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The present invention relates to an exhaust gas guide of a gas turbine, which is situated between the gas turbine and a downstream waste heat boiler or a downstream gas diverter and which comprises a flow channel which has a cross-section expanding in at least some areas in the main flow direction, having installed surfaces influencing the flow. In order to achieve a more compact implementation of the exhaust gas guide and simultaneously avoid or reduce pressure losses, the installed surfaces are implemented as a swirl device generating a leading edge swirl, which is situated in the diverging area of the flow channel and is implemented to distribute the exhaust gas flow uniformly over the flow cross-sectional area upon entry into the waste heat boiler or the gas diverter. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for mixing the exhaust gas of a gas turbine with hot exhaust gas streams generated in an auxiliary firing of at least one burner. This thorough mixing is achieved by generating at least one leading edge swirl system in the flow channel.

In one aspect, a solar inverter which can be connected to at least one photovoltaic generator at the input end and to a power system at the output end is provided. The solar inverter includes an inverter module, an electronic control unit at least for diagnosing an inverter module, and a bus interface for technically connecting the electronic control unit to a communication bus. The electronic control unit cyclically outputs a piece of status information of the solar inverter on the communication bus, and outputs an error message on the communication bus, cyclically reads status information of other solar inverters that are connected to the communication bus, and outputs an error message on the communication bus in case at least one expected additional piece of status information fails to be output. Whereby, the need for a separate monitoring unit is eliminated.

A compact payment terminal for operating upon a purchase made by a customer at a retail device is provided. The customer carries a mobile communication device that includes a payment module and a communication module. The compact payment terminal includes a first interface for interfacing with the retail device, a second interface for interfacing with the mobile communication device of the customer and a processing unit connected to the first and second interface. The compact payment terminal is configured to receive, via the first interface, a payment request from the retail device, cooperate, via the second interface, with the payment module of the mobile communication device for initiating a payment transaction respective to the payment request, and selectably conduct, via the second interface and the communication module of the mobile communication device, a communication session between the processing unit and at least one server.

A variable capacitor is formed by a multilayer circuit board having a plurality of dielectric layers; a first conductive plate, provided within the multilayer circuit board, for serving as one electrode of the variable capacitor; a second conductive plate, provided within the multilayer circuit board, for serving as the other electrode of the variable capacitor; a plurality of third conductive plates provided between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate; and a plurality of switching means provided for grounding the third conductive plates selectively.

Various embodiments of a coherent receiver including a widely tunable local oscillator laser are described herein. In some embodiments, the coherent receiver can be integrated with waveguides, optical splitters and detectors to form a monolithic optical hetero/homodyne receiver. In some embodiments, the coherent receiver can demodulate the full phase information in two polarizations of a received optical signal over a range of optical wavelengths.

A memory cell for use in a content-addressable memory comprises a first latch and a second latch. The first latch is operative to store a first bit associated with a first stored word, while the second latch is operative to store a second bit associated with a second stored word. The first and second latches collectively comprise a plurality of latch transistors. Each of the latch transistors comprises a respective channel. The channels of the latch transistors are oriented in substantially the same direction, resulting in a very compact memory cell implementation.

A first switching circuit (21) outputs a first radio signal representing a plurality of time-division multiplexed pro-grams and a second radio signal other than the first radio signal, one at a time according to a switching signal. A voltage control oscillator (27) outputs a local signal at a frequency suitable for whichever signal outputted. Using the local signal generated, a frequency converter (24) frequency converts the first and second radio signals to first and second baseband signals, respectively. Via a second switching circuit (31), a first baseband unit (40) and a second baseband unit (50) are supplied with the first and second baseband signals, respectively, and demodulate them to first and second data signals. A switching unit (60) supplies the switching signal indicating periods during which the first radio signal represents a user-selected program, to a tuner unit (20) where the first and second radio signals are processed by time-sharing.

A beam shaper according to an embodiment of the present invention for a light source arrangement for generating a radiation profile includes a multitude of adjacently arranged optical beam-shaping elements, each belonging to one type of a plurality of different types with different optical characteristics. When illuminated together, the beam-shaping elements effect the radiation profile of the beam shaper and each include an intensity-modulating element and a refractive element.

An optical semiconductor illuminating apparatus capable of being simply installed and built, easily detecting a fault generation point, being simply repaired and replaced, and being compactly implemented. A bracket assembly having a power supply embedded therein is mounted at an upper side of a heat sink including a fixed unit, the power supply is seated on the heat sink including the fixed unit, a plurality of heat radiation fins protrude from an inner surface of the heat sink, and an upper surface of the power supply is disposed at a position higher than or equal to that of an edge of an upper end portion of the heat sink.

