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A drive shaft comprising: a telescopic shaft comprising: an axis (A-A); an outer tubular shaft , comprising a first end and a second end; an inner tubular shaft inserted slidable into the outer shaft and comprising a first end and a second end; wherein the outer shaft and the inner shaft are torsionally coupled through grooved profiles; a lubrication system comprising: a lubricant receiving chamber housed in the inner shaft ; a lubricant distribution block housed in the inner shaft ; lubricant supply ports (11.9) for supplying lubricant from the lubricant distribution block , through a tubular wall of the inner shaft , towards a gap between the inner shaft and the outer shaft ; at least a lubricant transferring duct (47.1; 47.2) from the receiving chamber to the distribution block ; characterized in that: the supplying ports (11.9) are distributed in at least two positions offset in direction of the axis (A-A) of the telescopic shaft ; the tubular wall of the inner shaft is so shaped as to form a plurality of outer longitudinal projections (11.1) extending parallel to the axis (A-A) of the telescopic shaft and slidably engaged in corresponding grooves on the inner surface of the outer shaft ; and the distribution block comprises a plurality of lubricating ducts (41.5, 41.6), directed along the longitudinal extension of the telescopic shaft , wherein each lubricating duct (41.5, 41.6) is fluidly connected to at least two supply ports (11.9) offset in the direction of the axis of the telescopic shaft . a telescopic shaft comprising: an axis (A-A); an outer tubular shaft , comprising a first end and a second end; an inner tubular shaft inserted slidable into the outer shaft and comprising a first end and a second end; wherein the outer shaft and the inner shaft are torsionally coupled through grooved profiles; a lubrication system comprising: a lubricant receiving chamber housed in the inner shaft ; a lubricant distribution block housed in the inner shaft ; lubricant supply ports (11.9) for supplying lubricant from the lubricant distribution block , through a tubular wall of the inner shaft , towards a gap between the inner shaft and the outer shaft ; at least a lubricant transferring duct (47.1; 47.2) from the receiving chamber to the distribution block ; characterized in that: the supplying ports (11.9) are distributed in at least two positions offset in direction of the axis (A-A) of the telescopic shaft ; the tubular wall of the inner shaft is so shaped as to form a plurality of outer longitudinal projections (11.1) extending parallel to the axis (A-A) of the telescopic shaft and slidably engaged in corresponding grooves on the inner surface of the outer shaft ; and the distribution block comprises a plurality of lubricating ducts (41.5, 41.6), directed along the longitudinal extension of the telescopic shaft , wherein each lubricating duct (41.5, 41.6) is fluidly connected to at least two supply ports (11.9) offset in the direction of the axis of the telescopic shaft .
An apparatus for perfusion of organs, comprising: a base unit (1001; 1002) configured to removably couple with any one of a plurality of organ-specific modules for perfusing an organ, said base unit comprising conduits for connecting a source of a perfusate to the organ to circulate the perfusate through the organ; first and second pumps coupled to said conduits for driving circulation of the perfusate in said conduits; and a controller configured and connected for controlling said first and second pumps to regulate the circulation of the perfusate through the organ; wherein the apparatus comprises a first module of the plurality of organ-specific modules, the first module being configured for perfusing a lung , wherein the conduits and the controller are configured to connect and control the first pump to apply a first pressure at a pulmonary artery of the lung to drive flow of the perfusate through the lung and to connect and control the second pump to apply a second pressure at a left atrium attached to the lung to resist the flow of the perfusate. conduits for connecting a source of a perfusate to the organ to circulate the perfusate through the organ; first and second pumps coupled to said conduits for driving circulation of the perfusate in said conduits; and a controller configured and connected for controlling said first and second pumps to regulate the circulation of the perfusate through the organ; wherein the apparatus comprises a first module of the plurality of organ-specific modules, the first module being configured for perfusing a lung , wherein the conduits and the controller are configured to connect and control the first pump to apply a first pressure at a pulmonary artery of the lung to drive flow of the perfusate through the lung and to connect and control the second pump to apply a second pressure at a left atrium attached to the lung to resist the flow of the perfusate.
