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A demountably attachable cartridge of a surgical instrument, the cartridge comprising: a housing demountably attachable to an end effector of the surgical instrument, the housing including a housing proximal end , a housing distal end , an upper surface extending between the housing proximal and distal ends, a distal garage having lateral surfaces that extend above the upper surface , and a plurality of staple openings extending through the upper surface ; a knife member supported within the housing for movement distally, the knife member having a cutting blade configured to cut when the knife member is moved distally; and wherein the knife member is moveable into a predetermined parked position at the distal end of the housing such that a first portion of the cutting blade displaces below the upper surface and a second portion remains displaced above the upper surface , the second portion being laterally faced by the lateral faces of the garage , characterized in that there is lateral clearance in the predetermined parked position between the lateral faces and the second portion of more than 0.25 mm to accommodate a dislodged staple. a housing demountably attachable to an end effector of the surgical instrument, the housing including a housing proximal end , a housing distal end , an upper surface extending between the housing proximal and distal ends, a distal garage having lateral surfaces that extend above the upper surface , and a plurality of staple openings extending through the upper surface ; a knife member supported within the housing for movement distally, the knife member having a cutting blade configured to cut when the knife member is moved distally; and wherein the knife member is moveable into a predetermined parked position at the distal end of the housing such that a first portion of the cutting blade displaces below the upper surface and a second portion remains displaced above the upper surface , the second portion being laterally faced by the lateral faces of the garage , characterized in that there is lateral clearance in the predetermined parked position between the lateral faces and the second portion of more than 0.25 mm to accommodate a dislodged staple.
A method of operating an automated dialog system employing at least one hardware implemented processor and using a source language to conduct a real time human machine dialog process with a human user using a target language, said automated dialog system having language understanding capabilities and dialog management capabilities in a source language, said source language being a language of the automated dialog system, the method comprising: developing a statistical language model in the target language based on a statistical language model in the source language; receiving a user query in the target language; performing automatic speech recognition of the user query using said statistical language model in the target language; performing automatic machine translation of the speech-recognized user query into said source language; delivering an automated reply of the dialog process to the user in the target language, the reply being an automated human-machine dialog response to the user query; if the dialog process reaches an initial assistance state, providing a first human agent using the source language to interact in real time with the user in the target language by machine translation to continue the dialog process; and if the dialog process reaches a further assistance state, providing a second human agent using the target language to interact in real time with the user in the target language to continue the dialog process. developing a statistical language model in the target language based on a statistical language model in the source language; receiving a user query in the target language; performing automatic speech recognition of the user query using said statistical language model in the target language; performing automatic machine translation of the speech-recognized user query into said source language; delivering an automated reply of the dialog process to the user in the target language, the reply being an automated human-machine dialog response to the user query; if the dialog process reaches an initial assistance state, providing a first human agent using the source language to interact in real time with the user in the target language by machine translation to continue the dialog process; and if the dialog process reaches a further assistance state, providing a second human agent using the target language to interact in real time with the user in the target language to continue the dialog process.
Applicator for stamped parts with a stamped part strip roll made of a stamped part strip , comprising a liner strip and stamped parts arranged separated from each other in a longitudinal direction on the liner strip , a liner strip take-up reel , a dispensing edge , which is arranged between the stamped part strip roll and the liner strip take-up reel in the running direction, and around which the liner strip can be stripped off, a suction belt , arranged at the dispensing edge , with a pressing surface on an applicator tip , on which a stamped part , detached from the stamped part strip and transferred to the suction belt , can be positioned, characterized by a controller which is connected to a first drive for the liner strip take-up reel and is connected to a second drive for the suction belt , and which coordinates the speeds of the liner strip take-up reel and the suction belt , and characterized by a robotic arm on which the suction belt is arranged and which is connected to the controller which presses the pressing surface with the stamped part positioned thereon onto a surface in a perpendicular movement. a stamped part strip roll made of a stamped part strip , comprising a liner strip and stamped parts arranged separated from each other in a longitudinal direction on the liner strip , a liner strip take-up reel , a dispensing edge , which is arranged between the stamped part strip roll and the liner strip take-up reel in the running direction, and around which the liner strip can be stripped off, a suction belt , arranged at the dispensing edge , with a pressing surface on an applicator tip , on which a stamped part , detached from the stamped part strip and transferred to the suction belt , can be positioned, characterized by a controller which is connected to a first drive for the liner strip take-up reel and is connected to a second drive for the suction belt , and which coordinates the speeds of the liner strip take-up reel and the suction belt , and characterized by a robotic arm on which the suction belt is arranged and which is connected to the controller which presses the pressing surface with the stamped part positioned thereon onto a surface in a perpendicular movement.
