mhurhangee/patent-ind-claim-en huggingface dataset:
Flat carpet comprising a carpet fabric with a visible side and a back side, as well as a back layer , smaller in width and length than the carpet fabric , provided on the back side of said carpet fabric , wherein one or more edges of said carpet fabric are folded back, wherein said folded back edges thus obtained are fixed to said back layer by means of an adhesive tape , characterised in that said folded edges are folded back to an edge of said back layer , wherein said adhesive tape is partially provided on said back layer and partially arranged on said folded edge of said carpet fabric .
Method for producing three-dimensional, 3D, hydrogel structures by means of layer build-up technique comprising the steps: - providing (S1) a liquid hydrogel solution, preferably a liquid alginate solution, and a sample carrier ; - layerwise applying (S2) the liquid hydrogel solution onto the sample carrier in a temperature environment, the temperature of which is below the freezing point of the hydrogel solution, to produce a frozen 3D layered hydrogel structure ; and - drying (S3) of the frozen 3D layered hydrogel structure to produce a porous 3D hydrogel structure ; wherein the layerwise application step (S2) is performed by means of a device for the layerwise building-up of three-dimensional hydrogel structures, comprising: a) a print-head for metered release of the liquid hydrogel solution; b) a support to accommodate the sample carrier ; and c) a positioning device , which is configured to change a relative position of the print-head to the support in three spatial directions; wherein in the layerwise application step (S2) a first pore property of the 3D hydrogel structure is adjusted by means of at least one first operating parameter; characterised in that the at least one first operating parameter comprises a spacing between the print-head and the sample carrier and/or a spacing between the print-head and the last applied layer of hydrogel solution. - providing (S1) a liquid hydrogel solution, preferably a liquid alginate solution, and a sample carrier ; - layerwise applying (S2) the liquid hydrogel solution onto the sample carrier in a temperature environment, the temperature of which is below the freezing point of the hydrogel solution, to produce a frozen 3D layered hydrogel structure ; and - drying (S3) of the frozen 3D layered hydrogel structure to produce a porous 3D hydrogel structure ; wherein the layerwise application step (S2) is performed by means of a device for the layerwise building-up of three-dimensional hydrogel structures, comprising: a) a print-head for metered release of the liquid hydrogel solution; b) a support to accommodate the sample carrier ; and c) a positioning device , which is configured to change a relative position of the print-head to the support in three spatial directions; a) a print-head for metered release of the liquid hydrogel solution; b) a support to accommodate the sample carrier ; and c) a positioning device , which is configured to change a relative position of the print-head to the support in three spatial directions; wherein in the layerwise application step (S2) a first pore property of the 3D hydrogel structure is adjusted by means of at least one first operating parameter; characterised in that the at least one first operating parameter comprises a spacing between the print-head and the sample carrier and/or a spacing between the print-head and the last applied layer of hydrogel solution.
A turbofan engine comprising: a fan section ; and a turbine section in driving engagement with the fan section through a speed change mechanism (48; 148; 248), wherein the speed change mechanism comprises: a plurality of planet gears surrounding a sun gear ; a carrier supporting the plurality of planet gears and including a first carrier bearing flange ; a ring gear surrounding the plurality of planet gears ; and at least one ring gear carrier bearing engaging the first carrier bearing flange , wherein the ring gear is fixed from rotation relative to an engine static structure by a rigid support , characterised in that the ring gear includes a ring gear bearing flange (124; 224) and the at least one ring gear carrier bearing engages the ring gear bearing flange (124; 224). a fan section ; and a turbine section in driving engagement with the fan section through a speed change mechanism (48; 148; 248), wherein the speed change mechanism comprises: a plurality of planet gears surrounding a sun gear ; a carrier supporting the plurality of planet gears and including a first carrier bearing flange ; a ring gear surrounding the plurality of planet gears ; and at least one ring gear carrier bearing engaging the first carrier bearing flange , wherein the ring gear is fixed from rotation relative to an engine static structure by a rigid support , characterised in that the ring gear includes a ring gear bearing flange (124; 224) and the at least one ring gear carrier bearing engages the ring gear bearing flange (124; 224). a plurality of planet gears surrounding a sun gear ; a carrier supporting the plurality of planet gears and including a first carrier bearing flange ; a ring gear surrounding the plurality of planet gears ; and at least one ring gear carrier bearing engaging the first carrier bearing flange , wherein the ring gear is fixed from rotation relative to an engine static structure by a rigid support , characterised in that the ring gear includes a ring gear bearing flange (124; 224) and the at least one ring gear carrier bearing engages the ring gear bearing flange (124; 224).
