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A calibration method that can be carried out without a reference system for an angle measuring device comprising • a code carrier carrying an absolute position code, and • at least N ≥ 2 reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) which have a fixed, known angular position having an angular distance, in particular of more than 50 degrees, for example of 70 to 180 degrees, preferably of 140 to 170 degrees, for example of 150 degrees, relative to one another and in each case detect the position code at least partially, such that an absolute angular position value of the respective reading head relative to the code carrier can be determined, wherein the code carrier is rotatable relative to the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) and different angular positions of the code carrier relative to the reading heads can thus be assumed, comprising the following steps: • determining the angle position values of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) in one angular position, • determining an angle error by comparing the difference between the angle position values of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) with the known angular position of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) with respect to one another, • repeating the steps of determining the angle position values and the angle error for a multiplicity of varying angular positions, and • carrying out a mathematical evaluation method comprising ∘ determining parameters of a mathematical function quantifying the angle errors, and ∘ determining calibration parameters as the parameters of the quantifying mathematical function or as a correction or code table which is derived from the parameters. • a code carrier carrying an absolute position code, and • at least N ≥ 2 reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) which have a fixed, known angular position having an angular distance, in particular of more than 50 degrees, for example of 70 to 180 degrees, preferably of 140 to 170 degrees, for example of 150 degrees, relative to one another and in each case detect the position code at least partially, such that an absolute angular position value of the respective reading head relative to the code carrier can be determined, • determining the angle position values of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) in one angular position, • determining an angle error by comparing the difference between the angle position values of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) with the known angular position of the reading heads (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) with respect to one another, • repeating the steps of determining the angle position values and the angle error for a multiplicity of varying angular positions, and • carrying out a mathematical evaluation method comprising ∘ determining parameters of a mathematical function quantifying the angle errors, and ∘ determining calibration parameters as the parameters of the quantifying mathematical function or as a correction or code table which is derived from the parameters. ∘ determining parameters of a mathematical function quantifying the angle errors, and ∘ determining calibration parameters as the parameters of the quantifying mathematical function or as a correction or code table which is derived from the parameters.
Cooling apparatus (100, 200) comprising: a fluid reservoir (130, 230) substantially in the shape of a distorted S-curve as viewed in a side or profile view for holding in use a fluid to be cooled, the reservoir (130, 230) having a head region (130H, 230H) and a body region (130B, 230B) below the head region (130H, 230H) each arranged to contain the fluid to be cooled, the fluid reservoir (130, 230) being arranged such that a cross-sectional area of the reservoir (130, 230) decreases by tapering as a function of distance from the head region (130H, 230H) to the body region (130B, 230B) over at least a portion of the distance from the head region (130H, 230H) to the body region (130B, 230B); a heat exchange portion (120B, 220B) arranged in use in thermal communication with the fluid in the body region (130B, 230B) to allow thermal transfer between the heat exchange portion (120B, 220B) and the fluid in the body region (130B, 230B); and a cold store portion (140, 240) configured in use to permit cooling means (140P, 240P, 240CE) to cool the fluid in the head region (130H, 230H). a fluid reservoir (130, 230) substantially in the shape of a distorted S-curve as viewed in a side or profile view for holding in use a fluid to be cooled, the reservoir (130, 230) having a head region (130H, 230H) and a body region (130B, 230B) below the head region (130H, 230H) each arranged to contain the fluid to be cooled, the fluid reservoir (130, 230) being arranged such that a cross-sectional area of the reservoir (130, 230) decreases by tapering as a function of distance from the head region (130H, 230H) to the body region (130B, 230B) over at least a portion of the distance from the head region (130H, 230H) to the body region (130B, 230B); a heat exchange portion (120B, 220B) arranged in use in thermal communication with the fluid in the body region (130B, 230B) to allow thermal transfer between the heat exchange portion (120B, 220B) and the fluid in the body region (130B, 230B); and a cold store portion (140, 240) configured in use to permit cooling means (140P, 240P, 240CE) to cool the fluid in the head region (130H, 230H).
