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A storage unit for biological samples, with a horizontal main footprint and a plurality of storage compartments , which are at least partially separated from one another by partitions and are enclosed by a peripheral frame , wherein the partitions and the peripheral frame are part of the storage unit and are disposed perpendicular to the main footprint , and wherein the storage compartments have both a first opening as well as a second opening , wherein the storage compartments comprise retention means and a biopsy cassette or a glass slide can be inserted into each compartment against a sliding resistance of the retention means through the first opening and through the second opening into such a storage compartment , characterized in that the storage compartments are tailored to the shape of a biopsy cassette or to the shape of a glass slide and at least one of the storage compartments comprises such a biopsy cassette or such a glass slide and the retention means are configured in a manner so as to prevent the vertically standing biopsy cassettes or glass slides from falling out through the first opening and from falling out through the second opening , wherein the retention means are configured in a manner such that the first opening and the second opening are kept open.
A method for producing a surface-ripened vegan food product from a vegan precursor food product, characterized in that the method comprises the steps (a) providing a vegan precursor food product, applying an envelope thereon and subsequently applying microorganisms thereon, said envelope • being in direct physical contact with the surface of the vegan precursor food product, and • being permeable for metabolites produced by the microorganisms and for the microorganisms themselves and for components of the vegan precursor food product and for gaseous elements, in particular surrounding air; and (b) ripening the vegan precursor food product within the envelope; and (c) removing the envelope to thereby obtain the vegan food product; and wherein the vegan food product and the vegan precursor food product, each contain water and at least one of the following components: • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived polysaccharide component; • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived protein component; and optionally in addition a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived fat component. the method comprises the steps (a) providing a vegan precursor food product, applying an envelope thereon and subsequently applying microorganisms thereon, said envelope • being in direct physical contact with the surface of the vegan precursor food product, and • being permeable for metabolites produced by the microorganisms and for the microorganisms themselves and for components of the vegan precursor food product and for gaseous elements, in particular surrounding air; and (b) ripening the vegan precursor food product within the envelope; and (c) removing the envelope to thereby obtain the vegan food product; and (a) providing a vegan precursor food product, applying an envelope thereon and subsequently applying microorganisms thereon, said envelope • being in direct physical contact with the surface of the vegan precursor food product, and • being permeable for metabolites produced by the microorganisms and for the microorganisms themselves and for components of the vegan precursor food product and for gaseous elements, in particular surrounding air; and • being in direct physical contact with the surface of the vegan precursor food product, and • being permeable for metabolites produced by the microorganisms and for the microorganisms themselves and for components of the vegan precursor food product and for gaseous elements, in particular surrounding air; and (b) ripening the vegan precursor food product within the envelope; and (c) removing the envelope to thereby obtain the vegan food product; and wherein the vegan food product and the vegan precursor food product, each contain water and at least one of the following components: • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived polysaccharide component; • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived protein component; • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived polysaccharide component; • a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived protein component; and optionally in addition a plant, algae, bacteria or fungus derived fat component.
