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A method of coating microneedles comprising the steps of providing a mask plate having apertures , filling these apertures with a coating solution using a filling means, and subsequently inserting microneedles of a microneedle device into the apertures filled with the coating solution and thereafter pulling out the microneedles from the apertures to coat the microneedles , wherein the apertures are blind holes, and characterised in that the filling means is a spatula , by which the coating solution is swept in one direction on the mask plate , wherein a coating amount to the microneedle is adjusted by controlling the filling amount of the coating solution in the mask apertures by changing at least one of d. a spatula pressure, e. a speed of spatula stroke, and g. an attack angle between the spatula and the mask plate . wherein the apertures are blind holes, and characterised in that the filling means is a spatula , by which the coating solution is swept in one direction on the mask plate , wherein a coating amount to the microneedle is adjusted by controlling the filling amount of the coating solution in the mask apertures by changing at least one of d. a spatula pressure, e. a speed of spatula stroke, and g. an attack angle between the spatula and the mask plate . d. a spatula pressure, e. a speed of spatula stroke, and g. an attack angle between the spatula and the mask plate .
A method for buffer management in a distributed database network, the method comprising: receiving , by a lower-layer buffer management entity in a first network node, data messages from a second network node, wherein a query execution plan assigns at least some of the data messages to be processed by different upper-layer query processing operations of the first network node, and wherein each of the upper-layer query processing operations is configured to process data stored in a corresponding one of a plurality of working buffers; determining , by the lower-layer buffer management entity, priority levels associated with the data messages based on a priority level of a corresponding upper-layer query processing operation assigned to process the corresponding data messages; and buffering the data messages in communication buffers of the first network node in accordance with the priority levels associated with the data messages, wherein data messages having different priority levels are stored in different communication buffers, and forwarding the data messages from the communication buffers to the working buffers, wherein the data messages stored in the communication buffers are not available to be processed by the upper-layer query processing operations until the data messages are forwarded from the communication buffers to the working buffers. receiving , by a lower-layer buffer management entity in a first network node, data messages from a second network node, wherein a query execution plan assigns at least some of the data messages to be processed by different upper-layer query processing operations of the first network node, and wherein each of the upper-layer query processing operations is configured to process data stored in a corresponding one of a plurality of working buffers; determining , by the lower-layer buffer management entity, priority levels associated with the data messages based on a priority level of a corresponding upper-layer query processing operation assigned to process the corresponding data messages; and buffering the data messages in communication buffers of the first network node in accordance with the priority levels associated with the data messages, wherein data messages having different priority levels are stored in different communication buffers, and forwarding the data messages from the communication buffers to the working buffers, wherein the data messages stored in the communication buffers are not available to be processed by the upper-layer query processing operations until the data messages are forwarded from the communication buffers to the working buffers.
A method for controlling organic contaminants which interfere with bleaching of fibers in papermaking systems, comprising: a) contacting, prior to any bleaching step, the fibers with a composition comprising at least one hemicellulolytic enzyme and at least one organic contaminant removal adjuvant to provide treated fibers from which organic contaminants liberate from the fibers in greater amount than wherein the fibers are contacted with the composition without said organic contaminant removal adjuvant, wherein the organic contaminants comprise one or more xylans, one or more pitch components, or both, and said organic contaminant removal adjuvant is a nonionic block copolymer of the formula PEO-PPO-PEO or PEO-PBO-PEO that terminates in primary hydroxyl groups and has an HLB value of 15 or more; and b) bleaching the treated fibers to form bleached fibers. a) contacting, prior to any bleaching step, the fibers with a composition comprising at least one hemicellulolytic enzyme and at least one organic contaminant removal adjuvant to provide treated fibers from which organic contaminants liberate from the fibers in greater amount than wherein the fibers are contacted with the composition without said organic contaminant removal adjuvant, wherein the organic contaminants comprise one or more xylans, one or more pitch components, or both, and said organic contaminant removal adjuvant is a nonionic block copolymer of the formula PEO-PPO-PEO or PEO-PBO-PEO that terminates in primary hydroxyl groups and has an HLB value of 15 or more; and b) bleaching the treated fibers to form bleached fibers.