An electronic cigarette, comprising a control chip , characterized in that the control chip comprises: a driving module configured to output a current to drive the electronic cigarette to work; an open-circuit detecting module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to sample and detect the current, and send out an open-circuit enable signal when a sampled current is less than an internal reference current; a short-circuit detecting module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to sample and detect the current, and send out a short-circuit enable signal when the sampled current is greater than the internal reference current; and a control module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to receive the open-circuit enable signal and the short-circuit enable signal, and send a shutdown signal to the driving module . a driving module configured to output a current to drive the electronic cigarette to work; an open-circuit detecting module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to sample and detect the current, and send out an open-circuit enable signal when a sampled current is less than an internal reference current; a short-circuit detecting module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to sample and detect the current, and send out a short-circuit enable signal when the sampled current is greater than the internal reference current; and a control module electrically connected to the driving module , and configured to receive the open-circuit enable signal and the short-circuit enable signal, and send a shutdown signal to the driving module .
Breast milk pump consisting of one or two pump sets , each of which is connected to a breast pump via one or a common air hose , the pump set consisting of a breast cup , a milk bottle , which can be screwed into the breast cup from below, a valve , which is arranged between the milk bottle and the breast cup , and a protective membrane , which is either attached to the breast cup or can be attached as an external component and which can be closed by a closure cover , the closure cover having a hose connection for connecting the air hose which is connected to the breast pump , and the breast pump comprising a housing in which at least one pneumatic pump and valves are incorporated, a partition being inserted into the housing and a compartment having its own insulation being introduced into each of the spaces thus formed, characterized in that one compartment contains the pneumatic pump and the other compartment contains the valves .
Pneumatic brake booster comprising a booster housing having at least two housing shells which are produced from steel sheet, having at least one elastic sealing element which for sealing in relation to an atmosphere surrounding the brake booster bears in a pneumatically sealing manner on the booster housing , characterized in that the booster housing in the bearing region of at least one sealing element has a metal coating 15 having a surface roughness Ra > 1.2.
A spatial reuse method, comprising: receiving, by a second access point, AP, a radio frame sent by a first AP, wherein the radio frame comprises identification information; and the identification information is used to configure the second AP to perform spatial reuse during uplink data transmission performed by at least one first station, STA, associated with the first AP; and performing spatial reuse by sending, by the second AP based on the identification information, a downlink frame to at least one second STA associated with the second AP; and wherein the identification information is an association identifier of the second AP, or a MAC address of the second AP, or an ID of the second AP. receiving, by a second access point, AP, a radio frame sent by a first AP, wherein the radio frame comprises identification information; and the identification information is used to configure the second AP to perform spatial reuse during uplink data transmission performed by at least one first station, STA, associated with the first AP; and performing spatial reuse by sending, by the second AP based on the identification information, a downlink frame to at least one second STA associated with the second AP; and wherein the identification information is an association identifier of the second AP, or a MAC address of the second AP, or an ID of the second AP.
