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An end effector assembly for an optical surgical instrument, the end effector assembly comprising: a jaw member having a tissue contacting surface and including a cavity defined therein, the jaw member having a proximal portion configured to secure a fiber optic cable thereto such that a distal end of the fiber optical cable extends into the cavity; and a plurality of optical elements positioned within the cavity, the plurality of optical elements arranged in a staircase-like manner that rises towards the tissue contacting surface as the plurality of optical elements extends distally within the cavity, the plurality of optical elements configured to direct a beam of light exiting the fiber optic cable towards the tissue contacting surface. a jaw member having a tissue contacting surface and including a cavity defined therein, the jaw member having a proximal portion configured to secure a fiber optic cable thereto such that a distal end of the fiber optical cable extends into the cavity; and a plurality of optical elements positioned within the cavity, the plurality of optical elements arranged in a staircase-like manner that rises towards the tissue contacting surface as the plurality of optical elements extends distally within the cavity, the plurality of optical elements configured to direct a beam of light exiting the fiber optic cable towards the tissue contacting surface.
Process for the separation of a feed gas containing at least 87 mol% of CO 2 and between 5 mol% and 11 mol% of methane in order to produce liquid CO 2 purified of methane by distillation in a column in which: i. a gas flow of the feed gas at a pressure between 6 barg and 25 barg is sent to heat the bottom liquid of the distillation column by indirect heat exchange in a boiler, the bottom liquid being vaporized in the boiler and sent into the bottom of the column and the gas flow being cooled while remaining gaseous, ii. the cooled gas flow is mixed with a top gas originating from the top of the column to form a gas mixture and the gas mixture is cooled to a temperature equal to or less than -35°C by means of a condenser separate from the distillation column and cooled by means of a closed refrigeration cycle (19, 23) in order to partially condense the gas mixture, forming a gas enriched in methane and depleted in CO 2, compared to the mixture sent to the condenser, and a liquid enriched in CO 2 and depleted in methane, compared to the mixture sent to the condenser, iii. the liquid enriched in CO 2 is sent into the top of the column to constitute a reflux liquid and iv. a liquid containing at least 99 mol%, preferably at least 99.5 mol%, indeed even at least 99.7 mol%, of CO 2 is withdrawn at the bottom of the column as final product, this liquid preferably containing less than 50 ppm of methane. i. a gas flow of the feed gas at a pressure between 6 barg and 25 barg is sent to heat the bottom liquid of the distillation column by indirect heat exchange in a boiler, the bottom liquid being vaporized in the boiler and sent into the bottom of the column and the gas flow being cooled while remaining gaseous, ii. the cooled gas flow is mixed with a top gas originating from the top of the column to form a gas mixture and the gas mixture is cooled to a temperature equal to or less than -35°C by means of a condenser separate from the distillation column and cooled by means of a closed refrigeration cycle (19, 23) in order to partially condense the gas mixture, forming a gas enriched in methane and depleted in CO 2, compared to the mixture sent to the condenser, and a liquid enriched in CO 2 and depleted in methane, compared to the mixture sent to the condenser, iii. the liquid enriched in CO 2 is sent into the top of the column to constitute a reflux liquid and iv. a liquid containing at least 99 mol%, preferably at least 99.5 mol%, indeed even at least 99.7 mol%, of CO 2 is withdrawn at the bottom of the column as final product, this liquid preferably containing less than 50 ppm of methane.
Programmable logic component which is configured by means of a bit stream, wherein a key formation circuit (11, 31) which deterministically generates an item of security information relating to a cryptographic key at the runtime is configured by means of the bit stream, wherein the security information can be made available to a cryptographic unit (12, 32) as an input parameter, and wherein the security information is generated using initialization data contained in the bit stream.
