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A process for forming a multilayered coating or cladding on a surface of a conductive substrate or mandrel by electrodeposition, the process comprising: (a) providing an electrolyte solution comprising a nickel salt and a chromium salt; (b) providing the conductive substrate or mandrel for electrodeposition; (c) contacting at least a portion of a surface of the conductive substrate or mandrel with the electrolyte solution; (d) depositing a seed layer of nickel and chromium on the conductive substrate or mandrel by passing a seed layer plating current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a first time period ranging from about 1 minute to about 10 minutes, the seed layer comprising greater than about 90% nickel by weight; (e) depositing a first layer of a second nickel-chromium alloy by passing a first electric current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a second time period ranging from about 50 milliseconds to about 500 milliseconds, the first layer comprising from about 5% to about 35% chromium by weight; (f) depositing a second layer of nickel and chromium by passing a second electric current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a third time period ranging from about 50 milliseconds to about 500 milliseconds, the second layer comprising greater than about 90% nickel by weight; (g) repeating steps (e) and (f) four or more times, thereby producing a multilayered coating or cladding comprising the seed layer and alternating first layers and second layers on the surface of the conductive substrate or mandrel; and (h) optionally separating the mandrel from the cladding. (a) providing an electrolyte solution comprising a nickel salt and a chromium salt; (b) providing the conductive substrate or mandrel for electrodeposition; (c) contacting at least a portion of a surface of the conductive substrate or mandrel with the electrolyte solution; (d) depositing a seed layer of nickel and chromium on the conductive substrate or mandrel by passing a seed layer plating current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a first time period ranging from about 1 minute to about 10 minutes, the seed layer comprising greater than about 90% nickel by weight; (e) depositing a first layer of a second nickel-chromium alloy by passing a first electric current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a second time period ranging from about 50 milliseconds to about 500 milliseconds, the first layer comprising from about 5% to about 35% chromium by weight; (f) depositing a second layer of nickel and chromium by passing a second electric current through the conductive substrate or mandrel for a third time period ranging from about 50 milliseconds to about 500 milliseconds, the second layer comprising greater than about 90% nickel by weight; (g) repeating steps (e) and (f) four or more times, thereby producing a multilayered coating or cladding comprising the seed layer and alternating first layers and second layers on the surface of the conductive substrate or mandrel; and (h) optionally separating the mandrel from the cladding.
A device for applying a negative pressure to an endoluminal surface in the body of a patient to facilitate healing of a wound in the endoluminal surface, comprising a flexible porous element with a peripheral outer face for contact with the wound, the outer face being defined between opposite proximal and distal ends of the porous element, and a suction tube for being connected to a suction source externally of the patient's body and which is in fluid communication with the porous element to apply a negative pressure to the wound via the outer face of the porous element upon operation of the suction source, wherein the porous element has at least one through passageway extending from its proximal end to its distal end for passage of bodily substances of the patient through the porous element separately from any exudate drawn from the wound into the porous element through its said outer face by the applied negative pressure, and the proximal and distal ends of the porous element are otherwise sealed against egress of the bodily substances into the porous element, characterised in that the device further comprises a drainage tube for collection and drainage of the bodily substances from the patient, wherein the drainage tube is received in the through passageway, the interior of the drainage tube being sealed from the porous element along the length of the drainage tube within the porous element. the porous element has at least one through passageway extending from its proximal end to its distal end for passage of bodily substances of the patient through the porous element separately from any exudate drawn from the wound into the porous element through its said outer face by the applied negative pressure, and the proximal and distal ends of the porous element are otherwise sealed against egress of the bodily substances into the porous element, characterised in that the device further comprises a drainage tube for collection and drainage of the bodily substances from the patient, wherein the drainage tube is received in the through passageway, the interior of the drainage tube being sealed from the porous element along the length of the drainage tube within the porous element.