A heat transfer fluid characterized in that it consists of an aqueous colloidal sol comprising: 1) water, and 2) up to 58.8% by mass, based on the total mass of the fluid, of α-Al 2 O 3 particles, for which: - the thickness is the smallest dimension and is less than or equal to 30 nm, - 90 to 95% by number of these particles has a size of less than or equal to 210 nm, among which 50% by number have a size of less than or equal to 160 nm. 1) water, and 2) up to 58.8% by mass, based on the total mass of the fluid, of α-Al 2 O 3 particles, for which: - the thickness is the smallest dimension and is less than or equal to 30 nm, - 90 to 95% by number of these particles has a size of less than or equal to 210 nm, among which 50% by number have a size of less than or equal to 160 nm. - the thickness is the smallest dimension and is less than or equal to 30 nm, - 90 to 95% by number of these particles has a size of less than or equal to 210 nm, among which 50% by number have a size of less than or equal to 160 nm.
LED light source, which comprises at least one light-emitting component, wherein the LED light source comprises: a reflector body surrounding the light emitting component at least in the lateral direction, which reflector body comprises a reflector surface and a recess, the side walls of which form reflector surfaces, wherein the light-emitting component is disposed in the recess of the reflector body and the recess is filled at least partly with transparent protective material such that the light-emitting component is at least partly inside the protective material, wherein the light-emitting component is at least partly protected with a transparent protective material, which contains aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane, wherein aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane is used directly on the surface of light-emitting component, and wherein the light-emitting component is a diode emitting blue or white light. a reflector body surrounding the light emitting component at least in the lateral direction, which reflector body comprises a reflector surface and a recess, the side walls of which form reflector surfaces, wherein the light-emitting component is disposed in the recess of the reflector body and the recess is filled at least partly with transparent protective material such that the light-emitting component is at least partly inside the protective material, wherein the light-emitting component is at least partly protected with a transparent protective material, which contains aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane, wherein aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane is used directly on the surface of light-emitting component, and wherein the light-emitting component is a diode emitting blue or white light.
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof; a developing device for developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member using toner to form a toner image; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a recording sheet; a fixing device for fixing the toner image; a sheet feeder for feeding the recording sheet; a first control table containing information on widths of the recording sheet categorized into a plurality of groups of different widths thereof in a direction perpendicular to a sheet transport direction; and a second control table containing information on transport timing of the recording sheet to the fixing device based on the group to which a preceding recording sheet belongs and the group to which the recording sheet belongs, characterized in that the apparatus is adapted to, when the width of the recording sheet belongs to a plurality of said groups in the first control table, determine that the group to which the recording sheet belongs is the group of said plurality of said groups to which the preceding recording sheet belongs. an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof; a developing device for developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member using toner to form a toner image; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a recording sheet; a fixing device for fixing the toner image; a sheet feeder for feeding the recording sheet; a first control table containing information on widths of the recording sheet categorized into a plurality of groups of different widths thereof in a direction perpendicular to a sheet transport direction; and a second control table containing information on transport timing of the recording sheet to the fixing device based on the group to which a preceding recording sheet belongs and the group to which the recording sheet belongs, characterized in that the apparatus is adapted to, when the width of the recording sheet belongs to a plurality of said groups in the first control table, determine that the group to which the recording sheet belongs is the group of said plurality of said groups to which the preceding recording sheet belongs.
