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A cleaner comprising: a suction unit guiding air and dust; a main body coupled to the suction unit and comprising a first cyclone unit separating the air and the dust, which are suctioned through the suction unit , from each other and a second cyclone unit separating the dust from the air discharged from the first cyclone unit ; and a guide unit disposed in the main body to partition a first dust storage part , in which the dust separated in the first cyclone unit is stored, and a second dust storage part , in which the dust separated in the second cyclone unit is stored, from each other, characterized in that the guide unit is separably coupled to the main body , and when the guide unit is separated from the main body , a dust discharge part of the second cyclone unit is exposed to an outside. a suction unit guiding air and dust; a main body coupled to the suction unit and comprising a first cyclone unit separating the air and the dust, which are suctioned through the suction unit , from each other and a second cyclone unit separating the dust from the air discharged from the first cyclone unit ; and a guide unit disposed in the main body to partition a first dust storage part , in which the dust separated in the first cyclone unit is stored, and a second dust storage part , in which the dust separated in the second cyclone unit is stored, from each other, characterized in that the guide unit is separably coupled to the main body , and when the guide unit is separated from the main body , a dust discharge part of the second cyclone unit is exposed to an outside.
An optical network unit, ONU, comprising: a downstream optical receiver configured to receive downstream traffic over a first wavelength; a first upstream optical transmitter having a first data rate; a second upstream optical transmitter having a second data rate that is higher than the first data rate; a controller configured to direct upstream traffic to one of the first upstream optical transmitter or the second upstream optical transmitter depending on a traffic type of the traffic, wherein traffic having a control plane traffic type is directed to the first upstream optical transmitter and traffic having a data plane traffic type is directed to the second upstream optical transmitter; wherein the controller is configured to direct the control plane traffic to the first upstream optical transmitter during discovery and ranging of the ONU and direct the upstream data plane traffic to the second upstream optical transmitter after discovery and ranging of the ONU has completed. a downstream optical receiver configured to receive downstream traffic over a first wavelength; a first upstream optical transmitter having a first data rate; a second upstream optical transmitter having a second data rate that is higher than the first data rate; a controller configured to direct upstream traffic to one of the first upstream optical transmitter or the second upstream optical transmitter depending on a traffic type of the traffic, wherein traffic having a control plane traffic type is directed to the first upstream optical transmitter and traffic having a data plane traffic type is directed to the second upstream optical transmitter; wherein the controller is configured to direct the control plane traffic to the first upstream optical transmitter during discovery and ranging of the ONU and direct the upstream data plane traffic to the second upstream optical transmitter after discovery and ranging of the ONU has completed.
A peptide which consists of the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
A medical device system comprising: a medical device configured to be carried by a patient; and a plurality of external controllers configured for use external to the patient and capable of controlling operation of the medical device, each controller having an active state in which the controller is in communication with the medical device and is controlling operation of the medical device, a passive state in which the controller is not controlling operation of the medical device, and a memory for storing information, the device and controllers being constructed and arranged so that at any given time only one of the plurality of controllers will be in the active state and a remainder of the plurality of controllers will be in the passive state, the controller in the active state being configured to continually communicate with the remainder of controllers in the passive state to update at least some of the information stored in the memories of the remainder of controllers in the passive state to match the information in the memory of the controller in the active state, without using the medical device as an intermediary in such updating. a medical device configured to be carried by a patient; and a plurality of external controllers configured for use external to the patient and capable of controlling operation of the medical device, each controller having an active state in which the controller is in communication with the medical device and is controlling operation of the medical device, a passive state in which the controller is not controlling operation of the medical device, and a memory for storing information, the device and controllers being constructed and arranged so that at any given time only one of the plurality of controllers will be in the active state and a remainder of the plurality of controllers will be in the passive state, the controller in the active state being configured to continually communicate with the remainder of controllers in the passive state to update at least some of the information stored in the memories of the remainder of controllers in the passive state to match the information in the memory of the controller in the active state, without using the medical device as an intermediary in such updating.
