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An implantation accessory for placement at a heart valve annulus location of a patient's heart, the annulus having a first axis (A1), the implantation accessory comprising: a first surface ; a second axis (A2) perpendicular to the first surface ; and, a maneuvering system for aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2), wherein the maneuvering system includes a first threadable bore and a second threadable bore , each bore having first and second openings (142, 144, 152, 154; 742, 744, 752, 754) disposed at the first surface , wherein the first threadable bore and the second threadable bore include a first thread and a second thread therethrough, respectively, for tilting the first surface and aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2), wherein the maneuvering system includes a graspable central pin pivotable relative to the implantation accessory , wherein the second axis (A2) passes through central pin , wherein the central pin is further rotatable with the implantation accessory in a first clockwise direction (D1) and in a second counter-clockwise direction (D2), and wherein manipulation or pulling on first and second threads, while grasping the central pin , operate to tilt the first surface and aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2). a first surface ; a second axis (A2) perpendicular to the first surface ; and, a maneuvering system for aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2), wherein the maneuvering system includes a first threadable bore and a second threadable bore , each bore having first and second openings (142, 144, 152, 154; 742, 744, 752, 754) disposed at the first surface , wherein the first threadable bore and the second threadable bore include a first thread and a second thread therethrough, respectively, for tilting the first surface and aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2), wherein the maneuvering system includes a graspable central pin pivotable relative to the implantation accessory , wherein the second axis (A2) passes through central pin , wherein the central pin is further rotatable with the implantation accessory in a first clockwise direction (D1) and in a second counter-clockwise direction (D2), and wherein manipulation or pulling on first and second threads, while grasping the central pin , operate to tilt the first surface and aligning the first axis (A1) and the second axis (A2).
An air duct assembly comprising: an air duct having an inflated state and a deflated state, the air duct being elongate in a longitudinal direction and extending from an upstream end to a downstream end , the air duct comprising a sidewall that is pliable, the sidewall being tubular to define an interior of the air duct and an external area outside the air duct ; an overhead support member ; and first and second hangers suspending the air duct from the overhead support member , the first and second hangers being spaced apart and distributed in the longitudinal direction between the upstream end and the downstream end ; characterized in that : the first and second hangers are non-perpendicular and non-parallel relative to the longitudinal direction to apply tension to the sidewall in the longitudinal direction . an air duct having an inflated state and a deflated state, the air duct being elongate in a longitudinal direction and extending from an upstream end to a downstream end , the air duct comprising a sidewall that is pliable, the sidewall being tubular to define an interior of the air duct and an external area outside the air duct ; an overhead support member ; and first and second hangers suspending the air duct from the overhead support member , the first and second hangers being spaced apart and distributed in the longitudinal direction between the upstream end and the downstream end ; characterized in that : the first and second hangers are non-perpendicular and non-parallel relative to the longitudinal direction to apply tension to the sidewall in the longitudinal direction .