A method for optimizing a capacity of a communication channel in a communication system comprising at least a transmitter , a receiver , and said communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver, the transmitter using a finite set of symbols Ω = { ω 1 , ... , ω N } having respective positions on a constellation, to transmit a message including at least one symbol on said communication channel , the communication channel being characterized by a conditional probability distribution p Y || X ( y | x ) , where y is a signal received at the receiver while x is a signal transmitted by the transmitter, x comprising at least one symbol of the set Ω, characterized in that said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y || x ) is obtained, for each possible transmitted signal x , by a mixture model using probability distributions represented by exponential functions, and an optimized input distribution p x ( x ) is computed, based on parameters of said mixture model, to define optimized symbols positions and probabilities to be used at the transmitter for optimizing the capacity of the channel, and wherein said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y | x ) obtained from said mixed model is decomposable into a basis of probability distributions exponential functions g ( y || x θ) , where θ is a parameter set, such that: p Y | X y | x = ∑ j = 1 K w j g y | x ; θ j where K is a predetermined parameter, the sets { θ j },{ w j } are parameters representing respectively a mean vector coordinates and covariance matrix parameters. the transmitter using a finite set of symbols Ω = { ω 1 , ... , ω N } having respective positions on a constellation, to transmit a message including at least one symbol on said communication channel , the communication channel being characterized by a conditional probability distribution p Y || X ( y | x ) , where y is a signal received at the receiver while x is a signal transmitted by the transmitter, x comprising at least one symbol of the set Ω, characterized in that said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y || x ) is obtained, for each possible transmitted signal x , by a mixture model using probability distributions represented by exponential functions, and an optimized input distribution p x ( x ) is computed, based on parameters of said mixture model, to define optimized symbols positions and probabilities to be used at the transmitter for optimizing the capacity of the channel, and wherein said conditional probability distribution p Y | X ( y | x ) obtained from said mixed model is decomposable into a basis of probability distributions exponential functions g ( y || x θ) , where θ is a parameter set, such that: p Y | X y | x = ∑ j = 1 K w j g y | x ; θ j where K is a predetermined parameter, the sets { θ j },{ w j } are parameters representing respectively a mean vector coordinates and covariance matrix parameters.
A method for controlling the direction of drilling a borehole , comprising: drilling a borehole in a first direction in a subterranean formation ; altering a stiffness characteristic of a housing within the borehole such that the housing bends in response to an applied weight-on-bit; and drilling the borehole in a second direction in the subterranean formation , wherein the second direction is based, at least in part, on the altered stiffness characteristic of the housing . drilling a borehole in a first direction in a subterranean formation ; altering a stiffness characteristic of a housing within the borehole such that the housing bends in response to an applied weight-on-bit; and drilling the borehole in a second direction in the subterranean formation , wherein the second direction is based, at least in part, on the altered stiffness characteristic of the housing .
A supply of sheet stock material for a dunnage conversion machine that is readily spliced to another supply, comprising: (a) one or more plies of sheet material having (i) multiple longitudinally-extending sections, including a center section bounded by lateral sections , where the lateral sections are folded over a common face of the center section along longitudinal fold lines at lateral edges of the folded sheet material; and (ii) a leading edge and a trailing edge at longitudinally-opposite ends of the sheet material, the supply of sheet stock material being characterized in that the lateral sections are separated from the center section adjacent the leading edge and adjacent the trailing edge along respective lines of separation; and in that (b) a splicing adhesive is applied to the sheet material adjacent the leading edge or the trailing edge on at least each of the lateral sections in such a manner to facilitate splicing each section to respective sections of another supply of sheet stock material. (a) one or more plies of sheet material having (i) multiple longitudinally-extending sections, including a center section bounded by lateral sections , where the lateral sections are folded over a common face of the center section along longitudinal fold lines at lateral edges of the folded sheet material; and (ii) a leading edge and a trailing edge at longitudinally-opposite ends of the sheet material, the supply of sheet stock material being characterized in that the lateral sections are separated from the center section adjacent the leading edge and adjacent the trailing edge along respective lines of separation; and in that (i) multiple longitudinally-extending sections, including a center section bounded by lateral sections , where the lateral sections are folded over a common face of the center section along longitudinal fold lines at lateral edges of the folded sheet material; and (ii) a leading edge and a trailing edge at longitudinally-opposite ends of the sheet material, the supply of sheet stock material being characterized in that the lateral sections are separated from the center section adjacent the leading edge and adjacent the trailing edge along respective lines of separation; and in that (b) a splicing adhesive is applied to the sheet material adjacent the leading edge or the trailing edge on at least each of the lateral sections in such a manner to facilitate splicing each section to respective sections of another supply of sheet stock material.
