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A variable reluctance sensor for sensing the speed or torque of a shaft in a gear box or a gas turbine engine, comprising: a magnetic pole piece ; a conductive wire wrapped around the pole piece; a housing surrounding the pole piece, the housing having a front face and at least one side wall , wherein, in use, the front face is positioned proximate to an object to be sensed, a permanent magnet or magnetic field generator comprising a primary winding on the pole piece, wherein the pole piece has a shaft portion extending through the front face of the housing, and a head portion at the axial end of the pole piece opposite the front face of the housing, the shaft of the pole piece being rigidly connected to the front face of the housing and the head portion of the pole piece being rigidly connected to the sidewall of the housing, and wherein the front face of the housing is substantially thinner than the side wall of the housing. a magnetic pole piece ; a conductive wire wrapped around the pole piece; a housing surrounding the pole piece, the housing having a front face and at least one side wall , wherein, in use, the front face is positioned proximate to an object to be sensed, a permanent magnet or magnetic field generator comprising a primary winding on the pole piece, wherein the pole piece has a shaft portion extending through the front face of the housing, and a head portion at the axial end of the pole piece opposite the front face of the housing, the shaft of the pole piece being rigidly connected to the front face of the housing and the head portion of the pole piece being rigidly connected to the sidewall of the housing, and wherein the front face of the housing is substantially thinner than the side wall of the housing.
A method for forming polymer brushes on a surface, wherein a surface having polymerisation initiators immobilised thereon is brought into contact with a polymerisation medium, characterised in that a swellable and removable polymer gel is used during the formation of the polymer brushes.
A method of driving an aircraft undercarriage between a deployed position and a retracted position, the undercarriage having a leg hinged to a structure of the aircraft to be movable between the deployed position and the retracted position, being stabilized in the deployed position by means of a brace member comprising two limbs that are hinged to each other, one of which is coupled to the leg and the other of which is coupled to the structure of the aircraft, and which are taken to an aligned position when the leg is in the deployed position, the method being characterized in that a rotary actuator is arranged on the aircraft, the actuator having first and second cranks mounted to turn freely about a common axis of rotation but presenting a relative angular position that can be controlled, the first crank being connected to the brace member by a first connecting rod , while the second crank is connected to the leg by a second connecting rod , such that the cranks present: - a first relative angular position in which the first crank and the first connecting rod are brought into a first alignment when the leg is in the deployed position, thereby stabilizing the limbs of the brace member in a substantially aligned position; and - a second relative angular position in which the second crank and the second connecting rod are brought into a second alignment while the leg is in the retracted position, thereby stabilizing the leg in the retracted position. - a first relative angular position in which the first crank and the first connecting rod are brought into a first alignment when the leg is in the deployed position, thereby stabilizing the limbs of the brace member in a substantially aligned position; and - a second relative angular position in which the second crank and the second connecting rod are brought into a second alignment while the leg is in the retracted position, thereby stabilizing the leg in the retracted position.
Timepiece comprising a horological movement provided with a going train powered by an energy source, an escapement pinion and an escapement wheel , said timepiece including a drive mechanism for driving a jumping element comprising a drive wheel , an indicator of a unit of time, a jumping element integral with said indicator and coaxial to said drive wheel to which said jumping element is coupled by a spring , a cam , integral with a cam drive wheel , arranged to control a pallet-lever , said cam having a profile arranged to cause the pallet-lever to rock in an oscillating motion so as to release the jumping element once per unit of time, the cam and the jumping element having distinct pivot arbours, said drive mechanism, further comprising an intermediate train kinematically connecting the drive wheel to the cam , and the pallet-lever having four distinct arms , two of the four arms forming feelers arranged to cooperate with the cam and the other two arms forming escapement arms arranged to successively block and release the jumping element once per unit of time, alternately, and said cam drive wheel being directly engaged with the escapement pinion.