A tool for forming, on a drawing press, a collar on a sheet metal blank provided with an opening , the tool comprising : - a lower part forming a receiving surface for the sheet metal blank; - an upper part capable of pressing the sheet metal blank against the receiving surface ; anda collar on a sheet metal blank provided with an orifice , the tooling comprising: a lower part forming a receiving surface for the sheet metal blank; an upper part capable of pressing the sheet metal blank against the receiving surface ; and a lower part forming a collar on a sheet metal blank provided with a hole . - a punch adapted to form the collar around the hole , the punch being an integral part of the receiving surface , said surface forming a cup around said punch allowing a portion of the sheet metal blank, located around the orifice , to undergo a downward movement during pressing by the upper part , characterised in that the receiving surface of the sheet metal blank comprises an annular portion around the cup , said portion being at a height greater than or equal to the height of the punch . - a lower part forming a receiving surface for the sheet metal blank; - an upper part capable of pressing the sheet metal blank against the receiving surface ; anda collar on a sheet metal blank provided with an orifice , the tooling comprising: a lower part forming a receiving surface for the sheet metal blank; an upper part capable of pressing the sheet metal blank against the receiving surface ; and a lower part forming a collar on a sheet metal blank provided with a hole . - a punch adapted to form the collar around the hole , the punch being an integral part of the receiving surface ,
A semiconductor device operable to demodulate incident modulated electromagnetic radiation, the semiconductor device comprising: a pinned photodiode structure including a substrate of a first type; an implant layer of a second type disposed within the substrate ; a first auxiliary implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate and disposed adjacent to the implant layer of the second type; a second auxiliary implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate and disposed adjacent to the implant layer of the second type; an implant layer of the first type disposed within the implant layer of the second type and extending into the first auxiliary implant layer of the second type and the second auxiliary implant layer of the second type; an insulator disposed on a surface of the substrate ; a photo-detection region ; a first transfer gate and a second transfer gate disposed on a surface of the insulator, the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate being operable to generate a field within the substrate of the first type; and a first floating diffusion implant layer of the second type and a second floating diffusion implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate of the first type, wherein the first and second auxiliary implant layers of the second type each has a concentration gradient of dopants that varies linearly with thickness. a pinned photodiode structure including a substrate of a first type; an implant layer of a second type disposed within the substrate ; a first auxiliary implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate and disposed adjacent to the implant layer of the second type; a second auxiliary implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate and disposed adjacent to the implant layer of the second type; an implant layer of the first type disposed within the implant layer of the second type and extending into the first auxiliary implant layer of the second type and the second auxiliary implant layer of the second type; an insulator disposed on a surface of the substrate ; a photo-detection region ; a first transfer gate and a second transfer gate disposed on a surface of the insulator, the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate being operable to generate a field within the substrate of the first type; and a first floating diffusion implant layer of the second type and a second floating diffusion implant layer of the second type disposed within the substrate of the first type, wherein the first and second auxiliary implant layers of the second type each has a concentration gradient of dopants that varies linearly with thickness.
A method for multiplex screening of nucleic acid sequence variations comprising: loading a nucleic acid containing specimen comprising one or more nucleic acid sequence variations into one or more discrete volumes; dispensing one or more solutions across all discrete volumes, the solution comprising a set of optically encoded particles, each particle having one or more primers of a same primer type associated therewith, and each primer comprising a particle identifier that identifies a type of optically encoded particle the primer is associated with; detecting a combination of optically-encoded particles delivered to each discrete volume and recording the combination of optically encoded particles observed in each discrete volume; generating amplicons in each discrete volume using the one or more primers delivered to each discrete volume by the optically-encoded particles, wherein the one or more primers amplify one or more target sequences comprising the nucleic sequence variation to be screened; sequencing the generated amplicons from each discrete volume, wherein the amplicon sequence information includes the primer particle identifier; clustering the generated amplicon sequence data by sequence similarity of the one or more target sequences; and determining the discrete volume in which the cluster of amplicon sequences originated by matching the particle identifiers from the cluster of amplicon sequences to the discrete volume where a corresponding combination of optically encoded particles was detected. loading a nucleic acid containing specimen comprising one or more nucleic acid sequence variations into one or more discrete volumes; dispensing one or more solutions across all discrete volumes, the solution comprising a set of optically encoded particles, each particle having one or more primers of a same primer type associated therewith, and each primer comprising a particle identifier that identifies a type of optically encoded particle the primer is associated with; detecting a combination of optically-encoded particles delivered to each discrete volume and recording the combination of optically encoded particles observed in each discrete volume; generating amplicons in each discrete volume using the one or more primers delivered to each discrete volume by the optically-encoded particles, wherein the one or more primers amplify one or more target sequences comprising the nucleic sequence variation to be screened; sequencing the generated amplicons from each discrete volume, wherein the amplicon sequence information includes the primer particle identifier; clustering the generated amplicon sequence data by sequence similarity of the one or more target sequences; and determining the discrete volume in which the cluster of amplicon sequences originated by matching the particle identifiers from the cluster of amplicon sequences to the discrete volume where a corresponding combination of optically encoded particles was detected.
