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An apparatus to control the temperature of a heating roller used in a fusing device of an image forming apparatus, the apparatus comprising: the heating roller that is operable to generate heat to melt toner attached to a printing medium; a first induction coil that is disposed outside the heating roller and is operable to heat the heating roller by using induced current generated according to current flowing through the first induction coil; two second induction coils (130, 131) that are disposed at upper portions of both ends of the first induction coil and are operable to heat the heating roller by using induced current generated according to current flowing through the two second induction coils (130, 131); a power supply unit that is operable to supply current to the first induction coil and the two second induction coils (130, 131); and a control unit that is operable to control the power supply unit to supply current flowing in the same direction in the first induction coil and the second induction coils (130, 131) or in a different direction in the first induction coil compared to the second induction coils (130, 131) according to the size of paper fed into the heating roller. the heating roller that is operable to generate heat to melt toner attached to a printing medium; a first induction coil that is disposed outside the heating roller and is operable to heat the heating roller by using induced current generated according to current flowing through the first induction coil; two second induction coils (130, 131) that are disposed at upper portions of both ends of the first induction coil and are operable to heat the heating roller by using induced current generated according to current flowing through the two second induction coils (130, 131); a power supply unit that is operable to supply current to the first induction coil and the two second induction coils (130, 131); and a control unit that is operable to control the power supply unit to supply current flowing in the same direction in the first induction coil and the second induction coils (130, 131) or in a different direction in the first induction coil compared to the second induction coils (130, 131) according to the size of paper fed into the heating roller.
Folding transport container intended mainly for transport of materials, goods, and other cargo, comprising a base, side panels with side uprights (2, 3), wherein these side panels have pivot links with edges of the base and a lock-release mechanism, wherein the lock-release mechanism comprises a lever with a catch at one end thereof and a spring linked to the lever, wherein the lever is placed in rotary fashion with one of the side uprights (2, 3) of a first side panel using a fixed axis characterized in that the lock-release mechanism is placed inside a side upright of the first side panel, wherein the side upright contains one first hollow and one second hollow, wherein the lever is placed in rotary fashion inside the side upright of the first side panel using the fixed axis so that one end of the lever is placed within the first hollow of the side upright of the first side panel, while the other end of the lever has a fixed link to the catch, that is placed inside the second hollow of the side upright of the first side panel, wherein a side upright of an adjacent side panel is equipped with an opening, whose shape and dimensions are adapted to the shape and dimensions of the catch and wherein the opening is positioned such, that when the container is unfolded, the catch catches into the opening.
Household appliance with a means to generate an airstream and an aerosol generator comprising at least one nebulizer and a liquid reservoir having at least one interior catalytically active surface containing a polyoxometalate, characterized in that the polyoxometalate has the Formula, or, A 3 PZ 4 O 24 A q+3 PV q Z 12-q O 40 A 6 P 2 Z 18 O 62 wherein Z is selected from Mo or W, q is 0, 1, 2 or 3, and A is selected from one or more cations selected from the group consisting of (XR 1 R 2 R 3 R 4) +, wherein at least one of the groups R 1, R 2, R 3, and R 4 is a substituted or non-substituted alkyl, alkyloxoalkyl or cycloalkyl group that may contain at least one heteroatom selected among O, S, N or P, with at least five carbon atoms and wherein X is selected from among nitrogen and phosphorus. wherein Z is selected from Mo or W, q is 0, 1, 2 or 3, and A is selected from one or more cations selected from the group consisting of (XR 1 R 2 R 3 R 4) +, wherein at least one of the groups R 1, R 2, R 3, and R 4 is a substituted or non-substituted alkyl, alkyloxoalkyl or cycloalkyl group that may contain at least one heteroatom selected among O, S, N or P, with at least five carbon atoms and wherein X is selected from among nitrogen and phosphorus.
A capsule comprising a tablet, granule or fine granule wherein the release of active ingredient is controlled and a gel-forming polymer, wherein the gel-forming polymer is polyethylene oxide having a molecular weight of 400,000-10,000,000, and wherein the active ingredient is a proton pump inhibitor, wherein the PPI is an imidazole compound represented by the formula (I'): wherein ring C' is an optionally substituted benzene ring or an optionally substituted aromatic monocyclic heterocyclic ring, R 0 is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted aralkyl group, acyl group or acyloxy group, R 1, R 2 and R 3 are the same or different and are a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, an optionally substituted alkoxy group or an optionally substituted amino group, and Y represents a nitrogen atom or CH; or a salt thereof or an optically active isomer thereof.
