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A method of tuning a vibratory gyroscope, the gyroscope comprising: an axisymmetric disc resonator , a frame, the resonator fixed to the frame through at least three separate anchors , a plurality of electrodes , each electrode positioned on the frame or the resonator, wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises at least one drive electrode through which a drive signal is input to excite a first mode of vibration of the resonator, at least one first sense electrode configured to sense the first mode of vibration of the resonator, at least one second sense electrode configured to sense a second mode of vibration of the resonator, orthogonal to the first mode, and at least first and second tuning electrodes to which DC biasing voltages may be applied, the method comprising the steps of: a) applying an AC drive signal to the drive electrode, the drive signal comprising a plurality of frequencies; b) sensing the response of the resonator to the drive signal at the first and second sense electrodes; c) determining a frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration, and determining a frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration; d) deriving a comparison result from a comparison of the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration with the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration; and e) applying a biasing voltage to a set of one or more of the tuning electrodes dependent on the comparison result, and wherein the method comprises repeating steps a) to e) using a set of one or more first mode tuning electrodes in step (e) until either the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration is determined to be equal to the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration, or a difference between the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration and the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration is reduced to a minimum non-zero value, and if the difference between the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration and the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration is reduced to a minimum non-zero value, subsequently repeating steps (a) to (e) using a set of one or more second tuning electrodes in step (e) until the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration is determined to be equal to the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration in step (d). a) applying an AC drive signal to the drive electrode, the drive signal comprising a plurality of frequencies; b) sensing the response of the resonator to the drive signal at the first and second sense electrodes; c) determining a frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration, and determining a frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration; d) deriving a comparison result from a comparison of the frequency of maximum response for the first mode of vibration with the frequency of maximum response for the second mode of vibration; and e) applying a biasing voltage to a set of one or more of the tuning electrodes dependent on the comparison result, and
A laser active medium (2, 12, 12', 12") for a solid-state laser system comprising: an optical gain material (1, 1', 1"); a heat sink , wherein the heat sink is transparent, over a wavelength range of 200 nm to 4000 nm, with an absorption coefficient of <1 cm -1 ; the heat sink having a high thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 149 W/m*K; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") and the heat sink exhibit a root-mean square, RMS, surface roughness of <1 nm; wherein the laser active medium (2, 12, 12', 12") comprises a high reflectivity thin-film stack , wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") is combined with the high reflectivity thin-film stack ; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") is attached to the transparent heat sink by direct bonding, such that the high reflectivity thin-film stack is between the optical gain material and the transparent heat sink; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") comprises a doped laser crystal (1A"); wherein the optical gain medium is a composite structure, combining the high reflectivity stack of alternating high and low index material and the doped layer crystal (1A") in one continuous structure yielding a high reflectivity mirror. an optical gain material (1, 1', 1"); a heat sink , wherein the heat sink is transparent, over a wavelength range of 200 nm to 4000 nm, with an absorption coefficient of <1 cm -1 ; the heat sink having a high thermal conductivity greater than or equal to 149 W/m*K; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") and the heat sink exhibit a root-mean square, RMS, surface roughness of <1 nm; wherein the laser active medium (2, 12, 12', 12") comprises a high reflectivity thin-film stack , wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") is combined with the high reflectivity thin-film stack ; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") is attached to the transparent heat sink by direct bonding, such that the high reflectivity thin-film stack is between the optical gain material and the transparent heat sink; wherein the optical gain material (1, 1', 1") comprises a doped laser crystal (1A"); wherein the optical gain medium is a composite structure, combining the high reflectivity stack of alternating high and low index material and the doped layer crystal (1A") in one continuous structure yielding a high reflectivity mirror.
A bumper assembly for a motor vehicle, having an upper main cross member which can be coupled to the motor vehicle via crash boxes , and a lower auxiliary cross member , wherein the main cross member and the auxiliary cross member are coupled to one another via vertical struts , wherein the main cross member and the auxiliary cross member are configured in one piece and from the same material as the vertical struts , characterised in that the auxiliary cross member is set back towards the motor vehicle in relation to the main cross member in the longitudinal direction (X) of the motor vehicle..
