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A process for a hot dip galvanization of a non-magnetic stainless steel wire for submarine power cables for transmitting electrical power comprising the steps: (a) degreasing the wire in a degreasing bath; (b) rinsing the wire; (c) activating the wire surface by any one or more of pickling, atmospheric reduction, and plasma cleaning; (d) electroplating the wire with nickel, or electroplating the wire with zinc and/or zinc alloy, or transferring the wire to a hot dip zinc bath and/or zinc alloy bath under the protection of inert and/or reduction atmosphere before a subsequently zinc and/or zinc alloy coating is formed thereon such that the surface of the wire forms a good adhesion with a subsequently formed zinc and/or zinc alloy coating, wherein the electroplated nickel layer has a coat weight of 20-60 g/m 2 and the electrogalvanized layer has a coat weight of 10-50 g/m 2 ; (e) dipping the wire in the zinc bath and/or zinc alloy bath to form a zinc and/or zinc alloy coating thereon, wherein the thickness of the galvanized coating is ranging from 20 g/m 2 to 600 g/m 2 ; and (f) cooling the wire. (a) degreasing the wire in a degreasing bath; (b) rinsing the wire; (c) activating the wire surface by any one or more of pickling, atmospheric reduction, and plasma cleaning; (d) electroplating the wire with nickel, or electroplating the wire with zinc and/or zinc alloy, or transferring the wire to a hot dip zinc bath and/or zinc alloy bath under the protection of inert and/or reduction atmosphere before a subsequently zinc and/or zinc alloy coating is formed thereon such that the surface of the wire forms a good adhesion with a subsequently formed zinc and/or zinc alloy coating, wherein the electroplated nickel layer has a coat weight of 20-60 g/m 2 and the electrogalvanized layer has a coat weight of 10-50 g/m 2 ; (e) dipping the wire in the zinc bath and/or zinc alloy bath to form a zinc and/or zinc alloy coating thereon, wherein the thickness of the galvanized coating is ranging from 20 g/m 2 to 600 g/m 2 ; and (f) cooling the wire.
A control device for controlling the rotational speed ( n VAD (t) ) of a non-pulsatile ventricular assist device, VAD, by means of an event-based within-a-beat control strategy, wherein the control device is configured to alter the rotational speed ( n VAD (t) ) of the VAD within the cardiac cycle (h) of the assisted heart and to synchronize the alteration of the rotational speed ( n VAD (t) ) with the heartbeat by at least one sequence of trigger signals (σ(t)) that is related to at least one predetermined characteristic event in the cardiac cycle, wherein the control device is configured to alter the rotational speed ( n VAD (t) ) of the VAD to generate a desired minimum pulsatility ( Δ AoP ̃ h ) to restore and/or maintain a minimum residual pulsatility in an artery of interest within the cardiac cycle (h), wherein the desired minimum pulsatility Δ AoP ̃ h is varied based on a recruitment of von Willebrand factor (vWF).
A multiview display , wherein the multiview display includes more than two views, comprising: a screen comprising a plurality of light valves ; a backlight comprising a plate light guide and an array of multibeam elements optically coupled to the plate light guide; and a reflective support structure located on a surface of the plate light guide between the screen and the plate light guide, the reflective support structure comprising a reflective material configured to reflect light incident from the plate light guide on the reflective support structure at the surface back into the plate light guide, wherein a size of a multibeam element of the array of multibeam elements is comparable to a size of a light valve of the plurality of light valves, wherein said size is one of a length, a width or an area of the multibeam element and the light valve, wherein the size of the multibeam element is greater than one half of the light valve size and less than twice the light valve size; and characterised in that the reflective support structure comprises: a reflective layer of the reflective material located on the surface of the plate light guide adjacent to an edge of the plate light guide, and a support layer located between the reflective layer and the screen, wherein the support layer is configured to affix the screen to the plate light guide. a screen comprising a plurality of light valves ; a backlight comprising a plate light guide and an array of multibeam elements optically coupled to the plate light guide; and a reflective support structure located on a surface of the plate light guide between the screen and the plate light guide, the reflective support structure comprising a reflective material configured to reflect light incident from the plate light guide on the reflective support structure at the surface back into the plate light guide, wherein a size of a multibeam element of the array of multibeam elements is comparable to a size of a light valve of the plurality of light valves, wherein said size is one of a length, a width or an area of the multibeam element and the light valve, wherein the size of the multibeam element is greater than one half of the light valve size and less than twice the light valve size; and characterised in that the reflective support structure comprises: a reflective layer of the reflective material located on the surface of the plate light guide adjacent to an edge of the plate light guide, and a support layer located between the reflective layer and the screen, wherein the support layer is configured to affix the screen to the plate light guide.