A conveyor carriage for pushing and/or pressing rail vehicles, comprising: a frame, a first carrier which is connected to the frame and adapted to be brought into an engagement position with a first rail vehicle, a second carrier which is spaced apart from the first carrier in a longitudinal direction of the conveyor carriage and which is connected to the frame and adapted to be brought into an engagement position with a second rail vehicle which is adapted be brought into contact with the first rail vehicle by means of the conveyor carriage, and a translation device (100, 100a, 100b), wherein the longitudinal direction of the conveyor carriage corresponds to a preferred working direction of the conveyor carriage and the translation device (100, 100a, 100b) causes a translatory change in a relative position between the first carrier and the second carrier substantially along the longitudinal direction. a frame, a first carrier which is connected to the frame and adapted to be brought into an engagement position with a first rail vehicle, a second carrier which is spaced apart from the first carrier in a longitudinal direction of the conveyor carriage and which is connected to the frame and adapted to be brought into an engagement position with a second rail vehicle which is adapted be brought into contact with the first rail vehicle by means of the conveyor carriage, and a translation device (100, 100a, 100b), wherein the longitudinal direction of the conveyor carriage corresponds to a preferred working direction of the conveyor carriage and the translation device (100, 100a, 100b) causes a translatory change in a relative position between the first carrier and the second carrier substantially along the longitudinal direction.
A lighting fixture, comprising: one or more solid-state lighting sources; a driver module having first memory that includes driver program code, and first control circuitry; characterized in that: the first control circuitry is configured to: execute the driver program code in the first memory, wherein the driver program code causes the driver module to directly regulate a current provided to the one or more solid-state lighting sources; and write updated driver program code in the first memory; and the lighting fixture further comprising: a communications module having a second memory and second control circuitry, wherein the second control circuitry is configured to: receive data packets with the updated driver program code over a communication link; assemble the updated driver program code in the second memory of the communications module from the data packets with the updated driver program code; and send the updated driver program code to the driver module, wherein the one or more solid-state lighting sources, the driver module and the communications module are co-located within the lighting fixture. one or more solid-state lighting sources; a driver module having first memory that includes driver program code, and first control circuitry; the first control circuitry is configured to: execute the driver program code in the first memory, wherein the driver program code causes the driver module to directly regulate a current provided to the one or more solid-state lighting sources; and write updated driver program code in the first memory; and execute the driver program code in the first memory, wherein the driver program code causes the driver module to directly regulate a current provided to the one or more solid-state lighting sources; and write updated driver program code in the first memory; and the lighting fixture further comprising: a communications module having a second memory and second control circuitry, wherein the second control circuitry is configured to: receive data packets with the updated driver program code over a communication link; assemble the updated driver program code in the second memory of the communications module from the data packets with the updated driver program code; and send the updated driver program code to the driver module, wherein the one or more solid-state lighting sources, the driver module and the communications module are co-located within the lighting fixture. receive data packets with the updated driver program code over a communication link; assemble the updated driver program code in the second memory of the communications module from the data packets with the updated driver program code; and send the updated driver program code to the driver module, wherein the one or more solid-state lighting sources, the driver module and the communications module are co-located within the lighting fixture.
An ambient temperature curable coating composition, comprising: (d) a curable coating resin comprising thiol-reactive groups, (e) a thiolated norbomene curing agent for the curable coating resin, the thiolated norbornene curing agent comprising on average at least 1.0 thiol group per molecule, and (f) an accelerator for accelerating the reaction between the thiol reactive- groups on the curable coating resin and the thiol group(s) on the thiolated norbornene curing agent. (d) a curable coating resin comprising thiol-reactive groups, (e) a thiolated norbomene curing agent for the curable coating resin, the thiolated norbornene curing agent comprising on average at least 1.0 thiol group per molecule, and (f) an accelerator for accelerating the reaction between the thiol reactive- groups on the curable coating resin and the thiol group(s) on the thiolated norbornene curing agent.