A photometric device, comprising: a subject region discrimination unit configured to discriminate a desired subject region comprising subject corresponding pixels from a non-subject region comprising subject non-corresponding pixels, for each of a plurality of ranging regions within an image on a basis of ranging information, wherein the plurality of ranging regions are dispersedly provided in the image; a subject photometric region setting unit configured to set a continuous subject photometric region comprising consecutive subject corresponding pixels by performing image signal processing of the desired subject region and the non-subject region to replace selected subject non-corresponding pixels of the non-subject region with subject corresponding pixels to form the continuous subject photometric region, wherein the selected subject non-corresponding pixels are selected in dependence on a number of subject corresponding pixels positioned around each subject non-corresponding pixel in the non-subject region; and a photometric value calculation unit configured to calculate a photometric value of the desired subject region by using a photometric value of the subject photometric region set by the subject photometric region setting unit. a subject region discrimination unit configured to discriminate a desired subject region comprising subject corresponding pixels from a non-subject region comprising subject non-corresponding pixels, for each of a plurality of ranging regions within an image on a basis of ranging information, wherein the plurality of ranging regions are dispersedly provided in the image; a subject photometric region setting unit configured to set a continuous subject photometric region comprising consecutive subject corresponding pixels by performing image signal processing of the desired subject region and the non-subject region to replace selected subject non-corresponding pixels of the non-subject region with subject corresponding pixels to form the continuous subject photometric region, wherein the selected subject non-corresponding pixels are selected in dependence on a number of subject corresponding pixels positioned around each subject non-corresponding pixel in the non-subject region; and a photometric value calculation unit configured to calculate a photometric value of the desired subject region by using a photometric value of the subject photometric region set by the subject photometric region setting unit.
A ride system for an amusement park, comprising: a ride vehicle configured to carry one or more passengers , the ride vehicle being in a suspended ride position under a rail system of the ride system ; a first evacuation platform for evacuating the one or more passengers from the ride vehicle when an unplanned ride stoppage occurs, the first evacuation platform comprising a first section configured to be moved towards the ride vehicle and disposed underneath the ride vehicle , wherein in use, the first section slides and is disposed under the feet of the one or more passengers so that the one or more passengers evacuate the ride vehicle by exiting onto the first section. a ride vehicle configured to carry one or more passengers , the ride vehicle being in a suspended ride position under a rail system of the ride system ; a first evacuation platform for evacuating the one or more passengers from the ride vehicle when an unplanned ride stoppage occurs, the first evacuation platform comprising a first section configured to be moved towards the ride vehicle and disposed underneath the ride vehicle , wherein in use, the first section slides and is disposed under the feet of the one or more passengers so that the one or more passengers evacuate the ride vehicle by exiting onto the first section.
A process for monitoring and re-calibrating a moisture sensor during production runs of concrete, comprising: a. obtaining a manual sample of aggregate; b. at roughly the same time as obtaining the manual sample, taking multiple readings of moisture content using a moisture sensor ; c. recording the multiple moisture sensor readings; d. determining the moisture content of the manual sample using a gravimetric analysis ; e. recording the moisture content of the manual sample; characterised by f. comparing the recorded manual sample moisture content to each of the recorded moisture content readings to obtain a moisture differential for each moisture sensor reading; g. comparing each moisture differential with a confidence interval to determine a subset of moisture sensor readings from the total number of moisture sensor readings taken which are outside the confidence interval, h. comparing the number of moisture sensor readings in the subset against an action limit, said action limit being defined as a certain statistically significant number of tests which should occur before any action is taken; i. whereupon, if the number of moisture sensor readings in the subset meets or exceeds the action limit, recalibrating the moisture sensor . a. obtaining a manual sample of aggregate; b. at roughly the same time as obtaining the manual sample, taking multiple readings of moisture content using a moisture sensor ; c. recording the multiple moisture sensor readings; d. determining the moisture content of the manual sample using a gravimetric analysis ; e. recording the moisture content of the manual sample; characterised by f. comparing the recorded manual sample moisture content to each of the recorded moisture content readings to obtain a moisture differential for each moisture sensor reading; g. comparing each moisture differential with a confidence interval to determine a subset of moisture sensor readings from the total number of moisture sensor readings taken which are outside the confidence interval, h. comparing the number of moisture sensor readings in the subset against an action limit, said action limit being defined as a certain statistically significant number of tests which should occur before any action is taken; i. whereupon, if the number of moisture sensor readings in the subset meets or exceeds the action limit, recalibrating the moisture sensor .