A communication device comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of wireless terminals in a communication area; a number-of-terminals acquisition unit configured to acquire a number of wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of information on communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; a terminal position acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of the wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of the information on the communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; and a distribution acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution of the wireless terminals on the basis of the number of wireless terminals acquired by the number-of-terminals acquisition unit and the positions of the wireless terminals acquired by the terminal position acquisition unit; characterized by a determination unit, wherein on the basis of the distribution of the wireless terminals acquired by the distribution acquisition unit, the determination unit is configured to determine if the number of wireless terminals in a predetermined area exceeds a predetermined number, that a communication base station is to be installed on the ground, and if the number of wireless terminals in the predetermined area does not exceed the predetermined number, that an aircraft including a base station function is caused to stay in the air over the predetermined area. a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of wireless terminals in a communication area; a number-of-terminals acquisition unit configured to acquire a number of wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of information on communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; a terminal position acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of the wireless terminals communicating with the communication unit for a predetermined period of time on the basis of the information on the communication performed between the wireless terminals and the communication unit; and a distribution acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution of the wireless terminals on the basis of the number of wireless terminals acquired by the number-of-terminals acquisition unit and the positions of the wireless terminals acquired by the terminal position acquisition unit; characterized by a determination unit, wherein on the basis of the distribution of the wireless terminals acquired by the distribution acquisition unit, the determination unit is configured to determine if the number of wireless terminals in a predetermined area exceeds a predetermined number, that a communication base station is to be installed on the ground, and if the number of wireless terminals in the predetermined area does not exceed the predetermined number, that an aircraft including a base station function is caused to stay in the air over the predetermined area.
A method of cutting a product, in particular a food product, using a cutting apparatus for cutting a product, wherein the cutting apparatus comprises a product receiver for receiving the product; a feeding apparatus for feeding the product in a direction substantially perpendicular to a cutting plane defined by a cutting blade and by a cutting edge; and a gripper (10A-10L) having a suction device for gripping an end section of the product, characterized in that a vacuum which is variable in time and which may differ locally is generated by the suction device, with a first suction power being provided at the start of a gripping process for gripping the product in order to securely grip the product; and in that a second suction power which is smaller than the first suction power is provided during an adjoining cutting process of the product; and/or in that the suction power is increased in an end phase of a cutting process of the product.
A battery manufacturing device for manufacturing a cylindrical battery comprising a positive electrode tab connected to a top cap by folding the positive electrode tab connected to the top cap, characterized in that the battery manufacturing device comprises: a jig that makes a pendulum swing and presses the positive electrode tab; an adjusting unit that forms a turning radius of the pendulum swing; and a folding knife that presses the folding part of the positive electrode tab, wherein the adjusting unit determines a position of a bottom dead center of the jig by adjusting its length, wherein the jig makes contact with the top cap at the bottom dead center, and wherein, after the jig makes contact with the top cap at the bottom dead center, a gap between the jig and the folding knife is increased. a jig that makes a pendulum swing and presses the positive electrode tab; an adjusting unit that forms a turning radius of the pendulum swing; and a folding knife that presses the folding part of the positive electrode tab, wherein the adjusting unit determines a position of a bottom dead center of the jig by adjusting its length, wherein the jig makes contact with the top cap at the bottom dead center, and wherein, after the jig makes contact with the top cap at the bottom dead center, a gap between the jig and the folding knife is increased.