Lighting assembly for a gear change and brake control unit for a bicycle of the type comprising a connecting portion for connection to the handlebar (M) of the bicycle and a support connected to the connecting portion and a control lever hinged to the support , the assembly comprising a connecting element for the removable connection of the assembly to the support of the control unit , a lighting device housed in a rigid housing and a control device connected to said lighting device for switching said device on and/or off, said connecting element being configured such that the lighting device is positioned in remote position with respect to the control lever when the assembly is connected to the control unit , wherein said connecting element comprises a flexible covering connected to said rigid housing of the lighting device , said flexible covering being capable of being deformed such that it can be fitted to a coupling portion of the support of the gear change control unit by means of a shape coupling, an opening being formed in said flexible covering for allowing at least partial insertion of said coupling portion , said lighting device is intermittent, comprises LED lights and is orange coloured so as to act as a turn signal, characterized in that in that said control device is directly fixed to said flexible covering .
A method of streaming a media sequence by a client from a server , wherein said media sequence comprises a sequence of encoded segments and said media sequence is progressively made available at the server, said method comprising: determining the most recent encoded segment made available at the server; identifying the next encoded segment to be made available at the server as the encoded segment in the sequence after the most recent encoded segment; and repeatedly making requests to the media server for the next encoded segment until an acknowledgement is received that the next encoded segment is available; receiving an acknowledgement that the next encoded segment is available; and starting streaming of the media sequence from the next encoded segment. determining the most recent encoded segment made available at the server; identifying the next encoded segment to be made available at the server as the encoded segment in the sequence after the most recent encoded segment; and repeatedly making requests to the media server for the next encoded segment until an acknowledgement is received that the next encoded segment is available; receiving an acknowledgement that the next encoded segment is available; and starting streaming of the media sequence from the next encoded segment.
A signal processing apparatus comprising: an ambisonic gain calculation unit configured to find, on a basis of spread information of an object, an ambisonic gain while the object is present at a predetermined position, wherein the ambisonic gain calculation unit finds a reference position ambisonic gain, on the basis of the spread information, assuming that the object is present at a reference position, and performs rotation processing on the reference position ambisonic gain to find the ambisonic gain on a basis of object position information indicating the predetermined position, characterized in that the reference position ambisonic gain is a sum of respective values obtained by substituting respective angles indicating a plurality of respective spatial positions defined for spread angles indicated by the spread information into a spherical harmonic function. an ambisonic gain calculation unit configured to find, on a basis of spread information of an object, an ambisonic gain while the object is present at a predetermined position, wherein the ambisonic gain calculation unit finds a reference position ambisonic gain, on the basis of the spread information, assuming that the object is present at a reference position, and performs rotation processing on the reference position ambisonic gain to find the ambisonic gain on a basis of object position information indicating the predetermined position, characterized in that the reference position ambisonic gain is a sum of respective values obtained by substituting respective angles indicating a plurality of respective spatial positions defined for spread angles indicated by the spread information into a spherical harmonic function.
A controller of an air-fuel-ratio sensor , comprising: a control unit that controls a current and a voltage of a gas sensor element through a plurality of terminals (T) connected with the gas sensor element ; a voltage-abnormality detecting unit that changes, when at least one of voltages of the plurality of terminals (T) is out of a predetermined range, a voltage level of an output voltage (Vo); and a short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit that causes, when the voltage level of the output voltage (Vo) changes from a first voltage into a second voltage, the control unit to perform for a predetermined time a protective operation that suppresses currents from the control unit to the plurality of terminals (T), and detects, when the voltage level of the output voltage (Vo) is the second voltage after the protective operation is released, when a predetermined time has elapsed from the timing when the overcurrent protective operation is released, whereby the predetermined time is set to be a time period that is longer than a time period for a completion of a shift to a normal operation from the overcurrent protective operation, and is shorter than a time period to be spent for generation of a failure in the control unit caused by an overcurrent due to a ground fault or a short circuit, a short-circuit abnormality. a control unit that controls a current and a voltage of a gas sensor element through a plurality of terminals (T) connected with the gas sensor element ; a voltage-abnormality detecting unit that changes, when at least one of voltages of the plurality of terminals (T) is out of a predetermined range, a voltage level of an output voltage (Vo); and a short-circuit-abnormality detecting unit that causes, when the voltage level of the output voltage (Vo) changes from a first voltage into a second voltage, the control unit to perform for a predetermined time a protective operation that suppresses currents from the control unit to the plurality of terminals (T), and detects, when the voltage level of the output voltage (Vo) is the second voltage after the protective operation is released, when a predetermined time has elapsed from the timing when the overcurrent protective operation is released, whereby the predetermined time is set to be a time period that is longer than a time period for a completion of a shift to a normal operation from the overcurrent protective operation, and is shorter than a time period to be spent for generation of a failure in the control unit caused by an overcurrent due to a ground fault or a short circuit, a short-circuit abnormality.