A re-encoding method of re-encoding an encoded image, the method comprising: obtaining a first quantization matrix from an image file including the encoded image, the encoded image being encoded by quantization based on the first quantization matrix including a plurality of first quantization parameters; obtaining a second quantization matrix from a re-encoding device, the second quantization matrix including a plurality of second quantization parameters and having the same size as the first quantization matrix; determining a comparison coefficient based on the number of elements greater than '0' in a comparison matrix obtained by subtracting the first quantization matrix from the second quantization matrix; and when the comparison coefficient is greater than a first threshold value, decoding the encoded image by inverse quantization based on the first quantization matrix and re-encoding the decoded image by quantization based on the second quantization matrix. obtaining a first quantization matrix from an image file including the encoded image, the encoded image being encoded by quantization based on the first quantization matrix including a plurality of first quantization parameters; obtaining a second quantization matrix from a re-encoding device, the second quantization matrix including a plurality of second quantization parameters and having the same size as the first quantization matrix; determining a comparison coefficient based on the number of elements greater than '0' in a comparison matrix obtained by subtracting the first quantization matrix from the second quantization matrix; and when the comparison coefficient is greater than a first threshold value, decoding the encoded image by inverse quantization based on the first quantization matrix and re-encoding the decoded image by quantization based on the second quantization matrix.
A circuit comprising: • first and second input terminals (RF1, RF2) connected to an antenna; • a first supply rail energized from the first input terminal for providing a first supply voltage (rfvdd); • a shunt regulator operable to regulate the first supply voltage by establishing a shunt current (I S ) between the first and second input terminals (RF1, RF2); • a rectifier circuit connected for energizing the first supply rail and the shunt regulator from an alternating signal provided by the antenna; and • a second supply rail for providing a second supply voltage (vdd); characterized in that it comprises: • a switching circuit coupled to the shunt regulator and operable by a switch control signal to direct the shunt current (I S ) to flow to the second supply rail or to bypass the second supply rail to the second input terminal (RF2); and • a regulator circuit configured for regulating the second supply voltage (vdd) in switched mode through the switch control signal . • first and second input terminals (RF1, RF2) connected to an antenna; • a first supply rail energized from the first input terminal for providing a first supply voltage (rfvdd); • a shunt regulator operable to regulate the first supply voltage by establishing a shunt current (I S ) between the first and second input terminals (RF1, RF2); • a rectifier circuit connected for energizing the first supply rail and the shunt regulator from an alternating signal provided by the antenna; and • a second supply rail for providing a second supply voltage (vdd); characterized in that it comprises: • a switching circuit coupled to the shunt regulator and operable by a switch control signal to direct the shunt current (I S ) to flow to the second supply rail or to bypass the second supply rail to the second input terminal (RF2); and • a regulator circuit configured for regulating the second supply voltage (vdd) in switched mode through the switch control signal .
A method of calibration for an ophthalmic plenoptic camera system to determine a true size of a feature of the retina of a subject's eye based on an acquired light-field image or light-field images of the retina, wherein the plenoptic camera system comprises: an illumination light source and an optical assembly for directing light from the light source into an eye of a subject; an objective lens positioned along an imaging axis intersecting a point on the fundus of the eye; a photosensor positioned for acquiring images of portions of a fundus of the eye and a microlens array positioned in between the objective lens and the photosensor such that each microlens in the array projects a different view of the image formed at the image plane thereby forming an array of elemental images on the photosensor; the method being defined by the following steps that are executed by one or more processors : acquiring an initial image of the retina, whereby the image is a plenoptic image obtained by the photosensor of the plenoptic system extracting matching features from views derived from a plurality of elemental images forming the initial image; calculating at least one functional relationship between two or more of said views having matching features, so that the plenoptic camera system is calibrated on the basis of the calculated functional relationship. acquiring an initial image of the retina, whereby the image is a plenoptic image obtained by the photosensor of the plenoptic system extracting matching features from views derived from a plurality of elemental images forming the initial image; calculating at least one functional relationship between two or more of said views having matching features, so that the plenoptic camera system is calibrated on the basis of the calculated functional relationship.
