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A method for transporting a time-sensitive message from an end device in an industrial plant over an Ethernet network with extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication, comprising the steps of: • obtaining, by an enabler component of the end device, the time-sensitive message from a control application of the end device; • selecting, by the enabler component, based at least in part on the content of the time-sensitive message, and/or on a path through which the time-sensitive message is delivered to the enabler component, at least one extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication that is to be used when transporting the time-sensitive message over the Ethernet network; • converting, by the enabler component, the time-sensitive message into one or more Ethernet frames; • encoding, by the enabler component, in at least one of said one or more Ethernet frames, a request (3**) to transport the time-sensitive message according to at least one extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication; • transmitting, by the enabler component, the one or more Ethernet frames onto the Ethernet network; • decoding, by at least one network device of the Ethernet network, the request (3**); and • forwarding, by the at least one network device, the time-sensitive message on the Ethernet network according to the requested extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication. • obtaining, by an enabler component of the end device, the time-sensitive message from a control application of the end device; • selecting, by the enabler component, based at least in part on the content of the time-sensitive message, and/or on a path through which the time-sensitive message is delivered to the enabler component, at least one extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication that is to be used when transporting the time-sensitive message over the Ethernet network; • converting, by the enabler component, the time-sensitive message into one or more Ethernet frames; • encoding, by the enabler component, in at least one of said one or more Ethernet frames, a request (3**) to transport the time-sensitive message according to at least one extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication; • transmitting, by the enabler component, the one or more Ethernet frames onto the Ethernet network; • decoding, by at least one network device of the Ethernet network, the request (3**); and • forwarding, by the at least one network device, the time-sensitive message on the Ethernet network according to the requested extended functionality (3*) for time-sensitive communication.
Circuit arrangement for a switchable line termination of a serial bus, comprising an electronic switching apparatus (T4, T5) which comprises a first and a second electronic switching device (T4, T5) and is connected between signal lines of the serial bus and is arranged, under the control of a control device of an electronic control unit, to connect a predetermined line termination (R5, R6) to the serial bus or to disconnect the line termination from the serial bus, and a blocking device having a blocking element; characterized by a third electronic switching device which is arranged to control the first electronic switching device and the second electronic switching device by supplying or withholding a control voltage (Vcc), wherein the blocking element keeps the first electronic switching device and the second electronic switching device in a blocked state if the third electronic switching device withholds the control voltage (Vcc) from the first electronic switching device and the second electronic switching device, and wherein the line termination (R5, R6) comprises a first and a second line termination element (R5, R6); the blocking element is a non-reactive resistor which is connected to a common node of the first line termination element and of the second line termination element, and the third electronic switching device is an electronic switch, in particular a bipolar transistor or a MOSFET, which switches on the basis of a control signal supplied by the external control device.
A bill recognizing and counting apparatus comprising: a transport mechanism that transports a received bill one by one along a transport path; a recognizing unit that recognizes the type of the bill; and a control unit that controls the transport mechanism and the recognizing unit according to a bill processing mode, wherein the bill processing mode includes a denomination recognition mode for recognizing the denomination of the bill and an other mode in which a denomination recognition process is not performed, characterized in that the control unit performs different controls between the denomination recognition mode and the other mode when detecting an abnormal state of the bill being transported. a transport mechanism that transports a received bill one by one along a transport path; a recognizing unit that recognizes the type of the bill; and a control unit that controls the transport mechanism and the recognizing unit according to a bill processing mode, wherein the bill processing mode includes a denomination recognition mode for recognizing the denomination of the bill and an other mode in which a denomination recognition process is not performed, characterized in that the control unit performs different controls between the denomination recognition mode and the other mode when detecting an abnormal state of the bill being transported.
