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A method, performed by a device, of assisting with driving of a vehicle, the method comprising: sensing, by using one or more sensors mounted on or in the vehicle, an ambient environment of a location of the vehicle at a time of the sensing; obtaining sensing information about the ambient environment based on the sensing of the ambient environment; comparing map information stored in the vehicle with the obtained sensing information; determining a map reliability of the map information based on a result of the comparing based on covariance values of six degrees of freedom, 6-DOF, of a map region corresponding to the current location among regions of the map information; and controlling, by the device, the driving of the vehicle based on the determined map reliability wherein the controlling comprises: determining whether the map reliability is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and based on a determination that the map reliability is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, changing at least one of: a driving mode of the vehicle from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode, or a driving speed of the vehicle to a predetermined speed or less. sensing, by using one or more sensors mounted on or in the vehicle, an ambient environment of a location of the vehicle at a time of the sensing; obtaining sensing information about the ambient environment based on the sensing of the ambient environment; comparing map information stored in the vehicle with the obtained sensing information; determining a map reliability of the map information based on a result of the comparing based on covariance values of six degrees of freedom, 6-DOF, of a map region corresponding to the current location among regions of the map information; and controlling, by the device, the driving of the vehicle based on the determined map reliability determining whether the map reliability is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and based on a determination that the map reliability is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, changing at least one of: a driving mode of the vehicle from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode, or a driving speed of the vehicle to a predetermined speed or less. a driving mode of the vehicle from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode, or a driving speed of the vehicle to a predetermined speed or less.
A device to measure breath humidity, the device comprising a tubular body , said tubular body defining an inner tube volume, an inlet fluidly connected to the inner tube volume, a condenser plate , fluidly connected to the second end of the tubular body to receive exhaled breath; the device further comprising one or more apertures in the tubular body wall of a first chamber , the or each aperture fluidly linking a sensor to the first chamber , a relative humidity sensor fluidly linked to a second chamber , characterised in that the device comprises a partition wall intermediate the first and second ends and dividing the inner tube volume into first and second chambers , the second chamber providing fluid access to the condenser plate ; the partition wall having a one-way valve therethrough allowing breath from the first to the second chamber . an inlet fluidly connected to the inner tube volume, a condenser plate , fluidly connected to the second end of the tubular body to receive exhaled breath; the device further comprising one or more apertures in the tubular body wall of a first chamber , the or each aperture fluidly linking a sensor to the first chamber , a relative humidity sensor fluidly linked to a second chamber , characterised in that the device comprises a partition wall intermediate the first and second ends and dividing the inner tube volume into first and second chambers , the second chamber providing fluid access to the condenser plate ; the partition wall having a one-way valve therethrough allowing breath from the first to the second chamber .
A method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a subject, or staging AD in a subject, the method comprising: a) assaying a CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) sample obtained from said subject for the biomarker: i) protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 14A comprising or having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or an isoform thereof; b) measuring in said sample a concentration or an amount of the biomarker; c) determining whether that subject has AD, or determining the stage of AD in said subject, by comparing said concentration or amount of the biomarker in said sample with reference concentrations or amounts of said biomarker. a) assaying a CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) sample obtained from said subject for the biomarker: i) protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 14A comprising or having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or an isoform thereof; i) protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 14A comprising b) measuring in said sample a concentration or an amount of the biomarker; c) determining whether that subject has AD, or determining the stage of AD in said subject, by comparing said concentration or amount of the biomarker in said sample with reference concentrations or amounts of said biomarker.