A method of fabricating a composite powder , comprising: forming a plurality of loose particles having discrete regions of a first material and discrete regions of a second material that is different than the first material, and at least one of the first material and the second material comprises a chemical precursor to a third, different material, wherein the forming includes blending together particles of the first material with particles of the second material, characterized in that the composite powder comprises 75 vol.% of a metal powder as the second material and 25 vol. % of a chemical precursor as the first material, wherein the chemical precursor is a vinyl polysilazane that is convertible to silicon carbonitride ceramic. forming a plurality of loose particles having discrete regions of a first material and discrete regions of a second material that is different than the first material, and at least one of the first material and the second material comprises a chemical precursor to a third, different material, wherein the forming includes blending together particles of the first material with particles of the second material, characterized in that the composite powder comprises 75 vol.% of a metal powder as the second material and 25 vol. % of a chemical precursor as the first material, wherein the chemical precursor is a vinyl polysilazane that is convertible to silicon carbonitride ceramic.
A steering control method for a vehicle, comprising: monitoring a steering capability state of front wheels of the vehicle; if the steering capability of the front wheels of the vehicle fails, selecting a preset vehicle speed threshold; and determining additional steering used to compensate for front wheel steering based on a comparision of a current vehicle speed and the vehicle speed threshold, the additional steering comprises one or more of additional rear wheel steering, additional roll steering by adjusting a vehicle roll angle, and vector torque steering by adjusting longitudinal force for the wheels; characterized in that , the step of selecting a preset vehicle speed threshold comprises: selecting the preset vehicle speed threshold according to the failure degree of the steering capability of the front wheels of the vehicle. monitoring a steering capability state of front wheels of the vehicle; if the steering capability of the front wheels of the vehicle fails, selecting a preset vehicle speed threshold; and determining additional steering used to compensate for front wheel steering based on a comparision of a current vehicle speed and the vehicle speed threshold, the additional steering comprises one or more of additional rear wheel steering, additional roll steering by adjusting a vehicle roll angle, and vector torque steering by adjusting longitudinal force for the wheels; characterized in that , the step of selecting a preset vehicle speed threshold comprises: selecting the preset vehicle speed threshold according to the failure degree of the steering capability of the front wheels of the vehicle.
A burner for a reheating furnace for steel products, such as billets, blooms or slabs, or for a heat treatment furnace that is fitted with a fuel injection device and an oxidant supply body supplying oxidant supply ports and , the burner having an axial direction: - the oxidant supply body has two sets of four oxidant supply ports and , each set having two ports located above a horizontal plane passing through the axial direction of the burner and two ports located beneath said plane, the ports in a second set being further away from said horizontal plane than the ports in the first set, the geometric axes of the supply ducts of the ports of the two sets having angles of inclination (a, b) in relation to said axial direction of the burner, - the axes of the oxidant supply ports fall within the horizontal planes, and are inclined in relation to the perpendicular to the output plane by an angle (a) for the ports of the second set and by an angle (b) for the ports of the first set, the axes of the oxidant supply ports being divergent, characterized in that - the injection device is designed to ensure central injection of the fuel through a port parallel to the axial direction of the burner, - the angle (a) of the geometric axes of the pairs of ports of the second set is between 5° and 18°, and the axes are divergent, - the angle (b) of the geometric axes of the pairs of ports of the first set is between 10° and 20°. - the oxidant supply body has two sets of four oxidant supply ports and , each set having two ports located above a horizontal plane passing through the axial direction of the burner and two ports located beneath said plane, the ports in a second set being further away from said horizontal plane than the ports in the first set, the geometric axes of the supply ducts of the ports of the two sets having angles of inclination (a, b) in relation to said axial direction of the burner, - the axes of the oxidant supply ports fall within the horizontal planes, and are inclined in relation to the perpendicular to the output plane by an angle (a) for the ports of the second set and by an angle (b) for the ports of the first set, the axes of the oxidant supply ports being divergent, characterized in that - the injection device is designed to ensure central injection of the fuel through a port parallel to the axial direction of the burner, - the angle (a) of the geometric axes of the pairs of ports of the second set is between 5° and 18°, and the axes are divergent, - the angle (b) of the geometric axes of the pairs of ports of the first set is between 10° and 20°.