A system for installing a dental implant in a jawbone of a patient, the system comprising: - a threaded drive shaft rotatable about an axis, the drive shaft having a lower threaded portion and an upper unthreaded portion; - a self-drilling and self-taping implant having bone-engaging external threads and having internal threads at its upper end couplable to the lower threaded portion of the drive shaft; - guide means for supporting the drive shaft with the axis of the drive shaft oriented in a path along which the implant is to be installed; and a dental drill head for rotating the drive shaft in a direction to cause the implant to penetrate the jawbone of the patient; wherein the guide means have a guide body and a C-shaped holder defining an opening into which the guide body is insertable, the guide body including a threaded bore for receiving the drive shaft such that the drive shaft can advance through the guide body by first threading the lower threaded portion through the threaded bore of the guide body and then sliding the upper unthreaded portion through the threaded bore of the guide body, wherein the opening opens radially outwardly to enable the guide body and the drive shaft to be engaged with and disengaged from the C-shaped holder of the guide means by radial displacement of the guide body and the drive shaft, wherein the body and holder are complementarily shaped for precise location of said drive shaft in said bore and with respect to the location in a dental arch at which the implant is to be installed; wherein a pitch of the threaded bore of the guide body matches a pitch of the external threads of the implant and also matches a pitch of the lower threaded portion of the drive shaft. - a threaded drive shaft rotatable about an axis, the drive shaft having a lower threaded portion and an upper unthreaded portion; - a self-drilling and self-taping implant having bone-engaging external threads and having internal threads at its upper end couplable to the lower threaded portion of the drive shaft; - guide means for supporting the drive shaft with the axis of the drive shaft oriented in a path along which the implant is to be installed; and
A secure on-body communication system comprising: a peripheral unit, comprising an acoustic signal generator and a coupled driver adapted to drive generation of data-encoded acoustic signals by the signal generator based on input data signals, the peripheral unit adapted for acoustically coupling the generated acoustic signals into the body of a subject; a body-mountable unit comprising an acoustic signal receiver for receiving the body-coupled acoustic signals from the body, and a decoder for decoding the acoustic signals to generate output data signals, the signal receiver comprising an array of acoustic sensor elements having sensing parts exposed at a body-contact surface of the body mountable unit; wherein the driver is adapted to perform an initialization procedure comprising establishing communication with an external device via an off-body communication medium, acquiring from the external device a secure key, and driving acoustic transmission of the secure key to the body-mountable device by means of the acoustic signal generator; characterized in that the array of acoustic sensor elements is a two dimensional array. a peripheral unit, comprising an acoustic signal generator and a coupled driver adapted to drive generation of data-encoded acoustic signals by the signal generator based on input data signals, the peripheral unit adapted for acoustically coupling the generated acoustic signals into the body of a subject; a body-mountable unit comprising an acoustic signal receiver for receiving the body-coupled acoustic signals from the body, and a decoder for decoding the acoustic signals to generate output data signals, the signal receiver comprising an array of acoustic sensor elements having sensing parts exposed at a body-contact surface of the body mountable unit; wherein the driver is adapted to perform an initialization procedure comprising establishing communication with an external device via an off-body communication medium, acquiring from the external device a secure key, and driving acoustic transmission of the secure key to the body-mountable device by means of the acoustic signal generator; characterized in that the array of acoustic sensor elements is a two dimensional array.
A method comprising: determining that data throughput degradation is present in one of the uplink and downlink directions, and congestion is present in the other of the uplink and downlink directions, the uplink and downlink directions having different capacities, wherein determining that throughput degradation is present comprises comparing a ratio of the downlink and uplink throughput data to a target ratio; and reducing data throughput in the other of the uplink and downlink directions upon detecting throughput degradation and congestion. determining that data throughput degradation is present in one of the uplink and downlink directions, and congestion is present in the other of the uplink and downlink directions, the uplink and downlink directions having different capacities, wherein determining that throughput degradation is present comprises comparing a ratio of the downlink and uplink throughput data to a target ratio; and reducing data throughput in the other of the uplink and downlink directions upon detecting throughput degradation and congestion.