A valuable material recovery method for separating and recovering a valuable material from a used lithium-ion battery in which an electrode structure is accommodated in an exterior material, and the electrode structure includes a copper foil and an aluminum foil of current collectors, active material compositions supported by the current collectors, a lead wire, and a metallic material of the exterior material, the method comprising: (A) a discharge step of discharging the lithium-ion battery; (B) a thermal decomposition step of thermally decomposing and removing a combustible composition contained in the lithium-ion battery, and reducing a lithium compound, which is a cathode active material of the electrode structure, into a magnetic oxide by thermally treating the lithium-ion battery after being discharged; (C) a crushing step of crushing the lithium-ion battery, after being thermally decomposed, into fragments of a size suitable for wind sorting which is a post step, allowing part of the magnetic oxide to remain in the aluminum foil of the current collector, and delaminating a remainder of the magnetic oxide from the aluminum foil; (D) a sieving step of sieving a crushed material, which is obtained in the crushing step, to separate the crushed material into an oversized product and an undersized product, and to recover the magnetic oxide and an anode active material composition of the electrode structure which are contained in the undersized product; (E) a wind sorting step of separating the oversized product into a heavy product and a light product; and (F) a magnetic sorting step of sorting and recovering the aluminum foil with a residue of the magnetic oxide, as a magnetized material, and recovering the copper foil as a non-magnetized material from the light product. (A) a discharge step of discharging the lithium-ion battery; (B) a thermal decomposition step of thermally decomposing and removing a combustible composition contained in the lithium-ion battery, and reducing a lithium compound, which is a cathode active material of the electrode structure, into a magnetic oxide by thermally treating the lithium-ion battery after being discharged; (C) a crushing step of crushing the lithium-ion battery, after being thermally decomposed, into fragments of a size suitable for wind sorting which is a post step, allowing part of the magnetic oxide to remain in the aluminum foil of the current collector, and delaminating a remainder of the magnetic oxide from the aluminum foil; (D) a sieving step of sieving a crushed material, which is obtained in the crushing step, to separate the crushed material into an oversized product and an undersized product, and to recover the magnetic oxide and an anode active material composition of the electrode structure which are contained in the undersized product; (E) a wind sorting step of separating the oversized product into a heavy product and a light product; and (F) a magnetic sorting step of sorting and recovering the aluminum foil with a residue of the magnetic oxide, as a magnetized material, and recovering the copper foil as a non-magnetized material from the light product.
A method for programming a plurality of motor drives , said plurality of motor drives being adapted to receive three-phase power and to convert a fixed frequency input power to controlled frequency output power to be applied to a motor, comprising: acquiring a configuration file on a workstation , wherein the configuration file is indicative of a programming configuration of the plurality of motor drives , wherein the programming configuration includes one or more configurations relating to the basic operation of the motor drives and one or more application specific configurations, wherein the one or more configurations relating to the basic operation of the motor drives include one or more of communication protocols, particular motor drive regimes and techniques for driving solid state switches, and wherein the one or more application specific configurations include parameter designations, parameter settings and particular motion profiles; communicatively coupling the workstation to the plurality of motor drives ; and transferring the programming configuration to each of the plurality of motor drives communicatively coupled to the workstation , wherein transferring the programming configuration to each of the plurality of motor drives comprises adding to or replacing at least a portion of the programming configuration of each of the plurality of motor drives , and wherein the programming configuration comprises operator parameter settings. acquiring a configuration file on a workstation , wherein the configuration file is indicative of a programming configuration of the plurality of motor drives , wherein the programming configuration includes one or more configurations relating to the basic operation of the motor drives and one or more application specific configurations, wherein the one or more configurations relating to the basic operation of the motor drives include one or more of communication protocols, particular motor drive regimes and techniques for driving solid state switches, and wherein the one or more application specific configurations include parameter designations, parameter settings and particular motion profiles; communicatively coupling the workstation to the plurality of motor drives ; and transferring the programming configuration to each of the plurality of motor drives communicatively coupled to the workstation , wherein transferring the programming configuration to each of the plurality of motor drives comprises adding to or replacing at least a portion of the programming configuration of each of the plurality of motor drives , and wherein the programming configuration comprises operator parameter settings.
A method of coding a video slice including a plurality of blocks, wherein signalling of a transform quadtree splitting flag is conditionally bypassed for lossless coded blocks depending on a combination a block size and a coding mode of the blocks, the method comprising, by a video encoder: signaling a flag indicating a determination to encode at least a first block in the plurality of blocks with lossless coding; in response to the determination to encode the first block with lossless coding, determining whether to bypass signalling of a transform quadtree splitting flag of the first block depending on a determination of a combination of a block size and a coding mode of the first block; and in response to a determination to bypass signalling of the transform quadtree splitting flag of the first block, inferring the transform quadtree splitting flag to a default value and encoding the first block using the default value. signaling a flag indicating a determination to encode at least a first block in the plurality of blocks with lossless coding; in response to the determination to encode the first block with lossless coding, determining whether to bypass signalling of a transform quadtree splitting flag of the first block depending on a determination of a combination of a block size and a coding mode of the first block; and in response to a determination to bypass signalling of the transform quadtree splitting flag of the first block, inferring the transform quadtree splitting flag to a default value and encoding the first block using the default value.