A computer-executable training method for training a low-latency scene caption generator and a timing detector , wherein the low-latency scene caption generator comprises an audio-visual sensor feature encoder and a scene caption decoder , the method comprising: providing a training dataset that includes a set of audio-visual sensor signals and a set of groundtruth scene captions, wherein the set of audio-visual sensor signals is a set of video clips; converting a video clip in the set of video clips to a feature vector sequence for the video clip using a feature extractor; eliminating future frames from the feature vector sequence using a future frame eliminator, wherein the future frame eliminator takes the first K feature vectors from the feature vector sequence and removes other feature vectors to generate a future-eliminated feature vector sequence, wherein K is determined randomly from 1 ≤ K ≤ | Z | and | Z | denotes a length of the feature vector sequence; encoding the future-eliminated feature vector sequence to a hidden activation vector sequence; training the low-latency scene caption generator by computing a loss value; computing a loss value based on a posterior probability distribution and the groundtruth captions; training the timing detector by computing a supervision signal based on a scene caption similarity between a scene caption for the future-eliminated feature vector sequence and the groundtruth caption; wherein the timing detector is trained to detect an output timing to generate a caption as soon as events happen or when the events are forecasted. providing a training dataset that includes a set of audio-visual sensor signals and a set of groundtruth scene captions, wherein the set of audio-visual sensor signals is a set of video clips; converting a video clip in the set of video clips to a feature vector sequence for the video clip using a feature extractor; eliminating future frames from the feature vector sequence using a future frame eliminator, wherein the future frame eliminator takes the first K feature vectors from the feature vector sequence and removes other feature vectors to generate a future-eliminated feature vector sequence, wherein K is determined randomly from 1 ≤ K ≤ | Z | and | Z | denotes a length of the feature vector sequence; encoding the future-eliminated feature vector sequence to a hidden activation vector sequence; training the low-latency scene caption generator by computing a loss value; computing a loss value based on a posterior probability distribution and the groundtruth captions; training the timing detector by computing a supervision signal based on a scene caption similarity between a scene caption for the future-eliminated feature vector sequence and the groundtruth caption; wherein the timing detector is trained to detect an output timing to generate a caption as soon as events happen or when the events are forecasted.
A process for reducing contaminants in renewable feedstocks comprising: combining a feedstock comprising contaminants with a water feed to form a contaminated feedstock-water mixture; feeding the mixture into a hydrothermal reactor, wherein the mixture is subject to heat, pressure, and turbulent flow conditions that do not cause conversion of the feedstock, wherein conversion of the feedstock is defined as the molecular rearrangement of hydrocarbon structures of FFAs, such as occurs in decarboxylation, cracking, isomerization, cyclization, hydrogenation, or dehydrogenation; maintaining the temperature, pressure, and turbulent flow conditions of the mixture in the reactor for a residence time of less than 15 minutes and a Reynolds number greater than 4,000, such that inorganic contaminants are liberated from the feedstock in the mixture without feedstock conversion and such that the hydrothermal reactor is operated at a high pressure to maintain a liquid mode or a vapor-liquid mode; and separating an effluent of the reactor into an aqueous stream and at least one product stream having inorganic contaminants at a lower concentration than in the contaminated feedstock, wherein the feedstock is a renewable feedstock comprised of plant oils selected from the group consisting of canola, Carinata, castor, Jatropha, palm, Pongamia, soy bean, and/or corn; soap stock; waste vegetable oil; yellow grease; brown grease; acidic oils, animal tallow; algal oil; microbial oil; pine-related byproducts from tall oils; biosynthetic oil; and mixtures thereof. combining a feedstock comprising contaminants with a water feed to form a contaminated feedstock-water mixture; feeding the mixture into a hydrothermal reactor, wherein the mixture is subject to heat, pressure, and turbulent flow conditions that do not cause conversion of the feedstock, wherein conversion of the feedstock is defined as the molecular rearrangement of hydrocarbon structures of FFAs, such as occurs in decarboxylation, cracking, isomerization, cyclization, hydrogenation, or dehydrogenation; maintaining the temperature, pressure, and turbulent flow conditions of the mixture in the reactor for a residence time of less than 15 minutes and a Reynolds number greater than 4,000, such that inorganic contaminants are liberated from the feedstock in the mixture without feedstock conversion and such that the hydrothermal reactor is operated at a high pressure to maintain a liquid mode or a vapor-liquid mode; and separating an effluent of the reactor into an aqueous stream and at least one product stream having inorganic contaminants at a lower concentration than in the contaminated feedstock, wherein the feedstock is a renewable feedstock comprised of plant oils selected from the group consisting of canola, Carinata, castor, Jatropha, palm, Pongamia, soy bean, and/or corn; soap stock; waste vegetable oil; yellow grease; brown grease; acidic oils, animal tallow; algal oil; microbial oil; pine-related byproducts from tall oils; biosynthetic oil; and mixtures thereof.