Wearable protection device comprising at least one inflatable element , a gas generator and a coupling device for coupling the gas generator to the inflatable element , wherein the coupling device includes a coupling element associated with the gas generator and a coupling counter-element associated with the inflatable member , wherein the wearable protection device comprises a support device defining a receiving seat for receiving the gas generator with respective coupling element , and the inflatable element includes at least one primary portion of the inflatable element and a secondary portion of the inflatable element connected as one piece with the primary portion , the secondary portion of the inflatable element being provided with said coupling counter-element , the wearable protection device being characterized in that , the support device is at least partially superimposed on the primary portion of the inflatable element to form a multilayer structure and the secondary portion protrudes with respect to said support device , said secondary portion of the inflatable element being in a folded or overturned condition, or a folding or overturning condition, towards the support device , the folding or overturning condition corresponding to a housing condition of said coupling counter-element in said receiving seat .
A screw-driven handle for a fiducial deployment system comprising: a fiducial deployment needle extending distally from the screw-driven handle and retaining for distal deployment, in a controlled serial manner, a plurality of fiducials, where the fiducial deployment needle includes a single lumen, and where the screw-driven handle comprises: an advancement mechanism for said fiducial deployment system, the advancement mechanism comprising: an elongate handle member defining a central longitudinal axis and handle lumen; an elongate rotatable housing member that encloses a portion of the handle member and defining an inner wall having helical housing threads; a screw member disposed in the elongate rotatable housing member and defining an outer wall having helical screw threads; and a stylet disposed longitudinally through the deployment needle, extending proximally through the handle lumen and at least a portion of the elongate rotatable housing member, wherein the stylet is affixed to the screw member; characterized by further comprising: a guide bar , attached to the screw member wherein the guide bar and the stylet are longitudinally slidable with respect to the elongate handle member . an advancement mechanism for said fiducial deployment system, the advancement mechanism comprising: an elongate handle member defining a central longitudinal axis and handle lumen; an elongate rotatable housing member that encloses a portion of the handle member and defining an inner wall having helical housing threads; a screw member disposed in the elongate rotatable housing member and defining an outer wall having helical screw threads; and a stylet disposed longitudinally through the deployment needle, extending proximally through the handle lumen and at least a portion of the elongate rotatable housing member, an elongate handle member defining a central longitudinal axis and handle lumen; an elongate rotatable housing member that encloses a portion of the handle member and defining an inner wall having helical housing threads; a screw member disposed in the elongate rotatable housing member and defining an outer wall having helical screw threads; and a stylet disposed longitudinally through the deployment needle, extending proximally through the handle lumen and at least a portion of the elongate rotatable housing member, wherein the stylet is affixed to the screw member;
Holding device for a syringe pump, the holding device being configured for holding the barrel of a syringe and comprising: - a rotatable holding member which is rotatable from an open into a closed position, - wherein the holding member is configured in such a way that in the closed position the syringe barrel will be secured between a portion of the rotatable holding member and a fixed section of the syringe pump, a spring configured to bias the holding member against the syringe barrel, wherein the spring is a coil spring surrounding a shaft connected to the holding member , characterized by a damping device configured to dampen a rotation of the rotatable holding member from the open into the closed position. - a rotatable holding member which is rotatable from an open into a closed position, - wherein the holding member is configured in such a way that in the closed position the syringe barrel will be secured between a portion of the rotatable holding member and a fixed section of the syringe pump,
Monitoring and control device for a door unit , such as a rolling gate or a sectional gate, movable by means of a drive device , the control device including electronic components which comprise a drive control unit , at least one sensor arrangement arranged in the vicinity of the gate unit , and at least one operating element , wherein a radio network operates according to the master/slave functional principle being provided for wireless communication of the electronic components , wherein one of the electronic components is provided as a master device in the radio network, wherein the master device initiates and/or maintains communication as the master function, wherein control functions are distributed among a plurality of electronic components , characterized in that the master function can be defined or determined only during a start of the control device.