An apparatus for stabilizing a payload comprising: a gimbal having two or more mutually perpendicular rotational axes; a motor bracket arm fixedly attached to a yoke of the gimbal ; a first motor and a second motor attached to the motor bracket arm , the first motor oriented at 90 degrees to the second motor ; a plurality of angular rate sensors configured to sense motion about at least two of the two or more mutually perpendicular rotational axes; a plurality of accelerometers aligned along mutually perpendicular axes to measure steady state angular orientation of the payload with respect to gravity, said apparatus for stabilizing a payload being characterized in that it comprises a pulley system functionally connected to the first motor , the second motor and the gimbal to rotationally drive the gimbal about two of the two or more mutually perpendicular axes. a gimbal having two or more mutually perpendicular rotational axes; a motor bracket arm fixedly attached to a yoke of the gimbal ; a first motor and a second motor attached to the motor bracket arm , the first motor oriented at 90 degrees to the second motor ; a plurality of angular rate sensors configured to sense motion about at least two of the two or more mutually perpendicular rotational axes; a plurality of accelerometers aligned along mutually perpendicular axes to measure steady state angular orientation of the payload with respect to gravity, said apparatus for stabilizing a payload being characterized in that it comprises a pulley system functionally connected to the first motor , the second motor and the gimbal to rotationally drive the gimbal about two of the two or more mutually perpendicular axes.
System for cleaning a plurality of sensors of a motor vehicle , comprising a plurality of devices for spraying a cleaning fluid onto the sensors and comprising a cleaning fluid storage reservoir , the cleaning system comprising a distribution circuit connected to the storage reservoir and to which each of the spray devices is connected via a solenoid valve specific to it, the cleaning system further comprising an electronic control unit configured to control the operation of at least the distribution circuit , characterized in that it comprises an electronically controlled pump , the control electronics of which are configured to modify a parameter pertaining to the flow of the cleaning fluid in the distribution circuit , on the basis of which solenoid valve or valves are to be actuated and which spray devices are to be supplied with the cleaning fluid.
A highly conductive, printable ink, comprising: (i) 1.5 to 21.0 vol% of conductive hydrophobic silver particles, with respect to the total volume of ink, as conductive solid phase, (ii) a liquid primary phase comprising, as a polymer base, a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) dissolved in an organic polar solvent, wherein the volume content of TPU in the organic polar solvent is in the range of 25% to 50%, wherein the liquid primary phase takes up 76.90 to 98.49 vol% with respect to the total volume of ink, (iii) a liquid secondary phase based on an ionic liquid, with a volume content in the range of 0.0015 to 2.1 vol%, with respect to the total volume of the ink, while the volume ratio ρ between said liquid secondary phase and said conductive solid phase falls in the range of 0.001 to 0.1, wherein the liquid secondary phase is immiscible with the liquid primary phase and does not wet the conductive solid phase, so that the three-phase system creates a capillary suspension. (i) 1.5 to 21.0 vol% of conductive hydrophobic silver particles, with respect to the total volume of ink, as conductive solid phase, (ii) a liquid primary phase comprising, as a polymer base, a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) dissolved in an organic polar solvent, wherein the volume content of TPU in the organic polar solvent is in the range of 25% to 50%, wherein the liquid primary phase takes up 76.90 to 98.49 vol% with respect to the total volume of ink, (iii) a liquid secondary phase based on an ionic liquid, with a volume content in the range of 0.0015 to 2.1 vol%, with respect to the total volume of the ink, while the volume ratio ρ between said liquid secondary phase and said conductive solid phase falls in the range of 0.001 to 0.1,
Procedure for determining a physical parameter of a liquid - said liquid having a gas content, wherein the gas is particularly present in the form of suspended bubbles in the liquid - by means of a sensor with at least a measuring tube to conduct the medium, wherein the at least one measuring tube has an end section on the inlet side and an end section on the outlet side, wherein the sensor has at least a fastening unit on the inlet side and a fastening unit on the outlet side with which the measuring tube is fixed in one of the end sections, wherein the measuring tube can be excited between the two fastening units to produce flexural vibrations of different modes with different natural frequencies, of which an f1 mode does not have any vibration node between the fastening units and an f3 mode has two vibration nodes between the fastening units, wherein the procedure comprises the following steps: Determination of the natural frequency of the f1 mode and of the f3 mode ; Determination of a first provisional density value for the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube on the basis of the natural frequency of the f1 mode ; Determination of a second provisional density value for the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube on the basis of the natural frequency of the f3 mode ; Determination of a value for the sonic velocity of the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube, and at least a correction term , dependent on the sonic velocity and the natural frequency of a mode, for the provisional density value determined on the basis of the natural frequency of the mode, for the purpose of determining a corrected density measured value ; where the correction term K i for the provisional density values ρi based on the natural frequency of the f i , mode has the following form: K i : = 1 + r g ⋅ c f i 2 − b , where ρ corr ⋅ = ρ i K i where r and g are gas-independent constants, c is the sonic velocity of the gas-laden liquid, f i is the natural frequency of the f i mode, ρcorr is the corrected density and b is a scaling constant. Determination of the natural frequency of the f1 mode and of the f3 mode ; Determination of a first provisional density value for the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube on the basis of the natural frequency of the f1 mode ; Determination of a second provisional density value for the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube on the basis of the natural frequency of the f3 mode ; Determination of a value for the sonic velocity of the gas-laden liquid transported in the measuring tube, and at least a correction term , dependent on the sonic velocity and the natural frequency of a mode, for the provisional density value determined on the basis of the natural frequency of the mode, for the purpose of determining a corrected density measured value ; where the correction term K i for the provisional density values ρi based on the natural frequency of the f i , mode has the following form: K i : = 1 + r g ⋅ c f i 2 − b ,