An object moving device, comprising: a guide rail including a base portion which extends in a predetermined direction, and an erected portion which is erected on the base portion along an extending direction of the base portion; and a carrier plate including a main body portion which holds a holding object, and a slit which houses the erected portion, wherein the carrier plate is attached to the guide rail so as to move on the guide rail along the extending direction, the erected portion includes a first surface and a second surface which extend in the extending direction, the slit is formed by a first edge portion which is disposed on a side of the first surface of the erected portion and a second edge portion which is disposed on a side of the second surface of the erected portion, a cutout portion which includes an opening facing the erected portion is provided in at least one of the first edge portion and the second edge portion, the cutout portion includes a space portion which allows grease to be stored therein, and the grease stored in the cutout portion is applied to the erected portion which slides in the slit when the carrier plate moves on the guide rail. a guide rail including a base portion which extends in a predetermined direction, and an erected portion which is erected on the base portion along an extending direction of the base portion; and a carrier plate including a main body portion which holds a holding object, and a slit which houses the erected portion, wherein the carrier plate is attached to the guide rail so as to move on the guide rail along the extending direction, the erected portion includes a first surface and a second surface which extend in the extending direction, the slit is formed by a first edge portion which is disposed on a side of the first surface of the erected portion and a second edge portion which is disposed on a side of the second surface of the erected portion, a cutout portion which includes an opening facing the erected portion is provided in at least one of the first edge portion and the second edge portion, the cutout portion includes a space portion which allows grease to be stored therein, and the grease stored in the cutout portion is applied to the erected portion which slides in the slit when the carrier plate moves on the guide rail.
Method for operating a motor vehicle in the event of an unavoidable collision with a collision object, in particular another vehicle, wherein environment data relating to the collision object are determined by means of an environment sensor device comprising at least one environment sensor and are evaluated to determine at least one item of driving intervention information for reducing the consequences of a collision, wherein the motor vehicle is automatically guided in accordance with the driving intervention information, wherein the evaluation of the environment data is carried out together with an item of structural information of the vehicle itself describing the vehicle body, in particular comprising collision energy absorbing elements, of the motor vehicle in such a way that in the determination of the item of driving intervention information a modified collision point that maximises the deformation energy absorbed by the vehicle construction and is to be produced by the item of driving intervention information is determined, characterised in that the determination of the deformation energy is carried out from a deformation path in an energy grid method and in that, in addition to a maximisation of the deformation energy, a minimisation of the penetration depth and/or a maximum permissible penetration depth is also sought in the determination of the modified collision point.
An apparatus for investigating a subsurface volume of interest from a borehole, comprising: - an enclosure configured for conveyance along the borehole; - an acoustic source in the enclosure configured to generate acoustic signals; - a lens assembly disposed in the enclosure and next to the acoustic source, the lens assembly being formed of a plurality of lens elements; - characterized in that each lens element comprises a plurality of cells arranged in a curvilinear cell array, each cell formed as a column oriented transverse to a direction of travel of the acoustical signals, each cell having a hub and a plurality of spokes radiating from the hub, wherein each spoke includes a plurality of fingers circumferentially distributed around the hub, wherein the hub, spokes, and fingers are oriented to cause the acoustic waves to travel at a different speed in each of three orthogonal directions. - an enclosure configured for conveyance along the borehole; - an acoustic source in the enclosure configured to generate acoustic signals; - a lens assembly disposed in the enclosure and next to the acoustic source, the lens assembly being formed of a plurality of lens elements; - characterized in that each lens element comprises a plurality of cells arranged in a curvilinear cell array, each cell formed as a column oriented transverse to a direction of travel of the acoustical signals, each cell having a hub and a plurality of spokes radiating from the hub, wherein each spoke includes a plurality of fingers circumferentially distributed around the hub, wherein the hub, spokes, and fingers are oriented to cause the acoustic waves to travel at a different speed in each of three orthogonal directions.
