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An electronic apparatus comprising: a direct-current to direct-current, DCDC, converter including a first node to receive an input signal, a second node to couple to a terminal of an inductor, an additional terminal of the inductor to couple to ground via a filter capacitor, and a third node to couple to an output node, the DCDC converter including a driver controlled by a signal; and a control unit to generate control information based on a duty cycle of the signal to control a duty cycle range of the signal; and characterized in that: the control unit is arranged to generate the control information to adjust a value of a supply voltage of the driver if the duty cycle of the signal is less than a lower limit. a direct-current to direct-current, DCDC, converter including a first node to receive an input signal, a second node to couple to a terminal of an inductor, an additional terminal of the inductor to couple to ground via a filter capacitor, and a third node to couple to an output node, the DCDC converter including a driver controlled by a signal; and a control unit to generate control information based on a duty cycle of the signal to control a duty cycle range of the signal; and characterized in that: the control unit is arranged to generate the control information to adjust a value of a supply voltage of the driver if the duty cycle of the signal is less than a lower limit.
A transmission method performed by a mobile station of obtaining random access diversity, the method comprising: (a) transmitting a random access channel, RACH, burst to a base station, by using a transmission antenna selected from among multiple transmission antennas; (b) if an acknowledgement, ACK, response to the RACH burst from the base station is received, transmitting user packet data by using the transmission antenna which is used for transmission of the RACH burst; (c) if a non-acknowledgement, NACK, response to the RACH burst from the base station is received, transmitting a new RACH burst to the base station, by using a transmission antenna different from the previous transmission antenna; and (d) if a NACK is received while all the multiple transmission antennas have been used, newly setting a transmission power higher than the previously set transmission power, and then, returning to the step (a), characterised in that: a transmission power of the user packet data is determined based on the transmission power of the RACH burst of which the ACK is received, and the difference between the signal-to-noise, SNR, value required for the RACH burst of which the ACK is received, and the SNR value required for the user packet data. (a) transmitting a random access channel, RACH, burst to a base station, by using a transmission antenna selected from among multiple transmission antennas; (b) if an acknowledgement, ACK, response to the RACH burst from the base station is received, transmitting user packet data by using the transmission antenna which is used for transmission of the RACH burst; (c) if a non-acknowledgement, NACK, response to the RACH burst from the base station is received, transmitting a new RACH burst to the base station, by using a transmission antenna different from the previous transmission antenna; and (d) if a NACK is received while all the multiple transmission antennas have been used, newly setting a transmission power higher than the previously set transmission power, and then, returning to the step (a), characterised in that: a transmission power of the user packet data is determined based on the transmission power of the RACH burst of which the ACK is received, and the difference between the signal-to-noise, SNR, value required for the RACH burst of which the ACK is received, and the SNR value required for the user packet data.
A zwitterion-containing compound having the structure of formula: wherein, L 1 is a divalent C 1-20 alkyl, optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; L 2 is a bond or a divalent C 1-4 alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group, optionally substituted with up to 10 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; Z is an anion-containing group selected from the group consisting of carboxylate (-COO -), sulfonate (-SO 3 -), sulfate (-OSO 3 -), phosphate (-OP (O -)), and oxide (-O -), where R is a C 1-12 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, or aralkyl, optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; Y 1 is a reactive functional group selected from a pentafluorophenyl ester, maleimide or N-succinimidyloxycarbonyl having the following structures: R 1 and R 2 are independently selected at each occurrence from C 1-20 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, or aralkyl groups, each optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties, wherein the heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties in the radicals L 1, L 2, R, R 1 and R 2 are selected from the group consisting of halogen, hydroxyl, carboxyl, acyl, acyloxy, amino, alkylamino, alkylimino, dialkylamino, amido, ester, carboxamide, carbamate, alkoxyl, aryloxyl, alkylthiol, alkylsulfonate, nitro, cyano, oxo, oxa, azo, thio, sulfonylester, phosphonyl, phosphinyl, thiol, thioether, thioester, thioalkoxy, thiocyanate, perfluoro, phosphate, oxime, sulfate, sulfoalkyl, and combinations thereof. L 1 is a divalent C 1-20 alkyl, optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; L 2 is a bond or a divalent C 1-4 alkyl, alkenyl, or alkynyl group, optionally substituted with up to 10 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; Z is an anion-containing group selected from the group consisting of carboxylate (-COO -), sulfonate (-SO 3 -), sulfate (-OSO 3 -), phosphate (-OP (O -)), and oxide (-O -), where R is a C 1-12 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, or aralkyl, optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties; Y 1 is a reactive functional group selected from a pentafluorophenyl ester, maleimide or N-succinimidyloxycarbonyl having the following structures: R 1 and R 2 are independently selected at each occurrence from C 1-20 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, or aralkyl groups, each optionally substituted with up to 20 heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties, wherein the heteroatoms or heteroatom-containing moieties in the radicals L 1, L 2, R, R 1 and R 2 are selected from the group consisting of halogen, hydroxyl, carboxyl, acyl, acyloxy, amino, alkylamino, alkylimino, dialkylamino, amido, ester, carboxamide, carbamate, alkoxyl, aryloxyl, alkylthiol, alkylsulfonate, nitro, cyano, oxo, oxa, azo, thio, sulfonylester, phosphonyl, phosphinyl, thiol, thioether, thioester, thioalkoxy, thiocyanate, perfluoro, phosphate, oxime, sulfate, sulfoalkyl, and combinations thereof.