A system for dating the passage of a movable light object, said system comprising at least one telescope , a system for measuring the position of said telescope, a satellite geolocation system providing a time reference, an electronic data computer , said telescope comprising a focusing optic , a mechanical shutter and a photoreception matrix disposed at the focal point of said focusing optic, said matrix being a "CCD" sensor made up of pixels organised in rows and columns comprising the function called "Time and Integration Shift" or "TIS", characterised in that , when the movable light object enters the field of the telescope during an opening period of the mechanical shutter, the shift of the charges of at least one pixel of the rows of the CCD sensor provided by the TIS function is carried out at least once at an instant that is fully determined by the satellite geolocation system, shifting the light trace (IS) left by the image of the movable object along a column of pixels, with the electronic data computer determining the exact position of the movable object at the determined instant as a function of the knowledge of the position of this shift and of the position of the telescope.
Method for controlling an automatic stall-prevention of a rotation-speed-regulated centrifugal fan, wherein points when stalling starts, and more particularly when it ends, are determined by different flow quantities and by the speeds of rotation corresponding to them by test-running and by measuring, wherein a speed of rotation of the centrifugal fan is measured constantly with a frequency converter or with a separate measuring apparatus, and the flow of air is calculated by means of the electric current and voltage going to the motor of the centrifugal fan as well as by means of the temperature and pressure of the flow, with these data a limit or range when lapsing into a stall is evident is mathematically interpolated by a function of the current, voltage and frequency going to the motor of the centrifugal fan in the form of a first mathematical safety limit and a second mathematical safety limit, a distance between these limits being set by an adjustable hysteresis factor, a control program is executed by means of an automation system of a process, in which control program stalling is detected based on the function, wherein the control program controls a valve that regulates additional flow from outside the intake as leakage air or from a second intake to the rotation-speed-regulated centrifugal fan by giving additional flow after the first mathematical safety limit has beer exceeded and reducing the additional flow after falling below the second mathematical safety limit.
A computer-implemented method of identifying, by a door monitoring system , a change of status at a monitored door, the method comprising: displaying a floor plan of a building comprising one or more monitored doors, each monitored door comprising a ligature-detection device, wherein each monitored door is monitored via a hardwired connection between the respective door and a computing apparatus of the door monitoring system whereby data from each monitored door may be obtained via an end-to-end, hardwired connection; identifying that a status of a first monitored door of the one or more monitored doors has changed, wherein identifying that a status of the first monitored door has changed comprises determining that: a) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been triggered; b) a fault with the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been detected; c) the state of the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door can no longer be accurately determined; and/or d) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has not responded to a status update request, and indicating that a status of the first monitored door has changed by modifying the manner in which the first monitored door is presented on the displayed floor plan. displaying a floor plan of a building comprising one or more monitored doors, each monitored door comprising a ligature-detection device, wherein each monitored door is monitored via a hardwired connection between the respective door and a computing apparatus of the door monitoring system whereby data from each monitored door may be obtained via an end-to-end, hardwired connection; identifying that a status of a first monitored door of the one or more monitored doors has changed, wherein identifying that a status of the first monitored door has changed comprises determining that: a) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been triggered; b) a fault with the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been detected; c) the state of the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door can no longer be accurately determined; and/or d) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has not responded to a status update request, and a) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been triggered; b) a fault with the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has been detected; c) the state of the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door can no longer be accurately determined; and/or d) the ligature-detection device of the first monitored door has not responded to a status update request, and indicating that a status of the first monitored door has changed by modifying the manner in which the first monitored door is presented on the displayed floor plan.