A vacuum pump, in particular a turbomolecular pump, comprising a housing which encloses a pump space for a gas to be pumped in which a plurality of pump stages are arranged which are connected in series along an axis and are effective in the same direction, wherein the pump stages each have an inlet having an inlet region disposed within the housing , characterized in that the inlets are each arranged upstream of the pump stage and no further inlet is arranged between the inlets ; and in that at least one deflection means is provided which provides at least one flow path for the gas to be pumped that starts from a pump stage connected upstream and leads away from the inlet region of a pump stage connected downstream.
A process for making a surfactant composition, wherein the process uses reactants which consist of a sugar alcohol, a fatty acid and an alkylene oxide and wherein the process comprises the steps of: a. forming a mixture consisting of the sugar alcohol and the fatty acid, wherein the mixture comprises less than 5% water by weight based on the total weight of the mixture, and wherein step a. occurs at a temperature of at most 170 °C; b. reacting the mixture with an alkylene oxide to make a surfactant composition comprising an alkoxylated sugar alcohol fatty acid ester and a polyalkylene glycol fatty acid ester, and wherein step b. occurs at a temperature in the range from 100 °C to 200 °C. a. forming a mixture consisting of the sugar alcohol and the fatty acid, wherein the mixture comprises less than 5% water by weight based on the total weight of the mixture, and wherein step a. occurs at a temperature of at most 170 °C; b. reacting the mixture with an alkylene oxide to make a surfactant composition comprising an alkoxylated sugar alcohol fatty acid ester and a polyalkylene glycol fatty acid ester, and wherein step b. occurs at a temperature in the range from 100 °C to 200 °C.
A method for detecting the ground level on an area to be processed by an agricultural working machine , wherein the working machine comprises a sensor system by means of which periodic transmitted pulses produced from electromagnetic transmitting beams are emitted in at least one transmitting direction onto the area to be processed, wherein the transmitted pulses are reflected from a field crop and ground as reflecting surfaces (RF) and are received by the sensor system as echo pulses and transferred to a control unit of the working machine for analysis, wherein, for at least a portion of the transmitted pulses emitted by the sensor system which is configured as a laser scanner , different partial beams of one and the same transmitting beam are reflected with a time delay with respect to one another from reflecting surfaces (RF) located in the respective transmitting direction , so that the respective resultant echo pulse is composed of correspondingly time-delayed partial echo pulses (11a, 11b, E1, E2), wherein the ground level and/or a crop height is determined by means of the control unit on the basis of a pulse width (ΔT F ) within the resultant echo pulse and/or on the basis of a pulse form of the resultant echo pulse as well as a time of flight-based distance determination of a distance value to the respective reflecting surface (RF).
A surgical instrument , in particular electrosurgical instrument, having an RFID tag which is provided with an FRAM storage device for individually recognizing or detecting the surgical instrument , wherein the surgical instrument has a cable, in particular a power cable or a connecting cable, and the cable of the surgical instrument being designed with a connecting coupling, in particular a plug, wherein the connecting coupling is designed with the FRAM storage device .
Apparatus (1; 101; 201; 301) for working an agricultural soil by moving the apparatus (1; 101; 201; 301) along the soil in a direction of travel of a tractor vehicle for towing the apparatus (1; 101; 202; 301), wherein the apparatus (1; 101; 202; 301) has an apparatus body (2; 102; 202; 302) having a longitudinal plane (LE) which runs substantially parallel to the direction of travel, a plurality of working tools (3, 4, 5, 6; 103, 104; 203, 204; 303, 304) and a plurality of elongate carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) which carry the working tools (3, 4, 5, 6; 103, 104; 203, 204; 303, 304) and are mounted on the apparatus body (2; 102; 202; 302), wherein the carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) are each movable transversely to the longitudinal plane (LE) so that the respective working tool (3, 4, 5, 6; 103, 104; 203, 204; 303, 304) can be arranged at different distances from the longitudinal plane (LE), and wherein the apparatus (1; 101; 201; 301) has a locking device for locking the carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) on the apparatus body (2; 102; 202; 302), wherein the locking device comprises an operating member (11; 111; 211; 311), by means of the operation of which the locking of the plurality of carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) on the apparatus body (2; 102; 202; 302) can jointly be released or the plurality of carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) can jointly be fixed on the apparatus body (2; 102; 202; 302), characterised in that the apparatus body (2; 101; 201; 301) has a plurality of guiding receivers having respective guide faces , wherein in each case at least one of the carrier elements (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) is guided in the guiding receivers so as to be displaceable along the respective guide face , wherein the locking device comprises a plurality of clamping levers (18, 19, 20, 21; 118, 119; 218, 219; 318, 319) and at least one of the plurality of clamping levers (18, 19, 20, 21; 118, 119; 218, 219; 318, 319) is associated with each of the plurality of guiding receivers , and wherein the respective clamping lever (18, 19, 20, 21; 118, 119; 218, 219; 318, 319), by operation of the operating member (11; 111; 211; 311), is movable from a clamping position, in which it presses the respective carrier element (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) against the respective guide face of the respective guiding receiver and thereby fixes it in a non-displaceable manner in the respective guiding receiver by frictional engagement, into a release position, in which it releases the respective carrier element (7, 8, 9, 10; 107, 108; 207, 208; 307, 308) so that it is displaceable in the respective guiding receiver along the respective guide face , and/or vice versa.
