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A device comprising: a plurality of polymer films including a first film adjacent a second film and including a third film adjacent the second film , the plurality of polymer films in a film stack aligned on a stack axis normal to a plane of the plurality of polymer films, wherein the first film is bonded to the second film with a first bond having a first pattern configured to form a first channel between the first film and the second film, and further wherein the second film is bonded to the third film with a second bond having a second pattern configured to form a second channel between the second film and the third film; a first pair of manifolds in the film stack , the first pair of manifolds formed by the plurality of polymer films and fluidly coupled to the first channel ; a second pair of manifolds in the film stack , the second pair of manifolds formed by the plurality of polymer films and fluidly coupled to the second channel ; a first pair of ports fluidly coupled to the first pair of manifolds, and a second pair of ports fluidly coupled to the second pair of manifolds, wherein the first pair of ports and the second pair of ports have port axes aligned substantially parallel with the stack axis; and characterized in that the polymer films are flexible and formed of a flattened sheet-like material such that the film stack , including the first channel , the second channel , the first pair of manifolds, and the second pair of manifolds, is configured to expand along the stack axis when pressurized with a fluid. a plurality of polymer films including a first film adjacent a second film and including a third film adjacent the second film , the plurality of polymer films in a film stack aligned on a stack axis normal to a plane of the plurality of polymer films, wherein the first film is bonded to the second film with a first bond having a first pattern configured to form a first channel between the first film and the second film, and further wherein the second film is bonded to the third film with a second bond having a second pattern configured to form a second channel between the second film and the third film; a first pair of manifolds in the film stack , the first pair of manifolds formed by the plurality of polymer films and fluidly coupled to the first channel ; a second pair of manifolds in the film stack , the second pair of manifolds formed by the plurality of polymer films and fluidly coupled to the second channel ; a first pair of ports fluidly coupled to the first pair of manifolds, and a second pair of ports fluidly coupled to the second pair of manifolds, wherein the first pair of ports and the second pair of ports have port axes aligned substantially parallel with the stack axis; and characterized in that the polymer films are flexible and formed of a flattened sheet-like material such that the film stack , including the first channel , the second channel , the first pair of manifolds, and the second pair of manifolds, is configured to expand along the stack axis when pressurized with a fluid.
A tow band for electronic cigarette tip, the tow band of cellulose acetate provided by uniting and crimping a plurality of filaments into a bundle, wherein a total denier is set to a value in a range of 10000 to 40000 (inclusive) and a filament denier is set to a value in a range of 6.0 to 20.0 (inclusive), and where the total denier is denoted by TD and a breaking strength of the tow band is denoted by F, a ratio F/TD is set to a value of 0.0015N/denier or more.
Method for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular a gas engine, having two cylinder banks with in each case a plurality of cylinders (A1 to A6, B1 to B6), wherein each cylinder bank is assigned a throttle valve, wherein, by changing the position of the throttle valve assigned to the respective cylinder bank , boost pressure is assigned independently to each cylinder bank , and having an apparatus for active cylinder deactivation of at least one cylinder of each cylinder bank , wherein, in one operating state, all of the cylinders in a first cylinder bank are deactivated and a number of cylinders in a second cylinder bank are active, wherein, during a transition from the one operating state to another operating state, a change of the active cylinders from one cylinder bank to the other is carried out, wherein, during the transition from the one operating state to another operating state, the number of active cylinders is changed, wherein, during the transition from the one operating state to the other operating state, the boost pressure is changed to the required value which is required during the operation after the transition of the operating state, wherein the cylinders active after the change are activated only after the required value of the boost pressure is reached or set, wherein the boost pressure is increased with a reduction in the number of active cylinders and is reduced with an increase in the number of active cylinders.
A turbomachine casing , the casing having the shape of a crown defining an axial direction (DA) and a radial direction (DR) and including an internal shroud , an external shroud extending around and at a distance from the internal shroud , and hollow arms connecting the external shroud to the internal shroud and each intended to receive a tubular auxiliary element , each hollow arm defining an inner housing connecting a first passage orifice passing through the internal shroud in the radial direction (DR) to a second passage orifice passing through the external shroud in the radial direction (DR), and including an inner wall delimiting the inner housing , each arm comprising at least one boss on said inner wall of the arm protruding from the inner wall towards the inner housing and defining a constriction of the inner housing in a section plane orthogonal to the direction in which the arm extends, said at least one boss being intended to cooperate with the tubular auxiliary element , said at least one boss forming a support means for the tubular auxiliary element .