A remote control device for controlling a toilet device, the remote control device comprising: a plurality of operation buttons being movable between an ordinary position and a lowermost position and configured to move from the ordinary position to the lowermost position in response to a push operation; a power generator configured to generate a power in response to the push operation of one of the operation buttons; a controller driven by the power from the power generator, the controller being configured to determine the pushed operation button based on a detection result of each of the detectors, the controller remotely controlling, in use, the toilet device by transmitting a wireless signal toward the toilet device, the wireless signal corresponding to the determined operation button; and an output unit configured to produce an output when the power generator has generated the power, characterized in that the remote control device further comprises: a plurality of detectors associated respectively with the plurality of operation buttons and configured to detect the respective push operation of the operation buttons; wherein the power generator comprises a power supply section including an electric storage element for storing power generated by the power generator. a plurality of operation buttons being movable between an ordinary position and a lowermost position and configured to move from the ordinary position to the lowermost position in response to a push operation; a power generator configured to generate a power in response to the push operation of one of the operation buttons; a controller driven by the power from the power generator, the controller being configured to determine the pushed operation button based on a detection result of each of the detectors, the controller remotely controlling, in use, the toilet device by transmitting a wireless signal toward the toilet device, the wireless signal corresponding to the determined operation button; and an output unit configured to produce an output when the power generator has generated the power, characterized in that the remote control device further comprises: a plurality of detectors associated respectively with the plurality of operation buttons and configured to detect the respective push operation of the operation buttons; wherein the power generator comprises a power supply section including an electric storage element for storing power generated by the power generator. a plurality of detectors associated respectively with the plurality of operation buttons and configured to detect the respective push operation of the operation buttons; wherein the power generator comprises a power supply section including an electric storage element for storing power generated by the power generator.
A motor vehicle headlight, having at least one semiconductor light source and a primary optical element that is arranged for gathering light, originating at the semiconductor light source, and aiming it at a secondary optical element, and the primary optical element receives the light of the semiconductor light source via at least one light entry surface and decouples it via a light exit surface, and the primary optical element has a fastening flange, with which it is retained in a mounting in at least two fixed bearings, which are located in a first plane that is parallel to and spaced apart by a distance (a) from a second plane, in which second plane the at least one light entry surface is located, characterized in that a first portion of the fastening flange, which is located between a part of the fastening flange of the fixed bearing and the light exit surface, is curved in domelike fashion, and the light exit surface is located on the convex side of the curvature.
Method for harvesting wind-energy and converting the same into other forms of energy, namely electrical, mechanical, thermal or different combinations thereof, in which an air flow captured from the wind with a wind booster is, in a hydroflow device with a working chamber, a central converging nozzle, a mixing chamber, and a diffuser, mixed with a pressurized water flow with phase conversion in a water-airmixture into a supersonic water-air-flow with compression shocks accompanied by sudden increases of pressure and temperature, in which the wind booster comprises consecutively in the direction of the flow a wind catcher, a housing forming a confuserlike converging wind channel, and an outlet neck with a check valve attached, as seen in the transverse section, radially or tangentially to the hydroflow device, and with subsequent transition of the supersonic water-air-flow into a pressurized subsonic water-air-flow as energy carrier, and in which the captured air flow is accelerated in the confuserlike converging wind channel and mixed with the pressurized water flow produced by a pump installation and also accelerated thereby intensifying the obtention of the supersonic water-air-flow which thereafter is converted into the subsonic pressurized water-air-flow as energy carrier, which is subjected to further energy transformations in which a large part of its hydraulic excess energy is converted into electrical and/or mechanical energy, whereupon this pressurized subsonic water-air-flow is, as energy carrier with residual hydraulic and thermal energy, subjected to a separation in which the pressurized air is separated from the water and its remaining pneumatic energy is transformed additionally into electrical and/or mechanical energy and the remaining thermal energy of the water and the air is used for the provision of hot water or heating with water and/or air.