An electrical instrument comprising a plate made of a single piece of material and constituting a working plane of the electrical instrument, the plate having a first surface, and a switch device (225, 325) for controlling operation of the electrical instrument, the switch device comprising: - a body-part (201, 301), and - two or more electric transducers (202, 302) connected to the body-part and arranged to produce two or more electrical signals in response to mechanical force directed to the body-part, wherein the body-part comprises a cavity (206, 306), and a wall constituting a bottom of the cavity, the wall having a first surface being part of the first surface of the plate, and a second surface opposite the first surface of the plate, wherein the wall is capable of being bent by the mechanical force directed to the first surface of the wall from the opposite side with respect to the cavity, and the two or more electric transducers are located on the second surface of the cavity wall and are arranged to produce the two or more electrical signals when the bottom of the cavity is bent, wherein the plate constituting the working plane of the electrical instrument constitutes also the body-part of the switch device, characterized in that the switch device comprises an adder for summing the electrical signals produced by the electric transducers into a single electrical signal. - a body-part (201, 301), and - two or more electric transducers (202, 302) connected to the body-part and arranged to produce two or more electrical signals in response to mechanical force directed to the body-part,
A recombinant DNA construct for gene suppression comprising a promoter functional in plant cells, operably linked to recombinant DNA encoding a synthetic phased small RNA precursor transcript and comprising a nucleotide sequence of a phased small RNA template sequence, wherein said promoter is heterologous to said recombinant DNA, and wherein said phased small RNA template sequence comprises a nucleotide sequence selected from SEQ ID NO.8, SEQ ID NO.9, SEQ ID NO. 17, SEQ ID NO. 33, SEQ ID NO. 69, and the DNA sequence encoding SEQ ID NO. 34, wherein said synthetic phased small RNA precursor transcript preserves the secondary structure of the transcript of said phased small RNA template sequence, wherein said secondary structure comprises hybridized RNA that forms a foldback structure including two anti-parallel single-stranded arms, wherein one arm is substantially but not perfectly complementary with the other arm, wherein base-pairing between the two arms of the foldback structure results in substantially but not perfectly double-stranded RNA that includes mismatches, wherein said hybridized RNA comprises at least three contiguous phased small double-stranded RNAs, wherein each phased small double-stranded RNA comprises two anti-parallel RNA segments of about 20 to about 27 nucleotides each with at least one mismatch between said segments whereby said mismatches are distributed along the length of said hybridized RNA, and wherein in said synthetic phased small RNA precursor transcript at least one of the RNA segments is modified to suppress at least one target gene by replacing nucleotides of an RNA segment of at least one of said phased small double-stranded RNAs in said phased small RNA template sequence with nucleotides corresponding to said at least one target gene, wherein said at least one target gene is selected from multiple non-consecutive segments of a target gene, multiple alleles of a target gene, or multiple target genes from one or more species, wherein at least one of said two anti-parallel strands of said phased small double-stranded RNA is about 95% complementary to said at least one target gene, and wherein said promoter is heterologous to said recombinant DNA.
A vehicular illumination lamp comprising a light-emitting element that is disposed facing forward near a predetermined point on an optical axis (Ax) extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; and a translucent member that is disposed in front of the light-emitting element, wherein light emitted from the light-emitting element is incident to the translucent member and internally reflected on a front surface of the translucent member, after which the light is internally reflected again on a rear surface of the translucent member and emitted from the front surface of the translucent member, wherein the light-emitting element has a light-emitting surface whose lower end edge (12A1) extends in a straight line, the front surface of the translucent member is formed as a flat plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and the rear surface of the translucent member is formed by a predetermined light reflection control surface that is formed using as a reference surface a rotational paraboloid whose focal point is a position symmetrical to the predetermined point with respect to the front surface of the translucent member, a center region on the front surface of the translucent member within a predetermined range centered on the optical axis is subjected to mirror surface processing, and the rear surface of the translucent member is subjected to mirror surface processing, on the rear surface of the translucent member, a first zone that is positioned diagonally upward on an oncoming vehicle lane side with respect to the optical axis borders a first curve formed so as to project toward the optical axis when viewed from the front of the lamp, and is divided into an inner peripheral zone (Z1i) and an outer peripheral zone (Z1o); and a second zone that is positioned diagonally downward on a host vehicle lane side with respect to the optical axis borders a second curve formed so as to project toward the optical axis when viewed from the front of the lamp, and is divided into an inner peripheral zone (Z2i) and an outer peripheral zone (Z2o), and at least one of a vicinity region of the first curve in the inner peripheral zone (Z1i) of the first zone and a vicinity region of the second curve in the inner peripheral zone (Z2i) of the second zone is configured as a region for forming a diagonal cut-off line that extends diagonally upward toward the host vehicle lane side using reflected light from the region, characterized in that the light-emitting element is disposed such that the lower end edge (12A1) of the light-emitting surface is positioned on a horizontal line orthogonal to the optical axis (Ax).