A method for determining soil clod parameters of a field, the method comprising receiving, with a computing system , three-dimensional image data depicting an imaged portion of the field , the three-dimensional image data including a first two-dimensional image depicting the imaged portion of the field relative to a first position and a second two-dimensional image depicting the imaged portion of the field relative to a second position , the first position being spaced apart from the second position , the method characterized by : capturing simultaneously the first and second two-dimensional images of the same portion of the field to generate the three-dimensional image of such portion of the field; identifying, with the computing system , a soil clod depicted with the received three-dimensional image data; comparing, with the computing system , the first and second two-dimensional images forming the three-dimensional image data to identify a shadow surrounding at least a portion of the identified soil clod ; and determining, with the computing system , a soil clod parameter associated with the identified soil clod based on the identified shadow . capturing simultaneously the first and second two-dimensional images of the same portion of the field to generate the three-dimensional image of such portion of the field; identifying, with the computing system , a soil clod depicted with the received three-dimensional image data; comparing, with the computing system , the first and second two-dimensional images forming the three-dimensional image data to identify a shadow surrounding at least a portion of the identified soil clod ; and determining, with the computing system , a soil clod parameter associated with the identified soil clod based on the identified shadow .
A method for reducing the buildup of moisture on a dielectric surface of an object , in particular on the surface of a photovoltaic module, in which the surface is heated intermittently by a controllable heating device, characterized in that an electrical voltage is applied between at least two electrodes applied to the surface with a spacing between them, or between an electrode applied to the surface and a component of the object which can be used as a further electrode on the surface, and a current flow across the electrodes is detected and/or measured, and that the heating device is controlled according to the detected and/or measured current flow in such manner that when a predetermined threshold value of the current flow is exceeded it heats the surface until the current flow has fallen below the threshold value again, or is regulated to maintain a predetermined value for the current flow, wherein the predetermined value or threshold value of the current flow is chosen such that it corresponds to a relative surface humidity in the range from 50 % to 70 %. in which the surface is heated intermittently by a controllable heating device, characterized in that an electrical voltage is applied between at least two electrodes applied to the surface with a spacing between them, or between an electrode applied to the surface and a component of the object which can be used as a further electrode on the surface, and a current flow across the electrodes is detected and/or measured, and that the heating device is controlled according to the detected and/or measured current flow in such manner that when a predetermined threshold value of the current flow is exceeded it heats the surface until the current flow has fallen below the threshold value again, or is regulated to maintain a predetermined value for the current flow, wherein the predetermined value or threshold value of the current flow is chosen such that it corresponds to a relative surface humidity in the range from 50 % to 70 %.
A retroreflective traffic sign consisting of: a polymeric film having a front face and a rear face; said rear face having a pattern of microprismatic retroreflective elements integrally formed as part of said film, a pattern of cell walls formed of an adhesive-containing polymer defining cells in which the microprismatic retroreflective elements are in the cells, and a substrate is adhered directly to the cell walls formed of the adhesive-containing polymer while leaving an air gap between the microprismatic retroreflective elements and the substrate in the cells. a polymeric film having a front face and a rear face; said rear face having a pattern of microprismatic retroreflective elements integrally formed as part of said film, a pattern of cell walls formed of an adhesive-containing polymer defining cells in which the microprismatic retroreflective elements are in the cells, and a substrate is adhered directly to the cell walls formed of the adhesive-containing polymer while leaving an air gap between the microprismatic retroreflective elements and the substrate in the cells.
