the outer body and the second piston of the coupling means runs in a receptacle of the inner part so as to extend approximately over the entire diameter of said inner part, wherein an inner side of the first piston directly faces a first outer face of the second piston as a cam base circle is passed through, wherein the hydraulic medium can be conducted into a pressure chamber in front of an outer side of the first piston such that the first piston, displacing the second piston, engages in sections into the driver surface of the receptacle of the inner part and the second piston is displaced with its second outer face in a driver surface, situated diametrically opposite the receptacle of the outer body, in said outer body, and wherein the compression spring which effects the decoupling of the components (2, 9) surrounds an outer shell of the second piston and acts, by way of its end facing toward the first piston, on an annular collar of the second piston and, at the other end, on an annular shoulder in the receptacle of the inner part.
A titania fine-particle composite, comprising titania fine particles, of which the maximum diameter is 0.001 to 0.1 μm, combined with one or more compounds selected from polymers containing, as constituent monomers, a carboxylic acid, and/or a carboxylic acid derivative represented by the following general formula: where: R represents a C 1 to C 15 alkenyl group in which hydrogen atoms may be substituted with a carboxyl group or a hydroxy group; and X represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or a polyoxyalkylene group having an addition mole number of 1 to 12, wherein a half-value width of a peak of maximum diffraction intensity attributed to titania crystals is 2.0° or less in X-ray powder diffraction analysis, wherein a ratio of the titania fine particles in the titania fine-particle composite is in a range of 85 to 99wt%.
A polyanion for use in a method for treating sepsis by inhibiting the cytotoxic activity of extracellular histones in a subject, wherein the polyanion does not have substantial anticoagulant activity such that the polyanion increases prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), thrombin clotting time or activated clotting time by 0% to 10% of the normal range; and wherein the polyanion is a polyanionic oligosaccharide having the general structure: A- n -D wherein A and B are each independently a cyclic monosaccharide or a cyclic deoxy monosaccharide; D is a cyclic monosaccharide, a cyclic deoxy monosaccharide, a ring-opened monosaccharide, or a sugar alcohol; n is an integer selected from 0, 1 and 2; and wherein each of the cyclic monosaccharide, the cyclic deoxy monosaccharide, the ring-opened monosaccharide, or the sugar alcohol is independently optionally substituted with OSO 3 -, COO -, OPO 3 -, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted alkenyl, an optionally substituted alkynyl, an optionally substituted aryl, or an optionally substituted aralkyl; and wherein the polyanionic oligosaccharide includes at least two anionic substituents selected from the group consisting of OSO 3 -, COO - and OPO 3 -. wherein A and B are each independently a cyclic monosaccharide or a cyclic deoxy monosaccharide; D is a cyclic monosaccharide, a cyclic deoxy monosaccharide, a ring-opened monosaccharide, or a sugar alcohol; n is an integer selected from 0, 1 and 2; and wherein each of the cyclic monosaccharide, the cyclic deoxy monosaccharide, the ring-opened monosaccharide, or the sugar alcohol is independently optionally substituted with OSO 3 -, COO -, OPO 3 -, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted alkenyl, an optionally substituted alkynyl, an optionally substituted aryl, or an optionally substituted aralkyl; and wherein the polyanionic oligosaccharide includes at least two anionic substituents selected from the group consisting of OSO 3 -, COO - and OPO 3 -.
An oligonucleotide set characterized in that said oligonucleotides can bind to the pol region of HTLV and are suitable as primers, said set comprising at least two oligonucleotides selected from: i. oligonucleotides consisting of SEQ ID Nos: 1 and/or 2; and ii. oligonucleotides consisting of SEQ ID Nos: 4, 5 and/or 6. i. oligonucleotides consisting of SEQ ID Nos: 1 and/or 2; and ii. oligonucleotides consisting of SEQ ID Nos: 4, 5 and/or 6.
Mesenchymal stem cells for use in treating a disease selected from the group consisting of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in an animal.
A thermal block assembly for thermal cycling comprising: a sample block having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is adapted for receiving a sample support device; a heat sink comprising a base having a first surface, a second surface and a plurality fins pendant the second surface, wherein a space between each fin provides for a flow path for air passing from an inlet side of the plurality of fins to an outlet side the plurality of fins; and a plurality of thermal electric devices positioned between the sample block and heat sink, wherein the footprint of the plurality of thermal electric devices effectively matches the footprint of the second surface of the sample block and first surface of the heat sink to provide substantially uniform heat transfer throughout the thermal block assembly, characterised in that the height of the plurality of fins varies across the length of the plurality of fins, providing flow paths that are the longest near the base of the heat sink. a sample block having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is adapted for receiving a sample support device; a heat sink comprising a base having a first surface, a second surface and a plurality fins pendant the second surface, wherein a space between each fin provides for a flow path for air passing from an inlet side of the plurality of fins to an outlet side the plurality of fins; and a plurality of thermal electric devices positioned between the sample block and heat sink, wherein the footprint of the plurality of thermal electric devices effectively matches the footprint of the second surface of the sample block and first surface of the heat sink to provide substantially uniform heat transfer throughout the thermal block assembly, characterised in that the height of the plurality of fins varies across the length of the plurality of fins, providing flow paths that are the longest near the base of the heat sink.