An x-ray imaging device comprising at least two substantially planar panels (20, 21), each panel comprising a plurality of x-ray emitters housed in a vacuum enclosure, wherein each x-ray emitter emits x-rays in a conelet having a central conelet axis, and each panel is arranged such that the central conelet axes of each x-ray emitter in each respective panel are parallel to one another, wherein the at least two panels each have a central panel axis and are arranged such that their central panel axes are non-parallel to one another, and wherein the central panel axes are in a common plane, the device further comprising a panel retaining means (11, 13) arranged such that the panel retaining means retains the at least two panels stationary in relation to an object during x-raying of the object, wherein each x-ray emitter includes a collimator having a common collimator angle and the panels are arranged such that the angle between their central panel axes is approximately the same as the common collimator angle, and wherein the common collimator angle determines the angle of the conelets.
An electrical system comprising: - at least one continuous-power electrical energy source, - at least one electrical device connected to said source by a common continuous bus, said electrical device comprising at least one inverter and an electric machine, - a capacitor connected in parallel with said electrical device, - controlled active filter means (7, 7') connected on common continuous bus between said source and said electrical device, for injecting or absorbing undulations of the current i e provided by said source and for reducing the fluctuations of voltage V DC at the terminals of said source, characterized in that said active filter means (7, 7') comprise at least one component integrated within electric machine of said electrical device and in that said capacitor is arranged on electrical device. - at least one continuous-power electrical energy source, - at least one electrical device connected to said source by a common continuous bus, said electrical device comprising at least one inverter and an electric machine, - a capacitor connected in parallel with said electrical device, - controlled active filter means (7, 7') connected on common continuous bus between said source and said electrical device, for injecting or absorbing undulations of the current i e provided by said source and for reducing the fluctuations of voltage V DC at the terminals of said source,
A stent (10; 100; 200; 300; 400) comprising: a tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) formed of one or more interwoven wires (15; 315; 415), the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) having first and second opposing open ends (22, 24; 222, 224; 322, 324; 422; 424) and a lumen extending therebetween; a first anchor member (26; 226) disposed adjacent the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422) and a second anchor member (28; 228) disposed adjacent the second open end (24; 224; 324; 424), the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228) each extending radially outward from the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420), the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228) each having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) disposed between the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228); and a plurality of spacer members (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431) disposed around the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422) and extending longitudinally beyond the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422), wherein when a pulling force is applied to the spacer members (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431), the outer diameter of the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) is not reduced, wherein at least one spacer member (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431) has a variable flexibility along its length. a tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) formed of one or more interwoven wires (15; 315; 415), the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) having first and second opposing open ends (22, 24; 222, 224; 322, 324; 422; 424) and a lumen extending therebetween; a first anchor member (26; 226) disposed adjacent the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422) and a second anchor member (28; 228) disposed adjacent the second open end (24; 224; 324; 424), the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228) each extending radially outward from the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420), the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228) each having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) disposed between the first and second anchor members (26, 28; 226, 228); and a plurality of spacer members (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431) disposed around the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422) and extending longitudinally beyond the first open end (22; 222; 322; 422), wherein when a pulling force is applied to the spacer members (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431), the outer diameter of the tubular body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) is not reduced, wherein at least one spacer member (30; 130; 230; 231; 330; 430; 431) has a variable flexibility along its length.
Plant for transforming into secondary raw material, or disposing of, used tyres, made of rubber or other carbon matrices, comprising at least one pyrolysis chamber, wherein said used tyres are subjected to pyrolysis treatment, said tyres, previously divided into two halves, being conveyed to said at least one pyrolysis chamber by means of at least one supplying device that receives the tyres from a first conveying device, said plant comprising at least one hydraulic seal element associated with said at least one supplying device and heating means for heating said at least one pyrolysis chamber, said at least one supplying device comprising a second conveying device comprising a rung conveyor, that receives the tyres from the first conveying device and conveys the tyres through said at least one hydraulic seal element and along at least one supplying conduit, characterized in that said at least one supplying conduit extends prevalently vertically from a lower part communicating with said at least one hydraulic seal element to an end portion that reaches an inlet zone of the least one pyrolysis chamber, in that said tyres are released by said second conveying device into said inlet zone so as to drop by gravity into said pyrolysis chamber through an inlet opening and in that said inlet opening is provided with a movable closing element, that can rotate around a hinge element between a closed position and an open position.