Electromechanical lock assembly , which is configured to be powered upon insertion of a programmable key in a key receptacle , said lock assembly comprising a lock body , a lock core located at least partially within the lock body and selectively rotatable with respect to the lock body , the lock core including a key receptacle for receiving a programmable key , a lock bolt operating member rotationally secured to the lock core and configured to move a lock bolt of a lock for locking and unlocking said lock , and an electronic access control device , characterized by an annular element which is rotatably and axially displaceably mounted on said lock core , a coupling device arranged to communicate with said electronic access control device and, upon the insertion of an appropriate key in the key receptacle , rotationally lock the annular element to the lock core , thereby enabling rotation of the lock core and thereby enabling locking and unlocking of said lock with said appropriate key , and a blocking arrangement comprising a retaining device arranged to prevent said annular element from rotating together with said lock core when the lock core is rotated with an inappropriate key , one contact surface situated on the lock core , one contact surface situated on said annular element and a stationary blocking member , wherein said contact surfaces being configured to, upon rotation of said lock core relative to said annular element , axially move said annular element into engagement with said stationary blocking member , thereby blocking further rotation of the lock core and thereby prevent unauthorized locking and unlocking of said lock . a lock body , a lock core located at least partially within the lock body and selectively rotatable with respect to the lock body , the lock core including a key receptacle for receiving a programmable key , a lock bolt operating member rotationally secured to the lock core and configured to move a lock bolt of a lock for locking and unlocking said lock , and an electronic access control device , characterized by an annular element which is rotatably and axially displaceably mounted on said lock core , a coupling device arranged to communicate with said electronic access control device and, upon the insertion of an appropriate key in the key receptacle , rotationally lock the annular element to the lock core , thereby enabling rotation of the lock core and thereby enabling locking and unlocking of said lock with said appropriate key , and a blocking arrangement comprising a retaining device arranged to prevent said annular element from rotating together with said lock core when the lock core is rotated with an inappropriate key , one contact surface situated on the lock core , one contact surface situated on said annular element and a stationary blocking member , wherein said contact surfaces being configured to, upon rotation of said lock core relative to said annular element , axially move said annular element into engagement with said stationary blocking member , thereby blocking further rotation of the lock core and thereby prevent unauthorized locking and unlocking of said lock .
An ultrasound device comprising a transducer arrangement and an acoustically transmissive window over said arrangement, said window comprising an elastomer layer having conductive particles dispersed in the elastomer, the elastomer layer having a pressure-sensitive conductivity, the ultrasound device further comprising an electrode arrangement coupled to said elastomer layer and adapted to measure said pressure-sensitive conductivity, wherein the transducer arrangement is adapted to generate ultrasound waves having a minimum wavelength in a body of a patient to be exposed to the ultrasound waves, the conductive particles having a maximum diameter of less than 10% of said minimum wavelength.