A method for wireless communications comprising: receiving, at an access point, AP, (402, 602) from a first wireless node (410-1, 610-1) in a plurality of wireless nodes (410-1, 410-2, 410-3, 610-1, 610-2, 610-3), a request (412, 612) as part of a medium access contention process to transmit data from the first wireless node in the plurality of wireless nodes, wherein the medium access contention process comprises an Enhanced Distributed Channel Access, EDCA-based access contention; and in response to receiving the request from the first wireless node transmitting a multi-cast message (408, 608) to a set of wireless nodes in the plurality of wireless nodes including the first wireless node to permit data transmission from the set of wireless nodes, wherein the multi-cast message comprises a confirmation to permit data transmission in a transmit opportunity by the first wireless node and indicates parameters for one or more other wireless nodes, which did not send a request to transmit data, in the set of wireless nodes to transmit data in the transmit opportunity, wherein the parameters comprise a spatial stream value, a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, value or a power offset value and wherein the transmit opportunity is a period of time specified by the first wireless node during which the medium is reserved for data transmission, the period of time referred to as a TxOP duration, and wherein the set of wireless nodes is chosen by the AP based on the TxOP duration requested by the first wireless node. receiving, at an access point, AP, (402, 602) from a first wireless node (410-1, 610-1) in a plurality of wireless nodes (410-1, 410-2, 410-3, 610-1, 610-2, 610-3), a request (412, 612) as part of a medium access contention process to transmit data from the first wireless node in the plurality of wireless nodes, wherein the medium access contention process comprises an Enhanced Distributed Channel Access, EDCA-based access contention; and in response to receiving the request from the first wireless node transmitting a multi-cast message (408, 608) to a set of wireless nodes in the plurality of wireless nodes including the first wireless node to permit data transmission from the set of wireless nodes, wherein the multi-cast message comprises a confirmation to permit data transmission in a transmit opportunity by the first wireless node and indicates parameters for one or more other wireless nodes, which did not send a request to transmit data, in the set of wireless nodes to transmit data in the transmit opportunity, wherein the parameters comprise a spatial stream value, a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, value or a power offset value and wherein the transmit opportunity is a period of time specified by the first wireless node during which the medium is reserved for data transmission, the period of time referred to as a TxOP duration, and wherein the set of wireless nodes is chosen by the AP based on the TxOP duration requested by the first wireless node.
Method for assisting a driver of a host-vehicle to drive with precaution, the method comprising: determining, from one or more host-vehicle sensors (3a, 3b) arranged to monitor the environment of the host-vehicle, other road users and at least one particular feature associated with a traffic situation of the host-vehicle; applying at least one hypothesis, based on the determined other road users and the at least one particular feature, the at least one hypothesis related to at least one hypothetical threat that is occluded in an obscured area; setting or estimating, based on the applied at least one hypothesis, a host-vehicle driver level of attention required to handle the at least one hypothetical threat and estimating a time until that host-vehicle driver level of attention will be required; deriving, from one or more driver-monitoring sensors of the host-vehicle, a current host-vehicle driver level of attention; determining if the set or estimated required host-vehicle driver level of attention exceeds the current host-vehicle driver level of attention and determining if the estimated time until the estimated host-vehicle driver level of attention will be required is less than a threshold-time (t thres), and if so determined producing at least one of visual, acoustic and haptic information to a host-vehicle driver environment, to promote increased host-vehicle driver-attention to the at least one hypothetical threat, and/or triggering at least one of automated braking and steering of the host-vehicle, to promote an increase in safety margin to the at least one hypothetical threat. determining, from one or more host-vehicle sensors (3a, 3b) arranged to monitor the environment of the host-vehicle, other road users and at least one particular feature associated with a traffic situation of the host-vehicle; applying at least one hypothesis, based on the determined other road users and the at least one particular feature, the at least one hypothesis related to at least one hypothetical threat that is occluded in an obscured area; setting or estimating, based on the applied at least one hypothesis, a host-vehicle driver level of attention required to handle the at least one hypothetical threat and estimating a time until that host-vehicle driver level of attention will be required; deriving, from one or more driver-monitoring sensors of the host-vehicle, a current host-vehicle driver level of attention; determining if the set or estimated required host-vehicle driver level of attention exceeds the current host-vehicle driver level of attention and determining if the estimated time until the estimated host-vehicle driver level of attention will be required is less than a threshold-time (t thres), and if so determined producing at least one of visual, acoustic and haptic information to a host-vehicle driver environment, to promote increased host-vehicle driver-attention to the at least one hypothetical threat, and/or triggering at least one of automated braking and steering of the host-vehicle, to promote an increase in safety margin to the at least one hypothetical threat.