A polyol composition comprising a high functional, moderate viscosity aromatic polyester polyol, which composition is essentially free of polyether polyol, suitable as the sole polyol in the production of polyurethane foams that have an E-84 tunnel fire test class one rating, said aromatic polyester polyol having a functionality range from 2.8 to 3.2, a moderate viscosity ranging from 4,000 -10,000 cps @ 25°C inclusive, a hydroxyl number in the range of 320-400 inclusive, and percent phenyl content (w/w) in the range of 14.75% to 19.58%, wherein said polyol composition is prepared by the transesterification or esterification of a mixture consisting of: 34-66% w/w glycols, 24-34 w/w terephthalate, 0-17% w/w glycerin, 0-14% w/w pentaerythriol, 0-5% w/w methyl glucoside, 0-10% w/w sorbitol, and 0-15% w/w natural vegetable oil, modified natural vegetable oil or fatty acid derivatives of vegetable oil. 34-66% w/w glycols, 24-34 w/w terephthalate, 0-17% w/w glycerin, 0-14% w/w pentaerythriol, 0-5% w/w methyl glucoside, 0-10% w/w sorbitol, and 0-15% w/w natural vegetable oil, modified natural vegetable oil or fatty acid derivatives of vegetable oil.
Device (1;50;80;) for determining the salt concentration on a road surface , the device comprising: - a plate having a first portion adapted to be fixed on an outer part of a service vehicle and a second portion tilting with respect to the first portion , - at least two electrodes (4;51;82) fixed to said second portion of the plate and protruding therefrom, - motorized means for rotating said second portion of the plate between a resting position, in which it is substantially on the same plane as said first portion of the plate so that, in use, it is raised with respect to the road surface crossed by said service vehicle , and an operating position, in which said second portion of the plate , in use, is lowered so as to allow said electrodes (4;51;82) to contact said road surface during the advancement of said service vehicle , and - an electrical circuit comprising said electrodes (4;51;82;) and a command and control unit (CPU) arranged for commanding the application of a current or voltage between said electrodes (4;51;82;) when the same are in the aforementioned operating position and for receiving and elaborating data relating to the variation of an electrical property measured in said circuit and correlated to the salt concentration between said electrodes (4;51;82;) so as to determine the salt concertation on said road surface. - a plate having a first portion adapted to be fixed on an outer part of a service vehicle and a second portion tilting with respect to the first portion , - at least two electrodes (4;51;82) fixed to said second portion of the plate and protruding therefrom, - motorized means for rotating said second portion of the plate between a resting position, in which it is substantially on the same plane as said first portion of the plate so that, in use, it is raised with respect to the road surface crossed by said service vehicle , and an operating position, in which said second portion of the plate , in use, is lowered so as to allow said electrodes (4;51;82) to contact said road surface during the advancement of said service vehicle , and - an electrical circuit comprising said electrodes (4;51;82;) and a command and control unit (CPU) arranged for commanding the application of a current or voltage between said electrodes (4;51;82;) when the same are in the aforementioned operating position and for receiving and elaborating data relating to the variation of an electrical property measured in said circuit and correlated to the salt concentration between said electrodes (4;51;82;) so as to determine the salt concertation on said road surface.
Process for preparing a fat-continuous emulsion, which emulsion comprises 15-83% of an aqueous phase and 17-85% of a fat phase, said fat phase comprising 10-100 weight % on total fat phase hardstock fat, and 0-90% weight % on total fat phase oil, which process comprises the steps of: a. providing a water-continuous dispersion at a temperature of between 0°C and 15°C comprising part of the aqueous phase as the continuous phase with dispersed therein part of the oil; b. providing part of hardstock fat in melted form and at a temperature of between 30°C and 60°C; c. providing a fat-continuous dispersion which comprises the remainder of the aqueous phase, the remainder of the oil, and the remainder of the hardstock, which dispersion comprises fat crystals in an amount of from 0.2 to 10% by weight, based on the total dispersion provided by this step c.; d. combining the water-continuous dispersion of step a. with the melted hardstock fat of step b. and the fat-continuous dispersion of step c, wherein the weight ratio of water-continuous dispersion + melted hardstock : fat-continuous dispersion is from 100 : 1 to 5 : 1; e. subjecting the mixture obtained after step d. to a high shear device to provide a fat-continuous emulsion; wherein the temperature of the mixture obtained from step d. is below the melting point of the hardstock fat, wherein the dispersion in step c. comprises a rework stream of the product produced by step e, and wherein the high shear device is a high shear mixing process in a high shear mixer having a rotor and a stator, which mixer has a residence time of less than 3 seconds, and sufficient shear to effect emulsification of water droplets in oil having a volume weighted mean droplet diameter D 3.3 of less than 15 micrometer. a. providing a water-continuous dispersion at a temperature of between 0°C and 15°C comprising part of the aqueous phase as the continuous phase with dispersed therein part of the oil; b. providing part of hardstock fat in melted form and at a temperature of between 30°C and 60°C; c. providing a fat-continuous dispersion which comprises the remainder of the aqueous phase, the remainder of the oil, and the remainder of the hardstock, which dispersion comprises fat crystals in an amount of from 0.2 to 10% by weight, based on the total dispersion provided by this step c.; d. combining the water-continuous dispersion of step a. with the melted hardstock fat of step b. and the fat-continuous dispersion of step c, wherein the weight ratio of water-continuous dispersion + melted hardstock : fat-continuous dispersion is from 100 : 1 to 5 : 1; e. subjecting the mixture obtained after step d. to a high shear device to provide a fat-continuous emulsion;