Housing for a simulation chamber having a chamber body , a door disposed on the chamber body and a controller housing , characterized in that the controller housing is disposed on the chamber body and comprises an outer surface , an inner surface and at least one lateral surface , and in that the door comprises an outer surface , an inner surface and at least five lateral surfaces , wherein the controller housing is arranged on the chamber body such that, when the door is closed, at least one of the lateral surfaces of the door is disposed facing at least one of the lateral surfaces of the controller housing .
A system comprising: at least one computing device configured to monitor a dynamoelectric machine having a rotor including an exciter electrically coupled with a field winding , characterized in that the computing device is configured to perform actions including: : obtaining measured data of a resistance of the field winding at a plurality of rotor angular positions while the rotor is rotating at a speed below one-hundred revolutions per minute; comparing the measured data indicating the resistance of the field winding at the plurality of rotor angular positions with a threshold resistance range ; and indicating a fault in the field winding in response to determining the measured data indicating the resistance deviates from the threshold resistance range . obtaining measured data of a resistance of the field winding at a plurality of rotor angular positions while the rotor is rotating at a speed below one-hundred revolutions per minute; comparing the measured data indicating the resistance of the field winding at the plurality of rotor angular positions with a threshold resistance range ; and indicating a fault in the field winding in response to determining the measured data indicating the resistance deviates from the threshold resistance range .
A method for introducing a voluntary detuning into a bladed wheel of a turbomachine , said bladed wheel comprising a disc extending about a longitudinal axis and N blades evenly distributed about said longitudinal axis and extending radially with respect to this axis from the disk , N being a non-zero natural integer, said method comprising steps of: a) selecting a natural vibration mode of the bladed wheel with k node diameters, k being a natural number different from zero and when N is an even number, different from N 2 , said natural mode being a vibration mode in the operating range of the turbomachine; b) determining the displacement (δ) of the blades over the entire circumference of the bladed wheel for each of the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) of the same frequency (f) which, combined, generate the rotating modal deformation of the bladed wheel in the selected natural vibration mode ; c) from the thus determined displacement (δ) of the blades for each of the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ), determining the blades for which a vibration antinode of a first of said standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) corresponds to a vibration node of the second standing deformation wave (O 2 , O 1 ); d) providing a protrusion or notch in the disc of the bladed wheel opposite each of the thus determined blades , so as to frequency-separate the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) and thus to introduce a voluntary detuning in the bladed wheel relative to the selected natural vibration mode. a) selecting a natural vibration mode of the bladed wheel with k node diameters, k being a natural number different from zero and when N is an even number, different from N 2 , said natural mode being a vibration mode in the operating range of the turbomachine; b) determining the displacement (δ) of the blades over the entire circumference of the bladed wheel for each of the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) of the same frequency (f) which, combined, generate the rotating modal deformation of the bladed wheel in the selected natural vibration mode ; c) from the thus determined displacement (δ) of the blades for each of the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ), determining the blades for which a vibration antinode of a first of said standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) corresponds to a vibration node of the second standing deformation wave (O 2 , O 1 ); d) providing a protrusion or notch in the disc of the bladed wheel opposite each of the thus determined blades , so as to frequency-separate the two standing deformation waves (O 1 , O 2 ) and thus to introduce a voluntary detuning in the bladed wheel relative to the selected natural vibration mode.
A method of operating a droplet ejection device comprising an ejection unit arranged to eject droplets of a liquid and comprising a nozzle formed in a nozzle face , a liquid duct connected to the nozzle , and an electro-mechanical transducer arranged to create an acoustic pressure wave in the liquid in the duct , wherein the liquid and the material constituting the nozzle face are paired such that the liquid is wetting for the nozzle face , characterized by a step of monitoring a parameter (f; C; τ) that represents a state of a liquid pool formed on the nozzle face around the nozzle , and a step of enabling the ejection unit to operate as long as the pool is present and the monitored parameter is within a predetermined range.