Provided is an ozone generator (47) including two sheets of ozone generating electrodes (156, 157). These two ozone generating electrodes (156, 157) are arranged in a treating passage (152) in series along an air flowing direction. Thus, the air to come in from an air inlet port flows at first along the ozone generating electrode (156) of the first sheet, and receives, while flowing, the creeping discharge of the first ozone generating electrode (156) thereby to generate the ozone. The air thus having generated the ozone further flows in the treating passage (152) to the ozone generating electrode (157) of the second sheet, and receives, while flowing, the creeping discharge of the second ozone generating electrode (157) thereby to generate the additional ozone. The highly dense ozone can be used to clean the washing water.

The invention relates to a household refrigerator(1) and to a refrigeration apparatus for a household refrigerator. The household refrigerator has a refrigerating chamber housing, which delimits the refrigerating chamber and on which a door leaf is arranged for closing the refrigerating chamber, and the refrigeration apparatus. The refrigeration apparatus is implemented as an independent refrigeration module having an entire refrigeration cycle for cooling the refrigerating chamber, and further having a housing which is separate from the refrigerating chamber housing and in which at least one evaporator(27) of the refrigeration cycle is arranged and which comprises apertures(29,30), by way of which the air cooled by the evaporator passes through the apertures of the refrigerating chamber housing from outside the refrigerating chamber housing into the refrigerating chamber and air passes from the refrigerating chamber to the evaporator.

An inspection system for internal pipe inspection, comprises a feed cable (30), and a camera in the inspection head (32) at a remote end of the feed cable. Optional additional components include an ultrasound system (40), a steering arrangement with the guide roller (35) for the camera, a product release system (repair head 60), and a magnetic drive system.

A device for mutual locking of two switches has two tappets (5) which can move in the counter direction by a forced coupling connection, when the switch is on, one tappet is pushed to an opening position and the other one tappet is pushed to a locking position. In order to implementing free-maintenance , each tappet is provided with teeth bars (9) respectively with gears (10), radial levers (7) are respectively arranged on the gear and can overcome the deflecting of a pressure spring, the levers are connected by a joint lever (6), stop levers (11) are rotatingly arranged on each gear, the stop levers are respectively butted against on fixed stop parts (14), driven parts (15) are arranged fixedly and are respectively butted against on the stop surfaces of the stop levers, when one tappet is pushed to the opening position, the stop levers can be kept in the position, the other one tappet is pushed to the stop parts, and the driven parts can enable the stop levers to overcome the deflecting of a pulling force spring, wherein, the levers can overcome the other one deflecting of the pressure spring by the stop parts.

An apparatus for testing stiffness characteristics such as modulus of elasticity E of an article such as a piece of lumber moving in a conveying direction transverse to the testing axis, comprises a bearing unit capable of contacting the piece of lumber at two spaced apart portions thereof. There is provided a first deflecting unit including a first working element being normally disposed in a first static position relative to the conveying path for applying a first thrust against a loaded area on the article at an intermediary portion thereof located between the spaced apart portions, to produce an article deflection of a first magnitude. Each working element defines a loading surface extending substantially parallel to the article-conveying path. There is further provided a second deflecting unit including a second working element being normally disposed in a second static position relative to the conveying path for applying a second thrust against a loaded area of the article intermediary portion, to produce an article deflection of a second magnitude, wherein the second position differs from the first position relative to the conveying path by a differential value. The apparatus further comprises load cells coupled to the bearing unit for generating signals indicative of respective magnitudes the first and second thrusts as applied by first and second deflecting units, and a computer for deriving from such signals and differential value an indication of the stiffness of the article, such as modulus of elasticity E.

Digital compensation of the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) effects experienced by an optical signal in a transmission link is achieved. A digital representation of the optical fields of two orthogonal polarization components of an optical signal, defined by a polarization beam splitter (PBS), is first obtained. The fiber transmission link is treated as a concatenation of multiple virtual PMD segments, each having two specific principle-state-of-polarization (PSP) axes and causing a differential group-delay (DGD) and a phase delay between two signal components that are polarized along the two PSP axes. The best guesses of the parameters of the PMD segments and the relative orientation between the PSP axes of the last PMD segment and the characteristic polarization axes of the PBS are dynamically obtained. The digital representation of at least one generic component of the field of the optical signal is then computed through matrix operations by using the best guesses.

A micromechanical device and a method for producing this device are provided, the device having a sensor pattern that includes a spring pattern and a seismic mass. The seismic mass may be connected to the substrate material via the spring pattern, and a clearance may be provided in a direction perpendicular to the major substrate plane between the spring pattern and the substrate material. Alternatively, the spring pattern and the seismic mass may have a common, essentially continuous, front side surface.