A method of forming a laminated foil layer stack (100; 200), the method comprising providing a first foil layer (110; 210) including a layer portion (115; 215) with a contact area (116; 216) having formed thereon a solder material (117; 217), positioning a second foil layer (120; 220) adjacent to said first foil layer (110; 210) so as to form a layer stack (100; 200), said second foil layer having an opening (121; 221) extending through the second foil layer (120; 220) and exposing said solder material (117; 217), defining an area of increased pressure (122; 222) locally in said second foil layer (120; 220), said area of increased pressure (122; 222) laterally surrounding said opening (121; 221), and applying pressure and heat to said first (110; 210) and second (120; 220) foil layers so as to build up increased pressure in said area of increased pressure (122; 222) and laminate said second foil layer (120; 220) to said first foil layer (110; 210) with said area of increased pressure (122; 222) laterally confining said solder material (117; 217). providing a first foil layer (110; 210) including a layer portion (115; 215) with a contact area (116; 216) having formed thereon a solder material (117; 217), positioning a second foil layer (120; 220) adjacent to said first foil layer (110; 210) so as to form a layer stack (100; 200), said second foil layer having an opening (121; 221) extending through the second foil layer (120; 220) and exposing said solder material (117; 217), defining an area of increased pressure (122; 222) locally in said second foil layer (120; 220), said area of increased pressure (122; 222) laterally surrounding said opening (121; 221), and applying pressure and heat to said first (110; 210) and second (120; 220) foil layers so as to build up increased pressure in said area of increased pressure (122; 222) and laminate said second foil layer (120; 220) to said first foil layer (110; 210) with said area of increased pressure (122; 222) laterally confining said solder material (117; 217).
Method for manufacturing a multilayer object made of synthetic resin by compression-moulding a dose of multilayer molten resin comprising at least one functional layer , each layer of the dose being in the molten state during compression; the method consisting at least in co-extruding resins through a die, in cutting the extrudate periodically in order to obtain a dose , then in depositing the dose in the molten state in the cavity of a mould; the method in this way defining in the dose a direction of extrusion and a disposition of the functional layer parallel to the direction of extrusion; the method being characterized by the fact that the dose is compressed along a compression axis which intersects the direction of extrusion and which is not an axis of symmetry of revolution of the dose, so as to induce, in the flow of the layers, an asymmetry with respect to the compression axis and obtain an object that has a distribution of the layers without axis of symmetry of revolution.
A load control device for controlling an electrical load, the load control device comprising: a load regulation circuit configured to control a magnitude of a load current conducted through the electrical load, the load regulation circuit configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load; and a control circuit coupled to the load regulation circuit and configured to control the load regulation circuit for adjusting an average magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load towards a target current; wherein the control circuit is configured to control the load regulation circuit to conduct the load current to the electrical load at the peak magnitude for an on-time during a present cycle of the load regulation circuit , the control circuit configured to determine a length of an operating period of the present cycle of the load regulation circuit based on the target current and a magnitude of the feedback signal received in the present cycle that is indicative of the peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load during the on-time of the present cycle. a load regulation circuit configured to control a magnitude of a load current conducted through the electrical load, the load regulation circuit configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of a peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load; and a control circuit coupled to the load regulation circuit and configured to control the load regulation circuit for adjusting an average magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load towards a target current; wherein the control circuit is configured to control the load regulation circuit to conduct the load current to the electrical load at the peak magnitude for an on-time during a present cycle of the load regulation circuit , the control circuit configured to determine a length of an operating period of the present cycle of the load regulation circuit based on the target current and a magnitude of the feedback signal received in the present cycle that is indicative of the peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the electrical load during the on-time of the present cycle.