A valve for controlling an air flow, comprising: - a body defining an inlet and an outlet opening for the air flow, - a cylindrical shutter housed inside said body , said shutter being selectively rotatable about an axis (A), said shutter comprising a surface disposed about said axis (A), said surface comprising: - a first curved portion shaped eccentrically relative to said axis (A) so as to define, in use and together with said body , a first passage for said air flow; - a second curved portion shaped eccentrically relative to said axis (A), so as to define, in use and together with said body , a second passage for said air flow; a through hole interposed between said first curved portion and second curved portion , and which, in use, fluidly connects, said first passage with said second passage , said first passage and said second passage being fluidly connected to said inlet and outlet opening respectively, and wherein said body comprises - a pair of arc-shaped walls having relative concavities facing said axis (A) and circumferentially interrupted about said axis (A); and - a pair of inlet and outlet conduits which have relative inlet and outlet mouths defined respectively by said inlet and outlet opening , said arc-shaped walls and said inlet and outlet mouths defining a cylindrical seat which houses said shutter and is fluidly connected with said inlet and outlet opening through said inlet and outlet conduits , said first curved portion defining with one of said arc-shaped walls said first passage ; and said second curved portion defining with one of said arc-shaped walls said second passage . - a body defining an inlet and an outlet opening for the air flow, - a cylindrical shutter housed inside said body , - a first curved portion shaped eccentrically relative to said axis (A) so as to define, in use and together with said body , a first passage for said air flow; - a second curved portion shaped eccentrically relative to said axis (A), so as to define, in use and together with said body , a second passage for said air flow; a through hole interposed between said first curved portion and second curved portion , and which, in use, fluidly connects, said first passage with said second passage , said first passage and said second passage being fluidly connected to said inlet and outlet opening respectively, and wherein said body comprises - a pair of arc-shaped walls having relative concavities facing said axis (A) and circumferentially interrupted about said axis (A); and - a pair of inlet and outlet conduits which have relative inlet and outlet mouths defined respectively by said inlet and outlet opening , said arc-shaped walls and said inlet and outlet mouths defining a cylindrical seat which houses said shutter and is fluidly connected with said inlet and outlet opening through said inlet and outlet conduits ,
Stimulation apparatus (11; 21; 31) for stimulating a region inside a human body, comprising: - a first part (11a; 21a; 31a) which is designed to be inserted at least in part into a vagina or a rectum of a human body, the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) having a front end (51a; 52a; 53a) in the insertion direction and a side wall (51; 52; 53); - a pressure field generating device which is designed to generate a pneumatic alternating pressure field, the alternating pressure field being a varying pressure field which has alternating negative pressure phases and positive pressure phases with respect to the ambient pressure; and - a pressure chamber which is coupled to the pressure field generating device and is designed to absorb an alternating pressure field generated by the pressure field generating device , wherein - the pressure chamber is arranged in the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) and has an opening which is formed in the side wall (51; 52; 53) of the first part (11a; 21a; 31a); - the first part (11a; 21a; 31a), the pressure chamber and the opening are designed such that an alternating pressure field in the pressure chamber can be applied, via the opening , to a region to be stimulated inside the human body; and - a sealing device is provided which is formed on the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) circumferentially around the opening of the pressure chamber and is designed to seal off the pressure chamber from the surroundings, the sealing device being designed such that it rests against an inner surface of the vagina or the rectum after the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) has been inserted. - a first part (11a; 21a; 31a) which is designed to be inserted at least in part into a vagina or a rectum of a human body, the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) having a front end (51a; 52a; 53a) in the insertion direction and a side wall (51; 52; 53); - a pressure field generating device which is designed to generate a pneumatic alternating pressure field, the alternating pressure field being a varying pressure field which has alternating negative pressure phases and positive pressure phases with respect to the ambient pressure; and - a pressure chamber which is coupled to the pressure field generating device and is designed to absorb an alternating pressure field generated by the pressure field generating device , - the pressure chamber is arranged in the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) and has an opening which is formed in the side wall (51; 52; 53) of the first part (11a; 21a; 31a); - the first part (11a; 21a; 31a), the pressure chamber and the opening are designed such that an alternating pressure field in the pressure chamber can be applied, via the opening , to a region to be stimulated inside the human body; and - a sealing device is provided which is formed on the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) circumferentially around the opening of the pressure chamber and is designed to seal off the pressure chamber from the surroundings, the sealing device being designed such that it rests against an inner surface of the vagina or the rectum after the first part (11a; 21a; 31a) has been inserted.