A multi-level modular voltage converter for converting alternating voltage into direct voltage and inversely, comprising a so-called direct part intended to be connected to a DC electric power supply network and a so-called alternating part intended to be connected to an AC electric power network , the converter comprising a plurality of legs, each leg comprising an upper arm and a lower arm, each arm comprising a plurality of sub-modules controllable individually by a control member specific to each sub-module and each sub-module comprising a capacitor connectable in series in the arm when the control member of the sub-module is in a controlled state, each arm which can be modelled by a modelled voltage source connected to a duty cycle dependent on a number of capacitors placed in series in the arm, each modelled voltage source being connected in parallel to a modelled capacitor corresponding to a total capacity of the arm, the converter further comprising a control module of the converter comprising a computer of an internal command setpoint ( P w ∗ , I w ∗ ) of the converter, for example an internal power setpoint or a current setpoint, by application of a function having an adjustable input parameter, the control module further comprising a regulator of the voltage at the point of connection of the converter to the DC electric power supply network configured to determine a power setpoint ( P m ∗ ) for regulation of the direct voltage of said converter as a function of a voltage setpoint at the point of connection of the converter to the DC electric power supply network and of a voltage value at the point of connection of the converter to the DC electric power supply network collected on said DC electric power supply network, the control module of the converter further comprising an energy management module configured to deliver an operating power setpoint ( P f ∗ ) as a function of the voltage at the terminals of each modelled capacitor, the operating power setpoint being utilised by the control module to determine a power setpoint ( P ac ∗ ) to be transmitted to the AC electric power supply network, the control module being configured to regulate the voltage at the point of connection of the converter to the DC electric power supply network and the voltage at the terminals of each modelled capacitor as a function of the internal command setpoint and of the power setpoint to be transmitted to the AC electric power supply network.
Composite material, comprising at least a first material and particles, wherein the particles have a negative coefficient of thermal expansion a, wherein the particles have a sphericity ψ of at least 0.7 and the composite material contains at least 30 vol% of the particles at a particle size of d 50 ≤1.0 μm, or that the composite material contains at least 40 vol% of the particles at a particle size d50 > 1.0 μm, characterized in that the particles comprise - ZrW 2 O 8 as the main crystal phase from the phase system ZrO 2 -WO 3 -Al 2 O 3 -P 2 O 5 . - ZrW 2 O 8 as the main crystal phase
A programmable logic controller for at least one field device in an industrial plant , comprising a hardware platform on which an operating system runs, wherein the operating system is configured to execute, in at least one process, multiple execution environments (51-53), in each of which a control software (61-63) comprising the control logic of the programmable logic controller is executable, wherein a superordinate management system is provided that is configured to run directly on the operating system and execute each of the multiple execution environments (51-53) in a respective own sandbox (41-43), wherein the management system comprises a resource manager that is configured to allocate, to each sandbox (41-43), access to memory , processing power and communication resources of the hardware platform , characterized in that the management system comprises a redundancy manager that is configured to: • retrieve and provide the functionality of the controller intended in relation to the field device from multiple redundant instances (61-63) of control software executable in the execution environments (51-53), by forwarding data inputs from the field device to multiple instances (61-63) of control software and plausibilizing the data outputs then generated by these instances (61-63) against each other, as well as to: • continuously monitor the functioning of multiple instances (61-63) of control software and, in case of failure or malfunction of an instance (61-63), restart this instance (61-63), and/or its execution environment (51-53), wherein the instances (61-63) of the control software that differ in content and provide one and the same functionality of the controller are programmed according to different concepts, wherein the sandboxes (41-43) are not configured as virtual machines, wherein the execution environments (51-53) run, mediated by abstraction layers (71-73), as normal processes on the operating system , wherein the abstraction layers (71-73) each provide a run-time environment for system calls originating from the execution environments (51-53). • retrieve and provide the functionality of the controller intended in relation to the field device from multiple redundant instances (61-63) of control software executable in the execution environments (51-53), by forwarding data inputs from the field device to multiple instances (61-63) of control software and plausibilizing the data outputs then generated by these instances (61-63) against each other, as well as to: • continuously monitor the functioning of multiple instances (61-63) of control software and, in case of failure or malfunction of an instance (61-63), restart this instance (61-63), and/or its execution environment (51-53),
