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A device for purifying liquids by distillation, the device comprising a first and a second evaporation section (1, 2), and a first and a second condensation section (3, 4), each evaporation sections comprising a liquid inlet (5, 6) and an outlet (7, 8) configured for a vapor and each condensation sections comprising an inlet (9, 10) configured for a vapor and a liquid outlet (11, 12), the first evaporation section and the second condensation section being in vapor connection through the first evaporation section outlet configured for a vapor and the second condensation section inlet configured for a vapor, wherein the first evaporation section is in thermal contact with the first condensation section, and the second evaporation section is in thermal contact with the second condensation section, wherein the sections in thermal contact are separated by a non-permeable membrane, and wherein the distillate product is drained from the first condensation section and the second condensation section through the respective outlets (11, 12).
A method of diagnosing melanoma, the method comprising determining a level of CEACAM1 on isolated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) of a subject in need thereof, wherein an upregulation of said level of CEACAM1 above a predetermined threshold is indicative of melanoma in said subject, wherein said PBLs comprise T cells or NK cells.
An exhaust gas cleaning apparatus comprising: a wall member configured to form a gas passage for allowing an exhaust gas to pass therethrough; and at least one set of nozzles (33; 34; 38, 39), each set of nozzles (33; 34; 38, 39) including a mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) and a water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) disposed in said gas passage; wherein said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) comprises a plurality of spray nozzles for forming mist in said gas passage said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) is configured to form a water film in said gas passage; said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) is disposed further upstream relative to the flow direction of the exhaust gas than said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39); characterized in that: said spray nozzles are directed downward to spray a water mist from a forward end of each of said spray nozzles so that the water mist sprayed from said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) stays in the gas passage and is brought into contact with the upwardly flowing exhaust gas through said gas passage; and in that said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) is configured to spray water so as to form the water film in an entire circumferential direction with respect to said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) so that said water film reaches an inner surface of said wall member to block passage of the exhaust gas. a wall member configured to form a gas passage for allowing an exhaust gas to pass therethrough; and at least one set of nozzles (33; 34; 38, 39), each set of nozzles (33; 34; 38, 39) including a mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) and a water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) disposed in said gas passage; wherein said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) comprises a plurality of spray nozzles for forming mist in said gas passage said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) is configured to form a water film in said gas passage; said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) is disposed further upstream relative to the flow direction of the exhaust gas than said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39); characterized in that: said spray nozzles are directed downward to spray a water mist from a forward end of each of said spray nozzles so that the water mist sprayed from said mist nozzle (33A; 34A; 38) stays in the gas passage and is brought into contact with the upwardly flowing exhaust gas through said gas passage; and in that said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) is configured to spray water so as to form the water film in an entire circumferential direction with respect to said water film nozzle (33B; 34B; 39) so that said water film reaches an inner surface of said wall member to block passage of the exhaust gas.
Method for the manufacture of a shoe, comprising: a. providing a first component with a first connection surface and a second component with a second connection surface; b. activating at least one portion of the first connection surface by providing heat energy without contact; and c. connecting the first component with the second component by joining the first and the second connection surfaces, d. wherein shielding elements are used to shield parts of the first component that shall not be subject to a substantial amount of heating, and e. wherein the first component comprises a midsole and the second component comprises an upper and the shielding elements is used to cover a rim of the midsole. a. providing a first component with a first connection surface and a second component with a second connection surface; b. activating at least one portion of the first connection surface by providing heat energy without contact; and c. connecting the first component with the second component by joining the first and the second connection surfaces, d. wherein shielding elements are used to shield parts of the first component that shall not be subject to a substantial amount of heating, and e. wherein the first component comprises a midsole and the second component comprises an upper and the shielding elements is used to cover a rim of the midsole.
A biomembrane constituted by a platelet gel comprising a platelet concentrate, thrombin and calcium gluconate, said biomembrane being covered by a patch of hyaluronic acid for use in the treatment of skin lesions.