A manufacturing method of an anchorage element formed by a passivation layer for an electronic device , comprising the steps of: arranging a semiconductor body of silicon carbide, SiC; forming, in the semiconductor body and at a distance from a top surface of the semiconductor body , a first implanted region having, parallelly to a first axis (X) parallel to the top surface , a maximum dimension having a first value (d 1 ); forming, in the semiconductor body , a second implanted region , which is superimposed, along a second axis (Z) orthogonal to the first axis (X) and to the top surface , to the first implanted region , extends from the top surface to the first implanted region , and has, parallelly to the first axis (X), a respective maximum dimension having a second value (d 2 ) smaller than the first value (d 1 ); carrying out a process of thermal oxidation of the first and of the second implanted regions to form an oxidized region at the first and the second implanted regions; removing said oxidized region to form, in the semiconductor body and at the oxidized region , a cavity ; and forming, on the top surface , the passivation layer protruding into the cavity to form said anchorage element fixing the passivation layer to the semiconductor body . arranging a semiconductor body of silicon carbide, SiC; forming, in the semiconductor body and at a distance from a top surface of the semiconductor body , a first implanted region having, parallelly to a first axis (X) parallel to the top surface , a maximum dimension having a first value (d 1 ); forming, in the semiconductor body , a second implanted region , which is superimposed, along a second axis (Z) orthogonal to the first axis (X) and to the top surface , to the first implanted region , extends from the top surface to the first implanted region , and has, parallelly to the first axis (X), a respective maximum dimension having a second value (d 2 ) smaller than the first value (d 1 ); carrying out a process of thermal oxidation of the first and of the second implanted regions to form an oxidized region at the first and the second implanted regions; removing said oxidized region to form, in the semiconductor body and at the oxidized region , a cavity ; and forming, on the top surface , the passivation layer protruding into the cavity to form said anchorage element fixing the passivation layer to the semiconductor body .
A heat shield component comprising: a substrate ; and a ceramic porous layer arranged on the substrate , the ceramic porous layer including a base body including ceramic, and pores included in the base body , wherein inner walls of the pores are covered with thermoplastic resin, and a porosity of the ceramic porous layer is in a range of 40% to 70%. a substrate ; and a ceramic porous layer arranged on the substrate , the ceramic porous layer including a base body including ceramic, and pores included in the base body , wherein inner walls of the pores are covered with thermoplastic resin, and a porosity of the ceramic porous layer is in a range of 40% to 70%.