A hydraulic apparatus comprising: a hydraulic actuator comprising an actuator housing that at least partially defines a compression chamber and an extension chamber ; a pump ; a compression-side accumulator comprising: a compression-side accumulator housing defining a first internal volume that is divided, by a first barrier , into a first contained chamber and a first working chamber , wherein: the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the pump by a compression-side first flow path having a first inertance; the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the compression chamber by a compression-side second flow path having a second inertance; characterized in that the first inertance is larger than the second inertance. a hydraulic actuator comprising an actuator housing that at least partially defines a compression chamber and an extension chamber ; a pump ; a compression-side accumulator comprising: a compression-side accumulator housing defining a first internal volume that is divided, by a first barrier , into a first contained chamber and a first working chamber , wherein: the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the pump by a compression-side first flow path having a first inertance; the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the compression chamber by a compression-side second flow path having a second inertance; the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the pump by a compression-side first flow path having a first inertance; the first working chamber is fluidly coupled to the compression chamber by a compression-side second flow path having a second inertance;
A spring brake actuator for a vehicle, in particular parking or emergency brake actuator, for use in a commercial vehicle, the actuator comprising : - a cylinder housing having a cylinder housing base and a spring seat on the base, - a spring brake piston located in said cylinder housing for applying a braking force, - a compression spring arranged between the spring seat and the spring brake piston , the spring being effective to push the spring brake piston away from the base , wherein the cylinder housing is divided into a spring chamber and a pressure chamber , the compression spring being arranged in the spring chamber and the pressure chamber being supplied with pressurized fluid, wherein the cylinder housing comprises an elastically deformable diaphragm that comprises an annular flange which is sealingly mounted to the cylinder housing and an inner periphery , which is sealingly mounted to the spring brake piston such that the pressure chamber is fluid-tightly isolated from the spring chamber by preventing relative movement between sealing parts and sealing surfaces, characterized in that the diaphragm comprises an inner annular insert , that is sealingly connected to the diaphragm by at least one of: - material joining, in particular adhesive bonding, thermal bonding or vulcanization, or - threaded fastening. - a cylinder housing having a cylinder housing base and a spring seat on the base, - a spring brake piston located in said cylinder housing for applying a braking force, - a compression spring arranged between the spring seat and the spring brake piston , the spring being effective to push the spring brake piston away from the base , wherein the cylinder housing is divided into a spring chamber and a pressure chamber , the compression spring being arranged in the spring chamber and the pressure chamber being supplied with pressurized fluid, wherein the cylinder housing comprises an elastically deformable diaphragm that comprises an annular flange which is sealingly mounted to the cylinder housing and an inner periphery , which is sealingly mounted to the spring brake piston such that the pressure chamber is fluid-tightly isolated from the spring chamber by preventing relative movement between sealing parts and sealing surfaces, characterized in that the diaphragm comprises an inner annular insert , that is sealingly connected to the diaphragm by at least one of: - material joining, in particular adhesive bonding, thermal bonding or vulcanization, or - threaded fastening. - material joining, in particular adhesive bonding, thermal bonding or vulcanization, or - threaded fastening.
A frozen confection stick product comprising from two to eight frozen confection streams rippled in the longitudinal direction, wherein the frozen confection stream ripples form a longitudinal repeat unit comprising a ripple of each frozen confection stream, the frozen confection product comprises from three to eight repeat units, and the longitudinal axes of the frozen confection stream ripples are not coaxial.
A vehicle headlight , configured to generate a lighting zone in front of the vehicle and comprising: - first fixed matrix lighting source configured to emit a driving light beam , - second movable lighting source configured to emit a dipped light beam , and - correction mechanism configured to maintain a constant vertical inclination of the dipped light beam with respect to a reference horizontal line (H), when the vehicle is traveling, characterized in that it further comprises a dioptric prism configured to eliminate at least one shadow zone which may occur, at the level of said lighting zone , between the driving light beam and the dioptric light beam , and characterized in that the dioptric prism is mounted so as to be movable, in front of the first lighting source , between: - working position (T), making it possible to refract incident rays of the driving light beam , and - a rest position (R), with no effect on said incident rays ; and in that said dioptric prism comprises: - a plane bearing face , and - a diopter plane of which said incident rays (11 ' ) emerge from the dioptric prism into a refracted beam (11 " ) intended to project, at the level of the lighting zone , the driving light beam adjacent or partially superposed on the dipped light beam . - first fixed matrix lighting source configured to emit a driving light beam , - second movable lighting source configured to emit a dipped light beam , and - correction mechanism configured to maintain a constant vertical inclination of the dipped light beam with respect to a reference horizontal line (H), when the vehicle is traveling, characterized in that it further comprises a dioptric prism configured to eliminate at least one shadow zone which may occur, at the level of said lighting zone , between the driving light beam and the dioptric light beam , and characterized in that the dioptric prism is mounted so as to be movable, in front of the first lighting source , between: - working position (T), making it possible to refract incident rays of the driving light beam , and - a rest position (R), with no effect on said incident rays ; - working position (T), making it possible to refract incident rays of the driving light beam , and - a rest position (R), with no effect on said incident rays ; and in that said dioptric prism comprises: - a plane bearing face , and - a diopter plane of which said incident rays (11 ' ) emerge from the dioptric prism into a refracted beam (11 " ) intended to project, at the level of the lighting zone , the driving light beam adjacent or partially superposed on the dipped light beam . - a plane bearing face , and - a diopter plane of which said incident rays (11 ' ) emerge from the dioptric prism into a refracted beam (11 " ) intended to project, at the level of the lighting zone , the driving light beam adjacent or partially superposed on the dipped light beam .