A cannula having a distal end for insertion into a body, the distal end defining an opening to a primary conduit extending along the longitudinal axis of the cannula defining a tool pathway, the cannula further comprising a plurality of tool fingers positioned at or adjacent to the distal end of the cannula for providing a tool function at or adjacent to the distal end of the cannula , wherein each tool finger defines a tool conduit in communication with the head of that tool finger, the tool conduit in communication with a respective secondary conduit that extends through the longitudinal length of the cannula, extending in the longitudinal length of the cannula, wherein the plurality of tool fingers are each secured at a proximal end of the cannula and each have a head at the distal end of the tool finger for providing a tool function, at least one of the plurality of heads having a camera provided therein, wherein each of the tool fingers elastically deflect such that the heads of the tool fingers are moveable outwardly relative to the longitudinal axis of the cannula and the proximal ends of each tool finger between a first configuration wherein at least part of each head at least partially occludes the primary conduit , and a laterally shifted configuration where each of the fingers is elastically deflected outwardly and wherein each head is at least partially withdrawn from the primary conduit .
Disinfection device configured for disinfection of a surface of an object, comprising: - a disinfection chamber , - at least one source of UV radiation for irradiating said disinfection chamber, - support means (60; 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40) arranged in said chamber for supporting at an upper surface the said object, wherein the upper surface contacts a first area of the object's surface, characterized in that - the device further comprises auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) comprising a plurality of support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) that are provided with an upper surface that is substantially dot- or line-shaped, said support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are chosen from pillars (41-50), plates and/or constitute an interconnected grid , wherein the support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are dimensioned such that the object will always be supported by more than one support element (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) and - the auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are movable in a first direction extending normal to the upper surface of the support means (60; 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40) , such the first area of the object's surface gets exposed by means of a movement of the auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50). . - a disinfection chamber , - at least one source of UV radiation for irradiating said disinfection chamber, - support means (60; 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40) arranged in said chamber for supporting at an upper surface the said object, wherein the upper surface contacts a first area of the object's surface, - the device further comprises auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) comprising a plurality of support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) that are provided with an upper surface that is substantially dot- or line-shaped, said support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are chosen from pillars (41-50), plates and/or constitute an interconnected grid , wherein the support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are dimensioned such that the object will always be supported by more than one support element (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) and plurality of support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) that are provided with an upper surface that is substantially dot- or line-shaped, said support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are chosen from pillars (41-50), plates and/or constitute an interconnected grid , wherein the support elements (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are dimensioned such that the object will always be supported by more than one support element (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) and - the auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50) are movable in a first direction extending normal to the upper surface of the support means (60; 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40) , such the first area of the object's surface gets exposed by means of a movement of the auxiliary support means (62; 13, 15, 17, 19; 41-50). .