Field device to determine or monitor a process variable in automation engineering, wherein the field device meets a safety standard that is required in a predefined safety-critical application, with a sensor that functions according to a defined measuring principle, and with a control/evaluation unit that prepares and evaluates the measured data provided by the sensor along at least three measuring channels (MK) with a redundant and/or dissimilar design, and wherein a voter is assigned to the control/evaluation unit , characterized in that the voter consists of several components which are at least partially designed with double redundancy, wherein the voter is designed as a majority voter and has three components: a comparator stage by means of which the output signals provided by the individual measuring channels (MK) are compared with one another, an error detection stage which - thanks to an appropriate linking of the output signals of the comparator stage - detects an error occurring in a measuring channel (MK), and an output selection stage . a comparator stage by means of which the output signals provided by the individual measuring channels (MK) are compared with one another, an error detection stage which - thanks to an appropriate linking of the output signals of the comparator stage - detects an error occurring in a measuring channel (MK), and an output selection stage .
Induction heating apparatus, comprising at least one coil layer having a coil device and a carrier , on which carrier the coil device is arranged, wherein the at least one coil layer is of flexurally flexible configuration, and wherein the at least one coil layer is embedded in the structural material of a vacuum hood (18; 118; 218; 318; 418; 518; 618; 718; 818), and wherein the vacuum hood (18; 118; 218; 318; 418; 518; 618; 718; 818) having the at least one coil layer is of flexurally flexible configuration, characterized in that the vacuum hood (18; 118; 218; 318; 418; 518; 618; 718; 818) comprises a reinforcing structure which is embedded in the structural material of the vacuum hood (18; 118; 218; 318; 418; 518; 618; 718; 818), and in that the reinforcing structure is made of a fibre structure.
An auto-injector device for delivering a liquid medicament, comprising: - an injector body having a proximal end and a distal end , - a syringe received in the injector body, - a needle disposed in a first end of the syringe to extend toward an opening in the distal end of the injector body, - a sealing element disposed at the distal end of the injector body for making a seal against a patient's skin and thereby define a closed volume within the injector body in use, wherein the auto-injector is configured to generate a reduced pressure within the closed volume to draw the auto-injector device against the patient's skin; and wherein the auto-injector device comprises a pressure-reducing mechanism configured to generate the reduced pressure within the injector body during an injection process, the pressure reducing mechanism comprising a moveable member which is moveable in a longitudinal direction of the injector body from a first position in a direction towards the proximal end of the injector body to a second position and which is configured such that movement of the moveable member from the first position to the second position enlarges the closed volume within the injector body to generate the reduced pressure within the closed volume, characterised in that the pressure-reducing mechanism includes a biasing element which urges the moveable member to move to the second position, under the action of the biasing element moving from a state of compression or tension, to a state of reduced compression or tension, once the moveable member is released and the sealing element makes a seal against the patient's skin. - an injector body having a proximal end and a distal end , - a syringe received in the injector body, - a needle disposed in a first end of the syringe to extend toward an opening in the distal end of the injector body, - a sealing element disposed at the distal end of the injector body for making a seal against a patient's skin and thereby define a closed volume within the injector body in use,
A sorting installation for sorting parcels , the sorting installation comprising a closed-loop bin conveyor having bins and designed to convey parcels in a conveying direction (D1) over a plurality of sorting outlets , the sorting installation further comprising a sorting receptacle disposed at each sorting outlet in a loading position in which the parcels are loaded by gravity from the bins into the receptacle, said sorting installation being characterized in that each sorting outlet is provided with a sorting receptacle transfer system designed to move a line of sorting receptacles in constant-size steps in a transfer direction (D2) extending transversely to the bin conveyor from the outside (EXT) of the loop formed by the conveyor towards the inside (INT) of the loop formed by the bin conveyor, and in that the transfer system is designed to place a sorting receptacle in the loading position at a sorting outlet each time the line of sorting receptacles is moved by one step in the transfer direction.