A device for neuromuscular stimulation and/or electromyography, EMG, recording, the device comprising: a sleeve comprising a compression sleeve fabric; and electrodes housed within the sleeve; wherein the electrodes are printed on the sleeve; characterized in that the electrodes comprise conductive polycellulose. a sleeve comprising a compression sleeve fabric; and electrodes housed within the sleeve; wherein the electrodes are printed on the sleeve;
A light transmissive member , comprising a substrate having a light transmission property, wherein on one surface of the substrate , an antireflection layer in which a layer composed of silicon oxide (SiO2) and a layer composed of silicon nitride (SiN) are alternately stacked is formed, and on the other surface of the substrate , an antistatic layer including at least a transparent electrically conductive film layer is formed, characterized in that the antistatic layer is antireflective, the antistatic layer is formed by alternately stacking a first refractive index layer and a second refractive index layer having a lower refractive index than that of the first refractive index layer, one layer of the first refractive index layers is the transparent electrically conductive film layer , and the other layer is a layer composed of the same material as that of the transparent electrically conductive film layer or a layer composed of silicon nitride, the second refractive index layer is a layer composed of silicon oxide, the transparent electrically conductive film layer is a titanium oxide layer composed mainly of titanium oxide and containing, as a sub-component, at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium (Nb), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr), tantalum (Ta), aluminum (Al), and hafnium (Hf), the content of the titanium in the titanium oxide layer is 45% mass or more and 70% mass or less, the content of the oxygen in the titanium oxide layer is 25% mass or more and 50% mass or less, and the content of the sub-component in the titanium oxide layer is 0.01%% mass or more and 1.0% mass or less. on the other surface of the substrate , an antistatic layer including at least a transparent electrically conductive film layer is formed, characterized in that the antistatic layer is antireflective, the antistatic layer is formed by alternately stacking a first refractive index layer and a second refractive index layer having a lower refractive index than that of the first refractive index layer, one layer of the first refractive index layers is the transparent electrically conductive film layer , and the other layer is a layer composed of the same material as that of the transparent electrically conductive film layer or a layer composed of silicon nitride, the second refractive index layer is a layer composed of silicon oxide, the transparent electrically conductive film layer is a titanium oxide layer composed mainly of titanium oxide and containing, as a sub-component, at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium (Nb), silicon (Si), zirconium (Zr), tantalum (Ta), aluminum (Al), and hafnium (Hf), the content of the titanium in the titanium oxide layer is 45% mass or more and 70% mass or less, the content of the oxygen in the titanium oxide layer is 25% mass or more and 50% mass or less, and the content of the sub-component in the titanium oxide layer is 0.01%% mass or more and 1.0% mass or less.
A communication device for a multi-cell network, the device comprising: a scheduler configured to generate outer cell scheduling information by the scheduling of outer cell frequency resources for outer terminals in outer cells of a plurality of cells; and a scheduling information provider configured to provide the outer cell scheduling information to base stations in the plurality of cells, wherein outer cells are more remote from an associated base station than inner cells, outer terminals are located in outer cells and inner terminals are located in inner cells, wherein the scheduler has a unique authority to schedule the outer cell frequency resources for the outer terminals in the outer cells of the base stations and wherein the device is CHARACTERISED IN THAT the scheduler has no authority to schedule inner cell frequency resources for the inner terminals in the inner cells of the base stations. a scheduler configured to generate outer cell scheduling information by the scheduling of outer cell frequency resources for outer terminals in outer cells of a plurality of cells; and a scheduling information provider configured to provide the outer cell scheduling information to base stations in the plurality of cells, wherein outer cells are more remote from an associated base station than inner cells, outer terminals are located in outer cells and inner terminals are located in inner cells, wherein the scheduler has a unique authority to schedule the outer cell frequency resources for the outer terminals in the outer cells of the base stations and wherein the device is CHARACTERISED IN THAT the scheduler has no authority to schedule inner cell frequency resources for the inner terminals in the inner cells of the base stations.