A method of cleaving a single stranded target RNA, the method comprising: contacting the single stranded target RNA with: A) a Cas9 polypeptide; B) a guide nucleic acid comprising: (a) a targeting segment comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a first target nucleotide sequence in the single stranded target RNA, and (b) a protein-binding segment comprising two stretches of nucleotides that hybridize with one another to form a double-stranded RNA duplex that interacts with the Cas9 polypeptide; and C) a PAMmer, wherein the PAMmer is a single stranded DNA oligonucleotide that hybridizes to the single stranded target RNA to generate a double-stranded nucleic acid substrate, the PAMmer comprising: (a) a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequence, and (b) an orientation segment, positioned 3' of the PAM sequence, comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a second target nucleotide sequence in the single-stranded target RNA, wherein said contacting is outside of a cell in vitro, or wherein said contacting is in a cell in in vitro or ex vivo. A) a Cas9 polypeptide; B) a guide nucleic acid comprising: (a) a targeting segment comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a first target nucleotide sequence in the single stranded target RNA, and (b) a protein-binding segment comprising two stretches of nucleotides that hybridize with one another to form a double-stranded RNA duplex that interacts with the Cas9 polypeptide; and (a) a targeting segment comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a first target nucleotide sequence in the single stranded target RNA, and (b) a protein-binding segment comprising two stretches of nucleotides that hybridize with one another to form a double-stranded RNA duplex that interacts with the Cas9 polypeptide; and C) a PAMmer, wherein the PAMmer is a single stranded DNA oligonucleotide that hybridizes to the single stranded target RNA to generate a double-stranded nucleic acid substrate, the PAMmer comprising: (a) a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequence, and (b) an orientation segment, positioned 3' of the PAM sequence, comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a second target nucleotide sequence in the single-stranded target RNA, (a) a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequence, and (b) an orientation segment, positioned 3' of the PAM sequence, comprising a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a second target nucleotide sequence in the single-stranded target RNA,
A method of treating a feed stream for a flotation device , said feed stream comprising solid particles , said method comprising: feeding a dilution water stream into said feed stream, and fluidly connecting said feed stream by a feed stream conduit to said flotation device, and characterized by generating microbubbles in said dilution water stream, mixing said dilution water stream with said feed stream to facilitate attachment of said microbubbles to said solid particles in said feed stream and generate bubbles for attachment to microbubble-attached solid particles, and said flotation device further comprising a tank for receiving said feed stream from said feed stream conduit and a mechanical agitator for agitating said feed stream in said tank, wherein said mechanical agitator comprises a rotor and a stator . feeding a dilution water stream into said feed stream, and fluidly connecting said feed stream by a feed stream conduit to said flotation device, and characterized by generating microbubbles in said dilution water stream, mixing said dilution water stream with said feed stream to facilitate attachment of said microbubbles to said solid particles in said feed stream and generate bubbles for attachment to microbubble-attached solid particles, and said flotation device further comprising a tank for receiving said feed stream from said feed stream conduit and a mechanical agitator for agitating said feed stream in said tank, wherein said mechanical agitator comprises a rotor and a stator .
An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine , comprising an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas flows from the internal combustion engine , the exhaust pipe including, in a downstream end part thereof: a fragile part that serves as a starting point of bending deformation of the exhaust pipe at the time of a vehicle rear collision; the exhaust system being characterized by the exhaust pipe further including, in a downstream end part thereof: a partition plate that divides an inside of the exhaust pipe into an upper portion and a lower portion so as to form, under the partition plate , a passage to flow water that accumulates in the exhaust pipe , wherein the partition plate is disposed in a vicinity of the fragile part and furthermore at a position not overlapping with the fragile part in an axial direction of the exhaust pipe .