An electric pet hair brush , comprising a shell , a roller , a control module and a power module , wherein the shell has an accommodation space; the control module and the power module are electrically connected and are accommodated in the accommodation space; the roller is arranged at the front end of the shell and is connected with the power module ; the roller can be driven by the power module to rotate; the roller comprises a roller main body and multiple comb assemblies ; the power module is configured to drive the roller main body to rotate, and the multiple comb assemblies can alternatively and circularly extend from the roller main body or retract into an accommodation space of the roller main body with the rotation of the roller main body, wherein the roller main body has multiple comb through holes ; the multiple comb through holes are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the multiple comb assemblies ; teeth of the multiple comb assemblies can extend from the roller main body through the corresponding comb through holes ; the teeth of the multiple comb assemblies can also retract into the accommodation space of the roller main body along the corresponding comb through holes , each comb assembly comprises a comb main body and a reset spring ; the comb main body comprises a comb body , multiple teeth arranged on the comb body and comb limiting parts arranged at two ends of the comb body ; characterised in that the reset spring sleeves the middle portion of the multiple teeth ; when the teeth pass through the corresponding comb through holes , the reset spring abuts against an inner surface of the roller main body and is compressed so as to be capable of providing a pushing force to reset the comb main body .
An acoustic structure comprising: a honeycomb comprising a first edge and a second edge, said honeycomb further comprising a plurality of walls that extend between said first and second edges, said walls defining a plurality of cells wherein each of said cells has a cross-sectional area measured perpendicular to said walls and a depth defined by the distance between said first and second edges; a septum cap located within at least one of said cells, said septum cap comprising a sheet of flexible material that has a thickness and a perimeter, said sheet of flexible material being sufficiently flexible to be folded and inserted into said cell to form said septum cap comprising a perforated resonator portion that extends in the same plane transversely across said cell and which has an outer edge located at said walls and a flange portion that extends between the outer edge of said perforated resonator portion and the perimeter of said sheet of flexible material, said flange portion extending parallel to said walls and comprising an anchoring surface which is attached to said walls, said anchoring surface having a width wherein the width of said anchoring surface is substantially greater than the thickness of said sheet of flexible material; and an adhesive that bonds said anchoring surface to said wall, wherein the septum cap comprises a solid sheet and wherein the resonator portion has been perforated after being applied to the at least one cells. a honeycomb comprising a first edge and a second edge, said honeycomb further comprising a plurality of walls that extend between said first and second edges, said walls defining a plurality of cells wherein each of said cells has a cross-sectional area measured perpendicular to said walls and a depth defined by the distance between said first and second edges; a septum cap located within at least one of said cells, said septum cap comprising a sheet of flexible material that has a thickness and a perimeter, said sheet of flexible material being sufficiently flexible to be folded and inserted into said cell to form said septum cap comprising a perforated resonator portion that extends in the same plane transversely across said cell and which has an outer edge located at said walls and a flange portion that extends between the outer edge of said perforated resonator portion and the perimeter of said sheet of flexible material, said flange portion extending parallel to said walls and comprising an anchoring surface which is attached to said walls, said anchoring surface having a width wherein the width of said anchoring surface is substantially greater than the thickness of said sheet of flexible material; and an adhesive that bonds said anchoring surface to said wall, wherein the septum cap comprises a solid sheet and wherein the resonator portion has been perforated after being applied to the at least one cells.
Method for sweetening a milk-containing fluid, wherein the milk-containing fluid is conducted through a sweetening means, in particular through a container filled with a sweetening means, wherein the process of conducting it through is undertaken by the milk-containing fluid being conducted through a volume which is occupied by the substance of which the sweetening means is composed, characterized in that the sweetening means is a liquid sweetening means, such as a syrup, and/or in that the sweetening means does not have dimensional stability.