A semiconductor structure comprising: - a silicon or germanium substrate ; - a plurality of second nanowires made of an undoped III-V semiconductor material having a doping level of less than 10 17 at/cm 3 , having second cross-sections, second base surfaces and second top surfaces, - a first nanowire made of a doped III-V semiconductor material having a doping level of more than 10 19 at/cm 3 and having a first cross-section, a first base surface and a first top surface opposite to the first base surface, the first top surface being a first extremity of the first nanowire , the first top surface having Miller indices and having less than 10 6 threading dislocations per cm 2 , whereby the first cross-section is larger than said second cross-sections and sufficiently large for allowing the base surfaces of the plurality of second nanowires to fit in their entirety on the first top surface of the first nanowire , wherein the second nanowires are perpendicular to said first top surface and abutting thereto and wherein the III-V material of the plurality of second nanowires has a lattice mismatch with the material of the first nanowire of from 0% to 1%, wherein the base surface of the first nanowire is abutting a surface of the substrate having Miller indices , and wherein the first nanowire is perpendicular to this surface of the substrate having Miller indices . - a silicon or germanium substrate ; - a plurality of second nanowires made of an undoped III-V semiconductor material having a doping level of less than 10 17 at/cm 3 , having second cross-sections, second base surfaces and second top surfaces, - a first nanowire made of a doped III-V semiconductor material having a doping level of more than 10 19 at/cm 3 and having a first cross-section, a first base surface and a first top surface opposite to the first base surface, the first top surface being a first extremity of the first nanowire , the first top surface having Miller indices and having less than 10 6 threading dislocations per cm 2 , whereby the first cross-section is larger than said second cross-sections and sufficiently large for allowing the base surfaces of the plurality of second nanowires to fit in their entirety on the first top surface of the first nanowire ,
A control center comprising: a guide rail; a case ; a partition plate partitioning the case into a plurality of functional unit compartments; and a functional unit , wherein the functional unit is attachable and removable into and from each functional unit compartment inside the case by being slid on the partition plate forward and backward inside the case wherein the guide rail comprises: a rail guide attached to a top surface of the partition plate ; and two slide rails respectively provided at a bottom portion of each side plate of the functional unit and for sliding the functional unit on the partition plate forward and backward inside the case , wherein the rail guide includes a plurality of button-shaped metal fittings for each of left and right sides of the partition plate and serves as a stopper for the slide rails in a right-left direction and an upward direction by the button-shaped metal fittings being engaged with the slide rails when the functional unit is slid, characterized in that the guide rail further comprises a rectangular slide piece having long sides extending in parallel to a sliding direction, the slide piece being provided on a rear surface of a central portion on a back side of a bottom plate of the functional unit , the rail guide includes guide pieces at positions sandwiching the slide piece on the top surface of the partition plate , and the guide piece serve as a stopper for the slide piece in the right-left direction. a guide rail; a case ; a partition plate partitioning the case into a plurality of functional unit compartments; and a functional unit , a rail guide attached to a top surface of the partition plate ; and two slide rails respectively provided at a bottom portion of each side plate of the functional unit and for sliding the functional unit on the partition plate forward and backward inside the case ,
A superconducting neuromorphic core comprising: input lines configured to receive single flux quantum, SFQ, pulses; a superconducting digital memory array configured to store synapse weight values in columns corresponding to different neural synapses that provide inputs to a single neuron simulated by the neuromorphic core and in rows corresponding to different neurons sequentially simulated by the neuromorphic core; a superconducting digital accumulator configured to sum synapse weight values retrieved from the memory array during an accumulation time period; a superconducting digital-to-analog converter configured to convert the summed-weight accumulator output into an analog signal; and superconducting analog soma circuitry configured to provide an SFQ pulse as an output of the neuromorphic core based on the analog signal exceeding a threshold. input lines configured to receive single flux quantum, SFQ, pulses; a superconducting digital memory array configured to store synapse weight values in columns corresponding to different neural synapses that provide inputs to a single neuron simulated by the neuromorphic core and in rows corresponding to different neurons sequentially simulated by the neuromorphic core; a superconducting digital accumulator configured to sum synapse weight values retrieved from the memory array during an accumulation time period; a superconducting digital-to-analog converter configured to convert the summed-weight accumulator output into an analog signal; and superconducting analog soma circuitry configured to provide an SFQ pulse as an output of the neuromorphic core based on the analog signal exceeding a threshold.
A method of communication, comprising: providing an acoustic communication system operating in a material medium; transmitting data through the material medium utilizing one or more vector components of an acoustic field using at least one vector sensor; and receiving the data using at least one scalar or vector sensor, wherein the at least one vector sensor is operable to modulate at least one of at least thirteen separate components on at least thirteen respective channels wherein the thirteen components include: one scalar pressure component; three particle velocity components along three respective directions; and the variations of velocity as a function of position along three axes, for each of the three velocity directions.