A method for detecting endogenous anti-ApoA-I antibodies in a biological fluid sample of a mammalian subject comprising the steps of: (a) providing a biological fluid sample from a mammalian subject; (b) bringing said biological fluid sample into contact with a solid matrix where at least one mimetic peptide of an epitope of Apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) is coupled to, wherein said mimetic peptide consists in a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 9 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 15 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 16 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 17 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 19 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 20 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 25, wherein said mimetic peptide variant is of an amino acid sequence identical to said mimetic peptide except that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 amino acids of said sequence are substituted, deleted, and/or chemically modified, without aborting the capacity of said mimetic peptide to specifically bind to an anti-ApoA-I antibody, wherein the contacting is under conditions sufficient for binding an anti-ApoA-I antibody present in said biological fluid sample to said at least one mimetic peptide through antigen-antibody interactions, wherein the sequence of the said at least one mimetic peptide has an internal cross-linking between at least two non-contiguous amino acids; (c) Removing any unbound antibody from the surface of said solid matrix; (d) Detecting the presence of an antigen-antibody complex bound to said solid matrix; wherein the presence of said complex is indicative that the biological fluid sample contains endogenous anti-ApoA-I antibodies. (a) providing a biological fluid sample from a mammalian subject; (b) bringing said biological fluid sample into contact with a solid matrix where at least one mimetic peptide of an epitope of Apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) is coupled to, wherein said mimetic peptide consists in a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 9 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 15 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 16 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 17 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 19 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 20 or a variant thereof, or SEQ ID NO: 25, wherein said mimetic peptide variant is of an amino acid sequence identical to said mimetic peptide except that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 amino acids of said sequence are substituted, deleted, and/or chemically modified, without aborting the capacity of said mimetic peptide to specifically bind to an anti-ApoA-I antibody, wherein the contacting is under conditions sufficient for binding an anti-ApoA-I antibody present in said biological fluid sample to said at least one mimetic peptide through antigen-antibody interactions, wherein the sequence of the said at least one mimetic peptide has an internal cross-linking between at least two non-contiguous amino acids; (c) Removing any unbound antibody from the surface of said solid matrix; (d) Detecting the presence of an antigen-antibody complex bound to said solid matrix;
A refrigeration system , comprising: - a free cooling system comprising an air-cooled heat exchanger , wherein the air-cooled heat exchanger comprises a variable speed fan configured to move air over coils of the air-cooled heat exchanger to remove heat from a coolant flowing through the air-cooled heat exchanger ; - a mechanical cooling system comprising a refrigerant loop with an evaporator , a variable speed compressor , and a condenser disposed along the refrigerant loop, wherein the variable speed compressor is configured to circulate a refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, and wherein the evaporator is configured to receive the coolant and to transfer heat from the coolant to the refrigerant ; and - a controller configured to adjust a fan speed of the variable speed fan up to a threshold fan speed, and to initiate operation of the variable speed compressor , when the fan speed reaches the threshold fan speed, wherein the fan speed and a compressor speed of the variable speed compressor are based at least on an ambient air temperature and a cooling load demand, and wherein the threshold fan speed is less than a maximum speed of the variable speed fan . - a free cooling system comprising an air-cooled heat exchanger , wherein the air-cooled heat exchanger comprises a variable speed fan configured to move air over coils of the air-cooled heat exchanger to remove heat from a coolant flowing through the air-cooled heat exchanger ; - a mechanical cooling system comprising a refrigerant loop with an evaporator , a variable speed compressor , and a condenser disposed along the refrigerant loop, wherein the variable speed compressor is configured to circulate a refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, and wherein the evaporator is configured to receive the coolant and to transfer heat from the coolant to the refrigerant ; and - a controller configured to adjust a fan speed of the variable speed fan up to a threshold fan speed, and to initiate operation of the variable speed compressor , when the fan speed reaches the threshold fan speed,