A compound of formula: wherein: R 1 is selected from H, an optionally substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl group and an optionally substituted C 2 -C 5 alkenyl group; R 2 is H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group; R 3 is an optionally substituted C 1 -C 20 alkyl group; R 4 -R 7 are independently selected from H, halogen, an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl group and -OR 9, wherein R 9 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl; R 8 is selected from H and an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl group; Z is selected from -NR 10 - and an optionally substituted phenylene; wherein R 10 is selected from H and an optionally substituted C 1 -C 4 alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, for its use in the treatment of limb girdle muscular dystrophy. R 1 is selected from H, an optionally substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl group and an optionally substituted C 2 -C 5 alkenyl group; R 2 is H or a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group; R 3 is an optionally substituted C 1 -C 20 alkyl group; R 4 -R 7 are independently selected from H, halogen, an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl group and -OR 9, wherein R 9 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl; R 8 is selected from H and an optionally substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl group; Z is selected from -NR 10 - and an optionally substituted phenylene; wherein R 10 is selected from H and an optionally substituted C 1 -C 4 alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, for its use in the treatment of limb girdle muscular dystrophy.
A ligand compound represented by the following Formula 1: in Formula 1, R 1 to R 9 each independently represent hydrogen, a silyl, an alkyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkenyl having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkylaryl having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, an arylalkyl having 7 to 20 carbon atoms or a metalloid radical of a Group 14 metal substituted with a hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; two or more adjacent groups of the R 1 to R 8 may be connected to each other to form an aliphatic ring having 5 to 20 carbon atoms or an aromatic ring having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; the aliphatic ring or aromatic ring may be substituted with a halogen, an alkyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkenyl having 2 to 20 carbon atoms or an aryl having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and n is 1 or 2.
Method for operating a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and having a brake force booster in which a negative pressure can be generated by means of a fluid-conducting connection of the brake force booster to an intake section, which is situated between a fresh-gas control element and the internal combustion engine, of a fresh-gas tract of the internal combustion engine, wherein, at least temporarily in the event of a withdrawal of a load demand on the internal combustion engine, coasting of the motor vehicle is initiated by virtue of firing of the internal combustion engine being ended and the internal combustion engine being decoupled from at least a part of a drivetrain of the motor vehicle, characterized in that, upon the initiation of the coasting and/or upon cranking of the non-fired internal combustion engine proceeding from a coasting state, wherein said cranking is performed for the purposes of decelerating the motor vehicle or by means of a cranking device, the fresh-gas control element is closed to the furthest possible extent, or is held closed, in order to keep the pressure in the brake force booster within a setpoint range.
A coffee machine comprising a milk frothing device, wherein the milk froth is addable to another beverage component, namely to coffee, and wherein the coffee machine has an injection unit for leaching and/or dissolving beverage substrate provided in beverage substrate capsules or an integral grinder and a brewing unit in which coffee grounds produced from coffee beans by the integral grinder is leached, and wherein the milk frothing device having a mechanical emulsification device comprises a stator and a rotor which can be driven to rotate relative to said stator around a rotation axis, wherein milk and air can be supplied to said emulsification device via the inlet side and exposed to shearing forces by means of the rotation of the rotor relative to the stator, whereby milk froth is produced, said milk froth being removable via the outlet side, and the rotor as well as the stator having a plurality of shear element rows (15, 19) comprising shear elements (16, 20) for generating the shearing forces, wherein the shear element rows of the rotor and the shear element rows of the stator mesh in such an intermitting manner that milk and air flowing through the intermitting shear element rows (15, 19) are each shearable between one of the shear element rows of the rotor and one directly adjacent shear element row of the stator during rotation of the rotor, characterized in that the shear element rows of the rotor and the shear element rows of the stator are arranged alternately along the rotation axis.