An image decoding device comprising: circuitry configured to decode an image block in a slice of an image, wherein said image block includes a target pixel adjacent to a slice boundary separating said slice and a neighboring slice of said slice; decode a filter block flag that indicates whether or not a filtering process is performed on said image block; decode a boundary control flag that indicates whether or not to use one or more pixels of said neighboring slice for filtering said target pixel, wherein the one or more pixels are pixels adjacent to said target pixel; if the filter block flag indicates that the filtering process is performed on said image block, and if the boundary control flag indicates not to use the one or more pixels of said neighboring slice for filtering said target pixel adjacent to said slice boundary, then perform said filtering process on said target pixel by assuming dummy values for the one or more pixels of said neighboring slice; and if the filter block flag indicates the filtering process is not performed on said image block, then the filtering process is not applied on said image block. decode an image block in a slice of an image, wherein said image block includes a target pixel adjacent to a slice boundary separating said slice and a neighboring slice of said slice; decode a filter block flag that indicates whether or not a filtering process is performed on said image block; decode a boundary control flag that indicates whether or not to use one or more pixels of said neighboring slice for filtering said target pixel, wherein the one or more pixels are pixels adjacent to said target pixel; if the filter block flag indicates that the filtering process is performed on said image block, and if the boundary control flag indicates not to use the one or more pixels of said neighboring slice for filtering said target pixel adjacent to said slice boundary, then perform said filtering process on said target pixel by assuming dummy values for the one or more pixels of said neighboring slice; and if the filter block flag indicates the filtering process is not performed on said image block, then the filtering process is not applied on said image block.
A process for producing a ceramic mold from ceramic powder, said process comprising: providing a powder bed and a laser, scanning the laser over the powder bed and laser sintering the powder bed in such a way that the geometry of the mold is produced from raw material powder bed, said process further comprising forming a first region of the mold by laser sintering of a first ceramic powder and forming a second region of the mold integral with said first region by laser sintering of a second ceramic powder, wherein the first ceramic powder has a first average grain size and the second ceramic powder has a second average grain size, wherein the forming of at least one of the first and second regions comprises controlling at least one parameter selected to provide a different material property in the first and second regions of the mold, wherein additional layers of powder and additional steps of laser heating maybe added to form a ceramic shape in accordance with the mold, and wherein the first region of the ceramic mold comprises an inner region of the mold, and the second region of the ceramic mold comprises an outer region of the mold and further wherein the process is controlled so that said inner region is relatively denser than said outer region of the mold. providing a powder bed and a laser, scanning the laser over the powder bed and laser sintering the powder bed in such a way that the geometry of the mold is produced from raw material powder bed,
A method of detecting and/or tracking use of a drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400), the drug delivery device including a machine readable code (110, 410) and a visual indicator (112, 212, 312), the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) having a pre-use state and a used state, such that use of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) triggers a transition from the pre-use state to the used state, wherein the visual indicator (112, 212, 312) is a color or image provided on at least one component (104, 214, 340, 344) of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) and has a first state when the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) is in the pre-use state and a different second state when the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) is in the used state, the method comprising: enabling a user device having an image sensor to capture one or more images of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400); determining, by a processor of the user device from at least one of the one or more captured images, whether the visual indicator (112, 212, 312) of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) is in the second state by determining whether the color or image is present in the at least one of the one or more captured images; and obtaining, by the processor of the user device, information from the machine readable code in response to the determination that the visual indicator (112, 212, 312) is in the second state. enabling a user device having an image sensor to capture one or more images of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400); determining, by a processor of the user device from at least one of the one or more captured images, whether the visual indicator (112, 212, 312) of the drug delivery device (100, 200, 300, 400) is in the second state by determining whether the color or image is present in the at least one of the one or more captured images; and obtaining, by the processor of the user device, information from the machine readable code in response to the determination that the visual indicator (112, 212, 312) is in the second state.