Method for ack/nack signalisation, - wherein a data block comprises payload data, wherein the payload data is transmitted as one or more Radio Link Control blocks, wherein the payload data is interleaved and distributed on assigned timeslots, and the transmission uses at least one carrier to transmit the payload data from a first unit to a second unit, - wherein the first unit transmits a polling request at a point of time to the second unit, and the polling request initialises an ack/nack examination of received Radio Link Control blocks at the second unit, - wherein the second unit examines received Radio Link Control blocks for each of the assigned timeslots, - wherein during the examination, a binary bit combination is used for each of the assigned timeslots to indicate if one Radio Link Control block or two Radio Link Control blocks of each of the assigned timeslots show errors or not, - wherein the indicating binary bit combinations are used to form a bitmap, - wherein the bitmap is transmitted from the second unit to the first unit as ack/nack signal, - wherein the first unit analyses the bitmap and identifies erroneous Radio Link Control blocks wherein the analysing is performed using the transmission time of the Radio Link Control blocks between the first and the second unit, the assigned timeslots and the point of time when the polling request was sent. - wherein a data block comprises payload data, wherein the payload data is transmitted as one or more Radio Link Control blocks, wherein the payload data is interleaved and distributed on assigned timeslots, and the transmission uses at least one carrier to transmit the payload data from a first unit to a second unit, - wherein the first unit transmits a polling request at a point of time to the second unit, and the polling request initialises an ack/nack examination of received Radio Link Control blocks at the second unit, - wherein the second unit examines received Radio Link Control blocks for each of the assigned timeslots, - wherein during the examination, a binary bit combination is used for each of the assigned timeslots to indicate if one Radio Link Control block or two Radio Link Control blocks of each of the assigned timeslots show errors or not, - wherein the indicating binary bit combinations are used to form a bitmap, - wherein the bitmap is transmitted from the second unit to the first unit as ack/nack signal, - wherein the first unit analyses the bitmap and identifies erroneous Radio Link Control blocks wherein the analysing is performed using the transmission time of the Radio Link Control blocks between the first and the second unit, the assigned timeslots and the point of time when the polling request was sent.
An operating method for a hybrid drive of a vehicle, in particular a plug-in hybrid or a range-extender vehicle, which can be operated with multiple operating modes for the propulsion of the vehicle, comprising the following steps: a) dividing a travel route into a series of sections ; b) determining the value of at least one target variable for each of the operating modes of the hybrid drive on each section along the travel route ; c) determining an optimum path for the travel route , wherein a path is a series of operating modes along the travel route such that each section is assigned an operating mode and the optimum path is the one that has an optimum value for the at least one target variable ; characterized in that the determination of the value of the at least one target variable takes place in accordance with at least one consumption-relevant variable , comprising a vehicle-specific variable and/or a vehicle-environment-specific variable, wherein the at least one vehicle-specific or vehicle-environment-specific variable comprises: a vehicle mass, a temperature of the drive train, a temperature of the battery, an outside temperature and/or an interior temperature. a) dividing a travel route into a series of sections ; b) determining the value of at least one target variable for each of the operating modes of the hybrid drive on each section along the travel route ; c) determining an optimum path for the travel route , wherein a path is a series of operating modes along the travel route such that each section is assigned an operating mode and the optimum path is the one that has an optimum value for the at least one target variable ; characterized
Method for manufacturing a heat exchanger of the brazed plate and fin type, comprising the following steps: a) stacking, with spacings between them, a set of plates parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction (z) so as to define, between said plates , a plurality of passages suitable for the flow in the longitudinal direction (z) of a first fluid to be brought into a heat-exchange relationship with at least a second fluid, said plates being delimited by a pair of longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction (z) and a pair of lateral edges extending in a lateral direction (x) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (z), b) forming at least one of the plates stacked in step a) by superposing, in a stacking direction (y) perpendicular to the longitudinal (z) and lateral (x) directions, at least a first flat product and a second flat product on top of one another, at least one of the first and second flat products comprising at least one groove that extends parallel to the plates and leads towards the outside of the stack through at least one opening in a lateral or longitudinal edge , the method being characterized by the following steps: c) arranging at least one removable shim in the groove , d) brazing the set of plates , including the first flat product , to the second flat product , e) taking the removable shim out of the groove via the opening , f) introducing at least one temperature probe into the groove . a) stacking, with spacings between them, a set of plates parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction (z) so as to define, between said plates , a plurality of passages suitable for the flow in the longitudinal direction (z) of a first fluid to be brought into a heat-exchange relationship with at least a second fluid, said plates being delimited by a pair of longitudinal edges extending in the longitudinal direction (z) and a pair of lateral edges extending in a lateral direction (x) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (z), b) forming at least one of the plates stacked in step a) by superposing, in a stacking direction (y) perpendicular to the longitudinal (z) and lateral (x) directions, at least a first flat product and a second flat product on top of one another, at least one of the first and second flat products comprising at least one groove that extends parallel to the plates and leads towards the outside of the stack through at least one opening in a lateral or longitudinal edge , the method being characterized by the following steps: c) arranging at least one removable shim in the groove , d) brazing the set of plates , including the first flat product , to the second flat product , e) taking the removable shim out of the groove via the opening , f) introducing at least one temperature probe into the groove . c) arranging at least one removable shim in the groove , d) brazing the set of plates , including the first flat product , to the second flat product , e) taking the removable shim out of the groove via the opening , f) introducing at least one temperature probe into the groove .
An acridine-labelled conjugate, comprising a substituted acridine, a polyamino acid, and a protein to be labelled which are sequentially linked; the polyamino acid is a polyamino acid containing a carboxyl group and an amino group, and the polyamino acid reacts, by the amino group therein, with the substituted acridine to form a chemical bond; the protein to be labelled is a protein, a modified protein, a polypeptide or a modified polypeptide containing an amino group, and the amino group in the protein to be labelled reacts with the carboxyl group in the polyamino acid to form a -NH-CO- structure, thereby linking the polyamino acid and the protein to be labelled together; and the substituted acridine is 10-methyl-acridine-9-N-succinimidyl ester formic acid (AE-NHS) and the polyamino acid is polylysine. the polyamino acid is a polyamino acid containing a carboxyl group and an amino group, and the polyamino acid reacts, by the amino group therein, with the substituted acridine to form a chemical bond; the protein to be labelled is a protein, a modified protein, a polypeptide or a modified polypeptide containing an amino group, and the amino group in the protein to be labelled reacts with the carboxyl group in the polyamino acid to form a -NH-CO- structure, thereby linking the polyamino acid and the protein to be labelled together; and the substituted acridine is 10-methyl-acridine-9-N-succinimidyl ester formic acid (AE-NHS) and the polyamino acid is polylysine.
An apparatus for audio fingerprinting, comprising: a frequency range separator to transform an audio signal into a frequency domain , the transformed audio signal including a plurality of time-frequency bins including a first time-frequency bin ; an audio characteristic determiner to determine a first characteristic of a first group of time-frequency bins of the plurality of time-frequency bins, the first group of time-frequency bins surrounding the first time-frequency bin; a signal normalizer to normalize the audio signal to thereby generate normalized energy values , the normalizing of the audio signal including normalizing the first time-frequency bin by the first characteristic; a point selector to: select one of the normalized energy values ; determine a category of the audio signal; and weigh the selecting of the one of the normalized energy values by the category of the audio signal; and a fingerprint generator to generate a fingerprint of the audio signal using the selected one of the normalized energy values. a frequency range separator to transform an audio signal into a frequency domain , the transformed audio signal including a plurality of time-frequency bins including a first time-frequency bin ; an audio characteristic determiner to determine a first characteristic of a first group of time-frequency bins of the plurality of time-frequency bins, the first group of time-frequency bins surrounding the first time-frequency bin; a signal normalizer to normalize the audio signal to thereby generate normalized energy values , the normalizing of the audio signal including normalizing the first time-frequency bin by the first characteristic; a point selector to: select one of the normalized energy values ; determine a category of the audio signal; and weigh the selecting of the one of the normalized energy values by the category of the audio signal; and select one of the normalized energy values ; determine a category of the audio signal; and weigh the selecting of the one of the normalized energy values by the category of the audio signal; and a fingerprint generator to generate a fingerprint of the audio signal using the selected one of the normalized energy values.