A mounting system and a technical component, comprising a bracket fixed to a mounting surface and coupling units coupling arms of the bracket with the body of the technical component , wherein each arm of the bracket has a hole with a flange on the inner side of the arms , and the coupling unit consists of a screw with a washer and a flexible washer with a support washer , the support washer is secured to the arm of the bracket in such a manner that the flexible washer is located between the support washer and the arm of the bracket in a position coaxial with a hole in the support washer and the hole in the bracket arm , characterized in that the body of the technical component has slots for the flanges around the holes in the bracket arms , wherein the bottom of each slot has a cylindrical threaded hole with a chamfered inlet edge aligned with the flange on the bracket arm when the flange is inserted into the slot , wherein the hole receives a screw of the coupling unit securing the body of a technical component to the bracket arm , and the diameter of the hole in the flexible washer is smaller than the outer diameter of the screw thread of the coupling unit .
A device for electrical contacting, having a contact pin and at least one contact pin socket penetrated by said contact pin in an operating state, wherein the contact pin socket has a first guide which is fixed on a component in an operating state, and a second guide conductively connected with the first, wherein the second guide is displaceably arranged on the first guide and wherein the contact pin makes contact in a conductive manner with at least the second guide in an operating state, wherein the first and second guides each have a central opening which in an operating state is penetrated by the contact pin , characterized in that the first and second guides have engagement means respectively corresponding to each other.
A processor architecture arrangement for emulated shared memory, that is ESM, architectures, the processor architecture arrangement comprising a number of multi-threaded processors each provided with interleaved inter-thread pipeline , multiple threads being executed in cyclic, interleaved manner by the pipeline so that a number of other threads being executed while a thread refers to a common physically distributed and logically shared data memory of the ESM architecture, and with a plurality of functional units for carrying out arithmetic and logical operations on data, wherein the pipeline comprises at least two operatively parallel pipeline branches including a memory pipeline branch comprising a memory segment arranged for carrying out memory access operations, a first pipeline branch comprising a first sub-group of said plurality of functional units , such as, arithmetic logic units, arranged for carrying out integer operations, characterized in that the pipeline comprises a second pipeline branch comprising a second, non-overlapping sub-group of said plurality of functional units , such as floating point units, arranged for carrying out floating point operations, and wherein the first and the second pipeline branches each comprise a plurality of segments, the segments being connected in series, and wherein each segment comprises one or more of said functional units, and further wherein one or more of the functional units of at least said second sub-group arranged for floating point operations are arranged operatively in parallel with the memory access segment of the pipeline so that the pipeline stages of the associated floating point operations are executed simultaneously with the stages of the memory unit taking care of the pending access of the shared data memory, while the pipeline stages of the first segment of floating point functional units are operated in parallel with corresponding stages of the first segment of arithmetic and logic functional units and the pipeline stages of the second segment of floating point functional units are operated in parallel with the corresponding stages of the second segment of arithmetic and logic functional units .