Delivery unit having a drive shaft which can be rotated about a drive axis and having a rotor driven by the drive shaft, wherein magnets are provided by means of which the drive shaft can be driven in interaction with a magnetic field of an electrical winding of a stator, wherein the magnets are provided on a magnet carrier which is mounted so as to be rotatable about the drive axis, said magnet carrier annularly surrounding the drive shaft and being mechanically connected to the drive shaft, wherein the drive shaft is connected to the magnet carrier in a form-fitting manner, in particular via a toothing (18, 19), and is displaceable in relation to the magnet carrier in the axial direction with respect to the drive axis, characterized in that the drive shaft is rotatably mounted in a bearing sleeve, and in that a bearing ring is fastened to an end side of the magnet carrier and has a sleeve portion and a disc portion which projects in the radial direction, wherein the sleeve portion is rotatably mounted on the bearing sleeve, and the disc portion forms, with a support disc fastened to a housing (23, 34) of the delivery unit and bearing against a shoulder of the bearing sleeve, an axial sliding bearing.
A 6:2 reassortant influenza virus, wherein said virus comprises 6 internal genome segments from one or more donor viruses and 2 surface antigen genome segments, wherein the surface antigen genome segments encode an HA and a NA polypeptide, wherein the surface antigen genome segment that encodes the HA polypeptide produces a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 87, 89 or 91.
An ultrasonic sensor (1; 21; 31) comprising: a cylindrical case having a bottom which includes a bottom plate and a side wall; a piezoelectric element that is disposed at the bottom plate in the case; a pin terminal (11A, 11B), one of end portions thereof being disposed in the case and the other end portion thereof being disposed outside of the case; a strip-shaped flexible substrate (9; 29A, 29B; 39A; 39B) including a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the one of the end portions of the pin terminal, the second end being connected to the piezoelectric element; and a damping member that seals the one of the end portions of the pin terminal and the flexible substrate in the case, wherein the flexible substrate is bent and disposed in the case so that the first end connected to the one of the end portions of the pin terminal extends in a same direction as the one of the end portions of the pin terminal and is connected to the pin terminal over a substantial portion of the end portion of the pin terminal and so that the flexible substrate bends from the first end, extends towards the side wall of the case, and terminates in the second end. a cylindrical case having a bottom which includes a bottom plate and a side wall; a piezoelectric element that is disposed at the bottom plate in the case; a pin terminal (11A, 11B), one of end portions thereof being disposed in the case and the other end portion thereof being disposed outside of the case; a strip-shaped flexible substrate (9; 29A, 29B; 39A; 39B) including a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the one of the end portions of the pin terminal, the second end being connected to the piezoelectric element; and a damping member that seals the one of the end portions of the pin terminal and the flexible substrate in the case, wherein the flexible substrate is bent and disposed in the case so that the first end connected to the one of the end portions of the pin terminal extends in a same direction as the one of the end portions of the pin terminal and is connected to the pin terminal over a substantial portion of the end portion of the pin terminal and so that the flexible substrate bends from the first end, extends towards the side wall of the case, and terminates in the second end.
A power supply apparatus, comprising: a first uninterruptible power supply (410a; 510a), in short UPS, having an input configured to be coupled to a first power source and an output configured to be coupled to a first load; a second UPS (410a; 510b) having an input configured to be coupled to a second power source and an output configured to be coupled to a second load; a first static switch (403; 522a) configured to provide a switchable bypass path from the first power source to the first load; a second static switch (420; 522c) controllable to provide a switchable path between the first load and the second power source or a switchable path between the second load and the first power source; a third static switch (403; 522b) controllable to provide a switchable bypass path between the second power source and the second load; and a controller circuit (430,524c) configured to control the first, second and third static switches (522a, 522c, 522b) to provide a first state wherein the first load receives power from the first power source via the first static switch, to detect a failure of the first power source and to responsively open the first static switch and close the second static switch to transition to a second state wherein the first load receives power from the second power source via the second UPS and/or the third static switch while isolated from the first power source. a first uninterruptible power supply (410a; 510a), in short UPS, having an input configured to be coupled to a first power source and an output configured to be coupled to a first load; a second UPS (410a; 510b) having an input configured to be coupled to a second power source and an output configured to be coupled to a second load; a first static switch (403; 522a) configured to provide a switchable bypass path from the first power source to the first load; a second static switch (420; 522c) controllable to provide a switchable path between the first load and the second power source or a switchable path between the second load and the first power source; a third static switch (403; 522b) controllable to provide a switchable bypass path between the second power source and the second load; and a controller circuit (430,524c) configured to control the first, second and third static switches (522a, 522c, 522b) to provide a first state wherein the first load receives power from the first power source via the first static switch, to detect a failure of the first power source and to responsively open the first static switch and close the second static switch to transition to a second state wherein the first load receives power from the second power source via the second UPS and/or the third static switch while isolated from the first power source.