A method for processing time series (RI[t]) of images of a same area, subjected to noise, the method comprising: executing by a convolutional neural network (CNN) a plurality of successive filtering steps (FPs, s=0-3, 5, 7-12) comprising a first filtering step (FP0) receiving an input image time series (RI[t]), a last filtering step (FP12) providing an output image (PI), and intermediary filtering steps (FPs, s=1-3, 5, 7-11), each of the first filtering step and the intermediary filtering steps transforming a set (FI) of time series of filtered images (FI[s,t,f]) initially including the input image time series, the set being transformed by generating a number (F, 1) of time series of filtered images by combining by linear combinations (FT[s,t,f]) each pixel (PX[i,j,t]) of each image of each time series of the set with selected neighboring pixels in the image and in an adjacent image of the image time series of the set, each linear combinations using a respective set of weighting coefficients and resulting in a pixel (PX[i,j,t,f]) of one of the generated filtered images; and executing by the convolutional neural network one or more combination operations (SL4, SL6), each combination operation being performed between two successive of the intermediary filtering steps, to reduce a number of images in each of the time series of filtered images of the set, by combining images of subsets of adjacent images in each of the time series of filtered images of the set, a last one (SL6) of the combination operations reducing each time series of filtered images of the set to a single filtered image. executing by a convolutional neural network (CNN) a plurality of successive filtering steps (FPs, s=0-3, 5, 7-12) comprising a first filtering step (FP0) receiving an input image time series (RI[t]), a last filtering step (FP12) providing an output image (PI), and intermediary filtering steps (FPs, s=1-3, 5, 7-11), each of the first filtering step and the intermediary filtering steps transforming a set (FI) of time series of filtered images (FI[s,t,f]) initially including the input image time series, the set being transformed by generating a number (F, 1) of time series of filtered images by combining by linear combinations (FT[s,t,f]) each pixel (PX[i,j,t]) of each image of each time series of the set with selected neighboring pixels in the image and in an adjacent image of the image time series of the set, each linear combinations using a respective set of weighting coefficients and resulting in a pixel (PX[i,j,t,f]) of one of the generated filtered images; and executing by the convolutional neural network one or more combination operations (SL4, SL6), each combination operation being performed between two successive of the intermediary filtering steps, to reduce a number of images in each of the time series of filtered images of the set, by combining images of subsets of adjacent images in each of the time series of filtered images of the set, a last one (SL6) of the combination operations reducing each time series of filtered images of the set to a single filtered image.
A channel state information report transmission method, comprising: determining (S201), by a terminal device , N channel state information reports; and sending (S202), by the terminal device to a network device , M of the N channel state information reports based on priorities of the N channel state information reports, wherein the terminal device supports at least two different block error rates, BLERs, wherein each channel state information report corresponds to one supported BLER, wherein both N and M are positive integers greater than or equal to 1, and M is less than or equal to N; and a priority of a channel state information report in the N channel state information reports is determined based on the priority of the corresponding BLER. determining (S201), by a terminal device , N channel state information reports; and sending (S202), by the terminal device to a network device , M of the N channel state information reports based on priorities of the N channel state information reports, wherein the terminal device supports at least two different block error rates, BLERs, wherein each channel state information report corresponds to one supported BLER, wherein both N and M are positive integers greater than or equal to 1, and M is less than or equal to N; and a priority of a channel state information report in the N channel state information reports is determined based on the priority of the corresponding BLER.
A coating device (1; 1') for dip coating of ophthalmic lenses, comprising: a lacquer basin for receiving a lacquer mixture, an overflow channel arranged at the lacquer basin for receiving the lacquer mixture overflowing from the lacquer basin , a paint mixture flow for feeding the paint mixture into the paint tank , the paint mixture flow being arranged at the lacquer basin , a paint mixture return for removing the paint mixture from the overflow channel , the paint mixture return being arranged at the overflow channel , a connecting line, which is arranged between the paint mixture flow and the paint mixture return and connects them, characterized in that the coating device (1; 1') comprises a solvent dosing device designed to dose solvent directly into the overflow channel , wherein the solvent dosing device is configured such that the solvent exiting the solvent dosing device forms a solvent film on an inner wall of the overflow channel , and wherein the solvent dosing device comprises a dosing tube , the outlet opening of the dosing tube being directed against an inner wall of the overflow channel . a lacquer basin for receiving a lacquer mixture, an overflow channel arranged at the lacquer basin for receiving the lacquer mixture overflowing from the lacquer basin , a paint mixture flow for feeding the paint mixture into the paint tank , the paint mixture flow being arranged at the lacquer basin , a paint mixture return for removing the paint mixture from the overflow channel , the paint mixture return being arranged at the overflow channel , a connecting line, which is arranged between the paint mixture flow and the paint mixture return and connects them, characterized in that the coating device (1; 1') comprises a solvent dosing device designed to dose solvent directly into the overflow channel , wherein the solvent dosing device is configured such that the solvent exiting the solvent dosing device forms a solvent film on an inner wall of the overflow channel , and wherein the solvent dosing device comprises a dosing tube , the outlet opening of the dosing tube being directed against an inner wall of the overflow channel .