An interface electronic circuit for a capacitive acoustic transducer having a MEMS structure defining a sensing capacitor (C MEMS ), said circuit being supplied by a supply voltage (V DD ) and comprising: an amplifier stage , having an input coupled to an electrode (N 2 ) of said sensing capacitor; a voltage-regulator stage , configured to generate a regulated voltage (V r ) for a supply input of said amplifier stage , based on a regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) ; and a common-mode-control stage , configured to control a common-mode voltage (V CM ) present on said input of said amplifier stage , based on a common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ), further comprising a reference-generator stage , configured to receive said supply voltage (V DD ) and generate said regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) and said common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ), with variable values as a function of said supply voltage (V DD ), characterized in that said reference-generator stage is configured to generate said regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) and said common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ) proportional to said supply voltage (V DD ), as a product of said supply voltage (V DD ) by a first multiplicative factor (A 1 ) and a second multiplicative factor (A 2 ), respectively. an amplifier stage , having an input coupled to an electrode (N 2 ) of said sensing capacitor; a voltage-regulator stage , configured to generate a regulated voltage (V r ) for a supply input of said amplifier stage , based on a regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) ; and a common-mode-control stage , configured to control a common-mode voltage (V CM ) present on said input of said amplifier stage , based on a common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ), further comprising a reference-generator stage , configured to receive said supply voltage (V DD ) and generate said regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) and said common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ), with variable values as a function of said supply voltage (V DD ), characterized in that said reference-generator stage is configured to generate said regulator reference voltage (V ref _ reg ) and said common-mode reference voltage (V ref_CM ) proportional to said supply voltage (V DD ), as a product of said supply voltage (V DD ) by a first multiplicative factor (A 1 ) and a second multiplicative factor (A 2 ), respectively.
Stop device for limiting a vertical deflection of a leaf spring of a motor vehicle which is fastened to an axle body, having a stop which limits the vertical movement of the leaf spring, a supporting structure for supporting and fastening the stop to a vehicle carrier , and a guide device for receiving and guiding at least a cable, a line and/or a holder , wherein the guide device is fastened to the supporting structure , and characterised in that the supporting structure has a supporting plate on which the stop is arranged, a first carrier , a second carrier , which support the supporting plate , and a transverse carrier connecting the two carriers to one another.
A blade for a rotor of a wind turbine having a substantially horizontal rotor shaft, said rotor comprising a hub , from which the blade extends substantially in a radial direction when mounted to the hub , the blade having a longitudinal direction (r) with a tip end and a root end and a transverse direction as well as having a blade length (L), the blade further comprising: - a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord having a chord length (c) extending there between, the profiled contour, when being impacted by an incident airflow, generating a lift, wherein - the blade is assembled from an inboard blade part closest to the hub and an outboard blade part farthest from the hub, wherein - the inboard part comprises the root end of the blade and comprises a load carrying structure with a first aerodynamic shell fitted to the load carrying structure , wherein the load carrying structure of the inboard blade part is a spar or a beam, and - the outboard part comprises a blade shell with a load carrying structure integrated in the blade shell , wherein the load carrying structure of the outboard blade part is a principal laminate integrated in the shell, wherein the outboard blade part comprises a first blade part comprising a pressure side shell part with a pressure side principal laminate , and a suction side shell part with a suction side principal laminate , and wherein at least one shear web is mounted between the pressure side principal laminate and the suction side principal laminate. - a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord having a chord length (c) extending there between, the profiled contour, when being impacted by an incident airflow, generating a lift, wherein - the blade is assembled from an inboard blade part closest to the hub and an outboard blade part farthest from the hub, wherein - the inboard part comprises the root end of the blade and comprises a load carrying structure with a first aerodynamic shell fitted to the load carrying structure , wherein the load carrying structure of the inboard blade part is a spar or a beam, and - the outboard part comprises a blade shell with a load carrying structure integrated in the blade shell , wherein the load carrying structure of the outboard blade part is a principal laminate integrated in the shell, wherein the outboard blade part comprises a first blade part comprising a pressure side shell part with a pressure side principal laminate , and a suction side shell part with a suction side principal laminate , and wherein at least one shear web is mounted between the pressure side principal laminate and the suction side principal laminate.