A combination weighing device that performs combination weighing of at least two different articles, the device comprising: a plurality of weighing hoppers that temporarily retain the articles and acquire weighing values of the retained articles before discharging the articles downstream; a plurality of booster hoppers that are arranged downstream of the weighing hoppers and temporarily retain the articles discharged from the weighing hoppers before discharging the articles downstream; a receiver that is arranged to receive the articles discharged from the weighing hoppers or the booster hoppers; and a controller that is arranged to perform combination weighing on the basis of the acquired weighing values and to discharge the articles constituting a target from the weighing hoppers or the booster hoppers, wherein the weighing hoppers and the booster hoppers are divided into at least two groups on the basis of types of the articles, characterized in that the controller is arranged to set each of the groups to either a first mode or a second mode, in the group set to the first mode, the articles retained in the weighing hopper are discharged to the receiver via the booster hopper, and in the group set to the second mode, the articles retained in the weighing hopper are discharged to either the booster hopper or the receiver. a plurality of weighing hoppers that temporarily retain the articles and acquire weighing values of the retained articles before discharging the articles downstream; a plurality of booster hoppers that are arranged downstream of the weighing hoppers and temporarily retain the articles discharged from the weighing hoppers before discharging the articles downstream; a receiver that is arranged to receive the articles discharged from the weighing hoppers or the booster hoppers; and a controller that is arranged to perform combination weighing on the basis of the acquired weighing values and to discharge the articles constituting a target from the weighing hoppers or the booster hoppers, wherein the weighing hoppers and the booster hoppers are divided into at least two groups on the basis of types of the articles, characterized in that the controller is arranged to set each of the groups to either a first mode or a second mode, in the group set to the first mode, the articles retained in the weighing hopper are discharged to the receiver via the booster hopper, and in the group set to the second mode, the articles retained in the weighing hopper are discharged to either the booster hopper or the receiver.
Closed litter box for pets comprising: at least one lower module, configured for containing granular material for the collection of excrement products; at least one upper module coupled to said lower module and configured for closing it; at least a handle of said upper module configured for allowing the carriage of the closed litter box for pets; and - means for the collection of produced excrement; characterized in that said handle comprises at least a portion of said means for the collection of produced excrement when these means are placed in an excavated region of said upper module. at least one lower module, configured for containing granular material for the collection of excrement products; at least one upper module coupled to said lower module and configured for closing it; at least a handle of said upper module configured for allowing the carriage of the closed litter box for pets; and - means for the collection of produced excrement; characterized in that said handle comprises at least a portion of said means for the collection of produced excrement when these means are placed in an excavated region of said upper module.
Stretch trousers, comprising the following elements: • a belt above the waist line, wherein fabric is cut towards the stretching material; • and in the rear part further comprises elements as follows: o a longitudinal cutting, o a cross-section pincer in the thigh line, on each side, that starts in the side part of the trousers, passes underneath a pocket and ends in a location by the middle of each butt. Characterised in that the longitudinal cutting is turned in to the centre in the hip line with at least two pincers one on each side, incorporated close to the side edges. • a belt above the waist line, wherein fabric is cut towards the stretching material; • and in the rear part further comprises elements as follows: o a longitudinal cutting, o a cross-section pincer in the thigh line, on each side, that starts in the side part of the trousers, passes underneath a pocket and ends in a location by the middle of each butt. Characterised in that the longitudinal cutting is turned in to the centre in the hip line with at least two pincers one on each side, incorporated close to the side edges. o a longitudinal cutting, o a cross-section pincer in the thigh line, on each side, that starts in the side part of the trousers, passes underneath a pocket and ends in a location by the middle of each butt. Characterised in that the longitudinal cutting is turned in to the centre in the hip line with at least two pincers one on each side, incorporated close to the side edges.