An occupant protection device comprising: a vehicle seat that includes a seat cushion forming a seating surface, and a seatback forming a backrest; and a side airbag device housed in the seat, wherein the seatback includes a side support portion that bulges out in a vehicle advancement direction, toward the front of a vehicle on a vehicle width direction side portion thereof, a side frame having a frame side wall that extends in the vehicle advancement direction when a horizontal section is seen from above is disposed in the interior of the side support portion, the side airbag device includes an airbag that is inflated and deployed in order to restrain an occupant, and an inflator provided on a vehicle width direction inner side of the frame side wall in order to supply inflation gas to the airbag, the airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the side support portion, and a sub-chamber that houses the inflator and deploys on the vehicle width direction inner side of the main chamber, an internal vent hole (V1, V2) through which the inflation gas flows from the sub-chamber into the main chamber is provided in a partition between the main chamber and the sub-chamber, and the main chamber deploys so that a vehicle rear-side edge thereof, when seen from a side of the vehicle, follows the shape of a vehicle front-side edge of the frame side wall, and the rear edge of the main chamber and the front edge of the frame side wall remain in close contact. wherein the seatback includes a side support portion that bulges out in a vehicle advancement direction, toward the front of a vehicle on a vehicle width direction side portion thereof, a side frame having a frame side wall that extends in the vehicle advancement direction when a horizontal section is seen from above is disposed in the interior of the side support portion, the side airbag device includes an airbag that is inflated and deployed in order to restrain an occupant, and an inflator provided on a vehicle width direction inner side of the frame side wall in order to supply inflation gas to the airbag, the airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the side support portion, and a sub-chamber that houses the inflator and deploys on the vehicle width direction inner side of the main chamber, an internal vent hole (V1, V2) through which the inflation gas flows from the sub-chamber into the main chamber is provided in a partition between the main chamber and the sub-chamber, and the main chamber deploys so that a vehicle rear-side edge thereof, when seen from a side of the vehicle, follows the shape of a vehicle front-side edge of the frame side wall, and the rear edge of the main chamber and the front edge of the frame side wall remain in close contact.
A method for measuring structural health on hot spots of an aircraft structure, the method comprising: exciting a series of adjacently located actuators in the aircraft structure to produce a vibration, the series of adjacently located actuators comprising at least one group; collecting the vibration produced by the at least one group of the series of adjacently located actuators by one or more sensors locally disposed in one or more testing areas of the aircraft structure; comparing the measured vibration to a reference signal for each group of the series of adjacently located actuators; generating a damage index "DI" for each group of the series of adjacently located actuators; and using Bayesian network based data fusion of environmental information fused with the damage indexes from each group of the series of adjacently located actuators to estimate a damage characteristic in the aircraft structure based on the vibration measured by the one or more sensors. exciting a series of adjacently located actuators in the aircraft structure to produce a vibration, the series of adjacently located actuators comprising at least one group; collecting the vibration produced by the at least one group of the series of adjacently located actuators by one or more sensors locally disposed in one or more testing areas of the aircraft structure; comparing the measured vibration to a reference signal for each group of the series of adjacently located actuators; generating a damage index "DI" for each group of the series of adjacently located actuators; and using Bayesian network based data fusion of environmental information fused with the damage indexes from each group of the series of adjacently located actuators to estimate a damage characteristic in the aircraft structure based on the vibration measured by the one or more sensors.
A MAC superframe format for short-range wireless networks, comprising: a beacon period including multiple beacon slots, wherein the multiple beacon slots include a simplified beacon slot associated with one or more simple devices within a beaconing group; and a data transfer period substantially following the beacon period including one or more reserved channel access, RCA, periods to be used by the one or more simple devices upon a reservation indicated in the simplified beacon slot associated with devices selected from the group consisting of the simple devices and complex devices; wherein simple devices are devices that do not implement all required capabilities in a MAC protocol used for high-speed data and multimedia applications, while complex devices are devices that implement all those required capabilities, and wherein said simplified beacon slot reserves, in subsequent MAC superframes, an RCA period to be used by the one or more simple devices, even if a simplified beacon slot associated with the RCA period is not included in any of the subsequent MAC superframes. a beacon period including multiple beacon slots, wherein the multiple beacon slots include a simplified beacon slot associated with one or more simple devices within a beaconing group; and a data transfer period substantially following the beacon period including one or more reserved channel access, RCA, periods to be used by the one or more simple devices upon a reservation indicated in the simplified beacon slot associated with devices selected from the group consisting of the simple devices and complex devices; wherein simple devices are devices that do not implement all required capabilities in a MAC protocol used for high-speed data and multimedia applications, while complex devices are devices that implement all those required capabilities, and wherein said simplified beacon slot reserves, in subsequent MAC superframes, an RCA period to be used by the one or more simple devices, even if a simplified beacon slot associated with the RCA period is not included in any of the subsequent MAC superframes.