A skin penetration device comprising: a body, a penetration element mounted in said body for penetrating the skin of the user, a skin stimulus arrangement for creating in use a stimulus in the skin in the vicinity of an intended penetration site to alleviate the perception of pain, wherein said skin stimulus arrangement comprises first and second textured surfaces (30, 36) for contacting the skin and an arrangement (18, 44, 46) for moving at least one of the textured surfaces relative to the other, thereby to create said stimulus, and characterised in that said moving arrangement (18, 44, 46) is adapted to move one of said textured surfaces whilst the other remains stationary. a body, a penetration element mounted in said body for penetrating the skin of the user, a skin stimulus arrangement for creating in use a stimulus in the skin in the vicinity of an intended penetration site to alleviate the perception of pain, wherein said skin stimulus arrangement comprises first and second textured surfaces (30, 36) for contacting the skin and an arrangement (18, 44, 46) for moving at least one of the textured surfaces relative to the other, thereby to create said stimulus, and characterised in that said moving arrangement (18, 44, 46) is adapted to move one of said textured surfaces whilst the other remains stationary.
Electric machine comprising: a stator that is fixed to a housing; a rotor having a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic flux, wherein the rotor is arranged in such a manner as to be able to rotate in a coaxial manner relative to the stator and a gap is provided between the stator and the rotor; and a flux changing apparatus that comprises a body that can be adjusted in an axial manner relative to the rotor and is arranged axially outside the magnetic field generating device so as to change a magnetic flux within the gap in dependence upon an axial position (a) of the body relative to the rotor, wherein the flux changing apparatus comprises an adjusting device (29, 31) for axially adjusting the axial position of the body relative to the rotor, wherein the adjusting device comprises: an actuator that acts on the body via an adjusting element, characterized in that the adjusting element engages with the body and/or the actuator in such a manner that a rotational movement of the body can be decoupled from the adjusting element, from the housing, from the rotor and/or from the actuator. a stator that is fixed to a housing; a rotor having a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic flux, wherein the rotor is arranged in such a manner as to be able to rotate in a coaxial manner relative to the stator and a gap is provided between the stator and the rotor; and a flux changing apparatus that comprises a body that can be adjusted in an axial manner relative to the rotor and is arranged axially outside the magnetic field generating device so as to change a magnetic flux within the gap in dependence upon an axial position (a) of the body relative to the rotor, wherein the flux changing apparatus comprises an adjusting device (29, 31) for axially adjusting the axial position of the body relative to the rotor, wherein the adjusting device comprises: an actuator that acts on the body via an adjusting element, characterized in that the adjusting element engages with the body and/or the actuator in such a manner that a rotational movement of the body can be decoupled from the adjusting element, from the housing, from the rotor and/or from the actuator. an actuator that acts on the body via an adjusting element, characterized in that the adjusting element engages with the body and/or the actuator in such a manner that a rotational movement of the body can be decoupled from the adjusting element, from the housing, from the rotor and/or from the actuator.
A process for the preparation of coloured polymer particles in a non-polar solvent for use as electrophoretic particles in electrophoretic devices, comprising the steps of a) forming a reverse emulsion comprising 1) at least one polymer, at least one dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, or 2) optionally at least one polymer, at least one pre-polymerised dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, and b) removing the polar solvent or polar solvents by evaporative methods a) forming a reverse emulsion comprising 1) at least one polymer, at least one dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, or 2) optionally at least one polymer, at least one pre-polymerised dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, and 1) at least one polymer, at least one dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, or 2) optionally at least one polymer, at least one pre-polymerised dye, at least one polar solvent, at least one non-polar solvent, and at least one optionally charged surfactant, and b) removing the polar solvent or polar solvents by evaporative methods
A fire damper assembly comprising a mounting frame defining an opening and at least one blade disposed in the opening and mounted on the mounting frame for rotation about an axis between an open position in which flow channels through the opening are defined between said at least one blade and the frame, and a closed position in which the flow channels are closed, wherein said at least one blade is of composite construction comprising a sheet metal inner part, a first piece of thermally insulating material covering one face of the sheet metal inner part, and a second piece of thermally insulating material covering a second, opposite face of the sheet metal inner part, characterised in that the at least one blade further comprises a drive shaft and the sheet metal inner part comprises sheets (10A, 10B) having middle portions in the region of the drive shaft that are spaced from one another and on opposite sides of the drive shaft, and distal portions which are joined to one another, and in that the first and second pieces of thermally insulating material are pre-formed blocks of material.