A method of enabling near real time analysis of data for a wireless communication network using dynamically allocated backend processing resources , the method comprising, at each of a plurality of distributed components of a data processing system : receiving data from at least one network element of the wireless communication network; determining at least one data element required for generation of analytical data and configured by a network operator; parsing the received data to extract a subset of the received data in accordance with the determined at least one data element, the subset of the received data including at least one of: information indicating a measured radio propagation delay, or information indicating a received signal code power; calculating geolocation information from the extracted subset of the data based on at least one of algorithms that use roundtrip delay calculations/measurements for signals between mobile communication units and base stations or algorithms that use signal strength information received from mobile communication units; and forwarding the extracted subset of the data and the geolocation information to the dynamically allocated backend processing resources for analytical processing of the extracted subset of the data. receiving data from at least one network element of the wireless communication network; determining at least one data element required for generation of analytical data and configured by a network operator; parsing the received data to extract a subset of the received data in accordance with the determined at least one data element, the subset of the received data including at least one of: information indicating a measured radio propagation delay, or information indicating a received signal code power; information indicating a measured radio propagation delay, or information indicating a received signal code power; calculating geolocation information from the extracted subset of the data based on at least one of algorithms that use roundtrip delay calculations/measurements for signals between mobile communication units and base stations or algorithms that use signal strength information received from mobile communication units; and forwarding the extracted subset of the data and the geolocation information to the dynamically allocated backend processing resources for analytical processing of the extracted subset of the data.
An engine crank pulley structure (A) to be disposed at a vehicle front side of a longitudinally mounted engine , the structure (A) comprising: a front pulley that is configured to transmit crank rotational force to a first accessory via a belt ; a rear pulley that is disposed at a vehicle rear side of the front pulley and configured to transmit crank rotational force to a second accessory via a belt ; and a connecting portion that is configured to connect the front pulley and the rear pulley , wherein the connecting portion is configured to crush and deform in a vehicle front-rear direction as a collision load toward the vehicle rear side is applied to the connecting portion , and an outer diameter of the front pulley is smaller than an inner diameter of the rear pulley , characterized in that the engine crank pulley structure (A) further comprises an inertia ring between the front pulley and the rear pulley , and an inner diameter of the inertia ring is larger than an outer diameter of the rear pulley . a front pulley that is configured to transmit crank rotational force to a first accessory via a belt ; a rear pulley that is disposed at a vehicle rear side of the front pulley and configured to transmit crank rotational force to a second accessory via a belt ; and a connecting portion that is configured to connect the front pulley and the rear pulley , wherein the connecting portion is configured to crush and deform in a vehicle front-rear direction as a collision load toward the vehicle rear side is applied to the connecting portion , and an outer diameter of the front pulley is smaller than an inner diameter of the rear pulley , characterized in that the engine crank pulley structure (A) further comprises an inertia ring between the front pulley and the rear pulley , and an inner diameter of the inertia ring is larger than an outer diameter of the rear pulley .
Method for producing spacers at the level of edges of a transistor gate , wherein the gate is located above a layer of a semi-conductive material , the method successively comprising the following steps: - forming a dielectric layer which covers the gate and at least one peripheral zone of the semi-conductive material layer surrounding the gate ; - anisotropic etching the dielectric layer configured to partially remove the dielectric layer at the level of the peripheral zone while preserving the dielectric layer at the level of the edges ; - then, after the anisotropic etching, forming a superficial layer covering the dielectric layer ; - partial etching of the superficial layer configured to totally remove the superficial layer at the level of the peripheral zone while preserving a residual portion of the superficial layer at the level of the edges and while preserving at least partially the dielectric layer at the level of the peripheral zone ; - then, after the partial etching, etching of the dielectric layer selectively with respect to the residual portion of the superficial layer and with respect to the semi-conductive material layer . - forming a dielectric layer which covers the gate and at least one peripheral zone of the semi-conductive material layer surrounding the gate ; - anisotropic etching the dielectric layer configured to partially remove the dielectric layer at the level of the peripheral zone while preserving the dielectric layer at the level of the edges ; - then, after the anisotropic etching, forming a superficial layer covering the dielectric layer ; - partial etching of the superficial layer configured to totally remove the superficial layer at the level of the peripheral zone while preserving a residual portion of the superficial layer at the level of the edges and while preserving at least partially the dielectric layer at the level of the peripheral zone ; - then, after the partial etching, etching of the dielectric layer selectively with respect to the residual portion of the superficial layer and with respect to the semi-conductive material layer .