A fluid control device comprising: a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path connecting the inlet and the outlet; a control element movable along a longitudinal axis between the inlet and the outlet between a closed position, in which the control element engages a valve seat, and an open position, in which the control element is spaced away from the valve seat; a stem operatively coupled to the control element and axially aligned with the longitudinal axis; an indicator assembly at least partially disposed in a bore of the valve body along an indicator axis that is non-parallel with the longitudinal axis, wherein movement of the stem along the longitudinal axis causes movement of a rod of the indicator assembly along or about the indicator axis to indicate a position of the control element, characterized in that the movement of the rod indicates a position of the control element when the control element is in the closed position, the open position, and a position between the open and closed positions, wherein the indicator assembly includes the rod, an indicator that is coupled to the rod, a spring, and a plug coupled to the valve body, wherein the indicator is slidably coupled to the plug and is extendable outside of the valve body, wherein the spring is disposed between the plug and a spring seat carried by the rod such that the spring biases the rod toward the stem, wherein the spring seat moves axially along the indicator axis and compresses the spring against the plug, and wherein the spring is disposed in the bore of the valve body. a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path connecting the inlet and the outlet; a control element movable along a longitudinal axis between the inlet and the outlet between a closed position, in which the control element engages a valve seat, and an open position, in which the control element is spaced away from the valve seat; a stem operatively coupled to the control element and axially aligned with the longitudinal axis; an indicator assembly at least partially disposed in a bore of the valve body along an indicator axis that is non-parallel with the longitudinal axis, wherein movement of the stem along the longitudinal axis causes movement of a rod of the indicator assembly along or about the indicator axis to indicate a position of the control element, characterized in that the movement of the rod indicates a position of the control element when the control element is in the closed position, the open position, and a position between the open and closed positions, wherein the indicator assembly includes the rod, an indicator that is coupled to the rod, a spring, and a plug coupled to the valve body, wherein the indicator is slidably coupled to the plug and is extendable outside of the valve body, wherein the spring is disposed between the plug and a spring seat carried by the rod such that the spring biases the rod toward the stem, wherein the spring seat moves axially along the indicator axis and compresses the spring against the plug, and wherein the spring is disposed in the bore of the valve body.
An apparatus comprising: a carrier-neutral Ethernet exchanger coupled to two or more private Ethernet networks of participating carriers to enable the two or more private Ethernet networks to be interconnected at a common point, the two or more private Ethernet networks including a first private Ethernet network associated with a first Ethernet frame type and a second private Ethernet network associated with a second Ethernet frame type, wherein frames from the first private Ethernet network are received, translated and transmitted by the Ethernet exchanger to the second private Ethernet network, wherein frame translation performed by the Ethernet exchanger is based on a first profile associated with the first private Ethernet network and a second profile associated with the second private Ethernet network, the first profile and the second profile stored in a relational database associated with the Ethernet exchanger, the first profile and the second profile established based on information received from a first participating carrier associated with the first Ethernet network and from a second participating carrier associated with the second Ethernet network respectively using an online web portal which is hosted on a server cooperating with the Ethernet exchanger. a carrier-neutral Ethernet exchanger coupled to two or more private Ethernet networks of participating carriers to enable the two or more private Ethernet networks to be interconnected at a common point, the two or more private Ethernet networks including a first private Ethernet network associated with a first Ethernet frame type and a second private Ethernet network associated with a second Ethernet frame type, wherein frames from the first private Ethernet network are received, translated and transmitted by the Ethernet exchanger to the second private Ethernet network, wherein frame translation performed by the Ethernet exchanger is based on a first profile associated with the first private Ethernet network and a second profile associated with the second private Ethernet network, the first profile and the second profile stored in a relational database associated with the Ethernet exchanger, the first profile and the second profile established based on information received from a first participating carrier associated with the first Ethernet network and from a second participating carrier associated with the second Ethernet network respectively using an online web portal which is hosted on a server cooperating with the Ethernet exchanger.
A process for annealing a poled ceramic which comprises a solid solution with a perovskite structure, wherein the process comprises: heating the poled ceramic over a heating period from ambient temperature to a final temperature, wherein during at least a final part of the heating period the temperature is raised incrementally; and cooling the poled ceramic from the final temperature to ambient temperature to form an annealed poled ceramic. heating the poled ceramic over a heating period from ambient temperature to a final temperature, wherein during at least a final part of the heating period the temperature is raised incrementally; and cooling the poled ceramic from the final temperature to ambient temperature to form an annealed poled ceramic.