A capsule to be placed on a beverage bottle or a cork arrangement to be placed in a beverage bottle , comprising: a carrier material layer ; and at least two layers of security ink on the carrier material layer , wherein each of the at least two layers has a different chemical composition, at least one layer of the at least two layers comprises a first composition having flakes exhibiting full reflection of light received at a predetermined wavelength, at least one second layer of the at least two layers comprises a second composition having coding flakes exhibiting semi-reflection of light received at the predetermined wavelength, a reflected light by the capsule or cork arrangement upon illumination with the light at the predetermined wavelength provides deterministic and non-deterministic data of said capsule or cork arrangement for identification and/or authentication of said capsule or cork arrangement, and the reflected light is the light reflected by the at least one layer comprising the flakes exhibiting the full reflection and transmitted through the at least one second layer as a back light to the at least one second layer . a carrier material layer ; and at least two layers of security ink on the carrier material layer , wherein each of the at least two layers has a different chemical composition, at least one layer of the at least two layers comprises a first composition having flakes exhibiting full reflection of light received at a predetermined wavelength, at least one second layer of the at least two layers comprises a second composition having coding flakes exhibiting semi-reflection of light received at the predetermined wavelength, a reflected light by the capsule or cork arrangement upon illumination with the light at the predetermined wavelength provides deterministic and non-deterministic data of said capsule or cork arrangement for identification and/or authentication of said capsule or cork arrangement, and the reflected light is the light reflected by the at least one layer comprising the flakes exhibiting the full reflection and transmitted through the at least one second layer as a back light to the at least one second layer .
A recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) for use in medicine, said rAAV comprising a transgene engineered to express an RNA transcript that comprises binding sites for at least two immune-associated miRNAs selected from miR-15a, miR-16-1, miR-17, miR-18a, miR-19a, miR-19b-1, miR-20a, miR-92a-1, miR-30b, miR-29a/b/c, miR-21, miR-31, miR-106a, miR-125a/b, miR-142-3p, miR-146a, miR-150, miR-155, miR-181a, miR-223, miR-424, miR-34a, and/or miR-126, wherein the rAAV infects target cells of the subject thereby delivering the transgene to the target cells.
An acoustic transducer comprising: a transducer element (106a-c, 768a, 860, 902, 1202a-c, 1203a-c, 1209a-c, 1291a-b, 131 1a-c, 1502, 1602) with an acoustic radiative surface (182a-c) oriented in an X-Y plane configured to receive acoustic radiation along an axis normal to the acoustic radiative surface, the radiative surface including two warped edges at opposing sides of the radiative surface, wherein the warped edges define shapes with truncated Gaussian function parameters with respect to a Y axis in the X-Y plane, and cause an overall width of the radiative surface defined parallel to an X axis in the X-Y plane to be greater than any local width (863a-c) of the radiative surface defined parallel to the X axis and between the two warped edges.
Test arrangement for fatigue testing a wind turbine blade , wherein a first section of the wind turbine blade is attached to a fixing device and wherein a second section of the wind turbine blade is attached to an excitation device , wherein the excitation device comprises an actuator and a coupling device that couples the second section to the actuator in an engaged state , allowing the actuator to exert a force in at least one direction on the second section , wherein the coupling device is designed to automatically disengage, therefore decoupling the actuator from the second section , when a disengagement condition is met, and to automatically return to the engaged state , when an engagement condition is met during the operation of the excitation device ; characterized in that the coupling device comprises a wheel driven by the actuator and a contact element , especially a plate, that contacts the wheel in the engaged state and that is attached to the second section .
Use of an inhibitor of the activity or stability of the pre-replication complex, also called pre-RC, for the in vitro preparation of haploid eukaryotic somatic cells from eukaryotic somatic diploid cells, said inhibitor completely inhibiting the activity or stability of said pre-RC.
Fabric formed from a sheet material consisting of an interweaving of filaments, characterized in that the surface of both opposite faces of said sheet material is metalized and that at least one of said metalized faces has at least one color layer consisting of a semi-transparent ink exhibiting different gradients of optical transparency depending on the different shades of said color layer , for adjusting the effect of transparency to light of the aforementioned fabric.
A method of curing a curable composition, the method comprising: a) providing the curable composition, wherein the curable composition comprises: a free-radically polymerizable compound; and a quaternary ammonium halide; a polyvalent metal compound for free-radically curing the curable composition; and b) providing a substrate having a solid primer layer disposed on at least a portion thereof, wherein the solid primer layer comprises: a binder material; and an organic peroxide; and c) contacting the curable composition with at least a portion of the solid primer layer, thereby causing at least partial curing of the curable composition. a) providing the curable composition, wherein the curable composition comprises: a free-radically polymerizable compound; and a quaternary ammonium halide; a polyvalent metal compound for free-radically curing the curable composition; and a free-radically polymerizable compound; and a quaternary ammonium halide; a polyvalent metal compound for free-radically curing the curable composition; and b) providing a substrate having a solid primer layer disposed on at least a portion thereof, wherein the solid primer layer comprises: a binder material; and an organic peroxide; and a binder material; and an organic peroxide; and c) contacting the curable composition with at least a portion of the solid primer layer, thereby causing at least partial curing of the curable composition.