Method for detecting an available parking space from a motor vehicle travelling on a road, said motor vehicle being equipped with an apparatus for capturing an image of a road scene and its immediate surroundings, said method being characterized in that it comprises a learning phase during which features, including at least the dimensions, in relation to known objects likely to be present in the scene are stored locally in a database in said vehicle, and said method comprising: - a step of acquiring, from said image-capturing apparatus, one or more images of the scene of the road and its immediate surroundings, - an image-processing step, performed by a processing unit on board said vehicle, in which: at least one known object whose features have been learned beforehand and stored locally in the database is detected (1.2) in the image of the acquired scene, the presence of at least one parking area comprising at least one available parking space is detected (1.3) in the image of the acquired scene and the respective lengths of the available parking spaces are estimated (1.4) from a correlation between the features extracted from the database in relation to the known objects detected in the image. - a step of acquiring, from said image-capturing apparatus, one or more images of the scene of the road and its immediate surroundings, - an image-processing step, performed by a processing unit on board said vehicle, in which: at least one known object whose features have been learned beforehand and stored locally in the database is detected (1.2) in the image of the acquired scene, the presence of at least one parking area comprising at least one available parking space is detected (1.3) in the image of the acquired scene and the respective lengths of the available parking spaces are estimated (1.4) from a correlation between the features extracted from the database in relation to the known objects detected in the image. at least one known object whose features have been learned beforehand and stored locally in the database is detected (1.2) in the image of the acquired scene, the presence of at least one parking area comprising at least one available parking space is detected (1.3) in the image of the acquired scene and the respective lengths of the available parking spaces are estimated (1.4) from a correlation between the features extracted from the database in relation to the known objects detected in the image.
A method of coding an information signal in a digital video block, the method comprising: receiving the information signal; processing at least a part of the received information into k quantized pulse vectors ( x), each quantized pulse vector x k contains integer values representative of a discrete portion of the at least a part of the received information, has a vector length n, and a number of non-zero integer values at positions within that quantized pulse vector x k; determining, within the at least a part of the received information, a probability of the i -th position of every vector x k being occupied by a non-zero value; characterized in that the method further comprises: generating, using the determined probabilities, a set of conditional probabilities over all the k quantized pulse vectors ( x) of a given position within the quantized pulse vector x k ( i) being a non-zero value, with i ranging from 1 to n, given that the number of remaining positions ( j) having non-zero values in the vector x k lie in the range from i to n, where j is a bit index; coding non-zero position location information for each quantized pulse vector x k using binary arithmetic coding using the generated set of conditional probabilities. receiving the information signal; processing at least a part of the received information into k quantized pulse vectors ( x), each quantized pulse vector x k contains integer values representative of a discrete portion of the at least a part of the received information, has a vector length n, and a number of non-zero integer values at positions within that quantized pulse vector x k; determining, within the at least a part of the received information, a probability of the i -th position of every vector x k being occupied by a non-zero value; characterized in that the method further comprises: generating, using the determined probabilities, a set of conditional probabilities over all the k quantized pulse vectors ( x) of a given position within the quantized pulse vector x k ( i) being a non-zero value, with i ranging from 1 to n, given that the number of remaining positions ( j) having non-zero values in the vector x k lie in the range from i to n, where j is a bit index; coding non-zero position location information for each quantized pulse vector x k using binary arithmetic coding using the generated set of conditional probabilities. generating, using the determined probabilities, a set of conditional probabilities over all the k quantized pulse vectors ( x) of a given position within the quantized pulse vector x k ( i) being a non-zero value, with i ranging from 1 to n, given that the number of remaining positions ( j) having non-zero values in the vector x k lie in the range from i to n, where j is a bit index; coding non-zero position location information for each quantized pulse vector x k using binary arithmetic coding using the generated set of conditional probabilities.
An LED socket comprising: a socket housing; and a contact attached to the socket housing, wherein the socket housing comprises an LED module accommodating space for accommodating an LED module therein, wherein the contact comprises a wire connecting portion to which an electrical wire is connected, and a contacting portion for making contact with an electrode formed on a board of the LED module accommodated in the LED module accommodating space, and wherein the socket housing has a latch for retaining the LED module accommodated in the LED module accommodating space, characterized in that the socket housing is to be mounted on a heat sink and has a positioning boss which has a function of positioning the socket housing onto the heat sink, as well as a function of guiding insertion of the LED module, when the LED module is inserted into the LED module accommodating space.
A nucleic acid construct comprising two sequences conferring resistance to spectinomycin or streptomycin, wherein the first sequence comprises an aadA gene operably linked to a promoter active in a plant cell, and the second sequence is operably linked to a promoter active in a prokaryotic cell.