A system for reducing harmonic distortion by dithering comprising: an electrical signal wherein the electrical signal is driven by a real-time progressive polynomial spline evaluation of interpolated phase angle samples that achieves an up-sampling by a power-of-two factor using a linear combination; wherein a result of at least one of the spline evaluation is used to control an aspect of an output electrical signal; characterized in that a resulting value of the spline evaluation is added to a base frequency phase counter and is used to determine a location of an output signal edge of the output digital signal; the location is perturbed by a random dither on the phase angle drawn from a uniform distribution; and action of the phase dither is variable in a time domain as a conversion from phase to an output time series is naturally dependent on instantaneous frequency of the location. an electrical signal wherein the electrical signal is driven by a real-time progressive polynomial spline evaluation of interpolated phase angle samples that achieves an up-sampling by a power-of-two factor using a linear combination; wherein a result of at least one of the spline evaluation is used to control an aspect of an output electrical signal; characterized in that a resulting value of the spline evaluation is added to a base frequency phase counter and is used to determine a location of an output signal edge of the output digital signal; the location is perturbed by a random dither on the phase angle drawn from a uniform distribution; and action of the phase dither is variable in a time domain as a conversion from phase to an output time series is naturally dependent on instantaneous frequency of the location.
Electronics housing (4; 22) for household appliances (1; 21), having at least one elastically flexible seal (10; 10, 24) for sealing the electronics housing (4; 22) with respect to at least one support surface provided for the electronics housing, wherein the electronics housing (4; 22) and the seal (10; 10, 24) consist of the same plastic, characterised in that - the electronics housing has two housing chambers which open toward two opposing sides and the housing chambers each have a peripheral, elastically flexible seal for sealing with respect to the respective support surface and - the seal of a first housing chamber of the two housing chambers rests pressed against the lower side of a glass ceramic plate and rests with the seal of a second housing chamber of the two housing chambers pressed against the support surface embodied as a cover plate . - the electronics housing has two housing chambers which open toward two opposing sides and the housing chambers each have a peripheral, elastically flexible seal for sealing with respect to the respective support surface and - the seal of a first housing chamber of the two housing chambers rests pressed against the lower side of a glass ceramic plate and rests with the seal of a second housing chamber of the two housing chambers pressed against the support surface embodied as a cover plate .
An electrosurgical forceps , comprising: first and second shafts each having a jaw member disposed at a distal end thereof, the shafts configured to rotate about a pivot to move the jaw members between an open position and a closed position; a knife deployment mechanism disposed on one of the first or second shafts; a knife operably coupled to the knife deployment mechanism, the knife deployment mechanism configured to move the knife between a retracted position and an extended position; and a knife lockout configured to move between a first position and a second position: wherein in the first position wherein the jaw members are in the open position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented; and wherein in the second position wherein the jaw members are in an approximated position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is permitted; and, characterised in that the knife lockout is further configured to move to a third position wherein the jaw members are in a position being further approximated and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented. first and second shafts each having a jaw member disposed at a distal end thereof, the shafts configured to rotate about a pivot to move the jaw members between an open position and a closed position; a knife deployment mechanism disposed on one of the first or second shafts; a knife operably coupled to the knife deployment mechanism, the knife deployment mechanism configured to move the knife between a retracted position and an extended position; and a knife lockout configured to move between a first position and a second position: wherein in the first position wherein the jaw members are in the open position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented; and wherein in the second position wherein the jaw members are in an approximated position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is permitted; and, characterised in that the knife lockout is further configured to move to a third position wherein the jaw members are in a position being further approximated and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented. wherein in the first position wherein the jaw members are in the open position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented; and wherein in the second position wherein the jaw members are in an approximated position and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is permitted; and, characterised in that the knife lockout is further configured to move to a third position wherein the jaw members are in a position being further approximated and movement of the knife from the retracted position to the extended position is prevented.
An electric panel heating system for use in the construction sector, comprising: an electric panel heater comprising a heating element , in particular a heating cable; and a control unit coupled to the electric panel heater and configured to control an energy supply to the electric panel heater ; wherein the control unit is configured to control the energy amount of the energy supply such that a time-limited energy surge is provided to the heating element , wherein the electric panel heater comprises an at least partially self-limiting heating element , characterized in that the electric panel heating system , belonging to the electric panel heater , further comprises a further heating element , wherein the self-limiting heating element is arranged between the heating element and the further heating element . an electric panel heater comprising a heating element , in particular a heating cable; and a control unit coupled to the electric panel heater and configured to control an energy supply to the electric panel heater ; wherein the control unit is configured to control the energy amount of the energy supply such that a time-limited energy surge is provided to the heating element , wherein the electric panel heater comprises an at least partially self-limiting heating element , characterized in that the electric panel heating system , belonging to the electric panel heater , further comprises a further heating element , wherein the self-limiting heating element is arranged between the heating element and the further heating element .