A power-module substrate made by bonding a metal plate made of aluminum or aluminum alloy to at least one surface of a ceramic substrate by brazing, wherein when a cross section of the metal plate is observed by a scanning electron microscope in a field of 3000 magnifications in a depth extent of 5 μm from a bonded interface (T) between the metal plate and the ceramic substrate in a width area of 200 μm from a side edge of the metal plate , residual-continuous oxide (Q) existing continuously by 2 μm or more along the bonded interface (T) has total length of 70% or less with respect to a length of the field.
A battery module , comprising: a first battery cell having a first rectangular housing with a first bottom end portion ; a second battery cell having a second rectangular housing with a second bottom end portion ; the first and second battery cells being stacked against one another; a u-shaped frame member having a bottom wall and first and second side walls coupled to the bottom wall that define an interior space that is sized and shaped to hold the first and second battery cells therein; a thermally conductive layer being disposed on the bottom wall and communicating with the interior space; the first and second battery cells being disposed in the interior space such that the first bottom end portion and the second bottom end portion are disposed directly on the thermally conductive layer , a top cover plate being coupled to the first and second side walls of the u-shaped frame member to enclose a top open region of the u-shaped frame member ; a first side cover plate being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall to enclose a first side open region of the u-shaped frame member ; and a second side cover plate being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall to enclose a second side open region of the u-shaped frame member . characterized in that a first interconnect assembly is disposed in the interior space between the first side cover plate and a first end of the first rectangular housing of the first battery cell , the first interconnect assembly being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall . a first battery cell having a first rectangular housing with a first bottom end portion ; a second battery cell having a second rectangular housing with a second bottom end portion ; the first and second battery cells being stacked against one another; a u-shaped frame member having a bottom wall and first and second side walls coupled to the bottom wall that define an interior space that is sized and shaped to hold the first and second battery cells therein; a thermally conductive layer being disposed on the bottom wall and communicating with the interior space; the first and second battery cells being disposed in the interior space such that the first bottom end portion and the second bottom end portion are disposed directly on the thermally conductive layer , a top cover plate being coupled to the first and second side walls of the u-shaped frame member to enclose a top open region of the u-shaped frame member ; a first side cover plate being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall to enclose a first side open region of the u-shaped frame member ; and a second side cover plate being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall to enclose a second side open region of the u-shaped frame member . characterized in that a first interconnect assembly is disposed in the interior space between the first side cover plate and a first end of the first rectangular housing of the first battery cell , the first interconnect assembly being coupled to the top cover plate and the bottom wall .
Method for obtaining products of the food industry and/or feed industry from insects, in particular insects in the larval stage, characterized by the following steps: a) Killing the insects (method step 1) by heating: wherein the uncrushed insects are mixed with water to kill them; wherein the temperature of the water in which the insects are carried is greater than 60°C during killing; and wherein a separation of the water takes place after killing; b) Comminuting the insects (method step 3) with the formation of an insect pulp; c) Shifting the pH-value of the insect pulp to an acidic range by adding an acid and malaxing the insect pulp (method step 4) for at least 45 minutes; and d) Fractioning of the insect pulp (method step 5) by centrifugal processing into at least two fractions i) a solid phase and ii) a fatty phase ; wherein the method takes place without the addition of additional enzymes. a) Killing the insects (method step 1) by heating: wherein the uncrushed insects are mixed with water to kill them; wherein the temperature of the water in which the insects are carried is greater than 60°C during killing; and wherein a separation of the water takes place after killing; wherein the uncrushed insects are mixed with water to kill them; wherein the temperature of the water in which the insects are carried is greater than 60°C during killing; and wherein a separation of the water takes place after killing; b) Comminuting the insects (method step 3) with the formation of an insect pulp; c) Shifting the pH-value of the insect pulp to an acidic range by adding an acid and malaxing the insect pulp (method step 4) for at least 45 minutes; and d) Fractioning of the insect pulp (method step 5) by centrifugal processing into at least two fractions i) a solid phase and ii) a fatty phase ; wherein the method takes place without the addition of additional enzymes. i) a solid phase and ii) a fatty phase ;