An infrared detector, comprising a plurality of detector semiconductor pixels arranged in an array, wherein the plurality of detector semiconductor pixels are configured to convert infrared radiant energy into electrical energy for infrared detection, and each of the plurality of detector semiconductor pixels comprises: at least two beam structures, wherein each of the at least two beam structures is respectively connected to an infrared absorption plate and a micro-bridge column; wherein in each of the at least two beam structures, in a beam path from the infrared absorption plate to a corresponding micro-bridge column, two parallel beam structures that meet at a same node are a first half-bridge structure and a second half-bridge structure, respectively, and the first half-bridge structure and the second half-bridge structure form a thermally symmetrical structure; and the first half-bridge structure comprises a support layer, an electrode layer, and a passivation layer, the second half-bridge structure comprises a support layer, a length of the first half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure is greater than a length of the second half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure, a thickness of the first half-bridge structure is greater than a thickness of the second half-bridge structure, and a non-equilibrium difference in a thermal conductivity between the first half-bridge structure and the second half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure is less than or equal to 20%. at least two beam structures, wherein each of the at least two beam structures is respectively connected to an infrared absorption plate and a micro-bridge column; wherein in each of the at least two beam structures, in a beam path from the infrared absorption plate to a corresponding micro-bridge column, two parallel beam structures that meet at a same node are a first half-bridge structure and a second half-bridge structure, respectively, and the first half-bridge structure and the second half-bridge structure form a thermally symmetrical structure; and the first half-bridge structure comprises a support layer, an electrode layer, and a passivation layer, the second half-bridge structure comprises a support layer, a length of the first half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure is greater than a length of the second half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure, a thickness of the first half-bridge structure is greater than a thickness of the second half-bridge structure, and a non-equilibrium difference in a thermal conductivity between the first half-bridge structure and the second half-bridge structure in the thermally symmetrical structure is less than or equal to 20%.
A building element (1-8, 77-83) of a specified shape (1, 4, 7a-7d, 8, 77-83) having at least one surface comprising at least two diagonally opposed projected portions (10, 13) and at least two diagonally opposed recessed portions (11, 17) in relation to the diagonally opposed projected portions, wherein each projected portion has a flat surface (10, 13) facing away from the center of the building element and a circumferential side (12, 14) having in a first consecutive order a first, a second, and a third side, wherein the first side faces one of the diagonally opposed recessed portions and the second side faces the other of the diagonally opposed recessed portions and the third side faces away from the diagonally opposed recessed portions, or in a second consecutive order a first, a second, a third and a fourth side, wherein the first and the third side are opposite each other and the second and fourth side are opposite each other and wherein the first side faces one of the diagonally opposed recessed portions and wherein the second side faces the other of the diagonally opposed recessed portions, and wherein each recessed portion has a flat surface (11, 17) facing away from the center of the building element and wherein the flat surface of each recessed portion is in a plane substantially parallel to the flat surface of each projected portions, characterized in that at least the first and second side of the projected portions are adapted to engage and interlock by snap fit (69, 79) and/or by interlock friction (71, 72) with a substantially identical first and second side of a corresponding building element.
An applicator assembly for applying an active substance to the root zone of a plurality of plants, wherein the applicator assembly comprises: a subsoil applicator, the subsoil applicator comprising a cutting element (2, 30) for generating an incision in the ground, and an injector associated with the cutting element (2, 30) to allow the active substance to be injected into the incision; characterized in that: a surface applicator positioned to apply a composition to the ground surface; and a deflector adapted to push low branches from the path of the surface applicator. a subsoil applicator, the subsoil applicator comprising a cutting element (2, 30) for generating an incision in the ground, and an injector associated with the cutting element (2, 30) to allow the active substance to be injected into the incision; a surface applicator positioned to apply a composition to the ground surface; and a deflector adapted to push low branches from the path of the surface applicator.
Multiple-junction photoelectric device comprising a substrate on which a first conducting layer is deposited, at least two elementary photoelectric devices (4, 6) of p-i-n or p-n configuration, on which a second conducting layer is deposited, and at least one intermediate layer provided between two adjacent elementary photoelectric devices (4, 6), characterized in that said first conducting layer is a first transparent conducting layer and in that the first elementary photoelectric device on the first transparent conducting layer is the top cell on the incoming light side, said intermediate layer has, on the incoming light side, a top face and, on the other side, a bottom face, said top and bottom faces having respectively a surface morphology comprising inclined elementary surfaces such that α 90bottom is smaller than α 90top by at least 3°, preferably 6°, more preferably 10°, and even more preferably 15°; where α 90top is the angle for which 90% of the elementary surfaces of the top face of the intermediate layer have an inclination equal to or less than this angle, and α 90bottom is the angle for which 90% of the elementary surfaces of the bottom face of the intermediate layer have an inclination equal to or less than this angle.