A process for monitoring hydrocarbon production where the process comprises: a) installing one or more fiber optic cables along a wellbore in a hydrocarbon formation; b) installing one or more interrogators on at least one fiber optic cable; c) interrogating at least one fiber optic cable with a Distributed Acoustic Sensing, DAS, interrogation signal; d) obtaining one or more DAS datasets from the interrogator; e) converting one or more DAS datasets from the interrogator into a continuous DAS record; f) transforming the continuous DAS record into a transformed DAS well signal by down sampling data; g) interpreting the transformed DAS well signal and; h) based on the interpreted transformed DAS well signal, monitoring and/or improving hydrocarbon production from said hydrocarbon formation; characterized in that : transforming the continuous DAS record in step f) is performed by filtering with a low-pass filter to 1-50 milliHz while down sampling the data. a) installing one or more fiber optic cables along a wellbore in a hydrocarbon formation; b) installing one or more interrogators on at least one fiber optic cable; c) interrogating at least one fiber optic cable with a Distributed Acoustic Sensing, DAS, interrogation signal; d) obtaining one or more DAS datasets from the interrogator; e) converting one or more DAS datasets from the interrogator into a continuous DAS record; f) transforming the continuous DAS record into a transformed DAS well signal by down sampling data; g) interpreting the transformed DAS well signal and; h) based on the interpreted transformed DAS well signal, monitoring and/or improving hydrocarbon production from said hydrocarbon formation;
A photocatalyst laminate adapted to be disposed on a substrate, the laminate comprising an undercoat layer and a photocatalyst layer laid on a surface of the undercoat layer, said undercoat layer comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a resin component and (B) 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of core/shell nanoparticles each consisting of a core in the form of a tetragonal titanium oxide solid-solution nanoparticle having tin and manganese incorporated in solid solution and a shell of silicon oxide around the core. (A) 100 parts by weight of a resin component and (B) 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of core/shell nanoparticles each consisting of a core in the form of a tetragonal titanium oxide solid-solution nanoparticle having tin and manganese incorporated in solid solution and a shell of silicon oxide around the core.
A display device for rendering a three-dimensional image in accordance with image data, the display device comprising: a plurality of display elements arranged in a display plane, each display element comprising a pixel for outputting light in accordance with a luminance value extracted from the image data, and an actuator for moving the pixel normal to the display plane; wherein the actuator of each display element is operable in response to receiving a height value for the pixel to move the pixel normal to the display plane to an offset relative to the display plane in accordance with the height value; and a pixel position-extracting portion configured to: receive image data; apply an edge detection algorithm to the image data to determine a set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image; and generate height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image in which the height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image are larger than the height values for other pixels . a plurality of display elements arranged in a display plane, each display element comprising a pixel for outputting light in accordance with a luminance value extracted from the image data, and an actuator for moving the pixel normal to the display plane; wherein the actuator of each display element is operable in response to receiving a height value for the pixel to move the pixel normal to the display plane to an offset relative to the display plane in accordance with the height value; and a pixel position-extracting portion configured to: receive image data; apply an edge detection algorithm to the image data to determine a set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image; and generate height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image in which the height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image are larger than the height values for other pixels . receive image data; apply an edge detection algorithm to the image data to determine a set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image; and generate height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image in which the height values for those pixels in the set of pixels that are on detected edges of the image are larger than the height values for other pixels .
A device for sequestering a substance, comprising: an injection well extending to a brine aquifer or to a gas field, oil field or oil sand; a pumping apparatus for pumping to the injection well a substance which includes at least one of carbon dioxide, a substance higher in water solubility than carbon dioxide, and methane; and a porous member provided in the vicinity of a tip of the injection well, wherein the substance pumped into the injection well can be injected into the brine aquifer or into the gas field, oil field or oil sand via the porous member , characterised in that the porous member is of ceramic and is formed through firing of a mixture of ceramic particles and a binder for binding the ceramic particles together, a mode of a pore size distribution is 40 μm or less, and a full width at half maximum of the pore size distribution is 10 μm or less, so that in the course of injection of the substance from the porous member into the brine aquifer or into the gas field, oil field or oil sand, microbubbles of the substance are generated, the microbubbles being bubbles or liquid droplets each having a diameter of less than 1 mm. an injection well extending to a brine aquifer or to a gas field, oil field or oil sand; a pumping apparatus for pumping to the injection well a substance which includes at least one of carbon dioxide, a substance higher in water solubility than carbon dioxide, and methane; and a porous member provided in the vicinity of a tip of the injection well, wherein the substance pumped into the injection well can be injected into the brine aquifer or into the gas field, oil field or oil sand via the porous member , characterised in that the porous member is of ceramic and is formed through firing of a mixture of ceramic particles and a binder for binding the ceramic particles together, a mode of a pore size distribution is 40 μm or less, and a full width at half maximum of the pore size distribution is 10 μm or less, so that in the course of injection of the substance from the porous member into the brine aquifer or into the gas field, oil field or oil sand, microbubbles of the substance are generated, the microbubbles being bubbles or liquid droplets each having a diameter of less than 1 mm.